Melinda Danders is one of the pre-made deceased ancestral Sims who resided during her lifetime in Pleasantview, one of the neighborhoods shipped with The Sims 2. She was the wife of Marshall Danders, the mother of Diane Pleasant (née Danders), the grandmother of Daniel Pleasant (who is infamous for cheating on his wife, Mary-Sue Pleasant by conducting an affair with his housemaid, Kaylynn Langerak), and Jennifer Burb (née Pleasant), and the great-grandmother of Angela and Lilith Pleasant.