Danish

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Danish

Danish, as seen in 1027: Pickup Artist
First appearance 377: Journal 2
Appearances 27

Danish is a stick figure character in xkcd.

Characteristics

Danish is characterized by her cynicism and devilish tricks; She is very similar in appearance to Megan, but has clearly longer hair. Personality-wise, she is similar to Black Hat, whom she seems to have a permanent (romantic) relationship with. She thus mainly appears in comics together with Black Hat, which is the most certain give away that a long haired woman is Danish and not Megan.

Name

Like most xkcd characters, her real name is unknown. The name "Danish" is picked from when Black Hat called her "my dearest darling danish", as a term of endearment, in 515: No One Must Know. As she replies to him with "my lovely cutie pie", Black Hat's name should thus have been Pie, but he already had a better name. Obviously this is not her name but just part of the joke that they call each other cake names, i.e. danish pastry and pie. But it is as good a name as any.

Appearances

Danish first appeared in the Journal series as an adversary of Black Hat that could match his evil and cunning ways. In the end of that series it seems that she got under Black Hat's skin, and they might actually end up going on a date.

She thus later appears to be in a continued (some times romantic) relationship with Black Hat as for instance seen in 440: Road Rage, 515: No One Must Know, 524: Party and 542: Cover-Up. She mainly appears together with Black Hat, although after her first seven appearances (with him) after Journal ended, she begun appearing without him, the first time was in 914: Ice. In case where Black Hat is not in the comic, it can be difficult to determine with certainty that it is her, but when the subject is as crazy as in for instance Ice, that is reason enough to list that character as Danish.

A girl that physically looks like Danish appeared in 139: I Have Owned Two Electric Skateboards, long before she was introduced in the Journal series. In 177: Alice and Bob a similar looking character with propensity to destruction is called Eve – a reference to cryptographic schemes involving communication between Alice and Bob with Eve playing role of an attacker.

In 1608: Hoverboard there is a long haired woman on the bridge of the Rebel Runner, whose behavior towards both Star Wars as well as Star Trek fans could suggest that it was Danish. But there is not enough evidence that this is so to list her as Danish.