Danny Phantom/Characters: Difference between revisions

 

== Team Phantom ==

 

{{quote|''"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 [[City of Adventure|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 [[Character Development|gains confidence, courage, and matures]] considerably and finds his path as a hero.

* [[Adorkable]]

* [[An Ice Person]]: Season 3.

* [[Part-Time Hero]]

* [[Puberty Superpower]]

* [[Screw Destiny]]: "The Ultimate Enemy".

* [[Self-Duplication]]

* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: At least, Danny doesn't seem to have a problem scrapping with his underage nemesis Youngblood.

 

 

{{quote|''"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.

* [[Action Survivor]]

* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[Tomboyish Name]]

 

 

{{quote|''"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 [[Gadgeteer Genius|Techno Geek]] who [[Small Name, Big Ego|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 [[Shipping Bed Death|Danny/Sam]] angle.

* [[Action Survivor]]

* [[Black Best Friend]]

* [[Big Eater]]: Will eat just about anything, [[Does Not Like Spam|except vegetables]].

* [[Butt Monkey]]: More apparent in later episodes.

* [[Flanderization]]

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Meat, lots of it.

 

 

{{quote|''"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 [[Promotion to Parent|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]].

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Except "Secret Weapons".

* [[Companion Cube]]: When she was younger, she had [[Albert Einstein|Bearbert Einstein]].

 

== Classmates/Teachers ==

 

{{quote|''"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 [[Big Bad|Vlad Masters]] by mail and used them to extract her revenge. She eventually [[The Hunter|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 [[Dating Catwoman|romantic interest]] with Danny Fenton, unaware of his alter ego.

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type III or IV]].

* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Poor, misguided Valerie is wrong on so many things.

 

 

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.

* [[The Bully]]: And he ''knows'' it!

* [[Expy]]: Of [[Spider-Man|Flash Thompson]].

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]

 

 

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.

* [[Alpha Bitch]]

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]

* [[Spoiled Brat]]

 

 

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.

 

== Villains ==

 

{{quote|"''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 [[Murder the Hypotenuse|kill his former best friend Jack Fenton and subsequently take back the woman he loves, Maddie]]. His other goal is to [[Brainwashed|convince]] Danny to [[We Can Rule Together|join his side]] as his surrogate son due to their [[Evil Counterpart|similar natures]] (that Danny often denies) and powers. Has a bit of a redemptive side since he's pretty much made to be sympathetic...[[Draco in Leather Pants|in a superficial way]], but later turns stereotypically evil by Season 3 through [[Villain Decay]].

* [[Arch Enemy]]

* [[Beard of Evil]]

* [[Heel Realization]]: In ''Ultimate Enemy'', {{spoiler|an older, depowered Vlad admits that spending ten years having lost everything}} did have some benefits.

{{quote|"{{spoiler|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.}}"}}

* [[Love Makes You Evil]]

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]

* [[We Can Rule Together]]

 

 

{{quote|''"BEWARE!"''}}

 

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Frequently.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "I am the Box Ghost!" "BEWARE!"

* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Unknown Rival]]

* [[Workplace-Acquired Abilities]]: It is implied that he was a longshoreman when he was still alive.

 

 

{{quote|''"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.

* [[Apron Matron]]

* [[Chef of Iron]]

* [[Workplace-Acquired Abilities]]: She was a former chef of Casper High.

 

 

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

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Danny assumes that she's as much as a pushover as her parents, but she uses tactics like closing the gap while Danny is occupied dodging her food and boxes so she can hit him.

* [[Cute Bruiser]]

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Only appears in ''The Ultimate Enemy''.

 

 

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 [[Badass Decay|borderline comic relief]]. In the [[Bad Future]], he somehow merged with Technus to become Skulk Tech.

* [[Beard of Evil|Goatee of Evil]]

* [[BFG]]: There are a lot of improbably huge guns built into that battlesuit...

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: He and Danny hate each other but do seem to respect each other's abilities, to the extent of [[Enemy Mine|teaming up]] several times when something nastier comes down the pipe. He even states as much in the series finale.

 

 

{{quote|''"I AM TECHNUS! [[Large Ham|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.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[Totally Radical]]

 

 

{{quote|''"So you wish it, so shall it be."''}}

 

A ghost [[Our Genies Are Different|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.

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]

* [[Beat It by Compulsion]]: A drawback to her powers.

* [[Wishplosion]]

 

 

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]].

* [[Corrupt Hick]]: If his accent is anything to go by.

* [[Evil Albino]]

* [[Judge, Jury, and Executioner]]: Don't forget that he's also [[Department of Redundancy Department|executioner and executioner]]. He ''really'' enjoys that part of the job.

* [[Knight Templar]]

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: In "Public Enemies" he pulls off one almost perfectly, turning the whole town against Danny while suffering no lasting consequences himself beyond being sent back to the Ghost Zone.

