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A [[Superhero]] series on [[Nickelodeon]] by Butch Hartman, the creator of ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]''.

** Vlad as well, in Maternal Instincts.

* [[Anticlimax Cut]]: "Identity Crisis":

''Closeup on Danny looking sly. Cut to: ...the kids [[Bait and Switch|in an RV going about 120 miles an hour, driven by Danny's dad.]]''<br />

'''Tucker:''' Couldn't you've just flown us?<br />

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]:

** "Mystery Meat":

''(Tucker gives a sly smile)'' }}

*** Later, after Jack and Maddie capture Jazz while she was trying to counsel a goth boy:

** In "Boxed-Up Fury", the list of what's in Pandora's box:

** When the kids get in trouble in "Kindred Spirits".

'''Lancer''' Calling me OLD MAN... }}

** Vlad's...

also:<br />

"I've forgiven him for many things... causing the accident that ruined my life, stealing you, the backwash incident..." }}

* [[Art Evolution]]: The main characters don't look like stick figures and actually gain muscles in latter series; the colors also get more vibrant.

* [[Asleep for Days]]: [[Subverted]].

'''Tucker:''' ''(laughs)'' Nah, it's only been a couple hours. }}

* [[An Asskicking Christmas]]: The Fright Before Christmas.

*** There's also Clockwork who pulled one off so perfectly in "The Ultimate Enemy", no one was aware he was a good guy until the end.

* [[Battle Cry]]: '''"I'M GOING GHOST!"'''

** "FOR BEARBERT!"

* [[Battle Ballgown]]: Sam makes one out of a wedding dress in "Beauty Marked".

* [[Black Best Friend]]: Tucker.

* [[Blatant Lies]]: From "Maternal Instincts":

* [[The Blank]]: Amorpho, a shapeshifter whose default form is faceless. Also, possibly Fright Knight.

* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Early in the series Danny has little control of his powers and has started sinking through floors and making his pants intangible so that they fall down. He also got banned pre-series from bearing anything breakable while on school grounds.

** "I AM THE BOX GHOST!"

* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: Jazz in Reality Trip.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Occasionally employed. Usually with Fenton gear.

* [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin']]: [[Space Whale Aesop|Remember, kids, cheating on a test will cause you to turn evil and]] '''''[[Space Whale Aesop|destroy the future]]'''''

* [[Celestial Body]]: Nocturne, the ghost of sleep, has his entire body except his eyes and face-mask as stars in space.

* [[Changed My Jumper]]: Subverted in the episode ''Masters Of All Time'' where Danny's time travel to the 1980's reveals that his black jumpsuit is actually ''fitting'' for that time period.

* [[Chef of Iron]]: The Lunch Lady Ghost.

* [[Chekhov's Boomerang]]: The [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Boooomerang]], first used in "The Ultimate Enemy" to find Danny, gets used again in "Kindred Spirits". Bonus points for being an actual boomerang.

** The Tucker-bot from "Livin' Large", later used in "Phantom Planet". Also, Valerie's first ghost hunting suit, first appearing in the tenth episode. We later find out in the fortieth episode why Vlad gave her the gear!

* [[The Chessmaster]]:

'''Vlad:''' What? That I used two 14-year-old pawns to turn a knight and topple a king? It's chess, Daniel. Of course you don't understand. But then, you never really did. }}

* [[Chew Bubblegum]]

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Fenton Works.

* [[Curse Cut Short]]: From the Phantom Planet Finale:

'''Maddie Holograph Two:'''"*gasp* Why you holographic- *Violence Ensues*" }}

* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Danny and Valerie briefly.

* [[Dream Weaver]]: Nocturne, the Ghost of Sleep, demonstrates the power to manipulate dreams in "Frightmare."

* [[Drop What You Are Doing]]:

''[[Drop What You Are Doing|Sam drops her tea]]''. }}

* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: In the "Ultimate Enemy", a memorial statue of Tucker, Sam, and Danny's family says "Gone But Not Forgotten", while a statue of Mr. Lancer a few feet away only says "Gone."

* [[Episode Title Card]]: Done in the fashion of 50's horror movies, no less, with the [[Grand Finale]] as the only exception.

* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: The first episode's [[Cold Open]] gives little ones to each of the main characters in the form of their responses to Jack.

'''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.

* [[Flanderization]]: By Season 3, many suffered from this.

* [[Flight of Romance]]: Foreshadowing the finale.

* [[Flying Brick]]

* [[Flynning]]: That sword fight between Danny and Vlad in "Infinite Realms".

* [[Funny Foreigner]]: Subverted with Gregor. He's not funny at all, {{spoiler|his real name is Elliot, and he's from Michigan.}}

* [[Furry Fandom]]: In "Reality Trip", Tucker admits aloud that he finds a wolf lady to be "hot".

