Vlad Plasmius

Vladimir "Vlad" Masters is the anti-heroic deuteragonist of The Phantom Chronicles. He is a billionaire who is known as the former Supervillain Vlad Plasmius. Before that, he was Jack and Maddie's best friends in college, the biological father of Dani Phantom and the godfather of Danny Phantom. However, stranded in space, he is helped by Clockwork to amend for his mistakes after being abandoned in space by Jack and realize what a fool he was.  Despite Danny giving him the benefit of the doubt at times, nobody especially Danny's friends and family believes he is there to help and that he is up to one of his old tricks.
==Biography==
===Background===
Born Vlad Masters, he was the son of Iryna and Ivan Masters. The Masters family were of Russian descent.Vlad Masters attended the Wisconsin and was best friends with both Jack and Maddie Fenton in their college years; however, he had a crush on Maddie, despite her being in love with Jack at the time. The trio made a prototype portal machine to an alternate dimension known as the Ghost Zone but Vlad doesn't think that it will work. During one of their testing, Vlad stands in front of the portal when Jack activates it, the blast from the small explosion causes Vlad's face to grow Ecto-Acne. He was hospitalized for months but the accident also destroyed his social life and, in his eyes, his chance at entering in a relationship with Maddie. However, the blast also rewrote Vlad's DNA, making him the world's first human/ghost hybrid. Throughout the past twenty years, he grew embittered at Jack, especially when he and Maddie married and had children of their own. Still, Vlad rose with money and power, while holding a deep resentment for his former best friend. He takes advantage of his powers by committing many invisible burglaries to acquire his wealth he has now. He names his ghost-half under the Alias, Vlad Plasmius.
After Maddie and Jack married, they made Vlad the godfather of their second child and son, Daniel but they never told either of them because Vlad seemed uninterested in their attempts to appease him for the accident. After being rejected by Danny and Maddie through his schemes, Vlad used Danny's DNA with parts of his own to create Danielle "Dani" Phantom. after failing to use Danny's own by creating three other failed male clones before Dani came to be.
After revealing his identity as Plasmius to the world, he held the world at ransom, offering to turn the Disasteroid intangibile. However, it was resistant to Vlad's power. He tried turning to Jack for help, asking if he would help an old friend. Jack replied he would but for Vladhe would do no such thing. Remorseful, Vlad knew he could not return to Earth because he was a wanted man and lost his friendship with Jack. However, as he wallowed in self pity after realizing what a fool he was, Vlad was hit by the Disasteroid, taken to parts unknown. 
===Canon===
==Role in The Phantom Chronicles==
===Vlad and the Master of Time===
Vlad is the central character of the story, stranded in the middle of space until he is rescued from the vacuum of space by the master of time Clockwork and forced to relive his most terrible moments, including the loss of his parents, his mistreatment of the Fenton family and the creation of Danielle and his own selfish desires. Despite these moments, Vlad is still unconvinced. 
Clockwork then decides to show Vlad the alternate future where he housed Danny after the death of his family, friends and teacher that led to the creation of Dan Phantom. Horrified at the revelation, Clockwork reveals that he is giving Vlad a second chance and making it up to the people of Earth. He gave Danny a second chance and is sure that Danny will learn to give him the same, eventually. Seeing the error of his ways, Vlad resolves to return to Earth and approach Danny but has to be cautious because he is public Enemy# One chooses to watch the town from a distance and deciding to wait until the time is right to confront his former enemy.
===Return of Vlad Plasmius===
The reader, at first, thinks, he is there to wreak havoc, especially with all his thoughts running through his head. He abducts Danny but tells him he is there to mend ways, but Danny does not believe him until the man saves him from Skulker. Though the act does not convince him enough, they are on a truce for now.
===D-Stabilized Again===
Hiding away in the ghost Zone, Vlad is approached by Danny and Valerie, who come to tell him that Danielle is lethally ill and that the only way to save her if Jack creates a serum of both Danny and Vlad's DNA, as both were used to create Danielle in the first place. Upset at first, Vlad tells the teenagers he cannot help them heal Danielle because he thinks the serum will kill her and in his thoughts, that he can't do anything to save her. 
