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Danny Goes to College in Gotham

So this idea has been floating in my head for a bit: Danny, having somehow survived high school with decent grades, decides with his family to go to Gotham University to attend college with Tucker. It has an awesome aerospace engineering track and if he and Tucker play their cards right, they could get internships at Wayne Enterprises. Gotham has its own heroes and, as far as his parents can tell, there is very little ghost activity so Danny has no obligation to do any heroing. He just has to focus on getting his degree while Phantom goes on hiatus. He and his family thought they had all the bases covered.

Unfortunately for him the Fenton luck kicked in: a GIW transport passing nearby the city has crashed due to an attempted hijacking, leading to it's cargo, a hoard of ghosts, to escape into Gotham. Gotham now has a spectral infestation.

When the Batclan find that they have bitten off more than they can chew, Steph makes a suggestion: a student in her criminal justice class apparently comes from a family of ghost hunters. One search on the Bat Computer later and the Batman shows up in Danny's dorm room asking for a consult.

Now Danny is pulled back into ghost hunting while juggling school but he doesn't want to complicate things by having Phantom show up. Unfortunately, like many things in his life, it might not be up to him.

Basically Danny helping the Batfamily as Danny Fenton while hiding the fact he is a semi-retired teen superhero. Shenanigans ensue.

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Continuing this idea, apparently in the comics, Steph and Cass live in a loft owned by Barbara. A lot of times lofts are renovated warehouses, so that means it'd be in area with more. So I'm thinking the Fentons, being great parents that they are, buy a whole small warehouse in the same area and gift it to Danny as a both a place to live and a place he can work on projects, since I'm having him be an engineering student.

The girls start noticing weird things happening at the neighboring building: a couple in hazmat suits driving a mix between a tank and an RV are helping a guy their age move in. Before the couple leave, they show up with a tray of fudge brownies as a gift to their son's new neighbors.

Steph: Barb, can you do some looking into the new guy who moved in across the street?

Barb: Any particular reason?

Steph: Hazmat suits

Barb: Come again?

Steph: Hold on... Cass, don't eat those! They could be poison!

Cass: No malice in their posture. Also if evil why delicious?

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Phantom Professor at Titans Academy

So I have the Teen Titans cartoon stuck in my brain 20 years later and I had an idea of older versions of those characters starting a Titans Academy to train the next generation of teenage superheroes. Dani joined the Titans ages ago on her journeys to they know about ghosts and how tricky they can be so Nightwing decides they need a course on ghosts. Dani declines to teach it because she's too much of a free spirit but she does recommend Danny. Not Danny Phantom, the ghost hero who pretty much stays in Amity Park but Dr. Danny Fenton, who has survived high school and college and doesn't quite know yet what to do with his life.

Danny thought his life was weird enough with dealing with ghosts but he was in for a surprise when he found his parents entertaining some Titans in their living room they were waiting for him to come home with a job opportunity. Everyone in his family talks him into taking the job, which he does so reluctantly.

Not Danny has to deal with upstart teenager with powers who want to make it big and he and the other teachers have to teach them the skills they wished they knew when they started out. Everyone in Danny's class clocks that he was probably a teen hero but no one knows which one and there is a running betting pool as a result.

"He has to be a Robin or something!"

"Are there any teenaged ghost fighting heroes out there that he could be?"

"The Phantoms but that can't be right since Dr. Fenton obviously isn't dead."

"I'm telling you he wass the second Robin after Nightwing!"

There is a second pool on how long it will take for Danny to ask Raven out, since they work together on some overlapping classes and the kids see the obvious sparks.

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I need more ideas for students for Danny. So far I have the original members of Peter David Young Justice comics: Kon, Bart, Tim, Cassie and Cissie. Maybe Anita and some of the new additions like Ginny. They hide Secret in their dorms because Dr. Fenton is a ghost hunter from a family of ghost hunters and they are afraid of what he'll do when he finds her. What he does is swiftly enroll her to his class and becomes her mentor so she can learn to use her powers.

This instantly makes Danny their favorite teacher.

