I think people recently have been forgetting that Dan isn’t a halfa anymore he’s like 200% ghost or something. At minimum he’s like 100% ghost if we decide that Phantom And Plasmius WITHOUT Danny and Vlad count as only 50% ghost even separated from their human halves. He will not look human or like Danny all the way and Danny will not look like Dan when he gets older because Dan is Also Plasmius. I keep seeing fics where people talk about aged down Dan having black hair and blue eyes and generally looking like a human child which he would not and can never be. not properly, unless you want to play with like reincarnation.
obviously do whatever you want forever but the angst and comedy of having one weirdo guy who CANNOT pretend to be human hanging out with a bunch of people who are like "regular guys" like tell me about how freaky it is to see Mr. Flaming hair green skin hanging out with three normal looking teens. I want to know how people react to that and when people don’t acknowledge that he’s full ghost I assume they’ve simply forgotten and tbh I’m gonna start hijacking shit to sate my hunger soon.
“Your ghost king can’t save you now!” The villain laughed. “That summoning circle has runes that’ll trap him in and kill him if you try to break them!”
Sighing, Danny rolled his eyes. He allowed the rings to envelope him and he hit the ground soundlessly. The villain watched as a human Phantom walked about a foot outside of the circle, then formed back into the ghost king.
A friend (@chickenlover-19) recommended a Danny Phantom Merperson AU fanfic and had to draw a piece inspired by said fic: Treading Water by TheFullCatastrophe
So we all know Danny’s got a lot of powers, but I feel like a lot of people underestimate how powerful he really is, let’s compare a scene from S1 to S2. Specifically “My Brother’s Keeper” and “Kindred Spirits”.
So Danny in the first clip is angry, so angry he amps up the power of his ghost ray mid-blast, this is just 4 episodes after he gets this power. He’s still learning to use it so this is probably as strong as he can make it currently.
In the 2nd clip Danny totally wipes out everything in a several foot radius, which is way stronger than what his ghost ray was in S1. I decided to do a quick bit of calculation just to see how far Danny shot that ghost ray.
See I initially thought “eh, maybe 30-40 feet” but nope, if Danny’s at least 5ft tall then that puts the blast radius somewhere between 65-70 feet, including the tail of the blast where it would just fade out. That’s with the ground in the way which adds friction, meaning the blast could go much further by possibly 40-50 feet if shot clear off the ground, maybe even further as that’s only scraping along the bottom section of the blast.
I also love Danny’s reaction to this, because even he’s like ‘whoa’ at what he just did, you can hear the panicked breaths in there too, he’s freaking out. This episode also takes place after TUE, so Danny being afraid of his power makes sense here. He’s hurt people with it before: his parents, Sam, Tucker, Valerie and Dash (though he wanted to do that).
Imagine if someone was within that blast range? They’d be more than dead, they’d be erased.
So after seeing that, yeah, I’d get out of there too. If someone saw Danny Phantom could do that in a public space with no evidence of a ghost attack where people are, who knows what they’d say about him in the media?