#danny phantom frightmare

[lilianade-comics]

so i've been obsessing over cheese melt again and can't unstick the idea of this video:

https://youtu.be/Vw4KVoEVcr0?si=j1biSvkDQ6_U1nL8

--just with Vlad and Dani in some context, and thought i would spread the obsession love to one of my favorite dealers of cheese melt

I love that you saw a cat cuddling with its baby and thought of these two. 100% accurate assessment. thank you for the food :)

[daily-dose-of-danno]

Look at him do his lil backflips u guys…

Season 3, Episode 9 - Frightmare

[picturejasper20]

This is one of the funniest out of context screenshots from Danny Phantom for me

[ghostwritergirl]

Frightmare and MY take on it

(@geekgirles and I were chatting about this, but thought I’d go more in-depth)

If I had to choose ANY episode to rewrite from Danny Phantom s3 (aside from Urban Jungle, but that’s a whole other post) it would be Frightmare. In a HEARTBEAT. Just because of the SHEER POTENTIAL that a dream ghost and dream horror has, and the character growth we could have gotten!

When I watched Frightmare for the first time, I loved it. I thought it was a good and solid episode, especially for s3. But after watching shows like She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power, Gravity Falls, The Owl House and DuckTales 2017 (iykyk the episodes I’m talking about for all those shows) where they did similar dream/false reality plots like Frightmare… I now see how much potential was WASTED with Frightmare. And here is MY take on Frightmare/how it should have gone.

First off, it would be a special. Honestly, this and Undergrowth’s episodes deserved to be specials (Vortex… not so much). It would still start how it did in canon, in Danny’s POV and a regular day for him, but it would just be a little… off. Maybe his parents are more attentive and less biased to ghosts, maybe Jazz is a little less overbearing, but nothing too major to really raise Danny’s suspicions and he’d just brush it off (maybe he’d see a change in his parents’ attitude to ghosts and Phantom as a sign they might accept him when he tells them and it isn’t taken out of his hands), and he goes to school and meets up with Tucker. They go through the school day like normal, but there are little things that are just not right—the clock is a little too loud, the time is a little bit blurred, his classmates are a little bit too nice to him and his teachers a little bit too forgiving, his grades are a little bit better, Tucker’s a little more flat—but again, all things Danny can brush off. Except, not quite because Danny sees things that almost trigger his ghost sense but not quite—a green shape darting out of a view, a starry silhouette that’s gone when he looks back, the feeling of red eyes watching him and a whisper in the back of his mind, a voice talking to him, a figure out of the corner of his eye that disappears when he turns to it. Just all those little things that just build up and raise his suspicions, but it’s all fine, everything’s fine, right?

Then the moment in the cafeteria happens, just like in canon—Dash is nice to him and Tucker, everyone treats Danny better, he’s well-liked and accepted for who he is, and when Fright Knight attacks, everyone cheers for Danny and accepts he has powers and is half-ghost, which is definitely something Danny has always wanted underneath the teenage desire of popularity to be accepted and seen for who he is, and he fights Fright Knight—except at the end he notices the green shapes again, that starry form and disappearing figure and the feeling he’s being watched increases, that something not right pinging in the back of his head. But he ignores it and heads back to school, transforming back and learning Sam is his girlfriend (which is the one thing that didn’t ping as wrong, that Sam being his girlfriend just feels right to Danny) and they go to kiss… until Danny notices something in the hallway.

He decides to investigate despite his friends waving him off as nothing being wrong, following his gut and that something isn’t right… and he sees a version of himself, telling him to wake up, that this is all a dream and Amity Park is in danger. Sam and Tucker arrive and tell Danny that Danny is a fake and trying to trick him but the other Danny insists he’s a part of Danny’s consciousness not under the dream and fighting to wake up, that he needs to wake up, but his friends insist that he’s lying, that everything is perfect, that Amity Park doesn’t need him. And that is what fully tips Danny off, as his friends know that he would never abandon Amity Park to an unknown danger if he could help it, even if it is a trick, as little things add up about Tucker and Sam’s behaviour… including how they nearly kissed in front of everyone, when Sam isn’t comfortable with such public displays. Now realising that something is definitely wrong, Danny demands what’s going on… and that’s when things get horrific >:)

