Gabe Núñez

Captain Gabriel "Gabe" Núñez is a major character, who appears in the Disney Channel animated series Elena of Avalor. He is Elena's friend and rising star of the Royal Guard.
==Background==
===Personality===
Gabe is a very enthusiastic, confident, and reasonable person. Gabe is also very protective of Elena and Isabel, because of this, he does not like Elena's take-charge approach mostly for the sake of his job. Gabe is very professional and takes his job very seriously.
It is shown in "Spellbound" that he is skeptical of Mateo being appointed Royal Wizard and doesn't believe that Mateo is meant to be one. Yet, he trusts Mateo and follows his orders to help save the rest of the people cast in stone. He also proves to be a good friend when he is the first to give Mateo the credit for saving the guests from Fiero's spell.
===Physical appearance===
Gabe has a muscular body with brown hair, brown eyes, thick eyebrows, tanned skin, and wears the blue guards' uniform.
==Role in the series==
At eighteen years old, Gabe makes his debut in "First Day of Rule", when Elena leaves Avalor Castle to visit the city. He formally introduces himself to her when she gets out of the carriage. When Princess Isabel wants to stay behind to draw the boats some more, Elena tells Gabe to watch her. Gabe is asking Isabel what it was like when her sister faced Shuriki when Isabel spots some purple dogs boarding a ship. When the pair investigates, the dogs are revealed to be Noblins who take them prisoner. When Elena appears and frees them, Gabe tells her to take her sister and go but Elena refuses. Elena talks to the Noblins and learns that they were taking the ships to get home after Shuriki imprisoned them.
Gabe is mostly seen throughout the series accompanying Elena for protection. In "Prince Too Charming", he learned that Elena's leadership style made her much nicer and more responsible in comparison to someone like Alonso. Prince Alonso made Gabe carry all the luggage and had him ride wherever he and Elena went on Pedro, an aged horse well past its prime that Gabe termed "The Slowest Horse in the Kingdom". This treatment annoyed and angered Gabe to no end and eventually went with Elena when she commandeered Alonso's chariot and forced the insensitive Prince to ride Pedro to get back at him. When King Juan Ramón had Alonso help build the bridge he observed with vindictive enjoyment.
He makes his next biggest appearance in "Olaball", where he tries his best to make his father proud by playing olaball. When he does terrible he tells Elena that he was trying to be like his father. She soon tells him to play his own way. At first, he keeps following what his dad has been saying but soon starts playing his own way and wins the cup. He also proves to his father that he is a great Royal Guard by saving Princess Isabel's and Princess Cat's life. This makes his bond with his father stronger.
In "The Princess Knight", he trains Elena for a fencing competition after Elena realizes that he lets her win, believing that she was good. He helps her train for two days getting up at five a.m., throwing mangoes at her, and making her climb up steps. Gabe helps her win by showing her sword moves and the leaping stag move. It's said that he's the best fencer in all of the guards and won the royal guard fencing competition.
In "The Curse of El Guapo", Gabe was in the running to be Captain of the Royal Guard when his boss retired. Up against three other boys he goes on to compete against them in an obstacle course. Gabe took a cursed sword which is possessed by the sword's previous owner: El Guapo to help him win. Elena helps him realize that it is himself that makes a good guard, not the weapon. Then during the final obstacle, his fellow guard fell so Gabe turned around to help him finish the obstacle. After the obstacle final was over Princess Elena promoted him to be the new Captain of the Royal Guard.
After learning of Esteban's original alliance with Shuriki, followed by Elena disowning him and stripping him of his position as Chancellor, Gabe agrees with Mateo to have the best of his Royal Guards trained to use magic to counter Esteban and Ash Delgado in the future. However, during the training, Gabe grows restless and impatient, and this leads to the guards botching a spell and making a mess of Avalor Palace. After Mateo reprimands Gabe for his impatience, he helps the guards fix their mistake before Elena and Naomi return and would have seen what happened.
In the series finale "Coronation Day", Gabe leads the defense of Avalor under Isabel's leadership as Crown Princess when Elena is unavailable after heading to Nueva Vista and Coronado to protect them from Ash and Esteban. When Avalor City is attacked by the Four Shades of Awesome, Gabe is able to help Isabel defeat one in Hetz, but the other three overpower them. Elena's return allows them to defeat Yolo and Vuli, but as Gabe and Mateo celebrate, they are turned into a stone tablet by Cahu the Time Shade, the most dangerous of them. They are restored to flesh and blood, unharmed, later when Elena's emotion magic undoes the Shades' damage to Avalor, much to Naomi and Isabel's relief when they see them returned to normal. Gabe then attends Elena's coronation as Queen, where Elena promotes him to General of the Royal Guard, and Gabe accepts his new position with pride before joining in the celebratory dance afterwards.
==Trivia==
*"Olaball" is the first episode to center around Gabe.
*Gabe is at least two years older than Elena, Naomi, and Mateo, making him the oldest out of the four.
*In the book Elena of Avalor: The Essential Guide, one section claims that Gabe has a crush on Elena, adding that he had felt this way "since the first day they met". However, within the series, their relationship is displayed as being purely platonic. Some episodes, including "Norberg Peace Prize" imply that he might be more interested in Naomi, though series director Nathan Chew has denied this. Despite this, in "Coronation Day", while Gabe was interested in dancing with Elena, he appeared just as eager to dance with Naomi.
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===Miscellaneous===
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