Daniel Coleman

Daniel "Danny" Coleman is a supportive protagonist of the 2009 psychological-thriller movie, Orphan.
He is portrayed by Jimmy Bennett
== Description ==
Daniel, also known by Danny, is the son of Kate and John Coleman. He was their only son and was the older brother of Max and Jessica, he was also the younger adoptive brother of Esther.
He first met Daniel properly when Esther first walks into the Coleman home, Esther happily walks up to him and holds out her hand, waiting for a handshake by Daniel, Daniel declines her offer, making Esther see he really doesn't want her there, he then goes back on his guitar playing a rock-themed game.
While Esther opens the presents, Daniel tries desperately to get his father's attention while John's attention was all on Esther, making Daniel feel left out and not that loved by his father. Daniel mocked Esther at the dinner table and when John told him to apologize to his "sister". Daniel became very aggressive, slamming his knife and fork on the table, shouting "She's not my f***ing sister!" and later walking away from the table locking himself in his room.
Daniel spies on Esther, which he later finds out about her true actions, Daniel tries to make John believe him but John just brushes him off calling Esther a "good kid". When trying to tell Max about Esther. Max refuses to acknowledge it because of Esther's manipulative hold on her.
After the death of Sister Abigail, Esther and Max hide the evidence in Daniel's Treehouse Daniel watches the girls promise not to tell anyone of the accident but when Esther sees him he immediately closes the hatch and runs to his room. Later that night, Esther goes into Daniel's room, holding a box cutter to his neck, and asking him over and over "what did you see?" Daniel tells her that he saw her and Max in the treehouse when Esther asks him what else he saw her tone went more aggressive. Although Daniel said that he saw nothing else Esther moved the box cutter down between his legs and said "If I find out that you're lying, I'll cut your hairless little prick off before you even figure out what it's for. Do you understand me?", Daniel, knowing what Esther meant, he agreed, out of fear he pissed himself.
Daniel kept Esther's secret for a while until Esther caught him trying to tell Kate, Esther followed him to the treehouse, trying to manipulate him to not tell by saying that Max would get in trouble too, and she'd be taken to jail, Esther then sets the evidence on fire and locks the treehouse, leaving Daniel locked in there. As the treehouse burns, Daniel later falls after slipping from a broken piece of metal and crashing out Esther uses the opportunity to kill him by grabbing a rock and trying to smash him to death, Max pushes Esther out of the way, saving her brother, and waiting until Kate comes to take Daniel to the hospital.
At the hospital, Daniel is still knocked out being in some form of coma. Esther, annoyed that she couldn't kill Daniel, asked to go and buy a soda as she pretends to go to the soda machine she goes to Daniel's hospital room, waking him up and pulling his life support, placing a pillow over his head and suffocating him, but is revived by the doctors.
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