History Fanfic / GrowingPainsDannyPhantom

* NauseaFuel:
** Pamela hitting on adult Danny is this to him and Sam.
** Neither Sam nor her parents want to listen to Ida talk about how hot adult Danny is.
** Danny gets hit on by a lot of women he doesn't like but Ms. Tetslaff and especially Helena are the worst.
** The thought of Joan Baxter hitting on him makes Danny sick to his stomach since he does not want to be related to Dash in any way, especially not as his father.

* RescueRomance: Parodied with Rita, a single mother who Danny meets at the Nasty Burger. He saves her from a nasty fall and she is instantly smitten with him, unaware that Danny CAN'T return her feelings due to his true age.

* OperationJealousy: Sam's father Jeremy tries to make Pamela jealous by catching Helena's interest, even taking his shirt off, partly to get back at his wife for drooling over adult Danny and partly to mend his wounded ego. It completely fails when Helena instantly rejects Jeremy for being too old and scrawny for her standards and Pamela is unimpressed when he passes out from over-flexing.

* {{Revenge}}: Wanting revenge against Pamela for ogling at Dante, Jeremy tries to get Helena to ogle at him. It fails because Helena considers him to be "too old and scrawny".

** Joan Baxter (Dash's mother), wastes no time in hitting on "Dante", much to Danny's dismay.

* TheCameo: An elderly couple, implied to be Kirk and Joy Strong, briefly appear when Danny accidentally arrives in New York.

* DefiantCaptive: Even after capturing him and trapping him in her realm in the Ghost Zone, Danny absolutely refuses to marry Helena and escapes thanks to the help of Team Phantom and Ember.
* DetrimentalDetermination: Helena desperately wants a husband and won't take "no" for answer so she refuses to give up no matter how many rejections or beatings she gets from adult Danny.

** Jeremy gets jealous when Pamela flirts with Dante (adult Danny) and thinks he's trying to steal his wife despite him, Sam, and even his own mother Ida point out he's not interested in his wife.
* MistakenForFlirting: Guys think Danny is doing this with their female lovers despite his claims to the contrary.

* NoLoveForTheWicked: Helena openly admits to Danny she doesn't want love or happiness, she just wants to marry a rich and handsome man who will take care of her for the rest of her afterlife.

* WackyMarriageProposal: How Cassandra Evergreen initially proposes to adult Danny by sending her assistant Lionel Lutz to do it for her while she's at a spa appointment. Needless to say he's not interested and she doesn't take it well in the slightest when she gets his answer.

* MistakenForCheating: Some jealous guys think Danny is trying to get romantic with their female partners.

** Bridgetta Eloise Romano loves speaking her mind, even to dangerous people like Vlad Masters, Ember McLain, and Kitty.

** Some of Danny's admirers (such as Pamela Manson, Harriet Chin and even his female teachers) who express attraction to him are all in their forties and don't seem to mind hitting on a guy in his mid twenties.

* NeverMesswithGranny: Ida Manson doesn’t take lip from anyone, especially not her family.

** Helena was banned from the annual Ghost Zone Christmas party after she nearly ruined the last one she attended ten years ago where she tried to make some ghost man leave the party with her, only for his girlfriend and Helen to nearly break the truce over it.

** Ida has never approved of Jeremy and Pamela’s marriage but doesn’t like her flirting with adult Danny since she’s married to her son.

* MurderTheHypotenuse: Vlad wants to use Helena's pocket watch to make Jack dust.

* * ShallowCannotComprehendTrueLove: Cassandra Evergreen wants to marry adult Danny purely for his good looks and can’t fathom why he’d reject a wealthy beauty pageant winner like her on the grounds that he doesn’t love her for being a total stranger.

** Adult Danny points out to Cassandra Evergreen how insane it would be to marry a total stranger since he doesn’t know her and no amount of beauty or wealth can change that.

** Ida and Sam point out to Jeremy his anger at adult Danny is misplaced since it’s not his fault his wife Pamela is swooning over him.
** Pamela notices her daughter Sam is attracted to adult Danny and points out she’s too young for him (at least that what it looks like since Danny has the body of an adult at the moment but Pamela doesn’t know he has the mind of a teenager).

* * WackyParentSeriousChild: Sam calls her mom Pamela out on this for acting less mature than her by chasing after adult Danny despite already being married.

** Vlad plans to do this to Maddie by using Helena's pocket watch to turn Jack into dust, then return himself and Maddie back to their ages in college because he thinks she'll have no choice but to be with him.

** While he's mainly motivated by jealousy, Jeremy is correct that Pamela shouldn't be hitting on Danny's older self as she's already married to him and is setting a bad example for their daughter. Even Sam and Ida side with him.

** Vlad is still this to Maddie as he admits he's willing to try to force her into marrying him by using Helena's pocket watch to age Jack to dust and return himself and Maddie back to their college ages so he can start over with her.

