#overpowered danny

“Wrong Soul, Right Apocalypse”

The universe doesn’t warn you when it breaks.

There’s no dramatic music. No glowing countdown. No sign that reality just decided to ruin your day.

One second, Danny Fenton is mid-flight over Amity Park, chasing a ghost with a half-eaten burger still in his hand.

The next—

Everything tears.

Not explodes. Not shatters.

Tears.

Like someone dragged claws through the sky.

He lands hard.

But it’s not Amity anymore.

The air feels wrong. Heavy. Charged. Angry.

Danny looks up—

And immediately regrets having eyes.

The sky is filled with winged monsters. Buildings are on fire. People are screaming. Something massive is moving behind the clouds like a nightmare trying to crawl out of its cage.

“…okay,” Danny says slowly, “either I took a wrong turn or this is a really bad Tuesday.”

Then he looks down.

And pauses.

“…these are not my hands.”

Gloved. Scarred. Older.

There’s a sword at his side.

A very nice sword.

Danny picks it up.

It hums.

“Oh. Oh that’s fun.”

Somewhere else—

A completely different kind of disaster is happening.

They wake up on a rooftop.

Breathing hard.

Alive.

Which is already confusing.

Because the last thing they remember is being in the middle of a war zone, surrounded by enemies, barely holding the line—

And now?

Silence.

No explosions.

No screams.

Just… wind.

They sit up.

Look down.

Hoodie. Jeans. Sneakers.

No armor.

No weapons.

No—

“…no.”

They try to call their power.

Nothing answers.

Panic hits fast and sharp.

“No no no no—”

They rush to the edge of the building.

Below: a quiet street. A normal town. People walking. Cars passing.

No war.

No monsters.

No them.

“…where am I?”

Back in the apocalypse—

Danny is having a great time.

“Okay, so,” he narrates to absolutely no one, ducking under a blast of energy, “either I’m in someone else’s body or I got a serious upgrade overnight.”

He swings the sword.

A Parademon goes down.

“Leaning toward option one.”

Another one lunges.

Danny doesn’t even think—he phases halfway through the attack, solidifies, and kicks it away.

He freezes.

“…oh good, powers came with me. That would’ve been awkward.”

The comm in his ear crackles.

“Unidentified—state your status!”

Danny lights up.

“Oh cool, free tech.”

“Identify yourself.”

“Danny! Uh… I think I’m borrowing someone right now? Sorry about that.”

Pause.

“…what?”

“I think I soul-swapped with whoever this body belongs to. You guys seem busy though, so I’ll just—help?”

Another Parademon dives.

Danny flips, lands on a wall, runs three steps sideways like gravity is optional, then drops back down with a grin.

“Yeah, I’ll help.”

Across the battlefield, every hero listening comes to the same horrifying conclusion:

That is not their teammate.

“Track that signal,” Batman orders.

“Already on it,” Oracle says. “And you’re not going to like this.”

“I rarely do.”

“That energy spike? It’s not just the invasion.”

A beat.

“It’s him.”

Danny discovers the dog five minutes later.

It’s huge.

Glowing.

Three-eyed.

Growling like it could bite a tank in half.

Danny stares.

The dog stares back.

There’s a moment—

Then Danny crouches.

“…you look like a Cujo.”

The dog’s ears twitch.

“Oh my gosh, are you a good boy?”

The growling stops.

Tail—very slowly—wags.

“YES you are!”

Two minutes later—

Danny is riding the ghost dog straight through the battlefield.

“LEFT! LEFT—no your other left—yeah that one!”

They crash through enemies like a living wrecking ball.

Danny laughs, wind tearing past him, green energy flickering under his skin as Lazarus radiation curls toward him instead of away.

It doesn’t hurt.

It doesn’t corrupt.

It listens.

“…huh,” Danny mutters. “That’s new.”

Meanwhile—

His soulmate finds the truth the hard way.

They break into the lab.

Because of course there’s a lab.

And inside—

A mirror.

They look at it.

Really look.

Black hair.

Blue eyes.

Too young.

Too human.

“…Danny,” they whisper, reading the name off a scattered ID badge.

Memory flickers.

Not theirs.

His.

A ghost portal.

A lab accident.

A boy split between life and death.

