Maddie Fenton

**Madeline "Maddie" Fenton** is a character from the original show and one of the main characters of *The Phantom Chronicles*. She is a world-famed ghost hunter who was the wife of Jack Fenton and the mother of Danny Phantom, Jazz Fenton, and Danielle Fenton.

## Role in the series

### Background

Most of Maddie's early life is not revealed in the series; however, she was born in Spittoon, Arkansas the only relative of Maddie's that has been seen was a sister named Alicia. Whether she was her older sister or younger sister was unknown and Maddie's maiden name has never been revealed on the show.

### College Years

#### Befriending Jack and Vlad

In the 1980s, Maddie attended the University of Wisconsin tweny-years prior to the series. the same graduating class with her future husband, Jack Fenton. In college, she and Jack and Vlad were all best friends. Maddie was also friends with another classmate Harriet Chin, who did not seem to like Jack at all.Maddie did ghostly research with Vlad and Jack and the trio were once close. However, both Jack and Vlad developed feelings for Maddie. Though she was blissfully unaware of how Vlad felt about her, Maddie could only keep her eyes set on Jack.

#### Proto-portal Incident

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One day when working their prototype proto-portal that would theoretically open up to the ghost dimension, Maddie realized the calculations Jack made was incorrect while they both did not realize that Jack had used diet cola rather the ecto-purifier into the porto-portal's filtrator because he was distracted by looking at Maddie. As Jack turned on the portal prototype, the results were catastrophic when ecto energy bombarded Vlad with ghost particles and giving him a bad case of ecto acne. The incident devastated Vlad and he was hospitalized for the dangerous case that eventually killed his social life. Afterwards, Vlad stopped talking to Maddie and Jack altogether, blaming the latter for what happened to him. Unknown to Maddie and Jack, Vlad became the world's first ghost-human hybrid because of the incident. For twenty-years, Vlad plotted his revenge against Jack and vowed to do anything to win Maddie despite his new found ghost powers.

### Marriage with Jack Fenton

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Eventually graduating from the university of Wisconsin, Jack and Maddie married each other, but Alicia, Maddie's sister, disapproved of their marriage. Moving to Amity Park, the couple eventually founded Fenton Works, where they continued their ghostly research despite what happened with Vlad back in college. Because of their ghost obsession, Maddie and Jack were regarded as crazy by some of their neighbors, like Jeremy and Pamela Manson and Damon Gray. Sometimes, their marriage was not easy. In some cases, Jack would sometimes forget their wedding anniversaries every year, and Maddie would leave in anger for a couple of days. Almost every year, they would argue about whether Santa Claus existed or not, which became something of a holiday tradition for Maddie and Jack.

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Sometime after their marriage, Maddie and Jack had two children of their own, a daughter named Jasmine born around 1988 and a son, Daniel (nicknamed Danny). However, their children grew up around their parents' arguments, inventions and obsession's with ghostly research, leading Jazz to be both a mother and father figure rather than being his sister. Despite their parents' obvious ghost obsession, Jazz and Danny would eventually learn to cope with their parents' unique personalities and one day, become ghost hunters themselves like their parents. When Danny was younger, he and Maddie were very close but as he got older, Danny drifted away from Maddie due to his later secret as a half ghost and his friendships with Sam and Tucker. Jack and Maddie would eventually invent the Fenton Portal but were distraught when they found it couldn't work. However, when Danny brought Sam and Tucker down to the lab he tried it despite it not working for his parents. Determined to check it out, Danny put on a hazmat suit and walked into his parents' inventions, accidentally turning on the machine by pressing the on switch in the portal. The portal activated and Danny was exposed to ecto-energy from the portal and became a half-ghost but kept the secret from both Maddie and Jack in fear of what they would think of him.

## Youtube based content

### Post Series/Aftermath

Sometime after the Disasteroid incident, Maddie learns of Danielle's existence from her son and his friends. Despite Dani being a clone created by their son's arch-enemy Vlad Plasmius, Jack and Maddie accept Danielle as their own child and biological daughter and decide to adopt her into their family.

Eventually, both Jack and Maddie become official members of Team Phantom, helping their son and his friends in fighting other ghost supervillains who will harm the citizens of their hometown of Amity Park. Eventually, Madddie will use two hunting ghosts chained to leashes and will act as bloodhounds for her to hunt down more ghosts, especially in the Ghost Zone.

After Danny's marriage to Sam, Maddie would become the girl's mther-in-law and the ggrandmother of hers and Danny's children Jackson and Misty

## Appearance

Maddie has short auburn hair, fair skin and violet eyes with a tall and slim build. Maddie wears a light bluish-teal hazmat suit and usually puts on a hood over her head, as well as black googled with red lenses. She also has a collar gloves, belt and boots that are all colored black. Maddie also has a pointed chin and both Danny and Jazz inherited their mother's facial structure and figure.

In the flashback from "Bitter Reunions" when she was younger, her hair was longer and had a perm during her college years and she wore a lab coat. Someone after giving birth to Danny, Maddie kept her hair pulled back in a ponytail.

When she isn't wearing her hazmat suit, all of Maddie's clothes are colored teal.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Alicia (Sister)

Alicia and Maddie love each other, and Maddie often visits herseister whenevr she can. After having a fight with Jack, Maddie goes to Spittoon, Arkansas to visit her for her sister's divorce anniversary. ALicia often voices her dislike of jack and does not approve of her sister's marriage to Jack. However, Alicia loves her sister nonetheless.

#### Jack Fenton (Husband)

 File:Jack and Maddie Fenton.png  Jack is Maddie's husband and was her best friend in college, along with Vlad and being in the same graduating class of 1984. During their time together, Jack and Maddie fell in love, eventually marrying each other, They manage to keep a stable and steady marriage, owhich has resulted them in starting a family of their own and having three wonderful children: two daughters, Danielle (despite her being a clone) and Jasmine and a son, Daniel. However, like any married couple, Jack and Maddie have their issues. This is mainly seen in the episode "Prisoners of Love," where Jack forgot theiir wedding anniversary, leading Maddie to often leave the house for a few days whenever he would forget it.

Of the two, Maddie seems to be the most rational and often acts as her husband's voice of reason and being more cautious about their children's safety. Maddie will also not hesitate to defend her husband whenever Vlad speaks ill-will of him ("Maternal Instincts.") Despite his flaws, Maddie loves him truly for who he is.

### Dani Phantom (Adoptive Daughter)

Dani is a clone of Maddie's son, Danny, and therefore, is her biological daughter. To Danny's surprise, when Maddie and Jack meet Danielle for the first time and explains her origins, they are disgusted that Vlad would try to clone Danny and they hate Vlad even more because abandoned Dani and tried to melt her, referring to both the episodes. Despite this, Maddie loves her youngest daughter regardless and both she and Jack adoptsd Danielle into their family. Whenever both Danny and Dani are in the same room, Dani tells then to call her "Danielle" to avoid confusion between their two children but when Dani and Danny are not in the same room, they refer to her by her nickname. Because Jazz is balancing her school work and future plans of college, Maddie and Dani bond in the series so much, they do an occasional mother/daughter ghost hunting night with just the two of them and Jazz whenever she is not busy. Initially, Danielle wasn't sure if to call her "Aunt Maddie" or Mom", but Maddie chose the latter of the two.