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5'3" 6' (167160.602 cm)
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| '''Family:''' ||
* [[EliseMother]]
* [[Father]]
* [[Grandma]] (deceased)
* [[Mr. Mumbles]] (cat)
* [[Elise]] (implied cousin)
* [[Elise Sr.]] (implied aunt)
* [[Don]] (implied uncle)
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| '''Friends:''' ||
*[[Chris]]
*[[Elise]]
*[[Ted]]
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| '''Enemies:''' ||
* Elise
* [[Impostor Dan]]
* and too many more to list.
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| '''First appearance:''' || [[S1E1|Dan VS NewThe MexicoWolf Man]]
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=== Appearance ===
[[Image: Boss-fire.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Dan's latest career ended on a hot take.]]
Dan is the titular character of the show. He is a short-stacked man in his 30s20s, has green eyes, black hair (with a noticeable retreating hairline) and a black goatee. His outfit consists of a black t-shirt with the word ‘Jerk’ in white bold capital letters, blue jeans and black leather shoes, resembling ankle boots.
 
=== Youth ===
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=== Supposed Age ===
While Dan's driver's license states he was born on October 31st, 1975, it's more likely that he was born in 1985 because he was in the same age range as Chris during Camp Atrocious and high school, and his drivers licence has multiple inaccuracies- meaning he's 26 years old.
Dan’s age can only be estimated by assuming the time the episode showing his drivers license first aired is correspondent to the time in the real world, which was in 2013. According to Dan’s drivers license, which lists his birthday on October 31th, 1975, he is 38 at that time.
 
=== Height ===
Dan's height is stated on his driver's license as 5'6", ([[S3E7]]) confirms he's 5'3" as shown on his mugshot.
 
== Relationships ==
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==== [[Mr. Mumbles]] ====
[[Image: Dan-mumbles2.png|thumb|right|215px|Mr. Mumbles and Dan are close.]]
Dan rescued a cat from an animal shelter, who he named [[Mr. Mumbles]], probably unaware of her gender. This is later revealed to him by a [[Hobo|homeless man]], who shoves her into his face, belly first, supposedly so he could take a closer look. He frequently talks to her – certain, that she understands his every word. He shares his sparse food with her (sandwiches, pizza etc.), holds and cuddles her frequently. He can’t stay mad at her, even though she scratches his face when scared.
 
==== [[Dennis]] ====
When Dan decides he wants to adopt a child to prove his superior parenting skills, he picks [[Dennis]], who he shares a lot of traits with. However due to Dan's criminal records and a dispute with an other potential family, Dan is not able to take him in.
 
[[Image: Dan-elise-tv.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Elise and Dan often get into arguments.]]
 
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=== Friends ===
==== [[Chris]] ====
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==== [[Elise]] ====
Dan often expresses how he wishes [[Elise]], Chris’ wife, would leave his friend. He is rude and talks down to her. At one point, he writes her on his revenge list, but crosses her name off because he deems her to be too dangerous. Dan is much more aware of her high-tech contraptions than Chris, however he never states or questions it. He will only team up with Elise when absolutely necessary and gets in her way from time to time, often while using her weapons without her consent. Dan will always try to take the lead and Elise has to work extra fast to counter his mistakes. While Dan definitely doesn't consider Elise a friend (and the other way around), he will accept her efforts when working for the same cause. Dan actively saves Elise's life at one point in [[S1E3]], while Elise saves Chris and Dan many times. Unbeknownst to him and Elise, the two of them are cousins as confirmed in ([[S2E1]]) when Dan reveals he stole the deviled egg recipe owned by his grandma, Elise's mom's mother.
 
==== [[Prescott Richman III]] ====
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==== [[Mechanic Mike]] ====
In one episode, we learn that Dan’s car is always fixed by [[Mechanic Mike]], a car enthusiast who works for free, as long as Dan pays for the spare parts. This beneficial relation is interrupted by Mechanic Mike ‘borrowing’ parts from Dan’s car, replacing them by common household items like a rubber band or a mixer ([[S3E4]]).
 
==== [[Turkey SandwichBrutus]] ====
Dan kept his teddy bear Brutus into adulthood.
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=== LoversLove Interests ===
During the runtime of the show, Dan fallshas inromantic loveencounters with threefive women and a sandwich.
 
