| “ | Next time that thing comes around I'll either be dead or too damn old | ” |
— Tashtego tempting fate
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Sheriff Dan Tashtego, is one of the main protagonists in the film Jeepers Creepers 3. He is the Poho County sheriff who leads a task force to hunt and destroy the Creeper.
Biography[]
Dan Tashtego arrives at the scene of the Poho County Police Station after the Creeper got away with Darry Jenner. He witnesses as the SWAT team with Sergeant David Tubbs was inspecting the Creeper's truck after an office got his arm pinned and impaled by the back door's spikes. The exhaust pipe shot out a harpoon which hit a parked cop car and knocks over Tashtego's hat. Tubbs gives Tashtego a briefing of Darry's abduction and took him to the interrogation room where the Creeper flew away. However, an officer notifies Tubbs that they got the truck taken away to impound. Tashtego yells at Tubbs to call them back but Tubbs objects as they will take it to impound to study it. Tashtego, in a hurry, insists that truck won't make it to impound because what happened here, happened before. This is where Tashtego tells Tubbs about the legend behind the Creeper.
Sometime the next day, Tashtego's team went to the house of Gaylen Brandon and discovered the Creeper's severed hand. She tells them about her son, Kenny Brandon, and how he got possession of it and the last time she saw him alive. She shows them her bruised hand and that when they touch the hand, they will learn everything about the Creeper. Dan touches it and it grabs hold of Dan's hand, putting him in a trance just like it did Gaylen. The team eventually took off the hand and Dan only tells them that this monster is ancient.
They get a lead of the Creeper truck being spotted on East 9 and Tashtego is determined to roll. Tubbs tries to stop him as he is no position to make pursuit, but Tashtego objects saying that the Creeper has taken the lives of too many. He declares that this time the Creeper has to be destroyed because Dan fears he will be dead or too old to stop the Creeper in its next cycle 23 years later. Tashtego drove while Tubbs shoots the truck. The truck has the ability to bounce bullets off of it, including its tires. They also got chased by a rolling mine that psychically follows its target. Tashtego tries to warn his squad coming from the opposite direction to not shoot at the truck, but it was too late as the team launched all their fire on the truck causing the ricochet of the bullets to kill them. In shock, Tashtego car gets blown by the Creeper's bomb.
Dan Tashtego firing the turret at the Creeper.
Tubbs attempts to shoot the Creeper with a shotgun, but the Creeper tosses his shuriken at the gun. Tashtego looks at the Creeper then orders Tubbs to get out of there. Then Tashtego gets on the truck, in an attempt to blast the Creeper with the turret. The turret gun was jammed while the Creeper is running towards him. As the Creeper leaps and sprouts his wings to pounce Tashtego, Tashtego was able to move the gun and unleash all the ammo on the beast. The shots pierce right through the Creeper, damaging its wings in the process. The Creeper knocks Dan off the truck, Tubbs looks in the distance to find the Creeper got up and Dan's face cleaved by the Creeper's axe. Dan's blood splatters from his face as the Creeper telepathically calls the axe back to him.
Personality[]
Dan is a very serious but ultimately well caring man. He has spent years determined to understand and take down the Creeper to avenge those who lost their loved ones at the Creeper's hands. He was willing to do anything, even if it costed him his life to destroy the Creeper. He especially shows his compassion for members of his task force, as he talks to Tubbs about his team members lost loved ones to the Creeper and how they drive his desire to take it down. He even experienced great devastation when his team members were killed in their attempt to attack the Creeper's truck.
Trivia[]
- Tashtego and Gaylen Brandon were the only two people who were alive when they learn about the secret of the Creeper.
- It is likely, however, that Kenny Brandon also learned the Creeper's secret when he was alive before the Creeper came after and killed him.
- Tashtego was the only character the Creeper actually killed without showing interest in devouring body parts from him.