Clockwork

Clockwork is a violet cloaked ghost with a pale face and time staff, which he uses often. He was voiced by the late Golden Globe-nominated actor David Carradine of Kill Bill.

The Ultimate Enemy
He first appears in The Ultimate Enemy, serving his annoying employers, the Observants, to destroy Danny Phantom to prevent the existence of the evil Dark Danny, but Clockwork has other ideas.

Clockwork sends in Box Lunch and Skulktech 9.9, ghosts from the future, to battle with the present Danny Phantom, which leads to Danny, Sam and Tucker finding Clockwork's lair. There they meet Clockwork, who was charged with destroying Danny Phantom and thus preventing Dark Danny's existence. Danny attempts to fight Clockwork, but Clockwork's power of time proves to be too strong, allowing him to pause, rewind and fast forward the fight (making Danny slam against a bell multiple times). Tucker uses the time medallions to give them a slight advantage, only for them to escape into Danny's evil future.

After the harsh reality of facing the future and battling Dark Danny, trapping him in the Fenton Thermos when back in the present, Clockwork intervenes, saving Danny's friends and family from their deaths, revealing he knew these events would happen. He explains by saying; "The Observants look at time like they're watching a parade, one thing after another passing by in sequence right in front of them. I see the parade from above, all the twists and turns it might -or might not- take." He gives Danny a second chance at changing his life so that the horrible future the boy saw never happens, taking the Fenton Thermos holding Dark Danny with him to his timeless lair.

Afterwards, the Observants, angry at Clockwork's direct interaction with Danny, force the responsibility of Danny's life on him, along with Dark Danny's existence outside of time. Clockwork replies in confidence, "I know, but then... I know everything."

Masters of All Time
He makes his second appearance in Masters of All Time. Danny turns to Clockwork for help when Vlad infects Sam and Tucker with ecto-acne. He at first advises Danny not to try and change the past, but eventually agrees to let Danny try, if only to teach him a lesson, although he says before, "I'm the Ghost of Time, not the Ghost of Miracle Cures." When Danny goes back to him hoping to go back in time once again, Clockwork refuses, only agreeing to reset time to before Danny interfered. However, he had conveniently showed Danny what was necessary to cure the Ecto-Acne he had originally gone back in time to prevent, and after Danny leaves, Clockwork smiles, hinting that he planned this whole thing as well.

Phantom Planet
Clockwork makes only a couple cameo appearances in the series finale, Phantom Planet. If one has a keen eye, they can spot Clockwork as one of the ghosts in the net who were caught by Danny in the Ghost Zone, and later aiding Danny and Skulker in turning the entire planet intangible so that an asteroid may pass through it.

Description
Predictably, he lives in a giant clock filled citadel. He oversees time and has time based powers, such as stopping or fast-forwarding, as well as genuine prescience. If people meddle with time, he has the ability to reset everything from just before the person meddled, and he and his section of the Ghost Zone are also immune to alternate time paths or paradoxes. He can use amulets to bring people or things into the past, present or future.

Personality
As the manipulator of time, Clockwork is a logical ghost who speaks calmly, even under dire stress and situations surrounding him. Being the Master of Time, Clockwork takes a rather neutral role overall to the Danny Phantom world though at times, Danny sees him as more of an ally. One questions what his true motives are or what he plans to do due to his unpredictable nature; yet in the end, Clockwork merely means well in his goals and makes sure time flows in a direction that benefits all.

Clockwork gets annoyed by the Observants when they try to use him for their own agenda, such as when they ask him to eliminate Danny to save the future from his future self.

Role in the series
Clockwork is a time lord just like Saldaron, as he has the sacred duty of governing and enforcing the laws of time travel, and the consequences they possess. He doesn't appear much in the show, but he does have an important role as one of the many time lords all across the UUniverses.