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Danny Phantom (or Danny Fenton) is the titular main protagonist of the cartoon series Danny Phantom.

Background[]

Danny Fenton was once an ordinary 14-year-old teenager with dreams of becoming an astronaut. His life changed drastically when his ghost-obsessed parents, Maddie and Jack Fenton, created a portal that was designed to open into a dimension known as the Ghost Zone. 

The initial attempt at activating the portal failed, and his parents ceased working on it. Danny, donning a protective jumpsuit, stepped into the interior of the malfunctioned portal. While inside he accidentally pressed a power button located on the inner walls of the portal, effectively turning it on. 

Danny was zapped by the portal in its activation, which caused a molecular restructure of his DNA and granted him ghostly powers and abilities. 

Following the activation of the portal, ghosts from the Ghost Zone began to escape. Danny chose to utilize his newfound powers to protect the town, Amity Park, from the spectral threats. He's accompanied in his adventures by his friends, Sam Manson and Tucker Foley.

Note: This takes Danny Phantom from the canon TV series, and (because it's a wiki and gives good future intell on the character) the motion comic series, 5-Years-Later, with his crossover with Ben Tennyson.

Powers & Abilities[]

  • Half-Human/Half-Ghost Hybrid Physiology: Danny possesses a variety of supernatural powers and abilities due to his unique physiology. The powers and abilities that Danny and his future self possess; although the former has comparatively lower intensity of these powers due to being young. However, as the series progresses, Danny becomes more powerful and stronger even gaining several powers his archenemy Vlad never got such as the Ghostly Wail and Cryokinesis which are shown to be very effective against Vlad. Some of his strengths (augmented by his ghost powers) are given below:
    • Supernatural Strength: Danny possesses superhuman strength in his ghost form, although it is somewhat significantly lower as compared to Vlad (whose assumed strength level is between 40-50 tons) or his evil future self. In ghost form, he is strong enough to carry both Sam and Tucker with relative ease and hurl large objects at enemies easily. He is also strong enough to rip through reinforced titanium and can easily lift and throw hordes of enemy ghosts. In "Secret Weapons" he managed to intercept a punch from Jazz while she was using the Ecto-Skeleton (which amplifies the strength of the user 100 times). In addition, gravity does not affect Danny's ghost body, so he can lift heavy objects with ease. Danny has been shown to be able to lift a school bus (which weighs 12-15 tons) with ease. He has also displayed enough strength to punch a giant ghost dragon across an area as well as knock it down and hurl it in mid air (although the latter required effort).
    • Supernatural Durability: Danny is more resistant to injuries or damage than an ordinary human or ghost. He can withstand a variety of great impacts without taking much damage, such energy blasts, oil truck explosions, and multi-story buildings crumbling down or being hurled by enemies, although sometimes he gets slightly bruised as a result of the impact. While human, Danny can withstand many hits and blows that would cause injury to any normal teenager. In his ghost form, his body is incredibly resistant to damage and has demonstrated a high threshold for pain. With the Ecto-Skeleton, Danny could withstand hits from Pariah Dark, and even a massive pile-on of ghosts.
    • Supernatural Agility: In his ghost form, Danny's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels beyond those of a normal human being. He can effectively dodge attacks, swing from things easily, and perform acrobatic feats such as backflips. Danny is far more agile, due to his young age and somewhat short stature. He is able to stretch freely to dodge various projectiles such as swing blades, bullets or arrows.
    • Supernatural Flexibility: Danny's flexability are pushed beyond the natural level; making him far more flexible than humans. Due to his ability to manipulate his body he is able to bend and twist his far beyond the normal limits of human physiology.
    • Supernatural Speed: According to Tucker Foley in "Maternal Instinct", Danny can fly at 112 miles per hour. By "Phantom Planet", he is able to fly even faster, as evidenced by the speed at which he circles the world.
    • Supernatural Reflexes: In ghost form, Danny has dramatically enhanced reflexes, being able to dodge attacks with ease. One of his best displays of reflexes and agility is when he dodges the pendulums traps inside Pariah Dark castle, in the episode Fright Night. In "Beauty Marked", he was able to catch an arrow shot at him with his bare hands.
    • Supernatural Stamina: While human, Danny has the same level of stamina as a normal teenager, but in ghost form, he can exert himself at peak capacity for hours before fatigue begins to impair him. In "Reality Trip", he was able to keep the Fenton Jet invisible for an entire night.
    • Supernatural Endurance: Like all ghosts and half-ghost, Danny can endure attacks and pain far beyond what humans can handle. In Flirting with Disaster, Danny was shown to endure being shot by Valerie in her new suit and still use his Ghost Stinger.
    • Supernatural Equilibrium/Balance: Probably due to his flight and agility, he 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 it's the floor. He was also able to use this to balance himself and a bus that he was carrying from behind.
