Vlad Plasmius

### **Employees:**

Valerie Gray (formerly), Skulker (sometimes), Dani Phantom (formerly), Ghost Vultures

### **Rivals:**

Danny Phantom
Jazz Fenton

### **Enemies:**

Jack Fenton, Maddie Fenton, Danny Phantom, Sam Manson, Tucker Foley, Jazz Fenton, Dark Danny, Behemoth, Frostbite, The Mino Monks, Valerie Gray, Klemper, Vortex, Observants, Dani Phantom, Fright Knight, Pariah Dark

## Character Information

### **Interests:**

Wealth, power, provoking Danny and Team Phantom, antagonizing or mocking his enemies, football, the Green Bay Packers, Maddie Fenton (formerly)

### Dislike(s):

Maddie and Danny rejecting him, the lab accident that gave him powers, Danny and his friends' interference, Jack Fenton, Dark Danny, being called a "fruitloop"

### **Affiliation:**

Vladco
Evil Syndicate

### Item(s):

Spectral Energy Neutralizer
Ghost Gauntlet
Pasmius Maximus

## Series Information

### Created by:

Butch Hartman

> "*Why, so you can go back to stumbling through your adolescence, desperately trying to get control of your powers? Powers, by the way, that I've had for twenty years. I have experience, my child, and the money and power attained through using them for personal gain, you see.*"
> ― Plasmius to Danny Fenton
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**Vlad Masters/Vlad Plasmius** is the main antagonist of the Nickelodeon animated series *Danny Phantom*. He is Danny Phantom's arch-enemy, Jack Fenton's former best friend and Maddie Fenton's former love interest from college. Determined to take over the world, he is constantly tormenting Danny and his friends, and is determined to kill Danny's father Jack and take his mother, Maddie for himself. However, he is one of the most dangerous people and most-hated person on earth after revealing his true self.

## Biography

### Background

Vlad Masters attended the Wisconsin and was best friends with both Jack and Maddie Fenton in their college years; however, he had a crush on Maddie, despite her being in love with Jack at the time. Even then, Vlad was jealous of their relationship. 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. Throughout the past twenty years, he grew embittered at Jack, especially when he and Maddie married and started their own family. Still, Vlad rose with money and power, while holding a deep resentment for his former best friend. He takes advantage of his powers by committing many invisible burglaries to acquire his wealth he has now, eventually taking the identity of Vlad Plasmius.

### Role in the Series

Prior to his Introduction in the series, Vlad sent a plethora of Ghosts to test Jack's strength. At some point, he learns of the ghost boy, Danny Phantom, who uses his powers for good and using them to catch evil ghosts.

Vlad sends three ghost vultures to Amity Park to annihilate Jack Fenton, giving them a torn-off picture of him. However, they are thwarted by Danny Phantom. Wanting to lure Jack to Wisconsin, he hosts a twenty-year reunion at his mansion and allows the Fentons to stay over the weekend, where they take their daughter Jazz and son Danny. However, there is still animosity Vlad feels to Jack and Maddie, uncomfortable with the tension and sensing Vlad's anger and off behavior, offering for their family to stay in their RV instead but Vlad convinces them to stay while missing his sinister smile.

Plasmius sends the Ghost vultures after Jack as he sleepwalks but Danny's ghost senses go off and saves his father by taking him to the bathroom he was looking for. Expecting the vultures to bring him Jack, Plasmius settled for fighting Danny instead and making it known he knew Danny as the Ghost boy who uses his powers for good and mocks him for his sentiment, knocking the boy to the ground and shows off his ability to duplicate himself. Just as he knocks Danny unconscious, Plasmius watches him transform back into his human form and to his shock, recognizes that Jack's son is the Ghost Boy before thinking of something far sinister to do with Danny.

During the reunion, Vlad frees Skulker and lures Danny to his secret lab, where he sees Vlad has a picture with the corner torn off and that he was the one who sent the vultures after his father. Danny comes face to face with Skulker before the Ghost bounty hunter traps him in a box that temporarily neutralize Danny's ghost powers. He stops Skulker from hurting the Teenager and sends him away. Vlad mentions that after even sending other ghosts to test Jack's strength, he tells Danny he was the second ghost hybrid created from Jack's foolishness before revealing himself as a fellow half-ghost to Danny, who immediately recognizes that Vlad is the Ghost he encountered the previous night and tries going ghost but Vlad explains that Danny's powers are neutralized and he is just as human as Jack is as long as he is trapped in the box. The evil ghost tries to tempt Danny with lessons as ghost training under his guidance if Danny renounces Jack as his father, but the younger ghost/human refuses.

