Danny Phantom: The Movie
Danny Fenton is a troubled youth, harassed by his teachers and bullied by his peers.
Danny is on his way home with his friends Tucker and Sam. Along the way he rants about how much hell his life has gone through. On their way, the trio find an advertisement poster for Circus Gothica, a gothic circus that will be in town on thursday. They agree to skip school and go to the circus.
Once home, Danny is assaulted by his parents about his grades. His sister arrives home and occupies the Fenton Parents with talks about Danny's self-esteem and how his grades reflect low self-esteem and yelling is only making it worse. Danny sneaks away during this time.
As he sleeps he finds himself lost within a different reality in his dreams. During his nightmare a creature named the Phantom explains that he was once summoned by Danny's father, Jack Fenton to kill someone. In exchange, Jack had to offer his son to the Phantom. Not believing the Phantom, Danny demands to see proof.
The Phantom shows Danny a memory from his father's past. In it he sees a younger version of Jack Fenton surrounded by a circle of runes and with a spell book in his hands. After chanting an encantation Jack breaks down and starts crying. "Vladdie, I'm sorry." he says.
The Phantom's laughter breaks the memory and Danny finds himself transported back into the hellish realm, now terrified of the beast before him. The creature stalks closer to him, tossing a chain and binding Danny to it. The Phantom tosses another chain but...
Danny forces himself awake, at first thinking it nothing more then a horrible dream. That is, until he accidentally phases through his bed. He passes through the floor and ragains tangability just in time to humoriously crash into the floor below.
Rising to his feet, Danny finds himself in the downstairs bathroom. He then notices how little the fall actually hurt, and how he feels stronger. He rushes over to the mirror, where he discovers his hair has become a ghostly white and his eyes a neon-green.
Danny goes out, spending the rest of the night playing with his new powers, quickly learning how to turn them on and off (which turns his hair and eyes to normal) as well as how to willingly phase through walls.
The next day he finds himself in school. He tells Sam and Tucker about what happened to him and his powers. At first they don't believe them, but they do when Danny finds himself intangible and unable to grasp his fork to eat with. Sam ends up feeding Danny until he regains his arms tangibility.
Seeing this, Dash, the local bully and jock mocks Danny and proceeds to fight him claiming that it's "Time for you clobberin!" Danny is quick on his feet however, and evades Dash's attacks. In the end Dash finds himself in detention for assaulting Danny.
Now it's gym. Danny and Tucker are discussing the limits of Danny's new power. Danny trips and finds himself intangible once more. At first he doesn't realise that he's phased through a wall... into the Girls Shower. After he discovers where he is, he wonders why nobody screams. As he climbs to his feet, he realises that he can't see his hands, he's invisable! He decides to try and stick around for a bit longer, but his powers fade away and he ends up with detention for being in the girls shower.
In detention, Danny's blood boils by the unfairness of society and how he should not be in this detention. He unwillingly unleashes an ectoblast created from his anger and hatred. The blast burns a hole through the teacher's desk, freaking him out and exclaiming that detention will be released early.
Danny goes home, again verbally assaulted by his parents, this time for being in the girls showers. He shouts at them, his patience thin, and out of frustration punches his father in the shoulder. Because of Danny's increased strength his father is knocked backwards and the wind knocked out of him. Danny storms off to his room.
"I've got to control this." He says, but suddenly finds himself tired and lays to sleep.
Meanwhile a figure laughs histerically as four shadows appear around it. These shadows are actually ghosts. The scene is revealed to be a bank, the ghosts are revealed to be carrying bags of money. The figure, still covered in darkness, turns to the one witness: a passerby walking her dog. With what seems like authentic compassion he apologizes for scaring her, then buries his cane deep into her chest.
Danny awakes to the sound of his alarm. It is thursday. Quickly he rushes outside to meet his friends. He meets up with Sam first, who has a gift for Danny. She hands him what will be his super hero costume and explains she made it herself. Thanking her, Danny decides to phase the costume onto himself, under his street clothes.
