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If Dash is so self-aware that [[JerkJock Jerk Jocks]] like him become [[FutureLoser Future Loser]], then why can't he just better himself to avoid that fate? I mean, Kwan was one of the nicer popular kids and supposedly becomes a scientist in the future as shown in "The Ultimate Enemy", even despite being a bit of a DumbJock. Is Dash really that much of a sadistic sociopath that he's willing to accept an entire adulthood with a horrible job struggling to make ends meet just to spend literally four years of his life making nerds miserable?
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If Dash is so self-aware that [[JerkJock Jerk Jocks]] like him become [[FutureLoser Future Loser]], Losers]], then why can't he just better himself to avoid that fate? I mean, Kwan was one of the nicer popular kids and supposedly becomes a scientist in the future as shown in "The Ultimate Enemy", even despite being a bit of a DumbJock. Is Dash really that much of a sadistic sociopath that he's willing to accept an entire adulthood with a horrible job struggling to make ends meet just to spend literally four years of his life making nerds miserable?
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If Dash is so self-aware that [[JerkJock Jerk Jocks]] like him become [[FutureLoser Future Loser]], then why can't he just better himself to avoid that fate? I mean, Kwan was one of the nicer popular kids and supposedly becomes a scientist in the future as shown in "The Ultimate Enemy", even despite being a bit of a DumbJock. Is Dash really that much of a sadistic sociopath that he's willing to accept an entire adulthood with a horrible job struggling to make ends meet just to spend literally four years of his life making nerds miserable?
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Okay, why the hell did Danny had to get punished in the end? At the end of the episode, he gets grounded for a month for using the Emergency Ops Center. Key word: ''emergency''. As in, it's for dangerous ghost attacks. ''AND THERE WAS A DANGEROUS GHOST ATTACK!'' He could have explained to his parents what happened and they would have believed him, being the loony ghost hunters they are, and it's not like he would have to reveal his secret or anything since he did handle Ember and Young Blood without powers.

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Okay, why what the hell did Danny had to get punished in the end? At the end of the episode, he gets grounded for a month for was Danny's parents' problem with using the Emergency Ops Center. Center, to the point where he got in trouble and punished for it in the end? Key word: ''emergency''. As in, it's for dangerous ghost attacks. ''AND THERE WAS A DANGEROUS GHOST ATTACK!'' He They're supposed to be ghosts hunters and they couldn't stop to think that maybe Danny had a good reason to use it, considering how frequent ghost attacks are in Amity Park? Also, at the very least, Danny could have explained to his parents what happened and they would have believed him, being the loony ghost hunters they are, and it's not like he would have to reveal his secret or anything since he did handle Ember and Young Blood without powers.

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Okay, why the hell did Danny had to get punished in the end? At the end of the episode, he gets grounded for a month for using the Emergency Ops Center. Key word: ''emergency''. As in, it's for dangerous ghost attacks. ''AND THERE WAS A DANGEROUS GHOST ATTACK!'' He could have explained to his parents what happened and they would have believed him, being the loony ghost hunters they are, and it's not like he would have to reveal his secret or anything since he did handle Ember and Young Blood without powers. Instead Danny just takes a month-long grounding up the ass without even standing up for himself, because after that whole fiasco with Dash, [[SarcasmMode we definitely need something]] [[DownerEnding to twist the knife further]].

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Okay, why the hell did Danny had to get punished in the end? At the end of the episode, he gets grounded for a month for using the Emergency Ops Center. Key word: ''emergency''. As in, it's for dangerous ghost attacks. ''AND THERE WAS A DANGEROUS GHOST ATTACK!'' He could have explained to his parents what happened and they would have believed him, being the loony ghost hunters they are, and it's not like he would have to reveal his secret or anything since he did handle Ember and Young Blood without powers. Instead Danny just takes a month-long grounding up the ass without even standing up for himself, because after that whole fiasco with Dash, [[SarcasmMode we definitely need something]] [[DownerEnding to twist the knife further]].