Plasmius leaves him and overshadows Jack's body and wreaks havoc until Danny escapes the cage with help from there residential ghost and forces Vlad out of his father's body. Despite tempting the younger ghost with another chance at teaching him, the teen refuses a second time. After Plasmius takes Maddie out of the Fenton RV, Danny takes control of the vehicle that his mother was previously driving in and overshadowing his father's body to catch his mother as Vlad drops her because of the ectoplasmic substance incapacitates him. Shortly after, Danny (still in his father's body) grabs Plasmius and threatens to expose the both of them but it doesn't bother him because Danny knows his parents will accept him for who he is but promises that courtesy will not extend to Plasmius, especially if his mother finds out, unless he accepted a temporary truce. Seeing that the boy is not bluffing, Plasmius agrees to it, but swears that one day, they will meet again and that Danny and Maddie will one day come to him by choice before dramatically leaving.

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 a warning from Danny and when Vlad states that she was only created to serve him, Dani realizes Danny was right. 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.

## Alternate Versions

### The Ultimate Enemy

In an alternate timeline in which Jack, Maddie, Jazz, Tucker and Sam were killed in an accident at Nasty Burger, Vlad took pity on Danny and adopted the orphan boy to move in his house because he was the only one who understood what Danny's current situation was. Per the boy's request to end his grief, Vlad separated both 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 version. This dark future is undone.

### The Masters of Time

In the alternated timeline, Danny accidentally created in "The Masters of Time", 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.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Human-Ghost hybrid Physiology:** After the accident in college, Vlad became a ghost/human hybrid just like Danny. While Vlad has all the same powers that Danny has, Vlad is slightly more powerful than his archenemy because of the twenty years of experience he had that Danny does not have yet. His experience with his powers allows him to perform many techniques that Danny has yet to learn, such as Duplication (which Danny did not master until "Torrent of Terror."), and for all the feats that Danny can perform, Vlad can perform them better, possibly due to the 20-year experience in which he has had more time to develop new abilities, improve his existing ones, and patch up any weaknesses he might have, but Danny is slowly catching up to him. At the same time, however, Vlad seems to lack several powers; like Danny's Ghostly Wail and doesn't have Ghost Sense or by extension, hasn't developed Cyrokinesis as Danny later gain, possibly as a result of being less exposed to the energies that gave the two their powers than Danny was.
	+ **Transformation/Going Ghost:** Being a half ghost, Vlad 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 or make duplicates while being invisible. This is his most often-used and most advantageous technique.
	+ **Overshadowing:** Plasmius took possession of Jack Fenton during "Bitter Reunions."
	+ **Intangibility/Invisibility:** While going invisible, he is able to pass through walls, activating his intangibility
	+ **Fight/levitation:'** 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 human.
	+ **Superhuman Agility and Reflexes:** The ability to supernaturally be more agile than a human, including his balance and reflexes.
	+ **Ghost Tornado/Ecto-Twister**: By waving his cape around and spinning at high speeds, Vlad can create his own ectoplasmic energy tornado that is similar to a real one. It is capable of cause mass destruction, deflecting any incoming ectoplasmic energy attacks, and causing huge wind gusts that can suck his enemies in and throw them to other places. This is arguably Vlad's most powerful technique and he only used it once in Eye for an Eye. This is also they only Ghost Power Vlad has and Danny currently hasn't developed.
	+ Power Augmentation
	+ Ghost Stinger,
	+ Vacuum Resistance
	+ Self-Sustenance
	+ Paranormal Immunity.

