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* BoyMeetsGhoul: PlayedWith a little. Danny and Ember met almost two years ago from the start of the fic, and were at minimum antagonistic to one another, if not downright hateful. However, over the course of the fic, they gradually begin to play this straight.
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* AffectionateNickname: Danny and Ember appear to have settled on rockstar and baby pop for one another. Baby pop is ''supposed'' to be an insult, but as Kitty notes, it would need to be ''said'' like an insult, otherwise it's just a pet name.
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* BattleCouple: Danny and Ember of course. Danny in particular almost seems to have this as a requirement for any relationship, remarking more than once that fighting alongside Ember is a feeling he can't replicate.
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* NeverMyFault: Skulker takes this attitude to everything that goes wrong for him.
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* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Good God, Ember. She's ordinarily a BoisterousBruiser, but the sight of Danny in danger of death tips her over into [[TheBerserker berserker territory]], to the point of ignoring any kind of sensible defense to hurt their mutual opponent more.
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* FiveManBand: Since the PowerTrio that was Team Phantom has expanded in size, it now fits this quite comfortably.
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* FiveManBand: Since the PowerTrio three heroes that was Team Phantom has [[ThreePlusTwo expanded in size, size]], it now fits this quite comfortably.
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* ImaginaryLoveTriangle: Paulina is deeply delusional, believing her and Danny to be playing out a ComicBook romance, complete with rivals for his affection - namely, Ember. Danny is quite quick to point out that not only is he not interested in either of them ([[ObliviousToLove or so he believes]]), but that Paulina has absolute no chance with him due to her behavior both past and present.
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* CrushBlush: For a brief while after confessing their interest in one another, flirting causes both Danny and Ember to display these regularly. They both grow out of it pretty quickly, flirting shamelessly without a hint of a blush.
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* AmazonChaser: Tucker muses that although Danny pretends he ''isn't''' this, he very much is - all his love interests have been some iteration of strong and dangerous, and Ember is in some respects the exemplar of both among the girls they know.
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* AmazonChaser: Tucker muses that although Danny pretends he ''isn't''' ''isn't'' this, he very much is - all his love interests have been some iteration of strong and dangerous, and Ember is in some respects the exemplar of both among the girls they know.
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* AmazonChaser: Tucker muses that although Danny pretends he ''isn't''' this, he very much is - all his love interests have been some iteration of strong and dangerous, and Ember is in some respects the exemplar of both among the girls they know.
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** [[spoiler: Skulker]] gets this both ways. On the giving end, [[spoiler: his initial plan to finally kill Danny goes off without a hitch - Danny can't fight back properly, can't leave and can't meaningfully damage his new suit.]] The only reason this doesn't end in his victory is [[SpannerInTheWorks Ember turning up]], who fights him much more evenly. On the receiving end, [[spoiler: the instant [[SuperEmpowering Danny gets powered up by Ember]], he can no longer land a single hit or deal any real damage.]] [[VillainousBreakdown He does not take this well.]]
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* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Skulker's plan to kill Danny had actually borne fruit for once.]] Most variables had been planned for. But given no one in the Ghost Zone knows about Ember's gradual HeelFaceTurn, her turning up wrecks the whole thing.
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** Danny also quotes from [[Film/FantasticFour2005 the Fantastic Four movie]] when threatening Skulker. Given he also describes it as coming from "bad movie night", also qualifies as a TakeThat.
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* FlamingHair: Goes without saying for Ember, but [[spoiler: post SuperEmpowering by her, Danny also has this. Given it's still there even after he uses the borrowed power up, it's likely permanent.]]
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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: In grand ''Danny Phantom'' tradition. Although [[spoiler: it's not Danny for once. Ember turns out to be capable of transferring the power she gains from chanting if she dedicates a song to someone, and she had ''no idea'' she could do that.]] As is pointed out, the circumstances just never really arose prior to this.
