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Colette Bevier

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Star's stepsister and arch-enemy. She acts like a well-behaved girl around their parents, but deep down, Colette is a huge snob and brat who hates Star and vice-versa. She also develops an obsession with Danny and tries to steal him from Star, with her schemes making her an increasingly dangerous enemy to Team Phantom.

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  • 0% Approval Rating: Team Phantom, their allies and loved ones, the Travilles, the A-Listers, and even Danny’s enemies completely despise her for being a spoiled bully and blooming sociopath with an unhealthy fixation with Danny and petty obsession with ruining Star’s life, to the point they want her gone from their lives for good.
  • Abandonment-Induced Animosity: She initially refuses to admit it out loud but Colette deeply resents her biological mother for leaving Jean-Luc and Suzette's work schedule making it near-impossible for Colette to see her as often as she'd like to.
  • Abduction Is Love: After getting ghost powers, she literally attempts to kidnap Danny in order to have him all to herself.
  • Abhorrent Admirer: To Danny. At first, Colette only flirted with him to annoy Star, but his rejection made her genuinely interested in him. However, he rejected her for a reason: finding her intolerable. Eventually, Danny develops an outright hatred for Colette because of her refusal to take "no" for an answer, mistreatment of his girlfriend, friends, and family, and the lengths that she will go to get him, such as taking advantage of his amnesia in order to convince him that he was not only her boyfriend but also her fiancé while Team Phantom were his enemies, and trying to use her (temporary) ghost powers to threaten him into a relationship with her. It's made clear that Danny's opinion of Colette could not get any lower, and he wants her out of his life to the point where he is willing to use physical force if he can get away with it.
  • Abusive Offspring: Downplayed. Colette is not openly emotionally or verbally abusive to her father, biological mother, and stepmother(s), but is not above lying to and manipulating them by acting like a loving daughter to get what she wants.
    • It's eventually apparent that she has no real love for Stella and only sees her as a means to an end. This is best shown in "Dressed", where Colette notices her stepmother is feeling distressed after an argument with Star and shows no concern for her emotional well-being, rather deciding to take this as another opportunity to manipulate her and becoming angry when Stella is too upset to take the bait. She later even refers to Stella as her father's "stupid wife that turned him against her" in "Traveled". In "Blackmailed" when Stella tries to have a heart-to-heart with Colette, explaining she's only strict with her to guide her onto the right path and that she loves her stepdaughter as if she were her own, Colette pretends to reciprocate while internally insulting Stella for being a "fool" and even having to stop herself from mockingly laughing, making it clear she feels nothing at her stepmother's words.
    • In "Blackmailed", it's revealed that Colette is secretly in contact with not only her mother, but all of her previous stepmothers. She pretends to care about them by calling each of them her "favorite stepmother" and takes advantage of their failed marriages to her father in order to gain sympathy and use them for her plans. This proves that Colette never truly cared about any of her stepmothers, only what she could get from them. She is even anticipating adding Stella to the list once Jean-Luc inevitably divorces her.
  • Academic Alpha Bitch: She is a rich and popular Alpha Bitch who is shown to be much smarter than the A-listers and capable of getting good grades on her own merit, another thing she tries to rub in Star's face.
  • Acquired Situational Narcissism: Surprisingly, yes. She already has a big enough ego but her briefly getting ghost powers dialed it up to 11.
  • Action Survivor: Downplayed as she’s no fighter but Colette has remained a constant thorn in Team Phantom’s side and avoided facing anything further than a temporary setback in her plans despite her lack of ghost powers or magical artifacts through her wits, guile, resources, stubborn determination, and utter lack of moral scruples that disgusts even Danny’s ghostly enemies.
  • Affectionate Nickname:
    • Her father calls her “Ma fille”, French for the equivalent of "My daughter".
    • Before finding out her true rotten colors, Suzette called her “Mon petit angel”, which is French for ironically “My little angel”.
  • Aggressive Categorism: She hates and looks down on all non upper-class people, but is infatuated with the middle-class Danny.
  • All for Nothing: Colette Bevier, since her first appearance in "Lost", had one goal in mind and the series: to steal Danny Fenton, the boyfriend of her stepsister Star Strong. The reason is that she's intrigued with Danny because he is the first boy who ever rejected her. However, because he is a devoted boyfriend to Star, her efforts are meaningless and Danny, in fact, is only annoyed with Colette, seeing her as a nuisance and a phony. Throughout the series, Colette grows even worse with her obsession with Danny, and his annoyance turns into outright hatred.
    • At one point, Colette tries to take advantage of Danny's amnesia in order to mold him into her ideal boyfriend and trick him into thinking he is her boyfriend and future fiancé in "Forgotten". That backfires completely because even with amnesia, Danny just couldn't like her personality, and eventually, he left her and rejoined Star and his friends.
    • Throughout the series, Colette gained the fear, irritation, and hatred of everyone around her, such as the shallow A-Listers, Team Phantom, her teachers, and her parents, and even the ghost villains because of her creepy obsession with Danny and the lengths she's willing to go to force him to be with her.
      • Things come to a head in "Blackmailed" when Colette successfully discovers Danny's secret identity and uses that to blackmail him into being her boyfriend and break up with Star. During this time, she acts very controlling, possessive, and even abusive towards of Danny, constantly threatening him into obeying her whims under the threat of revealing his secret and hurting his loved ones. She is on cloud nine, and after stealing Star's birthday party, she plans to enjoy herself with Danny one last time before taking him back to Paris to mold him into her prospective husband before using his powers to make herself the Queen of France and anywhere else she desires. Unbeknownst to her, Team Phantom, Star, Kwan, and even Danny's enemies are working together to bring her down. At the party, Danny, having had enough of Colette's nonsense, spits at her face, and after she takes him someplace private to berate him, she's tricked into revealing her crimes to everyone in an angry rant, including her biological mother, stepmother, and ex-stepmothers, whom she manipulated for years. Realizing how bad the situation is for her, Colette attempts to run away but is captured and has to face the consequences of her actions. Ultimately, everything she did to get Danny was meaningless; all she accomplished was destroying her life.
  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: Invoked. She makes it clear that she wishes that Danny was more like her, an arrogant bully who looks down on those of lower classes. Subverted with Dash Baxter and Donovan Loadman, as she finds them too stupid and annoying to be worth her time.
  • Allegorical Character:
    • She’s a rather frighteningly realistic example of a yandere and Stalker with a Crush since her obsession with Danny isn’t born out of affection or a desire for companionship but an immature sense of entitlement and a petty refusal to accept “no” for an answer. Colette quickly proves to be a danger to Danny as well as others by resorting to illegal behavior such as stalking and spying on him without his consent, along with threats and violence to force him to be with her, including threatening Danny's life and plotting to kill his girlfriend Star when she gets ghost powers in “Empowered”, and blackmailing him into dating her in “Blackmailed” by threatening to reveal his secret identity to the world and framing his friends for crimes they didn't commit, promising to ruin their lives even further if he disobeys or even displeases her.
    • She’s an accurate portrayal of a Domestic Abuser who showers her “partner” with shallow affection only to turn into a nightmare when they displease her, and sees them as a pet for her own satisfaction. This is best shown shown in “Blackmailed” when she blackmails Danny into dating her and snaps at him whenever he says or does anything that angers her, or just disagrees with her.
    • As Star and her loved ones so eloquently stated, Colette represents every negative stereotype associated with Spoiled Brats, mean girls, and wicked stepsisters.
  • All Love Is Unrequited: She has many male admirers, but the one whom she has her heart set on is Danny. Unfortunately for her, he prefers Star.
  • All Take and No Give: This is what most of her relationships are in a nutshell.
  • All Women Are Lustful: Deconstructed. Her growing lust for Danny makes her cross some SERIOUS moral and legal lines such as stalking, manipulation, sexual harassment, breaking & entering, and threatening him and his loved ones.
  • Aloof Big Sister: She seems to be indifferent at best to her infant half-brother Pierre, regarding him as a "diaper stainer" who she's looking forward to being rid of once Jean-Luc and Stella divorce. Colette only considers him useful as someone to take over the family business so she doesn't have to.
  • Alpha Bitch: She shares this role with Paulina starting in "Stuck", being an elitist brat who enjoys causing trouble for those she deems beneath her, especially her stepsister.
  • Always Second Best: In one very specific case. It enrages her to no end that Danny vastly prefers Star over herself and nothing she does can make him fall for her even when Star is out of the picture.
  • Ambitious, but Lazy: She wants to steal Danny from Star no matter how impossible of a task it is but would rather force him into dating her by using threats than improve her own awful personality to get him to actually like her.
  • Ambition Is Evil:
    • In "Empowered", not only do her newfound ghost powers go to her head, but she suddenly decides that she wants to take over the world.
    • Discovering Danny's secret in "Blackmailed" made her want to use his powers in order to obtain power for herself.
  • Ambiguous Start of Darkness: It's a little unclear if Colette Bevier was ever actually a better person before she grew apart from her mother Suzette as a five-year-old as the latter insists. "Blackmailed" shows that she was already manipulating and looking down on others by the time her father married her first stepmother, though a flashback to when her mother was still in her life depicts her as a harmless and innocent, if overindulged and demanding toddler. If Suzette is right, Colette would have undergone a rather sharp Face–Heel Turn not long after her parents' divorce, while Team Phantom is more skeptical and believes this was just the catalyst for her true rotten self to emerge.
  • Amicable Exes: Completely subverted with Kwan, who dumped Star in the past to date Colette for a week because he fell for her beauty and innocent French girl act. While Colette quickly dumped him like all of Star's past boyfriends and thinks little of him when they reunite in the present, they seemed willing to associate with each other after she transfers to Casper High and joins the A-Listers. Overtime though, Kwan wises up about her mean-spirited and controlling attitude, along with becoming totally creeped out by her unhealthy obsession with Danny, to the point he begs Star to come back just so he doesn’t feel alone anymore and takes to avoiding Colette whenever possible. By “Blackmailed”, he comes to completely despise her when she proves to be a complete psychopath by blackmailing him with an embarrassing secret into helping her frame Team Phantom so they’ll get out of Danny’s life and force Danny into dating her.
  • Amusing Injuries: Any time she receives any form of humiliation or physical trauma, the readers all enjoy it.
  • And Now You Must Marry Me: In Empowered, after she gains ghost powers, she tries to use them to force Danny into a relationship with her. She fails.
  • Animals Hate Her: Fifi despises her as much as she does her equally rotten father Jean-Luc. In fact, Colette getting attacked by animals due to how she provokes them is a Running Gag throughout the series. In “Court”, she gets her hat stolen by a seagull, then is attacked by an entire colony of them.
  • Anti-Role Model: It's been made clear that her behavior is not meant to be imitated and there is no surprise that Star wants to make sure Pierre doesn't end up like Colette.
  • Arbitrary Skepticism: In her debut in "Lost", she didn't believe that ghosts exist. She does come to accept that they are real after encountering the Box Ghost.
  • Arch-Enemy: To Star, whose life she has made miserable ever since their parents married.
  • Aristocrats Are Evil: Colette comes from a wealthy Blue Blood family and she is incredibly spoiled, selfish and spiteful.
  • Arrogance Breeds Laziness: Colette is very spoiled and self-centered, preferring to use her family's money to get others to do things for her rather than do it herself. Despite being smart and capable of doing her own homework, she makes Mikey do it like the rest of the A listers for no other reason other that she can.
  • Asshole Victim: Every time something bad happens to her (which is always), she deserves it because of her malicious actions and intentions, and bitchy personality. The most famous example is when Star, Sam, Jazz, and Valerie beat her to a pulp in "Empowered" after she loses her ghost powers, and Misty afterwards has no problem using magic to give Colette bad luck or make lightning strike her.
  • Attempted Homewrecker: She's obsessed with Danny because, unlike Star's previous boyfriends, he's actually faithful to Star, which for Colette, makes him a challenge. She resorts to various schemes, from wearing a skimpy swimsuit at the water park to attempted murder on Star, all in an attempt to win over Danny, who just hates her more and more.
  • Attention Whore: She always has to be the center of attention.
  • Awful Wedded Life: Discussed. Colette's dream of married life with Danny Fenton is her living off her fortune in an even more lavish way while Danny acts more as a trophy/pet to her than a husband, with a nanny taking care of their children. While this would be Colette's dream life movie, it would be a nightmare for Danny as he has been essentially reduced to her slave because she forced him into the relationship, and Colette would not care about being deluded into thinking that she can make Danny love her.
  • Ax-Crazy: She seems to be slowly sinking into this trope, as she becomes more unhinged and even violent over time. "Empowered" brings it out in full.
  • Badass Bookworm: A negative example. She is very cunning and admits to like reading, and during "Empowered", she gains ghost powers and is proven to be a serious threat. Even without powers, she proves to be quite violent and dangerous when she loses her temper.
  • Bad Boss: Not officially, but she is a Rich Bitch and doesn't treat anyone who works for her nicely, to say the least.
    • To say Kwan is miserable "working" for Colette in "Blackmailed" is an understatement as he clearly doesn't want to hurt Team Phantom but Colette is blackmailing him to and insults him at every chance.
  • Beauty Breeds Laziness: While Colette is smart enough to do her own schoolwork, she'd rather make Mikey or someone else do it if she can get away with it. Also, when she isn't resorting to bribery, she has no qualms with using her looks to make boys carry out her orders.
  • Beauty Is Bad: Colette is considered a beautiful and popular redheaded French girl at her school, but she is also a spoiled, self-centered, and cruel person that has no problem with hurting people in her way or just to amuse herself.
  • Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted as Colette sometimes gets visibly injured or otherwise dirty with her hair and clothes ruined whenever she receives karma for her antics in the form of physical pain and/or humiliation.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For:
    • Colette wanted all the boys in Amity Park to realize she only has eyes for Danny and gets that in the end of “Blackmailed”, because none of them want anything to do with her anymore after Team Phantom expose her crimes and true nature as a Danny-obsessed psycho at Star’s birthday party.
    • Colette wanted Team Phantom (especially Star) and their loved ones out of her life for good and by the end of "Blackmailed", she gets her wish since she's not even allowed near them thanks to the restraining order and being permanently banned from the USA and Europe.
  • Becoming the Mask: A dark deconstruction of this trope. Colette initially flirted with Danny just to mess with Star. Being rejected by him made her genuinely interested in him and she's been chasing after him since. Her interest eventually develops into an obsession and each story has her sink lower and lower in her quest to obtain Danny as her boyfriend.