==== [[Becky Barber]] ====
* As for [[Becky Barber|Becky]], we see her on a date with Dan and she agrees to meet him again. While getting a haircut in anticipation, it turns out that her father is the [[Barber|barber]] and he ruins Dan’s hair completely, causing him to go on a revenge trip on him and at the very end, his daughter, who never wants to see him again after this. ([[S1E14]])
 
[[File:Dan-hortence.PNG|210px|thumb|right|Dan and Hortence.]]
==== [[Turkey Sandwich]] ====
* In one episode, he fantasizes about a [[Turkey Sandwich]] as his significant other, who leaves him because ‘it’s not working out’ ([[S1E17]]).
 
==== [[Hortence Burger]] ====
* The Burgerphile employee [[Hortence Burger]], caught Dan’s attention, especially after staying by his side while protesting against bad restaurant service. It is clear that she is also impressed by his efforts. While not stated in the show, but by the official Facebook page, Hortence is underage. (link) However, Dan never gets to have a relationship with her, since she leaves the city for a promotion ([[S1E20]]). This is followed by her agreeing to marry [[Jeremiah Burger|Mr. Burger]], her boss. Dan stopsattempts thisto put a stop to the wedding, butto lesstry forand moralreconcile orwith legal reasonsher, butas forhe hisstruggles ownto affectionget towardsover his feelings for her. This doesn’t work out in his favor and Hortence isleaves donehim to elope with himJeremiah. ([[S2E9]])
 
==== [[Honey O’Houlihan]] ====
* [[Honey O’Houlihan|Ms. Honey O’Houlihan]], who asks him to help retrieve her stolen cat, [[Poopsie]]. It turns out she was a fraud who staged the incident and even took [[Mr. Mumbles]] from him in the process, causing Dan to loose interest. ([[S2E10]])
 
==== [[Abby]] ====
* Dan alsofound dates[[Abby]] through a namelesspersonal ad in a characternewspaper. whoShe turns out to be casted for 'Fake Date', a hidden camera style reality show ([[S2E14]]).
 
==== [[Amber]] ====
* [[Amber]] runs an anger management class and goes on revenge quests with Dan, which he interprets as dating, but she is setting him straight that it's not.
 
== Personality and Traits ==
Dan is quick to anger, over-the-top aggressive, extremely thick-headed, destructive, paranoid, childish and has a wild imagination. He will choose revenge over love ([[S1E14]]) and will not stop until he reaches his goal. However, we learn that Dan’s history is so wild with random things happening to him, a lot of his traits are him just trying to overcome his daily obstacles.
In every episode, we see him scream out (or at least moan ([[S2E8]])) his revenge target while raising up his arms. Dan has a list of things he wants to take revenge in a storage roomfacility in Sherman Oaks ([[S3E1]]), supposedly because it outgrew his apartment. He keeps a box of special memories, containing a hand granade, a gas mask, a drawing of his, and 3D glasses. The box got blown up in the episode it appeared, after Chris his it away and then returned it to Dan ([[S2E17]])). Dan is convinced to have developed a method to raise children, which he calls 'The Dan Method'([[S2E15]])).
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Plan1.PNG|One of Dan's malicious plans
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List4.PNG|Excerpt from The List
List5.PNG|Excerpt from The List
List6.PNG|Excerpt from The List
List7.PNG|Excerpt from The List
List8.PNG|Excerpt from The List
Memory-box.PNG|Memory box
Drawing.PNG|Dan's childhood drawing
DAN-method.PNG|Dan explaining his principles to raise children
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=== Abilities ===
His abilities include close combat, fight dancing ([[S2E4]]), handling a crowbar, crossbow, as well as bow and arrow ([[S1E2]]), building a ballista ([[S2E3]]), metalwork ([[S1E2]]), chewing himself out of tape and lockers ([[S3E5]]), breaking into various buildings, setting up explosives, driving a truck ([[S3E10]]), he has a double-jointed left thumb ([[S1E21]]) and very specific knowledge of facts (while being oblivious to some common knowledge). He is good with felines: even a saberthooth tiger won’t harm him ([[S2E10]]).
As for other animals, Dan uses rats ([[S1E16]]), cockroaches ([[S2E3]], [[S3E8]]) and scorpions ([[S3E5]]) as his allies on multiple occasions. He makes friends with a family of raccoons ([[S1E14]]). A bat lives under his sink and he doesn’t seem to mind its presence ().
Dan taught himself to tie his shoes when he was 12 because nobody else would ([[S1E9]]) and he can use more code by blinking ([[S2E14]]). He is immune to pepper spray; bear mace will only affect him minorly.
In contrast to all his strengths, he is lactose intolerant and suffers greatly from consuming milk-based products.
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Dummy1.PNG|One of Dan's jet pack attempts, thankfully only tested on a dummy.
Dan-weakness.PNG|Dan's weaknesses, listed by Chris.
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=== Hobbies ===
Dan loves watching TV, including court shows ([[S3E9]]), horror and sci-fi movies. As a big fan of the ‘[[Population Control Johnny]]’ franchise he consumes the comics and movies. Like Chris, he is also into the movie ‘Space Monkeys from Outer Space’ ([[S2E17]]). He listens to a radio station which talks about conspiracy theories and it’s quite possible he believes in at least some of them. He also believes in the occult and fortune tellings. Despite his displeasure with the government, he votes with pride ([[S3E7]]). One of Dan's ongoing struggles is building a jet pack that actually works without exploding ([[S1E7]], [[S3E11]]). His best attempt ends up smashing him into a fireworks factory building, which ends up exploding afterwards. In his apartment we see a foosball table, however he confesses to never use it, being more of an air hockey guy ([[S1E18]]).
 
