Blackmailed
is the 24th story in Danny Phantom: Stranded. Colette discovers Danny's secret.
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- 0% Approval Rating:
- Everyone who’s aware of Colette’s rotten personality (Team Phantom, their loved ones, their enemies, and Kwan) utterly despise her and even the A-Listers are losing their patience with her growing fixation with Danny, as they find it creepy and out of control. Only Stella, Colette’s parents, and Colette’s previous stepmoms are fond of her due to their obliviousness (willfully in Stella's case).
- Even Beatrice's other children and grandchildren find her unbearable for her controlling behavior and overly classist views since she still calls the middle-class "peasants" like she's stuck in the 19th century.
- Jean-Luc is furious with Colette for ruining their family’s name in high society after her crimes are exposed.
- Abhorrent Admirer:
- Alicia is still this to Vlad as he's desperate to get out of his marriage to her now that the love potion has worn off, albeit in a way that doesn't involve splitting off his assets with her in a divorce.
- Colette and Donovan are still this to Danny and Star respectively, much to their revulsion.
- Interestingly enough, Donovan is also this to Colette as she makes it clear she hated him even when he was a rich heir because of his obnoxious personality.
- Downplayed with Theodore. He thinks Colette is hot but she won't give him or his friends the time of day.
- Above Good and Evil: Colette tells Star that she doesn’t see herself as malevolent since as a noble, it’s her duty to keep peasants in line and she has to "educate" Team Phantom for keeping Danny down.
- Accidental Hug: In her excitement over Colette's defeat and the villains' truce, Star tightly hugs Ember in gratitude. One she realizes who she's hugging, Ember quickly decides it never happened to spare them the awkwardness.
- Accidental Misnaming:
- The animal control employee and cop who Yolanda calls to deal with Misty's holographic chimp can't get Jean-Luc's last name right when Yolanda tells them about him, wondering if it's "Beaver", "Blowfish", or "Blubber".
- Star's cousins at her party recall the name of her ex-boyfriend as "Cliff" before remembering that it's "Kwan".
- While fleeing, Yolanda can't remember Danny's name and refers to him as "Dennis".
- Accidental Truth: Star doesn't know how right she is in her suspicions that Stella isn't Colette's "favorite stepmother" and that Jean-Luc might resort to bribery to win custody of Pierre in his and Stella's divorce.
- Accomplice by Inaction: The A-Listers become increasingly aware of how awful Colette truly is thanks to her growing unhealthy fixation with Danny, but don’t do anything to stop or report her and just refuse to help her in any more of her schemes. Slightly downplayed here where they decide to kick Colette out and turn her over to the cops if they find out she did anything illegal or reprehensible to take Danny from Star, but it’s too late since she’s already enacted her blackmail scheme, which gets her arrested in the end. This is one of the main factors that motivates Kwan to quit the A-List because he doesn’t want to be part of a group that just makes things worse by not stopping a lunatic like Colette when they should’ve.
- Acquired Poison Immunity: Alicia once exposed herself to snake venom every day for a week to acquire immunity. It became helpful when Vlad tried to poison her.
- Act of True Love:
- Danny only agrees to Colette’s demands to date her (well, more like be her slave) and cut ties with his loved ones to protect Team Phantom from Colette messing with their lives any further than she already has with her schemes.
- Team Phantom and Valerie are willing to team up with Misty, Skulker, and Ember to clear their names and save Danny from Colette once and for all.
- Kwan proves to Colette that Star ultimately means more to him than popularity when he joins forces with Team Phantom to expose her crimes at Star’s birthday party and reveals all his embarrassing secrets to the public himself to remove her hold over him.
- Action Girl: Star has no problem giving Colette a black eye for everything she did to her and her loved ones.
- Actually Pretty Funny:
- Star finds it hilarious when Colette compares herself to a beetle that eats dung and Star is that dung, since she basically admitted to eating animal poop.
- Jack compliments Danny when he jokes about Colette getting her Just Desserts after she falls onto the buffet during the fight at Star's birthday party.
- Adults Are Useless:
- The Casper High School staff and Sam's parents easily believe the photos incriminating Team Phantom are real. The former plan to expel them from school while the latter plan to send Sam to an all-girls boarding school in London in the hopes of getting her away from Team Phantom and turning her into what they deem a proper aristocrat.
- Casper High Superintendent Baxter refuses to budge on Team Phantom at least being suspended, which he considers generous, despite their families protesting the validity of the evidence and that several of the kids have alibis. Meanwhile, Ms. Tetslaff is more concerned about being compensated for her car repairs and finding someone to blame than confirming the true culprit.
- Star is frustrated by her mother's continued inability to accept that Jean-Luc and Colette are horrible people despite their rotten personalities and all the trouble Colette has caused since coming to Amity Park.
- Jean-Luc is this, as usual, since he refuses to help Stella prove Team Phantom’s innocence because he finds it to be a waste of time and money to help children that are, in his mind, guilty and should just admit it, so he’d rather go have a good time with his mistress Yolanda.
- The Casper High School staff and Sam's parents easily believe the photos incriminating Team Phantom are real. The former plan to expel them from school while the latter plan to send Sam to an all-girls boarding school in London in the hopes of getting her away from Team Phantom and turning her into what they deem a proper aristocrat.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg:
- Danny is so desperate to stop Colette’s blackmailing scheme, he’s willing to ask Skulker to help by sending a warning message to Team Phantom. Surprisingly, Skulker acquiesces.
- Kwan becomes so regretful of his role in Colette's plan that he begs Danny to let him help Team Phantom stop her for good.
- Alas, Poor Villain:
- Well, more like "Alas, Poor former Beta Bitch" but Sam regrets ever hating Star even when she was a bully after seeing how much of an irredeemable, sociopathic bitch her stepsister Colette is.
- Jean-Luc consoles Colette after she has an emotional breakdown while being arrested. Suzette and her stepmothers can’t help but pity Colette for only having her father as a role model because they weren’t around enough to be a positive influence in her life.
- All for Nothing:
- Kwan realizes any hopes of getting back with Star were for nothing when she ends up completely hating his guts after finding out about his role in helping Colette ruin Team Phantom. He also admits that going to such lengths to protect his popularity is pointless because Colette wouldn't hesitate to sell him out to protect herself and he would lose everything he wanted and fought for anyway, to such a point that not even Dash would want anything to do with Kwan anymore.
- Stella breaks down in despair after realizing her dream to have the perfect, happily family she desperately wished for growing up was doomed from the start when Jean-Luc spells it out to her that Star has never and will never get along with the Beviers because she hates them and they don't care about her because they don't consider her family. She begins to realize leaving Johnathan for Jean-Luc, hurting Star, and defending Colette all these years were pointless.
- During the showdown at Star's birthday party after Colette finally reclaims her phone, she realizes that Team Phantom had already deleted the video she was using to blackmail Danny with his Secret Identity, and that they were only keeping her phone away from her to make sure she didn't know beforehand (while also unveiling more of her true self to the public).
- In the end, all Colette accomplished with her machinations was getting arrested and expelled, ruining her reputation, and losing the love, trust, and respect of her mother and all of her stepmothers.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Colette is actually impressed by Danny's cruel treatment of her when she threatens to expose his secret since she sees it as proof that he'll make anyone regret crossing them if they become a couple.
- All Take and No Give:
- This sums up Danny's "relationship" with Colette when she blackmails him into dating her, as she rarely gives him a moment's peace by making him spend all his time with her while always abiding by her rules.
- Colette wishes her mother would come to see her more often, especially on her birthday, but refused to make any concessions on her part whenever Suzette offered her the opportunity to visit.
- Alone with the Psycho: Colette blackmails Danny into staying away from all his loved ones (with the temporary exception of his parents) so he’ll only interact with her and those she approves of.
- Always Someone Better: In the end, Kwan acknowledges that Danny isn’t just a better boyfriend than him, but a better man too since he was willing to be miserable as Colette’s slave for a week to protect Star while Kwan was initially too scared to go against her at the expense of his reputation and popularity.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Danny is not comfortable with his mom hugging him out of pity in public when he tells everyone what he had to endure as Colette’s blackmailed slave.
- Amazon Chaser: Danny finds it attractive whenever Star threatens to inflict bodily harm on Colette.
- Amicable Exes:
- Subverted with Jean-Luc's ex-wives as they make it clear they hate him for being an obnoxious flirt and insult him to Colette's face.
- Downplayed between Yolanda and Cartland. They don’t like each other but are willing to team up to help Colette for their own ends.
- And I'm the Queen of Sheba:
- When Stella insists Colette has to be innocent of framing Team Phantom, Star replies if that's true, "then I'm the queen of England".
- While disbelieving Colette's claims, Dash says if Danny is Danny Phantom, "then I'm a fairy princess".
- And Now You Must Marry Me: Discussed. Colette is obsessed with marrying Danny someday and makes it clear she doesn’t value his consent or feelings in the slightest since she’s more than fine with blackmailing him into being with her.
- Anti-Advice: Star only took Kwan back after he dumped her for Colette because the A-Listers told her to since it would’ve been embarrassing to be dateless at Dash’s party that was happening before school started. Star regrets ever listening to the A-List.
- Anti-Role Model: Jack accuses Jeremy of this by claiming the latter shows Sam "how NOT to act as a reasonable adult".
- Anti-Villain: Kwan only helps Colette frame Team Phantom under threat of blackmail.
- Apathy Killed the Cat:
- Kwan admits it was a huge mistake not to do anything about Colette's increasingly out of control behavior and unhealthy obsession with Danny sooner, like reporting her to a school guidance counselor, since it's too late now on account of her blackmailing him into helping her ruin Team Phantom's lives and forcing Danny into a relationship with her.
- Paulina, of all people, realizes this when she learns that Colette was blackmailing Danny into being her boyfriend, admitting that she should’ve turned Colette in to the police when she first learned that the evil fake redhead followed Team Phantom to New York; as selfish as Paulina is and as much as she dislikes Danny and Star, she is horrified to learn how far Colette went to break the couple up and genuinely wishes she did something earlier to prevent this from happening.
- Stella and Jean-Luc’s past wives make it clear all the problems in the story were caused by his incompetent, neglectful parenting since he made Colette an even worse person than him.
- Apology Gift: A variant. As both a punishment for Colette’s crimes and an apology to her victims, Stella decides to give the tickets to Paris that were intended to be a birthday gift for her stepdaughter to Team Phantom instead. Stella also promises to help Team Phantom exchange the tickets for some other place if they don’t want to go to Paris.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Along with framing Team Phantom and blackmailing him, Danny has Chief Boyle charge Colette with forcing him to give her a pedicure.
- Ask a Stupid Question...:
- When Kwan desperately asks Colette if it'll take money to keep her quiet about his Dark Secret, she reminds him that she is FAR wealthier than he will ever be, especially now that her father has reinstated her allowance.
- Jazz knows that Danny is completely miserable being stuck with Colette but she can't help but ask him what it's like out of curiosity.
- Asshole Victim: Danny actually asked Box Ghost to deliberately scare Jean-Luc and Colette from now on and in exchange, Danny would leave him alone when he does.
- Athletically Challenged: Stella tells everyone of the time Jeremy Manson came in 8th place at a charity marathon Eleanor held... while there were only 7 runners.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Colette makes it clear to Donovan that she doesn't even want to be seen with him since he's become an utter disgrace for getting disowned and having to get a job, as well as wearing a ridiculous baseball cap to cover the gum in his hair since he can't afford a wig.
- Asshole Victim: Everyone but Stella, Suzette, and Jean-Luc are glad Colette is arrested and taken away. Team Phantom is also glad that her minions, Yolanda (or so it seems) and Cartland, have been dealt with.
- The Atoner: After being called out on his cowardice by Star and witnessing how utterly miserable Danny is while stuck with Colette, Kwan realizes he needs to make things right for Team Phantom and strives to undo the damage he caused by stopping Colette.
- Awful Wedded Life: All Star knows about Colette's biological mother is that she left Jean-Luc for being a womanizing bastard, like all his other wives did.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Peter Tsaava can quickly tell that Team Phantom isn't part of the Elmerton Fridge Reefers gang because Star looks like a "rich girl trying to slum it", Valerie and Misty have been seen arguing with the locals a few times, Tucker won't stop clinging to his PDA like his life depends on him, and Sam looks too temperamental to get along with anyone in the gang.
- Backhanded Compliment: Colette tells Kwan he's not as useless as Dash after he informs her that Cartland has the photos prepared and later that Danny broke up with Star like she told him to.
- Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch:
- The A-Listers have finally had enough of Colette’s bitchy personality and unhealthy obsession with Danny that they decide to kick her out and turn her over to the cops if they discover she did something illegal to make Danny date her.
- Kwan and Danny have completely reached their limit with Colette’s nonsense when she blackmails them into giving in to her outrageous demands, so they eventually team up to get her arrested by exposing her crimes to the entire town.
- Bad Boss: Kwan is not happy to be "working" under Colette because she's blackmailing him into essentially helping her make Star miserable and insults him at every chance. Kwan only goes along with this because he feels like he has no choice, and even when he decides to take a stand, he's now in too deep to back out thanks to Colette's manipulations.
- Badass Bystander: Chris overhears and records Danny’s conversation with Colette at the steakhouse, which he sends to Team Phantom to help their case against Colette. He also agrees to follow the pair to find out more.
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Danny isn’t ruthless enough to take Colette to the Ghost Zone and leave her there to rot, but Ember is.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: Discussed. Danny lampshades that Colette would be a terrible pet owner since she treats him as a pet and abuses him every chance she gets.
- Batman Gambit:
- While Colette is scared, she still calls Danny's bluff when he threatens her into giving up all her evidence against him and his friends.
- It's implied this is the reason Stella agreed to Star's "request" to give her sweet 16 party to Colette; she wanted to confront her stepdaughter to get to the truth about her role in the legal fiasco once and for all.
- Be Careful What You Wish For:
- Danny wanted Colette to accept that she can’t win him over and she does, since she completely gives up on trying to charm Danny in favor of just forcing him into a relationship with her.
- While watching Danny break up with Star as per Colette's orders, Kwan miserably laments that while he always wanted Star back, he didn't want it to be through underhanded means like ruining her happiness and sabotaging her relationships.
- Being Evil Sucks:
- Kwan absolutely despises being Colette’s unwilling lackey since he’s completely miserable from dealing with her bossy, demeaning attitude and helping her fulfill her unhealthy obsession with ruining Team Phantom’s lives just to get Danny.
- Not only did Colette fail to get rid of Team Phantom and make Danny hers permanently, but after her crimes are exposed to the public, her mother, stepmothers, peers, and the people of Amity Park turn against her. She loses her money, status, "friends", and the trust of her family, the only people who really cared about her, before getting arrested and sent to reform school, where almost no one will miss her.
- Being Good Sucks: Danny admits to Ember that he hates being the good guy for someone as unbearably horrible as Colette because it won’t let him have the satisfaction of permanently getting her out of his life.
- Belated Child Discipline: After fully wising up about Colette's true colors from her Villainous Breakdown at Star’s birthday party, Stella, Suzette, and her ex-stepmothers promise to be much stricter with her from now on. To start off with, she is grounded indefinitely, cut off permanently, and brought up on charges for her crimes against Team Phantom. After Colette is sentenced to reform school as an alternative to juvie, Suzette makes it clear she will be keeping a much closer eye on her daughter to ensure she doesn't cause any more trouble and attends all of her classes and therapy sessions.
- Believing Their Own Lies: Team Phantom is well aware that Colette only thinks she loves Danny, given that she's a narcissistic Control Freak who treats him only as property that she keeps away from his loved ones. Ember even admits her love song wouldn't work on Colette because she's obsessive, stubborn, and delusional enough to believe she's actually in love with Danny.
- Benevolent Boss: Eleanor agrees to let Chris and Peter have the night off to enjoy Star’s birthday party.
- Berserk Button:
- Ember isn't fond of Sam calling her "Ember McLame".
- Colette does NOT want to hear Star call Danny “Danny-Boo” anymore.
- The Fentons do NOT appreciate Colette accusing their son of being the half-ghost Danny Phantom.
- Ember does NOT like being called a has-been singer and makes Colette pay for the insult by dragging her into the Ghost Zone to briefly experience Walker’s prison.
- Just mentioning Suzette’s name makes Colette furious after she’s sent to Bludworth Academy.
- Being called “mon amore” by Colette is a huge one to Danny and he angrily tells her not to call him that before leaving her to rot in Bludworth Academy.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Eleanor kicks Sam’s parents out of Star’s birthday party because they’re not welcomed at the country club and weren’t invited by Star (Tucker invited them but he lets everyone think it was Colette).
- Beyond Redemption:
- Stella is the only one who believes that Colette has any good in her.
- Star makes it clear she considers Kwan this after he helps Colette ruin her and Team Phantom's lives to protect himself since a small part of her always hoped he'd stop being a Peer-Pressured Bully who only cared about his popularity, and grow up and start doing the right thing. Instead, he chose to keep being a coward at the expense of others.
- By the end, only Stella and Suzette hold out hope that Colette can change for the better.
- Big Bad Wannabe: At the end, Team Phantom makes it clear to Colette that she’s far, FAR less menacing than she believes herself to be since there are worse threats in the Ghost Zone that Ember would be happy to introduce to her.
- Big Brother Bully: Jean-Luc reveals to Stella that he never got along with his little brother like how Colette and Star don't get along, since he always played cruel pranks on Jean-Alain and cut ties with him for leaving the family business to work as a baker when he married a rural woman.
- Big Brother Instinct: Liam not only ignored Beatrice’s pleading to help her after “Visited” and cut ties with her, but warned the rest of their family about what she did to Star so they wouldn’t let her try to do the same thing to their families.
- Big Ego, Hidden Depths: Jean-Luc reveals he’s far more observant than his apathetic, self-absorbed nature would indicate since he reveals to Stella that he’s completely aware of Colette's Spoiled Brat nature and feud with Star. He also calls Stella out on her naïveté for trying to make Star and Colette friends since it was obvious they hate each other too much for that to ever happen, and that all she accomplished was making things worse between the girls by constantly forcing them together. He's also astounded by Stella’s gullibility when she reveals she never caught on to Colette’s lies throughout the years regardless of how feeble they were.
- Bigot with a Crush: Star calls Colette out on her hypocrisy for fixating on the middle-class Danny Fenton despite being a classist snob who intensely hates lower classes.
- Bigotry Exception: Colette stresses to Star that Danny is the SOLE exception for her classism because she sees potential in him to be better than any elite, even without his ghost powers, and considers it a mistake that he was born middle-class.
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: The more Misty learns about Star's clueless mother, serial-cheating stepfather, and evil stepsister, the more she wonders why she ever thought Star's life was easier than hers.
- Big Sister Bully: Colette is this to Star as usual but she takes it to new heights with Pierre, considering his very birth a stain on her life due to her twisted greed and elitism, and insulting him at Star's party as a "drooling waste of space" who she wishes wasn't even born.
- Big Sister Instinct:
- Star is secretly fearful that Jean-Luc will use his money to try to take Pierre away from Stella when they divorce. She later defends her brother when Colette yells at and demeans him.
- Jazz's main motivation for stopping Colette is to keep her brother Danny safe from her since she knows how controlling and even abusive the Spoiled Brat is. She does her best to comfort Danny after a long day of being Colette's slave/forced boyfriend and when he gets an annoying phone call from her.
- Birthday Episode: This story features Star's upcoming birthday. Colette's birthday was a couple of weeks before but her party will take place the day after Star's, which also happens to be the day of Danny and Star's six-month anniversary.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing:
- Colette acts charming and pleasant in order to manipulate her former stepmoms into giving in to her requests. She previously stole Kwan from Star with a combination of her beauty and fake flattery. Everyone from the people of Amity Park, the Travilles, and Jean-Luc’s ex-wives finally realizes how much of a two-faced, sociopathic bitch Colette is when Team Phantom expose her crimes.
- Jean-Luc’s ex-wives admit they were too naive to see through his fake romantic gentleman act and only found out how much of an unfaithful, callous Jerkass he is after marrying him. They do admit he would make a good entertainer if he didn’t reserve his acting skills for manipulating women.
- Blackmail:
- Colette has photographic evidence of something Kwan wants to keep a secret and uses it to make him help her.
- After learning Danny's secret, Colette uses it to blackmail him. When his threats and intimidation won't make her back down, Danny reluctantly goes along with the charade of being Colette's boyfriend until he figures out how she framed Star, Jazz, and his friends.
- Blackmail Backfire:
- Downplayed and subverted. While Danny tries to intimidate Colette into leaving him and his friends alone by dragging her around town, destroying her wardrobe, freezing her hair, and threatening to throw her into the Ghost Zone, she stands her ground until he reluctantly relents and agrees to her terms.
- When Star tries to use the secrets in Colette's diary to scare her into confessing her crimes and leaving Danny alone, Colette refuses to be frightened and turns the tables by bluffing Star into leaving her house or else get in trouble with security, knowing she can't reveal Colette's Frame-Up using the diary without also revealing that Danny is Danny Phantom. Colette threatens to use other means at hand to ruin Team Phantom's reputations, including unflattering photos of Star, and is willing to accept being grounded if her diary is leaked since she's gotten used to those punishments by now.
- Black Sheep: None of Stella's relatives, save for Richard, want anything to do with Beatrice for being an overbearing My Beloved Smother who constantly pressured them to live up to her impossible standards, especially after she tried to force Star into an abusive Arranged Marriage with her Abhorrent Admirer Donovan Loadman in "Visited". Liam, Jocelyn, Chasity, and Genevieve have since cut ties with their mother to stop her from putting their own children through the same.
- Blaming the Cuckold: During her Villainous Breakdown, Colette blames Suzette, Stella, and her ex-stepmothers for their marriages to her father failing, claiming they should've been "better women" so he wouldn't have grown bored of them and forgiven him for his cheating.
- Blaming the Victim:
- As far as Colette and Jean-Luc are concerned, the former's recent unacceptable behavior is Danny and Star's fault for coming into her life and causing her to become obsessed with Danny.
- Jean-Luc makes Stella realize that she wrongfully punished Star for all of Colette’s bullying over the years by easily believing the latter's lies that her daughter was the cause of their fighting, including the time Colette shaved half of Star's head, which Stella was rewarded for by being ignored by Star for an entire month.
- According to Colette, it’s Team Phantom’s fault that she resorted to crime to get Danny because they turned him against her and refused to accept their place by not giving in to her demands.
- Bland-Name Product: Sunkin' Donuts is an obvious stand-in for Dunkin' Donuts.
- Blatant Lies:
- Dash told his mother, Joan Baxter (who works with Angela Foley), that Tucker and his friends were being "menaces" to him at school.
- Jean-Luc and Colette lied to Stella that his ex-wives were all "brain-dead Gold Diggers" who only wanted his money and prestige, and didn't care about Colette (including her biological mother).
- Blessed with Suck: Misty realizes it was a mistake to ever covet Star’s life because being rich, popular, and dating a great guy like Danny also means being stuck with her dysfunctional family, especially the sociopathic monster Colette.
- Blood Knight: Part of the reason why Ember is helping Team Phantom is that she enjoys her fights with Danny and doesn’t want Colette to take that away from her.
- Blunt "No": Jean-Luc's reply when Stella asks if he can think of a good time they spent with both Star and Colette.
- Boisterous Weakling: Jeremy Manson loves to run his mouth off but is too weak to even budge Jack Fenton, much to Jack's amusement.
- The Bore: Danny has no interest in listening to Colette’s constant nagging and obnoxious flirting.
- Boring, but Practical: Puck points out to Vlad that he can get out of his marriage to Alicia by simply requesting a divorce from her, and all it will cost him is to split his assets with her.
- Born in the Wrong Century: Team Phantom (especially Danny and Star) lampshade that they have been dealing with a lot of annoying elitist snobs like the Beviers, Donovan Loadman, and Beatrice Traville who act like it’s the Middle Ages because they think it’s still okay to call the lower classes “peasants” and “commoners”. Even Beatrice’s family has little tolerance for her extremely old-fashioned and classist beliefs since she’s under the impression that it’s the 19th century.
- Brainless Beauty:
- Colette thinks of all her father's previous wives as this, especially Giulia.
- Star dismisses Paulina as a potential accomplice in Colette's scheme to frame Team Phantom since she's too dim to even edit photos on her own laptop so there's no way she could make expertly doctored ones.
- Team Phantom find Yolanda even dumber than Colette because of her fixation with her looks and never bothering to log out of her email, allowing Tucker to easily access the blackmail material Colette sent her.
- Danny can't help but question Stella's intelligence for remaining oblivious to Colette being a psychopath despite raising her for about five years now. Even Stella's loved ones feel the same about her for marrying a slimeball like Jean-Luc and being unaware of Colette's Spoiled Brat nature. Danny, the Travilles, and Star herself are all glad that Star only got her looks from her mom while her brains came from her dad.
- Furthermore, Jean-Luc is astonished that he has to spell it out to Stella why Star and Colette were never going to get along because she was the only one who couldn’t see just how much they hate each other.
- Break Her Heart to Save Her: Danny dumps Star per Colette's orders under the threat of her life being ruined even more by Colette revealing some embarrassing material on her. However, he's able to covertly slip Star a warning of Colette's plans.
- Break His Heart to Save Him: Discussed. Star and even Kwan wonder if Danny would've been much better off being cut out of Star's life at the beginning since at least he wouldn't have met her awful stepfamily and become the obsession of her psychotic, Stalker with a Crush stepsister.
- Brutal Honesty:
- Danny and Star don’t bother to hide how upset they are to see Colette after she’s been discharged from the hospital.
- Danny and Star make it clear that neither of them are going to Colette's birthday party.
- Danny makes it clear to Colette that he didn't visit her in the hospital or send her any cards because he didn't want to, and that he’s not going to her 16th birthday party.
- Everyone is glad that Beatrice isn't invited to ruin Star's 16th birthday party.
- Star makes it clear to her mom she doesn't want Colette or Jean-Luc anywhere near her birthday party.
- Star admits to Danny that she hopes her mother Stella doesn’t invite her entire side of the family to the former's birthday party since some of her relatives can be pretty stuffy and snobby even when they mean well.
- Colette doesn't hide how she thinks Dash and Kwan are both idiots, with the latter only having slightly more brains than the former.
- Colette's biological mom and former stepmothers make it clear they can't stand Jean-Luc for being a pompous womanizer.
- Colette tells Donovan she wouldn't date him even if he was still rich because he's too annoying to be worth her time and being broke now makes him even less worth her time.
- Yolanda makes it clear to Colette she's only helping her to get closer to her father and not as a favor for her. She also bluntly calls Colette a "spare" to Jean-Luc's heir Pierre.
- Johnny 13 bluntly informs Danny he’d never ask out a witch like Colette even if she was "the last girl on Earth or the ghost zone".
- Danny flat-out tells Colette he wants her out of his life to the point he seriously hopes her father either sends her back to France, a boarding school, or anyplace far away from him.
- Ida doesn't hide that she thinks Pamela is an idiot and marrying her over the pharmacist Lorelai she tried to set Jeremy up with was the dumbest thing her son ever did.
- Georgia, Solene, Johnathan, Team Phantom, and the Fentons make it crystal clear to Stella that they hate Colette and are looking at her as the prime suspect behind the frame job against Team Phantom.
- Skulker makes it clear to Team Phantom he only helped Danny as a one-time thing and fully intends to turn the Ghost Boy into a pelt as soon as Colette’s been dealt with.
- Ember bluntly informs Misty that she's not friends with Team Phantom and her alliance with them to help them stop Colette is only temporary.
- As far as Sam is concerned, Colette is a lost cause that deserves to be in a mental hospital.
- Star is painfully aware of her mother Stella's lack of common sense and being a Horrible Judge of Character.
- Jean-Luc makes it blatantly clear to Stella that Star and Colette have never gotten along and never will regardless of how much Stella wants them to. He also goes on to admit that he doesn't care about Star since she's not his biological daughter, thus he he doesn't consider her family, and knew Colette was always a terrible sister to Star over the years and that Stella was the only one oblivious to all her cruel "pranks".
