Danny Phantom

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**Danny Phantom** (real name **Daniel "Danny" Fenton**) is the titular main protagonist of the Nickelodeon television series, *Danny Phantom*. He was a human boy who turned into a ghost/human hybrid upon stepping in through the Fenton Portal while in his parents' laboratory, in which he and his best friends, Sam Manson and Tucker Foley snuck into. His molecular structure is fused and rearranged with ectoplasm. As a result, he can transform from human to ghost at will, and he has several supernatural abilities. He works with his family and friends in hunting down evil ghosts.

After an encounter with a dark version of his future self, Danny matures in his powers and begins to use them more responsibly.

## Physical Appearance

Danny is a slender, tall for his age who, at fourteen years old, with shaggy black hair, blue eyes, and fair skin. In human form, he wears a white and red T-shirt, blue jeans and red/white tennis shoes. In his ghost form, his eyes turn a neon green and his hair turns snow white while his body has a white glow. He has a black hazmat suit on with a white collar, boots and gloves and a "D" symbol that Sam gave him and the "D" looks like a "P."

## Powers and Abilities

### Ghost Powers

* **Transformation/Going Ghost:** Danny has the ability to transform between his human and ghost halves. When he changes into a ghost, his black hair becomes white and his blue eyes turn a glowing green, and whatever clothes he is wearing immediately turns into his hazmat suit. He can also turn parts of his body into ghost; as sometimes his eyes flash green whenever he is angry. Danny turned his chin invisible so Dash could not punch him in Reign Storm.
* **Cyrokinesis:** One of Danny's primary abilities, his ice and snow abilities did not fully develop until Season 3. In the beginning, Danny's cyrokinesis powers manifested in the form of his Ghost Sense, a sub-division of the ice powers. Unlike Vlad, who couldn't get this ability, Danny fully unlocked the ability's true potential after being trained by Frostbite and used it to fight Undergrowth.
	+ **Ghost Sense:** Whenever a ghost is nearby, blue mist escaped from Danny's mouth and his body would grow cold. The Ghost Sense is a sub-power of his cyrokinesis.
* **Ghostly Wail**: Unlike Plasmius, Danny developed a powerful sonic scream in "The Ultimate Enemy," the fifth episode and second special of the series (Featured in Season 2), and one of his primary abilities. He can scream ultra-waves of ectoplasm and almost nothing human or ghost can withstand it. Around the first few times, the move can drain Danny's complete power and revert him back into his human form because he developed this power ten years earlier than his dark future counterpart. However, after gaining his powers, the Ghostly Wail was the first ability he demonstrated and no longer took energy out of him.
* **Void**: Danny is able to absorb all visible light within a surrounding area, leaving nothing but absolute darkness for which no one can see through, except him. While this ability is powerful, it is also highly destructive to not only those around Danny, but also to himself. Void takes a heavy toll on Danny’s mental state, due to the power being derived from negative emotions such as anger and hatred. This has caused him to only use it as a last resort. Void is a special and destructive that only Danny knows how to use. This first time he was able to use this power was ten years after he obtained his ghost powers. It’s possibly his most powerful and dangerous ability.

## Personal Relationships

### Jack Fenton (Father)

Danny initially possessed a complicated but loving relationship with his father. While Danny does appreciate having Jack as a father, he often finds himself being humiliated by his dad's bumbling and immature behavior, as well as his constant obsession with ghosts. This caused Danny to distance himself from his dad, making their relationship somewhat strained, though Jack was primarily unaware of this. Danny also fears his father, believing that if Jack were to ever discover the truth about him being half-ghost, then he would abandon all love for his son and attempt to destroy him. These fears are not without reason, for Jack initially held a deep hatred for Danny Phantom, not realizing that he was really his son Danny Fenton. However, he accepts both his son's ghost and human halves.

