Clockwork (Danny Phantom)

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**Clockwork** is a character from the *Danny Phantom* series.

The ghost of time, Clockwork keeps the flow of time and interferes when he feels something is disturbing said flow. He is mysterious and powerful, knowing every aspect of time: past, present, and future. He remains a neutral influence in Danny's life, playing only by his rules. He doesn't perceive time as a linear sequence of events; this is reflected in his appearance, which constantly fluctuates in age.

In the AWA fics, Clockwork is set to appear in a future AWA storyline.

## **Appearance**

He is a violet-cloaked ghost with a pale blue face and a scar across his left eye. A clock-like mechanism is embedded in his chest. He carries a time staff, which he uses often. Due to his time-based nature, his ghost body constantly switches between a child form to an adult form to an old form.

## **Personality**

As the master of time, Clockwork is a logical ghost who speaks calmly, even under dire situations. Being the Master of Time, Clockwork takes a rather neutral role overall to the *Danny Phantom* world, though Danny sees him as more of an ally. His true motives and plans are a mystery due to his unpredictable nature; yet in the end, Clockwork merely means well in his goals and makes sure time flows along a direction that benefits all, even if the Observants disagree with him.

## **Abilities**

* **Intangibility**: Standard ghost power.
* **Invisibility**: Standard ghost power.
* **Flight**: Standard ghost power.
* **Age shifting (passive)**: Clockwork's appearance constantly alters form. He turns from a child to an adult to an elderly man, before the cycle repeats itself. Since this ability does not provide any benefits or consequences to Clockwork, it is considered passive in nature.
* **Chronokinesis**: As the ghost of time, Clockwork can manipulate time itself. He can make time speed up, slow down, stop, or reverse. He can apply this effect to all of time and space at once or to a localized area.
	+ **Time Portal Creation**: He can create portals that allow others to travel through time.
	+ **Omniscience**: Clockwork knows everything that has ever happened and everything that could happen in any possible future.
* **Clairvoyance**: He is able to manipulate the screens in his realm and decide what they show, with thought.
* **Immortality**: Though Clockwork is constantly switching between his child, adult, and elder form, he does not age.
* **Supernatural strength**: He is strong enough to cut a giant cog in half with one swing of his scythe.
* **Ghost Portal Creation**: He can create portals between the human world and the Ghost Zone through the use of his screens.
* **Teleportation**: Clockwork can teleport to anywhere in time and/or space at will. This manifests as a clock hand appearing and sweeping in a circular motion, creating a portal which envelops him and then disappears.
* **Telekinesis**: He can move people and objects with his thoughts. He used this power to save Danny's family and friends from the Nasty Burger explosion.
* **Summoning**: Clockwork can summon soldiers from past and future time periods to aid him. These minions appear similar to Clockwork himself but are dressed in the human clothing of the time periods they are from. It was not made clear whether these were alternate versions of Clockwork from past and future eras, duplicates of Clockwork from the present, or simply minions that Clockwork summoned.

### **Equipment**

* **Staff**: Clockwork uses his staff as a focus for his time powers. This staff has controls on it that allow Clockwork to control time.
* **Time medallions**: Anyone who wears Clockwork's time medallions is unaffected by changes in time. Clockwork gives these to the ghosts he sends through time so that they stay in their destination time period rather than immediately being sent back to their own time period.

## **Trivia**

* Clockwork's constantly changing appearance was an idea from artist Ben Balistreri.
* Clockwork's name is the term for the inner workings of a mechanical clock. This is appropriate, as he is the ghost of time and his lair resembles a clock tower.
* His design, especially in his old form, resembles Father Time, a commonly-used personification of time who appears as an old man with a long beard wearing a long hood and holding a staff or scythe.
* It is implied that he has met with Dark Danny at least once before the events of "The Ultimate Enemy," as Dan recognized Clockwork's medallion on sight and mentioned that he was "meddling again."
* In the official German dubbing, Clockwork is named *Zeitgeist*. In German, *Zeit* means "time" and *geist* can mean "spirit," "ghost," or "soul."