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How does Danny's intangibility work?
If he gets stuck halfway through a wall, where does that part of the wall go??

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How does Danny's intangibility work?
work? If he gets stuck halfway through a wall, where does that part of the wall go??
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*** [[RuleOfCool Yes.]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Yes we did.]]

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*** [[RuleOfCool Yes.]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Yes we did.]]

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** "What You Want" shows that just giving anyone ghost powers is a bad idea, as shown by Tucker becoming a jerk and letting power go to his head.



Okay, why the hell did Danny had to get punished in the end? At the end of the episode, he gets grounded for a month for using the Emergency Ops Center. Key word: ''emergency''. As in, it's for dangerous ghost attacks. ''AND THERE WAS A DANGEROUS GHOST ATTACK!'' He could have explained to his parents what happened and they would have believed him, being the loony ghost hunters they are, and it's not like he would have to reveal his secret or anything since he did handle Ember and Young Blood without powers. Instead Danny just takes a month-long grounding up the ass without even standing up for himself because [[SarcasmMode of course the ghost-obsessed lunatics who constantly make him a laughingstock among his peers and who want to kill his alter-ego]] have to be the ones to come in [[DownerEnding and twist the knife further.]]

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Okay, why the hell did Danny had to get punished in the end? At the end of the episode, he gets grounded for a month for using the Emergency Ops Center. Key word: ''emergency''. As in, it's for dangerous ghost attacks. ''AND THERE WAS A DANGEROUS GHOST ATTACK!'' He could have explained to his parents what happened and they would have believed him, being the loony ghost hunters they are, and it's not like he would have to reveal his secret or anything since he did handle Ember and Young Blood without powers. Instead Danny just takes a month-long grounding up the ass without even standing up for himself himself, because after that whole fiasco with Dash, [[SarcasmMode of course the ghost-obsessed lunatics who constantly make him a laughingstock among his peers and who want to kill his alter-ego]] have to be the ones to come in we definitely need something]] [[DownerEnding and to twist the knife further.]]further]].
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Okay, why the hell did Danny had to get punished in the end? In the end, he gets grounded for a month for using the Emergency Ops Center. Key word: ''emergency''. As in, it's for dangerous ghost attacks. ''AND THERE WAS A DANGEROUS GHOST ATTACK!'' He could have explained to his parents what happened and they would have believed him, being the loony ghost hunters they are, and it's not like he would have to reveal his secret or anything since he did handle Ember and Young Blood without powers. Instead Danny just takes a month-long grounding up the ass without even standing up for himself because [[SarcasmMode of course the ghost-obsessed lunatics who constantly make him a laughingstock among his peers and who want to kill his alter-ego have to be in the right all the time.]]

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Okay, why the hell did Danny had to get punished in the end? In At the end, end of the episode, he gets grounded for a month for using the Emergency Ops Center. Key word: ''emergency''. As in, it's for dangerous ghost attacks. ''AND THERE WAS A DANGEROUS GHOST ATTACK!'' He could have explained to his parents what happened and they would have believed him, being the loony ghost hunters they are, and it's not like he would have to reveal his secret or anything since he did handle Ember and Young Blood without powers. Instead Danny just takes a month-long grounding up the ass without even standing up for himself because [[SarcasmMode of course the ghost-obsessed lunatics who constantly make him a laughingstock among his peers and who want to kill his alter-ego alter-ego]] have to be in the right all ones to come in [[DownerEnding and twist the time.knife further.]]
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Okay, why the hell did Danny had to get punished in the end? In the end, he gets grounded for a month for using the Emergency Ops Center. Key word: ''emergency''. As in, it's for dangerous ghost attacks. ''AND THERE WAS A DANGEROUS GHOST ATTACK!'' He could have explained to his parents what happened and they would have believed him, being the loony ghost hunters they are, and it's not like he would have to reveal his secret or anything since he did handle Ember and Young Blood without powers. Instead Danny just takes a month-long grounding up the ass without even standing up for himself because [[SarcasmMode of course the ghost-obsessed lunatics who constantly make him a laughingstock among his peers and who want to kill his alter-ego know what's best.]]

