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Major Villains

Vlad Masters/Plasmius

Vladimir "Vlad" Masters/Vlad Plasmius

I am not a villain; all I wanted was love.

Voiced by: Martin Mull (series), Trevor Devall (Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2) (English)^{Other Languages}Rafael Monsalve (Latin American Spanish), Andrzej Chudy (Polish)

A devious Villain with Good Publicity, Vlad is a manipulative, clever, genius billionaire who has made it his lifetime goal to kill his former best friend Jack Fenton and subsequently take back the woman he loves, Maddie. His other goal is to convince Danny to join his side as his surrogate son due to their similar natures (that Danny often denies) and powers.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: When he reveals to Maddie that he wants her to leave Jack for him, she ended up hating his guts.
• Aborted Arc: Whatever plans he had for the Ghost King's Crown and partnership with the Fright Knight were ultimately abandoned in Season 3 after the show's former head of story left.
  • In the graphic novel Danny Phantom: A Glitch in Time, when the two meet again, the Fright Knight claims he no longer serves him and attacks his former master, implying the two had some kind of a fallout after Vlad's banishment.
• Abusive Parent: He created Danielle, who was loyal to and desired affection from him. However, he treated her as a mindless, disposable drone and verbally abuses her whenever she questions his orders. Their "relationship" only worsens when Vlad tries to melt her alive and even before that, she renounces all ties with him after realizing he only saw her as "a mess he's not gonna clean up".
• Alas, Poor Villain: In the series finale, Vlad's attempt to save the world from an asteroid fails and he'll be hunted by everyone on Earth because he had just revealed his secret to the planet and had threatened the world leaders. Desperate, he begs Jack to help him only for Jack to turn him down after realizing that his so-called friend no longer returned his friendship. Being abandoned in space, Vlad has lost everything and becomes a "free-roaming space nomad" destined to be alone forever.
• All for Nothing: Vlad's often claimed all he wanted was love, namely that of Maddie's, and a family of his own. Most of his goals have been just to have that happy life he's always wanted, a family and love to call his own. Because of his actions, Maddie's only feelings towards him are negative and she wants nothing to do with him, the closest thing he had to a family was a girl he rejected due to being an imperfect clone of the son he wanted out of Danny, and the friend he had long mistreated turning his back on him once his true colors were shown. Not only does Vlad not get anything he wanted, he's left with less in the end.
• Always Someone Better: To Danny. Twenty years of experience using his ghost powers means that he has far better control of them, and a much broader repertoire of powers to draw from. It's to the point where even when Danny tricks Vlad into wearing a belt that constantly electrocutes him in "Maternal Instinct", Vlad still has the upper hand during their fight. A desire to close the gap causes Danny to train intensively. While Danny does improve much more quickly than Vlad did, he still almost never beat Vlad in a straight-up fight, usually resorting to interfering with his end goal or using trickery. As the series progresses, Danny develops powers Vlad does not possess, such as the Ghostly Wail and his ice powers. This gives him more of an edge against Vlad, leading to some solid victories (most notably the opening scene in "Phantom Planet", where Danny uses his ice powers to turn Vlad into a Human Popsicle).
• The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: Vlad only becomes a good person in the Dark Danny timeline, where he loses his ghost powers and Jack and Maddie are both dead. It is in this reality that Vlad finally realizes that he's acted like a fool and could've been happy as a family friend to the Fentons had he just learned to let go. Sadly, his prime timeline counterpart is regarded as Beyond Redemption without this specific set of circumstances to change him.
• Arch-Enemy: Danny's most recurring and most personal enemy. He even refers to Vlad as his "arch-enemy". Initially, Vlad doesn't completely return the sentiment since he wants Danny as his half-ghost son, until Danny's constant rejections lead him to trying to clone Danny and make him his son that way. After Danny foils that scheme, he gives up on that entirely and by Season Three makes no secret of how much he hates Danny.
• Attempted Homewrecker: One of his main goals in life is to murder his former best friend and steal his wife.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: In "Maternal Instincts", it's shown that Vlad not only hunts animals for sport and hangs their pelts as trophies, but also performs horrifying experiments on the ghosts of his catches, turning them into deformed abominations. Danny is able to turn the animals against him in the episode's climax.
• Badass Cape: In his ghost form, Vlad has a stylish white and red cape.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Vlad is always sharply dressed in his human form.
• Batman Gambit: Vlad's preferred MO, although he's not always as good at predicting responses as he thinks he is.
• Beam-O-War: Danny and Vlad with ectoplasmic rays in "Kindred Spirits".
• Beard of Evil: Has a goatee in both his human and ghost forms.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Vlad makes no secret of the fact that he would prefer Danny throw away his heroic qualities and act more like Vlad himself does. Danny has proven to fight dirty and resort to dark tactics like emotional manipulation to win but often only towards Vlad, who emphatically does not care for Danny acting that way towards him.
• Berserk Button: Turns angry if you call him a "fruitloop". Or mention how he lost the woman of his dreams to an idiot and still can't use his vast fortune to buy the Green Bay Packers. Or suggest he get a cat.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Vlad also fits — while the audience knows he is bad to the bone, most other characters think he is a saint, especially when he's not in ghost mode.
• Beyond Redemption: In the final episode "Phantom Planet", Jack finds out that his college friend Vlad has become a half-ghost bent on killing him and stealing Maddie. Despite all that Vlad had done, including the numerous previous attempts at murder, Jack attempted to reason with Vlad not to go through with his world domination plot, even pointing out that he voted for Vlad to become mayor in the first place. Vlad refuses to hear Jack's pleas. Thanks to that, Jack concludes that Vlad is not worth redeeming. As such, when Vlad has the audacity to ask Jack for help when his plan fails, just after he threatened to steal Maddie right in front of Jack, the latter leaves Vlad behind in outer space.
• Big Bad: Vlad establishes himself as this as the series progresses, having appeared in more episodes than every other villain. Many of the overarching arcs can be traced back to his scheming, including the movie finale, and his rivalry with Danny is easily the most personal on the show.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Most characters think of him as a saint and almost universally love him, but Vlad is, in reality, a domineering sociopath who's actually an evil ghost and uses his powers for personal gain.
• Broken Ace: Vlad is a very wealthy and powerful man, but he has a lot of issues.
• Broken Pedestal: Poor Danielle learns the hard way what kind of person her creator is. Soon, Jack and Valerie feel the same way. Maddie seemed to have treated him pretty nicely until learning he had always had a thing for her and blames Jack for "stealing" her. When he abruptly asks her to dump Jack and marry him, she's treated him with disdain ever since. Even after she was willing to let bygones be bygones in "Reign Storm" after he saves Danny, she still didn't have a positive opinion of him.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He initially averted this - for the first two seasons, being called a villain was almost a Berserk Button for him - but after Villain Decay began to set in, he started acting more like a conventional card-carrying baddie.
• The Chessmaster: To the point of referring to his plans and the people in them using chess terms.
• Combo Platter Powers: Flight, intangibility, energy blasts, possession, and duplication.
• Consummate Liar: Lies to everybody, but especially Jack.
• The Corruptor: Played with. Vlad doesn't go out of his way to try and wear down Danny's morals or convince him to embrace his darker traits but he does take some delight in pointing out that Danny isn't the faultless paragon he wants to be and that Danny is a lot more like him than he wants to admit. Vlad actually got a victory in his first appearance because Danny was forced to resort to emotional manipulation to get him to stand down, which Vlad took as a win because it's something he would do. And indeed Danny is generally forced to fight dirtier and resort to more underhanded methods when it comes to fighting Vlad.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: His first few fights with Danny end this way in his favor. He himself is on the receiving end against Pariah Dark.
• Deadpan Snarker: Much like Danny, Vlad is often very sarcastic.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of The Resenter, Green-Eyed Monster, and Broken Ace. Despite having a very successful and prosperous life, Vlad is completely obsessed with the fact that the accident that gave him his powers cost him his chance to win Maddie's hand in marriage. As a result, he spends the series attempting to kill Jack and take Maddie. Maddie eventually sees what a creep he is underneath it all and Jack ultimately abandons him in space when he finally realizes what a monster he is, showing how resentment and jealousy can destroy one's life. By contrast, his Bad Future self, who lost his powers during Dark Danny's creation, eventually comes to realize what a fool he was.
  • "Masters of All Time" expands and delves deeper into Vlad's archetype prior to his accident. He's shown to always have the sweets for Maddie and reacts with jealousy when she gives Jack affection. Even without the accident that gave him his powers and him being able to marry Maddie after "saving" her, he still becomes the same sociopathic, manipulative man and treats Maddie as a trophy rather than a wife.
• Devil in Plain Sight: Even says obviously evil things around others, but they perceive it as a joke.
• Devilish Hair Horns: Sports these as a ghost.
• Didn't Think This Through: In his second episode he tries to win Maddie over...by asking her to dump Jack and stay with him. When there are no signs of any strain in their happy marriage whatsoever. Naturally, she refuses and storms away. Before this, she seemed to regard him as a family friend (albeit being somewhat uncomfortable by his blatant flirting), but this action, however, completely soured her opinion towards him.
• Enemy Mine: He and Danny team up against Pariah Dark, Fright Knight, and his army. Though this was part of his Batman Gambit to steal the Fenton Ectoskeleton and convince Fright Knight to shift his loyalty, he also seems to sincerely regard Pariah Dark as the bigger threat.
• Entitled Bastard: In the final episode, after revealing his true nature and that he doesn't consider Jack a friend, he still genuinely expects Jack to help him after his plan to phase the Ectoranium asteroid through the Earth backfires, only for Jack to leave him stranded in space.
• Entitled to Have You:
  • His attitude towards Maddie. He believes having her as his wife is his right and resents Jack for stealing her from him. Of course, it's also made clear that he's more in love with the idea of being with Maddie than Maddie herself.
  • He also shows (non-romantic) shades of this towards Danny. Some part of him believes Danny should be his son because he's the only other half-ghost in the world (at least until Vlad created Dani). It's implied to be because he sees Danny as the child he could have had with Maddie had she simply chosen him instead of Jack.
• Even Evil Has Standards: His alternate future self went into exile over guilt for Dark Danny's existence, and is horrified as to what Dark Danny does to his human half. It's also implied that he genuinely felt sympathetic towards Danny losing his friends and family to the Nasty Burger explosion.
• Everything but the Girl: Except for one time-twisting episode, nothing he did ever got him Maddie. He admits his vast wealth doesn't come close to getting Maddie's love.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Thought asking Maddie to dump Jack right to her face wouldn't end with her hating him. It seems despite wanting love, he fails to understand it.
• Evil Counterpart: To Danny. He's a prime example of what Danny could have been if he had used his powers for personal gain.
• Evil Is Petty: A self-admitted petty, vindictive man, who freely desires to hurt, insult, humiliate, and degrade anyone who gets in the way of his schemes and plans. One of his prime targets being Jack Fenton, to who he takes every chance to make a fool of for having everything he feels he's entitled to. He even admitted such when Danny came to call a truce in the hopes that Vlad would stop making life miserable for himself and his friends during his tenure as Mayor of Amity Park.
  Vlad: How nice. A gentleman's handshake. But you forget, where you and I are concerned: I AM NO GENTLEMAN!
• Evil Uncle: He's Danny and Jazz's honorary uncle through friendship with their parents... all meanwhile he tries to kill their father and make Danny his surrogate son against the latter's will.
• Evil Versus Evil: Him against the Ghost King. Doesn't end well for the former.
• Expy: Butch Hartman has described him as the "Lex Luthor" of the series, in that he's a billionaire who serves as the Arch-Enemy of the hero that puts on a seemingly charming act in the presence of others and is motivated by his pettiness and ego to commit acts of villainy. They also have a very unhealthy hatred for someone, Superman and Jack Fenton for Lex and Vlad respectively, that motivates most, if not all, of their plans. His becoming mayor in the final season also mirrors how Luthor was president for a time.
• Eye Color Change: His human side has blue eyes, while his ghost form has blazing red eyes.
• False Friend: Played with. Jack and him were legitimately best friends in college before the accident that gave Vlad ghost powers and Jack's marriage to Maddie. When they "reignite" their friendship in "Bitter Reunions", he acts like he's forgiven Jack and has become his friend again, when in reality he's this — Jack is simply too oblivious to notice, and remains so until the series finale. However, "The Ultimate Enemy" implies that deep, deep down, Vlad does still consider Jack his best friend but is too warped by jealousy, resentment, and bitterness to acknowledge it. It's only in the Bad Future, where he lost everything and had a decade to reflect on all his mistakes, that he's able to accept how much Jack meant to him.
• Fangs Are Evil: He has a pair of vampiric teeth in his ghost form.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Pride and Envy. He believes he's a genius whose life was ruined and that he deserves Maddie. He also believes that he is always right, no matter what. In the bad future, when his plans to relieve Danny of his emotional pain lead to Dark Danny being formed and human!Danny being killed, he realizes how horribly wrong he can be. Also, with his powers gone and Dark Danny on the loose, his pride is shattered. With Maddie and Jack dead, his envy also has no target either and he suffers a Heel–Face Turn as a result. This just shows how flawed Masters is as it takes a lot of trauma to make such a horrible person like him reexamine his life.
  • Arrogance. Vlad thinks too highly of himself and his ambitions and is unwilling to compromise them. Despite Danielle once looking up to her creator as a father, he saw her as a pawn as he wanted a perfect copy of Danny, a son instead of a daughter. This turned her against him. This has also caused him to underestimate his foes. Despite being Danny's superior in power, he has still lost fights or had his plans foiled due to Danny's quick thinking. Furthermore, this caused him to be defeated relatively easily by Jack Fenton in "The Million Dollar Ghost", despite Jack lacking any kind of superpowers. He had another moment at the beginning of the same episode where he believed that he could easily defeat Behemoth and take the Skeleton Key, only to be knocked away when he let his guard down.
  • His hatred for Jack. Vlad's obsession with ruining Jack's life or killing him has not only made him an enemy of Jack’s son and hated by the woman he lusts for, but it ends up screwing him over at the worst possible time. In the series finale, he intentionally inputs the wrong coordinates for a rocket that would have destroyed the Disasteroid so that he can make Jack look bad to the entire world. He then uses this to blackmail the world into making him ruler of the Earth in exchange for saving it. When he reveals his powers to the world and attempts to make the Disasteroid intangible, he discovers too late that it's made of a material that's hazardous to him and he used up the only weapon they had that could've destroyed it because he couldn't help but spite Jack, meaning that the Earth is still doomed and even if it weren’t, he couldn’t return or he’d be hunted for blackmailing the world. He then asks Jack for help, but since he had just revealed to Jack how much he hates him and that he planned to steal Maddie from him, Jack abandons him and flies back to Earth without him.
  • Overall, it's his inability to move on. With all his intelligence, wealth, and ghost powers, Vlad could've done anything with his life, be just about anything he could ever want to be. Instead, he uses his many advantages to settle petty grudges and obsess over the few things he can't have. For example, instead of finding a partner who is a good match for him and who could actually love him as he is, he instead obsesses over having his college crush Maddie because he didn't get the chance to ask her out when they were younger, and the family she had with Jack, because one of her kids happens to be half-ghost like him. Likewise, instead of pursuing a legitimate political career and attaining power to enforce real change, he instead cheats at an election to make himself mayor of a city like Amity Park, just so he can implement draconian policies for the sole purpose of screwing with his teenage Arch-Enemy. In the end, Vlad himself is the one limiting his own potential because he is flat-out unable to let go of anything that didn’t work out the way he wanted it to.
• Faux Affably Evil: Vlad's veneer of politeness doesn't really do much to mask his true self.
• Fiction 500: Vlad is a billionaire with a huge castle in Wisconsin along with a huge home by the Rockies, owns several of his own companies (i.e. Dalv), as well as many others he literally took over (like Mastersoft, formerly Microsoft), state-of-the-art ghost-hunting technology, can easily pay to have everything rebuilt time and time again with no financial worry, and finance a professional ghost-hunting team with superior technology once and easily set a million-dollar bounty on a single ghost. The only things he can't buy are Maddie's love, Danny's respect, and the Green Bay Packers. He does reveal to Danny in "Kindred Spirits" that he's used his ghost powers to amass his fortune by committing invisible burglaries and overshadowing other people to get them to give him their money.
• Final Boss:
  • Vlad is the final boss in the Game Boy Advance game of "The Ultimate Enemy" in Mission Mode, where he is fought directly after the second battle with Dark Danny (the final boss in the regular version of the game's story).
  • He is the last boss faced in the Urban Jungle game for Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS during the Boss Battle mode, which consists of a boss rush against ghost villains who aren't fought in the main game.
• First-Name Basis: He's one of the few villains who refer to Danny by his name, and the only character who calls him "Daniel".
• Flying Brick: Even more so than Danny, given his 20 years of more experience.
• Freak Lab Accident: Vlad gained his powers through one of these, though it also gave him ecto-acne and, at least to his mind, cost him the love of his life.
• Greed: He spent the last twenty years using his powers to rob banks and possess millionaires into forcing them to sell their company to his. In Phantom Planet, when he revealed his true nature to the world, he demanded 500 billion dollars and total world supremacy in exchange for him saving the planet.
• Hated by All: In the finale, after revealing his ghost half to the whole world, threatening to rule the planet, and then steal Maddie from Jack, he's become an enemy of the world and even Jack sees that he's Beyond Redemption.
• Heel Realization: In "The Ultimate Enemy", an older, de-powered Vlad admits that spending ten years having lost everything did have some benefits.
  "If any good came out of this, it's that ten years without ghost powers gave me the chance to see what a fool I'd been."
• Hidden Depths: Vlad is shown to be a huge football fan, especially for the Green Bay Packers. In fact, mentioning how he can't buy the team is a Berserk Button for him.
• His Own Worst Enemy: In a sense, when Danny Phantom isn't the one who ruins his plans, it's Vlad himself. His utter refusal to let go of the family he wants, or the woman he wants, does him more harm than good. When Maddie flat out rejects his offer, he refuses to move on and still continues trying to kill Jack Fenton to get his hands on her. He wants Danny for a son so badly that he resorted to cloning. He could've been happy to settle for Danielle, but he wanted a "perfect" replica and a son, not an imperfectly made daughter, resulting in another Phantom opposing him. It's probably no wonder he wanted world domination by the final season, which would grant him everything he wants, but even that gets repeatedly botched due to an oversight or his overestimating his own skills and abilities.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Constantly, a lot of his defeats are usually because of some oversight that he doesn't catch in time due to his ego. This eventually comes to a head in "Phantom Planet" where he finds a meteorite coming toward the Earth and offers to ghost it harmlessly through the planet in exchange for becoming the ruler of the Earth, revealing his alter ego in the process. He even has Jack take him to it as a bit of personal embarrassment. Jack tries to sway him into giving up on his conquest as he still considers him his friend. But Vlad coldly rejects his offer. However, when he can't phase the meteor since it's made of a substance that negates ghost powers, he realizes he can't uphold his end of the bargain and since he revealed his villainous nature, he'll be branded a criminal on Earth. He quickly turns to Jack for help, but Jack refuses and leaves him stranded in space.
• Honorary Uncle: He would probably be this to the Fenton children by virtue of being Jack and Maddie's college friend. But make no mistake, Danny and Jazz do not see him as this at all as they know his true colors. They've only ever referred to him as "Uncle Vlad" as sarcasm or to get on his good side.
• Hopeless Suitor: Vlad loves the idea of being with Maddie more than Maddie herself — which is why Maddie could never be happy with him. Even in an alternate reality where she married Vlad, Maddie still loved Jack, due to Vlad's controlling nature, treating her more like a possession instead of a person. Even as a hologram, one specifically designed to love him and disparage her husband, did not love him and instead loved Jack (or "The Jack Program" in this case). It seems the one thing Vlad is unable to comprehend, something that is obvious to everyone else, is that for all his wealth, fame, and power, he doesn't have a chance with Maddie — at all.
• Hypocrite: Despite his claims that all he wanted was to be loved, he treats the only two people who showed him any kind of love or admiration (Jack and Danielle) like dirt, blaming the former for "stealing" Maddie and believing that the latter's only purpose was to serve him. He instead obsesses over a woman — a married one at that — who doesn't even like him as a friend anymore because of said obsession and doesn't care how she actually feels, as well as gaining his teenage archenemy as a son.
  • He also accuses Jack of "stealing" Maddie from him, yet he always tries to find ways to literally steal Maddie from Jack, despite that they're Happily Married with a family of their own. So, apparently, only Vlad's allowed to steal Maddie.
• If I Can't Have You…: Implied to be Vlad's true feelings towards Danny. It seems, despite wanting to take Danny as his son, he still has no problems putting the boy in danger, like the one time he de-powered Danny and sent his mutant animals after him with the implication of killing him. Then there's his cloning experiment on Danny. When he finishes completing his "perfect clone", he states that the original Danny will be nothing but "obsolete" once he gets what he wants. When he loses said clone, he decides to see Danny as full-on archenemy from then on, likely accepting that Danny wants nothing to do with him.
• In Love with Love: Deconstruction. Vlad is obsessed with the idea of being with Maddie more than Maddie herself, to the point of not seeming to care that she doesn't want anything to do with him or that killing Jack would make her hate him. He goes as far as to have a stuffed doll of her and bases his holograms on her.