  • Being Evil Sucks: To say her nasty attitude is ruining her life is a bit of an understatement. She has no true friends since even the A-Listers are getting sick of her, her infant half-brother vastly prefers Star, she’s made dangerous enemies of Team Phantom, she’s constantly humiliated and punished as a result of her own poorly thought-out schemes, and the only boy she’s ever been genuinely interested in grows to hate her.
  • Belated Child Discipline: From "Stuck" onwards, Stella starts acting like a proper parent by becoming much more active in disciplining her stepdaughter once she becomes aware of Colette's despicable actions and bratty behavior.
  • Believing Their Own Lies: She deludes herself into believing that Danny is just Playing Hard to Get and she has to "rescue" him from Star's hold over him. It's blatantly clear Colette just wants to ruin their relationship out of petty spite and entitlement and put Danny under her own thumb because her ego can’t accept anyone, especially a boy, liking Star more than her. The fact she’s willing to ruin the lives of Danny’s loved ones for her own benefit and warped amusement in “Blackmailed” only further proves she’s nothing but an unhinged yandere Stalker with a Crush.
  • Beneath the Mask: On the surface, she acts like a typical rich, spoiled mean girl. Soon though, we see that underneath her shallow exterior is a very devious, sadistic, and possibly sociopathic girl who takes genuine pleasure in hurting her own step-sister and sees the people around her as either pawns, property or as tools to be used.
  • Better Partner Assertion: Colette is always trying to convince Danny that she'd make a better girlfriend than Star. Danny doesn't believe it and prefers Star.
  • Berserk Button: She has a lot but here are the most important ones:
    • Being upstaged.
    • Being rejected, much to Danny’s annoyance.
    • Star beating her at anything.
    • Just being told “no” in general.
    • Other girls going near Danny, as Vivian and Misty learn.
    • She doesn’t tolerate anyone keeping Danny away from her, especially not Danny himself.
    • Anyone insulting her father Jean-Luc, including Danny.
  • Beware the Superman: She gains powers in "Empowered" and does not hesitate to use them to become a villain. She becomes a dangerous enemy to Team Phantom, starts destroying Amity Park, and plans to subjugate the world.
  • Beyond Redemption: Stella deludes herself into believing Colette is a good girl deep down and can be redeemed but the heroes, their loved ones, and even Richard can see her for the manipulative brat she is and hate her guts for it. Thus, they aren't exactly confident in Stella's attempts to correct Colette's awful behavior. Although Penelope Spectra implied Stella is aware of her stepdaughter's sociopathic nature but is in denial about it because of motherly obligations, which is reinforced in "Blackmailed". By the end, it finally becomes obvious even to Stella that Colette was always a time bomb waiting to go off and even if Danny didn’t come into the picture to speed up the process, she would have just found some other guy to obsess over, so Stella's attempts to correct her stepdaughter’s behavior were doomed from the start.
  • Big Bad: She takes this role in "Empowered" and "Blackmailed". She was arguably this in "Stuck" too.
  • Big Bad Slippage: She originally wasn't a villain, just a narcissistic Spoiled Brat and Big Sister Bully who was no more dangerous than the A-listers. However, over time, she becomes much worse and slowly descends into true villainy.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: Played With. Team Phantom mainly regard her as a nuisance they’re forced to put up with since she’s just a Spoiled Brat obsessed with stealing Danny. Subverted in “Empowered” where upon gaining ghost powers, she becomes a supervillain hellbent on taking over the world and making Danny her king by force, even if it means getting rid of Star permanently, but she goes back to just being a pest when she loses her powers in the end. Subverted again in “Blackmailed” where she orchestrates a scheme to make Danny all hers by framing his friends and blackmailing him into dating her.
  • Big Ego, Hidden Depths: Colette is snobby, classist, and outright sadistic at times, with her spoiled behavior the result of her overindulgent father pretty much encouraging her elitism and selfishness from a young age. Her various maternal figures didn't help since their belief she could do no wrong only led them to spoil Colette further and fail to actually get through to her with their kindness. Even so, her parents' failed marriage and being neglected by them, especially her birth mother, as well as having a revolving door of stepmothers, gave Colette an unhealthy and toxic view on relationships. This, along with her entitlement, made her ignorant on what a real, healthy relationship is and she is consequently unable to truly bond with others, with the possible exception of her birth parents. While her interest in Danny is both to spite Star and because she likes the challenge he presents, Colette admits she has some genuine admiration and attraction towards him, albeit a warped one. It's also implied her materialism is the only way she can understand love and find any joy in her otherwise empty life.
  • Bigot with a Crush: She hates the lower classes but she still pursues Danny as she believes he has the potential to become her ideal husband and her ego can't handle being rejected by a boy in favor of Star.
  • Bigotry Exception: Danny is the only non-rich person she doesn't hate, but it's deconstructed since she only "loves" him in an extremely unhealthy, possessive way.
  • Big Sister Bully:
    • Played With as they are stepsisters and Colette is only two weeks older than Star. Nevertheless, she mockingly refers to Star as her "little sister" and torments her to no end. Colette takes pleasure in causing Star grief by "borrowing" her belongings only to "lose" or damage them, passively-aggressively insulting her at every chance, physically harassing her (to the point of breaking Star's nose once), and (temporarily) taking her boyfriends for herself.
    • Downplayed with Pierre, as while Colette couldn't care less about her baby half-brother and sees him as a nuisance and potential competition, she can't get the same enjoyment from bullying him the same way as Star due to his age, gender, and her general disdain for children. Thus, she prefers to just avoid and insult Pierre.
  • Birds of a Feather: Danny and Johnathan point out that she's so similar to Beatrice Traville, it's a surprise they're not actually related, considering Colette is one of the few people who gets along with her. Of course, they don't mean this as a compliment.
  • Bitch Alert: It's clear from the moment she's introduced that she's not the nicest person.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She acts sweet and polite around her parents, but in reality, she is a manipulative and vapid person who messes with her stepsister for her own amusement.
  • Black-and-White Insanity: To Colette, you are either an enemy needing to be defeated, a minion to blindly follow her without question, a tool to be used to her advantage, or a prize to be won.
  • Blackmail:
    • In "Stuck", she tried to blackmail Danny with the threat of tattling on Star to her parents for her disappearance unless he agreed to date her instead. Thankfully, it backfired on her.
    • In "Blackmailed", she discovers Danny's Secret Identity and blackmails him into being her boyfriend under the threat of revealing it to the world, along with permanently ruining Team Phantom's futures.
  • Blame the Paramour: A major part of Star's resentment towards Colette is for stealing all of the former's past boyfriends, with most, if not all, of her ire directed at her stepsister.
  • Blaming the Cuckold: As far as Colette is concerned, it's not her father's fault that he became" bored" of her mother and stepmothers. Instead, she blames them for their marriages to her father failing, claiming they should've been "better women" so he wouldn't have grown bored of them and forgiven him for his cheating.
  • Blaming the Victim: As far as she’s concerned, her harassment of Team Phantom is their fault for denying her Danny and his fault for “playing too hard to get”.
  • Blatant Lies: All her talk about loving Danny is just that, talk, since her actions have clearly proven she couldn't care less about him or even regard him as a person, considering the fact that she has no respect for his feelings, privacy, or relationships by constantly stalking him, treating his loved ones like dirt, and refusing to accept that he loves Star and despises Colette to the core. She isn't at all concerned about Danny when he goes missing in "Lost", manipulates him into turning against his loved ones and dating her when he has amnesia and even abandons him to save herself when Johnny 13 shows up in "Forgotten", tries to forcefully isolate him from Star and kiss him in "Costumed", and kidnaps and threatens him then tries to kill his loved ones after getting superpowers in "Empowered". In "Blackmailed", Colette even threatens to expose Danny's secret identity to the world, completely uncaring of what any ghost hunters or government agencies would do to him. She tries to do just that at Star’s birthday party after he helps Team Phantom expose her crimes, before realizing they already deleted her blackmail material from her phone.
  • The Bore: Danny’s annoyed to no end with her when she talks about herself, especially since that’s all she ever talks about. He never finds anything she says interesting because all she does is obnoxiously flirt with and nag him.
  • Borrowed Without Permission: One of Colette's methods to torment Star is "borrowing" her things and either losing them or never returning them, notably her sapphire earrings, which Star brings up several times in the series.
  • Brains Evil, Brawn Good: While Danny is a superpowered hero, Colette is a Manipulative Bitch who prefers to use her cunning to get her way.
  • Brainless Beauty: Averted. Despite coming off as vapid and shallow as Paulina, Colette is much smarter than most of the A-listers, as she is very cunning, manipulative, and conniving. She also does good in school because she takes her school work seriously and completes her own homework. "Mistaken" even reveals she actually likes reading.
  • Brainy Brunette: She's good at academics and inherited her father's dark hair but prefers to dye it bright red.
  • Bratty Teenage Daughter: Colette is Jean-Luc's spoiled brat of a daughter who likes to take what she wants, whenever she wants. Deconstructed as her parents grow increasingly frustrated by her ever worsening reckless and entitled behavior, which her unhealthy fixation with Danny doesn't help in the slightest.
  • Bright Is Not Good: Her signature outfit consists of a light yellow dress and lots of pearl jewelry. She is also a huge Spoiled Brat and a remorseless bully and Jerkass who is happy to hurt others to get her way.
  • Brilliant, but Lazy: She’s very intelligent and meticulous, but doesn’t care about anything except pampering herself and messing with Star, to the point she’d rather live off her family’s wealth than work. She even pushes her homework onto nerds like Mikey despite being more than smart enough to do it herself.
  • Broken Ace: Colette is a rich, beautiful, popular and intelligent girl who has lots of boys falling at her feet...with the exception of Danny Fenton, her stepsister's boyfriend. She just can't get over the fact that he isn't interested in her due to her ego. Because of that, Colette has become obsessed with Danny to the point where she is willing to do unethical things to steal him away from Star, which has caused her problems and gotten her into big trouble. It's also shown that each rejection she receives from him makes her even more determined to have him at any costs. It's also hinted that Colette's less-than-pleasant traits are due to her own upbringing, as her father is a philandering snob who has had multiple marriages and her biological mother left them when she was young.
  • Broken Pedestal: Colette Bevier is a popular French girl who was once admired by everyone around her for her looks and status, though those who truly know her see her as the two-face brat she is, such as her stepsister Star Strong and her stepsister boyfriend, Danny Fenton. However, throughout the series, she loses her reputation and begins to be hated as the monstrous sociopathic Spoiled Brat she truly is.
    • When she first joined A-listers, she was welcomed with open arms because she was rich and popular, and they immediately "befriended" her, especially after her stepsister Star Strong left the group. She appeared to have befriended Paulina and Dash, along with the other jocks, and many boys had crushes on her and tried to get her attention. Despite the fact that they criticized her for her crush on Danny, they were willing to help her break Danny and Star at first due to their own petty grudges against the couple. However, they eventually became uneasy with her crush on Danny becoming obsessive and the deranged stuff that she's willing to do to get him. It's to the point that they all agreed to kick her out of the group if they got proof she did something illegal since they didn't want to be associated with a criminal.
    • Her relationship with Paulina fell apart when it became clear to the two that they were both fake friends who were only united on their hatred of Star and only hung out with each other for shallow reasons such as keeping up appearances. Even before then, Paulina became uneasy with her obsession with Danny, and after covering for her when she followed Danny and Star to New York, Paulina decided to stop helping her and refuse to get involved in her schemes anymore.
    • Dash used to have a big crush on her and would help her with her plans, hoping to get paid or get close to her. She was jealous that she had a crush on Danny. However, his crush on her faded when he began to see how obsessed she was with Danny and the deranged things that she was willing to do to get him. He decides to stop getting involved in her schemes no matter how much money she offers him or for the chance to date her because he has become genuinely unnerved and creeped out by how obsessed she is with Danny.
      • By Blackmailed, all the A-listers were afraid of her because of her obsession with Danny and her erratic and unstable behavior. It's to the point that when Danny suddenly dumps Star and starts dating her, they suspect that she did something unethical and consider kicking her out because they don't want to be criminals in their group. When her crimes were revealed, they were all horrified and willing to cut ties with her.
    • She was once the apple of her stepmother Stella's eye as they appeared to have a close mother-daughter relationship at the start of the series, and Stella even seemed to favored Colette over her biological daughter. However, their relationship becomes strained after Stella decides to fix her relationship with her biological daughter, Star, and moves the Bevier family to Amity Park. Even so, Stella still very much loved her stepdaughter as her own and hoped to do good for her. However, Colette, despite being close to her stepmother at first, doesn't genuinely care about her and just wants to use her. Stella, despite her relationship with her stepdaughter becoming strained, did care for her and wanted what was best for her, but her behavior has caused Stella to reevaluate her relationship with Colette, and she found herself regularly disciplining her for her out-of-control behavior. Despite everything, Stella still cared about her stepdaughter. Unfortunately, her love for her stepdaughter became meaningless because, by Blackmailed, she became aware of the full extent of her crimes and how Colette mistreated her biological daughter and stole her daughter's boyfriend by blackmailing him into forcing her to be her boyfriend. Learning this and the full extent of Colette's crimes, she became determined to punish her stepdaughter for her actions. Despite this, Stella is still heartbroken that her stepdaughter didn't love her, but the image of the innocent girl she raised for four years is gone, and now she sees Colette as the sociopathic brat she is.
  • Brutal Honesty: In “Blackmailed”, she bluntly informs Donovan Loadman that no amount of money would ever make her date someone as unbearably annoying as him and her father would obviously never give her hand in marriage to a “disgraced fool” like him who was disinherited by his family and being made to actually work for a living like a “peasant”.
  • The Brute: She prefers making others do her dirty work for her, but she is also prone to violence and is willing to fight others, such as Star during "Costumed" and Paulina in "Dressed".
  • Bullying a Dragon: She continues her attempts to bully and harass Star, even after Star has proven that she is capable of fighting back, including physically.
  • But Not Too Challenging: She's obsessed with stealing Danny from Star because, unlike Star's previous boyfriends, he is actually faithful to her, which in Colette's mind makes him more of a challenge. At the same time, she's willing to resort to underhanded actions such as blackmail and attempted murder, showing that she's ultimately more interested in the idea of a challenge and can't actually stand a guy rejecting her, especially not for Star.
  • Calling the Old Woman Out: She gives a rather brutal one to her stepmothers and especially her biological mother Suzette during her Villainous Breakdown in "Blackmailed". Colette calls Suzette out over leaving her and rarely spending time with her due to the demands of her job.
  • Canon Foreigner: She was created for this series of fanfics.
  • Can't Take Criticism: She doesn't take well to being criticized in any way and is quick to lose her temper and throw tantrums.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: She knows she’s a bad person and revels in it.
