Gonzalo is a character from the Jungle Cruise film.
History[]
Biography[]
Gonzalo was a conquistador in the 16th century. In the 1550s, Gonzalo came under the service of Lope de Aguirre on a mission to find the mystical Tears of the Moon tree and save Lope's ill daughter Anna. In 1556, he was one of the few survivors of the expedition's shipwreck where he and his comrades became terminally-ill. While in the Amazon rainforest, they were saved by the Puka Michuna tribe which guarded the sacred tree.
Upon growing impatient due to his daughter's worsening condition, Lope demanded that the chief of the Puka Michuna give him the sacred arrowhead: the key to the tree's location and power. When he was denied the request by not being worthy, Gonzalo and the other surviving conquistadors were ordered by Lope to massacre the tribe and take the arrowhead by force. When they failed to do so due to interference from one of their own, the conquistadors were cursed by the chief with his dying breath to become immortal and remain bound to the Amazon.
After decades spent hunting down the traitor, they were tricked into a cave far away from the river where they were turned to stone by the jungle for roughly 300 years. In that time, their bodies decomposed and became fused to various different plant and jungle life. Gonzalo, in particular, became symbiotically bonded to the thousands of trees that littered the Amazon, granting him the ability to command various plant life.
Appearances[]
Jungle Cruise[]
Gonzalo acts as one of the supporting antagonists in this film, acting as one of Aguirre's henchmen.
Trivia[]
- Plant monsters have a history with the Jungle Cruise attraction. They were proposed to appear by animator Marc Davis and while unrealized, would make small appearances over the years in different forms.
- Gonzalo is similar to the vine zombies from Jungle River Cruise: Curse of the Emerald Trinity.
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