Danny

Danny ダン Dan
Danny
Gender	Male
Eye color	Black
Hair color	Auburn
Hometown	Navel Island
Region	Orange Islands
Trainer class	Gym Leader
Leader of	Navel Gym
Badge	Sea Ruby Badge
Challenge	Bobsled race
Animated debut	Navel Maneuvers
English voice actor	Jim Malone
Japanese voice actor	Yasunori Matsumoto

Danny (Japanese: ダン Dan) is the Gym Leader of the Navel Island's Gym, known officially as the Navel Gym. He hands out the Sea Ruby Badge to Trainers who defeat him.

He was the second Gym Leader Ash encountered in the Orange Archipelago, in Navel Maneuvers. He appears to enjoy water sports including sailing and windsurfing. He and Misty seemed to develop some sort of relationship.

Danny did not simply battle Ash, however; instead, he challenged Ash to work with his Pokémon in order to win the Badge. Initially, Danny and Ash had to climb a mountain without the aid of any of their Pokémon. Then Ash and Danny each chose three Pokémon to build a bobsled (or toboggan) of sorts, and the final challenge was a bobsled race down the side of the mountain. He reappeared in flashbacks in A Way Off Day Off and Hello, Pummelo!.

Pokémon

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This is a listing of Danny's known Pokémon in the anime.

Nidoqueen ♀

Debut	Navel Maneuvers!

Danny's Nidoqueen was used by him in the first challenge against Ash. Using Ice Beam, she was able to quickly freeze the water coming out of the geyser in order to beat Lapras. Nidoqueen's physical strength was then used to help carve out a sled from Danny's slab of ice in the second challenge.

She reappeared in flashbacks in A Way Off Day Off and Hello, Pummelo!.

Nidoqueen's only known move is Ice Beam.

Machoke

Voice actors
Debut	Navel Maneuvers!
Japanese
English	Eric Stuart

Danny's Machoke was only seen in the second challenge against Ash, where it helped to carve a sled from the ice that Nidoqueen froze earlier.

It reappeared in a flashback in Hello, Pummelo!.

None of Machoke's moves are known.

Scyther

Voice actors
Debut	Navel Maneuvers!
Japanese
English	Eric Stuart

Scyther was the only one of Danny's Pokémon to be in both the second and third challenges. It first helped carve the block ice into a sled after which it then helped steer that sled in the race down the mountain.

It reappeared in flashbacks in A Way Off Day Off and Hello, Pummelo!.

None of Scyther's moves are known.

Electrode

Voice actors
Debut	Navel Maneuvers!
Japanese
English	Eric Stuart

Electrode was one of Danny's Pokémon that was used in the third challenge, the race down the mountain. It used its weight to help steer and it also used Explosion to ward off Team Rocket.

It reappeared in flashbacks in A Way Off Day Off and Hello, Pummelo!.

Electrode's only known move is Explosion.

Geodude

Voice actors
Debut	Navel Maneuvers!
Japanese
English	Michael Haigney

Geodude was only seen during the race down the mountain. Besides using its weight to help steer the sled, Geodude also had a powerful throw in the snowball fight to defend against Team Rocket.

It reappeared in flashbacks in A Way Off Day Off and Hello, Pummelo!.

None of Geodude's moves are known.

Voice actors

Language		Voice actor
Japanese		松本保典 Yasunori Matsumoto
English		Jim Malone
Norwegian		Trond Teigen
Polish		Robert Ostolski
Brazilian Portuguese		Silvio Giraldi
Spanish	Latin America	Yamil Atala
Spanish	Spain	Jesús Maniega

Trivia

Danny in his Geodude shirt

Danny has a shirt with a Geodude print on it.
Danny is the only regular Gym Leader of the Orange Crew not to have a family member revealed.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	ダン Dan
English	Danny	Similar to Japanese name.
Korean	호남 Honam
Chinese (Mandarin)	小丹 Xiǎo Dān	Transliteration of his Japanese name. 丹 dān also means red.