- Mr. Radcliffe tells Donovan that he completely deserved to have his teeth punched out by Danny and get cut off by his father for harassing Star. He also makes it clear that he only hired Donovan at his restaurant because Reginald is friends with the owner as otherwise, Mr. Radcliffe would never hire a guy who harasses a girl because she rejected him and who he would've thrown into juvie if that girl were his daughter.
- Stella's relatives admit to always hating Jean-Luc Bevier for being a skirt-chasing Jerkass and looking down on Kwan for being a textbook Dumb Jock. They also don't want Star repeating her mom's mistake of leaving her decent boyfriend Danny for an unworthy idiot like how Stella divorced Johnathan to be with Jean-Luc.
- All of Stella's relatives are aware of how much of a Spoiled Brat Colette Bevier is.
- Jack makes it clear to Colette that his son Danny is too good for her.
- Chief Boyle bluntly calls Jean-Luc an idiot.
- Star points out that one common flaw Jean-Luc’s ex-wives have is poor taste in men since they still married a self-absorbed slimeball like him.
- Star agrees with Kwan that he was a moron for not seeing the A-Listers as terrible people sooner, especially since they would willingly hang out with someone like Colette.
- Star insults Jean-Luc to Colette’s face by calling him “a waste of a man”.
- Ida doesn’t bother to hide that she thinks Jeremy and Pamela are idiots, especially when it comes to how they raise Sam.
- Bullying a Dragon: Jeremy Manson comes very close to picking a fight with the much larger and stronger Jack Fenton when they're arguing in Principal Ishiyama's office.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When Team Phantom brings up Darius, Colette struggles to remember who she stole him from because she’s stolen so many boyfriends from a lot of girls over the years.
- Calling Parents by Their Name: For the first time, Colette refers to Stella by her name instead of "Mama".
- Calling the Old Man Out:
- Colette does this to Suzette and her former stepmothers during her Villainous Breakdown for not being there for her anymore after divorcing her dad Jean-Luc.
- After Colette is stopped, Sam makes it clear to her parents that her grandma Ida is the only real parent in her life, and they’ll be in a nursing home by the time she decides to forgive them for their actions.
- Calling the Young Man Out: Stella, Suzette and all of the former stepmothers call Colette out on her horrible actions.
- Camera Fiend: Colette hires Cartland to snap embarrassing or incriminating photos of Team Phantom.
- Can't Take Criticism: Colette snaps at Danny whenever he refuses to go along with her ridiculous demands.
- Captain Obvious: When Kwan asks Danny how he knows it's him when he calls Danny, Danny replies that just because he doesn't see Kwan everyday doesn't mean he doesn't recognize his voice.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Colette takes it as a compliment when Danny calls her "despicable" for blackmailing him and wants to make him as heartless as her if he becomes her boyfriend. She also takes pride in how much she's ruining Star's life by taking everything she can from her stepsister to leave her trapped and heartbroken, to the point of relishing Star's various condemnations.
- Casanova Wannabe:
- Mr. Radcliffe insults Donovan for being this by noting that he’d be lucky if girls would tolerate him enough to tell him the time of day instead of using pepper spray on him.
- Team Phantom mock Colette for not being as charming as she deludes herself into believing she is since she had to resort to threats and blackmail just to get Danny to even associate with her.
- Cassandra Truth:
- Nobody but the Fentons, Ida, Georgia, and Star’s parents believe at first that Team Phantom is innocent of the crimes they've been accused of.
- The animal control man and police officer don't believe Yolanda's claims that a chimp wrecked her apartment since Misty turned the magical hologram back into a coffee table before they arrived, so they just assume that Yolanda is insane and trashed her own stuff.
- When Colette tried to expose Danny Fenton as Danny Phantom during her Villainous Breakdown, nobody believes her after seeing how much of a compulsive, two-faced liar she truly is.
- Character Development: Kwan has accepted that Star doesn't like him anymore and realized just how awful a person Colette truly is. He also finally acknowledges that his and the A-Listers' bullying was wrong. After defeating Colette, Kwan quits the A-Listers for good, having realized popularity isn’t worth hanging out with people who only make things worse and treat him like a minion or attack dog.
- Children Are Innocent: Despite being a baby and not knowing what is really happening at Star's party, Pierre could tell that his mother was unhappy and wanted to give her a balloon to cheer her up.
- Clear My Name: Sam, Star, Tucker, Jazz and Valerie are framed by Colette and must work together in order to prove their innocence and avoid possible expulsion.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Colette hates Sam and Valerie the most of everyone in Team Phantom for being romantically interested in Danny, especially Valerie for having dated him.
- Condescending Compassion: Colette claims she wants to force Danny to be with her to "save [him] from a life of mediocrity", including his "unfortunate social class and ghost-hunting freaks for parents". Needless to say, Danny doesn’t appreciate Colette insulting his folks. In the end, she's actually floored when Danny betrays her after "everything [she's] done to improve [his] sad, miserable life"; Danny correctly retorts that the only thing sad and miserable about his life is Colette.
- Conspicuous Trenchcoat:
- Vlad wears a trenchcoat and a fedora for his first meeting with the hitman he's hiring to kill Alicia. The hitman notes how bad of an idea it is since it draws more attention, and deduces from the attire that Vlad is the one hiring him and it's Vlad's first time hiring a hitman.
- Colette wears a trenchcoat, hat, and glasses when spying on Star and Danny.
- Consummate Liar: Everything Colette tells her mother and former stepmothers is flagrantly untrue and has an ulterior motive, most notably her lies about Danny being her boyfriend, Star trying to steal him away, and Stella mistreating her.
- Continuity Nod:
- Star briefly mentions to the Foleys that back during her Beta Bitch days, she attacked Tucker twice in “Beauty Marked” and “King Tuck”, which Georgia confirms that Star was grounded and has apologized profusely for.
- Star mentions Paulina's love of “Sayonara Pussycat”.
- Contrived Coincidence:
- Colette was already putting together her scheme and found out Danny's Secret Identity by pure chance because she wanted to keep a closer eye on him until then, consequently growing suspicious of his unexplained disappearances.
- Colette takes Danny to a steakhouse where Chris is covering a shift for his sick friend.
- Suzette happens to be old friends with Stella's brother, Liam Traville.
- Control Freak:
- Stella admits Beatrice took complete control of her Sweet 16 birthday party and she had no say in anything. So instead of throwing a big 80's bash where Stella would listen to her favorite music, wear stylish clothes, and dance the night away with a few friends, Beatrice made it a stuffy, pretentious upper-crust ball where they ate upscale food Stella didn't even like, including fancy cake, cheeses, and crepes. The only thing Stella got to choose was the color of her dress.
- While blackmailing Danny into being her boyfriend, Colette treats him as a slave during their “dates” by dragging him everywhere she goes, ordering him around, giving him no say in anything, constantly lecturing him on his etiquette and appearance, and punishing him for the pettiest of reasons. She snaps at Danny every time he either disobeys her or just says something she doesn't like by reminding him that she can expose his secret identity to the world or get his friends into even bigger trouble than they're already in. Colette goes as far as forbidding Danny from fighting ghosts unless she says so. When he openly defies her at her stolen birthday party, she quickly flies into crazed rage, leading to her plan unraveling.Colette: This is how things are like now...you dress how I tell you to dress...think how I tell you to think...speak to who I tell you to speak, and you'll do whatever I tell you to do without argument!
- Con Woman: "Yolanda", which is not her real name, is revealed to be this in the final chapter.
- The Corruptor: Colette plans to become this to Danny when they become a couple as she seeks to make him as cruel and ruthless as she is.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot:
- Kwan admits he could've stopped Colette's blackmailing scheme if he had just done the right thing by exposing her crimes instead of valuing his reputation above all else.
- Team Phantom make it painfully clear to Colette that none of the events of the story, including her punishment at the end, would have happened if she hadn’t been obsessed with ruining their lives out of petty spite and narcissistic self-entitlement.
- Cowardice Callout: When she sees Kwan for the first time after learning of his involvement, Star furiously calls him out on helping Colette ruin Team Phantom's lives just because he doesn't want her to reveal his embarrassing secret that he's convinced will permanently ruin his reputation.
- Cowardly Lion: A villainous version. While Colette does get scared when Danny tries to intimidate her into calling off her plans, she refuses to show it and holds her poker face long enough to get him to back off before he actually hurts her.
- Crazy Jealous Guy:
- Donovan can't stand it that Star, Sam, and Colette like Danny better than him.
- Dash can't stand any girl, even Colette, paying more attention to Danny than him.
- Crazy-Prepared:
- Vlad's attempt to poison Alicia fails because she once exposed herself to snake venom every day for a week to acquire immunity just in case she was poisoned during a hunt.
- Colette informs Danny that it doesn't matter if he destroys both her phone and computer because she has multiple copies of her blackmail material and he can't find all of them before her minions upload the evidence.
- While exposing Colette, Misty uses her magic to create a copy of Danny Phantom to publicly fight Ember McLain so nobody will believe the former's claim of Danny Fenton being the ghost boy.
- Create Your Own Villain: Star acknowledges that Colette wouldn’t have become Team Phantom’s greatest headache if she hadn’t introduced Danny to her horrible stepfamily.
- Crocodile Tears:
- Yolanda is fond of using this tactic to get men to buy her stuff.
- Colette tries to use these to manipulate her stepmothers and mother to avoid punishment. It doesn't work.
- Cruel to Be Kind: Jean-Luc and Suzette warn Colette that Bludworth Academy is her LAST shot at any future and any further misbehavior will be met with severe punishment like being disinherited.
- Crying at Your Birthday Party: Played with. Colette STOLE Star's birthday party and tried to pass it off as her own. When her evil actions and revealed to everyone and her biological mother and stepmothers see her true nature, she begins to cry.
- Daddy's Girl: Jean-Luc seems to be the only parental figure in her life who Colette genuinely loves and respects, telling Danny not to mock her father. In fact, she will only let Danny fight ghosts to protect both herself and Jean-Luc. Deconstructed as Misty points out that Colette's devotion isn't out of any actual care or appreciation for her father so much as because he shamelessly spoils her the most and doesn't need any convincing to always let her have her way. At the end after being sent to reform school, Colette only cares about getting back into her father's good graces because it's the easiest way to regain her former status and lifestyle, even though Suzette was the one who chose to stay in London to be there for her while Jean-Luc left without saying goodbye.
- Daddy's Little Villain: Colette sees nothing wrong with Jean-Luc's abysmal treatment of her mother and stepmothers (both former and current), preferring to shift the blame onto the women for not being good enough for her father.
- Darker and Edgier: This is without question Flower princess11’s darkest and bleakest story in the Stranded series since it prominently features domestic abuse, stalking, sexual harassment, wrongful accusations, and blackmail.
- Dark Secret: Kwan has one which he is willing to do anything to keep hidden, including working for Colette when she blackmails him with photographic evidence of it. Whatever his secret is, he's too afraid to even tell Star because he's convinced it will destroy his reputation. Chapter 28 finally reveals he's a full on Closet Geek.
- Dating What Daddy Hates: Pamela’s family never approved of Jeremy but she married him anyway out of love.
- Deal with the Devil: Played for Laughs. The Box Ghost agrees to Danny's deal to make Jean-Luc and Colette his new favorite scaring victims in exchange for the ghost boy leaving him alone.
- Deadpan Snarker: Mr. Radcliffe likes to make dry remarks at Donovan’s expense since the boy's insufferable ego and bratty attitude severely grate on his nerves.
- Death by Materialism: Downplayed and subverted. Danny tries to force Colette to leave him and his friends alone by exploiting her greedy, spoiled, and materialistic nature through destroying her expensive wardrobe, including a fur coat her biological grandmother sent her from France as a gift. While this upsets her enough to throw a really loud tantrum, she still refuses to give in and just stubbornly insists it can be replaced.
- Defeat Means Menial Labor: As part of her punishment at the end, Colette is sentenced to 200 hours of community service, which Team Phantom finds to be a very fitting punishment for a lazy Spoiled Brat who never worked a day in her life.
- Dehumanizing Insult: During her confrontation with her mother and stepmothers, Colette cruelly refers to Pierre as a "thing" that Stella "cursed" her life with.
- Deliberately Accepting the Lie: Played for Drama twice.
- It’s obvious to Team Phantom and their loved ones that Stella just doesn’t want to believe the Beviers are irredeemable snobs and is only trying to convince herself otherwise so she won’t have to admit that leaving her first family for them was the biggest mistake of her life. Her resolve begins cracking during her confrontation with Jean-Luc.
- Kwan knows very well that Star doesn’t want anything to do with him and would want even less to do with him if she found out about his involvement in Colette’s blackmailing scheme against Team Phantom, but desperately tries to convince himself he still has a shot with her to focus on something other than the soul-crushing guilt he’s feeling. It’s not until Star gives him a vicious Cowardice Callout and “The Reason You Suck” Speech and Kwan sees how completely miserable Danny is as Colette’s slave as a result of his own spinelessness that he snaps out of it to help them form a plan to bring down the evil Spoiled Brat once and for all.
- Destructive Savior: Even Tucker’s parents don’t appreciate the property damage the Fentons cause while ghost hunting.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: After being exposed for framing Danny's friends, Colette ends up revealing other secrets out of frustration.
- Didn't Think This Through: Star tries to blackmail Colette with her secret diary into giving up her scheme to ruin Team Phantom and forcefully make Danny hers, only for Colette to point out Star can't expose her crimes without giving away Danny's secret identity, accusing her stepsister of this trope.
- Dirty Coward:
- Colette points out that Kwan is nothing but a pathetic Peer-Pressured Bully who only follows the A-Listers out of fear of being their next target. Star also shares this opinion of him.
- Jean-Luc tries to implore Stella to bail him out when his furious former wives confront him over his horrible parenting of Colette, but she makes it clear he’s on his own for all the trouble he caused.
- After Colette’s crimes are exposed, Yolanda flees the country club and leaves Jean-Luc at the mercy of his furious ex-wives.
- Disappointed by the Motive:
- It outrages Star that the driving force for Colette's sociopathic levels of cruelty is her petty obsession of showing the former up and beating her in their imaginary competition by stealing Danny through any means.
- Star is NOT impressed that Kwan helped Colette frame Team Phantom because she threatened to expose an embarrassing secret of his if he didn’t, since it proves he’s still the same peer-pressured Dirty Coward who values his own reputation over doing the right thing.
- Disappointed in You:
- Ida does not approve of Jeremy getting into fights with the Fentons over insults since she thought she raised him better than that.
- Star is upset that nothing she said got through to Kwan as he still values his reputation over everything because he won't even tell her what his secret is that Colette is blackmailing him over.
- All of Colette’s maternal figures lose whatever love and respect they had for her when she reveals her true colors at Star’s birthday party.
- Ida confesses to Jeremy that she and Mordecai weren’t upset with him for not becoming a doctor, just for giving up on his dreams.
- Both Jean-Luc and Suzette make it clear to Colette she deserves her punishment in the end for all the trouble she caused.
- Disinherited Child: Discussed. Jean-Luc warns Colette that he’ll disown her and make Pierre his sole heir if she fails to straighten up at Bludworth Academy.
- Disowned Parent:
- Discussed. Star considers cutting ties with Stella for good as a last resort if her mom still refuses to accept that Colette is a horrible person and sides with her after the blackmailing situation is dealt with.
- After Suzette takes back her treasured pearl necklace, Colette deems her mother a "traitor" and loses any remaining love for her, to the point just hearing Suzette's name is enough to anger her.
- Disowned Sibling: Jean-Luc reveals that he cut ties with his younger brother 15 years ago after the latter married a country woman that wasn't pretty enough for his standards and chose to become a baker instead of working for the family business.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Colette responds to Danny's series of rejections and latest refusal of her birthday invitation by framing his loved ones for crimes they didn't commit and blackmailing him into dating her.
- Distinction Without a Difference: Colette doesn't see her harassment of Danny (which includes stalking, spying, and breaking & entering) as villainy but "determination".
- Divorce Assets Conflict: Part of the reason Vlad doesn't want to divorce Alicia is because she would end up with half his property as a result. He'd rather send his minions to kill her.
- Does Not Like Spam:
- Jean-Luc isn't a fan of Swedish food.
- Colette does not like food from Rome.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Jazz outright states that what Colette is doing to Danny are the actions of an abusive partner by isolating their significant other and forcing them to sever connections with others. It's even more apparent when Colette invokes Why Did You Make Me Hit You? after Danny is able to break free of her control.
- Domestic Abuser: Colette is very controlling and possessive toward Danny as she treats him only as property by ignoring his feelings, blackmailing him into dating her, forcing unwanted gifts and luxuries on him, and threatening to ruin his friends' lives even further if he disobeys or upsets her, or refuses to cut them out of his life. Jazz flat-out says that what Colette is doing to Danny is this as it's a common tactic by abusers to isolate their victims from their loved ones to make them easier to control. When Danny finally finds a way out and pushes back against Colette, this angers her enough that she drops her charade and slaps him, showing she is not above physically abusing Danny if he refuses to stay under her thumb.
- Donut Mess with a Cop: Colette calls the cops who arrested her "donut scarfing apes".
- Doom Magnet: Star believes she's this because Colette wouldn’t have met Team Phantom nor ruined their lives if she hadn’t befriended them.
- Do Wrong, Right:
- Yolanda points out to Colette that she was caught in the end because she was sloppy and should be smarter next time.
- Jean-Luc isn’t upset about Colette’s crimes, he’s upset only because she got caught and turned their family into a laughingstock as a result.
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male:
- Averted with how Colette treats Danny. It's considered as horrible as it'd be if a man treated a woman in a similar way
- Averted again with Star, who admits to the Foleys that she attacked Tucker twice during her A-Lister days, and is now ashamed of it. Georgia also reveals that Star was grounded for those incidents.
- Dramatic Irony:
- Colette remarks that Danny can’t bring himself to physically hurt her despite his utter hatred of her, but she doesn’t remember that he did exactly that while she temporarily had ghost powers in “Empowered”.
- Danny is horrified by the thought of meeting Colette's biological mother as he worries she's just as bad as her daughter, not knowing that they couldn't be more different from each other. Sam later echoes this thought.
- Stella vehemently argues that Jean-Luc would never divorce her, unaware that he's not only making plans with his attorney, according to Colette, but has a steady mistress who's already preparing to become his new wife.
- Peter explains part of the reason he wants to help Team Phantom with Cartland is because their predicament reminds him of when his best friend was backstabbed by a family member and Peter couldn't do much to help him at the time. He notes that Star somewhat reminds him of his friend due to their shared blonde hair. Peter's friend is soon confirmed to be Chris, and he has no idea Star is the very person who betrayed him.
- Star first meets Suzette when the latter comforts her over her misery from Colette ruining her life and they part on good terms not knowing who the other is. Suzette even believes Star would make a good friend for her daughter Colette, who she still believes is a "sweet and innocent" girl despite her slimeball father's influence.
- Jean-Luc admits to Stella that he never cared about Star and Colette's rivalry as long as Star never harmed Colette. He says this AFTER Star has given Colette a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in "Empowered".
- Dramatically Missing the Point:
- Danny points out to Colette she’s Hated by All (especially by him) on account of her despicable personality. Being a sociopath, she naturally refuses to take responsibility for anything and blames Danny for her blackmailing him into a relationship by “playing too hard to get”, even though he made it crystal clear from the beginning he’d never want anything to do with her even if he was single.
- Donovan can't get it through his head that Star, Sam, and Colette hate him for being a shallow, immature Rich Bastard and prefer Danny for being kind, humble, and heroic, even when Colette spells it out for him.
- When Mr. Radcliffe says that he'd have Donovan sent to juvie if the latter harassed his own daughter, the Loadman brat just retorts that any girl should be grateful he considers her good-looking enough to be worthy of his attention.
- Drama Queen: Team Phantom mock Colette for her inability to grasp she’s not the victim in any way or form after she’s arrested for her crimes.
- The Dreaded:
- Colette is this to everyone who's aware of her awful personality to the point Team Phantom and even the A-Listers want her gone because they’re afraid of what she’ll do to get what she wants, especially if it involves Danny.
- Notably, Colette's growing fixation with Danny has left the A-List understandably frightened of even associating with her, especially after she implied she would kidnap Danny to force him into dating her in "Traveled". The popular kids eventually agree that if Colette does cross the line into to criminal acts, they'll not only kick her out of their clique, but gladly turn her in to the police.
- A swamp witch that Vlad goes for help to deal with Alicia refuses to do so if Puck is involved since she doesn't want to risk crossing a fae. Misty later mentions that, out of everything Wufong taught her, never upsetting a fae was the only thing worth listening to.
- Colette is this to everyone who's aware of her awful personality to the point Team Phantom and even the A-Listers want her gone because they’re afraid of what she’ll do to get what she wants, especially if it involves Danny.
- Dumbass Has a Point:
- At first, Dash is tempted to help Colette in her latest scheme with the promise of payment but backs out when he decides it’s not worth risking getting into trouble again. Even Kwan admits Dash was right not to get involved.
- Theodore warns Donovan to drop his obsession with Star and Danny because they're already in enough trouble and it'll only get worse for them thanks to that restraining order Johnathan got against Donovan.
- Kwan is correct that Colette needs to accept that Danny isn't interested in her and just move on with her life. He even believes that she needs a guidance counselor.
- Even before being blackmailed by Colette, Kwan could see she didn’t care about Danny at all and was only obsessed with stealing him from Star to get back at her stepsister since it didn’t matter to her that Danny is happy with Star.
- Kwan admits that Star is happier with Danny than she ever was with him while they were dating.
- When Dale reveals he saw Colette and Danny on a date, Paulina correctly deduces Colette did something illegal to force Danny to be with her because her recent out-of-control behavior and following him to New York make it clear she’s becoming unstable. Plus, Danny has never shown any interest in Colette before so it’s suspicious that he would suddenly leave Star for someone he's clearly miserable with, not to mention ditching the friends he's so loyal to. Despite this, Paulina points out they can’t tell any adults about their suspicions because they don’t have any proof against Colette, and thus might just get into trouble.
- Dale also suspects that Colette did something to force Danny to be with her because of how miserable he looked with her at the mall and how odd it is that he'd suddenly turn his back on Team Phantom despite being lifelong friends with them.
- The rest of the A-Listers eventually acknowledge that it's completely bizarre Danny would ditch Team Phantom to be with Colette, whom he has rejected for months, so they too suspect she's somehow forcing him to date her.
- Kwan calls Colette out for leaving her blackmail material on Team Phantom with him since he has no loyalty to her and hates her enough to turn it over to Star and Danny after reaching his limit with her cruelty.
- Kwan points out that the A-Listers only made things worse by not actively doing anything to stop Colette despite knowing that her unstable behavior and obsession with Danny was becoming a problem, and when they DID decide to kick her out of their group and potentially report her to the police, it was too late since she'd already carried out her blackmailing scheme.
- Dumb Blonde: Colette outright lampshades that Stella and Freja do this stereotype proud by being dimwitted and easy to fool. The only person she considers even dumber than them is Dash.
- Dumb Jock:
- Team Phantom points out that Dash can't be responsible for framing them because he's too stupid to even think of a plan so complex, let alone carry it out.
- Colette always found Kwan dumber and more gullible than Star's last boyfriend. Jillian and Hudson even describe him as "the textbook definition of the dumb jock stereotype", to the point his picture would be in the textbook.
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- Easily Condemned: The Fentons, Georgia, and Team Phantom lampshade how the school staff, Mansons, Foleys, and Damon are quick to believe circumstantial evidence like suspicious photos sent from an unknown source over the word of Team Phantom, who they actually know.
- Embarrassing Hobby: Star admits to Team Phantom that Paulina is still into Sayonara Pussycat and even collected toys from the kid’s meals when the movie came out.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Ember makes it clear she still doesn't like Sam calling her "Ember McLame".
- Empathy Pet: Fifi comforts Stella as she's heartbroken after beginning to realize her seemingly idyllic life with the Beviers has always been a farce.
- Enemy Mine:
- Danny cuts a deal with the Box Ghost that Team Phantom will leave him alone as long as he only scares Colette and Jean-Luc.
- Things are still tense between Misty and Team Phantom but she readily agrees to help them deal with Colette, both to save Danny from her and to get back at the French brat for her blatant bigotry.
- Danny enlists Skulker's help against Colette.
- Ember agrees to help Team Phantom beat Colette to save Danny and get back at Colette for insulting her music.
- Engineered Public Confession: Danny, Star, and Kwan trick Colette into revealing her crimes in front of everyone at Star's birthday party by making her angry enough to confess into a microphone that Kwan snuck into her purse.
- Enraged by Idiocy:
- Colette as usual is easily annoyed by the A-Listers' stupidity, as she snaps at Dash for not knowing what "divide and conquer" means.
- Vivian slaps Donovan for his stubborn refusal to give up his vendetta against Star and Danny, along with getting her fired from her third job this week.
- Downplayed but Colette finds her stepmothers pathetic for being naive Brainless Beauties who are easily swayed by her words, even if it works in her favor.
- Team Phantom, Ida, and the Fentons are angered that the Casper High staff and the parents of Sam, Tucker, and Valerie are gullible enough to believe mysteriously sent doctored photos incriminating Team Phantom of crimes they didn’t commit.
- Everyone from Team Phantom, their families, Misty, the Travilles, the police, and even the Beviers themselves have a low opinion of Stella’s intelligence because of her stubborn denial of the Beviers' true natures no matter how much of a philandering snob Jean-Luc is or how much trouble Colette makes. Jean-Luc is even astonished that he has to spell it out in detail to Stella that Star and Colette were never going to get along in order to finally break through her guileless ignorance as to how Star and the Beviers really feel about each other.
- Entertainingly Wrong:
- Stella is frustrated when she can't get ahold of Jean-Luc during the case, wondering if he's meeting with clients now of all times. Unbeknownst to her, he's not busy with a client, but Yolanda.
- Team Phantom briefly suspect that Jean-Luc is involved in the conspiracy to frame them when they learn his mistress Yolanda is among Colette’s minions and has Stella's missing belongings. They realize that's not the case after overhearing Jean-Luc refer to Danny as his stepdaughter's boyfriend instead of Colette's boyfriend while Yolanda talks with him over the phone.
- Entitled Bastard:
- Donovan is still this as he continues to blame everyone but himself for his own misfortunes.
- As far as Donovan is concerned, any girl would be lucky to be considered attractive enough by him to get his attention.
- As far as Jean-Luc is concerned, a “half-peasant” like Star should be grateful to just be connected even adjacently to the “great” Bevier family and that he’d cut her out of his life if it weren’t for Stella.
- The A-Listers are furious that Star would kick them out of her birthday party since as far as they’re concerned, they deserve to be there because they were invited, even if it was by Colette and not Star herself.
- Dash and Paulina are shocked and outraged that Kwan would quit the A-List, with Paulina claiming nobody ever leaves them by choice (while ignoring that Star already did that).
- Entitled Bitch:
- Colette in spades in this story.
- She "forgives" Danny for not visiting her in the hospital or even sending her a card, not that he cares since he didn’t want to do either of those things.
- As far as Colette is concerned, the A-Listers have no right to refuse to help her with her schemes to steal Danny from Star since they're lucky she even hangs out with them and offers to pay them.
- She is in complete denial that Danny doesn't want her of all people to know his secrets.
- She arrogantly believes that dating her is "the highlight of any boy's love life" and they should feel "honored" to have her attention, which is why it infuriates her that Danny doesn't.
- Colette actually expects Danny to be grateful to her for being willing to see him as a challenge and potential partner despite him pointing out he never asked to be either.
- She is actually outraged that Kwan and Danny betrayed her by working together with Star to trick her into exposing her crimes. Colette doesn't consider that she gave them every reason to absolutely hate her by ruining their relationships with Star just for fun, treating them and their loved ones like dirt for the past six months, and blackmailing them into obeying her by making Kwan ruin six innocent lives and getting Danny to cut ties with his all his loved ones just for her own selfish benefit and warped amusement.
- When Stella takes back the tickets to Paris she was planning to give her, Colette bellows that she deserves to go home and have it all, even though she had just been badmouthing her stepmother moments before.
- After being exposed, Colette will only forgive Danny for “abandoning” her if he crawls back and helps her destroy her enemies.
