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The Monster Of Specter Island

Canon Foreigner: The first of many characters made for this series.
Heel–Face Turn: It's implied that he turned over a new leaf after Star and Danny freed him from Skulker's captivity.
Mix-and-Match Critters: Played with. He is a ghost that is described as being a cross between a bear and a gorilla.
No Name Given: We never learn his name.
Only Known by Their Nickname: His real name is unknown, and he is only called "The Monster of Specter Island".
Starter Villain: The first major threat Danny and Star face together.
You Can Talk?: To their surprise, Danny and Star find out that the Monster of Specter Island can actually speak when he thanks them for setting him free.

Vlad Masters/Plasmius

Abhorrent Admirer: Maddie regarded him as just a friend since college but grew to hate him after seeing how much of a creep he is when he tried to convince her to leave Jack for him.
Abusive Parent: To Danielle, who is now on the run to get away from him.
- Puck implies that Vlad himself had an emotionally abusive father who treated him like a disappointment. Vlad doesn't deny this and is just surprised that Puck even knows about him.
Aesop Amnesia: Danny lampshades that this is one of Vlad's Fatal Flaws as he never learns his lesson no matter how many of his schemes backfire on him e.g. trying to take Maddie from Jack, obsessing over acquiring power, and his henchmen turning on him.
Attempted Homewrecker: He's always wanted to take Maddie from Jack and he's only become more obsessed with doing so over the years. Even countless rejections from Maddie won't stop him.
Always Second Best: It completely infuriates Vlad that no amount of money or power will make the Fentons leave Jack for him.
Anti-Role Model: He has a creepy obsession with his former college friend and uses his powers for personal gain. It's clear he's meant to represent what jealousy and selfish abuse of power can do to a person.
Arch-Enemy: He is Danny Phantom's most personal foe.
Awful Wedded Life: Thanks to Puck's love potion, he winds up married to his Abhorrent Admirer Alicia. Needless to say, he is NOT happy about it.
Bad Boss: He is NOT a nice boss to have to put it lightly, as he frequently berates and insults his henchmen. Plus, his Control Freak and It's All About Me tendencies lead him to micromanage and not care for their well-being, which causes his minions to turn on him as is the case with Dani Phantom, Vortex, Virgato, the Forces of Nature, Puck, and the ghost animals. Skulker and the Vulture Ghosts are the only ones willing to work for him.
Batman Gambit: Vlad's preferred MO, although he's not always as good at predicting responses as he thinks he is.
Beware the Superman: Demonstrates how dangerous someone with powers like Danny can be without a strong moral code or loved ones to keep him grounded.
Big Bad: He's the most recurring villain in the stories and most of the time takes center stage.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He acts charming to the public and feigns being a good friend to Jack in order to get closer to Maddie. Only Team Phantom and Maddie herself see what a jerk and phony he is.
Brains Evil, Brawn Good: He's the most manipulative character in the series and the Arch-Enemy of superhero Danny, who prefers to solve his problems with fighting.
Broken Ace: No amount of money or power can make him get over Maddie or the college incident.
Bullying a Dragon: He actually thought it was a good idea to cross Puck. He's rewarded for his troubles by being forced to fall in love with the person he hates most in the world, Alicia.
The Chessmaster: To the point of referring to his plans and the people in them using chess terms.
The Chew Toy: After invoking Puck's wrath, he basically becomes this trope.
Control Freak: Just like in canon.
Crazy Jealous Guy: He's always been like this in regards to Jack and Maddie's relationship but it's only gotten worse over the years.
Dark Is Evil: Wears a black suit as a human, which illustrates his evil nature.
Deadpan Snarker: He’s just as sarcastic as Danny.
Entitled Bastard: He thinks having ghost powers means he can have whatever he wants and the consequences on others don't matter.
Entitled to Have You: He believes that Maddie is meant to be his wife and Danny should be his son, and his desire means he doesn't care if Maddie is Happily Married to Jack or that Danny hates him.
Even Evil Has Standards:
- As he likes to maintain a respectable facade, Vlad is repulsed by Alicia's Jabba Table Manners.
- Even he dislikes Jean-Luc Bevier for being a womanizing idiot who lets his bratty daughter Colette run wild and wonders why Star's mom would marry a guy like him.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: For a guy who wants love, he sure fails to understand it as he's actually surprised that Maddie and Danny refuse to leave Jack for him.
Evil Counterpart: He is this to both Danny and Jack.
- With Danny: Physically, Danny is a lanky, dark-haired teenager who prefers casual clothes that include a white shirt while Vlad is a well-built, white-haired adult who usually wears a black business suit. Their ghost forms are also inversions of each other; Danny has white hair, green eyes, and a black suit while Vlad conversely has black hair, red eyes, and a white suit. Both of them have moments of selfishness but while Danny can be an immature teenager, he learns better and has a strong moral compass; Vlad, who appears to be a gentleman, is just an envious, self-entitled psychopath.
- With Jack: Both are scientists with an interest in ghosts and Maddie. Jack is a normal human, Vlad was only given his ghost powers by accident through Jack's bumbling. While Jack acts like a hyperactive, ghost-obsessed goof, he's really a Nice Guy; Vlad seems charming on the surface but that just hides the bitter, self-centered, petty jerk he really is. In regards to Maddie, Jack is Happily Married to her and treats her like an equal, while Vlad is an Abhorrent Admirer who only sees her as a trophy. In addition, Jack is a middle-class man with happy family life while Vlad is one of the richest guys on the planet but lives alone miserably with just a cat for company.
Evil Is Bigger: He's bigger than Danny in both human and ghost form.
Evil Is Not a Toy: A lesson he refuses to learn because he overestimates his ability to control ghosts more dangerous than him like Pariah Dark, Vortex, Virgato, the ghost bat, and the Forces of Nature, as lampshaded by Danny.
Evil Is Petty:
- Has tried to get Star killed and endanger her and Danny's lives during a dinner with their families out of spite.
- In "Visited", Vlad invites the Fentons to an event partially sponsored by Donovan's father in order to spite Danny, and later unleashes the ghost bat at a dinner where he is trying to impress Star's grandmother. He openly admits that messing with Danny's life is his "hobby".
Evil Makes You Monstrous: His ghost form looks FAR less human than Danny’s and he’s the Big Bad of the series.
Evil Uncle: Not by choice, but he ends up married to Danny's aunt Alicia while under the effects of a love potion, which makes him this trope.
False Friend: Towards Jack.
False Soulmate: To Alicia. She believes that Vlad is the new love of her life and while part of the reasons she fell in love with him are his wealth and good looks, it is shown that Alicia genuinely does love him and thinks that she knows him as a person. What she doesn't realize is that Vlad is a criminal obsessed with Alicia's sister, Maddie, and only bothered to be nice in order to her to use her to break up Maddie's marriage. However, it worked too well and Alice gained a crush on Vlad, who at best is repulsed by her and at worst he hates her but can't express his distain towards her because of her sister. Eventually, Vlad was forced to take a love potion which forced him to fall in love with Alicia as punishment, leading him to marry her, much to his horror. While Alicia thinks that she's found her true love, Vlad is willing to do anything to get out of their marriage, including murdering her.
Fate Worse than Death: He views dealing with Alicia as this.
Faux Affably Evil: He acts polite and dignified to most people, including his enemies, but is really an egoistic, murderous, scheming, power-hungry madman.
First Kiss: He admits in "Staged" that Alicia's Forceful Kiss was his first kiss ever.
Freudian Excuse: Traveled implies his father was emotionally abusive and saw Vlad as a disappointment, which was the start of making him the man he is now. He doesn't deny this when Puck brings it up. Puck later gets Vlad to admit that he was a Lonely Rich Kid whose upbringing with absent parents and no friends fuels his desire to be loved, as warped as his understanding of it is.
Green-Eyed Monster: He's been jealous of Jack's close relationship with Maddie since college and marrying her has only made it worse.
Henpecked Husband: He winds up married to Alicia in "Entranced" thanks to the effects of Puck's love potion, and behaves as little more than an enamored slave to her.
Hopeless Suitor: He refuses to accept the fact that he has no chance with Maddie.
Irony:
- In the series, he was never captured in the Fenton Thermos. He's captured that way here after being taken down by a girl with little to no experience in combat.
- Alicia is the only woman to ever have a romantic attraction to Vlad and he has no interest in her.
- He has been obsessed with Maddie for decades, but she just wants him to take a hike. He ends up attracting the attention of her older sister Alicia, who he wants to be as far away from as physically possible.
  - He is willing to use any means to make Maddie his wife, not caring that she hardly seems to stand him anymore, even wanting Puck place a love spell to make her fall in love with him. Not only does Puck outright refuse to do so, but Vlad ends up being drugged with a love potion and forced to fall in love with Alicia, whom he absolutely abhors.
  - He wanted to marry Maddie by any means necessary, to the point of preparing marriage papers in advance. Not only does he fail at this, but thanks to the effects of Puck's love potion, he winds up married to Maddie's older sister Alicia thanks to the papers.
Hypocrite: Vlad hates Puck for forcing him to fall in love with someone he hates like Alicia, but Puck calls him out on this by pointing out Vlad had no problem wanting to force Maddie to fall in love with someone she hates like himself.
Imaginary Love Triangle: He's convinced he can win Maddie "back", refusing to understand that she was in love with Jack the whole time.
In Love with Looks: Despite his claims of wanting love, it’s clear he only cares about Maddie for her good looks.
I Reject Your Reality: He sees Maddie as his and hates Jack Fenton for "stealing" the love of his life.
It's All About Me: His main character flaw. He only cares about what he wants and doesn't care what he has to do to get it. It doesn't matter to him if Maddie is Happily Married to Jack or that she hates him for his awful personality since as far as he's concerned, she should be his.
