Why I Don't Like Danny Phantom (Addendum)

This wasn't brought up, but on the off-chance it does I feel I need to address it. What I'm expecting

"You just name-dropped some shows that had romance play a decent part in them, comparable to Star Vs. and Danny Phantom starting out."

And if so, okay, you got me there. For the sake of clarity, I'm gonna put reasons why I used those shows as examples against Danny Phantom.

The Loud House

It had Luna and Sam, plus Clyde's dads. One of them was eased into proper while the other just exists, which is a common trend for many male on male gay relationships in cartoons, the most complex they go is just a spark forming from the get-go. Okay that's the thing for female on female too, but for Luna and Sam, they obviously hung out a lot before then, so it had time to develop.

But at large, as The Loud House is more of a character-focused comedic affair, and Sam doesn't seem like the kind of person who'd send Luna to a life-changing demise.

That was my main focus when I made that analogy. On Lincoln and Ronnie Anne, they appealed to both sides by having RA beat Lincoln up after he tries to re-coup her supposed feelings at the advice of his sisters, the kiss supposedly getting a spark going, then things occurred naturally from there.

Gravity Falls

Dipper just has a young boy crush on Wendy, the two cops' relationship are played for comedy (at least that's how it went on at first), and Mabel unleashing Weirdmageddon had less to do with a date driving her to do it out of selfish desire, but Mabel did it by her own desire as her world crumbled around her, being manipulated by someone under the guise of one she knew and trusted.

ChalkZone

Rudy Tabootie and Penny Sanchez are established as liking each other a lot from the get-go, not counting the pilot shorts. From Rudy being incredibly interested in Penny right from her first appearance, to Penny going along with Rudy on whatever he does and the two playing off one another like good friends should, it works better than "Whoops, I changed your life forever, Imma go be myself, you gunna meet me in bed boo?"

Hey Arnold!

At best it was just playing off the "They're mean because they like you spiel.", at the very least they made it abundantly clear, but otherwise Helga and Arnold tolerated their own company from then. Funnily, Helga's expectations for their relationship was more realistic than Arnold's (surprisingly). Same principle as The Loud House, it's a character-driven comedy and the romantic spiel is just how life goes.

Ed, Edd n' Eddy

Enough said, romance plays no major part of it unless it's the point of an episode or a quick gag, and the Eds don't wind up with the Kankers by the end of it so that's one big bullet dodged.

Magical Girl Friendship Squad

Okay I threw that in to see if people would notice. This show fits what I like for more progressive shows. To have them be original ideas and from the start. If Daisy and Alex became a couple it wouldn't necessarily be out of place, they do work together and hang out together the most often.

Invader Zim

Enough said. ZaDr is a product of the darker side of the fandom, i.e., not part of the actual show proper.

Twelve Forever

If you'd call me on the namedrop, you'd say "You favorited a piece of Twelve Forever art that had Reggie and her girl crush Connelly on it. To that I say... I never made it that far. I just wanted to watch one episode to see if it'd inspire me to check more of the show out.

For context, the protagonist Reggie meets and develops a crush on a girl named Connelly, who holds a similar imagination to the former. Due to the show getting cut off so soon due to, you know, it was just something that was mostly explored but never fully solidified.

It's especially interesting since this show was co-helmed by a transsexual, the fact that we were eased into LGBT aspects by someone who would likely push for much grander representation is commendable.

But overall, it's a crush that could've been more, and Reggie didn't unintentionally seek to change Connelly's life forever.

So Overall

Hope this gives you a good idea on why I listed those shows as being better at handling romance than I felt Danny Phantom did.