Danny Phantom
Danny Phantom is a computer-animated television series created by Nickelodeon which debuted April of 2004.
The show involves a teenager who was half-human/half-ghost, after a lab accident with his father's unpredictable "Fenton Portal", which, according to the crazy ghost hunter, "lets ghosts into our world, whether we like it or not." In fact, most of his ghost-related inventions do things "whether we like it or not."
Butch Hartman (who also created The Fairly OddParents) created the show, and perhaps surprisingly, it has actual signifcant character development (for one major example, see Jazz's entry below).
Characters
Regulars
- Daniel "Danny" Fenton/Danny Phantom - the show's protagonist; one day in his parents' laboratory, Danny has an accident involving the newly-built "Fenton Portal" - his molecular Structure was fused with Ectoplasm. Now as Danny Fenton he looks normal enough, on the outside, Danny's a nervous, clumsy 14-year-old boy who just tries to fit in with the crowd - but can transform into his new identity "Danny Phantom" with Ghost Powers in either form, as a Half ghost, Danny can see, hear, and talk to other paranormal beings—not to mention battle them on par in terms - power-wise to save his friends and family Danny battles with a various of ghosts on a frequent basis. Danny's ghost powers Include:
- Ghost Sense - Danny can sense nearby ghosts, when he does a wisp of blue smoke comes out of his mouth.
- Intangibility - With the use of intangibility, Danny can pass through most objects (except i.e. Fenton Ghost Fisher's line), becoming untouchible; Danny can also make other people & objects intangible provided he is in physical contact with them. Sometimes it takes concentration to use it, but mostly its use is at the mercy of his teenage emotions, and he goes intangible at the most unwelcome moments.
- Invisibility – The power to be unseen from human eyes. Danny can uses this power to sneak up on his ghost foes. Sometimes he uses it just to play pranks on people like Dash Baxter.
- Flying/Floating/Hovering – Danny is being able to float in the air, usually using this power to fly from ghosts, to come in on them from the sky, for fighting in the sky, or just to let loose from reality and fly freely in the air.
- Overshadowing – The power to take possession of someone else's body from within; Danny has used this power to possess his dad or sometimes just to embarrass Dash.
- Green Ectoplasmic Energy Blasts – An ectoplasmic blast that comes out of the palm of his hand, he blasts enemies using this attack; but has only used this power while in Ghost-Mode.
- Green Ectoplasmic Energy Barrier – Danny can use this ability to rebound attacks from enemies, or just to block hits; but has only used this power while in Ghost-Mode.
Danny has also separated his upper & lower body halves in Mystery Meat; and used his powers to repel Penelope Spectra in My Brother's Keeper; Danny is still learning about his powers and is likly to develop more abilities as time goes by.
- Jazmine "Jazz" Fenton - Jazmine, a.k.a. Jazz, is Danny's older sister in the Danny Phantom television series. Her official BIO introduces her:
Jazz Fenton - Danny may have the super powers in his family, but Jazz has the looks, the brains, and the social skills. Being the older sister and all, Jazz keeps Danny's big secret. Not only because she's Danny's older sister, but because she has to maintain a perfect image in front of her friends and school-mates.
Thougth we've never seen her with any collegues at home or school, Jazz has a brilliant mind and studies child psychology; she is constantly trying to stop her parents from thinking about ghosts, and trying to prove to her parents that she is not a ghost. In the first episodes of the series, Jazz seems kind of stuck up, or as Danny once put it "a conceited snob"; but in My Brother's Keeper Jazz found out Danny is a ghost/has ghost powers when she saw him transforming "Goin Ghost" in an ally; as Jazz had tried to question Sam & Tucker - she knows that they will not betray Danny's secret and when he saved her as Danny Phantom, Jazz pretended to be scared of him "He'll tell me when he's ready". Danny doesn't know that Jazz is aware of his Ghost Status, and Jazz has often covered for him when he's out capturing ghosts "What ever he's doing, I'm sure it has nothing to do with ghosts".
- Jack & Maddie Fenton - Danny & Jazz's parents, and enthusiastic/fanatic "Professional Ghost Hunters"; but they are oblivious to their son's Human/Ghost Hybrid status.
Offical BIO's:
Jack Fenton (Dad) - If Danny seems a little strange sometimes, it's probably from the genetics of the bizarre behavior of his dad, Jack. Geared up in his bright red "test pilot suit," Jack is always trying to prove the existence of ghosts. He always jumps into the action before thinking and usually makes a bad situation even worse. For Danny, fighting ghosts and surviving high school is a piece of cake compared to keeping Jack out of trouble.
Maddie Fenton (Mom) - Maddie is absolutely brilliant. Need to know why walls suddenly bleed, why possessed statues are reciting Shakespeare, or how to get rid of that ghost that's been following you for days? Maddie's got the answer. But all that time spent with out-of-this-world weirdness (including Mr. Fenton) has kind of had an affect on Maddie. Let's just say you'd most likely find her building a high-tech ghost gadget than baking cookies.
