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* FantasticRacism: Most ghosts don't like humans and most of the human cast are terrified of ghosts. It gets creepy when Danny hears about his parents discussing what to do with his alter ego's remains if they ever caught him.
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* FantasticRacism: Most ghosts don't like humans and most of the human cast humans are terrified of the ghosts. Danny being half-ghost makes it worst, as he's hated period by most ghosts he meets and his Alter Ego is feared and hated by most humans except his SecretKeeper friends/sister and the AlphaBitch. It gets creepy when Danny hears about his parents discussing what to do with his alter ego's remains if they ever caught him.
** Although in the humans' case, it's somewhat justified. The majority of humanity's first experiences with ghosts stemmed from an attack by a group of Danny's enemies from the Ghost Zone. Until that point, it was the people that ''believed'' in them were the ones that were ridiculed. The reason [[AlphaBitch Paulina]] was amongst the first to stop hating Danny was because Danny outright saved her life, at which point she started to idolize him.
** Although in the humans' case, it's somewhat justified. The majority of humanity's first experiences with ghosts stemmed from an attack by a group of Danny's enemies from the Ghost Zone. Until that point, it was the people that ''believed'' in them were the ones that were ridiculed. The reason [[AlphaBitch Paulina]] was amongst the first to stop hating Danny was because Danny outright saved her life, at which point she started to idolize him.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Danny's human half in his BadFuture.]] So much so that Vlad refuses to divulge any of the details.
** The entire ''world'' outside of Amity Park has been destroyed. What do you think happened to all of the people?
** The entire ''world'' outside of Amity Park has been destroyed. What do you think happened to all of the people?
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Danny's human half in his BadFuture.]] So much so FamilyUnfriendlyDeath:
** One episode has BumblingDad Jack Fenton kill off a ghost by ''squeezing it to death''. True, it was a mutant beast and the ghost blood they ooze was green, but c'mon; thatVlad refuses to divulge any of thing popped like a cherry!
** Also, thedetails.
** The entire ''world'' outsidedeath of Amity Park has been destroyed. What do you think happened to all of Danny's clone -- the people?disintegrating flesh, the sad, trapped look, the arm reaching out to his "father", the [[AndIMustScream mouth opening slightly...]]
** One episode has BumblingDad Jack Fenton kill off a ghost by ''squeezing it to death''. True, it was a mutant beast and the ghost blood they ooze was green, but c'mon; that
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** The entire ''world'' outside
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** Danny Fenton[=/=]DannyPhantom is essentially an expy for Peter Parker[=/=]SpiderMan, both are outcasts who were bullied in school and obtained their powers through a scientific accident.
*** Just look at Danny and try to say that he doesn't remind you of [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Chip Skylark, Timmy, or Cosmo]].
** Dash Baxter serves as an expy for Flash Thompson: they're both {{Jerk Jock}}s who bully their protagonist while at the same time being the biggest fan of his superhero alter ego.
** Vlad Masters as well serves as an expy for Norman Osborn, aka the Green Goblin. Both being rich evil masterminds who have an unhealthy obsession with the Danny and Peter respectively. They both know their secret identies and initially hoped to take them under their wings. In another nod to Marvel, his origin parodies SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom.
*** Vlad is pretty much an expy for {{Dracula}}. Both share the same first name (IE: ''Vlad'' Dracula III and ''Vlad'' Masters). Both live in huge (mostly) empty castles. Both have supernatural powers (Dracula being a vampire and Vlad being half-ghost). Both are in love with a woman whose name starts with the letter "M" (Vlad loves ''Maddie'' Fenton and Dracula loves ''Mina'' Harker). And, both use [[SdrawkcabAlias a backwards-spelling alias of their names]] (Vlad used "Dalv" on one occasion and Dracula, of course, has [[{{Hellsing}} Alucard]]). Heck, Vlad even '''was''' supposed to originally be a vampire, but, [[ExecutiveMeddling the executives at Nickelodeon thought the whole "vampire" thing would be too occult and had him be a half-ghost instead]].
** Lancer is possibly an Expy of J. Jonah Jameson.
*** Just look at Danny and try to say that he doesn't remind you of [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Chip Skylark, Timmy, or Cosmo]].
** Dash Baxter serves as an expy for Flash Thompson: they're both {{Jerk Jock}}s who bully their protagonist while at the same time being the biggest fan of his superhero alter ego.
** Vlad Masters as well serves as an expy for Norman Osborn, aka the Green Goblin. Both being rich evil masterminds who have an unhealthy obsession with the Danny and Peter respectively. They both know their secret identies and initially hoped to take them under their wings. In another nod to Marvel, his origin parodies SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom.
*** Vlad is pretty much an expy for {{Dracula}}. Both share the same first name (IE: ''Vlad'' Dracula III and ''Vlad'' Masters). Both live in huge (mostly) empty castles. Both have supernatural powers (Dracula being a vampire and Vlad being half-ghost). Both are in love with a woman whose name starts with the letter "M" (Vlad loves ''Maddie'' Fenton and Dracula loves ''Mina'' Harker). And, both use [[SdrawkcabAlias a backwards-spelling alias of their names]] (Vlad used "Dalv" on one occasion and Dracula, of course, has [[{{Hellsing}} Alucard]]). Heck, Vlad even '''was''' supposed to originally be a vampire, but, [[ExecutiveMeddling the executives at Nickelodeon thought the whole "vampire" thing would be too occult and had him be a half-ghost instead]].
** Lancer is possibly an Expy of J. Jonah Jameson.
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** Dash is an expy of Flash Thompson of ''SpiderMan'': bullies Fenton, admires Phantom and he's a jock.
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** Vlad Masters is clearly an expy of NormanOsborn. He's rich, he's a crazed lonely man, he's got a dual identity, just give him a son and you've got the complete package. His origin, meanwhile, is a direct reference to [[DoctorDoom Victor Von Doom's]], with Jack standing in for Reed Richards.
*** He could also be considered an Expy for {{Dracula}}. His appearance, fact that he lives in the castle, and even shares the same first name as the historical Vlad Dracula III (AKA "Vlad Tepes"/"Vlad The Impaler"). [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally, Vlad WAS going to be a vampire]] until ExecutiveMeddling declared the concept "too occult" and made him a half-ghost instead. Both women that Vlad and Dracula fall in love with have names that start with the letter "M" (Dracula falls in love with ''Mina'' Harker and Vlad falls in love with ''Maddie'' Fenton.) Oh, and they also at one point use a [[SdrawkcabAlias backward-spelled "alias" of their own name"]] (IE: Vlad has "Dalv" and Dracula has "Alucard".)
** Lancer is possibly an Expy of J. Jonah Jameson from SpiderMan.
*** He could also be considered an Expy for {{Dracula}}. His appearance, fact that he lives in the castle, and even shares the same first name as the historical Vlad Dracula III (AKA "Vlad Tepes"/"Vlad The Impaler"). [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally, Vlad WAS going to be a vampire]] until ExecutiveMeddling declared the concept "too occult" and made him a half-ghost instead. Both women that Vlad and Dracula fall in love with have names that start with the letter "M" (Dracula falls in love with ''Mina'' Harker and Vlad falls in love with ''Maddie'' Fenton.) Oh, and they also at one point use a [[SdrawkcabAlias backward-spelled "alias" of their own name"]] (IE: Vlad has "Dalv" and Dracula has "Alucard".)
** Lancer is possibly an Expy of J. Jonah Jameson from SpiderMan.
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** Just look at Danny and try to say that he doesn't remind you of [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Chip Skylark, Timmy, or Cosmo]].
*** Some people have also noticed similarities between Danny and Spider-Man himself.
**** Danny is indeed an obvious expy (or variant) of Spider-Man, in the same way that ''ComicBook/{{Static}}'' or The Leopard from Lime Street are expies of Spider-Man.
*** Some people have also noticed similarities between Danny and Spider-Man himself.
**** Danny is indeed an obvious expy (or variant) of Spider-Man, in the same way that ''ComicBook/{{Static}}'' or The Leopard from Lime Street are expies of Spider-Man.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The episode The Million Dollar Ghost has the following exchange:
-->'''Newscaster:''' ...the need for competent, non-Jack Fenton, ghost hunters in Amity Park has never been more obvious.\\
'''Jack:''' Hey! They said my name!
-->'''Newscaster:''' ...the need for competent, non-Jack Fenton, ghost hunters in Amity Park has never been more obvious.\\
'''Jack:''' Hey! They said my name!
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* BerserkButton: "Do--not--call--me--a--LOSER!"
** '''I. WILL. NOT. GET. A. CAT!''' [[spoiler:[[GilliganCut Later, he does]]]].
*** [[spoiler:If anyone asks, the cat belongs to Vlad's sister. Pretty hard to believe considering the cat's name is Maddie]].
** Danny's eyes glow green uncontrollably if his berserk button is so much as touched, much less pushed.
** '''I. WILL. NOT. GET. A. CAT!''' [[spoiler:[[GilliganCut Later, he does]]]].
*** [[spoiler:If anyone asks, the cat belongs to Vlad's sister. Pretty hard to believe considering the cat's name is Maddie]].
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**'''I. WILL. NOT. GET. A. CAT!''' [[spoiler:[[GilliganCut Later, Calm, debonair Vlad Masters turns angry if you call him a "''fruitloop''". Or mention how he does]]]].
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.
** Don't call Danny a loser, either. Then again there's plenty [[BewareTheNiceOnes you shouldn't do]]. Don't insult his father, don't endanger his friends and don't threaten the OppositeSexClone that he treats [[BigBrotherInstinct like family]].
***[[spoiler:If anyone asks, the cat belongs to Vlad's sister. Pretty hard to believe considering the cat's name is Maddie]].
**Danny's eyes glow green uncontrollably if his berserk button is so much as touched, much less pushed.
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** Don't call Danny a loser, either. Then again there's plenty [[BewareTheNiceOnes you shouldn't do]]. Don't insult his father, don't endanger his friends and don't threaten the OppositeSexClone that he treats [[BigBrotherInstinct like family]].
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** "NOBODY MAKES MY BODY A MEAT PUPPET!"
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** It also becomes part of the plot in "King Tuck" when Tucker [[spoiler:awakens a ghost named Hotep-Ra and sends Casper High back to Ancient Egypt.]]
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* ButtMonkey: Tucker. He's dumped on quite often despite saving/helping Danny more than once and yet, he barely gets thanked. Several times in the latter portion of the series, he is often the butt of the joke or virtually ignored.
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* ButtMonkey: Tucker. He's dumped on quite often despite saving/helping a lot and has saved Danny more than once and yet, he barely only gets thanked. Several times in thanked once and it's a "thanks for being my friend" that Danny throws out to Sam as well. Although it's heartfelt, the latter portion execution of the series, he is often the butt of the joke or how that came about feels rather tacked on and awkward. Later seasons have him either virtually ignored.ignored or usually getting victimized.
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* {{Badass}}: Long list, including Vlad, Skulker, and a purple-backed gorilla.
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* AnAesop: Lampshaded, when Jazz tries to organize a plan, Danny tells her, with a bored expression on his face, that the plan is to go try and beat up the bad guy, get beaten up yourself, run around for a while trying to fix things, finally beat the bad guy, and go home having learned a lesson about how the world works. Whoopie. This is also a slight breaking of the fourth wall, as it's the basic layout of each show.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Failed cloning resulted in a [[DistaffCounterpart female, younger version of Danny, named Danielle]], who would [[CastFromHitPoints devolve into ectoplasm]] if she used her powers. She got better. Cloning ''should'' produce a younger version, just a fair bit more so than the cartoon likely portrayed. The entire thing was an obvious reference/homage to the 90's Clone Saga from Franchise/SpiderMan, which similarly botched cloning in many, ''many'' ways.
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* FunctionalGenreSavvy: None of the characters seem to consider that any supernatural activity might be the work of something other than ghosts. It's {{Justified|Trope}} for Danny, at least, who explicitly has a power that lets him sense other ghosts nearby.
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* AchievementTestOfDestiny: Despite the fact that the name suggests it's an IneptAptitudeTest, the Career Aptitude Test in ''The Ultimate Enemy'' is played up as being one of these, being the sole determinator of one's future.
** Played with in ''Fanning The Flames'' with the Northwestern Nine. Students have to sit in Cramtastic machines to study for it because test scores are directly linked with Mr. Lancer's bonus, but with Ember in town no one can focus. Tucker gets strapped into one by Danny and Sam to undo Ember's brainwashing, but because [[SomethingWeForgot they accidentally left him there for several hours]] he got a perfect score while everyone else, including Danny and Sam, had failed.
