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| “ | Razzle Dazzle Time! | „ |
| ~ One of Lance's catchphrases. |
Lance is one of the three deuteragonists (alongside Pidge and Hunk) of the Voltron: Legendary Defender series. He functions as a Paladin of Voltron, piloting both the Blue Lion and the Red Lion.
He is currently a farmer.
He was voiced by Jeremy Shada, who also voiced Finn Mertens from Adventure Time, Cody Maverick from Surf's Up 2: Wavemania and GingerBrave from Cookie Run: Kingdom.
Background[]
Lance begins as a cadet at the Galaxy Garrison, a school for space exploration. He, Hunk, and Pidge are in the Garrison in the same year and assigned to the same cadet team. When Shiro, a Garrison pilot long thought dead in space, returns to Earth, they join with him and Keith to discover the Blue Lion.
When the Blue Lion brings them to Arus they meet Allura and Coran who tell them to look for the remaining Lions of Voltron so they can form the mighty robot and defeat the evil Galra empire. While he is initially the Blue Paladin, he becomes the Red Paladin once a need to change Lions arises.
Appearance[]
Lance has the appearance of a lean older teenager with light brown skin, short brown hair, thin eyebrows, and blue eyes that are notably drawn with small irises and pupils. Lance's bangs are very short and flare outwardly away from the center of his forehead before they curve inward with longer strands to frame his face at his cheekbones. The rest of his hair barely reaches his neck. He has two strands of hair that sprout from the top of his head. Of the Paladins, Lance has been suggested to be the third-tallest.
In his Paladin armor, Lance's uniform mirrors his fellow Paladins but with blue accents to match his Lion.
When he is not in his Paladin armor, Lance wears a light gray shirt with blue sleeves underneath a gray-brown jacket. The jacket is accented with black and orange and has a white hood. He wears blue jeans and white sneakers accented with black and light blue.
At the end of the show, Allura gives him small light-blue Altean markings.
Personality[]
Immature, arrogant, confrontational, and seemingly viewing life as a big joyride, Lance is an adventure-seeking pilot who priotitizes looking cool and proving himself better than his perceived rivals, envisioning the glory of defeating Zarkon, though his exploits often end in failure. His humor is rather vulgar, noted by him ripping a fart for the punchline of a joke, and he immediately dons a painfully transparent "smooth and suave" persona whenever in the vicinity of beautiful women to flirt with them. His tendency to get caught up in his ego and personal image has led to lowering his guard and trusting too easily to show off, making Lance an easily manipulated target that nearly cost the team the Blue Lion on one occasion. Also, once described by Pidge as "the goofball", which he denies, claiming he's "the cool ninja sharpshooter."
Lance's jovial nature and inflated ego distance his mind from the bleak situation of the universe and the need to perform his role as a Paladin seriously when not in a harrowing fight. He often picks petty arguments with Keith, who he believes is his rival , or instigates comical situations with other Paladins such as his rendition of laser guns and a "space police" siren.
Underneath his cocky demeanor, Lance suffers from homesickness and deeply misses Earth and his large family. He admits to admiring his teammates, even his 'rival' Keith. This reveals Lance is not all fun and bad jokes: he has doubts about his role, as we see when Lance mentions to Keith about leaving the team when "Shiro" came back, within the team and the world around him, and while good-intentioned, lacks solid motivation as a Paladin fighting a powerful enemy. He thinks of himself as nothing more than a "seventh wheel" of the team; these insecurities are the source of his belligerence towards Keith and his egotistical nature. Because he does not live up to his own personal expectations of being perceived highly by his peers, he puts on a front of bravado.
While frequently comic relief, he is perceptive and clear-headed when focused as a Paladin, able to remember key objectives of missions and take in his surroundings to formulate better plans than simply rushing in to attack or risk getting caught.Lance is an outgoing, amiable, and sociable teammate who will readily put himself in harm's way to protect his friends, be it from the mortal danger of a bomb or discipline from a superior officer. He highly values the lives of his team and proves he has potential as a Paladin - something the Blue Lion saw in him and chose him for.Over time, Lance realizes the dire state of the universe around him and matures to respecting his fellow teammates, putting his ideals for glory, his "rivalry", and pride aside for the sake of everyone; this change in character grants him acceptance by the Red Lion as its new pilot.
Abilities[]
Lance is a natural sharpshooter and skilled marksman who has often shown his skills by nailing his enemies with powerful shots that are few in number, displaying his rarely seen precision in a fight. His Bayard takes the form of a rifle or a sniper. His reflexes are also extremely quick, as he realized that the drone that infiltrated the Castle was not Rover, and he managed to discern this quickly enough to protect Coran from the ensuing blast, although he was injured himself in the process. Lance is also surprisingly durable despite his light frame as the aforementioned explosion should have killed him. Though he did sustain near-fatal wounds, Lance survived long enough to get to a healing pod, and was even able to wake up long enough to shoot Sendak.
Trivia[]
- Lance's full name has not been revealed.
- Lance was originally only known to be in his late teens.[1][2] Jeremy Shada described Lance as being as young as 16.[3] His age was published as being 17 in The Paladin's Handbook, which was not reviewed by executive series staff.[4][5]
- Lance is Cuban. He grew up in or near Varadero.
- The Paladin's Handbook official guidebook gives garlic knots as Lance's favorite food.
- "The hunter becomes the hunted" is a quote in some of Lance's favorite movies.
- Lance has a very large family consisting of up to 12 family members
- It was revealed on the 100th episode of the Lets Voltron Podcast (released June 14, 2017) that Lance's birthday is July 28.
- Lance's Weapons design has resemblance of the MA5D Assault rifle used by John-117 AKA the Master Chief from Halo. While his red paladin sniper has a unique design as it has the resemblance of the M41A Pulse Rifle used by Ellen Ripley From Aliens.
- Lance's idea of how laser guns sound is "POW, POW, POW!!".
- Lance is similar to Sokka from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- Both related to power of water.
- Both have light brown skin.
- Both of them are arrogant, stubborn and immature.
- Both of them loves womens and flirts with them.
- Both with a characters power of earth. Lance with Pidge and Sokka with Toph Beifong.
- Both have Swordsmanship.
- Lance is flexible and can do the splits same as Finn. Both characters are voiced by Jeremy Shada.
- Due to his rivalry and chemistry with Keith, many of the show's fans enjoy shipping them.
- A movie was planned and would've focus on an older Lance reuniting with a Allura.
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