Overview: Danny Phantom

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Danny Phantom is a Nickelodeon cartoon created by Butch Hartman of The Fairly Odd Parents). It follows Danny Fenton, a.k.a. Danny Phantom, a teen who gains ghost powers and uses them to protect his town from paranormal invasion. DP is intelligent and layered, with good writing and a lot of jokes and references that the target audience, kids between seven and nine, won’t necessarily understand—like the ones to Star Trek, Bill Gates, and tax evasion. It also sends up the superhero aspect fairly frequently. It ran for three seasons between 2004 and 2007.

(Spoilers throughout.)

A Brief History of Ghosts

Because the show is about ghost fighters and the ghosts they fight, I’m starting with a run-down on what ghosts are in this canon. It’ll make some things I say later easier to explain and understand. I hope.

Ghosts are “manifestation[s] of ectoplasmic energy and post-human consciousness”. They generally come in green or blue, with red eyes and pointed ears, but there are exceptions. They have a variety of powers and obsessions, which are generally linked. The Lunch Lady, for instance, is obsessed with meat, and can move meat at her bidding. They may not all have been alive, but most of them probably were.

Most ghosts display the core powers of flight, invisibility, intangibility (moving through objects), and ghost rays, also called ectoblasts. Other popular powers are telekinesis, ectomanipulation (creating objects out of ectoplasm), overshadowing (possession), and the formation of a “tail” where legs used to be. There are also ghosts who can manipulate time, shape-shift, create ice, duplicate their bodies, control plant growth, control the weather, grant wishes, feed on dreams, brainwash through music, and warp reality. If you can imagine it, there is almost certainly a ghost for it somewhere.

The ghosts in Danny Phantom are not tied to a place or an object, like they are in most stories. Instead, they live in the Ghost Zone, a parallel dimension of floating doors, islands, and buildings. Each door and building is some ghost’s lair. Everything is made out of ectoplasm, and ghosts cannot pass through objects in their world. (But humans and “Real World Objects” can.) The Fenton Portal serves as a gateway between the worlds and ghosts really like using it because Earth is much more exciting than the Ghost Zone.

Ghostly obsessions are many and various, but all seem to focus around getting more power or control. The Lunch Lady wants control over the menu at the local high school. Walker, the Ghost Zone sheriff, wants control over the law and creates any rules he sees fit. Ember McLain, the rocker ghost, wants a global fanbase. And so on. Ghosts are pretty much just like humans, but with superpowers, exaggerated personalities, and shorter tempers.

Team Phantom

Danny Fenton / Danny Phantom

Danny is the fourteen-year-old son of two professional ghost hunters. He lives in Amity Park and attends Casper High. He’s smart but easily distracted, clumsy, slightly shallow, a little rebellious, and extremely embarrassed by his parents. After an accident with the Fenton Portal, ectoplasm fuses with his DNA and he becomes half-ghost (or a halfa). He soon realizes that he can use his powers to fight off the ghosts haunting his hometown of Amity Park and then quickly realizes that he doesn’t know jack about doing so. Fortunately, a lot of his early fights are won by dumb luck and the intervention of his friends.

If the ghost fights weren’t enough, Danny has to evade his parents, who believe all ghosts, especially Phantom, are evil and that their son is rebelling; his teachers, who don’t like how chaos follows him around; Paulina, the A-lister with a crush on Danny Phantom; Dash, the jock who refers to Danny as his “favourite punching bag”; the media, who call him Inviso-Bill and vilify him whenever possible; and the entire cast of villains. He doesn’t get a lot of sleep. He doesn’t do much homework, either.

His clothing as Phantom is a HazMat jumpsuit. He gains the DP logo on his chest as a retcon at the start of season two. He is stronger powers than most ghosts, and his powers are green.

Samantha “Sam” Manson

The perky, sarcastic female lead and Danny’s best friend. Sam is a self-proclaimed goth, an environmentalist, an animal rights activist, an ultra-recyclo-vegetarian (nothing with a face), and a gamer. Sam is an heiress, but doesn’t flaunt her wealth publicly even though she’s used it a few times for ghost-related purposes. She believes very strongly in individuality and is deliberately not “into” what everyone else is, though at a point this is just a line—in the first season, she badly wants to go to a dance but won’t admit it. She is not afraid to speak her mind, call Danny on thoughtlessness, or walk out on him when he needs the wake-up call. She is the most mature of the core trio. She was also the one to talk Danny into the accident that gave him his powers.

