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| |character_name=Fancy Dan | |||
| |real_name=Daniel Brito | |||
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| |debut='']'' #10 (Mar 1964) | |||
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| '''Fancy Dan''' is a fictional character in the ]. He was one of the founding members of the ], a super villain group who was first pitted against ] in the tenth issue of '']'' in 1964. | |||
| ==Publication history== | |||
| Fancy Dan first appeared in '']'' #10 (March 1964), and was created by ] and ]. | |||
| The character subsequently appears in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #14 (July 1964), #19 (December 1964), ''The Amazing Spider-Man Annual'' #1 (1964), ''Marvel Team-Up'' #39-40 (November–December 1975), ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #19-20 (June–July 1978), ''Dazzler'' #7-8 (October–September 1981), ''Tales of the Marvels: Inner Demons'' #1 (1996), ''Marvel Knights Spider-Man'' HC vol. #1 (2005), ''Civil War: War Crimes'' #1 (February 2007), ''Daredevil'' #99-100 (September–October 2007), #102-103 (January–February 2008), ''Amazing Spider-Girl'' #16-18 (March–May 2008), and ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #562-563 (August 2008). | |||
| Fancy Dan appeared as part of the "Enforcers" entry in the '']'' #4. | |||
| ==Fictional character biography== | |||
| Daniel Brito was born in ]. Along with ] and the original ], he was a founding member of the ].{{Issue|date=August 2011}} He has great proficiency with ] and ]. | |||
| Fancy Dan and the original Enforcers (Montana and Ox) make their first appearance under the employ of the ] (Frederick Foswell). During this time, they have their first run-in with their longtime nemesis ] but Spider-Man defeats the trio.{{Issue|date=August 2011}} | |||
| Over the next couple of years, Fancy Dan and the team would be employed by ] in one of his many schemes, again bringing them into conflict with Spider-Man with similar results.{{Issue|date=August 2011}} They would then lend their services to Tech-Master in his revenge plot against Harry S. Osgood, only to be defeated by Dazzler.{{Issue|date=August 2011}} Fancy Dan and the team would also go up against ] at one point.{{Issue|date=August 2011}} | |||
| ===Post-Civil War=== | |||
| Fancy Dan and the other two Enforcers joined up with ]'s organization.{{Issue|date=May 2009}} | |||
| ===Brand New Day=== | |||
| In the '']'' storyline, the Enforcers are some of many of the supervillain patrons at the ]. They take bets with a person calling himself "The Bookie" over whether Spider-Man will show up to battle "Basher", an unknown villain who claims to have fought Spider-Man. Spider-Man does show up for the confrontation, but Fancy Dan is the first to suspect something is going on. He states that Spider-Man's 'butt is too big' and is roundly mocked for looking at the man's butt. Fancy Dan is proven right when the true Spider-Man does show up several minutes later. The Enforcers decide to get revenge on The Bookie, capturing him. The Bookie's father calls Spider-Man for assistance, and he agrees to help. Spider-Man defeats Fancy Dan and Montana.<ref>''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #562-563</ref> Fancy Dan joins the Kingpin in Shadowland as he becomes his right hand man.{{Issue|date=August 2011}} Later, ] (Phil Urich) was hired by the ]. He later destroyed the building they were in an attempt to kill Spider-Man. This only resulted in him killing dozens of people in the building, including Fancy Dan who fell to his death as the building collapsed.<ref>''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #651</ref> | |||
| ==Other versions== | |||
| ===Earth X=== | |||
| In the '']'' universe, Fancy Dan had mutated to being invisible except for his mustache. He and his fellow Enforcers were hired by President Norman Osborn to act as his body guards. However, they proved ineffectual when the Skull came to New York in a bid to take over the United States. Fancy Dan and his fellow Enforcers were put under the Skull's control and President Norman Osborn was murdered. Fancy Dan's fate following the defeat of the Skull remains unrevealed.<ref>''Earth X'' #9</ref> | |||
| ===Marvel Noir=== | |||
| In the ] series, Fancy Dan appeared in the first issue with the other Enforcers member and works for the ] (Norman Osborn).<ref>''Spider-Man Noir'' #1 (2009)</ref> He was killed in the second issues when a horde of spiders who came from a spider statue, covered his entire body and started eating him. This coincidentally helped keep the heat off Goblin: evidence points to Fancy Dan having set a tenement fire that killed a little girl.<ref>''Spider-Man Noir'' #2 (2009)</ref> | |||
| ===MC2=== | |||
| Fancy Dan is shown to be still be around in the ] future. He runs a company called Brito Imports, and is pumped for information by ]. Fancy Dan still has gangland ties, and is in charge of the Brooklyn gangs.<ref>''Amazing ]'' #16-17</ref> | |||
| ===Ultimate Fancy Dan=== | |||
| The ] version of Fancy Dan is '''Dan Crenshaw'''. Along with the other Enforcers, he is shown as an employee of the Kingpin that controls most of the crime in New York.<ref>''Ultimate Spider Man'' #10</ref> | |||
| ==In other media== | |||
| ===Television=== | |||
| * Fancy Dan appears in '']'', voiced by ]. This version is a short, lithe ] man who sports a blade-tipped cane and performs some impressive acrobatic and martial arts moves, a member of the ], and the series incarnation of "''']'''". Introduced in the pilot "Survival of the Fittest", Fancy Dan is part of the Enforcers hired by the ] (Tombstone) to eliminate ] but instead is webbed up by Spider-Man and left for the police on the building roof after a lengthy battle. In the episode "Group Therapy", Fancy Dan and ] escape from Ryker's Prison with other villains. Fancy Dan and Ox get away in ]'s helicopter. In the episode "Probable Cause", Fancy Dan becomes Ricochet after being provided a suit that increases his kinetic energy by the ]. Fancy Dan/Ricochet joins ] (Montana) and Ox as the New Enforcers but they're eventually defeated by Spider-Man. In the episode "Opening Night", Fancy Dan is shown as one of the inmates at the ] when Spider-Man was testing out the security system and is released alongside the other prisoners thanks to the ]. However, Fancy Dan and the other inmates are all recaptured by ] unleashing sleeping gas in the cells. | |||
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