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Dr. Pullum
Voiced by: Mark Hamill
Dan's dentist who was revealed to be a supervillain.
- Depraved Dentist: A dentist who also happens to be a super villain.
- Large Ham: Once he reveals himself as a supervillain, he just drops any sense of subtlety and starts devouring the scenery.
- Mad Doctor: His absurdly complex plan is based around using dental work to brainwash people into doing his bidding.
- Super Villain: Parodied.
Barry Ditmer
Voiced by: Kevin McDonald
Eccentric CEO of a major tech corporation with plans to take over the world.
- Big "NO!": When his security androids are destroyed
- "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: When Elise reveals she knows about the mind control devices, Ditmer states that he prefers the term, "guiding synaptic processes from afar."
- Hates Being Touched: Ditmer refuses to shake hands, citing "human contact of any kind" as his primary phobia.
- Jerkass: He short-changed his partner and tried to take over the world.
- Levitating Lotus Position: Ditmer spends the bulk of the episode in this position.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Ditmer is a parody of Steve Jobs, running a large tech corporation and taking on many of the late CEOs idiosyncracies.
Ilsa
Voiced by: Grey DeLisle
Barry Ditmer's robotic wife.
- A.I.-cronym: Ilsa is an acronym for "Independent Logistics and Security Android."
- Action Girl: While not quite on the level of Elise, Ilsa is able to put up a fight and even plant a mind control device on Elise.
- Robot Girl: Ilsa is a security droid that takes the form of a human woman. She speaks in a rootic cadence and has various technological accessories.
Imposter Dan/The Imposter/The Telemarketer
Voiced by: John C. McGinley
An enigmatic identity thief who steals the lives of misanthropes with no social lives.
- The Ace: He steals Dan's life and quickly becomes beloved by the neighbors, various charities, and even Chris and Elise.
- Affably Evil: He's a pretty friendly guy for an identity thief.
- Anti-Villain: He doesn't have an Evil Plan or any sinister goal, all he wants is a good life, but his methods of getting it are a tad questionable.
- The Bad Guy Wins: He was successful in getting his revenge on Dan.
- The Chessmaster: Running away always seems to benefit himself. Particularly when he lures a rampaging Dan to try and attack him at a police station.
- Combat Pragmatist: Goads Dan into attacking him at a police station.
- Diabolus ex Nihilo: The only backstory we get is that he took over Dan's life and that he did so because Dan has no support network. He is very skilled and presumably could live well on his own, but chose to thoroughly research Dan and steal his life, friends, and cat.
- Didn't Think This Through: In his first episode, his plan to steal the identities of misanthropes with no support network is diabolically clever...but he forgot that someone with Dan's identity might also have to contend with past legal troubles. The real Dan foils him by failing to show up to court and then giving the police the location of the impostor.Dan: Hey, you want to steal Dan's identity, you take the bad with the good.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He was willing to steal Dan's identity completely and cites Dan's lack of friends as why. At one point, when he reads Dan's journal, he muses out loud with a concerned look that Dan is really mentally unwell.
- Faux Affably Evil: For such a Nice Guy, he does have his... darker moments. Particularly, after his stint in jail.Imposter: Now, if you don't leave my property, I'll have to shoot you and claim self-defense. Good day!
- Friendly Enemy: He’s always friendly and polite with everyone, though it becomes much less sincere when it comes to Dan after getting sent to prison.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: He kicks his act up a notch in his second appearance.
- Villain Has a Point: When questioned why he'd want to steal Dan's identity, the Imposter explains that his offputting and angry demeanor has left him isolated, and genuinely seems to believe he'd be better off in life if he didn't have a Hair-Trigger Temper. While the Imposter is obviously in the wrong for identity theft, Dan would certainly be better off with a more level-headed demeanor.
Chef Puree
Voiced by: René Auberjonois
The owner of Café Puree.
- Hate Sink: Someone who is surprising more unlikable than Dan of all people. His large Ego and treatment of his employees make it clear that he isn't meant to be liked.
- Fat Bastard: He’s very rotund, and keeps his employees as slaves on top of being a jerk.
- French Jerk: He’s very rude and unethical and speaks in a French accent.
- Jerkass: He’s rude, unethical, and keeps several chefs locked in a dungeon and forces them to cook food for Café Puree.
Jeff
Voiced by: Jeff Bennett
The corrupt manager of Burgerphile, he cares more about his customer service record than actual service. Fears going back to Maryland.
