Nocturne (Danny Phantom)

Nocturne' is the ghost of sleep and a villain from the Danny Phantom cartoon series.

History
Nocturne set his Sleepwalkers on Amity Park, at one point battling Danny Phantom and defeated him, before putting him to sleep and having his minions toss him into the Ghost Zone. He then put the rest of the town to sleep and began harnessing their dream energy, however Danny managed to wake up. He returned to Amity Park to find everyone fast asleep and was confronted by the Sleepwalkers and Nocturne. They subdued him and the sleep ghost brought Danny back to his parent's lab, then proceeded to introduce himself, before explaining what he was doing. Nocturne and the Sleepwalkers went from town to town, putting the people to sleep and harnessing dream energy from them. Danny broke free of his bonds and fight ensued between the two, with Danny emerging the victor after he succeeded in freezing, then shattering Nocturne. He went off to deal with the Sleepwalkers, not knowing the dream ghost had reformed, though he was still weakened, and had teleported back to his base. Danny managed to figure out the only way to get one of the sleep helmets off was by shocking the sleeper in their dream. He managed to use his overshadowing powers to enter the dreams of Sam, Tucker, and Jazz and woke them up, then managed to track down Nocturne's base, an abandoned mattress factory. They found him asleep in a chamber in his lair that would allow him to gain more energy. Danny and Sam went to face Nocturne in his dream, but their attempts to fight him did little due to the amount of power he'd gained. However Tucker managed to jam the frequency of the antenna that the sleep ghost was using to harness dream energy. Nocturne was weakened enough that Danny and Sam managed to beat him and wake him up, along with everyone else. He was left powerless and was easily subdued with the Fenton Thermos. Nocturne later appeared amongst the countless other ghosts to help Danny turn the planet intangible, to save it from the Disasteroid.

Powers
Nocturne is extremely powerful when fully charged with dream energy and has complete control over any dream he is in. He is able to absorb energy from dreams to become stronger, as well as larger, which he refers to as harvesting, and can generate light blue dust-like energy from his hands to put people to sleep. Nocturne possesses the ability to regenerate himself, fire energy beams, teleport, fly, and know what other people are dreaming or have dreamed. He has superhuman strength and durability and controls of an army of ghost beings called the Sleepwakers, who also feed on dream energy, which Nocturne can summon any time he wants. They can regenerate same as him and help him by putting people to sleep so he can put his sleep helmets on them.

Trivia

 * Nocturne is somewhat similar in appearance, from the neck up anyway, to NiGHTS and Reala from Sega's NiGHTS video game series. Interestingly, that series takes place in a land of dreams and Nocturne is the ghost of sleep and dreams.


 * His name "nocturne" means a musical composition inspired by or evocative of the night.


 * Nocturne also has a few similarities to Nightmare from the Kirby games.