Tucker Foley

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Tucker Foley
Tucker Foley
Publisher Nickelodeon First appearance "Mystery Meat" Created by Butch Hartman
Characteristics Alter ego Tucker Foley Team affiliations Danny Phantom (best friend), Sam Manson (best friend). Notable aliases Bad Luck Tuck, Tuck, Pharaoh, Tuckerino, TF, Geek, Techno-Geek, Nerd, Foley Abilities Advance skills in a variety of technology (not a power, more a knack or affinity. Briefly had ghost power granted to him by Desiree.)

Tuckard "Tucker" Foley (also called "Tuck" or "Tuckerino") is a character in the Nickelodeon animated television series Danny Phantom. He is one of Danny's two best friends, the other being Sam Manson. He is voiced by Rickey D'Shon Collins. According to creator Butch Hartman, the origin of Tucker's name is from the combined last names of actor Chris Tucker and Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy's character from Beverly Hills Cop.) ^[1]

Contents 1 Appearance and history 2 Personality and weakness 3 Relationships 3.1 Danny Fenton 3.2 Sam Manson 3.3 Valerie Gray 3.4 Hotep-Ra 4 References

Appearance and history

Tucker's is one of Danny's two best friends, having stated as being close "since forever".^[2] He's mostly helped out Danny through the use of his PDA, which he uses to hack into various technological systems (Skulker's gauntlet^[3] or Technus' techno suit^[4]. He is also a meat fanatic, his perferred choice of food (he refuses any vegetation--enough that he had diarrhea since his digestive system couldn't ingest it^[5]). Exposed to its content have caused him to develop a keen sense of smell finely attuned to it.^[6] Tucker has also shown decent aim with a crossbow^[7] and is shown to be a terrible singer, enough to release the trance Ember held over her audience.^[8] He is deathly afraid of hospitals, doctors, and nurses--as a result, he never visits the Casper High school nurse (bypassing it requires bagging his head to avoid eye contact)^[9] and snakes.^[10] Tucker once expressed jealousy over Danny's ghost power, wishing for ghost powers of his own and gaining them unknowingly through Desiree, the wishing genie ghost. Tucker's powers quickly consumed him until Danny put a stop to it, eventually restoring him back to normal through the use of the Fenton Dreamcatcher.^[2] His uncontrollable vices and yearning to be seen sent Tucker to unsuccessfully try and run for school president against the popular Dash. On a latter visit to the museum on a school field trip, Tucker notices the resembles he held to the pharaoh on display. Hotep-Ra, a mummy ghost, noticing this, hands Tucker the ancient sceptor in which Tucker creates an Egyptian world with him as ruler and the teachers and students as his servants. Danny was forced to once again rein in his over-eager best friend.^[11] By the series finale, Tucker is the mayor of Amity Park.^[12] Tucker's username in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Doomed, a parody of the Doom series of video games, is "Fryer-Tuck". This is a reference to one of Robin Hood's merry men, Friar Tuck.^[13]

Personality and weakness

Tucker is optimistic, light-hearted, and a joker. Tucker enjoys talking, but often does not know when to keep his mouth shut, causing him to blurt out more than he should or cause trouble for his friends (accidentally revealing the password put on the Ghost Portal to the Guys In White for example).^[14]. His cloying, appealing nature is not popular with the other students of Casper High and generally has a bad reputation amongst them. Tucker is a valuable friend to Danny throughout the series; mostly contribuing his technological expertise; he has used them to defeat various barriers ranging from hacking into Technus' technological to setting off security alarms^[15], and despite his reluctance, is loyal (spying on Sam for Danny when she briefly dated Gregor/Elliot ^[16] to sharing just about anything with Danny. Tucker has also shown to be rather observant as he quickly notices Sam's crush on Danny and is often the middle man between Danny and Sam. Tucker is mildly flirtatious and particularly interested in girls, though his every attempt to get noticed by one has failed. Tucker's most serious crush was on Valerie Gray one which ended shortly afterwards, if not turned off by her status as a ghost hunter.^[15].^[17] Despite his numerous rejections, Tucker still considers himself to be highly desirable due to his confident nature. He often dreams as big as he feels on the outside.^[18] Tucker's first love, however, is technology for he cannot live without it - to the point that his greatest fear is life without technology and his trusty PDA's (of which he has more than one of).^[19] His love extends grand enough to go great lengths to get the latest technology.^[20] Tucker's PDAs are the most useful items of technology used to aid Danny's ghost hunting and fighting exploits, next to the inventions of Jack and Maddie Fenton. One of his greatest weaknesses is a tendency to abuse his relationships with his friends once he is in a position of power. Tucker has an inferiority complex where his friends are concerned, and whenever Tucker becomes empowered through a ghostly wish or otherwise, he tends to turn on his friends. This suggests a power-hungry and volatile side to the otherwise placid Tucker. At one point, Tucker was even perfectly willing to kill Danny at the behest of his wish-granting ghost benefactor. He is seen as irresponsible with power, using it for personal pleasure rather than the more righteous reasons Danny wields his with.^[11] This characteristic might mean trouble for the town after "Phantom Planet" since he is now mayor.

Relationships

Danny Fenton

Tucker values Danny as his best friend, seemingly sharing everything with him. He is loyal enough to do various things for him (spying, hacking, etc.), but has expressed jealousy over his ghost powers. Despite it all, Tucker always has Danny's back, whatever the case may be.

Sam Manson

Sam and Tucker are good friends, but are opposites to each other in terms of temperament; Sam is a strict vegetarian while Tucker is a meat fanatic, she is also more down-to-Earth and forceful while he's relaxed. Tucker is the first to note Sam's feelings for Danny, but he does not make much out of it.

Valerie Gray

Tucker was at the point of a possible relationship with this girl, but abandoned her after finding out about her dislike of Danny Phantom.

Hotep-Ra

He starts out serving Tucker due to his resembles to the pharaoh he once served, but secretly planned to use him to usurp the throne, a plan thwarted by both Danny and Tucker.^[11]

References

•  • e Danny Phantom
Main characters	Danny Fenton/Phantom • Tucker Foley • Sam Manson • Jazz Fenton • Jack and Maddie Fenton • Vlad Masters/Plasmius
Recurring humans	Mr. Lancer • Dash • Paulina • Valerie Gray • Dani Phantom • Guys in White • Freakshow
Recurring ghosts	Lunch Lady Ghost • Box Ghost • Skulker • Technus • Desiree • Walker • Spectra • Ember • Johnny 13 • Fright Knight • Wulf • Lydia • Youngblood • Pariah Dark • Dark Danny • Clockwork • The Observants • Prince Aragon • Frostbite • Vortex • Undergrowth • Nocturne
Video games	Ultimate Enemy • Urban Jungle • Nicktoons Unite! • Volcano Island • Freeze Frame Frenzy • Attack of the Toybots
Episodes • Characters • Villains and Ghosts • Amity Park • Ghost Zone