** Played with in ''Fanning The Flames'' with the Northwestern Nine. Students have to sit in Cramtastic machines to study for it because test scores are directly linked with Mr. Lancer's bonus, but with Ember in town no one can focus. Tucker gets strapped into one by Danny and Sam to undo Ember's brainwashing, but because [[SomethingWeForgot they accidentally left him there for several hours]] he got a perfect score while everyone else, including Danny and Sam, had failed.
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* AsideGlance: Does this after he is seen appreciating his sister kiss on his head in ''My Brother's Keeper''. After noticing the audience, [[Tsundere he states that the was gross]].
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* AsideGlance: Does this after he is seen appreciating his sister kiss on his head in ''My Brother's Keeper''. After noticing the audience, [[Tsundere [[{{Tsundere}} he states that the was gross]].
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* ClockDiscrepancy: In an episode, the titular character tricks the BigBad into thinking he still has 10 minutes left of powerlessness left by turning Vlad's clock back. This allows him to gain the element of surprise and win the fight.
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* BareYourMidriff: [[PerkyGoth Sam,]] [[AlphaBitch Paulina]], and quite a few female students of Casper High [[NoDressCode dress in navel baring outfits.]] For Danny's RoguesGallery, there's [[EvilDiva Ember]], [[JerkassGenie Desiree,]] [[EmotionEater Penelope Spectra in her second appearance,]] and [[ClingyJealousGirl Kitty]]
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* AffectionateParody: Of Silver Age comics, with a teensy bit of Golden Age and Bronze Age thrown in for good measure, complete with the usage of 'POW!'s and 'WHAM!'s.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Danny to Danielle. In "Kindred Spirits" he shows only minor signs of it, from scolding her for using her powers irresponsibly, to using his ghostly wail to save her from Vlad after she defects. In "D-Stabilized" he shows greater shades of this, immediately after she asks for his help he doesn't hesitate to do so, after being knocked out by Valerie the first thing he does is ask what happened to Dani and finally strikes a deal with her if it means saving his "cousin", even keeps his word before Valerie decides to let him go and finally threatens Vlad never to harm Dani again.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Danny to Danielle. In "Kindred Spirits" he shows only minor signs of it, from scolding her for using her powers irresponsibly, to using his ghostly wail to save her from Vlad after she defects. In "D-Stabilized" he shows greater shades of this, plays this to a T, immediately after she asks for his help he doesn't hesitate to do so, after being knocked out by Valerie the first thing he does is ask what happened to Dani and finally strikes a deal with her if it means saving his "cousin", even keeps his word before Valerie decides to let him go and finally threatens Vlad never to harm Dani again.
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*** He could also be considered an Expy for {{Dracula}}. His appearance, fact that he lives in the castle, and even shares the same first name as the historical Vlad Dracula III (AKA "Vlad Tepes"/"Vlad The Impaler"). [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally, Vlad WAS going to be a vampire]] until ExecutiveMeddling declared the concept "too occult" and made him a half-ghost instead. Both women that Vlad and Dracula fall in love with have names that start with the letter "M" (Dracula falls in love with ''Mina'' Harker and Vlad falls in love with ''Maddie'' Fenton.) Oh, and they also at one point use a [[SdrawkcabName backward-spelled "alias" of their own name"]] (IE: Vlad has "Dalv" and Dracula has "Alucard".)
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*** He could also be considered an Expy for {{Dracula}}. His appearance, fact that he lives in the castle, and even shares the same first name as the historical Vlad Dracula III (AKA "Vlad Tepes"/"Vlad The Impaler"). [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally, Vlad WAS going to be a vampire]] until ExecutiveMeddling declared the concept "too occult" and made him a half-ghost instead. Both women that Vlad and Dracula fall in love with have names that start with the letter "M" (Dracula falls in love with ''Mina'' Harker and Vlad falls in love with ''Maddie'' Fenton.) Oh, and they also at one point use a [[SdrawkcabName [[SdrawkcabAlias backward-spelled "alias" of their own name"]] (IE: Vlad has "Dalv" and Dracula has "Alucard".)
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-->'''Jack:''' You three are in a world of trouble! Skipping school, stealing and wrecking the Spectre Speeder...\\
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-->'''Danny:''' Plagues, pestilence, ''[[TakeThat boy bands]]'' ... wow, this is one evil box.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Danny to Danielle. In "Kindred Spirits" he shows only minor signs of it, from scolding her for using her powers irresponsibly, to using his ghostly wail o save her from Vlad after she defects. In "D-Stabilized" he shows greater shades of this, immediately after she asks for his help he doesn't hesitate to do so, after being knocked out by Valerie the first thing he does is ask what happened to Dani and finally strikes a deal with her if it means saving his "cousin", even keeps his word before Valerie decides to let him and finally threatens Vlad never to harm Dani again.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Danny to Danielle. In "Kindred Spirits" he shows only minor signs of it, from scolding her for using her powers irresponsibly, to using his ghostly wail o to save her from Vlad after she defects. In "D-Stabilized" he shows greater shades of this, immediately after she asks for his help he doesn't hesitate to do so, after being knocked out by Valerie the first thing he does is ask what happened to Dani and finally strikes a deal with her if it means saving his "cousin", even keeps his word before Valerie decides to let him go and finally threatens Vlad never to harm Dani again.
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* AbortedArc: The news that the series would only have three seasons caused a lot of planned story arcs to simply disappear without a trace. What deal did Vlad and the Fright Knight break? What role does Dani end up playing? What did Valerie do after she discovered Vlad's identity and the existence of halfas? Does Dark Danny escape and make a return appearance, as is hinted at in "The Ultimate Enemy"? We'll never know now.
* AccidentalHug
* ActionMom: Maddie is a ''ninth degree martial artist''!
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Danny in the episode where he became filthy rich. Tucker in the episode where he was made King of the world.
* {{Adorkable}}: Danny. Also Tucker
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Super Danny has one of these as a power.
* AffablyEvil: Most villains. Especially Vlad, who's the BigBad no less. How can you take him seriously as a villain after you see his Green Bay Packers cheesehead?
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Or the Sphinx is, anyway.
* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Danny constantly moons over the [[AlphaBitch egotistical and vain]] Paulina, [[spoiler:although he eventually wises up about how she's not worth his time.]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Danny is patronized by his family, bullied at his school, and feared and hated in his superhero identity by both most mortals and ghosts. Fortunately, his best friends help keep him steady while the world, starting with his sister, begins to gradually come around.
* AllPowerfulBystander: Clockwork.
* AllMenArePerverts: [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Surprisingly shown]], when Danny uses his ghost powers [[PowerPerversionPotential to sneak into the girl's locker room.]]
* AlterKocker: The "ecto-American" vulture ghosts.
* AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp: [[spoiler:In "Phantom Planet", when Danny gets rid of his powers to have a normal life, just before he needs them to save the world.]]
** On a much darker note, cheating wasn't a good idea either. Nor was begging his archrival to ''remove his humanity''. It backfired ''horribly''.
** Similarly in "Phantom Planet", [[spoiler:Vlad revealing himself to be half-ghost to the world, and then forcing the world to pay him in order to save the planet... which he couldn't actually do.]]
* AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: The amulets that Dora and Aragon wear to turn them into dragons.
* AncientKeeper: Frostbite
* AnimeHair: Danny, Plasmius, and Dark Danny, just to name a few. Must be a halfa thing. Also: Ember and Spectra.
* AnticipatoryBreathSpray: Tucker.
** Vlad as well, in Maternal Instincts.
* AnticlimaxCut: "Identity Crisis":
-->'''Tucker:''' Looks like we're gonna miss the movie.\\
'''Sam:''' Unless we find some way to ignore all speed limits, red lights, and certain laws of physics.\\
''Closeup on Danny looking sly. Cut to: ...the kids [[BaitAndSwitch in an RV going about 120 miles an hour, driven by Danny's dad.]]''\\
'''Tucker:''' Couldn't you've just flown us?\\
'''Danny:''' The way my dad drives, this is faster.
* AntiVillain:
** [[BullyHunter Sydney Poindexter]]
** Johnny 13 and Kitty. Johnny's main goal is to be left alone with Kitty. Kitty rarely does any harm unless Johnny's hurt or is eying other girls.
** Amorpho, who just likes to pull pranks, but takes them too far.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Parodied/played for laughs in ''The Fright Before Christmas''. Maddie takes ''genuine issue'' over the scientific implausibility of the existence of... wait for it... Santa Claus. Jack, on the other hand, firmly believes he exists. Both of them, are the two "leading" experts and hunters of ''ghosts'' in the world, and are arguing this in front of ''children waiting to see a shopping mall Santa''.
** Danny has a moment of this when he can't believe that his body is generating extreme cold energy.
* ArchEnemy: Danny and Vlad Plasmius. It's recognized by both of them almost immediately, and the rivalry only grows as the series goes on. See EvilCounterpart and NotSoDifferent below.
** Skulker and Valerie both qualify as close contenders, but their respective pursuits of Danny were used less and less as the writers chose to focus on the Danny/Vlad conflict.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
** "Mystery Meat":
-->'''Mr. Lancer:''' Tucker Foley. Chronic tardiness, talking in class, repeated loitering by the girl's locker room.\\
''(Tucker gives a sly smile)''
*** Later, after Jack and Maddie capture Jazz while she was trying to counsel a goth boy:
-->'''Jazz:''' You've ambushed me, suffocated me with smoke, and ''worse'', I was pulled away from Spike before he had his breakthrough!
** In "Boxed-Up Fury", the list of what's in Pandora's box:
-->'''Danny:''' Plagues, pestilence, ''[[TakeThat boy bands]]'' ... wow, this is one evil box.
** When the kids get in trouble in "Kindred Spirits".
-->'''Jack:''' You three are in a world of trouble! Skipping school, stealing and wrecking the Spectre Speeder...\\
-->'''Lancer:''' Calling me OLD MAN...
** Vlad's...
-->"Taking my map, destroying my satellite, ''mocking my [[ThereAreNoTherapists mental health]]...''"\\
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-->"I've forgiven him for many things... causing the accident that ruined my life, stealing you, the backwash incident..."
* ArtEvolution: The main characters don't look like stick figures and actually gain muscles in later seasons; the colors also get more vibrant. Also, the earlier episodes had a very crude, simplistic, and mucky artstyle.
* AsleepForDays: {{Subverted}}.
-->'''Danny:''' What happened?\\
'''Tucker:''' You passed out. We took you home. You've been asleep for four days.\\
'''Danny:''' Four days?!\\
'''Tucker:''' ''(laughs)'' Nah, it's only been a couple hours.
* AnAssKickingChristmas: The Fright Before Christmas.
* AuditThreat: Used by a [[spoiler:fake]] Government agent against students' parents in "Doctor's Disorders" and by the Guys in White against Mr. Lancer in "Double-Cross My Heart".
* AuthorAppeal: Hartman incorporates space themes (he loves ''Franchise/StarWars'') through Danny, who wants to be an astronaut.
* AxCrazy: Oh, ''Dan''... let's see: The first thing he did upon "reawakening"? [[spoiler:Steal the ghostly half of BigBad Vlad Masters (OurGhostsAreDifferent 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''. Rather unpleasant, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids considering what age group this is aimed at.]]]]
* {{Backstory}}: While we do know the basics of how Danny got his powers from the ExpositoryThemeSong, it isn't until the episode "Memory Blank" that we actually learn it was Sam that persuaded him to enter the portal in the first place.
* BackToBackBadasses: Danny and Skulker in "Prisoner of Love".
* {{Badass}}: Long list, including Vlad, Skulker, and a purple-backed gorilla.
* BadassFamily: Danny may be the one with superpowers, but Jazz, Maddie, and even Jack have proven capable of fighting ghosts.
* BaddieFlattery: Vlad to Danny, in conjunction with NotSoDifferent.
* BadFuture: The premise of "The Ultimate Enemy".
* BadJobWorseUniform: Valerie works at Nasty Burger--as its mascot.
* BalefulPolymorph: Technus uses some sort of remote control to turn Danny into a cowboy, a model, and [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]].
* BatmanGambit: Vlad's preferred MO, although he's not always as good at predicting responses as he thinks he is.
** He's not the only one who pulls it off. In "D-Stabilized", Valerie used Danielle in order to capture Danny.
*** There's also Clockwork who pulled one off so perfectly in "The Ultimate Enemy", no one was aware he was a good guy until the end.
* BattleBallgown: Sam makes one out of a wedding dress in "Beauty Marked".
* BattleCouple: Danny and Sam in a few later episodes.
* BattleCry: '''"I'M GOING GHOST!"'''
-->'''Vlad:''' You have a [[LampshadeHanging battle cry]], hilarious.
** "FOR BEARBERT!"
* BeamOWar: Danny and Vlad with ectoplasmic rays in "Kindred Spirits".
