Danielle Phantom: Copy Cat Sue
VOICE ACTOR: AnnaSophia Robb ("Kindred Spirits"), Krista Swan ("D-Stabilized")
AGE: 12 physically, less then a year chronologically
EYES: Blue (Human), Green (Ghost)
HAIR: Black (Human), White (Ghost)
STATUS: Spiritual copy of Danny, The Scrappy (Well, I think so)
LIKES: Everything Danny likes. (SEE: Danny Fenton/Phantom)
DISLIKES: Vlad
PERSONALITY: She’s like a younger, season One Danny. AKA no defined personality
POWER: Standard Ghost powers
STRENGTH: She was trained by Vlad, so she has some combat-savvy.
WEAKNESS: Constantly destabilizing
GOAL: Survive
FIRST APPEARANCE: "Kindred Spirits"
HISTORY: A twelve year old girl who only lived for less then a year, Danielle is one of many failed clones Vlad painstakingly made—the last stepping stone to the perfect clone. Because of her near complete form, Danielle has free will, but an ever destabilizing form. She doesn’t discover this just yet, instead playing the role of Vlad’s daughter, trained under his belt with the belief that she is the apple of his eyes.
Unaware of his trickery, she dutifully obeys Vlad, befriending Danny to lower his guard so she can stab him in the back. After Vlad expositions his current plans to him, Danielle overhears and finds out she is not only a clone, but slowly deteriorating. Vlad calmly assures her he will complete her if she can obtain Danny. She amicably does so despite Danny’s objection on the shocking revelation that Vlad is—*gasp*—a bad guy. However it is when Vlad orders her like the tool that she really is that she rebels, freeing Danny and teaming up with him to counter Vlad. The heroes escape and as a thank you, Danielle overshadows the Fentons and Lancer to overrule the punishment he and his friends would have gotten for skipping school. She nicknames herself as "Dani" and flies off.
She makes her [lack of] triumphant return by painstakingly hovering her way to Amity Park. She only makes it to Elmerton though. With her time on the last stretch, Danielle rapidly searches for Danny, but ends up incurring Valerie's wrath who, hired by Vlad, tracks down the half ghost. When Danielle lets her know she and Danny Phantom are best buds, Valerie uses her as bait and hunts him down. While she tortures Danny, Valerie has Danielle shipped to Vlad where he plans to destabilize her in order to create a better clone (why at this stage, I don’t know). Danny managed to convince Valerie to help him when he reveals Danielle to be human as well as ghost. Just in time, too as she was close to death. Danny uses a Fenton tool to not only restore her to life, but fully stabilize her. She again combats Vlad, thanks Danny, and then flies off to do...whatever where ever. Ask me if I care. ("D-Stabilized")
She makes a cameo as one of the ghosts who stopped a deadly asteroid from destroying the world. ("Phantom Planet")
PERSONALITY: Really? Personality? Danielle is basically an immature Danny, the one that harks back to his Season One days. She has no problem using her powers for fun and relies on Danny like a little sister. Really, there literally is nothing I can say about her in this section.OPINION: I hate Danielle. I really do. There are two categories I usually follow when it comes to favorites: the ones I like and the ones I don’t care about. Danielle occupies the rare full-on hate. Or as much hate as I can give for a fictional character.
Outside of her very Mary Sue-ish background (for an example, do a search for "Dani Phantom" fancharacters; they've popped up before AND after her conception), her very existence renders her competence useless. She may be a clone, but that shouldn’t stop her from growing a personality that isn't a part of Danny’s younger heydays and interest. Her only means of chemistry with him is when she issued a race for the Ghost Fairy, but that was unfortunately brief. She gets little time to prove she’s more then a pale shadow of Danny, serving nothing more then a walking plot device that reacts to the situation bestowed upon her. I had high hopes she’d have improved in "D-Stabilized", but she does exactly the same as she did in "Kindred Spirits". At the very least, her death may have upped the tragedy in Vlad’s life and his intense hatred towards Danny. It would prove there would be no more shitting around. Granted, the results played the same when she lived, but now the grim reality is that the show is stuck with a useless dead weight.
Most importantly, she ruins the dynamic duo between Danny and Vlad. Their compare/contrast angle is broken when a third half ghost wanders and cuts in between the two. She doesn’t have the colossal impact Vlad and Danny gives one another: the sense of difference and similarities that bounce off one another. She’s muddled in and unless she extends beyond her "Dani Phantom" routine, she’s doomed to be nothing but a clone of Danny. And we already have him—39 episodes ahead.
Shame, she had potential. Back to the Characters PageArticle Written in: Apr. 27, 2009
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