Danny Fenton

**Daniel "Danny" Fenton** AKA **Danny Phantom**, is the half-human/half-ghost, and the main protagonist of the television show series, *Danny Phantom*. Known as 'Danny Fenton' when a human and 'Danny Phantom' when a ghost, his primary motive is to protect the citizenry of Amity Park from the dangerous ghosts coming through the Fenton Portal. And, on Yen Sid's Team, he is one of the First Heroes of the Sixteen Heroes and Heroines. He is also known to be David Flare's reincarnated host.

## History

### Origins

Living with his ghost-obsessed parents since his birth, Danny had to put up with their unique personalities that often traumatized him as well as constantly listening, by force, to his parents ramble or instruct their children on how their numerous Fenton gadgets worked. However, this did nothing to stop Danny's curiosity that one day changed his life forever. While in his parents' laboratory, Danny had an accident involving the newly built "Fenton Portal", causing his molecular structure to infuse with ectoplasm.

As a result, Danny Fenton becomes a half-human, half-ghost hybrid; he styles himself as a new persona as Danny Phantom, an extraordinary spectral superhero with a ghostly array of other-worldly powers; able to shift between the forms his human-half and his ghost-half at will, coming into a number of various supernatural/paranormal extraordinary abilities.Upon transformation, his normally black hair turns white, his eyes
change from sky blue to ectoplasmic green, his skin changes from light to tanned, and his normal attire becomes a black JUMPSUIT suit - with
white boots, gloves, belt, and starting from the second season, a "D" emblem with an inner "P" on his chest. Due to a mishap with Desiree, Danny's friend, Sam Manson has to recreate the events that lead up to the accident, where she adds the emblem.

### A Bright Future

After Vlad ran for mayor in Danny's hometown of Amity Park, Danny had
 to frequently deal with him as well as new and old ghosts, now as the
town's duly deputized protector. *Phantom Planet* gave him his
ultimate task when upon meeting up with Vlad's Masters Blasters; Danny
questioned his superhero business. Zapping himself in the Fenton Portal,
 which his parents had recently stripped back down to its original
configuration, he regained his humanity with his only shred of evidence
as half ghost being a white streak in his hair. At the same time, a much
 bigger crisis--namely that of a Dis-Asteroid aims for Earth, timed to
collide in a week's time destroying the entire planet.

With renewed determination, Danny regained his powers through
multiple blasts from ghosts, affecting his white streak, which further
expands throughout his body, reclaiming his half ghost status. Gaining
every single human being on Earth's attention, he announces a plan to
phase the entire planet - so the asteroid can pass through harmlessly.
Gaining help from "*a bazillion ghosts*" after much convincing,
humans and ghosts work side by side, as they successfully save the world
 from disaster. His secret identity is finally revealed to the world and
 Danny is hailed as a hero all over Earth.

His dream is to be an astronaut when he becomes an adult.

## Personality

At the beginning of the series, Danny is an average, awkward, nervous
 and friendly teenager. Like most teenagers, he has crushes on girls,
occasional desires to be popular, a dislike of bullies, and
embarrassment about his parents. Unlike them, though, he is afraid of
anyone discovering his hard-to-control ghost powers, making him go from
being a "geek" to a "freak". Not even sure about how to use his powers,
Danny simply longs to be normal and unnoticed by anyone. But after he
fights the Lunch Lady Ghost, he realizes he can use his powers to save
others from ghost attacks, and dedicates his free time to catching
troublesome ghosts. This new-found sense of purpose begins to change
Danny into a heroic, brave young man.

Over time, Danny gains confidence in himself and his abilities. He
isn't scared of fighting ghosts, usually taunting them and putting all
of his energy into fighting them off. He also gradually finds Dash more
annoying and troublesome. As he faces more villains and bigger threats,
Danny accepts that it's his responsibility to save those in need of
help, sometimes endangering himself to do so. By *Public Enemies*,
although many people think he's a bad guy, Danny is still determined to
keep protecting Amity Park from ghosts, his dedication paying off when
people begin to accept him as their hero in *Reign Storm*.

On the downside, he can sometimes become overconfident and impulsive,
 assuming he can defeat anyone easily or do whatever he wants without
any consequences. This might lead him to use his ghost powers to take
revenge on bullies, cheat on a test, or even just ignore an impending
situation so that he can enjoy something. When someone like Sam tries to
 warn him about his actions, Danny can be ignorant and disagreeable,
only to find out he was wrong later. Despite these issues, once Danny
figures out what he has caused, he works hard to set things right,
whether it be apologizing or saving the day.

When he's not worrying about ghosts, Danny is naturally kind,
easy-going, and helpful. On the other hand, he can be grumpy,
frustrated, stressed, and mean, often making sarcastic remarks or his
eyes glowing green from anger. Danny rarely gets extremely mad or
emotional, only taking important matters personally like Vlad and Dan.
His ghost hunting often cuts into his school work time, but he does work
 hard after he puts his mind on the task at hand - except when he's lazy
 or distracted. Danny isn't the smartest person around, but he is clever
 at devising plans, having good ideas and using resources, like his
powers, Fenton equipment, and friends with different talents. He loves
making puns and exchanging witty banter during his fights, and while
there's moments when he under-appreciates his friends, he is thankful to
 have them.

