Danny Phantom

Daniel "Danny" Fenton, also known by his superhero alias Danny Phantom, (born June 14th, 1990) is the titular main protagonist of the Nickelodeon animated series of the same name. He is a 14-year-old 9th grade student at Casper High School. His parents research ghosts, and had built a ghost portal which didn't work. Danny entered the non-functioning ghost portal and accidentally activated it, fusing his molecular structure with ectoplasm. He became half-ghost, gaining ghost powers like intangibility, invisibility, and flight. He took on the alias Danny Phantom and now uses his ghost powers to protect his hometown of Amity Park.
He is voiced by , who also voiced Jimmy Olsen in the DC Animated Universe. His singing voice is done by Chance Perez who portrayed Javier García.
==History==
===Early Life===
Living with ghost-obsessed parents Jack and Maddie Fenton since birth, Danny had to put up with his parents' "unique" personalities alongside his older sister Jazz in the town of Amity Park, which often traumatized him. Danny wanted to be an astronaut when he grew up and, unlike his parents, had no interest in hunting (or anything to do with them in general) ghosts.
Living with ghost hunter parents didn't quite help with his social life either, as it constantly made him a laughingstock and a Pariah to the rest of his peers in his high school, but it didn't stop him from making friends in the form of a tech-geek named Tucker Foley and a goth girl named Sam Manson, whom he'd develop a crush on & vice-versa. However, despite not showing any interests in ghosts this did not stop his curiosity on the things they'd do and Danny wouldn't know is that his curiosity will one day change his life forever.
===Gaining his ghost Powers===
One fateful day, Danny learned from his parents that they're currently building their greatest ghost invention yet: a machine that would enable them to see into the ghost world, but when they tried to activate it the portal didn't seem to work which caused his parents to give up on the portal. But really fascinated with the concept of a world of ghosts, Danny alongside Sam and Tucker began exploring the lab, during which Danny (at Sam's suggestion) decides to check out the ghost portal, but upon looking inside it he accidentally activated the Ghost Portal from the inside (he unknowingly turned on the on-switch inside the portal which was something his parents forgot), causing the portal to turn on and being inside it causes his molecular structure to become infused with ectoplasm.
This causes Danny to become half-human and half-ghost and gain an array of ghostly powers. Since he really didn't wanna be a half-ghost at first, Danny did his best to try and be normal as he can be, but with the Fenton portal now fully-active it now causes ghosts to enter the living world and do whatever they want. After spending a whole month of trying to lay-low when the ghost of his school's old Lunch Lady attacks in retaliation for his pals arguing over the school's menu and proves to be a serious threat, as well as seeing his parent's failing at their own profession, Danny steps in and puts the Lunch Lady out of commission and sends her back to the ghost world. Greatly impressed with the heroic deed he's done, Danny decided to take on the role of a superhero to protect Amity Park, taking the alias "Danny Phantom" due to his parents still viewing his ghost-half as a menace.
===Meeting other adversaries===
Danny's emergence as Danny Phantom quickly swelled up many suspicions on who the "ghost boy" is or what his motives are in the eye's of the public as well as causing some problems in his normal life outside of his newfound career in fighting ghosts. If that wasn't enough for him his meddling with the affairs of dangerous ghosts caused him to get the ire and attention of most other well-known ghosts in the ghost world, and they're very looking forward to taking him down. Some of these prime ghost enemies Danny would encounter is one with a great love for the new age named Technus, a more of bother-than-danger spirit with a love for anything box-related, and a real enemy in the form of a small blob... that's always piloting a giant-robotic suit named Skulker whose obsessed with hunting him because of his half-ghost nature.
But eventually Danny would soon meet a more personal enemy to his family life when his dad decides to bring the whole family to a college-reunion party hosted by his best friend back-then Vlad Masters, who has now a billionaire bachelor with an extreme hatred for his dad because he had feelings for Maddie as well and is determined to take back what was "rightfully is", Danny included. That night while staying in Vlad's manor for the night, Danny soon hears his father sleep-walking because of some ghostly interference, prompting him to bring him to the closest bathroom for safety while fights them off. But after defeating the ghosts, Danny soon comes across another ghost and despite putting up a good fight, he finds himself outclassed by his opponents abilities and is knocked out & is reverted to his human-half.
