Now from what I can tell there are two main explanations for Danny’s ghost powers.
The first one is the “canon” version. As in it’s more accurate to the explanation in the show but this is the phandom so it obviously differs somewhat. This one says that when Danny turned on the portal it put him in direct connect with an unlimited supply of ectoplasm as the portal opened on top of him. At the same time, massive volts of electricity ran through him, binding the ectoplasm to his DNA. Honestly I like this version less but I think it makes more sense from a logical perspective if you want a like actual explanation.
The second version is my favorite. It’s much more fantasy and mystical. And in my opinion is better for angst, which everyone knows is the most important thing in the phandom. Anyway this theory says that when Danny turned on the ghost portal it opened inside of him, not just on top of him. This caused him to simultaneously exist in the ghost zone and the material realm. When this happened, Danny was hit with a huge surge of electricity, killing him. But things don’t affect people the same way in the ghost zone so can you really expect that nothing weird happened when he was in both. It caused him to die in one dimension but survive in another, making him a paradox existing as both dead and alive. I like to think that perspective changes depending on which dimension he’s in.
Anyway that’s just my take on it and whoever came up with all this is a genius.
Can we talk about how young Danny is? He was fourteen when he died. FOURTEEN!!
He defeated the literal king of the ghost zone, a version of himself that was powerful enough to end the world, and stopped the actual destruction of the planet (arguably two whole dimensions but still). And he did all this before the end of the year, or the end of the next year I don’t remember.
I think this is why we as a phandom are so drawn to the idea of ghost children, because Danny is a child. I want to see him be a fourteen year old, not quite a teen not quite a child. I want to see him act his age.
I want to see him with mentors, heaven knows his parents don’t fit the bill and Jazz is just a teen herself. But Danny would have to go through more changes in himself and his mental state than anyone could imagine, he’s need some sort of parental figure to guide him.
This is a long winded way of saying I want more Lost Time. Thank you.
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Wow this is awesome. A little Elsa Danny.
Okay hear me out but Danny singing Let It Go. He has the ice powers and everything. He could just be messing around maybe singing into a hairbrush when he throws his hand up and ice grows everywhere.
Extra props if it’s just him randomly losing control like he did in the beginning of the show. Then he’d really be Elsa.
I just imagine him going to school trying to pretend everything he touches isn’t turning into ice. Actually that could make pretty good angst…
Clark opened Batman's contingency plans, how you make a contingency plan for yourself he didn't know, but Batman managed to make two dozen. The league looked on behind him nervously, if this didn't work they'd have to make a plan themselves. Making plans was something Batman had always been the best at and a skill he'd retained mind contolled.
The first contingency plan only contained 2 things; a phone number and... Another phne number. Barry voiced the words all of them were thinking "Just two numbers, That's all? Whose are they?
Dinah sighed "only one way to find out." Clark called the first number, on the third ring someone picked up.
"Who is this and what do you want?" The voice was young, way too young.
"This is the Justice League-"
"What happened to Batman?" The voic- no kid, it had to be a kid. But why would Batman put a kid's number on his own contingency plan? -asked, taking on a more urgent tone.
Oliver spoke this time "He's being mind controlled, your number was in his first contingency plan"
The voice gained a little tone of surprise. "My number was in the contingency plan? Was there anything else?"
"Just another phone number, ____"
"That's agent A's, I'll make my way over now" The whole league was stunned. Did the kid just hang up? Since when did Batman know kids? Batman would have a lot of questions to answer when this ended.
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Sure enough, half an hour later a kid walked into the watchtower. The kid was wearing a red, yellow and green costume and sported a domino mask.
Barry felt very dumb at the moment. "Are you a hero?"
"I'm Robin, Batman's partner"
"Doesn't Batman work alone?"
"Batman is in denial about being a big softy and doesn't like telling you anything." Did the kid just- "Also you should annoy him more, he keeps telling me I should stop and he uses you lot as an example" This kid must have no survival instincts.
Robin walked up to the big computer and logged in... How did this kid have access? The next thing they knew footage was pulled up- Was that from Batman's cowl?! "The footage got cut off, what I saw before that suggests Batman didn't lose any of his intellect under the mind control.
"Is that bad?" Superman didn't know why he trusted Robin's analysis but he did.
"He'll be a harder opponent to deal with but it might be easier to break the mind control or anticipate his next move" The boy's eyes kept darting across the screen, taking in information- Communications offline, Villain Profiles, Street footage -before he stood up.