It Must Be Mine!: He’ll stop at nothing to make Maddie his, even if it means endangering her family, innocent people, or the entire world.
It's Personal: Vlad has come to target Star and mess with her life as well as an act of revenge for what happened in Trapped.
Large Ham: He has a flair for the dramatic, especially when in ghost form.
Laser-Guided Karma: He often endures some form of misfortune for his actions.
- In Visited, he chose to stay in Amity Park to mess with Danny and Star during her grandparents' visit and make things difficult for them. However, Maddie's sister Alicia was coincidentally visiting around the same time and ended up falling hard for Vlad as soon as she met him. Alicia soon becomes his Abhorrent Admirer, one who Vlad would grow to detest and even fear due to her homely appearance, clingy attitude, and generally overbearing personality.
- He refuses to give up on his quest for power or move on with his life and continues to try pursuing his obsession with stealing Jack's family, regardless of all the loss and suffering he has to endure. Making enemies with someone as powerful as Puck doesn't help as he's rewarded for his troubles by being forced to fall in love with the person he hates most in the world, Alicia.
Light Is Not Good: Wears a white outfit in ghost form but that doesn't make him any less villainous than his human form.
Lonely Rich Kid: He reveals he was this in "Traveled"; his father was a doctor who was always busy at the hospital while his mother focused on her socializing, leaving Vlad to be raised by a nanny. He also didn't have any friends growing up.
Love Hungry: Deconstructed. Growing up, Vlad was neglected by his parents and didn't have any friends so he developed an obsession with being loved. However, he has an extremely twisted view of love and sees it as something he's entitled to without reciprocating.
Love Makes You Evil: It’s more of a sense of entitlement and lust than love, but his obsession with Maddie and idea of having a perfect family of his own is one of the main reasons for Vlad's villainous career and feud with Jack since he’s obsessed with stealing them from him.
Lust Makes You Dumb: Vlad could use his looks and wealth to find a woman who would actually love him and make him happy but is too fixated on Maddie to move on with his life.
Lust Object: He is seen this way by Alicia, much to his dismay.
Manipulative Bastard: He's not above using others to make his goals a reality.
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: He’s elegant, polite, and cultured while Alicia is crude, rude, and sloppy.
Mirror Character: He's this to Alicia of all people. They're both unpleasant people with a personal connection to the Fentons, became bitter because of an unfortunate incident that they refuse to move on from (for Alicia it's her divorce and for Vlad it's his lab accident in college), find Maddie and her kids special to them, and hate Jack for admittedly understandable reasons, but that's all they have in common. Alicia comes from a working-class background while Vlad is from a wealthy family. Alicia is Maddie's older sister while Vlad was her and Jack's friend in college. Alicia is honest about her unpleasantness and openly looks down on Jack but has a soft side that she mostly shows to her family, while Vlad is a Villain with Good Publicity and a False Friend to Jack who only shows his true nasty side in secret. Alicia genuinely loves her sister, niece and nephew, while Vlad mainly just sees them as objects for him to take from Jack. Alicia draws the line at forcing someone into a relationship while Vlad has no problem trying to make Maddie his regardless of her feelings on the matter.
Moral Myopia: Vlad had no qualms with using less than savory means of making Maddie love him, which included a love potion. In "Entranced", he suffers the very fate he was willing to subject her to and it doesn't dawn on him that this might be what she would feel.
Mutually Unequal Relation:
- Jack sees him as his best friend but doesn't notice that Vlad hates him, let alone wants to kill him and steal his family.
- He wants Maddie to be his wife since he's been obsessed with her for decades, but Maddie doesn't want anything to do with him after seeing how much of a phony and a creep he is when he flirted with her.
- Alicia sees him as Prince Charming and husband material but Vlad has nothing but disdain for her due to her clingy attitude and unattractive looks, and prefers to be as far away as possible from her.
Narcissist: Just like in canon.
Never My Fault: Vlad loves to see himself as a victim and blame other people for his actions and misfortunes, particularly Jack and Team Phantom.
No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Despite claiming that he wants love and acceptance, he goes from finding Alicia annoying becoming outright terrified of her when she falls in love with him and starts chasing him.
Not Good with Rejection: He refuses to give up on Maddie no matter how many times she makes it clear she can't stand him.
"Not So Different" Remark:
- Vlad admits mentally that the one thing he has in common with Alicia is that both of them hate Jack and disapprove of Maddie's marriage to him.
- Vlad and Jack both find Alicia's poor table manners to be revolting.
- Vlad doesn't like Jean-Luc Bevier anymore than the Fentons do and makes it clear he also sees the Frenchman as an idiot.
Oblivious to Hatred: Subverted. He knows Maddie hates his guts but still thinks he can make her his queen.
Picky Eater: "Traveled" shows that he thinks he's too good for fast food and refuses to eat anywhere below 5 stars.
Psychological Projection: Seems to think Danny is as selfish and vindictive as he is.
Psychopathic Manchild: What else do you call a guy who’s been obsessing over killing his best friend over an accident and stealing said friend's wife for over 20 years?
Real Name as an Alias: He keeps "Vlad" as his first name in his villainous alias.
Red and Black and Evil All Over: His ghost form has red eyes, black clothing, and he's quite the psychopathic, power-hungry Yandere.
The Resenter: Towards Jack Fenton, for "stealing" the girl of Vlad's dreams and causing the accident that turned him into a half-ghost.
Selective Obliviousness: He refuses to accept that Maddie is Happily Married to Jack or that she no longer sees him as a friend due to his attitude and hitting on her.
Self-Serving Memory: He resents Jack for "stealing" Maddie from him. Never mind the fact that Jack and Maddie were already in love when they were in college, yet Vlad still felt like he had a chance with her.
Seven Deadly Sins: He's shown to be guilty of all of them:
- Lust: His obsession with marrying Maddie has only grown worse over the years to the point he's willing to get rid of Jack just to have a chance. He's also very ambitious and power-hungry.
- Sloth: He prefers to ignore his mayoral duties in favor of focusing on his evil plans.
- Wrath: He does not know how to let go of a grudge. In fact, the whole reason he became mayor of Amity Park was just to get back at Danny for pranking him and he never forgave Jack for accidentally giving him ecto-acne in college.
- Envy: He wants to steal Jack's wife and family because he sees them as rightfully his after the lab accident supposedly robbed him of his chance of being with Maddie.
- Greed: Just being one of the richest guys on the planet isn't good enough for him, he wants to take over the whole world.
- Pride: He believes his wealth and powers put him above everyone else and that he's entitled to Jack's wife and family.
- Gluttony: Downplayed. He's not a Villainous Glutton but he has an insatiable craving for power and revenge.
Shabby Heroes, Well-Dressed Villains: He’s a Yandere Manipulative Bastard who prefers fancy business suits while the heroic Team Phantom wear casual clothes and Danny’s parents have jumpsuits.
Single-Target Sexuality: He won’t settle for any woman except Maddie.
Silver Fox: Vlad is in his 40s, has silver hair in his human form, and Alicia considers him attractive.
Smart Jerk and Nice Moron: With Jack. While Jack isn't really a moron, just lacking in common sense, he's much more cheerful and friendly than the manipulative genius Vlad.
Smug Snake: Vlad tends to overestimate himself and underestimate those around him as Puck and Power Surge demonstrate by outsmarting him.
Smug Super: He takes great pride in his ghost powers as he views himself as superior to regular humans because of them.
Stalker with a Crush: He's utterly fixated on Maddie and wants her for his wife at any costs.
Stupid Evil: He refuses to give up on his quest for power or move on with his life and continues to try pursuing his obsession with stealing Jack's family, regardless of all the loss and suffering he has to endure. Making enemies with someone as powerful as Puck doesn't help.
- He could’ve just been fine with Dani since she was his most successful and loyal clone but refuses to settle for anything less than a son, which only made him another enemy and gained Danny a powerful new ally.
Tsundere: He despises Alicia and plots to kill her to escape their marriage, but occasionally expresses affectionate thoughts about her, which he immediately denies and blames on Puck.
Unskilled, but Strong: Downplayed. He’s a powerful half-ghost with 20 years of training over Danny but has far less combat experience since he sees fighting as beneath him, so he can be beaten by more seasoned fighters like the ghost boy and his father Jack.
Villainous Breakdown: He NEVER takes it well when his plans fail.
Villainous Crush: He has been obsessed with Maddie since college, and refuses to move on.
Villain Has a Point:
- While disproportionate, his hatred of Jack isn't unjustified since Jack's bumbling caused the lab accident that almost killed Vlad in college.
- Vlad correctly describes Beatrice Traville as a "bitter old cow" and Donovan Loadman as a "rich idiot".
- Even Vlad knows Jean-Luc Bevier is a lousy father because of his failure to control his Spoiled Brat of a daughter, Colette, and wonders why Star’s mom would marry him.
- One reason why he desperately tries to get out of his forced marriage with Alicia is because even he knows Maddie won’t enter a relationship with a man who is already taken and that she won’t believe his crazy story that a fairy made him marry Alicia by giving him a Love Potion.
Villain Respect: While he makes it clear that he thinks Jean-Luc is an idiot, Vlad does like the wine his business makes.
Villain with Good Publicity: He hides his true villainous nature behind the image of a successful businessman and benevolent, well-meaning mayor.
What Does She See in Him?: Even he wonders why Star's mother Stella would marry a womanizing idiot like Jean-Luc.
White Hair, Black Heart: Has white hair as a human and is the Big Bad of the series because of his personal quarrel with the Fentons and Team Phantom.
Wicked Cultured: He has expensive tastes and is disgusted by Alicia’s Jabba Table Manners.
Would Hurt a Child: Dani can vouch for this as he doesn't mind turning this little girl into a pile of ecto-goo.
Yandere: He is one towards Maddie, as he's willing to kill Jack and/or kidnap her just to get her.

