Danny Phantom/Characters

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A list of the major characters in the animated series Danny Phantom.

Team Phantom

Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom

Voiced by: David Kaufman

"It's been a month since the accident and I still barely have any control. If somebody catches me, I go from geek to freak around here!"

Main hero of the series: Upon obtaining his ghost powers through a Freak Lab Accident, 14-year old Danny uses it to combat the various ghosts that inhabit his hometown. He starts off shy, naive, Book Dumb, and emotional, constantly trying to find a place in the world, whether it be gaining popularity or through his ghost powers. By the end of the series, Danny gains confidence, courage, and matures considerably and finds his path as a hero.

Samantha "Sam" Manson

Voiced by: Grey DeLisle

"Parents don't listen. Even worse, they don't understand. Why can't they accept me for who I am!?"

Danny's childhood friend and primary love interest: Sam is a strict vegetarian Goth with an often contradictory personality; she's as rational and levelheaded as she is forceful and selfish. She strives to protect the environment as much as she rebels against her parents. She often keeps Danny (and Tucker) from doing anything too extreme.

Tucker Foley

Voiced by: Rickey D'Shon Collins

"Some people have a lot, and some people don't, but everybody's got something. Me? I got charms, good looks, and modesty."

Danny's childhood friend "since forever", Tucker is a Techno Geek who considers himself God's gift not only to women, but to all humankind. Has a tendency to run into the Sidekick Glass Ceiling that usually leads to With Great Power Comes Great Insanity moments. Unfortunately suffers serious Flanderization by end, if not to make room for the Danny/Sam angle.

Jazz Fenton

Voiced by: Colleen O'Shaughnessey

"16, biologically, but psychologically, I'm an adult."

Danny's older sister is a intelligent 16-year old who claims to be an adult trapped in a teenager's body. As such she's often playing a parental role towards her entire family: trying to lead her parents into normality and shielding a then unsure Danny from the harsh realities of the outside world. After finding out Danny's Secret Identity, she slowly gains admiration for her growing brother and eventually becomes part of "Team Phantom". She eventually lets down her shield and slowly starts to act her age, all the while happily acknowledging her love for ghosts -- at several times, becoming a Badass Bookworm.


Classmates/Teachers

Valerie Gray

Voiced by: Grey DeLisle and Cree Summer

"See why I need to hunt these ghosts? They think they can do whatever they want, but somebody has to stop them."

Main Anti-Hero: Valerie started off as the Rich Bitch before a ghost dog (with Danny in tow) cost her father his job, forcing her to lead a poor, unpopular existence. She was given advanced ghost weapons from Vlad Masters by mail and used them to extract her revenge. She eventually makes it a full time job with Danny Phantom as her primary target. She grows to see the world beyond her once shallow view and eventually develops a romantic interest with Danny Fenton, unaware of his alter ego.

Dash Baxter

Voiced by: S. Scott Bullock

Standard issue bullying jock who on the outside is the typical menacing antagonist in Danny's school while deep inside, he portrays a far more sensitive soul, used mostly for laughs.

Paulina

Voiced by: María Canals Barrera

A girl Danny held a crush on before he wised up and moved on. She's the standard issue Alpha Bitch and like all stereotypes like her, tends to victimize the less popular girls and focus primary on shallow mannerisms. She harbors a crush on Danny Phantom.

Mr. Lancer

Voiced by: Ron Perlman

The primary teacher (and vice-principal) of Casper High. Often strict with an inability to connect with his students, Mr. Lancer may seem like a bullying mentor to Danny (at times, he will often favor Dash simply because he's a popular football player), but deep down, he wants all his students to succeed.

  • Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: He used to have hair before he ended up bald. Ironically, he has massive hair everywhere else on his body.
  • Hidden Depths: He loves playing online games.
  • Ink Suit Actor: He kinda does look like a cartoony Ron Perlman with a shaved head and goatee.
  • My Friends and Zoidberg: In "The Ultimate Enemy", while Danny's family and friends were 'Gone But Not Forgotten' after the Nasty Burger explosion, he was just 'Gone'.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: He has a 'photo' of his sister (or rather him in a dress) and explains that he uses this job to see her again, thereby motivating students to get better.
    • Lampshaded when he wonders why no one ever figures it out.
  • Sadist Teacher
  • Stern Teacher: He does this all the time, but one particular episode states that he's doing this job to meet up with his sister. Then it's subverted as he then asks why no one realizes it's him in a dress.
  • Totally Radical: Abuses this.
  • Unusual Euphemism: Uses book titles that fit the situation.


Villains

Vlad Masters/Plasmius

Voiced by: Martin Mull

"I am not a villain; all I wanted was love."

A devious Villain with Good Publicity, Vlad is a manipulative, clever, genius billionaire who has made it his lifetime goal to kill his former best friend Jack Fenton and subsequently take back the woman he loves, Maddie. His other goal is to convince Danny to join his side as his surrogate son due to their similar natures (that Danny often denies) and powers. Has a bit of a redemptive side since he's pretty much made to be sympathetic...in a superficial way, but later turns stereotypically evil by Season 3 through Villain Decay.

"If any good came out of this, it's that ten years without ghost powers gave me the chance to see what a fool I'd been."

Box Ghost

Voiced by: Rob Paulsen

"BEWARE!"

A Running Gag Harmless Villain, Box Ghost's main shtick are anything cardboard and square (and the occasional bubble wrap). Consistently pathetic and easy to beat, he remains determined to be taken seriously. He Took a Level in Badass in the Bad Future, becoming incredibly muscular and gaining the ability to form exploding boxes out of energy.

"Beware."

Lunch Lady

Voiced by: Patricia Heaton and Kath Soucie

"Would you like to try my [insert food here]?" (person refuses) "Then [insert horrifying statement here]!"

Her goal is to serve food to everybody, but she goes into a homicidal rage if people refuse. She doesn't like vegetables.

Box Lunch

Voiced by: Kath Soucie

From the Bad Future, she is the daughter of Box Ghost and Lunch Lady.

Skulker

Voiced by: Mathew St. Patrick and Kevin Michael Richardson

One of the show's most recurring villains, Skulker is a ghost obsessed with hunting to such an extent that he's considered the Ghost Zone's greatest predator. Growing bored, he looked to the real world for a challenge and fixated on Danny, whose hybrid nature made for an endlessly exciting hunt. Skulker's power and threat level tend to fluctuate- in some episodes he's portrayed as a very cunning and dangerous opponent, in others as borderline comic relief. In the Bad Future, he somehow merged with Technus to become Skulk Tech.

  • Goatee of Evil
  • BFG: There are a lot of improbably huge guns built into that battlesuit...
  • The Dragon: To Vlad on occasion.
  • Egomaniac Hunter
  • Enemy Mine: On several occasions.
  • Humiliation Conga: In his first appearance, he accidentally hooks up his battlesuit to Tucker's PDA. Since said PDA holds Danny's schedule, Skulker is forced to follow, being jerked around like a puppet by his own armor.
  • Hunting the Most Dangerous Game
  • The Man Behind the Curtain: The real Skulker is a tiny and pathetically weak ghost; the body most people see is just a high-tech suit. As he spends almost all of his time in the suit, however, this isn't a huge weakness.
  • Worthy Opponent: He and Danny hate each other but do seem to respect each other's abilities, to the extent of teaming up several times when something nastier comes down the pipe. He even states as much in the series finale.

Technus

Voiced by: Rob Paulsen

"I AM TECHNUS! Master of technology and destroyer of worlds!"

Another common enemy, Technus is an eccentric ghost with formidable technological powers and the goal of WORLD DOMINATION- who gets defeated in every appearance, largely due to his bad habit of shouting his plans at the top of his lungs (though his upgrade into Technus 2.0 helped him break that habit). Nonetheless, as long as he can possess sufficiently advanced machinery, he can be quite formidable. In the Bad Future, he somehow merged with Skulker to become Skulk Tech.