- Colette actually expects Danny to save her from ghosts regardless of how horrible she is to him and his loved ones because that’s his job as a hero.
- Yolanda is under the impression she deserves to be Jean-Luc's spoiled Trophy Wife.
- Beatrice futilely pleaded with her favorite child Liam to convince Stella to go through with the former's marriage proposal between Star and Donovan from "Visited".
- Colette in spades in this story.
- Entitled to Have You:
- Colette is this to Danny even more than usual as she's willing to cut his friends and family out of his life by framing them for crimes and blackmail Danny into dating her, firmly believing he should be hers alone. During her Engineered Public Confession, Danny provokes Colette into yelling that he's supposed to love only her, and he doesn't have a choice because she "owns" him.
- As far as Dash is concerned, girls are supposed to choose HIM over Danny and not the other way around like Colette did.
- Et Tu, Brute?: Team Phantom are disgusted with (and in Star’s case outraged at) Kwan when they learn he’s helping Colette in her Frame-Up against them.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Gender-Inverted. Colette's biological parents are the only parental figures in her life that she genuinely respects and cares about (in her own way). She is also particularly upset when Danny destroys a fur coat that her paternal grandmother sent her as a gift from France, indicating Colette has some regard for the woman as well.
- Even Bullies Have Standards:
- None of the A-Listers want anything to do with Colette's schemes anymore.
- Dash refuses to help regardless of how much she pays him since he doesn't want to get into trouble again after the school play incident.
- Paulina refuses because Colette's obsession with Danny is getting too weird for her after what happened in New York.
- Kwan doesn't want to get tangled in Colette's plans because he's disturbed by her obsession with Danny. Nor does he want to antagonize Team Phantom just because Colette hates Star since he's accepted that Star is happy with them and knows Danny isn't interested in Colette, just like how Star isn't interested in Kwan. Colette has to resort to forcing Kwan's cooperation by threatening to destroy his social life.
- As nasty as Paulina is, Star knows she’d never stoop to Colette’s level by helping her ruin Team Phantom’s lives.
- The A-Listers find Colette even bossier than Coach Tetslaff. Also, by this point in the story, they are so creeped out about Colette's obsession with Danny that they refuse to have anything to do with her plans anymore or even be near her. Later, when Danny unexpectedly breaks up with Star and gets together with Colette, the A-Listers, especially Paulina, quickly suspect something is amiss. No matter how much they dislike Danny and Star, they are worried that Colette may have done something illegal to force them to break up and get Danny to date her. While there's nothing they can do because there isn't any concrete proof against Colette, it's made clear that if the A-Listers had any knowledge of her criminal deeds, they wouldn't hesitate to turn her in because they are genuinely afraid of Colette and want her out of their clique and school for everyone's safety.
- As much as Paulina hates Colette, she won’t force her to date a meathead like Dash.
- Dale admits he'd feel sorry for anyone who dates Colette because of how unpleasant she is and feels bad for Danny. The other A-Listers share the sentiment.
- Paulina is horrified when it's publicly revealed at Star's birthday party that Colette forced Danny into dating her just like she said she would back in "Traveled", realizing she should've told the police about Colette following Team Phantom to New York. The rest of the A-List feel the same since they're just jerks, not psycho criminals.
- Even the A-Listers are appalled by Colette's unwarranted scorn and insults towards her baby brother Pierre.
- None of the A-Listers want anything to do with Colette's schemes anymore.
- Even Evil Can Be Loved: After Colette’s villainous nature is revealed to everyone, her father Jean-Luc Bevier is the only one who stays by her side, but his ex-wives do feel some pity for her having a scumbag like him as a role model and not being better influences on Colette because of their own lackluster parenting.
- Even Evil Has Standards:
- Colette finds Donovan Loadman just as unbearably annoying as Star does even when he was heir to the Loadman fortune.
- Colette also finds Donovan and his friends to be a complete embarrassment to rich people everywhere for being stupid enough to get disinherited and be forced to work in normal jobs like "peasants", to the point she wonders why they were born into the same social class as her.
- Even Vivian intensely hates Colette for her haughty personality.
- Colette is fine with using extremely underhanded means to get Team Phantom away from Danny permanently, but refuses to resort to murder.
- Johnny 13 hates Colette too much for her awful attitude to ever consider asking her out.
- Danny imagines that if he tries to throw Colette into the Ghost Zone, all of his foes would just toss her out and threaten to invade Amity Park if he brings her back because even they can't stand being anywhere near her.
- Colette won't tolerate anyone insulting her father, not even Danny.
- Cartland is a total Slimeball who's willing to ruin Team Phantom's lives for money but won't resort to physically harming minors.
- Colette will let Danny (who she blackmailed into dating her) fight ghosts because she won’t risk endangering herself or her father Jean-Luc by letting the ghosts go unchecked.
- Skulker is taken aback when Danny confirms just how overbearing Colette is, and believes her forcing Danny to break up with Star is needlessly cruel.
- Skulker doesn't want Colette to interfere in his hunt for Danny and agrees to send the ghost boy's message to his friends about her blackmailing him. He later admits to Team Phantom that he’s tempted to hunt Colette just to get her out of the way, but doesn’t find any sport in it because she’s too weak to be a challenge.
- Even Colette is disturbed by Skulker's goals with Danny Phantom.
- Tucker doesn't believe Technus is responsible for framing Team Phantom since he doesn't think someone who loves technology as much as the technopathic ghost would insert a virus into a computer.
- Star actually admits that Skulker is way more trustworthy than Colette.
- Ember is disgusted by Colette’s blackmailing and cruel treatment of Danny, and teams up with Team Phantom to save him from the sociopathic French brat.
- As much as Colette enjoyed tormenting Star, she was just as against the idea of them hanging out when Stella tried to make the stepsisters spend time together while she was on a date with Jean-Luc almost a year ago. Thus, they agreed to stay out of each other's way that day while lying to Stella.
- Ember refuses to use mind control to make Danny hers because she doesn't have to force a guy to get a date.
- Unlike Colette, Yolanda can take rejection since she gave up on Vlad Masters when he rejected her for Maddie.
- Even the Dog Is Ashamed: Even Fifi is angry at Colette when her crimes are exposed despite not fully knowing what’s going on, since she growls at Colette and stops her from fleeing the club.
- Every Man Has His Price: Kwan bribes Mikey into handing him Danny's phone number (that he has from when he did Danny's homework while he was temporarily in the A-List) by giving him money and the secret phone number that Colette gave Kwan.
- Everyone Can See It:
- Even Danny notices that Sam and Chris like each other as more than just friends.
- Jean-Luc makes it clear that Stella was the only one oblivious to Star and Colette’s bitter rivalry.
- Everyone Has Standards: See here.
- Everyone Knew Already: Jean-Luc informs Stella it was obvious to everyone but her that Star and Colette utterly despise each other, even calling up a friend of his to prove it, and Colette was always the instigator in their fights, leaving her shocked and ashamed.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
- Colette can't understand why the A-Listers refused to aid her in her plans to take Danny from Star despite the promise of payment out of disgust for her growing unhealthy obsession with the Fenton Boy and increasingly unstable behavior.
- The very concept of helping or just being nice to people is utterly alien to Colette, who can't fathom why anyone would use their money for philanthropy, especially without getting anything in return, since she only views wealth and privilege as a means for one to help themselves.
- Colette believes Danny only keeps Tucker around to use him, since that is why she makes sure to stay on good terms with her ex-stepmothers.
- Donovan can't figure out that Star and Colette hate him because of his obnoxious and entitled personality, and prefer Danny for being considerate and likable.
- As far as Colette is concerned, "friend" is just another word for "minion" or "pawn".
- Colette considers a conscience to be a useless thing and doesn’t understand why Kwan picks now to grow one.
- Colette doesn't even consider the possibility that Danny would ask one of his enemies, like Skulker, for help. She especially wouldn't believe that Skulker would actually agree to work with him.
- Colette has no understanding of what real love is and deludes herself into believing she can get Danny to like her over his loving girlfriend Star by making him see how “great” dating her is, even if it means blackmailing him into being with her, forcing him to dump Star, and making him avoid his loved ones by threatening to expose his secret identity to the world and framing his friends for crimes they didn’t commit, with the threat of further damage to their lives. Colette doesn't comprehend that all she’s doing is giving Danny and his friends more reasons to hate and get rid of her.
- It never occurred to Beatrice that her "favorite child" Liam would also be angry at her for trying to force Star to marry Donovan Loadman in "Visited", or that he would warn his sisters about what she did to Star so they'd make sure their mother doesn't try it with their own families.
- Colette apparently thinks Danny is just as shallow and greedy as she is since she can't fathom why he would become a superhero if not for wealth, fame, power, and a beautiful woman like her by his side; Colette even futilely tries to convince everyone that Danny Phantom causes the ghost attacks in Amity Park to make himself look like a hero by stopping them.
- Kwan calls Colette out for not expecting him to turn on her when he helps Team Phantom expose her crimes at Star's birthday party by pointing out that Star means more to him than her threats and popularity.
- Colette is boggled that Danny would rather be in a place as bizarre as the Ghost Zone than live in Paris with her, still not grasping that her horrible personality would make him prefer even the company of ghosts over her.
- After her defeat, Colette makes it clear she just considers kindness, friendship, and charity delusions that will bore Danny, and expects him to come crawling to her after he gets tired of playing the hero because she’s the one who he should love.
- Evil-Detecting Dog: Danny lampshades this as Star recalls that Fifi never liked Jean-Luc and Colette from the start.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Danny tells Star that Colette has no sense of humor outside of ruining people's lives.
- Evil Is Petty:
- It's emphasized that Colette’s obsession with Danny is mainly fueled by her stubborn refusal to accept that somebody prefers Star over her. Kwan is disgusted that she is obsessed with destroying Star and Danny's relationship, and ruining her stepsister and Team Phantom's lives for this reason.
- Colette would prefer to kiss Danny on the lips when Star is watching. In fact, one of her demands when blackmailing Danny is for him to publicly profess his love for her at Star's birthday party.
- Donovan swears revenge on Sam and Colette for refusing his marriage proposals because he can't stand that they had the gall to refuse a Loadman.
- While Colette has always hated Donovan Loadman and wouldn't even consider dating him, she's still ticked off that she was his third option to marry as she finds it insulting to be in third place behind Star and Sam even without Danny.
- Star points out that neither Donovan nor Vlad can be their culprit for framing Team Phantom because they both hate Danny too much to exclude him from the scheme and Vlad would've gloated to them about it by now.
- Skulker plans to hunt all of Danny’s friends after he deals with the Ghost Boy, starting with Tucker because Skulker blames him for all the time he wasted researching purple-back gorillas even though Skulker was the one who stole the boy's PDA in the first place, as Tucker points out.
- It enrages Star that everything Colette is doing is just to beat her stepsister in some imaginary competition and that she treats Danny like some trophy to win.
- Colette has stolen all of Star's past boyfriends, Chase, Brandon, and Kwan, just to mess with her stepsister. Now, she's looking to do the same with Danny regardless of what methods she needs to use.
- Colette admits to Star that after making Danny Fenton hers, she considered also "stealing" Danny Phantom from Paulina as a faithful partner and bodyguard.
- Colette forces Star to give her birthday party over to the former so she can celebrate her own birthday on two days and have Danny declare in front of everyone that she is his first and only true love, otherwise she’ll have Team Phantom arrested.
- Colette outright admits to Danny that she's forcing him to date her because of his constant rejections.
- Colette makes it clear to Star over the phone that all that matters to her is winning and she doesn't care what underhanded means she uses to get there.
- Colette is planning to use Danny to take over the homes of her former stepmothers and destroy what they love about them as payback for making her stay in those "dreadful places" while they were married to her father.
- After Team Phantom exposes Colette’s schemes at Star’s birthday party, she tries and fails to get back at Danny by spitefully revealing his secret identity as Danny Phantom in the hopes that he’ll be experimented on in some government lab as payback for rejecting her for the final time.
- Vlad is planning on getting involved with Donovan Loadman and his friends just to annoy Danny.
- Eviler than Thou: COLETTE, many times over.
- Skulker and Ember find Colette to be even more of a cruel, misery-spreading narcissist than Spectra.
- The A-Listers have become so creeped out by Colette's obsession with Danny that they refuse to help her in any more of her plans regardless of what's in it for them, so she has to resort to blackmailing Kwan to get his help. When Paulina suspects Colette has resorted to criminal means to get together with Danny, the A-Listers unanimously agree to kick her out of the group.
- Team Phantom acknowledges that Colette is a MUCH worse person than her father Jean-Luc because she’s actually evil instead of just being a classist snob.
- Team Phantom, their allies, and even Ember regard Colette as even more insane than Vlad.
- In the end, Danny considers Colette worse than Vlad because Vlad's alternate future self proved that he at least has the potential to redeem himself since he felt genuine remorse for his mistakes, whereas the fake redhead chose to be a monster out of pure narcissism and rejected any chance at redemption despite having the genuine love of so many good maternal figures in her life.
- A fictional example where Ember considers Colette even vainer than the Evil Queen.
- Team Phantom remark that Beatrice never stooped as low as insulting babies like Colette does to Pierre.
- Misty considers Colette FAR worse than any of the dark wizards in her family after hearing how depraved her thoughts are.
- Danny lampshades to Colette in the end that his ghostly enemies are literal monsters that want to destroy him and they’re still far more capable of genuine kindness than her by going out of their way to help save him from her.
- Exact Words:
- The hitman brags that there hasn't been a man who could get away from him. Alicia isn't a man and unknowingly has Puck's protection.
- Puck tells Beatrice that he might convince Danny to reduce her imprisonment of being poor for a month if she uses a wish to help Danny and Star with their Colette problem. After Beatrice makes that wish, he reveals he won't help her because he only said he might tell Danny what she did and didn't specify when. When Puck eventually tells Danny about Beatrice's help, he points out the deal doesn't require Danny to actually soften Beatrice's punishment.
- At Star's birthday party, Colette tells Danny to show everyone how he truly feels about her. He does just that by spitting at her cheek in disgust.
- Excellent Judge of Character:
- Played with. Colette is right that Danny wouldn't actually hurt her or toss her into the Ghost Zone no matter how awful of a person she is. However, she still thinks she can corrupt him into being as cruel as she is if he just spends enough time with her by blackmailing him into being her boyfriend.
- A rare example with Stella, who admits that even back when she supported Star's friendship with the A-Listers, she never liked Dash because she realized he was a jerk who was a horrible influence on her daughter.
- Chris isn’t the least bit surprised that Colette would stoop so low as to ruin Team Phantom’s lives by framing them and blackmailing Danny into dating her since he’s well aware that she’s just THAT evil.
- Even the A-Listers know Danny cares about Team Phantom too much to betray them, especially not for Colette who he has never shown interest in, and they wouldn't put it past her to do something unethical or illegal to force him into going steady with her given her recent insane behavior like chasing after him all the way to New York in "Traveled".
- Downplayed with Kwan. He eventually realizes that Danny is truly in love with Star and has no interest in Colette, although at first he thought it's just because of how incredibly bossy the latter is. It's not until Colette blackmails Kwan into helping her ruin Team Phantom's lives that he realizes just how toxic of a person she is.
- Team Phantom doesn’t have a high opinion of Kwan, but they know he’s just a Peer-Pressured Bully and not a bad guy, so they find it suspicious that he’s helping Colette with her blackmailing scheme against them.
- Even Jean-Luc points out to Stella that Colette and Star have never and will never get along because they completely hate each other, and she was naive for thinking that she could ever get them to be friends.
- Star notes that Fifi has hated Colette and Jean-Luc from the beginning. Danny even lampshades that dogs are good judges of character.
- Star's maternal relatives are willing to give Danny a chance because Beatrice (who they all hate) doesn’t approve of him.
- It's revealed that even Pierre doesn't like Colette, as he calls her "mean" and a "bad lady" after her crimes are revealed and even throws food at her face. Danny jokes that Pierre isn't even in preschool and is still a better judge of character than Colette.
- Even Yolanda knows Colette doesn’t have a chance with Danny, not that she’ll tell her because she’s happy with taking advantage of the Spoiled Brat's delusions for her own benefit as they continue plotting.
- Extreme Doormat: Colette accuses Kwan of being this for always going along with the A-Listers since he's too timid to stand up to them.
- Extremely Protective Child:
- Downplayed in Colette’s case but she won’t tolerate even Danny insulting her father.
- Star is furious about Jean-Luc brazenly cheating on her mother and vows to ensure Stella wises up about him sooner or later. Hearing Yolanda callously demean Stella while wearing her stolen clothes enrages Star so much that she has to be held back from attacking the snide Gold Digger. She also defends her mother to Team Phantom despite her awareness of Stella's faults.
- Fake a Fight:
- Ember attacks Danny at the mall to lure him away from Colette and inform him about Team Phantom’s plans to save him.
- Misty creates a Danny Phantom duplicate to fight Ember McLain in order to disprove Colette's exposure of Danny's secret identity at Star’s birthday party.
- Fallen Princess: At the end of the story, Colette’s crimes are exposed and she’s arrested, which causes everyone to see her for the monstrous Spoiled Brat she truly is so she loses what little popularity she has left, her former maternal figures not only cut ties with her but cut her off permanently along with Suzette, and she is forced to attend Bludworth Academy under the threat of being disowned by Jean-Luc if she causes trouble again.
- Fate Worse than Death: Danny hates every minute of being Colette's boyfriend under duress because her Psychopathic Womanchild and Control Freak tendencies make her extremely possessive and temperamental, as she lashes out at him for minor slights and keeps him compliant under threat of severe punishment for him or his loved ones. It’s telling that Danny would prefer fighting his enemies to spending a single second with Colette. Even Paulina lampshades this when she admits she's glad Team Phantom saved him.
- Faux Affably Evil:
- Yolanda acts flirtatious and friendly but it's only to manipulate others.
- Colette acts like a sweet, wholesome girl with boys or her parental figures just to gain and subsequently toy with their trust and affection.
- Forceful Kiss:
- Colette enjoys forcing or coercing kisses from Danny while they're "dating", much to his disgust.
- Ember gives one to Danny during their fake fight, though he’d still rather get kissed by her than Colette.
- Forced into Evil: Kwan doesn't want to antagonize Team Phantom so Colette blackmails him into helping her.
- Forgiveness:
- While Team Phantom aren’t ready to consider Misty a friend yet, they do forgive her for everything and agree to finally call it bygones after she helped them bring down Colette for good.
- Star admits that while Kwan's good deeds don’t make them friends, at least it lets them say bygones.
- For the Evulz: Why Colette stole Star's previous boyfriends, Chase, Brandon, and Kwan. She wants to continue the streak with Star's latest boyfriend Danny, even if she has to resort to blackmail.
- Frame-Up: Team Phantom sans Danny are framed by Cartrand on Colette's behalf with forged photographic evidence. Star is accused of stealing the school's money that was for new equipment, Sam of crashing Miss Tetslaff's car, Tucker of changing his grades and putting a virus in the school's computer system, Jazz of selling test answers, and Valerie of vandalizing the school.
- Freaky Is Cool: Finding out about Danny’s ghost powers doesn’t make Colette any less obsessed with him; if anything, her warped mind just sees them as another way for her to control Danny while giving herself more power over others by proxy.
- Freudian Excuse:
- Colette's video call with her mother implies she's bitter over Suzette seemingly caring more about the people she helps through her charities than her own family.
- Jeremy admits he's always been mad at his mother for prioritizing her activism over spending time with him growing up, even when he was worried she'd end up in jail because of it, and doesn't want his daughter to follow in Ida's footsteps to avoid that fate.
- Team Phantom tell the Foleys that Dash bullies people because he wants to feel important before his life goes downhill after high school.
- Freudian Excuse Denial: When asked by Star why she’s always been such a bitch to her, Colette admits it wasn’t because Star ever did anything to her and that it was just for fun. This only confirms Star’s allegation of Colette being a sociopath who hurts people solely for her own warped amusement.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse:
- Team Phantom makes it clear to the Foleys that Dash is just a pathetic jerk who uses his predestined Future Loser status as an excuse to pick on others. It's his own fault he won't amount to anything after high school because he's a Lazy Bum who sabotages all his chances to have an actual life after graduation due to his bullying and stupidity.
- Jazz makes it crystal clear to Colette that her abandonment issues with her maternal figures do not excuse or justify any of her terrible behavior, especially since she never sought help or told anyone about her problems.
- Freudian Slip:
- Stella confesses that she wants to make Star's 16th birthday party perfect to make up for her own that was ruined by her overbearing mother Beatrice.
- An internal example when Colette bitterly recalls all the times her mother Suzette promised to attend important events, only for her to cancel because of weather complications or work interference.
- Friendly Enemy: Skulker and Ember temporarily become allies to Danny because they respect him enough to help him and his friends get rid of Colette when she goes too far by ruining their lives and blackmailing Danny into becoming her boyfriend, both because Skulker and Ember feel that Colette is crossing a line and they want to continue to fight Danny without worrying about the French brat, who they generally view as vile despite being villainous ghosts.
- The Friend Nobody Likes:
- Colette has become this to the A-Listers because of her growing creepy fixation with Danny and increasingly out of control behavior like pursuing him all the way to New York in "Traveled", to the point they're fine with kicking her out if they find out she's been engaging in criminal acts to get him.
- It's implied Dash is also this to the A-Listers, or at least the football team, to an extent since some of the players are willing to cut him from the team if it means keeping Kwan on.
- Fury-Fueled Foolishness:
- Donovan Loadman gets himself and his friends fired from Sunkin’ Donuts after the manager sees him threatening Star and Danny.
- Colette’s inability to control her temper during her Villainous Breakdown only confirms her guilt by revealing how much she hates her family, looks down on others, and is obsessed with Danny Fenton along with destroying Team Phantom.
- Future Loser: Deconstructed. Team Phantom make it clear to the Foleys that this will be Dash Baxter's fate after high school, mainly because he's too lazy to actually make something of his life, and uses this predestined fate as an excuse to do whatever he wants like bully students he sees as inferior to him.
- The Gadfly:
- Colette only flirted with Kwan while he was dating Star to annoy her stepsister.
- Puck messes with Beatrice by suggesting he might convince Danny to shorten her month-long sentence of being trapped in her worst nightmare of being poor if she makes a wish for him to grant to help Danny and Star with their Colette problem. When Beatrice relents, Puck gleefully reveals he has no intention of helping her with her imprisonment.
- At Star’s birthday party, Sam admits to Colette that Team Phantom was only trying to get her phone away from her so she wouldn’t find out that Tucker already deleted her blackmail material on them, and they just wanted an excuse to hit her.
- Star messes with Colette one last time by making out with Danny right in front of her before leaving Bludworth Academy, mocking that her stepsister will never have him and he’ll never love her.
- Generation Xerox: Jean-Luc admits to Stella he wasn’t much different from Colette growing up and that he used to bully his younger brother Jean-Alain just like how she torments Star.
- Gilded Cage: Colette promises to give Danny a life of luxury… as her blackmailed boyfriend, then husband and father of their kids, and puppet to conquer the world as long as he doesn’t disobey or displease her. She’s genuinely surprised that Danny still absolutely refuses to go along with her outrageous demands out of sheer hatred for her.
- Godzilla Threshold:
- After discovering Colette knows Danny's secret, Star agrees to ask Misty for help.
- Team Phantom are so desperate to stop Colette, they're willing to temporarily call a truce and work with Skulker and Ember.
- Discussed when Tucker considers the Scarab Scepter as an option to stop Colette, knowing that it's drastic considering what happened the last time he used it. After talking it over with Sam, they both agree things aren't that desperate for them yet and the Scepter should be an absolute last resort. It's later revealed that they came up with the idea of Tucker using the Scepter again in the event that Dark Danny ever returned.
- Gold Digger:
- Subverted. Stella thinks Colette's previous stepmothers only married Jean-Luc for his money.
- Yolanda is a straight example, as she enjoys the expensive gifts Jean-Luc showers her with and agrees to help Colette in exchange for designer clothes and accessories in addition to money. She makes it clear that she only cares about Jean-Luc's fortune, as even the alimony from their divorce would be enough to set her up for life. In fact, she has a history of seducing wealthy men into indulging her costly whims.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: Kwan admits it wasn’t worth helping Colette ruin Team Phantom’s lives since all he really wanted was for things to go back to the way they were when Star was in the A-List, but all he did was make her, himself, and Danny more miserable ever and potentially get Team Phantom expelled. Thus, he mans up and goes to do the right thing by helping Team Phantom and preventing Colette from completing her victory.
- Gonk: Alicia, to the point that Vlad finds Spectra’s human disguise more appealing than her.
- Good Cannot Comprehend Evil:
- Kwan tries to convince Colette to give up her unhealthy fixation with Danny and petty feud with Star by pointing out neither of the latter two will ever be interested in them and it's better for him and Colette to just move on with their lives, so she’ll finally leave the couple alone and forget about her latest scheme to ruin their relationship. Unfortunately, Colette's just too obsessive to quit and resorts to blackmailing Kwan with an embarrassing secret so he’ll help her.
- Stella still believes the Beviers have goodness deep inside of them, despite Jean-Luc being an unapologetic, womanizing snob and Colette frequently causing trouble ever since coming to Amity Park partly because of her fixation with Danny.
- Downplayed and Subverted with Danny. He briefly hopes in desperation that Colette will change for the better after he saves her from Ember’s attempt on her life since she got a second chance, like the one Clockwork gave him that stopped him from turning into Dark Phantom. However, she’s too narcissistic to change so Danny drops any misplaced hope of her ever changing for the better.
- Even after having her eyes opened about her daughter's crimes, Suzette still refuses to believe Colette is Beyond Redemption and strives to help her see the error of her ways by being Colette's guardian during her time at Bludworth Academy.
- Good Is Dumb:
- Jean-Luc's former wives are all Nice Girls who, while not necessarily stupid, are too trusting for their own good, which led them to easily fall for his and Colette's charms.
- Star makes it clear that her mom Stella isn't a bad person or a Gold Digger, just gullible and a bad judge of character.
- Good Is Not Dumb:
- Chris suspects something is wrong when he sees Danny and Colette together at the steakhouse. He eavesdrops on and records their conversations with a tape recorder to confirm his suspicions before handing it over to Team Phantom.
- Team Phantom don't trust Ember enough to give her a power boost so she'll affect Colette with her love song because they expect her to destroy them and take over the world. Ember doesn't deny it.
- Good Is Not Soft: After defeating Colette, Star doesn’t waste any time kicking the A-Listers out of her birthday party since Colette invited them, not her, and she doesn’t want them there.
- Good Parents: Jeremy's parents didn’t care if he became a doctor or not, they just wanted him to experience the pride and appreciation of one of life’s pleasures in achieving your dream through hard work.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Colette won't admit it but she's unwilling to accept that Danny prefers Star over her, and thus she NEEDS to be popular with him like she is with other boys.
- Grew a Spine: After Star chews him out, Kwan forms an alliance with her and Danny to expose Colette's crimes at Star's birthday party by tricking her into confessing into a microphone. Following Colette's arrest, he quits the A-Listers for good and isn't phased by Dash's threats, to the point of revealing the latter's own embarrassing secret of collecting teddy bears.
- Guilt-Ridden Accomplice: Kwan is blackmailed by Colette to help her with her scheme in order to ruin Team Phantom's lives and force Danny into a relationship with her. Kwan is so consumed with guilt that he initially tries to quit early on after Danny "breaks up" with Star, but Colette threatens him by pointing out it wouldn't be too hard to convince others he helped her willingly due to his history as a Peer-Pressured Bully with the A-Listers. Thankfully, Kwan eventually grows a spine and teams up with Danny and Team Phantom to stop her for good.
- Handsome Lech: Jean-Luc has had a lot of marriages but they usually don't last because his wives eventually get fed up with his skirt-chasing habits.
- Hard Truth Aesop: After Colette is exposed and arrested, everyone comforts Suzette, Stella, Giulia, Freja, and Eloise when they blame themselves for the French brat’s crimes by pointing out that they can raise a child, but not make decisions for them, so they can’t be held responsible for Colette's bad choices.
