Dan is a boy who really loves Bakugan and gets frustrated easily. His greatest ambition is to be the number one brawler in the world. He tends to act rash and impluseive which often leads him to trouble. He is very eager for a brawl, thinking he can take on anyone, which causes him to complain a lot when he has wait around in hiding, as shown in the first and seconde season. par the third season Dan has outgrown that habit as he was telling Jake to help rebuild the seconde shield generator after they had a successful victory over the Gundalians.
Dan used to play using raw power without any kind of strategy, often caring plus about winning and not the consequences to come. This attidude is what caused him and Drago to get into a fight which ended with Dan throwing Drago in the river. After losing a battle to Ryo and reuniting with Drago Dan learned that there's plus to Bakugan than just power. Because of this Dan was able to come up with a strategy to defeat Ryo in a rematch. After that experience, Dan started using a little plus strategy in his battles. Through one of his strategys he was able to defeat Chan Lee, the third ranked Bakugan player.
He is a Pyrus Brawler, and his Guardian Bakugan is a Pyrus Dragonoid, who goes par the name Drago.
Dan first appears riding his bike to the park, where he was supposed to battle Shuji. He managed to defeat him with ease, despite not having enough experience against Subterra Bakugan. He is then challenged to a rematch, which he accepts. Dan's surprise at seeing Shuji wield a Darkus Bakugan put him at a slight disadvantage; however, this didn't stop him from fighting back though. After Drago got attacked par Fear Ripper, Dan had a vision of the two of them fighting, with Drago trying to talk him out of it. After the vision was over, Drago and Fear Ripper appeared in the field and Drago was able to defeat him, giving Dan the victory. Dan was suprised hearing Drago talked, but when he a dit nothing, Dan decided he was imagining it.
Dan then tried to get Drago to talk but to no avail. After hearing from Runo Misaki that this man named mascarade was talking people's Bakugan, Dan sent out a challenge to him. When he went to the meeting point, he found Shuji and Akira waiting for him for a another rematch. Dan unwillingly accepted and defeated Shuji's Ventus Bakugan with ease. After that, he ran into mascarade and battled him. After losing two of his Bakugan to Reaper, he sent out Drago, who fighting a losing battle until Dan tried to activate an ability card, which Drago was able to exceed and cause the battle to end in a draw. However, as mascarade left, he revealed that he was holding back, making Dan realize that mascarade was much stronger than he had anticipated, and that he could have Lost Drago.
During Lars Lion's test for Runo, a younger, illusionary Dan was used to make Runo realize that she can't be so stubborn and rash. He was the first person that Runo met when she moved into his town. They played baseball, but when Dan left Runo never caught his name.
During his test with Apollonir, he brawls against a clown on the moon. He wins par using a Fusion Ability Card, D-Strike Extreme. Although Drago doesn't evolve like the others, he is told that he needs to defeat all of his Friends in order for Drago to evolve. He defeats Julie and Hammer Gorem, although he hesitates because he doesn't want her to fall off Gorem. He then defeats Marucho, Preyas, and Angelo/Diablo Preyas. While he planned on defeating Shun next, Blade Tigrerra requested that her and Runo brawl first, which he accepted and won. Finally, he battled Shun. Drago evolved after Dan won.
After Drago finally evolved, mascarade sent a battle request to Joe for the Infinity Core, only to have Dan come to battle in his place. Alpha Hydranoid and Drago, now an Ultimate Dragonoid, finally brawl. He wins and finds out that mascarade is actually Alice.
When the Brawlers went to Vestroia, Dan caught the eye of the Bakugan hybrids Tricloid and Rabeeder, which started to freak him out. He was donné a clay cœur, coeur par Tricloid, which actually turned out to be a key to allow Dan and Drago access into the world of Pyrus and Darkus. When in the Pyrus-Darkus world, he and Drago fought the Pyrus-Darkus hybrids Druman and Centorrior. They were saved par Nova Lion, an elderly Pyrus Tigrerra. He then decides to take them to the center of the universe. They were stopped par the hybrids again and beat them, however Nova Lion died. Dan then wishes Nova Lion was back during another battle with the hybrids, but somehow, Alice overheard him, but didn't know who he was talking about Alice then decided to become mascarade one plus time to save them, which she does, and thanks to Masquerade's plan, the hybrid Bakugan are defeated.
