Captain Radio-Hat was a Captain in the army of War Stompers who briefly besieged Mechanicsburg on behalf of the Knights of Jove. Given his ethnicity, probably a mercenary. We don't know his real name, but given his headgear, how could we possibly call him anything else?[1]
In the novelization, the corresponding character is "identified" as His Grace the Third Duke of some kingdom that technically no longer exists.[2]
A British upper-class twit of the first water (notice the buck-teeth, the haw-hawing, the use of the phrases "b'god" and "wot"), Captain Radio-Hat displayed a love of shooting Jägers, an unfortunate lack of caution when dealing with supposedly unarmed Sparks, and an inability to survive being hit by an enormous lightning bolt ✣ . To be fair, he didn't get much of a chance to display any other character traits.
Still, he will be missed, even if only slightly, for his dashing taste in haberdashery, eh wot?
References
- ↑ Well, the cast list calls him "The Idiot in an Awesome Hat".
- ↑ Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle p 128. Footnote 29 goes on to explain in general terms why his royal personage might be present.