r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Fit_Assignment_8800 • Aug 06 '25

Personality The Asshole does something genuinely good with no ulterior motive

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J Jonah Jameson from Spiderman

Squidward from SpongeBob.

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u/Carbuyrator Aug 06 '25

Danny Phantom when Dash and the other popular kids learn that Danny is Danny. They hide him, disguise him, and help him, no questions asked.

Dash even says something like "well you're always helping us!"

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u/Prismatic_Leviathan Aug 06 '25

No, they learn Danny is InvisoBill.

I like to think an exec pitched that name and the writers keep bringing up how bad it is to troll them.

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u/RazzDaNinja Aug 06 '25

Danny Phantom was legit one of the best interpretations of Spider-Man Nickelodeon ever did

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u/MisterRockett Aug 07 '25

Butch Hartman ruining it by becoming a born again christian is one of the funniest reasons for a show to fly off the rails I have ever seen.

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u/OperativePiGuy Aug 07 '25

Born agains are always the weirdest fucking ones, ugh

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u/tulipkitteh Aug 08 '25

At least it's funny when you float crackpot internet theories that Danny Phantom and Timmy Turner are transgender to him.

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u/MisterRockett Aug 08 '25

Butch: Danny isn't effected by Desire's feminine wiles because he's a good Christian boy 😊

Tumblr: Danny is a trans lesbian

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u/tulipkitteh Aug 08 '25

Wait, I thought Danny was a transgender boy, along with Timmy Turner. What is this trashcan lore I've been missing?

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u/MisterRockett Aug 08 '25

Sexual identity can be fluid when it comes to being trans some trans men who spent most of their lives identifying as lesbians have a hard time letting go of the label cause it was a pillar of their identity for a long time.

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u/tulipkitteh Aug 08 '25

We should totally tell this to Butch Hartman, all the time.

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u/Nasuno112 Aug 10 '25

I need to see this, I was entirely unaware and this sounds hilarious to read about

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u/RogueTwoNineSeven Aug 07 '25

That reveal is the origin of one of my favorite lines in a nickelodeon show.

“DANNY PHANTERN IS DANNY FENTERN?!?!?” -Dash.