Danny Dingo

Danny Dingo is a recurring antagonist in the Australian animated series "The Adventures of Blinky Bill" who frequently attempted to con the folk of Greenpatch out of their money. He became a sort of archenemy to Blinky Bill and his gang, as he would antagonize them and attempt to con them as well. His schemes were often unraveled by Blinky and his gang or the consequences of his actions. He was often aided by his family in those schemes, particularly his strong but dimwitted brother Meatball, his vain sister Daisy, and his younger brother Shifty.

He was primarily the main villain of the series' first season as several episodes revolved around his numerous get-rich-quick scams and attempts to con the populace. In "Blinky Bill and the Film Star", he devised a plot to rob Greenpatch's bank under the pretense of filming a bogus Western film. "Blinky Bill and the Magician" featured Danny posing as a false-bearded magician named "El Diablo" to distract Greenpatch's populace while Meatball looted their homes for food they would resell to them as concessions. "Blinky Beats the Drought" features Danny and Meatball's theft of a rabbit family's produce so as to resell them to the family during the dry period. When foiled by Blinky's traps set up to keep them from stealing more, Danny and his siblings blocked up the river by creating their own pool and attempted to sell water at high prices to the populace. In some cases though, Danny's schemes could be pretty petty and desperate money scams such as when he rigged elections for club leader in "Blinky Leads the Gang" so that he could steal their saved pocket money. These schemes were always doomed to failure, of course, but Danny persisted with the schemes up until the end of the first season.

One of Danny's more notably villainous acts occured in "Blinky Bill and Club Pet" where he convinces the (rather easily swayed) Mayor of Greenpatch to permit the construction of a tourist resort with the intention of "putting Greenpatch on the map" by giving bored city pets a chance to get out into the country. His real intention was setting up the populace of Greenpatch as live game for those bored city cats who craved to hunt and kill something due to boredom, essentially an act of attempted murder. Although the cats' attempted murder of Greenpatch's citizens was foiled by Blinky acting as a dog, this is also one of the few times (if not the only time) where Danny actually managed to be a Karma Houdini.

By the time of the second and third seasons/series of the show, the Dingo family had essentially reformed, although Danny was once again shown trying to enact another scheme in the second season episode "Blinky Bill and the Mysterious Pollution". Forcing Shifty to work on his "secret formula" for a shampoo, Danny was completely apathetic to the pollution he was causing when the machine producing his formula leaked into the river. He is ultimately foiled and exposed by Blinky.