## 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, however, Vlad shouted he was not going to get a cat. He ends up getting one and named her Maddie.
* Two alternate versions of Vlad have existed.
	+ In an alternate 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 the alternated timeline, Danny accidentally created in "The Masters of Time", 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.
* Whenever Vlad swears, he shouts in food terminology (Butter biscuits, sugar cookies, etc.), similar to how Mr. Lancer shouts book titles when he swears.
* Vlad is one of the few characters to call Danny "Daniel."
* His entire mansion is painted green and gold, a reference to how Vlad is a fan of Green Bay Packers, the Wisconsin football team.
* Vlad is able to use his powers even when he is in his human form.
* In Butch Hartman's video, "Ten Years Later," Plasmius survived 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.

## Quotes

"*I'm telling you, Jack, it won't work.*"
― Vlad to Jack shortly before the accident that caused him to getting outbreak of ectoplasm acne and become a ghost and human hybrid"*Jack...and Maddie! You've never looked lovelier, my dear. (Ushering Maddie, Danny, and Jazz inside.) Please, please, come in.*"
― Vlad to Maddie, Danny and Jazz while slamming the door in Jack's face.
"*(**Danny:** Jazz, hello? Football helmets, jerseys, cheeseheads? He's a Packers fanatic.**Jack:** (Still outside.) Hello?) Oh, "fanatic" is such a negative word, but yes.*"
― Vlad to Danny
"*(**Jazz:** I don't understand. You have billions of dollars! Instead of buying this stuff, why don't you just buy the team?) Because the Packers are owned by the city of Green Bay and they won't sell them to me! One of two things my wealth has not as of yet... been able to acquire.*"
― Vlad hitting on Maddie
"*Give me that! I never had any old moves! All those years in the hospital robbed me of that!*"
― Vlad temporarily loses his cool when Jack tackles him and has a deep down resentment of him.
"*Yes. Well, it gave me time to chart out a course for my life, didn't it? Make some decisions that helped to make me very wealthy, very quickly. And it never would have happened without you, Jack.*"
― Vlad creepily talking about his the accident made it for the better. "*You know, Jack, the Dairy King's ghost could haunt these very halls...*"
― Vlad tempting Jack for staying at his mansion.
"*No, no, you should stay with me! That's the whole reason I'm throwing the reunion here in my castle - previously home to the legendary Wisconsin Dairy King. Just so I could...reconnect with you, Jack. I insist you stay.*"
― Vlad to Jack
"*My vultures were supposed to bring the big idiot to me, but you'll do! Danny Phantom, right (**Danny:** You...you know me?) Of course I know you! You're the ghost boy who uses his powers for good. How quaint. Aren't you going to try to shove me into your ridiculous thermos?*"
― Plasmius meets Danny Phantom in his Ghost form"*Ah, an ectoplasmic energy blast. So...year one. Tell me, child, can you do this yet? (Danny:No, I can't! How are you doing all this?) Years of practice, which you, unfortunately, have no time for)*"
― Vlad before he duplicates himself and knocks Danny unconscious.
"*The ghost boy...is Jack's son? Well, what do you know?*"
― Vlad learns that Danny Fenton is Danny Phantom
"*Enough! I didn't free you to kill the boy, Skulker! Your work is done.*"

"*You. Exist. To serve. Me! Just do it!*"
― Vlad yelling at Dani before she turns on him upon realizing that she is just a pawn.
"*Using your opponent's weaknesses against him. I am teaching you something after all. Very well. Truce. Eventually, you will join me by choice, you and your mother. But for now... Curse you, Jack Fenton! Your world-renowned expertise of all things ghost has defeated me! ...Until next time, son.*"
― Vlad accepts Danny's terms but vows they will encounter each other again."*I knew you'd come through, Daniel. All it took was the proper motivation, of course I'm still weak beyond measure, so bygones?*"
― Vlad to Danny before he punches him back to Wisconsin.
"*Of course not. You're, what, fourteen? Too young to drive and not in college yet? I sent those ghosts, and others, to test your father's skills. Imagine my surprise when I find you, the second ghost hybrid his foolishness created.*"
― Vlad to Danny before revealing his Plasmius side
"*You have a battle cry, hilarious. I, on the other hand...have this! A spectral energy neutralizer, designed by Skulker, paid for by me. And as long as you're contained within that box, you're as human as your idiot father.*"