* BrainlessBeauty: Bridgetta Romano mockingly implies Cassandra Evergreen is this after Danny rejects her. The fact that Cassandra thinks that the Eiffel Tower is in Italy seems to prove this is to be the case.

*** She also becomes this even to adult Danny as Helena doesn't mind that he's still mentally a teenager since she finds his adult form really handsome and is perfectly fine with forcing him to marry her.

* AccidentalMisnaming: Cassandra Evergreen just can't get her assistant Lionel Lutz's name right despite having him work for her for three years, even Danny can remember his name even though they only met once. Granted she made it clear she doesn't care about Lionel's name.

* AwfulWeddedLife: Its heavily implied that had Helena successful, Danny ( or ANY unlucky guy who she caught) would have been absolutely miserable with her.
* BadBoss: Cassandra Evergreen is not a nice person to work for as she's very loud and demanding to her assistant Lionel Lutz, plus she can never get his name right despite knowing him for three years.
* BadDate: Ms. Tetslaff apparently is always in a bad mood when this happens, and takes her frustration out on her students.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Danny got tired of being treated like a kid and wanted to see what being an adult would be like. Helena grants his wish by aging him 10 years as payback for insulting her age. Danny quickly finds adulthood tiresome because he has to deal with adult problems like money and grown women hounding him for his attention.
** Vlad wanted to be young again and he got his wish when he turned himself into his college age with Helena's pocket watch but at the cost of losing his ghost powers and becoming the object of desire for an elderly Helena.

* BeleagueredAssistant: Lionel Lutz does not have it easy while working for Cassandra Evergreen due to having to deal with her tantrums when she doesn't get her way and she doesn't respect him enough to remember his name.

* BrainlessBeauty: Bridgetta Romano mockingly implies Cassandra Evergreen is this after Danny rejects her.
** The fact that Cassandra thinks that the Eiffle tower is in Italy seems to prove this to be the case.
* BrainBleach: Danny wishes he had some after being hit on Miss Tesslaff, Principal Ishiyama and even Dash's mother.
* {{Bridezilla}}: Helena ''WOULD'' be one of these, and is referred to this multiple times. However, she lacks an actual groom to qualify for this trope.

** Danny makes it clear to Cassandra Evergreen he won't marry a stranger like her regardless of her looks, wealth, or fame.
** Danny doesn't hesitate to tell Kitty he doesn't love her because of all the trouble she's caused him.

* CanonForeigner: Helena the Harpy didn't exist in the main series and was created specifically for this story.
** Cassandra Evergreen, Miss Romano and Joan Baxter were all created for this fic.

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: Helena is this to Emily from ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride''. They're both undead women who are obsessed with getting married, but while Emily is a genuinely sweet girl who only wants love, Helena is a shallow and nasty gold digger who just wants a rich husband that fits her impossibly high standards. There is also their reputation among their peers; Emily is genuinely well-liked by the residents of the Land of the Dead, and is on good terms with many of them while Helena, on the other hand, is very unpopular and disliked by the residents of the Ghost Zone due to her horrid personality and obsessive man-hunting.

** Sam's grandmother, Ida, also expresses an interest in Danny's older self.

* Some of Danny's admirers, such as Pamela Manson, Harriet Chin and even his female teachers express attraction to him, even though they are all in their forties and don't seem to mind hitting on a guy in his mid twenties.
* DisguisedInDrag: When Vlad goes to the private men's room at a VIP booth in Casa Di Alta Classe during Singles Night to transform, he meets a man whose disguising himself as a woman with the intent to hide from Helena.

* TheDreaded: Helena is this in the Ghost Zone as men are extremely put off by her unreasonably high standards and the women find her extremely annoying because of her desperation to get married. She also becomes this in the human world as the men are terrified of her, especially due to her violent temper.

* EntitledToHaveYou: Helena develops this attitude towards adult Danny as she has no problem forcing him to marry her.

* Cassandra Evergreen is a more comedic example as she wants to marry Dante solely for his looks and feels insulted that he rejected her, despite barely knowing each other.

** Helena was banned from the annual Ghost Zone Christmas party after she nearly ruined the last one she attended ten years ago where she tried to make some ghost man leave the party with her only for his girlfriend and Helen to nearly break the truce over it.
** The Lunch Lady Ghost finds adult Danny handsome but considers him too young for her.
** Even the Lunch Lady Ghost finds Klemper annoying.

** While Sam finds Danny's adult form very attractive she's still dedicated to helping Team Phantom turn him back into a teenager.

* HatedByAll: Nobody in the human world or Ghost Zone likes Helena because of her violent temper and obsession with getting married. Women hate her for trying to steal their boyfriends and men avoid her cause of her awful personality. Ghosts make sure to learn where her domain is in the Ghost Zone just to steer clear of it. Only the birds in Helena's domain stick around her.

