History WesternAnimation / DannyPhantom

->''[[{{Invocation}} "I'm going ghost!"]]''

Now with a set of formidable ghost powers, Danny eventually decides to use them to protect humanity from various spectral threats. Unfortunately, since most of the town (including his own parents) fears and hates his Danny Phantom identity, Danny has to keep his ghost powers secret. Fortunately, his best friends, Sam and Tucker (and his own sister, who [[SecretSecretKeeper quietly knows Danny's secret]] as well), are his constant companions, who give him vital practical and emotional support in his self-appointed role.

Despite the comical tone, this series is a surprisingly [[ContinuityNod well-conceived]] and [[StoryArc endearing narrative]] of a boy [[CallToAdventure growing into his true calling]] while the world gradually comes to accept him, much like a variant of Comicbook/SpiderMan at that franchise's best.

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... with [[BrokenBase mixed results]]. Needless to say, it still has a following wanting a revival.

* WesternAnimation/ReignStorm
* WesternAnimation/TheUltimateEnemy
* WesternAnimation/PhantomPlanet

[[AC:This series has a [[Characters/DannyPhantom character sheet]].]]

The complete first season was released on DVD on September 13th, 2011 by Creator/ShoutFactory, the first part of Season 2 released on April 3, 2012, with the second part to be released on August 28, and Season 3 at a later date. For those going for the Full Monty, however, [[http://www.amazon.com/Danny-Phantom-The-Complete-Series/dp/B00FMGPVCO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382112764&sr=8-1&keywords=danny+phantom+complete+series a complete series DVD will be released on January 28th, 2014]].

A {{Superhero}} series on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} by Butch Hartman, the creator of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' (2004-2007).

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A {{Superhero}} series on {{Nickelodeon}} by Butch Hartman, the creator of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' (2004-2007).

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!!Tropes that apply to the following movies go to their designated pages:

* WesternAnimation/TheUltimateEnemy
* WesternAnimation/PhantomPlanet

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* DannyPhantom/TropesAToG
* DannyPhantom/TropesHToP
* DannyPhantom/TropesQToZ

The complete first season was released on DVD on September 13th, 2011 by Creator/ShoutFactory, the first part of Season 2 released on April 3, 2012, with the second part to be released on August 28, and Season 3 at a later date.

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->''[[ByThePowerOfGrayskull "I'm going ghost!"]]''

* WesternAnimation/TheUltimatEnemy

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* DannyPhantom/TropesAToG
* DannyPhantom/TropesHToP
* DannyPhantom/TropesQToZ