## Relationships

### Sam Manson

A friend of his since at least the
second grade, Danny's friendship with Sam is not always as strong as the one he
has with Tucker, in part due to their mutual stubbornness and in part to
differences of opinions on matters, but he values her friendship just as much
as he values Tucker's. The two held mutual feelings for each other, but Sam's
feelings for Danny have always been stronger than his as she takes great
offense on Danny not considering her "pretty" as Paulina. The remark
was noted due to his inability to speak to her and ask her to be his date to
the prom, however she pushes him to do it either way out of spite; however he
succeeds on getting her to go with him to the dance, but only because she
believed she was taking him away from Sam, believing they were an actual couple
(and due to the Amulet of Aragon which Danny gave her as a present). When
preparing for the dance, Danny noticed that she actually wanted to go to the
dance despite denying it first, and thus he overshadows Tucker so they all go
to the prom where Paulina reveals her real reason for going to the dance with
Danny to Sam in the girls bathroom and gives her the amulet which then turns
Sam into a dragon when she gets mad at her. There Danny finds himself forced to
fight her to stop her rampage. After their fight they dance the final song
together. As their relationship develops, her feelings for Danny grow stronger
and become more evident whereas he remained oblivious to them. This is not to
say he didn't feel attracted to her (at least deep inside) as hinted by the
wistful smile on his face after their "Fake Out Make Out" used as a
cover to distract Valerie when she was hunting him in the park, to which she
remarks "Ah, gross, loser love! I always knew you two geeks would end up
together." Following those events, Danny finally falls in love with Sam,
this time, however, was the effect of Ember's love spell which. When
fighting the ice ghost Kempler, Sam offers her hands to warm his hands while
inside the Speeder Specter, to which they both blush and giggle. On their
return to Amity Park, they discover a ghost named Ember who controls people
through music, except for Danny who was half ghost and Sam who wore the Fenton
Headphones all day; when wondering why she wasn't affected he suggests it might
have been due to her individuality and intelligence; during their flight at
Ember's day concert, Sam looks at Danny in his ghost form, this being the first
time she realizes might feel something stronger form him

Sam sees Danny in his ghost form.
During their struggle, when getting enough power, Ember was able to affect his
human side enough to make him fall in love with Sam and keep him distracted.

Under this effects, he was madly
obsessed with Sam to the point of disregarding their own lives and meditating
over photos and a streak of her hair while grounded on his room.

When looking
for him in his room to stop Ember from taking over the world through her
concert, he gleefully compares them to Romeo and Juliet, only that he was
Juliet, and she was Romeo. After releasing Tucker from school where he was
freed from Ember's control thanks to the learning helmet, he congratulates them
both, thinking they were finally dating saying: "Man, it’s about time!" Sam, however; quickly dismisses the
idea saying that maybe she wanted it but not lie this. The effects of the spell
are broken when Sam eventually kisses Dash in the mouth so Danny can finally
fight Ember, which breaks his heart badly and sets him into warpath with Ember
"...I feel like
my heart’s been ripped out. But I know who I can take it out on!"; After defeating Ember, they
retrned to their everyday-relationship.

Further on, her feelings are more evident when she goes totally
jealous and angry when Danny began dating Paulina who saw him going
human after he defeated Johnny 13's Shadow, going so far to even punch a
 locker and dent it. However this was actually Kitty who overshadowed
Paulina by accident, originally intending to possess Sam, noting Danny
liked her too.

However, she ends in Paulina, with whom he was still in love, and
blackmails him to be her boyfriend with whom he makes a plot so she goes
 back with him.

Time later, the strength of their friendship would be tested when Freakshow an his Circus Gothica arrive
 into town. When using an ancient crystal ball staff, Freakshow gains
control over Danny's mind due to his half ghost nature forcing him to go
 rogue, stealing banks for him, and preform circus acts in his circus in
 which he jeopardizes Sam's life.

But, before he joined Yen Sid's Team and became the First Hero of the Sixteen Heroes and Heroines, his relationship with Sam was wasted when Sam was caught kissing Tucker, Danny's best friend, when he came back from a meeting in Africa.

### Tucker Foley

Tucker serves as Danny's primary best friend as the two often share
many things in common as well as share in general. The only two things
Danny and Tucker do not share is Danny's ghost powers (which made Tucker
 envious of him for a time) and Danny's romantic feelings for Sam. Danny
 often takes Tucker's side whenever his other friend, Sam, tends to
berate him. He rarely ever argues with Tucker, with the only times being
 when the two are on opposite ends of an issue.

### Jazz Fenton

At first, Danny was at odds with his sister, often exhibiting
hostility due to her more intelligent and slightly snobbish nature,
despite her concern and protection over her little brother. In *My Brother's Keeper* it
 was revealed that when Danny was eight years old, the two had been
quite close and talked all the time--before Jazz became, as Danny once
stated, "*a fink*" and a "*conceited snob*". As the show
progresses however, Jazz eventually mellowed down as well as accepted
Danny as a half-ghost, often covering up for him. The two have since
formed a much tighter bond though they still like to pick on each other
as seen in *The Fenton Menace*.

### Jack and Maddie Fenton

Like Jazz before, Danny sometimes feel at odds with his folks. Danny
at an earlier age once connected greatly with his mother, but they grew
apart over time. While it seems he does not always feel safe with his
parents (especially with their desire to hunt ghosts, including tearing
his ghost half apart molecule by molecule), he still shows love and
concern for them as much as they do in return. In *Phantom Planet* his parents finally learn he is Danny Phantom, and they easily accept him.

