Dan Vs./Characters

Dan

• Asshole Victim
• Anti-Hero: Type V if not Villain Protagonist.
• Angry Fist Shake: Whenever doing his Skyward Scream
• Ambiguously Bi
• Berserk Button: Don't get us started.
• The Bully
• Big Guy, Little Guy: Dan's the little guy, Chris is the big guy.
• Determinator
• Evil Laugh
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Chris.
• Hidden Heart of Gold
• Jerkass
• Jerkass Has a Point: Depending on which episode, sometimes Dan's wild accusations have some truth in them.
• Large Ham
• More-Or-Less Kindhearted Cat Lover: Mr. Mumbles is the only creature in the whole world that Dan can't stay mad at.
• The Napoleon: He's shorter then most characters in the show and doesn't like to be reminded of it.
• No Indoor Voice
• Perpetual Frowner
• Pyromaniac: His first answer to almost any problem is too burn it.
• Skyward Scream: How he opens each and every episode.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Plain Hamburgers and Turkey Sandwiches.

Chris

• Big Eater: So much so, that when Dan tried to give him motivation into chasing someone by telling him to pretend they were a sandwich, he stops to ask what kind of sandwich.
• Butt Monkey: Forced into Dan or Elise's antics, hated by Elise's parents, generally gets punished for Dan's punishments; he's this to a T.
• The Chew Toy
• Does Not Like Shoes: But Chris prefers socks and sandals.
• Extreme Doormat: Chris has to actually protest that Elise and Dan are treating him like property instead of a person at one point.
• Happily Married: To Elise.
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Dan
• Lampshade Hanging
• Nice Guy
• Only Sane Man: He and Elise trade this role depending on the episode.
• Vanity Licence Plate

Elise

• Action Wife
• Berserk Button: Do not hurt Chris in front of her, or else you'll be Bound and Gagged on a train to Guatemala.
  • Do not try to sale her or someone else things over the phone at her home. She will beat up telemarketers who call her home after they've been warned.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Played for Laughs.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Determinator: She refuses to give up winning the dance competition, no matter what gets in the way, be it Dan's revenge plot, having no alternate, or Chris' broken ankle.
• Distressed Damsel: In Technology and The Magician, rescued by Dan and/or Dan's proxy both times. In "The Dinosaur" her brother saves her.
• Fiery Redhead: At times.
• Granola Girl: She wants Chris to eat healthier.
  • Justified: The show demonstrates that Chris has absolutely appalling eating habits.
• Happily Married: To Chris.
• Impossible Hourglass Figure
• Little Black Dress: In Vs The Restaurant and Vs The Magician.
• Mysterious Past
• Ninja
• Not So Above It All: Make Dan female and give him better social skills. You've created Elise. For example:
  • In parts of "Dan Vs. Elise's Parents", she's just as crazy, if not more so, than Dan.
  • In "Dan vs New Mexico", she helped Dan destroy New Mexico because, when she was a kid, road runners stole her candy, and a cactus popped her balloon.
    • She even did a Skyward Scream.
  • She also copies Dan's "I'm awesome!" declaration in "Dan Vs. The Family Camping Trip".
  • In Dan Vs. The Magician, she has an odd phobia for all stage magicians.
  • When Chris gets smacked in the face with a fencing foil, Elise all but spells out that she left the responsible party tied up on a cargo ship headed for Central America.
  • When the kids blow up the car in "Dan Vs. The Lemonade Stand Gang" she wanted to send the kids to North Korea to work in factories. Where no one would find them.
  • When Dan was determined to ruin her dream of winning a dance competition, she sent him to Penbroke, a lawless ghost-town populated by dance-fighting monsters.
• Not So Different: With Dan.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist
• The Smart Gal
• "Well Done, Daughter" Gal: Claims that she was like this as a teenager, but has since grown out of it. If her obsession with making everything perfect whenever her parents visit is any indication, she really hasn't.
• Women Are Wiser: Usually played straight, but occasionally subverted. See Not So Above It All.
• Write Who You Know: Loosely based on Chris Pearson's wife, Elise.