Though when he wakes up the following morning, Danny finds himself still in his bed which makes him assume it was just a dream, and he gets dressed-up to attend the party, only to feel quickly humiliated by his father's antics. But things quickly get dangerous for him when Vlad asks him to get a "present" he plans on giving his father inside a lab, upon arriving he finds a picture of him and his parents (with Jack's face being removed) before being ambushed by Skulker as he locks him in a box that neutralizes his powers, but before he could be killed by the ghost hunter, he is stopped by none other than Vlad who tells he can leave now. As soon as Skulker leaves, Danny finds out that during his college years, Vlad to got infected by ectoplasm by a prototype version of his dad's ghost portal that resulted him in becoming a half-ghost just like Danny, having also called his ghost alias (the same ghost Danny fought last night) "Vlad Plasmius" with all the same powers Danny had and more, but with twenty years more experience, which is something he's willing to show him to just as long as he (as well as his mother & sister) renounces Jack as his father and becomes his adopted son.
Of course, Danny views this as extremely insane and declines his offer, but Vlad doesn't back off just yet and he leaves Danny in the box before going ghost himself and flying to possess Jack and wreck the party to make it look like Jack did it. luckily Danny is rescued by the first nice ghost he meets in the form of the spirit of the Dairy King and he quickly battles Vlad once again but since he's still outmatched by him Danny resorts to possess his dad's body and threatens to expose both of them unless they call a truce and while Vlad accepts his terms, he makes it clear to him that he's now become Danny's arch-nemesis.
===First trip into the Ghost Zone===
On his parents wedding anniversary, Danny comes down to the lab to ask his dad something before his unwillingly shown his latest vehicle he built that'll enable anyone to travel across the world of ghosts, but when Maddie comes down where she angrily berates him for forgetting it again, she unknowingly launches the vehicle with Danny still inside, sending him right into the Ghost Zone: the realm where all ghosts reside. Though he was lucky enough to make it back, his mom has become fed up with his dad forgetting their anniversary and leaves to talk with their aunt, after his father rushes to try and makes things right with her, Danny and Jazz stay in the house to clean it up if the possibility they might make up, but he accidentally shoves his dad's gift to her right into the ghost zone, and out of fear of a potential divorce, he prepares himself to enter the ghost world and get it back.
Flying into the realm of ghosts for the first time, Danny has a hard time trying to find the gift in all the new-unfamiliar terrain the ghost world has to offer before being captured by the sole police force of the ghost zone and sentenced into the realm's toughest (and only) prison under the watchmen-ship of it's unscrupulous warden Walker where he is once again reunited with all the ghosts he defeated so far, as well as learning that the present is now in Walker's office. Determined to get out of here and save his parent's marriage, Danny is able to convince most of his fellow inmates to team up with him in a big prison uprising, which is something they all agree to, and while it proved to be successful, when Danny races to get the present Walker proves to be too powerful for him, but he is rescued by his friends and through them he learns that just how ghosts can move freely in their world, humans are the ghosts in the ghost zone, and he promptly turns back into a human and easily walks by the ghost warden and saves his parents marriage just in time.
===The rise of Valerie===
===Saving the world & the ghost zone===
In Phantom Planet, Vlad created a new team of teenage ghost hunters, the Masters' Blasters, to upstage Danny. They were inexplicably able to hunt ghosts much better than Danny could, embarrassing Danny to the point where he began to seriously question his status as the superhero the people wanted. He was so depressed that, despite his friends' protests, he used the Fenton Portal to remove all his ghost powers, becoming fully human again. At the same time, however, a much bigger threat - the Disasteroid - was headed straight for Earth, timed to collide in just one week and destroy the entire planet; because Earth and the Ghost Zone are flip sides of each other, if Earth were to be destroyed, the Ghost Zone would be destroyed as well. With renewed determination, Danny returned to the Ghost Zone to seek help. His enemies in the Ghost Zone, however, were all too glad to see him in his powerless human state and took great pleasure in blasting him over and over. This inexplicably caused Danny to regain his half-ghost status and all his former powers. Gaining help from his allies and enemies from the Ghost Zone, humans and ghosts worked side-by-side and successfully saved the Earth from the Disasteroid. When the crisis was finally over, Danny revealed his secret identity to all of Earth and was hailed as Earth's hero. Danny revealed to Sam that he became his father's sidekick.