### Valerie Gray

Danny's opinion of Valerie was anything but
kind in their first meeting, as he was not a fan of her egotistical and
angry attitude, that along the fact that she wanted to hunt him down for something he was not entirely guilty of.
 Unbeknowst to them, Vlad grants her the equipment needed to hunt him
down, and Cujo, the Ghost Dog. Such was his dislike of her,that he would
 refuse to allow her to sit next to him and Sam during a basketball
game, even though she was Tucker companion, knowing it was her who was
hunting him; and even after finally getting rid of him and explaining it
 wasn't his fault and he felt guilty, she insisted on hunting him. The
friction between them worsened when she hunted him as Danny Phantom on
the way to school causing them to be late for it and then  forced to
work together taking care of a flour sack baby for a Health Science
class.

When Danny travels 10 years into the future she attacks him on sight as
Danny Phantom, having fought with his evil older self for that time,
thinking he was the same; yet he appears
 right afterwards and tussles with her. When throwing her away from the
battlefield, Danny hurls himself to rescue Valerie, after which she
claims "You are from the past, aren't you? Almost forgot how cute you
were back then." Thus, showing that she had fond memories of young Danny
 that endure all this years despite the acts of his evil self and the
hatred she had for Dan Phantom, and that at some point she discovered he
 was both Danny *Fenton* and Danny *Phantom.*

Once
 the time-stream was reestablished and the dystopian future was avoided,
 some time later, Technus attacks Axion Labs with her suit during a
school trip, after which they spend the entire night chatting only.
There she learns he always wanted to be an astronaut, and that he bowls
with a 150 average, and Danny learns her favorite fruit is kumquat
because it's a funny and that she is a ninth degree black belt. The two
dated briefly and saw themselves in several romantic situations one
after another, not knowing they were being manipulated by Technus who
was using their desire for each other and nourishing their relationship
so Danny would not stop him from hacking the Cybertron Computer. However
 when Valerie saw Danny destroying her hunting suit which was controlled
 by Technus, they were demoralized as she believed he was trying to do
that to her and could not bare the feeling and seeing Valerie's
reaction. That night, when Danny tries to stop Technus from using
Axion's computer, the later gives Valerie a new battle armor which she
uses to fight him as Danny Phantom in the outer space, which leads to
Danny knocking her out by accident with a ghost stinger. Full of scorn,
he then ends uses the X-23 Booster Rocket in overload mode to blowing up
 Technus as he forced him to hurt Valerie. When Danny was ready to
formalize their relationship giving her the graduation ring his dad gave
 him (believing it was Sam who he was dating thus writing her name in
it) and ask her to be his girlfriend for real, she stopped him before he
 could say anything, due to her current (secret) job as a ghost hunter
to protect him (still unaware that Danny Fenton and Danny Phantom are the same). However, Danny still held romantic feelings towards her, and was
devastated for not being able to be with her and they would greet each
other kindly whenever they see each other. Their last conflict was after she hunts Dani for Vlad under the illusion
 that she was out to get him and Amity Park, and with the promise of
enough money for her and her father to move out of her crony apartment at Elmerton.

After she traces she finds her in her human form and chases
 her inside an abandoned house thinking Dani was running from a ghost.
When the house collapses Dani saves her transforming in front of her,
nonetheless, she captures Dani and uses her as bait to trap and torture
Danny claiming she wanted the "honor of meeting Danny Phantom". Once she
 had him prisoner, she was ready torture him in order to extract
information about the Ghost Portals and the Ghost Zone. Danny agrees to give her all the information she wants about the Ghost
Portals, the Ghost Zone and even a map so she can become the best hero
ghost-hunter of Amity Park as long as she helps him save Dani from Vlad,
 claiming she had to do it because she is one of hers, a human. She
accepts to work with him (again) to save her from a sure dead as she is
half-human, going to Fenton Works first looking for the Ecto-Dejecto,
and hurling themselves towards Vlad's Mansion. There they fight a clone
of Vlad, finally defeating him with Dani's help after she is finally
stabilized. Once defeated Dani leaves and Danny hands himself to
Valerie, fulfilling his end of the deal, but much to his surprise she
refuses to take him captive again, letting him go free but warning him
to be ready because "tomorrow, it's game on!" and blasts him the the
butt as he leaves[12].She was last seen cheering for Danny with the crowd after he revealed his identity to the world.

### Vlad Plasmius

Vlad is Danny's arch-rival and his arch-enemy, a mostly mutual
feeling. Danny is often at odds with the other half ghost as he often
has to resist his offers to join his side and be his son. However, by *Eye for an Eye*
 the two have become more antagonistic with Vlad no longer seeking
Danny's affections. For his part, Danny takes it upon himself to
constantly insult and defeat him every chance he gets, though when the
situation arises, the two are often forced to work reluctantly side to
side. Only in the alternative future set in *The Ultimate Enemy*
shows Danny treating Vlad as anything less than an antagonist. Danny
often calls Vlad a 'fruitloop', along with his clone, Dani.

Vlad's also known for his obsession with Danny's mother, Maddie.
He is constantly trying to take Maddie from her husband, Jack, who think
 of Vlad as an old friend, completely oblivious to the fact that he is
trying to kill him. In *Phantom Planet*, Jack finally learns the truth and has a loathing for his so-called friend.

### Dani Phantom

Being an imperfect clone of Danny, Danielle is like him in most ways,
 which makes her an easy person for him to talk to. The two were on
opposing teams until Dani realized her creator, Vlad, was only using her
 and defected. However, Danielle did not stay with Danny and went out to
 explore the world, though she promised to return at some point.
Danielle reappears in *D-Stabilized*, searching for Danny to find a
 cure for her dissolving ailment. Danny managed to find her a cure,
stabilizing her DNA. She once again decides to head off, but promises
once again to come back to him. She makes a final cameo appearance in *Phantom Planet*, though the two had no interactions.

