Donald Davenport

“*So, are you ready for your new adventure?*”
―Donald Davenport

**Donald Davenport** is the tritagonist of *Lab Rats*. He is the egotistical older brother of Douglas Davenport, the step-father of Leo, adoptive father and the biological uncle of Adam, Bree, and Chase, uncle of Marcus and Daniel, the husband of Tasha Davenport, and the father of Naomi. He is also a billionaire and a co-founder of Davenport Industries. He says he is incredibly smart, perfect, and better than everyone else. He also frequently says "I'm awesome!"

Despite his ego, Donald loves all four of his children and tries too hard to bond with Adam, Bree, Chase, and Leo.

He is portrayed by Hal Sparks. He also founded the Bionic Team, Davenport Bionic Academy and Davenport Industries.

## Background

### Personality

Donald Davenport is Egotistical, childish, fatherly, and eccentric. He often described as being incredibly smart, perfect and better than everyone else. Though Donald is intelligent, his brother is implied to be smarter than him, as does others such as Victor Krane. Like his brother and his second-youngest son, Chase, they appear to have a lot of things in common, because they are all fairly arrogant, believing their better than everyone. However, he has a very fatherly, caring and loving relationship with his children, and does anything to protect them. This was exemplified in "Taken" when Donald personally went to rescue his wife, Tasha, and son, Leo from Krane. Despite being a family man who considers Leo as a son and the original Lab Rats as his own children, he is sometimes unfair towards them and grounds them for a large amount of time. He also threatened to kill Douglas when he first came into the lab while saving Adam, Bree and Chase from Krane and also angrily yelled at his brother for giving bionics to Leo.

Apart from his arrogance, Donald is a caring man who loves his family and does whatever he can to save the world.

## Family

* Unnamed mother
* Unnamed father
* Tasha Davenport (wife)
* Douglas Davenport (younger brother)
* Leo Dooley (step-son)
* Adam Davenport (adoptive son/nephew)
* Bree Davenport (adoptive daughter/niece)
* Chase Davenport (adoptive son/nephew)
* Naomi Davenport (daughter)
* Daniel Davenport (nephew)
* Marcus Davenport (android nephew)
* Janice (sister-in-law)
* Rose (mother-in-law)

## Trivia

* Donald is fairly similar to Marvel superhero Tony Stark/Iron Man from Marvel Comics. Both are millionaires, assemble a team of superheroes and are egotistical, arrogant, childish and deep down, proud parents to wonderful children and caring towards their friends.
	+ He could be compared to Batman, who was also a billionaire and a superhero. Leo alludes to this in the premiere episode.
* He used to bully his younger brother, Douglas. This included creating a robot to beat Douglas up when he outgrew him. (Avalanche, Brother Battle)
* In the alternate universe, Donald was a cowardly but caring lab assistant to Tasha Dooley and the only person aware of her son, Leo being bionic and he is not related to Adam, Bree or Chase whose last name is Henderson and but Davenport.
* He is one of the five Lab Rats characters to appear in the spin-off series, along with Terry Perry, Bob, Douglas, and Tasha and the only main character to actually appear in the series.
* Donald is similar to Jack Fenton from the *Danny Phantom* television series. They are the fathers of the main characters who fought other villainous threats (Leo, the Lab Rats and Danny), obsessive (ghosts/money) about their money, have a wife who is more rational then they are (Tasha and Maddie), they constantly embarrass their children and have been the indirect cause of a villain/antagonist's fall into villainy in the TV series who realize they took it for granted (Douglas Davenport and Vlad Masters). However, Douglas and Donald reconcile but Jack and Vlad don't. Ironically, their children have arch-enemies who have certain Skills and are the same race as the show's main antagonist. (Krane is a bionic person like Adam, Bree and Chase are safe has Bionic implants like Leo does. Plasmius is a half-ghost/half-human like Danny was). They're self-centered but caring to their family who they are protective of. They have some sort of identity on everything. (Jack likes to have his face on everything he owns, just like Donald likes to put his name on every weapon he has even having copies of famous paintings with his face on it). They are also scientists and inventors whose technology lead to their sons having an accident that led them to gaining abilities/powers. (Douglas used his and Donald's bionic technology to give Leo a Bionic arm that granted him bionic abilities and Danny got ghostly powers after accidentally turning on the Fenton Ghost portal.)
* Donald Davenport has many similarities to Horace Diaz from *Mighty Med,* as both act as authority/father figures to the main characters. Both are eccentric geniuses who are arrogant, sometimes selfish and have large egos, but are genuinely nice, care about others,, and have a strong moral constitution in spite of that. In addition, both are portrayed to be childish.