Nocturne, using “Sam” and “Tucker”, controls them as the surroundings blur and twist, the other students becoming faceless shadows, colours darkening and shadows sharpening, as Nocturne tells Danny he hoped he wouldn’t wake up, that while he was impressed he thought that Danny wouldn’t be fighting as much, as Danny remembers what happened before—everyone slowly falling asleep, him trying to stay awake, facing against Nocturne… and then the “perfect” day that is actually a dream turned nightmare as Nocturne, seeing that, introduces himself and announces his intentions. Danny transforms to fight Nocturne but he summons Sleepwalkers and uses Tucker and Sam to fight against Danny, and he fights against the Sleepwalkers, unable to fight Sam and Tucker even if it’s not them as Nocturne taunts him about wanting acceptance and love from his peers and his family and friends, musing about his fears as Danny fights before the dream twists and becomes a nightmare—a nightmare of Danny having to watch his family and Sam and Tucker die and be unable to save them over and over in horrific ways as they scream for him, a nightmare of his hometown being destroyed whether it’s by Pariah Dark or Undergrowth or another, stronger ghost or the ghost he always feared as it shifts into Danny’s worst fear, his worst nightmare.

Dan.

Dan shows up, but not the real Dan—rather, the manifestation of every single one of Danny’s fears, of him not being good enough, of him being exactly what he always feared he’d become and that his parents were right all along about ghosts, that Vlad was right about them being alike, that he hadn’t changed his future, that he was a monster. As he and “Dan” fight, Nocturne still taunting him, as it reaches a point where Danny might fail, he gains the strength to fight back, to show how much he’s grown, that while he’s always had this fear and always wants acceptance from his parents, he knows who and what he is, has accepted himself, that he will never become Dan or anything like him, that he isn’t a monster, that he is and always will be himself, be half-ghost and half-human, be a hero, be Danny Fenton and Phantom, and that he will wake up and defeat Nocturne, because he will never, ever give up fighting or protecting his hometown and the people he loves, no matter what.

At that, he defeats Dan (with a Wail, his ice or even a punch), and with Dan’s—and Nocturne’s—defeat, Danny wakes up. And that ends the first half of the special.

The second half is Danny returning back to Amity Park, evading Nocturne and his army of drones as they search for Danny, now wide awake, and waking up Tucker, Sam and Jazz. In each of their dreams, their “perfect” dreams turn into nightmares, where they face against their respective fears, insecurities and demons (Tucker’s jealously and selfishness in the form of his ghost half that also has elements of his king self, Sam’s guilt and judgmental/hypocritical nature in the form of her plant self, Jazz’s self-blame and pushiness in the form of her own critical self that blames her for not being there for Danny and not saving him from the Portal and trying to compensate by pushing her way into ghost fighting when it was too little too late) and triumph over them, showing their character growth and development before they all break out and confront Nocturne. Tucker and Jazz still handle destroying the machine in the living realm while Sam and Danny still overshadow Nocturne (they also still have that iconic and sweet “Can you make room for me?” moment) and fight him in his dream, where he tries to overwhelm them and use their fears and demons against them, but they all fight it together in the real and dream realms, before Tucker destroys the machine and Danny and Sam take down their demons and Nocturne together before being expelled and capturing Nocturne for real in the Thermos as everyone wakes up. The episode ends with a mix of canon ending and Team Phantom reflecting on their growth and facing their fears, and Danny and Sam denying the part of their dreams where they were together, and being adorkable blushy messes as the special ends, hinting that they know that the other’s feelings for each other is mutual.

Idk what anyone else’s thoughts would be on Frightmare or a rewrite of it, but that’s personally how I would rewrite it and would like to see it go down if we get a DP revival! Thanks for coming to TED talk and enjoying my ramble!

[youcalledsworld]

Danny Phantom Observation

Was rewatching Frightmare and when he gets to his parents, he mentions how the helmets reminds him of a princess tiara. After that he says princess after and immediately thinks of Jazz.

So Danny canonically sees Jazz as a Princess and to me that is so adorable.

[minddeer]

NOCTURN EDIT!!

got motivated to edit hehe :D

[mikewheelerfan2022]

DP Best Episode Tournament

[nocaffeineforlevi]

Danny Phantom writers stop electrocuting Danny challenge

[hitchell-mope]

Oh yeah. Yup. Definitely dreaming. Definitely. I’m still taking it as shipping fodder though.

[briarruler]

AU Idea: where Nocturn has simply forgotten that humans regularly need to drink, eat, excrete, move around and are affected by environmental factors like temperature.

Dying stops humans from dreaming, so they are no use to him dead.

(He is most displeased to discover that even having his Sleepwalkers attend to them only delays their death, not prevents it.)

