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"Beware! I am the Box Ghost! I have power over all containers cardboard and square."

The Box Ghost is a recurring ghost villain in Danny Phantom. He is the laughingstock of the Ghost Zone and Danny's weakest foe due to his comical incompetence and egotistical behavior. He usually appears as a minor character and often serves as comic relief rather than a primary antagonist.

History[]

Season 1[]

The Box Ghost first appears in "One of a Kind." He makes his attack on a warehouse, and is defeated by Danny and captured. He returns to Danny's class at the end of the episode, only to be defeated again.

In "Splitting Images" the Box Ghost attacks Danny in the beginning of the episode and humiliates him by hurling costumes and props from My Fair Lady at him. The Box Ghost returns at the end of the episode with a new name, "The Mechanical Frog Ghost," but he immediately changes his mind when the mechanical frog malfunctions.

In "Prisoners of Love", Danny finds the Box Ghost in the Ghost Zone in an area where human-world objects are kept. Walker finds them and arrests them both. In prison, the Box Ghost and all the other ghosts team up with Danny to escape.

He makes a brief appearance in "Lucky in Love". While Danny and Paulina were on a picnic, the Box Ghost came out of their picnic basket, only to be beaten up by Danny.

He shows up briefly in "Life Lessons", where he is used as bait by Skulker to lure Danny and Valerie.

Season 2[]

He returns in "Reign Storm," where he displays his new power to control bubble wrap. At the end, he teams up with the other ghosts to stop Pariah Dark.

He briefly appears in "Identity Crisis," taking offense to Danny's and his friends' perceived low threat level of him.

S02M02 Box Ghost charges up ghost ray

Box Ghost in "The Ultimate Enemy"

In "The Ultimate Enemy", in the alternate future he and the Lunch Lady Ghost are married and have a child named Box Lunch. The Box Ghost of this future is much more serious and is no longer the comic relief he once was. He and some of Danny's other villains attack present-Danny, wanting revenge for the terrible fate his future self-gave them. At this point, Danny gained the Ghostly Wail and used his new power to blow away the Box Ghost's team of villains.

He returns in "The Fright Before Christmas" as one of the ghosts who help Danny save Christmas, using his powers to return the stolen Christmas presents (which were all in boxes) to their homes.

He later makes another appearance in "Secret Weapons," where he traps Tucker and Sam and fights Danny. Jazz tries to help capture the Box Ghost (whom she mistakenly calls "Crate Creep") but ends up capturing Danny in the Fenton Thermos instead.

Season 3[]

S03e08 Box Ghost trying to seem threatening

Box Ghost: Present.

The Box Ghost gets a day in the limelight in "Boxed Up Fury." Frustrated by his lack of recognition in the Ghost Zone and his own pathetic weakness, he steals Pandora's Box and uses its evil powers to wreak havoc on Amity Park. In the end, while Danny and Pandora defeat him together and force him to clean up the mess he caused, the Box Ghost is left satisfied upon seeing that his actions have caused his infamy to go up.

The Box Ghost's final appearance is in the series finale, "Phantom Planet." He is seen once being defeated by Masters' Blasters and again at the end as one of the many ghosts who help Danny and Skulker turn the Earth intangible.

Appearance[]

The Box Ghost appears as a short, somewhat round man with blue skin and short black hair. He wears gray overalls, a gray hat, light gray gloves, a light gray undershirt, and dark gray shoes.

The future Box Ghost seen in "The Ultimate Enemy" appears largely the same but is more intimidating. He is muscular instead of round and has an eye patch, a scar below that eye, and a hook hand due to injuries from Dark Danny. His former goofy angry expression is replaced with a hateful scowl.

Powers[]

  • Intangibility, Invisibility, Flight, and Spectral Body Manipulation: Standard ghost powers. He can fly, turn intangible and turn invisible. He can control his body to do things like make his head detach and spin or his eyes pop out on stalks.
  • Telekinesis: The Box Ghost's main power. He uses this power to control boxes and the objects inside them.
  • Powers seen in the future:
    • Ghost Ray: The future Box Ghost could fire blue ghost rays and shape his ghost rays into purple cubes out of ecto-energy. The present Box Ghost could also fire ghost rays while powered up with Pandora's Box.

Equipment[]

  • Pandora's Box (briefly): In "Boxed Up Fury," the Box Ghost stole Pandora's Box from Pandora and gained its powers. He could make anything he wanted come out of the box and use the box to absorb and reflect his enemies' attacks.

Sightings[]

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

10 Years Later[]

Version 1

Box Ghost 10 years later version 1

Version 1

This version of the Box Ghost 10 years later is intended to be more realistic and comic book style. His appearance is based on a dock worker. His aged design (aged appearance, gray beard, and wrinkles) is partly due to having spent many years down by the salt water at the docks. This design is intended to be a more serious Box Ghost.