Sam starts the series as simply a friend, but fairly quickly proceeds to having a crush on Danny. Initially, she insists otherwise (and so does he), but eventually they realize their mutual attraction.

Tucker Foley

Danny’s other best friend, the techno-geek and the “funny one”. He is occasionally the voice of reason but more often then not helps Danny into trouble. He doesn’t know when to stop talking. Tucker is a skilled hacker and part-time inventor. Sam is a better gamer than he is. Like Sam, he’ll do pretty much anything for Danny.

Tucker has a rich and meaningful relationship with each of his string of PDAs, but is also girl crazy. He briefly dated Valerie, but has otherwise had no luck with girls. He is also vain and has ended up the “villain” twice because ghosts have taken advantage of the trait. He has known Danny longer than Sam has, but we’re unsure how much longer. There is conflicting data.

Jasmine “Jazz” Fenton

Danny’s sixteen-year-old sister. Jazz is a straight-A student and sees herself as the most rational member of her family. She initially doesn’t believe in ghosts but accepts their existence when confronted with the evidence. Jazz is a bit of a snob because of her intelligence and believed superiority to her family, and is overprotective, but she also wants to help her brother and is loyal to her family despite her complaints. She is heavily into psychology.

Jazz isn’t part of the original team, but is later inducted after she reveals that she’s known about Danny’s powers for a while. She isn’t particularly good at fighting, but is a staunch defender of him and a very capable distracter when needed, even if her excuses could do with a bit of work. Her preferred weapon is the Fenton Ghost Peeler, which takes the form of body armour and shoots a ray that removes layers of a ghost’s appearance until it reaches its true form.

The Villains

Vlad Masters / Vlad Plasmius

Danny’s archenemy. Vlad was a college friend of and collaborator with Danny’s parents. In an accident with a Proto-Portal, he was blasted in the face with ectoplasm. This gave him ecto-acne and a ghost form of his own. He was hospitalized for years, and harbours intense resentment towards Jack Fenton for having caused the accident and “stolen” the woman of his dreams.

Vlad craves power. He is an acclaimed billionaire, though no one knows that he got the money illegally, using ghost powers. He tries to become the Ghost King and succeeds in becoming the Mayor of Amity Park. He delights in manipulation. He has a number of ghostly minions, including a trio of vultures and Skulker. He is the sponsor of the Red Huntress.

Vlad also craves love. He remains in love with Maddie Fenton, Danny’s mom, and attempts several times to off her husband and coerce her into marrying him instead. As soon as he discovers that Danny is also half-ghost, he decides that he wants Danny as a son and apprentice. All his various attempts to achieve this fail.

Vlad’s powers are magenta and he has a twenty-year start over Danny in using them. He is also smart, reasonably versed in ghostly lore and history, and has a talent for improving on others’ designs. Vlad’s most important inventions are the Plasmius Maximus, which can short out ghost powers, and the Red Huntress’ first battle suit. Vlad is blackmailing Danny: if Danny tells anyone on Vlad, Vlad will tell on Danny. (Yes, it really is that petty.)

Vlad lives in a castle in Wisconsin. He is a fan of the Green Bay Packers. When he swears, he uses snack foods—fudge buckets, sugar cookies, and so on. He oozes smarm.

Valerie “Val” Grey / The Red Huntress

After an incident involving a ghost dog, Danny Phantom, and the labs where her dad was head of security, Val’s father loses his job and she loses her A-list status in school. She then receives a package (from Vlad) that contains a battle suit, jetboard included, and a note that encourages her to take revenge on Phantom. She becomes so consumed with hatred that it blinds her to the fact that Danny only ever acts in self-defense during their fights and continually apologizes at the same time. She holds a black belt in an unspecified martial art.

Val is unmasked to her father in the middle of season two, and afterwards he very grudgingly allows her to continue her extracurriculars. To earn money for college, she takes a job at the Nasty Burger, the local hangout. She does not want to be controlled or manipulated, and rebels against Vlad when she discovers that he is actually an evil ghost. At one point, her suit is possessed by Technus and Danny destroys it. Technus then gives her a new suit with more gadgets and a much more cybernetic look. She has briefly dated both Danny and Tucker.

