Characters / Phantom Investigators

Daemona Prune

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Voiced by: Courtney Vineys (English), Gaby Ugarte (Latin American Spanish)

• Action Girl: Not only is she the leader of the team, but she really gets her moments in "The Year Of The Snake" and "Secrets Exposed!".
• Ambiguously Bi: Had a crush on an unseen character named Jasper Rusack along with some Ship Tease with Casey here and there, and has shared some Les Yay moments with Kira.
• The Artifact: Her name. Early on in production, her name was Prunella Daemon, while "Daemona Prune" was just her aliases while as a Phantom Investigator. Eventually, the latter name was used for both.
• Badass Adorable: She's an adorable preteen girl who regularly faces off ghosts and demons.
• Badass Longcoat: The green one she wears as a Phantom Investigator.
• Badass Normal: She might be the only one on the team without powers, but she isn't any less badass.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: She's very smart and resourceful, but was also willing to just look at the answers to her upcoming biology exam instead of studying (however, she does realize the error of her ways and gets rid of the answers before looking at them).
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She can be a bit on the quirky side, from being the only member to wear a costume and continuously trying to make cheesy rhyming slogans for the team, but is incredibly effective at her job.
• Clark Kenting: She hides her identity while on the job by wearing a costume with a mask, as well as styling her hair differently. She also never gives out her name as a PI.
• Color-Coded Secret Identity: Wears a green hoodie while dressed casually, and then a slightly darker green jacket in her PI persona, complete with matching mask.
• Control Freak: A more low-key example at times; in "Stall Of Doom" she brings up how while the gang all have equal say as a team, "she just likes doing things a certain way".
• Cool Mask: Wears a green one as a Phantom Investigator.

• Domino Mask: Her green mask she wears as a PI.
• The Face: The member of the team that does all the talking.
• Fake Defector: Pretends to join Willard's side in "Secrets Exposed!" after he makes her believe that Navarro was purposely putting her and the gang in danger the whole time. After she gets Navarro to meet up with her in the graveyard, which Willard instructed her to do, she reveals that she had her friends know about her plan the whole time and was just using Willard for the final battle between him and Navarro.
• Fiery Redhead: Downplayed. She's passionate and ambitious, but is pretty cool and calm most of the time.

• Genki Girl: Downplayed. She's the most enthusiastic member of the team, but stays pretty down-to-earth.
• Heart Symbol: Her jeans have a red heart-shaped patch on the left knee.

• Hero with a Unique Name: "Daemona" stands out among names like Kira, Jericho, and Casey.

• Identical Grandson: Her grandmother looked almost exactly like her at her age, albeit with a different hairstyle.
• I Know Mortal Kombat: Her driving skills came from playing video games.
• Implied Love Interest: Has some moments with Casey that could be read as ship tease, however it's never stated if she has a crush on him (or vice versa).
• Innocent Blue Eyes: As the loyal, heroic leader of the gang.
• The Leader: Of the Phantom Investigators

• Messy Hair: While not on the job as a PI.

• New Transfer Student: Had just recently moved to San Francisco and begun attending Lugosi Junior High sometime before the events of the series.
• Non-Powered Costumed Hero: And notably the only member of the team that wears a costume; the rest dress casually.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Possibly. "Daemona" was just an aliases initially while Prunella was her real name, however the show itself does not specify if Daemona is her real name or not.
• Plucky Girl: She's very optimistic and brave.
• Redhead In Green: She wears a green jacket and mask while on the job. Dressed casually, she wears a green hoodie.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Kira's blue
• Rhymes on a Dime: Her slogans for the PI, some of them being quite painful. Her commercial for the team is full of them.
• Running Gag: In several episodes, she'll try to come up with a cheesy rhyming slogan for the Phantom Investigators when she answers the phone. With the gang giving her disapproving looks most of the time.
• Ship Tease: Shares some small moments with Casey at times, such as wrapping her arm around his shoulders in "Birthday Presence" and calling him "adorable" in "Were-Dog".
• Strong Family Resemblance: Strongly resembles her grandmother when she was her age. To a lesser extent, she also takes after her mom. Not only do they both have red hair and blue eyes, but they also wear almost the same color scheme.
• The Team Normal: The only member of the team to not posses any powers.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to Kira's girly girl.
• Undying Loyalty: Especially evident in "From Egypt, With Love". After the Egyptian pharaoh the gang performed last rites on realized that Kira was the reincarnation of his princess, he attempts to take her with him to the afterlife- which she almost agrees to doing. As the gang try to pull her away, he asks why they're protesting so much. Daemona tells him that Kira's her best friend, and if she goes with him, she'll never stop searching for her.

