... See also The Ghost Zone, Credit

Danny's Ultimate Danny Phantom Worldbuilding Compendium

Welcome to Danny's Ultimate Danny Phantom Worldbuilding Compendium. On this page, I will not only talk about how I think the world of the popular early aughts cartoon Danny Phantom is structured, but also how I think the narrative of the popular early aughts cartoon Danny Phantom should be structured if the showrunner wasn't such a piece of shit bad writer.

Danny Phantom has been a special interest of mine since I was a small child watching whatever flashy thing on TV I could get my glasses-clad eyes on. It has lived in my brain so long that its mortgage is fully paid off. I've spent an obscene amount of brain power thinking through the logistics of how Butch Hartman and Co's cobbled together universe could function (way more brain power than I assume Butch Hartman and Co put into it). This compendium (and the many in-depth conversations and power point parties with friends) make it all worth it. Thank you for reading. Even if we don't talk, if you find me on the internet and message me about this page, I promise you an infodump-filled conversation for the ages. I appreciate you.

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The Ghost Zone

The Ghost Zone is a dimension that runs parallel to our own. It's primarily composed of a tangible type of energy called ectoplasm. Ectoplasm is volatile and constantly shifting in its natural state, creating an environment largely dependent on the stability of its inhabitants. Certain beings known as ghosts have the ability to channel ectoplasm and control its flow, shape, and power, both consciously and unconsciously. They're even able to manipulate the Ghost Zone itself, but that takes tremendous amounts of power. There are beings other than ghosts capable of controlling ectoplasm, such as halfas, but there is little research done on these beings.

Ghost Portals

Because the Ghost Zone is comprised almost entirely of energy, it is incredibly malleable. The Ghost Zone's georgraphy and positioning in relation to our dimension is constantly changing. This causes crossover wherein portions of the Ghost Zone "touch" our world and create an opening. These openings are known as ghost portals. Portals are inherently unstable and do not follow our dimensions' laws of nature. This means they can appear at any point in time and space in our dimension, and often cause changes to the environment in which they appear. Portals have been known to "leak" ectoplasm into our dimension, changing the physiology of local flora and fauna.

Ghost Lairs

The Ghost Zone is almost impossible to map, unless one uses an ectoplasm-based device to search and tag the ectoplasmic signiatures of specific points in the Ghost Zone, thus allowing for the "map" to lead the holder to those points as long as they still existed (which is never a guarantee). Certain areas of the Ghost Zone are significantly more stable than other areas. A ghost's lair, an area in the Zone where the climate, georgraphy, and ectoplasmic signiature are determined by a specific ghost's biology, is a fixed point in the Zone as long as that ghost remains stable. Some lairs belong to a group of multiple ghosts with identical or nearly identical energy signiatures and so its stability grows stronger the more ghosts of the same "species" make their home in it.

The Ghosts

Ghosts are beings made purely of ectoplasm, however due to the under-studied nature of ectoscience, there is currently no recorded reason for why their physiology is able to stabilize and control their ectoplasmic nature. This control allows ghosts to morph their physical appearance into almost any kind of thing. Although this malleability is limited by the confines of a ghost's core obsession or purpose. For example, a ghost who's obsession is plants would only be able to shift their appearance into something resembling or related to a plant. Certain types of ghosts have more flexibility in how to meet this requirement of their anatomy.

Dead People

The specifics of ghost creation is still largely debated, but the leading theory regarding a ghost's birth into existence was posed by researches Madeline and Jack Fenton and is known as the Dead Entity Exposure theory. It posits that when a human or animal (sometimes inanimate objects or plants) is exposed to a Ghost Portal in a state of decay or near-death, the collapsing organic material (or even the very molecules that form the entity) will merge with the ectoplasmic energy of the Portal in a process that has never been successfully recreated in a lab. This merging creates an often-times fully formed stable ghost that is transfered to the Ghost Zone immediately upon its birth.

Mythical Beings of Epic Proportions

Here's where I'll write how I think the god-like ghost beings work

The Main Guy Himself

Here's where I'll put info about how I think Danny works

What's up with Valerie Gray

Here's where I'll write about Valerie's suit and how I think it affects her/how this can parallel Danny

The Plot

Here's where I'll write about my ideal plot with the season 1 is Danny, season 2 is Valerie, season 3 is them as a team