Version 2

Box Ghost 10 years later version 2

Version 2

This version is a sillier version, wherein he takes his persona literally. Because he is a ghost, he can transform his body, and in this version, he has transformed his body to make himself entirely out of squares and rectangles, making him a literal "box ghost." He is also able to change his size by shrinking and growing.

Version 3

Box Ghost 10 years later version 3

Version 3 - Box Ghost coming out of the haunted waters

This version is a more serious version. In the drawing, he is coming out of the water. He would always have boxes hovering around him, all of which would contain some item that he could use, especially in battle, such as weapons, ancient nautical items (e.g. hooks, chains), sea creatures, etc.

Version 4
This final version is similar to the third version (as seen above), although at the end of the day he still has some comedy to the character. But overall, he is more serious and menacing. This version has a hook hand, as also seen in "The Ultimate Enemy."

Box Ghost 10 Years Later

Trivia[]

  • Butch Hartman has said in one of his videos that The Box Ghost is one of his favorite villains.
  • Next to Vlad and Skulker, the Box Ghost is the third-most seen ghost antagonist in the series.
  • A popular theory among fans is that, judging by his appearance, the Box Ghost was a shipping worker who died from being crushed by boxes, explaining his alias. However, Butch Hartman has stated that the ghosts of the Ghost Zone are not spirits of humans from Earth however this gets quickly proven false when considering Sidney Poindexter, Desiree and Ember just to name a few.

Gallery[]

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Protagonists
Danny Phantom | Jack Fenton | Jazz Fenton | Maddie Fenton | Sam Manson | Tucker Foley
Antagonists
Andy | Archer Ghost | Bertrand | Box Ghost | Brenner | Bullet | Centaur |Clones of Danny | Crystal Leviathan | Cyclops | Dark Danny | Desiree | Download | Elastica | Ember McLain | Empress She-Wolf | Executioner Ghost | Femalien | Fran | Freakshow | Fright Knight | Ghost Writer | Goliath | Green Kid | Hotep RA | Johnny 13 | Kitty | Lunch Lady Ghost | Lydia | Medusa | ‎Monster Cat | Nightmerica | Nocturn | Operative K | Operative O | Pariah Dark | Pariah's soldiers | Penelope Spectra | Prince Aragon | Scarlet Samurai | Shadow | Skulker | Skulktech 9.9 | Sleepwalkers | Sullivan | Technus | Terminatra | Thrash | Tucker Phantom | Undergrowth | Vid | Vlad Plasmius | Vortex | Vulture Ghosts | Walker | Walker's goons | Youngblood | Youngblood's assistant
Allies
Clockwork | Cujo | Dani Phantom | Frostbite | Pandora | Princess Dorathea | Valerie Gray | Wulf
Other ghosts
Amorpho | Baby Face Boyle | Behemoth | Box Lunch | Cerberus | Dairy King | Dash Baxter's Ghost | Ectopuses | Ember's ghost band | Eyeball ghost | Fancy ghost duo | Funhouse | Gas mask ghost | Ghost Pegasus | Ghost Snake | Ghost Unicorn | Ghost Wolf | Ghost Worm | Klemper | Lake Monster | Misery Vex | Observants | Plaything | Poindexter's classmates | Sayonara Pussycat | Shade | Sidney Poindexter | Sojourn | Sphinx | Swarm
Other humans
Agent Alpha | Alicia | Amity Park Police Department | Casper High lunch lady | Connie | Damon Gray | Exodus | Dumpty Humpty | Grandpa Fenton | Harriet Chin | Hazmat agents | Hobson | Ida | Irving Burns | Jasper | John Fentonightingale | Lance Thunder | Madam Babazita | Maddie hologram | Mayor Montez | Mr. Falluca | Mr. Lancer | Nate | Operative L | Operative M | Principal Ishiyama | Sam's Parents | Swap Meet dentist | Ms. Tetslaff | The Beholder | Tiffany Snow | Tracey | Tucker's grandmother | Tucker's Parents
Students
Ashley | Blond male student in green sweater vest | Blue capped male student in orange | Boy with purple hair | Brittany | Dale | Dash Baxter | Elliot | Girl with braces | Hannah | Jock with braces | Kwan | Male student in flash jersey | Male student in red stripes | Male student with green beanie | Mia | Mikey | Nathan | Paulina | Rebecca | Red hoodie male student | Ricky Marsh | Sarah | Spike | Star | Tiffanie
Animals
Delilah | Jasmine the cat | Maddie the cat | Pookie | Scaredy Cat
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