Dark Danny

Dark Danny
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Publication information
Publisher	Nickelodeon
First appearance	"The Ultimate Enemy"
Created by	Butch Hartman
In-story information
Alter ego	formally Daniel "Danny" Fenton
Team affiliations	None. Former leader of Team Phantom
Notable aliases	Dan Phantom, Danny's jerky older self, Phantom, The Ultimate Enemy
Abilities	Has all the same powers as Danny and Vlad, and more

Dark Danny is a villain in Danny Phantom; an evil full-ghost version of Danny Phantom . First appeared in "The Ultimate Enemy" which was both a TV movie and the first Danny Phantom video game, for the Game Boy Advance.

The Ultimate Enemy

Template:Spoiler In an alternate timeline, when Danny chooses to cheat on a special test that is supposed to determine his future, his friends and family pay the price when they die in an explosion at the Nastee Burger. Afterwards he moved in with his arch enemy, Vlad. Completely taken over by the grief, Danny had Vlad separate his human and ghost halves, which caused the ghostly Danny Phantom to become malevolent and remove Vlad's ghost-half, merging with it, thus turning into Dark Danny.

After apparently murdering his human-self (though human Vlad survived the ordeal), Dark Danny continued to cause pain and destruction throughout the entire world, as well as in the Ghost Zone now that he had no human emotions left. When Danny met his evil future self, he tried the best he could to save his friends and family from the tragic accident that would eventually bring about the existence of Dark Danny, so he wouldn't grow up to become his own worst enemy. Though Danny was able to defeat Dark Danny, he seemingly failed to save everyone and change the future. Luckily for him Clockwork foresaw all this and saved Danny's loved ones at the last minute, sending Danny back in time to when the test began, and giving him a second chance at changing his future.

Although Dark Danny was in the present at the time trapped in Danny's Fenton Thermos, the thermos was given to Clockwork, therefore Dark Danny exists outside of time. This opens the possibility that he might return. Unlike Danny's other enemies, including Vlad, Dark Danny has no guilt or conscience- he is pure evil, and he is willing to destroy people's lives, or even kill to get what he wants. He was not originally revealed to be a villain in the advertisements for The Ultimate Enemy, due to the shock factor of Danny becoming evil.

Appearence

Dark Danny has some features of Danny's, as well as a mullet, pale green-blue skin, flaming white hair, red eyes with pupils, pointed ears, sharp vampire teeth, a serpent-like forked tongue, Danny's pants, belt and boots, Vlad's gloves, beard, and shirt with a black Y-shaped spot on his chest that has his "D" emblem, and an intimidating white cape similar to Batman's. He is also very muscular. These are all similar features to Vlad Plasmius, which is because Danny's ghost-self merged with Vlad's to form Dark Danny. Since he became Dark Danny by merging with Vlad's ghost self, he had all of Vlad's and Danny's combined powers to start with, meaning he has 30 years' worth of power at his disposal. This makes him stronger than both Danny and Vlad, and apparently stronger than any other villain. Apparently, he is 24 years old, as Danny is 14 in the past, and since "The Ultimate Enemy" takes place 10 years after the accident, he is 10 years "older" than Danny.

Inconsistencies

Technically speaking if Vlad and Danny's ghost selves merged then Vlad's ghost self should be the dominant one since he is more powerful than Danny. However, in this case Danny's ghost self remains more dominant as is apparent in both Dark Danny's appearance and personality.

Real Name

There is debate on what this character's real name is. In The Ultimate Enemy, Valerie and Skulktech 9.9 refers to him by his last name, Phantom. The end credits, Butch Hartman, and tv.com call him Dark Danny, while the game calls him Dan Phantom, which might not be what he will be called in the show, since Jack once called Danny "Dan". Then again, he never does introduce himself by name, so his true name may yet be unknown.

Ghost Powers

Dark Danny has gradually increased his power and abilities in the past ten years with Vlad's combined powers. He has both gained completely new abilities as well as increased the power of his past ones. Below is a complete list of his currently known abilities.

Seen Attacks

1. Ghost Sense – Dark Danny can sense nearby ghosts. When he does, a wisp of red ectoplasm comes out of his nose. It even works when his younger self is coming. This is most likely due to the fact that he is a fusion of Vlad's ghost half too.
2. Intangibility & Invisibility - Standard ghost powers.
3. Flying/Floating/Hovering - Standard ghost powers.
4. Paranormal Strength, Speed, Agility and Durability - Dark Danny is obviously far more durable than Danny or Vlad. He can even survive the blast of a Tracker (Valerie Gray) as seen in the show.
5. Overshadowing/Possession - Standard ghost powers.
6. Ectoplasmic Energy Blast - "Ghost Ray" - His blast is composed of green ectoplasm, it is stronger than Danny's and Vlad's ghost blasts.
7. Wall Walking – Dark Danny, as well as many other ghosts, can walk on uneven and vertical surfaces as though they were horizontal. Most likely this is an application of his flying/hovering ability.
8. Ghost Stinger – Dark Danny uses this pseudo-electric attack to cause damage.
9. Ectoplasmic Energy Shield - "Ghost Shield" - His shield, composed of green ectoplasm, takes the form of a wall and is much stronger than Danny or Vlad's shield.
10. Ghostly Wail - In The Ultimate Enemy, Dark Danny develops the unique ability to generate an extremely powerful shriek from his vocal cords and mouth, a bit like a Banshee's wail. It can cause terrible pain to ghosts and damage tangible matter. It sounds like moaning ghosts. This technique is Dark Danny's most powerful attack, and he's able to use it more then once without losing any energy, unlike Danny who could only use it once or twice but afterwards would quickly be drained of his energy and revert back to his human form. After Danny was thrown in the Ghost Zone, he also gained this abillty. When he uses this attack on Dark Danny, he is totally shocked because Dark Danny doesn't learn that ability until ten years from then. This shows that Dark Danny has indeed changed the past, and by doing so he winds up giving Danny a new ability over Vlad Masters.
11. Shapeshifting/Disguise - Dark Danny is able to assume the appearance of his younger self, without interfering with the use of his other powers. His disguise is later stripped away by the Fenton Peeler.

