valerie gray

Characteristics

Valerie Gray is a student at Casper High, a ghost hunter and a frenemy of Danny Phantom. Once a rich and popular, however, shallow high school girl, Valerie's life turns upside-down when accidents caused by the ghost dog Cujo cost her father his job and everything they own. Since then, given ghost hunting equipment from Vlad Masters (unaware he was evil and using her to help him destroy Danny), Valerie becomes determined to destroy all ghosts (formerly Danny Phantom) for ruining her life until she learns Vlad manipulated her and was also half-ghost. Although she frequently clashes with his Danny Phantom, Valerie briefly strikes a romance with Danny Fenton, unaware that the two were the same person until the series finale. She serves as a recurring antagonist of the series, acting as the arch-rival to fellow ghost hunter Danny Fenton and the love rival of Sam Manson, competing their rivalry for Danny Fenton's affection.

valerie gray's history

Her first appearance was in "Parental Bonding," though she only appeared and talks for a few seconds, accepting Tucker's invitation to the dance because her boyfriend decided to go with a different girl. Later, it's implied that Tucker, overshadowed by Danny, breaks off their plans so that he can take Sam to the dance. Valerie Gray was once a rich, popular girl at Casper High until the appearance of a huge ghost dog at Axion, a large laboratory facility where her father worked, occurred in "Shades of Gray." Danny tries to catch the dog, but the two of them cause so much ruckus and damage, that her father, Damon Gray, loses his job. Due to his job loss, she and her father lose their great fortune, are forced to move into a run down apartment, and thus her popularity status from the "in-crowd" plummets. Valerie blames her misfortunes on Danny Phantom, thus dedicating herself to hunting ghosts for the rest of her life.Unbeknownst to her, Vlad Plasmius takes advantage of her grudge and has secretly supplied her with various ghost-hunting weaponry, helping her to fight Danny and allowing Vlad to spy on Danny in secret for his own plans. Late to school after fighting each other in their alter-egos, Danny and Valerie are forced to become "parents" of a sack of flour for a one-week school assignment in "Life Lessons." At the same time, Skulker, ghost hunter extraordinaire, decides to pit Danny Phantom and Valerie against each other in a contest, the winner earning the privilege of becoming his prey. Valerie is busy with two jobs, and forces a partially-unknowing Danny to have the sack for most of the time, much to Danny's chagrin. Finally pushed to the edge of frustration, Danny gives Valerie the sack, complaining that she needs to do some work.

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However, things do not go his way, and in the end he decides to capture both Danny and Valerie in the Ghost Zone to be his prey. After getting through booby traps and escaping Skulker's Island, the two eventually figure out how to work together and finally manage to defeat Skulker together. Later, Danny apologizes to Valerie, and they are able to get a C for their somewhat destroyed sack. In this episode, it is revealed that Valerie works at the Nasty Burger as the mascot of the restaurant to make extra money for college.Season 2 In "Memory Blank", Valerie attended Paulina's Quinceanera. By "Reign Storm," Valerie gains a friendship with Danny, which develops into having a crush on him. Vlad pulls her to the side and reveals that he is the one who has been giving her the ghost hunting equipment. Courageously, she tries to fight against Pariah Dark's army to save Danny and Vlad. She also attempts to fight Pariah Dark himself with the ecto-skeleton, but Danny stops her by revealing her secret identity to her father. At the end, Valerie lets Sam know that Sam better make her move on Danny, or else she would.In "The Ultimate Enemy," Valerie's future self has become Amity Park's defender. When Dark Danny broke Amity Park's enhanced Ghost Shield, she tried to hunt him, but he easily sent her away. Though present Danny was able to prevent her from hitting the wall, she then fell to the ground. Before she became unconscious, she explains she almost forgot how cute young Danny was. Fortunately, that future was prevented thanks to the work of Danny and Clockwork. In "Flirting With Disaster," Valerie and Danny date for a brief period of time, neither knowing Technus is the one pushing the two together while he goes about his plans for world domination. In one instance, Technus attacks Danny with Valerie's old suit, but when Danny destroys it, Valerie thinks he was trying to kill her, making her vow to stop Danny Phantom stronger.