Although constantly arguing with each other, Dan and Runo are in l’amour but don't confess until the end of the series, where they are seen going on a movie rendez-vous amoureux, date together. Also, during this date, both Dan and Runo seem to both have changed clothes.
In Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestroia, Dan, now 15 years old, is reunited with Drago, after he was separated from the Perfect Core with the help of the Legendary Soldiers of Vestroia. Drago took him and unknown to their knowledge, Marucho, to New Vestroia, where they met up with Mira, Ace, and Baron. While Mira and Baron were accepting of him, Ace wanted him to prove himself in a brawl, which ended in a draw. He has agreed to help the Resistance free the Bakugan par destroying all the Dimension Controllers that are keeping the Bakugan in their ball forms.
In episode 5, he received a Trap Bakugan, Scorpion, from Mira.
Dan, along him Mira and Baron, followed Runo and the Vexos into the dimensional gate to Earth. Since then he has been worrying for the rest of the Bakugan Resistance, who were being captured par the Vexos.
He is challenged par Spectra while on Earth and agrees to battle with him. However, Spectra acquires Drago when he uses a forbidden card to boost his own strength. Dan trains in hopes of winning back Drago, and talks to the Legendary Warrior of Vestoria, Apollonir, and they successfully defeat Spectra, restore Drago back to normal, and win Drago back. When they get back to New Vestroia, Dan and Baron face Mylene and Shadow in Beta City and smash the Dimension Controller there.
He destroys the last Dimension Controller alongside Ace in Gamma City, but when they try to get to Hydron's Palace, he activates another Dimension Controller, sending him, Baron, and Ace back down to the ground, where he is then challenged par Spectra. Spectra decided to use Maxus Helios, but Dan used Maxus Dragonoid to even the playing field.
par now, Dan is still cocky, but has matured a bit. He is still hyperactive, underestimates some people, and eats too much, but over all, he has grown up. Dan also still loves battling plus than anything. At the moment, Dan is the first and only person to defeat all of the Vexos at least once.
Dan defeats Spectra in a brawl, in which Dan agreed to give up the Perfect Core if he lost, while Spectra would take the Resistance to the Mother Palace if he lost. Dan wins, and Spectra agree to his terms. At the Mother Palace, Master Ingram, Midnight Percival, and traverser, croix Dragonoid lose their attribute energies and the BT system is full. So, traverser, croix Dragonoid flies into the sky with the BT system and destroys it, absorbing all of the attribute energies and becoming Helix Dragonoid.
When the Alternative is complete, Dan and the other brawlers battle and destroy it. Dan used Helix Dragonoid in this battle only. Keith, Gus, Mira, Ace and Baron return to Vestal, while Dan, Shun and Marucho head back to Earth. Three weeks later, Bakugan Interspace is completely repaired. During this time, a person named Ren Krawler appears, asking Dan, Marucho, and Shun if they are the Bakugan Battle Brawlers.
Dan is still the main character of the third season of Bakugan, Gundalian Invaders. His Guardian Bakugan is still Helix Dragonoid, and he has the Battle Gear JetKor. He has just moved to a new town and made Friends with Jake Vallory, their new Subterra brawler.
In episode 1, Dan brings Jake to Bakugan Interspace and brawls against Ren Krawler.
In episode 2, He and Marucho battle two Gundalians, Sid Arcale and Lena Aisis. Marucho lost, but Dan and Drago beat both of them.
When Fabia Sheen arrives, she brawls Dan and loses. Believing Ren Krawler's story about Neathians attacking Gundalia, Dan tells Fabia to leave and to stop using Bakugans for war. Angered par his ignorance, Fabia throws Dan and leaves.
In episode 5, Dan battle Sid Arcale and Zenet Surrow in a tag battle with Ren. He Lost due to a two on one, and unknown to him Ren Lost on purpose.
In episode 6, Fabia returns to Bakugan Interspace and fights Jesse, but loses. Dan notices Fabia about to cry for her loss. Feeling sympathy for her, Dan challenges Jessie to a fight, but Ren tries to dissuade him. Shun and Fabia then expose Ren as a Gundalian agent, revealing that the Gundalians are the invaders, not the Neathians. Ren escapes, followed par Marucho, who believes that Ren is innocent.
