History WesternAnimation / DannyPhantom

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: "Team Phantom" - Danny is Choleric for good leadership skills, but highly emotional personality, Tucker is Sanguine because he's fun-loving, Jazz, though not depressive is Melancholic for her kind, but perfectionist persona, and Sam is Phlegmatic because she's a responsible [[DeadpanSnarker Stoic Goth]].

* BreatherEpisode: After the heavy-handed "Reign Storm" dealt with character developments and important story arcs, the next episode aired was the lighthearted (possibly THE most lighthearted DP episode), "Identity Crisis". There was also "The Ultimate Enemy" which was just ''[[NightmareFuel gruesome]]'', but the episode that aired after was a light and fluffy ChristmasEpisode.

* AbortedArc: The news that the series would only have three seasons caused a lot of planned story arcs to simply disappear without a trace. What deal did Vlad and the Fright Knight broker? What role does Dani end up playing? What did Valerie do after she discovered the existence of halfas, and Vlad's identity? Does Dark Danny escape and make a return appearance, as is hinted at in "The Ultimate Enemy"? We'll never know now.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Danny is patronized by his family, bullied at his school and feared and hated in his superhero identity by both most mortals and ghosts. Fortunately, his best friends help keep him steady while the world, starting with his sister, begins to gradually come around.

'''Lancer''' Calling me OLD MAN...

** Actually, I think it was more like "Caught up in their rift on that [[SantaClaus jolly old fellow]], They didn't see Danny's White Christmas turn yellow." What with the rhyming and everything...

---> Actually, I think it was more like "Caught up in their rift on that [[SantaClaus jolly old fellow]], They didn't see Danny's White Christmas turn yellow." What with the rhyming and everything...

-->'''Danny:''' Plagues, pestilence, ''boy bands'' ... wow, this is one evil box.

* ArtEvolution: The main characters don't look like stick figures and actually gain muscles in latter series; the colors also get more vibrant.

* AuthorAppeal: Hartman incorporates space themes (he loves ''Franchise/StarWars'') through Danny who wants to be an astronaut.
* AxCrazy: Oh, ''Dan''... let's see: the first thing he did upon "reawakening"? Steal the ghostly half of BigBad Vlad Masters (OurGhostsAreDifferent is in full force here) and then killed his own human half in front of Vlad, who viewed Danny as a surrogate son. In his first scenes, he kills at least a dozen people as well and spends much of the episode killing or planning to kill some more. The fact that even Vlad refuses to tell Danny how his human half died speaks ''volumes''. Rather unpleasant, considering what age group this is aimed at.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: "What You Want", "Memory Blank"

* BigDamnKiss: An orbital one at that in the GrandFinale. You can already figure between who.

** And by Danny when the vat of Nasty Sauce all the important people in his life ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Lancer]]) are attached to... ''explodes''.
* BigOlEyebrows: Butch Hartman's trademark. His other show [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents The Fairly Odd Parents]] also invokes this trope

* BookEnds: In the first episode, Danny and Sam are vehemently denying that they were boyfriend and girlfriend. In the GrandFinale, their RelationshipUpgrade is complete.
* BoyMeetsGhoul, or rather, girl meets Phantom.

* BreatherEpisode: After the heavy-handed "Reign Storm" dealt with character developments and important story arcs, the next episode aired was the lighthearted (possibly THE most lighthearted DP episode), "Identity Crisis". There was also "The Ultimate Enemy" which was just ''gruesome'', but the episode that aired after was a light and fluffy ChristmasEpisode.

* CaretakerReversal: In the beginning of one episode, What You Want, Sam is sick and Danny and Tucker try to take care of her. Guess which 2 characters get sick at the end?

* ComesGreatResponsibility: And the SpiderMan parallels don't stop there.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In the "Ultimate Enemy", a memorial statue of Tucker, Sam, and Danny's family says "Gone But Not Forgotten", while a statue of Mr. Lancer a few feet away only says "Gone."

* EasterEgg: In one episode, Danny and Tuck are playing a Crash Nebula arcade game. Crash Nebula is one of Timmy Turner's favorite superheroes in Butch Hartman's other cartoon, WesternAnimation/{{The Fairly OddParents}}.