- Harmless Villain: Team Phantom knows that the Box Ghost is this so they're fine with him scaring Colette and Jean-Luc since that's the worst he'll do.
- Hate at First Sight: Team Phantom immediately despise Yolanda for being an amoral Gold Digger who ruins marriages and lives, especially theirs, for her own selfish benefit.
- Hated by All:
- Nobody likes the Mansons for being unpleasant snobs. Even Ida has little patience for her son and daughter-in-law's antics.
- Team Phantom and everyone in their circle despise Colette due to being fully aware of just how far she'll go to hurt them, especially Star by stealing Danny from her. Stella is the only one willing to defend her stepdaughter, but it's clear she's just running on denial and motherly obligation, and will have to wake up to the truth one day.
- Danny later points out to Colette that she’s nowhere near as popular as she believes she is because her bitchy personality makes everyone hate her; even the A-Listers are now finding her unbearable, she refuses to give the time of day to guys who actually are attracted to her solely for her beauty, and the only reason Danny even associates with her is because she’s forcing him.
- All of Stella's relatives hate Donovan Loadman, Colette, and Jean-Luc for being self-centered elitist jerks.
- To a lesser degree, none of Stella's family ever liked Kwan for being a clueless imbecile.
- None of Star's relatives can stand the A-Listers for being almost as unpleasant as Colette and are glad when she kicks them out of her birthday party.
- Hate Sink: Colette reaches her all time lowest (not including Empowered) by framing Team Phantom for crimes they didn't commit to get them away from Danny and blackmailing the ghost boy into dating her to have him all to herself. Danny seriously considers just tossing her into the Ghost Zone to leave her at the mercy of his enemies.
- Haute Cuisine Is Weird: Danny despises the gross rich people food, such as frog legs and snails, that Colette forces him to eat on their "dates", claiming it tastes too disgusting for even Cujo to like, and is overjoyed to be able to eat pizza again. His friends share the sentiment.
- He Cleans Up Nicely: Colette certainly thought so of Danny from when he wore a suit with well coiffed hair in “Visited”, and seeks to invoke this by giving him a forced makeover.
- Heel–Face Turn: Out of guilt, Kwan helps Star and Danny expose Colette's crimes at Star's birthday party by tricking her into confessing on microphone and handing them all the blackmail material she has on them that she gave him.
- Heel Realization:
- After Colette's "Reason You Suck" Speech, Kwan finally realizes Star was right about the A-Listers and how his desire to fit in with them makes him no better, as well as why she is much happier after cutting them out of her life.
- Kwan gets another one after Star finds out about his involvement in Colette’s blackmailing scheme and is furious because regardless of his motives, he’s not just helping Colette break the law and ruin Team Phantom’s lives, but is also aiding her in forcing Star’s innocent boyfriend Danny into a toxic, abusive relationship that Kwan knows he doesn’t want with someone who Kwan knows is a horrible person that Danny completely hates and makes him miserable. This spurs him to finally make things right like he should've done at the beginning by reaching out to Danny
- Henpecked Husband: An incredibly dark and forced example. Colette wants to mold Danny into one by threatening to ruin his life and those of his friends if he should disobey or just displease her in any way, with Danny even noting at one point that she sees him as little more than a servant.
- Heroic BSoD: Stella begins having one when Jean-Luc tears down her delusion of their "perfect happy family" by confirming he never cared about Star and that Star was never going to get along with Colette because they hate each other too much, along with revealing to her that Colette was in fact always the the instigator and harasser in the stepsisters' fights but Stella was too naive to see through her lies. It only gets worse at Star's party.
- Hidden Depths:
- As vapid and shallow as Colette is, she looks for more than just money in a potential husband, as she vastly prefers the middle-class Nice Guy Danny Fenton over the wealthy Jerkass Donovan Loadman even when he was his father's heir.
- Colette got minor acting roles as a child through one of her ex-stepmothers, an English actress.
- Colette is fluent in Swedish and Italian.
- As Jeremy is told in this fic, Jack might be a goof who doesn't always follow traffic rules, but he has several degrees and patents to his name, and earned enough money to fund his and Maddie's research and put their kids through college.
- Suzette has a PhD in medical science.
- In addition to being a Closet Geek, Kwan reveals he's only playing football because he hopes to get a scholarship to medical school so he can become a surgeon like his mom.
- Yolanda is a skilled clarinet player.
- Jazz reveals she’s in a relationship with a guy.
- Jeremy Manson once aspired to be a doctor like his father until he failed to get into med school.
- Hidden Disdain Reveal:
- Stella admits she never liked Dash at all and wouldn't be surprised if he was responsible for framing Team Phantom.
- Colette only cared about her stepmoms as walking banking accounts to satisfy her Spoiled Brat tendencies. In the climax during her Villainous Breakdown, she finally reveals her true contempt for them.
- At Star's birthday party, her mother's relatives reveal none of them ever liked the Beviers or Kwan Li.
- They despise Jean-Luc and Colette for being self-important, elitist jerks. They especially question Stella's intelligence in leaving a pleasant man like Johnathan Strong for an unfaithful, skirt-chasing womanizer like Jean-Luc who flirts with any woman that catches his eye.
- They don't think highly of Kwan for being a moron, with Star's cousins even mocking him for being the very picture of a Dumb Jock. Kwan is hurt when he learns this, but admits it's understandable since he's finally realizing how much of an abysmal boyfriend he was to Star.
- Kwan and Dale admit to Dash and Paulina that they hate the A-listers' froyo, mainly coffee and pomegranate.
- Hopeless Suitor:
- Donovan Loadman is as unsuccessful with Sam and Colette as he is with Star since they all threaten him with legal action if he doesn’t stay away from him. Mr. Radcliffe mocks Donovan that no girl would be interested in a creep like him.
- Colette is a VERY dark deconstruction as the only way she can get Danny to spend time with her is by forcing him through blackmail which leads her to framing his friends and breaking a ton of laws.
- Hormone-Addled Teenager: Kwan deeply regrets how easily swayed he was by Colette's good looks and false charm when they first met.
- Horrible Judge of Character:
- Stella doesn't want to believe that Colette would resort to criminal behavior to get what she wants. Everyone else knows better. She's also still convinced Jean-Luc genuinely loves her and would never leave her despite Star's protests to the contrary, to the point of completely buying into his and Colette's stories of being dealt a bad hand by his previous wives. Stella even tries calling Jean-Luc to use his money to help with the case against Team Phantom, believing he'll listen to her because "he'll do anything for [her] out of love".
- Colette is convinced that all she needs to do to make Danny love her is blackmail him into being with her and get him away from his family and friends. She also deludes herself that she can corrupt Danny into becoming as elitist and uncaring as her to make him a more fitting boyfriend.
- Star wonders why she ever thought the A-Listers were friendship material or that Kwan could make a good boyfriend since he's too much of a coward to do the right thing at the expense of his popularity.
- Kwan realizes he’s this for not figuring out how psychotic Colette is until she blackmails him into helping her ruin Team Phantom just to finally have Danny all to herself. He even acknowledges that he was an idiot for ever dating Colette after being fooled by her fake sweet French girl act.
- Jean-Luc’s previous wives admit to being this since they were too naive to realize what a selfish, sleazy jerk Jean-Luc is until they married him.
- Suzette reveals that her family wanted her to marry Jean-Luc because he was “one of us” — a fellow aristocrat born into wealth — and she ended up falling for his superficial charm. Suzette realized too late that marrying him based solely on these qualities was a mistake.
- This is one of the main factors that motivates Kwan to quit the A-Listers because he doesn’t want to be part of a group that would willingly associate with someone as irredeemably evil as Colette.
- Ida calls Jeremy and Pamela out on disparaging Sam's friendship with Team Phantom just because they don’t meet her parents' snobby standards and for preferring her to instead associate with rich brats like the violent Jerkass Donovan Loadman, the rotten to the core sociopathic Colette Bevier, or the stuck-up A-List bullies who are Fair-Weather Friends at best.
- Horrifying the Horror: Johnny 13, Skulker, and Ember make their hatred for Colette crystal clear as the former regards her as too horrible to even consider asking out while the latter two are willing to temporarily work with Team Phantom to save Danny from her when Colette forces him to date her.
- Humiliation Conga:
- This happens to Donovan four-fold: First, he gets fired from his third job for threatening Star and Danny. Second, Vivian slaps him for causing her to lose her job. Third, Colette cruelly rejects him for being both annoying and poor now. Fourth, Star makes sure to tell his dad about him bothering her so he'll punish Donovan.
- Misty offers to help Ember distract Colette at the mall by using a few spells and jinxes to give Colette bad luck and keep her too occupied to return home so Team Phantom can search for evidence against her. During Danny and Ember's fight, a disguised Misty periodically spills a beverage all over Colette and her new dresses that weren’t damaged by the ghost diva's attack while Jazz and Valerie use other substances to further ruin her clothes, hair, and make up. Misty also records Colette’s humiliation and posts it on the internet, using magic to remain anonymous.
- Hypocrisy Callout:
- Colette calls Kwan out for trying to gain the moral high ground over her since he's a bully who has no problem abusing school policy for his own benefit.
- Star calls Colette out on mocking her for her mother marrying her middle-class father Johnathan Strong despite Colette's own obsession with the middle-class Danny Fenton.
- Danny points out to Colette that, despite her claims, she doesn't have any standards when it comes to men since regardless of her disdain for Kwan, Dash, and Donovan, she still went out with the former just to ruin his relationship with Star out of petty spite and would've pursued the latter two as long as they were dating her stepsister because she can't stand anyone liking Star more than her. In fact, the only reason Colette is even giving Danny the time of day is because of his relationship with Star.
- Jazz calls Colette out on blaming her mother Suzette for not spending enough time with her by pointing out Colette didn’t put much effort into making time for her mom either, since she’d rather obsess over her petty feud with Team Phantom and unhealthy fixation with Danny.
- Team Phantom call Colette out on claiming to want companionship but going out of her way to make everyone hate her by treating them like dirt and only wanting to spend time with her maternal figures on her own terms for her own greedy benefit, despite having ample time and resources at her disposal to see them whenever she wanted.
- Colette calls Team Phantom “hypocrites” for blackmailing her by refusing to do anything to help her if she were attacked by a ghost. Tucker throws it back in her face by retorting that it’s not so nice to be on the other end of blackmail.
- Ida calls out the Mansons for criticizing Sam’s friends as bad influences by pointing out that if she only made friends that met her parents' standards, then she’d be hanging out with rich brats like Donovan, Colette, and the A-Listers.
- Hypocrisy Excuse: When Star calls out Colette, who holds extremely classist beliefs, for her willingness to blackmail the middle-class Danny into a relationship, Colette claims that Danny is the exception because he has the potential to become one of the upper-class.
- Hypocrite: See here.
- Hypocrite Has a Point:
- Hypocrisy aside, Colette is correct that Donovan Loadman has no desirable qualities as a potential boyfriend and his family's money does not compensate for that.
- In spite of Donovan's hypocrisy towards Colette's infatuation with Danny when he's pining for a girl who's already dating someone else and wouldn't date him even if she wasn't, his above point remains valid.
- While Colette is right that Kwan is not as innocent as he thinks he is, his point still stands about her actions being despicable, especially since Kwan never went as far as ruining someone's life like how Colette is willing to do to Team Phantom.
- Richard makes it clear to his family that he still hates Jean-Luc Bevier for being a scumbag who doesn't deserve Stella, even as he still loves his wife Beatrice despite her being an even worse person.
- While Jean-Luc doesn’t have much room to criticize his ex-wives' parenting since he’s the main cause of Colette’s sociopathy, he isn’t wrong that they are partly at fault and contributed to her toxic behavior by spoiling her rotten.
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- I Can Change My Beloved: A familial example. Suzette still naively hopes Colette can one day be redeemed by attending Bludworth Academy where she’ll have a strict routine and receive mandatory therapy sessions, while unaware that Colette is too narcissistic to ever change.
- Idle Rich:
- Sam's parents are called out for mooching off her wealthy grandmother Ida because they think they’re too good to work.
- Colette has no plans to work in the family business, preferring to marry someone who will.
- Idiot Ball:
- When Tucker finds Colette's hidden laptop, Team Phantom sees that she didn't log out of any of her accounts, allowing them to easily access her email and financial transactions. Sam lampshades that Colette can sometimes be as stupid as Paulina despite being as cunning as Vlad.
- Similarly, Yolanda never logged out of her email, ensuring Tucker can easily access the info Colette sent her.
- Star believes she should've done more to get rid of Colette sooner besides complain about her hated stepsister non-stop, especially since Colette already proved there's no limit to how low she'll sink to win by making Team Phantom suffer and forcing Danny to be with her.
- In the climax at Star’s birthday party, Kwan calls Colette out on being dumb enough to leave her blackmail material with “the minion who hates [her] the most” and not consider that he would have a change of heart and hand it over to Team Phantom.
- The A-Listers (especially Kwan and Paulina) acknowledge it was stupid of them not to report Colette’s increasingly insane behavior before she carried out her blackmailing scheme.
- If I Can't Have You…: Colette is determined to make Danny love her even if it destroys them. After being exposed in the climax, she thinks this word for word before trying to expose Danny's secret in retaliation.
- If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: Star tells Sam she better treat her cousin Christopher well in their relationship.
- I Gave My Word: Colette keeps her promise to pay Yolanda and Cartland for taking the photos to frame Team Phantom and securing the video she sent them of Danny that exposes his secret identity. Also, while she refuses to clear his friends' names, Colette agrees not to cause them any more trouble as long as Danny obeys her.
- Ignorant Minion: While Kwan, Yolanda, and Cartland know Colette is blackmailing Danny into dating her because she found out his secret, they don't know what that secret is (though the latter two don't care) and Colette prefers it stays that way.
- I Hate Past Me:
- Star deeply regrets letting Paulina and the other A-Listers peer-pressure her into taking Kwan back after he dumped her for Colette because they insisted that an A-Lister can't be seen dateless at Dash's party before the school year starts. In fact, she regrets listening to the A-Listers at all since they were just a bunch of jerks who didn't care about her and she especially regrets ever liking Kwan.
- After Kwan realizes how horrible Colette truly is when she blackmails him into helping her ruin Team Phantom’s lives, he completely regrets ever leaving Star for her when he fell for Colette's beauty and innocent French girl act, to the point he wishes he never met her and would beat up his past self for being an idiot if he ever went back in time.
- I Have No Daughter!: In the end, Stella doesn’t see Colette as her daughter anymore and only regards her as a monster like everyone else does, refusing to let her stepdaughter call her "Mama".
- I Lied: After forcing Danny to dump Star, Colette admits to him she has no intention of keeping her word to undo her frame job on his friends since she doesn't want to risk them taking Danny away from her or give up her "golden ticket". Sure enough, Colette reveals to Star in chapter 24 that she plans to get Team Phantom arrested anyway.
- I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Deconstructed as Star tells Stella that Colette's unhealthy obsession with Danny stems from the fact her fragile ego can’t accept there’s a boy she can't win over.
- I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: Skulker tells Danny he's Danny's foe, not a mailman.
- I'm Not Afraid of You: When the cop and animal control worker insult Yolanda by calling her crazy for supposedly imagining that a monkey trashed her apartment despite no evidence of a break-in, she's offended and tries to throw her weight around by proclaiming herself to be the future of wife of Jean-Luc Bevier, one of the richest men in France. Neither man is the least bit intimidated since they don't care enough about Jean-Luc to get his last name right and they don't live in France.
- Inadequate Inheritor: Colette becomes this to Jean-Luc at the end for embarrassing him and besmirching their family name when her crimes are exposed, so he gives her an ultimatum: either clean up her act at Bludworth Academy or be disowned, which leaves Pierre as his sole heir.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex:
- Team Phantom and Valerie explain to Tucker’s parents that Dash bullies others as some pathetic attempt to make himself feel big and important because he believes his life is going to go downhill after high school, so he uses that as an excuse to do whatever he wants until then.
- Sam points out to Team Phantom how pathetic Colette is for turning into a psychopathic yandere just because Danny is the only guy to have no interest in her.
- In Love with Your Carnage: Downplayed but Colette is even more smitten with Danny when he shows he's willing to terrorize her, up to and including threatening her life.
- Innocently Insensitive:
- Stella never realized how much Colette and Star hated hanging out together since she kept trying to get them to get along.
- Jack doesn’t believe that his son is Danny Phantom because he’s not strong enough to take on ghosts, then apologizes to Danny after realizing he insulted him. Danny isn’t the least bit amused.
- Insane Troll Logic:
- Donovan Loadman actually believes he could've convinced his dad to reinstate him as his heir by getting Colette to marry him and having Jean-Luc back him up, ignoring that Reginald made it clear being disowned is his punishment until he grows up and Colette hates Donovan to the point she wouldn't want anything to do with him even if she wasn't interested in Danny.
- Colette thinks she can make Danny love her by ruining his friends' lives and forcing him to be her boyfriend via blackmail while making him miserable by completely controlling almost every aspect of his life, to the point of threatening and hurting him every time he upsets her, keeping him from contacting any of his loved ones, and interfering in his hero work.
- Because of her elitism, Colette thinks she’s exempt from going to the same afterlife as other people.
- As far as Colette is concerned, everything is a game, and she should be allowed to win because she's the superior player.
- Colette thinks Danny has no right to reject her because any guy would be lucky to have a beautiful girl from an Old Money family like her that's interested in them since she can provide them a life of absolute luxury as long as they don't displease her.
- Colette accuses Danny of giving her hives after she puts on her tiara based on no real evidence (it was actually Misty who put a curse on the tiara).
- Insanity Immunity: A variant. Ember admits to Team Phantom that at her current power level, her love song wouldn't work on Colette because the latter's unhinged crush on Danny makes her crazy enough to think she really loves him.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: When Kwan leaves the A-Listers at Star’s birthday party, Paulina claims that nobody ever quits the A-List, only for Star to remind them that she already did.
- Insufferable Imbecile:
- Colette certainly has this opinion of the A-Listers, Donovan, Theodore, and Vivian.
- Everyone regards Jean-Luc as a complete idiot for being such an incompetent father that he turned his daughter Colette into a sociopath and still doesn’t see anything wrong with her behavior unless it makes him look bad.
- Insult Backfire:
- Colette takes it as a compliment when Danny tells her that Star is everything she's not. He has to clarify that it was meant as an insult.
- Colette calls Sam "Morticia", which Sam doesn't mind because Morticia is one of her top goth icons. She even turns the insult back on Colette, teasing that she’s not as smart as she thinks because of her lame put-downs. Near the end when Colette calls her "Wednesday" after Wednesday Addams, Sam only reiterates this.
- Later as she's blackmailing him, Colette thanks Danny when he calls her "despicable", much to his annoyance.
- Colette takes it as a compliment when Star says she's no different from Beatrice.
- Colette takes it as a compliment when Star calls her poison that destroys everything she touches.
- Insult to Rocks:
- When Jack compares Jeremy Manson to a jellyfish and a snail, Maddie says it's an insult to both animals because jellyfish are dangerous and adaptable while snails' shells excuse them for being slow.
- Chastity points out comparing Jean-Luc to a poodle and skunk is insulting to them since poodles are adorable and skunks are still more pleasant.
- Misty refrains from calling Colette a witch since it's an insult to actual witches.
- Insulting from Behind the Language Barrier: When Colette first met Kwan, she called him a "Neandertalien American", which Star translated as French for "American Neanderthal". However, Colette played it off as a joke by claiming that Star misunderstood what she said due to her rusty grasp of French, and being the idiot he is, Kwan bought it, partly because he was entranced by Colette's beauty.
- Internal Reveal:
- In chapter 8, Colette learns Danny's secret.
- When trying to intimidate Colette, Danny reveals to her he was responsible for Beatrice's current state.
- Misty finds out Ember is a ghost and that she also has a crush on Danny.
- While going through Colette's activity on her secret laptop, Tucker, Sam, and Star discover that she purchased tickets to and from New York weeks prior, meaning she did follow them there in "Traveled", and Yolanda, Cartland, and Kwan are involved in her scheme to frame them.
- Misty finds out about Valerie’s former romantic interest in Danny.
- Stella reveals to the Fentons, Johnathan, Ida, Joy, Chief Boyle, Officer Johnson, and Casper High staff that Jean-Luc was the one who told Jeremy and Pamela that Ida was in the golden guild, which Ida doesn’t appreciate because of the headache she had to deal with in “Golden” where her son tried to start his own country club.
- At Star’s birthday party, Suzette, Freja, Giulia, and Eloise all finally witness Colette's true nature and what she was really using the money they sent her for. They reveal to Stella that Colette was paying for her expensive party decorations with the money she manipulated them into giving her and also figure out the lies she told each of them for years.
- Everyone learns that the famous humanitarian Suzette Dumont is Colette’s biological mother and Jean-Luc’s first ex-wife.
- Team Phantom find out about Jean-Luc’s brother when Suzette mentions him.
- After defeating Colette, Danny tells the cops and the other families about all of Colette’s crimes while she was blackmailing him without giving away his secret identity.
- As he’s being escorted out of the party by security, Dash reveals that the A-Listers were going to kick Colette out of the group if she crossed the line to get Danny.
- Kwan reveals he learned from Paulina that Colette paid her $500 to tell her dad that they were at the spa together while she followed Team Phantom to New York to stalk Danny. Stella is furious at Jean-Luc for letting this happen.
- Puck reveals to Team Phantom that he helped them with Yolanda and Cartland.
- Danny reveals to Misty that Mayor Vlad Masters is his Arch-Enemy.
- In her final confrontation with Team Phantom, Colette finds out that Misty is a sorceress, Ember is a ghost, and Vlad Masters is the team's main foe.
- I Reject Your Reality:
- Colette continues to refuse to accept that the entire Fenton family, including Danny, despise her and want nothing to do with her even when Danny point-blank tells her to her face that he wants her out of his life permanently.
- Stella still refuses to accept that Jean-Luc doesn't love her or that Colette is a monster.
- Colette is resolute that Star brainwashed Danny into being with her, and that her own "love will conquer" and "free" him.
- Ironic Echo: When Kwan quits the A-Listers, he uses the same wording Dash did when he temporarily kicked Kwan out of the group in “Lucky in Love”.
- Irony:
- Paulina hopes that no other rich person in the world is as crazy for someone who already rejected them as Colette is for Danny. She's unaware that Vlad Masters definitely fits that description given his fixation on getting together with an already married woman, Maddie Fenton.
- Back in "Cursed", Kwan was angry at Danny when he thought the latter was two-timing Star with Colette. Here, Colette forces Kwan to help her steal Danny from Star for herself.
- Danny finds himself in the same situation as Vlad: forced into a relationship with a woman he completely hates.
- The Beviers lied to Stella that Jean-Luc's ex-wives were all selfish, uncaring gold diggers who mistreated Colette, which the latter also secretly perpetuates to her mother and each of her stepmothers. Yolanda, Jean-Luc's current mistress and likely future wife who Colette is helping for her own ends, fits this description to a T.
- Star initially considered Jean-Luc's previous ex-wives just as bad as him, all while unknowingly being a fan of two of them: Freja as a supermodel and Eloise as one of her favorite movie stars.
- Star lampshades that despite Sam openly despising her at the time, she was still a much better friend than the A-Listers ever were since she comforted Star during Danny's amnesiac phase and even helped save their relationship, whereas the popular kids didn't care who Star dated so long as it benefited them.
- Star bitterly acknowledges that she made Danny's life MUCH worse as his girlfriend than she ever did as one of his bullies by inadvertently putting him in the sights of his biggest thorn, Colette.
- Related to the above, Star wonders if Danny would’ve been better off leaving her for Colette in the beginning like all her previous boyfriends since Colette would’ve eventually gotten bored of and dumped him instead of becoming Team Phantom’s biggest nightmare in her obsessive desire to steal Danny.
- Colette believes that Danny only became a superhero to obtain wealth, power, fame, and a beautiful woman by his side. Danny does acquire all those things in Flower princess11's other works after his secret identity is exposed to the world, but that description fits his archenemy Vlad Plasmius much better.
- Nobody believes Colette when she says that Danny Fenton is Danny Phantom, and it’s the only time she’s being honest.
- Kwan’s feelings for Star are what pitted him against Danny out of jealousy, but both boys end up teaming up to save the very girl they both love from Colette, which ends their rivalry for good (even if it was one-sided in Danny’s case).
- While unintentional, Colette did beat Star at something: convincing Kwan to leave the A-List.
- Colette wanted to avoid taking over her family's wine business and she gets her wish in the end, because she wouldn't get the job even if she wanted to due to her criminal record and her father Jean-Luc no longer trusting her.
- It is revealed in the story that Colette is still in contact with her biological mother, Suzette Dumont, who is involved with a number of charities around the world, which keeps her from actually spending time with her daughter. It is implied that Colette is genuinely heartbroken about her mother's neglect and busy work schedule, which makes it nearly impossible for them to spend time together. It's hinted that deep down, Colette sincerely wishes that she would spend more time with her biological mother. At the end of the story, when all of Colette's crimes are revealed, she is punished by being sent to an extremely strict reform school in England, and her mother will be taking time off work and moving there to keep an eye on her. So, in the end, Colette gets her wish to be with her mother, but in the way that Suzette ends up becoming her guardian and taking time out of her work to make sure that she's punished for her crime and that she reforms into a proper member of society. But this isn't good for either mother or daughter as instead of bonding and being happy with each other, Suzette is truly ashamed of her daughter's crimes and wants to punish and reform her while the daughter isn't spending the time with the mother the way she wanted to and resents Suzette for "betraying her."
- Colette used to have a loving relationship with her biological mother, Suzette Dumont, and got along well with her stepmothers, who genuinely cared for her. Unfortunately, because of her father's constant marriages and cheating on her maternal figures, they weren't able to stay with her or have a positive influence on her life. While they try to keep in contact with her and be a positive influence on her, Colette mainly stays in contact with them for resources and to be spoiled rotten by them and only cares about them for their money, though it's hinted that her biological mother is the one other parent aside from her father whom she holds any real love and respect for. Even then, she resents her mother, Suzette, for always working and not spending enough time with her.
- However, Jean-Luc's current mistress, Yolanda, who Colette is working with, is upfront with the fact that she doesn't care about Colette in the slightest and is only working with her to get close to her father for his money. At the end of the story after Colette's crimes are revealed, her biological mother and all of her stepmothers are horrified by her actions and cut ties with her while making sure that she's punished by sending her to reform school; it's Yolanda who stays in contact with Colette and tries to help her, albeit for her own selfish reasons.
- Irrational Hatred: Kwan calls Colette out on wanting to sabotage Star's relationship with Danny out of petty spite and hatred that her stepsister doesn't even deserve.
- Is the Answer to This Question "Yes"?: When Star asks if Danny is ready to party, he asks, "Is the Ghost Zone green with hints of purple?"
- It's All About Me:
- Stella admits her abusive mom, Beatrice, turned the former's Sweet 16 into the party she wanted by making it some pompous, old-fashioned high society ball while completely ignoring Stella's opinions.
- Jean-Luc views Stella as "boring to him" since she started trying to make amends with Star and resents having to move with her to a "backwater town", which is why he sought out Yolanda for "company".
- Jean-Luc would rather spend time with his mistress Yolanda while Stella is preoccupied with clearing Team Phantom’s names than help his wife since he’s convinced they’re guilty and she’s just wasting money.
- Colette refuses to let Danny fight ghosts unless they are an immediate threat to her because it takes too much time away from her.
- Star admits that the A-Listers never helped her with her relationships since all that mattered to them was how they could benefit from it.
- Star calls Kwan out on caring more about his reputation than her since he's willing to help Colette ruin Team Phantom's lives just to prevent her from exposing his embarrassing secret.
- Ms. Tetslaff doesn't seem to care who gets punished for the petty crimes Team Phantom was framed for as long as someone pays (both financially and metaphorically) for the damages to her car.
- Johnathan points out that Jean-Luc couldn’t care less if Colette runs wild unless her antics make him look bad or interfere with his work.
- As far as Colette is concerned, if her mother and stepmothers truly loved her, they would’ve stayed married to her father regardless of how miserable the marriage would be or how much of a lousy husband Jean-Luc was.
