Daria the Death Defying

How many times in the series did Daria narrowly escape serious injury or death? Throwing up in "Malled" doesn't count, and neither does "Ill." Getting a piercing at a poorly kept establishment in "Pierce Me" was risky, and her driving lessons were touch and go, but we want bigger risks.

Let's see, there was the disastrous family outing in "The Teachings of Don Jake," the collapse of the library roof in "Fair Enough," being trapped on the school roof during a major storm in "Daria!" (yeah, I know, I know), Quinn's impulsive picking up of a hitchhiker in "Speedtrapped," the ship collision and sinking in "Just Add Water," getting caught in a blizzard in the wilderness with Jane in "Antisocial Climbers," climbing on and off moving parade floats in "I Loathe a Parade," the house fire in "Fire!", Ms. Li's axe-wielding psychosis in "Fizz Ed," her long-ago fall from a galloping horse as related in "Camp Fear," and the near-wreck in "Boxing Daria." I feel like I've missed a few. Hmmm, she crawled through a wormhole in "Depth Takes a Holiday," but we'll skip that. Guess that will do it. Doesn't that strike you as a lot of close calls?

Her father Jake has escaped death a few times, too: the heart attack, obviously, but also the crashing balloon in "Of Human Bonding," and the events of "The Teachings of Don Jake," "Just Add Water," and "Fire!" (which also endangered the other Morgendorffers).

Does Daria ever reflect on these brushes with mortality? You'd think there was material here for a dozen novels. Maybe Daria gets her chance to become a professional writer after all, per her musings in The Daria Diaries. ("A bitter angry hack who starts fistfights at cocktail parties—I could do that job.") Perhaps relating Melody Powers's life of danger is Daria's true calling; after all, she'd be writing about what she knows.

Extra Credit: See if you can name some alternate-universe fanfics that use the above events as their take-off points. There could easily be many more.