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Public Enemy

We know from "Public Enemies" to "Reign Storm", Danny was seen as a villain to the general public. Before he would deal with ghosts and only a handful of people saw him at a time, mostly the kids at school. After Walker's invasion, not only was he made fully public to not just the city but possibly the outside world, but he also was framed as a villain.

So in a fusion type crossover story, their should be supers, both hero and villains coming and going inside Amity Park to check out the new budding "villain". Heroes coming in to try and capture him and villains wanting to team up. Maybe a few fans wanting autographs from their new favorite villain. I know there was some of this back when there were a handful of "Danny joins Hive Academy" stories back when the Teen Titans cartoon was more popular but we need more of this, imho instead of the stories that seem to want to make Danny the perpetual victim.

Maybe a young, impressionable villainess wants to meet her celebrity crush (imagine Danny as the Bieber of the teen villain world) and Danny has to try to either get her to leave, convince her he's not a villain and/or reform her. Nothing goes well.

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Professional Courtesy for Superheroes

I have a head canon that in a world where there are other heroes and Danny and his family have to cross jurisdictions to catch a ghost outside of Amity Park that Danny would extend some professional courtesy and try to contact the local hero(es) so that 1.they know that there is ghost activity in their area and 2. he (and his family if he's there with them) is there to deal with it, if the local heroes want the help. The reason Danny would do this? He's been the wrong end of bad press and suspicion in his career as a hero and he just wants to be honest and upfront to other heroes as possible to prevent any misunderstandings. Whether this actually works in practice, however...

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To continue this into a more concrete story, Danny has to go to Gotham to handle some ghost shenanigans. I would set this up as the summer after Reality Trip where he actually let his parents keep their knowledge of his identity. He's going with Maddie (Jack is home sick and Jazz is taking care of him) for an official FentonWorks job. Danny, not wanting to run into any misunderstandings, decides to go out and find Batman to explain that he is there on business to give him advanced warning because he wants to be courteous and not cause trouble on another hero's turf.

Batman is off on League business so instead he bumps into Spoiler. I'm thinking post fired from being Robin Steph but right before she "dies". Spoiler decides to help to try and prove herself after being fired from being Robin. Eventually Cass and Tim tag along. Shenanigans ensue.

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Echo of a Hero

Just a little headcanon I had: the stuff that had cured Dani, Ecto Dejecto, was supposed to weaken ghosts but then just supercharged them. So what if it does the same to Dani, causing a particular power, duplication, to run amok. It takes a while for her to stabilize but she now has the ability to duplicate at will even better than Vlad can. And to go along with her renaming to Ellie, she also takes on a different hero name: Echo.

Dani having duplication powers being her main, go to power works in at least 3 ways to me:

A clone who can make clones of herself is funny

Her using a power her creator usually spammed might be a bit conflicting for her

Danny had a lot of trouble learning how to duplicate just 2, where she can seemingly can duplicate as many as she wants, leading to a little bit of tension

An idea I had as an extension of duplication is the ability to teleport items and people between each copy, making her good for rescues.

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Phantom Professor at Titans Academy

So I have the Teen Titans cartoon stuck in my brain 20 years later and I had an idea of older versions of those characters starting a Titans Academy to train the next generation of teenage superheroes. Dani joined the Titans ages ago on her journeys to they know about ghosts and how tricky they can be so Nightwing decides they need a course on ghosts. Dani declines to teach it because she's too much of a free spirit but she does recommend Danny. Not Danny Phantom, the ghost hero who pretty much stays in Amity Park but Dr. Danny Fenton, who has survived high school and college and doesn't quite know yet what to do with his life.

Danny thought his life was weird enough with dealing with ghosts but he was in for a surprise when he found his parents entertaining some Titans in their living room they were waiting for him to come home with a job opportunity. Everyone in his family talks him into taking the job, which he does so reluctantly.

Not Danny has to deal with upstart teenager with powers who want to make it big and he and the other teachers have to teach them the skills they wished they knew when they started out. Everyone in Danny's class clocks that he was probably a teen hero but no one knows which one and there is a running betting pool as a result.

"He has to be a Robin or something!"

