History DannyPhantom / TropesAToG

* ExpositoryThemeTune: The opening song is basically the ElevatorPitch for the series.

* FallenPrincess: Valerie Gray used to be well off, but is forced to sell a lot of her possessions to make ends meet when her father loses his job at Axiom and is later only allowed back on a lower-paying job as night watchman.

* FallenPrincess: Valerie.
* FalseTeethTomfoolery: An old man sitting on a bench is shown loosing his false teeth because of how fast Danny and Valerie fly past him in "Shades of Gray".

* FakeFirstKiss: Sam and Danny FakeOutMakeOut twice before eventually getting together.
* 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: Most of the ammunition is lasers and ectoplasm guns.

** Also, the death of Danny's clone -- the disintegrating flesh, the sad, trapped look, the arm reaching out to his "father," the [[AndIMustScream mouth opening slightly...]].

** Vlad, evil Danny.

* 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]].

* AnAssKickingChristmas: ''The Fright Before Christmas''.

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%% * AnAssKickingChristmas: ''The Fright Before Christmas''.
%% * AttentionWhore: Mayor Montez in ''Public Enemies''.
%% * AuditThreat: Used by [[spoiler:a fake government agent]] against students' parents in ''Doctor's Disorders'' and by the Guys in White against Mr. Lancer in ''Double-Cross My Heart''.

%% * BaddieFlattery: Vlad to Danny, in conjunction with a NotSoDifferentRemark.
%% * BadFuture: The premise of "The Ultimate Enemy."

%% * 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.
%% ** Alternate Timeline Jack Fenton ran into a problem with this when he started ghost fighting on Halloween.

%% * TheBigDamnKiss: An orbital one at that in the GrandFinale. You can already figure between who. ([[spoiler:It's between Danny and Sam]].)

%% * 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]].
%% ** 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.

%% * BodyHorror: In Identity Crisis, Danny 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.
%% ** Happens every time Danny tries to split himself.
%% * BookDumb: Danny (and Tucker).

%% * {{Brainwashed}}: Both Ember and Freakshow use this against Danny.

%% * BunnyEarsLawyer

%% * CallingYourAttacks: Occasionally employed. Usually with Fenton gear.

%% * CantGetInTroubleForNuthin: He can get into unexpected trouble, but has a hard time intentionally finding it.

%% * CarnivalOfKillers: Circus Gothica is full of these, except they all turn good at the end of the first Freak Show episode.

** Klemper: "Will you be my fwiend?"

%% * CharacterDevelopment: Everyone of the main characters get some form of character development.

%% * CensorSteam: In "An Eye for an Eye." Poor, poor Danny...

%% * ChefOfIron: The Lunch Lady Ghost, including her meat monster form.
%% * 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.

%% ** Many of the Fenton Gadgets.

%% * 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.

%% ** A running joke from episode one.

%% * CloningBlues: "Kindred Spirits."

%% * ComesGreatResponsibility: And the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' parallels don't stop there.

%% * CompressedVice: All too frequently.

%% * CoolCar: The Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle (otherwise known as just "the RV").
%% * CosmicEntity: [[spoiler: Clockwork]].

%% * CrazyPrepared: Fenton Works, which is used as a shelter in most of the ghost invasions.

%% * CuffsOffRubWrists: Freak Show in "Reality Trip."

%% * DeadpanSnarker: Sam.

%% * DefangedHorrors: The Ghost Zone (somewhat).
%% * DeflectorShields: Vlad learns this first, followed by Danny in later seasons.

%% * 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.

%% * DisasterDominoes: In Valerie's father's lab while Danny tries to catch the rampaging ghost dog.

%% * DisposableSuperheroMaker: The Ghost Portal has made as much heroes as it made villains.
%% * DistaffCounterpart: Dani Phantom, Danny's OppositeSexClone.

%% * TheDoorSlamsYou: Skullker does this to Danny in one episode.

%% * DramaticWind: Parodied in "Identity Crisis" by the pure superhero version of Danny, who has this going at ''all'' times, befitting his LargeHam status.
%% * DreamIntro: Episode "Frightmare" starts with Danny dreaming his life is perfect, complete with Sam being his girlfriend.

%% * DressedAllInRubber: Due to the fact they're full-time paranormal scientists who constantly handle dangerous, ghost-related equipment, it should come as no surprise that Jack and Maddie are rarely seen not wearing their hazmat suits.
%% * DrivingStick: In the episode "Bitter Reunions".
%% * DungeonmastersGirlfriend: Jazz.