* 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 break? What role does Dani end up playing? What did Valerie do after she discovered Vlad's identity and the existence of halfas? Does Dark Danny escape and make a return appearance, as is hinted at in "The Ultimate Enemy"? We'll never know now.
* AccidentalHug
* ActionMom: Maddie is a ''ninth degree martial artist''!
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Danny in the episode where he became filthy rich. Tucker in the episode where he was made King of the world.
* {{Adorkable}}: Danny. Also Tucker
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Super Danny has one of these as a power.
* AffablyEvil: Most villains. Especially Vlad, who's the BigBad no less. How can you take him seriously as a villain after you see his Green Bay Packers cheesehead?
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Or the Sphinx is, anyway.
* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Danny constantly moons over the [[AlphaBitch egotistical and vain]] Paulina, [[spoiler:although he eventually wises up about how she's not worth his time.]]
* 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.
* AllPowerfulBystander: Clockwork.
* AllMenArePerverts: [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Surprisingly shown]], when Danny uses his ghost powers [[PowerPerversionPotential to sneak into the girl's locker room.]]
* AlterKocker: The "ecto-American" vulture ghosts.
* AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp: [[spoiler:In "Phantom Planet", when Danny gets rid of his powers to have a normal life, just before he needs them to save the world.]]
** On a much darker note, cheating wasn't a good idea either. Nor was begging his archrival to ''remove his humanity''. It backfired ''horribly''.
** Similarly in "Phantom Planet", [[spoiler:Vlad revealing himself to be half-ghost to the world, and then forcing the world to pay him in order to save the planet... which he couldn't actually do.]]
* AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: The amulets that Dora and Aragon wear to turn them into dragons.
* AncientKeeper: Frostbite
* AnimeHair: Danny, Plasmius, and Dark Danny, just to name a few. Must be a halfa thing. Also: Ember and Spectra.
* AnticipatoryBreathSpray: Tucker.
** Vlad as well, in Maternal Instincts.
* AnticlimaxCut: "Identity Crisis":
-->'''Tucker:''' Looks like we're gonna miss the movie.\\
'''Sam:''' Unless we find some way to ignore all speed limits, red lights, and certain laws of physics.\\
''Closeup on Danny looking sly. Cut to: ...the kids [[BaitAndSwitch in an RV going about 120 miles an hour, driven by Danny's dad.]]''\\
'''Tucker:''' Couldn't you've just flown us?\\
'''Danny:''' The way my dad drives, this is faster.
* AntiVillain:
** [[BullyHunter Sydney Poindexter]]
** Johnny 13 and Kitty. Johnny's main goal is to be left alone with Kitty. Kitty rarely does any harm unless Johnny's hurt or is eying other girls.
** Amorpho, who just likes to pull pranks, but takes them too far.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Parodied/played for laughs in ''The Fright Before Christmas''. Maddie takes ''genuine issue'' over the scientific implausibility of the existence of... wait for it... Santa Claus. Jack, on the other hand, firmly believes he exists. Both of them, are the two "leading" experts and hunters of ''ghosts'' in the world, and are arguing this in front of ''children waiting to see a shopping mall Santa''.
** Danny has a moment of this when he can't believe that his body is generating extreme cold energy.
* ArchEnemy: Danny and Vlad Plasmius. It's recognized by both of them almost immediately, and the rivalry only grows as the series goes on. See EvilCounterpart and NotSoDifferent below.
** Skulker and Valerie both qualify as close contenders, but their respective pursuits of Danny were used less and less as the writers chose to focus on the Danny/Vlad conflict.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
** "Mystery Meat":
-->'''Mr. Lancer:''' Tucker Foley. Chronic tardiness, talking in class, repeated loitering by the girl's locker room.\\
''(Tucker gives a sly smile)''
*** Later, after Jack and Maddie capture Jazz while she was trying to counsel a goth boy:
-->'''Jazz:''' You've ambushed me, suffocated me with smoke, and ''worse'', I was pulled away from Spike before he had his breakthrough!
** In "Boxed-Up Fury", the list of what's in Pandora's box:
-->'''Danny:''' Plagues, pestilence, ''[[TakeThat boy bands]]'' ... wow, this is one evil box.
** When the kids get in trouble in "Kindred Spirits".
-->'''Jack:''' You three are in a world of trouble! Skipping school, stealing and wrecking the Spectre Speeder...\\
-->'''Lancer:''' Calling me OLD MAN...
** Vlad's...
-->"Taking my map, destroying my satellite, ''mocking my [[ThereAreNoTherapists mental health]]...''"\\
also:
-->"I've forgiven him for many things... causing the accident that ruined my life, stealing you, the backwash incident..."
* ArtEvolution: The main characters don't look like stick figures and actually gain muscles in later seasons; the colors also get more vibrant. Also, the earlier episodes had a very crude, simplistic, and mucky artstyle.
* AsleepForDays: {{Subverted}}.
-->'''Danny:''' What happened?\\
'''Tucker:''' You passed out. We took you home. You've been asleep for four days.\\
'''Danny:''' Four days?!\\
'''Tucker:''' ''(laughs)'' Nah, it's only been a couple hours.
* AnAssKickingChristmas: The Fright Before Christmas.
* AuditThreat: Used by a [[spoiler:fake]] Government agent against students' parents in "Doctor's Disorders" and by the Guys in White against Mr. Lancer in "Double-Cross My Heart".
* 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"? [[spoiler: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, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids considering what age group this is aimed at.]]]]
* {{Backstory}}: While we do know the basics of how Danny got his powers from the ExpositoryThemeSong, it isn't until the episode "Memory Blank" that we actually learn it was Sam that persuaded him to enter the portal in the first place.
* BackToBackBadasses: Danny and Skulker in "Prisoner of Love".
* {{Badass}}: Long list, including Vlad, Skulker, and a purple-backed gorilla.
* BadassFamily: Danny may be the one with superpowers, but Jazz, Maddie, and even Jack have proven capable of fighting ghosts.
* BaddieFlattery: Vlad to Danny, in conjunction with NotSoDifferent.
* BadFuture: The premise of "The Ultimate Enemy".
* BadJobWorseUniform: Valerie works at Nasty Burger--as its mascot.
* BalefulPolymorph: Technus uses some sort of remote control to turn Danny into a cowboy, a model, and [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]].
* BatmanGambit: Vlad's preferred MO, although he's not always as good at predicting responses as he thinks he is.
** He's not the only one who pulls it off. In "D-Stabilized", Valerie used Danielle in order to capture Danny.
*** There's also Clockwork who pulled one off so perfectly in "The Ultimate Enemy", no one was aware he was a good guy until the end.
* BattleBallgown: Sam makes one out of a wedding dress in "Beauty Marked".
* BattleCouple: Danny and Sam in a few later episodes.
* BattleCry: '''"I'M GOING GHOST!"'''
-->'''Vlad:''' You have a [[LampshadeHanging battle cry]], hilarious.
** "FOR BEARBERT!"
* BeamOWar: Danny and Vlad with ectoplasmic rays in "Kindred Spirits".
* BeardOfEvil: Vlad, Dark Danny, Ghost Writer, Skulker; minorly subverted with Ghost Writer, who isn't evil, just mad at Danny for destroying the poem and does what he does to teach Danny a lesson about being a scrooge.
* BeatItByCompulsion - Ghosts' typical behavior makes them vulnerable to this. A notable example is Desiree granting every wish she hears, even ones that work against her goals.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: "What You Want", "Memory Blank", both of which involve Desiree the wish-granting ghost.
* BedsheetGhost: Danny tries to pull this off on Halloween, though he'd probably be better off [[ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself going as himself]], seeing as how he's an actual (sorta) ghost and, for the majority of the series, is feared by everyone who doesn't want to outright beat him down.
** One of his clones, however, pulls this off in the best way.
* BerserkButton: "Do--not--call--me--a--LOSER!"
** '''I. WILL. NOT. GET. A. CAT!''' [[spoiler:[[GilliganCut Later, he does]]]].
*** [[spoiler:If anyone asks, the cat belongs to Vlad's sister. Pretty hard to believe considering the cat's name is Maddie]].
** Danny's eyes glow green uncontrollably if his berserk button is so much as touched, much less pushed.
*** Special mention goes to Dark Danny, who's eyes flashed red when [[spoiler: he was disguised as Danny and had to listen to Sam and Tucker insulting him]].
** Although they glow brighter when he's more annoyed, like in Fanning the Flames.
** "NOBODY MAKES MY BODY A MEAT PUPPET!"
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Jack is usually extremely oblivious and very much a GentleGiant. Vlad made a miscalculation and underestimated him ''by far''. He proceeds to beat up Vlad, which Danny himself has not been able to do, even at the end by himself.
--> '''Vlad:''' "You ''beat'' me! How is this possible? You're an idiot!"
--> '''Jack:''' "Maybe so, but I'm the idiot who ''beat you''."
** Vlad also fits - while the audience knows he is bad to the bone, most other characters think he is a saint.
** Most definitely {{Ma|maBear}}ddie. She kicks some serious butt.
** Arguably Danny himself, who is laid back and kind of lazy... when he's ''human'' (or, rather more accurately, pretending to be). It's when he's not that you need to watch out, as many lesser foes found out, as did Vlad, if in a BadFuture. Luckily for him, Clockwork hit the ResetButton on ''that'' timeline... or maybe not so lucky.
* BigBad: Vlad "Plasmius" Masters.
* BigBadassWolf: Wulf, a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf-like]] ghost prisoner who was originally sent by Walker to hunt Danny and his friends but befriends them when they try to set him free.
* BigDamnKiss: An orbital one at that in the GrandFinale. You can already figure between who. [[spoiler:(Hint: It's not Danny and Paulina)]]
* BigFancyHouse
** Vlad's residences.
** The Fenton family's new home in "Livin' Large".
** Subverted by Manson family's home; looks normal on the outside. It's still fancy, however.
* BigNo: Tucker, upon finding out that the flour babies were baked into cookies by his mother.
** And by Vlad in "Kindred Spirits" when [[spoiler:his perfect clone melted.]] Doubles as a TearJerker.
** And by Danny when [[spoiler:the vat of Nasty Sauce all the important people in his life ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Lancer]]) are attached to... ''explodes''.]]
** Again by Danny in "D-Stabilized" when [[spoiler: it seems Dani melts after Danny's attempt to save her seems to fail... [[DisneyDeath it actually works]].]]
* BigOlEyebrows: Butch Hartman's trademark. His other show, ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', also uses this trope.
* BilingualBonus: Season 1, Episode 6 "What You Want" gives us Sayonara Pussycat, an {{Expy}} of HelloKitty. Sayounara/さようなら (with a long 'o' sound that is often ignored in English) is Japanese for 'goodbye'. Danny even shouts "Bye-bye kitty", as a OneLiner.
** Nearly all of Wulf's lines are in Esperanto.
* BlackBestFriend: Tucker.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: This exchange from "Frightmare".
-->'''Danny''':''(After giving Nocturne a vicious attack)'' That'll teach you to steal peoples' dreams!
-->'''Nocturne''': 'Stealing' is such an ugly word. I prefer the term ''harvest'' for energy.
* BlatantLies: From "Maternal Instincts":
-->'''Vlad:''' What an amazing, unexpected, and totally unplanned surprise! Personalized gift baskets?
** The Amity Park signs really love this. "A safe place to live!"
* TheBlank: Amorpho, a shapeshifter whose default form is faceless. Also, possibly Fright Knight.
* BlessedWithSuck: Early in the series Danny has little control of his powers and has started sinking through floors and making his pants intangible so that they fall down. He also got banned pre-series from bearing anything breakable while on school grounds.
* BodyHorror: Happens every time Danny tries to split himself.
** Most extreme by far: Identity Crisis. He starts out with two heads, one of which sprouts another head, whose tongue forms the neck for another head. Then, from the main torso sprout two extra feet, a bug eye, a mouth with a bug eye on its tongue, and three more heads, one of whose tongue is a forearm and hand, which sprouts a head on each finger. It just keeps going from there.
* BookDumb: Danny (and Tucker).
* BookEnds: [[spoiler: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.
* ABoyAndHisX: "A boy and his dog. Somehow, it's not supposed to be this weird." The dog in question was a ghost dog that alternates between being cute, and large and vicious.
** Used again in "Infinite Realms": "Awww, a boy and his snow monster." (Both were said by Sam, come to think of it...)
* {{Brainwashed}}: Both Ember and Freakshow use this against Danny.
* BraggingThemeTune: '''He could walk through walls, disappear and fly! He was much more unique than the other guys!'''
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: In "Phantom Planet":
-->'''Technus:''' Nothing like a lazy day of shopping, lattes, and terrorizing the minimum-wage workers!
* 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.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Danny involuntarily lost his powers thanks to LiteralGenie Desiree in "Memory Blank". [[spoiler:He also loses them in "Phantom Planet", but since that was done voluntarily, it's AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp]]
