History WesternAnimation / PhantomInvestigators

* FloorbordFailure: Happens in both "Omega Pizza Pi" to the gang inside the abandoned fraternity and "Haunted Dreams" when they're investigating the Phantom Train Ride.

* FloorboordFailure: Happens in both "Omega Pizza Pi" to the gang inside the abandoned fraternity and "Haunted Dreams" when they're investigating the Phantom Train Ride.

** Daemona gives Casey a talk like this in "Birthday Presence" after he laments how he wishes he had Brad's life, as he was rich and popular. Daemona then points out that Brad's "friends" are just classmates dying to be part of the "in-crowd", and while Brad is a stuck-up jerk, Casey has the better life as he's smart, kindhearted, and already doing something important with his life.

* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: Happens with Jericho in "The Year Of The Snake" when [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/e6d4e1aa4cd9835a4276a254bf6268b2/tumblr_ot0n29nAEM1wtphtao1_540.png he's under the control of his V-Buddy]].

* HairRaisingHair: The Roadkill Elemental.

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* CerberusSyndrome: "Secrets Exposed!" brought the show in a darker, more dramatic direction than the rest of the first (and only) season. Whether or not this would keep up had the show been renewed is unknown.

* DeadAllAlong: One episode saw the team try to help an amnesiac girl named Jenny, who was plagued by supernatural dreams. It turned out she was a ghost who was placed back in the human world in an accident, and the dreams were her family trying to explain.

* SigantureSoundEffect: Each PI has their own unique sound effect for when they use their powers.

* LargeHam: Almost every antagonist in the series tended to be one.

** The [=NetherRealm=] is referred to as the "Nether World" in that episode only.

** Daemona gives Casey a talk like this in "Birthday Presence" after he laments how he wishes he had Brad's life, as he was rich and popular. Daemona then points out that Brad's "friends" are just classmates dying to be part of the "in-crowd", and while Brad is a stuck-up jerk, Casey has the better life as he's smart, kindhearted, and already doing something important with his life.

* TheCameo: Joey, Ray, Yasmine, Kelly Anne, and several of the unnamed background students appear in ''[[WesternAnimation/ShortyMcShortsShorts Dudley & Nestor Do Nothing]]''.

* TheCameo: Joey, Ray, Yasmine, Kelly Anne, and several of the unnamed background students appear in ''[[ShortyMcShortsShorts Dudley & Nestor Do Nothing]]''.

''Phantom Investigators'' was a show created by Stephen Holman and Josephine T. Huang with their studio, (W)Holesome Products, Inc. (already known for the ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' short series, ''Life With Loopy''), produced by Sony Pictures Television (then known as Columbia [=TriStar=] Television) for Creator/KidsWB in 2002. The show was known for mixing StopMotion and traditional 2D hand drawn animation, as well as live action puppetry.

* MoodWhiplash: The show began as campy, fun, and lighthearted little show about some kids who fought ghosts, with some DarkerAndEdgier moments here and there. It got much more dark and intense in the final episode.

* AdultFear: Has at least one instance of the trope per episode as the main cast are a bunch of twelve-year-olds. Particularly the case with [[TeamNormal Daemona]], as unlike her empowered teammates, she has no means of fighting back against the supernatural creatures the gang face off against.

* EverybodyLaughsEnding: "Stall Of Doom", "The Fifth P.I.", and the opening titles end this way.

* AdultFear: Has at least one instance of the trope per episode as the main cast are a bunch of twelve-year-olds. Particularly the case with [[TeamNormal Daemona]], as unliked her empowered teammates, she has no means of fighting back against the supernatural creatures the gang face off against.

* DemonicPossession: The first episode, "Demon Driver", features a possessed car that in turn, possesses it's driver when they're behind the wheel.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the end of "Omega Pizza Pi", Daemona suggests that one day, the gang should investigate Professor Navarro as he seems to know exactly what gadgets will help them in a situation before it even happens. [[spoiler:They eventually do in the final episode]].
** In the first episode when Daemona downplays her importance to the team, being the only one without powers, Professor Navarro tells her to never underestimate her importance as the brains of the team. In the final episode, it's revealed that [[spoiler:in the original Phantom Investigators team, he was the TeamNormal just like her]].

* GenerationXerox: "Secrets Exposed!" shows that Daemona's grandmother not only resembled her at her age in the show, but [[spoiler:was also the part of the original Phantom Investigators in the fifties]].

* GoneHorriblyRight: Meta example. Kids WB picked up the show in order to gain more female viewers, happy that the leader of the team was a girl. It kept scoring number-one in it's timeslot each week, but soon the amount of female viewers were higher than the male viewers (which made up most of Kids WB's demographic). The show was quickly and quietly removed from the schedule as Kids WB was afraid of losing their status of being the highest rated network with young boys.

* KnightOfCerebus: Willard from "Secrets Exposed!". As soon as he appears [[spoiler:and is shown to have a connection to Professor Navarro]], the episode takes a much darker turn than the rest of the series.

* MayflyDecemberFriendship: [[spoiler:Professor Navarro is revealed to be immortal in the final episode, being a vampire, while the Phantom Investigators are twelve. Meaning he'll eventually outlive the gang.]]

* NoHuggingNoKissing: Usually between the gang, some small ShipTease moments with Daemona and Casey aside. Most crushes the gang have had were on minor or one-shot characters (Daemona also wrote in her diary about having a crush on a boy named Jasper Rusack in "The Fifth PI", however he never appears in the series. It's possible he was from her old school) that never go beyond one episode.

* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Professor Navarro appears to be in his twenties, but only because he hasn't aged since becoming a vampire years prior while always wearing the [[RestrainingBolt totem of spirit control]] to stay human.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: Mary Prune, Daemona's grandmother. She passed away three years prior to the events of the series, and after Daemona and her parents inherited her house, Daemona also found out her occult books were left to her in her will, and finding her ghost detector and other gadgets was what led to her forming the Phantom Investigators in the first place. In the final episode, it's revealed that [[spoiler:in the 1950s, she was also part of the Phantom Investigators]], and that [[spoiler:she can contact Daemona from the [=NetherRealm=].]]

* VoiceOfTheLegion: [[spoiler:Professor Navarro as a vampire]].

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:Professor Navarro, being a vampire, is able to stay human by wearing a Totem of Spirit Control, which also renders him immortal and unable to age past his twenties. Unfortunately, this also means he had to watch his friends pass before him]].

* WritersCannotDoMath: At the beginning of "Secrets Exposed!", Daemona was confused about how Professor Navarro knew both of her grandparents, stating that her grandfather died "years before Navarro was even born". It's shown that he died in 1981 and Professor Navarro looked to be in his early-to-mid-twenties and hinted to be already out of college in "Omega Pizza Pi". Assuming the show takes place in it's debut year of 2002, he would've been born around the late seventies and possibly 1980 at the latest. ([[spoiler:however, this was before TheReveal later in the episode that he's a vampire and had stopped aging decades ago]]).