    • Healing Factor: In ghost form, Danny is capable of healing at much greater speeds than that of an ordinary human, likely due to his body's ecto-biological structure. He has proven capable of healing from slashes and puncture wounds within a short amount of time, and even his suit appears to regenerate sometimes. Although when he gets injured, Ectoplasm oozes out instead of blood which aids in his healing. In his human form, his healing rate is also enhanced, even though it is weaker than in his ghost form. The limits of his regeneration is unknown, so it unknown if he can regrow missing limbs.
      • Reconstitution (briefly): In one instance, he completely reconstructed his body after Freakshow reduced him to a puddle of goo. Danny uses this power after Freakshow turned him into jelly and he was smashed apart by a rollercoaster cart. Possibly an aspect of his spectral body manipulation ability, he may be able to reform if similarly damaged in ghost form or could have also just been caused by Freakshow so that he could torture Danny more.
    • Paranormal Immunity: As a half-ghost, Danny's unique physiology makes him have a higher or totally immune/resistance to many/several types of supernatural attacks/effects from ghost powers that affect humans, such as Ember's music and Spectra's ghost illness, due to his powers, but if the power/attack is enhanced, this ability is rendered useless. Examples of powers affecting him are Desiree's reality warping abilities, Ember's amplified powers, and presumably Kitty's banishing kiss, thus rendering this ability useless. Examples of this ability that rendered him immune were when Ember's hypnotic music/love spell could not affect him until she got more powerful in "Fanning the Flames", he was immune to Spectra's ghost illness in "Doctor's Disorders", and even Medusa's stone stare as he directly looks at Medusa and didn't instantly turn to stone in "Boxed Up Fury". In "Frightmare", Danny was put to sleep by Nocturn, but he was able to wake up on his own without the need to be overshadowed. He may also be immune to some earth diseases except for the common cold.
    • Going Ghost: Danny can transform between human and ghost at will. This manifests as white rings (transformation rings) extending from Danny's waist, then sweeping across his body. His battle cry, "I'm going ghost!" or a variant thereof, often accompanies his transformation (sometimes he transforms without saying it). Once transformed, he can use all his ghost powers. He can switch back to human form at will, and can still access some of his powers like weak ghost rays and intangibility in human form.
      • Eye/Semi-Transformation (Ghost Form's Eyes in Human Form): Danny has occasionally, when feeling greatly angered or annoyed, making his blue eyes glow green in human form (most likely against his will although he once did it willingly when conceiving a devilish idea in "Parental Bonding"). Danny can transform any part of his body into ghost-mode while the rest stays human. This is evident when he makes his chin intangible to stop Dash from hitting him. ("Reign Storm").
      • Transformation Shock/Aural Projection: He 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. Danny can release any clutches from his enemy. However, this ability does not seem to always work. It was revealed that he cannot release himself from the rope that was formed by Ecto-Energy Constructions in "The Ultimate Enemy".
    • Intangibility: Danny can turn his body intangible to pass through walls or other solid matter. This power was the hardest for Danny to control at first, often activating at embarrassing times such as causing his pants to fall down while he was asking a girl out. He can turn just a portion of his body intangible as well, and he can also turn other people or objects intangible when in contact with them. Humans may experience a slight tingling sensation when turned intangible.​​​​​​ as when he phases his dad in Million Dollar Ghost Jack's stomach felt funny. Danny one retrieves his spork from inside of his stomach by using his intangibility.
    • Invisibility: Danny can make his body invisible to both humans and ghosts, Danny cannot be seen by human eyes or scanning devices. It is quite common for Danny to make only a part of his body invisible. Danny can make other people and objects invisible to him provided that he is in physical contact with them.
    • Flight: Gravity does not affect Danny's ghost form, so he can fly through air and space at considerable speeds and heights, and walk on vertical surfaces. While flying, his legs often become a ghostly tail. His top speed was measured to be 112 mph in an early episode, and he almost certainly has gotten faster since then, as he flew from Amity Park to Minnesota in one night and flew around the world in Phantom Planet.
      • Wall Walking: Twice Danny has walked on walls by manipulating his center of gravity to walk and run up and down uneven and vertical surfaces as though they were horizontal. This either because of his ability to fly by defy gravity or of some unexplored ability to adhere/combine/interact to/with the molecular structure of the surface of walls.
      • Back Slide: This allows him to zip along a surface in one direction without moving his legs. He saw a possessed Paulina to perform this ability in Public Enemies; he first used this ability in Lucky in Love.
      • Interstellar Travel: In Flirting With Disaster, Danny used the X-23 Booster Rocket to launch himself into space to stop Technus. In Phantom Planet, while battling Vlad in space for the In-fi Map it revealed he can fly through space even without the Booster rocket.
    • Ecto-Energy Powers:
      • Ghost Ray: Danny can fire green laser-like blasts of ecto-energy from his hands or fingertips, but it can also be fired from seemingly anywhere, including his butt. Whereas it's often fired as a single blast or a streaming beam of energy, but he can also fire multiple blasts at once by waving his hand. These blasts often explode on contact and are powerful enough to melt steel. Danny also concentrates his ecto-energy into super-charged attacks (in Kinder Spirits) or spheres of different sizes (from small ones to large ones) before firing them at his opponents. During his first battle with Nocturn, he blasted an energy wave to protect himself from Nocturn's attack. In "Claw of the Wild", he is seen shooting explosive energy rings. While in an Ecto-Skeleton, his ghost rays turn blue. 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 Nocturn's Sleepwalkers. This power has other variants and/or can be fired like:
        • Repulsion Field: A unique power that only Danny possesses, he can send out a pulse of energy in all directions from his body to repel large groups of attackers. Danny uses this power every time he is surrounded by too many enemies at once. This is one of the many powers he has developed that Vlad hasn't.
        • Energy Strike: Danny can channel ecto-energy through his fists to enhance the strength of his physical attacks. He only did this when he fought Tucker Phantom. He can also 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 Nocturn.
      • Ecto-Energy Constructions: Danny can create constructs made out of solid ecto-energy in a variety of forms, including concentrated ecto-energy balls, waves (in Frightmare), explosive rings (in Claw of the Wild), and explosive discs (In Reality Trip and Boxed Up fury) which he used twice to draw a happy face on Freakshow's hat and while fighting a ten-headed Hydra dragon. He seemed to have learned it after seeing Vlad performing it.
        • Ghost Shield: Danny can generate shields made of solid ecto-energy that can nullify or even reflect attacks from other ghosts. Like his ghost rays, Danny's shields are green in color. His shield can withstand blasts from powerful ghosts like Vlad, Dani, and Vortex. Performing a gesture with his hands, He can create a planar shield with the ability to reflect any energy attack back to its user. He first made a dome shield after seeing Vlad make one and first used a reflective shield in "Teacher of the Year". While in the Ecto-Skeleton, his ghost shields turn blue and can also block physical attacks as shown during his battle with Pariah Dark.
          • Power Absorption: Danny can absorb an opponent's powers in order to increase his own ghost powers. Through his ghost shield, he absorbed Vortex's powers to control the weather, but it was linked to his emotions. This power was only given to him briefly. Since then, Danny has not been seen absorbing any other form of power from another ghost. It is possible that Danny may have some sort-of ability that allows him to absorb ecto-energy that is entirely foreign to him and utilize it himself, as he did with Freakshow (but with the Reality Gauntlet), though Vlad stated it was through his ghost shield.
      • Energy Absorption: Danny can absorb his opponent's ghost ray and redirect back at his attackers or use it to increase his physical strength. He used this several times in different methods with different abilities like in "Public Enemies" to redirect Bullet's electric weapon back at him with his Ghost Stinger, he absorbs Freakshow's energy net in "Reality Trip", and later intently absorb all the ghost rays from multiple ghosts firing at him in "Phantom Planet" thus restoring his ghost powers. Danny can absorb his opponent's ghost ray and redirect back at his attackers or use it to increase his physical strength. He also used this ability with his ghost shield to absorb Vortex's lightning bolt (granting himself the former's weather controlling powers in the process).
        • Power Augmentation: Danny can use his ecto-energy to increase his physical strength. When holding back the Fright Knight's sword with his hands, he was able to garner enough strength to fling the knight over his shoulder. When he does this, his aura (which is white or green) starts glowing brighter. He also used this power when he was trapped in an ectoplasmic goo web in the episode "Doctor's Disorders". In "Reality Trip", he used this ability to escape the web Freakshow's drum-spider fired at him. In "Torrent of Terror", he used this power to escape Vortex's snowball.
      • Electrokinesis: Although Danny doesn’t use this lot throughout the series, in the first episode Danny uses this power to charge the Fenton Thermos, and later used it to fuse himself with a video game with his own avatar in a video game. He often sends this as a Ghost Stinger where he sends his own electric current through an electric line and used his electric powers more wildly while being shocked himself.
        • Ghost Stinger: An attack that utilizes ecto-energy in an electric form. This was first used in "Public Enemies", where Danny uses it to free Wulf from Bullet's weapon and defeating Bullet and in “Flirting with Disaster” to knock out Valerie. Danny can send ecto-energy as electricity through an electric current, negating his enemies' electric attacks and sending them back at the attacker. It is possible that he actually redirects or manipulates the electricity with his hands since he has only used it when his enemy uses an electric attack. So, this may imply that he actually redirects the electricity with his hands. Danny's ghost stinger seemed to be strong enough to make Bullet evaporate but it assuming that lateral teleported away instead.
      • Photokinesis: Danny can project light from his hand using ecto-energy when he and Dash Baxter go into a dark mouse hole in the wall of Fenton Works in "Micro-Management". In "Double Cross My Heart", he created a Flashing ecto-energy ball that explodes in front of The Guys in White, releasing a great amount of light in order to distract and blind his enemies. In "Urban Jungle", Danny generates light with his hand when he goes into the dark Fenton Works' lab. In "Claw of the Wild", Danny generates light with his hand when he, Sam, and Tucker go out into the woods at night to look for Nathan. He uses this power again later before he is confronted by Walker's goons.
