PIDGE (inner monologue): I know what it’s like… finding new parents and a new home. Pidge recalls some of the details behind the adoption in “The Green Medusa.” They meet their parents at the orphanage. JEFF: Chip, you’re the scientific whiz - any suggestions?!Ĭhip saves everyone, after recalling some of his and his brother’s childhood interests.ĬHIP: My brother Pidge and I used to study solar power as a hobby.Īt some point in their childhoods, Pidge and Chip are adopted. In “A Man-Made Sun,” the five-member Air Team (of which Chip is a member), and Sea Team leader Krik, are in a death trap. Later, after Chip has joined the Voltron Vehicle Team, his teammates acknowledge and admire his intelligence. PIDGE (voice over – as if reading his own letter to Chip): You always had the brains! Pidge, himself a highly intelligent person, considers Chip to be the smarter twin, as he indicates in a letter to Chip in the episode “Letters from Home.” Their adoptive parents took them both, so they wouldn’t be parted. LISA: Chip and Pidge were orphans as children. The episode also establishes that the brothers are orphans. “Letters from Home” establishes that Pidge and Chip are twin brothers.
This is certainly the case with Pidge and Chip. There is almost certainly a degree of truth to this notion, but if a viewer examines the episodes more closely, he or she might find more depth to the story and characters than one might expect - and perhaps more than the writers actually intended. The Voltron: Legendary Defender version of the character has been praised as inclusive and displaying a non-conforming gender.One of the surprisingly few links between the Lion Force and Vehicle Team episodes of Voltron: Defender of the Universe is the familial link between Pidge, a member of the Voltron Lion Force and the pilot of Green Lion, and Chip, a member of the Voltron Vehicle Team’s Air Team, and the pilot of Rugger 4.īecause 104 episodes of Voltron: Defender of the Universe were adapted from episodes of Beast King Golion and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV, some Voltron fans believe that Voltron‘s mythos was created mostly by happenstance, as each episode was adapted. Pidge didn't have to be asked twice, and promptly agreed. However, his life at NWP turned out to be worse than at the orphanage, and was the subject of regular beatings by his intellectually-threatened peers, until he was approached by Colonel Hawkins to join a team of outcasts to search for the legendary robot Voltron on the distant planet Arus. During his years at the orphanage, his scores on a state-mandated IQ test caught the eye of the New West Point military academy, who promptly enrolled him to put his awe-inspiring understanding of computer systems to good use. He's also depicted as an orphan abandoned outside a convent when he was six weeks old (however, he may yet have a family because later he talks with Vehicle team member Chip about the similarities that exist between the two of them, he remarks that ''re one DNA test short of discovering 're brothers' which is a nod to the cartoon establishment of Pidge and Chip as twins).
The comic book version of Pidge depicts him as a growth-stunted 15-year-old, and as an Earthling (as opposed to his cartoon counterpart hailing from the planet Balto). In the 2011 Devil's Due comics, the Pidge character is referred to as Darrell "Pidge" Stoker. Balto exploded after narrowly escaping a trap set up by Prince Lotor. Responding to a distress call from planet Balto, He and the Voltron Force arrived and found out that the planet on which he and Chip grew up would explode. He would develop a friendship with the Space Mice, even helping them to train to be a fighting force.Ī mission would later take an emotional toll on him. There, they met Princess Allura and Coran, and were commissioned as the Voltron Force. He and the rest of the team were captured by the forces of Planet Doom, and they later escaped.Ĭrash landing on Arus after their escape, they made their way to the Castle of Lions. He was part of a scout team, led by Keith, sent to Planet Arus by the Galaxy Alliance. He and Chip had grown up on Balto, and yet he described himself as an Earth man, implying he was at least of Earth descent (if not born on Earth). When his foster parents wanted to adopt Pidge, he refused to go unless they took Chip as well. Pidge and Chip are twin brothers and were orphaned at a young age. He is the brother of the Vehicle Force team member Chip, though the circumstances of this relationship differ by continuity. Pidge is the young genius of the Voltron Lion Force and pilot of the Green Lion.
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