• Intergenerational Rivalry: With Danny, who is the only other (natural) half-ghost in the world. Vlad initially wants to subvert this trope, desiring Danny to be his son and apprentice instead, but after one too many rejections, he eventually gives up and goes all in with the rivalry. It especially shows in "Eye for an Eye", where they get into an Escalating War.
• It's All About Me: Vlad doesn't see anything wrong with what he does, from kidnapping/torturing Danny and trying to steal Maddie from Jack, to creating living clones (including Danielle) doomed to a short life before dissolving into a pile of ectoplasm without batting an eye. Why? Because it's all to give himself what he wants.
• It's Personal: By the time of Season Three, his hatred of Danny has become so fierce that he became Mayor of Amity Park just to screw with him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In very specific circumstances, he's this. In the Ultimate Enemy timeline, it took his best friend, Jack, his obsession, Maddie, being killed as well as Danny, who lost his family, friends, and teacher, to come to him for help. Without Jack alive for him to antagonize — combined with fact that he actually misses him — and without Maddie alive to obsess over, he helps out Danny by removing his ghost half in an attempt to let Danny have a normal life and move on from his ghost hunting days that led to his loved ones' deaths. Unfortunately, it led to Ghost Danny stealing and merging with his ghost half, murder Danny's human half violently in front of him, and Dark Danny murdering an uncountable number of people for him to truly become a good person. Danny can't really replicate this series of events (for obvious reasons) as Masters going through the humiliation and humbling traumatic conga line to become good would cause more pain and suffering than it's worth. It's ironic because he does have a lot of empathy for Danny and even becomes a decent surrogate father to Danny in that timeline. For Masters, he's effectively locked into evil because he's too powerful, obsessed, and arrogant to stop and examine why he's like the way he is.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: As demonstrated in "Masters of All Time" with his "love" for Maddie. Even without the accident that gave him his powers and overall contempt for Jack marrying Maddie, Vlad still grew up to become the same controlling, domineering sociopath we've seen in the present timeline. Even still being rich, married to Maddie, and having Jack as a disfigured outcast didn't make him a better person, showing his malevolent traits are a core part of his character.
• Kick the Dog: Tells Jack, a married man with a family, that he's gonna steal his wife for himself. Jack naturally responds to this by leaving said creep to rot in space as soon as his evil plan fails.
• Lack of Empathy: He doesn't care if Maddie is already Happily Married with children, because he wants her to be his wife and her son Danny to be his son. "Masters of All Time", which displays an Alternate Timeline where Vlad and Maddie got married, showed that the relationship would not be a happy one; Vlad appeared to treat Maddie more like a trophy that he won from Jack, rather than his wife.
• Late to the Realization:
  • After discovering he can't stop an asteroid from destorying the world, which he now can't return to because he revealed his true identity and will be hunted, Vlad begged for Jack's help. Unfortunately since he just show his true colors to Jack, after the latter tried and failed to talk him out of his world domination plan, Jack coldly refused to help him and abandoned to roam space alone. Vlad finally realizes how he took Jack's friendship for granted, but it's too late now as Jack now hates him in return.
  • Also in "The Ultimate Enemy". Losing Jack, Maddie, and Danny (the latter of which led to the creation of Dark Danny) in addition to the loss of his ghost powers forced Vlad to finally realize and accept that he took them all for granted. If he had just learned to accept Jack and Maddie's happiness, something that they were trying to share with him, he could've finally been happy. Instead, he kept trying to kill his best friend and inadvertently pushed away the woman he loved and the boy he wanted as a son until it was too late and they were all taken from him.
• Laughably Evil: He's an evil creep, but he has moments of mirth that are fun to watch.
• Like a Son to Me: A very dark deconstruction when it comes to Danny. It's clear that he regards Danny as the son that he feels he should have had with Maddie but he has little-to-no genuine care for Danny as a person, openly admitting that he wants Danny to forsake his morals and act more like Vlad himself does, and he treats Danny's half-ghost status as more proof that Jack stole the life he feels he should have had with Maddie (which only deepens the grudge he has with Danny's father). He goes as far as making multiple attempts to clone Danny to finally get himself the "son" he wants, with all failed clone experiments calling him "father". Though he also claims that once he manages to get a perfect clone, the original Danny will become "obsolete" to him (which could very well be an implied case of If I Can't Have You…).
• Locked into Strangeness: The flashback of Vlad Masters being transformed in a lab accident involving one of Jack's inventions is where he got his gray hair from.
• Love Makes You Evil: His entire motivation is based around being desperately in love with Maddie Fenton, blaming Jack Fenton for taking her away from him and wanting to do everything in his considerable power to remove Jack from the picture so he can move in and take Maddie as his wife, as he believes is his right. However, in the alternate timeline where he didn't get the powers but married Maddie, he's shown to still be a massive jerk, refusing to let her do any ghost hunting that she had to eventually do it in secret. So the trope ends up being subverted.
• Love Triangle: With Maddie and Jack, not that the latter is aware of it. Flashbacks later make it clear that the triangle goes back as far as their college days, though it seems neither Jack nor Maddie were aware about how Vlad felt about Maddie at all before the accident happened and Vlad cut off all contact with them for the following twenty years.
• Loving a Shadow: It's unclear whether or not Vlad loved Maddie herself prior to the accident (though the alternate timeline where they did get married indicates "no"). After it, however, he's clearly more in love with the idea of her and that of her family, which consists of a brilliant daughter and a half-ghost son. If he had loved her, truly loved her, then he would've accepted the fact that she made her choice, that she was happy with it, and tried to move on.
• Mad Scientist: In addition to being an inventor like his former college mates, Vlad loves to perform unethical experiments on ghosts, such as the mutant ghost animals from "Maternal Instincts" and Danny's multiple clones.
• Manipulative Bastard: Plays with everyone around him like they're pieces in a chess game.
• Man of Wealth and Taste: And an obsession with the Green Bay Packers.
• Mayor Pain: He runs for mayor of Amity Park in Season 3 and wins by a landslide — by overshadowing all the voters — and remaining in office until the end of the series.
• Meaningless Villain Victory: It's downplayed since it isn't a victory he achieved by himself, but "The Ultimate Enemy" gives Vlad a good part of what he wanted with the Nasty Burger accident: Jack's death and Danny becoming his adopted son. However, his obsession, Maddie, dies there as well, Danny's emotionally compromised situation and Vlad's sympathy for him, and even Jack's death — Jack ultimately was still his friend — mean that Vlad finds no joy in his newfound "victorious" situation. Inadvertently causing Dark Danny's birth and human Danny's death is the nail in the coffin.
• Me's a Crowd: The main power that makes him Danny's superior. Although Danny does get it himself eventually.
• Mirror Character: With Danny and (surprisingly) Jack.
  • With Danny, both tend to use their powers for selfish means, and, as Vlad pointed out in his first episode, they're both willing to cheaply exploit their enemies' weaknesses to win. The major difference is that there's a hard limit to what Danny is willing to do with his powers, and in the end, he always seeks to do the right thing. Meanwhile, all Vlad cares about is using his powers to benefit himself.
  • For Jack, they're both selfish, driven, somewhat amoral and form a very deep line between "them and us". However, Jack knows when to back off if he's taken things too far and is a loving family man; Vlad, however, not so much (see Abusive Parent and Hypocrite above).
• Motive Decay: He starts out with a rather sympathetic backstory and an almost understandable motivation: Jack, through sheer idiocy, caused an accident that sent Vlad to the hospital for years, costing Vlad's chance at Maddie, who ended up marrying Jack. As the series goes on and he alienates Maddie after his Love Confession, his motives change from killing Jack and taking Maddie/Danny as his wife/son to just screwing with Danny and being his antagonist.
• Mr. Fanservice: His human form. However, he's more interested in being this to Maddie.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: Danny's first fight in Vlad's debut episode is with a gang of ghost vultures sent to kill Jack. In subsequent appearances, he continues to occasionally express a desire to do away with Jack so he can have Maddie all to himself.
• My God, What Have I Done?: How he feels about his role in creating Dark Danny. Ten years into the future, he seems to feel this way about his villainous actions in general, including his murderous resentment towards Jack.
• Narcissist: After gaining his ghost powers, he only uses them to benefit himself as he made himself very rich and manipulate the public to gain good pubilicity and even doesn't care about his former friend while trying to take Maddie away from him without any consent for her feelings as long as its good for him.
• Never My Fault: He blames Jack for stealing Maddie and his one chance at a happy life. However, "Masters of All Time" defies this. Maddie was completely oblivious to his interests and was either interested in Jack or dating him. Furthermore, even if he had ended up with Maddie, he was still an unpleasant person who treated Maddie more like a possession than a person and was willing to murder Danny just to keep him from restoring the timeline.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Occasionally likes to throw this remark at Danny by reminding him how similar they are other than being half-ghosts. He likely does this to either get under the boy's skin, persuade him to join him, or even both. Danny denies this and makes a point to remind him that they're very different in terms of responsibility.
• Obviously Evil: When in his human form, he doesn't look too much like a bad guy. But when he's in his ghost form, you immediately know that he's evil.
• Our Vampires Are Different: In his ghost form, he looks like a Classical Movie Vampire, complete with Ominous Opera Cape and fangs, though he doesn't display any vampiric traits. In fact, he was originally conceived as an actual vampire. His first name is likely an intentional nod to Vlad Tepes, the man who inspired, and is the namesake, of Count Dracula.
• Parenthetical Swearing: Uses snack foods ("Oh, butter biscuits," "Oh, sugar cookies," etc.) where most people would swear.
• Pet the Dog: In "The Ultimate Enemy". Granted this happened in an alternate timeline, but he takes Danny in after his friends and family are killed. Although smug at first, one look at Danny mourning his loved ones was enough to make Vlad show sympathy and help him. This, unfortunately, led to Dark Danny.
• Pick on Someone Your Own Size: He'll revert to ghost form when fighting Danny.
• Poison and Cure Gambit: In "Masters of All Time," when his ecto-acne resurfaces, he approaches Danny for help... and infects Sam and Tucker with the disease as well to ensure Danny will help him Find the Cure!.
  Vlad: Help me find a cure, or my fate is theirs.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: His hair goes from being gray to black when in ghost form.
• Purple Is Powerful: Granted, purple with a pinkish hue, but his powers have this colour in contrast to Danny's green, and are visibly more powerful.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Knits as a hobby, much like Jack.
• Real Name as an Alias: He keeps "Vlad" as his first name in his villainous alias.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: In his ghost form, his eyes are a blazing red, his powers showing as a pink or red glow in comparison to Danny's green. His hair also looks a lot like horns, and he grows fangs, giving him a very evil vampiric look, fitting in with his name.
• Rescue Romance: Deconstruction. In the alternate timeline created during "Masters of All Time", Vlad saved Maddie from the malfunctioning portal, earning her affection and eventually marrying her. However, Vlad is overly controlling and possessive of Maddie, even forbidding her from pursuing ghost-hunting and had lied to her, saying that Jack (who had suffered the ecto-acne accident in this timeline) didn't want anything to do with her. Maddie, unwilling to give up her life's work, resorted to ghost-hunting behind his back, clearly resenting him for it. Whether she felt obligated to marry him out of gratitude or simply overestimated his character based on that one seemingly noble act, rescue was clearly not good enough grounds for a lasting romance.
• The Resenter: To Jack Fenton, for stealing the girl of his dreams, and causing the accident that turned him into a half-ghost.
• Revenge Before Reason: Vlad's hatred for Jack motivated more than half of his schemes, but it bites him the hardest in "Phantom Planet". He wastes the only missile they had capable of destroying the Disasteroid by purposefully giving Jack the wrong coordinates just to make him look like a fool to the whole world, despite that it was the best shot at saving the world and Vlad could still have taken credit for it. Once he finds his real plan to make it intangible impossible, he realizes he's stuck in a no-win situation where even if the Earth wasn't destroyed, he's made himself the most wanted man on Earth and not even Jack would help him.
• Rival Turned Evil: Though Jack doesn't see it.
• Sadist: Loves to see his enemies (Jack and Danny especially) suffer. He even laughs as he melts Danielle alive into a puddle of ectoplasm, which is clearly shown to be a very slow and painful process with her screaming in agony.
• Sadistic Choice: Gives one to the entire planet when he reveals his true nature: to let themselves be destroyed by the Disasteroid — which he is responsible for — or allow Vlad total world supremacy in exchange for him phasing the asteroid harmlessly through the planet. This backfires on Vlad big time when he learns too late that the Disasteroid cannot be touched nor turned intangible by ghosts (due to being made of ectoranium). This quickly lands him in a no-win situation where, even if the Earth wasn’t in jeopardy, he couldn’t return or he’d be hunted wherever he goes. Thankfully, Danny Takes a Third Option by instead turning the Earth intangible, which is what ultimately saves the planet.
• Shout-Out: While Lex Luthor is the obvious character Vlad is based on, he's given a few nods to other notable comic book villains. Given the the show is an Homage and an Affectionate Parody to superhero fiction, this seems intentional.
  • His face being heavily damaged, in this case with acne, and it being an accident while blaming it on someone he was once friends with brings to mind Doctor Doom.
  • His ghost form's blue-green skin and pointed ears add another iconic comic book villain to the list he borrows from, the Green Goblin. His interest in making Danny his son is something later incarnations of Norman Osborn also express. Later, his more personal enmity with Danny in Season Three also harkens to Osborn's hatred of Spider-Man, as for most of his publication history, Osborn didn't care about anything except screwing around with Peter Parker's life. Indeed, all of Vlad's schemes in Season Three had nothing to do with Jack and everything to do with screwing with Danny.
  • His relationship with and treatment of Danny is identical to Slade's towards Robin in the animated Teen Titans (2003) adaptation that began airing shortly before this show.
• Silver Fox: Vlad is in his 40s, has silver hair in his human form, and is quite attractive.
• Single-Target Sexuality: You'd think with his vast riches and superpowers, Vlad would have found someone more of a match for him. Instead, the only woman he wants is Maddie, who is married and doesn't have a good opinion of him. To demonstrate that, he has talking holograms of her who are programmed to compliment him and insult Jack, photos of her on his desktop and a stuffed Maddie doll when he goes to sleep.
• The Sociopath: He has all the traits listed on the main page, and his "love" for Maddie is shown to be shallow and mostly for her beauty; in the bad timeline where he gets her, he tries his best to repress Maddie's strong personality and forcibly forge her into a "model wife".
• Stalker with a Crush: He's utterly fixated on Maddie and wants her for his wife. He bases his holograms off her, has photos of her on his desktop, and goes so far as to sleep with a stuffed doll of her. "Infinite Realms" also reveals that he illegally spies on the entire Fenton family, which most definitely counts as stalking.
• Stepford Smiler: He may act pleasant, but he's a cold, heartless villain underneath the smile. He's also unable to enjoy his vast wealth because it can't get him the one thing he really wants: Maddie.
• Strong and Skilled: He has all the same powers as Danny and more, and twenty years more experience using them.
• Super Supremacist: In "Phantom Planet", it's clear he considers having ghost powers makes him a "superior creature" than normal humans.
• This Cannot Be!: His reaction in "The Million Dollar Ghost," when Jack Fenton of all people hands him his ass.
  Vlad: It's not possible! You're an idiot! An idiot!
  Jack: [smugly] Maybe so, but I'm the idiot who beat you.
• Tragic Hero: As "The Ultimate Enemy" shows, Vlad does have the potential to become a good person if he tried, but he's too consumed by spite and envy to ever do so. By the time he finally realizes what a monster he is, it's too late: he's lost everything and has been stranded in space forever.
• Truly Single Parent: He has no biological children, but the Danny Phantom clones he created called him father. Danielle, after he verbally abused her and treated her like a mindless servant, renounced her creator as her "father". Granted, being Danny's clones technically make Maddie their biological mother, something Vlad would no doubt be accepting towards.
• Unbalanced By Rival's Kid: Inverted. Vlad actually likes Danny, in a twisted, Faux Affably Evil way. His big dream is basically to steal Maddie back from Jack and make Danny his own adopted son, something which they understandably find unsettling.
• Uncertain Doom: The last time he's seen is being hit by the Disasteroid, we don't see if he survived. Word of God is that he would have been captured by aliens.
• Unknown Rival: To Jack, for Maddie's affections. Though it's only because Jack is completely oblivious to Vlad's hatred of him; everyone else, including Maddie, is well aware about what's going on. That is until the finale when Jack learns just what kind of evil man Vlad has become.
• Underestimating Badassery: What leads to him losing against Jack Fenton. He also tends to underestimate Danny's abilities and wits.
• Villain Decay: Vlad was once a very competent arch-foe with an often sympathetic side. Come the third season, he became a shallow crook with few redeeming qualities; his final plan was to force the world to let him save it from a giant meteor in exchange for world domination (an agenda that was poorly conceived) and 500 billion dollars...as if he wasn't already filthy stinking RICH!
• Villain Has a Point:
  • While it's not clear if he ever had any chance with Maddie, Vlad holds a valid point that Jack did nearly kill him back in college out of sheer idiocy, and left him hospitalized for years. Oddly, while Vlad does show his bitterness over the incident, he tends to focus more on how it cost him any chance to win over Maddie and rarely brings up how Jack basically poisoned him.
  • In "Eye for an Eye", while still a total petty Jerkass willing to make everyone's lives miserable just to spite Danny, Vlad's not entirely wrong that had Danny not pulled those pranks on him in the first place, he wouldn't have had a reason to retaliate and become the Mayor Pain of Amity Park in the first place.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Vlad started off as Danny's most powerful nemesis, thrashing him to the point where Danny was rendered unconscious and reverted back to human. Something of a subplot for the series was Danny trying to master his ghost powers to the degree Vlad has so that he could beat him in a fight. While Vlad still remains generally stronger than our hero, Danny eventually grows enough in power and skill that he's more of a threat than the nuisance Vlad viewed him as.
• Villainous Crush: He's still obsessed with Maddie after all these years, and her rejection doesn't deter that one bit.
• Villains Out Shopping: He's a fan of the Green Bay Packers and his mansion is full of their merchandise. When Jazz questions why he doesn't just buy the team instead, he says, in a genuinely annoyed sounding voice, that it's because the Packers are owned by Green Bay and they refuse to sell the team to him.
• Villain Takes an Interest: To the extreme. It seems like the only thing Vlad Masters is more obsessed with than having Maddie as his wife is having her son Danny as his son, solely because the boy is (at the beginning of the series) the only other half-ghost in existence. Eventually, once he realizes Danny is never going to join him willingly, he resorts to cloning Danny to get what he wants. When that scheme fails, Vlad finally gives up on bringing Danny over to the dark side, and almost all his plans from that point on usually involve screwing over Danny as much as he can.
• Villain with Good Publicity: He was already a well-respected billionaire celebrity, and by Season 3, he's become the mayor of Amity Park, all just to secretly torment Danny. Of course, that all goes out the window come the Grand Finale, where he reveals his alter ego to the world and offers to save them all from the Disasteroid in exchange for $500 billion and complete control of the whole world. He fails to do so since the Disasteroid is made of a substance that negates ghost powers. Since he can't keep his end of the bargain, Vlad realizes that now that he's revealed his secret and threatened the whole planet, he'll be branded a criminal on Earth and be forever hunted.
• Villainous Breakdown: He has one in the Season 2 Finale that continues into Season 3.
• Villainous Widow's Peak: Though not as pronounced as other examples, Vlad clearly has one, furthering his vampire-like appearance.
• Vocal Evolution: Played with. In his first appearance, Mull uses a slightly different voice for Vlad's ghost form so that the audience doesn't immediately realize who he really is. Starting from his second appearance onward, Masters' and Plasmius' voices are one and the same.
• Wanted a Son Instead: Despite Danielle being the closest to being the best clone of Danny, Vlad has no problem letting the girl be melted into a puddle if it meant he could make a perfect copy of Danny to have a son instead.
• We Can Rule Together: The thing he wants most is to marry Maddie and make Danny his son, and he constantly tries to get Danny to come to his side...a tempting offer, as he is the only one Danny can truly relate to as a half-ghost, at least until Danielle's creation.
• We Used to Be Friends: Towards the oblivious Jack. Becomes mutual in "Phantom Planet".
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: His true feelings towards Danielle, whom he only saw as a disposable imperfect clone. This outburst he gave Danielle says it all:
  Vlad: You! Exist! To serve! ME! JUST! DO IT!
• Wicked Cultured: As shown in the way he talks and dresses.
• Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: In Dark Danny's timeline, Jack was killed by the Nasty Burger explosion, which for once had nothing to do with him, and Danny came to him on his own. Even Future Vlad is stymied by how anticlimactic and unfulfilling it was.
• The Worf Effect: Has been on both sides of this. In many of his earlier episodes, he almost effortlessly defeats Danny. However, when Pariah Dark is set free, he defeats Vlad effortlessly!
• Would Hurt a Child: When he's not trying to make Danny side with him, Vlad has no problem beating the ghost boy to a bloody pulp, and even subject him to Cold-Blooded Torture. He also has no qualms against melting Danielle, whom he merely saw as an expendable clone.
• Yandere: What else do you call a guy who has been pining for a woman for 20+ years and plots to kill her husband so he can take her and her children? Vlad even owns a Maddie hologram to compliment him on his work, tell him she serves him, and say Jack Fenton is a fool. He even sleeps with a Maddie doll.
• Younger Than They Look: He's roughly the same age as Maddie and Jack, especially since he went to college with both of them. However, his grey hair makes him look considerably older.

