Captain Falcon (キャプテン・ファルコン, Kyaputen Farukon) (Full name: Captain Douglas Jay Falcon) is a video game character in the F-Zero series, Nintendo's fast paced futuristic racing video game franchise. He first appeared in the 1990 video game F-Zero, as one of four original characters in the game, introduced as a mysterious, futuristic racer from the 26th century.
In F-Zero, Captain Falcon's machine was portrayed only by a two-dimensional sprite. Not until "F-Zero X" would his character be conveyed by a computer-generated image. The Super Smash Bros. games are the only times he has appeared outside the F-Zero series, and the first time that he himself became a playable character. Other than that, the character has been seen outside the Nintendo games on a television show called F-Zero GP Legend. The game F-Zero: Maximum Velocity is the only story-driven game in the series not to feature this character.