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Before Technus hooks up with a satellite in space, he upgrades Valerie's suit, giving her an advanced red and black-striped one, and the power to instantly change in and out of it by simply summoning it at will. This was meant to further distract Danny from his own dastardly plans, as she was now even more dangerous to Danny Phantom then she was before. After Technus's defeat, Valerie lets Danny know that she didn't know she was ready to start a deeper relationship with him, breaking both of their hearts.In "D-Stabilized," Valerie is hired by Vlad to seek and capture Danielle "Dani" Phantom. Vlad tells her that Dani wants to destroy him. Using a ghost detector, she instead finds a human Danielle, and is unaware she is the same as Dani Phantom. When mistaking Valerie as a hostile situation, Danielle runs from her into an unstable building about to collapse, where she saves Valerie's life when the hunter followed and almost perished from within from falling debris. After revealing herself as a half-ghost, Valerie captures Danielle and uses her to lure out Danny Phantom, capturing him as well. She then ships her off to Vlad until Danny convinces Valerie that she is innocent. Calling a temporary truce, the two work together to save her from Vlad Plasmius's clutches. By the end, Valerie discovers that Vlad Masters and Vlad Plasmius are one and the same, and that she has been doing his biding for him. She vows to take him down as well.She makes a last cameo appearance in "Phantom Planet." First she gets pushed aside by Vlad's Masters' Blasters, and finally takes part in saving the world from a deadly asteroid.Valerie was seen among the crowd cheering for Danny when he revealed his secret to the world, so her hatred for Danny Phantom had inexplicably gone away.

valerie gray's personality

Initially, she was cruel, selfish and mean-spirited like her popular friends. In "Reign Storm," she's confused for a while about why Sam and Tucker treat her uneasily, but then they remind her that she used to treat them terribly. However, her descent into unpopularity begins to change her into a nicer, less egotistical person to the people around her, making new, better friends while looking upon her former "friends" with disdain and disgust. She also becomes more compassionate and caring, going from just wanting to get revenge on ghosts like Danny Phantom to endangering herself to protect Amity Park from ghost attacks. Valerie is extremely stubborn and hot-tempered, as well as very persistent and dangerous. Not even her dad can stop her dedication to hunting ghosts. If necessary, she manipulates people if it's required or it's helpful, like taking advantage of Tucker knowing ghost hunters and Dani having connections with Danny.Her anger is also something to be feared, like getting revenge on Danny ruining her new shirt by sending Kwan out to hurt him in "Shades of Gray." She holds strong grudges, too, as she has never forgiven Danny Phantom for ruining her life. As time goes by, though, Valerie becomes better at suppressing her fiery emotions, especially when she has to team up with her least favorite ghost or makes occasional truces with him. Also, despite her grudge against Danny’s ghost half, Valerie took his advice of getting to know someone to the heart as she realized that she should at least give people a chance before making judgments, even using his advice towards his human half.

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Danny and his friends might see her as a foe, but Valerie thinks of herself as the hero, even though she's normally an anti-hero. Valerie truly means well and is positive that Danny and all ghosts are evil, so her hatred motivates her to hunt them down. Although more fierce and harsh in the way she treats enemies than Danny, she does have the right intentions of saving everyone from harm. Sometimes, her firm stance in her beliefs gets shaken up. She strongly trusts that Vlad isn't a ghost or a bad guy, but when she finds out the truth, she is shocked and immediately decides that she'll get him back for his deceit. While certain that torturing humans is wrong, she struggles over whether letting a half-human/half-ghost be killed is morally right, only finally agreeing to it after Danny persuades her. Valerie isn't completely aware about many things concerning ghosts, yet she’s sure that it's her duty to ward them off from innocent people, like her father and her crush, Danny.

Valerie's Appearance

Valerie is a 14 year-old African-American girl, with long, curly hair and hunter green eyes. She seems to be a little thick, although she looks slimmer when she's wearing her leather-latex red and black ghost-hunting suit. When not using her suit, she usually wears a yellow camisole and orange skirt with yellow socks and white tennis shoes. She also wears an orange headband, golden earrings, an orange necklace and has two bracelets on each wrist, one golden and the other orange. She has also been seen in a violet babydoll t-shirt in "Shades of Gray."