### Maddie Fenton (Mother)

Danny’s relationship with his mother was loving but somewhat strained, though not to the extent of the one he had with his father. As a toddler, Danny and Maddie were very close, but they grew apart as Danny got older, due to his parents’ growing obsession with hunting ghosts. Though not as bad as his dad, Danny is quite often embarrassed by his mother’s erratic obsession with ghosts, causing him to distance himself from her overtime. He also does not completely trust his mother, as he feared that if she and his dad learned the truth about his powers, they would “rip him apart molecule by molecule”.​Maddie also despises Danny Phantom, being unaware that he is her beloved son. This all changes when she learns the two are one and the same and welcomes her son no matter who or what he is.

### Jazz Fenton (Older Sister)

    Jazz is Danny's older, sixteen-year-old sister who used to be very close to him during their earlier childhoods. As time passed however, their relationship became somewhat strained as Jazz became more overbearing and overprotective of him. Prior to learning of his secret identity, Jazz attempted to serve as a role model and paternal guide for her Danny, having been worried that their parents’ obsession with ghosts was a bad influence for him. Despite her good intentions however, she didn’t realize that she was smothering him, causing their relationship to become even more strained. While Danny did indeed still love his sister very much, he felt he could no longer open up to her due to her overbearing attitude. Further keeping him at odds with her was his secret identity, as he feared that she and their parents would no longer accept him if they found out the truth about his ghost powers.

During a ghost attack, Jazz saw him transform into Danny Phantom though he did not realize this. Despite initially being shocked by Danny’s transformation, she decided to let him chose when he is ready to tell her. This shows that despite realizing that Danny was half-ghost, she didn’t resent him as he had feared before, still loving her brother unconditionally. She also understood his reasons for keeping his powers a secret having seen how xenophobic their parents were towards ghosts and why she kept it secret as well.

### Sam Manson (Girlfriend/Best Friend)

    Sam is one of Danny's love interests and have been best friends since childhood. When Danny was made half-ghost, he fell into a slight depression and wanted his humanity restored, but Sam encouraged him to embrace his ghost half because it was what made him special. Since then, Sam has helped him fight off ghost supervillains and kept his identity a secret. It is shown they are both jealous wherever the other has a crush on someone else; Danny felt jealous when she began a brief romantic relationship with exchange student Gregor and Sam feels it vice versa with Danny's crushes on Paulina and Valerie Gray. In the end of the series, Sam and Danny begin a relationship.

### Tucker Foley (Best friend)

    Danny and Tucker have been best friends since their early childhood. In some ways Danny’s friendship with Tucker is even greater than the one he has with Sam, since the two often have the same interests, except Tucker’s liking of technology, and crushes. The two often get along and enjoy each other’s company. Tucker was the only other person besides Sam that Danny trusted to keep his secret about his powers. Tucker would go on to join Danny’s ghost fighting team, Team Phantom, working together to protect Amity Park from evil ghosts. Danny values Tucker’s technological skills, considering him an invaluable member of the team and often relying on his skills for aid in the field, especially against Technus. Despite this, their friendship is not perfect. Danny can often be annoyed by Tucker’s antics and technological interests. Tucker also harbors a secret jealousy of Danny’s powers and fame, which has caused him to become susceptible to the machinations of evil ghosts twice (Desiree and Hotep Ra). Additionally, Danny has intentionally booked both Kwan and Dash when Tucker made fun of him when Jazz accidentally sucked Danny into the Fenton Thermos, which only resulted in tucker being stuffed into a locker to get his point across that being trapped in confined. Despite this, they do manage to always reconcile and beat the odds. In the ten years since Danny obtained his powers, they have remained best friends, and Tucker continues to fight alongside him as a member of Team Phantom.

### Valerie Gray

    Danny has a complex relationship with Valerie, who likes Danny Fenton but hates Danny Phantom. At first, they didn't get along because Valerie always treated Fenton with disdain until her descent into unpopularity. They were forcibly paired together for their baby project and didn't get along. However, when they were trapped in the Ghost Zone, they had a temporary truce in fighting Skulker and Danny learned that Valerie had to work hard to support herself and her father. It was not Reign Storm that Valerie expressed interest in Danny and warned Sam to make a move on Danny before someone else did. Danny also told his friends to give her a chance, for they were being overprotective of him whenever he was alone with Valerie. at the end of the episode, Valerie tells Tucker and Sam she likes Danny.