Desiree

Voiced by: Peri Gilpin

"So you wish it, so shall it be."

A ghost genie who is forced to grant people's wishes, most of them resulting a terrible price on the wisher. As a human, Desiree was the Sultan's favored lover of his harem, a love she gave back. The Sultan's jealous wife drove her away, forcing her to remain vindictive and heartbroken throughout the series.

Walker

Voiced by: James Arnold Taylor

A ghostly sheriff obsessed with maintaining order at any cost, Walker doesn't have as many appearances as some of the other rogues' gallery members, but is still a very significant villain for being the ghost who reveals the existence of ghosts to the world at large and is responsible for Danny's rep as a Hero with Bad Publicity.

Penelope Spectra

Voiced by: Tara Strong

On the outside, Spectra looks to be a kind, perky woman who just wants to help teenagers and their depression. In reality, she is a Vain Sorceress ghost who sucks in their emotions to further her youth and beauty. Beneath that bubbly personality, Spectra is sadistic and immoral.

  • Crazy Prepared: If one pays attention in her debut episode, she keeps the air conditioner on full blast, so people see puffs of air. However, when Danny sees a photo with a blast of air escaping his mouth, he notes that Spectra used it to confuse him about her being a ghost.
  • Emotion Eater
  • Fountain of Youth: She needs the depression of teenagers to keep her youthful.
  • Hannibal Lecture: A very defining trait of hers as she prone to trying to demoralize her opponents since she need negativity to function otherwise she left wide open.
  • The Shrink: Her disguise in her first episode.

Prince Aragon

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker Prince Aragon is the ruthless and cruel older brother of Princess Dorathea (AKA The Dragon Ghost), both of whom appeared to have lived in the Middle Ages (the 4th to the 16th centuries).

Ember McLain

Voiced by: Tara Strong

"Ohhh, Ember, so warm and tender! You will remember my name!"

A punk rock Diva, Ember hates all sense of authority and adults. She wants to Take Over the World strictly so people will always remember her name. She tends to be a blunt person. In the Bad Future, she is overweight and her vocal cords have been damaged, rendering her unable to sing.

Youngblood

Voiced by: Taylor Lautner

A little, immature boy who likes to play dress up. Despite his size and youth, he can be incredibly dangerous.

Johnny 13

Voiced by: William Baldwin

A scruffy punk on a motorcycle. His main goals are raising havok and pleasing his girlfriend, Kitty. In the Bad Future, he is in a wheelchair.

Kitty

Voiced by: Chynna Phillips

Johnny 13's girlfriend. She mostly follows his path, but can be quite dangerous, especially when she's angry. She seemed the least changed in the Bad Future, but joined Johnny and the others in attempting revenge.

  • Bare Your Midriff
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: REALLY hates it when Johnny is looking at other women besides her.
  • Demonic Possession: In her first appearance, Johnny needed to find a host body for her to inhabit in the human world. This was dropped in later episodes, and in one episode she uses her possession in an attempt to get Johnny jealous.
  • Kiss of Death: It's a blown kiss, but anyone who is hit by it becomes trapped in another dimension (not the Ghost Zone).
  • Operation: Jealousy: To tick off Johnny, she dates Danny while secretly overshadowing Paulina.
  • Woman Scorned: Johnny's got to learn to stop his wandering eye.

Ghost Writer

Voiced by: Will Arnett

A one-shot villain from the Christmas Episode, he tried to get revenge on Danny for accidentally destroying one of his poems.

Fright Knight

Voiced by: Michael Dorn

A ghost considered to be the spirit of Halloween, Fright Knight is a very powerful Sealed Evil in a Can inadvertently released by Danny, who was trying to put together a haunted house as part of a detention for Mr. Lancer. He was resealed at the end of the episode, only to be released later by Pariah to serve as The Dragon. At the end of Reign Storm, he was seen to make an alliance with Vlad to take down his master, but this is never really followed up on. In "The Ultimate Enemy's" Bad Future, Dark Danny seems to have inherited his loyalty.