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Danny's costume gets a stylized DP chest symbol on his costume. An episode exists to explain where it comes from, using a CosmicRetcon so that everyone but Sam and Danny believes that it's always been there.
* BullyHunter: Poindexter, the ghost of a bullied nerdy teen who lived in the 50's, who unfortunately combines this with HorribleJudgeOfCharacter, who now as a ghost targets Danny when he thinks he is bullying JerkJock Dash Baxter.
* BumblingDad: Jack Fenton may be a brilliant inventor, but otherwise he's an idiot.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: See BumblingDad.
* ButterflyOfDoom: Cheat on your CAT, and the world gets boned. [[spoiler:[[NiceJobBreakingItHero By YOU!]]]]
* ButtMonkey: Tucker. He's dumped on quite often despite saving/helping Danny more than once and yet, he barely gets thanked. Several times in the latter portion of the series, he is often the butt of the joke or virtually ignored.
** It becomes part of the plot in "What You Want" when Tucker, after routinely getting pummeled every time Danny ditches him to save the world, wishes for ghost powers.
** "I AM THE BOX GHOST!"
* CallingTheOldManOut: Jazz in Reality Trip.
-->'''Jazz (imitating Jack):''' I know! Let's catch the ghost and rip it apart [[LargeHam mmmolecule by mmmolecule]]! [[SarcasmMode You guys are so understanding]].
* CallingYourAttacks: Occasionally employed. Usually with Fenton gear.
* CanNotSpitItOut: Danny and Sam for quite some time. As the series progresses, they tend to hesitate, blush, and stammer whenever anyone asks about their relationship or assumes that they're together, rather than angrily declaring "He/She is not my boy/girlfriend!"
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: [[SpaceWhaleAesop Remember, kids, cheating on a test will cause you to turn evil and]] '''''[[SpaceWhaleAesop destroy the future]]'''''
* CantGetInTroubleForNuthin
* CaretakerReversal: In the beginning of the episode ''What You Want'', Sam is sick and Danny and Tucker try to take care of her. Guess which two characters get sick at the end?
* CarnivalOfKillers
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** Danny: "I'm going ghost!", "You don't know the half of it."
** Tucker: Ya got that right!
** Technus: I, Technus (insert outdated slang here).
** Box Ghost: "I AM THE BOX GHOST!", "BEWARE!"
** Mr. Lancer: *insert title of classic book here*!
** [[LiteralGenie Desiree]]: So you have wished it, so shall it be.
** Various characters: "For the record, I blame you." "Survey says..."
* CharacterDevelopment: Everyone of the main characters get some form of character development.
* CelestialBody: Nocturne, the ghost of sleep, has his entire body except his eyes and face-mask as stars in space.
* CensorSteam: In "An Eye for an Eye". Poor, poor Danny...
* ChangedMyJumper: Subverted in the episode ''Masters Of All Time'' where Danny's time travel to the 1980's reveals that his black jumpsuit is actually ''fitting'' for that time period.
-->'''Danny:''' Oh, great, I blend in.
* ChefOfIron: The Lunch Lady Ghost.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: The [[{{Pun}} Boooomerang]], first used in "The Ultimate Enemy" to find Danny, gets used again in "Kindred Spirits". Bonus points for being an actual boomerang.
* ChekhovsGun: Many of the Fenton Gadgets.
** The Tucker-bot from "Livin' Large", later used in "Phantom Planet". Also, Valerie's first ghost hunting suit, first appearing in the tenth episode. We later find out in the fortieth episode why Vlad gave her the gear!
* TheChessmaster:
-->'''Danny:''' I don't understand...\\
'''Vlad:''' What? That I used two 14-year-old pawns to turn a knight and topple a king? It's chess, Daniel. Of course you don't understand. But then, you never really did.
* ChewBubblegum
* ChewOutFakeOut: Happens in "13", when Danny intentionally lets himself get caught spying on Jazz and Johnny.
* {{Chronoscope}}: The various time-windows in [[spoiler: Clockwork's lair]].
* CityOfAdventure: Amity Park.
* ClarkKenting: A running joke from episode one.
** Unless you want to say that Danny's ghost form inhibits mundanes' perception of him or some other TechnoBabble, we're asked to believe that changing his hair and eye color is enough of a disguise for him. He doesn't even bother to change his first name.
*** For that matter, neither does Vlad with his name, though his ghost form is immensely different in looks then Danny is with his, so it may be {{justified|Trope}}.
*** Dark Danny in "The Ultimate Enemy" lampshades this, mocking everyone by pointing out how obvious it was.
*** There was also the episode where Danny and Dash get shrunk and need to get to the Ops Center before Danny's powers fizzle completely as he continues getting closer to being Danny Fenton every minute.
** Lampshaded by Danny. "Good thing Dash is a total moron..."
*** And then there was the whole mess in "Double Cross My Heart": where the Guys In White were aware of this trope, but they pinned Danny Phantom's disguise on the wrong guy
* CloningBlues: "Kindred Spirits".
* ComesGreatResponsibility: And the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' parallels don't stop there.
* ComingOfAgeStory: In his definite CharacterDevelopment Arc, Danny starts off as a naive boy who is looking for his place in the world, uncertain of the big decisions thrust onto him. By the end of the series, he has grown into a mature lad who continuously handles big burdens displayed before him. By the ending, said burdens and responsibilities are even bigger, but he's grown up enough to face the task.
** A smaller meta-arc would be Jazz's coming of age, going from a nosy sullen kid growing up too fast to someone who appreciates her age and knows when not to get involved.
* CompressedVice: All too frequently.
* ConspicuousCG: In the GrandFinale, at the least.
* ContinuityDrift: In one episode a nerdy friend of Tucker's is mentioned as "Nathan". In a Season 3 episode he shows up again, but gets called "Lester", although it might just be his last name.
* ContinuityNod: Mostly the Fenton inventions, but several elements from prior are mentioned in latter episodes (and even move the plot forward). Justifies the great continuity this show has.
** In episode 16, "Maternal Instinct", Vlad Masters is shown to have one of the large yellow monster trucks which will later show up in "Memory Blank".
** Speaking of Memory Blank, it contains multiple shout-outs to earlier Season 1 episodes.
*** Danny brings up Sam's "great ideas" of changing the school cafeteria menu (episode 1), releasing the purple-backed gorilla (ep. 3), and selling his dad's old junk at a garage sale (ep. 4). She counters by asking whether he would also like to blame her for puberty, which was used multiple times as an excuse for his "voice change" in episode 5 [[spoiler:when Danny was possessed by Poindexter.]]
*** Sam's photo album contains the picture she took of Danny and Tucker hugging during episode 3.
*** Danny also pulls a FakeOutMakeOut on Sam, which she had originally pulled on him in the episode where [[spoiler:Valerie becomes a ghost hunter.]]
*** At one point Danny phases down through the floor of the school, noticing the large store of meat in the basement that was discovered in the first episode.
*** Paulina is wearing the same dress at her Quinceañera (15th birthday party) that she wore to the dance with Danny in episode 2, while at the same time Sam comments that she looks "almost human", possibly in reference to Paulina's ghost-dragon transformation from the same episode.
*** During Danny's flashback/remembering sequence, special attention is given to him sneaking into the girl's locker room with his ghost powers, which happened in episode 6, the same episode Desiree was introduced.
** When trying to act ghostly in order to get Jack to chase him, Danny yells "Fear me!", something a ghost translator from an early episode appended to every sentence spoken by Danny.
** The emergency ham shows up in the episode "Pirate Radio", before being revealed to be useful for something in "Reality Trip".
*** Also in "Pirate Radio", the easy-listening Ear Worm that's on every radio station is [[spoiler:a version of Ember's rock song from "Fanning the Flames" - and {{Foreshadowing}} for her appearance as Youngblood's partner in crime]].
** Even later in the series, Skulker still has an appointment to check out a book on purple-backed gorillas.
** In the episode "Reign Storm", Tucker mentions that Danny caught Skulker and Ember and sent them back to the Ghost Zone together. In the episode "Girl's Night Out", it's revealed that [[spoiler:Ember and Skulker are now going out (see also, PairTheSpares)]]. Too much time in the Thermos together?
** In the episode "Forever Phantom", Maddie mentions the time Danny Phantom supposedly "attacked the mayor" ("Public Enemies") and when he "stole" everyone's Christmas presents ("The Fright Before Christmas").
* CoolCar: The Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle (otherwise known as just "the RV").
* CosmicEntity: [[spoiler: Clockwork.]]
* CrazyPrepared: Fenton Works.
* CuffsOffRubWrists: Freak Show in "Reality Trip".
* CurbStompBattle: Danny's first battle with Vlad goes like this by means of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown administered by Vlad.
* CurseCutShort: From the Phantom Planet Finale:
-->'''Maddie Holograph One:''' Your resolution is too low and your bandwidth is too large!\\
'''Maddie Holograph Two:'''"*gasp* Why you holographic- *Violence Ensues*"
* DatingCatwoman: Danny and Valerie briefly.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Tucker ("What You Want", "King Tuck") and Jazz ("The Fenton Menace", "Secret Weapons").
* DeadlyTrainingArea: Despite being jury-rigged, Danny's homemade training area in his parent's basement includes lasers among other, less lethal, hazards.
* DeadlyUpgrade: The [=EctoSkeleton=] increases the user's power 100 times, while slowly killing them.
* DeadpanSnarker: Sam.
* DefangedHorrors: The Ghost Zone (somewhat).
* DeflectorShields
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Once again, I, Techus, master of all things electronic and beeping, am free once again to conquer this world!"
* DescriptionCut: Used just as much as HypocriticalHumor.
* DeusAngstMachina: Danny's alternate future. Twisted in that "fate" was really just Clockwork manipulating the time stream to produce what was the worst possible future ever to scare Danny away from his FaceHeelTurn.
* DidMomJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Well, to a lesser degree. In one episode, Jack and Danny go fishing when they are attacked by some kind of sea dragon monster. Jack kicks it's ass pretty easily.
* DisasterDominoes: In Valerie's father's lab while Danny tries to catch the rampaging ghost dog.
* DishDash: In the series' very first episode. Danny protects Sam from death by flying dishes by catching them all. Unusual for the trope, he gets all the dishes safely put away!
* DisposableSuperheroMaker
* DistaffCounterpart: Dani Phantom, Danny's OppositeSexClone.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Overshadowing looks really, really similar to possession albeit benign. It would be prime candidate for InsistentTerminology if anyone connected the dots.
** Sam, Tucker, and Jazz trying to convince Danny to let them help him sort out his problems and that [[spoiler:he doesn't have to get rid of his powers]] in "Phantom Planet".
* TheDoorSlamsYou: Skullker does this to Danny in one episode.
%% It's been a long time since I last watched the series, so please edit this if you remember!
* TheDragon: Fright Knight seems to love this as he fights for both Pariah Dark and [[spoiler:Dark Danny]].
* DramaBomb: "The Ultimate Enemy." Period. The show had, for one and a half seasons, chugged along its storyline with a fairly cheerful and optimistic tone. Then "The Ultimate Enemy" aired and was, hands-down, the most serious and disturbing episode in the entire show, leaving many viewers speechless upon its first airing.
* DramaticDrop:
-->'''Sam:''' We haven't seen Danny or Valerie in hours!\\
'''Jack:''' Ah, they're fine. They've been up in Danny's room! Alone! For hours!\\
''Sam drops her tea''.
* DramaticWind: Parodied in "Identity Crisis" by the pure superhero version of Danny, who has this going at ''all'' times, befitting his LargeHam status.
* DreamWeaver: Nocturne, the Ghost of Sleep, demonstrates the power to manipulate dreams in "Frightmare."
* DrivingStick: in the episode "Bitter Reunions"
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In the "Ultimate Enemy", [[spoiler: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."]]
* DungeonmastersGirlfriend: Jazz.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After having lot of trouble during the whole series, in the last episode "Phantom Planet", things end well for Danny and his friends.
* 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}}''.
** And then in the FOP episode focusing entirely on the origins of Crash Nebula, the comic book that Crash's original form (before he became Crash Nebula) is reading at the beginning of the episode has a picture of Danny Phantom on the back cover.
* EggSitting: Danny and Valerie, Dash and Paulina, Tucker and Sam all are in the same "this bag of flour is your baby" project for health class in "Life Lessons".
* EnemyMine: Danny and Vlad in "Reign Storm" (against the Ghost King) and "Torrent of Terror" (against Vortex).
** Danny and Dash had to work together against Skulker in "Micro-Management", as did Danny and Valerie in the ChainedHeat episode, "Life Lessons".
** "Reign Storm" also takes this a step further by [[spoiler:forcing Danny to unite every ghost he's ever met to defeat the Ghost King]].
*** Done again in the GrandFinale when [[spoiler:Danny had to get everyone, human and ghost, to work together to save both the earth and the Ghost Zone]].
* EpisodeTitleCard: Done in the fashion of 50's horror movies, no less, with the GrandFinale as the only exception.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first episode's ColdOpen gives little ones to each of the main characters in the form of their responses to Jack.