* BeardOfEvil: Vlad, Dark Danny, Ghost Writer, Skulker; minorly subverted with Ghost Writer, who isn't evil, just mad at Danny for destroying the poem and does what he does to teach Danny a lesson about being a scrooge.
* BeatItByCompulsion - Ghosts' typical behavior makes them vulnerable to this. A notable example is Desiree granting every wish she hears, even ones that work against her goals.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: "What You Want", "Memory Blank", both of which involve Desiree the wish-granting ghost.
* BedsheetGhost: Danny tries to pull this off on Halloween, though he'd probably be better off [[ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself going as himself]], seeing as how he's an actual (sorta) ghost and, for the majority of the series, is feared by everyone who doesn't want to outright beat him down.
** One of his clones, however, pulls this off in the best way.
* BerserkButton: "Do--not--call--me--a--LOSER!"
** '''I. WILL. NOT. GET. A. CAT!''' [[spoiler:[[GilliganCut Later, he does]]]].
*** [[spoiler:If anyone asks, the cat belongs to Vlad's sister. Pretty hard to believe considering the cat's name is Maddie]].
** Danny's eyes glow green uncontrollably if his berserk button is so much as touched, much less pushed.
*** Special mention goes to Dark Danny, who's eyes flashed red when [[spoiler: he was disguised as Danny and had to listen to Sam and Tucker insulting him]].
** Although they glow brighter when he's more annoyed, like in Fanning the Flames.
** "NOBODY MAKES MY BODY A MEAT PUPPET!"
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Jack is usually extremely oblivious and very much a GentleGiant. Vlad made a miscalculation and underestimated him ''by far''. He proceeds to beat up Vlad, which Danny himself has not been able to do, even at the end by himself.
--> '''Vlad:''' "You ''beat'' me! How is this possible? You're an idiot!"
--> '''Jack:''' "Maybe so, but I'm the idiot who ''beat you''."
** Vlad also fits - while the audience knows he is bad to the bone, most other characters think he is a saint.
** Most definitely {{Ma|maBear}}ddie. She kicks some serious butt.
** Arguably Danny himself, who is laid back and kind of lazy... when he's ''human'' (or, rather more accurately, pretending to be). It's when he's not that you need to watch out, as many lesser foes found out, as did Vlad, if in a BadFuture. Luckily for him, Clockwork hit the ResetButton on ''that'' timeline... or maybe not so lucky.
* BigBad: Vlad "Plasmius" Masters.
* BigBadassWolf: Wulf, a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf-like]] ghost prisoner who was originally sent by Walker to hunt Danny and his friends but befriends them when they try to set him free.
* BigDamnKiss: An orbital one at that in the GrandFinale. You can already figure between who. [[spoiler:(Hint: It's not Danny and Paulina)]]
* BigFancyHouse
** Vlad's residences.
** The Fenton family's new home in "Livin' Large".
** Subverted by Manson family's home; looks normal on the outside. It's still fancy, however.
* BigNo: Tucker, upon finding out that the flour babies were baked into cookies by his mother.
** And by Vlad in "Kindred Spirits" when [[spoiler:his perfect clone melted.]] Doubles as a TearJerker.
** And by Danny when [[spoiler:the vat of Nasty Sauce all the important people in his life ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Lancer]]) are attached to... ''explodes''.]]
** Again by Danny in "D-Stabilized" when [[spoiler: it seems Dani melts after Danny's attempt to save her seems to fail... [[DisneyDeath it actually works]].]]
* BigOlEyebrows: Butch Hartman's trademark. His other show, ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', also uses this trope.
* BilingualBonus: Season 1, Episode 6 "What You Want" gives us Sayonara Pussycat, an {{Expy}} of HelloKitty. Sayounara/さようなら (with a long 'o' sound that is often ignored in English) is Japanese for 'goodbye'. Danny even shouts "Bye-bye kitty", as a OneLiner.
** Nearly all of Wulf's lines are in Esperanto.
* BlackBestFriend: Tucker.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: This exchange from "Frightmare".
-->'''Danny''':''(After giving Nocturne a vicious attack)'' That'll teach you to steal peoples' dreams!
-->'''Nocturne''': 'Stealing' is such an ugly word. I prefer the term ''harvest'' for energy.
* BlatantLies: From "Maternal Instincts":
-->'''Vlad:''' What an amazing, unexpected, and totally unplanned surprise! Personalized gift baskets?
** The Amity Park signs really love this. "A safe place to live!"
* TheBlank: Amorpho, a shapeshifter whose default form is faceless. Also, possibly Fright Knight.
* BlessedWithSuck: Early in the series Danny has little control of his powers and has started sinking through floors and making his pants intangible so that they fall down. He also got banned pre-series from bearing anything breakable while on school grounds.
* BodyHorror: Happens every time Danny tries to split himself.
** Most extreme by far: Identity Crisis. He starts out with two heads, one of which sprouts another head, whose tongue forms the neck for another head. Then, from the main torso sprout two extra feet, a bug eye, a mouth with a bug eye on its tongue, and three more heads, one of whose tongue is a forearm and hand, which sprouts a head on each finger. It just keeps going from there.
* BookDumb: Danny (and Tucker).
* BookEnds: [[spoiler:In the first episode, Danny and Sam are vehemently denying that they were boyfriend and girlfriend. In the GrandFinale, their RelationshipUpgrade is complete.]]
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Or rather, girl meets Phantom.
* ABoyAndHisX: "A boy and his dog. Somehow, it's not supposed to be this weird." The dog in question was a ghost dog that alternates between being cute, and large and vicious.
** Used again in "Infinite Realms": "Awww, a boy and his snow monster." (Both were said by Sam, come to think of it...)
* {{Brainwashed}}: Both Ember and Freakshow use this against Danny.
* BraggingThemeTune: '''He could walk through walls, disappear and fly! He was much more unique than the other guys!'''
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: In "Phantom Planet":
-->'''Technus:''' Nothing like a lazy day of shopping, lattes, and terrorizing the minimum-wage workers!
* BreatherEpisode: After the heavy-handed "Reign Storm" dealt with character developments and important story arcs, the next episode aired was the lighthearted (possibly THE most lighthearted DP episode), "Identity Crisis". There was also "The Ultimate Enemy" which was just gruesome, but the episode that aired after was a light and fluffy ChristmasEpisode.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Danny involuntarily lost his powers thanks to LiteralGenie Desiree in "Memory Blank". [[spoiler:He also loses them in "Phantom Planet", but since that was done voluntarily, it's AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp]]
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Danny's costume gets a stylized DP chest symbol on his costume. An episode exists to explain where it comes from, using a CosmicRetcon so that everyone but Sam and Danny believes that it's always been there.
* BullyHunter: Poindexter, the ghost of a bullied nerdy teen who lived in the 50's, who unfortunately combines this with HorribleJudgeOfCharacter, who now as a ghost targets Danny when he thinks he is bullying JerkJock Dash Baxter.
* BumblingDad: Jack Fenton may be a brilliant inventor, but otherwise he's an idiot.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: See BumblingDad.
* ButterflyOfDoom: Cheat on your CAT, and the world gets boned. [[spoiler:[[NiceJobBreakingItHero By YOU!]]]]
* ButtMonkey: Tucker. He's dumped on quite often despite saving/helping Danny more than once and yet, he barely gets thanked. Several times in the latter portion of the series, he is often the butt of the joke or virtually ignored.
** It becomes part of the plot in "What You Want" when Tucker, after routinely getting pummeled every time Danny ditches him to save the world, wishes for ghost powers.
** "I AM THE BOX GHOST!"
* CallingTheOldManOut: Jazz in Reality Trip.
-->'''Jazz (imitating Jack):''' I know! Let's catch the ghost and rip it apart [[LargeHam mmmolecule by mmmolecule]]! [[SarcasmMode You guys are so understanding]].
* CallingYourAttacks: Occasionally employed. Usually with Fenton gear.
* CanNotSpitItOut: Danny and Sam for quite some time. As the series progresses, they tend to hesitate, blush, and stammer whenever anyone asks about their relationship or assumes that they're together, rather than angrily declaring "He/She is not my boy/girlfriend!"
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: [[SpaceWhaleAesop Remember, kids, cheating on a test will cause you to turn evil and]] '''''[[SpaceWhaleAesop destroy the future]]'''''
* CantGetInTroubleForNuthin
* CaretakerReversal: In the beginning of the episode ''What You Want'', Sam is sick and Danny and Tucker try to take care of her. Guess which two characters get sick at the end?
* CarnivalOfKillers
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** Danny: "I'm going ghost!", "You don't know the half of it."
** Tucker: Ya got that right!
** Technus: I, Technus (insert outdated slang here).
** Box Ghost: "I AM THE BOX GHOST!", "BEWARE!"
** Mr. Lancer: *insert title of classic book here*!
** [[LiteralGenie Desiree]]: So you have wished it, so shall it be.
** Various characters: "For the record, I blame you." "Survey says..."
* CharacterDevelopment: Everyone of the main characters get some form of character development.
* CelestialBody: Nocturne, the ghost of sleep, has his entire body except his eyes and face-mask as stars in space.
* CensorSteam: In "An Eye for an Eye". Poor, poor Danny...
* ChangedMyJumper: Subverted in the episode ''Masters Of All Time'' where Danny's time travel to the 1980's reveals that his black jumpsuit is actually ''fitting'' for that time period.
-->'''Danny:''' Oh, great, I blend in.
* ChefOfIron: The Lunch Lady Ghost.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: The [[{{Pun}} Boooomerang]], first used in "The Ultimate Enemy" to find Danny, gets used again in "Kindred Spirits". Bonus points for being an actual boomerang.
* ChekhovsGun: Many of the Fenton Gadgets.
** The Tucker-bot from "Livin' Large", later used in "Phantom Planet". Also, Valerie's first ghost hunting suit, first appearing in the tenth episode. We later find out in the fortieth episode why Vlad gave her the gear!
* TheChessmaster:
-->'''Danny:''' I don't understand...\\
'''Vlad:''' What? That I used two 14-year-old pawns to turn a knight and topple a king? It's chess, Daniel. Of course you don't understand. But then, you never really did.
* ChewBubblegum
* ChewOutFakeOut: Happens in "13", when Danny intentionally lets himself get caught spying on Jazz and Johnny.
* {{Chronoscope}}: The various time-windows in [[spoiler: Clockwork's lair]].
* CityOfAdventure: Amity Park.
* ClarkKenting: A running joke from episode one.
** Unless you want to say that Danny's ghost form inhibits mundanes' perception of him or some other TechnoBabble, we're asked to believe that changing his hair and eye color is enough of a disguise for him. He doesn't even bother to change his first name.
*** For that matter, neither does Vlad with his name, though his ghost form is immensely different in looks then Danny is with his, so it may be {{justified|Trope}}.
*** Dark Danny in "The Ultimate Enemy" lampshades this, mocking everyone by pointing out how obvious it was.
*** There was also the episode where Danny and Dash get shrunk and need to get to the Ops Center before Danny's powers fizzle completely as he continues getting closer to being Danny Fenton every minute.
** Lampshaded by Danny. "Good thing Dash is a total moron..."
*** And then there was the whole mess in "Double Cross My Heart": where the Guys In White were aware of this trope, but they pinned Danny Phantom's disguise on the wrong guy
* CloningBlues: "Kindred Spirits".
* ComesGreatResponsibility: And the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' parallels don't stop there.
* ComingOfAgeStory: In his definite CharacterDevelopment Arc, Danny starts off as a naive boy who is looking for his place in the world, uncertain of the big decisions thrust onto him. By the end of the series, he has grown into a mature lad who continuously handles big burdens displayed before him. By the ending, said burdens and responsibilities are even bigger, but he's grown up enough to face the task.
** A smaller meta-arc would be Jazz's coming of age, going from a nosy sullen kid growing up too fast to someone who appreciates her age and knows when not to get involved.
* CompressedVice: All too frequently.
* ConspicuousCG: In the GrandFinale, at the least.
* ContinuityDrift: In one episode a nerdy friend of Tucker's is mentioned as "Nathan". In a Season 3 episode he shows up again, but gets called "Lester", although it might just be his last name.
* ContinuityNod: Mostly the Fenton inventions, but several elements from prior are mentioned in latter episodes (and even move the plot forward). Justifies the great continuity this show has.
** In episode 16, "Maternal Instinct", Vlad Masters is shown to have one of the large yellow monster trucks which will later show up in "Memory Blank".
** Speaking of Memory Blank, it contains multiple shout-outs to earlier Season 1 episodes.
*** Danny brings up Sam's "great ideas" of changing the school cafeteria menu (episode 1), releasing the purple-backed gorilla (ep. 3), and selling his dad's old junk at a garage sale (ep. 4). She counters by asking whether he would also like to blame her for puberty, which was used multiple times as an excuse for his "voice change" in episode 5 [[spoiler:when Danny was possessed by Poindexter.]]
