Vlad Masters

Gender: Male

Species: Human/ghost hybrid (formerly fully human)

Age: Early 40s

Hair Color: Gray (Human, Currently) Black (Ghost)

Eye Color: Blue (Human) Red (Ghost)

Full Name: Vlad Masters

Alias: Vladdie V-Man Uncle Vlad Fruit Loop (by Danny)

Occupation: CEO of VladCo (formerly) Mayor of Amity Park (Currently)

Powers / Skills: Eye transformation Flight Intangibility Invisibility Overshadowing Ectoplasmic/energy blasts Energy strike Ghost stinger Ecto-energy constructs Ectoplasmic goo Telekinesis Ghost portal creation Technopathy Pyrokinesis Atmokinesis Spectral body manipulation Cloning/duplication Shapeshifting Voice manipulation Super strength Super durability Super speed Regeneration High intelligence Manipulation Intimidation Gifted Businessman Insanely Rich/Wealth Genius-level Intellect Master Strategist Experienced Combatant Swordsmanship

Friends: Jack Fenton (formerly) Skulker Valerie Gray (formerly)

Enemies: Danny Phantom (archenemy) Jack Fenton Sam Manson Tucker Foley Dark Danny Dani Phantom Jazz Fenton Frostbite Valerie Gray Observants

Appearance:

His grey hair is tied into a ponytail and he has a matching goatee. However, he has black eyebrows and a pointed nose. He has midnight blue eyes. He typically wears a black suit with a red handkerchief in his left breast pocket and a matching red bolo tie. The suit has three rows of white buttons, a total of six. He also wears a white undershirt and black pointed shoes.

In his alter-ego of Vlad Plasmius, he retains little resemblance to his human form, although some features remain the same. He is more muscular in this form and has sky-blue skin and fangs. His hair is black and styled in a horn-like U-shape, and he has a black goatee. He wears a mostly white outfit consisting of white trousers and a white long-sleeved shirt with black gloves and boots. His shirt is connected via a black belt and stems up to his neck. There is a black collar on his shirt like Danny's, although it does not extend up the neck. Finally, he accessorizes with a high collar cape connected around his neck that has a white exterior and a red interior lining.

Powers and Abilities:

Flight, invisibility, intangibility, ectoplastic ray, ectoplastic energy manipulation, superforce, energy shields. He can absorb ectoplastic attacks from others and redirect them. This is one of the rarest abilities among ghosts. He is an excellent strategist and has great experience in hand-to-hand combat thanks to his powers. Vlad has a great fortune and is one of the most cunning businessmen in the world, although he uses ruthless tactics to maintain his success.

History:

Background: Origin

Sometime in the early 1980's, Vlad attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison alongside his roommate and best friend Jack Fenton and love interest Maddie whom Jack also had feelings for. Vlad's friendship with Jack ended when a prototype ghost portal they had built overloaded after the latter accidentally poured diet cola instead of ecto-purifier into the machine. This blasted Vlad in the face with ectoplasmic energy, resulting in him being hospitalized with ecto-acne and his DNA being infused with ectoplasm, causing him to become a half-ghost. Vlad remained in the hospital for several years thanks to his ailment which eventually went into remission.

Vlad went on to blame Jack for what happened to him, secretly hating him and desiring to exact vengeance. Vlad spent the next bitter 20 years honing and taking advantage of his newfound powers in order to become rich and famous, all in the hopes of eventually getting Maddie back. He possessed wealthy business tycoons to make them hand their companies over to him, took part in invisible insider stock market trading, and committed many invisible burglaries in order to amass his vast fortune. Though this had little effect as Maddie soon married Jack.

He founded and currently owns VladCo (which would buy out Axion Labs later on) and has been featured in a number of magazines (Fortunate Magazine named him "Man of the Year" in 1997).

However, he holds a grudge against Jack for the accident and is Romantically obsessed with Maddie. Vlad is the main antagonist of the series and confronts Danny Phantom on multiple occasions, trying to eliminate him or recruit him as his protégé.

Personality:

Vlad's general outer appearance showcases him as a well to-do man: rich, suave, clever, intelligent and mysterious. He’s very methodical in getting what he wants whenever he wants it, showcasing patience as well as cunning. Deceitful and cruel, Vlad is perfectly willing to use any underhanded method to obtain his desires and he possesses no qualms about resorting to such things as kidnapping and attempted murder.

He is not above using others as his pawns in achieving his goals. Never giving up when he is down, to compensate for his losses, Vlad savors small, personal victories, such as in "Bitter Reunions" where he lost the battle, but proudly pointed out Danny's blackmailing being similar to his before leaving.

He usually works alone, but has required help from Skulker several times, as well as the vulture ghosts, ectopuses, and the failed clones. In "Reign Storm," while gloating to Danny, he said he "...used two 14-year-old pawns to turn a knight and topple a king," implying that he may have struck a deal with the Fright Knight.

Vlad is also known to hold a grudge for years. Part of the reason he hates Jack so much is due to all the humiliation and personal injury Jack has caused him over the years, blaming Jack for having caused the accident which saw Vlad become infected with ectoplasm and saw Vlad lose the opportunity to confess to and make Maddie his. When under stress, he frequently shouts out snack names ("Oh, butter biscuits," "Oh, sugar cookies," etc.) and is known for losing his temper quite easily.

While Vlad is, at heart, cruel, sadistic, malicious, greedy, self-serving, petty, vindictive, obsessive, and power-hungry, he is also a complicated soul. Often a double-edged sword, he uses the wrong methods (killing, stealing, etc.) to gain what he thinks is right, namely in order to fill his painful loneliness.

This includes getting love that he has never allowed himself to have blaming his life-altering incident rather than his own personal faults: Maddie, who he believes should have been his and the fact he wanted no else, and Danny, a potential son who also struggles with ghost powers. Unfortunately, this longing is also used against him when his emotions leave him vulnerable, Danny, Maddie, and Jazz having tricked him with it.

However, the fact that he retains such emotions shows that he is not above redemption. His arrogance has also proven to be a significant disadvantage; on one occasion when he fought Jack as Plasmius—Jack, naturally, being unaware of his identity as Vlad Masters—part of the reason for his defeat was the fact that he underestimated Jack's ability to successfully battle him and launch effective attacks.

Additionally, he can become too overconfident about his plans, only to ruin them because of his own short temper and inability to think some aspects of his plan through.