Voltron History: Pidge
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Date: 2017-11-23

Voltron History: Pidge
Voltron History and Origins

Voltron Origins: Pidge | The History of Voltron
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For the purpouse of this video, we're going to focus on the history of the pilot of the Green Lion in Voltron Defender of the Universe, Voltron the 3rd Dimension, Voltron Force and Voltron Legendary Defender as well as comics. 

According to Devil's Due Publishing's comics, Pidge's real name is Darrell Stroker and through out each of the Voltron incarnations is the genius of the team. 


In the original American version of the show, Voltron Defender of the Universe, Pidge has a twin brother named Chip who became one of the pilots of the Vehicle Voltron. The two brothers were orphaned at a young age and when a couple wanted to adopt Pidge, he refused unless they adopted Chip as well. The two were born on Earth but grew up on the planet Balto. 
Later, long after Pidge had become the pilot of the Green Lion, he would become emotionally distressed after responding to a distress call from the planet he grew up on. It's revealed the planet would explode due to a trap laid by Prince Lotor. 
Pidge is the only Voltron pilot whose suit matches his lion in color, and his helmet lacks a built in visor in order to accomodate his glasses. Pidge's last name of Stoker was actually a tribute to Devil Due's writer Dan Jolley's grandmother. 
The relationship between Pidge and Chip was completely original to Voltron where as Beast King GoLion and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV were originally completely different shows. 
Chip is a member of the Air Team in Vehicle Voltron, and is the youngest member of the team. He flies the Advanced Recon Helicopter #4 and becomes the upper left arm of Vehicle Voltron. 
In Devil's Due Publishing's comics, Pidge and Chip met for the first time and deduced they were brothers rather than being raised together.  
In the Voltron Defender of the Universe continuity, the only way to tell the two brothers apart other than clothing, is that Pidge's hair is longer and curly while Chip's hair is short and straight. 
The Vehicle Voltron and Lion Voltron appeared together in only 3 crossovers during the Defender of the Universe time line, During the final episode of Lion Force, in the Vehicle Voltron debut "Letters from Home" and the Fleet of Doom special. 

In the NickToons' show Voltron Force, Pidge is the technoligical genius who pilots the green lion and his voltcom weapons are smart stars similar to ninja stars.  As a member of Galaxy Garrison, his rank is Tech Sergeant. 

In Defender of the Universe, Pidge has brown eyes while in Voltron Force his eye color has been retconned as green. Also in Voltron Force, his adoption has been retconned and he and Chip were natural born Baltans and were decendants of ninja scientists and the planet itself had neever been destroyed and was made of technology. 
Soon Pidge would retire as pilot of the green lion and pass pilot duties on to Vince, one of the 3 caddetts who joined the Voltron Force. 

In Netflix's Voltron Legendary Defender, Pidge has been retconned as being a female in disguise and the only female on the team until Allura became the Paladin of the Blue Lion. 
In this incarnation of the character, her real name is Katie Holt but is originally introduced as Pidge Gunderson with a home planet of Earth. 
Pidge's father and brother were lost on a mission to Kerberos which is a moon of Pluto along side Shiro. 
 Refusing to believe the official report of their deaths by pilot error, Katie began her unrelenting search for her missing family. After being discovered hacking into Galaxy Garrison computers, she was escorted off the property and forbidden from ever returning. To further her investigation, she went undercover as a Galaxy Garrison cadet by the name of "Pidge Gunderson" and cut her hair and donned glasses to disguise herself as a boy. Infiltrating the Galaxy Garrison, she wound up assigned to a team with Lance and Hunk. Later, Shiro accompanied Pidge to a dense forest planet where the Green Lion was hidden, where it accepted her as its pilot.
In this series, Pidge's brother's name is Matt not Ship and is older than her not a twin. Matt is also a member of Galaxy Garrison. It's also revealed that Pidge's birthday is April 3rd, she's 15 years old and is Italian. 

Pidge would also go on to appear in mulitple comic book lines. In 1985, Modern Comics, an imprint of the now defenct publisher Charlton Comics, released a 3 issue mini series which doesn't contradict or diverge from the Voltron Defender of the Universe animated series. Then appearing in Dreamwave Comics in 2003 followed by Image Comics also in 2003, Devil's Due Publishing from 2003 to 2008, Dynamite Entertainment from 2013 to present and Lion Forge Comics from 2016 to present, which is based on the Netflix and Dreamworks Voltron Legendary defender. 


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