Freakshow

Frederich Isak Showenhower/Freakshow

I am Freakshow, your master of ceremonies.

Voiced by: Jon Cryer (English)^{Other Languages}Ledner Belisario (Latin American Spanish), Mariusz Krzemiński (Polish)

The ringmaster of Circus Gothica. He traveled the country with his Goth circus, though it was really a cover. The performers, save for his assistant Lydia, were ghosts under the control of his staff. He used his staff to make them steal from the towns they visited. He's also the only human in the series to be a genuine villain. (All other humans that opposed Danny Phantom were either Vlad, who is half-ghost, or ghost hunters who viewed all ghosts as Always Chaotic Evil.)

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• Ambiguous Situation: Based on how he doesn't share the hypnotized look on the Guys in White at the end of "Reality Trip", it's unknown if he remembers Danny Phantom's real identity or not.
• Bad Boss: To all his brainwashed pawns. Lydia's the only one he treats with respect, but that's probably just favoritism due to her being his Implied Love Interest.
• Bald of Evil: He doesn't have a lock of hair on his head and is pretty evil.
• Berserk Button: Because he craves being the center of attention, he won't let anyone upstage him, especially ghosts. Also, he violently denies that he has Ghost Envy.
• Big Bad: Of the third TV movie "Reality Trip", which centers around his efforts to become the "ringmaster of all reality" using the Reality Gauntlet.
• Commonality Connection: Has a moment where he and Jazz admit to having "Ghost Envy", as in feeling everyone around cares more about ghosts than him.
• Expy: Of Jafar.
  • They both use a mind-controlling Magic Staff which is destroyed in their first appearance, and dress in red and black clothing.
  • His ghost form kinda looks like an evil Genie like Jafar's transformation, and both Danny and Aladdin defeat them by using their pride and envy to trick them into transforming into a form that can be sealed into a can.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He's genuinely horrified and angered when he sees Lydia in the Guys In Whites' custody.
• Exact Words: He makes a deal with Danny, Tucker, and Sam that he'll let them see their families alive again if they retrieve the Reality Gems. Upon doing so, he does indeed let them see them alive right before moving to kill them.
• Fatal Flaw: His flair for the dramatic. He had Danny dead to rights, but deliberately gave him a chance to win simply because making him watch as his family died was "boring".
  • Envy. More specifically "ghost-envy". He was born and raised in a family steeped heavily in the esoteric and supernatural, with implications that his own parents neglected him because of it, giving him a massive Inferiority Complex towards ghosts. As an adult, he uses his knowledge over ghosts and associated artifacts to control them, forcing them to commit crimes for him. This is used against him in "Reality Trip", where Danny uses this to advantage by rubbing his ghostly powers in his face, making him easier to capture when he turns himself into a ghost.
• Faux Affably Evil: Befitting his status as a Repulsive Ringmaster—after escaping the Guys In White with Lydia, he cheerfully suggests that they start scheming as if he were planning a date with her.
• Final Boss: The final boss fight in the Nick.com game Freak For All is against him.
• Freudian Excuse: Growing up around ghosts and two ghost-obsessed parents gave him a massive inferiority complex. He also suspects that his audience cares more about his ghosts than about him, which fuels his desire for power and attention.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Although he won't admit it, he's clearly suffering from "ghost envy".
• In Their Own Image: He used the Reality Gauntlet to turn the entire world into a circus, with all of the people being clowns and he himself the ringmaster.
• It's All About Me: Craves to be the center of attention when it comes to his shows. Danny uses this to his advantage.
• Large Ham: As a ringmaster and Card-Carrying Villain, Freakshow possesses a flair for the dramatic.
  "We must flee! But... dramatically!"
• Louis Cypher: His stage name is a butchered version of his real name, Frederich Isak Showenhower.
• Meaningful Name: His last name is vaguely anglicized German. If back translated, it means something along the lines of, "He who shapes the shows."
• Practically Joker: Physically, he bares resemblance to the clown prince of crime himself, complete with the long nose most animated versions of The Joker has. However, outside of looks, laughing and slasher smiles, he has little in common with him.
• Reality Warper: When using the Reality Gauntlet in "Reality Trip".
• Repulsive Ringmaster: He was the ringmaster to a troupe called Circus Gothica, a Goth group of performers that was secretly his own mind-controlled gang of ghosts that steal valuables for him. In "Reality Trip", he uses the fully-powered Reality Gauntlet to proclaim himself "Ringmaster of all Reality", turning the entire planet into his own personal circus.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: His real name is Frederich Isak Showenhower. Given that he's a circus performer, this is probably intentional on his part.
• Token Human: The only (completely) human villain in show.
• Unholy Matrimony: Implied to be this with his dragon Lydia, the only ghost who seems to serve him willingly.
• Villainous Harlequin: Comes from the clown-like look he carries.

Pariah Dark

Pariah Dark

The Ghost King

Voiced by: Brian Cox (English)^{Other Languages}Adolfo Nittoli (Latin American Spanish), Mariusz Leszczyński (Polish)

Absolute ruler of the Ghost Zone until he was defeated and imprisoned, Pariah is far and away one of the most powerful characters to appear in the series, to the extent of effortlessly owning Vlad within seconds of being freed and commanding the allegiance of Fright Knight, another tremendously powerful villain. He was inadvertently released by Vlad, who was looking for his artifacts of doom, the Ring of Rage and Crown of Fire, and immediately proceeded to conquer both the Ghost Zone and Amity Park. Ultimately, Danny was able to seal him again (with some help), but the Ghost King was not destroyed and may yet be free to walk the world again.

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• 0% Approval Rating: None of the ghosts like him and Fright Knight only seems to serve him out of fear. Fits since his name is Pariah, which means something that is despised or avoided.
• Bad Boss: He constantly menaces the Fright Knight into submission. At one point he fires a ghost ray at Vlad while the Fright Knight is standing right next to him, injuring him in the process. One can hardly blame him for turning against Pariah at the end of the episode.
• Big Bad: Serves as the main villain of the first TV movie upon his release and attempted conquest of Amity Park.
• Brought Down to Badass: Pariah loses his ring and crown, which enhance his power, at the start of the special. But, he still curbstomps everyone in the show.
• Carry a Big Stick: When he fights Danny, he uses a mace as his weapon. Humorously, he's also got a bit of a soft-spoken yet gravely voice so he fulfills the "speak softly" part, usually anyway.
• Crown of Power: Pariah Dark possesses the Crown of Fire, which when used with the Ring Of Rage enhanced his already impressive abilities to the point of being virtually all powerful. In the ancient times, he used them both to rule over the Ghost Zone with an iron fist.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Easily gives Vlad (probably the most powerful villain in the series up to this point) a brutal beatdown as soon as he is freed.
• Didn't See That Coming: He's rather surprised, though more amused than anything, to find half-ghost hybrids exist in the modern age.
• The Dreaded: The Fright Knight, ghost of Halloween and nightmares serves him out of fear. He’s also this to virtually every ghost in the Ghost Zone.
• Emerald Power: Has a prominent green in his colour scheme, with green eye, flaming green hair, and both the Ring of Rage and Crown of Fire, along with being considered the most powerful ghost in the Ghost Zone.
• Eye Beams: His most common attack and serves as a good shoutout for one of his inspiration.
• Evil Overlord: He ruled the Ghost Zone with an iron-fist before he was overthrown and sealed away.
• Expy: Physically, he looks similar to Odin of Norse Mythology. Both of them are the central ruler of their domain, both wear an eye patch and, with some versions of Odin, large horns on their headwear. He has a bit of Thor in it too since he uses a bludgeon to fight and can return it to his hand.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: While he does have some fascinating elements to him (such as his view on great power) along with doing some world-building to the Ghost Zone, he ultimately amounts to this in the TV movie he appears in. His reason for going after the human world isn't stated (though given how ghosts fled there, it's likely conquest now that he can get there.) In his defense, he didn't really get to interact with anyone he wasn't fighting.
• Horned Humanoid: Has a pair of horns, but one of them is broken. Unclear whether they're a part of his body or his helmet.
• Horrifying the Horror: The Fright Knight is basically the ghost of fear and even he is afraid of this guy! This also applies to the other ghosts who flee the Ghost Zone one he's free.
• Large Ham: Once he starts getting into the swing of battle, his voice booms out in how one would expect a powerful warlord like him to do so.
• Physical God: Is the strongest ghost Danny has ever faced, having conquered the Ghost Zone a long time ago. He's so strong that beating him in a straight fight is impossible, forcing Danny to seal him away forever.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: The former Ghost King, and probably the most powerful ghost to exist and the only one capable of dual-wielding the Ring of Rage and Crown of Fire. Danny had to use his parents' exoskeleton to amplify his powers a hundred-fold just to stand a chance and all he could do was knock the Crown off (and thus weakening Pariah) enough to shove him back into the Coffin of Forever-Sleep.
• Red Is Violent: His powers manifest with a red colour, and was such a feared tyrant that Danny's entire rogues gallery considers themselves chump change compared to him.
• Ring of Power: The Ring of Rage, being one of the artifacts that grants him immense power.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: He was sealed away in a sarcophagus to free the Ghost Zone from his tyranny.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Speaks softly, but deep and raspy.
• Spikes of Villainy: Has spikes around his arms.
• Ungrateful Bastard: How does he repay Vlad for releasing him? By savagely attacking him! To be fair, Vlad only freed him to steal his artifacts, and immediately tried to turn the Fright Knight against him.
• With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: A dark variation of it. When fighting against Danny in the Ecto-Skeleton and notices Danny begin tiring out, he notes on how Danny is feeling the burden of wielding incredible power, likely referring to how only he can wield the powers of the Ring of Rage and Crown of Fire. Danny counters by noting on its usage being the problem [referring to how he has been handling his power outage against Pariah and also in how he was using his powers to retaliate against Dash earlier in the special, despite Sam's disapproval of him using his power in such a way.]
• Worf Had the Flu: The insane level of power he shows throughout the TV movie is without both artifacts needed to use his full potential... and he's still a borderline unstoppable Physical God!
• World's Strongest Man: The most powerful ghost to exist, (beating even Dark Danny.) Danny needed a special power suit that amplified his power a hundredfold to stand a chance and even then, needed to weaken him before sealing him away.

The Ultimate Enemy (MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Dark Danny "Dan" Phantom

You don't get it, do you? I'm still here! I still exist! That means you still turn into me.

Voiced by: Eric Roberts (English)^{Other Languages}Ezequiel Serrano (Latin American Spanish), Karol Wróblewski (Polish)

Dark Danny is the main antagonist of The Ultimate Enemy. Danny's alternate future counterpart through a fusion between his ghost half and Vlad's after an accident that renders his family, friends, and teacher dead from a Nasty Burger explosion. He is a straight-to-the-point villain who creates mayhem and destruction in his path with absolutely no guilt for his cause. He is perhaps the most dangerous villain in the show because of his personal nature and utter depravity.