-->'''Jack:''' So, Danny! You and your little friends want to hunt ghosts...
-->'''Danny:''' Uh, a-actually, Dad, I wanna be an astronaut.
-->'''Sam:''' Sorry Mr. Fenton. I ''was'' into ghosts, but they’re so mainstream now; they’re like cell phones.
-->'''Tucker:''' Waste ''these'' looks and all ''this'' charisma hunting ghosts? Criminal.
* EternalEnglish: You would think that someone who died 1600 years ago would ''not'' be speaking Modern American English. Also, the one non-English speaker speaks ''modern'' Esperanto.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: All of Danny's ghost enemies hold an annual truce with any and all other ghosts (including half-ghosts like Danny) so that they can celebrate Christmas. When they discover the Ghost Writer broke the truce, they are ''not'' happy, [[EnemyMine teaming up with Danny to stop him]], and save Christmas.
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: "Attack of the Killer Garage Sale", "Public Enemies", "Double Cross My Heart", let's just say the series is riddled with this.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Danny and Sam, despite their [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend vehement denials]].
* EverythingIsOnline: And therefore vulnerable to being hacked via one of Tucker's [=PDA=]s.
* EvilAlbino: Freakshow.
* EvilCounterpart: Plasmius and Dark Danny both qualify.
* EvilDiva: Ember.
* EvilLaugh:
** Dark Danny has a rather nice one.
** Vlad's done a couple during his time. The most striking would be the beginning to "Kindred Spirits".
** It is debatable if Ghostwriter's "maniacal/evil nerd-laugh" counts.
* EvilMakeover: Danny, Sam and Vlad each get one. Fans really dig how their looks (and voices) turned out. Wow. EvilIsSexy indeed.
* EvilPlan: While the [[MonsterOfTheWeek particular episode's ghost(s)]] might have their own agenda, [[BigBad Vlad's]] plan stays the same until his VillainDecay in Season 3: Kill Jack, make Maddie his wife, and make Danny his son.
* ExpendableClone: No one, least of all Danny, seems particularly bothered when Danny [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman destroys the less-human looking clones]]. Only the human-looking Danielle gains his sympathy. This is subverted, however, by the fact that Danny ''also'' doesn't seem to be bothered when he destroys the so-called "perfect clone" of himself, which would be, in theory, at least as "human" as his OppositeSexClone Dani.
** This is {{justified|Trope}} by the face that the previous clones weren't fully sentient and if the "perfect clone" awoke, Vlad would've taken out the original.
** Vlad himself only considered the "perfect clone" human, even [[WellDoneSonGuy rejecting]] the only person who probably loved him. NiceJobFixingItVillain.
* {{Exposition}}: Particularly awkward, repetitive uses of AsYouKnow, TellMeAgain, [[TalkingToHimself Talking to Themselves]], PostponedQuestion, etc.
** MrExposition: Frostbite's ''only'' sole character trait.
* ExpositoryThemeTune
* {{Expy}}:
** Star is Veronica Star from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', all grown up. Same name? Check. Blonde? Check. Satellite to a non-white RichBitch? Check. A cheerleader? Check. The only major difference is that she is voiced by Tara Strong, not Grey Delisle.
** Dash is an expy of Flash Thompson of ''SpiderMan'': bullies Fenton, admires Phantom and he's a jock.
** Tucker is an expy of Steve Urkel from ''Series/FamilyMatters'', only without the annoying nasal voice.
** The Guys In White are a pretty obvious expy/parody of the ''Film/MenInBlack'' comic/film series, replacing aliens with ghosts.
** Vlad Masters is clearly an expy of NormanOsborn. He's rich, he's a crazed lonely man, he's got a dual identity, just give him a son and you've got the complete package. His origin, meanwhile, is a direct reference to [[DoctorDoom Victor Von Doom's]], with Jack standing in for Reed Richards.
*** He could also be considered an Expy for {{Dracula}}. His appearance, fact that he lives in the castle, and even shares the same first name as the historical Vlad Dracula III (AKA "Vlad Tepes"/"Vlad The Impaler"). [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally, Vlad WAS going to be a vampire]] until ExecutiveMeddling declared the concept "too occult" and made him a half-ghost instead. Both women that Vlad and Dracula fall in love with have names that start with the letter "M" (Dracula falls in love with ''Mina'' Harker and Vlad falls in love with ''Maddie'' Fenton.) Oh, and they also at one point use a [[SdrawkcabName backward-spelled "alias" of their own name"]] (IE: Vlad has "Dalv" and Dracula has "Alucard".)
** Lancer is possibly an Expy of J. Jonah Jameson from SpiderMan.
** Freakshow and Lydia are seen as parallels to SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker and Harley Quinn, respectively. Not surprising, as Butch Hartman seems to be a fairly big fan of superhero comics.
** It's likely that Desiree, the LiteralGenie, is an expy of [[Series/IDreamOfJeannie Jeannie]].
** [[TheJeeves Hobson]] from "Livin' Large" has the same job, appearance, personality, voice, and ''[[TheyJustDidntCare name]]'' as John Gielgud's character from ''Film/{{Arthur}}''.
** Just look at Danny and try to say that he doesn't remind you of [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Chip Skylark, Timmy, or Cosmo]].
*** Some people have also noticed similarities between Danny and Spider-Man himself.
**** Danny is indeed an obvious expy (or variant) of Spider-Man, in the same way that ''ComicBook/{{Static}}'' or The Leopard from Lime Street are expies of Spider-Man.
** 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 [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Onslaught]] (taking out his archenemy's dark side and being a combination of it and the hero's).
** Does Ember remind you of [[KaBlam another girl with blue hair in a ponytail, a short fuse, and a great singing voice?]]
** The aforementioned [[HelloKitty Sayonara Pussycat]]. Also see BilingualBonus.
* FailOSuckyname: Before he tells the entire population of Amnity Park that his name is Danny Phantom, the name that the public used for Danny's ghost form was "Inviso-Bill".
* FakeOutMakeOut: Danny and Sam [[TropeNamer coined the term]], and are quick to uncomfortably realize their own reactions were more sincere than either suspected.
* FallenHero: Danny's [[BadFuture future]] [[FutureMeScaresMe self]] most definitely, irrevocably, very disturbingly and with extreme violence and prejudice.
* FallenPrincess: Valerie.
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Danny's human half in his BadFuture.]] So much so that Vlad refuses to divulge any of the details.
** The entire ''world'' outside of Amity Park has been destroyed. What do you think happened to all of the people?
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: [[spoiler: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''.]]
* FangsAreEvil: Vlad, evil Danny.
** Somewhat subverted and lampshaded with Ghostwriter's "Piranha-fangs".
* FantasticRacism: Most ghosts don't like humans and most of the human cast are terrified of ghosts. It gets creepy when Danny hears about his parents discussing what to do with his alter ego's remains if they ever caught him.
* FatIdiot: Jack Fenton, or so Vlad would claim. (Jack is actually a subversion.)
* FateWorseThanDeath: In "Reign Storm", not only does Pariah Dark get sealed back into his sarcophagus for the rest of eternity, but he gets sealed back into his sarcophagus for the rest of eternity ''backwards.''
* FightUnscene: Economy animation causes lackluster fighting scenes in what is otherwise an ''Action''/Comedy series. This improves somewhat starting around the second half of Season 2 due in part to storyboarder George Goodchild.
* FlamingHair: Dark Danny and Ember [=McLain=].
* {{Flanderization}}: By Season 3, many suffered from this.
* FlightOfRomance: Foreshadowing the finale.
-->'''Sam:''' It's -- nice. Flying is nice.
* FlyingBrick
* {{Flynning}}: That sword fight between Danny and Vlad in "Infinite Realms".
* FogFeet: Danny often had a ghost-like tail.
* ForeignExchangeStudent: One episode has a Hungarian transfer student coming in to be Sam's RomanticFalseLead. [[spoiler:Turns out that he was an American guy putting on a show just to mess with Sam.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: ''Loads''. A lot of it is really subtle and hard to catch until you rewatch things, but two good examples: the ectopusses Danny fights in episode 1 are sent by Vlad (who only shows up in the seventh). In the background, Valerie says "Mrs. Spectra says I worry too much about material possessions" in "My Brother's Keeper." The next episode, it's the loss of her material possessions that drives her to become a very aggressive ghost hunter.
** Valerie tells Sam in "Reign Storm" that she'd better make a move on Danny, [[RelationshipUpgrade before someone else does.]] Soon enough, Valerie and Danny start dating, if only for a short period.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Danny tends to forget about his ability to become intangible.
* ForgottenAnniversary: When the anniversary gift goes to the ghost world...guess what happens. [[spoiler:Subverted in that it isn't Jack's Anniversary present for Maddie but rather a present for his Sister-In-Law's anniversary of her Divorce.]]
* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Danny (though Sam was very unimpressed).
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: "Team Phantom" - Danny is choleric for good leadership skills, but with highly emotional personality; Tucker is sanguine because he's fun-loving; Jazz (though not depressive) is melancholic/leuquine for her kind but perfectionist persona; and Sam is phlegmatic because she's a responsible [[DeadpanSnarker Stoic Goth]].
* FreakLabAccident: ''"But then Danny took a look inside of it. There was a great big flash! Everything just changed! His molecules got all rearranged!"''
* FreakyFridayFlip: Between Danny and Poindexter.
* FriendlessBackground
* FriendlyEnemy: Vlad implied in one episode that his relationship with Danny is like this, stating "I'm sorry, but funny, joke-around Vlad isn't here today" before attacking him. This is a relationship Vlad saw with Danny during most of the series' run, on account of the villain's desire to have Danny as his surrogate son, his role as an UnwittingPawn notwithstanding.
** Played with in the AlternateTimeline in "Ultimate Enemy." [[spoiler:Danny seeks Vlad's help when his friends and family are killed, and Vlad seems to be genuinely sympathetic when Danny arrives at his door.]]
** By the end of the series, Danny was frenemies with most of the recurring ghost characters. When dealing with a problem bigger than he could handle on his own, he'd often turn to one of the ghosts for help. The fact that he was able to convince [[spoiler:nearly the entire population of the ghost zone to help save Earth]] cemented that status.
* FunnyForeigner: Subverted with Gregor. He's not funny at all, [[spoiler:his real name is Elliot, and he's from Michigan.]]
* FurryFandom: In "Reality Trip", Tucker admits aloud that he finds a wolf lady to be "hot".
-->'''Tucker:''' That may be the hottest geek I've ever laid eyes on.\\
(The wolf lady transforms into a more feral-looking wolf).\\
'''Sam:''' Yeah? How about now?\\
'''Tucker:''' Yeah. Still hot.
* FutureBadass: The Box Ghost.
* FutureMeScaresMe: Danny's future-self isn't exactly what he'd hope it to be. Then again, not many people want to grow up to be a rampaging sociopath.
* GadgeteerGenius: Tucker, though Jack and Maddie actually ''make'' all their own gear.
* GasMaskMooks: Most non-operative GIW hunters wear masks that resemble gas masks.
* {{GASP}}: In the finale, among other places.
* {{Geek}}: Tucker (technically a "Techno-Geek"), Mikey, Nathan/Lester, etc.
* GeekyTurnOn: Whenever Maddie shows her ActionMom or ghost hunting skills, Jack's usual response is "''Man'' that's hot!".
* GhostlyGoals: Which (if any) ghosts have "unfinished business" and will pass on after completing it is up for debate, considering the show never addressed afterlife beyond the Ghost Zone; however, almost every ghost Danny fights is the "attack the living" type.
* GirlsNightOutEpisode: Aptly titled "Girls' Night Out", featuring Jazz, Maddie and Sam stopping Spectra, Kitty and Ember from making all the men disappear.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Danny's eyes glow green even in human form when he gets too angry.
* GoodColoursEvilColours: 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).
* GondorCallsForAid: "Reign Storm" where Danny, Vlad and Valerie have to ally to stop a BigBad
** "Phantom Planet", where Danny has to enlist much of the population of the Ghost Zone (both friends and enemies) to save the world from [[spoiler:an asteroid.]]
* TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil: Team Phantom - good; Vlad, Valerie, and some of Danny's ghostly enemies - bad; most of Danny's RoguesGallery - evil.
* GoshDangItToHeck
* GoshHornet: In "13", when Tucker disturbs a beehive in the middle of lunch period and chaos ensues.
* {{Goth}}: Sam is said to be goth and goes between Perky and Gloomy, but more often comes off as an activist hippie who wears black.
* GottaCatchThemAll: "Reality Trip" (and even the series' theme song).
* GrandFinale: "Phantom Planet".
* GrandTheftMe: See FreakyFridayFlip. Also Kitty's [[DemonicPossession possession]] of Paulina--in both instances, the ghost attempts to impersonate the human.
* GreatBigBookOfEverything:
** "Fright Night" - The TokenTrio use a book to learn about the Fright Knight.
** "Reality Trip" - The trio use a book to find out about the Reality Gauntlet and find out it was written by the EvilAlbino.
** "Infinite Realms" - Vlad mysteriously has a book with information about the Infi-Map in it.
* GreenEyedMonster: Sam gets really annoyed whenever Danny starts drooling over Paulina.