Despite their knowing each other for short time, they already
have developed a close brother and sister-like bond, always trusting and
 being protective of each other.

### Dan Phantom

Dan Phantom is Danny's ultimate enemy is his most hated and feared
foe ever. Although Danny is at odds with his other enemies, including
Vlad, Dan Phantom is a whole other story. Dan is, or at least was,
Danny's future self, but the direct causes that lead to Danny turning
into Dan were averted thanks to Clockwork's intervention. They have not
encountered each other since due to his imprisonment in Clockwork's
lair.

### Frostbite

Danny met the yeti-like ghost when he, Sam and Tucker were lost in
the Ghost Zone. Frostbite and his people treat Danny like a king due to
his contribution in saving the Ghost Zone (and Earth) from Pariah Dark. Danny considers Frostbite a friend and a mentor after learning how to control his Cryokinesis thanks to Frostbite's training, and is happy to help him out, such as when Vlad stole the Infi-map from him in.

## On Yen Sid's Team

After the Incident of The Disasteroid on The World, everyone was at peace with each other, but that didn't last when Danny saw Sam and Tucker kissing after he came back from a meeting in Africa. After Danny's and Sam's fresh relationship together was over, he met up with his friend, Andrea Garcia. She came to visit Danny when they were five years old. But suddenly, they both saw that the Dark Creatures are coming from the distance, so that means that the Battle of Heroes and Villains is not over.

After Andrea and Danny defeated the Dark Creatures, Andrea announced him as the First Hero of the Sixteen Heroes and Heroines. Yen Sid, Andrea's real father and mentor, took Danny with him while everyone who supported him will stay and call for help whenever the Darkness would send its creatures. And then his new adventure began when he and Andrea began looking for new members to join Yen Sid's Team.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

Danny possesses various superhuman attributes as a result of his unique physiology.
 He can freely use a variety of ghostly powers. He possesses some of his
 ghost powers in his human forms such as invisibility, intangibility,
ghost ray, ghost sense, healing factor as well a low degree of enhanced
strength and reflexes.

**Going Ghost**:
 Danny is able to transform from human to ghost and vice versa at will.
His transformation into ghost form will often be accompanied by his
signature phrase, "I'm going ghost!" or "Going ghost!". Once transformed
 he can use all of his ghost powers.

* **Invisibility**: Danny is able to become unseen for humans or ghosts and can only be seen through infrared vision devices. Danny can make other people and objects invisible when in physical contact with them. He can make himself invisible while in human form. While invisible he is still tangible, unless he also turns otherwise. Though he cannot be seen, he can be touched, smelled or heard.

* **Intangibility**: When intangible, Danny becomes untouchable by almost anything, capable of walking through walls and even people and reach into anything, even his own body.  He can use it while in his human form as well as his ghost form, and also turn other people and objects intangible when in physical contact with them (it is said to cause a slight tingly sensation).  While he can fly through just about anything in the human world, in the  Ghost Zone, objects obstruct him just as they do humans in the human world. He can, however, transform back into his human form and phase through the objects there. This power allows him to phase through lasers, fire, and ecto-energy blasts, except for the anti-ghost ray from Valerie's weapons.  This power was of the hardest for Danny to handle at first, as he passed through objects without realizing, even after having his powers for a month. It often activated when Danny got nervous (i.e. when asking  a girl for a date), turning parts of his body or clothes intangible. A misconception of this power is that it's the same as invisibility, but people can still see him when he is intangible, these two powers are separate.

* **Flight**: When he’s a ghost, gravity doesn't affect him (this also allows him to lift really heavy things). Danny can fly through the air and in space at considerable speeds and heights, sometimes becoming a flashing still for brief periods. The first measure of his speed was 112 mph, though he has gotten faster ever since then. At some point, he flew from Amity Park to Madison, Wisconsin in a matter of hours (whereas the Fenton RV takes three days to make it). He uses this power  during combats the most. When floating or flying, his bottom half will sometimes turn into a ghost tail, though he seems to fly faster with his  legs.

* **Overshadowing**: Danny can overshadow a human being, an animal, or an inanimate object from within by phasing completely into the subject's body, allowing him to completely control that person's actions. When overshadowed, the subject keeps his or her original form, but his or her eyes turn green and the voice will often alter. Danny can still use his powers of flight, intangibility, invisibility, and ghost rays while overshadowing someone. The subject has no memory of what he or she did while being overshadowed. It can slightly influence the overshadowed afterwards based off what the ghost said while overshadowing them. He can also overshadow another Half-ghost or at least one of their duplicates like he did with Vlad's duplicate in *Eye for an Eye*. Danny cannot overshadow a person or a ghost if he is not fully concentrated, or if he  is taken out of the overshadowed by anti-ghosts gadgets. Also, Danny cannot overshadow, someone with enough willpower to stop him. This power  has other uses or manifestations like:

* + **Software Fusion/Data form**: Not exactly technopathy as well, however Danny can introduce himself into a computer software, I.E. a computer video game and possess his own avatar, becoming part of the game itself. Just like Technus. While overshadowing Danny's ghost powers and appearance become those of his avatar.