Skulker

Boisterous Weakling: Even without his armor, he’s still spouting threats and boasting about being greatest hunter of all the ghost zone, not that it stops Team Phantom from sucking him into the Fenton Thermos.
Crazy Jealous Guy: Towards Ember.
Curb-Stomp Battle: On the receiving end of this whenever his armor is destroyed and he’s reduced to his weak, little green blob form.
Enemy Mine: He forms a temporary alliance with Team Phantom in “Blackmailed” to help them stop Colette.
Even Evil Has Standards:
- He genuinely considers Colette vile and hates her enough to team up with Team Phantom to help them beat her in “Blackmailed”, especially since he’s disgusted by her outright abusive treatment of Danny and the lengths she’s willing to go to just get what she wants.
- Skulker doesn't want Colette to interfere in his hunt for Danny and agrees to send the ghost boy's message to his friends about her blackmailing him. He later admits to Team Phantom that he’s tempted to hunt Colette just to get her out of the way, but doesn’t find any sport in it because she’s too weak to be a challenge.
Friendly Enemy: He does respect Danny and the feeling is mutual. He even agrees to help Danny deal with Colette in “Blackmailed”.
Hunter of His Own Kind: He is a ghostly hunter, who hunts other ghosts.
Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Targets other ghosts, and takes a particular interest in Danny Phantom. He also goes after Star when she gets ghost powers.
No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: He hates Colette with a passion but considers her too weak to be worth hunting.
Only in It for the Money: In “Blackmailed”, Skulker tells Team Phantom that he only works for Vlad for money and won't say anything to him about their problem with Colette because he's bitter over not being paid yet for his last job, so he figures he doesn't owe Vlad anything.
Pet the Dog: He agrees to Danny’s request to send a distress message to Team Phantom concerning Colette blackmailing him in “Blackmailed”.
Villain Respect: He does respect Danny and the feeling is mutual. He even agrees to help Danny deal with Colette in “Blackmailed”.
Worthy Opponent:
- He does regard Danny as worthy prey because of how hard he is to defeat.
- He finds Star worth hunting when she gets ghost powers.

Desiree

Jerkass Genie: She didn't mind sending Star and Danny into the Ghost Zone when the former wished she and Danny were as far away from her family as possible.

Ember McLain

One of Danny's foes, a rockstar ghost with a growing interest in him.

Abhorrent Admirer: Downplayed as while Danny definitely doesn't return her interest, he does find her hot and vastly prefers her company over Colette's or Paulina's.
Adaptational Nice Guy: Ember is still a villain but is more friendly and cooperative with Team Phantom than she is in canon.
Affably Evil: She can be genuinely friendly and cooperative when she feels like it. Danny certainly finds her to be far more pleasant companion than Paulina and Colette.
All Women Are Lustful: She’s a little too eager to make-out with Danny, regardless of his consent.
Attempted Homewrecker: She's perfectly fine with kissing Danny whenever she wants despite knowing he's dating Star.
Beauty Is Bad: Danny admits she’s hot but wouldn’t date her for being a supervillain out to conquer the world.
Cannot Spit It Out: She has a hard time admitting her feelings for Danny.
Clingy Jealous Girl: She becomes jealous of Danny and Star's relationship.
Enemy Mine:
- In "Mistaken," she helps Danny find Poindexter so he can save Star from him, but she makes it clear she's only doing it because she has a vendetta with Poindexter for ratting her out to Walker about disturbing the peace with her music.
- In “Blackmailed”, she temporarily partners with Team Phantom after learning about Colette blackmailing Danny.
Even Evil Has Standards:
- She's genuinely horrified and offended with Poindexter to learn he did nothing to stop Walker from kidnapping Star's infant half-brother.
- Even she finds Paulina unbearably annoying to the point that Ember doesn't hesitate to help Danny hide from her.
- She hates Colette for being an even worse Spoiled Brat than Paulina.
- In “Blackmailed”, she’s disgusted by Colette’s abusive and controlling treatment of Danny while forcing him to be her boyfriend. Ember even forms an alliance with Team Phantom to save Danny because she’s upset by how completely miserable he looks thanks to everything Colette is putting him through.
Everyone Can See It: No matter how much she denies it, it’s obvious she likes Danny. Even Danny notices her attraction for him, not that he reciprocates.
Evil Counterpart: To Star. Both were girls who disliked Danny at first, but developed an interest in him. Star fell in love with Danny because he saved her life and was civil to her even as things were tense between them. Ember is a villain who developed a crush on him first after kissing him out of mockery, only to end up liking it.
Evil Diva: Just like in the series, she's a rockstar with evil intentions.
Evil Feels Good: Basically her whole reason for refusing to change her ways.
Fake-Out Make-Out: In "Boxed", Ember does this to Danny to hide him from Paulina. He points out she could've just made them both invisible, but she's aware of that and just preferred kissing him since it's more fun.
Flaming Hair: Ember has long, flaming, teal hair pulled back into a ponytail at the top of her head.
Forceful Kiss: She tends to give them to Danny when the opportunity presents itself.
Friendly Enemy: She forms this dynamic with Danny as she’s becoming more genuinely courteous and helpful to him.
The Gadfly: She likes to kiss Danny partly because she knows it ticks Star off.
He Is Not My Boyfriend: She denies having any sort of interest in Danny, despite that she barely keeps her hands or mouth away from him when she gets the chance.
Hopeless Suitor: Doesn’t have a chance with Danny because of her villainous ways and his relationship with Star.
Hypocrite: In “Mistaken”, Poindexter calls Ember out on being disgusted with him for not stoping Walker from kidnapping the baby Pierre in “Protected” by pointing out she’s done questionable things herself, like making extremely unwanted advances towards the boyfriend of said baby’s older sister.
Hypocrite Has a Point: While Ember doesn’t deny Poindexter’s above point that she’s hardly a moral person herself, she does retort that she at least doesn’t let babies get kidnapped from their homes like how he allowed Walker to take Pierre.
A Lighter Shade of Black:
- While Star hates her for trying to steal her boyfriend, she is willing to team up with Ember because Colette is FAR more despicable than the evil pop diva ghost.
- Danny finds her much more tolerable than Paulina or Colette.
Love Redeems: Downplayed. Ember isn’t changing her villainous ways but her growing attraction to Danny is softening her.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Ember dishes this out to Poindexter offscreen as revenge for getting her in trouble with Walker.
No Sense of Personal Space: She’s quite fond of smothering Danny with Forceful Kisses without his consent.
Older Than They Look: She’s considerably older than she looks despite having the appearance of a teenager. Tucker mocks her for this in “Forgotten”, much to Team Phantom’s amusement and Ember’s annoyance.
Pet the Dog:
- In "Boxed", she hides Danny from Paulina because even she doesn't believe he deserves to be annoyed by someone that irritating and clingy.
- In “Blackmailed”, she agrees to help Team Phantom stop Colette because she’s genuinely outraged by the latter's horrendous treatment of Danny by blackmailing him into dating her, especially with how totally miserable due to everything Colette is putting him through.
Redemption Rejection: She refuses to give up on her plans for world domination because she enjoys villainy too much.
Rejection Affection: No amount of rejections will make her give up on Danny.
Stalker with a Crush: She ambushes Danny in his house to forcefully make-out with him while he’s powerless in “Swapped”.
"Take That!" Kiss: Her first kiss to Danny was to mock him over being unable to find his girlfriend.
Took a Level in Kindness: Downplayed. She's still a villain but has become more willing to work with Team Phantom, especially if it suits her interests.
Tsundere: She's a villainous example. She's not afraid to beat up Danny, but she's also willing to show a relatively softer side when trying to seduce him.
Villain Has a Point: In "Boxed", Danny agrees with her that she's far less annoying and unbearable to deal with than Paulina.
Villainesses Want Heroes: Since "Stuck", she's developed an interest in Danny.
Wasted Beauty: Downplayed. Danny does admit she’s attractive and finds her much more bearable than Paulina or Colette but he doesn’t appreciate her villainous nature or lack of respect for his personal space since she constantly kisses him without his consent and regardless of the fact he’s already dating Star.