Kira Williams

Voiced by: Amber Ross (English), Leyla Rangel (Latin American Spanish)

• Berserk Button: Don't ever wreck her outfits.

• Curtains Match the Window: Downplayed; her hair is a lighter shade of brown than her eyes.
• Deadpan Snarker: The snarkiest member of the gang.
• The Fashionista: She even mentions fashion as a cause worth fighting for in "The Fifth P.I."
• Friend to All Children: She acts as a Cool Big Sis to Jenny in "Haunted Dreams"
• The Friends Who Never Hang: She and Casey have had the least interactions with each other.

• Nice Guy: She might be sarcastic and biting, but also very kind and caring.
• Personality Powers: According to Word of God, her telepathy goes along with her having a high emotional IQ.
• Pink Means Feminine: She's the most feminine of the gang, and wears a shirt that's partially pink along with pink sneakers.

• Sassy Black Woman: A downplayed example but Kira can break out the sass in spades if properly motivated.
• Ship Tease: Shares some moments with Jericho now and again; she can be shown holding onto him for comfort in "Secrets Exposed!" and in a deleted shot from "Skating The Plank".
• The Smart Guy: Often plays this role alongside Casey.
• Sour Supporter: In "Haunted Dreams" when she was thinking of quitting the team, and again in "Stall Of Doom" when the gang had to solve a case from one of the girls who flushed her "best techno DJ" award down one of the school toilets.
• Technicolor Magic: Her telepathic waves are rendered in purple.

• 10-Minute Retirement: She attempts this in "Haunted Dreams" after missing too many DJ gigs and getting her outfits wrecked numerous times while being a PI. At the end of the episode, she realizes how important her job is and doesn't go through with leaving.

• Tsurime Eyes: Notably the only member of the gang with eyes that style.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: At times with Daemona. Kira can easily get annoyed with her, but it's also clear that the two girls are easily the closest members of the gang.

Jericho

Voiced by: Aleksander Kocev (English), Enzo Fortuny (Latin American Spanish)

• Berserk Button: As shown in "Stall Of Doom", Jericho absolutely hates being talked down to or treated like an idiot.
• The Big Guy: The most physical of the gang, getting his red belt in kung fu at the beginning of "The Year of the Snake", and also happens to be the tallest of the gang as well.

• Cloudcuckoolander: Jericho can have some pretty strange thought patterns at times; he thinks the reason why New Year's is celebrated in China after their New Year's Day is because of the timezone differences.

• Hippie Parents: Hinted at in "From Egypt, With Love" and confirmed in official press releases, however neither of his parents appear on-screen.
• In-Series Nickname: "Jer"
• Inherently Funny Words: "Sphinx"
• Kid-Appeal Character: As the most laid back, fun-loving, and carefree member of the gang.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: He's the ditziest member of the team, but also very sweet and friendly.
• Mind over Matter: His power is telekinesis.
• Mundane Utility: Official press releases for the show state that he claims he developed telekinesis from being too lazy to do his chores.

• Only One Name: He isn't given a last name in the series.
• Power Glows: He projects a bright green glow whenever using telekinesis.

• Surfer Dude: Tends to sound like one at times.

