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Witterquick is a whippet-like Spectral Knight with athletic gifts that he utilizes to help his comrades achieve the greater good for Prysmos by any means necessary. However, he also has as much forbearance as he has hair, as he tends to rush into potentially dangerous situations without regard to the consequences. Witterquick's assertive nature sometimes lends itself to personality clashes with others, particularly the idealistic Arzon due to their stark ethical differences.
“ | No! Never go back! Nothing's worse than retreat! Besides, if I don't make it, I'll never know what hit me. | ” |
Witterquick - The Age Of Magic Begins
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Fiction[]
Animated Series[]
- Voice actor: Jim Cummings (English), Eric Legrand (French)

Witterquick was among the large group of knights who took up Merklynn's quest for magic, and faced one of Iron Mountain's many traps at the outset: a series of rapidly falling metal barriers. He boldly declared to the small cadre of knights in his company that nothing was worse than retreat and then sped on through, but the other knights turned away at the challenge. Witterquick was left to progress alone through the mountain until encountering Cryotek, Galadria and Arzon and joining them in aiding Leoric, Feryl and Ectar fend off a Darkling Lord ambush. After entering Merklynn's shrine, Witterquick was awarded the totem of the Cheetah for his "blinding speed and dexterity", while his staff was imbued with the power of Light Speed. When the Visionaries were then ingloriously thrown outside, he stopped Reekon from stealing his power staff just before a truce between the two knightly factions was established. The Age Of Magic Begins
After the truce, Witterquick was returning home to his southern kingdom when he was set upon by the Darkling Lords. Using his new power of Light Speed, he evaded their initial capture attempt and hastened the journey to his kingdom. However, the Lords had anticipated this and were waiting there for him. Having no further means of escape, Witterquick was finally captured.
Held inside a dungeon with Arzon and Cryotek, Witterquick grew increasingly dismayed as the remaining Visionaries were added, finally declaring their situation hopeless. He nonetheless readily agreed to Leoric's proposal of forming a bond among the group, and became a founding Spectral Knight. However, their jailer Lexor took advantage of the moment by flooding the cell, threatening to drown them all. The Dark Hand Of Treachery
Witterquick and the other Spectral Knights were freed from the cell by Leoric and Arzon, saving them from death by drowning. When they then took command of two vehicles parked in Darkstorm's courtyard to escape the castle, Witterquick climbed atop the Lancer Cycle piloted by Ectar. In the ensuing vehicular battle, Witterquick leaped from the moving cycle to tackle Mortdred and then step on the Darkling Lord's Beetle form. When the Lords were all apprehended, Witterquick triumphantly returned with his comrades to New Valarak.
With the Darkling Lords imprisoned and peace seemingly restored, Witterquick and his fellow Knights journeyed to Merklynn's shrine seeking to solve New Valarak's agricultural troubles by bartering the Darkling Lords' power staffs for a cure. Unfortunately, the newly escaped Lords unleashed a rock avalanche, and though Witterquick avoided harm by escaping in his Cheetah form, the Knights lost the staffs.
After the two factions met in the shrine, Merklynn sent them on a quest for the Dragon's Eye, which led them to an abandoned warehouse that housed a massive technodragon. Witterquick suggested Arzon consult his power of Knowledge in order to identify its occupant: the wizard Falkama, who also possessed the Dragon's Eye. After the technodragon was destroyed, Witterquick activated Light Speed to block Falkama's escape attempt, setting off a scramble among the knights for the artifact until Witterquick finally snared it. Realizing its importance to Merklynn, he and the Spectral Knights then traded it for magical seeds that rejuvenated New Valarak's crops. Quest For The Dragon's Eye
Star Comic Series[]

When Merklynn appeared across Prysmos and challenged its citizens to reach his secret chamber in Iron Mountain, Witterquick took up the challenge. He ably demonstrated his natural dexterity and speed by dodging through a series of deadly traps. Upon reaching Merklynn's chamber, Witterquick was given the cheetah totem and the power of Light Speed. The End, The Beginning
After being ejected from Merklynn's lair, Witterquick prevented the Darkling Lord Reekon from stealing his power staff, which erupted into a large scale brawl between the Visionaries. After Leoric broke it up, Witterquick helped form the Spectral Knights in New Valarak. The Balance Of Power .

A few months later, Witterquick was plagued by dreams of a beautiful woman being held prisoner by a demon. With Leoric's blessing, he went on a quest to save her by retrieving the Star of Tisandra. Along the way, he ran into the Darkling Lord Cindarr, who had also seen the woman in his dreams. The two clashed, but in securing the Star, brought down the warlord Mavor. Witterquick got the better of Cindarr and was set to free Sirena when Cindarr stopped him and made him realise that they were both being manipulated and that Sirena was justly being held prisoner. The two parted peacefully, amused at being mistaken for friends. Dream Maker
Witterquick was present when Merklynn summoned the Spectral Knights and Darkling Lords to Iron Mountain to send them on a quest for four magic talismans. Quest Of The Four Talismans
Storybooks[]
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Toys[]
- Accessories: Supersonic boomerang, helmet, power staff of Lightspeed
- Featuring many sleek lines, Witterquick is decked out in purpley-grey and red armour. To accentuate his natural speed, his helmet features a rear fin, for aerodynamic reasons, one assumes.
- Witterquick is equipped with his supersonic boomerang, which is just a boomerang featuring many sculpted details that surely wouldn't help it fly, unless they're magically powered technological flight aides, perhaps. His power staff depicts Lightspeed through the head of a man with massive eyebrows and feathery facial growths.
- Zzoids Blind Box (1988)
- Accessories: Boomerang, helmet, staff
- Released by El Greco in 1988, Witterquick was a number of Visionaries figures to be blind-boxed in Action Force packaging and given away to customers who spent over 250 drachma. Largely identical to his Hasbro release, this version is missing its chest hologram, which is replaced by a basic shiny foil sticker. As with all the others, he comes with Leoric's power staff, which has been cut down, presumably to fit in the box better.
- A full release as part of the Zzoids line in Greece, Witterquick was rebranded as "Sagittarius", to tie into the line's astrological motif. Sagittarius is again missing a chest hologram but now misses out on a power staff. Instead, his usual helmet and boomerang were complemented with a (seemingly randomly assigned) metallic gold gun, reused from the Battle Beasts toyline.
- Astronomers four-pack (1988)
- Accessories: Boomerang, helmet, gun
Merchandise[]
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Development[]
- Witterquick's working name was Reekon. The staff at Hasbro must have liked it enough to reassign it to a certain Darkling Lord.
- The character bio for Witterquick in the animated series production bible states that his weapon is a "club with spikes (morning star)". This isn't what he was released with. Unfortunately, unlike every other character in the line, the production art for Witterquick included in the bible doesn't show any of his accessories, so we don't know if the morning star was the scrapped larger weapon he would have had (as all the other Spectral Knights do) or if it was a smaller accessory that his boomerang replaced.
- Between the small winged boot hologram and the hologram that was produced for retail, the change in power staff hologram size saw Light Speed initially going to be represented with a fiery creature.
Notes[]
- Witterquick was renamed for Zzoids as Sagittarius, the sign of the archer. That may sound an odd choice, but really, what is a bow but a boomerang with a bit of string added to it?