#Yes I named evil Danny Dante cause I like that name for him

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Ghosts, Nurture, & Morals

Some thoughts about The Ultimate Enemy episode of Danny Phantom. Went on longer than I thought it would, so, a cut.

On the one hand: Lancer has no reason to suspect that Danny of all people is in league with a ghost who would steal test answers for him; Danny should've known to get a few answers wrong; it would've been more thematically satisfying if the explosion that killed Specifically Danny's Loved Ones was the ecto-filtrater having gone unchanged because the Drs. Fenton shouldn't entrust that duty to an irresponsible 14 year old; if the Fenton Portal was still active then Dante Phantom could've just gotten into Amity through that without issue, a thing he literally did, any time throughout the decade and most people who personally wronged him when he was alive are there; Vlad shouldn't've survived his entire fucking mansion exploding on top of him, etcetera.

On the other hand, I think an interesting way the Ultimate Enemy timeline could've gone would be Danny revealing his powers to his parents and they accept and love him! They agree with him on the conclusion that he's just a human with ghost powers, rather than a proper hybrid of ghost and human, because that'd require them to think of ghosts as people or to kill their baby boy, neither of which they wanna do. This is an easy out that Danny absolutely took, reaffirming his agreement that ghosts are - by majority, he does remember Wulf after all - malevolent in nature.

So the Fentons and the GIW and probably even more ghost hunting organizations across the world continue to develop phasmophobic weapons, keep capturing and experimenting on ghosts, until they manage to build an army with weapons dangerous enough to straight up destroy the dead, deathless, and even the neverborn. They begin an all out war against the Spirit World, and this whole time Danny has continued to grow stronger and stronger, same as he always did!

this destruction leads to the destabilization of the Spirit World, and as Earth and Spirit are two halves of a whole, destroying one will eradicate the other with it. A thing nobody knows, or at least no human takes seriously. Enter, Clockwork and the Observants.

Now the lesson Clocky has to hammer into Danny's head is that he's not just a human anymore, but he's also not just a ghost pretending to still be alive. Danny is what people used to be, what people are meant to be, a harmonious representation of the natural way of the world and the beginning of a new age wherein the worlds can potentially be brought back together. Otherwise, they will end.

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