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• 0% Approval Rating: He is hated by all remaining humans and the various ghosts that comprised his Rogues Gallery as a teen for inflicting great harm on them. The disdain for him is so strong that the younger version of Danny was attacked by Valerie and the other ghosts simply for either resembling his future counterpart or being a weaker version of him they could defeat in his counterpart's place.
• Aborted Arc: The last moments of "The Ultimate Enemy" hinted that he would one day break free, but this never happened. Supposedly, Steve Marmel's plans while he was still part of the show were for Dark Danny to return as the Final Boss of the series. He would later finally return in Danny Phantom: A Glitch in Time.
• Actually, I Am Him:
  Jack: Where is he? Where's our son?!
  Maddie: What have you done to our boy?!
  Dark Danny: (laughing maniacally) I AM "your boy"!
• Adaptation Name Change: The video game adaptation calls him Dan Phantom. This name was likely chosen without consent from Butch Hartman, who uses the name "Dark Danny". Technically, neither of these are his actual name, just placeholders to separate him and Danny.
• All Your Powers Combined: As the fusion of Danny and Vlad's ghost halves, he has both of their movesets at his disposal, on top of having abilities that neither of them on their own had (e.g. ghost portal creation and intangibility fusion).
• Ambiguous Situation: Upon seeing the time medallions on his younger self and his former friends, he reasons that Clockwork was "meddling again". Exactly how he could know Clockwork, much less what were his previous meddling attempts were, are never established. This also raises the question if Clockwork intervening in his past is something he's experienced prior.
• And I Must Scream: Being trapped in the thermos for all eternity. Though it's kind of hard to feel sorry for him due to how evil he is.
• Ax-Crazy: Oh, let's see: The first thing he did upon "reawakening"? Steal the ghostly half of Big Bad Vlad Masters (Our Ghosts Are Different is in full force here) and then killed his own human half in front of Vlad, who viewed Danny as a surrogate son. In his first scenes, he kills at least a dozen people as well and spends much of the episode killing or planning to kill some more. The fact that even Vlad refuses to tell Danny how his human half died speaks volumes.
• The Bad Guy Wins: In A Glitch in Time, despite being defeated, he ultimately gets the last laugh as his actions on the timestream require all the events in Phantom Planet (mostly Danny's involvement) to be undone, thus depriving Danny of the happy life he had finally earned and returning as a Hero with Bad Publicity.
• Badass Cape: One major difference between his suit and Danny is that his has a jagged-edged cape.
• Baddie Flattery: Dark Danny comments that Jazz was always smarter than he gave her credit for.
• Beard of Evil: He has a goatee not dissimilar to Vlad's.
• Beware the Superman: Not only is he the worst of all of Danny's enemies, but he's also one of the most powerful, probably only second to Pariah Dark in terms of sheer raw power.
• Big Bad: Of the second TV movie, eponymously titled "The Ultimate Enemy". The entire conflict revolves around Danny trying to avoid becoming him, while Dark Danny in turn works to ensure his fate.
• Bloodbath Villain Origin: One of the few villains to have every condition for it.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: An unintentional case. It's implied by Vlad that he used the process by which he extracted Danny's ghost half to make sure he could no longer feel grief over his family and friend's deaths. Unfortunately, it also took away all of Danny's kindness and empathy, leaving a monstrous sociopath in his place.
• The Bus Came Back: He returns as the main villain of the graphic novel, A Glitch in Time.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Though he gets annoyed with Jazz trying to stop his plot to cheat on the C.A.T. and brutalizes Danny during their rematch in the present, he kills neither of them due to his belief that this would upset his existence, which he tries to ensure by forcing Jazz's death (along with the rest of his family and friends) via the Nasty Burger explosion.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He's not shy about admitting his evil deeds. He even confessed that "[he] surrendered [his] human half a long time ago" in a very proud tone though it was actually the human-half that gave him up.
• Creepy Monotone: Generally tends to speak in a very calm, monotonous voice, unless he's gloating.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: His first fight with Danny and his brief scuffle with Jazz before Danny arrives at the Nasty Burger qualify as this. Both succeed in getting a hit on him, but are otherwise easily overpowered.
• Dark Is Evil: Outright calls himself Dark Danny and, unlike his younger self, fits every bad stereotype associated with his powers.
• Deadpan Snarker: He occasionally says some cruel humorous lines, mostly to break his opponents. Apparently that's the only good thing he still retains from his younger self.
• Death by Irony: Not a 'death' per se, but his ultimate fate is to be trapped inside the Fenton Thermos. This very same item he used as a child to seal away his own enemies. Made even better by the fact that it was his younger self who trapped him in.
• Death of Personality: The half of him that's Vlad Plasmius appears to be, for lack of a better word, dead. Danny's ghost half overshadowed the former's, giving him full control of this new entity.
• Despair Event Horizon: His Start of Darkness and the reason Danny asked Vlad to separate his human and ghost halves. It backfired.
• Didn't See That Coming: Was genuinely surprised when Jazz reveals she knew Danny was half-ghost, something he never expected in the past ten years of his existence.
  Dark Danny: [to Jazz] You always were smarter than I gave you credit for.
• Disappointed by the Motive: Not him, but multiple characters express this type of reaction at the idea of Danny turning evil because he cheats on a test. The truth is much more complicated. The CAT just got the snowball running, it was the aftereffects that sent him over the edge.
• The Dreaded: That ghost shield over Amity Park was meant to keep him out for a reason. It's implied he's this even for the Ghost Zone.
• Emerald Power: Less often, but manifests the same green colour with his abilities as his younger self, and is much more powerful.
• Enemy Without: In a sense, he's Danny's ghost half, freed from his human side and all of the empathy and compassion. The end result is something far more evil.
• Establishing Character Moment: He destroys the shield that's been keeping him out for years, and then causes citywide destruction, with his next scene showing he had a lot of fun with it. This shows that he is one of the most powerful characters in the show and that he greatly enjoys what he does.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: More like Evil Has Forgotten How To Comprehend Good, as he doesn't understand his younger counterpart's desire to prevent his future and laughs at his desire to save his loved ones. Justified since he's not truly Danny and eliminated his human self, being nothing but an amalgamation of power and negative emotions from the two ghosts he was formed from.
• Evil Counterpart: To Danny Fenton, being his evil future counterpart.
• Evil Is Burning Hot: Is frequently associated with fire, in stark contrast to present Danny's (eventual) association with ice.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: It's unclear exactly what Danny's ghost half was expecting to happen when he ripped out Vlad's ghost half and merged with it, but considering the screams of pain and Vlad noting "my evil overwhelmed you", going full-out evil probably wasn't in the initial plan, though he clearly took a liking to it in the aftermath.
• Evil Makeover: He starts as looking exactly like Danny's ghost form. After fusing with Vlad's ghost half, he gained the bluish skin, red eyes, flaming hair and pointy ears. Ten years later, he has a new outfit as well.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Puberty treated Danny really well.
• Evil Twin: This is more accurately what Dark Danny is. Dark Danny is the ghost-half of Danny that was created when Danny got his powers. The ghost-half of Danny is like a duplicate of Danny with all of his memories and knowledge (who also is the source of Danny's powers) but has none of the conscience or heart. While he may not have been that evil when they were first separated, overshadowing Vlad's ghost half probably overwhelmed and corrupted him as while he was in control of their merged form, Vlad's ghost self was more powerful and contained all of Vlad's negative qualities.
• Eviler than Thou: He’s more evil and dangerous than any of the villains in Danny’s Rogues Gallery, with Clockwork even calling him the most evil ghost in the world.
• Expy: He shares some strong similarities with Maestro. They're both an evil future version of the hero and they both want to assure that their past self becomes like them.
  • Likewise, he borrows from Venom, being a fusion of one of Danny's worst enemies and another source of great power, having all of Danny's powers and more, and that creepy tongue.
• Face–Heel Turn: He's actually Danny's ghost self grown up. After having his ghost half removed by Vlad, Danny's ghost form inexplicably grabbed the device Vlad used and used it on him before attempting to hijack Vlad's ghost form. Instead, a fusion of the two is formed, creating the monster we see.
• Fallen Hero: Being a future version of Danny, he qualifies. While technically just his ghost half, it's implied that whatever Vlad did to split them took away any capacity for empathy away from him. Disturbingly, Dark Danny is very happy to be as such and frequently notes that his old self would be horrified by what he's doing before going ahead with it anyway.
• False Reassurance: When Valerie angrily claims it's Danny's fault that Sam and Tucker died, he blasts her away and notes it's actually his fault...and Danny's too, eventually.
• Fangs Are Evil: He has a pair of vampiric teeth just like Vlad.
• Fate Worse than Death: He's stuck in that Fenton Thermos forever outside of time.
• Faux Affably Evil: He's calm and civil to people he's about to kill. He likes to bring up things he would do if he were still Danny before admitting he won't do them at all.
• Final Boss: Fittingly enough, he is the last boss fought in the Game Boy Advance game adapted from the episode he appeared in.
• Flaming Hair: Has white flaming hair tied back in a ponytail. He learns the hard way to keep it away from anything flammable when Danny sends him crashing into a truck full of oil.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: From bullied high school loser to the most feared entity of the future Amity Park and Ghost Zone.
• Fusion Dance: He's a fusion between Danny and Vlad's ghost halves. The end result, however, is an evil all his own.
• Future Me Scares Me: Danny is disturbed and horrified by what he has the potential to create or become if he willingly forgets his humanity. While Dark Danny isn't really Danny but rather his ghost-self (who has all of Danny's powers and memories but without a conscience because he literally killed his) combined with Vlad's ghost self, Danny also knows that he could become Dark Danny if he simply stops caring about morality and starts to believe Might Makes Right.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: The process that split Danny's ghost and human halves apart was designed to make it so that he wouldn't feel grief over his family and friend's death. Unfortunately, it took any capacity for empathy and kindness away from Danny's ghost half in the process.
• Greyscale of Evil: Maintains his former black and white/grey costume, even after becoming a bad guy.
• Happy Ending Override: Deliberately invokes this in A Glitch in Time where, after Danny's life is finally looking good after the events of Phantom Planet^note having become a global hero, gained his parents as confidants, and he and Sam finally got together, Dark Danny decides to travel into the past and change it to alter the present.
• Hated by All: More and less so than Pariah. Most everyone in his timeline, ghosts and human, hates him and only Fright Knight seems to serve him willingly.
• Hero Killer:
  • Almost succeeds in killing Sam, Tucker, Jazz, and Danny's parents... oh, and Mr. Lancer too.
  • Not to mention the first thing he does when he's created: killing his human half.
• Heroic Build: He’s actually a villain, but he has the tall, muscular build you’d expect a male superhero to have.
• He Is All Grown Up: He's a mature version of Danny and surely he doesn't look bad at all.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Dark Danny mentions that he always underestimated Jazz's brains. When he tells her where the real Danny is, floating in the Ghost Zone ten years in the future, he doesn't realize she can concoct a plot to find him.
• Human Disguise: As part of his intent to create a Stable Time Loop, he returns to the past and takes the form of his original human teen self to blend in so he can set up everyone he needs to die in the explosion. Just to highlight his Lack of Empathy, seeing said face in the mirror elicits no more reaction than a casual, almost annoyed "same old face".
• I Hate Past Me: He considers Danny "a child" for wanting to be and doing good. Also, the fact that in the past he killed his own human half shows how deeply he must dislike his younger self.
• Invincible Villain: At most, Valerie, Jazz, and Danny are only able to graze or momentarily injury him with a surprise attack. Even after getting hit with the Ghostly Wail twice, and having a building collapse on him, He's still able to stand and summon enough strength to free himself from the debris.
• Jerkass: Sam and Tucker call him a jerk at several points.
• Knight of Cerebus: By far one of the most menacing villains Danny faced. Unlike any villain this series, or any by Butch Hartman, there is almost nothing humorous or lighthearted about him aside from his Deadpan Snarker tendencies, and even then he mostly uses them to Kick the Dog.
• Lack of Empathy: Tries to kill his parents, older sister, Tucker and Sam without a moment's hesitation, and taunts Danny about how fighting him is futile. Justified as he killed the half of him that feels remorse, empathy, and kindness.
• Leaking Can of Evil: The Fenton Thermos is barely containing him, even with Clockwork's supervision, though Clockwork has already foreseen its failure and Dark Danny's inevitable defeat anyway.
• Light Is Not Good: His skin is pale blue, he has white flaming hair, a good portion of his outfit is white, and he is by and large Danny's worst enemy.
• Make Wrong What Once Went Right: In the A Glitch in Time graphic novel, upon finally getting free from the Fenton Thermos, he decides to get revenge on Danny by traveling into past and altering it to mess up Danny's present-day life.
• Merger of Souls: Is a fusion between Danny's ghost half and Vlad's ghost half. Since Danny is the one who caused the merger by overshadowing Vlad, that makes Danny the dominant half. This is why he's treated as an older Danny though he's more of an Enemy Without.
• Mr. Fanservice: Beyond his voice, he is a tall and well-built man.
• Near-Villain Victory: Technically speaking, he did succeed in preventing Danny from saving his friends and family. He just didn't count on Clockwork intervening by reversing time and saving them himself.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His actions enable Danny to learn Ghostly Wail earlier than he did, and he ended up being responsible for Danny never becoming him.
  • A smaller one, when he reveals to Jazz his affiliation to Vlad. She then manages to transmit the information to Danny, which ultimately allows him to find his way back home, fight him, and eventually defeat him. Present Danny probably wouldn’t have made it in time in the present if he didn’t know Vlad’s implication in Dan’s birth beforehand.
• Nothing Is Scarier: We never do find out how he killed his human self upon creation. Future!Vlad simply tells Danny that "some things are better left unsaid."
• No-Sell: According to Skulktech 9.9 their special ghost ray the Phantom Palm Pummeler doesn’t work on Dark Danny. Apparently the Fenton Specter Deflector cannot weaken Dark Danny’s powers. Even more impressive he was able to survive an oil explosion and remain unscathed before ripping the belt off with ease (a feat Vlad failed to do when he wore the belt).
• Obviously Evil: Surely someone with red eyes, fangs, Flaming Hair, and a love of destroying people would be a swell guy to know, right?
• Omnicidal Maniac: Apparently. No actual onscreen deaths occur but it's heavily implied he's a mass murderer that's destroyed most of the Earth's population if what we see of the world outside the ghost shield was like is anything to go by.
• Paradox Person: After the events of "The Ultimate Enemy." He still exists, despite his future being negated, and according to the Observants, he now exists outside of time itself.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He only refrains from killing Danny because he knows that, since Danny is his past self, he will be Ret-Gone if he does.
• Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter": Has a HELL of a time destroying the futuristic Amity Park.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He dishes one out to Jack and Maddie, pointing out how, despite being experts on the paranormal, they've never once noticed that Danny was half-ghost.
  Dark Danny: What kind of parents are you anyway? The world's leading ghost experts, and you can't figure out that your own son was half-ghost! Hello! Danny Fenton. Danny Phantom. Ever notice the similarity? Jazz did.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: In a similar vein to Vlad's ghost form.
• Ret-Gone: As much as he brutalizes Danny during their fights, he avoids killing him to avoid this.
• Satanic Archetype: He is a Fallen Hero who has brought destruction and suffering to the entire Earth and has a fiery motif. Not to mention that him being imprisoned in the Fenton Thermos mirrors the Devil's own imprisonment in Hell. If one looks closely during the Final Battle, they will see that he has the forked tongue of a snake, an animal commonly associated with Satan.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: He was sealed away in a Fenton Thermos and left with Clockwork, though for how long is unknown.
• Self-Made Orphan: He didn't just try to kill his human half's parents, he tried to kill his sister, his friends, and his teacher... just to secure his own future.
• Shadow Archetype: Represents what Danny could have been had he given into despair and purged his emotions. In a sense, he's Danny's ghost half who freed himself from his human side, but in the process, became a remorseless, sadistic and evil monster totally devoid of empathy and compassion.
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Danny's trying to stop him from killing the people closest to him because he promised to not turn evil? Ha! Such a child.
• Slasher Smile: Frequently displays these whenever things go his way.
• The Sociopath: All started when Danny made Vlad remove what he believed started his misery and caused him pain. The result became this and Dark Danny is proud of it.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: He rarely raises his voice and talks in a genuinely charming and polite tone but he also craves destruction For the Evulz and makes no effort to hide that.
• Super-Scream: His Ghostly Wail. It took him ten years to master the move though. He got really pissed when his past self mastered it quicker.
• Super Smoke: At one point in his introduction, instead of turning intangible, he turns into a cloud of green mist to tank laser fire.
• Temporal Paradox: Winds up causing one while trying to ensure his own creation. Whoops.
• This Cannot Be!: His reaction when Danny uses the Ghostly Wail on him, a power that took him ten years to develop. It's hammered home because, immediately before this, he had bragged about how Danny's Face–Heel Turn was an inevitability, reasoning that all major points in the timeline were fixed due to him not undergoing a Cessation of Existence even after frightening Danny with his appearance. The fact that Danny learned the Ghostly Wail 10 years before he did completely refutes this argument in an instant, indicating that it is possible for Danny to change his future. The revelation leaves him so stunned that he's unable to properly counter Danny's Wail, and he's then sucked into the Fenton Thermos afterwards.
  Dark Danny: That power! It's not possible! I don't get that power until 10 years from now!
  Danny: I guess the future isn't as set in stone as you think it is.
• This Is Your Brain on Evil: He's an older version of Danny with his conscience and the part of him that can feel positive emotions removed, leaving him a sadistic monster.
• Too Powerful to Live: Dark Danny was so powerful that the Observants were forced to directly interfere with the time stream itself (via Clockwork) in order to prevent his reign of destruction on Earth and in the Ghost Zone. In fact, he is too powerful to return because of how much it took to defeat him in the first place.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Somewhat averted as Dark Danny isn't really that kid but only half of him. However, that half, as shown in "Identity Crisis", was a kindhearted dork who took pride in being a superhero. The half that forcibly took Vlad's ghost half was shown to be hostile and very much not heroic and taking Vlad's ghost half made him even worse.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The show, while carrying serious arcs, is still aimed at children and has a fair amount of comedy and positive fluff. Dark Danny not only commits mass murder as his introduction, but he has no compunctions about harming kids and former loved ones.
• Villain Has a Point: It's hard not to agree with Dark Danny when he mocks Jack and Maddie Fenton for failing to realize their son is half-ghost despite being the world's leading ghost experts, especially when the names Danny Fenton and Danny Phantom sound very similar.
• Walking Spoiler: We can't even tell you his name without giving away The Reveal.
• World's Strongest Man: He's the strongest entity of the show, barring Pariah Dark. He single handedly brought ruin to the human and ghost world and Danny was on the ropes the whole time until he unlocked his own Ghostly Wail. In fact, he was a being so powerful that he had to be erased from the timeline entirely.
• Would Hurt a Child: Regardless if they are his old friends or his sister.
• You Can't Fight Fate: According to him, anyway.

  "Me? My future? I'm inevitable."

  • Danny eventually shows his evil counterpart that his dark future is not inevitable by unlocking the Ghostly Wail ten years earlier than he did.
• Younger Than He Looks: Dark Danny looks like a man in his early-to-mid 20s, but is chronologically 10 years old.

