Walker: Has a Sexy Accent
VOICE ACTOR: James Arnold Taylor
AGE: Unknown
EYES: Violet
HAIR: Pale and Bald
STATUS: Head Sheriff/Warden/Chief/Cop/Whatever of the Ghost Zone Police Department
LIKES: The laws, rules, Justice, execution, and getting to do all four, especially the last one
DISLIKES: Law Breakers
PERSONALITY: Strict, justice, demanding, clever, determined, intimidating
POWER: Standard ghost powers, head of ghostly law
STRENGTH: Able to arrest any ghosts who breaks his laws--which he also tends to corrupt to his own needs
WEAKNESS: No clue
FIRST APPEARANCE: "Prisoners of Love"
GOAL: To uphold law and justice to the Ghost Zone
HISTORY: In the lawless world of the Ghost Zone, where the old King has been locked away for many years and the rest free to fly around in maniac glee, one man took it upon himself to form a group dedicated to preserving some semblance of order.
That, my ladies and gentlemen, is Walker, head of the Ghost Zone Police Department. Danny first met him face-to-Specter Speeder, stuck on a terrifying maiden voyage. Walker lets him off with a warning for trespassing which peed-in-his-pants Danny takes as great advice and leaves the fuck out of there. However, he is forced to venture into the GZ again when he accidentally zaps his father’s anniversary gift for his wife. Possessing a mortal item (illegal in the Ghost Zone), Danny is arrested and sentenced to a thousand years in prison.
Seeing as he doesn’t have a thousand years to fix his parent’s marriage, Danny gains the alliance of his previous enemies (all jailed for some reason) and create a prison riot. Danny confronts Walker and gets the present back without lifting a finger when his friends (traveling via Specter Speeder) informs him humans can phase through the Ghost Zone (for some reason). Danny leaves, causing Walker to suffer a meltdown that would have serious repercussion.
He takes his revenge later by first sending Wulf (one of his prisoners) to seek Danny out. He then sends a few of his squad and (assumed) second-in-command Bullet to terrorize the town. Possessing various important figures of Amity Park and Casper High respectfully, Walker and goons managed to plan the whole thing so that it seems Danny Phantom himself caused the invasion. It gets worse when Walker possesses the mayor and "gets" Danny to kidnap him, branding him as public enemy #1 of his own town. Though he and Wulf are sent back to the GZ, Walker’s plan worked and Danny spent many episodes trying to fix this.
He was one of many ghosts who flees Pariah’s reawakening. As befitting a man of the law, Walker respected the Ghost Zone’s annual Christmas truce. He and his cops later jailed Ghost Writer for breaking it (and teased him with that dreaded orange—that cur).
Still relentlessly searching for Wulf, Walker spotted the wolf beast near a camp site where Danny and his school mates coincidentally inhabited for summer vacation. After the disappearance of one of the students due to a foul monster, Danny and friends scan for the missing boy, only for a ghost cop to spot the hybrid in secret. Using more beasts to kidnap the rest, Walker grabs Danny's attention after he discovered Wulf through negotiation: his prisoner for Danny's classmates and teachers. Danny instead forms a simple plan that involves doing none of the first. There was a few stitch he didn’t foresee, but the heroes won out in the end. The campers are free and Wulf runs off free again. ("Claw of the Wild")
He makes a cameo as one of the many ghosts who saved the world from an asteroid ("Phantom Planet").
PERSONALITY: Walker may be the law of the land, but his role is as heinous as it is a miracle. He may keep the zone from getting too out of hand (a lot of good that does), but he’s not far beyond from playing bad corrupted, jerkass cop when the situation arises. Walker is, first and foremost, strict. You lift one pinky that somehow breaks his rules and he’ll slap a handcuff on you and send ya to get prison raped.
Whatever that may be depends on his mood at the time as he’s known to quickly change the rules to suit his favor. He honestly has determination to keep the Ghost Zone from turning into a giant, green toilet, but he has no problem twisting his beliefs in order to do so. Though Danny is forever under Walker’s wrath, it is not because he is evil, but because he follows his own honor code, for good or ill.
OPINION: I like Walker. He looks and dresses awesome (I loooooooove his zoot suit), his voice is magnificent and sexy (voiced by James Arnold Taylor, which surprised me on how great it sounds when his last role I heard was the annoyingly shrill girly ninnyhammer, Tidus), and he’s one of the few, but proud gray characters in the show. I personally enjoy it when a children’s cartoon doesn’t always confine to its strict black and white offering.
Walker straddles the fine line between good and evil and represents the antagonistic neutral side towards Danny that Clockwork, another neutral figure, did with a more positive meeting. The hero doesn’t always make good friends with everybody, even the man of the law. They never mend their relationship either, but it's an acceptable loss. Both most likely won't: Walker is too unforgiving that a minor mishap would garner execution. Danny considers his broader punishment too much for the would-be champion to take. The only way they could get along is if they were forced to work together.
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