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{{quote|''[[By the Power of Grayskull|"I'm going ghost!"]]''}}
A [[Superhero]] series on [[Nickelodeon]] by Butch Hartman, the creator of ''[[The Fairly
The series revolves around the adventures of Danny Fenton, the son of parents who are professional ghostbusters. ([[Ghostbusters|No,]] [[The Real Ghostbusters|not]] [[Extreme Ghostbusters|those.]] [[Filmation's Ghostbusters|Or those]].) While generally less than competent, their engineering skill is phenomenal, allowing the creation of such inventions as the [[Weird Science|Fenton Portal]], a machine that opens up a path to the "[[Phantom Zone|Ghost Zone]]", apparently an odd kind of afterlife where ghosts are either beings of the dead and/or [[Word of God|monsters from another dimension]]. At the urging of his good friend, Sam Manson, Danny explores the portal and [[Freak Lab Accident|accidentally]] activates it, [[Techno Babble|imbuing his molecular structure with ectoplasmic energy]].
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Despite the comical tone, this series is a surprisingly [[Continuity Nod|well-conceived]] and [[Story Arc|endearing narrative]] of a boy [[Call to Adventure|growing into his true calling]] while the world gradually comes to accept him, much like a variant of [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider Man]] at that franchise's best.
Following its initial nine episodes (known affectionately as the Magnificent Nine by longtime fans), the show began to become more and more "[[The Fairly
Before reaching half-way through the second season, Butch Hartman announced the decision made by Nickelodeon to cancel the production of the show, making it 53 episodes in three seasons. Dedicated fans [[Sending Stuff to Save the Show|orchestrated various petitions and small organizations to overturn the decision]], but despite these protests, the production of Danny Phantom finished in February 2007, with no plans for future episodes after 53. However, at least the series had enough lead time to create a [[Grand Finale]].
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** On a much darker note, cheating wasn't a good idea either. Nor was begging his archrival to ''remove his humanity''. It backfired ''horribly''.
** Similarly in "Phantom Planet", {{spoiler|Vlad revealing himself to be half-ghost to the world, and then forcing the world to pay him in order to save the planet... which he couldn't actually do.}}
* [[Ambiguous Situation]]: It's unknown in "The Ultimate Enemy" if future!Vlad was preparing to {{spoiler|kill past!Danny to stop the [[Bad Future]] and past!Danny escaped by sheer luck and stamina, or if he realized it would be wrong despite the temptation and helped past!Danny as originally intended.}}
* [[Amulet of Concentrated Awesome]]: The amulets that Dora and Aragon wear to turn them into dragons.
* [[Ancient Keeper]]: Frostbite
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* [[Backstory]]: While we do know the basics of how Danny got his powers from the [[Expository Theme Song]], it isn't until the episode "Memory Blank" that we actually learn it was Sam that persuaded him to enter the portal in the first place.
* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: Danny and Skulker in "Prisoner of Love".
* [[Bad Future]]: The premise of "The Ultimate Enemy". As we see in the [[Action Prologue]], Valerie ten years later is the protector of Amity Park. She and her father {{spoiler|found the Fentons' anti-ghost technology and use it to protect the city from Dark Danny. And to her credit, she does a decent job until Dark Danny discovers a ghostly wail that can break her ghost barrier. She nearly has a breakdown seeing past!Sam and past!Tucker begging her not to shoot past!Danny, saying she ''knows'' they died ten years ago. One can hope that with Clockwork imprisoning Dark Danny that this timeline ends better.}}
* [[Bad Job, Worse Uniform]]: Valerie works at Nasty Burger--as its mascot.
* [[Badass]]: Long list, including Vlad, Skulker, and a purple-backed gorilla.
* [[Badass Family]]: Danny may be the one with superpowers, but Jazz, Maddie, and even Jack have proven capable of fighting ghosts.
* [[Baddie Flattery]]: Vlad to Danny, in conjunction with [[Not So Different]].
* [[Bait and Switch Comment]]: In "Girls Night Out", Skulker says he's hunting Danny because his girlfriend says he is a lousy hunter. Danny goes, "wow"...not because he's scared as Skulker assumes, but because Skulker has a girlfriend.
{{quote|'''Skulker''': Now that just plain hurts}}
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: Technus uses some sort of remote control to turn Danny into a cowboy, a model, and [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Spock]].
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Vlad's preferred MO, although he's not always as good at predicting responses as he thinks he is. He also occasionally pulls a [[Xanatos Gambit]] when the writers want to hand him a win.
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* [[Body Horror]]: Happens every time Danny tries to split himself.
** Most extreme by far: Identity Crisis. He starts out with two heads, one of which sprouts another head, whose tongue forms the neck for another head. Then, from the main torso sprout two extra feet, a bug eye, a mouth with a bug eye on its tongue, and three more heads, one of whose tongue is a forearm and hand, which sprouts a head on each finger. It just keeps going from there.
