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While helping Danny and his friends map out the Ghost Zone, Dani stumbled upon a region they had never seen before, a huge sphere of water suspended in the air, with ghostly creatures that are seemingly the spirits of deceased sea life. Little did she know until she had already flown into it to get a better look that it was cursed to turn any human ghosts that stumbled into the place into Mermaid ghosts. Is there a way to reverse this curse or will Dani remain a Mermaid forever? Stay tuned for the next episode of Danny Phantom that will hopefully have Steve Marmel returning to his writer position.

Earlier today I was thinking about how it's kinda funny that in fiction it seems like there's two kinds of ghosts; ones that retain their legs, and ones that get tails, like the Flying Dutchman from Spongebob, or basically all of the portrait ghosts in Luigi's Mansion. I don't know what the creative logic is, what part of dying and becoming a ghost causes your legs to become one single appendage? I guess it being shaped that way would make a human body more aerodynamic, which would make evolutionary sense for an entity that's supposed to be able to fly, but who was the first person to try and apply science to ghosts, something where the lack of scientific sense they make is a huge amount of the appeal? Then I noticed that the whole tail instead of legs thing makes them kinda look like floating Merpeople, so maybe ghosts don't actually fly, maybe they swim through the air. But still, if that were intentional, where the hell did it come from? My guess would be from the original fairy tale of The Little Mermaid, long before the Disney movie that we all know the story from. In the original story, the Mermaid died, and a later edition revised the ending because it turns out children didn't respond well to it, yeah, go figure, so that when the mermaid died, she simply became a Skymaid, a concept that you might remember from a Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack episode. So if Merpeople become flying Merpeople when they die, maybe humans ALSO are supposed to become flying Merpeople when they die.

So you can guess why I was compelled to bring that to its logical natural conclusion.

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While helping Danny and his friends map out the Ghost Zone, Dani stumbled upon a region they had never seen before, a huge sphere of water suspended in the air, with ghostly creatures that are seemingly the spirits of deceased sea life. Little did she know until she had already flown into it to get a better look that it was cursed to turn any human ghosts that stumbled into the place into Mermaid ghosts. Is there a way to reverse this curse or will Dani remain a Mermaid forever? Stay tuned for the next episode of Danny Phantom that will hopefully have Steve Marmel returning to his writer position.

Earlier today I was thinking about how it's kinda funny that in fiction it seems like there's two kinds of ghosts; ones that retain their legs, and ones that get tails, like the Flying Dutchman from Spongebob, or basically all of the portrait ghosts in Luigi's Mansion. I don't know what the creative logic is, what part of dying and becoming a ghost causes your legs to become one single appendage? I guess it being shaped that way would make a human body more aerodynamic, which would make evolutionary sense for an entity that's supposed to be able to fly, but who was the first person to try and apply science to ghosts, something where the lack of scientific sense they make is a huge amount of the appeal? Then I noticed that the whole tail instead of legs thing makes them kinda look like floating Merpeople, so maybe ghosts don't actually fly, maybe they swim through the air. But still, if that were intentional, where the hell did it come from? My guess would be from the original fairy tale of The Little Mermaid, long before the Disney movie that we all know the story from. In the original story, the Mermaid died, and a later edition revised the ending because it turns out children didn't respond well to it, yeah, go figure, so that when the mermaid died, she simply became a Skymaid, a concept that you might remember from a Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack episode. So if Merpeople become flying Merpeople when they die, maybe humans ALSO are supposed to become flying Merpeople when they die.

So you can guess why I was compelled to bring that to its logical natural conclusion.