I always think Nocturne’s plan to keep the entire city of Amity Park asleep and dreaming is underwhelming for a villain until I remember most people don’t eat or drink while asleep, and him succeeding would’ve led to the entire city dying of dehydration or starvation.

[daily-dose-of-danno]

hiiiii could i. perhaps maybe. request some nocturn.

Here’s ur sleepy fella

Season 3, Episode 9 - Frightmare

[pransesdp]

Speaking of the canon Danny Phantom show, do you think it could've been worth it to give it another "fourth" season, if you had a choice to give it a better ending/fix up certain story arcs?

Hmmmmm, I do see the appeal in wanting to spruce up the canon ending we got (cause oof, even now I can see how messy “Phantom Planet” was-). For a whole 4th season however… Iiiii feel like it might be a bit “much” imo, if there’s no clear narrative goal in mind? ^^;

Like, with what they’ve been doing with the graphic novel series (aka. the one with Dark Danny & the upcoming Valerie-focused novel), I can tell they’re rife with potential for story arcs. But given some of the clunky writing in the later-half of the canon show, I think we're gonna have to call more for an overhaul of that before tackling another season.

Like here’s what I’d personally suggest for a S3 overhaul (should one choose to keep it as the "final" season):

-Add in more episodes for S3, to give it the same proper bulk of content as the previous seasons + help not feel so "rushed" by the series-end.

-Maaaaybe tone down the Vlad focus in terms of episode plots; yes, I get he is the main series villain... but that doesn't mean he needs to show up all the time imho. Compared to the first couple seasons where he was only ever the "main focus" a handful of times (thus helping him feel like a genuine threat to stay on-edge about), by S3 Vlad just... didn't feel too impressive, villain writing-wise tbh? 🤷‍♀️ As the old saying goes, "Less is More~" 🍵🍵

-Following the prior point, I'd try to incorporate more of a mix of the og villain roster AND the newer ghosts (ex. Nocturn, Undergrowth, etc.) as episode focuses... 'cause ngl, most of the previous baddies did start to feel forgotten-about in S3's narrative, outside of a couple cameos here & there 😔 Like, instead of clumsily shoving Ember, Kitty & Spectra into one episode... have them spread out in their own plots (+bring in Desiree to share the spotlight with one of them too, if you still want some team-up ideas). Or even for a main finale focus, that could be a fun time to bring back Dark-Danny to once more be the "ultimate" threat (symbolically capping off Danny's adventures by facing the reality of "growing up" instead of ignoring it again, y'know?). Just... aaaagh, whyy must all these cool ghosts be shoved off to the side, man... 😭😭

-Have Danny & Sam get together alooooot sooner than the series finale; which yes, I can see how that'd be controversial for those who don't ship them (and/or just don't like romance, period lol)... buuuut I mean, since DxS has been hinted/teased at since S1, then one might as well bring it full circle and show the audience how they work as a couple imo (ex. Kim & Ron during the later eps of "Kim Possible"). Like say, put "Frightmare" ahead of "Urban Jungle" (to allow Danny & Sam to realize they both like eachother through their shared dream), have the angst + raised stakes of "Urban Jungle" break through Danny to confess his love, fights tooth & nail to save Sam (+the others), and then once the dust is settled/reunite back to normal... they have their big kiss moment to seal them as a canon couple (ahh, classic cartoon trope hehe~💗). Cue the rest of the S3 going by as normal (+them being awkward dorks trying to get through ghost adventures while also figuring out dating lol), the finale happens, they have another heart-to-heart to further acknowledge feelings, they fly off in the end committed to one another... The End~ 💜💚

[princess-of-the-corner]

I think DP season 3 can be summed up as 'good ideas, bad execution'

Eye for an Eye - Vlad becomes mayor, increasing his opportunities to mess with Danny's life

Infinite Realms - Introduction to Frostbite and the Infi-Map

Girls Night Out - Sam, Jazz, and Maddie team up to deal with a ghost attack while Danny's gone

Torrent of Terror - Vortex the weather ghost

Forever Phantom - Shapeshifter ghost

Urban Jungle - Undergrowth the nature ghost, Sam getting powers, Danny's ice powers

Livin Large - Return of Guys in White

Boxed Up Fury - Box Ghost trying to earn respect by using the most powerful box of all

Frightmare - Nocturn the dream ghost

Claw of the Wild - Return of Walker and Wulf

D-Stabilized - Danielle's return

Phantom Planet - Yeah, I got nothing

Okay so like.

