History Recap / DannyPhantomS1E5SplittingImages

* LaserGuidedKarma: Danny uses his powers to get back at Dash for bullying him. Sidney likewise uses his telekinesis to punish Kwan, Paulina, and an unnamed bully for bullying nerds.

Fed up with all the bullying he endures at school, Danny finally starts using his ghost powers to get back at Dash and his JerkJock posse. His actions awaken the vengeful ghost of a bullied student named Sidney Poindexter, who changes places with Danny, sending him back to [[TheFifties 1950s]] Casper High while taking over as Danny Fenton in the present.

Fed up with all the bullying he endures at school, Danny finally starts using his ghost powers to get back at Dash and his JerkJock posse. His actions awaken the vengeful ghost of a bullied student named Sydney Poindexter, who changes places with Danny, sending him back to [[TheFifties 1950s]] Casper High while taking over as Danny Fenton in the present.

** Poindexter calls Tucker a nerd multiple times in the episode, even though he's probably even nerdier than Tucker.

* MisBlamed: Poindexter somehow thinks Danny is the bully picking on innocent kids and refuses to believe Danny when he tells him he has it backwards.

* {{Hypocrite}}: When one of Poindexter’s classmates sees him fighting Danny, he calls Danny a bully, even though ''he’s'' been bullying Poindexter for decades.

* KarmaHoudini: Poindexter doesn't really suffer any consequences for his actions. Also, Poindexter’s classmates get no punishment for all the torment they put Poindexter and Danny through.

-->'''Sam:''' ''(hearing Dash, Kwan, and Paulina talk about what happened to them)'' Apparently, ''someone’s'' been busy.

* DumbassBall: After switching bodies with Danny and forcing Danny through the mirror’s portal back to his ghost school, Poindexter, for some reason, doesn’t think to just break the mirror so Danny has no way to escape or get Poindexter back where he came from.

* PortalSlam: After he gets back to the human realm, Danny breaks the mirror, destroying the portal.

* ButtMonkey: Poor Danny endures a lot of suffering in this episode.

* BatmanGambit: Danny tricks Poindexter into undoing the body swap by threatening to smash the mirror that leads back to the present, even though that would strand them both in the past. Fortunately, instead of calling his bluff, Poindexter tries to stop him by possessing him, allowing Danny to take his body back and escape.

* BrokenAesop: The Aesop for this episode is supposedly "Getting revenge on bullies makes you a bully." By that logic, Danny is a bully for messing with Dash. Therefore, Poindexter should be just as much of a "bully" as Danny, as he also punish bullies and a kid he ''thinks'' is a bully. Danny is portrayed as in the wrong for giving the real bullies a taste of their own medicine, but ''Poindexter'' is treated as in the right for giving ''Danny'' a taste of his own medicine. Danny concludes that what Poindexter put him through "serves me right," even though he and Poindexter did the exact same thing with the exact same motive. If Danny was wrong, Poindexter should have been wrong, too. Conversely, if Poindexter's actions were justified, Danny's should have been, too. The double standard is ''very'' stark.

* BrokenAesop: The Aesop for this episode is supposedly "Standing up to bullies makes you a bully." By that logic, Danny is a bully for messing with Dash. Therefore, Poindexter should be just as much of a "bully" as Danny, as he also punishes a kid he thinks is a bully. Danny is portrayed as in the wrong for giving real bullies a taste of their own medicine, but Poindexter is treated as in the right for giving ''Danny'' a taste of his own medicine. Danny concludes that what Poindexter put him through "serves me right," even though he and Poindexter did the exact same thing with the exact same motive. If Danny was wrong, Poindexter should have been wrong, too. Conversely, if Poindexter's actions were justified, Danny's should have been, too. The double standard is ''very'' stark.
** And technically speaking, Poindexter's actions in this episode make him ''far'' more of a bully than Danny. With his motive being to punish anyone who's a bully, and with this episode's Aesop stating that committing the same actions against a bully makes you a bully, Poindexter does that to the jocks as well as Danny since he thinks he's a bully. The only person Danny gets back at is Dash. None of his actions against Dash really go too far into warranting the GrandTheftMe that Poindexter pulls on him. This makes Danny's consequences in the episode unfair DisproportionateRetribution and Poindexter's lack of consequences completely [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritical]].

* UnskilledButStrong: Danny’s body still has its ghost powers in Poindexter’s realm, but even after swapping bodies with Danny, Poindexter still has trouble fighting Danny because he has no idea how to use Danny's powers.

* StuffedIntoALocker:

Danny also suffers this, courtesy of Dash.

* FamedInStory: Danny now learns that the half-boy/half-ghost is famous in the Ghost Zone.

* KarmaHoudini: Other than getting sent back to his own realm, Poindexter doesn't really suffer any consequences for his actions.

* MisBlamed: Poindexter somehow thinks Danny is the bully picking on innocent kids and refuses to listen when Danny tries to tell him he has it backwards.

* NotMeThisTime: Pointdexter starts taking revenge on the jocks shortly after Danny does.
-->'''Sam:''' ''(hearing Dash, Kwan, and Paulina talk about what happened to them)'' Apparently, someone's been busy.
-->'''Danny:''' It wasn't me, I swear.

* PortalSlam: After he gets back to the present, Danny breaks the mirror, destroying the portal.
* SecretKeeper: Apparently, when they were in second grade, Tucker made Danny promise not to tell Sam he was the one who threw up in her lunch box. When Danny reveals this to her, Tucker is seen gesturing nervously.

* TotallyRadical: Poindexter uses a lot of 50s slang.
* UnskilledButStrong: Although Danny is apparently more powerful than Pointdexter, Pointdexter is no match for him even after he steals Danny's body because he has no idea how to use Danny's powers.

* YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses: Danny (in Poindexter's body) taunts Pointdexter this way, since the latter is a terrible shot.
-->'''Danny:''' You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses? ''(Dodges all of Poindexter's punches with ease)'' You ''couldn't'' hit a guy with glasses! In fact, you couldn't even hit the broad side of a barn!\\

* YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses: Danny (in Pointdexter's body) taunts Pointdexter this way, since the latter is a terrible shot.
-->'''Danny:''' You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses? You ''couldn't'' hit a guy with glasses! In fact, you couldn't even hit the broad side of a barn!

'''Sam:''' What?! I pushed him off the monkey bars for that! (''glares and points at Tucker'') It was ''you''?! (''gasps in realization'')\\