Wiz: It's an age old question: Can heroes be made through effort and training? Or is it just something you're born with, something that cannot be acquired later in life? Today's fighters seem to embody the two halves of this questions. Boomstick: Jake Long, the American Dragon. And Danny Fenton, the Phantom from the ghost zone. Wiz: My name is Wiz and he's Boomstick and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and abilities to see who would win a Death Battle!
Wiz: Dragons have always inhabited the world, guarding it from the supernatural powers that may wish to destroy it. Why have humans been unaware? Have they been hidden away in far off caves? Do they bend the laws of reality to conceal themselves behind a veil of magic? Boomstick: Nope, they can just turn into teenagers.
Wiz: More they can turn into humans in general, but Jake Long seems more prone to stereotypical 'teenage' behavior than even the average real life one. He's brash and hotheaded, always needing time to feel out an enemy's weaknesses before actually being able to defeat them. Boomstick: But when he does find the right strategy, he shows his true strength, and 'Dragons up'.
Wiz: In his dragon form, Jake's scales are strong enough to deflect magical bullets, his claws sharp enough to rip through steel, his wings capable of near jet speed flight, and his strength enough to lift several tons.
Boomstick: Not to mention his most powerful attack, his magical dragon fire. This fire burns through enemies more easily than any other attack, is twice as powerful against malicious forces, and because of its magical properties can even hit and burn up ethereal things like spirits.
Wiz: Jake retains some of his dragon powers in his human form, able spit fireballs, cast a spell to duplicate himself (though each new clone will take away some of his power, making him physically weaker and dividing his mental state), summon momentary bursts of strength, and temporarily form dragon body parts (wings, arms, tail) to defend himself. Boomstick: And good thing to, because enough force can be knocked out of dragon form by a strong enough attack from an enemy.
Wiz: With these powers Jake trains to battle off any number of magical threats, from elves, spirits, chimera, undead, werewolves, vampires, dragon hunting humans and even other dragons.
Boomstick: Hot headed or not, hundreds of monsters have come to cause chaos, and been left behind as piles of ash.
Wiz: What happens to the soul of the living after they have passed on? Where does your spirit go? Boomstick: Evidently, it's sent to a universe of ghosts and driven crazy, filled with the desire to return to the land of the living to torment them. Bummer.
Wiz: Danny Fenton was given a direct glimpse of this ghost zone when he made the mistake of turning on the machine responsible for created a portal to it, while inside said machine. The result was the spirit energy merging with his own body and- Boomstick: there was a great bug flash and everything just changed, his molecules got all rearranged!
Wiz: Yes, this incident affected his DNA, giving him the power to 'Go Ghost'. Boomstick: In his ghostly form, Danny has a whole slew of powers. Intangibility, invisibility, flight, ghost ray, ghost shield, ghostly strength, ghostly shock, telekinesis, possession of animate and inanimate objects, dream invasions, cryokinesis, full body duplication, body manipulation, and supernatural stamina and reflexes.
Wiz: Danny's invisibility and intangibility seem the most unstable, often running out or wearing thin at incredibly inopportune times. His ghostly wail is both his most powerful, and his most draining. Too much loss of energy could revert him back to human form.
Boomstick: Even in human form he can use his powers to a much lesser extent, making himself partially invisible, intangible, sense ghosts, throw smaller versions of his ghost ray, ramp up his physical power with ectoplasm, and pull things to him like telekinesis with ectoplasm.
Wiz: He's rarely known to have a plan going into a battle, forming that plan while battling and learning. In addition to this, he's also been known to actually exterminate very few opponents, instead capturing them and sending them back to the ghost zone instead of killing. Boomstick: He also has weaknesses to items called blood-blossoms, ecto-ranium, and anti-ghost weapons, which affect all ghosts.
Wiz: but when driven to the brink, Danny Phantom inspires fear in the hearts of villains across two dimensions.
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set, now it's time to end this debate. Boomstick: It's time for a Death Battle!
Jake Long was rushing after a spirit. He hadn't gone into dragon form yet, not wanting to give himself away. The blob-like spirit was cornered it seemed, and so Jake figured a fire blast from his normal body would be enough to incapacitate it. Unfortunately for it, the moment the fireball hit, so to did a ghost ray hit it from behind. The combined force of the two attacks cause the blob monster to disintegrate.
Jake blinked, then saw the other guy who had been standing behind the blob monster, his hand still glowing green from where the ghost ray had been fired. "What were you doing!?" They both questioned each other.