Jack & Maddie are usually seen trying to prove the existance of ghosts, trying to capture one for scientific study, building devices to track, capture, and take down ghosts (they seem to like using Ectoplasm against ghosts - as it is what ghosts' are made of and apparantly has the best effect when fighting them:
- Fenton Ghost Portal - The Fenton Ghost Portal creates a warp - a door into the Ghost Zone; and has a barrier across it (like the Iris from Stargate; it was from standing inside the portal when it activated that fused Danny with Ectoplasm and gave him ghost powers.
- Fenton Thermos - "Designed to capture ghosts. It doesn't work yet, so it's just a thermos. A thermos with the word Fenton in front of it!" To Jack's knowledge it doesn't work; but Danny managed to get it to work.
- Fenton Xtractor -
- Fenton Finder -
- Fenton Grappler -
- Fenton Ghost Fisher - First seen in Parental Bonding - a high-tech retractible Fishing rod with a specialised line unbreakable and inescapible to ghosts.
- Ghost Gabber - "It translates the strange sounds ghosts make and turns them into words you and I use every day!"
- Ghost Weasel - a device designed to suck up ghost energy, and on reverse shoot it back into the Ghost Zone.
- Fenton Ghost Gloves - Gloves that are so powerful that nothing can break their grip, allowing the wearer to handle ghosts/ghost-powered beings.
- Fenton Ghost Catcher -
- Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle/RV -
- Specter Speeder -
- Fenton Ghost Peeler - A device designed by Mr & Mrs Fenton to encase its holder in body armour and then blasts ghosts targets with a ray that peels it open like an onion.
- Fenton Stockades -
- Fenton Phones - First seen in Fanning the Flames - serving both as; a ghost noise filter (to prevent the wearer from falling under the influence of "Ghost Noise" like Ember's Song); and second as walkie talkies "Accessories" for Danny, Sam & Tucker.
- Fenton Helmet -
- Fenton Foamer -
- Fenton Genetic Lock - Closes Fenton Portal until a Fenton puts their thumb on the pad, opening it.
Plus other inventions, that are really just normal items with the word "Fenton" in front of the name are labeled on them:
- Fenton Urinal - a toilet
- Fenton Unlodger -
- Fenton Anti-Creep Stick - a regular Baseball bat with the word 'Fenton' on it.
- Tucker Foley - Tucker is Danny's best friend-- next to Sam that is. He is nicknamed with 'Sucker' or 'Bad Luck Tuck' by the popular kids. He'd do anything to get a date with a cute girl, well basically anything. He loves technology and can't live without it.
Offical BIO - Tucker - If talking was a superpower, Tucker would be the king of superheroes. No matter how many ghosts are chasing him, Tucker just keeps on chatting, and it gets him and Danny into loads of trouble. Danny still likes him as a friend, although it would be nice if Tucker kept his mouth shut and let Danny handle the paranormal activity.
- Samantha "Sam" Manson - Samantha Manson is a character in the Danny Phantom television series. She is one of Danny's best friends. She is a goth and insanely rich. She doesn't tell anyone that she is rich because she wants to earn real friends, not friends who just want to be her friend because she's rich.
Offical BIO - Samantha (Sam) - Sam and Danny ARE NOT A COUPLE! They're just really, really good friends who share a psychic connection. Get it? Well, Samantha doesn't care if you don't believe her anyway. Sam is a Goth girl and Ultra-Recyclo Vegetarian with an attitude and she could care less about what others think of her. Luckily for Danny, Sam is into the paranormal and is super smart, she's usually a big help to Danny getting him out of tight ghost-jams.
- Mr. Lancer - He's an English teacher at Danny's school, and uses the titles of books as exclamations (i.e. "Moby Dick! My pants have fallen down!").
Offical BIO - Mr. Lancer - The Vice Principal and English teacher at Danny's school, Mr. Lancer is all about following the rules. He has no clue about Danny's phantom status, but it wouldn't matter anyway. Mr. Lancer just can't handle any kid (phantom or not) breaking the rules. Which means Danny has to find a creative ways to battle ghosts on school days if he wants to save Casper High and actually graduate.
- Dash - Dash is popular because he's quarterback of the football team, and because he's popular, he can get away with almost anything he wants. He likes to pick on Danny, and Danny often gets revenge on Dash through use of his ghost powers.
Offical BIO - Dash - He may be a ninth-grader like Danny, but Dash is the big man on campus at Casper High. Guys want to be him and girls want to date him. And this football hero likes nothing more than harassing Danny. But the tables have turned now that Danny has ghost powers. Danny sometimes can't resist making Dash look like a fool. Which, considering Dash's brain size, compared to the rest of his body, isn't that hard to do.
