Lunch Lady Ghost

Lunch Lady
File:DPLunchLadyGhost.JPG The Lunch Lady Ghost
Publication information
Publisher	Nickelodeon
First appearance	"Mystery Meat"
Created by	Butch Hartman
In-story information
Alter ego	Unknown
Team affiliations	Danny's other enemies (at times)
Notable aliases	Lunchabelle (by Jazz)
Abilities	Standard ghost powers, able to control foods, but mostly meat

The Lunch Lady Ghost is a fictional character in the Danny Phantom cartoon. She is voiced by Patricia Heaton and later by Kath Soucie. She is best known as the first main villain Danny himself has ever faced.

Appearance/History

Making her first appearance in Mystery Meat, The Lunch Lady Ghost may have once been a cafeteria worker at Casper High. She rose from her grave when the menu at Casper High was changed to a vegetarian menu. When she discovered that Sam Manson was the one who changed the menu, she makes the meat in the kitchen come to life and attack Sam (and everyone else present). Then, in the hallway, Lunch Lady Ghost covers herself with a meat battlesuit to capture Sam, and puts her in the freezer. When Danny and Tucker come after her, she attacks them as well. Outside the school, Lunch Lady Ghost makes an attack by controlling all the available meat, causing it to become a huge meat monster as well as summone various little meat minions. In the end though Danny manages to win the battle and suck Lunch Lady Ghost into the Fenton Thermos.

In Prisoners of Love, the Lunch Lady Ghost serves lunch in Walker's prison. Then, she and all the ghosts teamed up to escape.

She has appeared as a cameo in Secret Weapons and was one of the many ghosts to help Danny save Christmas in The Fright Before Christmas.

She also made a short appearance in Kindred Spirits when Sam and Tucker were not feeling appreciated. She was again a giant meat-monster and stomped on the two friends while Danny managed to fly away.

The Lunch Lady Ghost makes several cameo appearances in the series finale, Phantom Planet; she at one point attacks Casper High in a fit of rage, due to the cafeteria serving Veggie Burgers, but is stopped by Vlad's team of ghost hunters, the Masters Blasters. Later, she is one of the many ghosts to assist Danny and Skulker in turning the entire Earth intangible so that an asteroid can pass harmlessly through it.

In an alternate timeline, she and The Box Ghost have a daughter named Box Lunch (to which Danny is repulsed). She herself, however, does not appear.

Personality

Her personality constantly shifts between a 'sweet old grandma' to 'vengeful spirit' (with voices to match). Either this means she has a split personality disorder or has a short temper. Often, she will ask an opponent if he or she wants food (or sometimes, an option between two kinds of food) before attacking. No matter which choice the opponent takes, Lunch Lady's angry personality will kick in afterwards.

The Lunch Lady Ghost's Powers

The Lunch Lady Ghost has ghost powers (intangibility, overshadowing, invisibility, and flight). She has a main ability to control meat, and to use it for her to become a meat monster. Lunch Lady Ghost also can control meat while invisible, as she did in Mystery Meat and Reign Storm. In Prisoners of Love, the lunch lady can summon a meat weapon.

External link

See The Ghost of the Lunch Lady for details.