User blog comment:TheBlueRogue/Tell us your favorite fighter for a chance to win a copy of the Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Collector’s Box/@comment-5603796-20121010121726

A lot of people will probably bash me for saying this, calling me an idiot or something, but I must say that I love Dan. We all know he's supposed to be a joke and a mockery of Art of Fighting's Ryo and Robert, but I really think his arrogance and all-around naivete is something to be praised. No longer having a bunch of characters who seem to take themselves super seriously, Dan is one of those characters that just makes you laugh. His pink gi, the way he runs, his shouts of utter despair when he loses, and that trademark autograph throw and that thumbs up make him such a hatable and yet a lovable character. His upgrades in Street Fighter 4, like his improved Dan Kicks (Dankyukyaku), his uppercut, the Koryuken, being better than other shoto's uppercuts, and the fact the one time he puts both his hands into a fireball, it comes out with the Haoh Gadoken, a gigantic fireball that doesn't travel very far but is massive in height, seemed to make him a viable character in disguise as his former joke status. That's always got me, though: Dan is one of the only characters in the games that has a one-hand fireball canonically, and the only others being Gouken (y'know, the really old dude who's the master of the Hadoken?) and Oni (y'know, that demon thing Akuma transformed into when he let the Satsui No Hadou take him over?) So why is he labeled as weak? He might be laughably arrogant, but he has a reason to be: he's actually stronger than most of the other shotos. It makes you wonder what they might have in store for him when Street Fighter 5 rolls along... Hopefully Dan breaks out of his shell and actually makes Saikyo the strongest style there is... and still make him as hilarious and lovable as always.