** In the episode 'Double Cross My Heart', Danny grows increasingly irritated about Sam's crush on the new transfer student.
-->'''Sam:''' I've been looking for you.\\
'''Danny:''' Where, in Gregor's locker?\\
'''Sam:''' Whoa. Thank you, Joe Hostility.
* GreenEyes: Danny in ghost-mode.
* GreenThumb: Undergrowth [[spoiler:and Sam]] in "Urban Jungle".
* GroupieBrigade: One episode focused on this when Danny Phantom (by this point, a well known hero and celebrity) is on the run from screaming teenage fans; most of which come from his own school. He had to secretly [[SecretIdentity turn human]] to get away from the crazed mob.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Apparently, the accident turned Danny into a "half-ghost", which is refered to as "halfa".
* {{Hammerspace}}: One exactly one occasion, Danny is shown carrying the Fenton Thermos by a shoulder strap. The rest of the time, he just pulls it from behind his back, seemingly out of nowhere.
* HandBlast: While not really a thing ghosts usually do, Danny can fire ectoplasmic blasts or "Ghost Rays" from his hands.
* HandWave: Various.
** You could say that the entire concept of a "half-ghost" is this. The mechanics behind it is never really explained, and many a fan has tried to figure out how being half-dead really works.
* HannibalLecture: Vlad and Spectra.
-->'''Spectra:''' Look at you? What are you? A ghost trying to fit in with humans or some creepy little boy with creepy little powers?
-->'''Danny:''' Both! …Neither! I don't know!
-->'''Spectra:'''You’re a freak! Not a ghost, not a boy! Who cares for a thing like you?
* HappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:The world is saved from a giant asteroid, Jack and Maddie (and arguably the whole world) knows and accepts Danny's identity as a [[HalfHumanHybrid half ghost]], Danny is regaled as a hero around the world, the BigBad has been banished from the planet, and [[FirstGirlWins Danny and Sam]] get together in the end]].
* HappilyMarried: Jack and Maddie Fenton.
* HarmlessFreezing: Subverted, as it was only used on ghosts who were unaffected.
* HartmanHips: Maddie, Valerie, Paulina, etc... it ''is'' a Hartman series...
-->"Man, that's hot!"
** Sam in "Urban Jungle", but otherwise she's quite [[IncrediblyLamePun trimmed]].
* HehHehYouSaidX: In "Pirate Radio", after Youngblood and his pirates swipe the Fenton Ghost Shield, Youngblood turns to his parrot for the term, to which he says 'booty'. Youngblood, his crew, and even Tucker giggled at the word.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Poor, poor Danny...
* HeroicWillpower: Displayed, surprisingly enough, by none other than Jack Fenton in Bitter Reunions. At the time of the episode, he was the only individual without ghost powers to ever stave off an overshadowing, even if for a short period.
* HeyItsThatVoice: This show had not only a multitude of popular voice actors in its regular lineup, but often hired famous Hollywood actors to voice the villains. (Yep, [[MarkHamill even Undergrowth]].)
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Vlad: The purpose for getting the Skeleton Key isn't revealed until another episode - which in turn holds another hidden agenda, [[spoiler:taking the Fenton Ecto-suit and the loyalty of the Fright Knight.]] While the first is dealt with, the show's abrupt end never showed the conclusion/purpose of the latter. Also fitting the ghost-hunting equipment he gives Valerie, [[spoiler:the purpose of which we find out over a season later - that being giving him resources to clone Danny.]]
* HighSchool
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Happens to Vlad more often then not, but really comes to a head in the series finale when [[spoiler:he makes a BatmanGambit to take over the world in exchange for saving them, revealing his ghost half to everyone in the process. This backfires horribly resulting in him being self-exiled from Earth and drifting in space, if not dead.]]
** Also happens to Danny when Jazz accidentally sucks him into the Fenton Thermos in "Secret Weapons".
* HollywoodNerd: Danny, especially when standing beside Tucker.
* {{Homage}}: Multiple. The Goth Bookstore showcases George [=McFly=]'s book from ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' on its shelves. When Danny collapses from cold in "Urban Jungle", he wakes up floating in his underwear in a water tank a la ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''. Then there's "three for the [=OpCenter=]" as they "beam up" to the upper level of the Fenton house. And those are just the really obvious ones. There's more than a few examples in dialogue as well.
-->'''Danny:''' [[Franchise/StarWars He's not the ghost you're looking for]].\\
'''GIW:''' [[Film/ANewHope He's not the ghost we're looking for]].
** To add into the "Back to the Future" references, "Masters of All Time" has a blink-it-and-you'll-miss-it" cameo of Marty [=McFly=] in the group shot of the 80's college student (wearing his infamous red "life jacket") and an even cooler homage: the clock tower on the school reads 10:04. ''Awesome''.
*** Adding yet again to the "Back to the Future" references, the first reference is found in "Splitting Images", the fifth episode of the first season. Marty can be found this time as one of the kids in the 50s version of Casper High.
*** And hilariously, Danny and (Animated) Marty are [[HeyItsThatVoice voiced by the same person!]]
** Vlad's mansion being empty of servants may be a reference to Dracula, who likewise had a huge, (mostly) empty castle.
** Many references to ''StarWars'' are seen throughout the series, as creator Butch Hartman is a major fan of the franchise.
** After a ninja [[{{Flynning}} whirls his nunchucks about]], Danny deadpans "I so don't have time for this", and [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk sucks him into the Fenton Thermos rather than fight him]].
*** The same happens again in Public Enemies, sans the one liner, and he actually blasts the guy instead of using the Fenton Thermos.
** [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo The Groovy Gang and Scaredy Cat]].
** The gang goes to [[FanConvention Comic Con]] in one episode. If we list specifics, we'd be here all night, so let's just say that all the basics and more are covered.
* HornedHairdo: Both Vlad and Spectra sport this.
* HowDoIShotWeb: Whenever Danny develops a new power. Or, in the case of "Memory Blank", has to relearn how to use them.
** A couple of times, it's more [[HowDoIShotWeb How Did I Just Shoot Web]]?
* HughMann: Amorpho.
* TheHunter: Valerie.
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: Danny. Also Skulker, in a subversion: he doesn't do it for the greater good, he just does it for the sake of hunting them.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Basic plot of "Life Lessons", combined with EggSitting. Also defines Skulker's character to a tee.
* HurricaneOfPuns: Probably more prominent in "Beauty Marked" than any other episode, as Danny found at least a dozen for his ax-wielding opponent.
* HypnoTrinket: Freakshow's staff in "Control Freaks".
* HypocriticalHumor: Sam got upset with Danny for using his powers to spy on her and Gregor, but when Danny was spending time with Valerie, Sam wasn't exactly keeping her nose to her own business.
* AnIcePerson: Season 3 Danny.
* IdTellYouButThenIdHaveToKillYou: "You three have seen too much. You must be eliminated before you permanently alter the time stream."
* IdiotBall: Vlad grabs it firmly in Reign Storm.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Tucker.
** Amorpho, though not so much "special" as "noticed, good or bad".
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Danny to Tucker in "What You Want", Sam to Danny in "Control Freaks".
* ImpairmentShot: Danny wakes up to see Vlad and [[spoiler:Dani]] out of focus in "Kindred Spirits".
* 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?
* InconvenientItch: In one episode, Danny and Valerie end up in the Ghost Zone and are forced to team up against Skulker. After a while, they end up trapping him, tying him up, and leaving him on the floor as they exit the zone. At that point Skulker exclaims:
-->'''Skulker:''' Err...Guys, there is a problem... ''my nose is itching''.
* INeedToGoIronMyDog: Danny often has to come up with excuses (sometimes involving SuspiciouslySpecificDenial) on the fly so that he can get away and transform. His friends and sister will also up with some strange ones to cover for him.
-->'''Danny:''' (noticing Box Lunch) A ghost? Here? (to Jazz) Now get out of my room!\\
'''Jazz:''' We're in the kitchen... (also noticing Box Lunch) ... but ''if that's your attitude, then I don't want to see you ... or ... anything you do in here for the next ... several minutes!'' (exit stage left).
* InfantImmortality: Averted in "[[TheMovie The Ultimate Enemy]]" which shows the only cold-blooded murder committed in the series and the accidental deaths of [[spoiler:Jack, Maddie, Mr. Lancer, Jazz, Sam and Tucker]]. Sidney Poindexter may also be an aversion, but he's already a ghost. An annoying one at that.
* InformedJudaism: Actually averted, if you pay attention - Grandma Manson occasionally uses Yiddish words when she's otherwise speaking English, and Manson is a fairly common Jewish last name. Ironic since Sam's parents are characterized as [=WASPs=].
* {{Invocation}}: Danny's "Going Ghost!" is just a habit to say when he changes, it's not necessary.
** Lampshaded the first time he meets Vlad.
-->'''Vlad:''' You have a battle cry; hilarious!
* IronicEcho: FutureBadass Box Ghost: "''Beware.''"
* IronicEchoCut: Borrowed from [[FairlyOddparents FOP]].
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Ironically, ''Valerie'' severs her relationship with Danny (Fenton) before it can start because she doesn't want him to get hurt because of her job hunting ghosts, including Danny Phantom.
* TheJailer: Walker.
* {{Jerkass}}: Vlad, especially in [[spoiler:the series finale, after he reveals his ghost powers to the world. Jack, while surprised at this, is willing to overlook it and try to rebuild their friendship. Vlad coldly blows this off however since he thinks his plans are coming to fruition. When they don't though, he tries crawling back to Jack. Say the least, his chance at redemption is long since gone and Jack leaves him to rot.]]
** A bit of AlternativeCharacterInterpretation can cause the Ghostwriter to be this. He causes the whole world to torture Danny because Danny ''accidentally'' incinerated a Christmas poem he wrote. Sure, he considered it his MagnumOpus, but what self-respecting writer considers a ''Christmas poem'' his greatest work? And if it really ''was'' that important, he just could've used his power to [[RewritingReality rewrite reality]] and make it so that Danny never incinerated it. In order to torture Danny, he breaks an annual Christmas truce that EVERY ghost follows.
* JerkJock: Dash and Kwan are insufferable that way.
** Though Kwan gets HiddenDepths by portraying his bullying [[InWithTheInCrowd as a way to get friends--shallow or not--because he doesn't feel like he belongs anywhere]]. In a way, he's like Danny, who at the beginning was also trying to find his place.
* JiveTurkey: The second episode has Mr. Lancer trying to speak rap using a "How to Talk Slang" book.
** Hey Technus, your language is FAR OUT, but your execution is FUNKY FRESH.
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: Danny invades the dreams of his friends in order to snap them out of Nocturne's control in "Frightmare".
* JustAKid: Danny gets this a lot. His in-universe nickname ''is'' "Ghost Boy". More notably, Vlad does this twice, once almost calling it out ("Bitter Reunions"), the other as more of an insult ("Reign Storm"). Clockwork also does this once, but it's justified - he's trying to explain the nature of time and his own existence to someone who's probably flunking high school math. ("Why am I bothering? You're ''fourteen''.")
** Valerie also remarks this about herself when her ghost-hunting benefactor reveals himself. "But why me? I'm, like, fourteen."
* KickTheDog: "Besides, shouldn't you be failing a test, kicking a puppy, or beating up somebody weaker than you now?"
* KidsAreCruel: Poor, poor Danny....
** Tucker is also a victim of this.
* KidFromTheFuture: Box Lunch, daughter of The Box Ghost and The Lunch Lady.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: {{Inverted}} in a sense -- Vlad ([[CaptainObvious the villain]]) is a huge Packers fan.
* LamePunReaction: Danny is a master of ''really bad puns''. Also lampshaded once in "Shades of Gray" and "Beauty Marked".
-->Hey, another "ax" pun!
** Puns are used as lead-ins to commercial breaks with alarming frequency. As narrated by Ghost Writer:
-->(A giant Nutcracker appears)\\
"'Nuts!' Danny cried as he started to run."\\
({{beat}})\\
"Must we end every scene with a terrible pun?"
* LampshadeHanging: "Jazz, take it easy. There's a rhythm to these things. Ghost attacks, we exchange WittyBanter, I kick ghost butt, then we all go home [[AnAesop having learned a valuable lesson about honesty]] or some such nonsense." Also used by Dark Danny to his parents (so very justified) and subtly by Clockwork.
* LargeHam: Oh, where do we ''begin''? Box Ghost, Technus, Super Danny in "Identity Crisis", arguably Jack, and especially Undergrowth's "''I AM '''EVERYWHEEEERE!'''''"
* LastMinuteHookup: After episodes of conspicuous "hints" towards it, Danny and Sam's relationship gets serious only in the concluding two episodes of the series.
* LastNameBasis: (Penelope) Spectra.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: In Eye For An Eye, we get Vlad overshadowing BillGates and selling himself {{Microsoft}} - no, pardon, Mastersoft.
