Fanfic / Danny Phantom: Blackmailed

Blackmailed is the 24th story in 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).
• 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 for Theodore. He thinks Colette is hot but she won't give him or his friends the time of day.
• Accidental Misnaming: Colette doesn't care enough to remember Donovan's name and calls him "Darien".
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
  • 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.
• 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.
• 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".
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 steak house, which he sends to Team Phantom to help their case against Colette. He also agrees to follow Colette and Danny to find out more.
• 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.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: 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 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.
• Beyond Redemption: Stella is the only one who believes that Colette has any good in her.
• 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.
  • 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• Boisterous Weakling: Jeremy Manson loves to run his mouth off but is too weak to even budge Jack Fenton, much to Jack's amusement.
• 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.
• Both Sides Have a Point: While Colette is correct that it was unimaginative of Danny to use his actual first name for his superhero name, he retorts that it was still good enough for her not to realize the connection between his human and ghost selves until she saw him transform, even though Colette noticed how similar Danny Phantom and Fenton's looks and voices are.
• 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.
• 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 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.
  • 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".
  • 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.
  • 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.
• 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.
• Calling Parents by Their Name: For the first time, Colette refers to Stella by her name instead of "Mama".
• 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.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Colette takes it as a compliment when Danny calls her "despicable" for blackmailing him and she wants to make him as heartless as her if he becomes her boyfriend.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 steak house where Chris is covering a shift for his sick friend.
• 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 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.
• The Corruptor:
  • Played for laughs. As far as Ida's concerned, marrying Pamela has caused Jeremy's IQ to shrink.
  • On a much more serious note, 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.
  • Stella admits she always hated Dash because she could see that the Jerk Jock was this to her daughter Star.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Destructive Savior: Even Tucker’s parents don’t appreciate the property damage the Fentons cause while ghost hunting.
• 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.
• 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.
• Domestic Abuse: Colette is very controlling and possessive toward Danny as she treats him only as property by ignoring his feelings, blackmailing him into dating her, 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.
• 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.
• Dramatic Irony:
  • 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.
  • 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.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: 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.
• 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, since they’d gladly turn her in to the police if they had evidence that she’s resorted to criminal acts.
• 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.
  • 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 A-Listers all acknowledge that it's completely bizarre Danny would ditch Team Phantom to be with Colette, whom he has rejected for months, so they suspect she's somehow forcing him to be with her.
• 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.
  • Colette also dismisses Star as this, though more out of spite than anything.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Entitled Bastard: Donovan is still this as he continues to blame everyone but himself for his own misfortunes.
• 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.
  • 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.
• 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.
  • As far as Dash is concerned, girls are supposed to choose HIM over Danny and not the other way around like Colette did.
• 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 annoyed to no end 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.
  • Star’s relationship with her mother is still strained because of Stella’s stubborn denial of the Beviers' true natures.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Gender-Inverted. 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.
• 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Team Phantom has decided that Colette and Jean-Luc aren't worth saving from the Box Ghost since the worst he'll do is annoy them.
  • 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.
  • While Jean-Luc's exes resent him, they still care about Colette and try to maintain a relationship with her.
  • Giulia is a compassionate, if clueless lady but makes it clear she can't stand jerks like Jean-Luc or Donovan Loadman.
  • Colette flat-out tells Donovan Loadman that it was obvious her father Jean-Luc would reject his offer to marry her because he'd never give Colette's hand to a disgraced fool like Donovan.
  • Danny would prefer if Johnny 13 flirted with Colette (in the hopes of scaring her away) instead of harassing innocent girls.
  • Pamela Manson doesn't like the Fentons but refuses to physically fight them and stops her husband from escalating things with them.
  • Star never liked Sam's parents when she was an A-Lister but after getting to know Sam better, she likes them even less.
  • Danny despises overshadowing Colette since he hates having to literally wear her skin, but makes an exception when she blackmails him as he uses the chance to make her do the chicken dance in his living room.