As Danny Phantom, Valerie once did whatever she can to hunt him down. Technus once manipulated their relationship to the point where they were briefly dating; however, Valerie breaks up with Danny to ironically protect him from her ghost hunting after seeing her suit attack him, but they depart on friendly terms. However, after learning Fenton and Phantom were the same person, Valerie was seen as one of the people who cheered after he saved the earth, showing she learned to let go of her hatred of Phantom.

Valerie is Danny's second love interest and first real relationship within the series.

### Clockwork (Friend/Mentor)

Initially an enemy of Danny, Clockwork was tasked by the Observants with destroying him, so that he would never become Dark Danny, his evil future self. To do this, Clockwork sent some of the ghosts of further to fight Danny, and eventually came to fight Danny himself, with Clockwork nearly killing him. In truth however, Cloclwork was trying to help him not become Dark Danny and gave him a secret test of character to ensure a better future for everyone. After Danny proved he was not a cheater, Clockwork stopped the explosion at Nasty Burger and saving Danny’s friends, family, and teacher, which was the chain of events that led this to happen and gave Danny a second chance. Danny was grateful to Clockwork for this and considers him to be a friend and somewhat of a mentor-figure. In "The Masters of Time" he asked for Clockwork's help in stopping Vlad's accident by going into the past to change things. However, when Danny meddled in the past and affected the present, Clockwork would not let Danny try again and that he had to save Vlad, Tucker and Sam in the present. However, when Danny realized what the cure to saving his friends was, it was revealed that Clockwork once again planned on this happening. This shows that Clockwork has a secret fondness for Danny and seeks to help him in his growth of being a superhero. Clockwork would later help Danny save the world from the Disasteroid by joining the millions of ghosts that turned the Earth intangible.

### Frostbite (Mentor/Friend)

Frostbite and his people worship Danny because he saved the Ghost Zone and the world from Pariah Dark and they call him "Great One" and "Savior of the Ghost Zone" as a sign of respect. When Danny's Cyrokinesis developed, Frostbite helped him control his ice and snow powers.

### Pandora

Pandora is one of the few ghosts who Danny is on friendly terms with. She helps him defeat the Box Ghost when he stole her box. She is very nice to him and at the end of the show it is shown that she had invited Danny to her lair. It is not clear whether they had become allies or friends but it is best assumed they are on good terms with each other.

### Wulf (Friend)

Wulf is one of Danny's ghostly friends and allies. At first sent to hunt him down by Walker, Wulf determined Danny was a friend after sniffing him and then immediately licking him, which greatly disturbed Danny at the time. However, he saved Wulf from Maddie and Jack and took him to safety and swore to free him from the shock collar Walker had on him. Wulf later came to save Danny but ultimately was re-captured by Walker before swearing they would meet again. Wulf is fairly protective of him and acts much like a dog would towards his human companion..

### Vlad Plasmius (Arch-enemy)

    While unaware that Vlad was a half-ghost just like him and that he was the ghost who sent vultures to take out his father, Danny told by his parents that Vlad suffered an accident from a Ghost Portal like Danny did. They officially met at a reunion for a college that Jack and Maddie used to attend. Initially, Vlad and Danny were friendly with one another but Danny found it strange that Vlad was hitting on his mother. He encountered Vlad's ghost self the following night, where Danny fought and lost to his new rival. Upon learning that Danny Phantom and Danny Fenton were the same person, Vlad saw this as a slight change in plans when he realized he was not the only half-ghost. Remaining on friendly terms with Danny, the latter eventually found out that Vlad Masters was the one responsible for the vultures when Danny found the ripped-up picture of Vlad, Jack and Maddie in his lab and Danny put two and two together. As soon as he was trapped, Vlad revealed he was a fellow Halfa to Danny, promising to train him in his abilities if he renounced Jack as his father. Immediately, Danny saw Vlad as a threat to his family and they fought each other, where Danny forced Vlad into a truce.

