Captain Curmudgeon (Old Man Al Ent)

## Attacks and Abilities

### Attacks

Age, Age Fetus, Age Into An Abusive Parent, Aging For Nearby Bullies, Aging Girlfriend, Convert Into A Possibly Racist Man

### Abilities

* Black Magic User
, * Energy Projection
, * Hand-to-Hand Fighter
, * Physical Fighter
, * Skilled Gunman
, * Summoner
, * Time Magic User

## Weapons and Equipment

### Weapons

Accelerated Age Pistols, Magistrate Pistols

## Characteristics

### Personality

Admires women to the point of placing them on a pedestal, Can be Fatherly, Dutiful, Flirtatious, Loud at times, Sneaky or conniving, Willing to Fight and Kill

**Captain Curmudgeon** is an alias belonging to several characters in *the Rage Knights: Red God* universe created and written by Khaliq Trevor X. This article refers to the Old Man Al Ent incarnation of the character.

## Origins

After Hatske experienced many losses at the hands of the Rage Knights, Old Man Al Ent grew enraged and took to arming himself to the teeth with various alien guns and others super-powered human origin guns. This included a specific gun widely used by disgraced and shunned actor Matthew Oldock. Al Ent scoured the Multiverse with Dr. Hans Grippe’s technology and began hunting down Rage Knights. He murdered Daniel Goldberg and threatened to hurt Bree violently, but he was injured by Damon Bradley and Aaron Harold who impaled him in the leg. Due to his advanced age, Old Man Al Ent knew he couldn’t afford another direct physical attack and as such, he instead used technology supplied by various Dr. Grippes, Muccians, Cymechrians and genius human scientists to create an age reversing gun that would allow him to speed up or reverse his age. Though, Al Ent chose to undo his age, he grew younger and used it to train his physique and physical strength. He easily subdued more Rage Knight incarnations and defeated them, even managing to reverse Hades’ age into that of a child.

When Al Ent appeared back at his own Hatske, he discovered a vengeful Aaron and Damon Bradley were awaiting him. Using his technology and powers, he fought them and de-aged them back into newborn babies. With a summon rune nearby, he conjured Farrah Harold and Darla Bradley to reclaim their children and leave Hatske. Stroking his ego, Old Man Al Ent used his guns to reign over not only Hatske but all of Queens Mane.

### “*Just Some Mean Old Men Who Hate Geeky Black Dudes"*

In the story called *Just Some Mean Old Men Who Hate Geeky Black Dudes,* Old Man Al Ent boasts about having countless amounts of sex and using his technology. He proceeds to age every young woman to a certain age to his liking and flirt with them. The unsettling nature of his flirting alarms the police who pursue Ent. He ages the police officers themselves into elderly men who become forgetful over why they were even pursuing Ent.

Old Man Ent, now seemingly a young man in his early twenties, goes into a Blacklake Mall clothing store and flirts with a cashier but she turns him down due to being in a relationship and preferring a taller man. Angry by his rejection, he shoots and ages her boyfriend into an elderly man. Repulsed by her significant other’s appearance, she cries but Ent continues to antagonize her. He is grabbed by Nomad Bradley himself who appears with a toddler Damon Bradley from the Multiverse. He learns that Nomad had received a handwritten Mysterious Stranger note from the toddler warning the Neo-Deserters about a universe-hopping old man who turns others into old guys. Old Man Ent fights Nomad and tries using his guns but discovers Nomad can use time magic to play with his physical age, even using wrinkles and name-calling from strangers to aide him in fighting (i.e. Indulka Comika the Wrinkle Meteor).

Al Ent retreats that day, but contemplates the ways he can fight Nomad Bradley who he deems to be “immune” from aging. For weeks he stayed inside his home, writing strategies for fighting the Lost Rage God Nomad, but he wasn’t confident enough fighting him so he returned to work at Hatske. He aged Regini the Black Genie into an older woman and proposed to her, but due to his own magic powers as a result of overusing his guns too much, he had accelerated her age and caused Regini to become a skeleton. Not only did Regini die, but so did Mobayashi, Girafio and Nang.

A fallen Nang caused the Hatske kingdom to fall into mourning due to losing a beautiful Asian woman. Al Ent himself grew into a prolonged depression and used Nang’s dust to forge an armor that he believed would be powerful enough to withstand the magics and power of Nomad Bradley. He flew back to Blacklake Mall Kingdom but it was swarming with detectives and police officers who were expecting a return from Ent. Using his magic, he reversed everyone’s ages to youth and returned to the store. He once again flirted with the now traumatized cashier but she was too shaken to answer. As she fled, he shot her normally and threatened to age everyone in the mall. This triggered an appearance from Mysterious Stranger himself who warned Al Ent about using Time Magic. Ent *ignored him* and aged everyone into a curmudgeon.