 

 

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. {{spoiler|However, when Danny sees a photo with a blast of air escaping his mouth, he notes that Spectra [[Genre Savvy|used it to confuse him about her being a ghost]].}}

* [[Emotion Eater]]

* [[The Shrink]]: Her disguise in her first episode.

 

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).

* [[Black Dragon]]

 

 

{{quote|''"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.

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]

* [[Emotion Bomb]]

* [[X Meets Y]]: Appearance-wise, she looks like [[Kiss|Gene Simmons]] mixed with [[Metalocalypse|Dr. Rockso]].

 

 

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

* [[Cute Bruiser]]

* [[Invisible to Adults]]: And teenagers who think they are adults.

* [[Undead Child]]

* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: His gimmick changes in every episode. He's been a [[Pirate]], a [[Cowboy]], etc. Although this is justified as he is a kid.

 

 

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.

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Why Kitty and Jazz are attracted to him.

* [[Badass Biker]]

* [[Winds of Destiny Change]]: Anything his shadow passes through receives bad luck. {{spoiler|Danny used this against him by tricking the shadow into touching some equipment Johnny was using.}}

 

 

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.

* [[Woman Scorned]]: Johnny's got to learn to stop his wandering eye.

 

 

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

* [[Didn't See That Coming]]: {{spoiler|The other villains teaming up with Danny to take him down for having the audacity to attack someone on Christmas.}}

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Oranges, since nothing rhymes with "orange."

 

 

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.

* [[Artifact of Doom]]: His sword, the Soulshredder.

* [[Black Knight]]

* [[The Starscream]]: Partial example. He clearly resents being Pariah's minion, but is too scared of him to actually betray him until Vlad shows up with a better offer.

 

 

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

 

[[Evil Overlord|Absolute ruler of the Ghost Zone]] until he was [[Sealed Evil in a Can|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 [[Artifact of Doom|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 [[Superman: The Animated Series|Darkseid]], [[Teen Titans (animation)|Trigon]], and [[X-Men: Evolution|Apocalypse]] as the one villain whose power far outstrips all others and can threaten truly apocalyptic damage.

* [[Big Bad]]: Of the first TV-movie.

* [[Eye Beams]]: Or rather eye ''beam'', as he's missing one eye. His most common attack.

* [[0% Approval Rating]]: None of the ghosts like him and even Fright Knight only seems to serve him out of fear. [[Meaningful Name|Fits since his name is Pariah]], which means something that is despised or avoided.

 

 

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

 

Danny's [[Bad Future|alternate future]] counterpart through a fusion between his ghost half and Vlad's after an accident that renders his [[Killed Off for Real|family, friends, and teacher dead]] from a [[Local Hangout|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 [[Dungeon Master|Clockwork's]] aid, changes the future. Dark Danny [[Temporal Paradox|now exists outside of time]], [[Sealed Evil in a Can|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 [[Enemy Without|personal nature]] and [[Complete Monster|utter depravity]].

* [[And I Must Scream]]: Being trapped in the thermos for all eternity. Though its kind of hard to feel sorry for him considering [[Complete Monster|how evil he is]].

* [[Ax Crazy]]: If the ruins of a future Amity Park didn't tell you.

* [[Creepy Monotone]]

* [[Evil Counterpart]]

* [[Fallen Hero]]: Very happy to be as such, disturbingly.

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: He's stuck in that Fenton Thermos forever and ever and ever...

 

== Others ==

 

{{quote|''"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.

* [[Adult Child]]

* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents]]

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: His reply to Vlad in the series finale proves this.

* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Defies all speed limits, red lights, and certain laws of physics.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: He wanted to dissect Inviso-bill "atom by atom" because he was a ghost. [[Fridge Horror|And he was quite aware that he was a sentient, feeling being]].

* [[Genius Ditz]]: He seems to have invented most of the (incredibly advanced, though often eccentric) Fenton gadgets himself, but is largely inept in every other way.

** It's also mentioned that he got a solid B minus average in High School.

* [[Parental Obliviousness]]

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Trust us. Hurting Jack and Maddie's kids, or trying to? '''Bad''' idea.

 

 

{{quote|"''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 [[Positive Discrimination|logical, competent, and calmer]] then her husband. She is the main romantic target for Vlad.

* [[Action Mom]]

* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents]]

{{quote|'''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'')

* [[Hot Mom]]

* [[Hot Scientist]]: Technically.

* [[Purple Eyes]]

 

 

{{quote|''"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 [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|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 {{spoiler|until the second-to-last episode}} has to keep her powers in check. Danny plays a somewhat [[Big Brother Mentor|older brother figure]] to her.

* [[Badass Adorable]]

* [[Cute Bruiser]]

* [[Homage]]: [[Sailor Moon|Mini Moon]], [[Superman|Supergirl]]... [[Distaff Counterpart|you get it]].

* [[Mafia Princess]]: Borderline [[Deconstruction]].

* [[Tyke Bomb]]

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]

 

 

{{quote|''"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.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Dungeon Master]]

* [[The Watcher]]

 

 

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.

 

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