The two meet with Tucker, then the three of them head to Circus Gothica to enjoy the show. There an evil-looking ringmaster with a hooked nose and pure powdered face takes their tickets. They enter the big tent and the show begins. They watch what appears to be performers perform many death-defying stunts. The performers, unknown to Danny and his friends, are the ghosts that had robbed the bank the night before.
The team of Ghosts, lead by Freakshow break into Amityville Museum. Once within, Freakshow steals the Reality Gauntlet, a priceless artifact of unspeakable power.
Danny returns home that evening, only to be yelled at once again by his parents, this time for skipping school. Furious they ground him and send him to his room. Once there Danny becomes furious, even destroying a portion of his wall with his ectoblast. He turns on his TV to try and calm himself. What he sees is a "breaking news" of a hostage situation in progress at Axion labs. Danny phases through his street clothes, causing them to fall to the ground revealing his ghost costume underneath. He then "Goes ghost" and transforms into his white-haired form then takes off.
At Axion labs, Danny finds the ringmaster from Circus Gothica holding Valerie Gray, one of Danny's peers, hostage. Shocked at both the hostage and antagonist, Danny hesitates to strike. The ringmaster laughs, then commands Lydia (one of the ghosts) to destroy Danny.
A long battle between Lydia and Danny erupts, and Freakshow escapes, leaving Valerie to fend for herself but she is eventually rescued by the police. The battle between Lydia and Danny becomes so fierce that they eventually destroy Axion Labs before Danny manages to destroy her.
Danny returns home, and collapses into his bed. He sleeps for a few hours, but awakens by the disturbing dreams and assaults of the Phantom, trying to gain full control of Danny's body. Danny, now feeling it is not safe for him to sleep this night, again goes out to practice with his powers, feeling he was too weak and defeated Lydia by only luck. While out he learns how to make his Super Suit a part of his ghost form, so it is only there when he goes ghost. He also learns how to make other objects invisable and intangible.
Danny heads to school, where he tells Sam of the Phantom trying to get control of Danny's consiousness. Sam brings Danny into an unused bathroom and locks the door, then grabs a Voodoo book from her backpack. Together the two of them use a spell to summon the Phantom, and order him to leave Danny alone. At first the Phantom struggles, but upon realising that he is now summoned by Danny, he has no choice but to obey. Danny orders the Phantom to destroy itself, which it has no choice but to do.
Only moments later screams are heard from outside, in the halls of Casper High. Danny and Sam emerge from their hiding place just in time to see Freakshow's three other ghosts terrorizing the students. Danny easily defeats them but suddenly finds himself unable to move. Unwillingly he is launched through the air and through a wall. Eventually he is brought to Circus Gothica's big tent where he finds himself face to face with Freakshow.
Freakshow explains that he has mastery over ghosts because of the red jewel at the end of his cane. This is how he got his four ghost minions to obey him. He then tosses Danny helplessly around, even allowing him a few moments of freedom only to make Danny smash himself into the ground.
Freakshow slowly approaches Danny and grabs him by the neck, preparing to choke him to death. Danny asks how Freakshow can grab him, if he's intangible. Freakshow then replies that he is in control of the Reality Gauntlet, a mystic object that allows him to control almost all reality. Among this is that he may touch the dead, however he cannot control things with a free will, hence why he needs the cane to control ghosts.
While Freakshow is strangling Danny, Tucker and Sam appear and steal his cane. Together they destroy the jewel and grant Danny his free will once more. A battle ensues between Danny and Freakshow in which Freakshow alters reality using the gauntlet to give him the upper hand. When it seems as though Freakshow is physically beat he creates a rip in reality using the Reality Gauntlet. Slowly the vortex begins consuming reality. In a last effort, Danny tosses Freakshow into the vortex, causing him and the Reality Gauntlet to be destroyed. The vortex closes and Danny collapses from exhaustion.
The end shows Danny, Tucker and Sam standing in the wreckage of Circus Gothica with Vlad Plasmius (unnamed, and unseen by our heroes) watching them.