Jack Fenton

Affiliation

Danny Phantom

Description

Jack Fenton is the husband of Maddie Fenton and father of Danny and Jazz, and later, Danielle. He is a ghost hunter and one of the co-owners of Fenton Works.

Appearance

Jack is large and bulky, with black hair with some white in the back and blue eyes. He always wears an orange jumpsuit with black gloves and boots. He is also seen wearing his jumpsuit hood and lab goggles with teal lenses in two episodes. It is similar in design to the one Maddie wears. However, in "Control Freaks", the lenses in his goggles are red instead of teal (similar to Maddie's).

Personality

Jack is incompetent at times, even coming off as goofy, clumsy, absent-minded, and obsessed with ghosts. He's also been shown to be fairly narcissistic, as shown in "Forever Phantom" where he names things after himself and by the fact most of his inventions have his face like the blimp, his toast, etc. Despite these obvious flaws, Jack is a brilliant scientist and inventor—capable of building working ghost and ecto machines. He is also well-meaning, as he is very protective of his family—jumping at any chance for quality bonding. This was seen when he defeated attacking ghosts led by Vlad on his own to protect his family, even shedding his usual ineptness and showing his competent nature.

Relationships 1

Danny and Jack have a close relationship. Danny appears to love and admire his father, although when it comes to protecting his ghost hunting and social life, Jack has proven to be more of a hindrance than a help. Danny is constantly embarrassed by his father in public due to his over-the-top personality. Jack's passion for ghost hunting caused Danny to become ashamed of him and very quiet about his family's "hobby." Eventually, Jack begins to embarrass his son less often. Jack wants his son to look up to him, so it pains him whenever Danny expresses a negative opinion of him.[4] He also will punish Danny for his actions, too, sometimes grounding him. But Jack deeply loves his son, going to great lengths to protect him and his family from ghosts.

Relationships 2

Maddie is the wife of Jack. They seem to be together every time they're on-screen. She is a maker of ghost-hunting supplies, too, but they seem to detect Danny every time they use ghost-tracking supplies, until they know the truth in "Reality Trip." She always wears a mask, unlike the other members in the Fenton Family. Currently: Dead from being hit by drunk driver.

Relationships 3

Jazz Fenton is Jack's daughter, and Danny's older sister. They are not really close, as Jack once had suspicions of her being a ghost and Jack was scolded by her for this. During "Maternal Instinct", Jack shows he loves her by defending her from an attacking ghost animal sent by Plasmius. Jazz even ran to him for protection. The pair work together in defeating the attacking threat, with Jack showing pride in his daughter's hunting skill, despite her saying it was a one-time thing and both agreed not to tell Danny or Maddie of it. Jack's love for his daughter is further proven in "13", when she becomes rebellious and seemingly goes out with a delinquent Johnny 13 (unknown to Jack, Johnny was a ghost) with him even going after her to get her back.

Relationships 4

Dani Phantom is a clone of Jack’s son Danny created by Vlad. This makes Dani Jack’s biological daughter. Their only interaction is when Dani overshadows Maddie and Mr. lancer, in order to convince Jack to not punish Danny, Sam, and Tucker when they got into trouble. While the two never officially meet in the series, it was confirmed by Butch Hartman that sometime after season 3 Jack and Maddie eventually learned of Dani’s existence and decided to adopt her, showing that he has come to love and accept her as part of his family.

Relationships 5

Vlad was once Jack's best friend, probably the closest thing he had to a brother. The two of them used to be roommates and lab partners in college. They did everything together, until the proto-portal that gave Vlad his ghost powers put a halt to their friendship. Jack was oblivious of Vlad's contempt for him in later years and often preferred to be supportive of his one-time "best friend" for most of the series. It wasn't until the show's finale that he learned of Vlad's true nature. He attempted to apologize for the accident (though not literarily saying sorry), but was angrily shunned with Vlad even promising to take Maddie from him. Once Vlad begged Jack for help, cynically saying he wouldn't abandon an old friend, the ghost hunter simply gave his former friend a hurt, angry last reply: "An old friend? No. You? Yes." This ended their friendship once and for all. Vlad even regretted the fact that he took Jack's friendship for granted.