Valerie is against the idea because of what Vlad did to them in the past, especially because he made her hurt Danny and try to melt Danielle. However, she is convinced by Danny to trust Vlad just this once for Danielle's sake.
So far, he has only made amends with Danny and Danielle, but everyone else remains skeptical.   
In that same episode, Jack tells Vlad that he even made him Jazz and Danny's godfather, much to his shock. However, Vlad makes Jack swear that Danny and Jazz can't ever know about it. 
==="A Royal Return"===
Vlad himself doesn't actually appear in the short story, but he does sent Fright Knight and Skulker to aid Danny in defeating Pariah Dark. The reason is because Vlad is still a wanted man in the Ghost Zone because of the Disasteroid incident.
==Personality==
All that time alone in space caused Vlad to realize he took Jack's friendship for granted and realized what a fool he was, not so different from his future self and hopes to redeem himself in the Fenton family's eyes, especially Danny, Danielle and Jack. While it appeared he came to Amity Park to hurt them, he wasn't. When he returns, Vlad has a less than welcome homecoming, including Skulker, who wanted to get the bounty on Vlad because of his crime of trying to blackmail the world and nearly ending it. Despite seeing the future, Vlad approaches Danny the wrong way by resolving to kidnap him instead. However Vlad is not above keeping things from the Fentons, such as training Danny from Jack or the fact he is aware of the dark future from Danny himself. Despite his good intentions, Vlad still remained "somewhat a crazed fruitloop," as noted by Jazz but she sees him more as a lost soul than a supervillain. 
== Alternate Versions ==
===The Ultimate Enemy===
In an alternate timeline in which the Danny's family, Mr. Lancer, Tucker Foley and Sam Manson were killed in an explosion at Nasty Burger, Vlad took pity on Danny and adopted the orphan boy to move in his house because he was the only one who understood what Danny's current situation was. Per the boy's request to end his grief and suffering, Vlad separated both the boy's human and ghost selves entirely. However, his ghost half was stolen by Danny's ghost self and merged into Dark Dan. Plasmius' evil side overshadowed Danny's goodness. Dark Danny murdered his human self but left Vlad alive to tell the tale. This version of the timeline is undone, as well as Vlad's original fate. Vlad sees his alternate self in Vlad and the Master of Time, and the pain he goes through over the loss of Jack, Maddie and now, Daniel.
===The Masters of Time===
In the alternated timeline, Danny accidentally created in "The Masters of Time", Vlad married Maddie after Jack was the one who fell suffered fun the accident but he treated her like a possession rather than a person and lied to Maddie and Jack about loving each other. This reality was eventually undone with Danny's efforts from the help of the ghost deity Clockwork.
=== Mirror Universe ===
Vlad in this universe is is a man who, like Danny is a half-ghost and the boy's mentor after he turns into a Halfa like Vlad did. He was friends with Danny's parents in college but broke away from them after becoming half-ghost. He lacks his counterpart's wealth, and therefore, his evil and forbidding personality, since Skulker took him into the Ghost Zone. At the end, he ends up adopting Danny and Jazz when Jack and Maddie prove to be terrible parents. 
=== Jazz Phantom ===
In another twisted universe, Vlad Masters is the main antagonist of Jazz Phantom, being her true archenemy. Manipulating both "Maddie Plasmius" and Danny, his plan falls apart in breaking the Fentons apart when the trio realize the truth. Masters is defeated and arrested for kidnapping. In his own twisted way, he had a slight fondness for Danny,
=== Sam Phantom ===
The honorary uncle of Jazz Fenton and Danny Fenton (Sam Phantom). Since he never suffered from the accident, Vlad never became a villainous human/ghost hybrid and remained a friend of the Fenton family, co-owning Masters-Fenton Works. Vlad disapproves of Danny's girlfriend Sam Manson and believes her to be a bad influence on his nephew until learning she is a superhero. 
