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==== Dan ====
* [[Asshole Victim]]
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type V if not [[Villain Protagonist]].
* [[Angry Fist Shake]]: Whenever doing his [[Skyward Scream]]
* [[Ambiguously Gay|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]]
* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover|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 Girlfriend|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]].
* [[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.
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: In ''Technology'' and ''The Magician'', rescued by {{spoiler|Dan and/or Dan's proxy both times.}} In "The Dinosaur"  {{spoiler|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 [[Enfante Terrible|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]]
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy|"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.

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