it’s no secret that Danny Phantom is largely inspired by Spiderman, with a lot of DP characters being based on spidey characters - and its possibly most obvious with Dash Baxter being based on the most notable bully-turned-friend of all time, Flash Thompson.
of course, Flash Thompson ended up bonding with the symbiote to become Agent Venom, a hero and ally to his pal spidey - so my partner and i were thinking wouldn’t it be cool if Dash got something similar? working with that premise, we immediately started brainstorming and eventually decided that, well. if Shade’s whole deal involves using shadows to camouflage herself and others - so, different from intangibility - but still with all the abilities of a typical ghost including overshadowing, then surely she would qualify as the most analogous to the symbiote wouldn’t she?
so the idea is based on elmer’s summary of Shade’s deal being that she would be an enemy turned ally to Valerie, and somewhere in the middle of this - either as an enemy or after she’s an ally - she overshadows Dash for whatever reason, but they get character development and willingly decide to become the hero PolterDash in a similar fashion to Agent Venom (well, i was originally thinking just “Poltergeist” but given all the other alter ego names it seems inserting Dash’s name in the word is more likely...)
and yes i redesigned Shade... again... just to make this idea work