Unlike his counterpart in Jazz Phantom, Vlad doesn't work to break up Jack and Maddie, since their rivalry switched with Penelope Spencer, and Jeremy and Pamela Manson in the Sam Phantom universe.
==Powers and Abilities==
==Physical appearance==
==Relationships==
===Jack and Maddie Fenton (Former Friends/Reluctant Allies)===
===Danny Phantom (Former Enemy/Godson)===
Despite seeing the future, Vlad approaches Danny the wrong way by resolving to kidnap him instead of just calling him. In "A Royal Return", Plasmius sends Freight Knight to help Danny and Dorothea in feeding Prince Aragon and Pariah Dark but doesn't show himself because he is still a wanted man in the Ghost Zone. Danny mentions Vlad's promise of making things right between the two of them to Princess Dorathea to work that Freight Knight speaks true, and also leaves Danny confused as to why he is defending him. In "Teacher's Pet", Vlad offers to train Danny, with no strings attached. However due to the bad blood between in and Vlad in the past, they found it quite difficult to work it out at first, but it got better as the series progressed. 
===Valerie Gray (Former Enemy/Reluctant Ally) ===
Valerie doesn't trust Vlad because he got her father fired from his job and only to give him the job as a security guard, and manipulated her into hunting down Danny and Danielle, two people of whom she reconciled with. When Danny voiced in asking for Vlad's help to cure Danielle of an illness that is needed to fix her genetic make-up, Valerie protested. Not only because she was racked with guilt for trying to destroy Danny, she believed Vlad would hurt him despite saving him earlier. 
===Jazz Fenton===
Vlad has little to no attention to Jazz, seeing that she had not been aware of her brother's and his secret identities when they first met. Like with Danny, Vlad showed an interest in turning her against her father. However, at the end of "Secret Weapons," Jazz and Vlad are officially rivals and aware of his identity as Plasmius. Like her brother she also calls Vlad a fruit loop.(Secret Weapons)
After Vlad seemingly returns to hurt Danny, Jazz swears to rip him apart molecule by molecule. Now, Jazz appears to slowly become his therapist. She constantly tries to psycho analyze him but in truth is trying to help him.
===Pandora===
When she once met Plasmius, she electrocuted him for hurting Danny. It is safe to assume that they probably wouldn't get along. 
===Frostbite===
Frostbite attacked him when he found he was in possession of the infini-map and after he insulted the Yeti-like ghost. The second encounter isn't so pleasant when he sees Plasmius with Danny. 
Of course, when he was training Danny in "An Epiphany of Jack Fenton Disaster", Vlad calls him an "overgrown Snowman" and claims know anything about half ghost cores, which means he doesn't take frostbite seriously. Despite the mistrust between the two ghosts, Vlad took Danielle to Frostbite when her ice powers developed because Danny and his friends were in a field trip on another city.
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==Trivia==
* Clockwork showing Vlad his past so he can change for the better and the alternate and original future is reminiscence of the spirits of the Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come showing Ebenezer Scrooge his past, present and future so he can change his ways from the novel A Christmas Carol. (Vlad and the Master of Time)
* Vlad used his own DNA to create Danielle. (Vlad and the Master of Time)
*He is aware of everything that happens in the dark future where Dan Phantom exists and other Alternate realities (The Return of Plasmius)
* Vlad used to call Danny by his full name "Daniel" and rarely his preferred name but it seems to be in reverse in the fanfiction series, because he has been using his nickname "Danny" and rarly "Daniel"
*Part of Vlad's character development and redemption in the fanfiction was inspired from his development in the Danny Phantom fanfictions Checkmate and Endgame by pearl84 and The Two Phantoms storyline on Danny Fanon Wiki
*The Chronicles identified his parents as Iryna and Ivan Masters, both of whom were named after the mother of Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch and the father of Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, both identified in WandaVision and Black Widow respectively. 
*For Danny, he used to use the nickname "little badger" as a condescending one, but it has become more of an affectionate nickname that is a term of endearment. 
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