Desiree (Danny Phantom)
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| Desiree | |
|---|---|
| Desiree Desiree | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Nickelodeon |
| First appearance | "What You Want" |
| Created by | Butch Hartman |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Desiree |
| Team affiliations | none |
| Notable aliases | Babazita's genie, the Wishing Ghost |
| Abilities | Flight, invisibility, intangibility, ectoplasmic energy blasts, able to turn her hand into rope or hammer, able to grant wishes and skew them in her favor. |
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Desiree is a villain and a fictional character from Danny Phantom. She is voiced by Peri Gilpin. She is more genie-like than ghost-like. Her name is derived from "Desire", since she has the ability to make anyone's wishes come true.
Appearance/history[edit]
First appearing in What You Want, prior to her life as a ghost, Desiree was a harem girl who won the heart of a sultan. He promised to grant her her hearts desire, a kingdom of her very own, but then she was cast away from the palace by the sultan's jealous wife. Dying of a broken heart (and old age though she somehow regained her youth), Desiree wandered around as a genie ghost, forever stuck granting whatever wishes people desire, usually with dire consequences (she can never love).
She somehow ended up in a genie's bottle and was on display at a swap market. There, a spoiled girl accidentally freed her and granted her wish for cotton candy, thus producing a tidal wave of it. Later she continued to grant other wishes: Dash turning into a Hulk-like creature, Paulina turning into a cute and popular anime character, and giving a surfer's car the uncontrollable power of flight. When she gave Tucker ghost powers (who was jealous of Danny's ghost powers), a rivalry between him and Danny took place. Eventually Danny captures Desiree by wishing her to disappear into the thermos. ("If I weren't a C student, I would have thought of that five days ago.")
She had a brief cameo in "Prisoners of Love" as one of the many ghosts in jail (and later broken free).
She later got another starting role in Memory Blank when she arrived in time for the meteor shower about to show during Paulina's 15th birthday. When Sam accidentally wished she never met Danny, Desiree granted it and created a world where Danny did not know Sam, thus never gaining his ghost powers (which was caused because of Sam). Sam struggled to get Danny his powers (which she successfully did) and an inexperienced Danny tried in vain to stop Desiree who kept getting stronger due to the vast amount of wishes being made during the meteor shower. Sam finally then wishes to take back the wish she made prior, causing Danny's memory to be restored and to once more seal Desiree.
She had another small cameo in Reign Storm when Skulker lead millions of ghosts out of the Ghost Zone.
She returned again in The Fright Before Christmas as one of the many ghosts who helped Danny save Christmas, and was seen briefly in the series finale, Phantom Planet, first getting attacked by Vlad's ghost hunting team The Masters Blasters and then helping Danny, Skulker, and millions of other ghosts turning the entire planet intangible, so that an asteroid could pass through it.
Personality/Weakness[edit]
Desiree remains a rather vindictive ghost genie, probably due to her own tale of tragedy and broken heart. Her wishes reflect this; giving off grave consequences beneath the wishes the people make, similar to the story of The Monkey's Paw. It's possible she's merely taking out her anger over her loss onto the people whose wishes she grants. Her love tragedy also gives her a rather low opinion of men; she refuses to let any men touch her unless she wishes it.
Her major weakness stems from the fact that she cannot refuse any wish. She is forced to grant any wish that she hears, even those from her foes that would lead to her downfall.
Powers[edit]
Aside from standard ghost powers, Desiree has the ability to grant wishes like that of a genie. Most of the wishes she grants have dire consequences on the people who wished them. This is probably due to the wish not being specific, and therefore, she can grant it in any way she wants to (For example, if one were to wish for a monster truck, she could make a literal, monstrous truck). However, her ability is not under her control, as she is forced to grant every wish that she hears. These include wishes that would lead to her defeat, which were used in both episodes in which she was the main enemy (The first time she's defeated in this manner, Danny remarks that the way of defeating her was so obvious but he was oblivous to it due to his "C-Student" level of intelligence). Though as shown in The Fright Before Christmas she can use her powers at will. In Memory Blank, it is learned she gets stronger with every wish she grants.
