Steve Dallas
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Steve Dallas was a fictional unscrupulous lawyer in the 1980s comic strip Bloom County, by Berke Breathed. The work he usually got were hopeless cases defending psychotic criminals and insane murderers such as the "Cincinnati Strangler," much to the chagrin of his overbearing mother. A bachelor throughout the entire run of the strip, he was the most aggressive womanizer and most blatant male chauvinist of all the eligible males in the cartoon.
All this changed in 1988, when Steve was abducted by aliens and had his brain scrambled aboard their UFO. He was zapped back to earth a few days later, and to the shock of all, his personality had been flopped. He was now sensitive, caring, a progressive-liberal and, most shockingly of all, stopped wearing his trademark sunglasses and got a perm. The aliens had originally planned on putting Elvis' brain in Steve's head, but eventually decided to use the Gepahardization Process which they had previously used on Dick Gephardt.
This carried on for about a year, until Steve found out that his girlfriend was cheating on him. Devastated, he resolved to forever avenge feminine betrayal, and put his trademark sunglasses back on (three weeks before Bloom County ended) and his personality flopped back to its normal, cantankerous self.
At the end of Outland in 1995, Steve came out of the closet and admitted he was a homosexual. However, in Opus nine years later, Steve was back to his babe-mongering ways after enrolling in the "Rev. Doogle De-Poofta Program," which involved the use of electrical shocks to melt away unnatural thoughts.
Steve was also recently reunited with his long-lost son Auggie, and has reluctantly taken on the role of father figure.
Steve first appeared in The Academia Waltz (Berke Breathed's first cartoon), making him one of the earliest of Breathed's characters (the other being Cutter John).