SuperDan, the Superhero of Bad Guy High
Bad Guy High was created by theRedDeath, it can be read on The Duck Webcomics
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Background

Before I move on…
Experience and Skill

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Dan may be young and inexperienced compared to other superheroes, but his potential can’t be understated. In one future he’s the greatest superhero to have ever lived, and in another he enslaved the whole planet. But what about this timeline’s Dan?
SuperDan had a decent track record fighting bad guys and saving civilians, but it's in the latter half of the webcomic where he truly makes an impact on the world.
On one hand he did a lot of good. He was able to fight off hordes of his classmates and BGH staff after Principal Doom-Face hypnotized everyone. His talents are recognized by the Camaraderie of Heroes and he gains the opportunity to team up with the big leagues.
On the other, Dan threatened the planet as Devoid. He killed superheroes far more experienced than him with a broad range of powers. He weaponized Manhattan, murdering everyone on it. He even beat his brother Captain Perfect. Dan's kill count by the end of the series is, according to him, 20 million.
Dan often comes across as a dopey himbo, as there are many common words he acts like he doesn't know. Regardless, he's much smarter than he lets on. Ever since gaining his powers his intelligence and perception gradually improved. He isn't on Evan's level of evil genius, but he was able to build an advanced life support system he suspended his groomer teacher Pandora inside.
At the time of Generation Bad's release, Dan is now an adult. Once he returns to his dimension it's apparent how the heroes there don't compare to him in power. Factoring in his added experience traveling to other worlds and he's the most threatening super there is to the villain society.
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Dan may be young and inexperienced compared to other superheroes, but his potential can’t be understated. In one future he’s the greatest superhero to have ever lived, and in another he enslaved the whole planet. But what about this timeline’s Dan?
SuperDan had a decent track record fighting bad guys and saving civilians, but it's in the latter half of the webcomic where he truly makes an impact on the world.
On one hand he did a lot of good. He was able to fight off hordes of his classmates and BGH staff after Principal Doom-Face hypnotized everyone. His talents are recognized by the Camaraderie of Heroes and he gains the opportunity to team up with the big leagues.
On the other, Dan threatened the planet as Devoid. He killed superheroes far more experienced than him with a broad range of powers. He weaponized Manhattan, murdering everyone on it. He even beat his brother Captain Perfect. Dan's kill count by the end of the series is, according to him, 20 million.
Dan often comes across as a dopey himbo, as there are many common words he acts like he doesn't know. Regardless, he's much smarter than he lets on. Ever since gaining his powers his intelligence and perception gradually improved. He isn't on Evan's level of evil genius, but he was able to build an advanced life support system he suspended his groomer teacher Pandora inside.
At the time of Generation Bad's release, Dan is now an adult. Once he returns to his dimension it's apparent how the heroes there don't compare to him in power. Factoring in his added experience traveling to other worlds and he's the most threatening super there is to the villain society.
Equipment
Scary Mask
Stop. Stop. I'm sorry, how have I already lost the plot at the FIRST item in the equipment section? Why does Dan have Eustace's spooky mask from Courage the Cowardly Dog on hand??? I mean it's not the same mask but it might as well be!

Sword
It’s a magic sword handed down from father to son in ancient Japan to protect the past by stopping a shape-shifting wizard from taking over the future. That’s the backstory Dan gave it, but it’s just a normal sword he bought.

Cosmic Terraforming Weapon
Bad Guy High Adventures gives SuperDan crazy stuff. Case in point, this weapon designed for cosmic terraforming. It releases enough raw planetary material to cover an entire solar system. He used this to cover a hole in the source-code wall, the barrier between multiverses. Unfortunately the weapon blew up as he sealed it.

Abilities
Flight
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's legally distinct Superman! Flight is his most used power after being bitten.

Heat Vision

Enhanced Durability
SuperDan is tough, easily shrugging off most attacks. He's even bulletproof, so long as the bullets don't contain clownonite.