  • Damon likes the Fentons but would prefer that their "ghost stuff" didn't get too close to Valerie since she has enough of that as it is.
  • Ida loves her son Jeremy but makes it clear she doesn't approve of him starting fights with the Fentons over petty insults.
  • Jeremy loves his mother but doesn't approve of her insulting his wife.
  • While Ida doesn't approve of Pamela, she won't push her son into a relationship with another woman out of respect for Jeremy's choice and as long as he's happy with his wife.
  • Everyone knows that the Mansons are controlling, stuck-up jerks who would love to separate Sam from her friends, but acknowledge that they wouldn't stoop so low as to frame her for a crime since they love their daughter.
  • When Danny wonders how the ghosts would react to Colette being sent to the Ghost Zone, he imagines Klemper, whose desperation for a friend makes him an annoyance, saying even he doesn't want her as a friend.
  • Danny ultimately doesn't want kill Colette or throw her into the Ghost Zone despite how rotten she is.
  • Team Phantom only want Colette to live because they don't want to risk her coming back as a ghost and having a repeat of the "Empress What's-Her-Face incident".
  • As nasty as Paulina is, Star knows she’d never stoop to Colette’s level by helping her ruin Team Phantom’s lives.
  • The Foleys don’t hate the Fentons but are frustrated by the property damage they cause by being Destructive Saviors.
  • Jazz, Star, Sam, and Valerie would usually be against reading another girl’s diary since it’s against the girl code and a huge violation of privacy, but easily make an exception for Colette since they completely hate her and it could hold information about her evil plan.
  • As much as Star hates her stepfather with a burning passion, she knows Jean-Luc isn’t evil, just a conceited idiot. But her and Sam agree with Tucker that his disastrous parenting made Colette the spoiled and entitled brat she is now.
  • Paulina is annoyed to no end by Colette’s constant whining about France being better than Amity Park in every way.
  • 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.
  • Dash admits he’d only want Colette to ask him out so he can reject her since he still holds a grudge against her.
  • 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.
• Everyone Can See It: Even Danny notices that Sam and Chris like each other as more than just friends.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
  • 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".
  • 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.
• 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 PDA in the first place, as Tucker points out.
• Eviler than Thou:
  • Even Colette finds Donovan Loadman too annoying to put up with even when he was wealthy.
  • 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.
  • Skulker proudly admits that he's planning to mount Danny's pelt on his wall but even he's disturbed by how terrible Colette is, as he finds it petty and pointlessly awful that she forced Danny to break up with Star and is generally very controlling when the ghost boy tells him all this.
  • Team Phantom acknowledge that Colette is a MUCH worse person than her father Jean-Luc because she’s actually evil instead of just being a classist snob.
• 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.
• 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".
• 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.
• 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.
• Fate Worse than Death: Danny hates every minute of being forced into dating Colette 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.
• 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.
• 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 one of the teacher's cars, 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Godzilla Threshold: After discovering Colette knows Danny's secret, Star agrees to ask Misty for help.
• 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.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil:
  • 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 growing unhealthy 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.
• Good Is Dumb: Jean-Luc's former wives are all Nice Girls who are too trusting for their own good, which led them to easily fall for his and Colette's charms.
• Good Is Not Dumb: Chris suspects something is wrong when he sees Danny and Colette together at the steak house. He eavesdrops on and records their conversations with a tape recorder to confirm his suspicions before handing it over to Team Phantom.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Hidden Disdain Reveal: Stella admits she never liked Dash at all and wouldn't be surprised if he was responsible for framing Team Phantom.
• 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.
• 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 Ember’s attack. Jazz and Valerie help by using 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.
• Hypocrite:
  • Colette looks down on the "gutter rat peasants" her mother helps with her philanthropy, claiming they should stop being "lazy" and just get jobs. All while she plans to live off her family's money without working for it.
  • Donovan calls Colette pathetic for "wanting a guy who's already taken", not that he has any room to lecture since he's also fixated on a girl who not only has a boyfriend but completely hates his guts.