*** Sam's photo album contains the picture she took of Danny and Tucker hugging during episode 3.
*** Danny also pulls a FakeOutMakeOut on Sam, which she had originally pulled on him in the episode where [[spoiler:Valerie becomes a ghost hunter.]]
*** At one point Danny phases down through the floor of the school, noticing the large store of meat in the basement that was discovered in the first episode.
*** Paulina is wearing the same dress at her Quinceañera (15th birthday party) that she wore to the dance with Danny in episode 2, while at the same time Sam comments that she looks "almost human", possibly in reference to Paulina's ghost-dragon transformation from the same episode.
*** During Danny's flashback/remembering sequence, special attention is given to him sneaking into the girl's locker room with his ghost powers, which happened in episode 6, the same episode Desiree was introduced.
** When trying to act ghostly in order to get Jack to chase him, Danny yells "Fear me!", something a ghost translator from an early episode appended to every sentence spoken by Danny.
** The emergency ham shows up in the episode "Pirate Radio", before being revealed to be useful for something in "Reality Trip".
*** Also in "Pirate Radio", the easy-listening Ear Worm that's on every radio station is [[spoiler:a version of Ember's rock song from "Fanning the Flames" - and {{Foreshadowing}} for her appearance as Youngblood's partner in crime]].
** Even later in the series, Skulker still has an appointment to check out a book on purple-backed gorillas.
** In the episode "Reign Storm", Tucker mentions that Danny caught Skulker and Ember and sent them back to the Ghost Zone together. In the episode "Girl's Night Out", it's revealed that [[spoiler:Ember and Skulker are now going out (see also, PairTheSpares)]]. Too much time in the Thermos together?
** In the episode "Forever Phantom", Maddie mentions the time Danny Phantom supposedly "attacked the mayor" ("Public Enemies") and when he "stole" everyone's Christmas presents ("The Fright Before Christmas").
* CoolCar: The Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle (otherwise known as just "the RV").
* CosmicEntity: [[spoiler: Clockwork.]]
* CrazyPrepared: Fenton Works.
* CuffsOffRubWrists: Freak Show in "Reality Trip".
* CurbStompBattle: Danny's first battle with Vlad goes like this by means of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown administered by Vlad.
* CurseCutShort: From the Phantom Planet Finale:
-->'''Maddie Holograph One:''' Your resolution is too low and your bandwidth is too large!\\
'''Maddie Holograph Two:'''"*gasp* Why you holographic- *Violence Ensues*"
* DatingCatwoman: Danny and Valerie briefly.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Tucker ("What You Want", "King Tuck") and Jazz ("The Fenton Menace", "Secret Weapons").
* DeadlyTrainingArea: Despite being jury-rigged, Danny's homemade training area in his parent's basement includes lasers among other, less lethal, hazards.
* DeadlyUpgrade: The [=EctoSkeleton=] increases the user's power 100 times, while slowly killing them.
* DeadpanSnarker: Sam.
* DefangedHorrors: The Ghost Zone (somewhat).
* DeflectorShields
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Once again, I, Techus, master of all things electronic and beeping, am free once again to conquer this world!"
* DescriptionCut: Used just as much as HypocriticalHumor.
* DeusAngstMachina: Danny's alternate future. Twisted in that "fate" was really just Clockwork manipulating the time stream to produce what was the worst possible future ever to scare Danny away from his FaceHeelTurn.
* DidMomJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Well, to a lesser degree. In one episode, Jack and Danny go fishing when they are attacked by some kind of sea dragon monster. Jack kicks it's ass pretty easily.
* DisasterDominoes: In Valerie's father's lab while Danny tries to catch the rampaging ghost dog.
* DishDash: In the series' very first episode. Danny protects Sam from death by flying dishes by catching them all. Unusual for the trope, he gets all the dishes safely put away!
* DisposableSuperheroMaker
* DistaffCounterpart: Dani Phantom, Danny's OppositeSexClone.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Overshadowing looks really, really similar to possession albeit benign. It would be prime candidate for InsistentTerminology if anyone connected the dots.
** Sam, Tucker, and Jazz trying to convince Danny to let them help him sort out his problems and that [[spoiler:he doesn't have to get rid of his powers]] in "Phantom Planet".
* TheDoorSlamsYou: Skullker does this to Danny in one episode.
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* TheDragon: Fright Knight seems to love this as he fights for both Pariah Dark and [[spoiler:Dark Danny]].
* DramaBomb: "The Ultimate Enemy." Period. The show had, for one and a half seasons, chugged along its storyline with a fairly cheerful and optimistic tone. Then "The Ultimate Enemy" aired and was, hands-down, the most serious and disturbing episode in the entire show, leaving many viewers speechless upon its first airing.
* DramaticDrop:
-->'''Sam:''' We haven't seen Danny or Valerie in hours!\\
'''Jack:''' Ah, they're fine. They've been up in Danny's room! Alone! For hours!\\
''Sam drops her tea''.
* DramaticWind: Parodied in "Identity Crisis" by the pure superhero version of Danny, who has this going at ''all'' times, befitting his LargeHam status.
* DreamWeaver: Nocturne, the Ghost of Sleep, demonstrates the power to manipulate dreams in "Frightmare."
* DrivingStick: in the episode "Bitter Reunions"
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In the "Ultimate Enemy", [[spoiler:a memorial statue of Tucker, Sam, and Danny's family says "Gone But Not Forgotten", while a statue of Mr. Lancer a few feet away only says "Gone."]]
* DungeonmastersGirlfriend: Jazz.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After having lot of trouble during the whole series, in the last episode "Phantom Planet", things end well for Danny and his friends.
* EasterEgg: In one episode, Danny and Tuck are playing a Crash Nebula arcade game. Crash Nebula is one of Timmy Turner's favorite superheroes in Butch Hartman's other cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/{{The Fairly OddParents}}''.
** And then in the FOP episode focusing entirely on the origins of Crash Nebula, the comic book that Crash's original form (before he became Crash Nebula) is reading at the beginning of the episode has a picture of Danny Phantom on the back cover.
* EggSitting: Danny and Valerie, Dash and Paulina, Tucker and Sam all are in the same "this bag of flour is your baby" project for health class in "Life Lessons".
* EnemyMine: Danny and Vlad in "Reign Storm" (against the Ghost King) and "Torrent of Terror" (against Vortex).
** Danny and Dash had to work together against Skulker in "Micro-Management", as did Danny and Valerie in the ChainedHeat episode, "Life Lessons".
** "Reign Storm" also takes this a step further by [[spoiler:forcing Danny to unite every ghost he's ever met to defeat the Ghost King]].
*** Done again in the GrandFinale when [[spoiler:Danny had to get everyone, human and ghost, to work together to save both the earth and the Ghost Zone]].
* EpisodeTitleCard: Done in the fashion of 50's horror movies, no less, with the GrandFinale as the only exception.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first episode's ColdOpen gives little ones to each of the main characters in the form of their responses to Jack.
-->'''Jack:''' So, Danny! You and your little friends want to hunt ghosts...
-->'''Danny:''' Uh, a-actually, Dad, I wanna be an astronaut.
-->'''Sam:''' Sorry Mr. Fenton. I ''was'' into ghosts, but they’re so mainstream now; they’re like cell phones.
-->'''Tucker:''' Waste ''these'' looks and all ''this'' charisma hunting ghosts? Criminal.
* EternalEnglish: You would think that someone who died 1600 years ago would ''not'' be speaking Modern American English. Also, the one non-English speaker speaks ''modern'' Esperanto.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: All of Danny's ghost enemies hold an annual truce with any and all other ghosts (including half-ghosts like Danny) so that they can celebrate Christmas. When they discover the Ghost Writer broke the truce, they are ''not'' happy, [[EnemyMine teaming up with Danny to stop him]], and save Christmas.
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: "Attack of the Killer Garage Sale", "Public Enemies", "Double Cross My Heart", let's just say the series is riddled with this.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Danny and Sam, despite their [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend vehement denials]].
* EverythingIsOnline: And therefore vulnerable to being hacked via one of Tucker's [=PDA=]s.
* EvilAlbino: Freakshow.
* EvilCounterpart: Plasmius and Dark Danny both qualify.
* EvilDiva: Ember.
* EvilLaugh:
** Dark Danny has a rather nice one.
** Vlad's done a couple during his time. The most striking would be the beginning to "Kindred Spirits".
** It is debatable if Ghostwriter's "maniacal/evil nerd-laugh" counts.
* EvilMakeover: Danny, Sam and Vlad each get one. Fans really dig how their looks (and voices) turned out. Wow. EvilIsSexy indeed.
* EvilPlan: While the [[MonsterOfTheWeek particular episode's ghost(s)]] might have their own agenda, [[BigBad Vlad's]] plan stays the same until his VillainDecay in Season 3: Kill Jack, make Maddie his wife, and make Danny his son.
* ExpendableClone: No one, least of all Danny, seems particularly bothered when Danny [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman destroys the less-human looking clones]]. Only the human-looking Danielle gains his sympathy. This is subverted, however, by the fact that Danny ''also'' doesn't seem to be bothered when he destroys the so-called "perfect clone" of himself, which would be, in theory, at least as "human" as his OppositeSexClone Dani.
** This is {{justified|Trope}} by the face that the previous clones weren't fully sentient and if the "perfect clone" awoke, Vlad would've taken out the original.
** Vlad himself only considered the "perfect clone" human, even [[WellDoneSonGuy rejecting]] the only person who probably loved him. NiceJobFixingItVillain.
* {{Exposition}}: Particularly awkward, repetitive uses of AsYouKnow, TellMeAgain, [[TalkingToHimself Talking to Themselves]], PostponedQuestion, etc.
** MrExposition: Frostbite's ''only'' sole character trait.
* ExpositoryThemeTune
* {{Expy}}:
** Star is Veronica Star from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', all grown up. Same name? Check. Blonde? Check. Satellite to a non-white RichBitch? Check. A cheerleader? Check. The only major difference is that she is voiced by Tara Strong, not Grey Delisle.
** Dash is an expy of Flash Thompson of ''SpiderMan'': bullies Fenton, admires Phantom and he's a jock.
** Tucker is an expy of Steve Urkel from ''Series/FamilyMatters'', only without the annoying nasal voice.
** The Guys In White are a pretty obvious expy/parody of the ''Film/MenInBlack'' comic/film series, replacing aliens with ghosts.
** Vlad Masters is clearly an expy of NormanOsborn. He's rich, he's a crazed lonely man, he's got a dual identity, just give him a son and you've got the complete package. His origin, meanwhile, is a direct reference to [[DoctorDoom Victor Von Doom's]], with Jack standing in for Reed Richards.
*** He could also be considered an Expy for {{Dracula}}. His appearance, fact that he lives in the castle, and even shares the same first name as the historical Vlad Dracula III (AKA "Vlad Tepes"/"Vlad The Impaler"). [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally, Vlad WAS going to be a vampire]] until ExecutiveMeddling declared the concept "too occult" and made him a half-ghost instead. Both women that Vlad and Dracula fall in love with have names that start with the letter "M" (Dracula falls in love with ''Mina'' Harker and Vlad falls in love with ''Maddie'' Fenton.) Oh, and they also at one point use a [[SdrawkcabName backward-spelled "alias" of their own name"]] (IE: Vlad has "Dalv" and Dracula has "Alucard".)
** Lancer is possibly an Expy of J. Jonah Jameson from SpiderMan.
** Freakshow and Lydia are seen as parallels to SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker and Harley Quinn, respectively. Not surprising, as Butch Hartman seems to be a fairly big fan of superhero comics.
** It's likely that Desiree, the LiteralGenie, is an expy of [[Series/IDreamOfJeannie Jeannie]].
** [[TheJeeves Hobson]] from "Livin' Large" has the same job, appearance, personality, voice, and ''[[TheyJustDidntCare name]]'' as John Gielgud's character from ''Film/{{Arthur}}''.
** Just look at Danny and try to say that he doesn't remind you of [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Chip Skylark, Timmy, or Cosmo]].
*** Some people have also noticed similarities between Danny and Spider-Man himself.
**** Danny is indeed an obvious expy (or variant) of Spider-Man, in the same way that ''ComicBook/{{Static}}'' or The Leopard from Lime Street are expies of Spider-Man.
** Dark Danny seems to be one of both [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk the Mastero]] ([[FutureMeScaresMe The hero's future self is an evil madman bent on ruling the world]]) and [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Onslaught]] (taking out his archenemy's dark side and being a combination of it and the hero's).
