Jack Fenton

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**Jack Fenton** is one of the main characters of the Danny Phantom television series. He is the father of Jazz, Danny and Danielle and the husband of Maddie. Like his family Jack is a ghost hunter and the founder of Fenton works.

## Biography

Most of Jack's background is a mystery; however, according to him, he was "born in a log cabin" and he always wanted a pony but couldn't because he and his family ate horse meat during the war. However, it is unknown if this is true or if it is just Jack rambling on. Other than that, his upbringing is never mentioned. His only known parent revealed was his father who was called "Grandpa Fenton"  by Danny and Jazz. However, it was revealed in "Infinite Realms" that Jack and his family are descendants of the witch hunter John Fentonightingale, who was obsessed with hunting witches during the Salem Witch Trials, as Jack has an obsession with hunting ghosts. This implies that encounters with the Supernatural and developing obsessions about them ran within the Fenton Family.

In the 1980s, Jack went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he fell in love with his future wife, Maddie Fenton. They would have graduated in 1984 (due to it being their twentieth reunion in "Bitter Reunion"). During those years, Jack befriended Vlad Masters before he became a billionaire and ghost supervillain. Together, all three hung out together as best friends but Jack was unaware that Vlad also had feelings for Maddie. Jack said they were popular in college and at one point, they joined a band called "The Skunk Punks." However, it didn't catch onto him until adulthood when he realized that it was not the best name for a band.

The trio made a prototype portal machine to an alternate dimension known as the Ghost Zone but Vlad doesn't think that it will work. During one of their testing, Vlad stands in front of the portal when Jack activates it, the blast from the small explosion causes Vlad's face to grow Ecto-Acne. He was hospitalized for months but the accident also destroyed his social life and, in his eyes, his chance at entering in a relationship with Maddie. However, the blast also rewrote Vlad's DNA, making him the world's first human/ghost hybrid. After Vlad recovered, Jack could never reconcile with him.

Shortly after graduating, Jack and Maddie married May 9th, 1986. However Alicia, Maddie's sister, disapproved of their marriage. Moving to Amity Park, they begun utilizing careers in ghost hunting. Two years into their marriage, Jack and Maddie had two children together: Jasmine in 1988 and Daniel in 1990.

## Personality

Despite his flaws, Jack is a loving husband to Maddie and caring father to his three children. For example, Jack is fairly protective of his family, as he and his wife always are in sync with each other and didn't appreciate it when the Fright Knight held Maddie hostage. It is also down that Jack will immediately attack a ghost threatening his children, as he assaulted a ghost bear terrorizing Jazz in "Maternal Instincts" and Skulker when he was antagonising Danny and "Girl's Night Out." He is also accepting of his son Danny's ghost half when he discovered the truth that his son and Danny Phantom were one and the same twice (Reality Trip and Phantom Planet.

Despite others claiming that Jack is an moron, Jack is more on the lines of naive and ignorant than idiotic. He is also a poor judge of character, seeing Danny Phantom as a menace and falsely believing Vlad is a good man. However, after learning Vlad

## Trivia

* Jack was the first person seen on the series and the character to have the first lines in the series.
* Jack was named after the character Jack Torrance from *The Shining*, who also had a son named Daniel who also goes by the nickname Danny.
* Jack claims Jazz is his favorite child.

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