Power—immense and unstable and lonely.

Their stomach drops.

“…you’re a child.”

Back in Gotham—

Things escalate.

Fast.

The sky splits wider.

Something begins to push through.

Not a creature.

Not exactly.

A presence.

Old. Hungry. Endless.

Even the Parademons hesitate.

Even the heroes step back.

Danny looks up.

Eyes wide.

Then—

He grins.

“Oh that is definitely not from around here.”

“Fall back!” someone shouts over comms. “That’s not something we can—”

Danny’s already moving.

“Okay, new plan,” he says, patting the dog’s head. “We go say hi.”

They launch.

Straight at it.

“STOP HIM—” Nightwing starts.

“—you’re not going to,” Red Robin says, watching the energy readings spike off the charts.

“Why not?”

“Because whatever he is?”

A beat.

“It’s not scared of that.”

Danny reaches the tear in the sky.

The thing behind it shifts.

Noticing him.

Focusing.

And for the first time—

It pauses.

Danny tilts his head.

“…oh. You can see me.”

The presence presses closer.

Curious.

Hungry.

Recognizing something it shouldn’t.

Danny’s voice drops.

Not playful anymore.

Not human.

“Yeah,” he says quietly. “I see you too.”

For a second—

The battlefield goes still.

Then Danny lifts a hand.

Green light floods the sky.

Cold. Ancient. Infinite.

Not Lazarus.

Not alien.

Something older than both.

“Hey,” Danny says.

Friendly.

Terrifying.

“Wrong universe.”

And he pushes.

The tear screams.

The presence recoils.

Reality snaps back like a stretched rubber band.

The sky seals.

The invasion stutters—

Then collapses.

Parademons scatter.

The war… ends.

Silence falls.

Danny blinks.

“…huh. That worked.”

Below—

Every hero is staring.

Batman steps forward.

Slow.

Measured.

“…who are you?”

Danny smiles.

A little sheepish now.

“Danny Fenton.”

A beat.

“…I think I’m your teammate’s soulmate?”

Across dimensions—

His soulmate finally understands why.

They look at Danny’s reflection again.

At the quiet town.

At the life he protects.

At the power he carries like it’s nothing.

“…of course you are,” they murmur.

Back in Gotham—

The ghost dog barks happily.

Danny hops down.

Hands the sword back like he didn’t just end an apocalypse with it.

“Here you go! Super fun, by the way.”

No one takes it immediately.

Because they’re all thinking the same thing:

We are absolutely not prepared for this kid.

And somewhere, deep in the fabric of reality—

The bond between souls settles.

Locks.

Anchors.

Not a mistake.

Not an accident.

A warning.

Or maybe—

A promise.

OP High King Danny and Ancient of Space BUT STILL HALF HUMAN having ascended the throne for a long time, highest authority in the universe but human side needs to re-experience being a human so he doesn’t loose himself and destabilize (taking the infinite realms with him)

Anytime Danny has to resort to resetting a universe/timeline because it has begun to infect/distort/otherwise mess with other ones near it/the lines between universes begin to blur and there’s no other way to fix it, he could separate it and then let it burn out safely (not taking out nearby ones) or he can essentially send it into a rebirth cycle.

He has a deal with Clockwork that when this happens he will be placed in that universe’s most approximate time to his life he will be placed there as a 14 year old runaway/orphan with similar memories to his at that age (and with a personal history that explains his lack of parents and lack of a desire to find his parents etc) while all his other memories are sealed in his core using his ice

He will regain his memories upon his death or in an event that demands the power of the king (I think he even has access to the version of phantom before becoming king)

DC universe supers are dealing with darkseid or trigon and watch a teen kid who was helping with evacuation take a hit meant for a super (probably one of the kids) there’s a straight up hole in his torso just for the kid to glow the sound of glaciers shattering and the kid gets up;

“Not the shortest vacation I’ve ever had but certainly close, Clocky must have been ambushed by the Observants the bastards.” The kid starts stretching as if limbering himself up after sitting at a desk for a long time rather than getting blown up

Constantine pulled a box of cigarettes out of his pocket and immediately put it back when he felt the force of Batman's glare, scowling before he continued.

