Danny Phantom is a Nickelodeon franchise that stars as an American animated television series of the same name created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon and Nicktoons. The show is produced by Billionfold Studios and Nickelodeon Animation Studio. It originally ran from April 3, 2004 to August 24, 2007. The series is about Danny Fenton, a teenage boy who gained ghost powers through an accident in his parents' lab, who takes on the alter ego of Danny Phantom to save his town and the world from ghost attacks, all while struggling through school and his teenage life.
The franchise' setting & plot[]
Setting[]
The franchise took place in the small town of Amity Park. Mainly due to the Fentons' ghost portal, Amity Park has become a hotspot for ghost activity.
Plot[]
Danny Phantom centers on the life and adventures of 14-year-old Danny Fenton, an unpopular 9th-grade boy attending Casper High. He lives with his eccentric ghost-hunting parents, Jack and Maddie, and his overbearing older sister, Jazz. One day, he wanders inside his parents' ghost portal and accidentally triggers its activation, infusing his DNA with ectoplasm. This transforms him into a half-ghost, half-human hybrid, and gives him an array of ghostly powers such as the ability to walk through walls, turn invisible, and fly. Danny struggles to learn to control his new powers, but when ghosts start coming out of the newly-activated ghost portal, he realizes that he must use his powers to protect his town from the evil ghosts coming out of the portal. Danny's best friends, technophile Tucker Foley and Goth-minded Sam Manson, support Danny and help him in his adventures.
Throughout his adventures, Danny faces a variety of ghostly enemies from the Ghost Zone. He also faces enemies from Earth, such as vengeful ghost hunter Valerie Gray, rival half-ghost Vlad Masters, and even his own ghost-hunting parents. Throughout it all, Danny slowly realizes his own potential and his purpose, while both worlds, the Ghost Zone and Earth, begin to accept him as their defender. Over time, Danny becomes more confident both as a superhero and as a teenager.
TV Pilot[]
:Main article: Mystery Meat
A month has passed since Danny Fenton's exposure to his parents' Ghost Portal turned him into a human-ghost hybrid. When his goth friend Sam changes the lunch menu to ultra-recycle vegetarian, the vengeful ghost/meat monster of the previous Casper high school lunch lady reanimates to bring meat justice back to the high school. Danny must channel his newfound powers into fighting this ghost while keeping them a secret from everybody except his two best friends. With the Guest star: Patricia Heaton as the Lunch Lady Ghost.
TV Series[]
- Main article: Danny Phantom
The TV series of the franchise took place after Danny defeated the Lunch Lady Ghost, The series follows 14-year-old Danny Fenton who, after an accident with an unpredictable portal between the human world and the supernatural "Ghost Zone", becomes half-ghost and frequently saves his town and the material world from ghost/spectral attacks. Danny also faces the typical challenges of a high school student while attempting to keep his ghost half a secret, except from his best friends, Sam Manson and Tucker Foley, and later his sister, Jazz. As the show progresses, his ghostly abilities continue to develop and grow much stronger, and he gradually learns to control them. The series itself has won the 2004 BMI Film/TV Awards and nominated Ben Balistreri 4 times from 2004 to 2008 on the Annie Awards.
50-Minute TV Film episodes[]
Reign Storm[]
- Main article: Danny Phantom: Reign Storm
This tv film marks as the first Danny Phantom two-part special, comprising episodes twenty-four and twenty-five. It sets off where Vlad Plasmius places the entire town of Amity Park in jeopardy when he releases the evil Ghost King, Pariah Dark, who invades both the ghost and mortal worlds. Danny must team up with Valerie, Vlad, and several other foes to work side by side to stop the King of All Ghosts.
The Ultimate Enemy[]
- Main article: Danny Phantom: The Ultimate Enemy
This is the second Danny Phantom television movie, consisting of episodes twenty-eight and twenty-nine. Ten years in the future, much of the Earth has been ravaged and left in ruins. In the tv film, The Fenton Works' phone number is revealed in this episode to be 555-1221.
