#indentity crisis

[cowboylikeghost]

College is time for burn out and identity crisis

[clockworkbee]

them: hey, what's wrong?

me: I'm having identity crisis.

them: how'd it start?

me: it all started with books. *sigh*

[dani-halfa]

Danny Fenton appreciation post

Danny as protagonist is a very interesting character. He's a complex teenager with both virtues and flaws. Throughout the series he learns how to control his powers and the responsibility that comes with having them.

On the surface, Danny is your average teenager: He likes hanging out with his friends, wants to fit in, likes to have some fun every once in a while and is a bit impulsive.

One defining characteristic of Danny is how he's struggles with his own insecurities. He's not very popular at school and is often the target of bullying, specially from Dash who frecuently teases him in the series.

One of the reasons Danny is considered "weird" by his classmates is because of his parents: They are ghosts hunters. They sometimes embarrass Danny in front of his peers without meaning to. This has lead him to have a few arguments with his dad like it was shown in 'A million dollar ghost'.

His own insecurities sometimes cause problems with his friends as well. For example, in "Attack of the Killer Garage Sale" he left his friends behind to hang out with the 'popular kids', who didn´t care too much abou him.

Danny dumps on himself many times during the series, in 'My Brother's keeper' he describes himself as a "screw up" and believes he's loser:

"Great, he (the ghost) got away again. Another ringing endorsement for the town screw-up." (Blaming himself for not being able to catch the ghost)

He also has a complicated relationship with his ghost half. He thinks he's a freak of nature because of his ghost powers.

Spectra: "What are you? A ghost trying to fit in with humans? Or some creepy little boy with creepy little powers?"

Danny: "Both! Uh...neither! I don't know."

Spectra: "You're a freak! Not a ghost, not a boy! Who cares for a thing like you?"

He's usually very afraid of people finding out about his secret identity as a ghost. Since ghosts are seen are evil in Amity Park he's scared that they would not accept him or would try to hunting him.

One of his deepest fears is his parents finding out about his secret and trying to run experiments on him. He knows that his parents will "accept him no matter what" but he still can't help being scared everytime he hears them talking about dissecting ghosts.

'Identity crisis', while a funny episode, it's very important for understanding Danny.

In this episode Danny separates his superhero ghost half from his human half. In one scene we get this exchange between ghost Danny and human Danny:

Ghost Danny: "And that's the sort of irresponsible attitude that makes you such a disappointment to our family".

Human Danny: Uh.. hello. Not our family. My family. You're the full time superhero, remember?

Keep in mind that they are both part of Danny's personality which means:

1) He thinks he's a "disappointment" to his own family.

2) He sees Phantom, his ghost half, as a different person. He thinks that 'he' doesn't belong to his family. This must come from the fact that his own parents don't know about his ghost identity and thus, Danny doesn't consider Phantom a Fenton until his parents accept him for who he is.

When it comes to be the hero, Danny thinks it's job to protect Amity Park,even though no one asked him to carry the burden of such heavy task.

He sometimes blames himself for things that are out of his control or weren't his fault to begin with. He thinks that its his responsibility to fight evil ghosts from harming any humans.

A few episodes focus on him learning how to use his powers with responsibility and not taking advantage of others. 'Reign Storm' is mainly about him choosing to use his powers to stop the Ghost King instead of using them to get back to people he doesn't like.

Danny:"All of my enemies. Everything I thought I could handle, but couldn't."

Tucker:"Dude, you can't blame yourself for this. It's not your fault."

Danny:"Maybe not. But it is my responsibility."

Danny really cares about his family and friends. He would do everything he can to protect them from getting hurt. In the episode '13' it was shown that he´s very over protective of her sister Jazz, as there was a ghost who was trying to trick her into falling in love with him.

Aside from learning to overcome his insecurities and becoming more responsible, overtime Danny learns that not every ghosts is completely evil and some of them can be friendly.

A good example of this is when he meets Cujo in 'Shades of Gray' and helps him with finding his toy that he lost when he was alive. In 'Public Enemies' he befriends Wulf, after freeing him from Walker, who was keeping him prisioner.

It's worth of pointing out that Danny knows there are times to talk and times to fight. At the start of the series he usually prefers using his fists first before asking questions but as he matures, he starts to see when it's better to solve conflicts when fighting is not necessary.

Another flaw he has its that he's a bit short tempered. He often lets he temper get the worst of him, which makes him have arguments with his friends and not think things straight. But,to be fair, his life is a bit difficult: having to fight ghosts at night, getting late for school, being bullied and not knowing how to manage his time must be exhausting for a teenager. It's not suprising he's bit moody in some episodes.