Casey

Voiced by: Andrew Decker (English), Víctor Ugarte (Latin American Spanish)

• Ambiguously Absent Parent: His mom is gone, and it's unknown what happened to her.

• Book Smart: He's a straight-A student.
• Brainy Brunette: He has brown hair and he's the smartest member of the team.
• Character Tics: Casey has a tendency to often hold his hands in front of him, and sometimes behind.

• The Cutie: Very sweet and innocent, and even referred to as being "cute and adorable" by Daemona in "Were-Dog".
• Deadpan Snarker: While not as often as the rest of the gang, he can sometimes have his moments. Notably in "Stall Of Doom".
• Disguised in Drag: He disguises as a mermaid briefly in "Skating The Plank".

• Endearingly Dorky: Daemona considers him to be "cute, smart, and adorable" in "Were-Dog".
• The Friends Who Never Hang: He rarely interacts with Kira.
• Genius Sweet Tooth: As seen in "Ghosts On Film", he loves candy and pie.
• Implied Love Interest: Besides his one-off crush on Terri Chang in "Were-Dog", a few episodes give him some ship tease moments with Daemona. However it's never stated if he has feelings for her or not.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: To go with his kindness and innocence.
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: His attitude when it comes to his more embarrassing transformations, such as when he had to morph into a toilet paper roll to get under a locked door, and his earlier Disguised in Drag moment.

• Luminescent Blush: In "The Fifth PI" after coming out of a clothes hamper with underwear on his head.
• Missing Mom: While his dad doesn't appear on-screen in the series (nor do any of the gang's parents besides Daemona's), Word of God confirmed he only lives with his dad. Whether his mom passed away or his parents are divorced remains unknown.
• Morphic Resonance: Most forms he shapeshifts into keep the blue and red coloring of his sweater. Some forms even include his hair (or hair color), eyes, and glasses.
• Nervous Wreck: Especially evident in "Were-Dog" as he explains to the gang how he got bit by a werewolf while in his dog form and couldn't morph back, sounding very close to having a panic attack.

• Only One Name: Like Jericho, he isn't given a last name in the series.
• Out of Focus: Only has one episode where he's the central focus ("Were-Dog") while the rest of the gang had two to three. It doesn't help that the show only had thirteen episodes.

• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: At times, usually with Jericho asking him to "translate".
• Shrinking Violet: He's the shyest of the gang.

• Sweet Tooth: To the point where he has no problem raiding one of the gang's clients' cupboards without asking.
• Temporal Sickness: He becomes nauseous in "From Egypt, With Love" from going back in time to ancient Egypt.
• Vocal Evolution: His voice is lower in the first few episodes. By the second half of the series, his voice started getting higher and squeakier.

• Weight Woe: Averted. He's a bit chubbier than the rest of the gang and is the most insecure of the group, however it's never shown to be part of his insecurities.
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: According to official press releases from when the show first aired, Casey's dad is a teacher at his school, but spends so much time helping out other students that he barely has time for his own son.

Wad

Voiced by: Stephen Holman

• Forced Transformation: He was originally a pixie named Tad, but was changed into a chewing gum sprite as punishment for ding-dong ditching the Earth Elemental.

• Kid-Appeal Character: Of the "clown" variety.
• Meaningful Name: He's a sentient wad of gum.

Jinxie

Voiced by: Stephen Holman

• Beleaguered Assistant: To the gang sometimes. "Errand demon for a bunch of adolescent mortals!"
• Big Eater: Implied in "The Fifth P.I."- "Nothing like an afternoon with food, food, TV, and food."
• The Jinx: It's in his name. He is a bad luck demon, after all.
• Leitmotif: Has a short one that plays whenever he shows up.
• Meaningful Name: As a bad luck demon, he's a jinx.
• Mr. Exposition: He usually explains to the gang about the kinds of monsters they're dealing with.

• Non-Standard Character Design: Only among the main characters- he's the only one that's a hand puppet instead of a stop-motion puppet.

