50 Fun Facts About Voltron: Legendary Defender

Which Oscar-nominated star of Minari voices Keith, the temperamental orphan, in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Steven Yeun was best known as Glenn in The Walking Dead when he was cast as Keith. He later became the first East Asian-American nominated for the Best Actor Oscar.

Which animal do Pidge and Lance receive free with an Earth video game at a space mall in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

A cow named Kaltenecker is thrown in free when the two buy an Earth games console. The shop they find it in sells Earth goods from the 1980s.

Which actor, famous as Daryl Dixon in The Walking Dead, voices bounty hunter Rolo in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Norman Reedus played Rolo only in the first season, and another actor took over when the character returned in season four. Rolo and his partner Nyma steal the Blue Lion from Lance.

In season six of Voltron: Legendary Defender, the Shiro who rejoined the team after vanishing is revealed to be what?

A clone had taken Shiro's place, and the witch Haggar could spy through its eyes. The real Shiro died fighting Zarkon, and his spirit survived inside the Black Lion.

Which streaming service premiered Voltron: Legendary Defender in June 2016 and carried all eight of its seasons?

Netflix launched the reboot with a 68-minute opening story called The Rise of Voltron. Its full 78-episode commitment to the series was revealed at WonderCon in 2017.

Voltron: Legendary Defender's showrunners and head writer had all worked on which earlier animated action series?

The Legend of Korra supplied the reboot's showrunners, head writer and animation studio alike. IGN's review called it exactly the show to expect from that creative team.

The space expedition captured by the Galra as Voltron: Legendary Defender begins is exploring which real, distant moon?

Kerberos is a real moon of Pluto, discovered only in 2011, five years before the series began. Shiro and two members of the Holt family are taken prisoner there.

Lance hands the Blue Lion to Allura in season three of Voltron: Legendary Defender and takes over which colour lion?

Red is Keith's old lion, and it accepts Lance once Keith moves up to lead the team. The reshuffle follows Shiro's disappearance at the end of season two.

Which voice of Finn in Adventure Time plays Lance, the team's cocky Blue Paladin, in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Jeremy Shada won the part of Finn after his sibling Zack voiced the character in the pilot. His Lance earned a BTVA nomination for best male lead vocal performance.

Studio Mir, which drew the hand-animated characters of Voltron: Legendary Defender, is based in which Asian capital?

Seoul is home to Studio Mir, founded in 2010. Its artists drew the characters and backgrounds in an anime-influenced style, while Voltron's battles were rendered in CGI.

Which New Zealand comic, Murray in Flight of the Conchords, voices royal adviser Coran in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Rhys Darby is joined in the role by two younger Darbys, Finn and Theo, who voice Coran as a teenager and as a child. Fans voted him a BTVA People's Choice Award for the part.

Which Hollywood animation studio made Voltron: Legendary Defender under a multi-year deal with its streaming partner?

DreamWorks announced the reboot in January 2016 alongside Guillermo del Toro's Trollhunters. World Events Productions, the company behind the original Voltron, shared the producing credit.

Lance awards himself two nicknames in Voltron: Legendary Defender; which one do the other Paladins actually adopt?

Sharpshooter sticks, and it suits a Paladin whose bayard takes the form of a rifle. His other choice, ladies' man, never catches on with the team.

The witch Haggar of Voltron: Legendary Defender is revealed to be which Altean alchemist, the wife of Zarkon?

Honerva was poisoned by her own research into a rift between realities and came back with no memory of who she had been. She returns under her true name as the final villain.

Keith learns he is part Galra during the trials of which secret order of rebels in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Blade of Marmora agents are Galra who work against Zarkon from inside his own empire. Keith's knife awakens to its full size during their trials, proving he has Galra blood.

Which undercover Galra agent reveals in season five of Voltron: Legendary Defender that she is Keith's long-lost mother?

Krolia was shot down on Earth while keeping the Blue Lion's hiding place secret, and fell in love with the man who rescued her. She had wanted to call their son Yorak.

On which planet do the Paladins of Voltron: Legendary Defender find Princess Allura asleep inside the Castle of Lions?

