Dale Dobson

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

### Dale Dobson: 1982 - 1999

Dale Dobson was born into the close-knit community of Zenith, deep in the Appalachian wilderness, under the shadow of a family tragedy. His mother Tammy, supported by her best friend Darlene McGee, raised him with a deep appreciation for nature and the values of their tight community. Tucker McGee, Darlene's son, became like a brother to Dale, sharing boisterous adventures and a strong bond. Despite a basic education, Dale's eidetic memory and innate intelligence were evident, though they remained largely unrecognized in their rural setting. He learned life's lessons amid the forests and streams, balancing Tucker's impulsiveness with his own calm, thoughtful demeanor.

### Dale Dobson: 1999 - 2000

Dale, a bright mind working in a factory, saw the layoffs as a chance to pivot. With his friend Tucker, who left job security behind, they started a landscaping business. After some success, they took a break to fix up a vacation home Tucker had acquired.

### Dale Dobson: 2010

The arrival of another group at the lake on the same day as Dale and Tucker set into motion a deadly misunderstanding. Among this group of college students was Allison Judge, whose accidental injury led her friends to mistake Dale and Tucker for the threats. The stage was set for a tragic farce, with Dale and Tucker cast as villains in a plot of paranoia by Allison's friend, Chad Daniels — a boy possessed by evil! While Dale was tending to Allison's injury and falling in love with her, Chad's darkness ignited a chain of events that would result in the cabin's destruction and the tragic deaths of some of the college students when the cursed cabin was forced to assert itself to protect its new occupants, causing the unfortunately brutal accidents to claim the lives of the college students that threatened Tucker, Dale, and Allison.

With the deaths of the college students being blamed on Tucker & Dale and used to further fuel Chad's claims that Tucker & Dale had kidnapped Allison to torture and brutalize her like the previous residents of the cabin had done to their victims, things escalated quickly. Dale's dog, Jangers was kidnapped by Chad, prompting Tucker to dare a rescue attempt, which only led to Tucker being taken captive by Chad.

Two of Tucker's fingers were sent back to invite Dale to come save his friend. This was only a ruse to get Dale out of the cabin, so while Dale was cutting Tucker out of a tree and dodging booby-traps, Chad slipped into the cabin to "rescue" Allison. But when Chad also wanted to burn the cabin, Allison refused, stalling Chad's escape until the return of Tucker & Dale.

When Allison tried to settle the dispute with rational discussion over tea, Chad's back-up team charged in, immediately reigniting the conflict and lighting Tucker's cabin ablaze. Barely escaping the burning fire that had claimed the lives of the last of the college students that had come with Allison and Chad, Tucker, Dale, and Allison frantically drove away but were stopped by the Nightmare House's terraforming to douse its flames causing a tree to fall into the path of their escaping truck. When Dale awoke from the crash, an injured Tucker told him Chad took Allison.

After a confidence-building pep talk from Tucker, Dale was ready to confront the evil that was Chad. If that evil college student wanted to see a killer hillbilly, Dale was not going to disappoint him. Salvaging landscaping tools from Tucker's truck and using Jangers to track Allison's scent, Dale found where Chad was keeping Allison. Chad's horrific burn scars from the cabin now caused his flesh to match the ugliness of his wretched soul. Not seeking medical attention, Chad, nearly fully consumed by his scourge, was apparently preparing to sacrifice Allison in a cruel ritual to restore his injuries. However, Dale was not about to let that happen.

Though Chad's axe skills were nothing to sneeze at, Dale's chainsaw skills were better. Dale was able to wound Chad and that bought him enough time to cut Allison free of her restraints and the two then attempted to flee, but when Chad caught up quicker than they imagined possible with his injuries, they took shelter in a cabin that seemed to come out of nowhere.

As Chad attempted to break in, Allison and Dale noticed their shelter provided them with the tools and information they needed to defeat Chad. So when the slasher broke in, Allison distracted Chad with newspapers that made it clear that Tucker and Dale were not the killer hillbillies, but it was Chad that was the illegitimate son of the cabin's previous caretaker. As Chad regained enough composure to struggle against his scourge, Dale tore open several bags of chamomile tea to blow into Chad's face. Dale recalled from his previous tea time that Chad had an allergy to chamomile tea.

With Chad gasping for air, he was impaired in the resulting fight. Still, Chad tried to finish taking Allison's life, forcing Dale to tackle Chad out a window where the two had a brutal fight that led to the cabin's dock and from there, to the lake itself.

Two men went under, and when no one came back, Allison quickly dived in and dragged Dale to the shore. Luckily, Allison had graduated from her first aid class at college, and she was able to resuscitate Dale with mouth-to-mouth — repaying him for saving her life earlier and giving him their first kiss in the process.

### Dale Dobson: 2010 - Present

The pair were finally free to close the book on this dark chapter in their lives and begin the next one together. Allison continued attending college, but with a different major now, now interested in parapsychology. Allison was able to convince Tucker and Dale to take advantage of their paranormal residence that had rebuilt itself and could relocate to other lake sides to travel the country, fighting supernatural evil. Still, Dale wasn't thrilled about confronting evil things that go bump in the night, but Allison convinced him that the hero thing suited him. He couldn't disagree with that.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Hunter Training:** Dale has a lifetime of experience with outdoor living and wilderness survival.
	+ ***Driving:*** Dale is skilled in the use of automobiles and all-terrain vehicles. He is quite capable of operating such modes of transport.
	+ ***Hunting:*** Though generally gentile by nature, Dale is skilled in the use of firearms, crossbows, compound bows, and some other instruments used in hunting.
	+ ***Mechanics:*** Dale is a talented mechanic. He is able to maintain and repair not only automobiles, but also simple mechanical devices. He is also skilled in home repair and various other related tradecraft, such as welding.
	+ ***Wilderness Survival:*** Dale is adept at living in the wilderness. He knows how to hunt, track, fish, and survive off the land.
* **Eidetic Memory:** Dale has an eidetic memory, absorbing information like the earth soaks up rain.
* **Landscaping:** Dale is a skilled landscaping expert. He is well-versed in the use of chainsaws, lawn mowers, hedge-clippers, shovels, axes, scythes, stakes, and other gardening tools.
* **Nightmare House:** As a resident of the Nightmare House known as the "Nice House on the Lake," Dale has been endowed with the ability to perceive the supernatural - even spirits that have not fully manifested in this reality.

### Weaknesses

* **Alcohol Dependency:** Though he doesn't drink as much as Tucker, Dale does tend to rely on beer to ease his nerves and help him with his confidence issues.
* **Gentle Soul:** Dale does not like violence in the slightest. He doesn't even like fishing (but used to fish with Tucker anyway) or hunting, but he will fight if pressed into doing to protect an innocent or a person Dale cares deeply about.
* **Tucker McGee:** Dale loves Tucker like the brother he never had. He will do anything for Tucker as he knows, at the end of the day, Tucker would do the same for him.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Occult:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Weaponry:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Expertise:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Range:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Strategy:** 2 — Basic / Typical
	+ **TOTAL:** 39
	+ **RANKING:** Low Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Notes

* Tucker McGee is a character from the *Tucker and Dale vs Evil* horror comedy movie.
* His appearance is based on the actor Tyler Labine, who portrayed him in the movie.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Dale Dobson

1. ↑ Network Files: Dale Dobson