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
Anime 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 Gym. He hands out the Sea Ruby Badge to trainers who defeat him.

He is the second Gym Leader Ash encounters in the Orange Archipelago. He appears to be in his mid-20s and enjoys water sports including sailing and windsurfing. He and Misty seem to develop a relationship in the anime episode Navel Maneuvers.

Danny doesn't simply battle Ash, however; instead, he challenges Ash to work with his Pokémon in order to win the Badge. Initially, Danny and Ash have to climb a mountain without the aid of any of their Pokémon. Then Ash and Danny each choose three Pokémon to build a bobsled (or toboggan) of sorts, and the final challenge is a bobsled race down the side of the mountain.

Pokémon

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 it 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 2nd challenge.

Ice Beam is Nidoqueen's only known move.

Machoke

Debut	Navel Maneuvers!
Voice actors
Japanese
English	Eric Stuart

Danny's Machoke was only seen in the 2nd challenge against Ash where it helped to carve a sled from the ice that Nidoqueen froze earlier.

None of Machoke's attacks are known.

Scyther

Debut	Navel Maneuvers!
Voice actors
Japanese
English	Eric Stuart

Scyther was the only one of Danny's Pokémon to be in both the 2nd and 3rd 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.

None of Scyther's attacks are known.

Electrode

Debut	Navel Maneuvers!
Voice actors
Japanese
English	Eric Stuart

Electrode was one of Danny's Pokémon that was used in the 3rd challenge race down the mountain. Using its weight to help steer, it also used either Explosion or Selfdestruct to ward off Team Rocket.

Geodude

Debut	Navel Maneuvers!
Voice actors
Japanese
English	Michael Haigney

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

None of Geodude's attacks are known.

Voice actors

Language Voice actor Japanese 松本保典 Yasunori Matsumoto English Jim Malone European Spanish 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.

Orange League
Mikan Gym Gym Leader Cissy	Navel Gym Gym Leader Danny	Trovita Gym Gym Leader Rudy	Kumquat Gym Gym Leader Luana	Pummelo Stadium Supreme Gym Leader Drake

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