Dash Baxter

Dash Baxter is one of the secondary characters in the Nickelodeon show, Danny Phantom. He’s the most popular student in Casper High School, being a quarterback of the football team - as well as a member of every sports team (football, basketball, etc.). Dash can get away with just about anything, and he usually does while he dominates over his peers as his bullied victims and sucks up to his teachers.

Why He's A Bad Popular Boy

 * 1) For starters, Dash Baxter is nothing more than a bullying cliche jock who uses his friends to torment other students (including his main targets, Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom and Tucker) who are unpopular losers. He is possibly written as an excuse for the show's creator, Butch Hartman, who wanted to show that all popular kids are cruel, uncaring human beings due to his miserable school experience, when in reality, that's not always the case.
 * 2) He is also considered by many fans to be a stereotypical mean popular boy/school bully, much like Francis from The Fairly OddParents. The difference is that Francis is unpopular and an ugly delinquent who was always set up as one of that show's villains, whereas in this show, Dash was always meant to be more-or-less a "supporting" character and generic "popular and handsome" jock.
 * 3) *Unlike Francis, who almost always get his comeuppance for his actions toward Timmy Turner and his friends, Dash on the other hand almost always gets away scot-free with his actions toward Danny and his friends, making Dash come off as a possible Karma Houdini.
 * 4) Whenever something goes wrong for him, Dash will most likely take his frustration out on innocent students, mostly Danny and Tucker, his favorite targets to bully and humiliate, making him (Dash) very pointless and showing that he can't take criticism.
 * 5) *He even pretends to be the victim.
 * 6) *Dash often treats Danny like the troublemaker that he is, making him an insufferable liar even when he (Danny) would lock him in the locker just like Dash did would be his last straw.
 * 7) His underwear in the episode "Fright Night" is very disturbing, nauseating, dirty and disgusting, which he gives Danny to eat.
 * 8) *In fact, this would have been avoided if Danny wouldn't have said that he cheated.
 * 9) He is a very selfish, cruel, and mean-spirited bully who torments people nonstop.
 * 10) His "Bad Luck Tuck" catchphrase gets old very fast, repetitively whenever he waves up his arms in insulting Danny's friend, Tucker, who is also even more unpopular.
 * 11) He may be an athletic jock, but he isn't very intelligent and has little purpose to the greater narrative.
 * 12) He never learns a lesson from his bullying behavior until the final season.
 * 13) He should be better off being the main/secondary villain if the final season did differently.
 * 14) He is very unsympathetic at times and doesn't even cry for the most part.
 * 15) He is a rip-off of Flash Thompson from the Spider-Man comics with a similar "mean popular boy" demeanor.
 * 16) Because of these qualities stated above, he could qualify as a Gary Stu due to this.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) He genuinely respects Danny Phantom as a hero, stating it was the best day of his life when he met him face to face in "Micro-Management".
 * 2) When he found out Danny Fenton was Danny Phantom, he showed his respect outweighed his low opinion of human Danny, even helping him escape the Guys in White since Danny had done so much to help Amity Park. He also showed his respect for human Danny again when the whole world, including him, found out his secret again in the series finale.
 * 3) "How many costume changes are you gonna go through. What is this, Vegas?"

Trivia

 * He made a cameo appearance in The Fairly OddParents episode, "Fly Boy". However, he was voiced by Jason Marsden (Chester McBadbat's voice actor) instead of his regular voice actor, S. Scott Bullock.

Reception
Despite mixed reception by critics, Dash Baxter was heavily panned by many Danny Phantom fans, and he is considered to be one of the worst characters in the show.