Dark Danny

The fused-together ghost forms of Danny Phantom and Vlad Plasmius, created in an alternate reality when Danny’s friends and family are killed. He is much more powerful than either halfa. Dark Danny is hell-bent on destroying everything that reminds him of his human self, so his world, especially Amity Park, closely resembles a war zone. When Danny is asked by Clockwork, the Ghost of Time, to stop him, Dark Danny finds his way into Danny’s world and tries to recreate the events that led to his creation. Danny defeats him by learning the Ghostly Wail, a power that Dark Danny had only recently acquired ten years into the future.

This is the character and scenario many fans gravitate towards when looking for angst. Fans prefer to call him Dan, Dan Phantom, or Dan Plasmius.

Skulker

The self-titled Ghost Zone’s Greatest Hunter, approximately the size of a frog but housed in a giant robotic suit. He is in intent on capturing Danny to make him into a wall hanging or rug. He has a PDA embedded in his arm from his first battle with Danny, and Tucker has hacked his suit through it. In season one, he’s on Vlad’s payroll.

Nicolai Technus

“Master of Technology (and All Things Electronic and Beeping)”. Technus can possess technology for his own purposes and make it into armour. He wants to control the world through technology, but has a bad habit of giving his plans away before he enacts them. He’s very long-winded.

The Box Ghost

More of an annoyance than a villain. The Box Ghost keeps popping up, shouting threats like “I am the Box Ghost! Beware!” and “Flee! Lest you be hermetically sealed and shipped to your DOOM!”, and then getting trounced by Danny. He has control over boxes and packing material, which mainly means that he throws them at people and flies away.

The Guys in White

The paranormal equivalent of the Men in Black, but less competent and more obsessed with government regulations. They believe that all ghosts need to be destroyed and that Danny is a national security risk.

Other villains that appear in the show are:

- Ghostwriter, who can warp reality to what he writes (he’s a fanwriter favourite)
- the Fright Knight, the spirit of Halloween
- Wulf, a helpful werewolf ghost
- the Lunch Lady
- Penelope Spectra, who feeds on misery and is obsessed with looking young
- Desiree, the genie ghost who’s the go-to for mind wipes, gender swaps, love spells, and the like
- Ember McLain, the rocker with a fiery ponytail and a guitar that acts as a sonic weapon and spell caster
- Johnny 13, a biker with a bad luck Shadow, and his girlfriend Kitty, who wants his undivided attention
- Freakshow, the human owner of Circus Gothica who can control ghosts and yearns to be one
- Pariah Dark, the evil Ghost King who is imprisoned (except for when Vlad let him out that one time).

There are others, but those are the most relevant to both plot and fandom.

The Supporting Cast

Jack Fenton

Jack is Danny’s very enthusiastic, clumsy, and well-meaning father. He is a prolific inventor, though it’s Maddie who cleans up the designs so they don’t backfire (as often). He wants to be buddy-buddy with his children and have them follow in his footsteps, and he will gladly “blather on about ghosts” if given the slightest opportunity. Despite his clumsy nature, he is surprisingly competent when his family is threatened.

Jack believes that ghosts are evil and, after Phantom has been around a while, vows to tear him apart “molecule by molecule”. He still believes that Vlad is his best friend and shares his passion for ghost hunting. He refers to him as Vladdy or V-Man.

Jack loves fudge and his wife’s baking. His preferred weapons are the Jack-O-Nine-Tails (a whip-like weapon that grabs the ghost it touches) and a basic ectocannon. He is rarely seen out of his HazMat, and occasionally wears other clothing over it.

Madeline “Maddie” Fenton

Maddie is the calmer, more rational parent, but is still very into ghost hunting. She is the family caregiver and the only person who can really calm Jack down. She is aware of Vlad’s feelings but only sees him as a friend. When her family is threatened by anyone, she defends them to the end. She has a black belt (in something) and is proficient with a quarterstaff. She would rather dissect ghosts than vaporize them. She is rarely seen out of her HazMat jumpsuit either.

Danielle “Dani” Phantom

Danny’s twelve-year-old half-ghost clone, made by Vlad. She starts melting if she uses too much power, and needs Vlad’s (or Danny’s) help to stabilize herself. She is originally loyal to Vlad, but when she sees who he really is as a person, switches sides. Dani shares the same taste in music and food as Danny, but is perkier and cuter. Sam and Tucker grudgingly tolerate her. Jack and Maddie don’t know she exists. Vlad wants her dead. A number of fans don’t like her because she’s sort of a canon Sue.

