History YMMV / Dannyphantom

* EvilIsSexy:
** Hoo boy, [[spoiler: Dark Danny]]. He has a ton of fangirls who [[ArousedByTheirVoice find his voice to be VERY attractive]]. Also, that muscular body is a very large improvement for someone who did it in just ten years.
** Vlad Masters. Handsome, charismatic, and suave, and a sharp dresser to boot.
** Penelope Spectra fits and aims to be this. Tucker even seems to have this response upon seeing her new body. [[RapidAging As long as she stays away from the Fenton Peeler]].
** Desiree: A beauty and buxom JackassGenie with HartmanHips.
** Ember: A young aspiring rock diva that's as beautiful as she is wicked.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: ''Danny Phantom'' was the first Nickelodeon original series to be a 22-minute action show with an ongoing narrative and story arcs. However, ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', which aired the next year, would also follow that structure, but has a much larger audience. It probably didn't help due to Danny Phantom's more cartoony aesthetic and moments of self-aware humor towards its clichés over Avatar's {{Animesque}} visuals with more serious and character driven narrative during a time in which anime was growing in popularity with American children. In addition, many shows in more recent years, such as ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', also have simpler designs and some level of self-awareness, but also aimed to be more serious and character driven. [[TropesAreTools This does not make the series worse with age]], as one can see ''Danny Phantom'' as a notable first step than anything else.

** Danny and Ember are a [[FanPreferredCouple popular ship]] despite neither showing any interest in each other. Adding is that in his third "10 years later" video, Butch Hartman suggested Ember would probably be in love with Danny as he gets older [[{{Tsundere}} but she would deny it]].

** Ember [=McLain=] is turned into Skulker’s girlfriend so she can be Kitty’s plot device for one episode. Butch Hartman claims that [[HopelessSuitor Ember is in love with Danny]]. Danny has never been kind to Ember or helped her out in anyway.

** Ember [=McLain=] is turned into Skulker’s girlfriend so she can be Kitty’s plot device for one episode.
Butch Hartman claims that [[HopelessSuitor Ember is in love with Danny]]. Danny has never been kind to Ember or helped her out in anyway.

** Ember [=McLain=] is made into Skulker’s girlfriend just so she can be Kitty’s plot device for a single episode.
** Butch Hartman decided that [[HopelessSuitor Ember is in love with Danny]], even though Danny has never been kind to her.
** Ember [=McLain=] could certainly do better than Skulker. And has no reason to be in love with Danny.

* DesignatedLoveInterest: Butch Hartman is single-mindedly obsessed with Danny and Sam ending up together, perpetuating the lie that friends of opposite gender have to end up together.

** Ember: A young (looking) aspiring rock diva that's as beautiful as she is wicked.

** Danny and Ember are a popular ship despite neither showing any interest in each other. Adding is that in his third "10 years later" video, Butch Hartman suggested Ember would probably be in love with Danny as he gets older [[{{Tsundere}} but she would deny it]].

%% ** Also the intro song.
%% *** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiokCOOL1CU The original theme song deserves a mention as well]].

* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: While the ghost villains are no doubt evil, they're so entertaining to watch and often have such sympathetic backstories that it's hard to truly hate them. The majority of human characters, however, such as Dash, Paulina, Mr. Lancer and The Guys In White are hated for having no such entertaining traits or interesting backstories, and only existing to be one-note antagonists.

* SeasonalRot: Despite the introductions of new friends and foes, the development of new powers, and the return of some fan favorite characters, many felt the third season went through this due to rushed or forgotten subplots introduced earlier, and the somewhat weak writing plots of many episodes ("Urban Jungle" is one of the most prominent examples, especially since the marketing team went all out to hype of Vegetized Sam only for her to [[AdvertisedExtra barely say three words]] before being turned back).

* SeasonalRot: Despite the introductions of new friends and foes, the development of new powers, and the return of some fan favorite characters, many felt the third season went through this due to rushed or forgotten subplots introduced earlier, and the somewhat weak writing plots of many episodes ("Urban Jungle" is one of the most prominent examples, especially the marketing team went all out to hype of Vegetized Sam only for her to [[AdvertisedExtra barely say three words]] before being turned back).

* SeasonalRot: Despite the introductions of new friends and foes, the development of new powers, and the return of some fan favorite characters, many felt the third season went through this due to rushed or forgotten subplots introduced earlier, and the somewhat weak writing plots of many episodes ("Urban Jungle" is one of the most prominent examples).

* RainbowLens: Danny is scared and confused when the accident turns him half-ghost and spends most of the series trying to keep the truth from getting out. He only allows his closest friends to know about this part of himself. He is especially sure to keep this secret away from his family - his parents in-particular, who possess a dehumanizing, almost zealot-like opinion against ghosts - with Jazz agreeing to keep it a secret out of love for her little brother when she finds out about it. When his parents ''do'' find out, they are more shock and appalled at themselves that their son had to go such lengths to keep this secret from them. The whole thing reads like a ComingOutStory for a teenager realizes that they are LGBT+, some reading him as [[TransTribulations transgender or non-binary]] due to his conflicting nature as half-human, half-ghost. Which becomes rather ironic in the light of creator Butch Hartman being, diplomatically, very conservative in his views, having ocasionally voiced his concerns about the LGBT+ community.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The show's tagline "Not seeing is believing" was also the tagline of the book ''My Best Friend Is Invisible'' from TheNineties classic ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' series.