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* PopularityPower: Ember is still capable of gaining power when people [[SayMyName chant her name]]. The mechanics of it are gone into a little - the power gained from chanting when the people are mind controlled is more intense but burns out much faster, whereas given willingly, it's more lasting and [[GoodFeelsGood feels better overall]].
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** [[VideoGame/StreetFighter "Shoryspooken!"]]
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: At first, Sam, Tucker and Valerie suspect that [[spoiler: Ember has possessed Danny when Ember's power transfer both grants him similar fire and sonic powers and causes him to act more like her.]] Then he punches someone with a quip that is both a {{Pun}} and a ShoutOut. Sam and Tucker immediately dryly declare that it's definitely still him.
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* SuperEmpowering: [[spoiler: Turns out Ember can do this, she just didn't know it because the circumstances that trigger it had never come up before - she has to have been charged up by her PopularityPower, ''and'' dedicate a song to someone for her excess power to be transferred, which comes along with a few of her abilities.]]
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** More generally, when Ember isn't acting like a villainess, she's surprisingly good company to hang out, at least if she likes you.
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** More generally, when Ember isn't acting like a villainess, she's surprisingly good company to hang out, out with, at least if she likes you.you. She acts way more like her old self when she's around people she dislikes.
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-->'''Ember:''' So what did they do with the usual hero? You know, the far too manly hero type, best at everything, beyond boring goody-goody. How do you make that interesting
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** More generally, when Ember isn't acting like a villainess, she's surprisingly good company to hang out, at least if she likes you.
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* OddFriendship: Ember, Kitty and [[spoiler: Star.]] All three have met in the human world and gone shopping together, and they're close enough that when Ember has her minor FreakOut about Dani, she turns to the both of them for help and advice.
* OlderThanTheyLook: All ghosts, at least according to Kitty, age neither physically or mentally outside of specific circumstances, so they're all much older at least chronologically than they appear.
* OlderThanTheyLook: All ghosts, at least according to Kitty, age neither physically or mentally outside of specific circumstances, so they're all much older at least chronologically than they appear.
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** A case could also be made for:
--->'''Ember''': Take your stinking hands OFF MY DIPSTICK!
--->'''Ember''': Take your stinking hands OFF MY DIPSTICK!
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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Ember, natch. Although her attraction to Danny is as much based on their personal chemistry as it is on Danny's good qualities.
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** When Ember wraps her hair around her fist and punches someone, Danny cries [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros "Falcon punch!"]]
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* UptightLovesWild: [[DownplayedTrope Eh, kinda.]] Danny isn't especially uptight, but Ember ''is'' pretty wild. A point is made in later chapters that they're both beginning to rub off on one another, Danny letting his more mischievous side out around her, and Ember caring more about morality as it pertains to her villainous actions.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler: Ember has a moment where it becomes clear Danny is about to be killed by Skulker and she wrestles with herself. As the voice in her head that represents all her worst insecurities and impulses points out, there were a multitude of excuses she could use to avoid saving Danny at the cost of exposing herself to the whole Ghost Zone and the inevitable retaliation she'd incur. It takes very little time to declare to herself Danny is worth the risk, diving down to clock Skulker upside the head.]]
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* ActionGirl: All of them. No, seriously. Every single female character that has appeared is capable of contributing to a fight in some capacity. Even ''Paulina'' has managed to pull off a few wins, albeit in VR.
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* BefriendingTheEnemy: Danny ends up doing this to Ember, and successfully tries to invoke it for her, Sam and Tucker. [[spoiler: And this ends up happening with all of them and Star by complete accident]].
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* BigManOnCampus: What little we've seen of Casper High indicates this is Danny's current status. [[spoiler: Effectively Dash's whole problem is that he ''isn't'' this anymore.]]
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* CelebrityIsOverrated: The crux of Danny's issues. Although touched on less so far, he ''hates'' that the public eye is never off him, and he can't just stop doing the things that get him the attention otherwise people will die.
