Sancho is a minor antagonist from the Jungle Cruise film.
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Biography[]
Sancho was a conquistador in the 16th century. In the 1550s, Sancho 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, Sancho 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. Sancho, in particular, became symbiotically bonded to various pieces of honeycomb, allowing him to communicate with the various colonies of honeybees that travel with him, as well as telepathically communicate with them.
Appearances[]
Jungle Cruise[]
Sancho is one of the supporting antagonists in this film, acting as one of Aguirre's henchmen. He is armed with
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