Curmudgeon dudes and women gathered the mall with dated clothes and seemingly killed Mysterious Stranger under Ent’s orders. Ent proclaimed that "mean old people always hate geeky dudes, especially *black geeky dudes*” citing bullying of “weird nerdy types” as a universal, cultural norm for decades and centuries. At Hatske, he awaited for Nomad Bradley to reappear as he forged his gun with Time Runes brought to him by Diseased. He seemingly never encountered the lost Rage God again until *Revenge of the Multiverse Eureka Amandis!*

### *Revenge of the Multiverse Eureka Amandis*

A grudge-bearing Eureka Amandi appeared at Hatske, with an insufferable nosebleed and psychic power. She easily *crushed* Handimore Cord and his friends before approaching Al Ent and asking for him to join her in killing her ex-boyfriend Damon Bradley. Ent gleamed at the mention of Bradley’s name and joined her, believing he was somewhat capable of fighting Nomad Bradley. He journeyed across the Mall of Malicious People Kingdom where cashiers of all ages and backgrounds were enslaving Rage Knights, Lunar Red Cult members and anyone who wanted to uphold the kindness of humanity.

When a Daniel Goldberg escaped a Hurt & Mold store, Ent aged him into a crying baby and had him taken into the kingdom’s nursery for new parents. Ent was assigned to watch the kingdom for any additional escapees but an appearance from the Mysterious Stranger forced Ent to give up his post and chase after the enigma. He fought Stranger as his base strength but was defeated. Once again Mysterious Stranger warned him about further usage of time magic but Ent refused and attempted to age Mysterious Stranger into a “senile old man riddled with dementia”. He escaped and went on a massacre, killing everyone who seemed to be “alone”, “geeky/nerdy”, or “ugly” believing a bunch of people would join a bandwagon of hatred and prejudice and assume every geeky or “unattractive” person was dangerous.

The massacre wasn’t exactly accepted by Eureka Amandi, who didn’t want people murdered until she extracted their cells to use as new “faces”. She banished Ent into a Hatske store where he was imprisoned alongside a squealing Pig Nang. This piggish Nang led an escape from the hat store, by ramming out the gates and attacking cashiers. Ent then ran into Nomad Bradley and Midlore West-Stein who were shopping for a gag manga called *Manga Written By An Actually Kind Mangaka*. When he encountered the lost Rage God and Karma God, he used his Ashy Nang Marksmen EXO to form a new control over black magic.

Ent used several Nang images to spite Nomad and Midlore, with one Nang kissing their hands. Ent used several attacks to warp their minds and make them even run into an angry, grudge-bearing Eureka, who boasted about killing Taloria Bradley in 2017. The comment caused Eurekas across the kingdom to arise and fight Nomad and Midlore. Ent used this as a distraction to *age* them into little kids and he proceeded to leave the mall, forgetting Eureka, Mysterious Stranger and the countless goons assigned to watch over the Rage Knights. When Ent left the mall, he met the same Damon Bradley who had witnessed him hurt Bree. This Damon Bradley was only seemingly eleven years old, but he aimed for Ent’s heart and shot him down. The bullet stricken Al Ent collapsed as Aaron Harold appeared and crushed his gun. Ent began aging at a rapid pace as the two Rage Knights declared his karma was catching up to him for defiling Bree and warned him against hurting another woman. As he lie dying from natural age-related causes, Mysterious Stranger flashed in his peripheral and then suddenly vanished. He cursed Mysterious Stranger as his vision blackened.

## Relationship With Others

Like most incarnations of Old Man Al Ent, Al Ent has a favorable relationship with everyone at Hatske due to his employment and reign as a king there. He favors Regini the Black Genie the most, considering her a rightful bride but when he became a captain curmudgeon, he caused her to *age* into bones. He also loves Nang but doesn’t seem as bonded with her due to Dr. Hans Grippe being attached to the Vietnamese synthetic human and the fact that she is a Synthetic Human in the first place!

Ent is willing to work with Eureka but doesn’t like her much, mostly due to her intelligence and proud confidence. It is because of this quality, that he also doesn’t approach her as a sexual object much as she is willing to fight him if he tries to touch her.

## Trivia/Notes and Disclaimer

* Inspiration for this character and curmudgeons in general comes from the series creator/original author being mistreated by elderly people, especially in warehouses and workplaces in general.
* This Old Man Al Ent comes from an unknown universe. Though, he seems to be an inspiration for the Old Man Al Ents and even Nangs, Eurekas, Matthew Oldocks and Captain Curmudgeons who would later adapt his technology for treating wrinkles and aging.
* Old Man Al Ent is one of several characters who uses technology belonging to Matthew Oldock, a Damon Avent character from 2014.

***Disclaimer**: To whom this may concern, the characters in their entirety, while they borrow inspiration from events, ideas, themes, and other sources from the original author's life, are incredibly different and fictional entities inside the Rage Knights Red God and under no circumstance are they expressing a real person's actual views, ideologies, names and likeness to cause harm or defame them. Any names bearing similarities to any person(s) are unintentional unless stated otherwise and under special permission. The Rage Knights Red God is a work of fiction and solely for entertainment and educational purposes. Please note, the series does not represent events that have happened, events to come nor does it condone the very human evils the series itself is/was meant to advocate against. © Khaliq Trevor X*