Arus hid the castle, the Black Lion and the sleeping princess for 10,000 years. Its small native Arusians take Voltron's first battle for the anger of a lion goddess.

Which Galra commander, the Paladins' first attacker, later leads the invasion of Earth in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Sendak overruns most of Earth while Voltron is lost in space, and builds six cannons meant to destroy the planet. Keith kills him after his command ship is brought down.

Which Earth-built battleship does Shiro captain late in Voltron: Legendary Defender before it merges with Voltron?

The Atlas only flies once Coran fits it with a crystal formed when the Castle of Lions was destroyed. Shiro later learns to turn the whole ship into a robot that dwarfs Voltron.

Which musical comedian voices Blumfump, one of the merpeople Lance and Hunk meet in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Weird Al Yankovic plays a self-proclaimed scientist who believes the mer-queen is mind-controlling her people. The queen proves to be a victim too, in the grip of a predator called the Baku.

Which lost relative does Pidge track down at a rebel spy lair in season four of Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Her brother Matt had set up a false grave, its wrong birth date hiding a code that led to his base. He attacks Pidge in a mask before the two recognise each other.

Which general does Lotor kill in season four of Voltron: Legendary Defender after learning Haggar is spying through her?

Narti has no eyes and cannot speak, so she sees and communicates through a psychic link with Kova, a catlike alien. Kova goes back to Haggar after her death.

In season four of Voltron: Legendary Defender, the pill Coran buys to sharpen his mind hatches into which creature?

A worm crawls out of the pill and latches onto Coran's brain as he sleeps. It turns him into a tireless showman, staging ever bigger live Voltron shows to win public support.

In the season four finale of Voltron: Legendary Defender, Haggar traps Voltron on which planet rigged to explode?

Naxzela is turned into a bomb big enough to wipe out the rebel coalition gathered around it. Lotor's ship blasts the shield of the cruiser sent to set it off, and he then offers a truce.

Which life energy, drained from whole planets by the Galra, powers ships and magic alike in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Quintessence has kept Zarkon alive for 10,000 years. He wants Voltron in order to open a rift between realities and reach an endless supply of it.

Which Altean king builds Voltron, then scatters its five lions to hide them from Zarkon in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Alfor was Zarkon's friend and fellow Paladin before the war. A digital copy of his memories advises his daughter Allura in the Castle of Lions until she is forced to shut it down.

Hunk's Yellow Lion, the most heavily armoured of the five, forms which part of the robot in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Left leg duty goes to the Yellow Lion, while the Blue Lion forms the right leg. Hunk's bayard also gives the combined robot its shoulder cannon.

What kind of animal is Kosmo, the teleporting companion Keith adopts in season six of Voltron: Legendary Defender?

A wolf from deep space, Kosmo joins Keith and his mother during their two years in the time-warped Quantum Abyss. Its teleporting later snatches Keith out of a druid's trap.

Which Galaxy Garrison analyst in Voltron: Legendary Defender is Lance's sister, who drives him to his lion in battle?

Veronica appears to sacrifice herself on a supply run during the occupation of Earth, then returns having found a resistance network. She later joins the crew of Earth's new battleship.

In the closing scenes of Voltron: Legendary Defender, where does Lance settle while spreading Allura's message of peace?

His family's farm is where Lance ends up, wearing the Altean markings Allura gave him as she said goodbye. She gave her life to restore every reality destroyed in the last battle.

Which weapon, once wielded by Allura's father, does Lance's bayard become in season five of Voltron: Legendary Defender?

A broadsword of ancient Altean design appears in Lance's hands in place of his usual rifle. Allura tells him that such a change in a bayard is extremely rare.

What is the real first name of Pidge, who enters the Galaxy Garrison in disguise in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Katie Holt cut her hair, put on glasses and enrolled as a boy called Pidge Gunderson after being banned from the base. She was hunting for her family, lost on a deep-space mission.

Which title do fellow prisoners use for Shiro, a survivor of the Galra gladiator ring, in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Champion was the name Shiro won in the arena. He once staged an attack on a frightened crewmate there, injuring him so that he would be spared the fight.

