Oh: But you are not good captain”
-Oh contradicts Smek [[{{{src}}}|[1]]]
Captain Smek, also known as DJ Smek in the end, is the main antagonist of the DreamWorks animated Home franchise, serving as the main protagonist of the 2014 short film Almost Home, one of the two main antagonists (alongside The Gorg) of DreamWorks' 31st full-length animated feature film Home and the main antagonist of the animated series Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh.
He is the former leader of the Boov race, and becomes a D.J. at the end of the film. Captain Smek failed to erase Oh for making himself several mistakes
Background[]
Personality[]
His main trait is being wimpy, and being celebrated by being said thing. He will retreat from anything, and has incorporated said thing to the Boov culture.
Biography[]
Not much is known about his life, other than having stolen a device of the Gorg's that he uses to shut people up, although the device is actually a Gorg egg.
Almost Home[]
In the short film, bad smek appears when getting out of his spaceship along with the other Boov and announcing to his Boov on arriving at their foster new planet.
Home[]
At the beginning of the film, Captain Smek tells all the Boov that they are going to invade earth as their new home. After Oh sends a invitation to all the Boov and all other alien races (including the Gorg himself), Smek tells all the Boov to find Oh and tell him what his password is to stop sending the invitation to the Gorg as he sends a Boov cop named Kyle to find Oh and tell him what his password is so Smek commands the Big Brain Boovs to get to work.
Later, Captain Smek and his army of Boov surround the two in Paris and tells Oh that even though he fixed his mistake it can't be guaranteed he won't continue to make more. So, he must erase him. Luckily, Tip turns the "gravity orb" upside down and Smek later escapes in Kyle's flying pod.
After the Gorg attacks the Boov, Oh mentions to all the Boov about how a bad captain Smek is, before Smek can hit Oh with his "Shusher" Kyle forces him to let Oh be captain but Smek refuses and gets hit in the head by Kyle and gives the "Shusher" to Oh, near the end Smek redeems himself and becomes a DJ for the Boov and for Oh being captain.
Trivia[]
- Captain Smek is played by Steve Martin.
- Captain Smek is very similar to Mother Gothel from Tangled (2010), as both of them tricked who they "loved" into obeying them (Captain Smek acted cowardly and stole the Gorg egg to make the Boov believe the Gorg was evil and so the Boov would obey Smek, Mother Gothel stole Rapunzel as an infant and told her the world was dangerous so she could be young and beautiful forever).
- The word, "Smek", is a Swedish word that means "caressing".
- He is the second Dreamworks villain to be an alien, the first being Gallaxhar. However, unlike him, Smek isn't truly evil and would do anything to protect the Boov from any certain threats.
- In the Tip & Oh series, his skin is currently red (which is the boov's expression of anger) this means that he still has a grudge on Oh for taking away his position as leader.