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Okay, why the hell did Danny had to get punished in the end? In the end, he gets grounded for a month for using the Emergency Ops Center. Key word: ''emergency''. As in, it's for dangerous ghost attacks. ''AND THERE WAS A DANGEROUS GHOST ATTACK!'' He could have explained to his parents what happened and they would have believed him, being the loony ghost hunters they are, and it's not like he would have to reveal his secret or anything since he did handle Ember and Young Blood without powers. Instead Danny just takes a month-long grounding up the ass without even standing up for himself because [[SarcasmMode of course the ghost-obsessed lunatics who constantly make him a laughingstock among his peers and who want to kill his alter-ego know what's best.have to be in the right all the time.]]
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Okay, why the hell did Danny had to get punished in the end? In the end, he gets grounded for a month for using the Emergency Ops Center. Key word: ''emergency''. As in, it's for dangerous ghost attacks. ''AND THERE WAS A DANGEROUS GHOST ATTACK!'' He could have explained to his parents what happened and they would have believed him, being the loony ghost hunters they are, and it's not like he would have to reveal his secret or anything since he even handled Ember and Young Blood's attack without powers. Instead Danny just takes a month-long grounding up the ass without even standing up for himself because [[SarcasmMode of course the ghost-obsessed lunatics who constantly make him a laughingstock among his peers and who want to kill his alter-ego know what's best.]]

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Okay, why the hell did Danny had to get punished in the end? In the end, he gets grounded for a month for using the Emergency Ops Center. Key word: ''emergency''. As in, it's for dangerous ghost attacks. ''AND THERE WAS A DANGEROUS GHOST ATTACK!'' He could have explained to his parents what happened and they would have believed him, being the loony ghost hunters they are, and it's not like he would have to reveal his secret or anything since he even handled did handle Ember and Young Blood's attack Blood without powers. Instead Danny just takes a month-long grounding up the ass without even standing up for himself because [[SarcasmMode of course the ghost-obsessed lunatics who constantly make him a laughingstock among his peers and who want to kill his alter-ego know what's best.]]
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Okay, why the hell did Danny had to get punished in the end? In the end, he gets grounded for a month for using the emergency Ops center. Key word: ''emergency''. As in, it's for dangerous ghost attacks. ''AND THERE WAS A DANGEROUS GHOST ATTACK!'' He could have explained to his parents what happened and they would have believed him, being the loony ghost hunters they are, and it's not like he would have to reveal his secret or anything since he even handled Ember and Young Blood's attack without powers. Instead Danny just takes a month-long grounded up the ass without even standing up for himself because [[SarcasmMode of course the ghost-obsessed lunatics who constantly make him a laughingstock among his peers and who want to kill his alter-ego know what's best.]]

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Okay, why the hell did Danny had to get punished in the end? In the end, he gets grounded for a month for using the emergency Emergency Ops center.Center. Key word: ''emergency''. As in, it's for dangerous ghost attacks. ''AND THERE WAS A DANGEROUS GHOST ATTACK!'' He could have explained to his parents what happened and they would have believed him, being the loony ghost hunters they are, and it's not like he would have to reveal his secret or anything since he even handled Ember and Young Blood's attack without powers. Instead Danny just takes a month-long grounded grounding up the ass without even standing up for himself because [[SarcasmMode of course the ghost-obsessed lunatics who constantly make him a laughingstock among his peers and who want to kill his alter-ego know what's best.]]
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Okay, why the hell did Danny had to get punished in the end? In the end, he gets grounded for a month for using the emergency Ops center. Key word: ''emergency''. As in, it's for dangerous ghost attacks. ''AND THERE WAS A DANGEROUS GHOST ATTACK!'' He could have explained to his parents what happened and they would have believed him, being the loony ghost hunters they are, and it's not like he would have to reveal his secret or anything since he even handled Ember and Young Blood's attack without powers. Instead Danny just takes a month-long grounded up the ass without even standing up for himself because [[SarcasmMode of course the ghost-obsessed lunatics who constantly make him a laughingstock among his peers and who want to kill his alter-ego know what's best.]]
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** Or Vlad's accident was different to Danny's. Danny had a full body blast from a perfected portal with pure ectoplasm and comes out a white haired green eyed tanned version of himself, Vlad was shot in the face by a faulty prototype with cola tainted ectoplasm and comes out a blue skinned vampire like creature, and suffering from ecto acne. Danny's accident was more intense so the survival probability is less likely.


