Dave Hanson
Background
Dave Hanson is a new police officer on the force at the Crescent Cove Police Department. Curtis Mooney doesn’t like Dave’s version of training which he feels is too soft on criminals.
During the events of Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) played by John Allen Nelson
At the local police station Curtis Mooney arrives with two punks he caught boozing it up in the park. Curtis starts to rough up the two punks but Dave Hanson intervenes. Dave asks the punks their side of the story and they say they were just walking across the park carrying a bottle of wine on their way towards the university. Curtis tells Dave he doesn’t like his soft police methods and throws the two punks in a cell. Debbie Stone and Mike Tobacco arrive at the police station where they tell their story to Dave and Curtis. Curtis doesn’t believe them but Dave agrees to go with Mike to the woods to see the spaceship after they drop off Debbie at her house. Mike and Dave arrive at the location where the circus tent was only to find there is nothing but a crater. Dave angrily puts Mike in handcuffs. Dave and Mike arrive at makeout point and find it full of abandoned vehicles that are covered with traces of cotton candy, including Bob McReed’s glasses. Dave and Mike witness a group of people eaten by a Klown shadow puppet and Mike grabs the police car steering wheel and attempts to ram the Klown, which just jumps away. Dave calls Curtis, however Curtis ignores him. Dave returns to the station while Mike runs to get help from the Terenzi brothers. Dave arrives at the police station and finds Klown footprints on all surfaces of the station and the two punks transformed into cotton candy cocoons. Curtis’ chair turns around revealing his corpse has been turned into a ventriloquist dummy used by a Klown. Dave shoots at the Klown and the Klown explodes in a cloud of confetti when he shoots it in the nose. Jack from the Marlboro State Troopers calls the police station and Dave asks him to send help. Mike and the Terenzi brothers follow after Debbie and Dave gives chase when he sees the Terenzi ice cream truck. Dave is forced to ride with Mike and the Terenzi brothers when he rear ends their ice cream truck. Mike, Dave and the Terenzi brothers arrive at the amusement park. Dave and Mike find the balloon with Debbie in the cocoon storage room and free her. The three of them then flee a large group of Klowns. They eventually end up in a large cavernous room. As Debbie, Mike and Dave are about to be attacked by a large group of Klowns, the Terenzi brothers and their ice cream truck arrive in the room. The Terenzi brothers, who are covered in large lipstick stains, order the Klowns to follow their commands which seems to work. From the center of the room a giant Klown called Klownzilla lowers down and the other Klowns slink away. Klownzilla smashes the ice cream truck and throws it which causes it to explode. Dave tells Debbie and Mike to run while he stays behind. The tent starts to rumble and take off. Klownzilla grabs Dave and Dave manages to kill Klownzilla by using his police badge to puncture his nose. An explosion of fireworks erupt and the crowd assumes everyone in the Klown ship has perished. All of a sudden a Klown car falls from the sky and Dave and the Terenzi brothers get out. Dave, Mike and Debbie look up into the sky and as Debbie wonders if it is over pies land on their faces.