* [[Book and Switch]]: In one episode, Tucker uses "A Farewell to Arms" to hide his PDA.
* [[Book Dumb]]: Danny (and Tucker).
* [[Book Ends]]: In the first episode, Danny and Sam are vehemently denying that they were boyfriend and girlfriend. In the [[Grand Finale]], their [[Relationship Upgrade]] is complete.
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* [[Dish Dash]]: In the series' very first episode. Danny protects Sam from death by flying dishes by catching them all. Unusual for the trope, he gets all the dishes safely put away!
* [[Disposable Superhero Maker]]
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Dani Phantom, Danny's [[Opposite
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Overshadowing looks really, really similar to possession albeit benign. It would be prime candidate for [[Insistent Terminology]] if anyone connected the dots.
** Sam, Tucker, and Jazz trying to convince Danny to let them help him sort out his problems and that {{spoiler|he doesn't have to get rid of his powers}} in "Phantom Planet".
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* [[Dungeonmaster's Girlfriend]]: Jazz.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: After having lot of trouble during the whole series, in the last episode "Phantom Planet", things end well for Danny and his friends.
* [[Easter Egg]]: In one episode, Danny and Tuck are playing a Crash Nebula arcade game. Crash Nebula is one of Timmy Turner's favorite superheroes in Butch Hartman's other cartoon, [[The Fairly
* [[Egg Sitting]]: Danny and Valerie, Dash and Paulina, Tucker and Sam all are in the same "this bag of flour is your baby" project for health class in "Life Lessons".
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Danny and Vlad in "Reign Storm" (against the Ghost King) and "Torrent of Terror" (against Vortex).
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'''Tucker:''' Waste ''these'' looks and all ''this'' charisma hunting ghosts? Criminal. }}
* [[Eternal English]]: You would think that someone who died 1600 years ago would ''not'' be speaking Modern American English. Also, the one non-English speaker speaks ''modern'' Esperanto.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]:
*
** "The Ultimate Enemy" shows why Vlad is broken in the [[Bad Future]]; he adopted Danny {{spoiler|after the latter's family died in the Nasty Burger accident, and they both grieved. At Danny's request, Vlad tried making him normal by removing his ghost side, to "make the pain go away". It backfired; the ghost Danny absorbed Vlad's ghost powers, becoming more powerful, and proceeded to slaughter the human Danny while he was hiding in a [[Troubled Fetal Position]].}}
* [[Even Heroes Have Heroes]]: [[Inverted]] in a sense -- Vlad ([[Captain Obvious|the villain]]) is a huge Packers fan.
* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]: "Attack of the Killer Garage Sale", "Public Enemies", "Double Cross My Heart", ''Danny Phantom'' is riddled with this.
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* [[Evil Makeover]]: Danny, Sam and Vlad each get one. Fans really dig how their looks (and voices) turned out. Wow. [[Evil Is Sexy]] indeed.
* [[Evil Plan]]: While the [[Monster of the Week|particular episode's ghost(s)]] might have their own agenda, [[Big Bad|Vlad]]'s plan stays the same until his [[Villain Decay]] in Season 3: Kill Jack, make Maddie his wife, and make Danny his son.
* [[Expendable Clone]]: No one, least of all Danny, seems particularly bothered when Danny [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|destroys the less-human looking clones]]. Only the human-looking Danielle gains his sympathy. This is subverted, however, by the fact that Danny ''also'' doesn't seem to be bothered when he destroys the so-called "perfect clone" of himself, which would be, in theory, at least as "human" as his [[Opposite
** This is [[Justified]] by the face that the previous clones weren't fully sentient and if the "perfect clone" awoke, Vlad would've taken out the original.
** Vlad himself only considered the "perfect clone" human, even [["Well Done, Son" Guy|rejecting]] the only person who probably loved him. [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]].
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** It's likely that Desiree, the [[Literal Genie]], is an expy of [[I Dream of Jeannie|Jeannie]].
** [[The Jeeves|Hobson]] from "Livin' Large" has the same job, appearance, personality, voice, and ''[[They Just Didn't Care|name]]'' as John Gielgud's character from ''[[Arthur (film)|Arthur]]''.
** Just look at Danny and try to say that he doesn't remind you of [[The Fairly
*** Some people have also noticed similarities between Danny and Spider-Man himself.
** Dark Danny seems to be one of both [[Incredible Hulk|the Mastero]] ([[Future Me Scares Me|The hero's future self is an evil madman bent on ruling the world]]) and [[X-Men|Onslaught]] (taking out his archenemy's dark side and being a combination of it and the hero's).
** Does Ember remind you of [[
** The aforementioned [[Hello Kitty|Sayonara Pussycat]]. Also see [[Bilingual Bonus]].
* [[Fail O'Suckyname]]: Before he tells the entire population of Amnity Park that his name is Danny Phantom, the name that the public used for Danny's ghost form was "Inviso-Bill".