"Are there any teenaged ghost fighting heroes out there that he could be?"

"The Phantoms but that can't be right since Dr. Fenton obviously isn't dead."

"I'm telling you he wass the second Robin after Nightwing!"

There is a second pool on how long it will take for Danny to ask Raven out, since they work together on some overlapping classes and the kids see the obvious sparks.

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Dumb Shipping Idea

Dumb idea for DC x DP: Danny and Billy Batson aka Captain Marvel, become friends through the hero job. Billy, seeing how cool a guy Danny is, decides to try to pair him up with his sister Mary. Mary isn't very amused by Billy meddling in her love life and Danny is oblivious to the machinations(clueless) but thinks Mary is cute.

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When you wanted to make another comic-style art but ended up with a shampoo ad instead 😆 It was fun drawing the hair using the lasso tool though~ Thanks for your nice and funny comments on my prev posts!❤️

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Teen Titans Arcane

This is from a brainstorming session I had with another writer ages ago: a Justice League Dark team but as part of the Teen Titans; more specifically for the original 00s Teen Titans cartoon. Basically an team of teen heroes with ties to the occult with Danny Phantom as a member. The idea is supposed to be part of the continuation of my first fanfiction story "Haunted Destiny" that I'm totally going to do eventually.

Here is the unofficial roster that I have:

Danny Phantom

Thunder and Lightening: in the cartoon they seemed more demigods than half aliens like they were in the comics so they fit

Zatanna: a teenaged Zatanna like in the YJ cartoon.

Red Devil: a member of the 00s comic Titans. the artists for the tie in comics for the cartoon drew art of unused comics Titans on his Deviant Art page, one of which was for Red Devil.

House of Mystery; their base of operations and an unofficial member. Zatanna owns it after getting it from her now ex-boyfriend, Constantine. The House can canonically move itself across the world and other dimensions so good for travel. The idea was for the House to eventually create an avatar body, like in the Justice League Dark movie, named Mystie and later on create a superheroe persona for herself named Mysteria

Mary Seaward, Queen of Blood: one of the crazier ideas was to have a teenage version of Mary, Queen of Blood, a vampire from the comics whose been on both sides of the fight between good and evil , as sort of a reluctant ally for the team.

The idea was they travel from town to town, solving occult mysteries and tracking down an evil organization that wants to create ultimate life form by making hybrids of existing cryptids, monsters, magical beings, etc. Dann gets roped in when they discover he's half ghost and they go after him.

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Contingency Plans

After the events with his bad future and that twisted version of himself, Danny is petrified at what he may become or when Dan may come back. Tucker, who was always on the internet, had seen rumors of the Batman of Gotham City having contingency plans in case other heroes went rogue so he goes to Gotham, tracks down the Dark Knight himself and hands him a USB drive, giving him an edited version of the bad future he'd experienced.

Batman's contingency plan for the Phantom? He calls up Robin and asks him to recruit the hero of Amity Park for his team.

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That is a very solid contingency plan for someone who only Went Bad (TM) because he lost his support system.

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My idea is more prevention plan but it never hurts to have more support, especially from people who've gone through similar trauma.

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Haunted House of Mystery

So in the DC animated movie "Justice League Dark" they did something interesting by giving the House of Mystery an avatar, which was based of of the character Black Orchid. Also in said movie, there seemed to be something going on between her and Deadman. So my dumb imagination thought of this idea:

Constantine is in Amity Park to investigate the ghost shenanigans going on there. The House of Mystery uses perception magic to blend in and draw attention away from itself but it's location is right on Danny's patrol route and he just knows something is off about that house that he swear is in what was just an abandoned lot weeks earlier. No one else seems to notice but him.

Danny suspects there is some weirdness afoot so he goes in to investigate. The House is generally shocked that Danny was able to perceive and enter her so she just observes and finds his dual nature intrigues her. Eventually Danny meets John and after the usual hero misunderstandings trope, Danny learns that the weird things he's encountered in the House is because the house is sentient.

