Daniel Witwicky (G1)
Daniel Witwicky is a human in Generation 1 continuity
Daniel Witwicky is the human son of Spike and Carly Witwicky. He is approximately 12 years of age in 2005. Though Daniel is supposedly characterized as a 'normal pre-teen boy', he often comes across as annoying, and often gets into serious trouble which requires either his father or the Autobots to save him.
Daniel is the Headmaster partner to Arcee.
Fiction
Animated continuity
Voice actor: David Mendenhall (US), ? (Japan)
Despite his shortcomings, Daniel has been an asset at times, including saving a number of Autobots from Unicron in 2005, and helped bring a mad Quintesson to justice in 2006. Daniel's misadventures often had him either paired with Wheelie or Grimlock.
Rebirth (US)
Daniel was seriously injured in an attack by Decepticons and required extensive life support. 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.
This new body wouldn't do much to help Daniel's luck, however, as he was captured by the Decepticons again and forced to turn over the key to the Plasma Energy Chamber. When Vector Sigma revitalized Cybertron using that energy, Arcee and Daniel joined Cerebros and Spike Witwicky on Nebulos to finish the eradication of the Decepticon allies, the Hive.
Headmasters (Japan)
3H Wreckers Comics
In 2025 or so, Daniel Witwicky detonated an explosive to destroy a legion of Nightbird drones, killing himself and Wheelie in the process. This event caused Arcee to enter a deep depression, setting the stage for her personality change as she became a Wrecker.
Toy
- A pink redeco of Chromedome as Headmaster Arcee was considered by Takara at one time. Presumably Daniel would have been the Headmaster partner.
- A PVC figure of Daniel in his exo-suit was released in Takara's Super Figure Collection.
Additional notes
- It has been posited that Daniel's inclusion was mandated by Hasbro. This has not been supported by any known sources.
- In Japanese continuity, it is 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.