Other Recurring Villains

Box Ghost

The Box Ghost

BEWARE!

Voiced by: Rob Paulsen (English)^{Other Languages}Salvador Pérez (Latin American Spanish), Cezary Kwieciński (Polish)

A Harmless Villain, Box Ghost's main shtick is anything cardboard and square (and the occasional bubble wrap). Consistently pathetic and easy to beat, he remains determined to be taken seriously. He Took a Level in Badass in the Bad Future, becoming incredibly muscular and gaining the ability to form exploding boxes out of energy.

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• Big Bad Wannabe: Talks a big game, but no one pays much attention to him.
• Butt-Monkey: Frequently. Skulker likes using him as bait, for starters.
• Character Catchphrase: "I am the Box Ghost!" "BEWARE!"
• Everyone Has Standards: While he's considered to be an annoyance by everyone around him, even he finds Klemper to be annoying and refuses to be friends with him.
• Eyepatch of Power: Is seen sporting one in the Bad Future.
• Failed Attempt at Scaring: He's the one ghost that can't scare any of the easily spooked humans of Amity Park.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: He's treated as just as much of a joke by the rest of Danny's enemies as he is by the heroes. Skulker in particular seems to enjoy pushing him around. That being said, they never object to his presence when they are all seen together. The only one who seems to like him is Klemper, but the Box Ghost in turn finds him annoying.
• Future Badass: In the Bad Future where Danny became Dark Danny, Box Ghost is far from the bumbling incompetent spectre Danny knows.
  "Beware."
• Harmless Villain: Up until he steals Pandora's Box. Once that was done, he was given his own Wanted Poster.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Being able to control boxes and their contents seems kinda of a meh power... however, this includes all boxes, including Pandora's box.
  • A more heartwarming example in the Christmas special; the Box Ghost is the first to make his contribution to saving Christmas known, by way of repairing all the presents that got smashed earlier in the episode.
• Hook Hand: His Bad Future self has a two-prong harpoon replacing one of his hands.
• 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. And then there's Pandora's Box with its contents. Then there's his future self who can create and throw energy boxes.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: So much so that nobody really cares whether he's on the loose or not.
  Box Ghost: Hey! I have feelings too, y'know!
• Large Ham: He's quite bombastic when announcing himself.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Goofy and unimpressive he is to the point where his bounty isn't even worth much (shown in "Boxed Up Fury" to be "$2.50 or Best Offer" and bumped up to 50 dollars at the end of the episode), he did once knock Danny out and almost skewered him with scalpels. Granted Danny was still new at being a superhero at the time. He's also shown to be pretty strong in the future and Pandora's Box gave him one hell of a power up.
• Poltergeist: He has the power to control boxes, as well as their contents.
• Team Rocket Wins: In "Splitting Images" he actually manages to defeat Danny in a fight pretty handily. By the end of the same episode he escapes without being sent back to the Ghost Zone.
• Took a Level in Badass: His future self is far more serious and powerful. He also gained a power boost from Pandora's Box which temporarily made him one of Danny's most difficult enemies to beat.
• Top-Heavy Guy: Much like Jack Fenton, Box Ghost has a rectangle body with short stubby legs. His Bad Future self gains a more muscular physique, similar to Skulker.
• Unholy Matrimony: With the Lunch Lady in at least one future. Team Phantom is heavily squicked out by this.
• Unknown Rival: To Danny, who couldn't care less about him.
• Workplace-Acquired Abilities: It is implied that he was a longshoreman when he was still alive.

Lunch Lady

The Lunch Lady

Voiced by: Patricia Heaton and Kath Soucie (English)^{Other Languages}Maite Bolívar (Latin American Spanish), Mirosława Krajewska (Polish)

Her goal is to serve food to everybody, but she goes into a homicidal rage if people refuse. She doesn't like vegetables.

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• Affably Evil: Despite her lack of morals, she's sweet and grandmotherly — well, sometimes.
• Angry Chef: Gets really ticked off when people change her menus.
• Apron Matron: Can go from kind and motherly when offering food to vicious and bloodthirsty when her food is rejected.
• Berserk Button: Changing the Casper High cafeteria menu will drive her insane, but either accepting or refusing the food she randomly offers to people in the middle of her fights also works.
• Chef of Iron: Can control food and form a body made of meat.
• Evil Chef: Tries to kill people who don't like her cooking.
• Final Boss: She is the final boss in the Game Boy Advance version of the Urban Jungle video game, for some reason being fought directly after the final battle with Undergrowth.
• Food-Based Superpowers: Has the ability to control food, summon it, and even transform herself into a meat monster.
• Improbable Weapon User: Her power is similar to Box Ghost, except she can telekinetically control food, cups, plates, utensils, anything that has to do with a kitchen.
• Lethal Chef: It's not that the food's bad so much as that it will kill you.
• Mood-Swinger: She talks very sweetly one minute, then screams at the top of her lungs in a blind rage the next.
• Obsessed with Food: More like Obsessed With Meat, but still. She claims that lunch is sacred, and worships meat to the point of proclaiming it the source of discipline, manners, and respect.
• Playing with Fire: She can control fire by transforming ovens into fire-breathing monsters.
• Poltergeist: She has the power to control food and kitchen objects.
• Serious Business: Implied to be the ghost of a former lunch lady of Casper High, she's excessively conservative about the Casper High cafeteria menu. She has the power to detect if it's been changed, and will try to get revenge on whoever does it. It might be somewhat justified in the first episode, since Sam unilaterally changed the entire menu, but Phantom Planet reveals she gets outraged even if they just happen to serve veggie burgers.
  Lunch Lady Ghost: I control lunch! Lunch is sacred! LUNCH HAS RULES! Anybody want cake?
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: In "Prisoners of Love", she summons a gigantic chicken leg as a weapon.
• Starter Villain: She's the primary villain of the first episode, and the first ghost that Danny captures with the Fenton Thermos. She never appears again as a primary villain.
• Unholy Matrimony: With the Box Ghost in at least one future. Danny is reasonably grossed out by the idea.
• Workplace-Acquired Abilities: She was a former chef of Casper High.

Skulker

Skulker

^{Click here for his true form}

Voiced by: Mathew St. Patrick and Kevin Michael Richardson (English)^{Other Languages}Luis Miguel Pérez (Latin American Spanish), Miłogost Reczek (Polish)

One of the show's most recurring villains, Skulker is a ghost obsessed with hunting to such an extent that he's considered the Ghost Zone's greatest predator. Growing bored, he looked to the human world for a challenge and fixated on Danny, whose hybrid nature made for an endlessly exciting hunt. In the Bad Future, he merged with Technus to become Skulktech 9.9.

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• Badass Biker: He certainly looks like one.
• Beard of Evil: A glowing green goatee.
• BFG: There are a lot of improbably huge guns built into that battlesuit.
• Co-Dragons: Danny's second most recurring villain behind only Vlad himself, whom he also occasionally works for as his main muscle alongside Valerie.
• Egomaniac Hunter: Hunts other ghosts for sport. He even keeps trophies.
• Enemy Mine: On several occasions. He even says once, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend. ...For now."
• Evil Sounds Deep: He's a villain with a deep voice, and his voice gets deeper as the series goes on.
• Expy: Of Kraven the Hunter, being a supervillainous big-game hunter who wants to make the main character his quarry.
• Flaming Hair: Has glowing green flames for hair.
• Humiliation Conga: In his first appearance, he accidentally hooks up his battlesuit to Tucker's PDA. Since said PDA holds Danny's schedule, Skulker is forced to follow, being jerked around like a puppet by his own armor. Things only get worse when Tucker realizes he can change the schedule using his other PDA and forces Skulker to do push-ups and polish his armor.
• Hunter of His Own Kind: He's a ghost who proudly hunts other ghosts.
• Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Targets other ghosts, and takes a particular interest in Danny Phantom.
• The Man Behind the Curtain: The real Skulker is a tiny and pathetically weak ghost; the body most people see is just a high-tech suit. As he spends almost all of his time in the suit, however, this isn't a huge weakness.
• Mobile-Suit Human: At the end of his first episode, it's revealed that what appears to be his body is actually a mecha operated by a much smaller ghost.
• Powered Armor: His body turns out to be a Giant Mecha of sorts for a small, weak ghost.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Introduced in “One Of A Kind” and soon becomes one of the most frequently used villains in the series. In fact, behind only Vlad himself!
• Top-Heavy Guy: As a bounty hunter, he (or rather his suit) has a muscluar upper body and short legs.
• Villain Decay: In his first appearance he was genuinely menacing, and had Danny looking over his shoulder scared. Fast forward to "Micro Management", where Danny could defeat him in a few blasts, and only became a threat when Danny lost his powers. It reached its peak in "Girls Night Out", where a bird chased him off.
• Worthy Opponent: He and Danny hate each other, but do seem to respect each others' abilities to the extent of teaming up several times when a bigger threat comes around. He even states as much in the series finale.

Technus

Nicolai Technus

^{Click here for his second form}

Voiced by: Rob Paulsen (English)^{Other Languages}Manuel Bastos (Latin American Spanish), Janusz Wituch (Polish)

Another common enemy, Technus is an eccentric ghost with formidable technological powers and the goal of WORLD DOMINATION — who gets defeated in every appearance, largely due to his bad habit of shouting his plans at the top of his lungs (though his upgrade into Technus 2.0 helped him break that habit). Nonetheless, as long as he can possess sufficiently advanced machinery, he can be quite formidable. In the Bad Future, he merged with Skulker to become Skulk Tech.

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• Beware the Silly Ones: Technus is a hammy, silly villain who monologues a lot, but he's also a genuinely dangerous fighter and can fight Danny quite well even in his early appearances.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Prior to being upgraded his plans were skewed towards the bizarre.
• Cool Shades: Square ones that seem to lack a nosepiece.
• Cyber Green: As befitting a master of technology (and on top of this show's tendency to associate these colors with ghosts), his mechanized forms heavily use a palette of black and bright green.
• Einstein Hair: Before his upgrade he had white Flaming Hair that gave him this look.
• Electromagnetic Ghosts: He can possess and interfere with electronic devices.
• Final Boss: He is the final boss faced in the Nick.com game Portal Peril/Portal Problem.
• Genre Blindness: Very much so in his original form, doing things like blurting out his plans and spending hours monologuing. His upgrade negated this, though (although he does tend to occasionally slip up).
• Informed Attribute: According to Danny, Technus apparently hates emotions and is implied to be unable to understand them all that well. However, Technus displays a wide range of emotions and is apparently knowledgeable enough about them to instigate a love affair between Danny and Valerie to serve his needs. He was also able to notice and lampshade Sam's unrequited love for Danny even before Danny could.
• Large Ham: "I AM TECHNUS! MASTER OF ALL THINGS ELECTRICAL!"
• Manipulative Bastard: After his upgrade, much to Danny's surprise, who assumed he wouldn't do it because he hates emotions.
• Meaningful Name: Named after Nikola Tesla, known best for his work in electrical currents (as well as being the source for many Mad Scientist tropes).
• Mid-Season Upgrade: Interfacing with the Fentons' computer allowed him to transform into 'Technus 2.0'. Not only did it give him a new look and stronger powers, it came with a huge boost in cunning. Overall, it made him far more formidable than he was before.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Paulsen shows off his Gilbert Gottfried impression here.
• Poltergeist: He can possess and control any technological item.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When his shades are off, even though it's only shown in his first appearance.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Spent a fair amount of episodes imprisoned in Level Zero of the Doomed video game.
• Shipper with an Agenda: He pushes Valerie and Danny closer together into a relationship to distract both of them while he works on his larger plans in "Flirting With Disaster".
• Shock Stick: He's sometimes shown with a technological staff capable of generating electricity. It became a plot point once in a later episode.
• Take Over the World: His stated goal.
• Technopath: Technus has the power to possess and upgrade technology, which he uses to forge powerful weapons and battlesuits. Technus can also summon technology and bend it to his will to do whatever he says, even from afar. He commonly refers to himself in some form of "Technus! Ghost Master of Technology!" because of this.
• Took a Level in Badass: As the series goes on, Technus becomes more and more dangerous due to his upgrades and eventually loses most of his more quirky features in his upgrade into Technus 2.0. In the end, he goes from silly supervillain to a world-threatening menace.
• Totally Radical: Tries to sound "hip and far out" around Team Phantom in one episode.
• Villain Respect: After Danny gives him two great ideas in the same episode, he praises Danny's intelligence, though whether he was being serious or not on either occasion is anybody's guess.

Desiree

Desiree

So you have wished it, so shall it be.

Voiced by: Peri Gilpin (English)^{Other Languages}Claudia Nieto (Latin American Spanish), Katarzyna Godlewska (Polish)

A ghost genie who is forced to grant people's wishes, most of them resulting a terrible price on the wisher. As a human, Desiree was the Sultan's favored lover of his harem, a love she gave back. The Sultan's jealous wife drove her away, forcing her to remain vindictive and heartbroken throughout the series.

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• Batman Gambit: At one point, she began stalking Team Phantom when she saw that Danny and Sam were arguing. She was waiting for the point when one of them used the magic words, "I wish I never met you!" without Sam as Danny's friend, he never became Danny Phantom, and Desiree took advantage to remove Danny as an obstacle for her plans involving a meteor shower.
• Beat It by Compulsion: A drawback to her powers is that she has to grant every wish someone makes in front of her, even if it's a wish that can be used against her (such as wishing she'd be in the Fenton Thermos).
• Bedlah Babe: She was a harem girl for a time when she was still alive.
• Benevolent Genie: There are hints that she was this for some time after her death, but her inability to see her own desires fulfilled combined with the blatantly selfish nature of most of the wishes she granted eventually drove her to become a Jackass Genie.
• Break the Cutie: In her backstory, Desiree was a harem girl who caught the sultan's eye. He promised her heart's desire and for this, she was banished by the sultan's jealous wife. After her death, she tried granting people's wishes to give them the happiness she could never have, but was driven evil by the selfish nature of everyone's desires and her own bitterness.
• Death by Despair: She died of a broken heart (along with old age) after being denied her heart's desire promised to her by her lover, and then being driven away from him by his jealous wife.
• Dual Boss: In the Urban Jungle licensed game's Boss Battle mode (a boss rush where Danny has to endure boss fights against ghost villains who aren't fought in the main game), the penultimate battle is against her fighting alongside Penelope Spectra.
• Face–Heel Turn: Though she's always evil in the show proper, her backstory implies that in the past she genuinely used her powers to help others.
• Green and Mean: Her skin is a deep green, and she's a Jackass Genie par exellence.
• Impossible Hourglass Figure: She has the largest bust-waist-hips ratio in the entire show.
• Jackass Genie: Grants other people’s wishes, but does so in a way that's sure to cause havoc. Interestingly, the images used in her backstory suggest she didn't always act this way, but started to out of spite over her own wish never being fulfilled.
• Literal Genie: Became one after she "died of a broken heart... and old age".
• Logical Weakness: As a ghost who styles herself as a genie, she's compelled to grant the wishes of others by nature. So, Team Phantom tends to use her nature against her as she can't stop herself from granting a wish that she hears, including wishes that are detrimental to her, leading to her being quickly defeated.
• Maker of Monsters: She often produces ghosts as a result of her wish granting.
• Meaningful Name: It sounds like "desire," fitting for a genie.
• Ms. Fanservice: She was the harem girl of a sultan whilst she was still human, sports an outfit that shows her navel, and has an Impossible Hourglass Figure on top of that.
• Older Than She Looks: Desiree died of old age when she was human. Her youth was clearly restored when she became a ghost.
• Our Genies Are Different: A genie who's also a ghost.
• Reality Warper: Her powers are generally limited to whatever (imaginative) people wish for.
• Self-Disposing Villain: In both her central episodes, she's defeated by a wish she grants, firstly by being wished into the Fenton Thermos and secondly by returning Danny his memories and skills to beat her. Following her second defeat, she even acknowledges that she needs to stop granting every wish within earshot.
• Shapeshifter Weapon: She can transform her hands into weapons like hammers and ropes.
• Tragic Villain: She died of a broken heart (and old age) after having her dreams ruined. She tried to make others happy by granting their wishes, but their selfish desires and her bitterness over not having her own wish granted turned her evil.
• Wishplosion: She grants wishes and has no choice but to do so. In fact, in her debut episode, she was defeated when Danny wished that she got sucked into the Fenton Thermos. In her second appearance, she's implied to have grown strong enough that she no longer has to grant any wish she hears but ends up doing so anyway out of excitement. This was also the reason she wasn't used much (besides her VA being busy) since the writers couldn't think of any other way to beat her.

Walker

Walker

Voiced by: James Arnold Taylor (English)^{Other Languages}Salomón Adames (Latin American Spanish), Andrzej Chudy (Polish)

A ghostly sheriff obsessed with maintaining order at any cost, Walker doesn't have as many appearances as some of the other rogues' gallery members, but is still a very significant villain for being the ghost who reveals the existence of ghosts to the world at large and is responsible for Danny's rep as a Hero with Bad Publicity.

