Editing Danny Phantom (section)

==Premise==
{{See also|List of Danny Phantom characters}}
Daniel "Danny" Fenton, a 14-year-old boy living in the small town of Amity Park, lives with his [[ghost hunting]] eccentric parents, Jack and Madeline "Maddie", and his overprotective but caring 16-year-old sister, Jasmine "Jazz". Upon pressure from his two best friends, Samantha "Sam" Manson and Tucker Foley, Danny decides to explore the Ghost Portal created by his parents in their attempt to bridge the human world and the Ghost Zone (the parallel universe in which ghosts reside), that when plugged in, failed to work. Once inside, he inadvertently presses the "On" button (which his parents naively failed to do), thus activating the Portal and infusing his DNA with [[Ectoplasm (paranormal)|ectoplasm]], transforming him into a half-ghost.<ref name="Memory Blank">{{cite episode |title=Memory Blank. Director: Butch Hartman, Ken Bruce, Gary Conrad; Writer: Steve Marmel. |series=Danny Phantom | network=[[Nicktoons]] |airdate=2005-06-24 |season=2 |number=21}}</ref>

Danny, who calls himself "Danny Phantom" in ghost form, develops the ability to fly, become invisible, intangible, and "overshadow" (possess and control) people after first learning how to switch back and forth at will between his ghost and human forms. Over time, he develops much stronger abilities, such as his Ghost Ray (a concentrated blast of energy he fires from his hand), his Ghostly Wail (an intensely powerful scream with sonic capabilities that knocks back anything caught in its path), and even cryokinesis. Danny is initially frightened by his new abilities and has little control over them, but he soon learns to use them to protect his town from evil spirits. Danny turns to the life of a [[superhero]], using his powers to rid his hometown of the various ghosts and mutant animals which begin to plague it and are almost always brought into the world thanks to the sporadic activation of the Fentons' Ghost Portal. Sam, Tucker, and Jazz are Danny's primary allies in his ghost-fighting activities,<ref name="Mystery Meat">{{cite episode |title=Mystery Meat. Director: Butch Hartman; Writer: Butch Hartman, Mark Banner, Steve Marmel. |series=Danny Phantom | network=[[Nicktoons]] |airdate=2004-04-03 |season=1 |number=01}}</ref> and help him keep his ghost-half a secret.

Danny's ghost form is a polarization of what he looked like when he first entered the Ghost Portal. When he "goes ghost", his jet-black hair turns snow-white, his sky blue eyes turn neon green, and the black-and-white [[jumpsuit]] he had put on before the accident appears in negative color, with the originally white areas of the suit appearing black, and vice versa. In the premiere episode of season two, a ghost grants Sam's inadvertent wish that she and Danny had never met; in consequence, Danny loses not only memories but his ghost powers as well, as Sam had primarily been the one to persuade Danny to investigate the portal in the first place, which led to the accident. Luckily, however, Sam had been protected from the wish by the ghost-hunting technology of Danny's parents, allowing her to persuade the now fully human Danny to regain his powers by re-enacting the accident. This time, before Danny enters the portal, Sam replaces the logo of his father's face on the jumpsuit, which she also had removed the first time (if she hadn't, it would have been part of Danny's ghost form), with her recently designed "DP" fused-letter logo on the chest so that it appears when he goes ghost from then on.

Danny faces threats of many kinds, including vengeful ghost hunter Valerie Gray (voiced by [[Cree Summer]]) who, for a short period of time, becomes his love interest,<ref name="Shades of Gray">{{cite episode |title=Shades of Gray. Director: Butch Hartman, Wincat Alcala, Juli Hashiguchi; Writer: Sib Ventress. |series=Danny Phantom | network=[[Nickelodeon]] |airdate=2004-09-24 |season=1 |number=10}}</ref> an enemy half-ghost Vlad Masters, an old college friend of his father's and considered to be Danny's true arch-rival,<ref name="Bitter Reunions">{{cite episode |title=Bitter Reunions. Director: Butch Hartman, Wincat Alcala, Juli Hashiguchi; Writer: Steve Marmel, Sib Ventress. |series=Danny Phantom | network=[[Nickelodeon]] |airdate=2004-05-07 |season=1 |number=07}}</ref> and even his own parents who, as ghost hunters, view Danny Phantom (as they would and do to any ghosts) as nothing but a menace to human society. Furthermore, Danny tries to keep his secret safe from his classmates, teachers, and family.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Perlmutter|first=David|title=America toons in : a history of television animation|date=2014|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=978-1-4766-1488-5|pages=314–317|oclc=903291765}}</ref> Throughout the progression of the series, Danny slowly realizes his own potential and purpose, while both worlds slowly begin to accept him as their defender.<ref name="Reign Storm">{{cite episode |title=Reign Storm. Director: Butch Hartman, Wincat Alcala, Kevin Petrilak; Writer: Steve Marmel. |series=Danny Phantom | network=[[Nickelodeon]] |airdate=2005-07-29 |season=2 |number=24/25}}</ref>