Reality Gauntlet

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The Reality Gauntlet is a glove that covers the hand and arm to the shoulder. The gauntlet is used in the Nickelodeon show Danny Phantom by the character known as Freakshow. The Reality Gauntlet is powered by a triangular gem which acts as the power source and three other gems.

1 The Gems
2 Power
3 Appearance
4 Trivia

[edit] The Gems

The Reality Gauntlet.

The first gem is the Gem of Life, a square ruby. This gem allows the wearer to control the power of life and death, and potentially give life to a lifeless object, or possibly take life away from the living. For example, Freakshow made the giant train car robots to life, and in the space station,the space shuttle came alive because a little boy touched it and dropped it on the shuttle.

The second gem is the Gem of Form, a diamond-shaped topaz. This gem gives the wearer of the gauntlet the power over all things in that, like alchemy, they may turn one thing into the form of anything else. For example, in the final confrontation,the fire blast almost kills Danny,but Freakshow recreates him with the Gem of Form and Life. Another example is turning Gothapalooza into a Teddy Bear Land.

The third gem is the Gem of Fantasy, a circular sapphire. This gem allows the wearer to make their wishes come true; that is, they can change reality into fantasy, and fantasy into reality. For example, three geeks had transformed into supervillains according to their costumes.

The final gem is a triangular ruby that is actually the gauntlet's power source.

After all the gems are in place, put them with the right order and the user can control reality itself.

The order is

yellow
blue
yellow
red
blue
Final Gem

[edit] Power

When the gems are pressed in a certain order, their powers fuse together, giving the wearer total control over all reality. In the initial fight with Freakshow, Danny, Tucker Foley, and Sam Manson accidentally set off this sequence, giving the gauntlet control of all reality. The sequence is: Gem of Form, Gem of Fantasy, Gem of Life, Gem of Form, Gem of Life, Gem of Fantasy and lastly, the gem which gives the Reality Gauntlet its power.

To prevent this power from being abused, the gauntlet has a built-in safety mechanism: whoever touches one of the gems while it is in the gauntlet can teleport the gem out of the gauntlet by simply wishing it away. With the gem out of the gauntlet, the gauntlet loses the power that the gem supplied. The gem's power can be activated by mere touch outside of the gauntlet, but it is only when they are in the gauntlet that they can be properly controlled, and only when they are in the gauntlet can they rewrite reality.

[edit] Appearance

The Reality Gauntlet only made it's appearance in "Reality Trip" when Freakshow stole it from the Guys in White (who had the item confiscated) thus breaking from prison as a result with his ghost companion Lydia. Together, he encountered Danny to get revenge during a Dumpty Humpty concert where Danny and his friends wish the gems away.

In exchange for the gems however, Freakshow kidnaps their parents and demands the gems in order for their lives in merely three short days. They eventually find all three and with them Freakshow creates his own world where he is their ringleader. Freakshow's plan comes undone when Danny taunts him with his ghost power and tricks Freakshow into wishing himself as a ghost through the glove, which allows Danny to capture him with a Fenton Thermos.

Afterwards, Danny uses the Gauntlet to alter reality back to the way it was and later destroys it.

[edit] Trivia

The Reality Gauntlet and Gems are obviously based off of the Infinity Gauntlet and Infinity Gems, the most powerful ancient objects in the Marvel Comics Universe.
Freakshow, while the gauntlet is activated, refers to himself as "Ringmaster of Reality" and "Master of All Reality", an obvious reference to the Black Sabbath Album; Master of Reality.
It is interesting to note that the gauntlet is the only ghostly artifact that doesn't glow unless touched by a character that does even though it is arguably the most powerful. This could be because the only two people to wield it, Freakshow and Danny, both do glow.