Ember McLain

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Evil-doer
Full Name	Ember McLain
Alias	Ember Mclame No hit wonder
Origin	Danny Phantom
Occupation	Musician Ghost
Powers / Skills	Hypnotic music Ghost powers
Hobby	Playing her Guitar Hypnotizing people Singing
Goals	Make people remember her name, so that she can gain more then enough power to take over the world (failed) Start a relationship with Danny Phantom (ongoing)
Crimes	Mass brainwashing Attempted murder Conspiracy Assault Property damage Destruction Terrorism Attempted global domination
Type of Villain	Egotistical Brainwasher

“	What? Wait! No, stop! No! Tell me who you love! Go on, say it! Say my name. SAY MY NAAAAME!!!	„
	~ Ember's villainous breakdown when she starts to lose her powers before being captured by Danny.

“	Tell me who you love!	„
	~ Ember McLain to her live audience.

“	Ohhh, Ember, so warm and tender! You will remember my name!	„
	~ Ember McLain

Ember McLain is a major antagonist in the Nickelodeon animated television series Danny Phantom. She's a hard-rocking ghost girl with a powerful techno-magical electric guitar who feeds off the idol worship of teenagers. Ember's appearance, songs and character in general portray her as a ghostly embodiment of teenage rebellion and disobedience to authority figures.

She's voiced by Tara Strong, who also played Lena Dupree in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, Princess Mandie in The Fairly OddParents, and Miss Minutes in Loki.

Appearance

Ember has long, flaming blue hair put into a ponytail at the top of her head held back, she has two locks of hair framing her face which look like a sharp-angled "M" and purple lipstick. Her clothing consists of a black choker around her neck, a black one-shouldered tank top exposing her midriff, one long glove that covers most of her right arm, and one black bracelet on her left arm. She also wears skintight black leather pants with a silver belt and skull boots.

In Pirate Radio, she wore a huge pirate hat that has a music skull on it and a large purple cape with her flaming hair flowing down

Personality

Ember is a hard-rocking ghost teen with disrespect towards any kind of authority figure. She obviously has a great amount of pride in her singing abilities, as she wanted revenge on Dark Danny in "The Ultimate Enemy" for ruining her vocal cords. She also has somewhat of an enthusiastic and childish personality (whilst frequently shouting 1970's phrases such as "dipstick" and "babypop"). She shares her hatred of adult authority with Youngblood, and she's distressed when things don't go the way she wants ("Fanning the Flames").

She isn't above revenge. In all the episodes, she was featured as a villain, she has either tried to hurt Danny and/or anyone who defeated/annoyed her in any sort of way. Ember also could get really low in her schemes when it comes to world conquest, as she has used her music to control people, whether it's only mind control or changing one's emotions. Despite being a dangerous enemy, she is not insane or murderous like other ghosts in the series (in fact, she could be considered nothing more than an influential teenager with her own "little" desires).

It's later revealed that in the ten years following "Phantom Planet", Ember develops a deep obsession with Danny, which eventually develops into a strong yet strongly secret crush on him, though she is unwilling to admit it to herself. Because of this, she changes the motivation for her hauntings and attacks from rebelling against authority to getting Danny's attention. Her crush on Danny is recognizable to others as she has shaved his logo onto the back of her head and has it for the base of her guitar. Despite her obvious attraction she continues to staunchly and sometimes violently deny it.

Powers and Abilities

• Ghost Physiology: Being a ghost, Ember is a hard rocking siren-like ghost girl who feeds off the idol worship of teenagers.
  • Flight, Invisibility and Intangibility: Standard ghost powers.
  • Ghost Ray: She can fire a pink blast.
  • Hypnotic Music: When she plays her guitar and/or sings, she can hypnotize people, usually young people, although she can hypnotize adults (and those who think that they are adults) as well.
  • Teleportation: She can appear and disappear in a purple smoke cloud, and/or disappear in a hair-flame tornado.
  • Ecto-Energy Constructions: Ember can create object made of solid energy. She can trap humans inside a pink ecto-bubble. While her name was being chanted by the whole world, she could create an upside down ecto-tornado cage to trap Danny.
  • Spectral Body Manipulation: She can manipulate the shape of her body in order to take the form of a flame.
  • Superhuman Strength: While being chanted in Amity Park, she was strong enough to easily overcome Danny.
  • Superhuman Resistance: Her physical durability (ability to endure/resist damage) is considerably higher than many other ghosts and possibly more than Danny-while being chanted by the whole world. She highly resistant to all forms of external physical damage.
  • Superhuman Stamina: As many other ghosts, she has a higher level of stamina than those of a normal human being.
  • Superhuman Reflexes: Her reflexes are enhanced beyond normal human limits.
  • Healing Factor: She can heal all her wounds in just a matter of seconds.
• Chanting Empowerment: Whenever people chant her name, the effect seemingly causes her hair to flare wildly and her eyes to glow, thus rapidly increasing her power. This is her biggest advantage and her worst weaknesses, because if people cease their chanting, her fiery ponytail extinguishes, rendering her powerless. This also only works when many are chanting her name, if it's only a few people then it just annoys her.
• Blue Pyrokinesis: She uses her flaming blue hair as a blue fire attack.
• Power Augmentation: Ember has the ability to enhance the powers of others like she does with Kitty's banishing kiss.
• Expert Guitar Player: She's an expert electric guitar player.
• Singing: She's an excellent singer, even without her powers.