    • In “Empowered”, she confirms Danny’s accusation that she’s going use her newfound ghost powers to become a supervillain and take over the world.
    • In “Blackmailed”, she’s flattered when Danny calls her “despicable” for blackmailing him and plans to make him as cruel as her if he becomes her boyfriend.
  • Casanova Wannabe: A Rare Female Example towards Danny. All of Colette's attempts to seduce him do nothing but make him hate and avoid her because of her snooty attitude, inability to handle rejection, and refusal to accept that he loves Star. Even when Danny had amnesia, he still wasn't attracted to her and eventually decided he wanted nothing to do with her anymore.
  • Cassandra Truth: Nobody believes her about Danny Fenton being Danny Phantom in “Blackmailed” and it’s the only time she’s telling the truth.
  • Callously Casual Cheating: Colette doesn't hesitate to steal a guy from any girl she dislikes, particularly Star, and treats it as one of her hobbies. She also doesn't see anything wrong with her father Jean-Luc being unfaithful to her maternal figures and even thinks they are in the wrong for leaving him because of it.
  • Challenge Seeker: She greatly looks forward to winning over Danny and molding him into her idea of the perfect gentleman, seeing it as a test.
  • Character Development: Negative development, as she becomes even viler as the series progresses, unlike Star, who becomes more responsible and mature. In the beginning, Colette was a petty Spoiled Brat who was more of a bully/annoyance to Team Phantom than anything. By “Empowered” and “Blackmailed”, however, she becomes an actual threat by coming close to ruining Team Phantom’s good name, attempting to straight-up murder them, and using force or blackmail to make Danny be with her. She also grows more unhinged as the series progresses. Despite this, she keeps the defect of not thinking before acting.
  • The Chessmaster: In "Blackmailed", she managed to concoct an elaborate scheme to frame Team Phantom and trap Danny into a relationship with her, under the threat of blackmail. She even seamlessly adjusted her plans after discovering Danny is Danny Phantom.
  • Children as Pawns: Discussed. After learning about Danny’s powers in “Blackmailed”, she planned on using any children he gave her as minions in some twisted plot to take over the world.
  • Child Hater: She secretly despises her infant half-brother, Pierre, calling him a "diaper stainer" and desiring for her stepmother Stella to take him away with her after divorcing her father Jean-Luc. Colette even warns Yolanda not to get "careless" with her father because she doesn't want to risk dealing with a second sibling "interrupting [her] beauty sleep at home." Her only regard for her half-brother is that he will take over the family wine business so Colette doesn’t have to and can enjoy the good life. While she wants to have children with Danny, Colette explicitly plans to delegate the actual childcare to a nanny, as she likely only sees her hypothetical children as an extension of herself.
  • Childish Older Sibling: She's the eldest child of the Bevier family but is ironically the least mature, even when compared to her infant half-brother Pierre, given her nature as a spoiled, Psychopathic Womanchild.
  • Childish Villain, Mature Hero: While Star and Danny may have some moments of immaturity, they at least work hard and are good people while Colette is a HUGE Psychopathic Womanchild.
  • Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: She will throw anyone under the bus if it suits her because she has no true loyalty or attachment to anyone but herself and maybe her biological parents.
  • Classic Villain: Has the vices of Pride, Wrath, Greed, Envy, and Lust.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: Towards Danny, as Colette is deeply jealous of his relationship with Star and does anything so that she can have him all to herself. She also gets aggressive and hostile if any other girl shows interest in Danny, such as Vivian or Misty, being quick to insult, intimidate, and even pick a fight with them.
  • Cloudcuckoolander
  • Comically Lopsided Rivalry: She is always trying to compete with Star in order to win Danny's heart, refusing to accept that she has absolutely no chance as Danny is utterly devoted to Star and completely despises Colette.
  • Comically Missing the Point: After meeting Danny Phantom in person for the first time, Colette realizes how oddly similar he is to the Danny she has a crush on. She comes to the conclusion that... they must be relatives... before dismissing the idea all together.
  • Competition Freak: A VERY dark deconstruction as she’s a much worse example than Star, Stella, Virginia, Pamela, and Paulina combined because Colette intensely hates losing, especially to Star, in anything and resorts to increasingly deplorable methods to steal Danny just to beat her stepsister in their imaginary competition.
  • Condescending Compassion: This seems to be only kind of compassion Colette is capable of. Her offer to "save" Danny from in her words "a life of mediocrity" basically amounts to bribery and manipulation to force him to convert to her superficial lifestyle and live as a submissive spouse to her.
  • Consummate Liar: Arguably one of her biggest tools, it's practically second nature for Colette to lie in order to get her way and distort a record in her favor, which has allowed her to get away with her behavior and sweep the truth under the rug for years. In "Blackmailed", her interactions with her mother and former stepmothers are dripping with this, as she carefully crafts and maintains twisted narratives opposed to what Jean-Luc and Stella know or believe to continue making herself look like an innocent victim even when her guardians and "friends" start to see through her facade, ensuring she still has an unwitting support network.
  • Control Freak: Everything has to be by her word, even her boyfriends. Anything that goes off the rails enrages her.
  • Con Woman: She is a scheming girl who is capable of lying and fabricating stories to manipulate others into giving her whatever she wants, such as money or helping her with her plots.
  • Corrupted Character Copy:
    • Of Cheryl Blossom from the Archie Comics since they’re both redheaded (though Colette’s hair is dyed) Rich Bitch Dude Magnets that have a crush on the hero, are even richer and snobbier than the local Alpha Bitch, and can be very scheming and manipulative. But even at her worst, Cheryl has been a Jerk with a Heart of Gold with redeeming qualities such as a soft spot for animals, her genuine love for her family including her brother Jason despite their rivalry, and her close friendship with the resident nerd Dilton. Plus, Cheryl has lines she won’t cross since she never resorted to illegal means or harming others to get what she wants and becomes progressively kinder over time to the point she befriends the Archie gang. Colette on the other hand is an outright evil sociopath with no regard for anyone but herself and maybe her biological parents, torments her stepsister Star for kicks, regards her younger half-brother Pierre as a pest at best, treats the resident geek Mikey as her personal Homework Slave, constantly harasses Danny for a date despite his blatant hatred for her because her Spoiled Brat nature makes her incapable of taking “no” for an answer, has little to no moral scruples since she’s willing to resort to threats and blackmail to get what she wants, and grows much worse over time as she becomes an increasingly obsessive yandere who is willing to ruin innocent lives without a shred of remorse just to win.
    • Of Nina Harper from Braceface as they’re both intelligent Alpha Bitches from wealthy families that have been rivals with a blonde girl who has the initials S.S. (Sharon Spitz for Nina and Star Strong for Colette) since childhood for incredibly petty reasons, try to steal their archenemies' boyfriend, have a strained relationship with their lackluster oblivious parents who spoil them, have very few real friends, are more miserable than they let on, and dyed their brunette hair red at some point in their teenage years. However, even at her worst Nina has always been a Lovable Alpha Bitch with redeeming qualities such as her genuine love for animals, sincere feelings for her boyfriend Griffin, and goal of rebuilding her friendship with Sharon who she has shown genuine kindness to even while they were enemies. Colette, on the other hand, is a growing psychopath who doesn’t care about anyone but herself and potentially her biological parents, only regards Danny as a trophy and acts as an abusive Control Freak to him, and has never gotten along with Star as she’s been tormenting her stepsister since they first met just for kicks. Colette even acknowledges that Star never did anything to make the former hate her whereas Nina stopped being friends with Sharon because she assumed Sharon was the one who ripped the heads off her dolls while they were children (which is a very petty reason but still a reason) and made an effort to reconcile with her after learning that it was really her bratty cousin Petra that was responsible.
  • The Corrupter:
    • Her treatment of Star is one of the many reasons the latter became a mean girl in the first place.
    • She also wants to be this to Danny, intending to turn him to her way of thinking to make him a better match for herself.
  • The Corruptible: It’s clear to everyone who is aware of how awful the Beviers are that Jean-Luc’s parenting (or lack thereof) was a major contribution to making Colette the rotten to the core Spoiled Brat she is now.
  • Create Your Own Villain: Star admits introducing Danny to her awful stepfamily was a complete mistake since it led to Colette becoming Team Phantom’s biggest thorn in her mad quest to steal him.
  • Creepy Child: People who are aware of her disturbing fixation with Danny see her as creepy and needing help. In fact, Star states that her bossy, bullying, and manipulative behaviour has been apparent for at least as long as she has known her (from the age of 11).
  • Crocodile Tears: She is prone to use these to get her way.
  • Cruel to Be Kind: Deconstructed. She justifies her awful treatment of Danny in "Blackmailed" by claiming it's for his own good and seems to actually believe it. Danny, Star and everyone else know that's a bunch of rubbish.
  • Cunning Linguist: She's fluent in French, English, Swedish, and Italian.
  • Cursed with Awesome: She temporarily gets ghost powers in “Empowered” that go completely to her already swollen head so she decides to become a supervillain out to take over the world and claim Danny by force, even if it means getting rid of Star forever. She also learns that one downside of having ghost powers is they make you hungrier the more you use them, which Star uses to her advantage at one point.
  • Cute Is Evil: She’s an adorable teenage girl who eventually proves to be SO vile even Team Phantom’s ghostly enemies grow to completely hate her guts.
  • Cute and Psycho: She’s an upper-class beauty who quickly proves to be FAR more unstable than any ghost or enemy Team Phantom have faced as she’s fine with sinking to levels even Vlad and Spectra wouldn’t dream of.
  • Daddy's Girl: Jean-Luc dotes on her and lavishes her with anything she wants. He seems to be the only parental figure in Colette's life who she genuinely loves and respects, telling Danny not to mock him.
    • Deconstructed in "Blackmailed" as Misty points out that Colette's devotion isn't out of any actual care or appreciation for her father so much as because he shamelessly spoils her the most and doesn't need any convincing to always let her have her way. At the end after being sent to reform school, Colette only cares about getting back into her father's good graces because it's the easiest way to regain her former status and lifestyle, even though Suzette was the one who chose to stay in London to be there for her while Jean-Luc left without saying goodbye.
    • It's actually subverted because despite holding up her father as “a great man who deserves the best” and taking his side in his divorces from all her previous stepmothers, Colette doesn’t seem to care about his feelings, interests, or personal happiness as long as it doesn’t affect her. For example, she isn't sorry to cost Jean-Luc his business deals or reputation with her antics, badmouth him for years to her maternal figures to gain sympathy, or set him up to marry a Gold Digger who she knows doesn’t care for him, unlike his previous wives. When it comes down to it, Jean-Luc is as much of a pawn to Colette as the rest of her family members because her materialism and psychotic agendas trump any loyalty to and love for him.
  • Daddy's Little Villain: In “Blackmailed”, Colette shows she sees nothing wrong with Jean-Luc's abysmal treatment of her mother and stepmothers (both former and current), preferring to shift the blame onto the women for not being good enough for her father.
  • Dark Action Girl: She is not much of a fighter, but she briefly becomes one when she temporarily gets ghost powers in "Empowered".
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Her mother left her when she was a toddler due to her father's infidelity and her father didn't raise her properly aside from providing her materialistic needs. She then had a revolving door of well-meaning but clueless stepmothers who never stuck around long due to her father not being any more faithful to them than he was to her mother.
  • Dating What Daddy Hates:
    • Subverted since Danny can't stand her, but Colette has a crush on him, while her father believes Danny is beneath her.
    • Also an inverted example where the person is not even dating their attended. Colette hates Danny's parents, viewing them as ghost-hunting freaks, and plans to cut them out of his life if she and Danny marry, move to Paris, and have children. This feeling is completely mutual, since having heard about Colette from Star and Danny and seen what a two-faced brat she is (though admittedly, the Fentons have not seen the worst of her behavior), Jack and Maddie detest her.
  • Deadlier Than The Male: She's an even worse person than her snobby father, the Jerk Jocks at Casper High, or any of Team Phantom's male enemies as she doesn't care how low she has to sink to get what she wants.
  • Deconstructed Character Archetype:
    • Of the Alpha Bitch. Her arrogance and conceited nature are the results of a dangerously narcissistic mindset that drives her to endanger and injure others to get what she wants. In a reversal of the usual trope, she hits on the main protagonist, but she treats him less as of a person she ought to care for and more as an object she must possess. Her attitude gets so bad that even her father and stepmother get sick of her vain and wasteful ways.
    • Also of the Spoiled Brat, Proud Beauty, Fille Fatale, and Serial Homewrecker. She’s used to getting her own way and being adored by boys for her beauty (to the point she can easily steal other girls' boyfriends), but the very concept of a boy who has no interest in her makes her go ballistic as it’s a serious blow to her ego. She becomes obsessed with stealing Danny from Star for being the first guy to reject her, and her growing fixation only deepens his hatred for her and makes everyone realize how disturbed she is.
    • Of the Attention Whore, Entitled Bitch, Hopeless Suitor, and The Unfettered. Colette's obsessive need for attention, desire to always beat Star, and entitlement issues cause her to fixate on stealing her stepsister's boyfriend Danny because his faithfulness to Star makes him completely immune to Colette's charms while she only views his rejection as a "challenge". Her utter lack of scruples only fuels Danny and Team Phantom's hatred of her since she's fine with hurting them to get what she wants. Everybody else gets so disturbed by her unhealthy obsession with Danny and ruining Star's life that Team Phantom is trying to get a restraining order against her, the A-Listers are seriously considering kicking her out of their clique, and even her overindulging parents contemplate seeking professional help for her like therapy or boarding school.
  • Of the Token Evil Teammate because while the A-Listers aren’t nice people, they’re ultimately just a bunch of spoiled bullies while Colette is a budding sociopath with a creepy obsession with Danny and zero moral restraints. By the time of “Blackmailed”, the A-Listers have become so disturbed by her growing fixation with Danny that they don’t want to be involved anymore in her schemes to steal him from Star. They even consider kicking Colette out of the group if she keeps this up, especially if they find out that she’s resorted to illegal tactics, in which case they’ll gladly turn her over to the police if they have evidence since they don’t want to be associated with a crook.
  • Defeat Means Menial Labor: As part of her punishment after her the events of "Blackmailed", Colette is sentenced to 200 hours of community service, which Team Phantom finds to be a very fitting punishment for a lazy Spoiled Brat who never worked a day in her life.
  • Deliberately Cute Child: As a tween, she was already manipulating Stella with an angelic facade while also ruthlessly bullying Star the whole time. "Blackmailed" even describes how from the age of five, Colette was able to flawlessly act like a sweet, well-mannered daughter around her mother and other stepmothers in the same fashion as with Stella so they will keep fulfilling her every wish.