Freakshow

Not-So-Harmless Villain: Aside from Star, Team Phantom dismissed his escape from prison since he lacked anything that could make him a threat. Once he finds the "Amulet of Aberrations", that changes.
Revenge: His main goal in "Swapped".
Token Human: He's acknowledged as the only human that qualifies as a villain.
Trademark Favorite Food: While in hiding, he develops a love of instant ramen.

Agent O and Agent K

A duo of secret agents from the Guys In White, a secret government organization whose goal is to eliminate all ghosts and other paranormal beings on Earth, whether they mean harm or not.

Alliterative Name: In "Barked", their names are revealed to be Oliver Orville and Kevin Kenan.
Evil Is Petty: They attack Danielle during "Found" out of revenge on Danny Phantom and Starlight Spirit over not getting paid.
Jerkass: They are both shown to be very self-centered, bigoted, sexist, and violent, and look down on normal civilians.
Knight Templar: They believe themselves in the right, regardless of the harm they commit.
Laser-Guided Karma: They end up getting in even bigger trouble with their boss thanks to Star, Valerie and Danielle for kidnapping a girl and their sexist views.
Politically Incorrect Villain: They're rather sexist, thinking that women should not be hunting ghosts.
Rich Bastard: Implied. It is stated that their families' donations are the only reason Agent Alpha hasn't fired them yet.
Would Hurt a Child: They have no trouble with harming teenagers or a 12-year-old girl.

The Ghost Writer

A ghostly author with a grudge against Danny for accidentally destroying one of his poems.

Adaptational Villainy: In canon, the Ghost Writer was simply teaching Danny a lesson on what happens when you act spiteful to people over Christmas. Due to his imprisonment by Walker, he's become far less well-intentioned. He curses Star for being Danny's girlfriend as an act of spite and goes about ruining other people's Valentine's Day out of pettiness.
Berserk Button: He hates being compared to and/or mistaken for Stephen King.
Disproportionate Retribution: While it's understandable that he was angry with Danny for destroying his poem, as well as getting him arrested, he went completely overboard turning Star into a swan, just for being Danny's girlfriend.
Even Evil Has Standards: Even the Ghost Writer regards Colette to be despicable and while he briefly thought about rewriting reality to make Danny and her a couple, he rejected it as he couldn't consider typing anything about her that would compliment her.
Evil Is Petty: His real motive (aside from wanting payback on Danny) was based mostly on being bitter that his girlfriend broke up with him prior to Valentine's Day and jealous of the other couples.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: The Ghost Writer has an understandable reason for hating Danny since Danny destroyed his poem and even gloated about it. Originally, he just tried to get even with Danny and teach him a lesson, only to end up in jail as a result. Upon confronting each other, Danny acknowledges that the Ghost Writer has a good reason to be upset and genuinely apologizes to him. However, the Ghost Writer refuses to accept Danny's apology, pointing out that it is not enough for being in jail and destroying his keyboard. Initially, Danny accepts that, but when the Ghost Writer turns Star into a swan, Danny feels he crossed a line since Star was innocent and did nothing to him. Danny still tries to apologize to the Ghost Writer and asks to end this peacefully, pointing out that he does not have a right to take out his anger on Amity Park. However, the Ghost Writer refuses to listen and keeps trying to ruin Valentine's Day. Upon revealing the real reason that he wants revenge (his girlfriend Madame Valentine/Shelley broke up with him through a letter before Valentine's Day while he was in jail), Danny is disgusted by the Ghost Writer's hypocrisy; Danny and Shelley would later point out that it does not excuse his petty actions. Danny loses whatever sympathies he had left for the Ghost Writer and is more determined to stop him.
Hypocrite: After his motives are revealed, Danny calls out how hypocritical he is acting, given that he had punished Danny for his own negative attitude towards Christmas. The Ghost Writer, however, justifies that Christmas is far more important to the Ghost Zone than Valentine's Day is.
Misplaced Retribution: He takes out his anger over his girlfriend breaking up with him on all of Amity Park just for enjoying Valentine's Day.
Not Good with Rejection: He reacts to his girlfriend breaking up with him by cursing all of Amity Park.
Rejected Apology: He does not forgive Danny after he apologizes for destroying his poem, given he spent months in Walker's prison the entire time since then.

The Comic Villains

Villains from the in-universe Danny Phantom comic brought to life. Based on Butch Hartman's non-canon videos of future villains.

Adaptational Villainy: Misery Vex was featured in the video about Danny having a long-lost brother as one of the ghosts who toppled Pariah Dark. Here, she's the Arch-Enemy of Danny's comic counterpart featured in "Drawn", and her appearance in the real world is just as evil.
All Women Are Lustful: Shade has a thing for Danny (both the comic version and the real one) and doesn't let the fact that he has a girlfriend get in her way of flirting with him.
Ambiguously Gay: Star admits the comic is very subtle about Misery's orientation, given her open disdain for men while treating her female servants more favorably.
Big Creepy-Crawlies: Swarm is a large mantis-like creature that can turn into her namesake.
Dating Catwoman: Shade in the comic has this relationship with Danny. In the real world, she flirts with him and shows an instant dislike towards Star for being his girlfriend.
Expy: Misery Vex is a tall woman with an ambiguous orientation and calls men "man-things" as an insult, much like Lady Dimitrescu of Resident Evil Village.
Killed Off for Real: Since their existence was dependent on the magic pen and they aren't actual ghosts, once it's destroyed, they cease to exist and it's permanent.
Monster Clown: Plaything is an evil doll dressed like a clown. He's creepy enough that even Sam is unsettled by him.
No-Sell: Since they're not actual ghosts, the Fenton technology is of little use against them.
Outside-Genre Foe: The Faceless are a race of aliens, something Danny has never had to deal with before outside the comic.
Pet the Dog: Despite her blatant distaste for men, Misery seems to treat Rebreather more favorably and isn't as venomous when she calls him a man-thing.

Shi

A jiangshi who was turned to stone before Misty reawakened him. Was once a human during the Qing Dynasty named Jiang Hiyashi.

