AH, YES. DISCLAIMERS. I DON'T OWN DANNY PHANTOM, THE CHARACTERS THEREIN, OR THE EPISODE I REFERENCED FOR THIS ENTIRE PIECE. HOWEVER, I DO OWN THE IDEAS BEHIND THIS VERSION OF SAID EPISODE.
Outtakes
You've just got to love the cartoon companies, right? They entertain the kids with fun stories about animated characters whose comic troubles never seem to end; they generate laughter with all sorts of ridiculous situations and inspire smiles with every kind of hilarity they can think up. But not all of those stories are made-up fantasies. Take my story for example: Danny Phantom. Nickelodeon made me out to be some amazing hero, a half-boy, half-ghost hybrid, and I was really popular for a while. To a degree, I still am.
But not everything is the way the animators made it out to be. None of it was as simple as they made it seem. They took out a lot of the more gruesome details. You know, for the kids' sake. They made money off of my story, and they didn't even tell the whole thing.
Of course, I'm not sure anyone wants to know all of the details.
But there is at least one part of my tale that I have to correct. Do you remember the "episode" Kindred Spirits? The one in which Vlad captured me and took me to his mansion in Wisconsin just so he could force me to transform and take my DNA for a half-baked copy? Oh, yes. That was far from accurate. Vlad almost won, and he came much, much closer than Nickelodeon told you he did. As a matter of fact, I had to lie to my parents by telling them I was mugged on the way home from school. It was pretty hard to get them to believe that anyone from Amity Park was so desperate as to carry cattle prods and brass knuckles.
And Vlad did more than just try for my DNA. He actually got it at one point. I had to fight my clone. Then Danni. Then Vlad. And Vlad was pretty upset with me for destroying that clone. I wasn't going to win. But at least Nickelodeon got one part right. I wasn't going to leave that place breathing, but Sam and Tucker saved my life.
You see, Vlad's containment device was much stronger than it appeared on the show. I resisted, but it wasn't easy, and eventually, I had to shift over to my ghost half and give Plasmius a DNA sample. Not to mention that it was much harder than it looked to make Danni believe that Vlad was a liar. But explaining it all like this won't even begin to scratch the surface of what happened to me that day. I'll just let you watch the holographic security videos that Tucker stole as proof.
