Origin

Danny Chase's grandfather was a man named Franklin Chase, this was was an American intelligence agent that was was assigned to the Project of Manhattan that was created during World War II.

During the project Danny's grandfather was bombarded with radiation, the accident didn't cause any side effects to him, however it was proven that they had changed his DNA, since his grandson (Danny Chase) was born with the power of telekinesis.

After that both of Danny's parents and Danny himself became agents of the CBI. One day in a mission that was taking place in the city of Tokyo both of Danny's parents were kidnapped by the mercenary known as Godiva, the mercenary kidnapped them to get information of a a secret missile site.

The first thing Danny did after that was to ask King Faraday (Another CBI agent) to help him to find and rescue his parents. King tried to help him, however he couldn't because his permission request was denied by his superiors. After that a desperate Danny Chase used the computer of the CBI to send a message to the new teen titans and ask for their help to find and rescue his parents, the mission was succesfull and with the help of the new teen titans Danny was able to reunite with his parents.

When the mission ended Nightwing offered Danny Chase the option to join the new teen titans as their youngest member (with his parents permission of course), after the Chases agreed to his addition to the teen titans Danny became a full member.

Altough Danny started with entusiasm when he joined the team, he quickly proved that since he was trained by agents and was an agent himself for all his life, he was a powerfull and inteligent hero, however he didn't know how to do teamwork. Another thing that diferenciated Danny from the other titans was the fact taht he didn't have a code-name and neither a superhero costume.

It was during this time that he met Gar Logan (Changeling/Beast Boy) Gar was a friendly guy with anyone, however he had a real bad relationship with Danny, the problems even came sometimes to insults. One thing that was strange about Danny was that altough he usually was a little cold and acted as a professsional agent of the governament, he would lose control and freak out if he was injured.

After the death of Jason Todd, Nightwing decided that it would be best if young Danny left the group. Danny, of course, did not take the news well and stormed out in a huff.

Titans Hunt

When all of the titans (past and presense) were attacked and captured by the Wildebeests society (leaded by Jericho) to get their bodies and used them as the new host bodies for the souls of Azarath. Nightwing (the only titan who defeated his atacker) using the wildebeest suit he infiltrated the wildebeest organization to help other titans that were in danger.

Along with another Wildebeest, Nightwing was sent to capture Danny Chase even tough he wasn't a member anymore.

The place where Nightwing and the other Wildebeest found Danny Chase was in a small mall in Washington, the two of them attacked him, one of the blasts was able to hit and injure Danny Chase in a way that if he was hit again he would be killed by them. Nightwing realized this and lied to tell the other Wildebeest that Danny Chase had died because of the impact, however before of that he gave a little clue to Danny of who he really was and what was he supposed to do.

Using his telekinetic powers, Danny Chase started to take things from the shopping mall and started to form his new and first hero costume; he took a hockey mask and used it to cover his face, after that with a bolt of facric and a robot-voice simulator he disguises his voice to prevent anyone to know that Danny Chase was indeed alive, and now with a new costume and identity, after that he started to call himself "The Phantasm".

He used his new costume in two diferent ways, one was to put his suit on and levitate with it, and the other one was to use his powers of telekinesis to control the suit from a safe distance.

After that Nightwing was discovered and captured by Jericho and the rest of the wildebeest society, it was just after that that Phantasm joined the new team that was leaded by Deathstroke to find and rescue the captured titans. Danny Chase had his doubts about Deathstroke and the rest of the group since they were total strangers to Danny, it was because of this that Danny decided to keep his secret identity to himself but he still helped them to find and release his former teamates.

After a battle that took place in the remains of Azrath the Wildebeest society was destroyed and Jericho was killed by his own father (Deathstroke).

After that however there was still part of the Azarathian energy, along with Raven and her mother (Arella) they used all their powers to stop the menace and end all the danger that they caused.

Danny Chase no more

After the combined effort of Raven, Danny and Arella against the forces of evil a big explosion happened, that explosion made the energies of Arella and Danny to combine, at that moment neither Danny or Arella were alive anymore, they became a force with incredible power, the force took the costume that Danny had been using during the whole event and formed a new Phantasm. This Phantasm had the power of both Arella and Danny Chase as well as the sould of Azarath making him one of the most powerfull beings.

Powers & Abilities

Danny Chase possessed the power of telekinesis. He is also extremely smart and possesses a photographic memory. After he got the powers of Phantasm tough, he has displayed a more advance and powerfull version of them, along with new powers.