Danny proceeds to name the House "Mysty", which pleases her. He finds himself talking to the house, though she can't answer as she is so she pools up her strength to build herself a avatar body that looks Danny's age. Mysty puts all her focus on creating said body, ignoring Constantine and putting the house out of wack. John, of course, blames Danny and both try to discover what is going on. Big reveal to Mysty's new humanoid form, who is very happy to finally meet Danny on his own terms.

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So most crossovers I've seen with Danny Phantom and Kim Possible has Danny befriending or crushing on Kim who is either similar age or older. What if, however, you had Danny be of the same age as Shego?

We know that Shego was once a hero alongside her brothers and we can speculate it was in her teens up until she became an adult and got her degree for teaching. So what if in that time she met a fellow teenaged superhero that she could befriend and snark about teenage stuff with?

Easy scenario to set things up: the three vulture ghosts decide working for Vlad isn't so great so they quit and decide to work for Avarius, Team Go's bird themed villain. SheGo and her brothers have a hard time dealing with the ghosts until a certain white haired Phantom shows up after tracking them down. Danny and SheGo instantly bond and become friends with snarking as their love language. Danny crushes on her but tries t play it cool. SheGo teases him, though hides the fact she probably likes him, too.

They take turns visiting each other and hangout. SheGo (I'd probably have her real name be Sheila) becomes just as much part of the Fenton family as Tucker and Sam. Meanwhile at Go City HeGo doesn't necessarily like Danny because of his former bad reputation as public enemy number one, even though that label stopped being relevant after saving Amity Park numerous times.

Unfortunately, Danny and the Fenton's good influence isn't enough to dissuade SheGo from the pull of villainy and she suddenly disappears, ghosts (ha) both Danny and her brothers. Danny is heartbroken and feels somewhat betrayed; I haven't thought of the exact scenario and circumstances yet. He gets his degrees in engineering and starts working for a Dr. James Possible in Middleton. She goes full villain and starts working for Dr. Drakken.

Eventually, Drakken needs some tech that can only be found at one place: FentonWorks. SheGo tries to bow out but reluctantly goes in comes face to face with one Danny Phantom.

Phantom: Been a while, Shelly

SheGo: Spooky.

Drakken: I'm obviously missing something her; do you know him, SheGo?

SheGo; Dr. D, not now...

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Continuing with this idea, in the future where Kim is now active as a hero and Shego a villain, Danny has grown up, gotten a degree in engineering and is working at the Middleton Space Center un Dr. Possible with a specialty in jet engines (years of helping his dad tuning up the Specter Speeder paid off). He tried to keep his heroing and work separate but after some shenanigans with some villains trying to steal tome tech, he had to reveal himself to Mr. Possible, who is very understanding, considering what his daughter does.

Danny also ends up meeting the resident robotics expert, Dr. Vivian Porter and they hit it off, which causes some friction when Shego finds out...

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Contingency Plans

After the events with his bad future and that twisted version of himself, Danny is petrified at what he may become or when Dan may come back. Tucker, who was always on the internet, had seen rumors of the Batman of Gotham City having contingency plans in case other heroes went rogue so he goes to Gotham, tracks down the Dark Knight himself and hands him a USB drive, giving him an edited version of the bad future he'd experienced.

Batman's contingency plan for the Phantom? He calls up Robin and asks him to recruit the hero of Amity Park for his team.

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The Ghost Boy and the Martial Arts Teacher

So Lady Shiva, deadly martial arts master in DC Comics had a sister who long since passed away but also shared her passion for fighting. So what if Danny somehow lands her ghost as his teacher to learn how to fight better. Then what if Danny, whether as Fenton or Phantom, crosses paths with Lady Shiva, who immediately notices his fighting style is similar to her sister's?

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Professional Courtesy for Superheroes

I have a head canon that in a world where there are other heroes and Danny and his family have to cross jurisdictions to catch a ghost outside of Amity Park that Danny would extend some professional courtesy and try to contact the local hero(es) so that 1.they know that there is ghost activity in their area and 2. he (and his family if he's there with them) is there to deal with it, if the local heroes want the help. The reason Danny would do this? He's been the wrong end of bad press and suspicion in his career as a hero and he just wants to be honest and upfront to other heroes as possible to prevent any misunderstandings. Whether this actually works in practice, however...