Robin looked at each of the heroes individually with a calculating eye. "I have a plan, but I'd prefer to have your help than do it without" The members of the Justice League shared a hesitant glance.
Bonus:
"Don't ever make me have to fight you again!"
"I can remove you from the continge-"
"That's not what I meant! ..I'd be more worried if i couldn't do anything about it"
"I'll try to not get mind controlled again."
"...I forgive you"
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I know someone’s brought this up but like, according to phanon Danny knows a lot of really powerful ghosts? Can you imagine him just casually namedropping Clockwork or Pandora and every ghost around him just freezing.
Or better yet, Danny just deciding to absolutely mess with Vlad who’s convinced they don’t exist.
Green Arrow #22 - "Fresh Water Kills V" (2025)
written by Chris Condon art by Montos & Adriano Lucas
Few people know this, but Danny is a great cook.
He had to be. He was living with neglectful parents who sometimes forget about their children and forget to eat themselves. Sam and Tucker love his cooking as he cooks both meat and vegan dishes.
Amity Park has a yearly cooking competition and technically Danny's won it 4 years in a row.
The first year Jack and Danny entered the competition. Danny did the cooking and Jack added a "Fenton secret ingredient". That secret ingredient being ectoplasm. That day the food tasted the judges just as much as the judges tasted the food. The Fenton family was banned from the cooking competitions from that day forth.
The second year Danny entered the competition under a fake name. Unfortunately Dash had heard about him entering the competition and stole Danny's food for his own and winning the competition. Fortunately Sam stole the ribbon from Dash and gave it to Danny.
The third year Danny made sure that Dash couldn't steal his food but Cujo had also followed Danny into the competition and the bully had spread rumors about Danny putting dog in his food. And again Danny was disqualified. Sam bought him his own trophy because she knows he'd win, but it wasn't the same.
The fourth year Danny entered again, but this time so did the lunch lady and when the food was being judged people ran due to the lunch lady being a ghost the competition was canceled and no one won.
This year Danny was going to win. He had always used the recipes provided to him by his pen pal Alfred pennyworth and he was going to win fair and square and prove he was a good cook.
Thanks for the correction. Honestly I know nothing about what happens to the body after you die so I just posted what I had in mind.
I do think that opens up even more possibilities though. Especially when wondering if he’s dead or alive. I mean the stiffness went away right? But there are so many other things that happen once someone dies like you mentioned. I think he would struggle with the identity crisis but also like, literally nobody has ever gone through what he is or ever will. He would have no one to go to for advice or about his worries. Now that is lonely and I can’t imagine how literally decomposing would feel like.
There’s this massive idea in the phanon that when Danny died he left behind a body (as it should this idea is amazing).
First of all I want to know what happens to Danny when he turns human again. Is he just a ghost shape shifting to look human? Does he go back to his body and it looks like he just passed out? Does he overshadow his body? Did he just, like, regrow his entire mortal form?
Either way, that’s not what I’m here for. There is another, slightly less popular idea that Danny’s body is constantly decaying. I am here to propose a middleman.
Now all the basics happen. Danny dies, he sees his body and panics. He decides to bury it because, you know, dead and all that. Except he’s under the impression that he just straight up died, no funky business. So he happened to fall asleep that night.
When he woke up he couldn’t see. He couldn’t breath. He shouldn’t need to breath but everything was suffocating. Danny tries to phase out but it doesn’t work. So he digs widely because he can’t breathe, where is he, he needs out. And he finally manages to drag himself out of his own grave to realize he’s completely human.
So, obviously he goes about his day, literally what else can he do? Except he feels a bit more stiff than normal. Throughout the day it gets harder and harder to move until he’s struggling to even stand. Then it finally hits him. Rigamortus.
The Batfamily knowing military hand signals is a hilarious concept to me. Cause like, you can not tell me Damian wouldn’t be constantly drawing his hand across this throat at every mild inconvenience and person with Dick trying to hide the fact that his ten-year-old brother is telling him he wants to eliminate 80% of the guests there
Damian standing next to Bruce who is in full on Brucie Wayne mode: *eliminate that man*
Jason: *say again*
Dick, taking notice of the gestures: *emphatically gives Damian a negative*
Steph sneaking up on the man with Cass: *assault assault*
Moss * She/Her * Current hyperfixation is Danny Phantom * if I stop posting either the hyperfixation has taken a walk and I'm waiting for it to come back or I'm dead
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