Vlad Plasmius

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**Vlad Masters**, better known as **Vlad Plasmius**, is the main antagonist of Nickelodeon's animated series *Danny Phantom*. He is Danny Phantom's arch-enemy, Jack Fenton's ex-best friend and Maddie Fenton's ex-love interest. Determined to take over the world, he is one of the most dangerous people and most-hated person on earth after revealing his true self.

## History

Twenty years later, Vlad makes his debut in Bitter Reunions where he sends three vulture ghosts in an attempt to kill Jack however the ghosts were quickly defeated by Danny, when he figures it out their motives. Upon failing, Vlad throws a college reunion party at his estate and invites Jack and Maddie (who subsequently bring Danny and Jazz with them) where Vlad plans to humiliate Jack and have Maddie leave him. When the Fentons arrive the next day he warmly greets them except Jack who shuts the door on him, inside his mansion,

he shows the Fentons his Packers memorabilia, where Danny notices Vlad hitting on Maddie, who subsequently lets Jack in where Vlad attempts to convince Jack to stay for the reunion but Jack initially refuses to stay with him but manages to convince him when he tells him the Dairy King ghost haunts his mansion, Jack upon hearing he gets to hunt ghosts eagerly agrees to stay.

That night, he again sends his vulture ghosts to kill Jack (who was searching for a bathroom), Danny's ghost sense goes off again and rescues him only to be confronted by Vlad, Danny then fights him where Vlad taunts him for using his powers for good, he attempts to finish him off but Vlad quickly overpowers and defeats him and knocks him unconscious causing Danny to change back to his human form in front of him, where Vlad is shocked to find that Danny Phantom is Jack's son. Danny later wakes up screaming, alerting Vlad who comes into his room to check on him, Danny apologies to Vlad for scaring him to which Vlad says not to worry and he will see him tomorrow, Vlad leaves beginning to put his plan into action

The next day at the reunion, Vlad approaches Danny and asks him for a "favor", he tells him to head to his laboratory to retrieve a "gift" he intends to give to Jack, Danny obliges and head to his lab where notices a picture of him and Maddie he puts the picture of him and Jack together and discovers that Vlad had sent the vulture ghosts to kill Jack, but before he can do anything about that though, Skulker appears and captures Danny in a cube which naturalizes his ghost power and thus is unable to escape, before he can kill Danny, Vlad appears angrily dismissing Skulker stating he did not free him to kill Danny where the latter promptly leaves. Vlad then reveals to Danny that he is also a half-ghost just like him, he offers to Danny to join him and offers to train him in using his powers if he renounces his father, Danny angrily refuses calling him a fruit loop leaving Vlad to leave him to put his next phase of his plan into action.

Vlad heads to Jack and possess him and begins to wreck havoc intending to ruin his reputation, but Danny manages to escape with help from the Dairy King ghost and finds Vlad possessing his father who quickly removes him from his body. Heading into the library to continue their fight, Vlad once again tries to convince Danny to join his side by saying all the things he can teach him but Danny again refuses to do so. Seeing Maddie, Vlad phases in and kidnaps her where she angrily tells him to let her go but he refuses to do so, Jack see this and chases after her, Danny then drives the Fenton RV and shoots ectoplasmic goo at Vlad causing him to drop Maddie, Danny quickly repossesses his father and catches her much to her delight, Danny as Jack then sends Maddie away and confronts Vlad where he threatens to expose his and Vlad's secrets as half ghosts unless he and Vlad comes to a truce he also states that his parents will accept him no matter what but then asks Vlad what would Maddie think seeing that Danny is blackmailing him and that is slowly learning him without him realizing it, Vlad agrees to do so but not before saying that him and Maddie will join him eventually.

In the latter half of the series, Plasmius creates clones of Danny after he wants a human/ghost son out of loneliness and after being rejected by Maddie and Danny. Only one clone survives, Danielle Phantom, but he sees her as a failure. He has Danielle, or rather Dani Phantom, kidnap the real Danny and tries to perfect the clone. After convincing from Danny, Dani realizes that Vlad just sees her as another pawn and turns against him. After Vlad is rendered unconscious, Dani leaves to live off on her. In D-Stabilized, he has Valerie track Dani down and capture her. As his former daughter is melting, Vlad is going to use her ectoplasmic remains to perfect the clone. However, Dani is saved by Valerie and Danny, who both help her escape. Thinking he is alone, Plasmius unknowingly reveals himself to a hiding Valerie, who now sees that Danny was correct in that Plasmius and Masters were the same person. This makes the girl realize that she has been fooled and swears she will be hunting him now too.

In "Planet Phantom," Vlad creates the Masters’ Blasters, a group of Ghost hunters who proved to be more fearful and an elite force than Danny and his friends. After Danny gives up his ghost half, Vlad reveals himself as Plasmius and says he can make the Disasteroid intangible so it passes safely to Earth, as long as he Is allowed to have ultimate control afterwards. In space, he revealed his resentment to Jack and his intent on stealing Maddie when it was over. Vlad tries to turn the Disasteroid intangible but cannot because it is protected by a substance that repels ghost powers. He pleaded with Jack to help him but his forever friend realizes that this is not the same Vlad he knew back in college and leaves him floating in space. Just as Vlad realizes he took his friendship with Jack for granted, he contends to a self-exile in space in traveling as a nomad before the Disasteroid hits him and takes him to parts unknown.

## Abilities

* **Ghost/Human Physiology:** After the accident in college, Vlad became a ghost/human hybrid just like Danny was. However, he is slightly more powerful than his archenemy because of the twenty years of experience he had that Danny does not have yet.
	+ **Transformation/Going Ghost:** He can turn into a ghost and human at will.
	+ **Duplicates:** In his debut appearance, Plasmius could duplicate himself four times when he was trying to overwhelm Danny. He can also duplicate himself in his human form.
	+ **Overshadowing:** Plasmius took possession of Jack Fenton during "Bitter Reunions."
	+ **Intangibility/Invisibilty:** While going invisible, he is able to pass through walls, activating his intangibility
	+ **Fight:'** He can fly, float and hover, in both his ghost and human form.
	+ **Spectral Body Manipulation:'** Shape-shift his body into any position.
	+ **Super Durability:'** Vlad is far more durable than a humanis,.
	+ **Superhuman Agility and Reflexes: The ability to supernaturally be more agile than a human, including his balance and reflexes.**

## Trivia

* Butch Hartman originally wanted Plasmius to be a vampire but Nickelodeon would not let him, deeming it too scary for children, hence Vlad's name and vampiric appearance in his ghost form
* He was based on Lex Luther from the Superman comic books by DC Comics.
* Plasmius was the first Human/Ghost hybrid created from Jack Fenton's ghost portal, followed by Jack's own son, Danny.
	+ From the accident, Vlad was hospitalized, his chances at Maddie were ruined, as well as his social life.
* Danny told Vlad to do online dating and adopt a cat.
	+ Despite saying he would never get one, he ends up getting one and named her Maddie.
* In an alternate timeline Danny accidentally created, 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.
* In another alternated timeline in which Jack, Maddie, Jazz, Tucker and Sam were killed in an accident at Nasty Burger, Vlad sympathizes with Danny, who moved into his house and notices him suffering. Per Danny's request to end it, Vlad separates 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 dark future is undone.
* In Butch Hartman's video, "Ten Years Later," Plasmiussurvived the attempt, was enslaved by an alien race, and was driven to insanity. He named Danny as the source of his misery and is trying to get to earth to get revenge on him and his friends.