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In the first two seasons, Vlad tries everything possible to kill Jack and take Maddie and Danny for himself as a wife and son respectively. However, Danny grows angered and takes every chance he has to humiliate Vlad and him vice versa. At one point, Danny considers Vlad his arch-enemy and his most hated rival. As the series went on, Danny and Vlad continued to get at each other's throats. However, they have to set aside their differences and work together in "Reign Storm" and "Torrent of Terror" against Pariah Dark and Vortex. After constantly being rejected, Vlad tried to clone Danny to have the perfect half-ghost son, however, the only thing he had closest was a female clone named Danielle. At first trying to help Vlad, Danielle turned against her "father" and helped Danny fight him, now going by "Dani." Ever since the incident, Danny and Vlad developed a stronger hatred towards one another.

### Skulker (Enemy/Occasional Allies)

Skulker is one of Danny’s most recurring and persistent enemies. As the self-proclaimed greatest hunter of the Ghost Zone, Skulker was intrigued by Danny’s status as a half-ghost/half-human hybrid, and saw him as no different from a common animal to hunt. Since then he has become obsessed with hunting Danny. Initially he wanted to capture Danny alive keep him on display in lair, but when the ghost boy proved more difficult to capture than anticipated, he settled for “resting his pelt at the food of his bed."
Initially Danny was scared of Skulker, but as time went by and he defeated him more often, he came to see Skulker as a true foe that needed to be stopped. Despite their animosity and constant battles, Danny and Skulker seem to have a large level of respect for one another. Often when they encounter a common enemy, Danny and Skulker will work nearly flawlessly together and somewhat risk their lives for each other before going back to being enemies after their mutual foe has been defeated.

### Ember McLain

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Originally, Ember was believed to be a human rockstar Danny seemed to be indifferent to her. He found it odd how she was able to get so many fans in just a short amount of time and unlike Tucker, didn’t like her singing. When it turned out that she was a ghost Danny set out to stop her. Ember for her part thought little of Danny, seeing him as no big threat to her plans and referring to him with belittling slang terms such as “dipstick” and “babypop”. During their first encounter, Ember placed a love spell on Danny that caused him to fall in love with Sam. Sadly the only way to break the spell was for Danny’s heart to be broken, which Sam reluctantly did (by kissing Dash) in order for Danny to regain his senses and stop Ember from taking over the world. When he was freed from the spell, Danny swore revenge in Ember for causing his heart to be broken and furiously attacked her before defeating her and foiling her plans. For the most part, Danny seems to have let go of his grudge towards Ember, now seeing her only a ghost that must be defeated.
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Despite having been defeated by him at the concert, Ember would continue to cause problems for Danny throughout his superhero career. Oddly enough, as the years went by Ember secretly developed feelings for Danny. While she defensively refuses to admit it, in the 10 years following their first encounter, Ember no longer performs acts of villainy for the sake of power as she use too, but only to get Danny’s attention. Her romantic feelings for him have become obvious to others, since she shaved his symbol on her head and even uses a guitar shaped in his logo. It is unknown if Danny is aware of Ember’s secret crush on him.

### Johnny 13 and Shadow

Danny met Johnny and Shadow in the episode 13, where Danny grows overprotective of Jazz when Johnny starts dating her (while getting Kitty to possess her).In later episodes, Johnny is somewhat friendlier to the younger boy, even coming to him for help about Kitty and get back together with her. It is implied that Johnny just comes to Amity Park just to play games with Danny rather than out of malice. Meanwhile, Shadow often goes after Danny when Johnny orders his Shadow to. Danny shows his low opinion of Shadow, calling him a dork at one point. Johnny refers to Danny as "kid" or "little man" and finding himself entertained by the younger ghost's heroic and threatening "tough guy act," essentially calling it a facade. Like Kitty, he is one of the few characters who points out that Sam and Danny liked each other. (Girls' Night Out)

Overall, out of all Danny's enemies, Johnny (and by extension Shadow) are shown to be the less hostile.