* + - When Danny transforms into his ghost form, he had the Fenton helmet on which may have helped him get into the game.
	+ **Dream Invasion**: Danny is able to get inside other people's dreams to see and interact within them, by overshadowing them.
* **Ghost Ray**: Danny's ghost ray is an ectoplasmic green and white energy blast, usually fired from the palm of his hand or fingertips; but it can also be fired from his butt.  His blasts produce both thermal and explosive results on contact or even kinetic, often melting metal, or destroying other materials, and are usually launched as thrown projectiles or as a single blast or a streaming beam of energy. However, he can also fire multiple blasts at once by waving his hand. This power (among others) is affected by his emotional state, as it manifested out of fear by Desiree and fueled by strong feelings such as anger and frustration as demonstrated when he shot a green ghost ray that became white growing in  power due to his angst;  so far it hasn't been shown or hinted a connection with any other kinds  of feelings. At his peak, Danny can single handed or two-handedly fire a  powerful ghost ray that can tear apart any weak ghost molecule by molecule and destroy the area nearby as seen when used on one of his clones and Nocturne's Sleepwalkers. This power has other variants and/or can be fired like:

* + **Ecto-Energy Strike**: Danny has the ability to enhance his physical attacks with his ecto-energy by channeling the ecto-energy through his fists in order to enhance the strength of his physical attacks. He only did this when he fought Tucker Phantom.

* + **Ecto-Energy Ball**: Danny usually tends to concentrate and release his ecto-energy, shaped like a sphere of different sizes. He creates a small-sized to large-sized energy sphere, then he fires it at his opponents.

* + **Ecto-Energy Waves**: Danny uses this power in the episode *Frightmare* to protect himself from Nocturne's attack.
	+ **Explosive Ecto-Energy Disk**: Danny can put his Ghost rays' energy into a concentrated ecto explosive disk. Danny first uses this power in the episode Reality Trip to draw a happy face in Freakshow's hat. Later in the episode *Boxed Up Fury*,  he fires these explosive disks when fighting the ten headed Hydra dragon. He seems to have learned it from watching Vlad performing it.

* + **Explosive Ecto**-**Energy Rings**: In the episode *Claw of the Wild*, Danny is seen shooting explosive energy rings.
* **Light Projection**: He can project green light from his hands by using his ecto-energy.
	+ **Flashing Energy Ball**: Danny is able to create an ecto-energy ball that explodes in front of his enemies, releasing white greenish light distracting and blinding everyone but him. This technique is defensive rather than offensive, and is mainly used as way to gain the upper hand, or in order to make hasty retreat,

* **Cutting with Ecto-Energy**: Danny can concentrate his natural ecto-energy in his hands, which allows him to cut through objects as hard as steel, like he does when fighting Undergrowth and Nocturne.

* **Repulsion Field**: Danny can expel a large amount of ecto-energy from all his body in order to repel his enemies, similar to his Aural projection, but with much more power. He always uses this power every time he is surrounded by too many enemies at once. This is one of the many powers that Danny has developed but Vlad hasn't.

* **Ectoplasmic Energy Shield**: Like his blasts, Danny's shield is green. It ranges from a full dome, to a small square or circle. His shield can withstand blasts from powerful ghosts like Vlad, Dani, and Vortex. There are other variants of  this ability:
* **Reflective Shield**: Performing a gesture with his hands, Danny is able to create a planar shield with the ability to reflect any energy attack back to its user. He first used this ability in *Teacher of the Year*.

* **Duplication**: After seeing Vlad do it, Danny spends much of the series trying to master Duplication, the power which allows one to duplicate themselves. Danny manages to properly use it in the episode *Beauty Marked*, when he is fighting the Executioner Ghost and he easily split himself in 2 (though just for a second) and later in the episode *Torrent of Terror*. Even then, he cannot properly hold it, showing he has yet to master this power (though he did pull it off with the Ecto-Skeleton).

* **Cryokinesis**: Cryokinesis allows Danny to shoot beams of icy energy from his hands or eyes, radiate cold energy from his body, cold energy waves as well as generate and manipulate ice. His ghost sense is a more subtle manifestation of this power. This ability also gives him an increased resistance to low and high temperatures. When he uses this ability, his eyes turn blue instead of being their usual green. There are other techniques of this power such as:

* **Explosive Snowball**: Danny can merge his Cryokinesis with his ghost rays in an explosive snowball, filled with ecto-energy. He only used it against Undergrowth in *Urban Jungle*.
* **Freezing Snowball**: Danny can generate a snowball that freezes everything it hits instantly.
* **Cold Energy Shield**: Danny can create ghost shields made of cold energy to protect himself from fire attacks.
* **Freezing Touch**: The power to freeze people by touch. He can do this from the inside out.
* **Cryokinetic Constructs**: The power to create tools, objects and weapons, out of Ice.
* **Ghost Sense**: Danny subconsciously uses his Cryokinesis to alert himself of the presence of nearby ghosts. It is shown to be a blue mist that comes out from his mouth and sometimes makes him shiver. This is literally the first power he used in the series.

* **Ghostly Wail**: The ghostly wail is the unique ability to generate an extremely powerful wail from one's vocal cords and mouth (like a sonic scream with a ghostly moaning at the same time). The sonic waves are made of pure ecto-energy that can cause great damage to ghosts, humans, and tangible matter. It is powerful enough to destroy the massive artificially generated Ghost Shield that protected the future Amity Park, and ghost proof restraints as seen in *The Ultimate Enemy*. It is also effective against multiple targets, or against a very powerful enemy, and almost nothing can withstand this attack. One side affect is that it  drains Danny's powers when he uses it, so he soon returns to human form  after. Although, he seems to have become powerful enough to overcome this in *Phantom Planet*.