- Paulina - The most popular girl in school. Danny thinks she is incredibly beautiful and spends a lot of time fauning over her. She doesn't like him because he isn't popular. Sam usually gets upset with Danny when Paulina is involved, because she thinks Paulina is shallow.
Others
- Sidney Poindexter - A nerdy ghost who switched places with Danny in "Splitting Images".
- Kwan - A football player who is usually seen hanging around with Dash.
- The Box Ghost - An undangerous ghost who is "master of all things cardboard and square", and looks like he may have been a fisherman.
Villains
- Lunch Lady - When the school lunch menu changed to accommodate vegetarians, she used meat-based attacks to try to change this.
- Skulker - A ghost who introduces himself as a great Predator; he hunts down rare and unusual items, as he fancies himself as a collector of all things rare and unique - he is infact a small green blob-ish ghost in high-tech Battle Armour - in the services of Vlad Plasmius (it is as yet unknown as to whenever Skulker knows that Vlad Plasmius is also a Human/Ghost Hybrid.) Skulker was first seen in One of a Kind, having sighted Danny Phantom, planning to capture and add him to his collection. Skulker wears a huge suit of of high tech Battle Armour, when he eyes the Technology of Tucker Foley's PDA, Skulker seizes the PDA and intergrades it into his Armour - the PDA makes the Battle Armour work more efficently, but also binds the Armour to a schedule programmed into the PDA by Tucker for Danny - now the PDA often sends Skulker to observe or aquire information about the "Rare Purple-Backed Gorilla", a schedule to which Skulker cannot reprogramme, proving to be a lifesaver for a unprepared Danny more than once - but never stops Skulker from continuing to capture Danny Phantom.
- Nicolai Technus - A recuring ghost and the self proclaimed "Master of Technology"; but realiy more the "Master of really long winded speeches" - he spends more time gloating about his evil plans than he does executing those plans.
- Valerie Gray - First seen in Parental Bonding as a girl at school who had only agreed to go to the dance with Tucker because Kwan had asked another girl leaving her dateless at the last second - and since we don't see her objecting to not being at the dance with Tucker, she mustn’t have been bothered.
Once a popular girl at Casper High, Valerie Gray was part of the in-crowd with Paulina, Dash, Kwan etc until the first appearance of a huge ghost dog at the company building her dad has a security contract with - and the ghost dog trashes the place and her dad is fired; Valerie and her father end up poor. Later Valerie sees the ghost dog and Tucker (who has a Crush on her) tells her its a ghost, so Valerie decide to learn how to hunt and kill ghosts - and receives anonymous ghost hunting technology from unknowingly from Vlad Plasmius. After their encounters, Danny Phantom finds and gives the ghost dog the squeeky dog toy it was looking, he tries to reason with Valerie; but she's too bitter to belive him, sucker blasts him, and vows to hunt him and kill him.
- Vladimir "Vlad" Masters/Vlad Plasmius - He went to college with Danny's parents and spent a lot of time with them because he secretly loves Maddie. One day when he was working with them, there was an accident in the lab which gave him ghost powers (much like how Danny got ghost powers) and forced him to spend the next few years in a hospital, with visible "Ecto-Acne". He spends his time coming up with plans, trying to destroy Jack Fenton. Usually he sends ghosts, but in "Shades of Gray", he sent ghost-hunting equipment to an antagonist of Danny's. He lives in his mansion in Wisconsin.
- Ember - Ember is a hard-rocking girl ghost that, when "fans" cheer her name, she gets more power (her ponytail gets longer). Her age is unconfirmed, but she most likely is a teenager.
- Desiree (Des-ser-rae) - Her name comes from the word "desire". She is an age-old ghost/genie, originally an Arabian girl, promised her heart's desire by the sultan, but was banished by the Sultan's jealous wife; Desiree grants anyone's deepest desires (wishes & desires expressed verbally), escpecially Tucker's jealousy over Danny's unfathomable powers!
Voice Actors and Their Characters
- David Kaufman as Danny Fenton, Danny Phantom
- Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Jazz Fenton
- Rob Paulsen as Jack Fenton
- Kath Soucie as Maddie Fenton
- Rickey D'Shon Collins as Tucker Foley
- Grey DeLisle as Samantha "Sam" Manson
- Ron Perlman as Vice Principal Lancer
- S. Scott Bullock as Dash
- Dat Phan as Kwan
Episodes
All eps are 30 minutes, the first non Klasky Csupo Nicktoon to do this.
Season One
- Mystery Meat
- One of A Kind
- Parental Bonding
- Attack of the Killer Garage Sale
- Splitting Images
- What You Want
- Bitter Reunions
- Prisoners of Love
- My Brother's Keeper
- Shades of Gray
- Fanning the Flames
- Teacher of the Year
- "13"
- Public Enemies
- Fright Knight
- Maternal Instinct
- Lucky in Love
- Life Lessons
- The Million-Dollar Ghost
- Control Freaks
- Memory Blank
Notable
- It is notable that this somewhat resembles Dragonball Z