* CharacterDevelopment: Ultimately everyone, some that we see and some as the result of the TimeSkip. Although the lions share of focus and development has gone to Danny and especially Ember, there are no [[StaticCharacter Static Characters]] here except Paulina. Sam has learned to cope better with jealousy, Jack and Maddie have been drastically changing their approach to ghost hunting and are making an active effort to be accommodating to Ember, etc.
* CharacterDevelopment: Ultimately everyone, some that we see and some as the result of the TimeSkip. Although the lions share of focus and development has gone to Danny and especially Ember, there are no [[StaticCharacter Static Characters]] here except Paulina. Sam has learned to cope better with jealousy, Jack and Maddie have been drastically changing their approach to ghost hunting and are making an active effort to be accommodating to Ember, etc.
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* FriendlessBackground: Ember for sure. Downplayed with Danny, who mentioned he ''did'' have Sam and Tucker from a young age as friends, but they were all he'd ever had until more recently.
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* HiddenDepths: Again, most characters, but probably most notable is Ember and her secret love of sci-fi. She turns out to have loved the original StarWars film before it was retitled a New Hope, and remains interested in the genre to this day, getting agitated when the ShowWithinAShow doesn't have a proper conclusion until the next season.
-->'''Ember:''' So what did they do with the usual hero? You know, the far too manly hero type, best at everything, beyond boring goody-goody. How do you make that interesting
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-->'''Ember:''' What, I have interests outside of music.
-->'''Ember:''' So what did they do with the usual hero? You know, the far too manly hero type, best at everything, beyond boring goody-goody. How do you make that interesting
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-->'''Ember:''' What, I have interests outside of music.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Seven words and one energy blast.
-->[[spoiler: '''Ember''': Take your stinking hands OFF MY DIPSTICK!]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: By later chapters, [[spoiler: Ember has turned her HazyFeelTurn into this, by willingly shattering TheMasquerade to save Danny's life from Skulker.]]
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* VillainBall: [[spoiler: Skulker]] has discarded his and ''how''. After thinking over all his failures, and more importantly ''why'' he failed, [[spoiler: he gets an upgraded suit made of the hardest metal in the Ghost Zone, jams Danny's communication, keeps a bunch of human shields around to limit what he can do in retaliation, and ensures he can't just fly away from where he traps him. All in all, if Ember hadn't turned up when she did, Danny would be ''dead''.]]
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* KidFromTheFuture: Ember briefly believes Danielle is this for Danny, as Danny is very vague about who Danielle is and why she exists when he explains the situation to her. It takes very little prodding for Ember to [[OhCrap realise]] Danny's KidFromTheFuture could also be ''her'' KidFromTheFuture and promptly freaks out.
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* KidFromTheFuture: Ember briefly believes Danielle [[MissingChild Danielle]] is this for Danny, as Danny is very vague about who Danielle is and why she exists when he explains the situation to her. It takes very little prodding for Ember to [[OhCrap realise]] Danny's KidFromTheFuture could also be ''her'' KidFromTheFuture and promptly freaks out.
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* KidFromTheFuture: Ember briefly believes Danielle is this for Danny, as Danny is very vague about who Danielle is and why when he explains the situation to her. It takes very little prompting for Ember to realise Danny's KidFromTheFuture could also be ''her'' KidFromTheFuture and promptly freaks out.
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* KidFromTheFuture: Ember briefly believes Danielle is this for Danny, as Danny is very vague about who Danielle is and why when he explains the situation to her. It takes very little prompting for Ember to realise Danny's KidFromTheFuture could also be ''her'' KidFromTheFuture and promptly freaks out.
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** The SnarkToSnark combat that Danny and Ember routinely engage in referred to as their [[Creator/MarxBrothers Marx Brothers routine]] by either themselves or witnesses.