* **Superhuman Strength**: When he’s a ghost, gravity doesn't affect him so he can lift really heavy things. The exact amount Danny can lift (press) has never been stated, but an educated guess would be somewhere between 10 to 30 tons. However, his full strength often fluctuates. He has been shown to be strong enough to rip reinforced titanium without too much difficulty, as well as lifting  and throwing a dragon ghost, and knock it to the ground with one punch.  In *Forever Phantom*, Danny holds up a school bus full of kids with no strain, but in *Frightmare* he is seen struggling to lift a bunch of Sleepwalkers.

* **Superhuman Durability**: While human, Danny can withstand many hits and blows that would cause injure to any normal teenager. In his ghost form, Danny's body is incredibly resistant to damage, and he also has demonstrated a high threshold for pain. His ghost tissues and bones are considerably harder and more resistant to physical injury than  those of an ordinary human. In the *The Fright Before Christmas*, he is barely phased by getting brutally attacked by a giant nutcracker. In *The Ultimate Enemy*,  Danny is able to still stand up after taking many hits from Dark Danny and uses the Ghostly Wail to defend himself. However it is stated that Dark Danny didn't use his full strength, otherwise he would have killed himself.

* **Superhuman Stamina**: While human, Danny has the same stamina as an average 15 year old teenager. In his ghost form, Danny's musculature produces almost no fatigue toxins during physical activity. He can physically exert himself at peak capacity for hours before fatigue begins to impair him. In the episode *Reality Trip*, Danny was able to continually keep the Emergency Ops Center  invisible for the entire night. He can also perform physical activity for really long periods of time without getting tired till hours later. His virtually inexhaustible stamina enables him to exert himself at peak  capacity for hours, and possibly days.

* **Superhuman Agility**: In his ghost form, Danny's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete, therefore he possess agility beyond that of a normal human being. He can effectively dodge attacks, swing from things easily, sprint, do back-flips and numerous other gymnastic, athletic and martial implements  with little effort.

* **Superhuman Reflexes**: While being ghost, he has drastically enhanced reaction speed, being able to dodge punches and other kind of attacks with ease. One of his best displays of reflexes and agility is when he dodges the pendulums traps inside Pariah Dark's castle, in the episode *Fright Night*. In the episode *Beauty Marked*, he catches an arrow in midair, using his bare hands.

* **Superhuman Equilibrium**: Probably due to his flight ability, Danny has the ability to achieve a state of perfect equilibrium in any position imaginable. He seemed able to adjust his position almost by instinct, which enables him to balance himself on a scythe, balanced on a rope at great high and perfectly walk on a wall like if its the floor.

* **Enhanced Speed**: When ghost, he is capable of moving and running faster than in his human form, but he doesn't reach superhuman levels since he is not a real speedster.

* **Regenerative Healing Factor**: Danny is capable of healing at much greater speeds than that of an ordinary humans. He has proven capable of healing from slashes and puncture wounds within a matter of seconds, minutes or hours depending on how injured he is, and even his suit appears to regenerate sometimes. In his human form, his healing rate is also enhanced, even though it is weaker than in his ghost form. It is unknown if he can regenerate missing limbs.

* **Paranormal Immunity**: As a half ghost, Danny is resistant or totally immune to several attacks or effects from ghost powers. Examples of this is when Ember's music could not affect him until she got more powerful, and he was immune to Spectra's ghost illness. He may also be immune to some earth diseases except for the common cold.

* **Ghost Stinger**: An attack that utilizes ecto-energy in an electric form. In *Public Enemies*, Danny uses it to free Wulf from Bullet's weapon and defeat one of his goons. Danny also does a very similar attack on Valerie in "Flirting With Disaster", which could be the same ability, only on a weaker level.  Dan and Vlad both use it to weaken Danny. The fact that he has only used it when his enemy uses an electric attack may imply that he actually redirects the electricity with his hands.

* **Teleportation**: Danny has apparently teleported on a few occasions. During the final battle in "Reality Trip," he briefly disappears from sight and reappears in another location a short distance away. Danny also does something very similar when fighting Tucker Phantom. This however could just be him turning invisible and moving, except that we tend to see him when he  is invisible.

* **Spectral Body Manipulation**: Danny has the ability to manipulate the shape of his body. The most common instance of this power is the tail that often replaces his legs when he's flying or hovering. He has also transformed into a blue mist in *Parental Bonding* and elongated and twisted his midsection, as well as caused holes in every part of his body. In *Reality Trip*,  when his body transforms into orange jelly caused by Freakshow, he gathers his body after being crashed by roller coaster cars and changes back to solid. This power also extends at some point in his human form as he had a cyclops eye when he changed back to human after a failed attempt of duplication The most common uses of this power is:

* **Ghost Tail**: Danny's lower body will revert into a typical ghost tail of intangible matter. He uses this ability most often to allow himself to move faster through the air. Danny has known how to do this since he first learned how to fly. It is a fact that he keeps his legs' bones when he has his ghost tail.

* **Spectral Body Split**: Danny can force his body to split in half along the midsection, the two halves remaining connected with a trail of spectral matter. He uses this ability mostly to dodge oncoming attacks. He first learns how to use this ability in the episode "Mystery  Meat", when he attempts to dodge an assault of possessed shish-kabobs. He can also separate his body in half without any connection but only for a few seconds, and it seems to be an unconscious act. The first time  he split like that was in the episode *Shades of Gray*, when Sam throws a book at him, and later in the episode *Pirate Radio* when fighting Youngblood.