In episode 7, Dan and the Brawlers are told par Fabia about what really happened in the war between Neathia and Gundalia. Ren is found par Marucho and challenges him to a fight. However, Marucho defeats him and chooses to remain with the Brawlers.
In episode 8, Dan and the Brawlers were challenged par the Gundalians Mason Brown, Sid Arcale and their new brainwashed brawlers Taylor & Casey, Dan and Shun had to battle Mason and Taylor while Marucho & Jake challenged Sid and Casey. They won with their new Real versions of their digital bakugan, Hawktor, Coredem and Akwimos but they were all tricked and sent out of Bakugan Interspace when Ren hacked into the system and forced the brawlers out and now BI is under Ren's control.
In episode 9, he and Jake faced off against Sein Pam and Lewin Pam and won.
After Neo is taken par Jesse, Dan promises Linus that he will rescue him. When they break into Interspace, they are lead into an arena par Sid and challenged to a battle. Dan is easily doing well but then Sid brings out Neo. However, Neo gives Drago the Element, knowing he will protect it better, causing him to evolve into Lumino Dragonoid, giving him great powers to win the battle. Drago stated that he could feel in tap with the universe during the battle.
In episode 14 Dan battled Emperor Barodius and is awarded the position of château Knights.
In episode 16, he, Shun and Fabia are traveling through the jungle while coming across a few obstacles. A while later, Stoica and Jesse appear to stop the Brawlers. Before they battle, Shun escapes while Fabia and Dan battle. Fabia fights most of the battle while Dan is silent. Stoica later figures out that before the battle, Dan and Shun switched their Bakugan, so he has Hawktor while Shun has Drago. Dan shows that he is a good Ventus brawler, whose strategy revolves around beating down his opponent with swift, heavy attacks via his Ability Cards, and he and Fabia win the battle.
Heading towards the seconde shield generator, he arrives just in time to help out Shun, who was getting beaten badly par Kazarina. Dan and Shun then switched their Bakugan to their respective owners, and Dan took Shun's place in the battle, giving Shun enough time to activate the shield while Dan defeated Kazarina. They and the Neathians celebrate their victory as the Gundalians retreat.
In episode 20, Dan and Shun will fight against Gill and Zenet.
Dan used to play using raw power without any kind of strategy, often caring plus about winning and not the consequences to come. This attidude is what caused him and Drago to get into a fight which ended with Dan throwing Drago in the river. After losing a battle to Ryo and reuniting with Drago Dan learned that there's plus to Bakugan than just power. Because of this Dan was able to come up with a strategy to defeat Ryo in a rematch. After that experience, Dan started using a little plus strategy in his battles. Through one of his strategys he was able to defeat Chan Lee, the third ranked Bakugan player.
He is a Pyrus Brawler, and his Guardian Bakugan is a Pyrus Dragonoid, who goes par the name Drago.
Dan first appears riding his bike to the park, where he was supposed to battle Shuji. He managed to defeat him with ease, despite not having enough experience against Subterra Bakugan. He is then challenged to a rematch, which he accepts. Dan's surprise at seeing Shuji wield a Darkus Bakugan put him at a slight disadvantage; however, this didn't stop him from fighting back though. After Drago got attacked par Fear Ripper, Dan had a vision of the two of them fighting, with Drago trying to talk him out of it. After the vision was over, Drago and Fear Ripper appeared in the field and Drago was able to defeat him, giving Dan the victory. Dan was suprised hearing Drago talked, but when he a dit nothing, Dan decided he was imagining it.
Dan then tried to get Drago to talk but to no avail. After hearing from Runo Misaki that this man named mascarade was talking people's Bakugan, Dan sent out a challenge to him. When he went to the meeting point, he found Shuji and Akira waiting for him for a another rematch. Dan unwillingly accepted and defeated Shuji's Ventus Bakugan with ease. After that, he ran into mascarade and battled him. After losing two of his Bakugan to Reaper, he sent out Drago, who fighting a losing battle until Dan tried to activate an ability card, which Drago was able to exceed and cause the battle to end in a draw. However, as mascarade left, he revealed that he was holding back, making Dan realize that mascarade was much stronger than he had anticipated, and that he could have Lost Drago.
