I don't recognize this guy with the kooky hair, where is he from?

He's from this arc. There's a reason you don't remember him.

Let me guess. 4kids cut content?

I don't think it was cut, but he doesn't stay around long enough for you to remember him either...

Ah, Commodore Pudding-Pudding. Your valiant sacrifice was forgotten by most, but I'll never forget the cub stomping you got to hype up the Arlong Pirates.

They get dunked on

Huh...that is kind a brilliant reason to use a Klabutermann. Alowing a good reason to have someone sneak around and see things that actual characters weren't actually there for in the series...

Damn clever job there.

Just my thought. Will come quite in handy come the later arcs. Figured he'd either do that or just add in more co-DMs.

Considering the hype Captains and above get later on - Smoker, for example - it's amazing how this guy go so high in rank.

Well, he is a captain in the weaker part of the weakest Blue. (I mean, Smoker's patrol includes the entrance to the Grand Line, so he's got to be at least minimally competent.)

Oda explained it in a SBS corner, when someone asked how morgan could be so weak and be colonel, while smoker had the same rank and was much stronger.

Smoker and Tashigi come from Marine HQ. A Marinford officier is stronger than a officier of the same rank from another place. This is why the vice-admiral found in the grandline are so above thoses find in east blue, the least dangerous sea in the world