The Ghostly Wail is an extremely powerful ability. The user releases a highly destructive stream of ecto-energy from his or her vocal cords and mouth. It is accompanied by a distinct ghostly moaning sound. This power is unique to Danny Phantom and his dark future self. A variation of it is used by Vortex but it is not the true Ghostly Wail.
Origin[]
In the future of "The Ultimate Enemy," Dark Danny develops this power and uses it to bring devastation upon Amity Park. Later, after meeting his dark future self, Danny gains the ability to use the Ghostly Wail himself, and uses his new power to defeat Dan.
History[]
Dark Danny[]
At one point during his 10 years of rampage, Dark Danny developed the Ghostly Wail and used this to destroy Ember's vocal cords. Dark Danny is able to know how much energy to put into the attack so it does not to run out of energy too quick. He used this power to destroy Future Amity Park's impenetrable ghost shield, that withstood all of his other attacks until then and also apparently caused an huge earthquake, crumbling buildings, and shattering glass before the ghost shield broke. When Danny, Sam, and Tucker ended up in Clockwork's lair, he was seen on a screen using it on an whole army of tanks by overturning tanks and cars, blowing away helicopters, blowing them all away. He later uses it against Sam and Tucker, but they escaped by using time medallions to return to Clockwork's lair.
Danny Phantom[]
In "The Ultimate Enemy", Danny was able to unlock the Ghostly Wail that freed him of his ghost-poof restraints Dark Danny created and apparently killed all his old enemies in the Ghost Zone at once, however, for some reason only his head reverted to human form. He later uses it twice in his final battle to defeat Dark Danny and blasted him into a building where he was weakened enough to trap him in the Fenton Thermos. However, it ended up rendering him unable to go ghost and he almost lost his friends and family, if Clockwork didn't intervened.
In "The Fright Before Christmas," Danny was in the middle and surrounded by an entire army of ghostly Christmas trees sent at him by the Ghost Writer. Dany had to use it three times to destroys/disintegrate the entire Christmas tree army. Later he and Desiree fixed the trees and presents.
In "King Tuck," Danny tries to use his Ghostly Wail against King Tuck's stone sphinx, but his attack appears not to harm the sphinx at all, but it did sent various of Hotep RA Egyptian soldiers/minions flying. In this case, the Ghostly Wail actually failed to defeat the target, which meant Danny reverted to human form, but Danny was able to transform to ghost a few seconds later, unlike in the Ultimate Enemy.
In "Kindred Spirits," Danny was preparing to use his ghostly wail when he was fighting his hulking clone, but the clone grabbed him by the mouth before he could. Later in Vlad Colorado cabinet, Danny uses his Ghostly Wail to easily defeat Vlad Plasmius quickly and destroy his whole lab. (Vlad also comically watches his Maddie program go corrupt and tells him she never loved him and that she like the Jack program better Jack appears and he watches them kiss much to his horror). The Ghostly Wail was also proven too much for Vlad and forced him to revert to human form.
In "Phantom Planet," once Danny regains his powers, he uses his Ghostly Wail to repel all the enemies who were ganging upon him in the Ghost Zone. Danny appears to overcome his drawback and become more resilient to using it, like three times in a row.
It is unknown why he did not use such a powerful technique against Undergrowth (in "Urban Jungle"), Vortex (in "Torrent of Terror"), or Nocturn (in "Frightmare"). It is possible that he didn't want to risk his attack not having any effect against these extremely resilient ghosts who could possibly be immune to his Ghostly Wail, since he would be rendered defenseless and exhausted if it failed.
Capabilities[]
The Ghostly Wail is Danny's most powerful technique. With it, Danny can cause massive damage to ghosts and humans alike and can destroy solid objects or send them flying. It is also effective against multiple targets or to defeat a large group/army of enemies all at once. Danny often uses his Ghostly Wail in extreme cases; against a really powerful foe he is unable to defeat by other means. It can negate/nullify a ghost's level of regeneration/accelerated healing factor[1] and incapacitate them or even completely destroy ghosts that are too weak to withstand it.
Dark Danny's ghostly wail was powerful enough to destroy the ghost shield that protected the future Amity Park and cause a huge earthquake that caused destruction on the inside, which none of his other powerful attacks couldn't do.
Limitations[]
- Whenever Danny uses this power, it often drains his energy extremely quickly. Just one use can leave him with no energy left at all, forcing him to revert to his powerless human form. This makes him vulnerable to enemies and why he uses it at last resort. Inexplicably, he doesn't suffer this drawback in "Phantom Planet"; it is possible he may have become much stronger and more resilient by this time.
Sightings[]
Season 2[]
- 208. "The Ultimate Enemy"
- 210. "The Fright Before Christmas"
- 215. "King Tuck"
- 217. "Kindred Spirits"
Season 3[]
- 312. "Phantom Planet"