Danny only realizes years later that everyone on Earth thinks he died in a blizzard or some freak whiteout incident. So he just⦠rolls with it. Itās honestly convenientāespecially after he finally told his parents everything, and they realized their portal was the reason the meaner ghosts kept showing up. (āOh! Oops! Sorry!ā) They slammed it shut immediately.
Now theyāre way too excited about studying ghost culture like wildlife biologists observing a tigerāclipboard, camera, whispered commentary and all. Danny absolutely prefers ābeing filmed while eating steak to see if he grows fangsā over the other option of being dissected, so itās fine. And his ghost buddies? Completely delighted to have an audience for their weekly āfriendlyā brawls.
This unfortunately spirals.
Because the Justice League, hearing ādied in a blizzard,ā seeing that he rarely uses ice powers on missions, and noticing he gravitates to warm environments, assume he has a massive cold-related trauma trigger. Obviously he must⦠fear ice. Avoid ice. Be weakened by ice. (He is literally the Ice Prince of the Infinite Realms, but okay.)
So they start assigning his missions strategicallyāonly warm climates. Tropical recon. Desert patrols. Undersea volcano monitoring. Anything to avoid āaccidentally triggering his tragic snow-related death memory.ā
Which is how Danny ends up being the one they send to Mercury.
At first heās hypedāclose to the sun, cool space suit, awesome photos. But then the suit starts beeping, and Danny has the slow, dawning realization of:
āOh no. Iām literally melting.ā
Back on Earth, the League reacts exactly how youād expect:
Absolute panic. Alarms. People yelling. Batman demanding to know why the kid with the supposed āCold Trauma Weaknessā is on the closest planet to a star. Hal swearing it wasnāt his idea. Superman already halfway to Mercury before the meeting even starts. Constantine just lighting a cigarette and muttering, āTold ya he wasnāt scared of snow, ya muppets.ā
And Danny? Dannyās just sitting there in orbit, steaming like a microwaved marshmallow, trying not to die again, and texting the group chat:
āWHY WOULD YOU THINK IāM WEAK TO COLD??ā
āYOU LITERALLY DIED IN A SNOWSTORM.ā ā Wonder Woman
āI WHAT.ā ā Danny
credit @jensminkele