Which Galaxy Garrison communications officer does Shiro marry in the final scenes of Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Curtis is a background character introduced in season seven. Shiro's former boyfriend Adam, seen in flashbacks, is killed leading the first response to the Galra invasion.

Which Altean colonist does Keith bring back in season six of Voltron: Legendary Defender to expose Lotor's secret?

Romelle had watched Lotor take her family away to a second colony that did not exist. He was secretly draining the colonists' life energy, a truth that ends his alliance with Allura.

Lotor is crowned Galra emperor in season five of Voltron: Legendary Defender at which ceremony on the planet Feyiv?

Kral Zera rites crown a new Galra ruler after Zarkon's death. Lotor arrives in the Black Lion with Shiro, who has gone behind the other Paladins' backs to bring him.

Which mythical realm in Voltron: Legendary Defender, guarded by a White Lion, is the birthplace of Altean alchemy?

Oriande lies beyond a white hole that only Voltron can cross, and only those bearing the glowing Mark of the Chosen may enter. Allura passes its guardian's test while Lotor is thrown out.

Which planet, the Galra homeworld, was destroyed to seal a rift between realities in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Daibazaal returns in the finale, restored along with Altea when every lost reality is rebuilt. Keith then pledges to bring back the peaceful Galra of the days before Zarkon's rise.

Which name, borrowed from the 1984 cartoon, does Shiro's alternate-reality double use in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Sven was the 1984 cartoon's name for a pilot the Japanese original called Takashi Shirogane, which is Shiro's full name in the reboot. This double fights for a rebel band, the Guns of Gamara.

Which all-powerful being traps the Paladins in the game show Garfle Warfle Snick in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Bob turns out to be an interdimensional being who judges the worthiness of great warriors. He frees the team when every Paladin votes for a teammate to escape instead of themselves.

Which eccentric genius do the Paladins free from the prison Beta Traz in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Slav is so aware of other realities that he keeps working out the odds of his own death in each one. The Galra jailed him to get hold of his gravity-bending technology.

Which of Hunk's baked treats stand in for the castle's broken wormhole lenses in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Cookies that Hunk bakes transparent and blue happen to be made of the very material the lenses need. Coran polishes them with the sweat of an Altean flu called the Slipperies.

The lions of Voltron: Legendary Defender were built from the ore of which object that crashed on the Galra homeworld?

A comet able to cross between realities supplied the ore. A second one, found in a parallel world ruled by Alteans, gives Lotor the material for ships of his own.

Which Altean ability does Princess Allura use to infiltrate a Galra ship in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Shape-shifting let Alteans change their height and skin colour to blend in with other species, which made them fine diplomats and explorers. Survivors of Altea's fall used it to hide.

Which voice of Susie Carmichael in Rugrats plays the witch Haggar in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Cree Summer shares the character with Lily Rabe, who voices the witch's original Altean self. Summer was confirmed for the part after the rest of the main cast had been announced.

Which voice of Peter Parker in The Spectacular Spider-Man plays team leader Shiro in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Josh Keaton was the speaking voice of the teenage hero in Disney's Hercules back in 1997. He has since voiced Captain America in X-Men '97.

Which star of The Killing and MTV's Scream voices the Green Lion's pilot, Pidge, in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

Bex Taylor-Klaus named a pet dog Bullet after the homeless teenager they played in The Killing, their first professional role.

Which Voltron: Legendary Defender director later co-directed the film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse?

Joaquim Dos Santos ran the series with a fellow veteran of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and the pair wrote the final episode together.

Voltron: Legendary Defender reboots a franchise first cut together from which Japanese anime series of the early 1980s?

Beast King GoLion aired in Japan from 1981 to 1982 and was re-edited, with new names and dialogue, into the American Voltron. The reboot counts both shows as its source.

Which voice of Marty McFly in Back to the Future: The Game plays Prince Lotor in Voltron: Legendary Defender?

A. J. LoCascio says people told him as a child that he sounded like Marty McFly. He also voices the Garrison's James Griffin.