- It's All My Fault:
- Star blames herself for Colette ruining Team Phantom's lives since she knew introducing Danny to her awful stepfamily was a bad idea from the start but did it anyway. She even offers to let them punch her for it. None of them accept (Ember is tempted but the others stop her) and instead make it clear Colette's actions are her own.
- Kwan realizes he ruined any chance of getting Star back after she delivers him a very vicious "Reason You Suck" Speech for helping Colette ruin her and Team Phantom's lives.
- Suzette, Stella, and Colette's former stepmoms blame their poor judgement and lackluster parenting for the sociopathic brat’s crimes.
- I've Come Too Far: Kwan wants to back out of helping Colette after she makes Danny "break up" with Star but she threatens to drag him down with her by revealing his involvement in her plans to the police. Given his history of participating in or at least enabling the A-Listers' bullying, Kwan feels that he has no other option but to keep going along with Colette's orders or else he'll be ruined.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Kwan has accepted that Star isn't interested in him anymore and is fine with her relationship with Danny since she's happy, to the point he tries to talk Colette out of interfering with their lives like she always does.
- I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure: Colette repeatedly warns Danny he can't slip away from or go against her since it's not just his secret that's on the line, as she'll punish his friends by getting them in further trouble if he disobeys her.
- Jerkass:
- Yolanda is best described as very selfish, self-centered, and materialistic.
- Cartland is a sleazy jerk who uses shady means to make easy money. His rude and even indecent behavior towards his landlords spurs Peter Tsaava to help Team Phantom get back at him.
- Unsurprisingly, Superintendent Baxter is quick to dismiss Team Phantom as criminals Casper High is better off without based solely on the photos implicating them, and arrogantly believes his nephew is a model student unlike them.
- Jerkass Ball: The Casper High staff, Damon Gray, the Foleys, and the Mansons instantly believe the doctored photos implicating Team Phantom for crimes they didn’t commit. Although Damon and the Foleys eventually come around after some convincing from the Fentons.
- Jerkass Has a Point: See here.
- Jerkass Realization:
- Kwan is forced to accept Colette’s criticisms that he's not much of a better person compared to her because of his history of bullying others just for the sake of fitting in with the A-Listers.
- Misty feels guilty for previously brushing off Star's problems the more she hears and sees what her stepfamily is like.
- Chris feels bad for ever suspecting Danny of cheating on Star with Colette after seeing how completely miserable he is while trapped with the evil fake redheaded Spoiled Brat.
- Star feels guilty for writing off Jean-Luc’s former wives as vile, snobbish gold diggers like Yolanda without ever meeting them after seeing what they're really like at her birthday party since it reminds her of how judgmental she used to be during her time as a mean popular kid. She apologizes to the women.
- Star’s relatives regret even suspecting Danny of cheating on Star with Colette when it’s revealed that the psychotic French Blue Blood was blackmailing him into dating her under the threat of ruining his loved ones' lives. They comfort Danny for what he had to go through because of her.
- Jerkass to One: Colette's biological mother and former stepmoms are all nice ladies but they make it clear to her face that they utterly despise Jean-Luc. Giulia also hates Donovan Loadman for being an "arrogant little brat".
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Star acknowledges that Sam was more of a true friend to her than the A-Listers ever were since even when they didn't like each other, Sam comforted Star over Danny's amnesia in "Forgotten" and even helped salvage their relationship.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk:
- Colette only stays in contact with her former stepmoms so she can manipulate them into satisfying her materialistic needs.
- Colette is annoyed that her father told Stella about her real relationship with Star... because she planned to do it herself after Jean-Luc divorced Stella to rub her stepmother's face in it.
- Misty strongly implies that Jean-Luc is the only parent Colette wants in her life because she doesn’t NEED to manipulate him into giving her whatever she wants as he’s the only one who never actually tries to parent her.
- Karmic Shunning: After being exposed, Colette ends up being shunned by everyone other than her father.
- Kick the Dog:
- Colette has no problem stealing Stella's things (including a designer handbag) so she can pay off Yolanda with them.
- At one point, Colette refers to her former stepmothers as her father's "old skanks".
- After Colette frames Team Phantom, Sam's parents have decided to send her to an all-girls boarding school in London to get her away from her friends and mold her into their idea of a "proper" member of high society, regardless of her feelings on the matter.
- Jean-Luc won’t lift a finger to help Stella clear Team Phantom’s names since he considers it a waste of time and money for her to be helping kids (including her own daughter) that are, in his opinion, guilty and should just confess to it. All he cares about is taking advantage of his wife's frantic state of mind to sneak around with Yolanda behind her back.
- Colette insults Stella and Pierre to Danny’s face and they’re the only Beviers he actually likes.
- Kwan broke up with Star via text message so he could date Colette and they were soon caught making out by Star.
- It disgusts Team Phantom to no end that Jean-Luc talks bad about Danny to people who don't even know him, like Yolanda.
- Star is confounded that her mother Stella can claim to love a slimeball like Jean-Luc who isn't interested in even pretending to lift a finger to help her daughter, not even when she needs it most.
- Yolanda accepts Stella's belongings from Colette as payment despite knowing they're stolen, even wearing them during her rendezvous with Jean-Luc.
- Yolanda calls Stella a "cow" and her kids "diaper-staining brats", much to Star's outrage, who has to be restrained from knocking Yolanda out with her ecto-saber.
- Colette admits to Star that she never wanted any siblings so she wouldn’t have to share her inheritance and she doesn’t care in the slightest about a “mutt” like Pierre who will never be as great as their father, which is why she'll eventually convince Jean-Luc to give the baby to Stella since Colette believes her and Danny’s kids will be better heirs, taunting Star to do what she wants with their brother while she still can.
- Colette refers to Pierre as Stella's "mishap" and "mistake".
- Jean-Luc outright tells Stella that to him, Star is nothing more than a free babysitter for Pierre when Alyssa is unavailable.
- After her crimes are revealed, Colette spitefully exposes Danny's secret identity in the hopes that he'll be experimented on or dissected, which fails.
- Colette insults Sam by calling her a disgrace to her family that they abandoned in all but name. This earns her a slap in the face from Jazz.
- Knight of Cerebus: Colette reaches her worst in this story, even more than in “Empowered”, by framing Team Phantom for crimes they didn’t commit just to get them out of the way and threatening Danny into dating her by hiring criminals and blackmailing Kwan into helping her. Also, Colette’s abuse of Danny is NOT portrayed as comical or acceptable in any form since it only shows how much of a sociopathic monster she is for using emotional manipulation, threats, blackmail, and other outright illegal actions to force an innocent boy into a relationship he doesn’t want with a girl he utterly despises just for the sake of her wounded pride. Danny is completely miserable every second he’s with Colette, to the point even his enemies feel bad enough to help him.
- Know When to Fold 'Em:
- Dash refuses to go along with Colette's plans anymore because he has seemingly given up on wooing her and is trying to avoid getting into trouble again after the events of "Staged".
- Dash has also stopped trying to beat up Danny due to Colette's threats to blackmail him since he would rather not provoke her wrath and risk any retribution from Danny's most obsessed admirer and stalker, settling for simple shoves and insults towards his preferred bullying target when she isn't around.
- Puck accepts that Jazz isn’t interested in him when she reveals she’s already dating someone.
- After realizing the Beviers had no chance of winning Colette’s case, Jean-Luc and his legal team had Colette plead guilty so she’ll be punished by being banned from America, put on a restraining order against Team Phantom and their loved ones, and forced to go to Bludworth Academy in London.
- Lack of Empathy:
- When Stella tries to have a heart-to-heart with Colette, explaining she's only strict with her to guide her onto the right path and that she loves her stepdaughter as if she were her own, Colette feels nothing at her words and even has to stop herself from mockingly laughing, while internally insulting Stella for being a "fool" like the rest of her father's exes.
- This story confirms Colette only sees Suzette (to an extent), Stella, and her ex-stepmothers as a means to get money and gifts, as she freely manipulates them by feeding them lies and sob stories while rejecting their genuine affection and attempts to connect with her. She also doesn't care about how her father's cheating affects them, to the point of seeing her stepmothers as replaceable and supporting him leaving Giulia and now Stella just so they could move back to France for her own personal convenience. Colette even recruits Jean-Luc's latest paramour, Yolanda, for her scheme by bribing her with Stella's belongings and agreeing to help Yolanda marry her father.
- Colette makes it clear to Danny she doesn't care about ruining the lives of "peasants" like his friends, especially if it means getting her own way. She also sees little consequence in Danny's anger and upset over her criminal actions towards Team Phantom since all that matters to her is him following all her commands.
- Jean-Luc doesn't care about the trouble Team Phantom is in since as far as he's concerned, they're guilty and should just accept it. He even believes Stella is wasting money trying to prove her daughter's innocence and ignores her distress in favor of entertaining himself with Yolanda.
- Danny is disgusted and annoyed that Colette isn't the slightest bit concerned about him after his fake fight with Ember at the mall, since she ordered him away from his ghost battle and just complains about her ruined appearance and destroyed clothes.
- Jean-Luc reveals to Stella that he was well aware of the full extent of Colette’s horrible treatment of Star but didn’t care since he dismissed it as “childish pranks”.
- Laser-Guided Karma:
- Donovan gets fired for threatening Star and Danny, then is slapped by Vivian for getting her and Theodore fired as well for leaving work early to try to stop him.
- Instead of hitting Alicia, the Ghost Vultures' blasts cause thousands of dollars of property damage to Vlad's Colorado home when they bounce off the shield spell Puck cast on her.
- At the mall, Ember incinerates most of the boxes (likely containing clothes) Colette bought while she was forcing Danny to carry them during her shopping spree.
- Team Phantom get back at Yolanda for helping Colette ruin their lives and insulting Star's family by having Misty conjure a chimp hologram that trashes her home while they take back Stella's stolen belongings from her and wreck everything else themselves.
- Tucker puts malware in Yolanda's computer as payback for aiding Colette's scheme.
- When Dash threatens Kwan for leaving the A-Listers and breaking off their friendship, Kwan embarrasses him by revealing Dash’s teddy bear collection.
- The A-Listers (minus Kwan) and Sam’s parents are kicked out of Star’s birthday party by Star and Eleanor, respectively, because they weren’t invited and aren’t wanted there (Colette and Tucker, respectively, were the ones who invited them, not that the latter will admit it so he’ll let Colette take the heat for this too).
- After dropping her off at Bludworth Academy, Suzette confiscates the family heirloom necklace she gave to Colette as a child since her daughter doesn’t appreciate the sentimental value of it.
- After Colette’s crimes are exposed in the end, her father Jean-Luc and their family’s reputations are greatly damaged, which is fitting since his incompetent parenting is what made her the sociopath she is now.
- Late to the Realization:
- While Kwan is aware of Colette's unhealthy obsession with Danny, he only realizes just HOW unhinged she is when she blackmails him into helping her frame Team Phantom to get rid of them and threaten Danny into dating her.
- Jean-Luc makes it clear that Stella was the only one who didn’t notice how much of a brat Colette is or that her and Star were never going to get along because it was obvious from the beginning that they completely hated each other.
- Similar to Kwan, the A-Listers have become creeped out by Colette’s erratic behavior and unhealthy obsession with Danny enough not to help her anymore in her plans to take him from Star by “Golden”, along with kicking her out and turning her in to the cops if they learn she did something criminal to get Danny in this story. However, they don’t learn the full extent of her instability and fixation she is until she’s arrested for blackmailing Danny and framing Team Phantom.
- Lazy Bum: Team Phantom make it clear to the Foleys that Dash Baxter will become a washed-up loser after high school because he’s too lazy to even try to make a life for himself in the real world.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In chapter 30 when catching up with Team Phantom after Colette's defeat, Puck says he showed up "one or two chapters ago" according to Deadpool (who is known for Breaking the Fourth Wall), much to the other characters' confusion.
- Lesser of Two Evils:
- Star is willing to listen to Skulker when he sends them a message from Danny about Colette's schemes since she trusts the ghostly hunter more than Colette.
- Danny decides learning how to do Colette's nails is a better alternative to her kissing him.
- Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Sam prefers to forget about the incident where Ember made Danny fall in love with the former using her love song.
- A Lighter Shade of Black:
- According to Star, her maternal relatives can be snobs at times, even when they mean well, but are nowhere near as bad as Beatrice.
- Kwan is the least villainous antagonist in the story as he has no desire to hurt Team Phantom and only does so because of being blackmailed by Colette, in contrast to Cartland and Yolanda who willingly help the French Spoiled Brat for their own personal gain.
- Skulker and Ember join forces with Team Phantom to stop Colette because they hate her too much and are disgusted by her abusively possessive treatment of Danny.
- The A-Listers are popular Jerkass bullies that hate Team Phantom but they’ve become so creeped out by Colette’s growing unhealthy obsession with Danny that they’re terrified of the lengths she’s willing to go to just to get him, especially since they realize she crossed the line by stalking him all the way to New York to potentially kidnap and force him to be her boyfriend. They not only refuse to get further involved with Colette’s schemes regarding Team Phantom, but they’re seriously considering throwing her out of the A-Listers and even turning her over to the police if they find proof she’s resorted to criminal actions because they don’t want a crook in their clique.
- Vivian and Theodore are just as spoiled as Donovan, but they’re growing increasingly intolerant of his fixation with Star and Danny, not only because it’s what got them disowned and forced to work jobs by their families in the first place, but is getting them into even more trouble by repeatedly getting them fired, especially since Donovan stubbornly refuses to drop his feud with the couple no matter how much they try to talk sense into him.
- Danny admits in the end that as bad as Vlad is, he’s at least capable of guilt and reformation after visiting the timeline with Dark Danny. Meanwhile, Colette threw away every chance she had to change for the better despite having a loving family just because of her pride, entitlement, and selfishness, and chose to become a monster worse than any of his ghostly enemies.
- Like Parent, Like Child:
- Star notes that Stella inherited Richard's naïveté since both are incapable of recognizing others' faults, especially with their family members.
- Danny disdainfully lampshades this since Colette and Jean-Luc both love shamelessly hitting on people who are already taken.
- Like Mother, Unlike Daughter: Danny doesn't want to meet Colette's biological mother out of fear they're alike, while not knowing that it's the exact opposite with them.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Sam tells Jazz, Star, Valerie, and Misty about the time when Ember performed a love song that made Danny fall for the former, but she leaves out the part about her kissing Dash to break the spell because it grosses her out.
- Loners Are Freaks: Danny lampshades that Colette drives everyone away from herself with her repugnant personality.
- Loners Will Stay Alone: Danny points out to Colette that it’s her own fault she has no real friends because her toxic personality makes her too unbearable for even shallow snobs like the A-Listers to put up with anymore and he doesn’t even want to associate with her at all, so she has to blackmail him into spending time with her.
- Long List: Colette rolls out one of all her rules she expects Danny to follow to become a "proper gentleman worthy of [her]". Danny is shocked the list is even taller than she is.
- Lovable Coward: Kwan does feel bad for helping Colette frame Team Phantom but he’s too scared of getting into trouble since she’s threatening to take him down with her if he exposes her.
- Love Makes You Dumb:
- Everyone sees Stella as this for being unable or unwilling to accept that Jean-Luc and Colette are terrible people.
- Suzette refuses to accept that Colette is irredeemable despite all her crimes and clings to the naive belief that her daughter can be reformed at Bludworth Academy.
- Love Makes You Evil: Colette's extremely possessive treatment of Danny only showcases how much of a psychopathic monster she really is by putting an innocent boy through torment merely over being rejected by him. It becomes obvious to everyone that Colette never saw Danny as a person in any way, but simply a tool to ruin Star’s life with and a trophy she feels entitled to that she can do with as she pleases.
- Loving a Shadow:
- Jean-Luc only loves Colette for the “perfect daughter” he views her as, which is a spoiled snob who doesn’t mingle with lower classes much like himself, rather than the sociopathic Spoiled Brat she really is.
- Stella and Jean-Luc’s ex-wives only loved Colette for the sweet girl they thought she was and were horrified when they saw her for the sociopathic monster she actually is after Team Phantom exposes her crimes at Star’s birthday party, causing her stepmothers to disown her.
- In the end, Suzette wants to redeem Colette because she hopes the innocent little girl she once knew and loved is still inside her daughter, not realizing if that part of Colette was ever real, she has long since been gone.
- Jean-Luc’s ex-wives lament that they only ever loved him because they fell for his fake gentleman act and became disappointed when he revealed his true selfish, sleazy colors after marrying him.
- Lust Makes You Dumb:
- Colette lampshades that all she needed to do was bat her eyelashes and talk to Kwan for a few minutes to completely wrap him around her finger and steal him from Star.
- Jean-Luc is easily taken in by Yolanda’s beauty and she uses it to her advantage by manipulating him into satisfying her materialistic needs. She reveals she’s done this to plenty of other men. "Yolanda" is also able to seduce Jean-Luc as "Iris" while ensuring he doesn't find out they're the same person.
- Mad Love: Colette's fixation with Danny has become so bad, she's even thought of names for the children she wants to have with him; Jean-Paul, Marie Colette, and Claudette.
- Malicious Misnaming:
- Sam mockingly calls Ember "Ember McLame", which infuriates her.
- Team Phantom and Ember decide to call Colette “Psycholette” from now on as Tucker suggested because they find the nickname very appropriate.
- Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal: Gender-Inverted and deconstructed with Jean-Luc. While his stubborn refusal to believe that Colette is guilty of the crimes she’s arrested for after Team Phantom expose her is partly motivated by paternal protectiveness, it’s also because of his refusal to take responsibility and inability to accept that there’s anything wrong with his daughter's behavior despite knowing she’s no angel, or that his incompetent parenting and serial marriages are the cause of her issues and all the trouble she makes.
- Manipulative Bastard: Colette’s former mothers regret ever being fooled by Jean-Luc’s fake charms when they learned the hard way how much of a horrible husband he is, right before divorcing him.
- Manipulative Bitch:
- Stella isn't the first woman that Colette has been this towards. She has a habit of manipulating her stepmoms into giving her whatever she wants by pretending to be a sweet, innocent girl while also pitting the women against each other and taking advantage of their resentment towards her father.
- Yolanda has sweet-talked plenty of rich men like Jean-Luc into giving her whatever she wants, and she plans to do the same thing to Colette by taking advantage of her delusional love for Danny and obsession with regaining her heiress status to end up as her father’s wealthy Trophy Wife.
- Marital Rape License: Alluded to as considering Colette wants to have kids with Danny and isn't giving him a say when it comes to being with her, this is what her plans to get pregnant amount to.
- Mask of Sanity:
- Jazz points out to everyone that Colette couldn’t have been stable to begin with since she developed a delusional, one-sided obsession with the first guy (Danny) who turned her down.
- After witnessing what an unstable yandere Colette truly is from her Villainous Breakdown, even Stella acknowledges that it wouldn’t have made a difference if she sent her stepdaughter away immediately after "Stuck" because Colette would’ve just found some other guy to obsess over like with Danny.
- The Matchmaker: Stella introduced her sister Jocelyn to her second husband Phillip.
- Minion with an F in Evil: Kwan reluctantly helps Colette steal Danny from Star when she blackmails him with his embarrassing secret since he originally refused to get involved of his own free will because he doesn't want to hurt Team Phantom.
- Mirror Character: Kwan and Colette become this to each other in this story. Both are A-Listers with a personal connection to Star and have an unrequited crush on someone that wants nothing to do with them (Star and Danny, respectively), but other than that, they couldn't be more different. Kwan is a Dumb Jock while Colette is a Brainy Brunette (though she dyes her hair red). Kwan is a football player while Colette hates sports. Kwan is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold Token Good Teammate to the A-Listers while Colette is the sociopathic Alpha Bitch Token Evil Teammate to them. Kwan genuinely cares about Star even if he wasn’t a good boyfriend to her, doesn't want to force her into a relationship, has accepted her relationship with Danny since it makes her happy, and eventually understands that she’s not interested in him while Colette only regards Danny as a trophy that she's become increasingly obsessed with claiming to the point of using blackmail and wanting to destroy his relationship with Star out of pure spite.
- Misplaced Retribution:
- Subverted. When the former rich brats get fired from Sunkin' Donuts after Donovan harasses Star and Danny, Vivian protests that Donovan was the only one threatening them, but the manager retorts that she and Theodore left work before their shifts ended and are incompetent at pouring coffee.
- Colette would rather blame her mother and stepmothers for abandoning her by divorcing Jean-Luc instead of her father for driving them away in the first place.
- Mistaken for Cheating: Chris and Star’s extended family briefly think Danny is two-timing Star after seeing him with Colette, but they’re extremely suspicious because of how miserable he looks with the Spoiled Brat. It’s not until Team Phantom reveals the truth about Colette’s blackmailing scheme that they realize they were wrong about Danny.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Near the end, Kwan turns on Colette by helping Team Phantom expose her crimes after finally reaching his limit with her cruelty for treating him like Dumb Muscle and when he sees how miserable Danny is with her. He also quits the A-Listers at Star’s birthday party because he’ll no longer tolerate anyone treating him like a minion.
- The Mistress: Yolanda to Jean-Luc, a younger woman he has been seeing since shortly after relocating to Amity Park. Their affair has gone on long enough that Colette even knows Yolanda by name and how to get in touch with her. This turns out to be practically a living for her, as "Yolanda" is a professional Con Woman who's settled on Jean-Luc as a long-term target, to the point of becoming his mistress under two different aliases.
- Money Dumb:
- Team Phantom is baffled upon seeing just how much money Colette is blowing on her latest scheme.
- The Mansons are a downplayed case in comparison as Sam admits even her parents don't spend as much as Colette or Vlad and even put a cap on her budget each month.
- Moral Myopia:
- Colette doesn’t tolerate Danny insulting her parents but freely insults his family whenever she wants.
- As far as Colette is concerned, her stealing Star's boyfriends and her father straying in his marriages are fine, but Danny rejecting her and her mother & stepmothers divorcing Jean-Luc are unforgivable.
- More than Mind Control: Ember admits to Team Phantom that her current power level, her love song won’t work on Colette because the latter already has to have romantic feelings for someone, but is only interested in Danny. Although Ember implies the love song could work if her power was boosted, not that Team Phantom will let that happen since they still don’t trust her.
- Motivational Kiss: Subverted. Colette gives one to Danny right before he goes to fight Skulker, but it only grosses him out since it comes from his most loathed Abhorrent Admirer, so he wipes his mouth clean as soon as he gets away from her.
- Motor Mouth: One reason Danny dreads Colette's phone calls is that she does NOT shut up since she incessantly flirts with and nags him.
- Murder Is the Best Solution:
- Vlad still wants to get out of his marriage by killing Alicia. He plans to have his ghost animals kill her while he's in Amity Park, creating an alibi.
- Subverted with Colette. When she decides to get Team Phantom out of Danny's life for good, Kwan worries she wants to kill them. However, Colette denies it and explains she's going to frame them for committing crimes at school and blackmail Danny to avoid them.
- Ember is open to the idea of killing Colette but Team Phantom are against it, both because they don't want her death on their conscience and having to fight her ghost would be a giant headache.
- Must Make Amends:
- Tucker's parents feel guilty for believing Dash's Blatant Lies about Team Phantom harassing him when he's actually the bully, so they strive to make it up to their son by helping Tucker and his allies prove their innocence and find out who's framing them.
- Kwan is motivated to fix his mistake because he acknowledges that Danny doesn’t deserve to be so miserable by being trapped in a relationship with Colette. Thus, he contacts Danny so they can work together to take Colette down for good, even if it means he'll be exposed too.
- Suzette and Colette’s former stepmoms promise to compensate the families of her victims as a way to make amends for unknowingly helping Colette carry out her plan. While Suzette writes them large checks, Eloise, Giulia, and Freja give Team Phantom's parents their numbers should they need anything in the future.
- My Greatest Failure:
- Played for Laughs. Danny admits to Colette that it was a mistake on his part to agree to meet her.
- Suzette regrets not fighting harder for custody of Colette after realizing she underestimated how much of a lousy parent and horrible influence Jean-Luc is to her.
- Colette’s former stepmothers do regret not being a more active and positive influence in her life even if they’re outraged at her for her despicable crimes.
- My God, What Have I Done?:
- After a talk with the Fentons, Damon admits he jumped to conclusions by believing flimsy evidence from an unknown source over his own daughter.
- Also, after learning Dash lied about Tucker and has in fact been bullying him and his friends, Maurice and Angela realize they overreacted and are regretful for believing the accusations against their son.
- Kwan feels terrible for putting Star and Danny through a horrible ordeal but is too scared of Colette exposing him to stop her.
- Star feels extremely guilty for ever having Danny meet her stepfamily since it just led to Colette becoming Team Phantom’s greatest enemy.
- After Jean-Luc calls her out on her naïveté for ignoring Colette being a Spoiled Brat and Big Sister Bully all these years, Stella feels guilty for turning a blind eye to all of her stepdaughter's cruel behavior and taking her word over Star's because she deluded herself into believing she had the perfect, happy family that she always wanted.
- After Colette's Villainous Breakdown and Calling The Old Women Out following her exposure:
- Suzette Dumont realizes she was a terrible mother for not prioritizing her daughter over her charity work since her negligence and gullibility, combined with Jean-Luc's corruptive parenting, led to Colette growing up to be an even worse person than her Hate Sink father who doesn't have any real love for her own family and is out to destroy a bunch of innocent teenagers.
- Colette's mother and stepmothers all admit they contributed to Colette becoming a monster by enabling her spoiled, selfish, and entitled attitude through being Pushover Parents who always bought her lies and catered to her every whim while not properly raising or being a positive influence on her.
- After Team Phantom reveals to the adults the full scale of Colette’s crimes against them, Stella feels even more guilty that she ended up hurting them by being so blind and willfully ignorant of all the signs of Colette’s increasingly unstable behavior.
- Mythology Gag:
- Ember mentions the Unworld from one of Flower princess11’s other Danny Phantom works, Unshattered Bonds, when she contemplates sending Colette there.
- Puck has become friends with Deadpool, the "merc with a mouth" and a fixture in the The Many Dates of Danny Fenton stories.
- Narcissist: Star, Sam, and Tucker are repulsed by the many self-portraits Colette commissioned for her birthday party, with Sam and Tucker considering her a worse egomaniac than Paulina and Pariah Dark. Sam later notes that Colette is too shallow to love anyone but her own reflection. "And even then, she'd probably pick a fight with it over who is prettier."
- National Stereotypes: Danny calls Colette the reason for all stereotypes about French people being snooty jerks.
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Nausea Fuel:- Danny can barely keep his lunch down when Colette reveals she’d name their son Jean-Paul since just the thought of even having sex with her makes him sick to his stomach, but the idea of having a kid with her makes him nauseous. The thought of going on a date with Colette also makes Danny sicker than eating one of his Aunt Alicia's baked possums.
- Team Phantom find it traumatizing that Colette keeps doctored photos of her marrying Danny.
- The thought of Colette being Vlad Junior makes Danny queasy, which isn't helped by having to put up with her kisses.
- Neither Jazz nor Danny can stomach Colette's fake concerned girlfriend act, especially when she uses a cutesy voice.
- Star can barely keep her barf down when Colette details how she’s going to have Danny live the same lifestyle as her then take him on a trip around the world where they’ll destroy anyone who interferes with their “perfect” lives and a nanny will take care of their children when she’s too busy.
- Never My Fault:
- Colette is caught spying on Danny and Star and says it's Star's fault she "almost got in trouble again".
- Donovan as always blames Star and Danny for his predicament as well as Sam and Colette for refusing his marriage proposals. He continues to blame Star and Danny for the punishment his father gave him over his atrocious actions.
- Skulker plans to hunt Tucker first out of all of Danny's friends because he blames Tucker for all the time he wasted researching purple-back gorillas, even though Tucker points out it's not his fault Skulker stole his PDA.
- A rare downplayed and sympathetic example with Kwan, as while he acknowledges that Danny wouldn’t have met Colette if he wasn’t dating Star, he quickly realizes he’s just trying to alleviate his own guilt since he’s fully aware it’s partly his fault Team Phantom is in this mess due to him helping Colette. Thus, he snaps out of it and becomes dedicated to foiling Colette’s plans in order to save Team Phantom.