** An episode later, Vlad flips through channels, and mentions an "embarrassing celebrity arrest." Don't blink when the camera shows the tv, or you'll miss MichaelJackson.
* LeastRhymableWord: In the Christmas episode, everyone was forced to speak in rhyme as someone narrated the entire episode. That is, until someone picked up an orange, prompting him to remark irritably that nothing rhymes with orange.
** Later, in Ghost Jail...
-->'''Walker:''' Orange? (offers it to Ghostwriter).\\
'''Ghostwriter:''' ''GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME!''
*** Yet he still wears a purple coat...
** Tucker believed that the reason Danny [[spoiler:doomed us all by getting rid of his powers]] in the Finale was because nothing rhymed with Phantom.
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: In "Boxed Up Fury" when Danny saves Skulker from killer unicorns:
-->'''Skulker''': I won't tell anyone about this if you won't.
-->'''Danny''': Deal.
* LimitedWardrobe
* LiteralGenie: Desiree.
* LockedIntoStrangeness:
** Danny's change of hair-style in "Phantom Planet".
* LogicalWeakness: Ever tried screaming really loud for a really long time? This is why the ghostly wail is only ever used by Danny as a [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique last resort]], as it completely drains him and deactivates his ghost form.
* LookMaNoPlane: Danny has phased through at least one plane.
* LostForever: The original "Fright Before Christmas".
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Story of Vlad's life. [[spoiler:Losing everything he loved caused it to be Danny's future.]] Somebody hit the ResetButton.
** Which they did in "Masters of All Time". It got worse. [[spoiler:Vlad and Maddie married, but Vlad has made her into nothing more than a bitter housewife and Jack a major woobie as a half-ghost shut in. But even then, Maddie and Jack loved each other in this future and helped Danny go back and change it the right way.]] In an interesting subversion of this trope, Vlad was still evil regardless.
* LoveYouAndEverybody: Danny and Sam pull it on each ''other'' in "Claw of the Wild."
--> '''Danny:''' I couldn't imagine my life without you. [beat] Or Tucker. ''[monster appears in the distance]]'' Stay here. Wake up Wulf.
--> '''Sam:''' Be careful. I couldn't imagine my life without you either. [beat] Or Tucker.
* LovesMyAlterEgo: Pauline idolized Danny Phantom and typically dismissed Danny Fenton.
** And then happens ''in reverse'' with Valerie, who loves Danny Fenton but hates Danny Phantom! Boy just can't win.
* MadeOfIron: '''Danny'''. Even putting it down to a ghostly HealingFactor, Danny gets shocked, blasted, and slammed into walls so often any ordinary superhuman would at least fracture something. Even disregarding the title character, the ordinary human characters survive at least crippling falls without even bruising.
* MagicMirror: The mirror in Poindexter's old locker acts as a portal between Caspar High of the present and a 1950's version of the school in the Ghost Zone.
* MagicSkirt: Sam, Kitty, and Spectra.
* MagneticPlotDevice: The Ghost Portal.
* MakeAWish: Desiree.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Danny and Dark Danny's "Ghostly Wail".
* MamaBear: Maddie Fenton can get rather aggressive if either of her children are in danger.
** PapaWolf: Jack has his moments too.
* ManipulativeBastard: Vlad.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Vlad in his black suit. [[EvilIsSexy Hoo boy...!]]
* ManHug: It's brief and goes without comment, but Tucker hugs Danny at one point in "The Ultimate Enemy".
* TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife: Danny and Valerie.
* MassHypnosis: One of Ember's main abilities.
* MasterOfDelusion: Valerie, unfortunately.
** Danny, with regards to Jazz knowing his double life. "Danny! Go somewhere I can't see you and get help!" "Are you hiding here? Then I'll hide way over there where I can't see you."
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Danny.
* MarilynManeuver: It's really brief, but when the Sphinx roars at Tucker in King Tuck, Tucker's loincloth flies up into this trope.
* MeaningfulName: Most ghosts' names give clues as to some aspect of their appearance or what they can control. Example: The Box Ghost can control boxes and other cube-like objects. [[spoiler:BEWARE!!!]]
** Desiree, a genie ghost who grants wishes and lived her life trying to fulfill them for others, is simply another way to pronounce desire.
** One of Freakshow's ghosts, [[MarxBrothers Lydia The Tattooed Lady]].
** The kids all attend Casper High. Can they really complain about the constant ghost attacks?
** Also they live in Amity Park Amity being a Reverence to Amityville Horror.
** Kwan, a name Korean in origin, meaning "strong".
** Some of the episodes use punny names to hint at villain reappearances like [[spoiler:"Dr. Burt Rand" from the episode Doctor's Disorders]] or [[spoiler:M.Bursback Cruse line in Pirate Radio]] referring to [[spoiler: Burtrand, Penelope Spectra's assistant and Ember's second appearances respectively]]
* MercyLead: Valerie in "D-Stabilized". Subverted in "Maternal Instinct" by both Vlad and later Danny.
* MerryChristmasInGotham: The show has an all-round Christmas Spectacular as Danny [[spoiler:teams up with his enemies to fight someone]] who is trying to spoil the event. Unusually for a children's show, Danny ''loathes'' Christmas, but with good reason.
* MesACrowd
* TheMenInBlack: Somewhat inverted with the Guys In ''White''.
* MickeyMousing
* MindRape: Vlad's attempts to get Danny over to his side. Done later on when Vlad tries to ''remove Danny's human emotions'' (at ''Danny's'' request, chillingly). That it backfired is [[PsychoForHire putting it mildly]].
* MoodLighting: Seems to represent a drop in temperature comes with the presence of a ghost.
* MotiveDecay: Vlad's initial, intriguing motive to turn Danny into his son and apprentice, putting him on par with Slade from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', disintegrated without explanation by Season 3, leaving him nothing your average, run-of-the-mill VillainWithGoodPublicity.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Jack Fenton is made of this. When [[MesACrowd split]] into "hero" mode and "slacker" mode, hero!Danny is too.
-->Curse this infernal messy room! This looks like a job for... ''the vacuum cleaner!''
* MundaneUtility: In "Prisoners Of Love", Danny is shown using his ghost powers to vacuum high parts of walls, and clean the lab.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Vlad will do absolutely ANYTHING to claim Maddie for his own. Luckily for Jack, Danny's powers have saved him from demise more than once.
* MusicalAssassin: Ember [=McLain=].
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Lancer in "The Ultimate Enemy." Jack, Maddie, Jazz, Sam and Tucker are all "gone, but not forgotten." Lancer is just "gone".
* MythArc: Danny's coming of age as a superhero and struggle with his darkness, his deepening relationship with Sam, and the world's gradual acceptance of him - and that's just the main character.
** Jazz's arc where she slowly and eventually accepts her parents' ghost hunting habits and eventually getting into the life style; she also learns to embrace her childhood instead of acting like an adult all the time.
** 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.
** Vlad's continuous desire for Maddie and especially Danny that culminated in his VillainousBreakdown.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Vlad Masters/Plasmius, Skulker, Pariah Dark, Fright Night, and [[spoiler:Dark Danny]].
* NarrativePoem: most of the "Fright Before Christmas".
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Kind of justified since it serves as a more physical metaphor for his character growth (his powers grow as Danny himself does).
* NewSuperpower: After establishing the basic ghost-related abilities, Danny gets newer, [[RuleOfCool less-ghostly, energy-based powers]] about every other episode. One notable gain occurred in "Urban Jungle", where Danny develops ice- and cold-generation powers just in time to fight a plant ghost who is particularly vulnerable to cold. However, at least the producers were classy enough to foreshadow this new power; Danny's [[SpiderSense ghost sense]] is said to be a by-product of it. Furthermore, the episode used that power as the springboard to show the deepening friendship with Danny and Frostbite as student and mentor.
** The ice thing is also semi-justified in that ghosts are commonly associated with cold (see MoodLighting). And Vlad specifically says that Danny shoots a beam of ectoplasmic energy.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Danny gets manipulated into screwing up a few times. It almost always turns out all right and the one time it ''didn't'' found someone hitting the ResetButton. Ironically, he messed up all by himself that one time. It ended up destroying thousands, if not ''millions'' of lives... which made the ResetButton required.
** Sam had a moment herself in "Memory Blank".
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Does Technus remind you of Gilbert Gottfried? Exactly.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Plasmius' introduction. Oh, but what an introduction.
** Does it again in "Kindred Spirits".
* NonLinearCharacter: Clockwork. He always shifts through kid, adult, and old man appearances.
* NoodleIncident: The Backwash Incident involving the college trio (Vlad, Jack, Maddie).
* NotSoDifferent: Danny and Plasmius, more than Danny would like to admit.
* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: Played for laughs. When the family temporarily gets filthy rich, they move. Jack wants to call their new home "Fenton Works 2: This Time, it's Personal".
* OffModel: Sprinkled throughout the series, most notably during a period in the first season (and the beginning of Season 2) where the entire cast turned rubbery in a few episodes. [[WordOfGod Hartman has since "removed" those people.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: Dark Danny, apparently. No onscreen death actually occurs, however. He's also the only person who has [[ShadowDiscretionShot actually committed murder]].
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The Observant High Council.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense: Clockwork, who does some very questionable things. It turns out okay, but still...
-->"Danny Phantom grows up to be the most evil ghost on the planet. What do you want me to do about it?"
** Also, the Observants may count, though their perception of time is not as dynamic as Clockwork's. They were willing to kill a fourteen year old kid, but only then to save thousands of lives.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Whenever he's forced to team up with Danny, Skulker only does so to be able to continue hunting him.
** "Now go! Defeat him! So I'll be free to hunt you another day!"
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Christmastime is the only time of the year when Sam's actually cheerful. Unfortunately, everyone's so use to her sulkiness that they see it as a sign of the apocalypse.
* OrbitalKiss [[spoiler:Danny and Sam in "Phantom Planet"]], complete with FootPopping.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Most of the ghosts diverge from mainstream paranormal expectations.
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: On multiple occasions, Danny Fenton's soul is shown to be separate from Phantom. Originally happened via a forced FreakyFridayFlip with Poindexter, who was capable of morphing into Danny Phantom while in Fenton's body. Subsequently, any time Danny's ghost and human halves are split - either by the Fenton Ghost Catcher or [[spoiler:Vlad's Ghost Gauntlets in "The Ultimate Enemy"]] - the latter is conscious and active.
* OutOfOrder: "The Fenton Menace" aired after "The Ultimate Enemy" but was set beforehand.
** As did "Identity Crisis". Furthermore, despite being set afterwards, "Double Cross My Heart" and "Kindred Spirts" aired before "Reality Trip". In addition, "Urban Jungle" was the first episode of the third season to premiere, even though it was number six. The Season 3 premiere didn't even air in the U.S until after the following seven. Honestly, Nick didn't handle new episodes very well.
* OutOfSightOutOfMind: Several antagonists, but notably Dark Danny who, unfortunately, does not return.
* OutOfTheInferno: While fighting Danny, [[FutureMeScaresMe Dark Danny]] is weakened by the Spectre Deflector and hit into an oil truck, which the fire from his hair ignites. Danny walks away... [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Only for Dark Danny to emerge out of the blaze, unscathed and clutching the now-useless device.]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown He then proceeds to beat the crap out of Danny.]]
* OverprotectiveDad: Paulina's father:
-->"If you upset my daughter, we are going to have a very violent talk."
** Also, Valerie's dad, Damian, to a lesser extent. He's okay with Danny and Valerie being together, just so long as none of Danny's parents' "ghost weirdness" rubs off.
* PairTheSpares: "I am Box Lunch, daughter of the Box Ghost and the Lunch Lady!"
** Once, when Danny began dating Paulina [[spoiler:who was a ghost ''disguised'' as Paulina]], Sam got unwillingly paired up with Kwan while Tucker began dating Star. Finally, Star and Kwan hooked up with each other, allowing Sam and Tucker to both be single once more.
** [[spoiler:Ember and Skulker.]] Seriously, what?
*** Maybe she's [[{{Pun}} into heavy metal]]?
* ParrotExpowhat:
-->'''Jack:''' It's the Ecto-Exodus Alarm!\\
'''Danny, Sam and Jazz:''' The Ecto-whaty-what?
* PeopleJars: The clones in "Kindred Spirits".
* PerkyGoth: Sam, especially during the winter holiday season.
* PhantomZone: The Ghost Zone; also served as SealedEvilInACan.
* PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize
* PingPongNaivete: Danny.
* APirate400YearsTooLate: Youngblood and his pirate crew.
* PlotSensitiveItems
* PortalPicture: In "Livin' Large":