"*Why? So you can go back to stumbling through your adolescence, desperately trying to get control of your powers? Powers, by the way, that I've had for twenty years. I have experience, my child. And the money and power attained through using those powers for personal gain, you see. I could train you, teach you everything I know. And all you'd have to do, is renounce your idiot father.*"
― Vlad tries to tempt Danny
"*Yes, well, once your father is out of the way, we'll see how you feel.*"

"*So, what do you say we liven up this shindig?*"

"*Why Maddie, didn't you always know I'd turn on you? That when you chose me you chose wrong?*"

"*I am not a villain. All I wanted was love.*"

"*Actually, being a free, roaming space nomad isn't that bad. At least it's quiet and I.. (Gets hit by the asteroid) Noo.*"
― Vlad's last words once accepting his new life in space before being hit by the Disasteroid."*Jack you have to help me you wont turn back on an old friend would you? (**Jack:** An old friend? No! You? Yes!)*"
― Vlad begging for Jack's forgiveness, only to be coldly rejected by his former friend."*A fruit loop would not have been able to make his first million with a series of invisible burglaries! A fruit loop would never have thought to overshadow enough millionaires to become one of the richest men on the planet! I AM NOT A FRUIT LOOP!*"
― Vlad to Danny after he threatens him in Kindred Spirits"*No, dear boy. "Funny Joke Around Vlad" isn't here today!*"
― Vlad's response to Danny asking him why he didn't make a joke."*If it's any consolation, they went so quickly. They felt no pain. Unfortunately, the same could not be said for you, Daniel. With nowhere else to go, you came to me, the only person on the planet who could possibly hope to understand your situation. All you wanted was to make the hurt go away. I honored your wishes... no more painful human emotions to drag you down. Sadly, that freed you up to rip the ghost out of me. And when my evil ghost half mixed with yours, my evil side overwhelmed you.*"
― Vlad from the future telling younger Danny the origins of his dark counterpart after the death of his family, Sam and Tucker in the alternate bad future"*Some things, my boy, are better left unsaid*"
― Future Vlad to the younger Danny Phantom
"*If I told you once, I'll say it a thousand times! I WILL NOT BE YOUR FRIEND!*"
― Vlad telling Klemper he will not be his friend.
"*Oh what an amazing, unexpected and totally unplanned surprise.* "
― Vlad to Maddie and Danny
"*I know Maddie, and I've forgiven him for many things, causing the accident that ruined my life, stealing you, the backwash incident.* "
― Vlad slowly revealing his true feelings for Maddie
"*Foolish boy, even with diminished strength I'm still more powerful than you!*"
― Vlad mocking Danny"*Mark my words, Maddie. Nobody says no to Vlad Masters! You will rue the day that you spurned my affection! AND I WILL NOT GET A CAT!*"
― Vlad shouting Maddie and Danny as they're running away from him
"*Ah You little rat! you tricked me! you know what this will mean for you don't you? (Danny: Oh yeah! a much fairer fight!)*"

"*Oh, the stealing you part? ah, you always could see right through me! Oh Maddie! I'm just going to come right out with it. Please dump Jack and stay here you and Danny both can what do you say?*"

"*Agh! I will--Danielle. How-how long have you been floating there?*"
― Plasmius to Dani Phantom, the clone he created.
"*I don't think so girl. You don't dare use your powers again. And he's beaten. This is over. Oh what stupidity is this?*"
― Vlad to Dani before Tucker knocks him out with the Spectre Speeder.
"*Daniel, stop. Think about the things I could show you, the doors I could open for you. You, Danny Phantom, and I, Vlad Plasmius. Together, we could rule.*"
― Vlad trying to get Danny to become his partner and train him
"*And so will I. Honestly, if you expose me, you expose yourself.*"
― Plasmius threatens to expose Danny to his parents and everyone if he does the exact same thing.
"*Ooh, you've overshadowed Jack. Ooh, I'm so scared. Now what's next? A card trick? (**Danny:** Listen to me. I swear I'll walk out of my dad right now and expose us both, unless you agree to a truce.) You're bluffing. (**Danny:** No, I'm not. My parents will accept me, no matter what. But if I expose you...well, what would my mom think of you?)*"
― Danny threatening to expose himself and Vlad of he doesn't call a truce.