50% Rage Form
Oh, that's…… that's literally just super saiyan……… This transformation is a byproduct of when he first gained his powers thanks to traces of gamma radiation in his blood. After he burned through the gamma radiation, he lost the ability to go super saiyan. However, there's no way I can just leave THIS out!
Simply, when SuperDan is pushed to his limit, his hair sticks up and turns gold, his body shines a radioactive green, and his strength boosts. If this is only halfway of his transformation, then what does it look like at 100%?

100% Rage Form
The copyright gods are FUMING right now. So yeah, the angrier Dan becomes, the more likely he is to… hulk out. Despite what the appearance suggests, Dan can still think rationally in this form. However, if he thinks too rationally to the point where his rage subsides, he just de-transforms. Since the previously discussed form isn't usable anymore, neither is this.

Self-Sustenance (Type 1)
Sure, I guess he can breathe in space too.

Molecular Manipulation
SuperDan can… spin his molecules so fast that the polarity of projectiles heading his way are reversed, deflecting them? Huh?????

4th Wall Breaking
There have been some instances of the comic lifting up the veil and showing the characters aware of its fictional status, but most appear to just be non-canon joke pages. This showcase of SuperDan moving a panel away, however, isn't treated like a joke. Rather it's just shown as a thing that happens.

Super-Hearing
You can't sneak up on someone with enhanced hearing, y'know?

Regeneration (High-Mid)
SuperDan has a great healing factor, even recovering from clownonite bullets easily (so long as they don't hit a 1-hit kill shot like his head). His regeneration is so potent that he returned to normal after his whole body was blown to bits! However, that's mainly thanks to…

Purple Flashlight Form
SuperDan absorbed the power of the Power Battery, the source of the Purple Flashlight Corps’ power, causing him to ascend and become a Purple Flashlight himself. If you thought this was a Green Lantern knockoff you'd be right on the money, though the design is more so based on Superman Blue. Their rings are powered by imagination. Dan unfortunately lost his Purple Flashlight powers after separating himself from Devoid, but he's still plenty strong without them.
Dan's healing factor is way more potent in this form, which is how he survived being blown to smithereens. Time to go over some powers this transformation offers!

Energy Projection
Those are some stronk vaporizing blasts!

Bubble Manipulation
With his Purple Flashlight powers, he can trap people in bubbles that are difficult to break, and can control where he moves them.

Super-Senses
Just a form of extrasensory perception, able to detect strong energy signals.

Devoid
SuperDan came back from the dead thanks to Tisiphone. She’d been biding her time until he gained another foreign being inside him from the Purple Flashlight. She overtook Dan, turning him into the evil Devoid. Devoid is basically if Dan was bloodlusted. He still acts like Dan spouting one-liners, only they're way edgier.
Tisiphone whispers to him in this state to spur him into committing heinous acts, but he can go against them and fly out of that body. However, this leads to…

Ret-Kahn
When SuperDan separates himself from Devoid, his old body becomes its own separate entity called Ret-Kahn. Ret-Kahn is a threatening monster with the terrifying power to rewrite history. That likely explains some of the changes in continuity in the comic. This creature is so dangerous that the Bobble-Heads of the Universe had to intervene to seal it away.
... Fuck, it's literally named after retconning.

Dimensional Travel
Thanks to Evan's tech, Dan can travel anywhere in the multiverse.

Resistances

- Hypnosis immunity: Dan wasn't affected when Principal Doom-Face hynpotized everyone in BGH. Since when was he capable of this? When it was convenient for the plot :V
- Psychic immunity: The above is further solidified when he mentions he's immune to psychic attacks
- SuperDan is the only one left in the multiverse with the strength to resist being sucked into the source-code wall. Most people are swallowed into the breach, but people from SuperDan's verse have an uncanny ability to defy all reason and sense.