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* It's possible that in The Fenton Menace it wasn't the case that Danny was immature (being the protector of his town would probably force him to be more mature not less) instead Youngblood's 'only the young may see him' thing is only applicable to ''humans'' and Danny could see him because of his ghost half.
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When they turn into ghosts does that technically mean they die, and then resurrect when switching back to humans?

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* He's actually more uppercrust than British. Think of American actors from the 40s and 50s, maybe even into the 60s. The person that springs to my mind is the actor who played Atticus Finch in ''To Kill a Mockingbird,'' as he was trained to act with a similar uppercrust inflection. Martin Mull did a similar thing with Vlad's inflections.






* Also, to note here. The reasoning Danny's future self has for Danny still turning into him is based on faulty logic. Now, Danny's not the brightest bulb in the shed, and understanding human logic is probably beyond his future self, since he's given up all traces of his humanity and doesn't have many emotions besides hate and contempt for all other beings, living and not, but there's absolutely no logic to Danny still turning into him if he causes the incident that killed everybody originally. Danny would, instead, most likely try to find Clockwork and demand a do-over or something. The original timeline still can't happen. Clockwork, I guess, wanted to teach Danny a lesson and did, but the measures he went to are kinda messed up when you think about them.



* sam and tucker grow up mental to see him by the time he showed up again. or in short like jazz they start to think they were teens who they are adults by time of the fenton menace

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* sam Sam and tucker Tucker grow up mental to see him by the time he showed up again. again, or in short like jazz Jazz they start to think they were teens who they are adults by time of the fenton menace "The Fenton Menace."
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** So basically, he's [[SchrodingersCat Schrodinger's Ghost]].

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** So basically, he's [[SchrodingersCat [[UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat Schrodinger's Ghost]].
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* sam and tucker grow up mental to see him by the time he showed up again. or in short like jazz they start to think they were teens who they are adults by time of the fenton menace
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** One possible interpretation? Danny, Vlad (and Jack in the alternate timeline) had extensive exposure to ectoplasm and ghost technology throughout their lifetimes. Perhaps their bodies built up a "natural immunity" of sorts that would let them survive after being exposed to the Ghost Portal. Butch Hartman doesn't mention Jazz or Maddie, which could imply they are potential half-ghosts as well.
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** Yeah, it's not like Vlad can overshadow an entire town at once... wait...

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** *** Yeah, it's not like Vlad can overshadow an entire town at once... wait...
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** Yeah, it's not like Vlad can overshadow an entire town at once... wait...
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* This may sound stupid, but why couldn't it be? If every human had half-ghosts powers they would have the ability to become intangible and therefore could avoid harm couldn't they? The pros of having of half-ghost powers outweighs the cons.


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* And why is that? There has be a good reason Vlad and Danny could obtain them.
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*** Considering how easy Vlad made it to find him and his dull surprise, Vlad could have easily been a death seeker waiting for Dark Danny to kill him. For all we know, Vlad ''had'' hidden himself quite well up until a certain point where he may have thought it pointless to keep living.