==Personality==
At the beginning of the series, Danny is an average, awkward, nervous, and friendly teenager. Like most teenagers, he has crushes on girls, occasional desires to be popular, a dislike of bullies, and embarrassment about his parents. Unlike them, though, he is afraid of anyone discovering his hard-to-control ghost powers, making him go from being a "geek" to a "freak". Not even sure about how to use his powers, Danny simply longs to be normal and unnoticed by anyone. But after he fights the Lunch Lady Ghost, he realizes he can use his powers to save others from ghost attacks and dedicates his free time to catching troublesome ghosts. This new-found sense of purpose begins to change Danny into a heroic, brave young man.
Over time, Danny gains confidence in himself and his abilities. He isn't scared of fighting ghosts, usually taunting them and putting all of his energy into fighting them off. He also gradually finds Dash more annoying and troublesome. As he faces more villains and bigger threats, Danny accepts that it's his responsibility to save those in need of help, sometimes endangering himself to do so. By Public Enemies, although many people think he's a bad guy, Danny is still determined to keep protecting Amity Park from ghosts, his dedication paying off when people begin to accept him as their heroin Reign Storm.
On the downside, he can sometimes become overconfident and impulsive, assuming he can defeat anyone easily or do whatever he wants without any consequences. This might lead him to use his ghost powers to take revenge on bullies, cheat on a test, or even just ignore an impending situation so that he can enjoy something. When someone like Sam tries to warn him about his actions, Danny can be ignorant and disagreeable, only to find out he was wrong later. Despite these issues, once Danny figures out what he has caused, he works hard to set things right, whether it be apologizing or saving the day.
When he's not worried about ghosts, Danny is naturally kind, easy-going, and helpful. On the other hand, he can be grumpy, frustrated, stressed, and mean, often making sarcastic remarks or his eyes glowing green from anger. Danny rarely gets extremely mad or emotional, only taking important matters personally like Vlad and Dan. His ghost hunting often cuts into his schoolwork time, but he does work hard after he puts his mind on the task at hand - except when he's lazy or distracted. Danny isn't the smartest person around, but he is clever at devising plans, having good ideas and using resources, like his powers, Fenton equipment, and friends with different talents. He loves making puns and exchanging witty banter during his fights, and while there are moments when he under-appreciated his friends, he is thankful to have them.
==Physical Appearance==
Danny Fenton has black hair and blue eyes from his father's genes. He wears a white T-shirt with a thin red collar, red cuffs, and a red circle in the middle, light blue jeans, and red-and-white sneakers. When he transforms into Danny Phantom, his hair becomes snow-white, his eyes become glowing green, and his skin changes from light to tanned. Danny Phantom wears a black jumpsuit with white boots, collar, belt, and forearm-length gloves. After "Memory Blank," he wears his logo, a white "D" with the negative space inside it forming a "P," on his chest. However, in the origin of Danny Phantom, the jumpsuit's colors were reversed, which is a white jumpsuit with black boots, collar, belt, and forearm-length gloves.
==Powers and Abilities==
===Ghost Powers===
*Intangibility/Invisibility: Danny can become invisible and intangible, as well as transferring these abilities to other people by touching them. These skills are very useful for escapes or surprise attacks,as they allow it to pass through any solid object, exit and enter any place without being noticed. However, his intangibility can be overcome when he is hit by other ghosts who are intangible,or when hit by weapons specially made to fight ghosts,and even when it is invisible, it can be easily detected through infrared glasses.
*Overshadowing: Also known as "possession", Danny can possess humans, animals, inanimate objects, other ghosts, and half ghost beings. This allows Danny to control them freely, especially using people to control their feelings and choices. However, people with very strong wills can resist and even expel Danny from their bodies.
*Ghost Ray: Danny's trademark offensive rant, for being the most used. He can shoot blasts out of his palms made out of ectoplasm energy. The beams can be manipulated, altering the size and range or changing their shape into things like disks, spheres, and squares. At his peak, Danny can charge a one or two-handed Ghost Ray into a "Super Ghost Ray" that can tear apart any weak ghost molecule by molecule and destroy the surrounding area. It can also blind his opponents when he combines it with his photokinesis. It can also be used as a Repulsion Field and Energy Strike to increase his physical attacks.