  • Colette thinks Donovan Loadman is just an annoying Spoiled Brat who has nothing going for him besides his family's wealth (and doesn't even have that anymore since he was disowned), while she's not much different.
  • Colette calls Kwan out for being this by 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.
  • Colette is the last person who should be upset at Danny for keeping secrets after finding out he's Danny Phantom since lying and hiding things (that too for far more self-serving reasons) is her MO.
  • Colette tells Danny to order whatever he wants at the steak house but when he tries to order a salad, she chooses his order for him under the excuse of wanting to “improve” his palette.
• 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.
• 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 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".
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Insufferable Imbecile: Colette certainly has this opinion of the A-Listers, Donovan, Theodore, and Vivian.
• 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.
  • Later as she's blackmailing him, Colette thanks Danny when he calls her "despicable", much to his annoyance.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
  • 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 stepmoms. Yolanda, Jean-Luc's current mistress and likely future wife who Colette is helping for her own ends, fits this description to a t.
• 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.
• 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".
  • Colette refuses to let Danny fight ghosts unless they are an immediate threat to her because it takes too much time away from her.
• 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 warns Danny he can't slip away from 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.

J-Y

• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • Vivian is right to blame Donovan for getting the three of them fired from their third job at Sunkin' Donuts because of his grudge with Star and Danny.
  • Vivian and Theodore tell Donovan he's better off forgetting about Star and Danny.
  • Colette is correct that Amity Park is dangerous because of the frequent ghost attacks.
  • Colette knows Stella is wasting her time trying to convince the former and Star to get along since they hate each other too much for that to ever happen.
  • Kwan admits Dash was smart not to get involved with Colette's latest plan to disrupt Star and Danny's lives.
  • While not really a Jerkass, Danny is correct that him and Star should tell her father about their encounter with Donovan since even if they walked into Sunkin' Donuts without knowing he was there, he still violated the restraining order by trying to approach Star despite knowing he's not allowed within ten feet of her.
  • Sam, Pamela, and Mr. Lancer have every right to be annoyed by Jeremy’s attempts to pick a fight with Jack Fenton since it not only doesn’t help Sam’s situation of being framed, but is also making the Mansons look bad.
  • When Colette bets Danny won't hurt her on account of being a superhero, he counters that Colette is hardly innocent since she’s been stalking and harassing him for 6 months, as well as breaking into his home and spying on him.
  • The Foleys understandably don’t have the best opinion of the Fentons considering they have been giving Tucker ghost hunting equipment since he was ten, they crashed their RV into the Foleys' car, and the other cases of property damage.
  • Stella points out to everyone that it doesn’t matter how much they hate Colette because they don’t have any proof she’s responsible for framing Team Phantom.
  • While Star doesn’t have any proof, she is justified in making Colette her prime suspect since her hated stepsister has the most motive to get rid of Team Phantom by framing them and Colette's unhealthy fixation with Danny has only gotten worse with time, to the point she has also resorted to illegal behavior in the past.
  • Cartland mocks his ex Yolanda by pointing out that even if she becomes Jean-Luc's sixth Trophy Wife, it won't last because a womanizer like him will go looking for a new woman when he gets tired of her. Though Yolanda doesn't care because she just wants the wealth and status that come with it.
  • Danny isn't really the jerkass, but when Colette gets mad at him for trying to run off to fight Skulker without her permission, he retorts that it's his job to fight ghosts and if he doesn’t stop Skulker, the latter will likely target Colette or her dad. Colette concedes his point.
  • Sam and Star agree with Tucker that Jean-Luc’s awful parenting turned Colette into the irredeemable harpy she is now.
  • Even the A-Listers know that Danny would never abandon Team Phantom because he's too loyal to them and this fuels their suspicions that Colette is forcing him to date her.
• 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.
• 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.
• Kick the Dog:
  • After Colette frames Team Phantom, Sam's parents have decided to send her to an all-girls school in London to get her away from her friends and mold her into their idea of a proper member of high society.