- Anti-Villain: All he wants is to make sure he keeps his perfect customer service record so he doesn't have to go back to Maryland.
- Bad Boss: He's verbally abusive to his subordinates and tries to blackmail Hortense into getting rid Dan to leave by promising her a long-desired promotion.
- Berserk Button: Anything threatening his perfect record, namely Dan.
- Jerkass: In spades. He refuses to admit a simple mistake was made, insisting Dan was the one in the wrong and having him thrown out for complaining. When Dan chains himself up in the store to protest, Jeff goes to increasingly obnoxious and underhanded lengths to win out.
- My God, What Have I Done?: After losing his perfect record, he snaps and attacks Jeremiah Burger. He then has this reaction.
- Place Worse Than Death: If his perfect record is ruined, he'll have to go through retraining and that's in Maryland. Jeff considers it a truly awful place, desperately trying to avoid going back there.
- Rage Breaking Point: When Jeremiah Burger asserts that he is indeed in the wrong and will lose his precious perfect record, Jeff snaps and knocks him unconscious.
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The Danza: Jeff is voiced by Jeff Bennett.
The Hockey Masked Maniac
A giant voiceless man who carries a chainsaw and started a rampage ten years ago.
- Expy: Of Jason Voorhees and Leatherface combined.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: He wears a black t-shirt that says "Maniac" like Dan's "Jerk" shirt.
Magnifico the Magnificent
Voiced by: Carlos Alazraqui
A selfish magician who teaches several magicians to steal from people under the guise of magic.- Jerkass: Stole from Chris (and various other people), humilated Dan and traumatized Elise when she was a child.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Resembles Criss Angel.
Lemonade Stand Gang
A group of four juvenile delinquents who try to give customers lemonade, whether they want it or not.
- Berserk Button: They really dislike being called "hooligans".
- Kids Are Cruel: They use their lemonade stand to scam adults out of thousands of dollars and threaten anybody who tries to expose them.
Chad
Voiced by: John DiMaggio
The manager of Gym of the Future and Normal Nutrition. Really an android who enslaves the patrons of his gym to use as human batteries for himself and his fellow robots.
Honey O'Houlihan
Voiced by: Cheri Oteri
A femme fatale who seeks Dan's help about finding her cat, Poopsie.
- Femme Fatale: In true noir fashion, she tries to get what she wants by playing to Dan's sympathies (which works) and trying to wow him with her looks (which he misses most of the time).
- Harmless Villain: She's a pretty good manipulator, but she lacks the strength and resources to get her way. She needed a patsy (Dan) to get things done. When confronted over what she's done, she runs away and suffers a comical downfall.
The Governor of California
Voiced by:
The Governor of California. He's clearly a little shady.
- Evil Brit: He turns out to be a British spy sent to make America stupider.
- Patriotic Fervor: His main defense against anyone who asks too many questions is that "unlike them, he believes in this country". It's hard to believe it's how he really feels. And it certainly isn't.
Amber
Voiced by: Jenna Fischer
Dan's anger management instructor.
- Ax-Crazy: She was chasing Chris at the end of the episode, but she gets better.
- Berserk Button: As it turns out, littering is a big one for her.
- Blackmail: After finding out how much fun getting revenge is, she extorts Dan into following her orders. Dan can't really do anything because she can easily fail him and send him to prison.
- "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: Parodied. Her idea of a nicer word is just the same word in a nicer tone.
- Disproportionate Retribution: She gives Dan a run for his money. She decided to ruin a girl's wedding with a paint bomb because said girl spilled ink on her a decade ago.
- Hapless Self-Help: In "Anger Management", Amber the anger management instructor turns out to hide a lot of anger beneath her smile and insistence that anger is your enemy. This becomes a big problem when Dan encourages her to embrace her rage and she begins to manipulate him.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Played straight to start with but eventually becomes subverted when Dan helps her manage her anger by means of revenge.
- Hot Teacher: Downplayed. She has Hartman Hips and is somewhat attractive but the only one who has any romantic interest in her is Dan and that was more because she shared his lust for revenge.
- Irony: Seems to be a recurring theme in her revenge plots.
- Her first victim pushed her Berserk Button of littering so she filled his entire car with garbage (though she was only following Dan's lead).
- Emily spilled ink on her in high school so Amber paint-bombed Emily's wedding.
- Her sister force fed creamed spinach to her so she planned to dump her sister into a pool of creamed spinach.