* **Spectral Body Stretch**: Danny usually stretches his midsection to avoid energy blast from an enemy.
* **Spectral Body Ring**: This ability is nearly the same as the Spectral Body Split, except that the trail of ghost matter that ties his body halves together forms a ring. Danny first displays use of this ability in *Life Lessons*, when he dodges a laser blast from Valerie. It is not known if he was able to perform it before or not.

* **Superhuman Flexibility**: Due to his ability to manipulate his body he is able to bend and twist his far beyond the normal limits of human physiology.

* **Weather Control (Formerly)**: After Danny's first battle with Vortex in *Torrent of Terror*, he accidentally gained some of Vortex's power, allowing him to control the weather like Vortex. Although his powers were on a smaller range and seemed to end just outside Amity Park. This caused his emotions to be linked to the weather. This caused great problems, as described by Vlad,  "Your anger could cause cyclones, your sadness monsoons." They were later removed in his second fight with Vortex. While he had them, he caused a spike in heat so strong that it set off the sprinklers of the building he was in. He has also shown to be able to make tornadoes, electric storms, and massive hurricane winds while angry, a tropical rain while sad and make it sunny while happy.

* **Telekinesis**: Visible only in the form of green energy emanating from his hand and the subject of the telekinesis; his ability allows him to fully lift and manipulate objects in any way his mind can think of. At the end of *Boxed Up Fury*, Danny used this skill to hand the Box Ghost a rake while he was working for Pandora. This ability is also used by Dan Phantom.

* **Aural Projection**: Danny calls for a massive amount of spectral energy, sending out a wave of white light that repels any nearby enemy ghosts, sending them flying away from him. He first used this ability in *My Brother's Keeper*, forcing Spectra to release her grip on him. It takes the shape of his transformation rings, but does not transform him. This may be an outward manifestation of his feelings.

* **Power Augmentation**: Danny has the ability to momentarily increase his physical strength by using his ecto-energy. When holding back the Fright Knight's sword with his hands, Danny was able to garner enough strength in order to fling the Knight over his shoulder. When he does this, his aura started glowing brighter. He also used this power when he was trapped in an ectoplasmic goo web in the episode *Doctor's Disorders*.

* **Wall-crawling**: Danny can stand on, as well as walk along vertical and horizontal surfaces, such as walls and roofs. Though he is held against them by gravity due to his existing outside of earthly physics. He first displays use of this ability in *Teacher of the Year*.

* **Back Slide**: This allows Danny to zip along a surface in one direction without moving his legs. He saw a possessed Paulina perform this ability in *Public Enemies*; he first used this ability in *Lucky in Love*.

* **Vacuum Resistance**: It was shown in *Flirting With Disaster*, and *Phantom Planet* that Danny can be in outer space without using an astronaut suit and not be affected by stardust or cosmic radiation, though he still needs a helmet so he can breathe since he does not have the ability of self-sustenance.

* **Ghost Flame**: The Ghost flame was shown in *Claw of the Wild*. Danny can create green fire balls made of ectoplasm.
* **Exorcism**: In the episode *What You Want*, Danny is able to separate Dash from the ghost powers/form that possess him with simply using his hand. He also separates Paulina using a ghost ray; he can do this by overshadowing the person, although he didn't use it with Tucker due to his power. He also uses this ability in *Bitter Reunions* to separate Vlad from his dad, and in the episode *Public Enemies* when Walker's crew overshadowed Amity Park. The only character who shares this power is Wulf, who uses his claws to do so.

* **Underwater Breathing**: In the episodes *Double Cross My Heart* and *Girls' Night Out*, Danny is seen breathing and talking under water, via unknown means.

### Abilities

* **Indomitable Will**: It should also be noted that Danny (as a human or as a ghost) has a very strong will as he is able to resist Freakshow's control over him. Danny is always helping people and he is willing to die for the people he cares about. During his battle with Pariah Dark, Danny was determined to not let him take over the world and  he holds his own while only powered up by 4% of power and he still was able to lock Pariah in the Sarcophagus (Vlad's last moment arrival defeated Pariah). Danny's determination allows him to fight on, even if the odds are on a stake and the chances of winning are almost none.

* **Experienced Combatant**: Although Danny has no formal knowledge of hand-to-hand combat, his powers enable him to execute punches and kick with superhuman force at an opponent and his career as a superhero and ghost hunter has given him plenty of combat experience.

* **Fenton's Weaponry Mastery**: Danny often uses his parent's weapons with great expertise and ease, even better than his own parents.

* **Swordsmanship**: He demonstrates some ability with the sword in the episode when fighting Vlad.
* **Bilingual Skill**: Danny learns to talk Esperanto with Tucker, in case he meets with Wulf again.
* **Quick Learning Ability**: Over the series, Danny manages to emulate or quickly learn many of the powers his enemies use against him, some of them with incredible ease, sometimes even without training. One example is how Danny creates a ghost shield after seeing Vlad use one without training beforehand. Another example is that he learns how to use his ice powers in just one day, with the training of Frostbite. Other powers he learns with hard work, depending on how complex the ability is. One of the powers he struggles the most to learn is the duplication power, which he has tried hard to master ever since he saw Vlad using it. He could not only learn ghost powers by  just simply watching, but also learn Sampson's body language as well as the answers for the literature test with just one day of study, getting a "A-".

* **Experienced Pilot**: Danny is an considerably skilled pilot, having a long experience with spaceships simulators as well as with his parent's Specter Speeder. He is able to land a spaceship due to his "training" with the simulator.
* **Skilled Tactician**: Danny is an excellent strategist, despite his relatively young age. In the episode *Pirate Radio*, he demonstrated the ability to formulate relatively complex plans of actions to infiltrate the inside of Youngblood's pirate ship, with all his schoolmates, to save their parents from Ember and Youngblood. He is also very good at improvisation, as he often manages to think of a plan that fits with the changing needs of a situation.