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** Sam in "Urban Jungle", but otherwise she's quite [[Incredibly Lame Pun|trimmed]].
* [[Heh Heh, You Said "X"]]: In "Pirate Radio", after Youngblood and his pirates swipe the Fenton Ghost Shield, Youngblood turns to his parrot for the term, to which he says 'booty'. Youngblood, his crew, and even Tucker giggled at the word.
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: While Valerie tends to target Danny, she believes that she is going after ghosts that disrupt innocent people's lives. It's hard to argue that when just how many ghost invasions hit Amity Park. Danny himself says that Val isn't a bad person.
* [[Hero with Bad Publicity]]: Poor, poor Danny...
* [[Heroic Willpower]]: Displayed, surprisingly enough, by none other than Jack Fenton in Bitter Reunions. At the time of the episode, he was the only individual without ghost powers to ever stave off an overshadowing, even if for a short period.
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* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted hard in "[[The Movie|The Ultimate Enemy]]" which shows the only cold-blooded murder committed in the series and the accidental deaths of {{spoiler|Jack, Maddie, Mr. Lancer, Jazz, Sam and Tucker}}. Sidney Poindexter may also be an aversion, but he's already a ghost. An annoying one at that.
* [[Informed Judaism]]: Actually averted, if you pay attention - Grandma Manson occasionally uses Yiddish words when she's otherwise speaking English, and Manson is a fairly common Jewish last name. Ironic since Sam's parents are characterized as WASPs.
* [[In Spite of a Nail]]: "The Ultimate Enemy" shows Danny that just as there's a chance for him to go bad, there's a chance for Vlad to become good. In a later episode when Vlad blackmails him to get rid of his ghost acne by infecting Sam and Tucker, Danny asks Clockwork's permission to go back in time and stop the accident that caused Vlad to get ghost powers, hoping it will save his friends and give Vlad a second chance. In the new timeline, however, Vlad is a jerk who treats Maddie as a [[Stepford Wife]], making her give up ghost research in favor of cultivating cheese. He also broke her and Jack up since Jack was the one who got the ghost powers this time and became a recluse as a result. When Jack and Maddie get wind of this thanks to Danny, Vlad ''kills'' Jack off and gloats to Maddie that she can't do anything because they're still married. (Turns out this was Clockwork's intention when Danny returns to him to fix things back to normal; he says some people just turn out to be jerks regardless of their circumstances and blame other people.)
* [[Invocation]]: Danny's "Going Ghost!" is just a habit to say when he changes, it's not necessary.
** Lampshaded the first time he meets Vlad.
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* [[A Pirate 400 Years Too Late]]: Youngblood and his pirate crew.
* [[Plot-Sensitive Items]]
* [[Positive Discrimination]]: Namely, "Women are better than Men", though not as prominent as in ''[[The Fairly
* [[Post Dramatic Stress Disorder]]: Rather often, starting in the first episode with Danny saving Tucker and Sam from the Lunch Lady, only to collapse afterward. Subverted in the climax of "[[The Movie|Ultimate Enemy]]". Eventually, he grows out of this as he gets used to his powers and develops them further.
* [[Power Degeneration]]: The fate of the Danny clones, and almost that of Dani when overextending her powers.
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** Ember actually helped them see it.
** Everyone seemed to think they were an item, or should be. Even the [[Alpha Bitch]].
* [[Shout-Out]]: To comic books, crewmembers, ''[[The Fairly
** Also, after forcing Danny to [[Walk the Plank]] from Youngblood's flying pirate ship:
{{quote|'''Ember:''' [[Peter Pan|So...where's the splat?]]}}
** The name of the male who wears the amulet to become a ''dragon'' is '' '''Aragon'''. '' (Possibly a shout out to the popular book series ''Eragon''?
*** More likely [[The Lord of the Rings]]
** The high school is named [[Casper the Friendly Ghost|Casper]] High School.
{{quote|'''Paulina:''' So you're like, [[Casper the Friendly Ghost|a friendly ghost]]?}}
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* [[Token Trio]]: Danny, Tucker, and Sam.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Invariably Danny and Tucker, followed by a reproachful Sam.
* [[Took a Level
** Does anyone remember the Box Ghost in the Dark Danny timeline? I'd say that qualifies.
{{quote|''Beware''.}}
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* [[Totally Radical]]: Executed mercilessly. Sam has even used the word "radical" on at least one occasion.
** "Stellar" has also been used a few times.
* [[Training
{{quote|'''Tucker:''' ''[while climbing up a rope]'' Like chinning up to a killer bird's nest on a tree branch of ''empty lies''!}}
* [[Tranquil Fury]]: Danny entered a very coherent rage during his first true confrontation with Spectra.
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