Vlad Powers

1. Duplication - Dark Danny can create about five doubles, possibly a few more. These doubles can be invisible when made, and can be made in his disguise. Though it's possible the fifth double was a mistake on the show.
2. Ectoplasmic Shaping - Dark Danny is capable of forming binds and ropes out of ectoplasm.
3. Teleportation - Dark Danny isn't seen to be able to use this power, but since he has Vlad's combined powers he most likely can perform this ability.
4. Ectoplasmic Energy Absorption and Projection - Dark Danny isn't seen to be able to use this power, but since he has Vlad's combined powers he most likely can perform this ability.

New Attacks

There can some attacks that neither Danny or Vlad can do at this time.

1. Shapeshifting – Dark Danny took on the form of Danny Fenton in order to disguise his appearance. It can be assumed that this ability covers all humanoid creatures, as well, though it is possible Phantom could transform into Danny due to his connection with him.
2. Portals- he can create temporary ghost portals.
3. Immobilize - freeze a person by touching or facing his hand at them.
4. Ectoplasmic Goo - shoot ecto goo like Spider-Man's webs.
5. Advanced Spectral Manipulation – Dark Danny has gained the ability to change the shape of his body. Among these occasions include stretching along the waistline, creating holes in his stomach, temporarily vaporizing his middle, and turning his head 180 degrees.
6. Gaseous Form – Dark Danny was able to transform into an ectoplasmic gas in order to be able to dodge the future Valerie's bombs. Normally they would stop him even in his intangible form.
7. Intangibility Fusion – Dark Danny was able to fuse one of Clockwork's time medallion into Danny through the use of his intangibility powers. While fused, the object inserted is unreachable by human or ghost abilities; it can, however, be removed through the use of special equipment (I.E., the Ghost Gauntlets).
8. Immunity to Power Loss – Skultech 9.9 had the ability to short out a ghosts' powers. However, it seems that Dark Danny is immune to this power (this could be due to the loss of his human half), making it impossible to short out his powers. It is possible Danny may eventually become immune to Skultech 9.9's ability to short out other ghosts powers, like his dark future self.
9. Separation - Dark Danny when in the form of young Danny, while cheating on the test, saw Jazz looking at him from outside the door. He was able to still be young Danny, while his ghost self turned invisible and knocked out Jazz. However, it is possible he just duplicated himself.
10. Sleep Beam - Dark Danny was able to shoot Jazz with a "sleep beam" but it didn't hurt her like an ordinary beam, it just knocked her out.

Dark Danny's weakness

If Dark Danny has any weaknesses, it's that he seriously underestimated his younger self. In addition, he has the handicap of being unable to kill his past, heroic self for fear of putting his existence in danger. He got defeated when present-time Danny, determined to save his family and friends from his own future incarnation, suffered blow after crushing blow and ultimately managed to suck Dark Danny down with the Fenton Thermos. However, since Dark Danny now exists outside the time stream he is no longer hindered by what becomes of present-time Danny. Since he has largely forgotten his human life, he no longer remembers any of the Fenton Inventions. Since he is a full ghost now, the Inventions are more effective against him, but because of his tremendous powers they still can't harm as severly as they normally would on other ghosts.

Trivia

• Although Dark Danny has none of his former human self left, he still has the emblem that Sam made in "Memory Blank"
• Dark Danny is the first villain in the entire Danny Phantom series who has ever killed anyone, human or ghost. Although Vlad Plasmius has tried to kill off Jack Fenton, he has never succeeded.
• When Butch Hartman was creating The Ultimate Enemy, he wanted to mix in the time travel episode he wanted to do, with Danny battling a pure evil ghost, realizing just because he is pure evil doesn't mean he will be Danny's ultimate enemy. After Control Freaks came, he realized the worst enemy for Danny Phantom would be an evil version of himself.
• According to some DP fans, Dark Danny is the most evil Nicktoon villain ever conceived.
• Dark Danny is the first "alternate Danny" who would never have existed if Danny never had ghost powers. The second was Danny's clone/cousin Dani Phantom.
• Dark Danny is the first villain who attempted to kill Danny's friends and family(and his teacher who was there by accident), the second would be Freakshow in the third TV movie, Reality Trip.