How Well Do You Know Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino?)

These days, this dude is the true King of All Media. We’re all Glover-lovers.

But there are a bunch of details about his life and career you may not have known.

But no worries, we got you . . . .

“Childish Gambino” Came from a Wu-Tang Clan Name Generator

That’s right, Donald Glover has built a music career under a moniker acquired via a digital role of the dice. Then again, Wu-Tang has always featured members with some of the best and most memorable names in rap, so can you really blame him for wanting to emulate these hip hop icons? It seems like he got off lucky, because not all the names created by this generator are quite as cool as “Childish Gambino”. Enter the name “John Smith” for example, and you get the Wu-Tang name “Drunken Watcher,” which, let’s be frank, sounds way less clever.

His First Action Figure? Lando Calrissian

How many people grow up to play the character whose action figure they played with as a child? Like… 3 in any given generation? That’s not actually a statistic, we’re just guessing because it just seems extremely unlikely. As he told Ellen DeGeneres in 2016, back when news of his casting as Lando Calrissian had just broken, Lando was the first toy Glover can remember receiving. He also remembers his mom warning him to be careful with it, because she was a big Billy Dee Williams fan. Little did she know, years later… he’d be getting advice from Williams on playing that very same role.

He Influenced the Look of Spider-Man

When it was announced that Sony was rebooting their Spider-Man franchise, a Twitter campaign kicked off pushing to get Donald Glover in the iconic red and blue suit. Unfortunately, it was all for naught, and the role ultimately went to Andrew Garfield. Regardless of the outcome however, Glover had become a part of the cultural conversation surrounding Spider-Man, so much so that comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis cites Donald Glover as one of his inspirations for Miles Morales, the Afro-Latino Spider-Man who debuted in 2011. Glover later got to voice the character in the animated series, “Ultimate Spider-Man,” and give on-screen advice to the third cinematic Spider-Man, as played by Tom Holland.

What’s your fave little-known Donald Glover fact?