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Dojo Dan

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I guess Booted's Super Secret Santa Silhouette Snapshot Submission for Malachuschus has inspired me to repost some third-stringer z-listers who do not need much reworking. Ikozu! Hai! *does kata*


Dojo Dan

Real Name: Daniel Dante

Age: 47

Origins:
Daniel Dante was a master of several forms of martial arts and had many black belts, having trained under a score of Chicago’s martial arts masters. Because of his aptitude in the fighting arts, he decided to start his own dojo where he would personally train his pupils into karate kids, instilling upon them techniques such as kung fu and ju-jitsu, and then combining these disciplines into mixed martial arts. He did this not only for honor, but also because he needed money, and because someone had to make a stand against the McDojos encroaching upon the land. That someone was him, Sensei Dan.

He didn’t make too much money, but he didn’t have that many students either. Unlike the McDojos with their hundreds of pupils for every single instructor, Dan merely had a paltry handful of students whom he personally trained – and train them he did, for in the many inter-dojo tournaments his pupils partook in, they kicked much ass.

This gave Sensei Dan much honor, for his students spread his name, and soon he became reputed in the martial arts community, making his former masters proud and his rival masters jealous. He would be known for his kung fu skill and natural talent.

And so it was that, in accordance with the Karate Kode, the houses of his rivals challenged him in mortal kombat. A series of tournaments would there be, to decide who truly was the greatest of the sensei.

Sensei Dan entered the McDojos and, one at a time, bested his competitors. It was a spectacle, for his foes were well versed in their techniques, but despite their rigid fighting style, Sensei Dan was water – when he flowed into the teacup, he became the teacup. He was like liquid, and he defeated them using a seamless combination of many famous techniques – from Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do, to the Dance of Death, Dan-te.

So humiliated were his rivals that, in the re-matches, they began authorizing the use of weapons, from poles and kendo sticks, to nunchacku, to switch-blades. Nevertheless, Sensei Dan bested them all and sent them reeling like pups with tails tuck between their legs.

Sensei Dan was glorious in victory, but his foes’ rage only simmered in defeat. They would have their revenge.

They had their revenge. After Sensei Dan closed down his dojo for the night, he went to the parking lot, but before he could even enter his vehicle he was assaulted by all of his rival masters – and they bludgeoned him half to death with pipes and bats and wrenches and broken bottles.

He would be hospitalized for months, having nearly a dozen bones broken and suffering from internal hemorrhaging. But as if this was not enough, his grieving pupils were attacked by hundreds of McDojo students in a burly brawl of epic proportions. The fight resulted in the death of two of Dan’s pupils (by hatchet) and the burning down of his dojo.

News of this enraged Sensei Dan and he swore vengeance upon those who wronged him and his pupils. After he was discharged, he challenged all of the rival houses into a massive streetfight.

Barely recovered, Sensei Dan found himself in an insane battle royale against no less than twenty other sensei and grandmasters, all of whom wielded weapons from the oriental to the obscene. Kendo masters fought with baseball bats against tai chi practitioners who wielded flails and maces, only to be impaled by karate senseis throwing tridents from their stallion steeds. Dan was very lucky to have gotten out alive, as many of the kombatants were fatally injured – a couple even inexplicably caught fire!

In the end, Dan still lost everything. He had no dojo, he had no students, he had no money and the IRS was closing in on him. He was even suspected of murdering his rivals with a battle-axe, which he did. So he did the only thing he could, the thing the dishonorably defeated did. He ran.

As a dishonorable gaijin, he did whatever he could to survive. That meant turning to a life of crime, but unlike the others, he would never take another life (never again, he swore). Nor would he partake in the dark deeds that truly evil men did. No, he would only take what he needed, nothing more and nothing less. Hopefully, no one would notice.

It was so that as a fleet of flying saucers from outer space (not Antarctica) descended from the heavens and wrought devastation upon the cities of man, that Dan donned his attire – a kendo mask, a karate kimono, boxing gloves, basketball shorts, knee pads and fake Nike rubber shoes. Sufficiently costumed, Dan assumed a new persona, for, in his dishonor, he was no longer a sensei.

He would become Dojo Dan, and while the rest of the world busied itself with the near-apocalypse, he would rob from the rich and give to the poor (mostly himself).

Current Status: Alive. He steals enough money just to survive. Usually he lives in rundown apartments and cheap sleazy motels. He’s a wanted man, but has bought himself a new identity thanks to identity thieves, so he should be okay. He only robs things when cataclysms are happening nearby, so the authorities will be distracted. Sometimes, he buys his fellow impoverished friends a meal if he has cash to spare. He’s a Z-level villain, but a surprisingly accomplished thief (in that he’s not yet in jail).

Powers and Abilities:
He’s a baseline human who is physically very fit and very well trained in a variety of Oriental martial arts – such as the Jeet Kun Do of Bruce Lee, Hustling Kung Fu and Hebrew Jujitsu which he has mastered, to some kinds of judo and other forms and many katas he has experience in practicing. He is also a natural athlete, but aside from that, he has no distinguishing qualities as a baseline man save for his martial skill. His boxing gloves are modified as to have improved grip, and they also have brass knuckles inside them – or even horseshoes. When Dan needs to climb walls, he uses modified golf shoes. Also, he never uses firearms as he is one of the few crooks out there with a code against killing, and so he uses either only his martial arts or blunt instruments – like baseball bats. Sometimes, he throws footballs into people’s groins.

Weaknesses:
He’s purely baseline with no powers and he also lives at the brink of poverty. He has no armor save for football gear and life preservers, and lacks any truly lethal weapon aside from the aforementioned footballs to the groin.

Relations:
He’s not really a bad person and is generally on good terms with most of his drinking buddies and fellow homeless. On occasion, he has worked with the Tangerine and Toolverine, and has clashed with the Silhouette and even the Crow (he was lucky to survive by using jump ropes to tangle the Crow to power lines and then run away like hell).
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Awesome man! Makes me want to heavily re-write my kung fu karacter!

How the fuck did those dishonourable gaijin mcdojo guys get away with what they did as well?
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Who says they did? The bunch of those dicks are probably in jail or dead.

Though, to be fair, they do their fighting crap in secluded places like warehouses or abandoned construction sites, and like because of the Karate Kode they don't report it to the cops or shit when they snap people's necks or stab them in the face. Because it's part of the awesome oriental warrior code, which is probably from Japan, which makes it awesomer or some shit.

I basically based that fight scene on this.
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Great, now I imagine Dojo Dan looking like Will Ferrell in a kimono with a huge moustache and 1970s haircut.

Which I guess would be oddly appropriate given the characters Will Ferrell usually plays. :lol:
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Don't forget this:
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