** [[http://daughter-in-the-basement-blog.tumblr.com/post/39118327867 This tumblr page]] suggests that Danielle may be a StepfordSmiler over her severing ties with Vlad and having Danny as her only family, not to mention her life alone on the streets. It also suggests the reason she doesn't stay with Danny isn't "because she had places to go" but out of guilt over the trouble she caused him.

** Both Ember and Desiree are subject to this treatment as well, due to the fact that they're both said to have had very tragic pasts, which make fans believe that they're not truly evil deep down, [[IJustWantToBeLoved just confused and desperately wanting love]]. There's also the fact that both of them tend to be popular with fanboys for reasons you can well imagine.

** Not to mention Spectra, Skulker, and [[LargeHam THE BOX GHOST!]]

** Vlad Masters. Handsome, charismatic, and suave as all hell, and a sharp dresser to boot.

* FanonDiscontinuity: A fair amount of fans give Season 3 this treatment. And even among those who enjoy the show's final season are split on the {{grand finale}}, ''WesternAnimation/PhantomPlanet''. There are just as many popular fanworks that acknowledge its events as there are those that completely ignore it.

** Danny and Vlad. Vlad's first appearance alone has him creeping into Danny's room just watching the boy struggle in his sleep, then there's Danny's foot massage request in "Torrent of Terror", not to mention the multiple attempts Vlad has done to try and lure Danny into the dark side which when taken in a different context, it sounds almost seductive. And of course "Eye for an Eye" which is a treasure trove of subtext quotes (''"I'm rubbing your nose in this mess you made, Daniel, doesn't it smell yummy?"'' and ''"You forgot to take your supplements, have a dose of vitamin-ME!"'' for example). That episode also has them seeing each other naked. Then there's the fact Vlad made a prepubescent female clone of him... whom he only planned to use to perfect a male clone. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything The Slade-Robin similarities]] don't exactly help, either. Given Vlad's obsession with Danny's mother and desire to make Danny his son, Freud would definitely have something [[Theatre/OedipusRex Oedipal related]] to say about it.

** Due to both shows being on in almost the same years, as well as sharing many of the same tropes, character archetypes, and other similarities, you're bound to find people who love this series and the original ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' series as well. Hell, one fan [[https://www.kurothewebsite.com/5-years-later is making his own fan comic continuing the stories of both franchises]], only set 5 years after their each franchise's last incarnations (''Omniverse'' for Ben 10, since the latest incarnation is a reboot).

** His mother, Maddie, is no slouch in this regard, either. She's been shipped with Vlad, Danny, [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Spectra, Sam]], and pretty much any other character you can think of.

* ShipToShipCombat: The infamous "True-Fan VS Anti-Fan" wars, which basically boiled down to "Canon" (Danny/Sam) VS "Fanon" (Danny/Anyone else) and/or "Heterosexual Pairings" (Danny/Sam, Danny/Valerie) VS "Slash" ([[FoeYayShipping Danny/Vlad]], Danny/Dash, and even [[AlternateSelfShipping Danny/Himself]] (''Don't ask'')).

** Sam Manson. She's always brought up about how she's looked down on for being an individual and wanting to make a statement, although she's always seen being as equally vindictive and demands conformity for her views, such as the first episode where she changed the entire menu for her sake and not anyone else's, or when she entered a beauty pageant to declare how stupid they are in spite of how the other members genuinely wanted to win and weren't being mean to her. Her relationship with Danny is meant to be a cute WillTheyOrWontThey scenario, but her relationship instead comes off more as possessive, since [[EntitledToHaveYou she's known to act hostile to any girl who shows an interest in Danny]] and defies IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy when Danny and Valerie were getting close, since she didn't comfort Danny when his heart was broken and only mused how clueless he was. Thus, she acts like she can only be happy for Danny if it's with her. Then there is her most infamous moment, from "Double Cross My Heart". She is extremely angry at Danny for spying on her during her date with Gregor, despite that she did the same to Danny during his time with Valerie. Unlike Sam, Danny had legitimate reasons since they knew nothing about Sam's new crush and had reasons to be suspicious of this conspicuous, foreign transfer student dressed in white and black who just happened to start at Casper High the same time the Guys in White become much more active in town. Further, the exact same thing had happened before (Johnny 13 had taken an interest in Jazz, and her life was in danger as a result). Not to mention Sam is never called out for her own actions. Instead, it's Danny who apologizes while Sam laments that lying is the only way she can get a boyfriend.
** Sidney Poindexter. He was a nerd in the '50s who was a constant target for bullying by just about everyone. Yet when he finally escapes to the living world, he doesn't take the time to listen to Danny's rationale as to why he was doing what he was to Dash (even if it isn't justified by the show's admission). He then proceeds to replace Danny's soul with his, hijack his body, and trap Danny in the spirit world version of Casper High from the '50s to spend an eternity getting shat on while he rejoins the living world in Danny's body. He really [[KarmaHoudini doesn't get any comeuppance for this act]] at any time either and [[HeWhoFightsMonsters comes off as not much different from the bullies of his time]], so he pretty much [[AssholeVictim deserves to be bullied in his purgatory]].