Pariah Dark

Voiced by: Brian Cox

"It's a burden, isn't it child--Having so much power?"

Absolute ruler of the Ghost Zone until he was defeated and imprisoned, Pariah is far and away one of the most powerful character to appear in the series, to the extent of effortlessly owning Vlad within seconds of being freed and commanding the allegiance of Fright Knight, another tremendously powerful villain. He was inadvertently released by Vlad, who was looking for his artifacts of doom, the Ring of Rage and Crown of Fire, and immediately proceeded to conquer both the Ghost Zone and Amity Park. Ultimately, Danny was able to seal him again (with some help), but the Ghost King was not destroyed and may yet be free to walk the world again. In some ways he can be compared to the likes of Darkseid, Trigon, and Apocalypse as the one villain whose power far outstrips all others and can threaten truly apocalyptic damage.

Dark Danny

Voiced by: Eric Roberts

"You don't get it, do you? I'm still here! I still exist! That means you still turn into me."

Danny's alternate future counterpart through a fusion between his ghost half and Vlad's after an accident that renders his family, friends, and teacher dead from a Nasty Burger explosion. He is a straight-to-the-point villain who all but creates mayhem and destruction in his path with absolutely no guilt for his cause. Danny eventually defeats him and with Clockwork's aid, changes the future. Dark Danny now exists outside of time, forever trapped in the Fenton Thermos. Though less powerful than Pariah and (arguably) less cunning than Vlad, he is perhaps the most dangerous villain in the show because of his personal nature and utter depravity.


Others

Jack Fenton

Voiced by: Rob Paulsen

"So, Danny, you and your little friends want to hunt ghosts."

Danny's bumbling father, Jack Fenton is an obsessive inventor of ghost weaponry and gadgets, designed to rip them apart molecule by molecule. Naturally, this usually results in a panicky Danny Phantom whom Jack considers as one of his enemies, despite having saved the world countless times. Tends to be clueless, but can briefly turn into a Badass Normal if his loved ones are threatened.

Maddie Fenton

Voiced by: Kath Soucie

"What, you think I sit home and invent new cookies all day?"

Equally obsessed with ghost hunting and research as her husband Jack, Maddie nevertheless remains far more logical, competent, and calmer then her husband. She is the main romantic target for Vlad.

Maddie: Hold down the fort, Jack! I'll go after our tot! Those trees will not stop me!
(grabs an axe and jumps out the window)
Jack Fenton: Oh, man, that is hot!

Danielle/Dani Phantom

Voiced by: AnnaSophia Robb and Krista Swan

"It's "Dani" with an "I"."

Danny's clone, created by Vlad as a stepping stone to the perfect Danny Fenton/Phantom clone to call as his own son. Unlike the various other Danny clones, Danielle has a mind of her own, possessing a naive behavior with much of Danny's traits and character. She is often childish and spunky, but well-meaning. An imperfect clone, she is constantly dissolving and until the second-to-last episode has to keep her powers in check. Danny plays a somewhat older brother figure to her.

Clockwork

Voiced by: David Carradine

"The Observants look at time like they're watching a parade, one thing after another passing by in sequence right in front of them. I see the parade from above, all the twists and turns it might or might not take."

The ghost of time, Clockwork keeps the flow of time and interferes when he feels something is disturbing said flow. He is mysterious and powerful, knowing every aspect of time: past, present, and future. He remains a neutral influence in Danny's life, playing only by his rules. He doesn't perceive time as a linear sequence of events; this is reflected in his appearance, which constantly fluctuates in age.

Frostbite

Voiced by: Bob Joles

Danny's mentor when he received his ice powers. Frostbite is a giant Yeti-like ghost, leader of his tribe and all-around nice guy.

  • An Ice Person
  • Mr. Exposition: All he does is provide explanation to what is currently happening.
  • Training from Hell: What he puts Danny through to master his ice ability. It ended up turning into hell for his people every time Danny screwed up.
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