- As far as Colette is concerned, it's Star's fault she's ruining her life for denying Colette what she wants and Danny's fault she's blackmailing him into dating her for "playing too hard to get".
- When Danny points out to Colette she’s Hated by All (especially by him) on account of her despicable personality, she naturally refuses to take responsibility for anything.
- Jean-Luc blames Star, Danny, and Team Phantom's "bad influence" for being the cause of Colette's troublesome behavior instead of his own abysmal parenting.
- Downplayed with Vivian and Theodore. They’re right that Donovan’s obsession with Star is what led to them getting cut off and forced to work menial jobs by their families, but the pair ignore that they only got in trouble because they chose to help him harass Star and Danny of their own accord.
- Colette sees Star and Team Phantom as obstacles in her goal of being with Danny despite him making it crystal clear he wouldn't have anything to do with someone as awful as her even if his loved ones weren't in his life.
- During her Villainous Breakdown, Colette once again yells that it's Star's fault her plan failed and Danny "betrayed" her.
- Team Phantom, especially Jazz, are disgusted at Colette trying to guilt-trip and blame her maternal figures for her own despicable actions.
- Nerds Are Sexy: Colette drools over the photo of Danny running in gym class, as she's drawn to his defined figure underneath.
- Nerves of Steel: Even after Danny takes her on a terrifying ride through Amity Park, destroys a bunch of her clothes, and freezes her hair extensions, Colette still refuses to give up the evidence of his secret identity or that his friends were framed.
- Nice Guy:
- Damon Grey admits he liked it when Danny dated his daughter and the Fentons eventually get him to realize he was quick to jump to conclusions when he believed the photos that incriminated his daughter.
- Peter Tsaava is very helpful to Team Phantom when they go to play a "prank" on Cartland in his family's building, both because he sympathizes with them after learning what Cartland did to them, and Peter hates Cartland for being a total jerk to him and his family.
- Unlike Sam, Tucker never really hated Star even when she was a Beta Bitch A-Lister.
- Christopher doesn't hesitate to step in to help Team Phantom save Danny from Colette.
- Nice Girl: Suzette, Eloise, Freja, and Giulia are all kindhearted and benevolent women who genuinely love and care for Colette.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!:
- Colette blackmailing Kwan into helping her destroy Team Phantom (as well as her cruel treatment of them and him in general) eventually gives him the push he needs to help Star and Danny take her down for good, then quit the A-Listers when he finally has enough of being treated like a lackey.
- "Villain" is a stretch but Jean-Luc's apathy towards problems that aren't his own means he has no qualms revealing to Stella the full extent of how Colette has manipulated her and harassed Star over the years, and was never the innocent girl she believed her to be. As a result, Stella finally begins shaking off her denial, which makes it easier for her to accept the revelation of Colette's actions at Star's birthday party no matter how much her stepdaughter tries to lie her way out. Colette is even furious that her father's overly uncaring nature is causing her problems right now.
- No Accounting for Taste:
- Even Colette wonders why her parents — a compassionate, dedicated philanthropist who's made it her life's mission to help people, and a snobby, philandering vineyard owner who looks down on the lower classes and dislikes charity — got together in the first place. Her mother mentions it was because they came from similarly elite backgrounds, which she admits was a mistake.
- Theodore has a crush on Colette no matter how much of a bitch she is to him and his friends.
- It baffles Star on how her mother Stella left her and Johnathan for a pompous slimeball like Jean-Luc Bevier, who can't even bother to be faithful to her, when Team Phantom hear him coming home with one of his mistresses.
- Danny makes it clear to Colette she has this because, despite her claims, she has no standards when it comes to men. She knew Kwan was a Dumb Jock but still went out with him while he was dating her stepsister to spite Star by stealing her boyfriend, and would even go out with boorish jerkasses like Dash Baxter and Donovan Loadman despite her professed hatred of them as long as they were dating Star because Colette can't stand anyone liking her stepsister more than her. Danny is also well aware Colette wouldn't be giving him the time of day if he didn't know Star.
- Colette's former stepmothers wonder why they ever married a terrible man like Jean-Luc.
- Noble Demon: Skulker is willing to help Danny and Team Phantom deal with Colette as long as he can continue his uninterrupted hunt.
- Nobody Touches the Hair: Colette doesn't appreciate Danny freezing her hair extensions.
- No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: Skulker hates Colette with a passion but considers her too weak to be worth hunting.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished:
- Star is beginning to regard her decision to bring Danny to meet her mom in "Lost" as a mistake despite all the good it's done since it led to Colette turning into a sociopathic yandere determined to ruin Team Phantom's lives just to make Danny hers.
- Star and Kwan wonder if Danny’s devotion to Star is really a good thing since it led to him meeting Colette, who become a MUCH worse thorn in his side than any of his other enemies because his rejection of her caused her to become unhinged over being told “no” by a guy for the first time in her life.
- No More for Me: When a Killer Robot Vlad sends after Alicia starts dancing, she's so confused that she dumps her special brew.Alicia: That's it, no more working out while drinking meemaw's special brew again...
- Non-Idle Rich: Sam makes it clear to her friends that she wants to do something with her life and not live off her family’s fortune like her parents.
- No Sense of Personal Space: Colette is an even worse case of this towards Danny than usual while they'e "dating", as he does NOT enjoy Colette kissing him without permission since her touch makes him feel physically ill. She outright tells Danny and Jazz, "Love has no boundaries, Mon Amore. Certainly not true love like ours…", much to their fury and utter revulsion.
- No Social Skills: Danny makes it clear how hopeless Colette is at making friends by being such an unpleasant Alpha Bitch that she makes Paulina look like a Nice Girl in comparison and has to resort to forcing him into spending time with her because Colette knows that’s the only way she can get him to even associate with her.
- No Sympathy:
- Star says it's too bad Colette couldn't have stayed in the hospital for longer.
- Danny makes it crystal clear to Colette that he didn't care she was stuck in the hospital so he didn't bother to visit her or send a card.
- Colette doesn't care in the slightest that Donovan and his friends lost their status and are being forced to get jobs by their families. She wastes no time in mocking them for getting disinherited because of their own foolishness.
- When Colette blackmails him, Danny is willing to threaten her safety and destroy her personal possessions to force her to leave him and his friends alone.
- Misty doesn’t feel sorry for Sam having snobbish, Idle Rich parents since her family lives in a rundown neighborhood and was barely able to pay for groceries until recently. She changes her tune after getting an in-person look at the Mansons' behavior and strained relationship with Sam.
- Star makes it clear she’d pity any guy who marries Colette except Donovan Loadman.
- Except for Richard, none of Beatrice's family misses her while she's on "vacation" in Switzerland because they're sick of her abusive, Control Freak attitude and don't approve of the horrible way she treated Star in "Visited".
- No one at Star's birthday party feels bad for Colette when she gets hurt during the struggle to take her phone from her, especially not when Kwan knocks the phone out of her hands with a pineapple or Star causes her to slip into the buffet table.
- Team Phantom and their allies don’t pity Colette in the slightest for her strained relationship with her mother, Suzette, or her abandonment issues with her former stepmothers since her sociopathic levels of cruelty make her Beyond Redemption.
- Considering everything Colette put Team Phantom through, Jazz doesn’t sympathize with the evil Spoiled Brat in the slightest when she reveals her pent-up bitterness and resentment over being abandoned by her mother and stepmothers, pointing out that Colette put more effort into stalking and harassing innocent people who had nothing to do with her troubles instead of telling Suzette about her true feelings or attempting to spend more time with her mother.
- Jean-Luc isn’t sorry to send Colette to Bludworth Academy because all that matters to him is that they discipline her so she won’t keep embarrassing him with her insane behavior. He even leaves without saying goodbye to her.
- Not Blood, Not Family: Jean-Luc makes it clear to Stella that only Colette and Pierre are his children because he doesn't see Star as his daughter.
- Not Good with Rejection:
- Colette is this as per usual since she still won’t accept Danny’s utter lack of interest in her or his refusal to go to her 16th birthday party as her escort, and resorts to blackmailing him.
- Donovan swears vengeance on Sam and Colette for rejecting his marriage proposals because he finds it infuriating that they would refuse a Loadman.
- Downplayed with Jean-Luc, who Star overhears dismissing Alyssa as not a "proper nanny", which she suspects is only because Alyssa turned him down when he hit on her.
- Not Helping Your Case:
- Donovan Loadman’s stubborn refusal to let go of his petty vendetta with Star and Danny just gets him and his friends into further trouble with their families when they’re fired from Sunkin’ Donuts after the manager captures him threatening the couple.
- Colette only further proves her awful Spoiled Brat nature by insulting everyone, including her stepmothers and Pierre, during her Villainous Breakdown when Team Phantom exposes her crimes at Star’s birthday party.
- Nothing Personal: Kwan, Yolanda, and Cartland have nothing against Team Phantom and are only helping Colette conspire against them under the threat of blackmail (former) or promise of payment (latter two). Kwan is the most sympathetic because he's being forced to help Colette, is horrified by the full extent of her plan, and genuinely remorseful for ruining Team Phantom’s lives, unlike the other two who are completely apathetic to the consequences it will have.
- Not Me This Time:
- When Sam phones Danny about the frame-up she's a victim of, she says, "I didn't do it! ... at least, THIS time!".
- When Eleanor reveals Jeremy and Pamela's invitations were faked, she suggests Colette must have been responsible. It was actually Tucker so they could see Colette being exposed.
- Not So Above It All: While Sam usually advocates against petty revenge, even if it is justified, she can’t resist vandalizing Colette’s room by destroying her stuff and drawing graffiti on her pictures as both payback for framing Team Phantom and stress relief. Star joins her but they stop when Tucker reminds them of their mission to find evidence to clear their names and help Danny.
- "Not So Different" Remark:
- Danny questions if Colette is secretly related to Vlad since she's just as much of a fruitloop as him. Skulker also asks Team Phantom this since Colette's blackmail scheme is similar to what Vlad would do, "only without murder". Team Phantom wholeheartedly agrees.
- Team Phantom consider Yolanda just as greedy and shallow as Paulina but with much worse taste in decor.
- Danny and Star are wishing that Jean-Luc let Donovan marry Colette because they’re so equally rotten, it’s like they were made for each other.
- Star considers Colette even more stubborn and delusional than her mom Stella in that they both refuse to accept that the guy they’re interested in doesn’t love them.
- Star acknowledges that what Colette is doing to Danny and is exactly what Beatrice tried to do with her and Donovan Loadman in “Visited”: force him into a toxic relationship he doesn’t want with an abusive Spoiled Brat he completely hates. Also, Colette's obsession with forcefully changing Danny into her ideal boyfriend is the same as Beatrice’s fixation on trying to turn Star into her dress-up doll that meets her elitist standards. Danny even admits to Star that Colette is just as demanding, spoiled, overbearing, and impossible to please as Beatrice, finding it surprising that they’re not related by blood.
- As far as Star’s concerned, Colette and the A-Listers deserve each other since they’re both irredeemable jerks.
- Danny notes the only thing Suzette has in common with her daughter is that they're both too stubborn to take “no” for an answer because Suzette won’t let Team Phantom's families refuse her checks as an apology for everything Colette put their kids through.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Colette frames Team Phantom to get them out of Danny's life and blackmails him into dating her, eventually planning to use his ghost powers to rule over others.
- Not So Similar:
- Team Phantom admit that while Paulina and Jean-Luc are also horrible rich snobs, they’re ultimately just stuck-up jerks while Colette is truly evil.
- Near the end, Danny acknowledges that despite their many similarities, Vlad and Colette are not the same since Vlad’s future self proved he is capable of redemption and genuine remorse after seeing the errors of his ways, while Colette remained unrepentantly evil to the bitter end despite being given many opportunities to change for the better.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Jean-Luc apparently thought Stella was doing this in regards to the fierce tension between Star and Colette. He is surprised to learn that she genuinely believed all of Colette's lies.
- Oblivious Guilt Slinging: While eating lunch at Nasty Burger with the A-List, a remorseful Kwan feels even worse about helping Colette when he listens to the group's speculations that she might have done something despicable to make Danny go out with her while abandoning Star and his friends, and consider kicking her out of the A-List if that is the case because they don’t want to associate with a criminal. Kwan even has a panic attack in the bathroom from his fear of getting ostracized by the popular kids if they discover his involvement in Colette’s crimes. Plus, he realizes that even if he managed to get back together with Star, he’d never enjoy how it happened since if he doesn’t tell the truth, then Star will be miserable forever but if he does tell the truth, she’ll hate him forever, though probably not as much as he already hates himself.
- Oblivious to Hatred:
- Colette still can’t get it through her thick skull that Danny loathes her to the core, even when he bluntly tells her to her face that he wants her out of his life for good.
- Alicia still isn’t aware that Vlad is completely repulsed by her and wants to permanently get rid of her.
- Oblivious to Love:
- Sam isn’t aware of Chris’ feelings for her. Even Team Phantom can tell he likes her as more than just a friend.
- Johnathan is unaware of Stella seemingly rediscovering her old feelings for him.
- Misty doesn't notice that Peter Tsaava likes her.
- Obliviously Evil: Colette calls Kwan out for believing he's innocent despite being a bully, and reminds him that his partaking in the A-Listers' cruelty won't make anyone believe he was forced into helping her. He realizes she has a point. Also, Kwan never understood until recently how much he hurt Star by being a lousy boyfriend and abruptly leaving her for Colette.
- Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: While only a teenager, Colette's already just as bad if not worse than Beatrice Traville in this department and proves it in this story. She demands Danny become her boyfriend and future husband regardless of his feelings on the matter, makes him stay away from his loved ones so he'll only listen to her, has no respect for his opinion or consent since she constantly orders him around and violates his personal space, expects him to wait on her hand and foot, snaps at him whenever he disobeys or displeases her, and uses threats to make him stay with her.
- Offended by an Inferior's Success:
- Colette is becoming increasingly unhinged over the fact that Danny prefers a "half-peasant" like Star over a Blue Blood like herself.
- Donovan can't understand why a middle-class boy like Danny is so popular with rich girls like Star, Sam, or Colette.
- Dash admits to the A-Listers that even though he lost interest in Colette, he'd still want to be her temporary boyfriend because his bruised ego can't stand that a girl prefers Danny over him.
- Offing the Annoyance: Played with. Danny is seriously considering getting Colette out of his life for good by tossing her into the Ghost Zone and leaving her at the mercy of his enemies, but ultimately can't bring himself to do it.
- Off to Boarding School:
- Jeremy and Pamela decide to send Sam to a boarding school in London after she's expelled from Casper High pending an investigation.
- Yolanda plans to send Colette to a boarding school once she marries Jean-Luc. Stella even mentions she and Jean-Luc are looking into boarding schools to deter Colette from her stalkerish attitude towards Danny.
- In the end, Colette is sent to Bludworth Academy, a strict reform school for juvenile delinquents in London.
- Oh, Crap!: Colette runs away when she gets caught by a cop while spying on Danny and Star.
- Old Shame:
- Kwan is deeply ashamed of himself for leaving Star for Colette just because of the latter's looks back when they first met after realizing how truly contemptible she is.
- Star deeply regrets ever befriending the A-Listers or dating Kwan after realizing that they never really cared about her since they were indifferent (at best) to her problems, to the point that Sam was more of a true friend to her despite not even liking Star at first.
- The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: Colette only cares about Pierre for taking care of the Bevier family's wine business in her stead.
- Only in It for the Money:
- Cartland is willing to ruin the lives of innocent teenagers for the ten grand Colette promised him.
- Skulker informs Team Phantom that he only works for Vlad for money and won't say anything to him about their problem with Colette because he's bitter over not being paid yet for his last job, so he figures he doesn't owe Vlad anything.
- Only Sane Man:
- Theodore reminds Vivian and Donovan that they need to take their jobs seriously (or at least appear to) in order to avoid getting fired again and reminds Donovan that he'll get in trouble for violating the restraining order by harassing Star and Danny.
- The Fentons, Georgia, and Star's parents are the only ones who realize that Team Phantom is being framed since their "crimes" are based on flimsy evidence and completely unlike them; for example, Star's parents are rich so she doesn't need to steal money and Jazz is a model student.
- Kwan is the only one of the conspirators framing Team Phantom who's fully aware and fearful of the ethical ramifications of their actions, while Colette, Yolanda, and Cartland don't care because they're motivated by their own selfish desires.
- While Tucker hates Colette as much as the rest of Team Phantom, he keeps them on track by pointing out that while hurting her would be satisfying, it won't absolve them of the crimes she framed them for. Later, he reminds Star and Sam to focus on searching Colette’s room for evidence rather than destroying her stuff.
- Opposites Attract:
- Ida and Mordecai's relationship started in a way she describes as such.
- Jean-Luc and his first wife Suzette Dumont, which didn't last.
- Ordered Apology: After her crimes are revealed, Colette's biological mother Suzette and her stepmothers all order her to apologize to Team Phantom. Colette absolutely refuses to do so.
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- Papa Wolf:
- After dealing with Donovan at Sunkin' Donuts, Star makes it clear to Danny that the creep Toadman will be dealing with her father if he bothers them again, but for now, she'll just send a message to Reginald so he can deal with his bratty son.
- Colette threatens Donovan and his friends into staying away from her by telling them that if they don't leave her alone, then she'll have her father hire an even better lawyer than Star's dad to deal with them.
- Damon Grey vows to get payback on the guy who gave Valerie her ghost-hunting equipment.
- Liam cut ties with Beatrice after how she mistreated Star in "Visited" and even warned his sisters so their mother couldn't do the same thing to their children.
- Deconstructed with Jean-Luc, who only enables Colette’s horrible behavior by disregarding her cruel actions, blaming her victims for them, and trying to protect her from the consequences of her own poor choices.
- Parental Obliviousness:
- Colette's mother and ex-stepmothers are completely unaware of just how rotten she truly is because Colette takes care to maintain an angelic facade in front of them and ensure they don't find out what she's done in Amity Park.
- Maurice and Angela didn't know that Dash was bullying their son until the Fentons and Team Phantom told them. They are ashamed for believing Dash's Blatant Lies since it means they had such a low opinion of their son that they'd think Tucker would act like that, and were too oblivious to pay more attention to the bruises Dash gave Tucker when he came home.
- Joan Baxter apparently doesn’t know that her son Dash is a Jerk Jock bully at school, as she easily believes Team Phantom are the ones causing him trouble.
- Due to Stella dealing with Team Phantom's legal troubles and Jean-Luc focusing on spending time with Yolanda, neither of them know that Danny is now "dating" Colette under blackmail since Jean-Luc describes him as his stepdaughter's boyfriend, which is what clues Team Phantom that he's not involved with his daughter's scheme.
- Parent-Preferred Suitor:
- Ida admits she would've preferred if her son had married the nice pharmacist girl Lorelai she tried to set him up with instead of Pamela.
- It's mentioned Suzette's parents introduced her to Jean-Luc. She later confesses that they pressured her into marrying him because Jean-Luc was a fellow wealthy aristocrat.
- Parents as People: Suzette truly loves her daughter Colette but doesn't spend much time with the latter due to her charity work and sudden weather complicating her travels, which she tries to make up for by spoiling her daughter. Unfortunately, this leaves her oblivious to Colette's troublesome behavior, and how Suzette is unwittingly contributing to it.
- Parents Suck at Matchmaking: Suzette admits that part of the reason she got together with Jean-Luc is because her parents pressured her into marrying someone of the same status as their family. She deeply regrets ever listening to them since Jean-Luc showed her his true rotten colors after they married.
- Parental Substitute: Sam is closer to her grandmother Ida than her parents.
- Pathetically Weak: Jeremy Manson is unable to budge Jack when he tries pushing him.
- Peer-Pressured Bully: Colette insults Kwan as "a good attack dog for whoever holds [his] leash". She also uses this against him by pointing out that given Kwan's tendency of always going along with his friends' bullying, it won't be hard for people to believe he willingly helped her due to being too weak-minded to say no.
- Percussive Therapy: Star and Sam take their frustrations out on Colette’s stuff when they investigate her room for clues. They destroy/vandalize Colette's self-portraits for her birthday party along with her stuffed animals, clothes, lamps, and other possessions.
- Pet the Dog:
- Puck uses his magic to protect Alicia from Vlad's attempts to kill her.
- While manipulating her mother, Colette sincerely notes that she is much more understanding than her father.
- Star doesn’t have the best opinion of her stuck-up relatives from her mom’s side of the family but she’s willing to invite them to her birthday party since it’s only for one night and they’re nowhere near as awful as Beatrice or the Beviers.
- Colette defends Danny to Donovan by proudly stating that the Loadman brat isn't even 1/10 of the man Danny is.
- Part of the reason Kwan refuses to help Colette is because he’s glad Star is happy with Danny and doesn’t bear any ill-will towards Team Phantom.
- Star defends Tucker from his parents' accusations of harassing her in the past by making it clear he’d never do that.
- Georgia reveals to the Foleys that Star has apologized profusely for attacking Tucker twice during her A-Lister days.
- Misty agrees to help Team Phantom because she doesn't want Danny to be miserable by being stuck with someone as irredeemably awful as Colette.
- While Star still doesn't like Misty, she trusts her enough not to consider Misty a bad guy anymore and doesn't believe she'd frame Team Phantom.
- Stella uses all her legal connections to try to help Team Phantom prove their innocence.
- Skulker sends Danny's warning to his friends about Colette's plans. However, he insists it's just a one-time thing and all he cares about is hunting Danny uninterrupted.
- Chris agrees to help Team Phantom deal with Colette by tailing her and Danny to get information.
- Ember forms a truce with Team Phantom to get rid of Colette partly because she can’t stand how depressed Danny is from being with the French brat.
- Kwan does appreciate Sam and Tucker hanging out with him despite not liking him while he was temporarily expelled from the A-Listers when Danny was dating Paulina.
- The A-Listers pity anyone who ends up dating someone as horrible as Colette, including Danny.
- Star offers to have her dad give Sam legal aid should she need it to deal with her parents.
- Misty offers to Star to make Stella something in her favorite color purple to make up for her being married to a shameless cheater like Jean-Luc.
- While raiding Yolanda's apartment, Star takes back all of her mother's belongings that Colette stole to pay off Yolanda with.
- Team Phantom assures Star that they don’t blame her for their situation since she couldn’t have predicted that Colette would turn into a such a dangerous yandere upon meeting Danny. Also, none of the team or even Misty takes up Star's offer to hit her in retaliation for Colette ruining their lives and even stop Ember when she considers it.
- It's revealed Colette threatened to blackmail Dash if he physically hurt Danny again, perhaps the closest to a decent thing she's ever done for the latter.
- Stella defends Danny's aunt Alicia when Jean-Luc insults her looks as "plain" since Alicia at least tried to help her with her Beatrice situation in "Visited".
- Sorta. Jean-Luc will let Colette marry whoever she wants as along as she doesn't tarnish their family's proud name and image.
- Puck covertly helps Team Phantom with their Colette situation without even being asked.
- At Star's stolen birthday party, Sam apologizes to Star for ever hating her, even when she was in the A-List, since she's a FAR better person than Colette and doesn't deserve to be related to someone as awful as her or Beatrice.
- Chris is helping Team Phantom because despite the incident with Danny punching his nose in "Staged", he doesn't feel Danny deserves to be Colette's personal slave.
- Stella's relatives utterly despise Jean-Luc Bevier, but adore his infant son Pierre.
- Stella's relatives are willing to give Danny a chance since Richard vouches for his good character after he defended Star from Donovan in "Visited".
- After seeing how embarrassing and supercilious Sam's parents are when they argue with Team Phantom's parents at Star's birthday party, Misty apologizes to Sam for dismissing her problems with her family, even though Sam concedes she had a point.
- Kwan promises to delete the video Colette has on Danny, that she's using to blackmail him, without even looking at it. He also promises to hand over the box of incriminating evidence that Colette gave him without looking at it.
- Despite being a rather neglectful mother, Suzette did take the time to attend (what she thought was) Colette's sweet 16 birthday party. Colette's former stepmothers also took the time to travel all the way to Amity Park to celebrate her birthday after they received last-minute invitations.
- Stella was originally going to give Colette tickets to Paris, France as her birthday gift because of her homesickness so she could travel there with her friends, until she saw the reprehensible person her stepdaughter truly is. As part of Colette's punishment, Stella decides to give the tickets to Team Phantom instead, even agreeing to help the kids exchange them for some other destination if they don’t want to go to Paris.
- Jean-Luc comforts Colette after she breaks down crying from Calling the Old Woman Out with her mother and stepmothers.
- Chief Boyle has nothing but sympathy for Danny over everything Colette put him through, and offers to add Colette forcing him to give her pedicures to the blackmail charges against her on Danny's behalf.
- Star and Team Phantom apologize to Suzette for all the insults they, especially Star over the years, mentally made about her. Suzette assures them she doesn’t hold it against them.
- While wanting to compensate Colette's victims, Suzette, Eloise, Freja, and Giulia also hope to get to know the real Star instead of the false image Colette fed them all this time.
- Nobody blames Jean-Luc’s former wives for Colette’s crimes since she made her own choices and Jean-Luc’s lousy parenting is the primary cause of her awful behavior.
- Stella’s loved ones try to comfort her at Star’s birthday party while she’s blaming herself and struggling with the revelation of Colette’s crimes.
- Eleanor promises not to charge Stella for any of the damages Colette did to her country club during Star’s birthday party (partly because she’s planning on sending the bill to Jean-Luc).
- Star invites Misty to stay at her birthday party as thanks for all her help and even introduces her as a friend to the adults.
- Ever after being thrown out of Star’s birthday party by security, Paulina admits she's glad Colette's plan was foiled and that Danny won't be stuck for life with an obsessed lunatic.
- Puck helps improve Star’s birthday party by restoring the original decorations.
- Kwan and Stella’s family respect Danny for being willing to put up with Colette to protect Star.
- Before leaving, Ember sincerely wishes Star a happy birthday.
- As a token of mercy, Danny's rogues gallery decide not to attack Amity Park for a week in order to give Team Phantom a break after Colette is dealt with.
- Yolanda brings Colette a fancy gourmet meal to eat when she infiltrates Bludworth Academy as a guard.
- Yolanda comforts Colette in Bludworth Academy by pointing out her father hasn't abandoned her because Jean-Luc would've disinherited her by now if that were the case, and gives Colette advice on how to get back into his good graces by faking reforming.
- The Pig-Pen: Team Phantom are disgusted by how messy Cartland's apartment is when they sneak in. Puck even uses a gas mask while investigating himself.
- Playing Hard to Get: Colette is convinced Danny is doing this when he uses his powers to try to scare her into leaving him and his friends alone after she reveals her plan. Later, she insists to Star that Danny is just "playing coy" about his love for her, and even claims to Danny that him "playing too hard to get" is why she has to resort to blackmailing him.
- Playing the Victim Card:
- Dash lied to his mom about Team Phantom harassing him instead of it being the other way around with him bullying them.
- It nauseates Team Phantom when they find out how delusional Colette is after Star reads her stepsister's diary entry about how she thinks she's doing Danny a favor by using extremely underhanded means to steal him from his girlfriend despite Danny making it abundantly clear he hates her.
- Being the narcissist she is, Colette always sees herself as the victim and never realizes when she’s in the wrong. She is devastated when her birth parents, especially her father, "abandon" her like everyone else, without considering that she drove them to lose their trust in her in the first place.
- Politically Incorrect Villain:
- Colette dismisses people who depend on charity as lazy. She also believes mental health is a problem for poor people and she is above such things.
- Danny lampshades how he's been dealing with a lot of annoying elitist snobs who can't comprehend that there's no such thing as "peasants" anymore lately.
- Powerful and Helpless: For all Danny's powers, he can't force or intimidate Colette into calling off her evil plan, especially since Colette knows (or at least is willing to risk) that he doesn't have it in him to permanently get rid of her regardless of his utter hatred for her so his bluffs aren't enough to make her back off. He has to rely on his friends to get them all out of this mess since he can't do anything (except secretly convince Skulker to send a warning to Team Phantom) while being Colette's slave because she's keeping him on a really short leash.