Reality Trip[]
- Main article: Danny Phantom: Reality Trip
This is the third Danny Phantom TV movie, consisting of episodes 39 and 40. Originally named "School Spirit" and promoted as "School's Out, Ghouls Out" on Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon aired this episode after "Double Cross My Heart" and "Kindred Spirits" despite occurring before them in the series' continuity, possibly to have it coincide with school ending for the summer.
Phantom Planet[]
- Main article: Danny Phantom: Phantom Planet
This marks as the final episode of season 3 and the series finale of the television series Danny Phantom. It premiered on Nickelodeon on August 24, 2007 as a one-hour episode consisting of two parts (the 52nd and 53rd episodes, respectively). It is the fourth and final "Danny Phantom" TV movie. The tv film's trivia shows that the episode's title card is the only one on which Danny (or any character) does not appear. It even showed the only episode with no design and/or tagline on the title card; it is simply the words "PHANTOM PLANET" with an outer space background.
TV Special[]
Urban Jungle[]
- Main article: Danny Phantom: Urban Jungle
This marks as the forty-sixth episode and the TV Special of the TV-series. When a villainous and formidable plant ghost conquers Amity Park, a chilly Danny must cope with him as well as his newfound ice powers before it is too late. The trivia on the TV Special is this episode marks the first time that Mark Hamill and Grey DeLisle voice characters in a series together. They appear together again in a later Nickelodeon series, Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Video games[]
There have been two video games released for the main series. Danny Phantom: The Ultimate Enemy (for the Game Boy Advance) was made to promote the then upcoming special "The Ultimate Enemy" with the main gameplay consisting of events from the TV movie. It is a 2D platformer and was released September 8, 2005.[1] Danny Phantom: Urban Jungle for both the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS was to promote the Danny Phantom episode "Urban Jungle". It is loosely based on the episode and is strictly a shooter game. It was released September 19, 2006.[2]
Danny is one of the main heroes in the Nicktoons Unite! series, appearing in all four games across multiple platforms, Nicktoons Unite!, Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island, Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots, and SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Nicktoons: Globs of Doom.[Citation needed]
Danny Phantom and other characters and locations from the series have also been featured in other Nickelodeon crossover video games including: Nicktoons: Summer Camp, Nicktoons Basketball (PC), Nicktoons: Freeze Frame Frenzy (Game Boy Advance), Nicktoons Movin' (PlayStation 2), Nicktoons Winners Cup Racing (PC), Nicktoons Nitro (Arcade),[3] Nicktoons MLB, Nickelodeon Super Brawl Universe (Android, iOS), and Nicktoons: Android Invasion (LeapFrog Didj).[Citation needed] Danny Phantom characters and locations are featured in Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows), which was released in 2020.[4]
Print media[]
In October 2005, Scholastic Corporation published a Nick Zone chapter book, Stage Fright, with an original Danny Phantom story written by Erica David and illustrated by Victoria Miller and Harry Moore.[5] Danny Phantom also made several appearances in Nickelodeon Magazine, including original comics "Brat's Entertainment!" (featuring Youngblood) and "Seeing Red" (featuring Undergrowth).[Citation needed]
A graphic novel, titled Danny Phantom: A Glitch In Time is in the works, set for release in July 2023. It will be written and illustrated by Gabriela Epstein and published by Abrams Books.[6] The graphic novel will be set after the events of the series finale and feature the return of Dark Danny.
References[]
- ↑ "Search Reviews, Articles, People, Trailers and more at Metacritic - Metacritic".
- ↑ "Nickelodeon Danny Phantom: Urban Jungle". Metacritic.
- ↑ Games | Raw Thrills, Inc Archived 2009-12-12 at the Wayback Machine
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- ↑ Hartman, Butch [@realhartman] (July 21, 2021). "'Danny Phantom' Graphic Novel in the Works at Amulet Books nickalive.net/2021/07/danny-…" (Tweet). Retrieved December 27, 2021 – via Twitter.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
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