-->'''Danny:''' Okay, think fast. If I were Vlad's portal, where would I be? Woah, that is a really big, really ugly painting. Evil dudes are ''so'' predictable.
* PositiveDiscrimination: Namely, "Women are better than Men", though not as prominent as in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''. Most prominently seen in Maddie and Sam, but does show up elsewhere.
* PostVictoryCollapse: Rather often, starting in the first episode with Danny saving Tucker and Sam from the Lunch Lady, only to collapse afterward. Subverted in the climax of "[[TheMovie Ultimate Enemy]]". Eventually, he grows out of this as he gets used to his powers and develops them further.
* PowerDegeneration: The fate of the Danny clones, and almost that of Dani when overextending her powers.
* PowerDyesYourHair: When Danny first gets his powers and, subsequently, whenever he "goes ghost", his hair turns white. [[spoiler:In "Phantom Planet", when he decides to reverse the accident that gave him his ghost powers and get rid of them, he gets a streak of white in his hair, which goes away when he gets his powers back. It is even commented on in-universe.]]
* PowerGlows
* PowerIncontinence: A common theme for Danny in early Season 1, and again in "Memory Blank" in Season 2.
** Possibly Vlad pre-series. He got his powers in 1981, but got his money in 1986.
* PowerLevels: implicitly done with ColourCodedForYourConvenience; Green, Blue, Purple, Red.
* ThePowerOfRock: Ember is a villainous version of this.
* PowerTrio:
** Danny - Ego
** Sam - Superego
** Tucker - Id
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Several times throughout the series.
* RecycledINSPACE:
** Danny is [[SpiderMan Peter Parker]] [-WITH GHOST POWERS!-]
** And Jack Fenton is [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Dr. Reed Richards]], fatter and uh...not so bright.
** Dark Danny is often compared to ComicBook/{{Venom}}.
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* RelationshipResetButton: The beginning of Season 2, when [[spoiler:Desiree wipes everyone's memories and Danny forgets who Sam is.]]
* RelationshipUpgrade: Danny and Sam. No spoilers because you should have seen this coming.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers
* ReunionRevenge: Vlad subverts it in that ''he'' threw the reunion at his mansion in order to get back at Jack for the [[StartOfDarkness accident that gave him powers]] and for marrying the girl of his dreams who never noticed him at all in the first place apparently.
* RichBitch: Paulina is the common example, but Sam is a nice subversion--her family's rich, but she does everything she can to hide it and be accepted for who she is.
** Valerie also started as one.
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Maddie with Vlad (rich) and Jack (poor/middleclass) although Maddie appears to have married Jack before Vlad became rich and is disgusted by his attempts to woo her now she clearly would have choosen Jack over Vlads money even in other situations.
** More incidental Danny with Valerie(poorish) and Sam(rich). Since by missing the right episodes Sam doesn't appear wealthy, Valerie and Danny broke up before either Sam or Danny admit to being more than just friends, and Sams wealth is hardly a factor in Danny's decision this is not Danny choosing money over love. Valeries lack of wealth does factor in tp who Danny ends up with but this is because she blames ghosts for this.
* RidingIntoTheSunset: Done in the very last scene of the GrandFinale.
* RightHandCat: Vlad's cat Maddie in Season 3. Subverted at first in that it's an adorable kitten and ironic in that the suggestion in getting a cat set him to a PunctuatedForEmphasis yell.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Averted on at least one occasion.
** In the episode Memory Blank, Sam wishes she never met Danny, not realizing it would be granted. As a result both Tucker and Danny don't know Sam. Not only that but while in Danny's pictures of him and his 2 friends, Sam is missing, however Sam's pictures still has both Danny and Tucker. It helped that Sam was still wearing the Specter Deflector belt when the wish was made, that kept Desiree's magic from affecting her.
* RoguesGallery: Quite a large one at that.
* RomanticFalseLead: Paulina to Sam, Gregor to Danny.
* RosesAreRedVioletsAreBlue: When Danny [[spoiler:attempts to stop the poem spell by destroying the Ghost Writer's Quantum Keyboard]] in "The Fright Before Christmas":
-->Roses are red,\\
Violets are blue...\\
Once these fry, I'm guessing\\
This lame poem is... through?!
* RPGEpisode: "Teacher of the Year", set in the MMORPG "{{Do|esThisRemindYouOfAnything}}omed".
* RuleOfCool: Some of his attacks don't even make sense. For example, in "Urban Jungle" he creates a snowball--with EyeBeams, no less--then puts some ghost energy in it, and throws it at the villain, which pops a hole in his chest. Fair enough. But then the villain, almost immediately after healing himself, explodes from the inside with ice energy...and all of this from one snowball?
** It's [[CatsCradle Ice-Nine]]?
** In ''Livin' Large'', Danny takes a jump and Goes Ghost mid-spin then flies to go save the Ghost Zone. Because he ''can''.
* RushmoreRefacement: Freakshow did this in "Reality Trip".
* SaveBothWorlds: There have been moments where Danny has to save both the Earth and the Ghost Zone, most notably in two of the movies.
* SceneryCensor: On Vlad (thank heavens) in "An Eye for an Eye".
* ScreensAreCameras: Danny videochats with Sam and Tucker with no visible webcam.
* ScrewDestiny: Danny in TheMovie, in which he is shown a future where he's the BigBad. Chillingly, he doesn't mind until he finds out that his whole family, his friends, and (far less importantly) his English teacher died because of him. He changed his tune right quick, then.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Vlad Plasmius....Who obtained this money through less-than-legal means using his ghost-powers.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Ember pulls this in ''Pirate Radio''.
* SdrawkcabName: The DALV Company, backwards for its head, Vlad.
* SealedEvilInACan: The Fright Knight, Pariah Dark, and later [[spoiler:Dark Danny]].
** Vlad seems particularly fond of releasing these - he released Pariah Dark unintentionally, and then later on intentionally releases Vortex on the world and then quickly loses control of him.
** Any ghost trapped in the Fenton Thermos. Temporary, but still sealed away.
* SealedWithAKiss
* SecretIdentity
* SecretKeeper: Sam and Tucker; Jazz is the asymmetrical version for a while.
* SecretSecretKeeper: Jazz for a time; [[spoiler:she tips her hand in "The Ultimate Enemy"]] and graduates to regular SecretKeeper.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: "Masters of All Time", only to end up changing the change back to the way things were. Also the point of "The Ultimate Enemy" from Clockwork's point of view.
* ShapeshifterModeLock: caused by the Plasmius Maximus, as well as a few others.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Sam, if Tucker's reaction to seeing her all dolled up was any indication.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Danny and Sam were in serious denial about their relationship through most of the series, and straight-out used the phrase several times, starting in the first episode.
* ShipperOnDeck:
** Tucker, for Danny and Sam.
** Actually, even Mr. Lancer refers to them as "love birds" fairly early in the series.
** Valerie too, before she developed feelings for Danny.
** Ember actually helped them see it.
** Everyone seemed to think they were an item, or should be. Even the AlphaBitch.
* ShoutOut: To comic books, crewmembers, ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', VideoGame/{{Doom}}, and ''Franchise/StarWars''.
** Also, after forcing Danny to WalkThePlank from Youngblood's flying pirate ship:
-->'''Ember:''' [[Disney/PeterPan So...where's the splat?]]
** The name of the male who wears the amulet to become a ''dragon'' is '' '''Aragon'''. ''(Possibly a shout out to the popular book series ''Eragon''?
*** More likely Literature/TheLordOfTheRings.
** The high school is named {{Casper|TheFriendlyGhost}} High School.
-->'''Paulina:''' So you're like, [[CasperTheFriendlyGhost a friendly ghost]]?
** "Urban Jungle" has Danny [[TheEmpireStikesBack on an ice world floating in a defrosting tank in his underwear...]] just before he prepares to beat the MonsterOfTheWeek voiced by MarkHamill.
** The movie posters in Sam's basement: Film/CitizenKane, PlanetOfTheApes, Franchise/StarWars, Film/AClockworkOrange and Film/{{Jaws}}. In the same episode, see BalefulPolymorph above.
** "Darn! Right at the part where he says, '[[JerryMaguire you complete me]].'"
*** "Man, when [[BetteMidler she sings]] '[[BetteMidler Wind Beneath My Wings]]', I just go to pieces."
** At the end of Pirate Radio, some very familiar [[ThemeSong music]] plays: {{Popeye| The Sailor Man}}'s theme.
** From "Fanning the Flames": Take any requests? How about "[[Music/MichaelJackson Beat It]]"?
** At the end of "Reality Trip", Danny tells the Guys in White to leave his human self and his family alone, because [[Franchise/StarWars he's not the ghost they're looking for]], complete with a wave of his hand (which is currently sporting a [[RealityWarper reality warping gauntlet]]) to make them believe it.
*** Speaking of "Reality Trip", the whole movie revolves around the villain Freakshow assembling magical gems to be placed into the Reality Gauntlet that, when complete, allows the bearer to rewrite reality at his whim. This is a huge reference to the Marvel story ''InfinityGauntlet'', only with Freakshow in place of Thanos, and three gems instead of five.
** In "Public Enemies" when Danny fights overshadowed Kwan, the latter twirls a ghost guard's stick threateningly. Unimpressed, Danny [[Film/RaidersoftheLostArk just blasts him]].
** "What You Want" features the extremely popular (at least among Paulina and her cohorts) new movie [[Main/HelloKitty "Sayonara Pussycat"]].
** 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 Desiree.
** Ghost Rays in general look like the energy blasts from ''DragonBall'', even the way Danny fires the extra-strong ones looks like a Kamehameha.
** The chariot race in "King Tuck" is a reference to the famous scene in [[Main/BenHur Ben Hur]], complete with Messala's wheel-cutting spoke spikes.
** There are also a few shout-outs to ''Film/BackToTheFuture''. 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.
* SidekickGlassCeiling: Tucker, possibly Valerie too.
* SixthRanger: Jazz joins "Team Phantom" later in the series, though she isn't accepted so easily at first.
* SkunkStripe: shown in many characters (mostly in the RoguesGallery). Danny's hair is like this as well temporarily in "Phantom Planet".
* SlasherSmile: The majority of Danny's enemies enjoy showing these off, but Freakshow has a particularly evil one.
* SmallNameBigEgo:
** "I TECHNUS, MASTER OF ALL THINGS ELECTRONIC AND BEEPING!" He is also the one who came closest to succeeding in his plans.
** Ember.
** Vlad, unfortunately, falls under this during Season 3.
** The Fenton Family themselves. Or at least Jack - EVERYTHING they make has a "Fenton" somewhere in it, and half his inventions have his face on them somewhere. He even has a toaster that makes toast SHAPED like him!
** The Box Ghost, Master of all things Cardboard and Square.
* {{Snapback}}: In conjunction with many a BrokenAesop.
* SoapBoxSadie: Sam.
* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil
* SoundingItOut
* SpaceWhaleAesop: Remember, kids--if you cheat on tests, you will [[AxCrazy turn]] [[BadFuture evil]]!
** That is, turn evil, murder all the people close in your life [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg (and your English teacher)]], and create a CrapSackWorld where nearly every place on earth is a pile of rubble, thanks to you.
* SpeculativeFiction
* SpiderSense: "Ghost Sense".
* SpySpeak
* StalkerWithACrush: Vlad for Maddie...
* StalkerWithoutACrush: ... but he is also willing to spy on and learn everything possible about her son Danny, who he'd just love to have as a son himself.
* StarSpangledSpandex: Nocturne.
* StartOfDarkness: For Vlad via flashbacks in "Bitter Reunions".
** It can also be argued that "Splitting Images" up to "The Ultimate Enemy" is a StartOfDarkness for Danny. If you believe YouCantFightFate, then the ''entire series'' is this for Danny.
* StereoFibbing: Danny and Jazz do this in "Secret Weapons. "You two know each other?" "''No/Yes!''" "''Yes/No!''" "''Sorta!''"
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: ''"[[LampshadeHanging Hello, Danny Fenton, Danny PHANTOM]]."''
** Also '''Fre'''derick Isa'''ak Show'''enhower.
* StockSuperpowers
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: In "Splitting Images", Danny, while stuck in Poindexter's body in the Ghost Zone, contacts Sam and Tucker through the mirror to help him out. Since he looks like a green-eyed Poindexter, Sam tells him to prove his identity.
-->'''Danny''': In Second Grade, Tucker threw up in your lunchbox, but he told you Ricky Marsh did it.
-->'''Sam''': (small gasp. angry) What?! I kicked him off the monkey bars for that! (points to Tucker) It was ''you''?! (gasp of realization)
-->'''Sam and Tucker''': Danny?
* SomethingWeForgot: This happened to Mr. Lancer in the episode "Control Freaks". He was locked in the janitor's room, presumably for the entire weekend, with the janitor opening up to drop off supplies and then shutting the door.
* StopHelpingMe: Jazz to Danny in one episode, where her attempts to help Danny (including hacking into his laptop to read all the files he has on the ghosts he's fought ''and then complaining about him not telling her'', giving names to the ghosts whose names Danny already knows, and getting in his way while trying to fight said ghosts) and then she actually has the nerve to get upset after Danny yells at her for being interfering.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable This happens to Danny on several occasions, most notably by [[spoiler:Maddie]] in "Masters of All Time".