  • Determined Defeatist: No amount of pain, humiliation, or rejections will stop her from trying to claim Danny to ruin Star's life.
  • Detrimental Determination: Her obsessive attempts to steal Danny away from Star are ruining her own life as Colette has wasted money on progressively insane schemes and suffered Sanity Slippages when they fail, faced public humiliation, and made hated enemies in Team Phantom, Misty, and even Danny Phantom's rogues gallery. She also begins losing her popularity and her doting parents' trust as everyone grows increasingly disgusted with her behavior; the A-Listers want to kick her out of their clique because they’re scared of what she’ll do to get Danny while her parents keep revoking her privileges as punishment and want to get her therapy or send her to boarding school to deal with her issues.
  • Didn't Think This Through: In "Blackmailed", she NEVER expected that Kwan would flat out betray her and side with Team Phantom, even at the price of his reputation.
  • Did Not Get the Boy: Absolutely nothing she does ever manages to win Danny's heart.
  • Digging Yourself Deeper: After being exposed for framing Danny's friends, Colette ends up revealing other secrets out of frustration.
  • Diligent Hero, Slothful Villain: She's a huge Spoiled Brat who makes it clear she has no interest nor desire to work a day in her life, preferring to sponge off her family's vast wealth.
  • Dirty Coward: Prioritizes her safety to the point of letting someone else get harmed.
    • In Bonding, she uses Sam as a human shield, claiming that being a vegan would make her better to eat for the tiger ghost.
    • In Forgotten, she abandons an amnesiac Danny to Johnny 13, acting like she did nothing remotely wrong when she finds him again.
    • In Dressed, she pushes Paulina in front of her and tries to convince Spectra to hurt her instead. Paulina is quick to return the favor.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Another one of her MOs is to severely lash out over perceived slights, which usually boil down to a refusal to give her what she wants and/or fall in line with her commands. Notably, she designates Star, the Fentons, and Team Phantom as her enemies because of them ostensibly coming in between her and Danny. In "Blackmailed", she finally has enough and plots to ruin their lives by framing Team Phantom to get them expelled, then forcing Danny to dump Star and stay away from his friends and family.
  • Disappointing Older Sibling: Colette doesn’t care for her siblings (and never wanted any) and the feeling is completely mutual as Star has wanted her out of her life from day one for being a rotten to the core Spoiled Brat and even the innocent infant Pierre doesn’t like her since he’s fine with hitting her in the face with cake in “Blackmailed”.
  • Disinherited Child: Discussed at the end of “Blackmailed”. After her crimes are exposed, Jean-Luc makes it clear to Colette he’ll disown her and make Pierre is only heir if she doesn’t clean up her act at Bludworth Academy.
  • Distinction Without a Difference:
    • In "Empowered", she doesn't see her spying on and following Danny and Star at the flea market as stalking him, but "discovering when and where [he] will be" to "ensure [they] meet and talk". Star retorts that is stalking.
    • When Danny accuses Colette of holding him hostage in the Milton Hotel, she denies the allegation and says that she just "relocated [him] despite [his] vocal disapproval". Danny retorts that's kidnapping, which is exactly what taking a hostage is.
    • In “Blackmailed”, Colette says that she doesn't see her harassment of Danny (which includes stalking, spying, and breaking & entering) as villainy but "determination".
  • Does Not Like Spam: "Blackmailed" reveals she does not like food from Rome.
  • Domestic Abuser: When she forces Danny to be her boyfriend in "Blackmailed", she treats him only as property and is creepily possessive and controlling of him. She snaps at Danny every time he displeases her and threatens him into obeying her by promising to punish his friends if he doesn't follow her commands, like cutting his loved ones out of his life. Jazz flat-out says what Colette is doing to Danny is "a textbook case of domestic abuse", as it's a common tactic by abusers to isolate their victims to make them easier to control.
  • Double Standard Abuse: Female on Male: Strongly averted. Colette's treatment of Danny is portrayed realistically as the product of a selfish, deranged, and obsessive individual who doesn't love or care about him, and can actually pose a threat to him and anyone close to him. The only reasons she hasn't faced more serious or legal consequences are her indulgent parents and a lack of solid proof for her most deplorable deeds.
  • Drama Queen: The biggest example in fanfic verse. Even Paulina is tamer than her.
  • The Dreaded: By the time of “Blackmailed”, Colette is this to everyone that’s aware of her awful personality to the point Team Phantom and even the A-Listers want her gone because they’re afraid of what she’ll do to get what she wants, especially if it involves Danny, since they’d gladly turn her in to the police if they had evidence that she’s resorted to criminal acts.
  • Driven by Envy: It's heavily implied that Colette's cruel actions towards Star are largely out of envy.
  • Drunk on the Dark Side: It didn't take long for this to happen after she temporarily got ghost powers, as she quickly goes on a power trip and proclaims herself a god.
  • Dude Magnet: Most boys find her attractive, which she knows and flaunts it.
  • Dye Hard: Colette dyed her hair a bright red, as opposed to the brown hair her father has. The narration made it clear her hair is supposed to be like her father's, which a flashback in "Unprepared" confirmed.
  • Embodiment of Vice: Colette's personality is essentially a combination of arrogance, elitism, vanity, pride, and obsession, along with a sadistic streak. She genuinely believes being from a wealthy Blue Blood family makes her superior to others and thus, gives her a right to demean and even hurt those "beneath" her for her own amusement, such as her stepsister.
    • Vanity. Colette is very vain and prideful to the point of narcissism, believing herself to be superior to others and refusing to see herself as wrong or flawed in any way. She's always been convinced that she is the most beautiful girl and every boy should love her, and thus is baffled and later enraged at the fact that Danny refuses her due to his sincere love for Star.
    • Envy. Despite refusing to admit it, Colette is envious of Star and wants whatever she has, including clothes, jewelry, and even her boyfriends.
  • Enfant Terrible: It is heavily implied that she was one of these. Her cruel, manipulative, and downright sociopathic antics have been around since she was little, given how she treated Star when they were children and her peers back at her private school in France. Even as a five-year-old, her arrogance and elitism were evident as she played her then-stepmother Giulia like a fiddle, all while masking her utter contempt for the woman and hatred of her temporary home in Rome. Sam even suggests Colette was corrupted by both of her parents to the point of no return by the time she learned to talk.
  • Enraged by Idiocy: While she's fine with using the A-Listers to acquire perks and benefits for herself, it doesn't stop her from voicing her disdain of them for their stupidity, especially Dash and Paulina.
  • Entitled Bitch: She believes that she actually deserves to have everything that she wants, even if they belong to someone else.
  • Entitled to Have You: In regards to her "relationship" with Danny. Colette arrogantly believes that Danny should be with her to the point that she wants to be married to him in the future. Colette ignores that Danny is in a relationship with her stepsister, Star, confident that she can steal him the same way she stole Star's past boyfriends. Even when that fails and Danny makes it clear he loves Star and hates her, Colette still convinces herself that can seduce him away from her stepsister. "Blackmailed" shows that she even believes Danny's "destiny" is to become her perfect Trophy Husband.
  • Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Gender-Inverted. Her father and stepmother appear to be the only people she genuinely respects, though not to the point where she won't go behind their backs in an attempt to claim Danny. Eventually subverted with Stella as it becomes clear Colette is only nice to her in order to keep being spoiled by her and her father. However, Colette seems to really care about her biological mother despite her resentment towards the latter.
    • In “Blackmailed”, she will only let Danny fight ghosts to protect both herself and Jean-Luc.
  • Even Bullies Have Standards: Colette is a huge Alpha Bitch, but she despises Dash and Paulina for being unpleasant idiots.
  • Even Evil Can Be Loved: Colette Bevier is a sociopathic brat who believes that she can do whatever she wants because she was born into a rich, aristocratic family. She creates an image of a sophisticated, well-behaved girl around her parents and authority figures but shows her true, cruel nature to those she believes she can get away with bullying, such as her stepsister Star and trying to steal her boyfriend Danny for herself. However, over time, more and more people become aware of her cruel deeds, including her parents, and she eventually earns the ire and hatred of everyone around her because she is obsessed with making a boy hers and not caring that he's already in a relationship with her own stepsister. Over time, she begins to lose her popularity and status, and even the A-Listers, a group of popular brats, grow to dislike her and even become horrified of her actions against Danny and his friends, her stepsister Star Strong, and the rest of their friends and families.
    • Even so, the only people who genuinely seem to love her truly are her father and stepmother, Stella, who initially denies Colette's bad actions but begins punishing her once she is made aware in an effort to correct her behavior. Colette at first acts like a loving and obedient stepdaughter around Stella, if only so she could keep getting spoiled by her and not upset her father, but throughout the series, it's been hinted that she never really loved her stepmother Stella, which is confirmed in Blackmail. It's also revealed that she's still in contact with ALL of her former stepmother and biological mother, who she tricks by playing the part of a loving daughter while manipulating them into giving her money and aiding her in her schemes.
    • Even so, it seems that she does hold genuine love for her biological mother, Suzette, even if she does resent her for prioritizing her charity projects over raising her and her numerous broken promises over the years.
    • Eventually, all her crimes were revealed to everyone, including her stepmother and biological mother. But despite everything, and despite her stepmother and biological mother being furious with her and insisting that she be punished for her actions and that she's going to pay for her crimes, they can't help but pity her a bit and acknowledge that they played a part in making her into a sociopathic Spoiled Brat and being upset at her for the way she turned out. Colette Bevier's biological mother, Suzette, is especially heartbroken at the fact that the innocent girl that she believed her daughter was is gone, and now she's a sociopathic brat, but at the same time, acknowledges her daughter's words of never spending time with her by prioritizing her work and charity projects and that it's her fault that she's like this. However, now she knows that it's too late, and knows that her daughter needs to pay for her crimes.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Her biological parents Jean-Luc and Suzette are the only people Colette genuinely respects and cares about (in her own way). Although she's not above manipulating them or going behind their backs.
  • Even Evil Has Standards:
    • She might hang out with Dash and exploit him for her schemes, but she honestly thinks he's an idiot and barely hides how much she can't stand him.
    • In a similar vein, she is dismissive of Paulina for being a ditz obsessed with Danny Phantom.
    • She's willing to bribe, blackmail, deceive, threaten, manipulate, and even frame people to get what she wants but won't resort to murder.
    • Even she finds Donovan Loadman completely annoying regardless of his family's wealth.
  • Everyone Can See It: A strange case. It eventually becomes obvious to everyone BUT her that she has no shot with Danny due to his hatred of her for her horrible personality. Even people who don't know him are sure he wouldn't want anything to do with someone as blatantly rotten and delusional as Colette.
  • Every Man Has His Price: She often tries to bribe people once she sees that she can't manipulate them into doing whatever she wants.
  • Everything but the Girl: Gender-Inverted. Colette is beautiful, popular, intelligent, savvy, and a fabulously wealthy heiress with a doting family that spoils her rotten and many boys falling at her feet with no effort. In short, she has virtually everything she could ever want and then some... except the possibility of ever getting Danny to dump Star and date her instead. This soon drives Colette off the deep end because she is not used to being denied anything in her entire life.
  • Evil All Along: When she first debuted, she just seemed to be a typical Alpha Bitch and Spoiled Brat, not unlike Paulina. Over time, we see that she is much, MUCH worse than originally thought.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
    • She's unable to understand why an amnesiac Danny still refuses to go along with her way of doing things despite having no memory of how things really are between them. It honestly eludes her that Danny actually has a moral compass while she generally doesn't.
    • The very concept of helping or just being nice to people is utterly alien to Colette, who can't fathom why anyone would use their money for philanthropy, especially without getting anything in return, since she only views wealth and privilege as a means for one to help themselves.
      • In the climax of "Blackmailed", Colette Bevier angrily accuses her biological mother, Suzette, of being a Slave to PR. She calls her mother out on how she never truly spends any real time with her and yells at her for prioritizing her charities over raising her own daughter. She seems to believe that Suzette was doing charity work only because she was building an image of a charitable woman for the public and, in her own words, "wanted to be seen as a hero to a bunch of nobodies." Colette does not seem to understand that her mother, Suzette, wasn't helping people for attention or creating an image for herself but because she genuinely wanted to improve the lives of less fortunate people.
  • Evil Costume Switch: While she was already evil, she creates her own supervillain costume after gaining ghost powers in "Empowered", as seen here.
  • Evil Counterpart:
    • To Star. Both are daughters to wealthy, divorced men and both have/had a Missing Mom. In a way, Colette is what Star would be like if she never had any Character Development or without her redeeming qualities.
    • An Eviler Counterpart to Misty. Both girls are Stalkers With A Crush towards Danny and bitterly jealous of Star. However, Misty actually has a moral compass while Colette has no morals.
    • To Stella. Both are Rich Bitches from dysfunctional families and have caused Star no end of grief with their actions. However, Stella is Star's mother who sincerely loves her and feels guilty for hurting her, eventually trying to make amends. Colette is Star's stepsister and is a Big Sister Bully who actually enjoys making her miserable.
  • Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Danny makes it clear to Star that Colette has no sense of humor outside of ruining people’s lives.
  • Evil Is Hammy: She is a Spoiled Brat and Drama Queen who absolutely acts up whenever she is plotting.
  • Evil Is Petty: Colette is a spoiled, selfish girl who bullies Star and has a habit of stealing her boyfriends for no other reason than because it amuses her. She originally hit on Danny for these very reasons but after he rejects her advances, Colette becomes obsessed with him. Her obsession with Danny is mostly because he's the first boy she met who is not taken in by her and his rejection only makes her even more determined to have him at any cost.
    • If Colette does marry Danny, she'd only invite Star to their wedding just to rub it in her face.
    • She prefers to kiss Danny when Star is watching.
    • After acquiring ghost powers and letting them feed her already enormous ego in “Empowered”, she’s willing to murder Danny’s loved ones and threaten him into being with her just so she can finally have him all to herself. She also plans on conquering the world just so she can boss everyone around despite Danny pointing out how insane and unrealistic her goals are.
    • She’s at her pettiest in “Blackmailed” when she resorts to blackmailing Kwan with an embarrassing secret so he’ll help her frame Team Phantom to get them away from Danny, then threaten Danny into going out with her by promising to ruin his and his friends' lives if he doesn’t obey her. Kwan calls her out for resorting to incredibly despicable methods just to ruin Star’s life out of sheer petty spite.