Mr. Lancer

The teacher at Casper High with the most screen time. He is technically the English teacher, as well as the vice principal, but he apparently covers other classes as well. He is sarcastic and strict, and favours the jocks, but also wants to see all his students succeed. He’s more than willing to punish when he feels he needs to, and Danny’s in-school ghost fights tend to get a lot of Lancer’s negative attention. Lancer is cowardly, vain, and not respected by his students. He swears in book titles.

Clockwork

The Ghost of Time (caps almost obligatory). Clockwork sees all pasts, presents, and futures simultaneously and can freeze time using his staff. He oversees the course of history, nudging it in favour of certain events, and was asked to kill Danny before he could become his evil future self. Instead, Clockwork puts Danny on a path that will stop Dark Danny, and as a result Danny becomes Clockwork’s “responsibility”. Clockwork uses his power to teach Danny another lesson about changing the past, and then falls into the background though it’s assumed he’s still watching. Clockwork is very much the Wise Mentor figure. His appearance changes between childhood, adulthood, and old age.

The full supporting cast is huge, but includes Dash Baxter, the star quarterback and school bully; Paulina, the queen of the high school; Frostbite, the leader of a tribe of Yeti ghosts who revere Danny as a saviour; and the size-changing ghost dog that put Valerie on her path to revenge, and who fans have affectionately named Cujo.

The Inventions

Fenton Thermos

A modified thermos that acts as a ghost containment device. Press a button on the side and it will emit a tractor beam that encases the ghost and sucks it inward. Danny uses this to capture ghosts and release them back into the Ghost Zone.

Fenton Portal

A gateway between Earth and the Ghost Zone, built into the wall of the Fentons’ basement lab. Jack and Maddie spent years building it, but when they went to power it up, it didn’t work. Danny went inside, pressed the “on” button by accident, and ka-boom, instant ghost powers. Over the course of the series, Jack has fitted it with doors and the Fenton Genetic Lock, so that only family members can open it. (Are you seeing a pattern in the names?)

The Portal actually glows green, not blue. Unfortunately, this was the best screencap I could find.

Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle

Driven by Jack with absolutely no regard to traffic laws. It is a functioning RV that is tricked out with every kind of anti-ghost device you can think of.

Specter Speeder

A flying vehicle intended for use in the Ghost Zone, with an escape pod, invisibility shielding, and a handy device for finding Real World Objects. Jack and Maddie have never actually used it. Team Phantom steals it frequently to track ghosts, explore, and rescue kidnapped people. It also works on Earth, and has been totaled and rebuilt several times.

Again, the full list of gadgets is a lot longer. A few of the fansites have complete lists.

Storyline

(Repeating my spoiler warning.)

Season One

A month after Danny gets his powers, he still doesn't have control. In the first episode, he has his first fights ever, versus a pair of octopus ghosts and versus the Lunch Lady. After that, Danny has a number of fairly episodic adventures, meeting Skulker, Technus, and Desiree, before running into Vlad at his parents’ college reunion. It’s then revealed that Vlad sent the Ectopusses and Skulker to try to kill Jack, and that the reunion is an attempt to win over Maddie. Vlad discovers Danny’s dual identity and vows to have him as an apprentice.

Later, Jazz accidentally discovers Danny’s powers, but decides to wait until he’s ready to tell her. Valerie and Danny have their run-in with Cujo, and Val becomes the Red Huntress. The next big event is Walker’s take-over of Amity Park, which he achieves by possessing key figures. He frames Danny for trying to kill the mayor, when Danny’s actually trying to get Walker out of the mayor’s body. This is the first time Danny’s really been in the spotlight, and the media insists from thereon in that he’s evil, as do Danny’s parents.

Vlad reappears several episodes later, having gotten Maddie and Danny to his hunting lodge in another bid for their affections. This is followed by Skulker kidnapping Danny and Valerie (as the Red Huntress), and then by Vlad anonymously putting a bounty on Danny to distract him from another assassination attempt on his father.

The season ends with Freakshow capturing Danny and forcing him to steal for him. Anyone who thought Phantom was good before this episode doesn’t really think so afterwards.

Over the course of the season, Danny dates Paulina and Kitty-possessing-Paulina, and has a mutual dislike of Valerie. Ember makes him fall in love with Sam, temporarily, and Sam develops her crush on Danny.