0% Approval Rating: No one but his family and Meilin liked him as a human because of how much a controlling, egotistical jerk he was. After he became a jiangshi, even they don't want anything to do with him.
Abhorrent Admirer:
- When he was human, he thought he and Meilin were in love. In actuality, she only liked him as a friend and as they got older, he made her very uncomfortable to be around him even before he turned himself into a monster. His encounter with Meilin's ghost had her spell it out for him.
- He also becomes this to Star, finding himself drawn to her because of how similar she is to Meilin and trying to make her Meilin's host, which was also met with disgust.
Affectionate Nickname: "Shi" is a nickname Meilin gave him.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He tries to convince Misty not to imprison him in wood towards the end of “Envied” by promising to become her servant again, then help her make Danny hers and rule the land. Misty refuses because she doesn’t want to get together with Danny this way.
All for Nothing: His plan to reunite with Meilin ended in failure. Not only did she not love him, she was happy in death and told Shi to his face that she never wants to see him again.
All Love Is Unrequited: He was in love with Meilin, who loved his brother.
Antagonistic Offspring: He almost killed his own father by draining his qi when the man tried to save Aiguo and Meilin on their wedding night from Shi.
Asshole Victim: His ultimate fate is to spend eternity trapped as a broken wooden statue in an abandoned Chinese restaurant while the girl he likes wants nothing to do with him, quite the fitting end for an Entitled Bastard turned unstable yandere Jiangshi.
Bad People Abuse Animals: As far as he's concerned, cats are pests in the kitchen that are only good for chopping. Sam does not take this well.
Bad Powers, Bad People: He can drain the life energy out of people and is a sociopathic yandere.
Black Sheep: Of Misty's family. Even her grandmother who doesn't believe he's a jiangshi thinks less of him.
Being Evil Sucks: Shi's ambition, envy, and sense of entitlement ultimately cost him everything: his home, his family, his crush/childhood friend, his humanity, and ultimately his freedom.
Beyond Redemption: Meilin's spirit confirms Aiguo saw Shi as this after the latter attempted to murder him, to the point he wanted to destroy his brother after turning Shi into a statue. The only reason he didn't was because Meilin asked Aiguo to keep Shi alive as a final act of familial mercy. Now, Meilin sees Shi as this as well and makes it clear she never wants him to contact her ever again. Misty and Team Phantom also don't feel the slightest bit sorry for him after Meilin rejects him for the last time or when he's left to his ultimate fate, as he's nothing but an evil energy-sucking jiangshi and grade-A sociopath who wanted to force Star to be Meilin's vessel.
Break the Haughty: After being rejected by Meilin for the final time, getting pummeled by Star, and Misty threatening to imprison him as a wooden statue, Shi is reduced to begging Misty not to curse him by promising to serve her again and help her both win Danny and rule the city, but she doesn’t buy it because she doesn’t want to be with Danny that way.
Cain and Abel: The Cain to Aiguo's Abel, as Shi tried to murder his older half-brother out of envy over his skills, reputation, and Meilin's affections.
Canon Foreigner: He has no direct counterpart from the animated series.
Chinese Vampire: He still has many ghostly elements to him, such as triggering Danny's ghost sense, but he's a jiangshi. As such, the Fenton Thermos doesn't work on him.
Cock Fight: Averted and deconstructed as he only thought he had this with Aiguo over Meilin but it was completely one-sided. Aiguo didn't know about the rivalry since, unlike Shi, he respected Meilin's feelings enough to accept whatever decision she made and Meilin was incredibly put off by Shi's possessive behavior toward her.
Crazy Jealous Guy: Oh, yeah. When he found out his crush was marrying his brother, Shi turned himself into a jiangshi, tried to kill Aiguo and anyone else that was in his way (including his own father), and take over their village to have Meilin for himself.
- Even when they were kids, he would get fiercely jealous if Meilin talked to ANY guy.
Dirty Old Man: What else do you call a centuries-old Chinese hopping vampire that tries to force a teenage girl to be his bride? Granted, he is still physically and mentally 17 since that is when he turned himself into a jiangshi, but still.
Entitled to Have You: Despite his claims to the contrary, it's obvious to everyone that Shi saw Meilin as a trophy to possess and couldn't care less about her as a person since he wouldn't let any other guy near her. He shifts this attitude towards Star because of her similarities to Meilin and tries to make her Meilin's host, once again deeming Star's own feelings to be irrelevant, until Meilin's spirit rejects him one final time. Then, he settles for hypnotizing Star to make her his companion forever. Danny and Star also accuse Shi of subconsciously only wanting Meilin so he could lord it over his brother.
Entitled Bastard: He thinks he should get what he desires and anyone who gets in his way must be destroyed.
Even Evil Can Be Loved: Averted. When Shi was human, his brother tried to be nice to him and it's implied that their father loved him despite his supposed status as The Unfavorite. However, after he turned himself into a monster and nearly killed them both, they had no qualms about turning Shi to stone and would have destroyed him if Meilin hadn't convinced them otherwise. She did this in hopes that he could change one day and MAYBE they could restore their friendship. Centuries later though after he attempts to have her possess an innocent girl, Meilin denounces him as a monster, gives him a massive "Reason You Suck" Speech, and tells Shi one last time to change his ways for his own good before saying she never wants to see him again.
Even Evil Has Standards: Shi considered using Misty as a vessel for Meilin's spirit, only to reject the idea upon learning they're related. Incest is something he seems against. He still plans to kill her though.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: It never occurred to him that Meilin was happy in death or that she'd despise him for all his crimes. Even when called out on them, he doesn't grasp the sheer horror of the atrocities he intended/intends to commit.
Evil Counterpart:
- He can be seen as a more villainous Foil to Misty, in being a person of Chinese descent with magical powers who loved another but their feelings were unreciprocated, prompting them to resort to increasingly dangerous means to fulfill their desires. But whereas Misty still has enough of a conscience to know there are lines not to cross, Shi doesn't care anymore. Also, Misty still cares about her family and hopes to use her newfound powers to benefit them as well, while Shi turned against his family and even tried using his powers as a jiangshi to murder them to get what he wanted.
- He's basically Sidney Poindexter with none of the latter's redeeming qualities. Both were unpopular humans with outdated views on women (justified given the eras they're from) who had an unrequited crush on a popular girl, which they transfer to Star after becoming supernatural creatures because of her similarities to them. But while Poindexter started off antagonistic towards Danny, he's ultimately just a well-meaning but misguided nerd who genuinely wants to help people. Also, Poindexter goes on to enjoy his afterlife in peace after making amends with Danny upon realizing he misjudged him and accepts that Star is Danny's girlfriend after they talk sense into him. Meanwhile, Shi was an Entitled Bastard who didn't care about anyone but himself, and whose obsession with Meilin worsened until he turned himself into a jiangshi to try to take her by force, and centuries later tried to do the same thing with Star. Shi ends up trapped as a wooden statue for all eternity because he refuses to change his ways and stays an unrepentant monster to the very end.
Evil Makes You Monstrous: Turned himself into a jiangshi to try to kill his brother Aiguo out of jealousy.
Eviler than Thou:
- He has all of Misty's flaws and none of her restraint or redeeming qualities, so he's willing to use more questionable methods to get what he wants.
- Danny and Star consider him an even bigger "fruit loop" than Vlad.
- Star admits that Shi is even creepier and more forceful than Donovan in his unwanted advances towards her.
Fantastic Racism: After no longer being among the living, he shows mostly hatred and disgust towards humans.
Fatal Flaw: Shi's immense selfishness, entitlement, and resentment prove to be his undoing.
- After Meilin rejects him and explains why they could never be a couple, he refuses to heed her advice to change for the better, only being furious that he can't have her as his bride after all this time and continuing to resent his brother for "getting in the way" of his quest for "love". Even after Danny suggests that Shi try finding a girl who would ACTUALLY love him (suggesting to set him up with Ember), Shi rejects this in favor of brainwashing Star (who he liked for having a similar personality to Meilin) into being his bride and magically altering her appearance to look like Meilin. This leads to his ultimate fate.
- As Star points out, if Shi had just accepted that Meilin loved his brother and stopped being so bitter over not getting exactly what he wanted, and maybe even tried to let go of his jealousy towards his brother, he could have had a good life. But instead, Shi turned himself into a monster and destroyed everything he could have had due to his refusal to move on.
- Shi could have realized that Meilin only saw him as a friend a long time ago if he actually listened to her when she spoke and tried to get to know her deeper than the "lord's daughter who is nice to me". He even could have had a better chance with Meilin if he didn't become so possessive of her and treated her more as a person than a prize.
Fate Worse than Death: Shi is turned to wood at the end, with him arms being broken off. It's heavily implied he was aware of what happened and could feel it.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: He tries to paint himself as a victim to Star when talking about how, from his perspective, he was overlooked as his father's second-born son from his second wife and lacked the skills of a warrior while his older brother stole the woman he loved and everything he felt he should have. Star doesn’t buy it because it’s clear, and later confirmed, that the real reason people didn’t like him was because of his own jealousy, entitlement, and selfishness. Star even tells Shi that if he had just appreciated what he had instead of going crazy because he didn’t get everything he wanted, he could've had a good life.
From Nobody to Nightmare: He started out as a rude chef, but became a jiangshi who tried to kill his own brother and father out of pure envy.
Green-Eyed Monster: This is basically his characterization overall as Shi spent his entire life being immensely jealous of his brother and thinking that HE deserved to be their father's favorite, heir and to be with Meilin, then went on a rampage when denied all of this.
Hated by All: No one likes him, in life or undeath, due to his cruel, jealous, and eventually monstrous behavior. Meilin even tells Shi that he only got his job as a chef because his brother pulled some strings and no one else but her liked him due to his attitude.
Hopeless Suitor: He never had a shot with Meilin because she only saw him as a friend and was put off by his possessive behavior toward her.
Humiliation Conga: Let's see; his ritual to turn Star into Meilin's vessel fails, he's rejected by the girl he likes for the final time, gets beaten up by Star and Danny, and is permanently turned into a wooden statue by Misty.
Hypocrite:
- He finds Misty's infatuation with Danny to be annoying and pointless, even though he's been similarly obsessing over Meilin for MUCH longer.
- He constantly complains about how his brother "stole" Meilin from him, even though she was never his in the first place and he had no problem trying to steal Meilin in turn from Aiguo on their wedding night by attempting to kill the latter. Even in the present, he tried to steal Star from her boyfriend, Danny. Apparently in his mind, stealing someone's girlfriend is wrong only when it happens to him.
In Love with Love: He seems more obsessed with the idea of being with Meilin than actually liking her.
I Reject Your Reality: Meilin tells Shi to his face that she didn't like him romantically because of his dismissive and controlling attitude towards her, and the reason she chose his brother was because Aiguo was a kind man who actually loved her as a person instead of treating her as a prize. However, Shi completely ignores everything Meilin said, again, and still spitefully rants afterward about how his brother "got in the way of [his] quest for love".
It's All About Me: While he claims to love Meilin, it's clear that the only person he really cares about and respects is himself. He’s more than happy to force others to do what he wants. He also wasn’t just angry that his older brother was their father's heir, but HE wanted to be.
Jerkass: Nobody but his family and Meilin could stand this asshole and after becoming a jiangshi, even they've had enough of him.
Loving a Shadow: He clearly didn't know Meilin as well as he thought because Shi's actually surprised that she hates him for his evil acts and didn't want to be revived, especially at the cost of someone else. Lampshaded by Meilin when she says she's done being the shadow he loves. Misty's grandmother even tells her that Shi never truly knew Meilin and was just so self-absorbed that he never talked to or asked her about her feelings, he just chose to take Meilin's friendship with him as her returning HIS attraction. Meilin herself recounts that whenever she would try to talk to Shi, he would just dismiss her. After Meilin rejects him, Shi resorts to planning to brainwash Star into marrying him and magically transform her to resemble Meilin, proving he was only in love with the image of her he built up in his mind.
Love Makes You Evil: It’s more of a sense of entitlement and lust than love, but his obsession with Meilin is what partly drives his villainy, especially since it fuels his already envious attitude toward his half-brother Aiguo, who went on to marry her.
Meaningful Name: Shi can mean stone in Chinese, and he was a statue before Misty freed him. Plus, his full name is Jiang Hiyashi and he became a Jiangshi. He insists this was all a coincidence.
Never My Fault: He refuses to acknowledge his faults and always blames others when he feels wronged. When Team Phantom points out how he's ultimately responsible for his own misery, calling him out on driving Meilin away with his selfishness and never really loving her, he just brushes them off.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: On the receiving end of one courtesy of Danny and Star in "Envied" when Misty casts a spell to freeze him in time for 60 seconds.
No-Sell: Played With. The Fenton Thermos has no effect on him, but he can still be harmed by Star's saber.
Not Good with Rejection: After Meilin declares she never wants to see him again, Shi gets enraged and decides to take Star as a proper bride just so he isn't alone.
Not Worth Killing: Shi has this opinion of a human that he wanted to drain but ran away after seeing him, finding him too pathetic to be worth chasing down and draining of all his energy.
Obviously Evil: He’s a jiangshi who drains the life out of people. Doesn’t get much more obvious than that.
Oblivious to Hatred: He's always been too self-centered to notice that Meilin disapproved of his entitled and possessive attitude until her spirit spells it out for him.
Our Vampires Are Different: Star believes he's going to suck her blood when they first meet, only for him to explain he drains a person's life energy, or soul to be more precise.
Outside-Genre Foe: Besides Puck, he's the only villain Team Phantom has fought who isn't a ghost or human.
Psychopathic Manchild: What else do you call a guy who turns himself into a monster and goes on a rampage because a girl turned him down?
Redemption Rejection: Due to being Not Good with Rejection, Shi disregards Meilin's suggestion of giving up his evil ways and instead tries to make Star his bride by force just to avoid being alone.
Rejected Marriage Proposal: Shi loses it when Mei refuses to be his bride and then targets Star, planning to force her hand when she wastes no time in rejecting him too.
Self-Serving Memory: Shi insists that his brother Aiguo stole Meilin from him. When reuniting with Meilin, she retorts that's not true; she never had feelings for him and loved Aiguo because unlike Shi, he didn't treat her like a prize.
Sibling Rivalry: He had a one-sided one with his older half-brother, who Shi was hatefully jealous of for being his father's heir and perceived favorite. Despite this, Shi's brother tried to be nice to him and even got him a job as their lord's chef, something he never appreciated.
Sins of the Father: He plans to kill Misty, not just for trying to enslave him, but for being the descendant of his brother Aiguo, who he also hated and tried to kill for "stealing" Meilin from him.
The Sociopath: Completely self-centered, narcissistic, uncaring, incapable of REAL affection and love for anyone including family, obsessive, power-hungry, easily angered and jealous, no moral compass, impulsive and uncompromising. That is all Shi.
Stalker with a Crush: Danny outright calls him this for obsessing over a girl who didn't like him and refusing to move on.
Supreme Chef: He was a great cook when he was alive. Besides being Aiguo's half-brother, this is the only reason Meilin didn't have her father fire Shi as his chef for his obnoxious attitude. The sauce he prepared to free himself from Misty's control is so delicious, it sells out at her family's stand each week.
Taken for Granite: His original fate was being turned into a stone statue.
Took a Level in Jerkass: He went from an unpleasant, overbearing Abhorrent Admirer of Meilin to a vengeful, power-hungry jiangshi out to conquer the world, make Meilin his by force, and get rid of anyone who stands in his way, even his own family.
Too Powerful to Live: Since Shi can't be trapped in the Fenton Thermos, Misty defeats him by turning him to wood.
Transflormation: Misty stops Shi for good by turning him into a wooden statue for eternity.
The Unfettered: Deconstructed. Shi doesn't care what he has to do to get what he wants which earns him the ire of his family, Team Phantom, and the girl he likes. He's rewarded by being turned into wood for eternity.
Unlucky Childhood Friend: He was friends with Meilin as children but she only saw him as such. As they got older, he started to creep Meilin out with his advances and throwing fits if she merely talked to another guy. This and him not listening to Meilin when she tried to talk to him about his actions and in general treating her like a prize to be won made her unable to reciprocate his feelings. Especially after he became a jiangshi.
Ungrateful Bastard: Meilin's spirit calls him out on this for never appreciating his brother Aiguo despite everything he did for Shi, including getting him a job as a cook for Meilin's father.
Villainous Breakdown: Wasn't a paragon of mental stability to begin with but goes completely off the deep end when Meilin's spirit rejects him for the ultimate time, and tries to brainwash Star into becoming his bride just so he can have someone by his side when he takes over the land.
Villainous Crush: Towards Meilin and later Star, hoping to make both of them his wives at one point.
Yandere: He tried to kill Meilin's husband on their wedding night. In the present, he's willing to kidnap a teenage girl and use her body as a vessel to bring back Meilin.

