Dash Baxter

Dash Baxter is one of the secondary characters in the Nickelodeon show, Danny Phantom. He is one of popular students in Casper High School, due to 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 Intentionally A Bad Popular Boy

 * 1) The main problem with Dash is that he is another “bullying athletic sports jock” who uses his friends and cheerleading girls (who are similarly attractive, popular and spoiled) to torment other students (including his main targets, Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom and Tucker) who are unpopular losers.
 * 2) He is possibly written and exists 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.
 * 3) The series doesn’t bother to give reason why Dash was bullying other people and is just their for the sake of it.
 * 4) He is also considered by many fans to be a stereotypical mean popular boy/school bully, much like Francis from The Fairly OddParents, another of Butch Hartman’s shows. The difference is that Francis is unpopular and an emo dirty 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.
 * 5) *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.
 * 6) Whenever something goes wrong for him, Dash will most likely take his frustration out on innocent students, mostly Danny (like when he accidentally bumped him and put paint on his jacket) and Tucker, which is very pointless and showing that he can't take criticism.
 * 7) *He even pretends to be the victim and hides his true nature to his teachers.
 * 8) *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.
 * 9) His underwear in the episode "Fright Night" is very disturbing, nauseating, dirty and disgusting, which he gives Danny to eat.
 * 10) *In fact, this would have been avoided if Danny wouldn't have said that he cheated.
 * 11) His dialogue is painful to the nerve (like calling people “losers”) and "Bad Luck Tuck", onto Danny’s friend, Tucker (because of his name rhyming with “Luck” and “Tuck” with out the “er”).
 * 12) He may be an athletic jock, but he isn't very intelligent and has no little purpose to the greater narrative.
 * 13) His goals are very generic such as locking unpopular students in lockers making absolutely no sense, how on earth can that solve his problem for?!
 * 14) He never learns a lesson from his bullying behavior until the final season, at least.
 * 15) He should be better off being the main/secondary villain if the final season did differently or not.
 * 16) He is very unsympathetic at some episodes.
 * 17) Misleading first name: His first name “Dash” implies he is part of a track team and possibly is good at “dashing” while running fast. Nope, we don’t rarely see him do “dashing” in sports.
 * 18) He is a rip-off of Flash Thompson from the Spider-Man comics with a similar "mean popular boy" demeanor, the athletic attire, the blonde hair, and becoming superhero fans.
 * 19) Because of these qualities stated above, he could qualify as a Gary Stu due to this.
 * 20) He is just another “blond hair jerk”.

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 and finally redeem himself in the series finale.
 * 3) "How many costume changes are you gonna go through. What is this, Vegas?"
 * 4) Unlike Paulina Sanchez, his design is very good, handsome and memorable.
 * 5) S. Scott Bullock does an awesome job voicing Dash.
 * 6) It could be argued that he’s meant to be hated in the first place due to his jerkish behavior.

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.