Weapons

Ember's Guitar

• Electric Guitar: She uses this electric guitar as a weapon, and it possess supernatural powers.
  • Icons & Powers: Ember's guitar, has different icons in each close up, each icon represents the special abilities Ember can use of which knob it points to.
    • Music Note: Presumably for normal music playing
    • Heart Symbol: Used for the love spell
    • Skull Symbol: Skull beam
    • Punch Symbol: Punch beam
    • Spiral Symbol: Hypnotizing spell
    • Wave Symbol: Sound beam
    • Flame Symbol: Flame attack
  • Sword Guitar: She can use her guitar as a sword in close combat.
  • Flying Board: She can ride on her guitar like a hover board and fly.
  • Ponytail: She uses her hair as a fire attack.

Biography

Before she died, Ember was an unpopular teenage girl who had big dreams of becoming a rockstar. One day, a boy asked her out to the movies, so she waited all night for him to show up, assuming that he was just running late. When morning came and he didn't show up, Ember finally gave up and went home. She was so exhausted that she fell asleep and didn't wake up when her house mysteriously caught on fire, which she died in. This gave her the name "Ember", and her song "Remember" is based on the above events prior to her death.

Making her debut in Fanning the Flames with her famous song "Remember", Ember used her abilities and popstar status to dominate the world, keeping Danny distracted by putting a love spell on him that makes him fall in love with Sam. It keeps him busy while Ember busies herself with her plans of world domination. However, the spell is later broken when Sam, in a desperate move, kisses Dash (to both of their disgust) right in front of Danny. Heartbroken and with the spell finally broken, he fights Ember, but she's still way too powerful and traps him in a swirling purple vortex, due to people chanting her name. Danny realizes he needs to stop the chanting and gets Tucker Foley to sing on stage. His off-key singing causes the hypnotized crowd to snap out of being enchanted and stop cheering for Ember, whose powers and flaming hair then fizzle out to nothing as a result. She's defeated and banished to the Ghost Zone by Danny, where she deals with an annoying Klemper. You know he's annoying her when she yells at him to "Stop saying my name!"

She later attempted to exit the Ghost Zone a few days later in the episode "13", where she was shown in a line heading directly through the Ghost Portal. Jack was idiotically pressing a button which opened the portal doors telling his family that whenever you press it, you open the doors "like this" so you shouldn't press it. Anyway, just as it was Ember's turn to exit the Ghost Zone, Johnny 13 alongside Kitty and Shadow cut in front of her on his motorcycle.

She made her second appearance as one of the main villains in the episode "Pirate Radio" where Ember creates a song that hypnotizes adults (actually a mellow, slower, ballad version of "Remember") so that they go to a fake cruise, called M. Bersback, a poorly hidden message for "Ember's back". With this, she teams up with Captain Youngblood and his undead pirate crew. However, she just leaves/escapes the ship, after she accidentally burns the ship's sail, vowing to return. Despite her involvement in the plot, she wasn't the primary villain of the episode.

She came back in "Reign Storm" with numerous ghosts who fled the Ghost Zone when Pariah Dark was woken up. Later in the same episode, she, along with Danny's other enemies, teamed up to help Danny fight off the Ghost King's army.

In "Identity Crisis", Danny, Sam, and Tucker check out Ember's file on Danny's computer hinting he might have fought with Ember before the beginning of the episode, since Danny mentioned sending her back to the Ghost Zone.

In an alternate future (seen in "The Ultimate Enemy"), Ember is overweight and can no longer sing due to her vocal cords being damaged by Dark Danny. She attacks regular Danny along with some of his enemies, wanting revenge for the terrible fate his future self gave them.

She makes a cameo in "The Fright Before Christmas" as one of the many ghosts helping Danny save Christmas.

In "Beauty Marked", Sam used makeup very similar to Ember's on Paulina and later in Prince Aragon's castle, Sam wore similar makeup to make Prince Aragon break off their engagement.

In "Girls' Night Out", Ember teams up with Kitty and Spectra in a joint attempt to eliminate all men displaying Misandrist tendencies. This is the episode where her new song "Girl's Night Out" is played with Jazz as a backup singer (even though she wasn't very good at singing.) It's also revealed that Ember is Skulker's girlfriend (this was established only for Ember to have something in common with Kitty and Spectra).

Ember's final appearance in the series was in the series finale episode, "Phantom Planet". She was seen with the many ghosts who helped Danny and Skulker turn the entire planet intangible, so that an asteroid can pass through it.

According to the series director Butch Hartman, Ember remains a continually recurring enemy of Danny in the ten years following her events of the series' final episode. As their encounters increase however, Ember develops a strong obsession with Danny to the point where she secretly develops feelings for him and only causes him trouble in order to get his attention.

Appearances

Season 1

• Fanning the Flames
• 13

Season 2

• Pirate Radio
• Reign Storm
• Identity Crises
• The Ultimate Enemy
• The Fright Before Christmas
• Secret Weapons (cameo in picture)

Season 3

• Girls' Night Out
• Phantom Planet

Trivia

• Ember usually plays right-handed on her guitar but in Pirate Radio when on the ship when she first appears, she's playing left-handed.
• Ember McLain's skull boots are similar to boots of Gene Simmons of KISS.
• Robbyn Kirmsse is the singing voice of Ember.
• Ember making Danny fall in love with Sam and thus furthering the Danny/Sam relationship had caused her to become one of the most popular characters on the show.
• It's revealed that her backstory is different than the one listed above. The lyrics "To you, I did surrender. Two weeks, you didn't call. Your heart goes on without me..." may imply she indeed had a boyfriend (and slept with him) who started to ignore her and cheated on her and dumped her. To further hurt her, he didn't mourn her death.
• Based on her last name, she's of Scottish descent.
• Due to her developing feelings for him in the 10 years following the series finale, Ember is the fourth female character to have a crush on Danny. The first being Sam Manson, then Paulina Sanchez, then Valerie Gray.
• Her name: "Ember" means a small piece of fire or flame burning or glowing in coal or wood, smoldering in ashes, hence her fiery hair.