Rachel Quest

This page is for the character in The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest. For other versions of Jonny's mother, see Jonny's mother.

Rachel Quest was the wife of Dr. Benton Quest, and the mother of their only child, Jonny.

History[]

Early life[]

Not much is known about Rachel except that at some point in her life she met Benton and they married and had a son named Jonny. However Rachel died (the cause has never been revealed) and Jonny had lost his mother at a young age, which resulted in the hiring of Race Bannon to act as his twenty-four hour bodyguard, so his father could work at peace and not be compromised.^[1]

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest[]

Season two[]

Dr. Jeremiah Surd used Dr. Quest's painful memory of losing Rachel in a horrid game of psychological manipulation. Dr. Quest is in a graveyard where all the other members of the Quest team are dead and Jonny's gravestone with his face on it, comes to life and tells his father how he lost them all in the same way he lost his mother. However Dr. Quest soon learned it was a trick and over came it. (Thoughtscape)

After Rachel's death, Dr. Quest worked for months on a Questworld based time displacement programme codenamed "Rachel" after his wife in hopes of seeing her one last time. However he soon realised that he couldn't change the past and it was wrong to use it for his own personal gain so he kept the programme hidden to use only if he was dead or a great calamity threatened the world. After Ezekiel Rage returned with another diabolical plan to end the world, Dr. Quest told Jonny, Jessie and Hadji about the programme and they succeeded in using it to stop Rage. (The Edge of Yesterday)

Appearances[]

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
- 221. The Edge of Yesterday (photograph)

Notes/trivia[]

The fact that Rachel is the name used in both Jonny's Golden Quest and The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest is a coincidence. The name for the latter incarnation came from writer Lance Falk as a tribute to an old girlfriend.
Jonny is shown to have the same blonde hair and blue eyes as his mother.
Had the show gotten a third season, the history and fate of Rachel would've been explored in the season premiere.