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** This does not make sense at all. Being human or a ghost is not determined by a single allele, rather it's the DNA as a whole that would dictate that. Alleles are what dictate what our eye and hair color would be, or how much skin pigment we'll have. The show proved that the energy in Danny's body merged with whole DNA strands, not just single genes, therefore every cell in his body has ghost-infused DNA. A child of his would be half of what he is due to basic biology, therefore making a "quarter ghost" (if the mother is human).

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** This does not make sense at all. Being human or a ghost is not determined by a single allele, rather it's the DNA as a whole that would dictate that. Alleles are what dictate what our eye and hair color would be, or how much skin pigment we'll have. Think of mules. They come out with traits of both a horse and a donkey, but not either or. The show proved that the energy in Danny's body merged with whole DNA strands, not just single genes, therefore every cell in his body has ghost-infused DNA. A child of his would be half of what he is due to basic biology, therefore making a "quarter ghost" (if the mother is human).ghost".
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** This does not make sense at all. Being human or a ghost is not determined by a single allele, rather it's the DNA as a whole that would dictate that. Alleles are what dictate what our eye and hair color would be, or how much skin pigment we'll have. The show proved that the energy in Danny's body merged with whole DNA strands, not just single genes, therefore every cell in his body has ghost-infused DNA. A child of his would be half of what he is due to basic biology, therefore making a "quarter ghost" (if the mother is human).

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In the episode that introduces Danielle, Vlad said that he got rich by using his powers for invisible burglaries ad overshadowing rich men to give him checks. Then in the episode where Danny changes the past... he's as rich as his other counterpart. without ghost powers. Anyone care to explain?

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In the episode that introduces Danielle, Vlad said that he got rich by using his powers for invisible burglaries ad overshadowing rich men to give him checks. Then in the episode where Danny changes the past... he's as rich as his other counterpart. without Without ghost powers. Anyone care to explain?


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* He's living in the Dairy King's castle, but there's no indication he's running a vast business empire or is a billionaire member of the {{Fiction 500}} in the alternate timeline.
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* Butch Hartman himself states in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTzR99tZG4w&list=PLsvYuSgEtSsISzqGoP0dNexcWRD9XoEOG&index=115 this video]] (fact 73) that not everyone can just step into the portal and obtain ghost powers and that if Sam or Tucker tried it, they would end up dead.
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* I'd imagine that Gilbert Gottfried became too expensive as this was around the same time where he stopped voicing Dr. Bender & Wendell on ''The Fairly [=OddParents!=]''.
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come Sam & Tucker couldn't see Youngblood him when he's messing with Danny as the Fentons are preparing to leave for their weekend retreat (especially when those two had previously seen him in "The Fenton Menace"?]]"Pirate Radio")?
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* In the beginning, it's because A) he doesn't think they'll understand and B) he's frightened by their eagerness to vaporize any ghost they see (see the scene where he almost confesses to Jazz in "My Brother's Keeper"). Later, such as after "Reality Trip," it makes sense he'd still want to keep it a secret to protect them. (Does Jack really seem like the type who could keep a secret better than [[Franchise/HarryPotter Rubeus Hagrid]]?)



* Dark Danny tells Jazz he'll destroy his ArchEnemy and his portal as soon as he finds them. Somehow, Vlad managed to hide from him (presumably ''not'' in the mansion where the fatal "operation" took place).



** ...Maybe because handing out powers of flight, possession, and invisibility to every human being in the world isn't automatically as grand an idea as you're implying it to be? Not to mention, when Danny got his powers, it was an accident, and probably very painful, and causes him a lot of trouble on a daily basis. And I thought the Fentons didn't find out he had powers until the grand finale.

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** ...* ...Maybe because handing out powers of flight, possession, and invisibility to every human being in the world isn't automatically as grand an idea as you're implying it to be? Not to mention, when Danny got his powers, it was an accident, and probably very painful, and causes him a lot of trouble on a daily basis. And I thought the Fentons didn't find out he had powers until the grand finale.

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