### Kitty (Enemy/Situational Ally)

    Kitty is one of Danny's on and off enemies he had problems with in the episode "13." In "Lucky Love," Kitty once dated Danny only to make Johnny jealous; she did this by overshadowing Paulina and using her as her disguise. Of course, Kitty blackmailed Danny into helping her get back at Johnny for flirting with other human girls. At the end of the episode, Kitty got back together with Johnny and at that point, Danny thought she was too clingy as a girlfriend. She sometimes helps Danny, seen when she helped him fight the Ghost Writer in the "Fright Before Christmas," and showing him sympathy. She also helped him turn the Earth intangible.

Overall, they seem to be like frenemies, as Kitty apologized to Danny for the trouble she and Johnny caused in "Lucky Love," but they continue to cause Danny problems, rather out of mischief than out of malice. She is also one of the few ghosts aware of his feelings for Sam, as she questioned "You like her, don't you?" and considered overshadowing Sam to get Johnny jealous.

### Dark Danny (Second arch-enemy)

When the Danny before the accident traveled to the future and met his future-self, he was horrified at the monster he was going to soon become. Danny possesses a great/strong hatred for his future-self, being revolted by Dark Danny’s utterly evil nature and the atrocities he has committed. Danny’s battle with his future-self had a profound impact on him. After Danny learned from the future Vlad of how his own selfishness and misuse of his powers caused Dan’s creation and the horrible future he created, Danny swore to use them more responsibly. It also made him a bit more wary of his powers and possess a secret fear of them one day harming his loved ones, as seen during the series finale.

## Relationships

### Family

* Jack Fenton - Father
* Maddie Fenton - Mother
* Jazz Fenton - Sister
* Dani Phantom - Adoptive Sister and Clone
* Paternal Grandfather
* Alicia - Maternal Aunt
* Jackson Fenton - Son
* Misty Fenton - Daughter
* Sam Manson - Wife
* Tucker Foley - Best Friend
* Pamela Manson - Mother-in-law
* Jeremy Manson - Father-in-law

### Friends

* Tucker Foley - Best Friend
* Valerie Gray - Close Friend and Former Love Interest
* A-Listers - Former Enemies
	+ Paulina Sanchez - Admirer/Former Love Interest
	+ Dash Baxter - Former Bully
	+ Kwan - Former Bully
	+ Star - Former Bully

Clockwork - Mentor and Former Enemy

Frostbite - Friend and Mentor

Wulf - Close Friend and Former Enemy

Pandora - Ally

* Princess Dorathea - Former Enemy turned Ally
* Green Kid

Elastica

Goliath

* Timmy Turner
* Cosmo
* Wanda
* SpongeBob SquarePants
* Patrick Star
* Sandy Cheeks
* Squidward Tentacles
* Jimmy Neutron
* Sheen Estevez
* Carl Wheezer

## References

1. ↑ Danny Phantom: The Next Generation
2. ↑ Danny Phantom: The Next Generation

## Navigation

****Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom**** • Jack Fenton • Jazz Fenton • Maddie Fenton • Sam Manson • Tucker Foley • Dani Fenton/Dani Phantom

Antagonists
**Vlad Masters/Vlad Plasmius** • Skulker • Ember McLain • Kitty • Penelope Spectra • Andy (Danny Phantom) • Box Ghost • Bertrand • Bullet • Desiree • Evil Syndicate • Freakshow • Fright Knight • Guys in White • Globous Maximous • Johnny 13 • King Gorge • Lunch Lady Ghost • Lydia (Danny Phantom) • Nicolai Technus • Nocturne • Pariah Dark • Prince Aragon • Skulker • The Mawgu • Undergrowth • Vortex • Walker • Youngblood • Ghost Writer • Green Kid • Hotep RA

Allies
Clockwork • Cujo • Dani Phantom • Frostbite • Pandora • Princess Dorathea • Wulf

Other Ghosts
Amorpho • Poindexter • Ectopuses • Dairy King • Ghost Vultures

Other Characters
Paulina Sanchez • Kwan (Danny Phantom) • Mr. Lancer • Dash Baxter
Crossover
Timmy Turner • Cosmo • Wanda