There’s also a potential reading in some of the early episodes that Danny might not want to or be comfortable with acknowledging or accepting the label of ghost/ half-ghost (although some of it is clearly just him being a socially-awkward bad liar overcompensating out of fear of being found out). The centre of Danny’s “ human heart in conflict with itself” is his compassionate sense of duty and inability to refuse a cry for help, colliding with a deep and longstanding desire to just be liked and accepted and, most of all, normal.
In some of his earliest lines in the series, the anxiety he expresses is not that being half-ghost will cause peers who currently accept him to reject him, but that it’s yet another barrier between him and being accepted at all. Other posts have pointed out that, of all the insults that get thrown at him in the show, Danny reacts the worst to “freak” and “loser” words that single him out and reject him for being a misfit. He feels alienated from his peers by things that he has little to no control over he didn’t ask for and can’t just “stop” being a half-ghost, anymore than he can just “stop” being Danny Fenton, the quiet son of the Town Weirdos™. Meanwhile, Danny seems unhappy with life beyond his social circle of Sam and Tucker, and the main reason for that seems to be that he isn’t accepted by others and doesn’t “fit in”.
Even Spiderman’s Peter Parker - the other young adult everyman hero to whom Danny is most often compared - is, in most stories, reasonably content with his place in civilian life (except, again, when it’s being disrupted by superhero nonsense) even when that life isn’t ideal. Personal life, the way it is routinely disrupted by ghosts, and the fact that - even before the accident - Danny’s life didn’t seem to be all that great.Ĭompare and contrast Kim Possible, whose personal life both at home and at school is fairly ideal when not being disrupted by superhero nonsense.
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One of the the things that sort of sets Danny Phantom apart from other hero series of the time is the level of attention it puts on Danny’s What makes Danny in particular so appealing? The Subtle Art of Fitting In As they say, “you can’t write about secret identities without attracting queer people”.īut the same can be said for a lot of superheroes. So Danny has an integral part of himself that he feels compelled to hide away from most of the people in his life (even people very close to him), that he tries to repress when around them, that he fears having discovered, and that he can most comfortably express either under an anonymising identity or in the company of others with similar traits. And even more specifically, a secret identity that is largely disliked and/or feared by the people he is trying to protect. Danny is a superhero, and more specifically a hero with a secret identity.
I think there are a number of reasons why Danny Phantom as a show and the Danny Phantom fan community would be disproportionately attractive to asexual fans.
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