Reginald Danco
- Reginald Danco is a human from the live-action film continuity.
Loyal first mate to Captain Archibald Witwicky on his fateful final voyage, Reginald Danco is a superstitious old sailor who has seen and experienced too much in his many years on the seas to believe that there aren't forces at work in the world beyond human ken. Some of these forces he reveres, but should any of them pose a danger to him or those close to him, he won't hesitate to fight back against the unknown.
Danco is a member of the First Seven, the group who would eventually found the covert government organization Sector Seven.
Fiction
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When Captain Witwicky's 1897 Arctic expedition was stymied by frozen seas, Danco was among the men who set out to break the ice. The reaction of the expedition's sled dogs to something buried in the ice piqued Witwicky's interest, but Danco advocated leaving well enough alone, believing that a spate of bad luck that had plagued the voyage was the work of the Fates, trying to keep them away from whatever was buried there. Witwicky, unfortunately for him, put no stock in Danco's superstitions, and broke the ice with a pick, tumbling into an ice cave that contained a gigantic frozen metal man. Movie Prequel #2 Danco ventured into the cave to save his captain, and also laid eyes on the beast, considering it nothing less than the Devil himself. Original
By the time the crew returned to America, it was evident that Witwicky's exposure to the metal man had unhinged his mind, as he had filled sheet upon sheet of paper with scrawls and diagrams before eventually going blind. Movie Prequel #2 Danco brought him to the Boston Secure Hospital, where he was interviewed by Walter Simmons and Theodore Joseph Wells, two adventurers drafted by the United States government to investigate the otherwordly claims the captain was now making. When Wells dismissed Witwicky's claims as madness, that was the last straw for Danco, and he assaulted Wells in the corridor outside. Simmons defused the confrontation, and requested that Danco lead them back to the Arctic so they could see the creature for themselves. He wanted to wait until Witwicky was better, but sadly, as Simmons informed him, that was not to be.
Two months later, the group—joined by Secret Service agent Billy North, metallurgist Jack Arden, explosives expert Philippe Bowen, and geologist Theodore Grant—returned to the ice cave, and Danco proved his captain's claims true. As the scientists marvelled at the metal man, Danco confided in North than he believed it should be destroyed, not studied. In entering the cave, however, the group had triggered a signal that soon summoned another of the metal man's kind, which began attacking the men. Coordinating the different skills of the team, Danco quickly put a plan into motion that allowed them to blow the ice sheet out from under the robot's feet, sending it plummeting into the freezing waters. North, alas, did not survive the battle, but Danco vowed to stand by Simmons and the others to avenge him by learning as much as they could about the robots in order to destroy them. Original
In 1899, as construction of an environment dome began around the site of the "Mega-Man", as they were now calling it, Danco worriedly observed how Simmons had begun talking to the creature. Three years later, in 1902, Danco was manning the radio at the group's base when a report came through that a mysterious metal cube had been discovered in the Colorado River. He didn't believe news of this find would be enough to drag Simmons away from the Mega-Man...until it was revealed the cube was covered in the same symbols as the metal titan... Movie Prequel #2
Transformers: Beginnings
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Notes
[edit]- Danco first appears, sans first name, in the second issue of IDW's Movie Prequel comic book. A few pages and a few years after his introduction, a character with a similar appearance to Danco is shown to be part of Simmons's group, so when author John Barber brought the character back for the Sector 7 comic book, he decided to declare them the same guy.
- Danco's last name is possibly a reference to fellow polar explorer [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Émile Danco|{{#if:||Émile Danco}}]], who took part in the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Belgian Antarctic Expedition|{{#if:||Belgian Antarctic Expedition}}]] from 1897 to 1899.