'''Tucker:''' Yeah. Still hot. }}

* [[Future Badass]]: The Box Ghost.

* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Sam gets really annoyed whenever Danny starts drooling over Paulina.

** In the episode 'Double Cross My Heart', Danny grows increasingly irritated about Sam's crush on the new transfer student.

'''Sam:''' Whoa. Thank you, Joe Hostility. }}

* [[Green Eyes]]: Danny in ghost-mode and Jazz normally. Also (for some reason), all the non-white characters have green eyes.

** You could say that the entire concept of a "half-ghost" is this. The mechanics behind it is never really explained, and many a fan has tried to figure out how being half-dead really works.

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Vlad and Spectra.

'''Spectra:'''You’re a freak! Not a ghost, not a boy! Who cares for a thing like you? }}

* [[Happily Ever After]]: {{spoiler|The world is saved from a giant asteroid, Jack and Maddie (and arguably the whole world) knows and accepts Danny's identity as a [[Half-Human Hybrid|half ghost]], Danny is regaled as a hero around the world, the [[Big Bad]] has been banished from the planet, and [[First Girl Wins|Danny and Sam]] get together in the end}}.

* [[Happily Married]]: Jack and Maddie Fenton.

* [[Hartman Hips]]: Maddie, Valerie, Paulina, etc... it ''is'' a Hartman series...

** 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.

* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Danny, especially when standing beside Tucker.

* [[Homage]]: Multiple. The Goth Bookstore showcases George McFly's book from ''[[Back to The Future]]'' on its shelves. When Danny collapses from cold in "Urban Jungle", he wakes up floating in his underwear in a water tank a la ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''. Then there's "three for the OpCenter" as they "beam up" to the upper level of the Fenton house. And those are just the really obvious ones. There's more than a few examples in dialogue as well.

'''GIW:''' [[Star Wars|He's not the ghost we're looking for]]. }}

** To add into the "Back to the Future" references, "Masters of All Time" has a blink-it-and-you'll-miss-it" cameo of Marty McFly in the group shot of the 80's college student (wearing his infamous red "life jacket") and an even cooler homage: the clock tower on the school reads 10:04. ''Awesome''.

* [[Improbable Hairstyle]]: many of the ghosts have this, but this is averted with most of the humans. Except for Danny. What kind of hairstyle ''is'' that, a reverse mullet?

* [[Inconvenient Itch]]: In one episode, Danny and Valerie end up in the Ghost Zone and are forced to team up against Skulker. After a while, they end up trapping him, tying him up, and leaving him on the floor as they exit the zone. At that point Skulker exclaims:

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Danny is a master of ''really bad puns''. Also lampshaded once in "Shades of Gray" and "Beauty Marked".

** Puns are used as lead-ins to commercial breaks with alarming frequency. As narrated by Ghost Writer:

"Must we end every scene with a terrible pun?" }}

* [[I Need to Go Iron My Dog]]: Danny often has to come up with excuses (sometimes involving [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]) on the fly so that he can get away and transform. His friends and sister will also up with some strange ones to cover for him.

'''Jazz:''' We're in the kitchen... (also noticing Box Lunch) ... but ''if that's your attitude, then I don't want to see you ... or ... anything you do in here for the next ... several minutes!'' (exit stage left). }}

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: [[Future Badass]] Box Ghost: "''Beware.''"

* [[Ironic Echo Cut]]: Borrowed from [[Fairly Oddparents|FOP]].

* [[Least Rhymable Word]]: In the Christmas episode, everyone was forced to speak in rhyme as someone narrated the entire episode. That is, until someone picked up an orange, prompting him to remark irritably that nothing rhymes with orange.

** Later, in Ghost Jail...

'''Ghostwriter:''' ''GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME!'' }}

*** Yet he still wears a purple coat...

** Tucker believed that the reason Danny {{spoiler|doomed us all by getting rid of his powers}} in the Finale was because nothing rhymed with Phantom.

* [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again]]: In "Boxxed Up Fury" when Danny saves Skulker from killer unicorns:

'''Danny''': Deal. }}

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]

* [[Out of the Inferno]]: While fighting Danny, [[Future Me Scares Me|Dark Danny]] is weakened by the Spectre Deflector and hit into an oil truck, which the fire from his hair ignites. Danny walks away... [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Only for Dark Danny to emerge out of the blaze, unscathed and clutching the now-useless device.]] [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|He then proceeds to beat the crap out of Danny.]]

* [[Overprotective Dad]]: Paulina's father:

** Also, Valerie's dad, Damian, to a lesser extent. He's okay with Danny and Valerie being together, just so long as none of Danny's parents' "ghost weirdness" rubs off.