== Character Design and Casting ==
The character is loosely designed after show co-creator [[Dan Mandel]] by character designer [[Chris Battle]]. He is voiced by actor and voice actor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Armstrong Curtis Armstrong].
 
== DisguisesCostumes ==
Disguises and significant other changes to Dan's character model, sorted by time of first appearance.
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Magic-dan.PNG|Dan, The Great
Elf-dan.PNG|Stinky, the elf
Mining-dan.PNG|Mining Dan
Dusgiused-chris-dan.PNG|Disguised Chris and Dan
Indecency-dan.PNG|Dan with no pants
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Captain-dan.PNG|Dan I ('the First')
Spa_dan.PNG|Dan I, in Spa outfit
Dan-suit.PNG|Dan in suit
 
CaptainMakeover-dan.PNG|Dan inafter hisa dead uncle's outfitmakeover
Noir-dan.PNG|Noir Dan
Knightdan2.PNG|Dan in knights armor
Pyjama-dan.PNG|Dan in his sleeping gear
Prison-dan.PNG|Prison clothes Dan
Turtle-dan1.PNG|Turtle costume Dan
Turtle-dan2.PNG|Dan as a turtle
Cooking-dan.PNG|Cooking Dan
Astronaut-dan.PNG|Astonaut Dan
Costume-change1.PNG|Camo pants Dan
Safarihat-dan.PNG|Dan with safari hat
Safarihat-dan.PNG|Dan with safari hat
Hospital-dan2.PNG|Hospital Dan, again
Bike-dan.PNG|Dan on stolen bike
Pirate-dan2.PNG|Pirate Dan
Beatup-dan.PNG|Beat-up Dan
Frozen-dan.PNG|Frozen Dan
Granade.PNG|Dan with 3D glasses and granade
Skunk-dan.PNG|Dan with gas mask
Battle-dan.PNG|Death battle Dan
Western-dan1.PNG|Old West Dan 1
Western-dan2.PNG|Old West Dan 2
Stickup-dan.PNG|Old West stick-up Dan
Poster.PNG|Old West Wanted Chris and Dan
Caveman-dan.PNG|Caveman Dan
Mummy-dan.PNG|Mummy Dan
Dan-toilet.jpg|Employed Dan
Jerk-car.PNG|Dan's car, but as a fighting robot
Military-hat-dan.PNG|Military helmet Dan
Owl-dan.PNG|Owl suit Dan
Sick-dan.PNG|Sick Dan
Sick-dan2.PNG|Sick Dan in doctor's clothes and bunny slippers
Ski-dan.PNG|Ski gear Dan
Judge-dan.PNG|Judge Dan
Chris-dan-heroes.PNG|Chris Boy and Dan Man
Drjerk.PNG|Dr. Jerk
 
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