The Forces Of Nature

A trio of former criminals who, after being trapped in a magical box, eventually became ghosts who gained elemental powers. They have some history with the Traville family.

Appropriated Appellation: After Vlad jokingly refers to them as this, the trio decide to call themselves the Forces of Nature. Each of them also took names based on what Danny calls them.
- Danny comments that Sergio's powers could cause a power surge, making him adopt the name Power Surge.
- Danny mockingly calls Drew "Drench", which makes him decide to take that name.
- Defied with Rocko, he keeps his original name that still works with his new appearance.
Expy: Each one is based on a Spider-Man villain.
- Power Surge is a Composite Character who incorporates two Spider-Man villains. In terms of powers, he's clearly based on Electro, though his green color scheme and demeanor likely come more from Green Goblin.
- Drench's use of water abilities are clearly based on Hydro-Man, though his use of water tendrils make him borrow from Doctor Octopus.
- Rocko's nickname of Rocko the Rhino and being the muscle make him one to the Spidey villain of the same name, though his manipulation of rocks he's made of is similar to Sandman doing the same with his sandy body.
Fighter, Mage, Thief: Their powers affect their fighting styles. Rocko is the fighter (being the brute with no energy-based projectiles or abilities), Drench is the mage (using water to serve as his weapons and substitutes for fighting), and Power Surge is the thief (being the fastest and a schemer who is the one most likely to fight from a distance).
From Nobody to Nightmare: They were originally petty criminals, and have now become outright supervillains after becoming ghosts.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Destroying the box that trapped them might have freed them, but it had an added issue. The box's magic also shielded them from being forcibly removed from its location, such as with the Fenton Thermos. Once it was gone, they were instantly captured once Danny realizes they can no longer No-Sell it.
Jerkass: They are NOT nice guys, to say the least.
Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: In New York, which is not used to ghosts, they're unstoppable monsters who live up to their new alias, the Forces of Nature. Once their protection from the Fenton Thermos was gone and they were sent to the Ghost Zone, it's shown that while powerful, they're not powerful enough to stand up to other ghosts like Undergrowth or, of all ghosts, Klepmer.
Sealed Evil in a Can: They were imprisoned for decades in the Băowēn xiāng, an ancient holding box used to trap evil spirits. Beatrice Traville ended up accidentally freeing them after tracking down and purchasing the box to capture Danny.