      • Ghostly Wail: Danny's most powerful ability is to generate an extremely powerful sonic blast of pure ecto-energy from his mouth that can destroy buildings and cause severe damage to both humans and ghosts alike and finish ghost who are too weak to withstand it. It is also effective against multiple targets, or against a very powerful enemy, and almost nothing can withstand this attack. It appeared to finish off all of his enemies in "The Ultimate Enemy". While he is capable of defeating almost any foe with this power, he only uses it as a last resort because it drains his energy extremely quickly, often forcing him to revert to his powerless human form after just one use. Although, he seems to have become powerful enough to overcome this in "Phantom Planet", though he was in the Ghost Zone at the time so he may have just been more powerful as a result then. After Danny uses his ghostly wail for the first time, his hair only changes back (though this may have been because of the Time Medallion or because it was his first time using it, so it was not as powerful and didn't drain him as much, therefore causing him to only partially revert back).
      • Cryokinesis: Danny can fire blasts of icy energy from his hands or eyes that can freeze enemies on by touching them on contact from the inside out, radiate cold energy from his body, and create ice tools and weapons from thin air. He can generate a snowball that freezes everything it hits instantly. This ability also gives him an increased resistance to low and high temperatures. When using this power, his eyes turn icy blue instead of their usual glowing green. Danny can combine cryokinesis with his other powers for enhanced effects, like firing an explosive ice blast or generates an icy energy shield to protect himself from fire attacks. Danny learned this power in "Urban Jungle" and used it from then on to "Phantom Planet."
        • Ghost Sense: When Danny is near other ghosts, a blue mist comes out of his mouth and a chill goes down his spine. In "Urban Jungle," it was revealed that this was a manifestation of his then-untapped potential to use cryokinesis. This ability is also Danny's very first ghost power he received in the series. It's not clear whether Danny is also able to detect half-ghosts; it worked to detect Tucker Phantom, but not for Dani or Vlad in either human or ghost forms.
        • Explosive Snowball: Danny can combine his ghost rays with cryokinesis to launch an explosive ecto-charged snowball. He used this move to finish off Undergrowth in "Urban Jungle".
      • Pyrokinesis: Danny can generate and throw balls of ectoplasmic fire. Danny is able to manipulate his ghost rays to have several effects as his ghost rays made things hot with it's melting abilities as in "Reign Storm" his ghost rays melted Dash's shoes without knocking him over and in "The Fright Before Christmas", Danny's ghost rays melted the pieces of paper of the Ghost Writer book.
      • Aerokinesis (possibly): In Identity Crisis, when Danny split himself into Super Danny and Fun Danny, Super Danny's hair and cape constantly wave as if there was the wind, even when there's no wind at all. It is possible Super Danny was manipulating the wind; or it could have simply been shown this way for comedic effect.
      • Telekinesis: Danny can surround objects with his ecto-energy to make them move from a distance. Inexplicably, Danny has only been seen using this power once, to give a rake to the Box Ghost, and it is never seen nor mentioned outside of its one appearance. However, he did a semi-effect of telekinesis in "Prisoners of Love" when he used it with his ghost rays to clean up the lab, then in "Maternal Instinct" when he uses intangibility to sink Tucker into the ground without having to physically touch Tucker, and then in "Phantom Planet" with the other ghosts to turn the whole world intangible. In "The Fright Before Christmas", while under the Ghost Writer's reality warping powers he unconsciously took all the presents (which all glowed with a white aura, glowing brighter). Later in the same episode, he also used this power to fix the damaged gifts while Desiree uses her power to fix the damaged trees.
      • Chronokinesis: Wearing a time medallion allows Danny to manipulate time just like Clockwork but on a small scale.
        • Time Travel: While wearing a time medallion, Danny can move through time and space into the past or future.
        • Chronolock: While wearing a time medallion, Danny is unaffected by changes in time, including those caused by Clockwork's powers.
      • The Void: He can pull all light into himself while reversing his ectoplasmic energy, causing ultimate darkness to fill the room. He would be the only one who could see in this darkness.
      • X-Ray Vision (limited to self): In "Memory Blank", after Danny became half-ghost again, he was able to see his own bones after coming out of the Fenton Portal.
      • Weather Control (briefly): After Danny's first fight with Vortex in "Torrent of Terror", he gained some of Vortex's power, allowing him to control the weather. This power was linked to Danny's emotional state, with him creating calm weather when he was calm or stormy weather when he was angry with effects like strong air/wind, rain, snow, hail, lightning, fog and temperature changes (ice and heat). Although his powers were on a smaller range and seemed to end just outside Amity Park. He caused great problems, as described by Vlad: "Your anger could cause cyclones, your sadness monsoons." When he had them, he caused a spike in the heat so strong that it set off the sprinklers of the building he was in, make tornadoes, electric storms, and massive hurricane winds while angry, a tropical rain while sad, and make it sunny while happy. Danny lost this power during his second fight with Vortex.
