For all the mess that is Phantom Planet, there is something i really like about it and that is the fate of Vlad Masters when he tries to turn the asteroid intangible.
What i'm refering to is the conversation that Vlad has with Jack before leaving the spaceship, which is pretty well written in contrast to the rest of the episode.
Jack: ¨How could you hold the world hostage like that Vladdie? And after the good fortune you've had in your life.¨
Vlad: ¨Good fortune?! You infect me with ghost DNA then steal the love of my life and you call that good fortune?¨
Jack: ¨I infected you? You mean…¨
Vlad: Yes fool! It was your bumbling that made me what I am today!
There are plenty of aspects that i like about this conversation, but the part that gets me is ¨It was your bumbling that made me what I am today!¨.
Because that's basically who is Vlad at his core. He blames his bad actions on the accident and Jack. He doesn't see himself as a villain. He believes that his justified in his own actions because of his own victimization, in the sense he is never at fault of why others leave him or why things go wrong for him, it always someone else's fault, or Jack's.
Vlad's villain/antagonist arc in the main series is bit by bit loosing everyone that cares about him, either because he pushes them away or they find out what type of person he truly is but he never realizes that he is the reason this happens. He is so absorbed in his own delusion that he can't see what he is doing wrong. In result he ends up more frustrated that he already was, and thus more alone.
When Jack tries to explain to Vlad that he didn't intend to hurt him and what happened was an accident there is a moment that Vlad... stops walking, turns around and listens to what Jack is telling him.
It is interesting because it is almost like there is a part of him that wants to know what Jack has to say, even if moments later he doesn't care about that.
Jack: I never meant to hurt you. What happened was an accident. I'm your friend, Vladdie. I've always been your friend.
Sadly for Jack, he finds out that ¨his friend¨ has become a very different person from the one he knew back in college.
Vlad: I'll remember that when I steal Maddie from you and make her my queen!
Which leaves Jack rightfully devastated that he has been friends with someone who was lying to him all this time.
Vlad flies to the asteroid and finds out that he can't touch it because it is made out of ectoranium, a sustance that ghosts can't touch and get hurt by it.
Then he realizes how screwed up he is because 1) The Earth is really doomed since he can't make the asteroid intangible and 2) he revealed his own ghost identity to the whole world and he ¨will be forever hunted¨.
Vlad: Ecto-ranium? Then I can never touch it. No ghost can. That means…the Earth is doomed. And even if it wasn't I could never go back. I've revealed…my true self. I'll be forever hunted.
Seeing that he is in real trouble he happens to ask Jack for help, minutes after he revealed what type of person he is to him, leading to one of my favourite exchanges in the series:
Vlad: Jack, you have to help me. You wouldn't turn your back on an old friend, would you?
Jack: An old friend? No. You? Yes.
And just like that Jack punches the fire jets control and leaves Vlad stranded in the middle of space, almost as a final ¨screw you¨ to his ¨best friend¨.
Desperately Vlad calls out for Jack's name only that this time there isn't anyone to answer him back. That is the moment Vlad realizes that he finds himself truly alone now, that he ended up pushing away the person who cared about him the most and that everyone on Earth hates him now. Or as he says it in ¨A Glitch In Time¨ novel: He has nothing to return to.
Then he flies away, not having the courage to get to see the Earth getting destroyed because of the asteroid.
I personally like this a lot because Vlad wasn't defeated in a epic battle, put behind bars or anything of that stuff. He was ¨defeated¨ by pushing away someone when he needed his help the most, in a sort of karmatic way.
Due to his obsession with controlling everyone and forcing people to ¨love¨ him he ended up in the way he hated the most and tried avoiding all this time: Completely alone, with no one that wants him around.
And to me, that's a satisfying way to end his arc in the main series since, again, his arc wasn't about him taking over the world or the Ghost Zone. It was about the way he treated others and how his obsession with power drove everyone away.
What it is more, i think it is one of the scenarios that makes the most sense to me for the development he gets in ¨A Glitch in Time¨ because he has to lose everything or being shown that his actions wouldn't get him what he was trying to achieve.
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So I know that everyone makes a ton of Danny Phantom and DC crossovers, which implies that they could possibly be on the same planet, maybe the same universe, depending on who you ask.
However, that doesn't mean they know about each other. (Especially since personally I headcanon that international news doesn't report on Amity Park often, they get a little tired of ghosts. Specifically, the Fenton's hunting them)
SPOILERS FOR PHANTOM PLANET BELOW
Imagine being a citizen in Gotham City, going about your day as usual- okay as usual as Gotham gets- and then suddenly a plane flies over and drops a tube across the city. Heroes go over to investigate this, only to find that they can't touch the tube. Or anything. BECAUSE THE WHOLE PLANET IS RANDOMLY INTANGIBLE
But since this is Gotham, everyone kinda shrugs it off like "man, that was weird" and occasionally someone will be like: Hey remember that time the whole city went intangible? And everyone will just be like: Oh yeah, man that was weird! Anyways want lunch?
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Secret Trio PSA
Since there are some new people discovering my comic, I just wanted to let ya'll know that I begun writing the script for my Secret Trio comic back in 2018. So Glitch in Time did not exist and thus is not canon within my universe. However, Phantom Planet is also not canon because I dislike it. My comic should just be regarded as it's own timeline. I do not plan to change my script to reflect Glitch in Time because I worked hard on it and am happy with the story I've created. Although I think Glitch In Time was great, I hope ya'll understand. Thanks~
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I want to understand people's hatred of Phantom Planet more as someone who enjoyed it so I've asked some people their reasons. Honestly all of them made sense!
I want to see if the rest of the phandom agrees or has different reasons entirely so I made a poll:
And of course you can go in depth in comments/reblogs/tags! I encourage it actually!!
It just feels like this episode has become taboo for fans and I want to understand why
Edit: I'm so sorry I forgot a multiple/all of the above option! I wanted to but somehow it didn't make it in??? Pick Other for that one!
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