* TheWoobie: Danielle "Dani" Phantom. Ignore whether or not you think she's [[TheScrappy a bad character]] or [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter a wasted one]]. What we see is a spunky young girl who kicks butt, then think about what ''really'' happened with her. She's a little girl who was emotionally manipulated by her father to do bad things only to find out he never loved her. Then there's her second episode where she's betrayed by a person she helped and had the one person who cares about her captured. Then she's ''tortured'' to death by her father, who she very likely still cares about since she gave him the benefit of a doubt and asked if he found a way to fix her. Not to mention all that time between the two episodes she was effectively dying a slow, horrible death while living on the streets.

* ValuesDissonance: Cross-country example in "Fenton Menace", where Danny taunts Jazz by chanting "Jazz is a spaz". In it's home country, the USA, this is nothing more then a childish insult. However, in the UK, "spaz" is considered a highly offensive slur against people with disabilities.

** Sam blackmailing Danny and Tucker into keeping quiet that she let a gorilla out of its cage by threatening to put a picture of them hugging in their sleep in the school yearbook, and saying "boys hugging makes every yearbook funny" while taking the picture in the episode "One of a Kind" becomes much less funny when series creator Butch Hartman exposed himself to be a major homophobe.

** Everything about Ember and her character trait of wanting everyone to remember her name, after an insane [=YouTuber=] who was [[LoonyFan fanatically obsessed with her]] decided to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton_Township_Weis_Markets_shooting commit a murder-suicide spree shooting in 2017]], acting under his own delusional fantasies that she wasn't just a fictional character.

* WTHCastingAgency: While Creator/RobPaulsen is by no means a bad voice actor, and performed a good impression of Creator/GilbertGottfried when voicing Technus, it seems rather odd that no one hired the ''real'' Creator/GilbertGottfried to voice Technus.

* StrangledByTheRedString: Danny Fenton[=/=]Phantom and Sam Manson were obviously planned to be the Official Couple from the beginning, with almost everyone remarking on it, if not being an outright ShipperOnDeck, and innumerable [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend moments of denying any interest]]. The problem is that the writers were so busy making the couple inevitable they never bothered to actually ''show'' why they should be together. There was nothing more romantic to their relationship other than them being friends of opposite gender, and the whole thing came off more a combination of awkward teenage hormones and defensiveness in the face of relentless teasing. Adding to that is that Sam is the most divisive character in the series, many episodes unintentionally depicting her as a selfish hypocrite who demands conformity to her views despite voicing free will and the implication she's more in love with ''Phantom'' then ''Fenton''. Worse, Danny and Valerie got real tension and some rather sweet development before that [[ShipSinking ship was sunk]], so it wasn't that the writers didn't know how to write a relationship, they apparently just didn't want to.

* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: While the ghost villains are no doubt evil, they're so entertaining to watch and often have such sympathetic backstories that it's hard to truly hate them. The majority of human characters, however, such as The Guys In White are hated for having no such entertaining traits or interesting backstories, and only existing to be one-note antagonists.

* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: While the ghost villains are no doubt evil, they're so entertaining to watch and often have such sympathetic backstories that it's hard to truly hate them. The majority of human characters, however, such as Dash, Paulina, Mr. Lancer and The Guys In White are hated for having no such entertaining traits or interesting backstories, and only existing to be one-note antagonists.

** Sam blackmailing Danny and Tucker into keeping quiet that she let a gorilla out of its cage by threatening to put a picture of them hugging in their sleep in the school yearbook, and saying "boys hugging makes every yearbook funny" while taking the picture in the episode "One of a Kind" becomes much less funny when creator Butch Hartman exposed himself to be a major homophobe.
** Everything about Ember and her character trait of wanting everyone to remember her name, after an insane YouTuber who was [[LoonyFan fanatically obsessed with her]] decided to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton_Township_Weis_Markets_shooting commit a murder-suicide spree shooting in 2017]], acting under his own delusional fantasies that she wasn't just a fictional character.

* CommonKnowledge: Most of the fandom knows that Danny, Vlad and Danielle are a type of being known as a "Halfa", half a human and half a ghost. The term "Halfa" is only used once in the series and was seen as the official term, with it being used in the web series ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle''. However, this is actually not true, there is no actual official term for being a human with ghost powers other than a basic description of "half-ghost". Danny was called ''the'' Halfa by Sidney Poindexter and ghosts from Casper High's older days, because that was a name for what they were calling him before his alias of Danny Phantom became more well known.