    • Overshadowing: Danny can possess the mind and body of a person, object, or animal, allowing him to completely control his or her actions. While overshadowing, Danny can still use his powers of flight, intangibility, invisibility, and ghost rays. The subject has no memory of what he or she did while being overshadowed, but their thoughts and actions immediately after the overshadowing has ended can be affected by what Danny made them do. He can also overshadow another half-ghost, as seen when he overshadows Vlad's duplicate in "Eye for an Eye". Danny can't overshadow a person or a ghost if he isn't fully concentrated, or if he's taken out of the overshadowed by anti-ghost gadgets. He also can't overshadow someone (like Tucker Phantom) with enough willpower to stop him.
      • Voice Manipulation: When Danny is overshadowing someone, he can disguise his voice. He used this only once, when he intimidated Dash and overshadowed him. On all other times when Danny overshadowed someone, the subject's voice didn't change; it is not confirmed whether this happened in-universe or was simply so that the audience knew it was still Danny. Like other users of this power, Danny can be marked by an effect, such as having the victims' eyes glow green, as his does in ghost form.
      • Software Fusion: With the Fenton Helmet, Danny can introduce himself into computer software and overshadow his video game avatar to use his ghost powers in video games and combine his avatar's powers with his ghost powers. He can also change the appearance of his avatar. It is possible that he has the potential to use technopathy, as Dark Danny managed to hijack Future Valerie's communicator even though she was inside a ghost shield, and he was outside of it. This could have also been an extension of Danny's overshadowing power, or it may have been a new power that he gained through the use of the Fenton Helmet.
      • Exorcism: Danny can separate a possessed person from a ghost overshadowing them simply by grabbing them with his hand or using a ghost ray. He separated 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.
      • Dream Invasion: Danny can overshadow a sleeping subject in order to get inside and influence his or her dreams.​​​​​ He used this power to wake up his hypnotized friends in "Frightmare".
      • Fusion: When his ghost half is separated from his human half, Danny's ghost half can remerge with his human half by overshadowing to become one again. When this power is activated it allows him to simultaneously merge with another ghost at once, giving him access to their powers. To activate this, Danny must overshadow the ghost whom he wishes to combine with. Fusing with another ghost requires Danny to have the physical and mental resilience to handle the strain. It also comes with great risk, as the other ghost user could potentially overwhelm him. This was how Dark Danny was created when he attempts this ability on Vlad's ghost half in "The Ultimate Enemy". In "Identity Crisis", Super Danny attempted to fuse with Fun Danny, but it failed, and he ended up overshadowing him instead.
      • Power Granting: Whenever Danny overshadows a person or possibly another ghost, he can give the victim his ghost powers, as he did with Valerie in "Life Lessons" allowing her to fly out of the Ghost Zone. He also did this to a dream world Dash Baxter in "Frightmare" allowing him to become Dash Phantom, but this was likely in a dream.
    • Duplication: Danny can create duplicates of himself that all have his ghost powers and can fight alongside him. After seeing Vlad use this power during their first encounter, Danny spends much of the series trying to learn to use it himself, but he manages to create just extra limbs. He had managed to properly use it in the episode "Beauty Marked" when he easily split himself in two (though just for a second) while fighting the Executioner Ghost and finally mastering it unaided in "Torrent of Terror". If his clones are hit together with enough force, they merge back into each other. This possibly means that 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. By his college years, Danny appears to have mastered this power.
    • Spectral Body Manipulation: Danny can bend, twist, split, and otherwise contort his ghost body beyond the limits of normal human physiology. He uses this ability mostly to dodge oncoming attacks. He first used this ability in "Mystery Meat," when he attempts to dodge the Lunch Lady Ghost's assault. He can force his body to split in half along the midsection, the two halves remaining connected with a trail of spectral matter, or even separate his body in half without any connection for a few seconds. 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.
      • Elasticity: Danny has the ability to stretch certain or all parts of his body in an elastic fashion. He used this when he was battling Freakshow in Reality Trip.
      • Size Alteration: One of Danny's clones were able to alter their size, indicating Danny might also possess this ability.
      • Ghost Tail: His lower body will turn into a tail of intangible matter when flying. He has been able to do this since he first learned how to fly, though it seems to largely be an unconscious action.
    • Vacuum Resistance: Twice, Danny was in outer space without an astronaut/spacesuit and was unaffected by the vacuum, stardust, or cosmic radiation, though he still wore a helmet. It assuming Danny doesn't have the ability of self-sustenance (unlike Vlad). But Danny might have possibly worn a space helmet in case he was ever reverted back to human form, so it possible he may be able to self-sustain to breathe in space or just wore it to make himself look like an astronaut.