    • She makes it very clear she’d prefer Danny be completely miserable with or without her than happy with Star or literally anyone but herself, and she’s more than fine with ruining his life by exposing his secret identity to the world if he keeps rejecting her in the hopes he gets experimented on or dissected by some government agency because of his ghost powers in “Blackmailed”.
  • Evil Laugh: She lets out a really unhinged one in "Empowered" after she gets a power boost by wearing Misty's magical necklace.
  • Evil Plan: Colette seems fond of using these to get what she wants, namely to claim Danny as a boyfriend or to mess with Star.
  • Evil Redhead: Though she just dyes her hair to be that shade, she's definitely growing to be outright evil.
  • Eviler than Thou: Colette Bevier has proven herself throughout the series to be even crueler than the popular kids at Casper High and more dangerous than the ghosts that terrorize the city.
    • Like Paulina Sanchez, she's a beautiful, popular, upper-class bully who looks down on nerds and lower-class people, hurts and humiliates her peers, and is fixated on a boy who would've liked her if it wasn't for her rotten personality. Unlike Paulina, Colette is ruthless and sociopathic enough to resort to increasingly criminal methods to get what she wants, especially claiming the boy she's obsessed with, even if it means endangering lives, making Paulina seem like a Nice Girl by comparison; as selfish, uncaring, and obsessed with "her" ghost boy as Paulina is, she would never go that far to achieve her goals. It's telling that Danny, who has gotten over his feelings for Paulina and is annoyed by her obsession with his superhero self, just considers her a nuisance but has developed a genuine hatred for Colette due to her stalkerish pursuit of him and disregard for his loved ones. He desperately wants Colette out of his life for good, not caring what it would take.
    • Colette is more spoiled, selfish, callous, and entitled than all of the A-Listers put together, as they are ultimately just lazy, shallow, and bratty bullies who think they're above the rules.
    • Team Phantom acknowledges that Colette is a MUCH worse person than her father, Jean-Luc, because she's actually evil instead of just being a classist snob.
    • Even Johnny 13, the Ghost Writer, Penelope Spectra, Misty Smith-Yang, Skulker, and Ember McLain—all of whom have powers of some sort and arguably pose a bigger threat to the heroes—are appalled by the sheer scope of her hateful, egoistic, obsessive, cowardly, and basically insane behavior.
      • In “Empowered”, Misty only had to meet Colette once to immediately hate her FAR more than she ever did Star for being an elitist Spoiled Brat that constantly insults her. Her hatred only grows when Misty is forced to team up with Team Phantom to save Amity Park after she accidentally empowers Colette and realizes just how much megalomania she's capable of, making her genuinely sympathetic towards Star for having to deal with a stepsister like her.
    • This is especially prominent in "Blackmailed," where Colette tries to get Team Phantom expelled and blackmails Danny into being her boyfriend. Paulina and the A-Listers, who are already sick of her obsession with Danny, correctly suspect she's now using criminal means to break him and Star up, prompting them to decide that if they get any evidence of her deeds, they'll turn her in because they don't want a criminal in their group. Even Danny's ghostly enemies know of Colette's reputation as an irredeemable harpy and express nothing but disgust towards her actions. Two of them, Skulker and Ember, even agree to help take Colette down partly because they feel that she has crossed a line trying to ruin Team Phantom's lives.
    • Word of God confirms that Colette was created to be a much worse person than Chloé Bourgeois and Lila Rossi from Miraculous Ladybug (who she is heavily based on, as detailed below) combined.
  • The Exile: What she pretty much ends up being at the end of "Blackmailed".
  • Expy:
    • Of Amanda Killman from Bunsen Is a Beast by virtue of being a rich mean girl who delights in tormenting the main characters for fun and has a crush on the hero (who does not reciprocate in the slightest), as well as being a frequent victim of slapstick as a result of her own poorly thought-out evil schemes backfiring on her.
    • Of Chloé Bourgeois and Lila Rossi from Miraculous Ladybug, which Word of God even confirmed.
      • Like Chloé, Colette is a spoiled Parisian bully with the initials C.B. and a bright yellow signature outfit who harasses the main heroine and is rivals with her to win the affections of the same guy, has a shy, nerdy classmate as her personal Homework Slave and minion who admires her despite her being a Mean Boss, regularly abuses her father's wealth and connections to shield herself from consequences, turns into an even more dangerous monster when given superpowers, has a Big, Screwed-Up Family consisting of a White Sheep younger half-sibling who she looks down on, a misguided Pushover Parent(s) who she manipulates for her plans and doesn't respect, and a neglectful Upper-Class Twit parent that cheated on her other one and who she takes after, and is a Daddy's Girl who lives with her father while yearning for more attention from her distant mother since her parents' divorce, which may have been her Start of Darkness. At one point in "Staged", Colette even uses Chloé's Catchphrase Insult, "Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous!". Colette's fall from grace at the end of "Blackmailed" mirrors Chloé's in "Revolution", right down to being exiled to London where her mother will take a more active role in her life.
      • Both Lila and Colette are manipulative, sociopathic Consummate Liars who prove to be far more cunning, treacherous, and vile than the local Alpha Bitch and even the Big Bad despite not having powers (at first), develop an unhealthy obsession with their superhero classmate while completely despising his Nice Girl love interest for extremely petty reasons, are a Jerkass at Your Discretion to the heroes to maintain their beloved image, and have multiple maternal figures who they lie to and con for their own benefit.
    • Of Vicky from The Fairly OddParents!, given that Colette is also a materialistic Evil Redhead teenage girl that bullies the main characters and torments her (step)sister For the Evulz.
    • Of Mayda Munny from Richie Rich in the Harvey Comics since both are rich brats with an obsessive crush on the male hero for shallow reasons (Mayda only cares about Richie's money while Colette is Not Good with Rejection), which isn't mutual as the heroes are repulsed by the girls' unpleasant personalities. Both are deeply jealous of the hero’s Nice Girl girlfriend for being the object of their target's affections to the point they constantly try to sabotage their relationships with expensive schemes that always comically backfire on them.

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  • Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: She seems like a lovely and innocent-looking girl on the outside, but her beauty barely hides a shrewish, arrogant, and narcissistic potential sociopath who doesn’t care who she has to manipulate or step on to get what she wants.
  • Failure Is the Only Option: It was clear to everyone but Colette that she never had a shot with Danny since he hates her too much for her repulsive excuse for a personality even without his loved ones in the picture. It's best shown in “Forgotten” where Danny had amnesia and still ultimately didn’t want anything to do with her, as Colette only succeeded in temporarily influencing him because she happened to find him before Team Phantom did.
  • Fake Beauty Accusation: Star and Danny sometimes refer to her as a "witch with hair extensions".
  • Fallen Princess: Colette becomes this at the end of "Blackmailed" after all of her crimes are exposed. She ends up arrested, loses what little popularity she had left, Jean-Luc is furious that her actions have tainted the Bevier family's reputation, her former maternal figures not only cut ties with her but cut her off permanently along with Suzette so she can no longer enjoy the luxuries she grew up with, and is forced to attend Bludworth Academy to shape up under the threat of being disowned by Jean-Luc if she causes trouble again.
  • False Friend:
    • With Paulina. While they have a lot in common and put on a united front with the A-listers, it's clear they largely "befriended" each other for their social standing and to spite Star, as they only seem to get along when they're bullying her. In fact, Colette and Paulina secretly despise each other, always trying to one-up the other and being quick to turn on their new "best friend" when things go wrong.
    • She's this to the A-Listers in general, even considering their standard "friendships", since Colette only regards them as potential minions rather than just a clique to improve her standing in the school's hierarchy and barely bothers to care about typical A-Lister "business" unless it concerns her plans. It's telling that once the A-Listers refuse to let her continue dragging them into her ill-fated schemes to steal Danny, she begins to stop actively associating with them altogether, not seeming to know or care that they plan to kick her out of the group.
  • The Farmer and the Viper: She repays Stella's years of love and pampering by bullying her daughter Star, even trying to kill and ruin her life by framing her, along with developing no respect for Stella and just treating her as a means to an end at best.
  • Fatal Flaw:
    • She's vain, prideful and selfish. If there's something or someone she wants, she'll get it, especially if it will bother Star. By adding Danny to the list of things she wants, she's ironically made more enemies than friends.
    • In the end it was her own arrogance and inability to understand love that caused her downfall because she underestimated Team Phantom’s loved ones and the lengths they would go to save the heroes since it never occurred to her that Kwan would love Star more than popularity or more than he fears her as well as her own horrible personality making her so many enemies that Kwan, Misty, and the ghost villains would join forces with Team Phantom to take her down for good.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Team Phantom easily sees her for the scheming brat she is through her insincere innocent and charming girl act. Danny even describes her as "sweet as spoiled milk".
  • Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: She’s an elitist, hate-filled, sociopathic Spoiled Brat who barely tolerates the lower classes unless they’re serving her. It’s also pointed out repeatedly that Colette is only obsessed with stealing Danny because she can’t stand Star being so happy with him and knows losing him would make her stepsister miserable.
  • Fille Fatale: She’ll resort to any means to get what she wants, including using her pretty face to string along boys, which she has been doing to take Star’s boyfriends from her for years. Deconstructed as this attitude only fuels the hatred of the one boy she is genuinely interested in since Danny can’t stand Colette for being petty enough to ruin people’s relationships and manipulate them just for her own sick amusement.
  • First Love: Deconstructed. Despite having dated and stolen many other boys in the past, Colette claims that Danny is this for her. Unfortunately for her, he doesn't feel the same way.
  • Foil:
    • To Paulina. Paulina is a Hispanic girl born in Amity Park who has a crush on Danny Phantom and used to be friends with Star while Colette is a French girl who has a crush on Danny Fenton and has never gotten along with Star. Paulina is a Brainless Beauty while Colette is both academically and socially intelligent.
    • To Sam. Both girls are in love with Danny and rivals with Star for his affection who resorted to stalking the couple. However, Sam is in denial about it while Colette is honest about her desire. Also, Colette is Star's stepsister who wants to steal Danny from her purely to satiate her own ego and refuses to let up. Sam is Danny's childhood friend who genuinely cares about him and eventually accepts they're not meant to be, forming a truce with Star.
    • Colette is practically the anti-Danny Fenton since they're polar opposites in every way. Both of them are teenagers from atypical families (Danny's being ghost hunters and Colette coming from Old Money), are close with their fathers, have had an impactful influence on Star's life, received ghost powers at one point, developed a crush on someone who didn't feel the same way, and hate the A-Listers. Danny is a social outcast while Colette is popular. Danny's parents are Happily Married while Colette's parents went through a very ugly divorce. Danny is middle-class while Colette is a Blue Blood. Danny is a Nice Guy while Colette is an Alpha Bitch. Danny wears mundane clothes while Colette always sports a gussy and over-priced yellow dress. Danny didn't get along with Star at first due to her unpleasant attitude but grew to care about her as a friend, and later romantically after recognizing her positive traits while Colette has hated Star since the beginning despite her attempts to be friendly and has made it her mission to ruin Star's life, thus making them bitter enemies. Danny has been a Positive Friend Influence on Star as his compassion and understanding helped bring out her caring side while Colette was The Corrupter who helped turn Star into the Beta Bitch she used to be through her bullying. Danny has a Big Brother Instinct toward his siblings while Colette ignores her siblings at best and is a Big Sister Bully at worst. Danny moved on from his one-sided crush on Paulina after realizing she's not worth it while Colette has only become more obsessed with Danny thanks to his repeated rejections. Danny is The Fettered as he has lines he won't cross while Colette is The Unfettered as she doesn't care who she has to hurt for the sake of her desires. Danny genuinely loves his friends and family while Colette only feigns affection and kindness toward her family and others to manipulate them into giving her what she wants. Danny uses his ghost powers to protect people while Colette used hers to terrorize Amity Park.
    • To Danny’s aunt Alicia of all people since both are overbearing, self-centered redheads (although Colette dyes her hair) who have a strained relationship with their families, are willing to use questionable methods to get their way, and are obsessed with a guy (Vlad for Alicia and Danny for Colette) they have nothing in common with and who despises them for their unappealing attitudes, which they remain oblivious to. However, they couldn’t be more different otherwise. Alicia is a tough-as-nails Brawn Hilda frontiers woman who likes to use brute force to get her way and is openly unpleasant but ultimately a good person despite being rough around the edges, being a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who sincerely loves her family, especially her younger sister Maddie, and values consent since she’d prefer Vlad be with her of his own free will. Colette is a beautiful Blue Blood Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who despises physical effort, has no love for any of her family except her biological parents since she feigns affection to her stepmothers, is apathetic at best to her infant half-brother Pierre, and torments her stepsister Star just for fun, prefers to use her cunning and family’s resources to get what she wants, and doesn’t care in the slightest about Danny’s feelings since she’s fine with threatening and blackmailing him into dating her.
  • Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The lazy and immature Foolish Sibling to her stepsister Star’s hardworking and mature Responsible Sibling. Even Colette’s father Jean-Luc trusts Star more to babysit Pierre than her.
  • Forceful Kiss: She's fond of giving these to Danny, much to his horror and disgust. When she gives one to him as Danny Phantom in "Empowered", just to annoy Starlight Spirit, he's so repulsed he furiously cleans his mouth.
  • Forced Transformation:
    • In "Empowered", Colette temporarily gains ghost powers and becomes a halfa due to Misty granting her wish.
    • In "Staged", she gets turned into a chicken by Puck.
  • For the Evulz: One of the main reasons she torments Star and tries to steal her boyfriends.
  • Freaky Is Cool:
    • In “Empowered”, Colette is at first confused on how she acquired ghost powers but decides she doesn’t care since she enjoys how much stronger they make her than everyone else.
    • Finding out about Danny's ghost powers doesn't make her lose interest in him, to say the least.
  • French Jerk: She's an Alpha Bitch and Spoiled Brat from a French family who lived in Paris. Sam outright calls her "a walking French stereotype with a cheap dye job".
  • Freudian Excuse: It's implied that her nasty attitude stems from her mother leaving them, her father spoiling her, and his constant remarriages.
    • This was confirmed in "Blackmailed", where it's revealed that she keeps in contact with her biological mother and stepmothers to manipulate them. It is revealed that she both resents her mother for spending so much time on her charity projects and misses her because she prioritizes those projects over spending time with her. Despite refusing to admit it, it is clear that she was affected by her departure.
    • It is also later revealed that she kept in contact with each of her former stepmothers to use them for her plans, and she plays the part of the loving daughter to them while rejecting their attempts to make her into a better person.
      • It's implied that she has no real attachment to any of her stepmothers because she knows that their marriage to her father will never last.
    • It's also implied that her father negatively influenced her growing up, teaching her that her wealth and status made her "better" than others.