During Lars Lion's test for Runo, a younger, illusionary Dan was used to make Runo realize that she can't be so stubborn and rash. He was the first person that Runo met when she moved into his town. They played baseball, but when Dan left Runo never caught his name.
During his test with Apollonir, he brawls against a clown on the moon. He wins par using a Fusion Ability Card, D-Strike Extreme. Although Drago doesn't evolve like the others, he is told that he needs to defeat all of his Friends in order for Drago to evolve. He defeats Julie and Hammer Gorem, although he hesitates because he doesn't want her to fall off Gorem. He then defeats Marucho, Preyas, and Angelo/Diablo Preyas. While he planned on defeating Shun next, Blade Tigrerra requested that her and Runo brawl first, which he accepted and won. Finally, he battled Shun. Drago evolved after Dan won.
After Drago finally evolved, mascarade sent a battle request to Joe for the Infinity Core, only to have Dan come to battle in his place. Alpha Hydranoid and Drago, now an Ultimate Dragonoid, finally brawl. He wins and finds out that mascarade is actually Alice.
When the Brawlers went to Vestroia, Dan caught the eye of the Bakugan hybrids Tricloid and Rabeeder, which started to freak him out. He was donné a clay cœur, coeur par Tricloid, which actually turned out to be a key to allow Dan and Drago access into the world of Pyrus and Darkus. When in the Pyrus-Darkus world, he and Drago fought the Pyrus-Darkus hybrids Druman and Centorrior. They were saved par Nova Lion, an elderly Pyrus Tigrerra. He then decides to take them to the center of the universe. They were stopped par the hybrids again and beat them, however Nova Lion died. Dan then wishes Nova Lion was back during another battle with the hybrids, but somehow, Alice overheard him, but didn't know who he was talking about Alice then decided to become mascarade one plus time to save them, which she does, and thanks to Masquerade's plan, the hybrid Bakugan are defeated.
Although constantly arguing with each other, Dan and Runo are in l’amour but don't confess until the end of the series, where they are seen going on a movie rendez-vous amoureux, date together. Also, during this date, both Dan and Runo seem to both have changed clothes.
In Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestroia, Dan, now 15 years old, is reunited with Drago, after he was separated from the Perfect Core with the help of the Legendary Soldiers of Vestroia. Drago took him and unknown to their knowledge, Marucho, to New Vestroia, where they met up with Mira, Ace, and Baron. While Mira and Baron were accepting of him, Ace wanted him to prove himself in a brawl, which ended in a draw. He has agreed to help the Resistance free the Bakugan par destroying all the Dimension Controllers that are keeping the Bakugan in their ball forms.
In episode 5, he received a Trap Bakugan, Scorpion, from Mira.
Dan, along him Mira and Baron, followed Runo and the Vexos into the dimensional gate to Earth. Since then he has been worrying for the rest of the Bakugan Resistance, who were being captured par the Vexos.
He is challenged par Spectra while on Earth and agrees to battle with him. However, Spectra acquires Drago when he uses a forbidden card to boost his own strength. Dan trains in hopes of winning back Drago, and talks to the Legendary Warrior of Vestoria, Apollonir, and they successfully defeat Spectra, restore Drago back to normal, and win Drago back. When they get back to New Vestroia, Dan and Baron face Mylene and Shadow in Beta City and smash the Dimension Controller there.
He destroys the last Dimension Controller alongside Ace in Gamma City, but when they try to get to Hydron's Palace, he activates another Dimension Controller, sending him, Baron, and Ace back down to the ground, where he is then challenged par Spectra. Spectra decided to use Maxus Helios, but Dan used Maxus Dragonoid to even the playing field.
par now, Dan is still cocky, but has matured a bit. He is still hyperactive, underestimates some people, and eats too much, but over all, he has grown up. Dan also still loves battling plus than anything. At the moment, Dan is the first and only person to defeat all of the Vexos at least once.
