Danny Phillips

Danny Phillips is a human from the Marvel UK portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Danny Phillips is an early-adolescent human whose daddy issues have translated into an unhealthy fixation of Transformers; because finding them will somehow make his life magically "right".

He often wears a distinctive orange hat and blue Nike tennis shoes and is often found wandering off on his own, shutting the rest of the world out by listening to his walkman in all sorts of weather.

You don't understand his angst. It is unique, like a snowflake. And he is better than you for embracing it, so just leave him alone, Mom!

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

They're gonna go kiss upside-down in the rain now.

When Danny was four years old, his father died testing a rocket for NASA, but this did little to stifle a growing obsession the boy had with space. He especially became interested in aliens when reports started coming in of the Autobots and Decepticons popping up in Oregon. In September 1985, Danny Phillips was caught in a fire when inept burglars attempted to blow up a bank vault in New York City. He was rescued by Inferno, Hoist, and other Autobots. Missing in Action Danny's rescue had a profound effect on him, and he became convinced that the Transformers had come to Earth to promote peace and understanding. He filled several scrapbooks with newspaper clippings, trying to figure out where they’d appear next. Gradually, this grew to an obsession. He withdrew from his friends, and his grades began to slip.

In winter early in 1986, his mother Jennifer took him out of school for a vacation away from the city in the Charlton hotel, which was having the worst winter in 20 years. It was cold on the coast, the beaches were dirty, and shops and arcades were closed for the off-season. With nothing to do and nobody to do it with, Danny escaped on long walks alone listening to his walk-man, regardless of the weather.

Evading his mother, Danny ventured further down the coast to the nearby power plant, which he was surprised to find unguarded. Inside, the Decepticons Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker had locked up the power plant's personnel and were stealing energy. Skywarp seized Danny and began to squeeze when the Aerialbots burst in. Fireflight flew Danny to safety, depositing him on a beach by the Charlton, but Fireflight's flying had been so bad that Danny was knocked unconscious and the other humans assumed he had tried to harm the boy.

The Aerialbots subsequently formed Superion and carelessly destroyed the hotel where Danny was staying. Danny was outraged that the Transformers were no better than combative humans. After the Transformers departed Danny threw his scrapbooks into the ocean before returning home. The Return of the Transformers