* EverybodyLaughsEnding: "Attack of the Killer Garage Sale", "Public Enemies", "Double Cross My Heart", ''Danny Phantom'' is riddled with this.

* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: What Danny's future self did to everybody. Many ghosts have been crippled or otherwise permanently injured, and Valerie's dad ''lost an arm and an eye''.

* FreakLabAccident: ''"But then Danny took a look inside of it. There was a great big flash, everything just changed. His molecules got all rearranged."''

* IdiotBall: Vlad grabs it firmly in Reign Storm

* ImprobableHairstyle: many of the ghosts have this, but this is averted with most of the humans. Except for Danny. What kind of hairstyle ''is'' that, a reverse mullet?

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Interesting switch with Vlad and Danny. It's played straight when they're in human form: Danny wears white and Vlad dons black, but in ghost form, the hero is predominately black while Vlad wears a near all-white suit.
** Also played straight with their transformation rings: Danny's being white while Vlad's is black.
*** As well as with their hair.
*** And with their eyes, energy blasts, and skin colors in ghost form (no, not like [[FantasticRacism that]]. It's blue, as in the ''exact negative'' of Danny's).

** Dark Danny seems to be one of both [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk the Mastero]] ([[FutureMeScaresMe The hero's future self is an evil madman bent on ruling the world]]) and [[{{X-Men}} Onslaught]] (taking out his archenemy's dark side and being a combination of it and the hero's).

** The Fenton brief family's home in "Livin' Large".

* BigOlEyebrows: Butch Hartman's trademark. His other show The [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Fairly Odd Parents]], also, invokes this trope

* BattleBallgown: Sam makes one out of a wedding dress in "Beauty Marked".

Before reaching half-way through the second season, Butch Hartman announced the decision made by Nickelodeon to cancel the production of the show, making it 53 episodes in three seasons. Dedicated fans [[SendingStuffToSaveTheShow orchestrated various petitions and small organizations to overturn the decision]], but despite these protests, the production of Danny Phantom finished in February 2007, with no plans for future episodes after 53. However, at least the series had enough lead time to create a GrandFinale.

** "Urban Jungle" has Danny [[ANewHope on an ice world floating in a defrosting tank in his underwear...]] just before he prepares to beat the MonsterOfTheWeek voiced by MarkHamill.

** Valerie's growth from a shallow, popular teen in the background to a fierce ghost hunting warrior who starts to see a world beyond what she perceived while she was spoiled.

* TenMinuteRetirement: Jack in "Mystery Meat" and "The Million Dollar Ghost", [[spoiler:Danny in "Phantom Planet".].

*** Undergrowth's was understandably angry over too much destruction of nature, but unfortunately, how he decided to handle the situation wasn't any better.

** To some, Vlad. He was not originally white haired.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Sam wears Danny's clothes ''twice''. Sure, it was all for distraction purposes. Also Tucker in "Control Freaks" who seemed to enjoy wearing Sam's clothes. And Danny at one point in "Splitting Images". Again, in "Teacher of the Year", [[spoiler:Mr. Lancer's "sister" is actually just him in a dress.]]
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Tucker says this word for word in "Boxed Up Fury".

** There are a few shout-outs to ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' in "Danny Phantom". Marty [=McFly=] himself appears in a brief, pause-or-you'll-miss-it cameo in "Masters of All Time" and "Splitting Images". George [=McFly=]'s book "A Match Made in Space" is seen in "Double Cross My Heart". And the coolest; the clock tower in the University of Madison (in "Masters of All Time") reads 10:04.

* There are a few shout-outs to ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' in "Danny Phantom". Marty [=McFly=] himself appears in a brief, pause-or-you'll-miss-it cameo in "Masters of All Time" and "Splitting Images". George [=McFly=]'s book "A Match Made in Space" is seen in "Double Cross My Heart". And the coolest; the clock tower in the University of Madison (in "Masters of All Time") reads 10:04.

** In ''Memory Blank'' {{gender flip}}ped expies of the Franchise/{{Predator}}, Franchise/{{Terminator}}, and [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] appear as movie monsters brought to life by Disiree.

I AM THE TROPE GHOST. FEAR ME.

I AM THE TROPE GHOST!

* BoyMeetsGhoul, or rather, girl meets Phantom.