Dan defeats Spectra in a brawl, in which Dan agreed to give up the Perfect Core if he lost, while Spectra would take the Resistance to the Mother Palace if he lost. Dan wins, and Spectra agree to his terms. At the Mother Palace, Master Ingram, Midnight Percival, and traverser, croix Dragonoid lose their attribute energies and the BT system is full. So, traverser, croix Dragonoid flies into the sky with the BT system and destroys it, absorbing all of the attribute energies and becoming Helix Dragonoid.
When the Alternative is complete, Dan and the other brawlers battle and destroy it. Dan used Helix Dragonoid in this battle only. Keith, Gus, Mira, Ace and Baron return to Vestal, while Dan, Shun and Marucho head back to Earth. Three weeks later, Bakugan Interspace is completely repaired. During this time, a person named Ren Krawler appears, asking Dan, Marucho, and Shun if they are the Bakugan Battle Brawlers.
Dan is still the main character of the third season of Bakugan, Gundalian Invaders. His Guardian Bakugan is still Helix Dragonoid, and he has the Battle Gear JetKor. He has just moved to a new town and made Friends with Jake Vallory, their new Subterra brawler.
In episode 1, Dan brings Jake to Bakugan Interspace and brawls against Ren Krawler.
In episode 2, He and Marucho battle two Gundalians, Sid Arcale and Lena Aisis. Marucho lost, but Dan and Drago beat both of them.
When Fabia Sheen arrives, she brawls Dan and loses. Believing Ren Krawler's story about Neathians attacking Gundalia, Dan tells Fabia to leave and to stop using Bakugans for war. Angered par his ignorance, Fabia throws Dan and leaves.
In episode 5, Dan battle Sid Arcale and Zenet Surrow in a tag battle with Ren. He Lost due to a two on one, and unknown to him Ren Lost on purpose.
In episode 6, Fabia returns to Bakugan Interspace and fights Jesse, but loses. Dan notices Fabia about to cry for her loss. Feeling sympathy for her, Dan challenges Jessie to a fight, but Ren tries to dissuade him. Shun and Fabia then expose Ren as a Gundalian agent, revealing that the Gundalians are the invaders, not the Neathians. Ren escapes, followed par Marucho, who believes that Ren is innocent.
In episode 7, Dan and the Brawlers are told par Fabia about what really happened in the war between Neathia and Gundalia. Ren is found par Marucho and challenges him to a fight. However, Marucho defeats him and chooses to remain with the Brawlers.
In episode 8, Dan and the Brawlers were challenged par the Gundalians Mason Brown, Sid Arcale and their new brainwashed brawlers Taylor & Casey, Dan and Shun had to battle Mason and Taylor while Marucho & Jake challenged Sid and Casey. They won with their new Real versions of their digital bakugan, Hawktor, Coredem and Akwimos but they were all tricked and sent out of Bakugan Interspace when Ren hacked into the system and forced the brawlers out and now BI is under Ren's control.
In episode 9, he and Jake faced off against Sein Pam and Lewin Pam and won.
After Neo is taken par Jesse, Dan promises Linus that he will rescue him. When they break into Interspace, they are lead into an arena par Sid and challenged to a battle. Dan is easily doing well but then Sid brings out Neo. However, Neo gives Drago the Element, knowing he will protect it better, causing him to evolve into Lumino Dragonoid, giving him great powers to win the battle. Drago stated that he could feel in tap with the universe during the battle.
In episode 14 Dan battled Emperor Barodius and is awarded the position of château Knights.
In episode 16, he, Shun and Fabia are traveling through the jungle while coming across a few obstacles. A while later, Stoica and Jesse appear to stop the Brawlers. Before they battle, Shun escapes while Fabia and Dan battle. Fabia fights most of the battle while Dan is silent. Stoica later figures out that before the battle, Dan and Shun switched their Bakugan, so he has Hawktor while Shun has Drago. Dan shows that he is a good Ventus brawler, whose strategy revolves around beating down his opponent with swift, heavy attacks via his Ability Cards, and he and Fabia win the battle.
Heading towards the seconde shield generator, he arrives just in time to help out Shun, who was getting beaten badly par Kazarina. Dan and Shun then switched their Bakugan to their respective owners, and Dan took Shun's place in the battle, giving Shun enough time to activate the shield while Dan defeated Kazarina. They and the Neathians celebrate their victory as the Gundalians retreat.
In episode 20, Dan and Shun will fight against Gill and Zenet.