Dan (Dan Vs.)

"I can't believe how much I hate everything!"

- Dan

Dan Mandel, or commonly known as just Dan, is the the titular villain protagonist in the animated series Dan Vs., as well as the role of the true main villain of the series. He is a vile, argumentative, vengeful, and devilish man who always calls his best friend Chris whenever he is plotting or enacting revenge. He has said that he has been thrown out of libraries and jailed on multiple occasions. Dan has said to have been tear-gassed so many times that he no longer feels any effects from it, and he has also been maced enough times to claim that it is "tangier" than tear-gas. He seems to really like his car, despite it's state of disrepair; several of his "revenge missions" were instigated by people damaging or tampering with it. He also is very fond of his female cat, Mr. Mumbles, and cannot remain angry at her for very long (she is the only creature that cannot get Dan angry). At the end of every episode's prologue, he always raises on fists in the air in anger and shout out the name of whatever he is about to go up against and add the word(s) to the episodes' titles. Dan is unemployed and lives in a dilapidated apartment. While Dan is more so of a villain, he has a more gentle side.

Appearance
His everyday outfit consists of blue jeans, black boots, and a black T-shirt that says "JERK" in white letters. He has black hair, green eyes, a goatee, a slight stubble on his chin, and round, rotten teeth.

Personality
Dan is a rude, crude, mean, nasty, vile, uncouth, unpleasant, prickly, surly, churlish, judgemental, selfish, ill-tempered, angry, appalling, objectional, hot-headed, indecent, caustic, insulting, repugnant, detestable, and offensive man. He seems to care about no one but himself. He mocks his best friend Chris for being slow-witted and very incompetent, and dislikes his wife Elise even more than he hates Chris. He is definitely prone to yelling at people, and threatening them by getting revenge. However he seems to love his teddy bear Brutus, his pet kitten, Mr. Mumbles and his red car. Whenever his car is destroyed and/or vandalized, he will storm right out of his apartment and track down the cause of his car's destruction and/or vandalism. He is also rude to children, which implies that he hates babies in general, according to his "revenge list". Overall, Dan is a complete jerk as his shirt implies.

Season 1

 * New Mexico - tried to destroy the state.
 * The Wolfman - Kidnapped a kid and chased another kid with Chris presuming it to be the real Wolfman, then they are arrested for this act. Despite this, they leave the police station and continue to hunt down the Wolfman. However before Dan shoots the Wolfman in the buttocks with a bow and arrow, he takes it from a haunted yard that has been graverobbed by the two.
 * The Animal Shelter - Gave Chris a threatening message, poisoned him, stole his and Elise's car, and blew up an animal shelter. Although his heroic side is when he rescued his kitten, Mr. Mumbles and all the other animals.
 * Canada - Made Chris and hockey players jump into frozen water at a hockey game and caused a huge avalanche in the entire country.
 * Traffic - Destroyed a radio celebrity's helicopter and stole his jacket (though the celebrity took it from him).
 * Baseball - Kidnapped the commissioner along with "Monkey Face McGee".
 * The Barber - Got Chris and Elise incriminated, and killed Becky's boyfriend Mike with scissors.
 * Art - Vandalized art along with Chris.
 * Elise's Parents - Mistakened Don to be part of the mafia and tried to incriminate him.
 * Dan* - This is more heroic, but he tried to rage against a look-alike who stole his identity.
 * The Family Camping Trip - Tried to wreck Elise's trip with Chris and her parents, and scared kids away (though he didn't expect the victims to be children).
 * Burgerphile - Got Burgerphile on fire.

Season 2

 * The Family Thanksgiving - set the house on fire.


 * The Neighbors - Wrecked the new neighbors' (who are presumed by Dan to be cannibals) house with cockroaches.


 * The Bank - Tried to rob a bank.


 * The Gym - Robbed Chris' house and lied to Elise along with Chris without Elise looking behind her that Dan and Chris are right by the gym.


 * Gigundo-Mart - Stole Elise's shrink ray and shrunk her.


 * Chris - Threatened to steal Chris' death ray gun and go after him, threw a skunk inside Chris' house, set up Chris' house on fire, and almost tried to knock Chris off a cliff (similar to when Scar killed Mufasa in The Lion King, except that Dan did not kill Chris, Chris actually apoligized to him about the fight.)

Season 3

 * Anger Management - Nearly started World War III by trying to kill a family of squirrels with nuclear weapons and destroyed a TV.
 * The Boss - Helped the boss try to kill Chris, though it was revealed that he was only pretending to follow her orders.
 * The Mechanic - Bullied Elise and tortured Chris.
 * The High School Reunion - Tried to destroy a high school reunion.
 * The Superhero - Attempted revenge on a superhero called Terrifi-Guy, for destroying his car, and became a supervillain called "Dr. Jerk". However, Dan's car is often involved in destruction, and shortly after Terrifi-Guy was unaware that he destroyed his car, Dan stated that he doesn't have auto insurance

Quotes
"Call me Danny and you'll be even sorrier than you ever have been in your miserable worthless tooth-scraping life."

- Dan threatening Dr. Pullum's assistant.

"You abysmal excuse of a human being!"

- Dan insulting the Telemarketer.

"This isn't the movies - THIS IS REAL LIFE! STOP LIVING IN A FANTASY WORLD! THE WOLFMAN SCRATCHED MY CAR, AND HE MUST PAY! NEXT MONTH!"

- Dan yelling at Chris about the Wolfman scratching his car.

"How DARE YOU LET YOUR MACHINE PICK UP! You are scum! You are worthless, spineless, and rotten to the corpse! That's it! We are no longer friends - I hate you! We are DONE. If you ever try to speak to me again, I WILL LITERALLY STRANGLE YOU!"

- Dan threatening and insulting Chris for not picking up his phone.

"Yep. Now we're even. He scratched my car, I scratched his."

- Dan explaining why he scratched the Wolfman's car with a key.

"Revenge is a dish best served immediately."

- Dan claiming revenge

"Baseball is a contemptible sport."

- Dan criticizing Baseball.

"Oh, sure. Cute girls with P.H.D.s have all the problems."

- Dan responding to Amber.

"Revenge is hard enough without these stupid distractions."

- Dan after hanging up on Elise.

"CURSE YOU BURGERPHILE! You're.. going on the list."

- Dan adding Burgerphile to his revenge list.

"HEY! Is that my car battery? I'LL PUT YOU ON THE LIST!! I'LL PUT ALL OF YOU ON THE LIST!!"

- Dan after Elise removes his car's battery.

Trivia

 * In Dan Vs. Elise's Parents, Dan tells Elise that he has no dental records. A possible nod to The Dentist in which he stole his own records to prove that his dentist was a supervillain.
 * In the episode Dan Vs. Dan, it is shown that Dan is 5' 6"  in height, weighs 105 lbs, and was born on October 31, 1975.
 * Chris is rumored to be his only friend. Despite this, he has a friend named Ted, who is on Dan's list and has yet to appear in the series.
 * He also has a football table, but he claims he is an "air hockey man".
 * Dan is considered to be an anti-hero, due to the fact he does questionable things though in truth he is more of a protagonist villain.
 * He is voiced by Curtis Armstrong who is known for the role of Dudley "Booger" Dawson from Revenge of the Nerds and playing Snot in American Dad.
 * Dan has many characteristics similar to that of Yzma, the villain of the Walt Disney Pictures feature film titled The Emperor's New Groove; both are loud-mouthed, both mistreat their right-hand men due to their incompetence and stupidity, and both also force their minions to do things that are evil. They also share the point of being maniacal and psychopathic.