Danny is a minor character in the Jem animated series. He is a runaway kid who becomes good friends with some of the Starlight Girls.
History[]
Danny is a 13 year old boy that Deirdre, Ba Nee and Krissie met in the streets and befriended. In The Music Awards (Part 1), he ran away from home after his father –who apparently had some problems with his temper– kicked him out. At a Misfits concert, he stole a ticket from a lowlife scalper named Mick, who then chased him into the arena, although he was blocked by the long line of Misfits fans. Having escaped Mick, Danny started watching the concert from the same tower where Deirdre, Ba Nee and Krissie were on.
In The Music Awards (Part 2), Danny saved Krissie from falling off the tower and the girls then allowed him to join them, but at that moment, Mick appeared out of nowhere and caught him. Mick told the girls that Danny owed him money for the stolen tickets he was selling. However, realizing he could instead put the kids to good use in one of his illegal activities, Mick allowed Danny and the girls to stay that night in his bus. The next day, Mick and Ramón, his partner in crime, took Danny to the Sounds ETC electronics store and ordered him to steal a disc player to pay for the money he owed them.
Having no other option, Danny complied and stole the device, but Krissie then told him that they were only getting him in trouble. Danny realized that Krissie was right and decided to put the player back. Angered by this, Mick and Ramón went after Krissie, prompting Deirdre and Ba Nee to stop them. Meanwhile, the owner saw Mick and Ramón with the disc player and tried to get it back from them, but Mick pushed him down, and the infuriated owner shouted, "Thieves! Thieves!"
Two policemen named Jones and Rodriguez arrived at the scene; Rodriguez chased after Ramón while Jones chased Mick, Danny, Deirdre, Ba Nee and Krissie. Just as Jones grabbed Danny by the leg while they were climbing on top of a stack of crates, Mick saved Danny, but the rescue caused all of the crates, along with Jones, Danny and Mick, to fall. Danny lifted a crate off of Jones, and just as Rodriguez arrived with Ramón, Danny and the girls escaped.
The kids stopped at Best Hamburgers to have lunch while still on the run from home, and Deirdre suggested that Danny came with them to the Starlight Mansion, but Ba Nee reminded them that wasn't possible, as it was for girls only. An employee of the fast food restaurant named Tony overheard their conversation and suggested that Danny got someone to talk to and gave him a number for the national runaway switchboard. This leaded them to Haven House, where they met with Danse, and who took them to the Jem and The Holograms concert that night.
At the concert, Techrat was attempting to disrupt the event with a jamming device, but Danny caught him in the act and grabbed the device from him, forcing Techrat to flee in a panic. Witnessing how he had just saved the concert, Rio offered Danny his friendship, to which he gladly accepted. Danny was then seen holding hands with the Starlight Girls.
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Trivia[]
- Danny is not a runaway by his own choice, as his father forced him out onto the streets.
- Christy Marx had plans of writing a story about a kid with an alcoholic father, and this is the closest she was able to do.
- He and Terri were in one of the Jem short clips that played throughout commercial breaks, where he attempted to move a loose wire out of the way, but Jem and Shana told him to let a professional to handle the wire instead.
- It is assumed that he had a crush on Deirdre.
- This may be coincidental, but some people have speculated that Danny bears an older resemblance to the character of the same name from the original My Little Pony film/TV show, also made by Hasbro. It is even possible he may have been voiced by Scott Menville who voiced that character from My Little Pony.