Season Two

Sam wishes that she never met Danny and Desiree grants the wish. Because she was wearing the Specter Deflector, which makes her immune to ghostly effects, Sam remembers the real world but no one else does. Danny does not have his powers. Sam convinces him to recreate the accident and gives him his emblem. Several episodes later, Danny Fenton has to unite the teens of the town to rescue their parents from ghostly pirates.

The next episode, “Reign Storm”, is the first of four hour-length episodes, and is very pivotal to the Danny-Vlad-Valerie arc. Prior to this episode, Vlad has been quietly obtaining ghostly artifacts, which he now uses to free Pariah Dark from the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep. Dark attacks Amity Park and sucks it into the Ghost Zone. This wasn’t in Vlad’s plan, so he ends up joining forces with Danny to fend off Dark’s army. Danny ends up unmasking Val in front of her dad and taking the Fenton Ecto-Skeleton to enhance his powers and defeat Dark. By the end, Danny has developed feelings for Val and half-acknowledged that he knows about Sam’s crush. Vlad has gained Dark’s right-hand man, the Fright Knight, as a minion. (This seems to have been his original plan.) This episode marks the first time that Danny is fighting alongside other ghosts against a common enemy.

The next major episode is “The Ultimate Enemy”, also an hour-long “movie”, and probably the episode responsible for getting the most people into the fandom. Clockwork is asked by the Observants, a Ghost Zone organization, to kill teenage Danny before he can cheat on the Career Aptitude Test, because if he cheats, his friends and family will die, he’ll go to live with Vlad, and he’ll ask for his ghost half to be removed so he’ll feel less, thereby creating Dark Danny. Clockwork does attempt the assassination, but then sends Danny, Sam, and Tucker into the future to stop Dan. Dan maroons Danny in the Ghost Zone of the future, and takes a trip back in time to impersonate Danny and start the events that lead to his creation in the first place. While in the future, Danny discovers his Ghostly Wail, meets a repentant Vlad, and discovers the circumstances that led to Dan. (Once Phantom and Fenton were separated, Phantom tore Plasmius out of Vlad, merged with him, and killed Fenton.) Vlad is repentant and agrees to help Danny get back to the present, where Danny is just in time to battle Dan, nearly lose, and still watch everyone die. Fortunately, Clockwork rewinds time enough that the battle and explosion never actually happened except in Danny’s memories. He gives Danny a pep talk about the mutability of the future. Danny chooses not to cheat on the C.A.T. Clockwork keeps Dark Danny in a Fenton Thermos in his lair.

Yes, they did put massive character death, grief, and existential angst into a show aimed at pre-teens.

Shortly afterwards, Danny and Val begin dating and Technus begins another attempt at global takeover. He’s helped their relationship along to distract them. When that doesn’t work, he possesses Val’s battle suit, and Val watches Phantom destroy it, thinking he was trying to kill her. She reaffirms her desire to kill Phantom and breaks up with Fenton because she feels she can’t properly protect him. 

Then there’s “Reality Trip“, the third movie. Freakshow has found the Reality Gauntlet, which warps reality in any way the wearer chooses. With it functioning, Freakshow is a god. However, Team Phantom manages to disarm him by removing the gems that power the thing, and in retaliation, Freakshow holds their parents for ransom until he gets the gems back. This results in a mad cross-country roadtrip complicated by the Guys In White now know who Danny is because he accidentally exposed himself on TV. Danny manages to get the Gauntlet for himself, defeats Freakshow, sets reality back to where it should be, and then destroys the Gauntlet.

In the final episode, Dani Phantom appears and Vlad tries to stabilize his clone to get the “perfect half-ghost son". Dani gets on Danny’s good side and leads him into a trap. When Vlad overtly tries controlling her, she switches sides and helps Danny to completely destroy the cloning lab. She flies off into the sunset.

By the end of this season, Danny has realized that he might actually have feelings for Sam after denying it for forever, and truly comes into his own as a hero.

Season Three

Vlad gets himself elected mayor in the first episode (mass possession). Then he steals the Infi-Map from Danny, who was given it by Frostbite’s people, the Far Frozen. The Infi-Map shows the location of every natural ghost portal, which allows the user to travel through time as well as space. Needless to say, it’s bad that Vlad has it, and Team Phantom goes through a series of time periods chasing after and fighting Vlad until they get the map again.