** Does Ember remind you of [[KaBlam another girl with blue hair in a ponytail, a short fuse, and a great singing voice?]]
** The aforementioned [[HelloKitty Sayonara Pussycat]]. Also see BilingualBonus.
* FailOSuckyname: Before he tells the entire population of Amnity Park that his name is Danny Phantom, the name that the public used for Danny's ghost form was "Inviso-Bill".
* FakeOutMakeOut: Danny and Sam [[TropeNamer coined the term]], and are quick to uncomfortably realize their own reactions were more sincere than either suspected.
* FallenHero: Danny's [[BadFuture future]] [[FutureMeScaresMe self]] most definitely, irrevocably, very disturbingly and with extreme violence and prejudice.
* FallenPrincess: Valerie.
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Danny's human half in his BadFuture.]] So much so that Vlad refuses to divulge any of the details.
** The entire ''world'' outside of Amity Park has been destroyed. What do you think happened to all of the people?
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: [[spoiler:What Danny's future self did to everybody. Many ghosts have been crippled or otherwise permanently injured, and Valerie's dad ''lost an arm and an eye''.]]
* FangsAreEvil: Vlad, evil Danny.
** Somewhat subverted and lampshaded with Ghostwriter's "Piranha-fangs".
* FantasticRacism: Most ghosts don't like humans and most of the human cast are terrified of ghosts. It gets creepy when Danny hears about his parents discussing what to do with his alter ego's remains if they ever caught him.
* FatIdiot: Jack Fenton, or so Vlad would claim. (Jack is actually a subversion.)
* FateWorseThanDeath: In "Reign Storm", not only does Pariah Dark get sealed back into his sarcophagus for the rest of eternity, but he gets sealed back into his sarcophagus for the rest of eternity ''backwards.''
* FightUnscene: Economy animation causes lackluster fighting scenes in what is otherwise an ''Action''/Comedy series. This improves somewhat starting around the second half of Season 2 due in part to storyboarder George Goodchild.
* FlamingHair: Dark Danny and Ember [=McLain=].
* {{Flanderization}}: By Season 3, many suffered from this.
* FlightOfRomance: Foreshadowing the finale.
-->'''Sam:''' It's -- nice. Flying is nice.
* FlyingBrick
* {{Flynning}}: That sword fight between Danny and Vlad in "Infinite Realms".
* FogFeet: Danny often had a ghost-like tail.
* ForeignExchangeStudent: One episode has a Hungarian transfer student coming in to be Sam's RomanticFalseLead. [[spoiler:Turns out that he was an American guy putting on a show just to mess with Sam.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: ''Loads''. A lot of it is really subtle and hard to catch until you rewatch things, but two good examples: the ectopusses Danny fights in episode 1 are sent by Vlad (who only shows up in the seventh). In the background, Valerie says "Mrs. Spectra says I worry too much about material possessions" in "My Brother's Keeper." The next episode, it's the loss of her material possessions that drives her to become a very aggressive ghost hunter.
** Valerie tells Sam in "Reign Storm" that she'd better make a move on Danny, [[RelationshipUpgrade before someone else does.]] Soon enough, Valerie and Danny start dating, if only for a short period.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Danny tends to forget about his ability to become intangible.
* ForgottenAnniversary: When the anniversary gift goes to the ghost world...guess what happens. [[spoiler:Subverted in that it isn't Jack's Anniversary present for Maddie but rather a present for his Sister-In-Law's anniversary of her Divorce.]]
* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Danny (though Sam was very unimpressed).
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: "Team Phantom" - Danny is choleric for good leadership skills, but with highly emotional personality; Tucker is sanguine because he's fun-loving; Jazz (though not depressive) is melancholic/leuquine for her kind but perfectionist persona; and Sam is phlegmatic because she's a responsible [[DeadpanSnarker Stoic Goth]].
* FreakLabAccident: ''"But then Danny took a look inside of it. There was a great big flash! Everything just changed! His molecules got all rearranged!"''
* FreakyFridayFlip: Between Danny and Poindexter.
* FriendlessBackground
* FriendlyEnemy: Vlad implied in one episode that his relationship with Danny is like this, stating "I'm sorry, but funny, joke-around Vlad isn't here today" before attacking him. This is a relationship Vlad saw with Danny during most of the series' run, on account of the villain's desire to have Danny as his surrogate son, his role as an UnwittingPawn notwithstanding.
** Played with in the AlternateTimeline in "Ultimate Enemy." [[spoiler:Danny seeks Vlad's help when his friends and family are killed, and Vlad seems to be genuinely sympathetic when Danny arrives at his door.]]
** By the end of the series, Danny was frenemies with most of the recurring ghost characters. When dealing with a problem bigger than he could handle on his own, he'd often turn to one of the ghosts for help. The fact that he was able to convince [[spoiler:nearly the entire population of the ghost zone to help save Earth]] cemented that status.
* FunnyForeigner: Subverted with Gregor. He's not funny at all, [[spoiler:his real name is Elliot, and he's from Michigan.]]
* FurryFandom: In "Reality Trip", Tucker admits aloud that he finds a wolf lady to be "hot".
-->'''Tucker:''' That may be the hottest geek I've ever laid eyes on.\\
(The wolf lady transforms into a more feral-looking wolf).\\
'''Sam:''' Yeah? How about now?\\
'''Tucker:''' Yeah. Still hot.
* FutureBadass: The Box Ghost.
* FutureMeScaresMe: Danny's future-self isn't exactly what he'd hope it to be. Then again, not many people want to grow up to be a rampaging sociopath.
* GadgeteerGenius: Tucker, though Jack and Maddie actually ''make'' all their own gear.
* GasMaskMooks: Most non-operative GIW hunters wear masks that resemble gas masks.
* {{GASP}}: In the finale, among other places.
* {{Geek}}: Tucker (technically a "Techno-Geek"), Mikey, Nathan/Lester, etc.
* GeekyTurnOn: Whenever Maddie shows her ActionMom or ghost hunting skills, Jack's usual response is "''Man'' that's hot!".
* GhostlyGoals: Which (if any) ghosts have "unfinished business" and will pass on after completing it is up for debate, considering the show never addressed afterlife beyond the Ghost Zone; however, almost every ghost Danny fights is the "attack the living" type.
* GirlsNightOutEpisode: Aptly titled "Girls' Night Out", featuring Jazz, Maddie and Sam stopping Spectra, Kitty and Ember from making all the men disappear.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Danny's eyes glow green even in human form when he gets too angry.
* GoodColoursEvilColours: Interesting switch with Vlad and Danny. It's played straight when they're in human form: Danny wears white and Vlad dons black, but in ghost form, the hero is predominately black while Vlad wears a near all-white suit.
** Also played straight with their transformation rings: Danny's being white while Vlad's is black.
*** As well as with their hair.
*** And with their eyes, energy blasts, and skin colors in ghost form (no, not like [[FantasticRacism that]]. It's blue, as in the ''exact negative'' of Danny's).
* GondorCallsForAid: "Reign Storm" where Danny, Vlad and Valerie have to ally to stop a BigBad
** "Phantom Planet", where Danny has to enlist much of the population of the Ghost Zone (both friends and enemies) to save the world from [[spoiler:an asteroid.]]
* TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil: Team Phantom - good; Vlad, Valerie, and some of Danny's ghostly enemies - bad; most of Danny's RoguesGallery - evil.
* GoshDangItToHeck
* GoshHornet: In "13", when Tucker disturbs a beehive in the middle of lunch period and chaos ensues.
* {{Goth}}: Sam is said to be goth and goes between Perky and Gloomy, but more often comes off as an activist hippie who wears black.
* GottaCatchThemAll: "Reality Trip" (and even the series' theme song).
* GrandFinale: "Phantom Planet".
* GrandTheftMe: See FreakyFridayFlip. Also Kitty's [[DemonicPossession possession]] of Paulina--in both instances, the ghost attempts to impersonate the human.
* GreatBigBookOfEverything:
** "Fright Night" - The TokenTrio use a book to learn about the Fright Knight.
** "Reality Trip" - The trio use a book to find out about the Reality Gauntlet and find out it was written by the EvilAlbino.
** "Infinite Realms" - Vlad mysteriously has a book with information about the Infi-Map in it.
* GreenEyedMonster: Sam gets really annoyed whenever Danny starts drooling over Paulina.
** In the episode 'Double Cross My Heart', Danny grows increasingly irritated about Sam's crush on the new transfer student.
-->'''Sam:''' I've been looking for you.\\
'''Danny:''' Where, in Gregor's locker?\\
'''Sam:''' Whoa. Thank you, Joe Hostility.
* GreenEyes: Danny in ghost-mode.
* GreenThumb: Undergrowth [[spoiler:and Sam]] in "Urban Jungle".
* GroupieBrigade: One episode focused on this when Danny Phantom (by this point, a well known hero and celebrity) is on the run from screaming teenage fans; most of which come from his own school. He had to secretly [[SecretIdentity turn human]] to get away from the crazed mob.
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* AbortedArc: The news that the series would only have three seasons caused a lot of planned story arcs to simply disappear without a trace. What deal did Vlad and the Fright Knight break? What role does Dani end up playing? What did Valerie do after she discovered Vlad's identity and the existence of halfas? Does Dark Danny escape and make a return appearance, as is hinted at in "The Ultimate Enemy"? We'll never know now.
* AccidentalHug
* ActionMom: Maddie is a ''ninth degree martial artist''!
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Danny in the episode where he became filthy rich. Tucker in the episode where he was made King of the world.
* {{Adorkable}}: Danny. Also Tucker
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Super Danny has one of these as a power.
* AffablyEvil: Most villains. Especially Vlad, who's the BigBad no less. How can you take him seriously as a villain after you see his Green Bay Packers cheesehead?
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Or the Sphinx is, anyway.
* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Danny constantly moons over the [[AlphaBitch egotistical and vain]] Paulina, [[spoiler:although he eventually wises up about how she's not worth his time.]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Danny is patronized by his family, bullied at his school, and feared and hated in his superhero identity by both most mortals and ghosts. Fortunately, his best friends help keep him steady while the world, starting with his sister, begins to gradually come around.
* AllPowerfulBystander: Clockwork.
* AllMenArePerverts: [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Surprisingly shown]], when Danny uses his ghost powers [[PowerPerversionPotential to sneak into the girl's locker room.]]
* AlterKocker: The "ecto-American" vulture ghosts.
* AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp: [[spoiler:In "Phantom Planet", when Danny gets rid of his powers to have a normal life, just before he needs them to save the world.]]
** On a much darker note, cheating wasn't a good idea either. Nor was begging his archrival to ''remove his humanity''. It backfired ''horribly''.
** Similarly in "Phantom Planet", [[spoiler:Vlad revealing himself to be half-ghost to the world, and then forcing the world to pay him in order to save the planet... which he couldn't actually do.]]
* AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: The amulets that Dora and Aragon wear to turn them into dragons.
* AncientKeeper: Frostbite
* AnimeHair: Danny, Plasmius, and Dark Danny, just to name a few. Must be a halfa thing. Also: Ember and Spectra.
* AnticipatoryBreathSpray: Tucker.
** Vlad as well, in Maternal Instincts.
* AnticlimaxCut: "Identity Crisis":
-->'''Tucker:''' Looks like we're gonna miss the movie.\\
'''Sam:''' Unless we find some way to ignore all speed limits, red lights, and certain laws of physics.\\
''Closeup on Danny looking sly. Cut to: ...the kids [[BaitAndSwitch in an RV going about 120 miles an hour, driven by Danny's dad.]]''\\
'''Tucker:''' Couldn't you've just flown us?\\
'''Danny:''' The way my dad drives, this is faster.
* AntiVillain:
** [[BullyHunter Sydney Poindexter]]
** Johnny 13 and Kitty. Johnny's main goal is to be left alone with Kitty. Kitty rarely does any harm unless Johnny's hurt or is eying other girls.
** Amorpho, who just likes to pull pranks, but takes them too far.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Parodied/played for laughs in ''The Fright Before Christmas''. Maddie takes ''genuine issue'' over the scientific implausibility of the existence of... wait for it... Santa Claus. Jack, on the other hand, firmly believes he exists. Both of them, are the two "leading" experts and hunters of ''ghosts'' in the world, and are arguing this in front of ''children waiting to see a shopping mall Santa''.
** Danny has a moment of this when he can't believe that his body is generating extreme cold energy.
* ArchEnemy: Danny and Vlad Plasmius. It's recognized by both of them almost immediately, and the rivalry only grows as the series goes on. See EvilCounterpart and NotSoDifferent below.