    • Underwater Breathing: Twice, Danny has been seen breathing and talking underwater. It is possible that he does not need to breathe at all while in ghost form.
  • Quick Learning Ability: Danny is able to quickly learn new things, even often being able to copy many of the powers his enemies use against him without any training. However, there are other skills that he had a hard time mastering, such as Duplication took him almost a year to master until "Torrent of Terror" and yet his clones were not very strong at the time or because they were blown back together. Some good examples of this ability are:
    • The first time Danny used a ghost shield was only hours after seeing Vlad use one, without any training on Danny's part.
    • In "One of a Kind", Danny quickly learned Sampson's body language.
    • In "Lucky in Love", Danny learned to zip along a surface in one direction without moving his legs. He saw a possessed Paulina perform this ability in Public Enemies.
    • In "Teacher of the Year", Danny got an "A-" on his literature test with just one night of study.
    • In "The Ultimate Enemy", Danny learned Dark Danny's Ghostly Wail after only seeing it once.
    • In "Kindred Spirits", Danny had expelled one of his clones out of his own body but it took a while. He may have learned this after Tucker Phantom expelled him out of his body.
    • In "Urban Jungle", Danny learned to use his Cryokinesis in just one day, with training from Frostbite.
  • Indomitable Will: It should also be noted that he as a human or as a ghost has a very strong will as he is able to resist Freakshow's control over him. He is always helping people and he is willing to die for the people he cares about. During his battle with Pariah Dark, he 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 with Vlad's last-minute arrival defeated Pariah. His determination allows him to fight on, even if the odds are on a stake and the chances of winning are almost none. An even bigger example was during his battle against Dark Danny.
    • Mind Control Resistance/Overshadowing Immunity: Danny managed to break out of Freakshow's mind control to save Sam. After being freed he knew immediately that he done some very bad things. Danny was also able to resist being overshadowed to go ghost when one of his clones overshadowed him. He may inherit this from his father who is able to resist being overshadowed when doing things against his will and briefly immune to Undergrowth's mind control.
  • Experienced Driver & Pilot: Danny is a considerably a skilled driver for his young age. He manage to drive the Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle in "Bitter Reunions" despite not having a driver license. Danny is also a skilled pilot, having much experience with the Specter Speeder as well as with spaceship simulator video games. In "Reality Trip", he was able to save a NASA shuttle from crash-landing due to his "training" with spaceship simulators.
  • Skilled Tactician/Strategist: Danny is an excellent strategist, despite his relatively young age. In "Pirate Radio," he demonstrated the ability to formulate relatively complex plans of actions to infiltrate 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.
  • Experienced Combatant: Although he has no formal training in hand-to-hand combat, Danny's powers enable him to execute punches and kicks with superhuman force against his opponents. His career as a superhero and ghost hunter has given him plenty of combat experience. Even without powers, Danny has proven that he's still a capable fighter, due to him being able to fight on par and even defeat some Pirate Ghosts, aboard Youngblood's ship. It's quite likely that Danny inherited his fighting skill from his parents, Jack (who is an excellent brawler, beating Plasmius in combat) and Maddie (who's a ninth-degree black belt and extremely skilled marksman).
    • Swordsmanship: Despite not having any formal training, Danny demonstrates some ability with a sword when fighting Vlad who had a laser sword in "Infinite Realms". It was hinted that Danny was skilled with a sword as shown in Fright Night when Danny was about to fight an army of skeletons with the mystical broadsword the Soul Shredder. Danny even handled himself quite well against Youngblood in a sword duel, with a piece of Ember's guitar in "Pirate Radio". He first demonstrated this in Fanning the Flames when he fought Ember with a microphone stick.
    • Marksmanship: Danny has shown to have incredible accuracy, this is normally used when he fires his ghost rays or using his parents' weapons. He once shot Medusa with his eyes close.
    • Weapons Mastery: Despite not being formally trained, Danny has some mastery in the use of high-tech gadgets, mystical, or even ordinary weapons such a sword (like katanas or broadswords), polearms (like scythes or staffs), gauntlets, etc. despite normally using his own fists. His extensive training and resourcefulness also make him very good at improvising weapons out of anything. He occasionally uses his parents' high-tech weaponry to aid him in battle and can use them with his resourcefulness, as while in his human form he used a Fenton skateboard and a Fenton rod-like device to battle Ghost Pirates before splitting the staff into two separate Kali sticks to stick-fight or an armature version of Eskrima.
  • Fenton Weaponry Expertise: Danny can operate his parents' ghost-hunting technology with great expertise, at times even better than his parents.
  • Leadership Skills: On several occasions, Danny has demonstrated remarkable skills as a natural leader and speaker. He can easily garner respect and inspire others, such as when he rallies his classmates to save their parents from Ember and Youngblood, or to stage a protest to save the Nasty Burger from Vlad.
  • Multilingual Skill: Like Sam, Danny learns how to speak Esperanto from Tucker, in case he meets with Wulf again.