      • It heavily implied that she is the way she is because of a mix of her father's negative influence, her mother's departure and neglect, and her father's remarriages and implied infidelity, which warped her greatly and left her with a twisted view of the world and relationships.
  • Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Despite her own difficult childhood, it is still no excuse for her to treat Star so horribly (especially once it's revealed Star never did anything to her when they first met, yet Colette still chose to bully her) or harass Danny. Team Phantom makes it clear Colette is just a repulsive excuse for a human being regardless of her circumstances since NOTHING justifies her sociopathic behavior.
  • Friendless Background: She’s never had any real friends because her toxic personality makes her too unbearable for even other snobs like the A-Listers to stand her presence.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Dash points out to her in "Golden" that she's becoming this to the A-Listers as they're increasingly disturbed by her unhealthy obsession with Danny to the point she's losing her popularity, the A-Listers don't want to get involved in her schemes to break up Star and Danny anymore, and Dash and Kwan have completely lost interest in her. She's especially this to Paulina and Kwan as the former never liked Colette to begin with while the latter comes to dislike her more and more overtime after seeing her awful attitude underneath her beauty, to the point he utterly hates her after realizing just how despicable she is in "Blackmailed".
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: She was already a hateful Spoiled Brat, but in "Empowered", she gains superpowers and becomes much, much worse.
  • The Gadfly: She’s prone to trying to steal Star's boyfriends just for kicks and originally flirted with Danny just to annoy her because of Star's obvious feelings for him.
  • Gaslighting: How she tries to get people on her side, especially Stella. Team Phantom are among the few it doesn't work on.
  • Generation Xerox: She and her father are a lot alike in terms of personality. Both are shallow, vain, snobbish and have little to no regards for other people. They are also not above taking an already committed lover for their own as Jean-Luc had seduced the then-married Stella into running away with him, while Colette is currently plotting to steal Danny away from Star.
  • The Gentleman or the Scoundrel: Played with and deconstructed. She only has eyes for the modest Nice Guy Danny Fenton (Gentleman) and utterly despises the Jerk Jock Dash Baxter and Spoiled Brat Donovan Loadman (Scoundrel). However, she couldn’t care less about who Danny is as she is only pursuing him to get one over Star and would rather mold him into someone who’s as bad as herself to make him a better partner.
  • Genius Ditz: Team Phantom lampshades in "Blackmailed" that Colette has moments where she's as smart as Vlad and as dim as Paulina since she was able to come up with an effective blackmail scheme against them but was careless enough not to log out of her personal computer, which makes it easier for them to gather evidence against her.
  • Give Geeks a Chance: Danny isn't exactly Mr. Popularity but Colette still has a crush on him. Even finding out about his unpopularity is not enough for her to leave him alone.
  • The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Taken to extremes with her stepsister Star. Star is the smart, considerate, down-to-Earth stepsister while Colette is the spoiled, self-absorbed, popular stepsister. While Colette is more clever than the usual pretty popular girl, and Star herself used to be a mean popular girl, they clash in almost violent ways.
  • Gold Digger: A unique but deconstructed case as she makes it clear in "Blackmailed" that she plans to have Danny be adopted by a Blue Blood Old Money family because she despises his middle-class family (which is completely mutual).
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Colette literally has green eyes to symbolize her envy. She and Star have been competing since they were kids over toys, fashion, and most recently, boys. Now Colette is competing for Danny's love, as both have a huge crush on him. However, he prefers Star.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: It takes very little to provoke this unpleasant Spoiled Brat—just telling her “no” makes her fly into a rage. Danny’s constant rejections and her own Not Good with Rejection mindset certainly haven't done her temper any favors.
  • Half-Breed Discrimination: In a sense. One of the reasons Colette looks down on Star because she is, in her words, a "half-peasant".
  • Handsome Lech: A Rare Female Example. She's very beautiful and can get the attention of any boy she comes across except for the only one she's actually interested in because he's repulsed by her personality.
  • Hard Truth Aesop: As an amnesiac Danny proves to her in “Forgotten”, looks can only get you so far with someone romantically since he grows to hate her too much for being a nasty, controlling Alpha Bitch to care about her beauty, and quickly ditches her.
  • Has a Type: She claims that she finds Danny "fascinating" and it is part of the reason for her attraction to him. In fact, she only displays serious interest in boys she considers a “challenge”, like Danny, who is the only guy who ever refuse her advances. Deconstructed as this causes her to develop an unhealthy obsession with him as a result and she vows to steal Danny away from Star by any means necessary, even to the point of mentioning that she hopes to marry him one day.
  • Hate at First Sight: Star, Danny, Sam, and Misty have hated Colette since the moment they first met her after seeing how much of a horrible brat she is. Their hatred only grows with time after seeing how low she's willing to stoop to get what she wants. This is completely mutual (with the exception of Danny), as Colette began bullying Star not long after they were introduced to each other as kids, and came to despise Sam and Misty for either getting in her way or just annoying her (from Colette's point of view, anyway).
  • Hated by All: Colette is absolutely despised by practically everyone who gets to know her true ugly personality underneath her supposedly innocent exterior. Many people even end up becoming disgusted and disturbed by her actions, including Danny's enemies. The A-Listers also come to regard her as this since her disturbing fixation with Danny is making her lose her popularity, with them growing increasingly creeped out by the lengths she'll go to just to steal him from Star to the point they no longer wish to help her with her schemes regardless of how much she pays or manipulates them. Even her overindulging parents are losing their patience with her obsession with Danny, to the point they're considering getting her professional help or sending her to boarding school.
    • This ends up being the case by the end of "Blackmailed", where all her crimes were revealed at the birthday party that she stole from her stepsister, and what little of her reputation and goodwill among her parents, classmates, and their parents are gone when they catch her, angrily, call her out on her crimes and make sure that she's charged with said crimes. In the end, she loses the respect of her biological mother and her stepmothers when they learn that she was using them for money to blackmail Danny to be her boyfriend and insist that she be punished for her crimes. In fact, the last chapters of the story reveal that she's more hated than at first glance when Tucker reveals that she has caused trouble all around the world by bullying people and stealing boyfriends, and the only reason she never got in trouble was because of her father's money and connections. It is revealed in this story that several HUNDREDS of people have grudges against her for how she bullied them or their loved ones. It's very much implied that she's hated all over the world and in her old school, and with her crimes revealed, many people who were bribed and silent are stepping up to make sure that she pays for her crimes.
  • Hates Common Food: She refuses to touch any food that is considered "common" like pizza. One of the reasons she refuses to even enter the Nasty Burger or eat its food is because it doesn't have 4 stars. She apparently inherited this trait from her father.
    • In Empowered when Colette is lightheaded and dizzy from using her ghost powers and skipping lunch, she chooses to refuel by raiding a fancy French restaurant rather than just going to a nearby store and grabbing whatever food is available. At the end when she is prescribed an increased caloric diet by Doctor Sampson to regain her lost weight from crash dieting, she considers it a punishment because it means having to eat "greasy peasant food".
  • Hates Everyone Equally: Deconstructed. Team Phantom makes it clear that she doesn’t truly love anyone but herself and any affection she does have for others, even her parents, is extremely hollow at best as long as they give her what she wants. She also deeply despises possibly all of Amity Park, with the exception of Danny.
  • Hate Sink: Star considers her even worse than Paulina and for very good reason. Colette exemplifies every negative aspect of spoiled brats and each story only depicts her as even worse. She's not only rude, conceited and arrogant, she's also spiteful and willing to ruin people's lives and good time to get something she wants.
  • Hates Their Parent: She never cared about any of her stepmoms unless they could fulfill her materialistic needs. Downplayed with her biological mother Suzette, who Colette does love but resents for putting work before family. However, she begins to resent Suzette even more after the events of "Blackmailed", straining their mother-daughter relationship more than ever. After being sent to boarding school at the end of "Blackmailed", Colette has grown to feel betrayed by her biological parents as well, to the point of disowning Suzette and only desiring to get Jean-Luc's approval back for the sake of her lavish lifestyle and so she can continue plotting.
  • Hatred Makes You Dumb: Colette has always hated Star, and even her attempts to claim Danny are out of a desire to one-up her stepsister by stealing yet another boyfriend from her. As a result of her obsession with one-upping Star, Colette ends up humiliating and injuring herself and getting in trouble with her parents because of her shenanigans. In Blackmailed, Colette escalates her bad behavior by committing actual crimes such carjacking, blackmail, and framing Star and Danny's friends for crimes, which results in her being arrested and being sent to a strict boarding school. Danny even lampshades this in his "Reason You Suck" Speech to Colette, pointing out that if she hated Star so much, she could have just avoided her stepsister and minded her own business rather than constantly antagonizing Star.
  • Haughty "Hmph": She has a habit of doing this, especially when she's acting even more arrogant than usual.
  • Her Own Worst Enemy: Her impulsive desire to get whatever or whomever she wants causes her to take drastic actions that are at best a nuisance or at worst disregarding other people's safety and boundaries. Since she can never leave Star and Danny alone, not only do her plans fail, but they continue to get her in trouble or make her suffer some kind of injury or humiliation. She refuses to back down or recognize her own poor actions, which only brings even more pain and misery to her.
  • Hidden Depths:
    • Despite having a pretty exterior and a vain personality, Colette is far more clever than she appears to be. She was able to concoct a scheme to blackmail Danny into leaving Star for her and deduce Star is Starlight Spirit until being convinced otherwise.
    • As vapid and shallow as Colette is, she has some standards when it comes to men and looks for more than just money in a potential husband, as she vastly prefers the middle-class Nice Guy Danny Fenton over the wealthy Jerkass Donovan Loadman even when he was his father's heir.
    • She is fluent in Swedish and Italian, having learned them while her father was married to her second and first stepmother, respectively.
  • Hidden Disdain Reveal:
    • In "Forgotten", it's revealed she despises the A-Listers and only joined them for the status and perks at school, as she sees them as beneath her and has no problem blackmailing them into letting Danny join.
    • In "Blackmailed", she confirms she never cared about Stella or any of her former stepmoms and only acted nice to them so they'd spoil her.
  • Hopeless Suitor: Despite her good looks, she has no chance with Danny due to his interest in Star and the fact that he finds her obnoxious.
  • Horrifying the Horror: Even Danny’s ghostly enemies despise and have grown wary of her for being a selfish, obsessive, and irredeemable sociopath. Johnny 13 refuses to even consider dating Colette, Penelope Spectra accurately identifies her as a sociopath in the making or one already, and Skulker and Ember McLain are willing to put their feud with Team Phantom on hold to help them save Danny when Colette blackmails him into going out with her.
  • How They Treat the Help: It's easy to see that she's a MUCH worse Spoiled Brat than Star ever was because she has no respect for the lower classes and only regards them as good for serving her.
  • Humans Are the Real Monsters: In a story that involves evil ghosts, jiangshi, jealous sorcerers, and all kinds of supervillains, Colette is easily one of the most hated characters due to being a Spoiled Brat, Narcissist, Serial Homewrecker and basically a psychopath in the making, as well as an obsessive stalker to a guy who has repeatedly rebuffed her. Her brief experience with ghost powers shows that she is willing to go much farther if she could.
  • Humble Parent, Spoiled Kids: She is a huge Spoiled Brat, while her mother Suzette (and even her stepmothers) are Spoiled Sweet.
  • Hypocrite:
    • For someone who looks down on lower classes as "peasants", it doesn't stop her from obsessively wanting to date a middle-class boy like Danny.
    • Also, for a girl who casually dumps and rejects guys at the drop of a hat, she sure can't stand it when someone does either to her.
    • She hates guys like Dash and Mikey who can't take a hint that she's not interested in them, but she's fine with harassing Danny regardless of how many times he tells her to her face that he hates her and will never leave Star.
    • She repeatedly claims to want to "free" Danny from Star's grasp on him, but it's clear Colette just wants to put him under her thumb since she's far more controlling and possessive of Danny than Star ever was.
    • She finds Paulina’s one-sided fixation with Danny Phantom to be annoying and pathetic, but fails to notice that her own one-sided obsession with his human-self is MUCH worse.
    • In “Forgotten”, she accuses Star of insisting that people use her nickname out of some conceited belief that she’s the center of the universe.
    • In “Empowered”, she accuses Misty of stalking Danny when they encounter each other at the flea market while they’re both stalking him.
    • For all her claims of “loving” Danny, she ultimately only cares about herself since she’s fine with abandoning, harassing, manipulating, blackmailing, threatening, and abusing him for her own gain.
    • As much as she claims to look forward to the "challenge" of stealing Danny from Star, she has no problem resorting to underhanded and downright illegal tactics, thus showing she's just too egoistic to accept a boy rejecting her, especially for Star.
    • She despises Donovan Loadman for being an obnoxious Spoiled Brat that can’t take no for answer, but isn’t aware that she’s not much better than he is.
    • She can't stand anyone insulting her father, even Danny, but freely insults the loved ones of others, especially Team Phantom.
      • Also, while she snaps at Team Phantom whenever they insult her father, she has no problem with her maternal figures badmouthing Jean-Luc, and even does the same thing herself just to manipulate them into giving her whatever she wants.
    • She’s annoyed to no end by Stella’s attempts to “correct” her misbehavior but has no problem trying to forcefully change Danny into being her ideal boyfriend regardless of how miserable it makes him or how much he protests, especially since she’s too stubborn to take the hint that he completely hates her.
    • She wants to make Danny just as much of an elitist bully as she is but utterly despises Donovan for being exactly that.
    • Danny points out that, despite all her claims, she has no standards regarding men since she dated Kwan despite considering him an idiot just to hurt Star when they were going out and accuses her of even being willing to go out with Dash Baxter and Donovan Loadman as long as they were dating Star.
    • She absolutely refuses to be in an Arranged Marriage with Donovan because she completely hates him but she's obsessed with forcing Danny into a relationship and eventual marriage with her despite him making it 100% clear he detests her with every fiber of his being.
    • She can't understand why her biological parents ever got married when they're complete opposites but she's obsessed with marrying Danny, who she has nothing in common with and who can't stand her at all.
    • She considers things like kindness, friendship, and charity delusions that Danny is better off without but stubbornly refuses to accept that she has no chance with him even when everyone points this out and comments on Colette for being delusional to think she can force someone to love and be in a relationship with her.
    • She finds all her stepmoms pathetic for marrying her father Jean-Luc since he always replaces them when he gets sick of them, but she's fixated on Danny who clearly doesn't want anything to do with her and who she deep down knows would prefer literally anyone's company but hers.