** Skulker and Valerie both qualify as close contenders, but their respective pursuits of Danny were used less and less as the writers chose to focus on the Danny/Vlad conflict.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
** "Mystery Meat":
-->'''Mr. Lancer:''' Tucker Foley. Chronic tardiness, talking in class, repeated loitering by the girl's locker room.\\
''(Tucker gives a sly smile)''
*** Later, after Jack and Maddie capture Jazz while she was trying to counsel a goth boy:
-->'''Jazz:''' You've ambushed me, suffocated me with smoke, and ''worse'', I was pulled away from Spike before he had his breakthrough!
** In "Boxed-Up Fury", the list of what's in Pandora's box:
-->'''Danny:''' Plagues, pestilence, ''[[TakeThat boy bands]]'' ... wow, this is one evil box.
** When the kids get in trouble in "Kindred Spirits".
-->'''Jack:''' You three are in a world of trouble! Skipping school, stealing and wrecking the Spectre Speeder...\\
-->'''Lancer:''' Calling me OLD MAN...
** Vlad's...
-->"Taking my map, destroying my satellite, ''mocking my [[ThereAreNoTherapists mental health]]...''"\\
also:
-->"I've forgiven him for many things... causing the accident that ruined my life, stealing you, the backwash incident..."
* ArtEvolution: The main characters don't look like stick figures and actually gain muscles in later seasons; the colors also get more vibrant. Also, the earlier episodes had a very crude, simplistic, and mucky artstyle.
* AsleepForDays: {{Subverted}}.
-->'''Danny:''' What happened?\\
'''Tucker:''' You passed out. We took you home. You've been asleep for four days.\\
'''Danny:''' Four days?!\\
'''Tucker:''' ''(laughs)'' Nah, it's only been a couple hours.
* AnAssKickingChristmas: The Fright Before Christmas.
* AuditThreat: Used by a [[spoiler:fake]] Government agent against students' parents in "Doctor's Disorders" and by the Guys in White against Mr. Lancer in "Double-Cross My Heart".
* AuthorAppeal: Hartman incorporates space themes (he loves ''Franchise/StarWars'') through Danny, who wants to be an astronaut.
* AxCrazy: Oh, ''Dan''... let's see: The first thing he did upon "reawakening"? [[spoiler:Steal the ghostly half of BigBad Vlad Masters (OurGhostsAreDifferent 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''. Rather unpleasant, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids considering what age group this is aimed at.]]]]
* {{Backstory}}: While we do know the basics of how Danny got his powers from the ExpositoryThemeSong, it isn't until the episode "Memory Blank" that we actually learn it was Sam that persuaded him to enter the portal in the first place.
* BackToBackBadasses: Danny and Skulker in "Prisoner of Love".
* {{Badass}}: Long list, including Vlad, Skulker, and a purple-backed gorilla.
* BadassFamily: Danny may be the one with superpowers, but Jazz, Maddie, and even Jack have proven capable of fighting ghosts.
* BaddieFlattery: Vlad to Danny, in conjunction with NotSoDifferent.
* BadFuture: The premise of "The Ultimate Enemy".
* BadJobWorseUniform: Valerie works at Nasty Burger--as its mascot.
* BalefulPolymorph: Technus uses some sort of remote control to turn Danny into a cowboy, a model, and [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]].
* BatmanGambit: Vlad's preferred MO, although he's not always as good at predicting responses as he thinks he is.
** He's not the only one who pulls it off. In "D-Stabilized", Valerie used Danielle in order to capture Danny.
*** There's also Clockwork who pulled one off so perfectly in "The Ultimate Enemy", no one was aware he was a good guy until the end.
* BattleBallgown: Sam makes one out of a wedding dress in "Beauty Marked".
* BattleCouple: Danny and Sam in a few later episodes.
* BattleCry: '''"I'M GOING GHOST!"'''
-->'''Vlad:''' You have a [[LampshadeHanging battle cry]], hilarious.
** "FOR BEARBERT!"
* BeamOWar: Danny and Vlad with ectoplasmic rays in "Kindred Spirits".
* BeardOfEvil: Vlad, Dark Danny, Ghost Writer, Skulker; minorly subverted with Ghost Writer, who isn't evil, just mad at Danny for destroying the poem and does what he does to teach Danny a lesson about being a scrooge.
* BeatItByCompulsion - Ghosts' typical behavior makes them vulnerable to this. A notable example is Desiree granting every wish she hears, even ones that work against her goals.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: "What You Want", "Memory Blank", both of which involve Desiree the wish-granting ghost.
* BedsheetGhost: Danny tries to pull this off on Halloween, though he'd probably be better off [[ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself going as himself]], seeing as how he's an actual (sorta) ghost and, for the majority of the series, is feared by everyone who doesn't want to outright beat him down.
** One of his clones, however, pulls this off in the best way.
* BerserkButton: "Do--not--call--me--a--LOSER!"
** '''I. WILL. NOT. GET. A. CAT!''' [[spoiler:[[GilliganCut Later, he does]]]].
*** [[spoiler:If anyone asks, the cat belongs to Vlad's sister. Pretty hard to believe considering the cat's name is Maddie]].
** Danny's eyes glow green uncontrollably if his berserk button is so much as touched, much less pushed.
*** Special mention goes to Dark Danny, who's eyes flashed red when [[spoiler: he was disguised as Danny and had to listen to Sam and Tucker insulting him]].
** Although they glow brighter when he's more annoyed, like in Fanning the Flames.
** "NOBODY MAKES MY BODY A MEAT PUPPET!"
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Jack is usually extremely oblivious and very much a GentleGiant. Vlad made a miscalculation and underestimated him ''by far''. He proceeds to beat up Vlad, which Danny himself has not been able to do, even at the end by himself.
--> '''Vlad:''' "You ''beat'' me! How is this possible? You're an idiot!"
--> '''Jack:''' "Maybe so, but I'm the idiot who ''beat you''."
** Vlad also fits - while the audience knows he is bad to the bone, most other characters think he is a saint.
** Most definitely {{Ma|maBear}}ddie. She kicks some serious butt.
** Arguably Danny himself, who is laid back and kind of lazy... when he's ''human'' (or, rather more accurately, pretending to be). It's when he's not that you need to watch out, as many lesser foes found out, as did Vlad, if in a BadFuture. Luckily for him, Clockwork hit the ResetButton on ''that'' timeline... or maybe not so lucky.
* BigBad: Vlad "Plasmius" Masters.
* BigBadassWolf: Wulf, a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf-like]] ghost prisoner who was originally sent by Walker to hunt Danny and his friends but befriends them when they try to set him free.
* BigDamnKiss: An orbital one at that in the GrandFinale. You can already figure between who. [[spoiler:(Hint: It's not Danny and Paulina)]]
* BigFancyHouse
** Vlad's residences.
** The Fenton family's new home in "Livin' Large".
** Subverted by Manson family's home; looks normal on the outside. It's still fancy, however.
* BigNo: Tucker, upon finding out that the flour babies were baked into cookies by his mother.
** And by Vlad in "Kindred Spirits" when [[spoiler:his perfect clone melted.]] Doubles as a TearJerker.
** And by Danny when [[spoiler:the vat of Nasty Sauce all the important people in his life ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Lancer]]) are attached to... ''explodes''.]]
** Again by Danny in "D-Stabilized" when [[spoiler: it seems Dani melts after Danny's attempt to save her seems to fail... [[DisneyDeath it actually works]].]]
* BigOlEyebrows: Butch Hartman's trademark. His other show, ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', also uses this trope.
* BilingualBonus: Season 1, Episode 6 "What You Want" gives us Sayonara Pussycat, an {{Expy}} of HelloKitty. Sayounara/さようなら (with a long 'o' sound that is often ignored in English) is Japanese for 'goodbye'. Danny even shouts "Bye-bye kitty", as a OneLiner.
** Nearly all of Wulf's lines are in Esperanto.
* BlackBestFriend: Tucker.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: This exchange from "Frightmare".
-->'''Danny''':''(After giving Nocturne a vicious attack)'' That'll teach you to steal peoples' dreams!
-->'''Nocturne''': 'Stealing' is such an ugly word. I prefer the term ''harvest'' for energy.
* BlatantLies: From "Maternal Instincts":
-->'''Vlad:''' What an amazing, unexpected, and totally unplanned surprise! Personalized gift baskets?
** The Amity Park signs really love this. "A safe place to live!"
* TheBlank: Amorpho, a shapeshifter whose default form is faceless. Also, possibly Fright Knight.
* BlessedWithSuck: Early in the series Danny has little control of his powers and has started sinking through floors and making his pants intangible so that they fall down. He also got banned pre-series from bearing anything breakable while on school grounds.
* BodyHorror: Happens every time Danny tries to split himself.
** Most extreme by far: Identity Crisis. He starts out with two heads, one of which sprouts another head, whose tongue forms the neck for another head. Then, from the main torso sprout two extra feet, a bug eye, a mouth with a bug eye on its tongue, and three more heads, one of whose tongue is a forearm and hand, which sprouts a head on each finger. It just keeps going from there.
* BookDumb: Danny (and Tucker).
* BookEnds: [[spoiler:In the first episode, Danny and Sam are vehemently denying that they were boyfriend and girlfriend. In the GrandFinale, their RelationshipUpgrade is complete.]]
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Or rather, girl meets Phantom.
* ABoyAndHisX: "A boy and his dog. Somehow, it's not supposed to be this weird." The dog in question was a ghost dog that alternates between being cute, and large and vicious.
** Used again in "Infinite Realms": "Awww, a boy and his snow monster." (Both were said by Sam, come to think of it...)
* {{Brainwashed}}: Both Ember and Freakshow use this against Danny.
* BraggingThemeTune: '''He could walk through walls, disappear and fly! He was much more unique than the other guys!'''
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: In "Phantom Planet":
-->'''Technus:''' Nothing like a lazy day of shopping, lattes, and terrorizing the minimum-wage workers!
* BreatherEpisode: After the heavy-handed "Reign Storm" dealt with character developments and important story arcs, the next episode aired was the lighthearted (possibly THE most lighthearted DP episode), "Identity Crisis". There was also "The Ultimate Enemy" which was just gruesome, but the episode that aired after was a light and fluffy ChristmasEpisode.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Danny involuntarily lost his powers thanks to LiteralGenie Desiree in "Memory Blank". [[spoiler:He also loses them in "Phantom Planet", but since that was done voluntarily, it's AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp]]
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Danny's costume gets a stylized DP chest symbol on his costume. An episode exists to explain where it comes from, using a CosmicRetcon so that everyone but Sam and Danny believes that it's always been there.
* BullyHunter: Poindexter, the ghost of a bullied nerdy teen who lived in the 50's, who unfortunately combines this with HorribleJudgeOfCharacter, who now as a ghost targets Danny when he thinks he is bullying JerkJock Dash Baxter.
* BumblingDad: Jack Fenton may be a brilliant inventor, but otherwise he's an idiot.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: See BumblingDad.
* ButterflyOfDoom: Cheat on your CAT, and the world gets boned. [[spoiler:[[NiceJobBreakingItHero By YOU!]]]]
* ButtMonkey: Tucker. He's dumped on quite often despite saving/helping Danny more than once and yet, he barely gets thanked. Several times in the latter portion of the series, he is often the butt of the joke or virtually ignored.
** It becomes part of the plot in "What You Want" when Tucker, after routinely getting pummeled every time Danny ditches him to save the world, wishes for ghost powers.
** "I AM THE BOX GHOST!"
* CallingTheOldManOut: Jazz in Reality Trip.
-->'''Jazz (imitating Jack):''' I know! Let's catch the ghost and rip it apart [[LargeHam mmmolecule by mmmolecule]]! [[SarcasmMode You guys are so understanding]].
* CallingYourAttacks: Occasionally employed. Usually with Fenton gear.
* CanNotSpitItOut: Danny and Sam for quite some time. As the series progresses, they tend to hesitate, blush, and stammer whenever anyone asks about their relationship or assumes that they're together, rather than angrily declaring "He/She is not my boy/girlfriend!"
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: [[SpaceWhaleAesop Remember, kids, cheating on a test will cause you to turn evil and]] '''''[[SpaceWhaleAesop destroy the future]]'''''
* CantGetInTroubleForNuthin
* CaretakerReversal: In the beginning of the episode ''What You Want'', Sam is sick and Danny and Tucker try to take care of her. Guess which two characters get sick at the end?
* CarnivalOfKillers
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** Danny: "I'm going ghost!", "You don't know the half of it."
** Tucker: Ya got that right!
** Technus: I, Technus (insert outdated slang here).
** Box Ghost: "I AM THE BOX GHOST!", "BEWARE!"
** Mr. Lancer: *insert title of classic book here*!
** [[LiteralGenie Desiree]]: So you have wished it, so shall it be.
** Various characters: "For the record, I blame you." "Survey says..."
* CharacterDevelopment: Everyone of the main characters get some form of character development.