* [[Pair the Spares]]: "I am Box Lunch, daughter of the Box Ghost and the Lunch Lady!"

*** Maybe she's [[Incredibly Lame Pun|into heavy metal?]]

* [[Parrot Expowhat]]:

'''Danny, Sam and Jazz:''' The Ecto-whaty-what? }}

* [[People Jars]]: The clones in "Kindred Spirits".

* [[Romantic False Lead]]: Paulina to Sam, Gregor to Danny.

* [[Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue]]: When Danny {{spoiler|attempts to stop the poem spell by destroying the Ghost Writer's Quantum Keyboard}} in "The Fright Before Christmas":

This lame poem is... through?! }}

* [[RPG Episode]]: "Teacher of the Year", set in the MMORPG "[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Doomed]]".

* [[Shout-Out]]: To comic books, crewmembers, ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'', [[Doom]], and ''[[Star Wars]]''.

** Also, after forcing Danny to [[Walk the Plank]] from Youngblood's flying pirate ship:

** 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 [[Lord of the Rings]]

** The high school is named [[Casper the Friendly Ghost|Casper]] High School.

** The movie posters in Sam's basement: [[Citizen Kane]], [[Planet of the Apes]], [[Star Wars]], [[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]] and [[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]. In the same episode, see [[Baleful Polymorph]] above.

** "Darn! Right at the part where he says, '[[Jerry Maguire|you complete me]].'"

* [[There Are No Girls on the Internet]]: In "Teacher of the Year", Tucker and Danny don't believe girls play online games. They're extremely surprised to find out the player Chaos, who [[That One Boss|routinely kicks their butts]], is [[Samus Is a Girl|none other than Sam]]. (She did admit to using "[[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|loads]] of [[cheat Ing]] [[Classic Cheat Code|codes]] and [[Guide Dang It|secret]] [[Power-Up|power ups]]" though.)

* [[They Would Cut You Up]]: Even Danny's own ''parents'' want to do this to his ghost half. And the [[The Men in Black|Guys in White]], and their famous quote from Reality Trip.

* [[Thick Line Animation]]

* [[This Loser Is You]]

* [[Time Travel]]: "The Ultimate Enemy", "Masters of All Time", and "Infinite Realms".

* [[Title Drop]]:

'''Sam:''' Of 'flirting with disaster'? }}

* [[Token Trio]]: Danny, Tucker, and Sam.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Valerie, after she gets used to her ghost-fighting gear, and Danny himself by the end of the series.

** Does anyone remember the Box Ghost in the Dark Danny timeline? I'd say that qualifies.

* [[Top-Heavy Guy]]: Vlad. Masters not so much, but it's glaringly obvious when he fights as Plasmius.

* [[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 From Hell]]: Sam did this to Tucker in "Micro-Management". Well, it's pretty hellish when you take into consideration he doesn't have superpowers and is only training to pass a school fitness test.

* [[Tranquil Fury]]: Danny entered a very coherent rage during his first true confrontation with Spectra.

'''Danny:''' No, I'm sure you can't. }}

* [[Trick Dialogue]]

* [[Wham! Episode]]: "Public Enemies". While Danny's exploits up to this point were mostly low-key, below the radar, and ignorable, now the entire town is aware of his existence, and ghosts have become very real for them.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Jack Fenton is made of this. When [[Me's a Crowd|split]] into "hero" mode and "slacker" mode, hero!Danny is too.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: In the opening scene of "Control Freaks", Danny fights off a horde of [[It Makes Sense in Context|ghostly tattoos]] by creating an energy sphere around himself; the sphere breaks out and swats the tattoos away. We never see this power on the show again.

** Due to the series being cut off while in its prime, we never found out what became of the Crown of Fire Vlad obtained after Danny defeated Pariah Dark.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: To convince Valerie to help him save Danielle from Plasmius, Danny tries to make her see she can't in good conscience harm her because she's half human.

'''Danny:''' Fine, destroy ghosts! But can you really take part in destroying a ''human''? }}

* [[Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?]]: Danny gets all his ghost hunting needs in his own basement. One episode shows his own house has a weapons' vault, a possible other source.

** It's also somewhat like ''[[D.N.Angel]]''.

* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: ...according to Danny's future self (and a few fans), anyway.

"I'm ''still here''. I still exist. That means ''you'' still turn into ''me''." }}

** Seemingly subverted by the Observants at the end, when they state that Dark Danny "exists outside of time" and, as such, does not require a [[Stable Time Loop]] to justify his existence.

* [[You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost]]: Or something really scary that we ''don't'' see every day!"

* [[You Meddling Kids]]:

 

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