Dan Van

"Wait, this is a bullshit. So we just survived to die again in a week?"

- Dan, questioning Jonathan.

Dan Van is the anti-heroic pentagonist of Final Destination 6 and a survivor of McKinley High School Lab accidents.

Dan was the eighth survivor to die.

Early Life
Dan lived in McKinley,Pennsylvania and attended McKinley High School. He was a basketball player in Raps with his best friend Oxford Horse. He was also friends with Tony White and Mick Wart. Dan didn't like Jonathan Asparagus very much. He was arrogant and loud-mouthed.

Surviving the Accident
Dan came to the school with Oxford in 28 May in the last week of their highschool life. During the lab lesson he was so bored and didn't participiate in Samantha and Oxford's experiment. After few minutes,Jonathan suffers a premonition that lab will collapse and everyone will die,he shouts and kicked off from class. Dan is later kicked out from the class along with Samantha, Tony and Oxford, given the reason they are still talking about Jonathan's warning. After they get out, Dan thanks to Jonathan because lesson was so boring for him. Jonathan tells he wasn't kidding about the collapse, which Dan laughs about. When Zino,Julia,Sam,Diana and Emma leaves the class they all go upstairs to their classroom. Dan plays with his basketball. Only a minute later Nick VanSantel arrives in hurry, confirming the accidents really happened just like Jonathan said; making everyone look in horror including Dan.

Death's List
2 days later Dan confronts Jonathan while he was leaving the school but they don't speak to each other and Dan returns to talking with Tony. After Zino's death,Dan arrives at his classmate's funeral. He talked with Tony and Sam during funeral. They all comment about the unfortunate death, which Dan says "a death like a lie". Later that day he calls Jonathan to play basketball with him and Oxford. But Jonathan was busy with thinking about Julia's situation,he rejected the offer. In afternoon Dan gets an urgent call from Samantha just like other survivors and they gather in Jonathan's house. Jonathan,Hakanow and Samantha explained that Zino,Emma and Julia's death aren't coincidents: They were all meant to die. Dan shouts he doesn't believe there is a force killing the rest of the survivors,also adding that he thinks lab accident was a bigger coincident then the later deaths. Instead of Dan, Oxford believes Jonathan. Hakanow backs Jonathan up with Samantha,and finally Tony and Nick agrees them to,saying Death is back. Sam becomes bored and leaves the house for Gym exercise. At same second Jonathan sees another vision,and it was for her death.

Jonathan shouts at others and tells they need to go and rescue Sam from her fate, Dan gets in Jonathan's dads car and they ride to the gym. At the road, the car suffer a big accident and they crush to a metal signpost. Luckily they were still alive,and run to gym with Tony and Nick. When they arrived they saw Sam, working out with two weights. Jonathan asks if everything is fine,Sam answeres yes. Suddenly the weigths crush Sam's head,the last eight stays in blood and horror. Dan yells and swears because of the horrible visual. Hakanow turns to him, sarcastically asking if Dan still doesn't believe them. In night, he calls Samantha and talk with her about everything happening. Then he tries to call Oxford but Jonathan's call gets it dismissed. One minute later Oxford died when a ventilation sucked his organs. After Oxford's death Dan becomes hugely depresses and doesn't get out from his house for three days.

Survivors Party
Three days after Diana's death; Jonathan,Hakanow and Samantha gather all left survivors in Jonathan's house and they throw a party because Nick was saved and chain was broken,including Dan. Dan grilled some barbecues and played games with Tony and others. The six all salud for their deceased friends. Dan talks about Oxford and cries again. When the party is over Dan thanked and said goodbye to Jonathan and Hakanow.

Death
Dan practices with Raps team in their basketball arena in the later day. They were celebrating their state win so they brought firework cannons. Suddenly Jonathan rushed in and told Dan the chain was never broken, it was Tony's turn and the latter got hit by an ambulance minutes ago. Dan gets tongue-ties for a second but then he continues to throwing baskets. Ball continued to hit the below of the hoop, weaking it with every shot. Jonathan angrily asks why Dan was so calm. Dan turns back and shouts that Jonathan, Hakanow and Samantha cannot save people. Dan gives examples about the all seven deaths but later excludes Zino. He tells Jonathan should let people face their fate instead of making people stressed and killed in the same moment. He sadly mentions Oxford again, then continues to throw baskets. Jonathan tells something bad will happen here. At the same moment, a set of fireworks go off in their direction and barely miss Dan, hitting the hoop instead. As Dan shouts to Jonathan that he's not going to die, the hoop falls. Just for a second Jonathan tries to help Dan but Dan pushes him back. Dan looks up at the falling hoop for a few seconds later, before it falls on him and brutally crushes him in half. The surviving half of his body is seen lying on the ground in a pool of blood.

Signs/Clues

 * Dan's premonition death which he got killed by a crushing falling lamp is mirroring his real death which caused by a falling crushing hoop.
 * While Jonathan was explaining Death's list, Hakanow told Dan the game they lost could be their last match. This became true.
 * Right before Dan's death, Jonathan felt a shadow while looking at firework cannons.
 * Colours of Raps team are same with the t-shirt Jonathan wear during lab accidents.
 * Dan's uniform number was 8. Dan is the eighth survivor to die.
 * When Dan, Diana and Oxford get in Jonathan's car, Dan sit on the seat wrote 9 on it. Dan was the ninth on Death's List.
 * The metal signpost they crushed during car ride is a mirror reflection how Dan is crushed by a basketball hoop and Jonathan is crushed by a similar looking pipe.
 * While Dan was right about how Jonathan couldn't save anyone by warning them, he would have survived if he let Jonathan to pull him back from hoop.
 * The ambulance which took Dan's corpse is the same design with the ambulance that hit Tony.

Legacy
Dan's corpse was taken to morgue after Jonathan left the arena to save Samantha. While saving Samantha from death, Jonathan still couldn't get out Dan and Tony's deaths from his head. Months later Jonathan saw a Raps fan in a bus and remembered Dan's death.