Alternate Forms[]

Awakened Form[]

Awakening is a stage when a ghost will evolve at a much more rapid pace than normal which can greatly amplify their powers and abilities or grant new ones. "The Awakening Stage amplifies Danny's emotions, which also factor into these rapid transformations, and can cause negative side effects if not handled correctly." All changes the ghost goes through in this stage will be permanent.

Budding Form[]

When Budding, Danny's hair can ignite into flames, and his logo glows green. His eyes also engulf entirely in a green glow.

  • Phantom Flame:
  • Phantom Freeze:

Awakening Stage I[]

Danny begins to experience an Awakening with his Ghost Form, giving him greenish-blue skin and long, pointed ears. His teeth now have fangs, while his hands start growing claws. His hair is now permanently ignited in white flames, and his eyes lose his pupils entirely, and begin to bulge as the skin around them turn black. His suit is almost much brighter and tinted blue.

Awakening Stage II[]

After pushing his Awakening form further to Stage II, his suit transforms into a sleeker design, with longer boots and gloves, and switched to a greenish-blue color. His hairline and eyebrows change shape, as well, and all of his teeth turn sharp.

Phantom Fury[]

After absorbing dark matter and afflicted by past events, Danny becomes enraged and transforms into Phantom Fury. In this form, Danny's body appears white with his midsection and feet a bright red. His eyebrows and eyes glow red, with his ears and feet taking on more bat-like characteristics. His hair is engulfed in a light red flame.

Phantom Frenzy[]

Due to receiving energy from Vlad, Danny begins to change slightly yet again, with his eyes now glowing purple. Afterwards Danny is torn between each side of the conflict, which causes him to burst with anger, transforming him into Phantom Frenzy. In this form, Danny's body becomes leaner and monstrous. His arms become longer and the logo on his chest becomes larger. His hair becomes engulfed in a chaotic black and red liquid.

Equipment[]

  • Fenton Works Gadgets: Danny has used an astral of his parent's Anti-ghost weapons and even a few from Vladco. Danny has also briefly used objects like the Time Medallion or even the Reality Gauntlet.
    • Fenton Thermos:​​​ Danny's primary weapon is a device that traps ghosts by sucking them into it. It has the appearance of a thermos. Danny uses this device to capture ghosts in the human world and release them back to the Ghost Zone. He once used the thermos to remove Technus from his battlesuit. When the Reverse Polarity setting is set, it can also be used to close/seal ghost portals leading between Earth and the Ghost Zone and preventing any ghost monster from getting out.
    • Fenton Specter Deflector: This is a belt that repels and weakens any ghost that comes in direct contact with the wearer. It can also be put on a half-ghost to disable their powers. Danny uses it both offensively and defensively.
    • Specter Speeder: This Fenton Works vehicle is designed for travel in the Ghost Zone. It is able to convert to an amphibious mode for underwater travel, as well as fly in the air.
    • Infi-Map: Danny used the Infi-map after he stole it back from Vlad. It is unknown whether Danny kept it or gave it back to the Far Frozen.
    • Ecto-Skeleton: This is a mechanized battle suit that increases its wearer's abilities by 100 times. It is controlled via a neural interface which causes great strain on the wearer. When Danny used it in his ghost form, he was able to transfer his powers to the suit and used it in the final battle against Pariah Dark to defeat him once and for all. Later on, it was stolen by Vlad, who fixed its neural interface, but Danny and Jazz activated its self-destruct mechanism to destroy it and preventing Vlad from using the upgrade Ecto-Skeleton.
    • Danny's Belt: It a metallic white belt with a circular green button in the center. Danny‘s belt works as a Spectre Deflector, which can produce a ghost deflecting bubble and prevent ghost from getting in or out. It can stun Ghosts that touch it or its wearer when activated. He seems to activate this with a controller in his suits gloves as seen in Chapter 3 of 5YL.
      • Spectre Slicer: Danny's belt can morph into a blade that can cut through Ecto-Energy. The size of the blade depends on how much energy is filtered into the belt's chamber and compressed extremely densely. As Danny continues to evolve, so does the sword, becoming larger and Danny now being able to control it telekinetically. The sword can now also strike independently of Danny.
    • X-23 Booster Rocket (briefly): In "Flirting With Disaster" Danny takes the jetpack and uses it to launch himself into space in pursuit of Technus, who has taken over the Cybertron Mega Computer's processing unit. To defeat Technus, Danny overloads the jetpack's power and lets it fly straight into Technus's mouth, causing the satellite to explode. At the beginning of "Phantom Planet", Danny wore the space helmet of the booster rocket while battling Vlad for the Infi-map in space. The helmet was originally white with green marking on it with a clear visor to see through it, and two grey tubes along the jaw. The helmet later painted grey in Phantom Planet.
    • Doomed Avatar Battlesuit (briefly): When Technus invaded the online world of the "Doomed" video game, he took it upon himself to overshadow his game avatar, combining his superpowers with the numerous powerups of the virtual world.
    • Plasmius Maximus (briefly): With the Plasmius Maximus, Danny is able to nullify spectral energies, completely canceling a ghost's powers. Its effects only last for three hours. Danny uses the Plasmius Maximus on Vlad, which takes away his ghost powers, and Danny sends his pets after him much like Vlad did earlier to Danny. It unknown what happens to this device afterward. But it is possible Danny keep it.
    • Time Medallion (briefly): Danny briefly used the medallion to be immune to Clockwork's powers. After Dark Danny fused it into him, he was unable to get it out until Vlad helps him. Clockwork later put another one on him. It unknown if Clockwork had let him keep that medallion because he was able to travel through time without it.
    • Reality Gauntlet (briefly): Danny briefly uses the gauntlet to undo Freakshow's work, erase everyone's memories, and turned Lydia into multiple objects. While turning Freakshow in, Danny used the gauntlet to turn Freakshow human again. After he destroyed the gauntlet, so it won't fall into the wrong hands again and he no longer had any of its abilities.