* StrawVegetarian: Goth girl Sam tries to get meat banned from the school café in favor of her parody vegetarian diet of turf (yes turf, as in grass) -- the result is mass protests from both sides. In this case, though, the trope is invoked as one half of an affectionate parody of MeatVsVeggies.
* StuffedIntoALocker: Danny, Tucker, Dash (in opening theme), etc.
** A first-season episode revolved around the ghost of a nerdy kid who was stuffed into his locker so often as a student that he now haunts it.
* SuddenSchoolUniform
* SuddenlyBilingual: Tucker with Esperanto. Semi-justified in that geeks often DO use it as a secret language and it does come back a few times in later episodes.
* SugarBowl: One of the Reality Gems alters "Gothapalooza" into one of these temporarily.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Many times. Technus - most of the time.
* {{Superhero}}
* SuperHeroOrigin: Covered in the theme song, with "Memory Blank" filling in the gaps.
* SuperheroesWearTights: Danny, in ghost form.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: One of HermansHermits' "I'm into Something Good" during a montage in "Double Cross My Heart".
** Harold Faltermeyer's "Axel F" as Danny surveys his parents' very [[TheEighties 80s]] college campus in "Masters of All Time".
** ''Walking On Sunshine'' plays as the parents depart for the [[spoiler: fake]] cruise in ''Pirate Radio''. In-universe, nobody notices that the muzak that's playing in the same episode is an easy-listening remix of [[spoiler: [[{{Foreshadowing}} Ember's theme song]]]].
* SympatheticPOV
* {{Technopath}}: Technus.
** Valerie, somewhat, after Technus upgrades her busted suit.
* TemporalParadox: "The Ultimate Enemy".
** Possibly present in "Memory Blank", as it's explicitly stated and shown that the Fenton Portal was never activated, and yet Desiree is still roaming free.
*** {{Jossed}} in Infinite Realms. There are natural ghost portals that randomly open and close.
*** Likely inverted as it was her power which made the alternate timeline to begin with.
*** Actually, her spirit never came from the Ghost Zone. She was originally trapped in a bottle in her first appearance and her release was not caused by Danny, therefore, she would be unaffected by the change.
* TenMinuteRetirement: Jack in "Mystery Meat" and "The Million Dollar Ghost", [[spoiler: Danny in "Phantom Planet"]].
* ThatDidntHappen: Sam and Tucker's AccidentalKiss.
* ThemeTuneCameo: Tucker's cell phone's ringtone in "Double Cross My Heart".
** Danny plays it on giant-robot-Technus' chest in "Attack of the Killer Garage Sale".
*** Actually, that was more of a case of MickeyMousing than anything else. Technus didn't have any musical instruments on his chest.
* ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet: In "Teacher of the Year", Tucker and Danny don't believe girls play online games. They're extremely surprised to find out the player Chaos, who [[ThatOneBoss routinely kicks their butts]], is [[SamusIsAGirl none other than Sam]]. (She did admit to using "[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill loads]] of {{cheat|ing}} {{c|lassic Cheat Code}}odes and [[GuideDangIt secret]] {{power up}}s" though.)
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Even Danny's own ''parents'' want to do this to his ghost half. And the [[TheMenInBlack Guys in White]], and their famous quote from Reality Trip.
-->"You're coming in for [[EnhancedInterrogationTechniques questioning]]-" "-and [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments]]. Lots and lots of really ''[[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman painful]]'' experiments."
* ThickLineAnimation
* ThisLoserIsYou
* ThreeAmigos: Danny, Tucker, and Sam.
* TimeMaster: [[spoiler: Clockwork, the ghost of time.]]
* TimeTravel: "The Ultimate Enemy", "Masters of All Time", and "Infinite Realms".
* TitleDrop:
-->'''Tucker:''' Long night...\\
'''Sam:''' Of 'flirting with disaster'?
* TokenTrio: Danny, Tucker, and Sam.
* TooDumbToLive: Invariably Danny and Tucker, followed by a reproachful Sam.
* TookALevelInBadass: Valerie, after she gets used to her ghost-fighting gear, and Danny himself by the end of the series.
** Does anyone remember the Box Ghost in the Dark Danny timeline? I'd say that qualifies.
-->''Beware''.
* TopHeavyGuy: Vlad. Masters not so much, but it's glaringly obvious when he fights as Plasmius.
* TotallyRadical: Executed mercilessly. Sam has even used the word "radical" on at least one occasion.
** "Stellar" has also been used a few times.
* TrainingFromHell: Sam did this to Tucker in "Micro-Management". Well, it's pretty hellish when you take into consideration he doesn't have superpowers and is only training to pass a school fitness test.
-->'''Tucker:''' ''[while climbing up a rope]'' Like chinning up to a killer bird's nest on a tree branch of ''empty lies''!
* TranquilFury: Danny entered a very coherent rage during his first true confrontation with Spectra.
-->'''Ms. Spectra:''' Can I help you?\\
'''Danny:''' No, I'm sure you can't.
* TrickDialogue
* TripleShifter: "Of course it was a late night. Every ghost I know -- and about a million I don't -- ''are loose''!"
* TruthInTelevision: Vlad can't buy the Packers because "...the city of Green Bay...won't sell them to me!" The Packers franchise is collectively owned by most of the population of Green Bay, and their original contract (which was grandfathered in and isn't allowed anymore) specifies that no single person can ever own more than 5 percent of the team and that the only way to change the ownership by-laws is to disband the team.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Vlad, Jack, and Maddie; also Danny, Tucker and Sam.
* TwoTeacherSchool
** More like three: Mr. Lancer, Ms. Tettslaff, and Mr. Faluca.
** Though in the first episode, we get a brief glimpse of more staff members at the Teachers Lounge All-Meat Buffet.
** Well, technically there's also Principal Ishiyama, but she does less teaching and more trying to run a school in the midst of ghost chaos...
* TVTeen
* TykeBomb: Danielle.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Jack and Maddie Fenton.
** Not really...to be perfectly fair, Jack isn't ugly at all, he's just very overweight and hefty.
* UndeathlyPallor: Averted/played with: Danny's skin colour sometimes changes when he goes ghost, but to a healthy tan, not a sickly pale.
* UntrustingCommunity: Danny had a serious public image problem through most of the series. This changes by the end, though - not only is his ghost half accepted as a hero, he has rabid fans. And plushies.
* UnusualEuphemism: Mr. Lancer uses book titles, while Vlad uses snack foods.
** In one episode, Vlad also gives a "[[CardCarryingVillain what in the name of evil?]]"
* UnwittingPawn: What Danny usually ends up as.
* UptownGirl: Danny and Sam, though Sam doesn't really care much about her family's comically vast fortune, rarely tells anyone about it, and the series itself only occasionally draws attention to it. Despite that, it's pretty clear that Sam's parents don't exactly like her friends, and the various [[SecretIdentity unexplainable]] ghost related hijinks that happen over the course of the series don't help much.
* UrineTrouble: In the Christmas special, we find out that a dog peed on Danny when he was an infant.
--> "And then he was looking a bit yellow in the face."
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: Three guesses who and the first two don't count.
* VillainousBreakdown: Vlad in the Season 2 Finale.
* VillainTakesAnInterest: Vlad to Danny.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Vlad is a billionaire celebrity and later becomes [[spoiler:mayor of Amity Park. Granted, he possessed the voters to win, but he keeps his position for the remainder of the season.]]
* VocalEvolution: Danny, Vlad, etc.
* VoiceOfTheLegion
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld
* TheWallsAreClosingIn: Happens during the first HalloweenEpisode, Fright Night.
* WeaponsThatSuck: The Fenton ghost thermos.
** There's also the Ghost Weasel and the Extractor, both of which are essentially high-powered ecto-vacuums.
* WeCanRuleTogether
* WeirdScience: Almost nothing in this show even resembles real science but does have a logic (r lack thereof) all its own.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Valerie. Oh, ''Valerie''...
** Vlad before his VillainousBreakdown could be interpreted as one of these as well. All he wanted was love and a family...and to get them, he resorted to the most drastic of means.
*** Undergrowth was understandably angry over too much destruction of nature, but unfortunately, how he decided to handle the situation wasn't any better.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Invoked word-for-word in "An Eye for an Eye" after Vlad demolishes the Nasty Burger.
-->'''Tucker:''' Farewell, old friend. We hardly knew ye!
* WeWillMeetAgain: Vlad and other various antagonists.
** One of Wulf's only English lines.
* WhamEpisode: "Public Enemies". While Danny's exploits up to this point were mostly low-key, below the radar, and ignorable, now the entire town is aware of his existence, and ghosts have become very real for them.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the opening scene of "Control Freaks", Danny fights off a horde of [[ItMakesSenseInContext ghostly tattoos]] by creating an energy sphere around himself; the sphere breaks out and swats the tattoos away. We never see this power on the show again.
** Due to the series being cut off while in its prime, we never found out what became of the Crown of Fire Vlad obtained after Danny defeated Pariah Dark.
** In that same episode, the Fentons and Valerie's father Damon launch a probe into the Ghost Zone. What became of this probe and whatever role it would serve would never be revealed.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: To convince Valerie to help him save Danielle from Plasmius, Danny tries to make her see she can't in good conscience harm her because she's half human.
-->'''Valerie:''' She ''is'' a ghost, and I destroy ghosts.\\
'''Danny:''' Fine, destroy ghosts! But can you really take part in destroying a ''human''?
* WhenIWasYourAge: In the end of the episode "Doctor's Disorders".
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Danny gets all his ghost hunting needs in his own basement. One episode shows his own house has a weapons' vault, a possible other source.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Vlad. He is a bit old for this character type, but still dapper. His hair turned white when he got his ghost powers, the time he turned evil, so it doubly fits.
* 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". 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".
* WickedCultured: Vlad fits this to a T.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Dark Danny, arguably. Though the whole thing about [[ForcedToWatch watching helplessly]] as your family and friends get blown up and getting your super-powered ghost half removed did give a good start... but he only started a murderous rampage ''after'' getting [[MindRape separated from his human half]]. His [[FutureMeScaresMe past self]] is extremely horrified.
** Vlad may also apply as he seemed to be largely content with his life before the accident.
** When we see him without his powers in "Masters of All Time" he's a pretty normal guy, but seeing Maddie's Ghost hunting gear sends him into a rage.
** Poor Tucker gets this ''twice''. To be fair, it really wasn't his fault the first time.
* WrapItUp: Due to the series having its plug pulled, Phantom Planet was designed as a last minute GrandFinale. Athough many found it to be an epic ending, others felt that there were a few loose ends left untied.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Valerie.
* XMeetsY: ''SpiderMan'' meets ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}''.
** With {{Batman}} style gadgets.
** And ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''. [[GottaCatchThemAll "Gotta catch 'em all"]], y'know.
** It's also somewhat like ''DNAngel''.
* XRaySparks: Vlad electrocutes Danny in one episode, resulting in this briefly.
* YeOldeButcheredEnglish: When Danny, Sam, and Tucker accidentally stumble into Salem, Massachusetts during the 1600s.
* YouCantFightFate: ...according to Danny's future self (and a few fans), anyway.
-->"...Me? I'm inevitable."\\
"I'm ''still here''. I still exist. That means ''you'' still turn into ''me''."
** Seemingly subverted by the Observants at the end, when they state that Dark Danny "exists outside of time" and, as such, does not require a StableTimeLoop to justify his existence.
* YouLookLikeYouveSeenAGhost: "Or something really scary that we ''don't'' see every day!"
* YouMeddlingKids:
-->'''Tucker:''' Sweet! I always wanted to be a Meddling Kid!

* InfantImmortality: Averted hard in "[[TheMovie The Ultimate Enemy]]" which shows the only cold-blooded murder committed in the series and the accidental deaths of [[spoiler:Jack, Maddie, Mr. Lancer, Jazz, Sam and Tucker]]. Sidney Poindexter may also be an aversion, but he's already a ghost. An annoying one at that.

* SeriousBusiness: The fandom itself. Seriously. TakeOurWordForIt.

* SomethingWeForgot: This happened to Mr. Lancer in the episode Control Freaks. He was locked in the janitor's room, presumably for the entire weekend, with the janitor opening up to drop off supplies and then shutting the door.

** In the episode Memory Blank, Sam wishes she never met Danny, not realizing it would be granted. As a result both Tucker and Danny don't know Sam. Not only that but while in Danny's pictures of him and his 2 friends, Sam is missing, however Sam's pictures still has both Danny and Tucker.

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy:
** Danny Phantom himself.
** Gregor[[spoiler:/Elliot.]]
** To some, Vlad. He was not originally white-haired.