Guard

Guard (Ted Lutz)
	; The Guard (aka. Ted Lutz)
Characteristics
Title	Guard
Cost	N/A (not for sale/Unplayable)
Tokens	N/A (not for sale/Unplayable)

The Guard (Ted Lutz) is the main antagonist of Subway Surfers. In the beginning of every game, he and his dog will look for trespassers around the subway.

Whenever he catches a character spraying graffiti on one of the trains (vandalizing), he will chase them down the tracks until that character hits an obstacle.

If the character has only bumped once into an obstacle, the guard will appear on the screen, gaining on them and will yell "Halt!"; if the character crashes into an obstacle or bumps twice into an obstacle or when he is present in the screen, they will be caught by the inspector, ending their run unless the player uses a or an ad to continue.

Appearance

The Guard appears to be a middle aged overweight train inspector. He wears an olive green patrol jacket and a hat the same color. He also wears dark brown khakis with a visible black belt black shoes, and also has a brown mustache. His eyes are not seen open at all (due to his big hat). Throughout the holiday and world tour editions, he would receive a different outfit.

Special Outfits

Halloween special Frankenstein's monster outfit (his dog is a skeleton) in Halloween, , , , , , , and .
Holiday special Santa Claus outfit (his dog is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) in Holiday, , , , , , , , , and .
Easter special bunny outfit in , , , , , , and (yellow bunny); and (pink bunny).
Cowboy outfit in , and .
Mountie outfit in .
Knight outfit in .
Robot outfit (his dog also is a robot) in .
Chinese long mustache version in , , , , and .
Swimming Suit outfit (his dog is a shark) in , and .
Halloween special Creepy Bodyguard outfit (a reference to Lurch from the Addams Family) in and .
Holiday special Snow Beast outfit (his dog is polar wolf) in . It also appeared in Tag Time Attack in .
St. Valentine's Day special Romantic outfit, he wears pink clothes and holds a rose in his mouth in .
Firefighting outfit (his dog also wears it) in .
NYPD Police Officer outfit (his dog is a German Shepherd). This is his most common outfit in many editions (such as , or ) he uses the same outfit just with different colors. Also sometimes his skin gets darker in the editions like or .

Other names

The Inspector
The Security Guard

Trivia

It is possible for the Guard to be hit by a train. After bumping into an obstacle, run into a speeding train and he will collide with it, along with his dog.
- Sometimes, his dog will run in place due to an animation bug.
Strangely, when getting caught, the Guard will land at the character from the air. Something similar happens when the character "bumps" on the side after they either finished the Jetpack or the Pogo Stick.
No matter how long players run, the Guard will always chase them until the end.
The Inspector is the only character in the game that is unplayable (excluding his dog).
He is one of the oldest characters in the game.
Despite his weight, he is extremely fast.
He has the most outfits in the game.
- His outfits also change automatically, so the player cannot change them by will.
His dog is never seen leaving his side (ever) in the game.
His real name is Ted Lutz, as revealed in a Subway Surfers dossier video.
He is one of the only adults in the game, teaming up with Saquon, Patrick, Odell, Tom, Lamar, Dak, Glorgalax, and J Balvin.
- He is also the first adult male in the game, the second being Saquon, the third being Patrick, the fourth being Odell, the fifth being Tom, the sixth being Lamar, the seventh being Dak, the eighth being J Balvin, and the ninth being Glorgalax.
The guard is the only non playable character to have some of his animations removed.
When the character jumps, the Guard also jumps.
When the character rolls, the Guard also rolls since .
- Since , the Guard no longer rolls.
- Since , the Guard makes shorter rolls.
- In the v3.0.1 update, his old animations were added back.
Since , he, his Dog, or him and his dog sometimes go invisible during a run.
- However, by , the bug that caused the occasional disappearance is fixed (especially with the dog sometimes after a run).
Since , his voice lines for when a player bumps into an obstacle is the exact same every time, rather than being randomized with different parts of the voice line and/or being low or high pitch.
There is a glitch where the Guard and his Dog stand on the air when running when the character is high, or when the character loses from a high place, making the character float as if the Guard was holding them.