Summary: Danny compares one of his foes to a character on a television show.

In the immortal words of Samuel L. Clemens... "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR."

Disclaimer: "Danny Phantom" and all associated characters and situations are created by Butch Hartman and used for entertainment purposes without permission or intent to profit. "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" and all related characters are the property of Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy and used without permission or intent to profit.

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"Something In Common"
By J.T. Magnus, 'Turbo'

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Daniel Fenton liked watching shows about ghosts, vampires, and all kinds of other paranormal and supernatural entities - both 'reality' television and scripted Hollywood shows - mainly because as someone who was half-ghost and knew yeti, ghost dogs and dozens of other kinds of beings personally, most of the shows were hilarious to watch. One of his favorite things to do was get a group together to watch marathons of 'Spirit Detectives', 'Fact Finding' or similar shows; the best times were when someone recognised what was on television as someone they knew or something they'd done personally. It made for great parties.

Some shows, though, just seemed weird now when he was watching them. The last few years had given him a strongly different viewpoint on many things than he had held before the incident with the Ghost Portal, after all. He supposed it would be like someone who worked for NASA watching some science-fiction show where the characters traveled into space every week with no preparation, no precautions and no regard for the laws of physics. It was like with the show he was watching at the moment, one about vampires and 'monsters' and a girl cursed to hunt them that had been popular a few years previously; he knew vampires - or at least Vlad, who definitely went for the 'Dracula' look - ghosts, yeti and more, so he kept finding himself laughing or shaking his head at how they were being depicted on the show.

There was one supernatural being, though, about which the show was making him think. It was weird because the way the show was describing a character was familiar, but what they were calling it was something entirely different. Mentally, Danny went over a checklist.

Woman scorned in life... Check.

Grants wishes... Check.

Twists those same wishes to cause chaos and suffering... Very check.

As near as he could tell, the only major difference was that the character on the show seemed to focus on females, usually ones angry at a guy that had dumped them or something similar, while the ghost he knew went after anyone they could trick into making wishes around them.

"She plays up the whole 'genie' angle, but is she really?" Danny muttered to himself as on-screen one of the female leads smashed the wish-granter's necklace that was the focus of her power. Now that he thought about it, he wasn't even sure he'd ever seen Desiree with a lamp, a bottle, or anything else to which a genie was supposed to be connected. "Maybe she's actually one of these... what did they call them? 'Vengeance Demons'? Huh. Maybe I should look into this..."