Captain Quaid is a beekeeper who appeared in a couple episodes of a show based on the Disney movie Tangled.

In a town called Vardaros, Quaid was once the sheriff. He was good at the job and beloved by the people of the town until some especially tough baddies show up and he can’t defeat them alone. But the people of the town don’t step up to help Quaid, so he fails to prevent Vardaros from becoming a crime-ridden cesspool and he retires, ashamed and hurt that nobody was willing to help him. But then, in the present day where the show happens, the protagonists bring him back into the job to help clean up the town again. He is reluctant at first, bitter about how the townspeople left things, but he does come back out of a sense of duty, as well as to protect the fields where his bees live.

It isn’t specified that he didn’t keep bees before retiring, but he really becomes a beekeeper only after leaving his job as the protector of Vardaros. He loves the bees because they come together and work for a common cause. He seems like a pretty big success as far as beekeeping is concerned, with many hives making multiple varieties of honey and he knows how to use bee pheromones to achieve various effects. And, I doubt it has to do with his apiarist skills as much as existing in a cartoon world, but his bees are also really smart and can do the thing where they cloud together to make shapes that are pictures communicating ideas.

So, he’s good at bees, is he good at the other parts of being a cool beekeeper? Well, in his prime he was so good with his sword that they called him Quaid the Blade. He was cunning and strong and could use a lariat. In the present he’s a bit rusty, but his talent has not abandoned him and it comes back as he goes, but now he has the additional skills offered to a beekeeper. He can use honey to make things sticky, or he can sic his bees on a foe. He’s older, but still powerful, and now he has allies both human and insect to help him do his job. He even manages to bring down a baddie who is wearing a suit of armour that is essentially the medieval equivalent of a mech.

I also appreciate that his job is not just fighting criminals, but he does things like saving cats and discouraging polluters and even just build town spirit. He’s genuinely trying to protect “the hive” that is the city. And from what we see in the episodes we get, it is working.

Four Honeycomb out of Five. This feels like a low four, once again proving it would have been smart for me to have done a scale of six, but the thing that just barely gets him into the 4 bracket is that when he comes out of retirement he gets a sheriff’s badge with a bee on it. That’s cool.