%% * EpisodeTitleCard: Done in the fashion of 50's horror movies, no less, with the GrandFinale as the only exception.

%% * 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.

%% * 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".
%% * EvilMakeover: Danny, Sam and Vlad each get one.

%% * {{Exposition}}: Particularly awkward, repetitive uses of AsYouKnow, TellMeAgain, [[TalkingToHimself Talking to Themselves]], postponed questions, etc.

%% * FakeFirstKiss: Sam and Danny FakeOutMakeOut twice before eventually getting together.
%% * FakeOutMakeOut: Danny and Sam [[TropeNamer coined the term]], and are quick to uncomfortably realize their own reactions were more sincere than either suspected.

%% * FallenPrincess: Valerie.

%% * FangsAreEvil:
%% ** Vlad, evil Danny.
%% ** Downplayed with Ghostwriter's "Piranha-fangs". He isn't exactly evil, but he is an antagonist nonetheless.

%% * {{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.

%% * ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Danny (though Sam was very unimpressed).

%% * FreakyFridayFlip: Between Danny and Poindexter.
%% * FriendlessBackground

%% * FunnyForeigner: Subverted with Gregor. He's not funny at all, [[spoiler:his real name is Elliot, and he's from Michigan]].
%% * FutureBadass: The Box Ghost.

%% * GadgeteerGenius: Tucker, though Jack and Maddie actually ''make'' all their own gear.

%% * {{GASP}}: In the finale, among other places.
%% * {{Geek}}: Tucker (technically a "Techno-Geek"), Mikey, Nathan/Lester, etc.

%% * TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil: Team Phantom - good; Vlad, Valerie, and some of Danny's ghostly enemies - bad; most of Danny's RoguesGallery - evil.
%% * GoshDangItToHeck: Quite prominent. This ''is'' a kid's show, after all.
%% * {{Goth}}: Sam is said to be goth and goes between Perky and Gloomy, but more often comes off as an [[GranolaGirl 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.

%% * GreenThumb: Undergrowth [[spoiler:and Sam]] in "Urban Jungle."

%% * BaddieFlattery: Vlad to Danny, in conjunction with NotSoDifferent.

%% * ActorAllusion:
%% ** Creator/KathSoucie has graduated from being [[WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters ghost hunters' support staff and reserve member]] to a full-fledged ghost hunter.
%% ** Also, in "Teacher of the Year", Danny uses his powers to enter cyberspace, much like [[WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}} another high schooler]] Creator/DavidKaufman [[WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}} has voiced that acquired superpowers through a "freak" accident]].
%% ** Creator/TaraStrong voices Ember, a siren-like ghost with the ability to hypnotize people with her voice. If this sounds familiar, well, it should, seeing as [[WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack Tara's voiced a siren before]].
%% ** David Kaufman has been promoted from [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries superhero sidekick and fanboy]] to superhero in his own right.
%% ** This isn't [[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS6E1LetThePunishmentFitTheCrime first time Sidney Poindexter's voice actor Peter [=MacNicol=] had a nasal voice, worn a bowtie and glasses and tried to escape his private hell by letting the protagonist take his place]].

%% * AllAnimalsAreDogs: When Tucker is under the influence of the Pharaoh Duulaman's scepter, he orders a Sphynx to be made in his image, which later comes to life after being hit by the scepter. The Sphynx

* AlphaBitch: Paulina, the most popular girl in school, who loves to rub it in people's faces. In her debut episode, she agreed to go on a date with Danny solely because she believed she was stealing him from Sam.
%% * AlterKocker: The "ecto-American" vulture ghosts.

%% ** 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]].

* AnAesop: Lampshaded. When Jazz freaks out about a ghost attack, Danny tells her, with a bored expression on his face, that the plan is effectively to go try and beat up the bad guy, say a few clever quips, 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. [[SarcasmMode Whoopie]].

* AnticlimaxCut: "Identity Crisis":

** Parodied/played for laughs in "The Fright Before Christmas". Maddie takes ''genuine issue'' over the scientific implausibility of the existence of 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''.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: In “Bitter Reunions”, Danny (while overshadowing Jack) delivers one to Vlad to intimidate him into calling a temporary truce. It works.

