Daniel Witwicky (G1)

2007-12-24T17:20:36Z

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:''Daniel Witwicky is a human in the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Dannigun.jpg|thumb|250px|Give a boy a gun and you arm him for a day. Teach him how to '''make''' a gun... and the whole metaphor breaks down.]]

'''Daniel Witwicky''' is the human son of [[Spike Witwicky|Spike]] and [[Carly|Carly Witwicky]]. He is approximately 12 years of age in 2005, and was presumably born sometime between 1990 and 1993. He is the grandson of [[Sparkplug Witwicky]].

Daniel often gets into trouble, which requires either his father or the [[Autobots]] to save him. He is very good friends with the Autobots, particularly [[Wheelie]], [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], and [[Hot Rod]], but the one he's closest to is [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], who views him as a surrogate son. Come to think of it, he doesn't seem to have any human friends.

Daniel is (sometimes) the [[Headmaster]] partner to Arcee.

==Fiction==
===Animated continuity===
====Generation 1 cartoon====
:'''Voice actor:''' [[David Mendenhall]] (US), [[Mayumi Tanaka]] (the Movie, Japan) → [[Masumi Gotō]] (2010, Japan)

In the year 2005, Daniel appeared to be in the care of [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] at [[Metroplex (G1)|Autobot City]] while his father was preparing for an assault on the [[Decepticon]]-held planet [[Cybertron]] from [[Moonbase One]].

Following a brutal Decepticon attack on the city (in which he was almost killed), Daniel tearfully witnessed the death of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], sobbing on the fallen commander's hand as the color left his corpse (we forgive Daniel's crying on this occasion, as [[Fans|everyone else]] cried as well).

Escaping from a second Decepticon attack, Daniel and a group of Autobots were stranded on [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]], where Daniel donned his father's old [[exo-suit]] to weather the harsh environment. He did not get much time to enjoy the suit, as yet ''another'' Decepticon assault left [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] dead and stirred the native [[Junkion|Junkions]] into violent action. Daniel proved his worth in this battle by smacking Junkion leader [[Wreck-Gar]] with an I-beam, saving a prone [[Springer]].

Hostilities with the Junkions were settled with the arrival of Hot Rod and [[Kup]], Ultra Magnus was revived, and a brief celebration was held wherein Daniel showed he could boogey down.

Daniel joined the combined Autobot-Junkion attack force in the assault on [[Unicron]]. He was on the ship that plunged into Unicron's eye, and soon became separated from the main Autobot group. As luck would have it, he ended up in Unicron's acid-based digestion center, where he was able to save his father, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], [[Jazz]], and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] from certain death.

Daniel and the rest soon met up with the other Autobots inside of Unicron. Everything around them was exploding! And then came this [[Hot Rod|Rodimus Prime]] guy. Spike and Daniel hopped into his front seat, all of the Autobots drove out of Unicron's undamaged eye, ''through space'' (!), and back to Cybertron as Unicron blew up. Daniel looked on as Rodimus gave a heroic speech.

Daniel would subsequently be around to watch his father get kidnapped by [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]], witness [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s revival as a zombie, become the subject of a Quintesson dream/reality experiment, try to determine Ultra Magnus's birthday, bring a mad Quintesson wizard to justice, and steal [[Trypticon]]'s transforming cog.

[[Image:HeadmasterDanielRebirth1.jpg|right|200px|thumb|That kid's therapist is gonna make a fortune. Sorry, Daniel, no college fund for you.]]

Following those adventures, Daniel took on the role of "chew-toy" and was seriously injured in an attack by [[Snapdragon]] and required extensive life support. [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] volunteered her own systems to assist in saving Daniel's life. Her head was reconfigured into an [[exo-suit]], and allowed Daniel to become Arcee's [[Headmaster]] partner.

====The Headmasters anime====
'''Voice actress:''' [[Tomiko Suzuki]] (Japan)

''('''Note''': The Headmasters anime ignores the events of the 3-part "The Rebirth" story arc.)''

In 2011, Daniel seemed to be somehow regressing in both age and maturity, looking and acting a good deal younger than in the movie or the previous season of the cartoon. He hung out with Wheelie a whole lot more than was probably healthy, and the two shared constant adventures. In fact, at one point, Daniel and Wheelie defeated Trypticon by tricking him into trying to walk a rope bridge across a deep gorge.

As the series progressed, Daniel changed from a snot-nosed little cry-baby into a responsible young man. These coming-of-age adventures included traveling alone to a robot-killing asteroid, befriending the murderous psychopath, [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]], and finally rescuing his Mom from inside a narrow crevice she had tumbled into, injuring herself.

Real men don't cry, Danny.

====The Headmasters manga====
[[Image:DanielWheelie.jpg|left|thumb|I find this picture works better WITHOUT the captions.]]

Shortly after [[Scorponok (G1)|Mega Zarak]] and the Decepticons were driven from Earth, [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundblaster]] showed up and took Daniel's family hostage. Not havin' none-a that, Daniel finally snapped. He went insane and took on both [[Slugfest]] and [[Overkill]] in a bare-knuckle brawl, defeating the pair of Cassette dinosaurs and leaving Soundblaster open to an attack from [[Chromedome]].

===Marvel Comics===
[[Image:Danieluk.jpg|right|thumb|Sweet sixteen. Happy birthday Danny, happy birth.. YUCK!]]

In 2009, the [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]] and the rest of the Decepticons rampaged across Earth unhindered, and Daniel and his father Spike were rescued from the carnage by [[Kup]]. Kup brought them to Autobot City, where Daniel convinced [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] that he wasn't devoting enough resources towards defending Earth.

===Coloring books===
In ''The Lost Treasure of Cybertron'', [[Buster Witwicky]] was portrayed as Daniel's father. Daniel, however, looked the same as he always did.

===Universe: The Wreckers===
[[Image:Wheeliewreckers.jpg|100px|left|thumb|Making Daniel badass risks destroying reality as we know it.]]

Daniel detonated an explosive to destroy a legion of [[Nightbird]] drones, killing himself and [[Wheelie]] in the process. This event caused [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] to enter a deep depression, setting the stage for her personality change as she became a [[Wrecker]].

===Dreamwave Generation 1===
Daniel could be seen running around his home with his father, Spike. He wears pajamas to bed.

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==Toys==

===Unreleased===

[[Image:Concept-HeadmasterArcee.jpg|right|thumb|Every boy dreams his own car... but maybe not a pink technomobile.]]

A pink [[redeco]] of [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] as Headmaster Arcee was considered by Hasbro/Takara at one time. Presumably Daniel would have been the Headmaster partner.

==Merchandise==
A PVC figure of Daniel in his exo-suit was released in [[Takara]]'s [[Super Collection Figure]] series. It was only available in ACT-4, coming in the same blind-packed box as Arcee (who was unchanged from her ACT-1 release).

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==Trivia==
* In Japanese continuity, it originally was not explained why Daniel did not seem to age between the animated film, which took place in 2005, and their season three, which took place in 2010. To the contrary, in Headmasters his mental age seemed to regress. According to [[Kiss Players]], Daniel was in suspended animation in outer space in the interim.

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