History Characters / DannyPhantomVillains

* HumbleGoal: In truth, all Ember [=McLain=] wants is to be a world beloved rockstar. You can't truly call that evil. It's the mind control that's wrong.

* ComboPlatterPowers: Ember has a surprisingly diverse set of powers, including [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve cheering empowerment]], MassHypnosis, [[LovePotion love inducement]], power augmentation, different kinds of ghost rays, and FlamingHair.

* PlayingWithFire: She has pyroknetic powers, both through her guitar and hair.

* YankTheDog'sChain: In the BadFuture, Ember [=McLain=] had her vocal cords severely damaged by Dark Phantom, resulting in her becoming depressed and turn to food for comfort. In the main timeline, Ember is a villain in her debut, and a plot device in her other two major episodes, Butch Hartman claims that she is in love with Danny Fenton/Phantom, a guy who will never love her back.

* HeadTurningBeauty: Ember [=McLain=] is definitely one of the show's top beauties.

* HopelessSuitor: Butch Hartman declared that Ember is in love with Danny, but considering Butch Hartman is obsessed with Danny getting together with Sam, Ember's love is unrequited and she has no chance.

* ImmortalImmaturity: Ember is an eternal teenage ghost.

* VagueAge: 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 highschooler before she died. It's impossible for her to be physically older than 18, and most likely that she is 15-17 years old physically.

* UnholyMatrimony: With Skulker, until she dumped him.
* VagueAge: 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.

* TeenIdol: 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 only a sophomore in highschool, Ember is an eternal teenager, and hasn't outgrown the insecurities she was plagued with during life.

* TroubledTeen: Ember 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.

* HeadTurningBeauty: Ember is definitely one of the show's top beauties.

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* Head-TurningBeauty: Ember is definitely one of the show's top beauties.

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* BeautifulSingingVoice: Ember has the voice of an angel, and could definitely get fans world-wide without the need for mind-control.

* Head-TurningBeauty: Ember is definitely one of the show's top beauties.

* IJustWanttoBeLoved: This is Ember’s true desire.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: She gets more powerful the more her fans chant her name.

* UngratefulBastard: How does he repay Vlad for releasing him? Savagely attacking him! To be fair Vlad only freed him to steal his artifacts, and immediately tried to turn the Fright Knight against him.

* ObviouslyEvil: Surely someone with [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]], [[FangsAreEvil fangs]], and [[PutTheLaughterInSlaughter an enjoyment of destroying everyone]] [[SchmuckBait would be a swell guy to know]], [[SarcasmMode right]]?

* WouldHitAGirl: In "Claw of the Wild", Walker was going to put Wild’s old shock collar on Sam.

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 real world for a challenge and fixated on Danny, whose hybrid nature made for an endlessly exciting hunt. In the BadFuture, he merged with Technus to become Skulktech 9.9.

* UnholyMatrimony: He's dating Ember. Danny doesn't know who his girlfriend is, nor does he believe Skulker has a girlfriend.
-->'''Skulker''': Now that just plain hurts...

** His hate for Jack. Vlad's obsession with ruining Jack's life or killing him has not only made him an enemy of his son and earned hate from the woman he lusts for, but it ends up screwing him over at the worst possible time. [[spoiler:In the final episode, he intentionally inputs the wrong coordinates for a rocket that would have destroyed the Disasteroid in order for Jack to look like a fool in front of the whole world, despite that Vlad himself would have still been able to acquire good publicity since he was the one who funded the operation. When he reveals his powers to the world and attempts to make the Disasteroid intangible, he discovers too late it's made of a material that's hazardous to him, meaning he wasted a perfectly good weapon that could saved the Earth just to humiliate one man for nothing. And to top it off, thanks to revealing to Jack how much he hates him and planned to take Maddie from him, Vlad is left with no one to come to his aid.]]
** Overall, it's his inability to move on. With all his intelligence, cunning, wealth and ghost powers, Vlad could've done anything with his life, be just about anything or anyone 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 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 steals an election to make himself mayor of a city like [[QuirkyTown Amity Park]], just so he can implement draconian policies for the sole purpose of screwing with his teenage ArchEnemy. In the end, Vlad himself is the one limiting his own potential because he is flat-out unable to let anything go that doesn't work out the way he wants it to.

* Fiction500: 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 pay for 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 [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking 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 [[DemonicPossession overshadowing other people]] to get them to give him their money.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: Somewhat {{averted|Trope}} as Dark Danny isn't really that kid but only half of him. However, that half, as shown in "Identity Crisis", was a 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.

* TragicVillain: She died of a broken heart 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.

* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: His attitude regarding his "rules." In his EstablishingCharacterMoment, he arrests Danny, ''then'' makes what Danny was doing at the time illegal.

* WeakButSkilled: Walker doesn't have any unique powers like the rest of Danny's rogue gallery other than standard ghost powers but is still one of his greatest foes. Walker easily trounces Danny in all their encounters and the latter requires aid to gain the advantage.
* YouExclamation: 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 trapping in the Ghost Zone.