49 Fun Facts About Danny Phantom

Who created Danny Phantom?

Butch Hartman sold the show in about 30 seconds at an October 2001 dinner with Nickelodeon's bosses: with no drawings to hand, he pitched it as Jonny Quest meets Buffy meets Ghostbusters.

When Danny Fenton 'goes ghost', his jet-black hair turns which colour?

Snow white. His eyebrows stay black, though: the artists tried white ones and found that, together with the white hair, they made the teenage hero look too old.

Danny traps ghosts in a Fenton invention that looks like which everyday object?

A thermos. When his father first shows it off it doesn't work, so he admits it is 'just a thermos' with the word Fenton in front, until Danny charges it with his own ghost energy.

In which fictional town is Danny Phantom set?

Amity Park borrows its name from The Amityville Horror, the haunted-house story set in the Long Island village of Amityville.

As the series begins, Danny Fenton is in which year of high school?

Freshman. Danny is only 14 when he gains his ghost powers, and at first he has little control over them, losing his grip at embarrassing moments.

What makes Danny Fenton a human-spirit hybrid as the series opens?

A mishap inside his parents' Ghost Portal: the machine would not start because its 'On' button sat inside it, where Danny pressed it by accident, and the blast left him half ghost.

What are the names of Danny's parents?

Jack and Maddie Fenton are bumbling professional ghost hunters who spend the series chasing the town's ghost boy as a menace, never guessing he is their own son until the finale.

What is the name of Danny's older sister?

Jazz, short for Jasmine, was written in as an older sister so that Danny would not be the boss at home; she works out his secret in season one and quietly covers for him.

Which of Danny's two best friends is a self-described goth?

Sam Manson was conceived as a dark, mysterious friend who already knew the supernatural world Danny is thrust into; she also hides from her classmates that her family is rich.

Which gadget is Tucker Foley rarely seen without?

His PDA is how Tucker Foley hacks into computers and machinery for the team; the techno-geek was created so that Danny, who already had ghost powers, would not be good at everything.

Who provides the voice of Danny Fenton?

David Kaufman was in his forties when he began voicing the teenage hero; he had already played Superman's young pal Jimmy Olsen in Superman: The Animated Series.

Which comedian and actor voices Vlad Masters?

Martin Mull was cast for what the show's creator called the right amount of smarm and condescension; Vlad was first planned as a vampire, an idea dropped as too occult for Nickelodeon.

Who voices Danny's goth best friend?

Grey DeLisle. Her character designs the 'DP' emblem on the hero's chest, slipping it onto his suit just before he regains his powers in the season-two opener.

How does Vlad Masters know Danny's father?

They were college friends until a lab accident caused by Danny's father gave Vlad ghost powers, years in hospital and a grudge he has nursed for two decades.

Which ghostly condition put Vlad Masters in hospital for years after his lab accident?

Ecto-acne is what Vlad blames for ruining his life, though the real damage came from his own scheming and his refusal to accept that Danny's mother would never love him.

Which NFL team is Vlad Masters obsessed with?

Green Bay Packers. Asked why a billionaire doesn't simply buy the team, Vlad fumes that the Packers are owned by the city of Green Bay and won't sell to him.

Which self-styled greatest hunter of the Ghost Zone is really a tiny ghost inside a robotic battle suit?

Skulker. He collects rare, one-of-a-kind prey, which is why a half-ghost boy becomes the trophy he wants most.

How does the rock-star ghost Ember McLain gain power?

From crowds chanting her name: Ember hypnotises the town's teenagers with her music, then stages a concert broadcast worldwide in the hope that the whole planet will shout 'Ember!' at once.

Which boastful ghost can merge with machines but keeps shouting his own plans aloud?

Technus calls himself the 'Ghost Master of Science and Electrical Technology', and announcing his goals at full volume is the flaw Danny exploits to beat him.

In Danny Phantom, whose catchphrase is 'Beware!', though neither heroes nor villains take him seriously?

The Box Ghost. Tired of being a joke, he finally steals Pandora's Box in the third season and unleashes its evils on the town.

The villain of The Ultimate Enemy was created by fusing whose ghost halves?

Danny's and Vlad's: in a timeline where an explosion kills his family and friends, Danny has Vlad cut out his ghost half, which tears out Vlad's own, fuses with it and spends ten years wrecking the world.

In The Ultimate Enemy, Danny's bad future begins when he cheats on which career-deciding standardised test?

The C.A.T., or Career Aptitude Test, has its answer booklet land in Danny's hands by accident; in the fight to undo that future he first unleashes his Ghostly Wail.

Which ghost is left holding the captured villain at the end of The Ultimate Enemy?

Clockwork, the master of time, is told by the Observants to destroy Danny before he can turn evil; he steers the boy into mending his own future instead.

Which ancient ruler of the Ghost Zone does Vlad wake by opening the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep?

Pariah Dark. Vlad opens the tomb while hunting for the king's crown, and only a power-boosting battle suit that drains Danny's own strength lets him force the tyrant back inside.

Which ghost, the spirit of Halloween, does Danny accidentally free while trying to win a haunted-house contest?

The Fright Knight. Danny pulls the knight's sword, the Soul Shredder, out of a pumpkin to dress up his haunted house, and only plunging it back into one seals him away again.

Which genie-like ghost grants wishes but twists them to her liking?

