045 Donnie

Donnie is a Zorro parody.

Zorro is a fictional character that dates back to the pulp magazines of the 1920s.  He is a masked vigilante who lived in California during the Mexican and/or Spanish rule.  He is a defender of the common man.  He is athletic, acrobatic, and skilled with a rapier (sword).  The character has appeared in over 40 films between 1920 and 2005.

Zorro is just the secret identity of the character named Don Diego de la Vega.  

So, that is how the TDD got named: "Don" became "Donnie."

Donnie was a relevant parody, at the time of his release because of the The Mask of Zorro (1998) and the sequel The Legend of Zorro (2005), both starring Antonio Banderas.

Donnie has a rapier, just like Zorro.  This is glued to his side in the G1 version and a separate accessory in the G3 version. Of course, they end up missing on both figures.

"Zorro" literally means "fox" in Spanish.  You would think that they would have given him a little fox  as a zood, but it never happened.  Oh well.  A bit of an oversight, in my opinion.  But what does the fox say?

I mean: ¿Qué dice el zorro?