- Just Friends: Really not even that but Dan thought their little revenge heist was a date.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her attempts to get Dan to open up about his triggers results in Dan accidentally inciting a riot, which destroys her car.
- Rage Breaking Point: With Dan submitting to her blackmail scheme, Chris decided to prove he was no pushover by deliberately littering the yard outside her classroom. She responded by getting a chainsaw and chasing Chris around.Amber: I WILL MURDER YOU!
Dan: [chasing after her] Amber, lets have some herbal tea and talk about this!
The Boss
Voiced by: Felicia Day, Patrick Favley (demon form)
Dan and Chris' cruel and selfish boss who turns out to be a demon at the end.
- Ambiguous Gender: Yes, her human and first demonic form look female, but her final demonic form looks very masculine, complete with a Voice of the Legion that is equally masculine. Because of this, the Dan vs. Wiki refers to her as "it".
- Bad Boss: She likes to call her employees "monkeys", and acts as if they are by offering them bananas and rubbing their heads affectionately. Not only that, but when Dan wants to quit, she threatens to have him blacklisted from all temp jobs. But when in her true and demonic form, she's willing to KILL her employees if they get in her way.
- Fiery Redhead: Downplayed. While disguised as a human, she seems to have a calm demeanor, but she won't hesitate to let any employees of hers (especially Dan) know that they're getting on her nerves and snap at them whenver she can.
- Foreshadowing: Her office has plenty of demon/devil masks for decor, befitting a disguised demon.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Has a pink pair of spectacles, and is utterly sadistic and ruthless.
- Ink-Suit Actor: Her human physical appearance looks a lot like Felicia Day's physical appearance in real life.
- Jerkass Has a Point: She may be a petty and manipulative boss, but she's right in calling out Dan for being such an irresponsible employee.
- Noble Demon: While she is cutthroat, she can be magnanimous toward people who impress her, taking Dan under her wing when he puts his talents to good use. She becomes a literal example of this trope: a literal demon, but still graciously accepting a gift from Dan.
- No Name Given: No one calls her by any specific name, they just simply call her "the boss." Considering that she turns out to be a demon, she might not even have a name.
Terrifi-Guy
Voiced by: Clancy Brown
An arrogant superhero who went after Dan after he destroyed Dan's car.
- Anti-Villain / Anti-Hero: He's destructive, rude, arrogant, selfish and all around just plain unlikable, yet he still does kind of save the day.
- Asshole Victim: It's kind of hard to feel bad for him after how he acted.
- Casting Gag: He's a Superman-like figure voiced by the guy behind the DCAU Lex Luthor.
- Flying Brick
- Hero Antagonist: Anti Hero Antagonist might fit better though.
- Jerkass
- Smug Super
- Super-Strength: One of his main powers. Being force-fed his only weakness causes him to lose this, though amusingly, he can still manhandle Dan and Chris at the same time.
- Weaksauce Weakness Hot sauce neutralizes his powers and was force-fed a great deal, powering him down a great deal.
- Weird Trade Union: He briefly mentions belonging to one for superheroes. There are fines for hurting civilians and, in Dan's case, he's more than willing to pay it.
Mr. Tedesco
Voiced by: Ernie Hudson
The camp counselor of Camp Atrocious who believes in brawn over brains and will torture kids to ensure it.
- Brains Evil, Brawn Good: Mr. Tedesco's stated philosophy—he punishes Dan for gaining the spirit stick through cunning and subterfuge, rather than through brute force.
- Bilingual Bonus: "Tedesco" is Italian for "German".
- The Bully: He's basically one grown up and given control of a summer camp.
- Jerkass
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: After having his things stolen by the bullies, Dan went to Mr. Tedesco. He didn't care and continued to give preferential treatment to the bullies. This causes Dan to begin one of his first shown vengeance quests against Mr. Tedesco, and thus the premise of the show.
- Laser-Guided Karma: His horrible actions come back to bite him in the ass
- Social Darwinist: Has a philosophy of this and Might Makes Right when running his camp. Ends up biting him hard when Dan applies these lessons against him.
- William Telling: He allows the Warrior Wigwam campers do this to the Papoose Pavilion campers. At the end of the episode, it happens to him.
Helicopter Hal
Voiced by: Henry Winkler
An egotistical local traffic-copter reporter and minor celebrity.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He thinks he’s way more famous than he actually is.
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