Desiree is compelled to grant any wish she hears and twists each one; in Memory Blank she grants Sam's wish never to have met Danny, erasing his powers.

Which ghost runs the prison in the Ghost Zone and makes up rules as he goes?

Walker runs the Ghost Zone prison and first arrests Danny in Prisoners of Love; in Public Enemies he frames Danny as public enemy number one and is not above dirty tactics to enforce his invented rules.

The pirate-costumed ghost Youngblood can only be seen by whom?

Children. In Pirate Radio he and Ember use her hypnotic music to lure the town's adults aboard his ghost ship, leaving the kids, who alone can see him, to mount the rescue.

How does Penelope Spectra keep herself young and beautiful?

Penelope Spectra stays young by draining teenagers' positive emotions: posing as a school counsellor in My Brother's Keeper, she feeds on the misery she creates like a psychic vampire.

Dani Phantom, Vlad's unstable clone of Danny, first introduces herself to Danny as which relative?

A cousin. Dani claims to be his third cousin once removed, until Danny learns Vlad grew her as a step toward a perfect clone; he later saves her from melting away.

Which actor voices Freakshow, the ringmaster of Circus Gothica?

Jon Cryer voices the ringmaster, whose heirloom staff hypnotises ghosts, Danny included, into stealing for his circus.

In Danny Phantom, which secret government agency is dedicated to eliminating ghosts?

The Guys in White spoof the Men in Black; in Livin' Large they buy the Fentons' home so they can fire a missile into the Ghost Zone, unaware that destroying it would wreck Earth too.

What is the name of Danny's school?

Casper High is a nod to Casper the Friendly Ghost, part of the creator's plan to name the town's landmarks after ghost films and television shows.

Dash Baxter, Danny's bully, plays which position on the school football team?

Dash Baxter is the quarterback and star of the school football team, which makes him the most popular boy in school and earns him a free pass from the authorities.

Which popular cheerleader swoons over Danny Phantom but ignores Danny Fenton?

Paulina falls for the ghost boy after he saves her, yet treats Danny Fenton, who has a crush on her, as a nobody.

Which classmate turns ghost hunter after her father loses his job, and briefly dates Danny Fenton?

Valerie. Her hunting gear secretly comes from Vlad, and she falls for Danny Fenton while doing her best to destroy the ghost boy, without guessing they are one and the same.

Which ghost is the villain of Danny Phantom's very first episode?

The Lunch Lady erupts in Mystery Meat when the school cafeteria's meat dishes are swapped for an ultra-recyclo-vegetarian menu; she hurls meat at Danny and becomes the first ghost he captures.

In which episode does Vlad Masters first appear?

Bitter Reunions brings the Fentons to Vlad's mansion, where he reveals himself to Danny as the half-ghost Plasmius and offers to train him if he will renounce his father.

In which season-three episode does Danny first develop his ice powers?

Urban Jungle sees the plant ghost Undergrowth overrun the town while Danny's ice powers awaken; Frostbite teaches him to control the cold, and he uses it to freeze the invader out.

In the finale Phantom Planet, what nickname is given to the giant object hurtling toward Earth?

The Disasteroid is knocked out of orbit by one of Vlad's failed schemes; Danny rallies the ghosts of the Ghost Zone to turn the whole planet intangible so that it passes straight through.

How does the series end for Danny and Sam?

They finally start dating: Danny saves the planet, reveals his secret to a cheering world, has a statue raised in every capital city and ends the finale as Sam's boyfriend.

In Danny Phantom, which biker ghost is the boyfriend of the ghost girl Kitty?

Johnny 13 debuts in the episode 13, romancing Danny's sister so that Kitty can take over her body; wherever he rides, his living shadow brings bad luck.

Vice-principal Mr. Lancer of Danny Phantom shouts what in moments of shock, in place of swear words?

Book titles. 'Moby-Dick!' and 'Lord of the Flies!' are typical outbursts, and his own name is borrowed too: Lancer's was a coffee shop down the street from the Nickelodeon studio.

Which future Twilight star voiced the pirate ghost Youngblood in Danny Phantom?

Taylor Lautner's first episode aired in 2005, the year he played Sharkboy on film; his bratty ghost teams up with Ember to kidnap every adult in town with her hypnotic music.

What is the title of Ember McLain's hit song in Danny Phantom?

'Remember' was written by the show's creator, a keen songwriter; in the episode Ember's love spell leaves Danny too lovestruck to fight until his heart is broken on purpose.

Which clawed ghost ally of Danny speaks only Esperanto?

Wulf, the hulking ghost who can claw open portals between the Ghost Zone and Earth, speaks only Esperanto, which Tucker partly understands; he debuted in Public Enemies.

Danny Phantom's first episode aired straight after which televised event?

The Kids' Choice Awards. The Saturday-night slot was a one-off showcase: six days later the series moved to its regular Friday home with back-to-back episodes.

On which handheld did the 2005 platformer Danny Phantom: The Ultimate Enemy appear?

Game Boy Advance. THQ's side-scroller was the first Danny Phantom video game, sending players through time, Ghostly Wail included, to stop the hero's evil future self.

In season three, Vlad Masters wins which public office by possessing the voters?

Town mayor. Vlad uses the office to bury Danny under petty new rules, until Danny tricks him into repealing them by pretending to be blasted by him in public.