Daniel Witwicky is a young member of the Witwicky family. He is most often portrayed as the son of Spike and Carly, but was once portrayed as the son of Spike's brother Buster. 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, and Hot Rod, but the one he's closest to is Arcee, who views him as a surrogate son.
Daniel is (sometimes) a Headmaster partner, and sometimes he is a Titan Master named Leinad, both in conjunction with Arcee.
He was voiced by David Mendenhall in the cartoon and Tara Strong in Transformers Animated. In the Japanese dub from the series and movies, he was voiced by Mayumi Tanaka, Masumi Goto and Tomiko Suzuki.
Story[]
A day after a reactivated Megatron attacked and destroyed a South American rebel militia, a young Daniel reminded Spike to wear his hard hat, which he scrawled his father's name on so he wouldn't forget. Spike told him to go upstairs when General Robert Hallo invited himself into Spike's home.
When Daniel was particularly feeling the absence of his father (stationed on one of Cybertron's moons), events soon escalated to epic proportions as a Decepticon attack on the city foreshadowed the coming of the planet-eater, Unicron. Watched over by the female Autobot Arcee for the majority of the adventure, Daniel was given his father's old transforming "Exo-Suit" battle armor when the Autobots' shuttle crashed on the Planet of Junk, and he used its powers to escape attacks by the Decepticons and Junkions, and to aid Springer in battle against Wreck-Gar. Arriving on Cybertron, the Autobots' craft was piloted directly into Unicron's massive body, where Daniel was separated from the Autobots, but discovered his father and the three Autobots (Bumblebee, Jazz, and Cliffjumper) who had been captured earlier in the movie when Unicron had consumed Cybertron's twin moons and saved them from meeting a nasty end in an acid vat.
Trivia[]
- Daniel has a crush on Arcee as shown in the season 4 3-part episode "Rebirth" as he became her Headmaster partner and has feelings for her.
- He and his parents made a few appearances in Transformers Animated.
- In IDW continuity, "Daniel" is the first name of Sparkplug Witwicky, the grandfather of this Daniel.