- The Power of Friendship: Team Phantom realize that one advantage they have over Colette is each other since Colette doesn’t value or even understand friendship as she only has minions who will abandon her when her money is gone. Ember actually agrees with them on the concept since she has Kitty for a friend.
- Pragmatic Hero: Part of the reason Team Phantom won't kill Colette is because having to deal with her ghost for eternity would be a nightmare after they experienced how much worse she became with ghost powers in "Empowered".
- Pragmatic Villainy:
- Colette pays Cartland and Yolanda for helping her frame Team Phantom since it motivates them to do a good job and keeps their silence.
- Colette will keep Danny's superhero identity a secret and not cause his friends any more trouble as long as he does whatever she says.
- Skulker prefers to hunt without any interference or complications, so he'll help Danny and Team Phantom get rid of Colette.
- Colette lets Danny go home to avoid missing his curfew because he legally has to listen to his parents as long as he lives under their roof and she doesn't want to risk becoming collateral damage if the Fentons go on the warpath assuming their son was captured by ghosts.
- Ember refrains from killing Colette because Team Phantom warned her that she may return as a ghost and nobody wants to deal with a superpowered Colette (well, not again in Team Phantom’s case).
- Misty mentions to Team Phantom that Wufong warned her against messing with a creature as dangerous as a fae, and acknowledges he was right.
- Colette explicitly considers her new partnership with Yolanda to be nothing more than "an alliance of convenience" since the woman is her best chance at getting out of Bludworth as soon as possible and regaining her old life.
- The Precious, Precious Car: While fake-fighting Misty’s copy of Danny Phantom, Ember ends up destroying the car Jean-Luc bought Colette for her birthday, much to her horror and Team Phantom’s amusement.
- Pride Before a Fall: Colette Bevier smugly believes that she has finally won against Star.
- To go into detail, Colette discovers Danny's secret identity as Danny Phantom and uses this information to successfully blackmail him into breaking up with Star and being HER boyfriend. Danny initially tried to refuse and intimidate her into backing off, but failed due to Colette's sheer stubbornness and because she knew that he wouldn't seriously hurt her. Reluctantly, Danny publicly breaks up with Star to Colette's cruel satisfaction, who enjoys Star's humiliation and pain. To add insult to injury, Colette also successfully framed Danny's sister Jazz, two best friends Sam and Tucker, and Star for crimes that would get them expelled/suspended from school and threatens Danny that she will frame them for worse stuff if he refuses to go along with her orders.
- Also, Colette believes that her father's marriage to her current stepmother Stella is going to end soon, having never cared for that woman and believing that Stella outgrew her usefulness after playing the part of a loving stepdaughter to her for over four years she's happy never to see Stella again as she plans on returning to Paris with her father and Danny so she can mold him into her perfect version of a husband.
- In her last act of petty spite, she blackmailed Star into taking her birthday party for herself and revealed to Star that she never had a reason to be a bully to her and that this was just a competition and fun for her. But unknown to Colette, her plan was falling apart.
- First, Danny's friends and sister, along with Star, were working hard to stop her plan; they even teamed up with Danny's ghost enemies and an enemy turn ally, a sorcerer who all hate Colette and, despite technically being villains are disgusted by her vile actions. Together, they discover most of Colette's blackmail material and crimes and clear their names at school. Finally, at Colette's birthday party, where she is on cloud nine because of how she won, things begin to unravel and destroy her.
- Second Star, parents, and family are shocked that the party is for Colette and are more shocked when she presents Danny as her boyfriend, causing them to become suspicious. Finally, when Colette tells Danny to show everyone how he feels about her, Danny spits in her face in front of everyone. This causes Colette to go into an angry rant about her plans, but unknown to her, Kwan, who she blackmailed to help, is sick of her behavior and wants to help Danny and Star put a microphone into her purse, which causes everyone to hear her crimes, including Stella, her former stepmother's, and her biological mother, Suzette Dumont. And then she found that her blackmail material was gone because Tucker had secretly destroyed it with his PDA. What little of her reputation was left among the public, who have all seen her as psycho for her obsession with Danny but believed was a harmless brat, was destroyed as everyone was disgusted with her crimes, and she lost the love, respect, and influence she had on her stepmother and biological mother. Realizing how badly she is in the situation, Colette attempts to run from the country club and a party, but because she stole the party from Star, Star's loved ones are able to stop her from escaping, and she is now forced to face the consequences of her actions.
- Produce Pelting: Pierre throws a piece of fruit, cake, and mashed potatoes (secretly supplied by Puck) at Colette's face as she's cornered.
- Properly Paranoid:
- Puck keeps tabs on Vlad at all times.
- Team Phantom understandably dreads Colette’s release from the hospital. However, they severely underestimate just how horrible things will become with her back since she resorts to even more underhanded means to get Danny by blackmailing him and ruining his friends' lives by framing them.
- Team Phantom and their allies remain suspicious of Colette despite her supposedly having an "airtight" alibi.
- Chris thinks something is off when he spots Danny and Colette eating together at the steakhouse and eavesdrops on them. His fears are confirmed when he hears Danny say how Colette is threatening to ruin the lives of him and the people he cares about, so Chris tape-records their conversations and hands it to Team Phantom to help them save Danny from Colette since Danny clearly doesn’t enjoy being forced to go along with her nastiness.
- Colette’s increasingly out-of-control behavior and disturbing obsession with Danny has left the A-Listers rightfully scared of what she might do to get him, especially after her antics in “Traveled”. This fear only grows after Dale spots Danny and Colette going out since even the A-Listers know that Danny is too loyal to Team Phantom to ever abandon them, especially not for Colette who he never showed any interest in for the past six months. They correctly guess that Colette did something criminal to make him date her so they agree to kick her out of the group and even turn her over to the police if they get proof that she broke the law because they don’t want to be connected to a felon.
- Misty, Jazz, and Valerie go to the mall to keep an eye on Colette while wearing disguises Misty created for them with her magic to prevent themselves from being recognized so they can make sure Colette doesn’t return home before Star, Sam, and Tucker finish searching her room for any evidence of her crimes, their innocence, and the blackmail she has on them and Danny.
- Part of the reason why Team Phantom refrains from killing Colette is because they don't want to make enemies of her ghostly self again after what happened in "Empowered".
- After receiving a text message from Star that she's turning over her birthday party to Colette, Stella is immediately suspicious since Star made it clear she wanted nothing to do with Colette to the point of refusing to visit her in the hospital or have her stepsister at her birthday. Stella figures out that none of what was written in the text is what Star would actually want and is horrified at the thought of Colette of being the cause of it since she's one of the few people who can get to Star like this.
- Proud Beauty:
- Colette is very much this. Her ego can't handle the fact that Danny Phantom and Johnny 13 have no interest in her since, as far as she's concerned, any guy would be lucky to date her, and she even outright calls herself “zhe the most beautiful woman in zhe world”.
- Yolanda is attractive and not afraid to flaunt it, even in front of Colette.
- Psychological Projection: Colette's fabricated complaints to her mother about her home life are the exact inverse of her real relationships with her father, Stella, Star, and Danny, twisted to make herself the victim.
- Psychopathic Womanchild: Danny calls Colette out on her immaturity for acting like a spoiled toddler when she doesn’t get what she wants since she’s been a stalker to him just because he rejected her. He even compares Colette to Vlad.Danny: You're just like my worst enemy... selfish, bitter, and cruel, so focused on wanting what you can't have like a toddler throwing a temper tantrum over not getting a cookie...
- Punch-Clock Villain: Cartland only cares about tarnishing Team Phantom's reputations because Colette promised to pay him a lot of money for it and has nothing against them personally.
- Punished with Ugly: Misty curses Colette’s tiara to cause her to swell up with hives whenever she tries to reveal Danny’s secret identity.
- Pushover Parents:
- Star and Colette certainly have this opinion of Stella because of how easy she is for the latter to manipulate even when she's trying to be strict with her stepdaughter, given her constant excuses for Colette’s horrible behavior despite all the trouble she’s caused since coming to Amity Park.
- Colette's mother and former stepmothers are also this, as they're quick to take Colette at her word and indulge her with practically anything she asks for.
- Race Against the Clock: Star, Sam, Tucker, Jazz, and Valerie have until the next Monday to prove their innocence before they're officially expelled from Casper High and Sam's parents send her to London.
- Really Gets Around: Yolanda has sweet-talked plenty of men into getting her expensive stuff, as Team Phantom learn when raiding her apartment.
- Reasonable Authority Figure:
- The manager of Sunkin' Donuts doesn't care about Donovan, Theodore, and Vivian's status or connections to the owner since he's fine with firing the former for harassing Star and Danny, and the latter two for leaving work early and being incompetent employees in general.
- Ida Manson and Danny's parents are the only adults in the beginning who refuse to believe in the photos incriminating Team Phantom and are convinced that the innocent kids are being framed.
- Suzette tries to be more sympathetic than Jean-Luc to Colette while sending her to Bludworth Academy as punishment. For example, she promises to give Colette back her family heirloom necklace that Suzette gifted her when her daughter earns it by improving herself as a person.
- "The Reason I Suck" Speech: After seeing how completely miserable Team Phantom due to being victims of Colette’s schemes, Kwan admits Star was right along about him being nothing but a pathetic meatheaded Dirty Coward who only cares about popularity and was too dumb to realize sooner that Colette was nothing but bad news all along.
- “The Reason You Suck” Speech:
- Jack gives a speech about how Jeremy Manson is a bad father and a self-absorbed snob who mooches off his elderly mother.
- Colette gives a speech to Donovan Loadman about how he’s nothing but a nuisance regardless of how rich he is and not even 1/10th of the man Danny is, along with being even less worth Colette's time now that he’s a disgraced fool that’s been disinherited and forced to work a lowly job like some peasant.
- Colette gives one to Kwan about how he doesn't have the moral high ground over her since he was a bully who blindly followed the A-Listers for his own benefit long before she blackmailed him because he secretly knew he was nothing without his status at school.
- After finding out that Kwan helped Colette frame Team Phantom, Star delivers an absolutely brutal speech to him about how he will always be a coward that folds under peer pressure and she hates him for prioritizing his popularity over everything else to the point she can't even trust his word that he's only helping Colette under blackmail. She ends her rant by demanding Kwan stay away from her or else.
- Mr. Radcliffe makes it clear that Donovan Loadman is nothing but a "spineless little worm" who deserved to have his teeth knocked out by Danny and disinherited by his dad for harassing Star, and belongs in juvie. He points out Donovan should be grateful any girl would give him the time of day and that his connections got him a job at Radcliffe's restaurant.
- At Star’s birthday party, Johnathan calls Jean-Luc Bevier out on being nothing but a childish Small Name, Big Ego Upper-Class Twit who will face legal repercussions for his daughter’s crimes and his own complicity in her awful behavior.
- Redemption Demotion: Misty feels she was more successful as a villain since her efforts to help Team Phantom with their Colette situation using her magic have bared little result so far.
- Redemption Rejection: Colette stubbornly refuses to change her increasingly deplorable ways no matter how much she’s called out on them, prompting Kwan, Team Phantom, their allies, and eventually Colette's mother and stepmothers to completely give up on trying to reason with her in favor of stopping her from ruining any more lives for good.
- Refuse to Rescue the Disliked:
- Team Phantom decides that Colette and Jean-Luc aren't worth rescuing from a harmless nuisance like the Box Ghost.
- Danny also makes it clear he wouldn't save Colette from Johnny 13 because he likes the idea of her running away and not coming back.
- In their final confrontation, Danny makes it clear to Colette he won’t lift a finger to help her during the next time she’s attacked by a ghost.
- Remarried to the Mistress: Jean-Luc's third wife, Freja, was originally his mistress. Yolanda also plans for this to happen with her once he is ready to leave Stella.
- Revenge Before Reason: Donovan still stubbornly refuses to drop his vendetta with Star and Danny even when his friends tell him to because of the restraining order against him.
- Rich Bitch: Valerie lampshades that Colette is just some pathetic rich brat who thinks the world owes her something because she’s rich.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons:
- While Colette is only fabricating a sob story to manipulate Giulia, she is right when she complains that Stella is nothing like her.
- Zigzagged. Jean-Luc considers Colette unfit to take over the family vineyard because of her laziness and insistence on marrying the middle-class Danny Fenton, so he makes Pierre his heir.
- After Colette’s crimes are exposed, Yolanda admits it was stupid of her to go to excessive lengths just to get a boy, but only because he isn’t even rich.
- Ripping Off the String of Pearls: A downplayed example when Suzette unclasps the pearl necklace she gave Colette 12 years ago to show just how furious and heartbroken she is with her daughter, and to ensure Colette understands the consequences of her actions.
- Rule of Three: The deputy mayor reminds Vlad of a meeting that should have happened three days before.
- Sarcasm-Blind:
- When the ghost vultures ask Vlad if he wants them to kill Alicia with the weapon they brought, he sarcastically says he wants them to bring her his chocolate cake. Believing Vlad actually wanted them to do so, one of the vultures apologizes for eating the cake.
- Colette, as usual, can never pick up when Danny is snarking at her like when he insincerely calls her clothes "nice outfits".
- Scarpia Ultimatum: Colette gives a G-rated version to Danny by threatening to expose his secret identity if he doesn't date and eventually marry her.
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules!:
- The A-Listers no longer want to get involved with Colette’s schemes to try to steal Danny from Star regardless of how much she offers to pay them or how else she can reward them because they find her fixation with Danny too creepy; even Dash refuses despite $100 upfront and the promise of a date. Thus, Colette has to blackmail Kwan to get his help.
- Subverted. The Fentons at first vehemently refuse to accept Suzette's check as an apology because they believe she’s trying to bribe them into not pressing charges against Colette. However, Suzette clarifies that it’s compensation for everything Colette did to them since she agrees her daughter needs to be punished for her crimes, with her pleading eventually causing the Fentons to relent.
- After news spreads of Colette’s crimes, people who her father bribed to keep quiet about her bullying are coming forward because they want her to finally pay for her crimes.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!:
- Subverted. The manager of Sunkin' Donuts fires Donovan, Theodore, and Vivian for being lousy employees and makes it clear he doesn't care if they have connections to the owner.
- It's revealed Dash is able to get away with his bullying because his uncle is the superintendent and threatened to withhold funding from Casper High if they expelled him.
- Subverted again with the rich brats. Mr. Radcliffe has no problem insulting Donovan to his face and makes it clear he only gave the latter a job at his Chinese restaurant because Reginald and the owner are friends, as otherwise, he wouldn’t even tolerate Donovan's presence after what he did to Star in “Visited”. He also yells at Donovan, Vivian, and Theodore to get back to work when they’re distracted or slacking off.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!:
- Colette bribed the school to let her "renovate" her locker, making it bigger than everyone else's.
- Suzette believes Jean-Luc won the battle for Colette's custody by bribing the judge. It's later revealed that Giulia also believes he did this.
- Discussed again when Star points out the only reason Jean-Luc hasn't tried to divorce Stella yet is because she would get custody of Pierre unless he can bribe a judge.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Star and Danny immediately flee from Sunkin’ Donuts when they see Toadman and his snobby friends working there as the couple doesn't want anything to do with the rotten former rich kids, especially when Toadman spots them and tries to chase them down to get revenge, which prompts them to use Danny’s invisibility to disappear.
- Screw Your Ultimatum!: When Colette orders Danny to kiss her cheek to show everyone at Star’s birthday party that he’s her boyfriend now, he responds by contemptuously spitting in her face and making it clear he’s completely done being blackmailed by her.
- Seduction as One-Upmanship: An incredibly dark, deconstructed example. Colette is so obsessed with stealing Danny from Star in order to "beat" her in their imaginary competition that she's given up on seducing Danny in favor of forcing him into a relationship via blackmail, then smugly gloats about "winning" to Star when her plan works.
- Selective Obliviousness:
- Sam calls out her parents for dismissing her friends as delinquents and always blaming them for her supposed misbehavior without even trying to get to know them.
- Star accuses Stella of being this for believing Colette is still innocent despite all the trouble she's caused since arriving in Amity Park.
- Danny lampshades to Jazz that Colette is so controlling and possessive of him because deep down, she's aware that he completely hates her and prefers anyone else's company over hers, but is too delusional and obsessive to admit it to herself.
- In the past, Stella never took Star's claims of hating Colette seriously and always tried to get them to hang out together, like during the Dumpty Humpty concert almost a year ago.
- Stella's relatives have also had the headache of dealing with her inability to realize the Beviers' flaws for years, especially Jean-Luc's shameless womanizing ways.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Everyone, especially Jazz, makes it clear to the Foleys that it’s Dash Baxter’s own fault he’s going to become the Future Loser he dreads turning into since he goes out of his way to ruin his chances at ANY future by insisting on acting like a boorish meathead with no life outside of high school who doesn’t care about anything but bullying and enjoying his glory days.
- Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: Colette keeps referring to Danny as her future husband, much to everyone's anger and disgust.
- Shallow Cannot Comprehend True Love:
- Dash may be staying away from Colette now out of self-preservation, but he still doesn't understand why she isn't interested in him.
- Jean-Luc doesn't understand why his brother chose to marry a woman from the countryside who, in his own words, wasn't as pretty as Stella.
- Colette is outraged that Danny refuses to be with a beautiful, rich girl from a powerful family who's obsessed with him like her who can offer him a life of absolute luxury as long as he always stays with her and never upsets her.
- Shipper on Deck:
- Colette's mother and stepmothers due to her Blatant Lies about dating Danny.
- Suzette is prepared to approve of Danny as long as he treats her daughter well and isn't anything like Jean-Luc.
- Eloise and Freja are happy to help Colette plan a surprise for her and Danny's supposed six-month anniversary.
- Similarly, Giulia is willing to give Danny a chance since she prefers Colette date any boy who isn't as annoying or self-important as Reginald Loadman's Spoiled Brat of a son.
- Team Phantom supports the idea of Sam and Chris dating. Star even teases her about them potentially becoming In-laws someday.
- Damon admits he was disappointed that Valerie broke up with Danny to focus on ghost hunting and would've been fine if Danny ended up his son-in-law.
- Stella, Richard, and Kirk have grown fond of Danny enough to look forward to officially becoming in-laws with him should he marry Star someday.
- Colette's mother and stepmothers due to her Blatant Lies about dating Danny.
- Ship Tease: Misty can’t help but find Kwan handsome.
- Shout-Out:
- Colette runs in heels and wonders how "that lady on the dinosaur movie" did it.
- One of Colette's former stepmothers is an English actress who has cast mates named Emma and Rupert.
- To The Addams Family. Colette attempts to insult Sam when the latter purposely bumps into her at school, and later steals her phone during the scuffle at Star's birthday, by calling her "Morticia" and "Wednesday", respectively. It doesn't take either time.
- When Danny releases her, Colette taunts that he is "a true hero just like ze movie about ze very strong redhead from ze early 2000s".
- After learning what happened at Colette and Star's lunch, Ember compares Colette to "some crazed sorceress queen who would give someone a poisoned apple just for being more beautiful than her".
- Ember mockingly calls Misty “Sailor Scout” but the latter corrects that it’s “Sailor Guardians” because Sailor Scouts came from the original English dub and she is Chinese, not Japanese.
- Colette being exiled to London under her mother's watch is similar to what happened in Miraculous Ladybug to Chloé Bourgeois at the end of "Revolution". Jean-Luc berating Colette on way there also echoes Audrey's speech to Chloé.
- Simple Solution Won't Work: As desperate as he is to get Alicia out of his life, Vlad refuses to divorce her for fear of losing half his assets to her.
- Single-Target Sexuality:
- Deconstructed with Colette, whose single-minded obsession with Danny and refusal to move on have not done her sanity or social life any favors as Team Phantom and even the A-Listers are reaching their limit with her unstable behavior; the former are trying to get rid of her for good while the latter refuse to willingly help her anymore in her schemes to split up Star and Danny.
- Three years ago, Yolanda tracked Vlad down at a football game to win him over but he turned her down because he only wants Maddie.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man:
- Solene isn't surprised that Stella's gut feeling about Colette is wrong since she was foolish enough to leave a good man like Johnathan for an "arrogant skunk" like Jean-Luc.
- Stella begins to regret leaving Johnathan for Jean-Luc after realizing that the former is a decent man who strives to guide their daughter Star down a good path while the latter is too much of an apathetic Jerkass to even care about his daughter Colette's terrible behavior.
- Skewed Priorities:
- Colette is more upset about Danny damaging her hair extensions than him freezing her with his ice powers.
- At the mall, Colette is more concerned about her stained dress and destroyed shopping bags than the fact Ember tried to barbecue her alive. After Danny's fake battle with Ember, she still prioritizes her looks being ruined and her clothes getting damaged over at least asking if he's okay, much to his irritation.
- Jean-Luc considers it worse that his brother ran off to marry a "plain" rural lady and work as a baker while taking her surname than his daughter Colette harassing Danny Fenton.
- After learning about Colette's crimes at Star's birthday party, Richard Traville is briefly more focused on being relieved that Danny isn't cheating on Star with Colette than stopping the latter from escaping the country club, until Jocelyn reminds him that Danny needs help arresting her.
- Slave to PR:
- VERY darkly deconstructed. Kwan acknowledges he’s not much better than Colette since he’s willing to help her ruin Team Phantom’s lives and break the law just so she won’t reveal his embarrassing secrets and turn him into a social outcast who the A-Listers won’t associate with anymore. Subverted in the end when Kwan realizes Star matters more to him than popularity and he can’t handle the guilt of hurting Team Phantom anymore, so he teams up with them to stop Colette for good by exposing her crimes at Star’s birthday party and getting her arrested.
- Colette thinks Suzette is this with her charity work, but it's clearly just a case of Evil Cannot Comprehend Good.
- The only reason Jean-Luc is mad at Colette for her crimes is because it paints their family in an extremely unflattering light when her actions become known to the public, and he threatens to disinherit her for good if she doesn’t straighten up at Bludworth Academy in order to quit disgracing the Beviers any further.
- Slimeball:
- Suzette and Colette's former stepmoms regard Jean-Luc as this and rightfully so for being an unapologetic, womanizing bastard.
- Cartland feels no remorse for sabotaging Team Phantom's lives in exchange for money from Colette.
- Small Name, Big Ego: As far as Colette is concerned, she is the best girl in the world and any boy should feel "honored" to have any of her attention since dating her is "the highlight of any boy’s love life".
- Smart Ball:
- Dash refuses to help Colette with her latest scheme to mess with Star and Danny no matter how much she pays him since he realizes it's not worth the risk of getting into trouble again. Even Kwan admits Dash made the smart choice.
- All the A-Listers back out of helping Colette with her latest scheme against Star and Danny because they don’t want to risk getting into trouble as well as being utterly creeped out by her unhealthy obsession with Danny. Colette resorts to blackmailing Kwan for help.
- Paulina quickly realizes Colette has somehow forced Danny to go out with her because she finds it completely out of character for him to ditch Star and his friends for someone he's rejected for months. She decides the best course of action is to sever all ties with Colette, considering her increasingly insane behavior. The only reason Paulina doesn't try to report Colette is because she has no real proof against the latter.
- Smarter Than You Look:
- Kwan admits that Danny was smart for realizing early on that Colette was nothing but bad news.
- At Star’s birthday party, Stella questions how Colette could afford her party decorations since she did the math and realizes it’s too expensive for Colette to purchase with her allowance and whatever she made from selling off Stella's designer goods.
- Yolanda is revealed to be not just an opportunistic Gold Digger and criminal, but a con artist:
- Even Colette admits that Yolanda is more than just a pretty face when she proves clever enough to infiltrate Bludworth Academy as a guard and provides advice on how Colette can regain her status as a rich heiress by pretending to reform.
- Yolanda is implied to be musically inclined and can play the clarinet. She even uses an eloquent musical analogy to explain what Colette could've done differently with Danny.
- She is able to to con rich men like Jean-Luc into giving into her materialistic needs and simultaneously take on multiple fake identities to maintain her lifestyle. She also seeks to manipulate Colette into aiding Yolanda's new plan even if she has to feed her delusions about Danny since Yolanda knows the Spoiled Brat doesn't have a shot with him.
- Smug Snake: Danny and Star mock Colette for not being as charming or manipulative as she believes herself to be since she has to resort to threats and blackmail just to get the former to give her the time of day.
- The Sociopath: Team Phantom, Ember, Skulker, Misty, and Kwan realize that Colette is this when she reveals she's willing to ruin Team Phantom's lives to get Danny and just for fun without a shred of remorse.
- Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond: Colette is the only one who doesn’t care about Pierre as she regards him as a pest at best. Colette even tells Danny she considers Pierre a "mutt" and an inferior member of her purebred family who is only good for running the family business so she doesn’t have to. Colette couldn’t care less where he came from as long as she gets her share of the inheritance and stocks.
- So Proud of You:
- Star and Danny’s loved ones say this to them for not only surviving Colette’s schemes, but beating her for good and protecting each other.
- Stella’s loved ones express admiration for her when she finally realizes what an irredeemably awful person Colette is and rightfully rejects her lies and fake affection.
- Sore Loser: Donovan’s fragile ego can’t accept the fact that rich girls like Star, Sam, and Colette vastly prefer a middle-class guy like Danny over himself.
- Speak of the Devil: In chapter 26, Colette calls Star just as Team Phantom are complaining about her. Though Star feels that calling Colette the devil isn't enough of an insult at this point.
- Spiteful Spit: Danny gives one to Colette on her cheek when she asks him to kiss her in front of everyone at Star’s birthday party, as a gesture of how he truly feels about her.
- Stalker Shrine: Colette keeps two new ones of Danny in her school locker and closet that she hides from her family. Inside her locker are several pictures of Danny and scented candles. Inside her closet are a lot of photos of him, some doctored and others taken without his permission, and some even had Star cropped out or replaced with Colette herself. The pictures all have drawn hearts on them, with a few also having Colette's lipstick mark from when she kissed them. The biggest picture of Danny is the one she took of him running in gym class while smiling.
- Stalker with a Crush: Colette is not just stalking and spying on Danny anymore, but breaking into his house. Star flat-out calls Colette this to Stella's face.
- Stalker with a Test Tube: Colette’s fixation with Danny gets even worse after learning about his ghost powers because she wants to become the mother of a superior species that will put the world under her control.
- Stalking Is Funny if It Is Female After Male: Horrifically averted. Colette's growing obsession with Danny is NOT portrayed as comical or acceptable in the slightest as it has not only taken a huge toll on her sanity, but made her cross many ethical and legal boundaries (barring only murder) in her attempts to steal him from Star. This has left Danny, his loved ones, and even the A-Listers worried for the safety of him and those close to him because Colette doesn’t care who she ends up hurting. Danny immediately tries to call the police on Colette when he finds her trespassing in his home, the A-Listers decide to kick her out of their clique and turn her over to the authorities if they find proof she did something illegal to make Danny hers since they don’t want to be associated with a criminal, her father and stepmother were already planning to send her to boarding school to stop her harassment of Danny, Kwan turns on her after being blackmailed into helping her destroy Team Phantom when he realizes popularity isn’t worth hurting Star or letting a sociopathic monster like Colette win, Team Phantom force her out of their lives for good when she tries framing them for crimes just to get them away from Danny, Puck secretly helps the heroes expose Colette’s true evil colors to everyone including Jean-Luc’s ex-wives, and even Misty, Skulker, and Ember temporarily join forces with Team Phantom to help them take down Colette and save Danny out of disgust for her horrible treatment of the ghost boy. With enough proof, Colette gets arrested for her mad pursuit of Danny and slapped with a restraining order.
- Stealth Insult:
- Colette and Star have been using these on each other for a long time when around others. They're particularly fond of insulting the other's looks, outfits, makeup, and weight.
- Yolanda tells Colette that she inherited her father’s brains, which unknown to Colette is not a compliment since Yolanda has Jean-Luc wrapped around her finger
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Sam is just as apprehensive as Danny at the thought of meeting Colette's biological mother since it makes her skin crawl trying to imagine the kind of person who gave birth to a monster like her.