    • For all her claims about being against murder (that is when not Drunk on the Dark Side upon receiving ghost powers in "Empowered"), she tries to expose Danny's secret identity to the world in "Blackmailed" in the hopes that he'll be captured and experimented on by the government or ghost hunters as payback for rejecting her yet again.
    • While she deludes herself into believing that she's improving Danny's life by forcing him into being with her, Colette has no problem making him clearly miserable by treating him like a servant under threat of punishment when he refuses to obey her anymore, abandoning him while in danger to save herself, and even tries to ruin his life by exposing Danny's secret out of the belief that he'll be captured and experimented on revenge for rejecting her for the final time.
    • Team Phantom establish that she’s contemptuous of everyone regardless of their social status, especially her own family since she only considers her parental figures tools to satisfy her materialistic needs and is a complete bitch to her own siblings, classmates, fellow aristocrats, and total strangers for no reason.
  • Hypocrite Has a Point:
    • Despite her obliviousness to her own hypocrisy, Colette is right that Paulina is pathetic for single-mindedly chasing after Danny Phantom, especially since he had no interest in her even before he started dating Starlight Spirit. Plus, from Colette's point of view, the ghost boy is even more unattainable for Paulina than Danny Fenton is for her.
    • While Colette is a much worse Abhorrent Admirer and stalker to Danny than Misty ever was, she is correct that Misty is still a stalker to Danny.
    • While she’s just as much of a brat as Donovan Loadman, her criticisms about him being an irritating pest that will never be boyfriend material and doesn’t even have his family’s wealth going for him anymore are 100% accurate.
  • I Can Change My Beloved: While she is interested in Danny, Colette also wants to change him into a preferable boyfriend.
  • Idiot Ball: She is stated to be smarter than the A-listers and actually gets good grades on her own merit. However, her rationality seems to fly out the window whenever Danny and Star are involved. Her attempts to break them up vary from scheming plots to outright pestering the both of them, which results in her either facing humiliation or physical pain, and yet she refuses to give up.
  • Idle Rich: She openly admits she plans on going back to France and sponging off her family's fortune without having to work a day in her life.
  • If I Can't Have You…:
    • After getting ghost powers in “Empowered”, she threatens to put Danny under her heel (literally) if he refuses to be with her, unsurprisingly he still refuses.
    • Having gone completely off the deep end in “Blackmailed”, she becomes determined to make Danny hers even if it destroys them.
  • Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: She sees herself as smarter and superior than the A-listers and Team Phantom, but she's nowhere near as smart as she sees herself as.
  • I Have You Now, My Pretty: Her obsession with Danny grows much worse in "Empowered" after she gets ghost powers, to the point she resorts to kidnapping and holding him hostage with the intent on forcing Danny to be with her via threats and getting rid of anyone who stands in her way, starting with his girlfriend Star.
  • I Just Want to Be Loved: Deconstructed. She desperately wants to be the one dating Danny and seems to genuinely believe that she is in love with him. However, her toxic home life left her with a very shallow and warped view on what love is due to her mother leaving due to her when she was a child, her father's constant cheating and remarriages, and her revolving door of doting but ignorant stepmothers, so she likely doesn't even understand what a healthy relationship is like.
  • I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Deconstructed. Originally, Colette hit on Danny to mess with Star, but his rejection made her like him. Now she wants to be with Danny, even voicing a desire to MARRY him in the future. However, while Colette likes Danny because he is different from the other guys she dated, she does not truly regard him as a person. Rather, she sees Danny as a challenge and a trophy to win, aiming to seduce and make him into what she wants as her boyfriend. It's clear that his repeated rejection of her has caused Colette to become fixated with Danny to the point where she is willing to do unethical things to steal him away from Star.
  • Imaginary Love Triangle: She thinks Danny is her soulmate and plots to steal him from Star no matter how many times he makes it clear he never had any interest in her.
  • Inadequate Inheritor: She becomes this to Jean-Luc at the end of “Blackmailed” for embarrassing him and besmirching their family name when her crimes are exposed, so he presents her with an ultimatum: either straighten up at Bludworth Academy or be disowned, which leaves Pierre as his sole heir.
  • Informed Deformity: According to Dr. Sampson, Colette is 7 lbs. underweight due to being too diet-conscious. Her parents begin working to remedy this, much to her dismay. Based on the above image, her body doesn't look any different than any from the canonical series.
  • In Love with Love: Colette has a crush on Danny but it's clear that her feelings are mostly an obsession because he is the first boy to reject her advances. She actually hopes to marry him one day and doesn't seem to care that he doesn't want anything to do with her. Colette even has at least one picture of Danny that she doctored to look like a wedding photo.
  • Insane Troll Logic: She actually seems to think that her attempts to harass Danny and Star, and break them up, will eventually make Danny want to date her. She cannot grasp that these very acts are just making Danny want her to stay away from him even more.
  • Insanity Immunity: A variant. In "Blackmailed", Ember McLain admits to Team Phantom that at her current power level, her love song wouldn't affect Colette because her insane obsession with Danny makes her delusional enough to believe she really loves him.
  • Insecure Protagonist, Arrogant Antagonist: Danny is a dedicated, well-meaning superhero who dealt with some personal conflicts while Colette is a vain Alpha Bitch who’s even more narcissistic than Vlad and Paulina combined.
  • Insufferable Genius: She’s a cunning schemer with an ego WAY bigger than the Eiffel Tower.
  • Invited as a Joke: Discussed; Colette wants to steal Danny from Star and eventually marry him, and later plans on inviting Star to the wedding in order to rub it in her face.
  • I Reject Your Reality: As far as she is concerned, Danny is her soulmate and nothing can convince her otherwise.
  • Ironic Name: Zigzagged. Her name means "victorious people", and while she has a history of unscrupulously triumphing over those she perceives as her enemies/inferiors (due to a combination of her own abilities and the right circumstances and people/pawns), she also arguably ends up with the most failures in the fic series.
  • Irony:
    • She ignores boys that pine for her attention but obsesses over Danny because he’s not interested in her at all.
    • It's heavily implied throughout the series and confirmed in "Blackmailed" that Colette has no love for Stella and is only nice to her to manipulate her. She also knows her current stepmother won't stay married to her father for much longer and is even counting down the days until Stella finally divorces Jean-Luc and he remarries. Even so, Colette has some genuine respect for Stella's mother, Beatrice, to the point where she calls Beatrice her favorite grandmother and considers it a compliment whenever people say they're alike. Despite caring nothing for Stella or the love her stepmother has had for her all these years, she generally admires Beatrice, while there's no evidence that her step-grandmother even cares about Colette outside of seeing her as a means to further the family's social standing, as she sees everyone else.
    • She’s extremely classist but fixates on the middle-class Danny Fenton.
    • Donovan Loadman is the only boy willing to date her despite being aware of her rotten nature (albeit for his own shallow, self-serving reasons) and he fits Colette's description of her ideal boyfriend by being just as much of a self-absorbed, classist bully as herself (which Team Phantom have lampshaded). However, Colette doesn’t want anything to do with him.
    • She wanted to ruin Team Phantom’s lives and get them away from Danny Phantom forever by arresting them for the crimes she framed them for. At the end of “Blackmailed”, her own life is ruined instead when she’s arrested after her crimes are exposed and is the only one cut out of Danny’s life for good by being sent to reform school in Europe while Team Phantom gets a restraining order against her.
  • Irrational Hatred: She has hated Star ever since they first met as 11-year-olds and has bullied and belittled her ever since. A flashback in "Unprepared" shows that Star never did anything to provoke Colette and actually tried to get along with her at first, but Colette continued to be mean to her for no apparent reason. Even Colette's pursuit of Danny stems from this, as her antics are less about her having any real feelings for him and more because he's just one more thing for her to take away from Star.
  • It Amused Me: She likes to harass or humiliate Star for her own twisted amusement.
  • It's All About Me: To Colette, everyone and everything is beneath her or all hers. She is very shallow, self-centered, and even her feelings for Danny are not love in the slightest, as Colette only wants him because he rejected her and she enjoys the "challenge" he provides her. She cares very little for even her own family, never giving them a second thought so long as they're giving her what she wants.
  • It Must Be Mine!: This basically sums up Colette's so-called love for Danny. She sees him as a prize to be won or an object to possess and acts very entitled towards him. She refuses to go after any guy aside from Danny, mostly to spite Star and to stroke her own ego.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Fashionable: Colette more than once stated that she'd love to give Danny a makeover in order to make him look like the gentleman she wants him to be. She forces him to get an unwanted makeover while she's blackmailing him in "Blackmailed".
  • Jerkass: Something the Bevier father and daughter have in common. Jean-Luc is a pompous jerk to anyone not attractive in a skirt, while Colette is a two-faced spoiled brat who makes hidden insults towards Star.
  • Jerkass at Your Discretion: Usually, Colette only shows her true colors around those she feels she can get away with mistreating, such as her stepsister. She pretends to be a well-behaved girl around her parents or authority figures.
  • Jerkass Has a Point:
    • She does notice that Star cares for Danny as more than just a friend in “Lost”. Star’s extremely protective attitude towards him was a dead giveaway.
    • She is right about the A-Listers being idiots.
      • The only thing Danny and Jazz agree with her on is Dash is a moron who won't amount to anything.
    • Colette knows Stella is wasting her time trying to get the former and Star to get along since they hate each other too much for that to ever happen.
    • Snobbish reasons aside, her disdain for Amity Park isn’t unjustified given the frequent ghost attacks that occur there.
    • She hates Donovan Loadman just as much as Star for being an insufferably annoying and spoiled Abhorrent Admirer.
    • She finds Kwan just as pathetic as Star does because of his subservience to the A-Listers.
    • She rightfully regarded Kwan as a total moron when they first met and wondered why Star would ever date a Dumb Jock who’s stupider and even easier for Colette to steal than her last boyfriend.
  • Jerkass to One: She is already very snobby and rude in general, but Star is the one whom Colette is a jerk to the most.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk:
    • While she was already a Rich Bitch and Big Sister Bully, the earlier stories hinted Colette at least cared about Stella to a degree as a parental figure. "Blackmailed" reveals that she NEVER cared about Stella or any of her previous stepmothers, and just uses them as a means to an end, which is why she stays in contact with the women after they leave.
    • Misty suggests that Jean-Luc is the only parent Colette wants around because he was the only one who never actually tried to parent her, and thus required no effort to manipulate.
  • Join or Die: During "Blackmailed", after Danny continues to refuse her, Colette tries to force him to be on her side by threatening to reveal his secret and warning him that people like the Guys In White would hunt him down.
  • Karma Houdini Warranty: After spending years acting innocent in Stella's presence to avoid punishment, Colette is finally caught lying in "Stuck" and is punished.
  • Karmic Butt-Monkey: With each story, she goes through increasingly humiliating experiences or misfortunes that result in characters mocking her in-universe, especially when ghosts get involved. Given what all the other tropes about her show, it's clear the audience is not meant to sympathize with her at all.
  • Karmic Shunning: After being exposed in "Blackmailed", Colette ends up being shunned by everyone other than her father.
  • Kids Play Matchmaker: A negative example and deconstructed, crossed over with Shipper with an Agenda. Colette is not only aware that Yolanda is her father's mistress for purely monetary reasons, but she even teams up with the woman, promising to help her get together with Jean-Luc after the latter leaves her current stepmother Stella if Yolanda helps her in her quest to steal Danny from Star. Colette is even willing to outright sabotage Stella's marriage to Jean-Luc if it will make her father leave her faster.
  • Kick the Dog: In “Blackmailed”, she insults Stella and Pierre to Danny’s face, and they’re the only members of the Bevier family he doesn’t hate.
  • Kid-anova: She’s been stealing Star’s boyfriends since they were preteens but always dumps them when she grows bored of them. Danny is the sole exception as Colette plans to keep him and his constant rejections make her obsessed with marrying him someday.
  • Kick Them While They're Down:
    • She does this to Star literally during the events of "Empowered" after she attacks and knocks her stepsister out with her newfound powers.
    • In "Blackmailed", stealing Danny and framing Team Phantom (while planning to get them arrested) wasn't enough for Colette, as she goes as far as to steal Star's birthday party for herself just to spite her.
  • Kids Are Cruel: Even as a child, she had a very manipulative and bullying nature that she hid behind an angelic facade around her parents.
  • Knight of Cerebus: While Colette has some comical moments, like when karma catches up to her, they do nothing to detract from the fact she's a rotten Spoiled Brat who has made it a hobby to make her stepsister Star miserable just for laughs since the minute they met through bullying her or stealing her boyfriends. Danny being the only exception has turned Colette into a Stalker with a Crush toward him. She's at her worst in "Empowered," where she gets ghost powers and plots to take over the world, destroy Star, and make Danny her's by force, and "Blackmailed," where she's willing to ruin Team Phantom's lives by framing them for crimes and blackmail Danny into dating her and emancipating himself from his family.
  • Lack of Empathy: For a teenage girl, she has shockingly little concern for the well-being or condition of other people, regardless if they're her stepfamily or even the boy she's attracted to. Star even says Colette "hates everyone but her dad and money".
  • Ladykiller in Love: A rare Gender-Inverted example and deconstructed. Colette is so used to boys throwing themselves at her feet that she becomes livid when a guy rejects her for the first time since it’s a serious blow to her overinflated ego, especially since said guy, Danny, vastly prefers her stepsister Star. Colette becomes obsessed with stealing Danny like she did with Star’s past boyfriends, only to be met with failure every time due to his devotion towards Star. This makes her resort to extremely underhanded and illegal tactics to get Danny, including stalking, spying, harassment, manipulation, blackmail, and threats.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Colette frequently faces consequences for her actions as the series goes on.
    • In Lost, both she and her father end up drenched with water from a fire hydrant that Cujo damaged.
    • In Stuck, after she was caught by Stella in a lie, Colette gets grounded for a month.
    • In Swapped, both she and Paulina end up caught in their attempts to break Danny and Star up and Colette's grounding is extended.
    • In Forgotten, her attempts to make Danny think they're a couple fall apart, causing him to "dump" Colette and her to end up passing out from shock at the sight of a tiger costume. Danny and Team Phantom later get revenge on her by altering her shampoo, resulting in her getting green hair and humiliated in front of the entire school.
    • In Cursed, her room gets destroyed during a fight between Danny Phantom and the Ghost Writer, and she later falls into a mud puddle while being chased by the latter, which Paulina gets a picture of for everyone at school to see. To top it off, her and Paulina's new plan to break Danny and Star up is exposed and Colette is once again grounded for a month, before finding out that her Stalker Shrine of Danny has been vandalized.