* HeIsAllGrownUp: Danny is much buffer and muscular as an adult to the point of having 6-pack abs. Adult women are always commenting on his good looks and even Sam can't resist drooling over how handsome Danny is.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Vlad thinks using Helena's pocket watch to age Jack and turn himself and Maddie back to their college age will make her his, he ignores that this'll just make her hate even more than she does.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While he's mainly motivated by jealousy, Jeremy is correct that Pamela shouldn't be hitting on Danny's older self as she's already married to him and is setting a bad example for their daughter. Even Sam and Ida side with him.

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Kitty uses her ghostly lipstick to make her boyfriend Johnny 13 disappear for a few hours so she can go flirt with adult Danny in the human world.
** Ember uses her love song to make the elderly Helena fall in love with and chase the young and powerless Vlad Masters.

* LittleBigSister: Jazz becomes this after Danny's Overnight Age-Up makes him bigger than her.

** Helena clearly only enjoys a man for her exterior and believes that she can win them over, as evident that she sees the aged up Danny as her dream man and not caring that he's a minor on the inside who has no desire to be with her.

* ManChild: Danny is a literal case as he has the body of an adult but retains his teenage mind as Vlad lampshades.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: Principal Ishiyama and Coach Tetslaff's first names were never revealed in the show but here it's Lin and Tina, respectively.

* NauseaFuel: Pamela hitting on adult Danny is this to him and Sam.

** The thought of Joan Baxter hitting on Danny makes him sick to his stomach since he does not want to be related to Dash in any way, especially not as his father.
* NervesOfSteel: Even being threatened by two powerful ghosts like Ember and Kitty doesn't make Bridgetta Eloise Romano back off, which actually impresses Ember.

* NotHelpingYourCase: Cassandra Evergreen tries to persuade Danny into marrying her despite him making clear he doesn't want to cause they barely know each other by telling him that her cousin married her husband after five weeks although they divorced that same weekend but Cassandra says it was his fault. Danny is completely unimpressed and just uses this as a reason for why he shouldn't marry a stranger like Cassandra.

* OnlySaneMan: Sullivan is this among the ghost hunters as he's the only one who isn't distracted by adult Danny's good looks like Brenner and Fran who frequently fight over Danny or Andy who drools over the ghost man due to being bisexual.
* OperationJealousy: Sam's father Jeremy tries to make Pamela jealous by catching Helena's interest, even taking his shirt off, partly to get back at his wife for drooling over adult Danny and partly to mend his wounded ego. It completely fails when Helena instantly rejects for being too old and scrawny for her standards and Pamela is unimpressed when Jeremy passes out from over flexing.

* PatheticallyWeak: Jeremy Manson hurts his hand when he punches adult Danny in the gut out of jealousy for catching Pamela's interest while adult Danny remains unscathed. Later when Jeremy orders exercise equipment he struggles to lift even the lightest of weights and just ends up hurting his arms.
* PetTheDog: Pamela is worried about Sam's safety when Helena rampages at Casa Di Alta Classe during Singles Night.
** Ida carries her son Jeremy home after he passes out from over flexing in an attempt to get Helena's attention to make Pamela jealous as payback for crushing on adult Danny.

* RichBitch: Cassandra Evergreen is a rich beauty queen, and very spoiled and self centered.
* RidiculouslyHighRelationshipStandards: One of the reasons why Helena was unable to find a husband in her human life and still can't find one as a ghost is because of her ridiculously LongList of high standards.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Pamela thinks Sam is protective of Danny and wants to keep her away from him because she has a crush on him. She is correct that Sam is attracted to Danny but that's not the main reason for her actions.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Dash, Paulina and Kwan can enter an adults only restaurant because of their connections. Dash's mom is the realtor who helped set the place; Paulina's dad is an investor; and Kwan is Dash and Paulina's guest.

* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: It's rather amusing to see Danny being hounded by lustful women who also compete with each other for his attention. Averted when it comes to Helena though as she's the MOST dangerous and unstable of Danny's admirers.
* StraightGay: The jocks didn't even suspect Steve was gay until he told what he thinks of Danny's adult self.

* VillainRespect: Ember admits she respects Bridgetta Eloise Romano for not being intimidated by her and Kitty despite them being ghost.

* WastedBeauty: Some men do find Helena attractive but her awful attitude and outdated fashion sense make them lose interest.

* BerserkButton: Pamela does not tolerate anyone insulting her age.

* ChickMagnet: Deconstructed. As an adult, Danny becomes much more popular with women. He's uncomfortable with that since they're way older than his real self.

* ControlFreak: Helena, despite wearing a wedding dress, makes it clear she's the one wearing the pants in her ideal relationship.

** Helena won't harass men that are gay.

* LovingAShadow: All of Danny's older admirers are completely smitten with "Dante Fenalton".

* VillainessesWantHeroes: Ember, Spectra, Kitty and Desiree express an attraction to Danny's older self.