Editing Dan Dare (section)

==Characters inspired by Dan Dare==
Characters inspired by or based on Dan Dare have appeared throughout British popular culture. One example is Wing Commander Leyton in ''[[British Summertime (novel)|British Summertime]]'' by [[Paul Cornell]], which juxtaposes the utopian future portrayed in the original comics with the Britain of today.

In the 1980s, ''[[Private Eye]]'' published ''Dan Dire, Pilot of The Future?''. Dire was based on politician [[Neil Kinnock]], the question being whether he'd ever become [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|prime minister]]. Dire's enemy was the Maggon, a combination of [[the Mekon]] and [[Margaret Thatcher]].<ref>'Sufferin' Satellites, Dan Dare is Back!', [[the Independent]], 14 April 1990</ref>

Radio DJ and Comedian [[Kenny Everett]]'s character Captain Kremmen was inspired by Dan Dare.

A porcine pastiche, ''Ham Dare: Pig of the Future'', written by [[Lew Stringer]] and with art by [[Malcolm Douglas (illustrator)|Malcolm Douglas]], appeared in ''[[Oink! (comic)|Oink!]]'' comic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://comicvine.gamespot.com/ham-dare/4005-87799/|title=Ham Dare (Character)|website=Comic Vine}}</ref>

[[Marvel Comics]] created a Dan Dare-esque character in their [[Captain Britain]] line in the 1980s. The character was Roy Risk, one of the [[United Kingdom|British]] heroes killed by [[Fury (Marvel comics)|The Fury]].

In [[Jonathan Hickman]]'s ''[[Avengers (comics)|Avengers]]'' series, the character [[Smasher (Marvel Comics)|Smasher]]'s secret identity is astronomer Isabel 'Izzy' Dare whose dying elderly grandfather alludes to Izzy as inheriting a destiny from him. He hand her a business card that expresses a deep friendship with [[Captain America]]. The card reveals the grandfather's name as Dan. In the trade hardcover for Avengers, Izzy's last name is changed to Kane, meaning her grandfather is Marvel's Captain Terror.

In his Afterword to ''[[Ministry of Space]]'', [[Warren Ellis]] lists Dan Dare as one of the inspirations for the story, in which Britain forges an ambitious space programme in the decades following World War II. Sir John Dashwood, the central character of ''Ministry of Space'', is a cynical version of Dan Dare himself.<ref>Ellis, W: "Ministry Of Space", 'The Afterword'. Titan Books, 2005</ref>

Captain [[Jack Harkness]], the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[Torchwood]]'' character, has several similarities to Dan Dare. The script for the episode "[[The Empty Child]]" in which Captain Jack makes his first appearance describes him as having "the jawline of Dan Dare, the smile of a bastard".<ref>{{cite book
  | title = Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts
  | publisher = [[BBC Books]]
  | year = 2005
  | page = 323
  | isbn = 978-0-563-48641-1}}</ref>