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• The Bad Guy Wins: His scheme to discredit Danny in "Public Enemies" actually succeeds, despite Maddie sending him back to the Ghost Zone. Played straight before he is sent back into the Ghost Zone and taunts Danny on how he's made Danny an enemy of both his hometown and the Ghost World.
  Walker: Feared on Earth and Wanted in the Ghost Zone! You've lost, Ghost Kid! LOST!
• Bald of Evil: In "Call of the Wild", the top of his hat is destroyed, revealing he's bald underneath.
• Catchphrase Insult: He always calls Danny “punk”.
• Character Catchphrase: “That’s against the rules.”
• Control Freak: He seeks to exert order in the chaos of the Ghost Zone by imprisoning whatever ghost that breaks his rules.
• Easily Forgiven: Though in his initial appearance he's just as much (if not moreso) of an enemy to the Rogues Gallery as Danny is, later on he is shown with the other ghosts without any problems.
• Evil Plan: In "Public Enemies" he pulls off one almost perfectly, turning the whole town against Danny as revenge for Danny causing a prison break in his dimension while suffering no lasting consequences himself beyond being sent back to the Ghost Zone.
• Evil Sounds Deep: He has a deep voice to underscore his intimidating nature.
• For the Evulz: In "Claw of the Wild", Walker affirms to Danny that he has no real reason to keep all of the humans he kidnapped (other than to keep them silent), as long as he gives him back Wulf. Unsurprisingly, Walker goes back on this promise and traps Danny anyway, having every intention to keep him, the humans, and Wulf trapped in his prison forever altogether. It turns out, he kidnapped the humans (and other ghosts previously) just because he likes it.
• Forgot About His Powers: For some reason, he never turns giant while fighting his enemies.
• Hypocrite: Walker sometimes travels to the human realm to try and catch Danny, even though “trespassing” between the human realm and the Ghost Zone is one of his rules, and is in fact the rule he wants to imprison Danny for breaking.
• Inspector Javert: If something from the real world goes into the Ghost World, they are breaking the rules and will be arrested without exception, even if a person from the real world enters the Ghost World specifically to remove something from the real world that floated in.
• The Jailer: Runs a prison in the Ghost Zone made up of ghosts he captures from their own dimensions, including powerful members of Danny's Rogues Gallery.
• Judge, Jury, and Executioner: He's also executioner and executioner. He really enjoys that part of the job.
• Kick the Dog: He used a shock collar to torture Wulf, and later tries to put it on Sam so he can torture her while Danny is Forced to Watch.
• Knight Templar: Even Felony Misdemeanors are enough of an excuse for him to arrest and jail you.
• Meaningful Name: Clearly intended as an evil Walker, Texas Ranger.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He brings up bringing order in his prison to combat the chaos of the Ghost Zone. However, considering he goes as far as to make things worst for Danny in the real world, and kidnapping teens who get in his way, he's clearly just a Control Freak.
• Sadist: As mentioned above, Walker really enjoys executing prisoners.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: His attitude regarding his "rules." In his Establishing Character Moment, he arrests Danny, then makes what Danny was doing at the time illegal. He also breaks his rule against traveling between the Ghozt Zone and the human realm by traveling to the human realm to catch Danny.
• Sizeshifter: When he appears for the first time, he turns giant.
• Took a Level in Badass: He's a lot more formidable in "Public Enemies" than he is in his first appearance in "Prisoners of Love". And he was a pretty formidable foe to begin with, to boot.
• "You!" Exclamation: His final line of the series, as it turns out. In his final fight with Danny, the latter feints an attack by charging at Walker only to turn back into his human form so that he can phase through Walker and appear on the other side. Walker, furious, offers this in response, and Danny immediately freezes Walker in a block of ice before eventually leaving him trapped in the Ghost Zone.

Penelope Spectra

Penelope Spectra

Voiced by: Tara Strong (English)^{Other Languages}Melanie Henríquez (Latin American Spanish), Agnieszka Kunikowska (Polish)

On the outside, Spectra looks to be a kind, perky woman who just wants to help teenagers and their depression. In reality, she is a Vain Sorceress ghost who sucks in their emotions to further her youth and beauty. Beneath that bubbly personality, Spectra is sadistic and immoral.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Pretends to be a caring psychologist when she really is out only for herself.
• Break Them by Talking: A very defining trait of hers. She often tries demoralizing her opponents since she needs negativity to function.
• Clipped-Wing Angel: What her "new perfect body" turns out to be in "Doctor's Disorders", because Danny managed to sneak his father's DNA (a handkerchief covered with snot) in the machine creating it. First her body assumes a physique like his, then turns into snot.
• Characterization Marches On: In "My Brother's Keeper", she seems to have a good relationship with Bertrand, but in "Girls' Night Out", she's irked by his presence.
• Crazy-Prepared: In her debut episode, she keeps the air conditioner on full blast, so people in her office are always seeing their own breath. However, when Danny sees a photo with his ghost sense (which looks like fogged-up breath) going off while he was in the hall, he realizes that Spectra used it to hide the fact that she was a ghost.
• Devilish Hair Horns: Sports these in her human form.
• Dual Boss: The penultimate battle in the Urban Jungle licensed game's Boss Battle mode (a boss rush where Danny has to endure boss fights against ghost villains who aren't fought in the main game) has her fighting alongside Desiree.
• Emotion Eater: Feeds off of despair and depression.
• Evil Redhead: In her human form.
• Fatal Flaw: Exploited as part of her MO. She feeds off of negativity, which she gets by acting as a high school psychologist and picking at the one thing her "patients" are the most insecure about. For Dash, it's his future; for Paulina, it's her beauty; for Danny, it's his competence.
• Faux Affably Evil: Part of her shtick as The Shrink. Oh yes, she says she'll help you with your problems, but in truth she'll only kick you while you're at your lowest so that she can feed on your misery.
• First-Name Basis: She's one of the few villains who addresses Danny by his name instead of "ghost child" or some insult.
• Fountain of Youth: She needs the depression of teenagers to keep her youth.
• Head-Turning Beauty: Her new form in "Doctor's Disorders" really impresses Tucker, who mistakes her for a model.
• Last-Name Basis: Almost nobody calls her Penelope, probably because it doesn't sound very ghostly. "Doctor's Disorders" is the only time her full name was ever said.
• Living Shadow: What her ghost form looks like.
• Looks Worth Killing For: Downplayed. Penelope is a ghost who becomes Amity Park High's school counselor and purposely lowers the students' self-confidence, then uses their negativity to keep herself looking young and beautiful.
• Manipulative Bitch: She loves to manipulate teens into misery, especially Danny.
• Mix-and-Match Man: In "Doctor's Disorders" she had instigated a plague among Amity High's student body to covertly collect their DNA when quarantined to build herself a body with their best qualities. Danny sabotages it so she gets his father's physique, then turns into snot.
• Ms. Fanservice: Doesn't apply to her true form, but her human form ranks up there with Ember and Desiree.
• Psycho Psychologist: In "My Brother's Keeper" she was hired to be the school's shrink, but ended up being a ghost who just wanted to torment the students.
• Sadist: While she feeds off of misery and despair, it's shown that she also gets a rather depraved form of pleasure from causing it.
• The Shrink: Her disguise in her debut.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: At least in her human form. Her eyes are also a subtle indicator that she's a ghost.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: She's the huge girl to the tiny Bertrand.
• Unholy Matrimony: Implied to have this with Bertrand.
• Vain Sorceress: All of her plans are motivated by a desire to be perfectly youthful and beautiful.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: She finds amusement in trying to kill teenagers for the sake of making herself pretty, making her one of the cruelest ghosts in the show.
• Villainous Friendship: "Girls' Night Out" reveals she has one with Kitty and Ember.

Bertrand

Bertrand

Voiced by: Jim Ward (English)^{Other Languages}Rubén Leon (Latin American Spanish), Miłogost Reczek (Polish)

Spectra's loyal Battle Butler.

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• Battle Butler: He wears a butler's attire in his standard human form, and he's the one who does most of the fighting for Spectra.
• Blob Monster: His true form is a green ectoplasmic blob with red eyes.
• Butt-Monkey: It seems that he's rejected by Johnny and Skulker, who don't invite him to go to Amity Park with them in "Girls' Night Out", and even Spectra seems to hate him in that episode.
• Camp Straight: He has some effeminate qualities and is just as vain as his boss, but is also implied to be in a relationship with her.
• The Dragon: He poses as Spectra's assistant when she poses as a shrink, while aiding her in her plans and doing most of the fighting for her.
• Emotion Eater: It's implied he shares Spectra's power of feeding on misery.
• Hulking Out: He transforms into a bulky monster doctor in "Doctor's Disorders", but it's easily defeated.
• Sadist: Like Spectra, he seems to enjoy torturing people and causing them misery.
• Shapeshifting: His main power.
• Shapeshifter Default Form: He usually takes the form of a short man with a butler's uniform.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Possibly as a result of his shapeshifting powers, he can conjure weapons out of nowhere. His ninja transformation in "My Brother's Keeper" comes with nunchucks, and in "Doctor's Disorders", he summons a scalpel and a syringe to attack Tucker.
• The Stool Pigeon: He tells Kitty, Ember and Spectra that Johnny and Skulker are in Amity Park out of spite because he wasn't invited to go with them.
• Sue Donym: He "disguises" himself as Dr. Bert Rand in "Doctor's Disorders".
• Transformation Horror: His transformation into a monster doctor is quite grotesque: his eyes pop out, his skin becomes green and bubbles as if it were boiling, he gains sharp fangs, his tongue stretches out, and when it's complete, his brain becomes exposed.
• Undying Loyalty: Towards Spectra.
• Unholy Matrimony: Implied to have this with Spectra.

Ember McLain

Ember McLain

Ohhh, Ember, so warm and tender! You will remember my name!

Voiced by: Tara Strong (English), Robbyn Kirmssé (singing voice)^{Other Languages}Maythe Guedes (Latin American Spanish), Monika Wierzbicka (Polish)

A punk rock diva, Ember hates all sense of authority and adults. She wants to Take Over the World strictly so people will always remember her name. She tends to be a blunt person. In the Bad Future, she is overweight and her vocal cords have been damaged, rendering her unable to sing.

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• Advertised Extra: She was constantly talked up in and out-of-universe as a major recurring rogue. However, she’s definitely more of a secondary villain at best. Her appearances were already pretty few and far between; out of her six total appearances, she only played a major role in three of them, and she’s not even the star villain in two out of those three episodes. It’s probable that the show just hyped her up so much due to her unexpected popularity with fans. See the Breakout Villain trope below.
• Attention Whore: Invokes this to gain power, simply by having her fans say her name.
• Beauty Is Bad: A beautiful ghost girl who turns out be an evil rock star trying to hypnotize people into remembering her for eternity.
• Breakout Villain: She's introduced halfway into season one and, outside of a cameo, played no major role for the rest of the season. In season two, despite only playing the villain in a team-up with Youngblood in one episode, she would continue to make appearances on the show despite her lack of importance to the plot. She quickly became one of the most popular villains of the show, to the point where she was the first of Danny's rogues gallery besides Vlad to be adapted into a Funko Pop figure and the first character from the show besides Danny himself to be playable in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2.
• Catchphrase Insult: Her favorite nickname for her detractors is "Dipstick."
• Combo Platter Powers: Ember has a surprisingly diverse set of powers, including cheering empowerment, Mass Hypnosis, love inducement, power augmentation, different kinds of ghost rays, and Flaming Hair.
• Dude Magnet: Skulker dated her, Dash and Kwan have a huge crush on her, and a big crowd of boys fight over her in Girls’ Night Out.
• Emotion Bomb: Can use her guitar to manipulate the emotions of others.
• Evil Diva: She's a ghostly rock star who wants to take over the world. Hell, she even provides the freakin' page image!
• Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: In her case, it has more to do with being a punk rocker than with being evil.
• Fate Worse than Death: Ember died in a House Fire when she just a teenager, and ended up in the Ghost Zone.
  • In the Bad Future, Dark Phantom damages her vocal cords so severely that she can’t sing. This leads to her intense depression where she turns to food for comfort.
  • Ember McLain never achieves her dream of being a worldwide rockstar.
• Flaming Hair: It gets longer the stronger she gets. She can use it as a weapon. Backfired when she accidentally set Youngblood's pirate ship on fire.
• Flashy Teleportation: Ember uses her flaming hair to teleport.
• Goth Spirals: On her right eye.
• Hartman Hips: Ember McLain is a very beautiful teen rockstar with wide hips and a big butt.
• Head-Turning Beauty: Ember McLain is definitely one of the show's top 3 beauties.
• House Fire: Ember waited at the movie theater for her date to show up, when morning came and he still didn’t show up Ember went home exhausted. Ember died in her sleep due to her house mysteriously catching fire.
• Humble Goal: In truth, all Ember McLain wants is to be a world famous rockstar. You can't truly call that evil. It's the mind control that's wrong.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: This is Ember’s true desire.
• Immortal Immaturity: Ember McLain is an eternal teenage ghost.
• Instrument of Murder: Can smack people around with her electric guitar.
• Keystone Superpower: Ember’s guitar allows her utilize many powerful abilities.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Ember smartly flees after burning the sails of Youngblood's ship.
• Love Potion: More like Love Guitar. One of the settings on her guitar makes people fall in love with each other.
• Magic Music: Ember McLain can manipulate her music to produce a wide variety of special “effects”.
• Mark of the Supernatural: Her bright blue hair is an indicator that she's a ghost.
• Mass Hypnosis: Ember can use her music to brainwash masses of people. In each episode featuring her as a main villain, she hypnotizes a certain group (first teenagers, then adults, and lastly women).
• Meaningful Name: Her last name basically means "son of the servant of Saint John." Saint John the Apostle is the patron saint of love, loyalty, and burn victims, among other things.
• Mind-Control Music: The crux of Ember's power and evil plans. Her introduction was to brainwash people into her adoring fans, gaining more power by their devotion to her.
• Ms. Fanservice: An Evil Diva with a hypnotic singing voice, a slender yet curvy figure, tight pants, and a top that shows her stomach? Yeah, that should do it.
• Musical Assassin: Her guitar is her main weapon.
• Mysterious Past: One of the directors revealed that Ember McLain was an unpopular high schooler who got stood up by the guy she liked and died in her sleep when her house went up in flames. Other than that, we know nothing about Ember’s upbringing.
• Pirate Girl: She wears pirate gear during the episode "Pirate Radio" where she and Youngblood team up to take over Amity Park.
• Playing with Fire: She has pyrokinetic powers, both through her guitar and hair.
• Popularity Power: The more people cheer her name, the stronger she gets. Ember gains power through the adoration of her fans.
• The Power of Rock: Literally, as her powers depend on her guitar and music.
• Pursue the Dream Job: Ember McLain wanted to be a rockstar ever since she was a kid, but she died when she was just a teenager in highschool (most likely a sophomore). Even death didn't stop her from pursuing her dream.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When really enraged, Ember’s eyes turn crimson red and her pupils disappear.
• Say My Name: In her first appearance. She wasn't happy when it didn't work.
• Shipper with an Agenda: In her own words, "nothing distracts teenagers more than hormones." She casts a love spell on Danny so he would fall madly in love with Sam so he'd be too focused on Sam to fight Ember.
• Teen Idol: Ember McLain is a talented rockstar, but has such little faith in herself that she genuinely believes that she needs to brainwash people for them to like her music. Having died when she was still in highschool (probably a sophomore), Ember is an eternal teenager, and hasn't outgrown the insecurities she was plagued with during life.
• Totally Radical: Her favorite insult for Danny is "Dipstick," something he's mocked her about before.
• Tragic Villain: A teenager who died before she could ever achieve her dreams, Ember now wants to achieve her dreams through mind control, genuinely believing this to be the only way she can.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Ember is much better looking than her ex Skulker, especially his true form.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Ember is the strongest ghost female, and doesn’t have a Weak Sauce Weakness. Ember can fight, but clearly has no formal training or combat experience, she makes up for her lack of skill with determination.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The chorus of "Remember" says "Ember, so warm and tender," implying she was much nicer when she was alive in spite of her unhappy home life before dying and becoming the vindictive specter she is today.
• Vague Age: The anti-adult standpoint she cites as her motivation for working with Youngblood while being in a relationship with a ghost who appears to be an adult (Skulker) raises questions on how old she's supposed to be. It was later revealed by one of the directors that Ember McLain was an unpopular high-schooler when she died. It's impossible for her to be physically older than 18, and was most likely a sophomore. Ember McLain is most likely physically 15-16 years old.
• Villain Song: "Remember," which hints at her origin. The lyrics tell the story of a girl evidently abandoned by her love, whose life continued on without her, with him apparently forgetting she existed. This could be part of her motivation, and how she died so young (it's been hinted that she perhaps died by suicide after being left, perhaps by cremating herself, while one of the directors claimed she was an unpopular girl who was Stood Up by a boy before dying in a house fire)... Her vengeful spirit wants everyone to adore her and always be screaming her name to make sure she's never forgotten again.
• Villainous Friendship: "Girls' Night Out" reveals she has one with Kitty and Spectra.
• Was Once Human: Like Desiree or Sidney Poindexter, Ember McLain was a human with an unhappy life. A high-schooler who died in a housefire.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Ember was an unpopular high-schooler who died too early. In the Bad Future, Ember McLain had her vocal cords severely damaged by Dark Phantom, resulting in her becoming depressed and turn to food for comfort.
• Younger than She Looks: Ember McLain is obviously a youthful teenager, but her exact age is unknown. Considering she died while still in highschool, she is like 15-16 years old (physically).

Fright Knight

The Fright Knight

The Knight That Brings Fright

Voiced by: Michael Dorn (English)^{Other Languages}Héctor Indriago (Latin American Spanish), Leszek Lichota (Polish)

A ghost considered to be the spirit of Halloween, Fright Knight is a very powerful Sealed Evil in a Can inadvertently released by Danny, who was trying to put together a haunted house as part of a detention for Mr. Lancer. He was resealed at the end of the episode, only to be released later by Pariah to serve as The Dragon. At the end of Reign Storm, he was seen to make an alliance with Vlad to take down his master, but this is never really followed up on. In "The Ultimate Enemy" Bad Future, Dark Danny seems to have inherited his loyalty.