Like as stupid as it sounds, some giant asteroid is going to destroy Earth and the only way to stop it is to get enough Ghost to make the Earth intangible potentially works.

It's everything else

[xxstorm86skytte]

I drew Nocturne from Danny Phantom episode frightmare

[smashupmashups]

Presenting the screenshots I've made of the main characters of My Life as a Teenage Robot crossing over with Danny Phantom! (In chronological order.)

Made on January 27 and later updated on May 16 over how I noticed the shading on the top wasn't added on the walls and the lines were too thick to be TV episode/special material.

I've been at this for nearly seven hours and here it is.

I first started with the background of the Fenton Works laboratory, looking at the screencaps of "The Fairly Odd Phantom" for the modern look of the place. Took me a while in figuring out the correct detailing of the wall as the next frame was inconsistent with it, but I got the finished result.

Next was doing Danny and Jenny, which led to doing a new Danny with existing and new art pieces while Jenny was made new for this.

As the characters and background were finished, I scaled 'em down to appropriate sizes and pieced 'em together while making sure the centering on the two was right.

This was finished on May 8.

For the background, I used an existing one I made priorI already made a baseline for Sam and Tucker on April 12; I just never got around it until after celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Jimmy Timmy Power Hour.

Jenny, meanwhile was made with tracing over my existing Hartman-styled Jenny image while making her pose freely.

For this, I wanted to make one with Brad, Tuck, and Sheldon in the Danny Phantom universe looking for Jenny. This was started onMay 19 and finished on May 20.

I started on the background, taking place in the Fentons' living room, considering I already had Jenny introduced in the Fenton Works' lab.

Danny was next, using screenshots from notably "Frightmare"; "Mystery Meat"; and "Memory Blank".

Next was Jazz, which was a trace of an existing art piece from a few months ago, while the hands were changed for this.

Brad, Tuck and Sheldon relied on tracing over the artwork of them in the Danny Phantom style and freehanding the poses, while their heads were slightly tilted with the help of Free Online Image Editor. Sheldon was made to be pretty nervous from the look of Danny's universe while Tuck notices he now has five fingers compared to how he had four back in his universe, as a little nod to how the Jimmy Timmy Power Hour had made meta jokes on the animation styles.

I had my head wrapped around this, but I decided to do Vexus in the Danny Phantom style, through a fan-made screenshot.

This was in the making from May 20 to May 21.

It was updated twice that day: once to add a shadow beneath her feet, according to the screenshots, and again to make the outlines thicker after another look at it.

Everything was made without any reference images, while I looked at screenshots from The Fairly Odd Phantom for the Fenton Portal and screenshots from the My Life as a Teenage Robot episode "Queen Bee", which showed off Vexus' current look.

When I realized "Queen Bee" was her last appearance in her respective show, and only time presenting her in her new look, I thought I'd have her as the main antagonist in this crossover idea. Should this turn into a real thing, I'd definitely wanna see how Cree Summer, who had voiced her in two episodes, could take over the reigns as Vexus in place of the late Eartha Kitt.

This one was in the works since May 9 when it was in its original conception. I stopped on May 10 to spend the weekend at my mom's. I resumed a bit on May 13, then finally finished during midnight on May 15.

After making that screenshot of Jenny with Sam and Tucker, I had to make something with Danny.

My first one was of Jenny and Team Phantom (or just Danny, depending on whether or not I'd make all four members in the same place) located at Jenny's front doorstep, which I had the background completed along with an image of Jenny. As I was making Danny shown at a center angle and with a surprised expression, I had the new idea of having him, Jazz and Tucker arriving in Jenny's universe seeing how they look in the Teenage Robot style a la Jimmy Timmy Power Hour with how Timmy and Jimmy responded appropriately at how they looked different in each other's universes.

Figuring out the location of the portal was a toughie, but I came to the epiphany of placing it by the entrance, with the portal being hidden by one of the walls near the front door via rotating wall. I looked at the reference images to make the wall of the entrance. With the portal, I spent time with the details and adding the inside of the Fenton Ghost Portal, which would be interconnected with Nora's portal. The Fenton lab was the hardest part, especially adding the details in the Ghost Portal's interior by looking at screencaps from The Fairly Odd Phantom and a sketch by Butch Hartman of Sam looking on at the Ghost Portal.

Jenny was made with reference images, while Team Phantom relied on tracing over the existing Teenage Robot-styled versions with adding new poses and expressions.

And there you have it, my series of fan-created screenshots of the Teenage Robot and Danny Phantom characters together! Hope you like 'em!