DaPhantom

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 **DaPhantom** is an ancient, ethereal ghost who is one of the main characters of *Turtle Man and DaPhantom*. He is best friends with Turtle Man and Officer M.

## Appearance

DaPhantom is a cyan coloured, semi-transparent ghost with a light blue aura around him. He has a small ghost tail and a barely visible face that has blue, thick eyebrows as well as a blue mouth and eyes with cyan coloured pupils.

## Background

For a long time the origins of DaPhantom were undisclosed and almost nothing was known about his history. Turtle Man, Officer M. and several other characters asked him about his background before but was a little shy on talking about it. However, since DaPhantom is a ghost, it could be told that he was once some sort of alive creature that died however what species this could be wasn't known either. He first met Turtle Man after a few years of wandering the wild and befriended him, then met Officer M. some time later with the three of them continuing to embark upon adventures and fight together to this day.

DaPhantom lives in an old, somewhat spooky and large manor. With many calling this housing haunted, it isn't too known as to why DaPhantom chooses to live here after many years but the ghostly element might have something to do with it. Even his friends such as Officer M. find the manor creepy, not wanting to go in it especially since it is filled with webs and bugs everywhere and even people buried under it.

In the final battle of Season 3, DaPhantom had one of his ectoplasm arms ripped off as it got stuck within a closing black hole that the Evil King conjured to try and consume the trio whilst he made his escape from the moon. At this point he had not yet mastered his bodily regeneration powers, so as a substitute he made a cybernetic arm in Season 4 that had some advanced tech abilities implemented by Turtle Man such as laser fire and morphing into weapons such as a saw. In Season 5, he had learned to fully his master his abilities and could regenerate his arm, so he ditched the robot one.

In the second movie, parts of DaPhantom's past are revealed for the first time ever as he tells the story of how he died as a human to Officer M. and Mort. He was born on the 29th of July 1872, where he was given the name Mathew by his parents who lived in the newly industrial city of London - a distant place far away from Nexus. A few years later in the autumn of 1879, Mathew had attended a school where he made many friends who nicknamed him "DaMathew" - two of them named Tom and Dave told him that they found a dead body not far from the school, so the three of them escaped through a hole in the school fence to find it. They followed a train track to the site of the body and did come across it, but Mathew was on the train tracks so he got hit by a train and died. A doctor named Phan tried to revive Mathew by giving him chest compressions and feeding him a gross elixir, which did in fact work for a moment but then he just died again. Some days later Tom and Dave visited Mathew's grave filled with grief as it was kind of their fault that he died by telling him about the body in the first place, and then went home as it was getting dark and starting to rain. All of a sudden, an ethereal being started to crawl out of Mathew's tombstone which was revealed to be his ghost, surprised by how he was dead since he only remembered passing out. He decides to go visit his friends and tells them that he is Mathew, but they don't understand him well so he just decides to leave them alone and roam the misty streets of London as a permanent ghost.

Later on in this movie when Manic Mage puts DaPhantom to sleep, he suffers from an induced nightmare of this event from his past but altered to be more terrifying - as Mathew he is about to suddenly be run over by the train which killed him that is being ridden by the mage. However, Turtle Man and Officer M. enter the nightmare and were able to push Mathew out of the way to save him from a much more gruesome death. As Manic Mage approaches to fight them again, the two manage to make Mathew remember that this is just a nightmare which didn’t actually happen so he returns to DaPhantom, wakes back up and is able to help with the rest of the fight against the mage.

## Personality and Relationships

DaPhantom is a soft and kind-hearted ghost who is nice to most and has rather fragile feelings. He is also rather intelligent and works well with a lot of both new and old technologies, showing he has a rather vestige understanding likely due to his decades-old afterlife span.

DaPhantom is best friends with Turtle Man, Officer M. and later Quacksia and is usually very nice to them, but sometimes he can get a bit mad and sarcastic towards them (especially Officer M). He has made many enemies across the series, the main ones being The Devourer and the Evil King, but also had a crush on a girl ghost called DaPhantoplasm. However, she was only a trick created by the Devourer, which hurt DaPhantom’s feelings a lot as he thought he finally had someone to relate to.

DaPhantom seemed to like and care more about Quacksia then the other guys did as he was translating his sentences often and trying to find him after he ran away in the Season 6 finale. He was also upset to see Quacksia go but understood that he wanted to go off and find a new place with new adventures to be found.

DaPhantom doesn’t like Old MacDonald the farmer and sees him as shady due to how suspicious his mannerisms are.

## Abilities

DaPhantom’s vast knowledge of technology has led to creations of his such as an airship, and advanced weaponry. He made a powerful and massive airship in Season 3 which was unfortunately destroyed by the Evil King’s powers in the Season 4 finale. Later on he had built a car for the snow race which he based off of his former airship and gave it some similar features, but it was unfortunately destroyed during the race which left him vehicless once again.

On top of this, DaPhantom has his own ghostly powers, such as being able to possess most other beings for a short period and controlling them. This even works on powerful beings such as the Devourer, but very briefly. He also has telekinesis and can speak telepathically, allowing his to speak through people’s minds and cause things to levitate like a poltergeist of sorts. He can also regenerate injured parts of him, making him rather difficult to defeat without the use of a ghost sealer, which the Devourer’s Groovin' Grover used to trap him.

## Appearances

Being one of the main characters of the show, DaPhantom has appeared in every single episode, movie, game and special so far.

## Trivia

* His human name was Mathew. His human friends had often nicknamed him "DaMathew" when they were kids at school together, which is where the Da in his name came from.
	+ The Phan in his name comes from the doctor who tried to revive him after he died who was named Doctor Phan, and the Tom in his name is from one of his friends who was named Tom.
* The aspect of his backstory where he and his friends go to find a dead body and traverse train tracks to reach it is not dissimilar to the story of *The Body* (better known as *Stand By Me*) by Stephen King.

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