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• Aborted Arc: The writers clearly planned for something big to come of his alliance with Vlad, since the whole of Reign Storm leads up to it and it's alluded to in Ultimate Enemy. But for some reason, it's just sort of forgotten about.
• And I'm the Queen of Sheba: In the Nickelodeon Magazine comic story "Bring Back My Body to Me", Danny in Vlad's body tries to convince the Fright Knight that he isn't Vlad. The Fright Knight retorts "And I am Jorgen Von Strangle".
• Artifact of Doom: His sword, the Soulshredder.
• Black Knight: Is dark knight with purple Flaming Hair and a cursed sword.
• Cool Horse: Rides one.
• Cool Sword: The Soulshredder.
• Demoted to Dragon: All of his main appearances after his first have him serving a more powerful opponent.
• The Dragon: Pariah Dark's ancient servant, and later the chief herald of Dark Danny in a Bad Future. He was also set up to become a major ally of Vlad, but nothing ever came of it.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Has a deep, menacing voice.
• Genius Bruiser: This guy's not just one of Danny's stronger adversaries, he's one of his smarter ones too.
• I Fight for the Strongest Side!: This seems to be his motivation when not acting independently. First he follows Pariah Dark before defecting to Vlad. In the Bad Future he serves Dark Danny.
• Large Ham: More subtle than most, but the guy really has a flair for poetry and dramatics.
• Magic Knight: Can fire energy blasts or seal his opponents by slashing them with his sword.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: It's hinted that he once served Pariah Dark more loyally in the distant past, but throughout "Reign Storm" he shows subtle signs of growing tired of Pariah's abuse. By the end he's just as happy as everyone else when Pariah is locked away once more.
• Nightmare Weaver: His sword teleports anyone touched by it to a dimension where their real nightmares become reality.
• Punny Name: His name is a play on "fright night" (Halloween) and "knight".
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Was sealed away inside a pumpkin, and was released first by Danny himself (accidentally), and later by Pariah Dark so that he could act as The Dragon.
• The Starscream: Partial example. He clearly resents being Pariah's minion, but is too scared of him to actually betray him until Vlad shows up with a better offer.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: He appears in the beginning The Ultimate Enemy, voicing that he serves Dark Danny, but it's his only appearance in the movie and he's never mentioned again.
• The Worf Effect: Jack defeats him very quickly with only the pants portion of the Fenton Ecto Suit.

Johnny 13

Johnny 13

Voiced by: William Baldwin (English)^{Other Languages}Antonio Delli (Latin American Spanish), Sebastian Cybulski (Polish)

A scruffy punk on a motorcycle. His main goals are raising havoc and pleasing his girlfriend, Kitty. In the Bad Future, he is in a wheelchair.

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• 13 Is Unlucky: His name and powers are correlated.
• Badass Biker: Has a spectral motorbike that he uses both as transportation and as a weapon.
• Chivalrous Pervert: While he loves Kitty very much, he can't help ogling the ladies, infuriating her to no end.
• Cool Bike: That can drive along walls and fly.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In spite of his Chivalrous Pervert tendencies, he loves his girlfriend Kitty. His motivation in his debut episode was to try to free her from the portal.
• Friendly Enemy: By "Girls Night Out" this how he sees Danny, battling him as a way to vent after a fight with Kitty.
• Living Shadow: It has a mind of its own and is quite powerful. His favored weapon, besides his bike.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: He bears a pretty good resemblance to Kurt Cobain.
• Only Known By His Nickname: He apparently has a real last name, but everyone calls him Johnny 13 for his bad luck.
• Perma-Stubble: Johnny has a few lines of blond hair on his chin, though never enough for a Beard of Evil.
• Powers Do the Fighting: His primary power is his shadow, which he relies on for anything he needs to get done. When his shadow is defeat he himself is left helpless, with his first instinct being to run away.
  Johnny: Oh no. My shadow. My power! I gotta get out of here!
• Unholy Matrimony: Is Kitty's not-so-faithful boyfriend.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Bright light will temporarily disintegrate his shadow and water will turn it into a puddle.
• Winds of Destiny, Change!: Anything his shadow passes through receives bad luck. Danny used this against him by tricking the shadow into touching some equipment Johnny was using.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: In the Bad Future in "The Ultimate Enemy"; Dark Danny put Johnny 13 in a wheelchair. Can you really blame him for wanting revenge?

Kitty

Kitty

Voiced by: Chynna Phillips (English)^{Other Languages}Maritza Rojas (Latin American Spanish), Klementyna Umer (Polish)

Johnny 13's girlfriend. She mostly follows his path, but can be quite dangerous, especially when she's angry. She seemed the least changed in the Bad Future, but joined Johnny and the others in attempting revenge.

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• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Why Kitty is attracted to Johnny 13.
• Anti-Villain: She's one of the least villainous ghosts Danny deals with, as she apologized to Danny for causing him trouble once. However, she still causes trouble, either to teach Johnny a lesson or make Amity Park suitable only for women.
• Artifact of Doom: Her scarf, jacket and ring are artifacts she can use to transform the body of any human woman who wears them into her host.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Really hates it when Johnny is looking at other women besides her.
• Demonic Possession: In her first appearance, Johnny needed to find a host body for her to inhabit in the human world, although this was only necessary because the Fenton portal malfunctioned thanks to Johnny's Living Shadow and she was caught in it. This was dropped in later episodes, and in one episode she uses her possession in an attempt to make Johnny jealous.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In spite of their numerous fights, she loves her boyfriend Johnny.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: She has the power to spread her energy into her clothes and accessories to steal the bodies of human girls who wear them.
• Handbag of Hurt: Her future self uses her purse as a weapon to attack Danny in The Ultimate Enemy.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: In her first appearances, Kitty is immoral, but not entirely evil. In "Girls' Night Out", however, she teams up with Ember and Spectra to become a full-on villain, joining them in wiping out the entire male population of Amity Park and keeping the female citizens brainwashed under a spell for their entertainment.
• Kiss of Death: It's a blown kiss, but any man who is hit by it is trapped in another dimension. If she doesn't blow another kiss to bring them back within a 12 hour time limit, they're trapped on the other side forever.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: Not once prior to season 3 does she establish the ability to make men disappear by blowing a kiss, a power that would have made Johnny much less likely to ogle other girls. It's almost like a power she literally picked up right before the episode.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: She bears a good resemblance to Courtney Love, which is fitting since Johnny looks like Kurt Cobain, whom Love was married to before his death.
• Operation: Jealousy: To piss off Johnny, she dates Danny while secretly overshadowing Paulina.
• Satellite Love Interest: Kitty’s entire character revolves around Johnny 13.
• Unholy Matrimony: With Johnny.
• Villainous Friendship: "Girls' Night Out" reveals she has one with Ember and Spectra.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Despite being constantly at odds with Johnny, deep down she loves him. If you try to hurt him, you will face her wrath.
• Woman Scorned: Johnny's got to learn to stop his wandering eye.

Lydia

Lydia

Voiced by: Tara Strong

Freakshow's right-hand woman and the only ghost in his team who serves him willingly. She never speaks. She is able to bring the tattoos on her body to life and send them to attack people.

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• The Dragon: To Freakshow.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: When Danny traps Freakshow in the Fenton Thermos, she's absolutely furious.
• Not Brainwashed: Unlike Freakshow's other minions, she doesn't flee when his scepter is broken and continues to serve him even without the scepter present.
  • Although, the Guys in White do mention her no longer being under Freakshow's control, so it could even be some other form of brainwashing.
• Shout-Out: Being named Lydia, and being covered in (magic) tattoos, brings to mind the song "Lydia the Tattooed Lady."
• Tattooed Crook: Taken to the logical extreme; her tattoos are weapons.
• Undying Loyalty: She's furious when Danny traps Freakshow in the Fenton Thermos.
• Unholy Matrimony: Implied to be this with Freakshow, being the only ghost who seems to serve him willingly.
• The Voiceless: She never actually speaks, only using the typical grunting and groaning.

Youngblood

Youngblood

Voiced by: Taylor Lautner (English)^{Other Languages}Yensi Rivero and Jesus Nunes (Latin American Spanish), Jacek Wolszczak (Polish)

A little, immature boy who likes to play dress up. Despite his size and youth, he can be incredibly dangerous.

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• Affably Evil: As seen in "Livin' Large", he seems to be geniunely friendly to Danny despite them being enemies (when he's not trying to kill Danny and his family just for fun, and when Danny isn't interrupting his evil plans).
• Ax-Crazy: He spends almost the entirety of "The Fenton Menace" trying to kill the Fentons for fun.
• Babysitter's Nightmare: The Nickelodeon Magazine comic story "Brat's Entertainment" has Danny, Sam and Tucker tasked with babysitting Youngblood by his gigantic parents. He proves to be as troublesome and dangerous as he is when Danny fights him, but the three manage to keep him in line by rebuilding his Construct Blocks robot into a cage to hold him in.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He behaves like a typical brat, often loses himself in his characters and loves to make childish jokes, but he's a dangerous enemy nonetheless, and somehow he's the leader of a crew of ghost pirates.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Youngblood is an obnoxious kid who loves to get on everyone's nerves and play (usually deadly) "pranks". He lampshades how bratty he is in "The Fenton Menace" when he comments on Jazz reacting to Danny destroying her teddy bear Bearbert Einstein.
  Youngblood: Man, she's even brattier than I am.
• Cool Horse: His skeletal sidekick takes the form of a horse when Youngblood dresses as a cowboy.
• Cowboy: His second appearance ditches the pirate theme for a cowboy theme.
• Creepy Child: Especially in his second appearance, in which he gleefully tries to drive Danny insane and to kill his family.
• Cute Bruiser: Is just a child, but is a formidable opponent nevertheless.
• Dressed to Plunder: As a pirate, he hits most of the major costume tropes.
• Enfant Terrible: Despite being just a child, Youngblood is just as evil as most of Danny's enemies, if not more, and he's surprisingly threatening.
• For the Evulz: Youngblood doesn't have any specific motivation for his evil actions, which seem to be more like childish pranks for him.
• Friendly Enemy: Despite being beaten twice, in his next appearance Youngblood cheerfully greets Danny as he's travelling through the Ghost Zone and invites him to hang out and play. Danny brushes him off because he's busy, but does say "maybe some other time."
• Ghost Pirate: His standard role is a pirate, complete with a ghostly pirate ship where he commands an undead pirate crew.
• Imagination-Based Superpower: Youngblood's powers seem to be based on whatever he's play-acting as. From shooting cannons as a pirate to creating a lasso as a cowboy.
• Immortal Immaturity: He's over fifty years old but continues to act as the eight-year-old he looks like.
• Invisible to Adults: He cannot be seen by adults and teenagers who think they are adults (i.e. Jazz Fenton).
  • Sam and Tucker seem to be unable to see him as well in his second appearance despite previously coming in contact with him in "Pirate Radio", although in the latter case there are several contrivances (happening to turn around at the right moment, someone standing in the way, or Youngblood ducking around a corner) that make it unclear if they could still see him or not. Additionally, Lancer also saw him in "Pirate Radio" despite being an adult.
• I Want My Mommy!: The Nickelodeon Magazine comic story "Brat's Entertainment" ends with Youngblood crying "MOMMMEEEE!" while being chased by a Construct Blocks robot driven by Danny, Sam and Tucker.
• New Job as the Plot Demands: His gimmick changes in every episode. He's been a Pirate, a Cowboy, and an astronaut. Although this is justified as he's a kid.
• Non-Human Sidekick: Has one in the form of a skeletal entity that first takes the form of a parrot and then a horse. His form is apparently dependent on Youngblood's current activity. It sometimes doubles as a Hypercompetent Sidekick, as the entity is more mature and thoughtful than him.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: The younger villain to Danny's older hero, since he's a child and Danny is a teenager.
• Older Sidekick: His recurring sidekick seems to be an adult, judging by the way he talks and his maturity level.
• Only Known By His Nickname: It's implied in "The Fenton Menace" that Youngblood is just something he calls himself.
• Pirate Parrot: His skeletal sidekick takes the form a parrot when he's playing a pirate.
• Really 700 Years Old: As he died young, he stopped physically aging while in the body of a child but is really over fifty if his claims are to be believed.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Youngblood's childish, spirited and carefree personality contrasts with his level-headed and apathetic skeletal assistant.
• Retcon: In "The Fenton Menace", it's revealed that he's invisible to adults (like Danny's parents and Lancer) and teens who act like adults (like Jazz). However, Lancer saw him in his debut appearance in "Pirate Radio". It's possible that he can control this power, or Lancer was only aware of the rest of Youngblood's crew that lack this ability.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: His debut episode "Pirate Radio" ends with him stuck on his pirate ship behind a ghost-proof force field. He gets free by his second appearance in the episode "The Fenton Menace".
• Talking Animal: His assistant is only seen in animal forms (either a parrot or a horse), but he's capable of speaking just like a human.
• Talk Like a Pirate: When he plays a pirate, he tries to speak like one, though he's not very good at it. His assistant keeps correcting and helping him.
• Undead Child: He's far younger than Danny, for certain.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: After "The Fenton Menace", Youngblood's skeletal assistant is never seen or mentioned again (not even in Phantom Planet, in which almost every single ghost in the show appears), despite Youngblood making a few more appearances.
• Young and in Charge: He looks and behaves like a little kid, but he's the captain of a ghost pirate crew.

The Guys in White

The Guys in White

Voiced by: S. Scott Bullock (Operative O) and Dee Bradley Baker (Operative K) (English)^{Other Languages}Héctor Indriago (Operative O) and Carlos Vitale (Operative K) (Latin American Spanish)

A government organization whose goal is to eliminate all ghosts and other paranormal beings on Earth, as well as their primary target, Danny Phantom.

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• Anti-Hero: While "hero" is a bit of a stretch, the Guys in White are not antagonistic for personal gain; they're government operatives carrying out security and executive policy. However, they're overzealous to the point they don't care about collateral damage they cause, and they're committed to the extermination of ghosts, going so far as to plotting to destroy the entire Ghost Zone (which would've destroyed the Earth as well).
• Ascended Extra: Introduced in late season one as minor villains and pawns in Vlad's plan who are total jokes. Starting in late season 2, they're more active and much bigger threats to Danny.
• Corrupted Character Copy: They're visually based on Agents J and K from the Men in Black films, but they lack the two's comraderie, morals, and competency. They also see all ghosts as monsters, whereas J and K know not all aliens are threats to the Earth.
• Determinator: They are shown obsessed with hunting down their primary target, Danny Phantom. When they temporarily discovered his Secret Identity, they relentlessly chased him and his friends across the country from Florida, Nevada, to San Diego in a blind effort to destroy and dissect him. They are also determined to destroy all ghosts in existence, even the Ghost Zone (not knowing that if the Ghost Zone is destroyed, the Earth gets destroyed as well).
• Evil Hero: They're this by virtue of trying to fight ghosts, yet constantly trying to also stop Danny Phantom. They even believe that they're the good guys as they dress in white.
• Irony: In their last appearance, "Livin' Large," it's revealed that despite hunting ghosts, they're afraid of haunted places.
• Jerkasses: They're not nice people. Outside ghosts, they are practically rude to anyone they come in contact with, especially the Fentons, whom they view as "crackpots". They've also once threatened Mr. Lancer with their position as government officials to demand what he knows about his school being hotspot for ghosts.
• Knight Templar: The Guys in White hunt all paranormal entities to protect humanity at large, regardless if they might be good individuals. It goes to Chaotic Stupid levels of fanaticism when they try to nuke the Ghost Zone in "Livin' Large," an act that, if they had succeeded, would have destroyed the Earth along with it.
• Lack of Empathy: The Guys in White are overzealous and undiplomatic when it comes to hunting ghosts, and show no concern for all the collateral damage they leave behind. Upon discovering Danny's secret, they exchange these words to him with no hint of emotion:
  Operative K: You're coming in for questioning.
  Operative O: And experiments... lots and lots of really painful experiments.
• Light Is Not Good: While they wear white, they're not nice people.
• The Men in Black: A parody of the Trope Namer.
• Neat Freak: The organization as a whole is obsessed with their own neatness on top of their ghost hunting duties.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: After their less than stellar introduction in "The Million Dollar Ghost," they step up with better equipment, from hovercrafts to intangibility suits, and end up being genuine threats. As Danny puts it, they're "losers who got better."
• Sinister Shades: They're always wearing sunglasses to highlight their sinister nature.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: It's highly implied Operatives K and O don't like each other. When Freakshow escaped their custody, they were ready to affix the blame on each other.
• Took a Level in Badass: First introduced as just another ineffectual team of would-be ghost hunters after Danny's bounty. In later episodes, the Guys are shown as real threats to both Danny and other ghosts. Danny even lampshades this as they've become "losers who got better. A lot better."
• Van Helsing Hate Crimes: What makes them villains is the fact that they target ghosts who haven't done anything to warrant their enmity.
• Villain in a White Suit: They're antagonistic towards Danny, and all operatives wear white suits, hence the name.
• Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: The Guys in White have a great deal of advanced ghost fighting tech, likely due to government funding.
• Would Hurt a Child: Aside from trying to destroy and dissect a 14-year-old half-ghost boy, they had no qualms attempting to kill Sam and Tucker, who are completely normal humans. They even open fire at an observatory full of teenagers in their blind attempt to destroy Gregor, whom they suspected was the ghost boy.
• You Are Number 6: The agents use letters as codenames (Operative K, Operative O, for example).

Lesser or one-shot villains

Sidney Poindexter

Sidney Poindexter

Voiced by: Peter MacNicol (English)^{Other Languages}Johnny Torres (Latin American Spanish), Łukasz Lewandowski (Polish)

The ghost of a student at Casper High from the 1950s, Poindexter was stuffed into his locker so many times that he now haunts it. Having been bullied for most of his life, he makes a point to stand up for victims of bullying.