For my last note i think it's important to talk about talk about his rivalry with Vlad Plasmius as their relationship in the series is quite interesting.

In a way, Vlad exists to remind Danny of everything he shouldn't be. Vlad prefers to use his ghost powers for his personal gain. He cares very little about how his actions affect others. He sees people as their pawns. He usually manipulates them into doing what he wants.

Vlad sometimes likes teasing Danny about how they very alike, and in part, that's a bit true, they are both half ghosts who gained their powers after an lab accident. They are unique, since there are barely more halfas outside them.

Danny has shown to be manipulative when it comes to dealing with him. He knows that Vlad is very emotionally vunerable since he is desperate for Danny to become his ¨son¨. He takes advantage of this to trick Vlad and beat him in his own mind games.

In conclusion: Danny is complex character who grows into a confident superhero overcoming his own insecurities and flaws. He may not be perfect, nevertheless he cares about family and friends and it´s always going to be there to protect Amity Park.

[dollfaced-lunchboxx]

Am I questioning my gender identity?

Am I just very aware I don't fit in to the female societal norm?

Find out never cos were just gonna push these thoughts deep down and forget about them for another few years (^_^メ)

[itsbeyouworld]

Identity

Hello

I have a question

Do you have a minute

To clear this confusion

Today when I woke up

And stood before the mirror

There was nothing

Clear as a river

Lately I find myself lost

Empty at heart

Am living like a ghost

Wandering in this world but no one cares so far

Totally clueless about my identity

Who am I???

Am I the person who my friends find cool?

Or am I someone society think rules??

What if I am not what I think I am

What I have believed all my life

But now I am not sure

Have to figure it out to stay alive

Sometimes I like walking down the street

And look at strangers

Because back at home

I am just a nasty teenager

Who likes to rant about his problems

And troubles

Please someone reach out for me

Because I lack courage

I promise I wouldn't bother you much

But give me 5 minutes

I just wanna talk

You don't have to help me

Or give any advice

Just listen and carry on with your life

Everyone around me looks so confident

So sure

What's wrong with me?

Am I not one of them?

Or just a little bit different...

Every teenager suffers through identity crisis when they go through a lot of changes. All we should do is to be there for them when they wanted to talk. Trust me it's all they wanted.

[ambreignssmemories]

Maybe someone has an identity crisis 😝

[annotated-dc]

Zatanna revealing that Catwoman was among the various supervillains the mindwiping caba decided to fix, which incidently also implied that any character development she’d undergone in her new series thus far was forced upon her instead of, you know, organically a product of her own experiences and such.

This was later retconned a second time a short while later, with Zatanna saying that the spell didn’t do anything Selina wasn’t willing to do on her own power (meaning, she WAS heading this way with character development, the spell Hawkman etc. pressured Zee into casting being somewhat redundant).

Honestly? I hated this. And it made all the associated heroes look bad by association. I mean, Zee somewhat had the excuse that she was the youngest there and was pressured into it by the older Leaguers, but... Yeah, it reflects poorly on all of them.

Especially considering how it even threw her friendship with Bruce into question for a short while (well, in the other books, in Catwoman he still insisted she was a good person regardless what the cabal did or didn’t do to her).

I am honestly kind of curious whether the entire Mindwiping Fiasco was a result of the same Editorial Mandate which seemed to do away with a significant chunk of the “morally grey“ part of the DCU, where reformed Flash Rogues and children of supervillains (such as Cassandra Cain) were all deemed alike to be villains, due to some kind of innate villainy gene.

The only real exceptions to this being Black Adam (who Geoff Johns seemed to like more than the actual Marvel Family, who was still depicted as an antihero despite going on a global killing spree and wiping out an entire country single-handed) and Rose Wilson (who was depicted as a heroic character first, was drugged into villainy by her dad Deathstroke, and then began the token Edgy Bad Girl of the Teen Titans, who did shocking things like *gasp* smoking and talking about sex!).

And really the treatment Black Adam and Rose got leads into who new unpleasant territories seperate from the “if you were evil, you always will be!” and “evil is in your blood, don’t fight it!“ themes the post-Infinite Crisis books had.

[dani-halfa]

The fact that Identity Crisis and Fenton Menace were before The ultimate enemy wasn´t pure coincidence:

Identity Crisis establishes that a halfa can separate it´s own ghost half from human half without dying. This important to know when future Vlad explains to  Danny about Dark Danny´s origins in the Ultimate Enemy

Fenton Menace develops Danny and Jazz sibling relationship, which it´s very important in The ultimate enemy since it´s Jazz who helps Danny in the episode and she also reveals to him that she know his secret identity.