Danny does not know that that worst of all possible futures was in truth one of many in which a shadowed other reigned over a shattered world. This world was the worst only because it was the only one where the fallen Phantom could become a dark god, potential that had been fulfilled a scant few days after Danny was sent into the timeline. His downfall, the monster's child self alone forced to witness the depths of his abyss. The mistakes of the great must be scarcer than all others by definition; the resulting ruin is so much the greater.