Skulker (Danny Phantom)
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Skulker is one of the villains that Danny encountered in the T.V show Danny Phantom. He is the predator ghost hunter. He hunts down rare and unique things, and sets his sights eventually on Danny. Skulker is a small ghost blob who wears a large battle suit. His "Greatest Hunter" hook is, perhaps, in homage to Kraven the Hunter. Has a tendency to refer to Danny as "whelp." He is voiced by Matthew St. Patrick and later by Kevin Michael Richardson.
Skulker first appeared in One of a Kind, where he plans to put Danny on a cage. Then, Skulker took Tucker's PDA to power up his suit, but failed when Tucker's PDA ("...Which I CANNOT reprogram!...") takes over his armor and makes him go to the library to check out a book on Purple Back Gorillas. In the zoo, he confronts Danny, but Skulker was stopped when Tucker sends commands to make his suit do things like "Time for Push-Ups" and "Polish Armor", but Skulker was able to break Tucker's control by destroying his second PDA. Then, Danny summons the purple-back gorilla, and attacks Skulker, in which his battle suit is damaged and reveals the pilot: a tiny little green ghost controlling the suit from its head. In the end, Danny captured him with the Fenton Thermos.
In Bitter Reunions, Skulker was hired by Vlad Masters to disable Danny's powers with the power cube. In this episode, he still has the PDA installed into his suit (as evidenced when he is once again beset by its built-in schedule).
Later, in Life Lessons, Skulker (now free of the PDA) saw Danny and Valerie fight, and decided to make a contest to find which he will hunt most. At Nasty Burger, Skulker uses the Box Ghost as bait. In Valerie's apartment, he gives the flour sack to Danny, which causes Valerie to hunt him. Then, Skulker decided to capture both of them, and takes them to his lair. In the end, Skulker gets paralyzed by his own darts (although technically, it would be impossible for the darts to affect him while he's in his suit).
In Secret Weapons, Vlad again hires Skulker to scrounge around Amity Park for various devices, namely bloodstream nanobots from Axion Labs and the Fenton's new "Ecto-Converter" device. Although Danny tries to stop him, his well-meaning but inexperienced sister Jazz keeps tripping him up and letting "Ghost-X" (as Jazz knows Skulker as) get away. Later, Danny bumps into Skulker in the Ghost Zone just as the hunter finishes "borrowing" Technus's Electro-Rod weapon. Taking advantage of the chance encounter, Skulker captures Danny and takes him to Vlad.
Skulker's most recent starring role was in the episode Micro-Management. In this episode, Skulker, armed with a new suit, begins to hunt Danny again while the young hero is busy trying to put up with his "fitness buddy" Dash. However, the three of them wind up getting shrunk when Jack Fenton tries to test out his new "Fenton Ghost Crammer". As a result of being shrunk, Skulker is unable to use his ghost powers, but he is still able to use his weapon-laden suit. In his attempts to squash Danny, Skulker follows him and Dash throughout the Fenton household and all the way into the rooftop Op's Center, where Skulker winds up in the center's freezer. The cold traps Skulker in ice and ultimately gets him consumed by Jack Fenton, who put the frozen Ghost Hunter into his root beer float.
In Double Cross My Heart, Skulker has apparently escaped Jack Fenton (it probably wasn't a pretty escape) and has returned to his normal size and his old suit. However, Skulker is later confronted by the Guys in White while hunting one of their decoy ghosts. When the GiW catch Skulker, he escapes by ejecting from his battlesuit, which the agents use to help receive information on Danny.
In an alternate future, Skulker fused with Technus to become SkulTech 9.9. Despite the increase in capabilities, the suit can still be hacked into and controlled.
Given his persistence as a hunter, Skulker is bound to make future appearances.
Skulker's Powers
Skulker has ghost powers (invisibility, flight, intagibility, and overshadowing). As evidenced in Micro-Management, however, he doesn't really rely on them, preferring instead to use the various weaponry embedded in his suit.
Weakness
He is just a tiny ghost with a squeeky voice in a robotic suit. The suit itself is easy to hack into by means of devices like PDA's.
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