- Hypnosis immunity: Dan wasn't affected when Principal Doom-Face hynpotized everyone in BGH. Since when was he capable of this? When it was convenient for the plot :V
- Psychic immunity: The above is further solidified when he mentions he's immune to psychic attacks
- SuperDan is the only one left in the multiverse with the strength to resist being sucked into the source-code wall. Most people are swallowed into the breach, but people from SuperDan's verse have an uncanny ability to defy all reason and sense.
Techniques
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Feats
Overall
- Stopped Evan from holding the world ransom with his doomsday device
- Ended Peter’s rampage with the Necronomicon
- Convinced Warner Bros. to let him continue being SuperDan despite infringing on their copyright
- Defeated Bizarro-Dan
- Endured a year in hell
- Solo’d his classmates after they ganged up on him in dodgeball
- Defeated a bunch of SuperDan clones created by Paradox
- Beat the Camaraderie of Heroes as Devoid
- Threw Manhattan into Illinois, causing the deaths of 19,551,600 civilians
- Beat Paradox by making him realize in the future, he doesn’t keep to his word. With that, Paradox and his timeline faded from existence
- Sealed the source-code wall, saving the multiverse
Strength
- Burnt away Jeff's upper body with his heat vision, then disintegrated the rest of him later
- Can lift and crush a car
- Flew through a wall
- Sent Bizarro-Dan flying Team Rocket-style
- Made shockwaves with his punches
- Made holes in a wall deflecting projectiles
- Blew up a Bad Guy High and the surrounding area after flying down from the atmosphere
- Absorbing the Power Battery on the Purple Flashlight’s planet could be felt on Earth
- Clashing with Evan broke all the windows in a nearby building
- Lifted and threw the island of Manhattan. It caused an explosion that could be seen in the atmosphere (large island calc in embed)
- Patched a hole in the source-code wall, the barrier between multiverses
- Came in possession of a weapon that can cover an entire solar system with planetary material
- Punched his way out of the inter-space, a universe so small it appears as a box. It may be small, but it's still a universe, it's like punching out of an impenetrable box.
Speed
- Capable of quickly flying into space
- Outran his own heat vision
- Can spin his molecules at "super-speed"
- Ducked to avoid gunshots to the head
- Dodges lasers
- Flew with Purple Flashlight to her planet in an indeterminate amount of time
- Shipped Captain DC back to Earth from Purple Flashlight's planet in an unknown period of time
- Quickly traveled from Manhattan to Illinois
- Flew to the moon
Durability
- Before receiving his powers he survived having a frisbee lodged in the back of his head
- Bit by a radioactive superman, enduring living with gamma radiation in his blood for a while
- Survived a building crumbling on top of him
- Hit through multiple brick walls
- Struck by lightning
- Endured the Bane Back Breaker, which hurt his gym teacher more than it hurt him
- Somehow regenerated from his entire body exploding
- Blasted away as he sealed the source-code wall
Scaling
- Evan created a functional dolphin-powered doomsday device, which destroyed the universe in Paradox's future. Evan survived the universal destruction.
- Evan blew up his dad's meteor base
- Evan physically threw the Calamity Stone so hard that it flew through space and time until it punctured the source-code wall (immeasurable)
- Superpowergirl brought down a mountain
- Captain DC broke a street
- Purple Flashlight stopped a villain from eating Manhattan
- Paradox killed Imperactus, a mountainous supervillain that casually destroys planets and can contain a black hole
- White Wail can destroy a city with her sonic blast
Weaknesses

- Clowns are his biggest weakness, so Evan weaponized the essence of clowns called Clownonite. He can heal from stuff like clownonite bullets in any area besides his head, but being exposed to too much of the substance will kill him.
- Vulnerable to magic
- There aren’t really any inherent weaknesses to his Hulk form since he’s able to still think rationally while having immense strength. However, if he thinks too rationally he’ll transform back into his scrawnier normal body
- Dorky himbo
- He made a deal with Tisiphone in order to come back to life, but at the cost of her occupying his mind at every moment. The deal is that if he were to ever love or be with anyone, that would release her into this world. He’s terrified of the temptation and the darkness within him
Matchup Potential
NEXT TIME ON WCAB… whenever I feel like it



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