Dan Forester

Dan Forester is a fictional character appearing in the 2021 film The Tomorrow War, from which he serves as the protagonist. He is portrayed by Chris Pratt. He is a biology teacher, and formerly the Green Beret First Sergeant, who served a couple tours in Iraq.
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== Biography ==
Dan Forester was a biology teacher and former Green Beret who, in December 2022, failed to get a job at the Army Research Laboratory. He soon finds himself drafted to the future, where he learns that aliens called White Spikes have taken over the world and are killing off most of humanity. His daughter, Colonel Muri Forester, tells him about a toxin that can kill male White Spikes, but not the female queens. She enlists his help to capture a female White Spike to refine the toxin to be fatal to them.
Dan, Muri, and a small group of draftees set out to capture a female White Spike, but they are attacked by hundreds of male White Spikes. They narrowly escape and travel to a fortified offshore oil platform where Muri succeeds in developing a toxin lethal to female White Spikes. She asks Dan to take it back to the past to produce it there and prevent the war.
After Dan returns to the past, contact is lost with the future, indicating that the JumpLink was destroyed and the future war has been lost, leading to worldwide mass panic. Dan and Emmy, his ex-wife, deduce that the White Spikes arrived on Earth much earlier than previously thought, and they lead a mission to Russia to find the alien ship that brought them.
They find the alien ship frozen in ice beneath a glacier and surmise that global warming freed the White Spikes in the future. They also discover that the White Spikes were engineered to wipe out the native population of a planet so that the alien species could colonize it. They inject the lethal toxin into several White Spikes who have been in a state of hypersleep, but the queen White Spike escapes.
Dorian, one of the draftees and terminally ill with cancer, stays behind and blows up the ship while Dan and his father pursue the queen. After a fight, Dan shoves the toxin into the queen's mouth and kills her. Dan brings his father home to meet Emmy and Muri, determined to avoid the mistakes that the future Muri warned him about.
Dan Forester's bravery and determination to save humanity from the White Spikes made him a hero in the eyes of the future, and his actions in the past prevented the war and saved the world.
==Appearances==
*The Tomorrow War (2021)
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