The students of Dimmsdale Elementory and Casper High

[mErRY-gO-rOuNd GiRl]

How are the secondary classmate characters from Fairly Odd Parents and Danny Phantom different and how are they the same?

I think they are quite a different, and a complement to Butch Hartman for not bladenting repeating himself.

Both Danny and Timmy have two best friends, the big difference is Danny is much closer to Sam and Tucker than Timmy is to Chester and AJ, they know Danny's secreat, the don't know Timmy's secret, but that has a lot to do with the Fairy rules. They is no ghost rule saying you can't tell no one about your ghost powers or else you lose them. Sam and Tucker are much more deeper characters, and more important characters on the level of Cosmo and Wanda are on Fairly Odd Parents. Not to mention Danny and Sam relationship obviously. LOL Though Sanjay might have the same feelings for Timmy. LOL

Speaking of him, while Timmy might not be the most popular kid, he has quite few friends. He is quite liked by a lot of his peers. He has his backup friends Elmer and Sanjay. Danny only has two friends. Not to mention Tootie, who is another friend that Timmy has. 5 to 2 friends in favor of Timmy, but Danny makes up for it in quantity, because his frienships are more deeper. Should I count Jazz as another friend of Danny? Do relatives as friends? Later Danny and Valerie became friends, but she only likes half of him, she hates the other half with a passion. Half a friend is better than nothing.


Next the popular kids, there are some simularties but they are different. The numbers is the same, it is 4 to each side. I passionately think Trixie and Paulina are completely different. Anyone who thinks otherwise have their heads up the Timmy / Tootie ship. They are both shallow, they both the top popular girl, and the main character has (in Danny's case had) a crush on them, but other than that different. Trixie is not as mean as people like to make her to be (aka the Timmy / Tootie shippers), Paulina is much more meaner and evil than Trixie could ever be.

At first glance, you compare Dash to Tad and Chad, but Dash is more like Francise in the role he plays. If you combine Francise with Tad and Chad, that equals Das. He has the smugness and self superioty of Tad and Chad, but the bully nature of Francise. Das is more closer to being like Francise than he has the two smug popular boys in Dimmsdale Elementory.

Two chracters that are mir images and Mr. Hartman even sort of said it, is Veronica and Star. They are both the second teer popular girl, and the lackies to the popular kid cliche and in particular the top popular girl. The one bad thing that Trixie and Paulina have in common, they both treat their best friends not very nicely, or as said in the FOP episode "Power Pals" like sidekicks. But I do think desptite that, they did have good possitve times as well with their best friends especially Trixie and Veronica.

There is no character like Quan on the Fairly Odd Parents. The lesser of two evils male jock character, who actully when he is not around Das, is actully seems to be a nice guy.

Last but not least, the wild card characters, who don't really fit in either of the two categories I mention, they are similar in a way. Remy and Valerie, they both have backstories that make them a little sympathic characters, but they still try to hurt our heros. Though Remy is more devious about it. Valerie really trying to do what she thinks is the right thing, Remy couldn't care a dam about right and wrong.

 

[Desert]

During the early seasons, they seemed to have been taking Trixie in the same direction as Quan. She was only mean when her peer group was around. At some point during the later episodes they forgot about that, and she just became a 2-dimentional mean girl who has occasional spurts of humanity. (similar to Paulina)

 

[full of hot steam]

Still even then, Trixie never went to the level of meanness that Paulina ever had. Until proven otherwise, Trixie will always be the lesser of two evils. For example Paulina would be actions in Parental Bonding , Trixie has never done nor shown she is heartless to do such a thing, at least not in the mean spirited Paulina has. She may dump Timmy for some trivial reason, but doesn't take plessure that Paulina would. Though Trixie did something similar in Emotional Comotion, but that didn't seem as sinister as what Paulina did in Parental Bonding.

I noticed being snobby when in presence of the peer group also applies to Veronica. In episodes in which Trixie and Veronica are present without Tad and Chad, they are really trying to keep up appearance for each other, if only they know each other's true kinder innerselfs.

I think it would be hillarous if Francise had the same secret femine side Dash has. For example Dash and his love for Beth Middler's movies, the Romance Channel, and his Care Bears like collection. It would be funny if Francise had those types of secret interests. Imagine if that was the case and Timmy somehow through magic found out.

 

[Jessickuhhh(:]

Didn't Francis had a poster of a unicorn when he received the visit of the Tooth Fairy and also, wasn't an other episode who they show him crying admiring Britney Britney?

 

[Josh Medrano]

Maybe the Dimmsdale Elementory kids are an embelishment of people Butch know in Elementory school, while Casper High kids are an embelishment of people Butch know in High school. Semi auto bios of two parts of his life?

 

[installmytv]

The FOP characters are more exaggerated than Danny Phantom's though. The former are more cartoony archetypes, whereas DP characters actually do have arcs and continuity.

 

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I could be interesting to compare the Trixie-Tootie situation with other Nicktoons. For example Mituski and Lily from Kappa Mikey. Lily is well known to hate Mikey Simon mainly because Mikey stoled her popularity and glory while Mikey have a crush on her. And Mitsuki likes Mikey but she's too shallow to admit (and Lily knew then Mitsuki love Mikey when she once read Mitsuki's journal) and we discovered a hidden side of Trixie with her hidden tomboy side. In the KM episode "the Bracemaster" where Mikey had to wear a brace, it's been mentionned then Lily also once wear braces and Mitsuki's past was partially releaved in the KM episode "La Femme Mitsuki"

Then in the episode "Back to school" where Mikey and the others goes undercover to unmask a piracy DVD ring, the students chosed...Mitsuki, who was for a little moment, the popular girl much to the disdain of Lily.

When I see Sam, she could had probably been once a former popular girl but she decided to go in her own way much to the disdain of her parents (correct me if I'm wrong, if I remember correctly don't have a great opinion or huge estime of Danny) and Paulina is a newcomer who dethroned Sam from her position. In a move similar to that FOP fic "My faulty Godparents" on Fanfiction.net where a newcomer was now the popular girl.

Then I could compare Trixie also with Maurecia from the cartoon Wayside. In the episode "Mrs. Gorf", in a flashback scene, Maurecia had once a girly attitude like Trixie is actually.

And Tootie, I once compared her to...Harry Osborn, the son of Norman Osborn in Spider-man. Tootie grew in the shadow of her older sister Vicky just like Harry who grew in the shadow of his father Norman who became...the Green Goblin and Harry once follow his steps. Will history could repeat?