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** One of Jazz's options for what Ember is up to in the forest includes "[[Anime/PrincessMononoke Lure out and kill the forest spirit to cause it to become a rampaging corrupting god?]]”
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* MeaningfulEcho: Used as part of the ShipTease. Danny and Ember frequently find themselves using similar or identical phrases when describing how they feel around the other, without ever having told the other about it.
-->'''Danny/Ember''': Everything just feels ''better'' with her/him around.
-->'''Danny/Ember''': Everything just feels ''better'' with her/him around.
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Another trope Danny and Ember seemed to be about to play straight, until Kitty barged in and decided yes, they will, even if she has to make them.
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* GoshDangItToHeck: Everyone, but Danny at least provides the excuse that he promised his parents he wouldn't swear until he was eighteen.
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* GenkiGirl: Star. She says she only gets like this when excited, but she must always be excited. [[spoiler: Although given how the last year or so has gone for her, she might just be happy to have better friends in Team Phantom now.]]
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Or death, in this case - Ember starts the fic legitimately lost on what she should do now that she's accepted her villainous actions haven't brought her anything worth having. [[spoiler: Danny later helps her at least try a new purpose - making it as a legitimate musician. That and she gradually starts to find new purpose in, well, [[FoeYay him]].
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Or death, in this case - Ember starts the fic legitimately lost on what she should do now that she's accepted her villainous actions haven't brought her anything worth having. [[spoiler: Danny later helps her at least try a new purpose - making it as a legitimate musician. That and she gradually starts to find new purpose in, well, [[FoeYay him]].[[RomanceArc him]]]].
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* ShoutOut:
** Danny and Ember initially bond over [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Pokémon]], complete with Danny's ghost team named after other denizens of the Ghost Zone, [[IncrediblyLamePun Danny naming a Phantump after himself]] and mockery over some Pokémon designs.
** Ember [[ICallItVera names her axe Andre]], after [[Wrestling/AndreTheGiant André the Giant]].
** Danny remarks that he doesn't have a decent name for the enhanced punches he's recently developed, that involve compressing the energy of his ectobeams into a crackling green energy aura that greatly increases his punching power and might cause him to explode or break his arm if used incorrectly. [[Anime/MyHeroAcademia Tucker immediately suggests he name it his Amity Park Smash.]]
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** Danny and Ember initially bond over [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Pokémon]], complete with Danny's ghost team named after other denizens of the Ghost Zone, [[IncrediblyLamePun Danny naming a Phantump after himself]] and mockery over some Pokémon designs.
** Ember [[ICallItVera names her axe Andre]], after [[Wrestling/AndreTheGiant André the Giant]].
** Danny remarks that he doesn't have a decent name for the enhanced punches he's recently developed, that involve compressing the energy of his ectobeams into a crackling green energy aura that greatly increases his punching power and might cause him to explode or break his arm if used incorrectly. [[Anime/MyHeroAcademia Tucker immediately suggests he name it his Amity Park Smash.]]
--->'''Maddie''': [[LampshadeHanging ... Is that a reference to something?]]
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* VillainousLegacy: Vlad is still stuck in space, but a chunk of the things that've happened in the fic have his influence stamped on them - the fact that Danny never beat him directly or in any permanent way weighs on him and contributes to his issues, Danny nearly dies in a trap set by Vlad in the last building that's legally his, and the [[spoiler: GIW Ectoskeleton was built from blueprints he stole and modified.]]
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* VillainousLegacy: Vlad is still stuck in space, but a chunk of the things that've happened in the fic have his influence stamped on them - the fact that Danny never beat him directly or in any permanent way weighs on him and contributes to his issues, Danny nearly dies in a trap set by Vlad in the last building that's legally his, and the [[spoiler: GIW Ectoskeleton was built from blueprints he stole and modified.]]]] The notion of him returning from space also pushes Maddie back into unhealthy working habits, although Jack is able to snap her out of that before it gets too bad.
