Melchor is a character from the 2021 Jungle Cruise film.
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Biography[]
Melchor was a conquistador in the 16th century. In the 1550s, Melchor 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, Melchor 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. Melchor, in particular, became symbiotically bonded to the mud shoals and the thousands of poison dart frogs that inhabited them, giving him the ability to shift his body into a swarm of frogs to travel across long distances, as well as telepathically communicate.
Appearances[]
Jungle Cruise[]
Melchor is one of the supporting antagonists in this film, acting as one of Aguirre's henchmen.
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