* **Leadership Skills**: Despite his unpopularity, Danny has demonstrated to have remarkable skills as a leader. He demonstrated to be a natural leader and can easily command respect and inspire others, like he did when he led his schoolmates to save their parents from Ember and Youngblood. Later, he convinced them to make a riot so they can get back Nasty Burger from Vlad. But his greatest display of leadership was when he convinced all the ghosts from the Ghost Zone to save the real world from the Disasteroid and thus saving their world.

* **Strong Speaker**: He has proven to be very good at speaking in front of large audiences in order to get the respect and their attention to lead them, at least for short periods of time.

## Weaknesses

* **Ghost-Weapons**: In his ghost form he is vulnerable to all anti-ghost weapons, such as the Fenton and Plasmius' gadgets. Some devices can hurt him not only in his ghost form but also in his human form, namely the Specter Deflector. Over the series he has been depowered by several gadgets designed to neutralize his ghost energy such as the Spectral Energy Neutralizer and the Plasmius Maximus. Undergrowth's plants can also absorb his ghost energy weakening  his powers.

* **Ecto-ranium**: As a half ghost he can be hurt by the ecto-ranium and weapons created with this same material.
* **Blood Blossoms**: when in their presence, he is rendered not only powerless, but also he will suffer in agony until the flowers were removed. Vlad referred to them as "*a primitive Specter Deflector*". Since Vlad was able to stand near them in his human form, it is safe to say that Danny can do the same.

* **Infrared Vision**: Danny can be seen with infrared visors as he still irradiates heat in his ghost form.

## Clothes

Danny Fenton wears a white shirt
with a red collar and sleeves and a circle in the middle, light blue jeans and
red and white shoes while his alter ego Danny Phantom wears a black jumpsuit
with white boots, collar, belt, gloves and, thanks to Sam in *Memory Blank*, his logo on his suit.

## Trivia

* From the beginning, Butch wanted him to always ride a motorcycle like the "Ghost Rider" character in the Marvel comics. But once he decided to give him powers - and the ability to fly - he no longer needed a cycle to get around on. However, Danny can be seen driving Johnny 13's motorcycle to stop the Guys In White from destroying the Ghost Zone in the episode *Livin' Large*.

* At first, he was meant to be named "Jackie" after Jackie Chan, but then Butch decided to name him Danny.
* For some reason, fans believe his middle name is "James". Possibly because he is of English ancestry.
* He is a certificated Junior Astronaut.
* Danny seems to have the likeness of comic book heroes Spider-Man, Green Lantern, Batman, Hulk, and Superman. Like Spider-Man, he was an unpopular bullied teenager in high school when he got his powers in a lab accident. He was also seen as a menace despite how many villains he fought. Danny has a major track record of delivering witty humor to most of his enemies during their battles (and sometimes also when he's not fighting ghosts), and he sometimes has the desire to use his powers on bullies but, like Spider-Man, as he begins to mature, he become more responsible of his duties as a superhero. Most of Danny's personality appears to be based on Spider-Man. Much like Green Lantern, he is an expert pilot, as he was able to fly a space shuttle just by practice on simulations. Like Batman, he has gadgets and equipment that he sometimes uses to defeat his enemies. Hulk can change his appearance from human to monster just like Danny can change his appearance from human to ghost. And like Superman, he has a crush on a girl that only likes his superhero counterpart.

* The only historical quote that he actually knows is "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" from Franklin D. Roosevelt.
* According to the Guys In White he is "*an entity of scale 7 ectoplasmic power".*
* In the episode *One of a Kind*, we can see that his handwriting is cursive.
* Danny's powers seem to be strongly connected to his feelings, especially those that are "negative" such as fear or rage. It was the feeling of fear that triggered his ghost ray when Desiree approached to him, and the feeling of rage that gave him his Ghostly Wail in *The Ultimate Enemy*,  when all his enemies were haunting him for what he did. This could explain the power of his ghost ray and how it gets stronger and turns completely white while using it when he is angry in the episode *My Brother's Keeper*.  This could explain why Dan was so strong, since he was all evil and driven by rage and hate. This could also explain how Danny's emotions were connected to the weather when he temporarily obtained atmokinetic powers in *Torrent of Terror*.

* Danny is the only character in the show to have appeared in all 53 episodes, counting the four specials.
* Danny hated the holidays due to his parents constant bickering over Santa's existence, leading Danny in a situation when his parents didn't pay attention, as seen in *The Fright Before Christmas*.

* He wears both boxers and briefs as seen in *Parental Bonding* when his pants fall and in *Reign Storm* when he is given a hanging wedgie by Dash.
* He has gotten revenge on Dash by giving him an atomic wedgie in his briefs and dumping frogs down his pants.
* He has been given a wedgie twice, both times in briefs. The first was in *Reign Storm*, by Dash and the second was in *Splitting Images*, by a bully in the fifties.
* The first time he had a "D" symbol on his chest was in the episode *Teacher of the Year*, when he fused himself with his video game's avatar to defeat Technus.
* In Yen Sid's Team, he was known as a brother towards Andrea since she accepted him from his heart, not his appearances he was shown towards Andrea. In Yen Sid's Team, he and a few others have Ice Powers, like Elsa, Jack Frost, Mizore, and so forth.