Power Surge/ Sergio Ricci-Salvatore

The leader of the Forces of Nature. Originally a simple crook, he now has gained electric-like powers after becoming a ghost. He was once involved with Stella's aunt Simone, who left him after discovering his true nature.

Abhorrent Admirer: He takes a shine to Stella for her close resemblance to her Aunt Simone who was his ex. Being a ghost and older than her father, along with a crook, does not endear her to him.
Dirty Old Man: He may be a ghost now, but he is stated to be older than Richard. He also has an unhealthy attraction to Stella (Richard's daughter) due to her resemblance to his former girlfriend Simone (Stella's aunt). He also hinted at one point that he'd might try and make a move on Star if she was older.
Enraged by Idiocy: Rocko may be useful muscle, but him being clueless tends to make Surge lose his temper.
Entitled Bastard: He not only tried to rob the family of Simone Traville, his girlfriend, when he was alive, but he actually expected her to side with him and elope with him after she caught him. Simone called the cops on him instead.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: It apparently never occurred to him that his girlfriend Simone would not only disapprove of his criminal ways but would the cops on him as soon as he tried to rob her family.
Shock and Awe: He has electric powers.
The Smart Guy: He is the most cunning of the trio and thus calls the shots.
Smarter Than You Look: Despite being a high school dropout and petty crook, he is shown to be a patient and resourceful planner who not only deduces that Vlad can't be trusted, but outwits him by shutting down the mini-robots that Vlad was going to use to control the Force of Nature. Vlad even lampshades this.

Drench/ Drew Furano

The second in command of the Forces of Nature. After becoming a ghost, he gained water-like powers.

Making a Splash: Has control over water, and is made of it himself.

Rocko Rocca-Romano

A member of the Forces of Nature. After becoming a ghost, he gained rock-like powers. He's the dumbest member of the team too.

The Brute: He's the member of the Forces of Nature most likely to engage in physical attacks.
Dumbass Has a Point: He realizes that they can't directly harm the Holding Box, but using a piece of debris from the ceiling isn't direct harm.
Dumb Muscle: Not too bright but makes up for it with brute strength.
Made of Iron: Or stone, meaning he's stronger than the other two.
Super-Strength: Comes with the territory of being rock.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: By destroying the Holding Box, he unintentionally made himself and his partners no longer resistant to the Fenton Thermos.

La Lechuza

A fabled owl spirit that was imprisoned in a statue by Georgia's ancestor.

And I Must Scream: Being trapped in a statue didn't prevent her from listening and seeing the world around her.
Berserk Button: Disrespect. Her first time being angered enough to be partially freed was when Myrtles made a fake ghost to emulate her. The second is when she deliberately ignored an attempt to provoke her until Myrtles openly mocked her feathers.
Bilingual Backfire: In “Faked”, Georgia and Alyssa speak English under the belief La Lechuza won't understand them. Not only did La Lechuza learn English during the time she spent hearing their ancestors speak it, she also understood them calling her an "ugly old crow".
Feathered Fiend: She’s an evil owl ghost.
Ominous Owl: A vicious owl spirit from Mexico.
Sealed Evil in a Can: She’s an aggressive owl spirit that was trapped in a statue by Georgie’s ancestor until Drew Myrtles accidentally angers her enough to free her.
Smarter Than You Look: She was able to learn English while imprisoned by listening to people talk over the years.

Wufong

The ancestral founder of the Yang clan and the entity within Misty's spell book.

Abusive Parents: He's Misty's ancestor who is using emotional manipulation to further his plans.
All for Nothing: He spent ages attempting to find an ideal host to the point of stealing the body of a yet-to-be born child. Just as Misty places Danny under a spell that would make him subservient, she uses the spell against itself to free him. Then, with aid of her family, she casts a spell that traps Wufong in stone which Danny buries miles underground. Even if he had indeed gotten Danny and Misty to produce a child, a look into Misty's dream of another life shows they would have had a daughter and not a son, which would not have been an ideal body given his misogyny.
Asshole Victim: He was killed by his descendants in order to stop him from abusing his magic.
Brutal Honesty: When Misty learns the truth about the spell she cast on Danny, Wufong bluntly confirms that the only way Danny can reciprocate her feelings is if she literally commanded him to, since the only "spell" he was under before was loving someone else of his own will.
The Corruptor: He takes advantage of Misty being in love with Danny and resentful of his girlfriend Star to convince her to continue training in magic to achieve her goals just as she was starting to make a Heel–Face Turn, allowing him to manipulate her into doing evil. In the process, he also steadily isolates Misty from her family by playing on her hidden bitterness towards them.
Deadpan Snarker: Even while acting like a helpful mentor, he's not above snarking at Misty's poor attempts at pushing Danny and Star apart not working.
Even Evil Has Standards: He openly admits to loathing Shi, thanking Danny for getting rid of him. He also believes that Meilin was too good for Shi.
Evil Mentor: He enables Misty's obsession with Danny, envy of Star, and resentment towards her family to suit his own plans for returning to full power.
Fate Worse than Death: He's bound to a piece of the destroyed stone dragon that Danny leaves miles underground, making it unlikely he will ever be found or set free again.
Faux Affably Evil: He acts like a kindly mentor to Misty by teaching her magic and trying to help her get the boy she likes but is really a power-hungry madman who just sees her as a tool to provide him a new vessel.
Greater-Scope Villain: For Misty's storyline in Stranded. He was the head of the Yang clan and the reason they buried their magic secrets, why Shi was able to turn into a jiangshi, and where Misty found the means to interfere with Danny and Star's life.
Hidden Villain: The actual evil mastermind behind "Bewitched" who is using Misty for his plans.
It's All About Me: His main goal is to obtain a powerful new body to regain his power and take over the world.
It Runs in the Family: Both he and Shi are sociopaths who used their clan's powers for their own nefarious purposes.
I Want Grandkids: A twisted variant as he wants Danny to have a child with his descendent, Misty, so that he can get a new host body.
Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He tells Misty that Danny will be the one who will help her rebuild the Yang clan and it's their destiny to be together. While Misty at certain points thinks their actions might be extreme, he reminds her that her love for Danny will be returned and she will lead a happy life with him. Wufong leaves out the fact that he actually wants them together so he can steal the body of their yet to be conceived son, allowing him to be reincarnated as a powerful user of both magic and ghostly powers. The fact that he admits he's impatient enough to consider making Misty bear Danny's child right away while they're still teenagers only highlights how depraved and inconsiderate he truly is.
Parental Substitute: He plays the role of a surrogate father for Misty and speaks to her like any father would to their daughter. It's all an act to use her, however.
Politically Incorrect Villain: He sees Misty as little more than an incubator for the ideal body he wishes to posses.
Pragmatic Villainy: He acts like a kindly person to Misty, in hopes of keeping her under his control.
Shipper with an Agenda: He is helping Misty win not only Danny's love, but the chance to have his son. This is because he plots to reincarnate himself as their child so that he can have both magic and Danny's ghost powers.
Super Breeding Program: His master plan is to have Misty and Danny to conceive a child so that he could possess the body, believing that their genetics would produce a powerful offspring.
Villain Has a Point:
- His criticisms about Misty being impatient and short-tempered are valid and are having a negative effect on her plans and magic casting.
- He calls Misty out on not believing in fairies or half-ghosts despite her being a sorceress with a talking spell book who lives in a haunted town.
- When Misty protests that magically enslaving Danny was not what she wanted, Wufong cruelly but accurately retorts that this is the only way she can make him "love" her; even he knows that Misty has no chance with Danny when he's already in love with Star.
- He points out that due to Mei dictating her daughter's life and her former husband abandoning them, they both failed to be good parents to Misty, which heavily contributed to her emotional issues. Mei can't bring herself to disagree.
- Wufong is correct when he explains to Danny that Misty's envy, resentment, and fixation with him was always inside her and all he did was bring it to the surface.
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: He acts like a mentor/father figure to Misty, but is only using her to achieve his goals.
Would Hurt a Child: When you're opposing Danny Phantom, this is a given. However, Wufong goes a step further by stealing a child's body before that child is born, along with a willingness to have two 15-year-olds, one clearly more obsessed than in love and the other clearly not consenting, to conceive said child as soon as possible.