- Stupid Evil:
- Donovan is too vengeful to care about the restraining order against him. Star also dismisses him as a suspect in Team Phantom's framing on the basis that he and his friends would never be able to come up with such an elaborate plan (and are clearly incapable of doing so without their usual resources).
- Kwan and Team Phantom are deeply disturbed by the insane lengths Colette is willing to go to break up Danny and Star, all to get a guy who never liked her and to mess with her stepsister, instead of just giving up and finding another guy to date.
- Super Gullible: Stella's inability to see through the Beviers' lies and manipulations irks her daughter Star to no end. Jean-Luc even brings up how she failed to notice Colette lying to her and antagonizing Star unprovoked whenever they did spend time together because she only listened to Colette's side of the story and took it at face value despite the evidence otherwise.
- Suspicious Spending: Discussed. The main reason Colette enlists her mother's help (i.e. receives money from her) despite already being very rich is because Stella and Jean-Luc have been keeping track of her spending and she wanted to avoid this trope.
- Sympathy for the Devil: As horrified as Jean-Luc’s ex-wives are by Colette’s sociopathy, they still pity her when she reveals how bitter she is over them walking out on her and her biological mother Suzette putting most of her focus into her business than her daughter.
- Sympathy for the Hero:
- Kwan does feel bad for helping Colette ruin Team Phantom’s lives since he has nothing against them and hates seeing Star miserable, but feels he has no choice because Colette is blackmailing him. He also deeply regrets helping Colette blackmail Danny into dating her since Danny's relationship with Star is ruined and he's stuck in a miserable relationship with his most heinous Abhorrent Admirer.
- Even Skulker and Ember find Colette’s abusive treatment of Danny to be despicable to the point they’re willing to temporarily put aside their grudges with the ghost boy and help him stop her.
- While Dale can't prove that Colette is forcing Danny to be with her, he still feels sorry for Danny because he'd feel bad for anyone having to date someone as unstable as her. The other A-Listers agree.
- Stella's relatives pity Reginald Loadman for having a son like Donovan.
- Team Phantom have nothing but sympathy for Jean-Alain for being related to someone like Jean-Luc.
- Take Back Your Gift:
- Played with, then subverted. To punish Colette for her crimes, Stella decides to hand over the tickets to France that were going to be her stepdaughter's present to Team Phantom. Danny and Star refuse at first because the former doesn’t want to go to Paris since Colette was planning to force him to live there with her his whole life while the latter doesn’t want tickets that were meant for Colette, but Stella persuades them to accept the gift by assuring them they can trade in the tickets for another place they'd rather go to.
- As a final punishment for Colette before leaving her at Bludworth, Suzette takes back the pearl necklace she gifted Colette as a child, declaring her daughter doesn’t deserve the family heirloom because she values self-gain and material possessions over family and sentimentality.
- Take Over the World: Colette reveals to Star that once Team Phantom is arrested, she plans to use Danny's powers to make herself the queen of France and everywhere else they go.
- Taking Advantage of Generosity: It’s shown that Colette’s been manipulating ALL her stepmoms by pretending to be a good girl who loves them and remaining in contact with them just so they’ll satisfy her materialistic needs. She’s not above tricking her biological parents either.
- Tantrum Throwing: Colette throws a really loud one when Danny destroys her wardrobe.
- Tautological Templar: Colette justifies all her heinous acts as her putting her inferiors in their place as is her right as a Blue Blood and descendant of supposed nobility.
- Technophobia: Team Phantom crosses out Prince Aragon as a suspect for framing them since he prefers the Middle Ages and hates technology, so he wouldn't know how to infect a computer with a virus.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork:
- Colette, Yolanda, and Cartland don't like each other but are willing to suck it up because the former wants Danny and the latter two want a payday.
- The Mansons and Fentons put aside their intense dislike of each other in favor of stopping Colette when Team Phantom exposes her crimes (including framing them) during Star’s birthday party.
- That Didn't Happen: Ember and Star mutually agree to pretend the latter hugging the former never happened.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: Not that she wasn't this before, but after having enough of Danny’s rejections, Colette goes from a manipulative Spoiled Brat to a full-blown yandere (barring only her actions in "Empowered") who's fine with ruining Team Phantom’s lives just for fun and to steal Danny from Star.
- There Are No Therapists: Kwan of all people lampshades that it’s a mystery why a guidance counselor hasn’t intervened to deal with Colette’s unhealthy fixation with Danny so far, especially since it keeps growing more and more out of control. Finally subverted in the end where as part of her sentence at Bludworth, Colette has to attend court-ordered therapy sessions with Dr. Wilson twice a week.
- This Ain't Rocket Surgery: Colette considers Giulia "the biggest idiot her father had put a ring on" and that, by comparison, Stella looks like a rocket scientist and the other step-mothers look like brain surgeons.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Team Phantom is NOT happy to learn that Colette is out of the hospital and back to harassing them.
- This Is Unforgivable!: Team Phantom finally reach their limit with Colette after she frames them for crimes they didn’t commit and forces Danny into dating her so they decide to get rid of her for good by exposing her crimes and true evil nature to everyone at Star’s birthday party, so she’ll get arrested.
- Thou Shall Not Kill:
- Colette won't resort to killing Team Phantom to get them out of Danny's life for good.
- Danny ultimately can’t bring himself to get rid of Colette permanently despite his utter hatred for her.
- Team Phantom don't want to kill anyone, even Colette.
- Thought They Knew Already: When Stella reveals how oblivious she’s been to Colette’s harassment of Star for the past five years, Jean-Luc is confounded by his wife's naïveté for never noticing Colette’s cruel nature or that it was impossible for their daughters to get along with each other due to their obvious intense hatred for each other.
- Throw the Dog a Bone:
- Team Phantom agreed to leave the Box Ghost alone as long as he only scares Colette and Jean-Luc since that’s all a Harmless Villain like him will do.
- Unlike the rest of the A-List, Star lets Kwan stay at her birthday party out of gratitude for helping them stop Colette.
- Token Good Teammate:
- Pierre is the only decent Bevier in Johnathan's book.
- Kwan is the only one of conspirators framing Team Phantom who doesn't wish any ill-will on them and is only doing so under the threat of blackmail by Colette.
- Too Important to Remember You:
- Colette doesn't care enough to remember Donovan's name and calls him "Darien".
- Colette admits to Star she doesn’t care to remember the names of “peasants” or boys not cute enough to be worth her time like Tucker.
- Team Phantom is very annoyed that the Mansons don't bother to remember Danny and Tucker’s full names despite them being friends with Sam for almost 11 years (since kindergarten), and just call them “Dennis” and “Tyler”.
- Took a Level in Badass: Colette devises a complex scheme to frame Team Phantom so they'll stay away from Danny. After discovering Danny's secret identity, she successfully blackmails him into being her boyfriend and refuses to back down no matter how much he tries to intimidate her.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Colette has become willing to force Kwan into helping her ruin Team Phantom's lives and blackmail Danny just to have the latter all to herself.
- Took a Level in Kindness:
- Kwan has learned to accept Star’s relationship with Danny since it makes her happy and strongly refuses Colette's demands to get involved in her latest plan to break them up because he bears no malice toward Team Phantom, is disgusted by the depths she’s willing to sink just to satisfy her petty grudge against Star, and her obsession with Danny creeps him out to no end to the point he bluntly informs her she needs to see a school counselor. He only helps Colette when she blackmails him.
- Extremely downplayed for the A-Listers but by this point, they’ve become so disturbed by Colette’s increasingly unstable behavior and the lengths she’s willing to go to just to get Danny (especially after she followed him all the way to New York and hinted at kidnapping him to force him into a relationship with her in “Traveled”) that they not only refuse to help her any further in her schemes to split up Star and Danny, regardless of how much she bribes or manipulates them, but they decide to kick her out of their clique and turn her over to the police if they get proof that she broke the law. They even feel sorry for Danny if he was forced to date with someone as awful as Colette.
- Took the Wife's Name: Jean-Luc's brother took his wife Marie-Angelique's family name and no longer goes by "Jean-Alain Bevier".
- Too Much Alike: Colette completely hates Donovan Loadman for being just as much of an annoying, entitled Spoiled Brat as she is.
- Too Proud for Lowly Work:
- Danny mocks Beatrice for resorting to eating trash and begging for hand-outs instead of swallowing her pride and working for once in her life while she’s stuck being poor as payback for all the trouble she caused in “Traveled”.
- It annoys Sam to no end that her parents would rather live off her rich grandma’s money than work since their pride won’t let them.
- Tough Love: After Sam is framed by Colette, her parents plan to send her to boarding school to turn her into a “proper” member of high society to keep her out of further trouble, even if it makes her hate them. She does NOT forgive them for this after Colette is exposed and stopped.
- Toxic Family Influence: Jean-Luc’s ex-wives make it very clear it’s his own fault Colette turned into an even worse person than him after her crimes are exposed.
- Toxic Friend Influence:
- Stella admits that she always knew Dash was this to Star and hated him for it.
- Kwan finally figures out the A-Listers are this when Colette points out that he's a bully who’s too scared of his so-called friends to stand up for himself and realizes Star was right to ditch them.
- Ida never approved of Pamela because she felt the latter and her snobby friends only made Jeremy a worse person.
- Toxic Lover Influence: Played for laughs. As far as Ida's concerned, marrying Pamela has caused Jeremy's IQ to shrink.
- Trapped in Villainy: After Colette forces Danny to break up with Star, Kwan finally has enough and decides to reveal her plan despite the dirt she has on him, only for Colette to mock Kwan that no one will believe he was forced to participate due to his history with the A-Listers, coercing him to keep following her orders.
- Trauma Button: Colette is NEVER going back to New York.
- Trophy Husband: Colette believes Danny's "destiny" is to be this to her, which is what she plans to groom him into.
- Trophy Wife:
- Yolanda wants to becomes this to Jean-Luc to gain access to his wealth and she's willing to get Colette to help her in exchange for aiding her in framing Team Phantom.
- Suzette, Giulia, Freja, and Eloise have since realized they were this to Jean-Luc, even referring to themselves and Stella by the trope name. Stella still seems to be struggling with the label. Colette outright refers to her mother, stepmothers, and Yolanda as her father's "decorations" which can easily be replaced.
- True Companions: Star has come to regard Team Phantom as this since all of them, even Sam, were better friends than the A-Listers ever were because they went out of their way to comfort her and reunite her with Danny after he got amnesia.
- Turned Off by the Jerkass: By this point, Tucker, the A-Listers (especially Dash, Dale, and Kwan), and even Johnny 13 have grown to hate Colette for her nasty personality to the point they don't want anything to do with her anymore.
- Two-Teacher School: Principal Ishiyama finds it hard to hire more teachers because the school has a limited budget and is located in a haunted town.
- Übermensch: Deconstructed with Colette, who uses her Blue Blood status as an excuse to ruin people's lives and plans to take it further using Danny's ghost powers once she has him under her control.
- The Unapologetic:
- Danny makes it clear he doesn't care about any of Colette's stuff since he's fine with vaporizing her wardrobe to get her to leave him and his friends alone.
- When Kwan betrays Colette by helping Team Phantom expose her crimes at Star's birthday party, he makes it clear he'd do it again since he's tired of her forcing him to help her in her deranged evil schemes.
- Underestimating Badassery:
- Team Phantom knows Colette doesn’t take them seriously as a threat when they don’t have Danny, which they take advantage of by investigating for evidence against her right under her nose since she’ll be caught off-guard.
- Star acknowledges it was foolish not to get rid of Colette sooner, especially since she proved in "Forgotten" and "Empowered" that there are NO lines she won't cross to get what she wants.
- Underestimating Intelligence: Colette dismisses Star as a Dumb Blonde like her mother, though more out of spite than anything.
- Undying Loyalty: Even the A-Listers are aware that Danny has this toward his lifelong friends, so it makes them appropriately suspicious that Colette is making him go out with her because he's too devoted to Team Phantom to turn his back on them.
- Unexpected Kindness: Danny and Team Phantom are surprised when Skulker agrees to carry out the former's request to send a secret video message to his friends in order to warn them about Colette’s plan. He even agrees not to tell Vlad about their Colette issues, mainly because Skulker doesn’t know where Vlad is and hasn't gotten paid by him for the last job he did yet. However, he insists this truce is temporary and they'll go back to their usual dynamic of being bitter enemies as soon as Colette is out of the picture.
- The Unfair Sex: Defied. Nearly everyone fully acknowledges that the way Colette treats Danny is completely despicable, with even some of his rogues gallery go out of their way to help save him from the evil brat.
- The Unfettered: Colette is more determined than ever to tear Danny and Star apart, not caring how dirty her methods are or who she has to work with.
- Ungrateful Bitch:
- Danny is disgusted by Colette’s callous insults toward Stella despite the latter treating Colette like her own daughter for all these years.
- Colette is more upset that Danny stained her dress instead of focusing on the fact he saved her life by pushing her out of the way of Ember’s attack.
- Team Phantom call Colette out on taking her mother for granted by refusing to visit Suzette unless it was on HER terms just because Colette was too much of a snob and Control Freak to go anywhere that was involved with her mom’s humanitarian efforts.
- Unluckily Lucky: Misty realizes her mother helped her dodge a bullet by unknowingly ruining her spell to switch lives with Star in "Bewitched" since being related to someone as awful as Colette would've been a total nightmare and she's FAR better off as herself.
- Unmanly Secret: Kwan reveals that Dash has a teddy bear collection.
- Unseen No More: Colette's birth mother makes her debut in this story.
- Unwanted Spouse:
- Now that Vlad is free of the love potion, he is desperate to get out of his marriage with Alicia.
- Discussed. Colette plans to become this to Danny since his feelings and consent don't matter to her in the slightest. She blackmails Danny into dating her and makes it clear she expects him to marry her someday, even if she has to keep forcing him.
- Stella is steadily becoming this to Jean-Luc, to the point he eagerly ditches her during the fiasco of Team Phantom's Frame-Up to romance Yolanda, whom he's apparently looking at to replace Stella as soon as possible.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
- Danny admits to Colette that agreeing to meet her in “Lost” was a colossal mistake on his part since it led to her becoming the biggest thorn in his side and now ruining his friends' lives.
- Tucker points out to Team Phantom that while Jean-Luc Bevier may not be evil, it was his awful parenting that made Colette the horrible sociopath she is now who's terrorizing them out of petty spite and self-entitlement.
- Part of Star wishes she hadn't brought Danny to meet her mother in "Lost" because she feels the good it brought wasn't worth the Colette situation they're now in.
- After realizing how much of a psychopath Colette is when she’s arrested, the A-Listers acknowledge it would’ve been better to report her worsening erratic behavior and obsession with Danny to the authorities before she crossed the line.
- Unwitting Pawn:
- Colette's mother and previous stepmothers happily send her money and do her favors so she can have a fun night with her supposed boyfriend Danny and give him a "surprise" for their six-month anniversary, blissfully ignorant as to how they're aiding her Evil Plan.
- After Kwan realizes how much of a petty sociopath Colette is, he figures out she never cared about him as anything but a tool to hurt Star at best, and is horrified that she has MUCH worse plans for Danny.
- At the end, Yolanda sneaks into Bludworth Academy to manipulate Colette into helping her with her future major schemes in exchange for supposedly helping Colette get Danny and regain her status as her father’s heir. While Colette doesn't fully trust her, she goes along with Yolanda for being the only ally to approach her, all while having some ulterior motives of her own.
- Useless Bystander Parent: Star is reaching the end of her patience with her mother Stella’s incompetence since she still hasn’t done anything about Colette despite the latter's increasingly obsessive behavior towards Danny and refuses to consider she might be behind Team Phantom's ordeal. Star actually considers cutting ties with Stella if she keeps this up even after Colette is exposed.
- Villain Decay: Star points out to Team Phantom that Toadman and his friends can't be responsible for framing them because, lack of brain cells aside, they no longer have the resources to pull it off after being disinherited.
- Villain Has a Point:
- Even Vlad knows that Maddie would never leave Jack for a man who's already in a relationship, especially with her own sister. He's also correct that Maddie likely wouldn't believe him about him being married to Alicia against his will.
- Colette thinks Beatrice was only unimpressed with Danny’s gentlemanly character in “Visited” because she’s "an old fool who couldn’t see his true value".
- While her feelings for Danny are hardly sincere, Colette tells Donovan that, unlike him, Danny possesses admirable qualities which make him a good potential romantic partner, and no amount of money can make up for Donovan's flaws, especially his unbearably annoying and entitled personality.
- Colette has some understandable resentment toward her biological mother, Suzette, because she's broken her previous promises to spend time with her daughter due to either weather problems or work commitments; it's to the point Colette can only talk to her by phone once every few months if she's lucky.
- Colette is right that Kwan is still the same useless oaf he was when they first met who she is still able to manipulate to her whims despite him being aware of her true rotten personality because all she had to do was blackmail him over his social status to get him to help her ruin Team Phantom (something Kwan even acknowledges). She also has valid criticisms about Star’s taste in boyfriends since the latter went out with a Dumb Jock like Kwan who was easy for Colette to steal.
- While surprised, Danny understands and accepts Johnny 13's reasons for hating Colette too much ever consider asking her out since she's a horrible excuse for a human being.
- Colette points out to Danny that he doesn't have it in him to hurt her and even if he did, it wouldn't save his friends from the trouble she got them into.
- Colette is correct when she points out to Kwan he is far from innocent himself since he's a bully who abuses school policies, and so will go down with her if he tries to expose her.
- Even Skulker acknowledges that the way Colette treats Danny is unacceptable.
- Ember hates Colette because of how miserable she’s making Danny with her overly controlling and downright abusive behavior.
- Colette calls Star's bluff by pointing out that even if her diary is leaked, the worst punishment she'll face is another grounding since Star can't reveal Colette's plot without exposing Danny's secret along with it, and Colette has other means to ruin Team Phantom's lives in the meantime.
- Ember comments on Misty having a messed up family since her ancestors include an evil sorcerer that tricked her into brainwashing Danny so he could reincarnate himself as their child, and a wicked Chinese hopping vampire who she had to turn into a broken wooden statue.
- After her Villainous Breakdown, Colette calls her mother Suzette out on focusing more on her charity work than her daughter and breaking all her previous promises to spend time together. She also calls out her previous stepmoms for claiming to love her yet never sticking around in her life after divorcing her father Jean-Luc.
- The only thing Team Phantom agree with Colette on is that her mother Suzette messed up big time as a parent by having a daughter who turned out as awful as her.
- Danny admits that Colette is right about him not being ruthless enough to leave her trapped in the Ghost Zone, but Ember is.
- Villain of the Week: Danny outright describes Colette as this after she is defeated.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Star becomes even more determined to make Colette pay after hearing about how miserable she’s making Danny while blackmailing him into dating her.
- Villains Never Lie: Ironically, the one time Colette tells the truth is when she reveals Danny being a half-ghost, but nobody at Star’s birthday party believes her.
- Villainous Breakdown: Colette has a MAJOR one at Star’s birthday party when Kwan and Team Phantom expose her true colors to everyone, including the Travilles, the A-Listers, Stella, Suzette, and all her past stepmoms.
- Villainous Rescue: Misty (albeit not a villain anymore), Skulker, and Ember agree to cooperate with Team Phantom to stop Colette and save Danny, both because they really hate her and they don’t want Danny to suffer under her thumb.
- Villain Respect:
- Inverted. Danny doesn't admit it out loud, but he does acknowledge Colette's intelligence in coming up with such a sophisticated blackmail scheme and realizes she is braver than Beatrice because of her refusal to surrender regardless of what he does to her with his ghost powers to try and scare her into abandoning her plan.
- Skulker admits to Team Phantom that part of the reason why he agreed to give them Danny’s message is that he respects the Ghost Boy as a worthy prey to hunt.
- Ember respects Misty for refusing to use underhanded means to try to steal Danny from Star since she’s the same way.
- Ember can't help but respect Star for torturing Colette one last time by making out with Danny right in front of her before they leave Bludworth Academy.
- Villainous Valor:
- Danny admits that Colette is less of a coward than Beatrice since she refuses to back down no matter what he does to her.
- Skulker does have a sense of honor as he would prefer to fight Danny when he's at his strongest and is willing to form a truce with him to get rid of Colette so his hunt continues uninterrupted.
- Even when Star discovers her discretions with her past boyfriends in her diary, Colette still refuses to be intimidated and bluffs her way out to the point she successfully threatens Star into leaving her house or else she'll call security.
- Ember forms a temporary truce with Team Phantom to help them save Danny and take down Colette. She also grows to respect Misty Smith-Yang for her principles because she also won’t resort to questionable methods to win Danny over.
- Villain Team-Up: At Bludworth, Yolanda proposes one with Colette so they can both get what they think they deserve. Before leaving, she slips Colette a burner phone to keep in touch for their future plans.
- Villainesses Want Heroes: Deconstructed. Colette is this even more than usual as she's decided to resort to blackmailing Danny into dating her. She admits to Donovan that she prefers Danny because he has a MUCH more bearable personality than the Loadman brat. However, it's also because Colette wants to take joy in stripping Danny of his noble qualities to make him as cruel as her so he’ll be a better match for her.
- Virtue Is Weakness:
- Colette considers Danny's heroic and merciful nature a weakness she plans to get rid of as soon as they start dating by making him just like her.
- In general, Colette dismisses concepts like charity, kindness, and friendship to be "useless garbage".
- Warts and All: A rare dark, deconstructed example regarding Jean-Luc as he’s much more aware of Colette’s flaws and feud with Star than Stella ever was but still loves her, although it means he thinks nothing of her misbehavior and enables her horrible attitude by letting her run wild.
- Was It Really Worth It?: After Star gives him a venomous "Reason You Suck" Speech over his involvement, Kwan guiltily wonders if protecting his popularity was worth helping Colette ruin Team Phantom's lives. He decides that it wasn't because he lost Star forever and became no better than Colette, so he might as well deserve to have his secret exposed and lose his reputation after everything.
- Wasted Beauty:
- Both Kwan and Johnny 13 realize how much of a deplorable person Colette is underneath her beauty and completely lose interest in her.
- It’s not just Dash and Kwan who have lost interest in Colette, as the rest of the jocks in the A-Listers have gotten so sick of her overbearing personality (to the point they consider her even bossier than Ms. Tetslaff) and creepy fixation with Danny that they’d actually feel sorry for him if he did date her. Not to mention they’re fine with kicking Colette out of the group and getting her arrested if they find proof that she committed crimes to get Danny to date her since they don’t want to associate with a criminal.
- Tucker does consider Yolanda gorgeous but hates her for being an amoral Gold Digger that's sabotaging Stella's marriage and helping Colette ruin Team Phantom's lives just for profit.
- We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future: When Mr. Lancer and Principal Ishiyama calls the Fentons, the Mansons, Mr. Gray and the Foleys to present photographic evidence against Jazz, Sam, Valerie and Tucker, Jack and Maddie are the only adults ready to dismiss the evidence as forgery even before learning the pictures came from an anonymous source.
- Wham Line: At the end of Chapter 4, Colette decides it's time to call somebody "she had an easier method of manipulating than anyone else".Colette: Bonjour...Mama...
- What Does She See in Him?:
- Georgia wonders how Stella and Jean-Luc stayed together long enough to have Pierre.
- Tucker wonders how a rotten sleazeball like Jean-Luc is able to attract so many women.
- Even Colette and Star's cousin Jillian wonder what Star saw in Kwan.
- What the Hell, Hero?:
- Stella’s continued refusal to see the Beviers for the inherently nasty people they are grates on everyone’s, especially Star’s, nerves to no end.
- Stella is understandably furious with Jean-Luc for removing her contact information from Colette's school file without even telling her and not setting the record straight earlier about Colette bullying Star over the years.
- Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: Wufong warned Misty that the only thing worse than upsetting a fae is refusing a gift from one, but believed no one was ever stupid enough to do that.
- White Sheep: Jean-Luc's brother Jean-Alain is heavily implied to be this since he severed all ties with his elitist family to marry a rural woman named Marie-Angelique for love and live a simpler life with her as a baker.
- Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: Colette blames Danny for making her slap him in the face after he spits on her cheek at Star's birthday party and refuses to go along anymore with her ridiculous demands.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist:
- Nothing would make Stella happier than for Colette to behave and Star to get along with the Beviers despite both parties making it crystal clear that none of that is ever going to happen. Her illusions are thoroughly shattered by the end of the story.
- Richard still naively believes Beatrice is capable of redemption and that she just needs to calm down while on "vacation" in Switzerland to become a better person.
- At the end, Suzette still hopes Colette can be redeemed with the right guidance while she's at reform school.
- Women Are Wiser:
- Downplayed but Vivian tells Donovan to just forget about Star and Danny since revenge isn't worth getting into more trouble.
- Sam, Ida, and even Pamela don't approve of Jeremy getting into fights with the Fentons over something as petty as insults.
- Women Prefer Strong Men: Much to Danny's disgust, Colette actually gets turned on by his anger and threats.
- Woman Scorned: Star was understandably furious with Kwan for breaking up with her to date Colette after spotting them together at the mall. She retaliated by slapping Kwan, insulting him every way she could think of, and refusing to talk to him outside of A-Lister activities for practically the whole summer.
- Working with the Ex: Yolanda convinces her ex-husband Cartland to help Colette frame Team Phantom in exchange for a huge payment.
- Worthy Opponent: Skulker considers Danny this and says as much to Team Phantom.
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Despite how much he hates Colette, Danny can't bring himself to directly and physically harm her because his conscience won't let him, which she smugly points out.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Cartland will frame Team Phantom for crimes they didn't commit in exchange for Colette paying him but won't stoop to physically harming them.
- Would Hit a Girl: Donovan gets fired from his job at Sunkin' Donuts when the manager catches him threatening Star and Danny.
- Would Rather Suffer:
- Danny actually made a long list of what he would do instead of dating Colette, some of which are hike through the Sahara barefoot, cover himself in barbecue sauce and go into the polar bear enclosure at the zoo, take a bath in the Arctic Ocean, and get a job as the stuffing for a pro boxer's punching bag. Later, he adds that he would rather eat one of his Aunt Alicia's baked possums, deal with the Ghost King or Undergrowth again, or drink expired milk from a boot pulled out of a dumpster than do anything romantic with Colette.
- Danny prefers Misty or Ember kissing him than Colette. Even making out with a sick coyote is an improvement.
- When he finds himself complimenting Alicia's appearance, Vlad says he would rather kiss Spectra since "sadistic or not, at least she can LOOK like a human lady".
- The thought of being skewered or skinned alive by Skulker is less painful to Danny than going shopping with Colette.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Like with Stella, Jean-Luc convinced his past wives that he was a loving father and gentleman who was wronged by his gold-digging ex-wives, and it wasn't until after they married him that they realized how much of a lying, cheating bastard he is. The ladies lampshade that he could’ve used his acting skills to be an entertainer instead of a manipulative Handsome Lech.
- Yandere: In case it wasn't clear before, this story firmly establishes that Colette doesn't need superpowers or lethal tactics to be this to Danny.
- You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: After Danny "breaks up" with her, Star realizes something is off because he called her Estelle twice, which he never did even when they hated each other.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!:
- It annoys Danny and his friends to no end that Colette still refuses to drop her obsession with him despite him rejecting her for 6 months straight.
- Johnathan is unimpressed that Stella cheated on him with a slimeball like Jean-Luc Bevier who’s too apathetic to do anything about his daughter Colette’s bratty behavior unless it affects him personally.
- It astounds and outrages the Fentons that the reason why Stella wasn’t aware of the full extent of Colette’s bratty behavior or harassment of their son Danny at school was because the staff didn’t have her phone number in Colette’s transcripts so legally, the school couldn’t contact Stella without the proper paperwork.
- Cartland's reaction when his latest attempt to call Colette is redirected to a cleaning service.
- You Keep Using That Word: Stella initially tries to defend Colette by claiming she would never do something so horrible to her "sister", as if the stepsisters have ever acknowledged each other as family. Naturally, everyone who hears this doesn't buy it.
- You Monster!: Stella calls Colette this after witnessing her true colors thanks to Team Phantom since she no longer views Colette as her daughter, much to the admiration of her loved ones.