Jake shrugged, "Whatever, I don't really need to know what you're up to. You won't be up to it for much longer." "You shouldn't be messing around with ghosts," Danny said, "I don't wanna hurt you, but believe me, I will."
"Dragon up!" "Going Ghost!"
Fight!
In a flash of green and red, both had entered their dragon and ghost forms respectively. Jake let out a blast of fire, Danny countering with a ghost ray. The fire was stronger however, blasting through the ghost ray and hitting Danny, forcing him against the wall.
Jake flew forward, aiming a punch at Danny, but hitting nothing but the wall as Danny went intangible, then invisible, disappearing before Jake's eyes. "What the..?" he questioned, looking around. He got hit in the back by the ghost ray, then in the stomach when he turned around. He slashed at empty air several times, getting punched in the jaw and send back by a ghost shock.
Danny was about to go for a ghostly wail, but his invisibility gave out, and he became visible again. "Aw man!" Danny complained, focusing on holding his intangibility as Jake blasted him with fire. To his confusion and agitation, even while intangible the fire hurt him, its magic assuming he was a threat. And when the intangibility gave out, Danny was blasted to the ground.
He put up his ghost shield, but it would only last a few moments against the fire. Thankfully, a few moments was all he needed to charge his cryokinesis. A blast of ice countered the fire, both attacks cancelling each other out.
Jake rushed forward through the smoke, but Danny avoided getting slashed by bending his body in such a way that would destroy the spine of any human. He looped around, firing another ghost ray at Jake. Jake tanked the ghost ray with little more than a grunt and fired fire. Danny phased through the ground, rushing over and coming up behind Jake before the dragon noticed and phasing into his body, attempting to possess him.
Jake grit his teeth, feeling the ghost boy's presence as he attempted to take control, fearing he would succeed, Jake resorted to his duplication ability, splitting himself in two. The clone then duplicated itself, then again, then again, leaving Danny to possess the weakest of five clones.
Feeling the weakness of the body, Danny vacated it. The five dragons lived up, all blasted fire together. Danny flew up, duplicating himself into five as well. All five cones fired the ghostly wail together. The fire was sent back, and the clones blasted away. Jake quickly rushed to them, absorbing them all back into himself and returning to full strength.
Jake flew up at Danny, powering through the pain and flying through the ghostly wail, grabbing him and throwing him against the wall. Jake let out all the fire he could as Danny returned with the ghostly wail. The result was a blast of energy when the two attacks collided.
Both reverted to human form, dropping to the ground. Beaten and bruised, but neither dead, both got to their feet. Jake glared, his hands becoming draconic as he spat a fireball at Danny. Danny jumped and rolled away to avoid it, hooking a trashcan with his ectoplasm telekinesis and flinging it at Jake.
Jake grabbed and ripped through it with his claws, closing in on Danny, who took a deep breath, his arms glowing green with ectoplasm energy to enhance his strength. The two began to grapple, but Jake was clearly stroker, and began pushing Danny back.
Danny struggled to keep him back, then realized he didn't need to. His intangibility was finicky, but he correctly assumed it would hold out for at least a few seconds. He phased through Jake, the dragon boy stumbling and falling to the ground as Danny forced himself back into ghost form, pinning Jake to the ground with ice before blasting him with a fully charged ghost ray, leaving nothing behind but a scorch mark and a very tired, but alive, Danny Fenton.
Boomstick: Damn, guess Jake really should've been afraid of that ghost. Wiz: Both of these fighters are extremely similar both in terms of how powerful they are in their respective worlds, and how they approach strategy. Both of them are a fan of the two round fight, taking one round for recon and a second to finish the job. Because of this, and the fact that all Danny's weaknesses are quite specific and contextual, a fight between them comes down to raw power.
Boomstick: And there's really no arguing that power here. Jake's fire breath might wipe out entire legions, but so does Danny's ghost ray, and Danny's ghost wail, and Danny's shock, and cryokinesis. That last power could even directly nullify Jake's fire power. They might both be of roughly equal status in their respective worlds, but by comparison Danny's world is way more difficult to go through. He regularly goes up against ghosts capable of altering all reality and turning the laws of nature against him, while world changing power like that is a bit harder to find in Jake's world.
Wiz: even in their base human-like forms, despite Danny's powers not being ones he was born with, his still outclass Jake's, being stronger, more versatile, and more powerful generally. Jake just didn't have the options to close the gap between himself and Danny.
Boomstick: Looks like Danny's not the only ghost around here anymore. Wiz: The winner of this Death Battle, is Danny Fenton.
Boomstick: Next time on Death Battle…
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