Feats[]

Strength[]

Speed[]

Durability[]

  • His ecto-shield can tank attacks capable enough to destroy buildings.
  • Survived atmospheric re-entry.
  • Survived outer space (all the way up to Jupiter) and not affected (despite still needing a space helmet).
  • Can take beatings from his opponents and still be fighting, whether in the present or future.
  • Wasn't fazed by being crushed by a nutcracker that crushes Danny into a car, building and cement floor.
  • Took a hit from a cannonball to the face.
  • Withstood being rammed by a sentient space shuttle into the ground hard enough to make a crater.
  • Using the Ghostly Wail doesn’t outright kill him. Given the damage it causes to the surroundings and due to the laws of Newtonian Physics, the fact that Danny doesn’t suffer any internal damage from the backlash is impressive.
  • Withstood getting blasted by TNT
  • Tanked getting hit by his own Ghost Ray
  • While in human form, resisted a forced transformation from one of Vlad Plasmius’s machines, then survived the overloaded machine exploding
  • Tanked multiple hits from a sphinx. He also gets hit in his human form after using his Ghost Wail which sends him on top of a pyramid. The sphinx can destroy buildings at ease.
  • Took a beating from Dark Danny and his clones, who was much more experienced and stronger than Danny.

Skill[]

  • Defeated Skulker and Valerie Grey, who are ghost hunters.
  • Held his own against Sidney Poindexter who was in his body.
  • Took on Vlad in a swordfight.
  • Broke free of Freakshow's mind control.
  • Tricked Freakshow into turning himself into a ghost.
  • Has saved Amity Park, and the world, numerous times
  • Bested his evil future self, who was supposed to be more powerful
  • Helped take down Skulker alongside rookie ghost-hunter Valerie Gray, while both were chained together.
  • Orchestrated a prison break against Walker
  • Teamed up with the other Nicktoons characters to defeat the Evil Syndicate and their Doomsday Device, Professor Calamitous and the Toybots, Mawgu, and the Globs of Doom.
  • Became the “savior of the Ghost Zone” by locking Pariah Dark, the Ghost King, back in his sarcophagus.
  • Alongside the other ghosts of the Ghost Zone, turned the entire Earth intangible to prevent its destruction by the Disasteroid.
  • Frequently defeats Vlad Plasmius, a half-ghost with over 20 years more experience than Danny.
  • Defeated Dorothea and Dan Phantom

Weaknesses[]

  • Anti-Ghost Weaponry: In ghost form, Danny is vulnerable (like all ghost) to getting hurt/injured from all anti-ghost devices, made by, including Fenton Works weapons, Vladco gadgets, and the Guys in White's weaponry. Being a half-ghost, he is immune to some in his human form, but some anti-ghost devices, such as the Specter Deflector, can affect him even while in human form. Some knock him unconscious, leading them to revert back to his human form. Others just limit his abilities or remove them. Over the course of the series, he has been de-powered 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.
  • Overshadowing Susceptibility: Due to being half-human Danny is capable of being overshadowed by other ghostly entities, though this has rarely happened. After being overshadowed by Poindexter, the weaker ghost was able. to completely switch their bodies and powers. Danny was also partly overshadowed by a clone of himself created by Vlad. However, due to his strong will he is able to resist overshadowing (see abilities for more details).
  • Blood Blossoms: They are blood-red flowers with anti-supernatural properties. They were used in the 1600s as a primitive ghost trap. They were only shown in the episode "Infinite Realms" when Jack Fenton's ancestor used them against Danny. While in the presence of Blood Blossoms, Danny is rendered powerless and suffers extreme physical agony to the point where he can only scream in pain, long term exposure to it will result in death. Vlad, in human form, was able to stand near Blood Blossoms unharmed, so it may be possible for Danny to build a tolerance to Blood Blossoms and do so as well. Blood Blossoms possibly don't exist in the 20th century, so this weakness currently doesn't affect Danny.
  • Ecto-Ranium: Danny is extremely vulnerable to ecto-ranium, as all ghosts are. They appeared in the final episode of the series "Phantom Planet", it is a unique anti-ghost element found in outer space, and its effects can only be felt by ghosts. When Vlad attempted to turn a meteor made entirely of it, he felt extreme pain.
  • Infrared Vision: When invisible, Danny can still be seen in infrared, as he still radiates heat.
  • Sleeping Gas: In "Doctor's Disorders", Danny was knocked out by a tank of sleeping gas. Although, it likely that the gas wasn't regular sleeping gas.
  • Crystal Ball Staff: Due to his hybrid nature, whether in human or ghost form, Danny ends up being controlled by looking at Freakshow's Crystal Ball Staff. Even if he isn't near the Staff, he could still be controlled if the Staff is on a billboard or a screen. Following the destruction of the crystal, it no longer applies to Danny.
  • Awakened Form Flaws: After unlocking his Awakening Form, he has surpassed all of his previous weaknesses.
    • Overexertion/Overexhaustion: Danny has a limit to how much of his Ecto-Energy he can use in quick succession. If he pushes himself too far, he will revert back to his Human form.

Fun Facts[]

  • Danny Phantom can walk through walls, disappear, and fly.
  • He is much more unique than the other guys.
  • Danny knew what he had to do; He had to stop all the ghosts that were coming through.
  • He's here to fight for me and you.
  • He's gonna catch them all because he's Danny Phantom
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