The Box Ghost

A lame ghost obsessed with boxes and Danny's most frequent nuisance.

Failed Attempt at Scaring: He's the one ghost that can't scare any of the easily spooked humans of Amity Park.
Harmless Villain: Danny considers him more of a nuisance than a villain.
Improbable Weapon User: Mostly boxes, but him being one of the few with telekinesis can also attack with the items packed inside the boxes, as Danny can testify.
Silly Spook: Everyone just regards him as a loser who can’t scare anyone since he’s only good for haunting boxes and Team Phantom only captures him so he’ll stop bothering them.
Throw the Dog a Bone:
- In “Lost”, he’s overjoyed when he frightens Jean-Luc and Colette since he’s finally scared someone.
- In “Blackmailed,” Team Phantom makes a deal with the Box Ghost that they’ll leave him alone only as long as he only scares Colette and Jean-Luc since that’s all a Harmless Villain like him will do.

Sidney Poindexter

A nerdy ghost that was bullied so much as a human, he died, and is now a Bully Hunter.

Abduction Is Love: He doesn't see anything wrong with taking an unconscious Star to his dwellings just because he thinks she's the reincarnation of his former crush Stacy in "Mistaken" until she points out he basically kidnapped her.
Abhorrent Admirer: To Star when he thought she was the reincarnation of his old crush, Stacy Morgan. Star is incensed that he tried to force her to be with him by kidnapping her, as well as put off by how he's projecting another girl onto her, finding it sexist and controlling. Unlike other examples in this series, Poindexter learns better, apologizes, and backs off as he accepts Star is Danny's girlfriend and isn't Stacy.
Achievements in Ignorance: He admits to Star he has no idea how he was able to swap bodies with Danny during their first encounter as it's something that never happened before. He also doubts it'd ever work again.
Anti-Villain: Not really evil, just overzealous in his crusade against bullying.
Bullying a Dragon: Star points out to him that Danny Phantom is going to be FURIOUS when he learns Poindexter kidnapped her since she's Danny's girlfriend.
Bully Hunter: Deconstructed as this is what makes him enemies with Danny since he's under the mistaken assumption the ghost boy is a bully.
- At the end of "Mistaken", Poindexter gets back at Donovan and his stuck-up friends for harassing Danny and Star at the mall by exposing Donovan's Goofy Print Underwear, then dumping smoothies on his friends' heads, causing everyone to laugh at their humiliation.
Character Development: He drops his grudge with Danny and his misguided crusades against bullies to live a more peaceful and happy afterlife.
Didn't Think This Through: Star makes him realize how poorly thought-out his decision to bring her to the Ghost Zone was since he essentially kidnapped Danny Phantom's girlfriend and the latter will have a bone to pick with Poindexter over it.
Enemy Mine: In "Mistaken", he teams up with Star, Danny, and Ember to defeat Skulker.
Evil Nerd: Downplayed and eventually subverted. He is an antagonist and huge nerd, but generally doesn't mean any harm and drops his feud with Danny after Star helps him realize he severely misjudged her boyfriend.
Geek Physiques: Had this in life, and by ghost standards in death.
Heel–Face Turn: Star helped him realized he misjudged Danny so he apologizes to the ghost boy and makes peace with the couple.
Heel Realization: By the end of "Mistaken", he realizes he's only been making himself miserable by clinging to the past while his former classmates have moved on and become happy with their lives. Thus, he buries the hatchet with Star and Danny, then decides to actually enjoy his afterlife in peace.
Horrible Judge of Character: He quickly jumped to the conclusion that Danny is a bully because he saw Danny using his powers on Dash. Star actually questions how he can mistake a muscular jock like Dash for a bully victim.
Hypocrite:
- Star calls him out on deeming Danny a bully for using his ghost powers on humans when Poindexter does it all the time.
- Star also calls out Poindexter's belief of standing up to bullies when he refused to hear Danny's side of the story, along with being too afraid to stop Walker from having Pierre kidnapped.
It Only Works Once: He admits to Star he only stole Danny's body by accident and it likely wouldn't work a second time since the ghost boy has gotten stronger.
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In "Mistaken", Poindexter tells Star that the term "Halfa" was not meant to describe half-ghosts, but an alias he made for Danny, akin to calling Batman the "Caped Crusader", and that it somehow became accepted by everyone as the official term. This can be seen as a reference to how "Halfa" was only said in one episode of the series and ended up being accepted by most of the fandom as official, when it was actually made to describe Danny specifically because he's "half a boy and half a ghost".
A Lighter Shade of Black: Star would rather date him than Donovan Loadman, not that she wants Poindexter to know this.
Loving a Shadow: Poindexter knows very little of his crush, Stacy, and it comes as a surprise when he learns she became a race car driver and married a classmate that used to be a "tinkerer" instead of a football star.
Malicious Misnaming: At one point, Star calls Poindexter "Jerkdexter".
Must Make Amends: At the end of "Mistaken", Poindexter apologizes to the main couple for all the trouble he brought them. To make up for it, he drives away Star's Abhorrent Admirer Donovan Loadman and his snobby friends at the mall by embarrassing them, and even arranges for Danny and Star to have a movie marathon since their date was interrupted.
Never My Fault: Poindexter's stubbornness, wounded pride, and jealousy of Danny initially prevent him from admitting how much he misjudged the situation between Danny and Dash.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Ember gives one of these to Poindexter offscreen as payback for getting her in trouble with Walker.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: He's generally non-threatening but let's remember that he did steal Danny's body once and can use his powers to humiliate humans, like Donovan and his spoiled friends.
Obliviously Evil: He doesn't see anything wrong with kidnapping Star until she points out his crime.
Pants-Pulling Prank: In "Mistaken", Poindexter gets payback at Donovan for bullying Danny and Star at the mall by pulling his pants down to expose Donovan's Goofy Print Underwear, causing everyone to laugh at Donovan's boxers with hearts.
Pet the Dog: He humiliates Donovan's gang when they harass Danny and Star at the mall.
Skewed Priorities: After finding an unconscious Star, Poindexter kidnaps her and brings her to his realm instead of making sure she is okay or getting her medical attention. Star and later Jazz call him out on this.
Ungrateful Bastard: After Poindexter slips that Danny let him win their fight in "Splitting Images", Star is enraged that he never even apologized for trying to steal Danny's life and still deems him a bully despite Danny helping Poindexter gain his ghostly classmates' respect. He eventually gets over this.
Wouldn't Hit a Girl: He doesn't like using violence against women.

Klemper

A big, annoying ghost who constantly whines about wanting friends.

Desperately Craves Affection: This about sums up his personality.
Dumb Muscle: He's a dumb oaf but he's really strong and has ice powers.
Friendly Enemies: He sincerely wants to be friends with his enemies, even as he attacks them.
An Ice Person: He can freeze things with his breath, including Danny.
Villainy-Free Villain: While occasionally a threat, he's more of a nuisance than a villain.

Johnny 13

A scruffy punk on a motorcycle. His main goals are raising havoc and pleasing his girlfriend, Kitty.

Abhorrent Admirer: Star isn’t the least bit pleased when he flirts with her, especially since they both already have romantic partners.
Boisterous Weakling: He talks tough but mainly relies on his shadow for fighting and usually runs away when it’s beaten.
Casanova Wannabe: He tries to flirt with Star upon meeting her but she is far from flattered.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In spite of his Casanova Wannabe tendencies, he loves his girlfriend Kitty.
Even Evil Has Standards:
- Even Johnny 13 thinks Colette abandoning Danny to save her own skin was wrong in “Forgotten”.
- In “Forgotten”, Tucker lampshades this when he points out to Team Phantom that Johnny 13 is a far more preferable enemy to have attacking an amnesiac Danny than someone way more evil like Spectra.
- By “Blackmailed”, Johnny 13 hates Colette too much for her awful attitude to ever consider asking her out.
Hopeless Suitor: Star makes it clear she would never be interested in a punk like him, especially since he flirts with other girls despite already having Kitty for a girlfriend.
A Lighter Shade of Black: Unlike Danny’s other ghostly enemies, he doesn’t want to destroy Team Phantom or take over the world, he mainly just wants to flirt with pretty girls and cause trouble with his girlfriend Kitty.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: Danny doesn’t even consider him a villain but knows he is dangerous after what Johnny almost did to his sister Jazz during their first encounter.
Turned Off By The Jerkass: Even he considers Colette too vile to hit on as of “Blackmailed”.
Villain Has a Point: While he doesn’t care all that much, Johnny 13 is right that it was despicable of Colette to abandon an amnesiac Danny to save her own skin in “Forgotten”.

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