I adore nearly omnipotent, overpowered Danny who is way stronger as a ghost after two years than Vlad after twenty years

I think it awesome when Danny could actually defeat Pariah Dark without the Ecto-Skeleton when he's an adult

And I think it's phenomenal when Vlad's ghost half is actually hindering Dan from reaching his full potential and Danny wiping the floor with Dan when he's around the same age

Danny Phantom Crossovers

Is Yourself by FriendlyFrat_Boy I Chapters: 11/? I Ghost King Danny Fenton, Dark Danny Fenton, The Ultimate Enemy..kind of Echoes by @phantomtwitch I Chapters 23/30 I No One Knows AU, hazmat au, Overpowered Danny Fenton, Eldritch Danny Fenton Mini-Bang: Crawling In My Skin by @skarlettskwrl I Chapters: 1/1 I One shot BAMF Danny Fenton, Eldritch Danny, No One Knows AU, Hurt No Comfort, Dark Harvest by @wastefulreverie I Chapters: 2/2 I Completed 👻 Halloween fic, Ghost Hunger Days of Future Past [Old Version]by @transcendence-au I Chapters: 12/12 I Completed Dan Fic, Danny & Dan, Canon Divergence, Dark, The Ultimate Enemy The Consequences of Amnesty Forest by princessFanona I Chapters 2/2 I Completed Eldritch Danny, Ghost Hunger Terrarium by @ventisettestars I Chapters 5/5 I Completed Undergrowth, Plant Danny Watching the Horizon by SQ_Scrawls I Chapters 6/6 I Completed Danny dies for real this time, Grief, Angst, Full Ghost Danny, Space Obsession Danny, one sided Danny Fenton/Sam Manson Deranged Senses by @scarletsaphire I Chapters 5/5 I Completed POV Multiple, Loss of Control, Descent into Madness Cannibalism Gore Identity Reveal Feral Danny Fenton Curbed Hunger by @torscrawls I Chapter 1/1 I one shot ghost hunger, loss of control, Danny having a bad time

Bookmark Series

Something’s Wrong With Danny Fenton by @ghostly-cabbage I Part 1 - 2 I No One Knows AU, Horror Danny, Creepy Danny Everything Was White by @lexosaurus I Part 1 - 2 I GIW, Identity Reveal, Torture, Aftermath Torture, Hurt Danny The Gravity Of Time by @punchspeedchunk I Part 1- 3 I Ghost King Danny Fenton, Identity Reveal, Badass Danny Fenton Rites of Kingship by @maskedemerald I Part 1 - 2 I Ghost Portal!Danny AU The Ultimate Saga by Firefury_Amahira I Part 1 - 5 I Completed Dan Fic, Dan/Valerie, The Ultimate Enemy, hate!ship ------ Series by @haikujitsu FFN Part 1. Phantom of Truth I Chapters 22/22 I Hurt/Comfort & Suspense, Danny, Maddie. Part 2. Shadow of a Doubt I Chapters 65/65 I Drama & Family, Danny, Maddie, Valerie, OC -------

Imagine a JL disaster situation, several heroes are already reported missing or presumed dead, the last one apparently is Batman..

and that annoys his children, especially the last one I adopted...

yep, Phantom enters all ballistic and King of the Dead mode at 100% (gigantic, that the mere presence of him is enough to instill terror in anyone)...

he ends up defeating the bad guy in turn and leaving a wasteland of destruction...

but surprise, surprise, Batman comes out in the middle of the rubble, He's alive!...

And Danny just goes back to normal and goes flying to hug him while he screams "Dad!"...

but surprise, everything that happened ends up recorded in the international news....

And what do you say:

Danny is on Young Justice and in a mission he's shot with a beam or something similar that forces him to change back in front of everyone. (they don't know he's a halfa they think he's a normal ghost.)

So the team assumes he's been resurrected. Discuss.

omg I've never thought of that

they literally think he's been brought back to life

they'd be so excited and happy for him

and a little concerned because resurrections rarely come without complications (I mean the last guy who got resurrected came back kinda homicidal *cough* Jason *cough*)

Danny would suddenly go from being this super overpowered tank to some fucking civilian who Must Be Protected unless he decides to spill the beans, he'd hate being treated like he's helpless so much he wouldn't last a day