  • Colette insults Stella and Pierre to Danny’s face and they’re the only Beviers he actually likes.
• 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.
• 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, 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 hoping he will leave Stella so they can move back to France. 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 as well as only caring about her ruined appearance and destroyed clothes.
• 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.
• 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.
• A Lighter Shade of Black:
  • 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 with her. 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 taking advantage of their resentment towards her father.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Moral Myopia: Colette doesn’t tolerate Danny insulting her parents but freely insults his family whenever she wants.
• 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.
• 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.
• My Greatest Failure: Played for Laughs. Danny admits to Colette that it was a mistake on his part to agree to meet her.
• 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.
• Mythology Gag: Ember mentions the Unworld from Flower princess11’s other Danny Phantom work, Unshattered Bonds, when she contemplates sending Colette there.
• Narcissist: Star admits that Colette commissioned a lot of self-portraits for her birthday party. Sam and Tucker consider her a worse egomaniac than Paulina and Pariah Dark.
• National Stereotypes: Danny calls Colette the reason for all stereotypes about French people being snooty jerks.
• 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.
• 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 after he turns Danny into a pelt 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.
• 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.
• Nice Girl: Suzette, Eloise, Freja, and Giulia are all kindhearted and benevolent women who genuinely love and care for Colette.
• 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 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...
• No Sense of Personal Space: Danny does NOT enjoy Colette kissing him without permission, as her touch makes him feel physically ill.
• No Sympathy:
  • 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.
  • 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. He's also willing to torment Colette to force her to leave him and his friends alone when she blackmails him by dragging her around town, destroying her expensive wardrobe (including a fur coat her biological grandmother sent her from France as a present), and threatening to toss her into the Ghost Zone.
• 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 Loadman swears vengeance on Sam and Colette for rejecting his marriage proposals because he finds it infuriating that they would refuse a Loadman.
• 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!".
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Colette frames Team Phantom to get them out of Danny's life and blackmails him into dating her.
• 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 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".
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. Colette 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, wants 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.
• 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 her looks back when they first met after realizing how truly contemptible she is.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Parents as People: Suzette truly loves her daughter Colette but doesn't spend much time with her due to her charity work and sudden weather complicating her travels, which she tries to make up for by spoiling her daughter. Unfortunately, this makes her oblivious to Colette's troublesome behavior, and how Suzette is unwittingly contributing to it.
• 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.
  • Colette defends Danny to Donovan by proudly stating that the Loadman brat isn't even 1/10 of the man Danny is.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
• Picky Eater:
  • Jean-Luc isn't a fan of Swedish food.
  • Colette does not like food from Rome.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
  • Colette only lets Danny fight Skulker because he points out that the evil ghost hunter is a threat that might go after her or her father.
  • Skulker prefers to hunt without any interference or complications, so he'll help Danny and Team Phantom get rid of Colette.
• 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.
  • Yolanda is attractive and not afraid to flaunt it, even in front of Colette.
• 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 steak house 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.
  • 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• "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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • 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.
  • 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.
• 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.
  • 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".
• 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.
• 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.
• Slimeball: Cartland is this as he 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, especially Dash and Paulina, 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.
• 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. In “Blackmailed”, she 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.
• 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.
• Stalker Shrine: Colette keeps a new one of Danny in her closet that she hides from her family. Inside 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: Star flat-out calls Colette this to Stella's face.
• 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).
• 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.
  • 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.
• Tantrum Throwing: Colette throws a really loud one when Danny destroys her wardrobe.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Thou Shall Not Kill: Danny ultimately can’t bring himself to get rid of Colette permanently despite his utter hatred for her.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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 he 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ember hates Colette because of how miserable she’s making Danny with her overly controlling and downright abusive behavior.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 nothing but "useless garbage".
• 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-List 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Women Are Wiser: 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.
• 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.
• 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 milk from a boot he found in 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 "at least she can LOOK like a human lady".
• 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.