*Ghost Shield/Ecto-Shield: Making a dome shape made out of ectoplasm, it can be used as a shield from attacks. It can also become a reflect shield that can reflect projectiles and repellent shield that can repel enemies.
*Duplication: At first, Danny had trouble mastering it and only created extra limbs. Eventually, Danny learns to properly use the duplication move, making up to four copies. However, he isn't skilled as Vlad, who can create up to a hundred shadow duplicates.
*Ghostly Wail: Considered to be the most powerful move that Danny has, Danny can scream ultra waves of ectoplasm that almost nothing human or ghost can withstand. Around the first few times, the move drained drain Danny's power completely and reverted him back to human form. Over time, he learns to handle the power and can use it multiple times without losing energy.
*Cyrokinesis: Danny can manipulate ice, allowing him to freeze whatever he touches, shoot freezing lasers of ice from his hands or eyes, and shoot shards of ice. Similar to the ecto-energy, he can channel his ice powers to his fist. He can merge his ice powers and his ghost ray powers to create a giant green explosive snowball or make an ice shield out of it.
*Pyrokinesis: Danny can generate and throw balls of ectoplasmic fire. Like his dark future self Dark Danny when ever he uses his Ghostly Wail his white hair starts to wave like fire until he stops screaming.
*Photokinesis: Danny can emit pulses of light from his hands, allowing him to see in dark areas. He's also used this ability to blind humans wearing dark sunglasses.
*Electrokinesis/Ghost Stinger: Though he didn't use it as much throughout the series, it can channel through electric wires. And somehow while being shocked, has fused with his game avatar by combing it with his overshadowing ability.
*Teleportation (Possibly): Like Vlad, Danny can seemingly teleport by vanishing and instantly reappearing in another place nearby. His act of teleportation is making his body become slightly disfigured then fading away and appearing in another place. Although unconfirmed, it is suggested that this could possible be teleportation or his could simply be him moving while invisible, though this is atypical for the show's animation, as the audience is normally able to see him while he is invisible. Danny has used this during his battle with Tucker Phantom in "What You Want?" and a reality-warping Freakshow in "Reality Trip." In "The Next Generation" video, according to Butch Hartman, Danny did not have teleportation and it is actually an ability that his children have. So Danny may have an ability similar to Teleportation or a form of this ability at his advantage. 
*Telekinesis: Danny can lift things with his telekinetic abilities.
*Power Augmentation: Whenever Danny is stuck in a trap or whatever situation he's in, he can be shown a green or white aura.
*Body Manipulation: Can be only seen in his ghostly tail appearance, he can make holes of his body to have the attack go through him, can stretch his body to avoid energy blast from an enemy and make him extremely flexible, and can even split his body in half to avoid attacks. He's also transformed into a blue mist to escape a dragon grip.
*Vacuum Resistance: Whenever Danny went into space, he didn't wore a astronaut/space suit and wasn't affected by the vacuum, stardust, or cosmic radiation, though he wore a helmet. He presumably wore a helmet in case he reverted back to his human form so it is possible he has the ability to self-substance like Vlad.
*High-level Regeneration: Danny can regenerate small cuts or major damage.
==Trivia==
*The fact his parents never figured his identity themselves is poked fun at by Dark Danny and Death Battle's co-host Boomstick; the latter calls them idiots, a sentiment Dark Danny lampshaded
*He fought Jake Long in Death Battle and won. Creator Burch Hartman watched and was impressed with the accuracy of which Danny was depicted.
*It unknown why only Danny's head reverted back to human form in the Ultimate Enemy. There are a few fan speculations: 
**This may have been because he had the Time Medallion inside of him.
**This may have been possible due to being in the Ghost Zone, which increased power--which is definitely a possibility as seen in Phantom Planet he used it twice without losing energy.
**This might of been because it was his first time using it, so it was not as powerful and didn't drain him as much, therefore causing him to only partially revert back.
*Danny is the only character in the series to appear in every episode. He also appears in the title card of every episode except "Phantom Planet," which had no characters in its title card.
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