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• Ambiguous Situation: There was a Sidney Poindexter who attended the school, but it's a little unclear if he's a dead kid or some sort of manifestation of the real Poindexter's emotions. The fact that he's surrounded by other ghosts who possibly resemble his classmates from the '50s complicates this.
  • As many fans point out, despite his origin, Poindexter actually gives some leeway to the idea that the ghosts in the series aren't spirits of the dead. The fact that he switched bodies with Danny suggests he, well, has a body.
• Anti-Villain: He's only villainous in his first appearance, and that's because he saw Danny getting back at Dash and jumped to conclusions. Otherwise, he's just a nerdy ghost who just doesn't like bullies.
• Bully Magnet: He was bullied so much that it even became a graduation requirement.
• Bully Hunter: Due to having always been picked on when he was alive.
• Commonality Connection: His implied friendship with Princess Dorathea actually makes sense once you realize that the both of them are actual relics of the past who are stuck in the time period that they were alive in.
• Deliberately Monochrome: To go with his '50s aesthetic.
• Dragon Rider: In "Reign Storm" he's frequently seen riding on the back of Princess Dorathea in her dragon form.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: The ghostly shades of his past tormenters come to respect him after seeing him put up a fight against Danny Phantom, who was infamous in the Ghost Zone at this point.
• Expy: Of his voice-actor's past role as geeky public defender Austin Haggard from Tales from the Crypt, except if Austin was a high school student and an Anti-Villain rather than an Amoral Attorney.
• Geek Physiques: Had this in life, and by ghost standards in death.
• Grand Theft Me: He was able to overshadow Danny himself, and steal his body and ghost powers. Justified as Danny (who's still getting the hang of his powers at this point) never learned how to resist overshadowing.
• Horrible Judge of Character: After seeing Danny get revenge on his bully Dash, Poindexter misinterprets the situation and thinks that Danny is the bully and Dash is the victim. Danny does try to explain, but Poindexter overshadows him before he could even finish.
• Hypocrite: He lashes out at Danny for using his powers on Dash, when he's done no better than Danny's done with the other popular kids near his locker. He also continuously calls Tucker a nerd, despite being even nerdier than him.
• Karma Houdini: Outside of being sent back to his own realm, he never suffers any punishment for what he did to Danny.
• Knight Templar: His moral code is genuinely understandable, as he just dislikes bullies, and you could forgive him for assuming that Danny is the bully when he saw him pushing Dash around using his ghost powers, as he's presumably never really paid attention to the two, if he came to such an assumption, and the way Danny was acting ironically made him no different than Dash, but his methods are extreme and he doesn't even let Danny explain himself and goes straight to attempting to punish him.
• Magic Mirror: Inside his locker is a mirror portal to Casper High of the 1950s, where the other students are still picking on him.
• Mind over Matter: He can move things with his mind and cause massive chaos in the school.
• Non-Standard Character Design: All other ghosts usually have some shade of green or blue to their aesthetic, but he's completely sepia-tone.
• Older Than He Looks: Although Poindexter appears to be around Danny's age, a Freeze-Frame Bonus of Tucker's PDA shows that he attended school for four whole school years (1954 to 1958), making him a senior in high school.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: He uses his powers to inflict Laser-Guided Karma on bullies if he feels like someone is getting picked on.
• Poltergeist: While haunting Casper High from his mirror, he can manipulate stuff in the school to undo acts of bullying (such as untangling a nerd's shoe laces) and turn them against the bullies themselves (he seems to do this unconsciously, given that afterwards he doesn't recognize the bullies that had been punished by his powers). When he confronts Danny after escaping from his locker, he messes with objects all around the school: school supplies fly out of their lockers, lunch starts attacking students at the cafeteria, and items from the lab vanish in thin air.
• Stuffed into a Locker: Something that happened to him so many times, he can manifest from the mirror inside it.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Though Danny defeats him, Poindexter's classmates now respect him for standing up to the "halfa".
• Totally Radical: He uses a lot of '50s slang.
• Villainous Friendship: He and Princess Dorathea appear to have some kind of friendship.

Box Lunch

Box Lunch

Voiced by: Kath Soucie (English)^{Other Languages}Elena Díaz Toledo (Latin American Spanish), Beata Jankowska-Tzimas (Polish)

From the Bad Future, she is the daughter of Box Ghost and Lunch Lady.

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• Ambiguous Situation: She is the daughter of the Box Ghost and the Lunch Lady from a Bad Future that has since been wiped from the timeline, so it is likely that the incarnation of her that we see went with it. No word on whether Box Lunch exists in some form in the new timeline, though.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: She uses her father's "BEWARE!" catchphrase. She even lampshades it.
  Box Lunch: And now, and you probably know this is coming, BEWARE!
• Combat Pragmatist: Danny assumes that she's as much of a pushover as her parents, but she uses tactics like closing the gap while Danny is occupied dodging her food and boxes so she can hit him.
• Cute Bruiser: She's just a child, but manages to put up a decent fight against Danny.
• Girlish Pigtails: The hairstyle she wears.
• Kid from the Future: She is the future child of Box Ghost and Lunch Lady, sent back by Clockwork to test Danny.
• Lamarck Was Right: She has both of her parents' powers. She also has a perfect blend of their personalities.
• Poltergeist: She inherits the object-controlling powers of both of her parents.
• Punny Name: It's a portmanteau of "Box Ghost" and "Lunch Lady".

Ghost Writer

The Ghost Writer

Voiced by: Will Arnett (English)^{Other Languages}Rolman Bastidas (Latin American Spanish), Marcin Perchuć (Polish)

A one-shot villain from the Christmas Episode, he tried to get revenge on Danny for accidentally destroying one of his poems.

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• Anti-Villain: Not evil per se, as Danny was a jerk towards him after learning the book he'd accidentally incinerated was a Christmas poem.
• Didn't See That Coming: He didn't foresee the other villains teaming up with Danny to take him down for having the audacity to attack someone on Christmas.
• Disproportionate Retribution: He trapped Danny in a book where everyone was against him just because Danny destroyed his poem, granted Danny was very rude and unapologetic about it once he learned it was a Christmas poem.
• Kryptonite Factor: He loses his control over reality whenever he breaks his rhyming pattern.
• Logical Weakness: His ability to write what happens only works if he rhymes, so obviously if you do something to prevent him from rhyming, like tricking him into using a word he can't rhyme off of, his powers are worthless.
• The Only Way They Will Learn: Traps Danny in a Christmas story to get back at him for ruining his book and to teach him some Christmas spirit.
• Rewriting Reality: Anything he types into his magical keyboard comes true. Once he gets going, not even destroying the keyboard itself will stop it. The only way to completely stop the effect is to finish the story he was writing, either by typing the ending on his keyboard or those who are characters in his writing making an ending of their own.
• Stealth Mentor: Of a sort. His goal was to instill some Christmas spirit in Danny. He just got carried away.
• Stealth Pun: His name is a pun on the term Ghostwriter, an author who writes texts on demand intended to be credited to someone else.
• I Shall Taunt You: His scathing spiel to Danny after the latter destroyed his keyboard.
  Danny: NOOOO! (GW: Danny screamed,) I'm still talking in rhyme!
  Ghost Writer: I would have forewarned you, if given the time. / There are two ways to finish this poem. Just two. / I'd type out the end, but I can't, thanks to you! / So now you'll guide this story of the ghost who hates Christmas. / Think you can do it all mopey and listless? / You think this ends here? You're about to get burned! / This story's not done 'till the lesson is learned! (Evil Laugh)
• Villain Has a Point: While he ended up taking things too far, Danny acknowledges that he was right to want to teach him a lesson. He also explains to Danny that destroying his magic typewriter was a foolish move, since he would've let Danny off the hook eventually but now can't, leaving Danny to fend for himself.
• Weaksauce Weakness: An orange of all things can be use to briefly interrupt his Reality Warper powers, since nothing rhymes with "orange" ^note This is actually false; "Blorenge" (a mountain in Wales) and "sporange" (a technical word for a sac where spores are made) both rhyme with it. and his power depends on him typing a rhyming poem.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He becomes terrified of oranges after Danny uses one to cut his spell, which works because he can't find a rhyme for "orange".

Prince Aragon

Prince Aragon

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker (English)^{Other Languages}Salvador Pérez (Latin American Spanish), Karol Wróblewski (Polish)

Prince Aragon is the ruthless and cruel older brother of Princess Dorathea (AKA The Dragon Ghost), both of whom appeared to have lived in the Middle Ages (the 4th to the 16th centuries).

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• 0% Approval Rating: He's despised by everyone in the area of ghost zone ruled by him.
• Aloof Older Brother: And abusive. Poor Dorathea.
• And Now You Must Marry Me: Tried to force Sam into being his bride.
• Bad Boss: He's verbally abusive towards his sister, even though she initially assists him with his plans. It's suggested that he's a tyrant towards his entire kingdom as well.
• Cain and Abel: The Cain to Dorathea's Abel once she stands against him.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: He's a blatant misogynist, which is explained by the fact that he's literally stuck in the Middle Ages.
• Dragons Are Demonic: In contrast to his sister, who's more of a Delightful Dragon, his dragon form is a lot more monstrous. It's also shown that his dragon form is more powerful than hers, if only slightly.
• Fisher King: His realm is incredibly drab under his rule, but begin to revert as soon as he's defeated.
• Jerkass to One: He's a despicable a-hole, especially to his sister.
• Logical Weakness: He's a very powerful ghost in his dragon form, but his transformation is dependent the amulet. When Danny removes it, he's left essentially powerless.
• Morphic Resonance: Has a black/purple color scheme that carries over into his dragon form when he transforms.
• Old Man Marrying a Child: Though he appears to be a young adult, he's over a thousand years old and his plan involves marrying Sam, who is in her early teens.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Thanks to a pendant, he can turn into one at the drop of a hat.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He is shown to be a huge sexist, as he yells at his sister for daring to voice her opinion and loathes the very concept of a woman thinking for herself.
• Prince Charmless: A wise and noble prince he ain't.
• Really 700 Years Old: He has the appearance of an early adult man, but he's at least 16 centuries old.
• Shout-Out: His dragon form looks a lot like Maleficent's.
• Straw Misogynist: His views on women are The Theme Park Version of Middle Age social mores, meant to drive home his episode's message about about modern women.
• Walking Techbane: Literally, since no modern technology can function in his realm.

The Archer Ghost and the Executioner Ghost

Left to right: The Archer Ghost and the Executioner Ghost

Prince Aragon's silent minions. The Executioner Ghost uses an axe to attack his foes, while the Archer Ghost uses a bow and arrow.

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• Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear if they follow Prince Aragon out of loyalty, or out of fear like Dorathea and the rest of his subjects.
• Bottomless Magazines: The Archer Ghost can shoot endless bows.
• Co-Dragons: Both share the role of being Prince Aragon's minions.
• Energy Bow: The Archer Ghost can shoot flaming and explosive bows.
• The Executioner: Given his name, the Executioner Ghost probably functions as an executioner in Prince Aragon's kingdom.
• In the Hood: The Archer Ghost's head is constantly hidden in a hood, leaving only his green eyes visible.
• Master Archer: The Archer Ghost's signature weapon is a bow and arrow.
• One-Shot Character: Their only significant appearance is "Beauty Marked".
• Skull for a Head: The Executioner Ghost's face is shaped like a green skull symbol with red eyes.
• The Speechless: Both are apparently incapable of talking.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: It's unknown what became of them after Prince Aragon was dethroned.

Hotep-Ra

Hotep-Ra

Voiced by: S. Scott Bullock

A mummy-like ghost who's the spirit of the minion of King Duulaman, an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh who looked exactly like Tucker. He is awoken when Tucker looks into the mirror on his sarcophagus, and immediately declares himself as Tucker's loyal servant.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He presents himself as a loyal and selfless servant to Tucker, when in actuality, he's manipulating him for his own end.
• British Teeth: His teeth are white, but are notably crooked and misaligned.
• Dem Bones: Hotep-Ra is just a skeleton beneath his mummy bandages.
• Happiness in Slavery: Subverted. He pretends to be happy to serve Tucker, but it's just a façade: he's using Tucker to later usurp his power and make himself the ruler of the Ancient Egypt-like realm, and plans on making everyone his own slaves.
• Healing Factor: He can regenerate completely even after being reduced to a pile of dust.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Hotep-Ra is defeated by his own sphinx when Tucker discovers it also obeys him.
• Manipulative Bastard: He spends a good deal of the episode manipulating Tucker by making him feel good about himself by pretending to be his servant and fulfilling his every needs, including taking advantage of his frustration over feeling unheard in his debut episode.
• Mummy: He is the spirit of the minion of an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh, and manifests as skeletal mummy ghost covered up in bandages.
• Mummy Wrap: One of his attacks includes projecting his own arms using his mummy wrap.
• One-Shot Character: His only major appearance is "King Tuck", only appearing again in cameos in the finale.
• Pet the Dog: When asked what should be done with Tucker's ridiculous laws, Hotep-Ra says they should be implemented to let Tucker have his moment of glory until Hotep-Ra takes over.
• Sand Blaster: He can transform himself into a sand cyclone.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: He is initially dormant inside the sarcophagus at the museum, only to be awaken when Tucker looks into the Magic Mirror on it.
• Shapeshifting: His attacks include transforming his body into sand and into locusts.
• The Starscream: He pretends to be Tucker's loyal minion, and lets a brainwashed Tucker act like the ruthless leader of an Ancient Egypt-like dimension, but he's only using Tucker to later make himself king.
• The Swarm: One of his attacks is transforming himself into a swam of locusts.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Subverted. Pulling apart his bandages will cause him to fall apart in a pile of bones and sand, but he's capable of reforming pretty much instantly.

Vortex

Vortex

Voiced by: Dave Boat

A powerful spirit that can control the weather.

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• Delusions of Eloquence: As shown by his Large Ham quote below, he sees himself as a Mad Artist type, comparing his weather disasters to the Mona Lisa, yet as Vlad points out, he got the wrong artist.
  Vlad: That was Da Vinci, you dolt.
  Vortex: Whatever.
• Ghostly Wail: Vortex can let loose a ghostly sonic shriek, a sub-power of the above-mentioned Ghostly Wail but Vortex is only extremely less powerful.
• Large Ham: "'Stop the rain'?! The weather is my art! I will not just 'stop it'! Did anyone ask Picasso to stop painting the Mona Lisa!?"
• Psycho Electro: While he has a large variety of weather powers, he uses lightning as his main attack.
• Pride: His fatal flaw. He is manipulated into returning to Amity Park, where Danny can defeat him, after Sam and Tucker tell him that there's one spot on earth where even he can't alter the weather and he decides to prove them wrong.
• Ungrateful Bastard: After Vlad frees him from the Observants, Vortex shows no gratitude whatsoever and threatens the half-ghost when he demanded a "thank you".
• Verbal Tic: He always takes a big gasp of air between sentences and even mid-sentence.
• Weather Manipulation: His whole schtick, being able to control the weather to devastating effect.
• The Worf Effect: In his first appearance, he was far too powerful for Danny to handle that only gaining temporary weather powers and causing Vortex to burn out is what led to his defeat. In the series' finale, he's back at full power and is defeated by the Masters' Blasters.

Amorpho

Amorpho

Voiced by: Danny Mann

A shapeshifting ghost with no face who comes to Amity Park in the episode "Forever Phantom"

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• Anti-Villain: He's not diabolical, just a faceless ghost who enjoys attention and pulling pranks. He also does have standards as he draws the line at killing. He was even willing to call a truce with Danny to cure themselves of their Shapeshifter Mode Lock and evade the mob.
• Attention Whore: The reason he pulls his stunts is for the attention.
• Celebrity Is Overrated: He shifts into Danny for attention, but quickly learns throughout his debut episode that there's such a thing as "too much attention" and comes to respect Danny and his need of a private life away from the mob.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Amorpho may have not a care if someone gets angry or slightly hurt by his pranks, but he draws the line at killing, stating that a bus plunging off a cliff was "a tad out of hand" and is thankful Danny Phantom was able to save them.
• Freudian Excuse: The justification for his behavior is that his only notable quality is emulating other things, so he desires notoriety.
• Morphic Resonance: His eyes are bright red no matter what form he takes.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted. He has blood-red eyes and enjoys pulling pranks for attention, but in the end, he's not really a bad ghost; just an Attention Whore and draws the line at putting innocent lives at risk.
• Shapeshifter Mode Lock: When attacked with Jack's Power Nullifier invention, he still has his ghost powers, but he can no longer shapeshift. He gets better in the end.
• Voluntary Shapeshifter: He can mimic a person or ghost at will.

Undergrowth

Undergrowth

Voiced by: Mark Hamill (English)^{Other Languages}Salvador Pérez (Latin American Spanish)

A plant ghost who wants to destroy civilization due to the harm they brought to his "children".

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• The Bad Guy Wins: The Nick.com game Urban Jungle Rumble ends with Undergrowth winning should you beat the game while playing as him or Vegetized Sam.
• Botanical Abomination: He seems to be the spectral embodiment of Gaia's Vengeance and the Plant Kingdom, his body a monstrous plant creature in a vaguely humanoid form and command over plant-life.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Inflicts this on Sam, making her his "daughter".
• Evil Is Hammy: Indulges in this a bit.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: Courtesy of Mr. Mark Hamill.
• Final Boss: He is the last opponent faced in the Nick.com game Urban Jungle Rumble (provided that the player plays the game as Danny or Frostbite) and the Nintendo DS version of the Urban Jungle licensed game (the Game Boy Advance version for some reason has him being the penultimate boss, with the Lunch Lady Ghost serving as the final boss instead).
• Green Thumb: Has control over plant life.
• Healing Factor: Even by ghost standards. He is able to regenerate from nearly every attack Danny throws at him. Even after he is severely weakened by Danny's ice powers and mulched, he was still able to put himself back together (albeit in a weakened state).
• Logical Weakness: Cold weather can kill plants, so of course he'd be weak to Danny's newly-acquired ice powers.
• Mind-Control Eyes: People under his control have solid green eyes.
• Plant Person: Appears to be made of plants.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Like many a plant-themed villain before and after him, he wants to help plants grow and thrive...even if it means destroying human civilization to do so.
• The Worf Effect: In his first appearance, it was only thanks to Danny's brand new powers that he was stopped from taking over the world. In his appearance in the series finale, however, he's easily defeated by Masters' Blasters.

Nocturn

Nocturn

Voiced by: James Garrett

The ghost of sleep, Nocturn has the power to put people to sleep and harvests the dreams of humans.

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• Celestial Body: With the exception of his head, Nocturn's body looks like a shapeless mass in a vaguely humanoid form cut out from a starry night.
• Deadpan Snarker:
  Nocturn: I believe this is when I say "Dream on!"
• Dream Stealer: Downplayed. Nocturn feeds off the dreams to grow stronger, but he doesn't remove them.
• Dream Weaver: It's uncertain whether or not this is Nocturn's own power, or if his headgear does it, but it puts people in their fantasies too much to be a coincidence either way.
• Emotion Eater: Like Spectra, but he uses peaceful dreams.
• Faceless Mooks: Has an army of them that usually do everything with their eyes look like they are stitched shut, although they can open their eyes just fine.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Most of the time, his body is just a black blob with stars inside, and red pupil-less eyes.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Powerful evil ghost with blood-red eyes. When his minions open their eyes, theirs are also blood-red.
• The Sandman: He is a supernatural entity with the power to induce sleep in humans.
• Weaksauce Weakness: His army (and Nocturn himself) are very vulnerable to Danny's ice powers. Nocturn is powerful enough to come back, though.

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