- This page is about the human Conquistador. For his ghost, see Monstrous Freak.
Fernando El Aguirre was the leader of a band of conquistadors who founded Crystal Cove.
Physical appearance[]
Fernando El Aguirre's ghost.
He was a Hispanic man with a hooked nose, bushy beard and brown hair. El Aguirre wore a steel helm with crest and an armor which consisted of a heavy breastplate, arm and leg greaves, a metal skirt, and protection for the neck and throat. His elbows and shoulders were also protected by a series of overlapping plates.
In his first ghostly form, El Aguirre transforms into an armored skeleton that glows in a blue mist. In his Monstrous Freak form, El Aguirre transforms into a white beast with horns, a skeletal face, and green eyes.
Personality[]
His simple goal in life was to be an explorer of the seas and find treasure, but after finding the crystal sarcophagus, he became corrupted by the Evil Entity inside it, driving him and his men insane with greed, which led to them burning down villages in order to steal people's gold, possibly including many murders. When he realized it was the crystal sarcophagus, they took it to a coast they would soon name Crystal Cove.[1] Even after this, he still eventually went mad and disappeared.[2] Centuries later, his ghost haunted Mayor Jones' dreams as the Monstrous Freak, possibly to scare him out of searching for the pieces of the Planispheric Disk, but it only influenced him to take on the Freak of Crystal Cove persona while searching for him. When Mystery Incorporated made it into the sitting room, his ghost acted as a restless spirit trying to prevent them from finding out how to destroy the Evil Entity, because he would rather be trapped there and repent for eternity.[3]
History[]
Early life[]
During an expedition from Spain, his men discovered a crystal sarcophagus filled to the brim with black pearls. El Aguirre and his men decided to take the treasure aboard and sail home with it. Over time, however, an evil presence about the crystal sarcophagus twisted the minds of the conquistadors, driving them to destroy entire villages in search of gold and jewels. El Aguirre was finally able to fight the evil's influence and made for a cove on the mission coast. He and his men used their Planispheric Disk to chart a course to the hiding place where they buried their cursed treasure, particularly the sarcophagus, and then divided the disk into six pieces, which he proceeded to scatter in an attempt to prevent anyone from ever finding the treasure and awakening the evil in the sarcophagus. The conquistadors renamed the cove "Crystal Cove" because of what they had hidden there.[3]
He looked after one of the pieces of this disc, and hid it on his ship, which he ordered to be carried high into the mountains and filled with mechanical traps.[3]
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated[]
Season two[]
El Aguirre unmasked.
While Mystery Inc. were leaving the Santa Lucia' wreckage after it tumbled from the mountain, El Aguirre's ghost appeared and announced the word "Nibiru" before laughing maniacally, as he watched them drive away.[1]
The mummified Friar Gabriello Serra explained to Mystery Inc. that he met El Aguirre in the past. The Conquistador left two pieces of the Planispheric Disk, which Friar Serra took. One ended up on the bottom of the ocean when the original missionary settlement sank due to Porto. After that, Friar Serra hid the other piece inside a wheel of cheese.[2]
El Aguirre's good side could be seen trapped in the sitting room, but at the same time, he masqueraded as the Monstrous Freak to frighten Scooby-Doo in his dreams and the new Mystery Inc. away from discovering the means to defeat the Evil Entity, his overbearing guilt over his and his militia's unintentional brutality of others leading him to believe that they needed to continue to be punished to make it right. He seemed to relent when the Anunnaki-possessed Nova explained that redemption and atonement is not unattainable, thus allowing Mystery Inc to find the answers they seek.[3]
Appearances[]
- Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
- 208. Night on Haunted Mountain (flashback only)
- 215. Theater of Doom (flashback only)
- 222. Nightmare in Red (dream only)
Notes/trivia[]
- El Aguirre's name is a reference to the 1972 Werner Herzog film, Aguirre, The Wrath of God, about a conquistador on a mad search for El Dorado.
- He and his men were the first to know of the effects of the Cursed Treasure.
- If El Aguirre didn't want anyone to find the treasure then it wouldn't make sense for him to map its location on the Planispheric Disk, unless it was the Evil Entity making him do it for future generations to find.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Night on Haunted Mountain, season 2, episode 8.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Theater of Doom, season 2, episode 15.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Nightmare in Red, season 2, episode 22.