For the rest of the season, the ghost-of-the-week fights take a background to the Danny/Sam relationship and Vlad’s quest for power. Danny and Sam become closer and closer, proving they’ll go to any length to save the other and that both are already thinking relationship. Vlad, meanwhile, is playing monomaniacal mayor and getting more and more out of control as he tries to get a successful plan to counter Danny. In the penultimate episode, he sends Valerie after Dani, who’s looking for Danny, and by the end of the episode, Val knows he’s a halfa (and is in a truce with Danny).

This brings us to the final movie, the finale. Vlad brings his own ghost fighters into town and they usurp Danny’s popularity. Danny zaps himself in the Fenton Portal again and rids himself of his powers. Then it’s discovered that Earth is about to be destroyed by an asteroid. Vlad outs himself as an evil half-ghost and extorts the U.N. into giving him $50 billion and world supremacy in exchange for turning the asteroid intangible and saving Earth. Jack flies him up and it comes out that Vlad still really wants Maddie for himself. When it turns out that the asteroid is made of the anti-ghost element ectoranium and that Vlad can’t touch it without physical pain, Jack leaves him in space.

Danny then realizes that he is the world’s only hope and Team Phantom proposes a plan. They round up all the ghosts and make them help turn the Earth intangible, because if they don’t, the Ghost Zone will be destroyed as well. Danny gets his powers back, talks the ghosts into helping, and the day is saved. Afterwards, he outs himself to his parents, Valerie, and the rest of the anonymous ground team, and Danny Phantom is proclaimed an international hero. Danny and Sam start dating.

The Fandom

While Danny Phantom was still airing, most of the really active fans were between 16 and 20. They were attracted to the smart writing the quirkiness of the dialogue, and vast potential of the canon. After all, ghosts have superpowers; there are ray guns, flying cars, and spaceships; time travel and alternate realities are canon; it’s built for crack; there’s a huge cast to ship; there is an enormous potential for angst in Danny’s relationship with the media, in Danny’s relationship with his parents, in Vlad, and in the Danny-Dark Danny issue;, and, of course, the main character is undead. What’s not to love?

As the fans got older and the show went off-air except for sporadic re-runs, they began moving on to other fandoms but most retain a passionate interest in DP. Most of the active fans now are second-generation, having entered the fandom late in season two or during season three. There are still a few first-gen fans producing fanfiction, fanart, and webcomics, but most lost the time or motivation when they hit college or the “real world”. They’re still supporting the fandom by reading fic, looking at the art, buying DVDs and watching episodes, and otherwise participating passively. There’s a sense of despair at the death of the fandom, and at least one concerted attempt to resurrect it. There are still attempts to get the show back into production, and there was a True-Fan/Anti-Fan war for several years, centering around slash and shipping. The less said about that, the better.

Resources

Danny Phantom on Fanfiction.net (most of the fanfiction)

deviantART:

DP-RealFans, the biggest fanclub. It holds regular contests and maintains an up-to-date list of the other dA clubs for the show.

PhanFiction, dedicated to DP fanfiction and the people who write and read it.

DP-Angst, dedicated to fanfiction and fanart with angsty themes

on LiveJournal (and active within the last six months):

Danny Phantom Fan Community - a general community
dannyxsam - Danny/Sam shipping
Halfa_Love - Vlad/Danny shipping
Phantom_Slash- Danny/Dash shipping

The (Active) Forums:

The Danny Phantom Online Forum (requires membership to view)

The Danny Phantom Online Community

Other:

Casper High - a fansite with bios, episode summaries, episode reviews, a gadget list, critical essays, and trivia.

The Danny Phantom Online Forum Picture Archive - The most complete site for screencaps. It also has episode transcripts. It’s not entirely complete, however, and a lot of the caps are hotlinked from a site that’s periodically down.

Danny Phantom Online - Associated with the Danny Phantom Online Community, not the Online Forum. The site has a gadget list, a few screencaps, and episode summaries, scripts, and reviews. It also has a helpful list of fandom terminology.

bluemoonalto’s site - Has episode reviews by several people as well as essays. Her Unified Ghost Theory essays are particularly interesting.

Danny FANtom

Fantasma

Amity Park

Danny Phantom Ghost Zone

Episodes are available online at Livevideo and through iTunes. You can also buy burn-on-demand DVDs from Amazon.com.