'''Danny:''' No, I'm not. My parents will accept ''me'', no matter what! But if I expose ''you''... well, what would ''my mom'' think of you?

** "Mystery Meat":

** "Maternal Instincts":

** In "Boxed-Up Fury", the list of what's in PandorasBox:

** When the kids get in trouble in "Kindred Spirits".

** Sam in "Memory Blank" after Danny calls her out on a few Season 1 incidents that were sparked by her meddling:

%% * 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.

* 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. [[HealTheCutie She got better]]. In real life, 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.

%% * AnAssKickingChristmas: "The Fright Before Christmas".
%% * AttentionWhore: Mayor Montez in “Public Enemies”.
%% * 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".

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The Fenton family. Danny is often embarrassed by his family but he genuinely loves them and will always protect them just like they will do for him.

* BackBlocking: In "Public Enemies." When Danny is captured by Walker after he walks in to a fake town meeting, one of the many flying ghost guards fills the screen with their backs.

* AnAesop: Lampshaded, when Jazz freaks out about a ghost attack, Danny tells her, with a bored expression on his face, that the plan is effectively to go try and beat up the bad guy, say a few clever quips, 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. He immediately afterwards gets annoyed that the bad guy doesn't seem to be following this pattern.
* AnswerCut: When Vlad asks Maddie to dump Jack and be with him, it cuts away with Maddie leaving his home along with Danny with an angry look on her face.

* AntiSchoolUniformsPlot: Vlad Masters, the newly elected mayor, makes this a rule at the local high school, specifically to annoy PerkyGoth Sam, since she's a close friend/sidekick to Vlad's ArchEnemy, Danny.

** 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:''' No, I'm not. My parents will accept ''me'', no matter what! But if I expose ''you''... well, what would ''my Mom'' think of you?

** Vlad's...

* 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.
* 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. In real life, 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.

** In "Mystery Meat", Jack briefly comes to the conclusion that ghosts don't exist and quits ghost hunting, but changes his mind a few seconds later when Danny passes by, convincing him that ghosts do exist after all.
** It happens again in "The Million Dollar Ghost", when Jack feels humiliated by his failures as a ghost hunter and overhears Danny talking about it, to the point where he ignores Danny Phantom appering in front of him, but he recovers his self-confidence when Maddie catches Danny and credits Jack for the catch.
** [[spoiler: Danny himself gives up on his powers in "Phantom Planet" when the Masters' Blasters make him feel obsolete and he comes to the conclusion that all his powers do is put his loved one in danger, but soon returns to his superhero duties when the world is in danger and he recovers his powers.]]

** With Danny and Sam in "''Fanning the Flames''." Unlike the first example, this was used for ShipTease.

** 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, And it's a very grave omen if you get a low score.

** Surprisingly shown, when Danny uses his ghost powers [[PowerPerversionPotential to sneak into the girl's locker room]].
** He also weaponizes it, when he distracts the more powerful Ghost Tucker by taking their fight into the girl's locker room.

** [[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, in "The Ultimate Enemy," Danny begging his archrival to "remove his humanity" backfired ''horribly''.

** In "Splitting Images", Poindexter is impressed by Danny being able to overshadow people, but that's soon established as a standard ghost power, almost as basic as flight, invisibility, and intangibility.

* FiftiesHair:
** Sam's parents dress up like stereotypical conservative 50s parents, with the curls and bouffants and all, in reaction to their grandmother's {{Beatnik}} lifestyle.
** Sidney Pointdexter and his crew cut.

%% ** 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!

** In ''Micro Management'', Jack left a melting pizza unattended. It was later used for climbing up to the desk later in the episode.
** In ''Fenton Menace'', we are introduced to Jazz's favorite toy, Bearbert. It was later used by Danny to get Jazz to act like a child again.

** Vlad has three vulture ghosts that serve as his main CoDragons (especially in earlier episodes), but on occasion he also uses the Ectopuses, Skulker, clones of Danny (including Danielle before her HeelFaceTurn), and Valerie.

** In addition to Lydia, Freakshow controls three ghosts, which he sends to do his dirty work, using Crystal Ball Staff, and he also takes control of Danny in "Control Freaks", but he ends up losing all of them except for Lydia.

* BeeAfraid: In "13", when Tucker disturbs a beehive in the middle of lunch period and chaos ensues.