Poster for the story.
About 2 years after "Phantom Planet", Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom is an internationally recognized hero. Unfortunately for him, he still has enemies...however, he also has Danielle "Dani with an I" Phantom to watch his back.
The Return of Dani Phantom
opens with Dani flying through the sky and getting shot down with an anti-ghost weapon that disables her ghost powers by the Guys in White. She is rescued by Danny's friend Wulf and eventually makes her way to Amity Park where she reunites with Valerie where she discovers that Danny, his family and his friends are all missing. She and Wulf go to rescue them...and that's just the beginning...
It was later followed up with a sequel, Clash of All Time that features the return of Dark Danny, Dani being rendered blind and a whole host of other things.
This series provides examples of:
- An Ice Person: Danny as in canon.
- Asleep for Days: Towards the end of "Clash of All Time" following the climatic battle with Dark Danny, Danny awakes to find himself in a hospital, with Tucker saying he's been asleep for four days. Remembering that it was the same thing he said following the fight with the Lunch Lady, Danny thought Tucker was pulling his leg again, but it turns out that this time, Tucker was serious.
- Back from the Dead: Dani returns after having died to save Danny.
- Badass in Distress: Danny at the beginning of "The Return of Dani Phantom", having been captured and restrained by Freakshow and Lydia, with them clearly having held him for several days and in the process of forcing his family, Sam and Tucker to watch him die from Blood Blossom exposure.
- Berserk Button: Don't make Danielle upset in any way around Danny; even his own girlfriend isn't safe from this.
- Big Bad Ensemble: The Guys in White, Freakshow & Lydia for the first story, Dark Danny, Walker and Bullet for the sequel.
- Big Brother Instinct: Danny towards Dani full stop. Hurting Danielle in anyway is guaranteed to piss him off. Something Sam learns the hard way.
- Birthday Episode: The epilogue of "Clash of All Time" takes place on the day Danielle was created. As such, the Fentons, Sam and Tucker decide to make it her birthday and throw her a party to celebrate.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Both Danny and Dani go through this. Danny at the hands of Freakshow shortly before Dani rescues him and Dani towards the end of "The Return of Dani Phantom" at the hands of the Guys in White.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: The first story ends with Danielle being taken in by the Fentons. The second one ends with her learning that Vlad did care about her to some extent.
- Fan Art: The writer has some artwork which includes posters and designs of Dani.
- Fan Nickname: In-Universe, throughout "Clash of All Time", Danny's evil future self is referred to as "Dark Phantom".
- Fire/Ice Duo: Danny and Dani, possessing ice and fire powers respectively.
- Green-Eyed Monster: In one brief scene, Paulina, now knowing that Danny was the ghost boy she had been crushing on, was jealous that she couldn't get past the security guarding the hospital Danny was in while Sam, Danny's girlfriend, was let through, something Sam took smug delight in.
- Happily Adopted: Dani by the Fentons.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Dani twice in "The Return of Dani Phantom". The first is when she hands herself over to the Guys in White so they'll leave Danny alone and the second is when she dies to buy Danny enough time for a Blood Blossom antidote to work though she gets better after the latter.
- Locked Out of the Loop:
- Apparently, Danny didn't tell Tucker and Sam about Danielle's true nature as his clone, instead merely telling them that she was his cousin.
- Likewise in "Clash of All Time", it's revealed that Danny didn't fill them in on everything that happened in "The Ultimate Enemy", including Clockwork rewinding time to stop the Nasty Burger explosion.
- My God, What Have I Done?:
- Danny gets hit with one of these when he realizes that his willingness to thoughtlessly destroy some of Vlad's old hench-ghosts scared Dani.
- Sam later gets one after her insensitive comments wind up getting Dani captured by the Guys in White which itself causes Danny's near death.
- Official Couple: Danny and Sam. Of course, this doesn't give Sam a pass to be insensitive to Danielle.
- Playing with Fire: Dani turns out to have this type of power instead of Danny's ice-based abilities.
- Running Gag: In "Clash of All Time", there's a small one with the fact that Danny and Dani sound identical.
- Sadistic Choice: In "Clash of All Time" Walker offers the following to the captive Danny: tell him where Wulf is or be forced to watch the currently blinded Dani fight a ghost tiger to the death.
- That Thing Is Not My Child!: Averted; Jack and Maddie WANT Danielle to think of them as her parents.
- The Unmasqued World: In this version, the entire world is aware of Danny being half ghost. Unfortunately, this has proven to have bad effects, as both the Guys in White and Freakshow knew what he was. On a more humorous side, when Danny and Dani ended up in the hospital after defeating Dark Danny, a large crowd of fans formed outside and required a security team at the entrance.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Danny gives one of these to Sam when her insensitive comments about Dani result in her running off and being forced to give herself up to the Guys in White so they'll leave Danny alone.
- X Treme Kool Letterz: The names Danny and Dani come up with for their elemental techniques. Danny has the Phantom Phreeze while Dani has the Phantom Phlare.
