Infinite Realms

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"Infinite Realms" *Danny Phantom episode*
Infinite Realms title card "All Directions Lead to DOOM!"
Season	3
Number	42
Prod. code	-
Airdate	? (No current U.S. airdate)
Writer(s)	Butch Hartman
Directors	Wincat Alcala, Gary Conrad, Butch Hartman
Ghost Appearances	Frostbite (1st), Vlad Plasmius
Abbreviation	IR

Previous episode Eye for an Eye
Next episode Girls' Night Out

"Infinite Realms" is the forty-second episode in the TV-series Danny Phantom. After meeting Frostbite, Danny and friends are given the Infi-Map that lets them traverse to any part of the Ghost Zone, but they end up in a wild goose chase when Vlad steals the fabled map.

1 Episode Recap
2 Allusion
3 Trivia
4 Goofs

[edit] Episode Recap

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Danny and his friends (the latter two inside the Specter Speeder) tries to follow Danny's map of the Ghost Zone to get home, hopelessly lost in the process. Following two ghosts into an icy land, they meet an angry Frostbite who attacks the three immediately until Danny removes a small icicle stuck on the back of his neck. Grateful and recognizing Danny as the "Great One", he takes him, Sam, and Tucker to his home where he and his people relate the story of his defeat of Pariah Dark, earning him that nickname and their eternal respect.

Vlad contemplates his destiny to his cat.

Danny, Sam, and Tucker ask Frostbite for help to go home afterwards, and he responds by showing them the Infi-map: a map of the Ghost Zone that can transport its holder to any location desired. He further explains that there are other ghost portals beside the Fentons' and Vlad's in the veins of natural portals located all over Earth and the Ghost Zone (such as the Bermuda Triangle) where anyone accidentally waltzing into one portal from Earth ends up in the Ghost Zone and upon exiting it, they end up in other time periods of Earth in which they have a short amount of time to escape before being sealed off in said time period for all eternity. The three are given the map, but due to the unpredictable nature of it, Frostbite volunteers to help. Danny however accidentally activates it and the three quickly return to the real world. There Sam suggests returning the map to Frostbite's home, but Danny wishes to explore its potential first before anything else.

Vlad in the meantime plays chess with his new cat (Named 'Maddie') before lamenting on his desire for power, eventually settling for illegally spying the Fenton home through surveillance cameras. There he spots the trio with the Infi-Map, an object he desires. Putting a tracker in Sam's backpack, he follows them through the Ghost Zone. The trio asks to go anywhere, bypassing many Ghost Zone locales until they come upon one of the natural portals. Despite Sam's warnings, they all dive in and end up under the bed of a timid boy in 1942 whom Danny accidentally scares by spontaneously correcting his mother's quote whom spoke it to reassure the frighten child beforehand. The trio later takes off and lands in Salem, Massachusetts during the 1600s at the time of the witch trials. There Vlad manages to take the map from Danny by claiming Sam to be a witch, causing her to be burnt at the stake. Danny tries to save her, but grows weak upon entrance when spiritual flowers (Blood blossoms) designed to ward off spirits (and as edible eating materials) circles the stake, courtesy of John Fenton Nightingale. Sam quickly orders Tucker to eat the flowers in order for Danny to save him and stop Vlad who's escaping to another time period.

Samurai Danny.

Tucker reluctantly eats the flowers, Danny releases Sam afterwards, and the three then follow Vlad through the Ghost Zone by use of the same tracker he used on Danny (which Tucker placed on Vlad earlier). When Vlad asks the map to take him to his destiny, the map takes him to ancient Rome were the Romans (having seen him fly) declare him a deity. Danny arrives in the same time period where the now Emperor Vlad releases lions upon the trio. Danny bests them and fights off Vlad who chucks ecto disks at his foe, accidentally destroying the coliseum and the Roman city in whole, angering the Romans.

Vlad heads to another destiny search, landing in Asia where Vlad terrorizes the Ming monks, stopped only by a samurai Danny. Because he destroyed priceless treasures, the monks surrounded Vlad. Vlad then heads over to 1903 and tries to destroy the Wright Brothers plane so he could rule over mankind and their lack of aircrafts, but Danny balances the plane long enough for it to land. Fed up with being chased everywhere, Vlad puts the gang in a sphere. The Infi-map then teleports Vlad to Frostbite's kingdom afterwards were Vlad gets mauled by the citizens by freezing him. Frostbite says to Danny that sometimes the Infi-map teleports the user were he needs to be instead of where he should be, indicating the Infi-map should be back in its rightful place in the Far Frozen. With the Specter Speeder fixed, the trio returns home. Vlad meanwhile is now a frozen statue, unbeknownst to the people of Amity whom assume is just a statue of their new mayor.

[edit] Allusion

A cartoon version of Michael Jackson at his trial in 2006 appears on TV while Vlad is flipping through channels.

The title and plot of this episode is based on DC Comics' Limited Series Infinite Crisis in which the Heroes of the DC Universe have to stop a madman's remodeling of the reality of Earth.

[edit] Trivia

This episode first aired in Latin America on January 11, 2007, and in Canada on YTV. No word is available yet on a US release.

This episode marks the first chronological appearance of Frostbite.

In Spanish Frostbite's name is Congelación, which translates to "freezing (n.)".

In "Maternal Instinct", Danny suggests that Vlad should get a cat (Although Vlad had declared he will not). This episode marks the first appearance of Vlad's cat, named Maddie.

After Danny and his friends leave Frostbite hints Danny has more in common with them than he realizes. In "Urban Jungle" Danny discovers he has ice powers much like Frostbite and his people.