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So most crossovers I've seen with Danny Phantom and Kim Possible has Danny befriending or crushing on Kim who is either similar age or older. What if, however, you had Danny be of the same age as Shego?

We know that Shego was once a hero alongside her brothers and we can speculate it was in her teens up until she became an adult and got her degree for teaching. So what if in that time she met a fellow teenaged superhero that she could befriend and snark about teenage stuff with?

Easy scenario to set things up: the three vulture ghosts decide working for Vlad isn't so great so they quit and decide to work for Avarius, Team Go's bird themed villain. SheGo and her brothers have a hard time dealing with the ghosts until a certain white haired Phantom shows up after tracking them down. Danny and SheGo instantly bond and become friends with snarking as their love language. Danny crushes on her but tries t play it cool. SheGo teases him, though hides the fact she probably likes him, too.

They take turns visiting each other and hangout. SheGo (I'd probably have her real name be Sheila) becomes just as much part of the Fenton family as Tucker and Sam. Meanwhile at Go City HeGo doesn't necessarily like Danny because of his former bad reputation as public enemy number one, even though that label stopped being relevant after saving Amity Park numerous times.

Unfortunately, Danny and the Fenton's good influence isn't enough to dissuade SheGo from the pull of villainy and she suddenly disappears, ghosts (ha) both Danny and her brothers. Danny is heartbroken and feels somewhat betrayed; I haven't thought of the exact scenario and circumstances yet. He gets his degrees in engineering and starts working for a Dr. James Possible in Middleton. She goes full villain and starts working for Dr. Drakken.

Eventually, Drakken needs some tech that can only be found at one place: FentonWorks. SheGo tries to bow out but reluctantly goes in comes face to face with one Danny Phantom.

Phantom: Been a while, Shelly

SheGo: Spooky.

Drakken: I'm obviously missing something her; do you know him, SheGo?

SheGo; Dr. D, not now...

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Danny Phantom Hot Take: "Reality Trip" should have ended differently.

Looking over the 2 parters in Danny Phantom, I noticed something: most of them end up with some kind of change in the status quo:

"Ultimate Enemy" ends with Danny realizing Jazz knows his secret

"Reign Storm" ends Danny's reputation of public enemy number 1 and he's finally known as Danny Phantom

"Phantom Planet" is when Danny's secret identity is revealed to everyone

The only one that breaks that mold (unless I'm missing something) is "Reality Trip". The episodes end where they begin. Danny's secret is revealed while fighting Freakshow but then he wipes that away using the Gauntlet and everything is basically reset. I think it should have ended differently.

My idea for "Reality Trip"? RT was basically the season finale of season 2 so it should have had a big change that bleeds into season 3. That change should have been, imho, that Danny let his parents keep the knowledge of his identity. At the end of the Fentons, both Fentons were accepting of their son, stating flat out that they didn't care that he was half ghost that they loved him for being their son (why people think they are horrible parents is so confusing to me). Danny should have taken this to heart and let them remember his reveal; that should have been how the episode ended.

This would have lead with season 3 of Danny dealing with the fact that his parents know and with them trying to help him in ghost hunting. Remember when Jazz tried to help Danny in "Secret Weapons"? That times 1000. There would be some comedy and maybe some drama if done right. There would be a whole new dynamic between them and a lot of episodes in season 3 would end up a lot differently.

I could see Jack and Maddie wanting to make up for unknowingly hunting their son by overcompensating with help and gadgets. I can see Danny at wits ends knowing his parents mean well but getting a little frustrated. There would be a time of adjustment while both sides test out the new boundaries of their relationship.

There would also be fallout from the Vlad, the town and other ghost hunters eventually realizing the Fentons are teaming up with Phantom. Danny might reveal Vlad to his parents but he might keep it to himself until it bites him in the butt. Vlad might come up with some scheme to take advantage of the new situation. The GI(W might think the Fentons are compromised and might come in guns a blazing. A lot of different possibilities could open up.