* CelestialBody: Nocturne, the ghost of sleep, has his entire body except his eyes and face-mask as stars in space.
* CensorSteam: In "An Eye for an Eye". Poor, poor Danny...
* ChangedMyJumper: Subverted in the episode ''Masters Of All Time'' where Danny's time travel to the 1980's reveals that his black jumpsuit is actually ''fitting'' for that time period.
-->'''Danny:''' Oh, great, I blend in.
* ChefOfIron: The Lunch Lady Ghost.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: The [[{{Pun}} Boooomerang]], first used in "The Ultimate Enemy" to find Danny, gets used again in "Kindred Spirits". Bonus points for being an actual boomerang.
* ChekhovsGun: Many of the Fenton Gadgets.
** The Tucker-bot from "Livin' Large", later used in "Phantom Planet". Also, Valerie's first ghost hunting suit, first appearing in the tenth episode. We later find out in the fortieth episode why Vlad gave her the gear!
* TheChessmaster:
-->'''Danny:''' I don't understand...\\
'''Vlad:''' What? That I used two 14-year-old pawns to turn a knight and topple a king? It's chess, Daniel. Of course you don't understand. But then, you never really did.
* ChewBubblegum
* ChewOutFakeOut: Happens in "13", when Danny intentionally lets himself get caught spying on Jazz and Johnny.
* {{Chronoscope}}: The various time-windows in [[spoiler: Clockwork's lair]].
* CityOfAdventure: Amity Park.
* ClarkKenting: A running joke from episode one.
** Unless you want to say that Danny's ghost form inhibits mundanes' perception of him or some other TechnoBabble, we're asked to believe that changing his hair and eye color is enough of a disguise for him. He doesn't even bother to change his first name.
*** For that matter, neither does Vlad with his name, though his ghost form is immensely different in looks then Danny is with his, so it may be {{justified|Trope}}.
*** Dark Danny in "The Ultimate Enemy" lampshades this, mocking everyone by pointing out how obvious it was.
*** There was also the episode where Danny and Dash get shrunk and need to get to the Ops Center before Danny's powers fizzle completely as he continues getting closer to being Danny Fenton every minute.
** Lampshaded by Danny. "Good thing Dash is a total moron..."
*** And then there was the whole mess in "Double Cross My Heart": where the Guys In White were aware of this trope, but they pinned Danny Phantom's disguise on the wrong guy
* CloningBlues: "Kindred Spirits".
* ComesGreatResponsibility: And the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' parallels don't stop there.
* ComingOfAgeStory: In his definite CharacterDevelopment Arc, Danny starts off as a naive boy who is looking for his place in the world, uncertain of the big decisions thrust onto him. By the end of the series, he has grown into a mature lad who continuously handles big burdens displayed before him. By the ending, said burdens and responsibilities are even bigger, but he's grown up enough to face the task.
** A smaller meta-arc would be Jazz's coming of age, going from a nosy sullen kid growing up too fast to someone who appreciates her age and knows when not to get involved.
* CompressedVice: All too frequently.
* ConspicuousCG: In the GrandFinale, at the least.
* ContinuityDrift: In one episode a nerdy friend of Tucker's is mentioned as "Nathan". In a Season 3 episode he shows up again, but gets called "Lester", although it might just be his last name.
* ContinuityNod: Mostly the Fenton inventions, but several elements from prior are mentioned in latter episodes (and even move the plot forward). Justifies the great continuity this show has.
** In episode 16, "Maternal Instinct", Vlad Masters is shown to have one of the large yellow monster trucks which will later show up in "Memory Blank".
** Speaking of Memory Blank, it contains multiple shout-outs to earlier Season 1 episodes.
*** Danny brings up Sam's "great ideas" of changing the school cafeteria menu (episode 1), releasing the purple-backed gorilla (ep. 3), and selling his dad's old junk at a garage sale (ep. 4). She counters by asking whether he would also like to blame her for puberty, which was used multiple times as an excuse for his "voice change" in episode 5 [[spoiler:when Danny was possessed by Poindexter.]]
*** Sam's photo album contains the picture she took of Danny and Tucker hugging during episode 3.
*** Danny also pulls a FakeOutMakeOut on Sam, which she had originally pulled on him in the episode where [[spoiler:Valerie becomes a ghost hunter.]]
*** At one point Danny phases down through the floor of the school, noticing the large store of meat in the basement that was discovered in the first episode.
*** Paulina is wearing the same dress at her Quinceañera (15th birthday party) that she wore to the dance with Danny in episode 2, while at the same time Sam comments that she looks "almost human", possibly in reference to Paulina's ghost-dragon transformation from the same episode.
*** During Danny's flashback/remembering sequence, special attention is given to him sneaking into the girl's locker room with his ghost powers, which happened in episode 6, the same episode Desiree was introduced.
** When trying to act ghostly in order to get Jack to chase him, Danny yells "Fear me!", something a ghost translator from an early episode appended to every sentence spoken by Danny.
** The emergency ham shows up in the episode "Pirate Radio", before being revealed to be useful for something in "Reality Trip".
*** Also in "Pirate Radio", the easy-listening Ear Worm that's on every radio station is [[spoiler:a version of Ember's rock song from "Fanning the Flames" - and {{Foreshadowing}} for her appearance as Youngblood's partner in crime]].
** Even later in the series, Skulker still has an appointment to check out a book on purple-backed gorillas.
** In the episode "Reign Storm", Tucker mentions that Danny caught Skulker and Ember and sent them back to the Ghost Zone together. In the episode "Girl's Night Out", it's revealed that [[spoiler:Ember and Skulker are now going out (see also, PairTheSpares)]]. Too much time in the Thermos together?
** In the episode "Forever Phantom", Maddie mentions the time Danny Phantom supposedly "attacked the mayor" ("Public Enemies") and when he "stole" everyone's Christmas presents ("The Fright Before Christmas").
* CoolCar: The Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle (otherwise known as just "the RV").
* CosmicEntity: [[spoiler: Clockwork.]]
* CrazyPrepared: Fenton Works.
* CuffsOffRubWrists: Freak Show in "Reality Trip".
* CurbStompBattle: Danny's first battle with Vlad goes like this by means of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown administered by Vlad.
* CurseCutShort: From the Phantom Planet Finale:
-->'''Maddie Holograph One:''' Your resolution is too low and your bandwidth is too large!\\
'''Maddie Holograph Two:'''"*gasp* Why you holographic- *Violence Ensues*"
* DatingCatwoman: Danny and Valerie briefly.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Tucker ("What You Want", "King Tuck") and Jazz ("The Fenton Menace", "Secret Weapons").
* DeadlyTrainingArea: Despite being jury-rigged, Danny's homemade training area in his parent's basement includes lasers among other, less lethal, hazards.
* DeadlyUpgrade: The [=EctoSkeleton=] increases the user's power 100 times, while slowly killing them.
* DeadpanSnarker: Sam.
* DefangedHorrors: The Ghost Zone (somewhat).
* DeflectorShields
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Once again, I, Techus, master of all things electronic and beeping, am free once again to conquer this world!"
* DescriptionCut: Used just as much as HypocriticalHumor.
* DeusAngstMachina: Danny's alternate future. Twisted in that "fate" was really just Clockwork manipulating the time stream to produce what was the worst possible future ever to scare Danny away from his FaceHeelTurn.
* DidMomJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Well, to a lesser degree. In one episode, Jack and Danny go fishing when they are attacked by some kind of sea dragon monster. Jack kicks it's ass pretty easily.
* DisasterDominoes: In Valerie's father's lab while Danny tries to catch the rampaging ghost dog.
* DishDash: In the series' very first episode. Danny protects Sam from death by flying dishes by catching them all. Unusual for the trope, he gets all the dishes safely put away!
* DisposableSuperheroMaker
* DistaffCounterpart: Dani Phantom, Danny's OppositeSexClone.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Overshadowing looks really, really similar to possession albeit benign. It would be prime candidate for InsistentTerminology if anyone connected the dots.
** Sam, Tucker, and Jazz trying to convince Danny to let them help him sort out his problems and that [[spoiler:he doesn't have to get rid of his powers]] in "Phantom Planet".
* TheDoorSlamsYou: Skullker does this to Danny in one episode.
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* TheDragon: Fright Knight seems to love this as he fights for both Pariah Dark and [[spoiler:Dark Danny]].
* DramaBomb: "The Ultimate Enemy." Period. The show had, for one and a half seasons, chugged along its storyline with a fairly cheerful and optimistic tone. Then "The Ultimate Enemy" aired and was, hands-down, the most serious and disturbing episode in the entire show, leaving many viewers speechless upon its first airing.
* DramaticDrop:
-->'''Sam:''' We haven't seen Danny or Valerie in hours!\\
'''Jack:''' Ah, they're fine. They've been up in Danny's room! Alone! For hours!\\
''Sam drops her tea''.
* DramaticWind: Parodied in "Identity Crisis" by the pure superhero version of Danny, who has this going at ''all'' times, befitting his LargeHam status.
* DreamWeaver: Nocturne, the Ghost of Sleep, demonstrates the power to manipulate dreams in "Frightmare."
* DrivingStick: in the episode "Bitter Reunions"
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In the "Ultimate Enemy", [[spoiler:a memorial statue of Tucker, Sam, and Danny's family says "Gone But Not Forgotten", while a statue of Mr. Lancer a few feet away only says "Gone."]]
* DungeonmastersGirlfriend: Jazz.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After having lot of trouble during the whole series, in the last episode "Phantom Planet", things end well for Danny and his friends.
* EasterEgg: In one episode, Danny and Tuck are playing a Crash Nebula arcade game. Crash Nebula is one of Timmy Turner's favorite superheroes in Butch Hartman's other cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/{{The Fairly OddParents}}''.
** And then in the FOP episode focusing entirely on the origins of Crash Nebula, the comic book that Crash's original form (before he became Crash Nebula) is reading at the beginning of the episode has a picture of Danny Phantom on the back cover.
* EggSitting: Danny and Valerie, Dash and Paulina, Tucker and Sam all are in the same "this bag of flour is your baby" project for health class in "Life Lessons".
* EnemyMine: Danny and Vlad in "Reign Storm" (against the Ghost King) and "Torrent of Terror" (against Vortex).
** Danny and Dash had to work together against Skulker in "Micro-Management", as did Danny and Valerie in the ChainedHeat episode, "Life Lessons".
** "Reign Storm" also takes this a step further by [[spoiler:forcing Danny to unite every ghost he's ever met to defeat the Ghost King]].
*** Done again in the GrandFinale when [[spoiler:Danny had to get everyone, human and ghost, to work together to save both the earth and the Ghost Zone]].
* EpisodeTitleCard: Done in the fashion of 50's horror movies, no less, with the GrandFinale as the only exception.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first episode's ColdOpen gives little ones to each of the main characters in the form of their responses to Jack.
-->'''Jack:''' So, Danny! You and your little friends want to hunt ghosts...
-->'''Danny:''' Uh, a-actually, Dad, I wanna be an astronaut.
-->'''Sam:''' Sorry Mr. Fenton. I ''was'' into ghosts, but they’re so mainstream now; they’re like cell phones.
-->'''Tucker:''' Waste ''these'' looks and all ''this'' charisma hunting ghosts? Criminal.
* EternalEnglish: You would think that someone who died 1600 years ago would ''not'' be speaking Modern American English. Also, the one non-English speaker speaks ''modern'' Esperanto.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: All of Danny's ghost enemies hold an annual truce with any and all other ghosts (including half-ghosts like Danny) so that they can celebrate Christmas. When they discover the Ghost Writer broke the truce, they are ''not'' happy, [[EnemyMine teaming up with Danny to stop him]], and save Christmas.
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: "Attack of the Killer Garage Sale", "Public Enemies", "Double Cross My Heart", let's just say the series is riddled with this.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Danny and Sam, despite their [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend vehement denials]].
* EverythingIsOnline: And therefore vulnerable to being hacked via one of Tucker's [=PDA=]s.
* EvilAlbino: Freakshow.
* EvilCounterpart: Plasmius and Dark Danny both qualify.
* EvilDiva: Ember.
* EvilLaugh:
** Dark Danny has a rather nice one.
** Vlad's done a couple during his time. The most striking would be the beginning to "Kindred Spirits".
** It is debatable if Ghostwriter's "maniacal/evil nerd-laugh" counts.
* EvilMakeover: Danny, Sam and Vlad each get one. Fans really dig how their looks (and voices) turned out. Wow. EvilIsSexy indeed.
* EvilPlan: While the [[MonsterOfTheWeek particular episode's ghost(s)]] might have their own agenda, [[BigBad Vlad's]] plan stays the same until his VillainDecay in Season 3: Kill Jack, make Maddie his wife, and make Danny his son.