• Spell My Name With An S: Tends to go between "Jinxy" and "Jinxie"; many fans tend to use the latter spelling as it's what Carl's Jr. used on their toy of him.

Professor Felix Navarro

Voiced by: Richard Cansino

• Beware the Nice Ones: He's usually very friendly and sweet but is outright dangerous as a vampire.

• Cool Old Guy: He's really around sixty-two, but hasn't physically aged since at least his twenties.
• Dark and Troubled Past: In the fifties, he was the leader of the Phantom Investigators at the time, also consisting of Daemona's grandparents and a fourth member, Willard Plowright. After Willard made a deal with the NetherRealm to become a vampire, the other three members linked a portal to send him back to the realm, but not before he bit Navarro, thus cursing him to become a vampire. While the totem of spirit control is able to render him human, it also causes him to stop aging, meaning he'll outlive everyone he cares about.
• Eye Color Change: Normally has brown eyes. Has glowing red eyes without the totem of spirit control.
• Friend to All Children: He loves the gang like they're his own kids.

• Gratuitous Spanish: Upon realizing he could've just bought raisins at the supermarket instead of making the raisinator- "El supermercado! Silly me!"
• Hair Color Dissonance: His hair is dark blue, but representing black.
• Immortality Begins at Twenty: While he became a vampire around the time he was fifteen, he appears to be in his twenties in the series. It could be possible that it took a few years for his curse to go into full effect. He hasn't aged since the early sixties at the latest.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With the gang. They're twelve; he looks to be somewhere in his twenties but is actually older than that.

• Nice Guy: A very friendly mentor figure toward the gang.
• Older Than They Look: Looks like he's in his twenties, but is actually around sixty-two as he stopped aging due to being a vampire.
• Out of Focus: Got the least amount of screentime among the main characters, only appearing in five episodes.
• Papa Wolf: Generally a low-key example but he's very protective of the gang.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When he doesn't have the totem of spirit control.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Notably the only one of the main seven characters who rarely shows up in promotional material and does not appear in the opening sequence.
• Stepford Smiler: He's shown to be pretty depressed over being immortal and having to see his friends and family pass before him, which eventually is going to include the gang themselves, but keeps up a positive and friendly attitude for the gang.

• The Team Normal: Of the original Phantom Investigators. At least, before he became a vampire.

• Vocal Evolution: Started off with basically the Kenshin voice with a slight Latino accent. His accent became more prominent as the show went on.
• Walking Spoiler: Unfortunately, most of what's known about him wasn't revealed until the final episode (not helping that the series was Cut Short).

Mary Prune

Mary at fifteen. Note that she was never depicted at her final age onscreen.

Voiced by: Jessica Gee-George

• Badass Family: She was also a Phantom Investigator as a teenager, just like her granddaughter.

• High-School Sweethearts: "Secrets Exposed!" shows that she and her husband, Harold, had known each other since junior high school.
• Mama Bear: Has apparently been watching and protecting Daemona from the Nether Realm ever since Daemona came into her inheritance.
• Plot-Triggering Death: The fact that she left her home to Daemona's family and left her ghost detecting tools and books to Daemona was what kicked off the events of the series.
• Posthumous Character: Had passed away a few years before the series' events take place; Daemona inherited all her books on the supernatural and her ghost detecting tools and gadgets, which kicked off the events of the series.
• Small Role, Big Impact: She died before the series began and her only on-screen appearance was in a flashback. But it's thanks to her leaving Daemona her ghost-hunting tools and gadgets in her will that leads her to forming the Phantom Investigators.
• Spirit Advisor: The final moments of the last episode revealed that she can contact Daemona through the NetherRealm. It's implied she would've become this for her had the show not been cancelled after its only season.

• Your Days Are Numbered: According to Navarro in "Secrets Exposed!", Mary seemed to know that she was dying, which was why she told him to watch over Daemona once her family inherited her house.