Vlad Plasmius - Plot Overview

Plot Overview

As a young man, Vlad attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison alongside his best friend Jack Fenton, and love interest, Maddie. All three were heavily involved in paranormal activities, managing to build a portable ghost portal. An accident from Jack's end renders the portal to blast ectoplasmic energy on his face, giving him the deadly Ecto-Acne. Hospitalized for years and gaining ghost powers, Vlad swore vengeance on his former friend. He spent the next twenty years honing his powers and gaining vast wealth through the use (and abuse) of his powers.

His first couple of attacks were sent in secret to test Jack's skills. He makes his full appearance by inviting the Fentons to their twentieth college reunion, held in his manor. There he plots to kill Jack. He discovers Danny Phantom is Jack's son and attempts to force him to join his side with no success.

He has met substantial rejection from both Maddie and Jazz throughout the series as well. In a bitter irony, only Jack has ever continued to warm up to him, though he has combated and beaten Plasmius without figuring out the two are the same.

Vlad's plan stretches throughout the run of the show. One of his major plans involves tracking the elusive Skeleton Key in order to obtain the Ring of Rage and the Crown of Fire, both worn by the once King Pariah Dark, the ghost King. His actions brought forth the powerful ghost who briefly ruled over both Earth and the Ghost Zone until Danny defeated him. Vlad made off with the Crown of Fire, a potential ally in the Fright Knight, and the Fenton Ecto Suit, the last of which he loses later on.

His other major plan is trying to gain Danny as a son. Predicting his numerous failures to get him, Vlad gave Valerie Gray her ghost hunting suit in secret, revealing himself to her later on, much to her respect and awe. She is unaware that it is equipped with hidden spy cameras designed to spy on Danny's ghost powers which Vlad studied to create a series of Danny clones. The one before the perfect clone is the free-willed Dani Phantom who sides with Danny when she finds out the harsh truth that Vlad views her not as a daughter, but as a tool for his personal agenda. They both destroy the clone lab, causing Vlad to briefly lose his sanity and retaliate, only to lose when Danny's friends intervene.

The end results forced Vlad to give up on Danny's affection and instead turned to malice. He successfully runs for mayor (by overshadowing the voters) and spends the remainder of the series tormenting Danny. His final plans involves creating a trio of ghost hunting teenagers named the "Masters' Blasters" to create superior competition against Danny. He wins and gains the favor of Amity Park, but loses it once he reveals himself as Plasmius demanding money and the world in exchange for his service to save the planet from an oncoming Ecto-Asteroid. Impossible for ghosts to touch, Vlad is abandoned in space by Jack after the latter realized his best friend was "lost" twenty years ago. In his final scene he is seen pondering about the benefits of being a "free roaming space nomad" until he is struck by the Ecto-Asteroid.

Vlad has had two alternate versions of himself. An old man in an alternate dark future where he accidentally took part in Dark Danny's creation. Powerless, Vlad spends the ten years in solitude, reflecting and guilty on his past evil deeds. The other alternate is Vlad of a different present timeline, accidentally created by Danny. There, he is married to Maddie, but remains forceful, vindictive, and as jealous as his canon counterpart.