* ExpendableClone: No one, least of all Danny, seems particularly bothered when Danny [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman destroys the less-human looking clones]]. Only the human-looking Danielle gains his sympathy. This is subverted, however, by the fact that Danny ''also'' doesn't seem to be bothered when he destroys the so-called "perfect clone" of himself, which would be, in theory, at least as "human" as his OppositeSexClone Dani.
** This is {{justified|Trope}} by the face that the previous clones weren't fully sentient and if the "perfect clone" awoke, Vlad would've taken out the original.
** Vlad himself only considered the "perfect clone" human, even [[WellDoneSonGuy rejecting]] the only person who probably loved him. NiceJobFixingItVillain.
* {{Exposition}}: Particularly awkward, repetitive uses of AsYouKnow, TellMeAgain, [[TalkingToHimself Talking to Themselves]], PostponedQuestion, etc.
** MrExposition: Frostbite's ''only'' sole character trait.
* ExpositoryThemeTune
* {{Expy}}:
** Star is Veronica Star from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', all grown up. Same name? Check. Blonde? Check. Satellite to a non-white RichBitch? Check. A cheerleader? Check. The only major difference is that she is voiced by Tara Strong, not Grey Delisle.
** Dash is an expy of Flash Thompson of ''SpiderMan'': bullies Fenton, admires Phantom and he's a jock.
** Tucker is an expy of Steve Urkel from ''Series/FamilyMatters'', only without the annoying nasal voice.
** The Guys In White are a pretty obvious expy/parody of the ''Film/MenInBlack'' comic/film series, replacing aliens with ghosts.
** Vlad Masters is clearly an expy of NormanOsborn. He's rich, he's a crazed lonely man, he's got a dual identity, just give him a son and you've got the complete package. His origin, meanwhile, is a direct reference to [[DoctorDoom Victor Von Doom's]], with Jack standing in for Reed Richards.
*** He could also be considered an Expy for {{Dracula}}. His appearance, fact that he lives in the castle, and even shares the same first name as the historical Vlad Dracula III (AKA "Vlad Tepes"/"Vlad The Impaler"). [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally, Vlad WAS going to be a vampire]] until ExecutiveMeddling declared the concept "too occult" and made him a half-ghost instead. Both women that Vlad and Dracula fall in love with have names that start with the letter "M" (Dracula falls in love with ''Mina'' Harker and Vlad falls in love with ''Maddie'' Fenton.) Oh, and they also at one point use a [[SdrawkcabName backward-spelled "alias" of their own name"]] (IE: Vlad has "Dalv" and Dracula has "Alucard".)
** Lancer is possibly an Expy of J. Jonah Jameson from SpiderMan.
** Freakshow and Lydia are seen as parallels to SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker and Harley Quinn, respectively. Not surprising, as Butch Hartman seems to be a fairly big fan of superhero comics.
** It's likely that Desiree, the LiteralGenie, is an expy of [[Series/IDreamOfJeannie Jeannie]].
** [[TheJeeves Hobson]] from "Livin' Large" has the same job, appearance, personality, voice, and ''[[TheyJustDidntCare name]]'' as John Gielgud's character from ''Film/{{Arthur}}''.
** Just look at Danny and try to say that he doesn't remind you of [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Chip Skylark, Timmy, or Cosmo]].
*** Some people have also noticed similarities between Danny and Spider-Man himself.
**** Danny is indeed an obvious expy (or variant) of Spider-Man, in the same way that ''ComicBook/{{Static}}'' or The Leopard from Lime Street are expies of Spider-Man.
** Dark Danny seems to be one of both [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk the Mastero]] ([[FutureMeScaresMe The hero's future self is an evil madman bent on ruling the world]]) and [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Onslaught]] (taking out his archenemy's dark side and being a combination of it and the hero's).
** Does Ember remind you of [[KaBlam another girl with blue hair in a ponytail, a short fuse, and a great singing voice?]]
** The aforementioned [[HelloKitty Sayonara Pussycat]]. Also see BilingualBonus.
* FailOSuckyname: Before he tells the entire population of Amnity Park that his name is Danny Phantom, the name that the public used for Danny's ghost form was "Inviso-Bill".
* FakeOutMakeOut: Danny and Sam [[TropeNamer coined the term]], and are quick to uncomfortably realize their own reactions were more sincere than either suspected.
* FallenHero: Danny's [[BadFuture future]] [[FutureMeScaresMe self]] most definitely, irrevocably, very disturbingly and with extreme violence and prejudice.
* FallenPrincess: Valerie.
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Danny's human half in his BadFuture.]] So much so that Vlad refuses to divulge any of the details.
** The entire ''world'' outside of Amity Park has been destroyed. What do you think happened to all of the people?
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: [[spoiler:What Danny's future self did to everybody. Many ghosts have been crippled or otherwise permanently injured, and Valerie's dad ''lost an arm and an eye''.]]
* FangsAreEvil: Vlad, evil Danny.
** Somewhat subverted and lampshaded with Ghostwriter's "Piranha-fangs".
* FantasticRacism: Most ghosts don't like humans and most of the human cast are terrified of ghosts. It gets creepy when Danny hears about his parents discussing what to do with his alter ego's remains if they ever caught him.
* FatIdiot: Jack Fenton, or so Vlad would claim. (Jack is actually a subversion.)
* FateWorseThanDeath: In "Reign Storm", not only does Pariah Dark get sealed back into his sarcophagus for the rest of eternity, but he gets sealed back into his sarcophagus for the rest of eternity ''backwards.''
* FightUnscene: Economy animation causes lackluster fighting scenes in what is otherwise an ''Action''/Comedy series. This improves somewhat starting around the second half of Season 2 due in part to storyboarder George Goodchild.
* FlamingHair: Dark Danny and Ember [=McLain=].
* {{Flanderization}}: By Season 3, many suffered from this.
* FlightOfRomance: Foreshadowing the finale.
-->'''Sam:''' It's -- nice. Flying is nice.
* FlyingBrick
* {{Flynning}}: That sword fight between Danny and Vlad in "Infinite Realms".
* FogFeet: Danny often had a ghost-like tail.
* ForeignExchangeStudent: One episode has a Hungarian transfer student coming in to be Sam's RomanticFalseLead. [[spoiler:Turns out that he was an American guy putting on a show just to mess with Sam.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: ''Loads''. A lot of it is really subtle and hard to catch until you rewatch things, but two good examples: the ectopusses Danny fights in episode 1 are sent by Vlad (who only shows up in the seventh). In the background, Valerie says "Mrs. Spectra says I worry too much about material possessions" in "My Brother's Keeper." The next episode, it's the loss of her material possessions that drives her to become a very aggressive ghost hunter.
** Valerie tells Sam in "Reign Storm" that she'd better make a move on Danny, [[RelationshipUpgrade before someone else does.]] Soon enough, Valerie and Danny start dating, if only for a short period.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Danny tends to forget about his ability to become intangible.
* ForgottenAnniversary: When the anniversary gift goes to the ghost world...guess what happens. [[spoiler:Subverted in that it isn't Jack's Anniversary present for Maddie but rather a present for his Sister-In-Law's anniversary of her Divorce.]]
* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Danny (though Sam was very unimpressed).
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: "Team Phantom" - Danny is choleric for good leadership skills, but with highly emotional personality; Tucker is sanguine because he's fun-loving; Jazz (though not depressive) is melancholic/leuquine for her kind but perfectionist persona; and Sam is phlegmatic because she's a responsible [[DeadpanSnarker Stoic Goth]].
* FreakLabAccident: ''"But then Danny took a look inside of it. There was a great big flash! Everything just changed! His molecules got all rearranged!"''
* FreakyFridayFlip: Between Danny and Poindexter.
* FriendlessBackground
* FriendlyEnemy: Vlad implied in one episode that his relationship with Danny is like this, stating "I'm sorry, but funny, joke-around Vlad isn't here today" before attacking him. This is a relationship Vlad saw with Danny during most of the series' run, on account of the villain's desire to have Danny as his surrogate son, his role as an UnwittingPawn notwithstanding.
** Played with in the AlternateTimeline in "Ultimate Enemy." [[spoiler:Danny seeks Vlad's help when his friends and family are killed, and Vlad seems to be genuinely sympathetic when Danny arrives at his door.]]
** By the end of the series, Danny was frenemies with most of the recurring ghost characters. When dealing with a problem bigger than he could handle on his own, he'd often turn to one of the ghosts for help. The fact that he was able to convince [[spoiler:nearly the entire population of the ghost zone to help save Earth]] cemented that status.
* FunnyForeigner: Subverted with Gregor. He's not funny at all, [[spoiler:his real name is Elliot, and he's from Michigan.]]
* FurryFandom: In "Reality Trip", Tucker admits aloud that he finds a wolf lady to be "hot".
-->'''Tucker:''' That may be the hottest geek I've ever laid eyes on.\\
(The wolf lady transforms into a more feral-looking wolf).\\
'''Sam:''' Yeah? How about now?\\
'''Tucker:''' Yeah. Still hot.
* FutureBadass: The Box Ghost.
* FutureMeScaresMe: Danny's future-self isn't exactly what he'd hope it to be. Then again, not many people want to grow up to be a rampaging sociopath.
* GadgeteerGenius: Tucker, though Jack and Maddie actually ''make'' all their own gear.
* GasMaskMooks: Most non-operative GIW hunters wear masks that resemble gas masks.
* {{GASP}}: In the finale, among other places.
* {{Geek}}: Tucker (technically a "Techno-Geek"), Mikey, Nathan/Lester, etc.
* GeekyTurnOn: Whenever Maddie shows her ActionMom or ghost hunting skills, Jack's usual response is "''Man'' that's hot!".
* GhostlyGoals: Which (if any) ghosts have "unfinished business" and will pass on after completing it is up for debate, considering the show never addressed afterlife beyond the Ghost Zone; however, almost every ghost Danny fights is the "attack the living" type.
* GirlsNightOutEpisode: Aptly titled "Girls' Night Out", featuring Jazz, Maddie and Sam stopping Spectra, Kitty and Ember from making all the men disappear.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Danny's eyes glow green even in human form when he gets too angry.
* GoodColoursEvilColours: Interesting switch with Vlad and Danny. It's played straight when they're in human form: Danny wears white and Vlad dons black, but in ghost form, the hero is predominately black while Vlad wears a near all-white suit.
** Also played straight with their transformation rings: Danny's being white while Vlad's is black.
*** As well as with their hair.
*** And with their eyes, energy blasts, and skin colors in ghost form (no, not like [[FantasticRacism that]]. It's blue, as in the ''exact negative'' of Danny's).
* GondorCallsForAid: "Reign Storm" where Danny, Vlad and Valerie have to ally to stop a BigBad
** "Phantom Planet", where Danny has to enlist much of the population of the Ghost Zone (both friends and enemies) to save the world from [[spoiler:an asteroid.]]
* TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil: Team Phantom - good; Vlad, Valerie, and some of Danny's ghostly enemies - bad; most of Danny's RoguesGallery - evil.
* GoshDangItToHeck
* GoshHornet: In "13", when Tucker disturbs a beehive in the middle of lunch period and chaos ensues.
* {{Goth}}: Sam is said to be goth and goes between Perky and Gloomy, but more often comes off as an activist hippie who wears black.
* GottaCatchThemAll: "Reality Trip" (and even the series' theme song).
* GrandFinale: "Phantom Planet".
* GrandTheftMe: See FreakyFridayFlip. Also Kitty's [[DemonicPossession possession]] of Paulina--in both instances, the ghost attempts to impersonate the human.
* GreatBigBookOfEverything:
** "Fright Night" - The TokenTrio use a book to learn about the Fright Knight.
** "Reality Trip" - The trio use a book to find out about the Reality Gauntlet and find out it was written by the EvilAlbino.
** "Infinite Realms" - Vlad mysteriously has a book with information about the Infi-Map in it.
* GreenEyedMonster: Sam gets really annoyed whenever Danny starts drooling over Paulina.
** In the episode 'Double Cross My Heart', Danny grows increasingly irritated about Sam's crush on the new transfer student.
-->'''Sam:''' I've been looking for you.\\
'''Danny:''' Where, in Gregor's locker?\\
'''Sam:''' Whoa. Thank you, Joe Hostility.
* GreenEyes: Danny in ghost-mode.
* GreenThumb: Undergrowth [[spoiler:and Sam]] in "Urban Jungle".
* GroupieBrigade: One episode focused on this when Danny Phantom (by this point, a well known hero and celebrity) is on the run from screaming teenage fans; most of which come from his own school. He had to secretly [[SecretIdentity turn human]] to get away from the crazed mob.
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