Dana Tan

Origin

Dana is an Asian American living in Neo-Gotham. She is a senior at Hamilton Hill High. She has been dating Terry Mcginnis off and on for several years. She is often annoyed by his many disappearing acts. Dana at one time, was being terrorized by a disfigured stalker named Patrick Fitz who others referred to as Ratboy. Terry saved Dana from Patrick and his vermin minions but Terry had inadvertly caused an explosion which scarred Patrick even more. A few weeks had passed since Dana's encounter with Patrick in the sewers but she still had not gotten over the fear of being attacked by rats.

During a lesson in Dr. Pritchard's science class, Dana begins to freak out because Nelson had put a white lab rat in Dana's hair. She screams her way out of the classroom and into the hallway while imagining those giant sewer rats that kept her prisoner, were attacking her now. Terry calms her down and removes the rat. When Terry and Dana head back to the classroom, they are shocked to discover that the entire class has come under attack by rats. The classroom is screaming for help as the rats bite students but suddenly the rats are called away by some unknown source that came from the air ducts. Terry eventually put Patrick's obession with Dana to an end but Patrick may have survived his latest encounter with the Batman.

Dana also has a brother named Doug Tan who spent time in Blackgate for his past crimes. However, Doug was released for good behavior and now he has returned home. Its possible that Doug has bettered himself as a criminal and he might very well be the cybernetic criminal known as Undercloud. Undercloud has recently made contact with Maxine Gibson and has offered her chance to join him in his illicit enterprise. Maxine has only agreed to join Undercloud because Undercloud has threatened to harm anyone close to her but Max has plans to learn everything about Undercloud and turn his deviant knowledge against him.

Creation

Dana was created for the futuristic follow up to Batman: the Animated Series called Batman Beyond.

Dana is currently having some yet to be explained problems and Terry is not around to help, again. This story is only beginning.

Possible Future

Dana and Terry date for 15 years on and off post high school. At some point before, Terry tells her that he is Batman. He breaks up with her for the final time, stating if anyone found out about her his enemies will come for her, which is also why he never married her.

After Terry finds out he is the biological son of Bruce Wayne, he confronts Amanda Waller and Bruce. Bruce tells Terry that despite all that, he is still his own person and not to make the mistakes he made. Terry accepts that he is his son and that he makes his own destiny and leaves, implying that he is going to propose to Dana.