    • In Dressed, all of her attempts to sabotage Star in the Miss Teen Amity Park pageant fail and Valerie Gray wins instead. She and Paulina are then disqualified after they get into a Catfight, with Colette also assaulting a security guard escorting her away. As a result, even her doting father loses patience with her, grounding Colette indefinitely.
    • In "Empowered", she loses the ghost powers that she abused in her attempted takeover of Amity Park, gets the stuffing beaten out of her by Team Phantom (especially Star who threw the first punch) and Valerie, and is left stranded in the city dump with her memory wiped. She becomes homebound until her injuries heal, with the doctor also enforcing a calorie-filled diet when it's discovered she's been crash-dieting to lose weight, which is especially karmic after she spent the story insulting Star's figure. To top it off, Misty strikes her with lightning as payback for her racial insults.
    • She and her father Jean-Luc are banned from the country club after her crimes are revealed in “Blackmailed”.
  • Laughably Evil: While Colette herself isn't particularly funny, Team Phantom always takes pleasure in her often humiliating defeats.
  • Lazy Bum: She admits that she has no plans to ever work in her life and will just live off her family's fortune. Also, despite being smart enough to do her own homework, she prefers to get nerds like Mikey to do it for her.
  • Liar Revealed:
    • At the end of "Stuck", Stella realizes she was lying to her and punishes her for it.
    • An even bigger example in "Blackmailed" where not only Stella, but her biological mothers and stepmothers ALL discover how much she has lied to them to conceal her true agendas.
  • Light Is Not Good: When Misty ends up granting her ghost powers, Colette fires bright red Hand Blasts and has a glowing white aura. She also seeks to become a megalomaniacal supervillain hellbent on taking over the world and making Danny hers by any means necessary.
  • A Lighter Shade of Black: Zigzagged. She’s rotten to the core but unlike Team Phantom’s other enemies, she’s just a Spoiled Brat that has no interest in destroying them nor does she have any plans for Amity Park as she only cares about taking Danny from Star for herself. That said, she’s not above evil since she proved in “Empowered” that she’s capable of FAR worse supervillainy when her newfound ghost powers quickly drive her insane and she becomes a threat to both Team Phantom and the city.
  • Likes Clark Kent, Hates Superman: Downplayed. She's obsessed with Danny Fenton but doesn't really care about Danny Phantom until she learns they're the same in "Blackmailed". The obsession remains.
  • Like Mother, Unlike Daughter: Her biological mother Suzette is everything she's not: kind, generous, and genuinely charming.
  • Lonely Rich Kid: She has no true friends and her mother is always away doing charity work while her father focuses on his business and social climbing. Her stepmothers try to be more involved, but always end up eventually leaving.
  • Loners Are Freaks: It’s clear her lack of true friends is a result of her snobby, anti-social, and just plain insane sociopathic behavior.
  • Loners Will Stay Alone: She has no real friends because nobody is willing to put up with her irredeemably awful personality.
  • Long Hair Is Feminine: She has long, dyed hair and is a Girly Girl Rich Bitch.
  • Love Interest vs. Lust Interest: She is the Lust Interest to her stepsister Star's Love Interest. Colette would often steal Star's boyfriends for the sake of one-upping her stepsister and dump them when she gets bored. When she sees that Star's new boyfriend Danny is loyal, Colette becomes obsessed with trying to steal him away, not because she's actually interested in him, but because she enjoys the challenge of seducing a guy who resists her. Meanwhile, Star is serious about her relationship with Danny, unlike Colette who only views relationships as a game. In addition, while Danny is unpopular, Star is okay with that, as she chose to be with Danny for his kind-hearted personality rather than his status. In contrast, Colette desires to shape Danny into someone popular after she steals him, showing that she cares more about status than love. Star genuinely loves Danny as she’s willing to risk her own life for him, change into a better person to win his heart, and stands up to her family and former friends the A-Listers on his behalf, whereas Colette only regards Danny as a personal trophy and won’t hesitate to abandon or abuse him without a shred of remorse.
  • Love Makes You Crazy: Her growing fixation with Danny has NOT done her sanity any favors as Team Phantom, the A-Listers, and the Beviers can attest to. It’s most evident in “Empowered” where her newfound ghost powers drive her insane to the point she becomes a megalomaniacal supervillain bent on world donation and making Danny her king by force, and then “Blackmailed” when she resorts to threatening Danny into dating her by blackmailing him with his secret identity and ruining his friends' lives by framing them for crimes they didn’t commit so he will only be loyal to her.
  • Love Makes You Evil: While Colette was already a Spoiled Brat and a Big Sister Bully to Star, she becomes even worse after deciding she wants Danny for herself. She has resorted to flirting, manipulation, stalking, attempts at sabotage, blackmail, and even taking advantage of amnesia at one point in the name of making Danny her boyfriend.
  • Loving a Shadow: She's more interested in the perfect gentleman that she believes Danny has the potential to become than Danny himself. Colette even plans to forcefully mold him into her ideal boyfriend by removing his heroic traits and making him as popular and cruel as herself, but obedient enough to follow all her orders, and only hers, by forcing him to cut out his loved ones from his life no matter how miserable it makes him so they'll make a better match.
  • Loving Bully: Deconstructed to the extreme. The only way Colette can express her interest in Danny is by being a total bitch to him and all his loved ones but that just makes them more desperate to get her out of their lives.
  • Lust Object: Mikey and formerly Dash, Kwan, and Tucker regard her as one, much to her utter revulsion.
  • Lust Makes You Dumb: Colette's rationality pretty much evaporates when she is around Danny, and acts no better than a clingy pest at best.
  • Machiavelli Was Wrong: Kwan and Team Phantom prove to her in "Blackmailed" that using threats, manipulation, and blackmail to get your way will only get you so far. Kwan becomes so sick of Colette's unrestrained cruelty that he helps the heroes bring her down for good by teaming up with them to expose her for the sociopathic monster she is, regardless of the effect it has on his social life since he hates helping her break up Star and Danny as well as ruin Team Phantom's lives out of pure sadism.
  • Mad Love: Colette is not above using bribery, manipulation, and even blackmail in her pursuit of Danny, despite the fact that he doesn't return her interest.
  • Madness Mantra: "I'm too beautiful to be angry." Throughout "Dressed", she repeats this to herself in response to any provocation until she finally snaps in the end upon losing the pageant.
  • Malicious Misnaming: With the exception of Danny, Colette calls Team Phantom several unflattering nicknames due to her disdain for them.
  • Manipulative Bitch: She has no qualms with using other people to further her own goals, such as suitors, friends and even her own family.
  • Mask of Sanity: She likes to act like she's a composed rich girl, but it doesn't take much to make her lose her cool. Any charm, friendliness, sadness, remorse, etc. she exhibits is purely superficial and only meant to conceal her true mentality and feelings.
  • Master Actor: She is stated to have some talent in acting and is able to easily fool people who don't know her well. Thankfully, Team Phantom don't fall for it.
  • Mean Boss: She’s even bossier than Paulina, Star, Valerie, and Beatrice combined since she constantly makes demands and hurls insults while completely ignoring other people's opinions and feelings, as demonstrated when she bosses Mikey around in “Forgotten”. Danny and Kwan are completely miserable from being forced to follow her orders in “Blackmailed”, which includes hurting Star and Team Phantom, when she threatens them into obeying her commands or else she’ll ruin their lives by exposing their secrets.
  • Meaningful Name: "Colette" means "victorious people", which is what she views herself as (and admittedly has been in the past). Given all her failures during the series, which come crashing down in "Blackmailed", it doubles as an Ironic Name.
  • Mirror Character: She's this to Donovan Loadman as they're both narcissistic, elitist Spoiled Brats that come from Old Money families who the main cast utterly loathe, didn't have their biological moms around while growing up, are the exact opposite of their decent biological parent of the same gender, lead a group of shallow "friends", and act as Abhorrent Admirers to one of the main protagonists out of a sense of entitlement while being Not Good with Rejection. The key difference is that Colette only thinks she loves Danny while Donovan has no such delusions and openly calls Star his property. Colette is also capable of brainstorming and executing her own plans, whereas Donovan lacks such creativity and his schemes are poorly thought out even in the short-term.
  • Missing Mom: Her biological mother has yet to make an appearance. Not much is known about her but Star implies that she left due to Jean-Luc's womanizing ways. Her mother finally appears in "Blackmailed", where it's revealed she is a traveling philanthropist named Suzette Dumont who divorced Jean-Luc when Colette was five, and hasn't really been around since.
  • Mommy Issues: Her biological mother's absence from her life for as long as she can remember is implied to have been a major catalyst for her many issues.
  • Money Dumb: The fact that she spent over $12,000 on a Halloween costume is quite telling.
  • Money Is Not Power: She just can't seem to understand (or refuses to accept) that being wealthy isn't enough to win Danny's heart and won't protect her from the consequences of her actions once her parents (especially Stella and Suzette) finally wise up about her true malicious nature and learn of her crimes.
  • Mood-Swinger: She can go from coldly indifferent to viciously hotheaded at the drop of a hat, especially when denied what she wants.
  • Moral Myopia: As far as she's concerned, ruining Star's day is okay but returning the favor is unforgivable.
  • More Hateable Minor Villain: While most of Danny's villains are too awesome or entertaining to hate, neither can be said for Colette, a cruel Big Sister Bully and Alpha Bitch who's tormented Star since the day they met just for kicks and is willing to use any means to steal her boyfriend Danny simply as a way to mess with her along with harassing their friends. She's so vile that even the sadistic Manipulative Bitch Penelope Spectra calls her a sociopath in the making.
  • Motive Decay: She originally just wanted to date Danny to mess with Star. However, his constant rejections made Colette genuinely interested in and later obsessed with him. Now, her prime motive is to steal Danny at any cost, no matter how much, pain, humiliation, or trouble it causes her.
  • Motor Mouth: One of her many annoying qualities to Danny is that she does NOT shut up because she’s either constantly talking about herself, bossing him around, or insulting everyone around her.
  • Mugging the Monster: No matter how many times she receives karma for her actions, Colette continues to pester Danny and Star. The former who is a ghostly superhero and the latter is a Badass Normal Action Girl.
  • Mundanger: She’s just a bratty teenager with no superpowers or ambition for supervillainy but she quickly proves to be much more vile than any of the villains in Team Phantom’s rogue galley because of her utter lack of scruples when it comes to getting what she wants, thus becoming a frighteningly realistic example of a sociopathic yandere. At first, Team Phantom just regards her as a major Spoiled Brat and nuisance that they’re happy to ignore but Colette's increasingly unstable behavior makes them, their allies, and even their enemies and the A-Listers afraid of her since they’re terrified of what she’s willing to do to get Danny. “Empowered” shows she IS capable of being much worse after getting ghost powers as she eagerly uses them to terrorize Amity Park and make Danny her king by force, even being willing to get rid of Star (and anyone she just doesn't like) permanently.
  • Murder the Hypotenuse: After going mad with power in "Empowered", she's willing to kill Star to make Danny hers.
  • Mutually Unequal Relation: Colette sees Danny as hers and only hers, while he has nothing but disdain for her and would rather be as far away from her as possible.

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  • Narcissist: She is very full of herself, to say the least. In fact, she seems to be an even worse one than Paulina. Sam and Star even note that Colette is only capable of loving her own reflection (and would still get into an argument with it over who’s prettier).
  • Nausea Fuel: To Danny, as just the thought of being romantically involved with Colette makes him want to hurl. When she manages to kiss him, he's disgusted to the point he's worried about becoming sick and proceeds to furiously clean his mouth.
  • Nature Versus Nurture: It's unknown how much of her cruel nature is due to being raised by an apathetic Rich Bastard like Jean-Luc and multiple loving but clueless stepmothers, and how much is due to her being a straight-up sociopath. Colette was born and raised in a ludicrously wealthy family and while her mother Suzette was a kind person and was very loving towards her, even as a toddler, Colette was pampered and even Suzette shamelessly spoiled her as well, which also contributed to Colette's self-centered attitude in the present day. However, it's shown that even as a child, Colette was very two-faced and manipulative, as she even behaved this way towards her first stepmother, pretending to be loving and respectful towards her in order to make her father happy and so she could keep being spoiled by her. She repeated this behavior towards all her stepmothers with Stella being the latest target of her deceptive ways. Colette also admits to Star that she truly had no real motive behind bullying her, other than she found it amusing.
  • Near-Villain Victory:
    • In "Empowered", Colette manages to knock out Star with her ghostly powers but decides to spare her since she wants to go after Danny first, but promises to deal with her stepsister later. This provides Star enough time to recover and team up with Misty, Val and Team Phantom in order to take her down later.
    • In "Blackmailed", she ends up discovering Danny's secret and through a complex scheme, successfully blackmails him into dumping Star and forcing him to date her instead while ensuring Team Phantom are framed for crimes that will get them expelled from school and eventually arrested. Thanks to the combined efforts of Star, Team Phantom, Misty, and eventually Kwan, they manage to defeat and expose her.
  • Never a Self-Made Woman: Discussed. She has stated more than once that she has no intention of ever working and would rather sponge off her father's wealth.
  • Never My Fault:
    • She has a habit of blaming Star whenever things don't go her way.
    • Colette refuses to believe that her horrible attitude is the reason why Danny won't give her the time of day even if he wasn't with Star.
    • During a trip to California, she mistakes a random boy for Danny and says it's the boy's fault for looking like Danny.
  • New Transfer Student: In "Stuck", she transfers to Casper High.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: One of her failed attempts to humiliate Star in "Visited" unwittingly foils one of Vlad's plans.
  • Nobody Touches the Hair: She is very protective of her hair, and becomes greatly dismayed if it gets messed up.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Given one by Star, Sam, Jazz, and Valerie when they beat the stuffing out of her in "Empowered" after she loses her ghost powers as payback for everything she put them through.
  • No Love for the Wicked: She has no understanding of love whatsoever, be it platonic or romantic. She merely stole Star’s past boyfriends for kicks and dumped them when she got bored of them. Despite her own delusions, Colette couldn’t care less about Danny as a person and only treats him as a trophy to take from Star out of spite and as a challenge to satisfy her own ego — she finds it inconceivable that someone prefers Star over her or that a boy can be immune to her charms, so she obsesses over the first boy to reject her. She also has no regard for any of her stepmothers, not caring if her father cheats on them and callously exploiting their naivety and love for her to make them spoil her. Colette does feel genuine familial affection toward her biological parents but it doesn’t make her any less of a horrible person since she’s willing to lie to and manipulate them for her own benefit.
  • Non-Action Big Bad: She’s a very persistent threat to Team Phantom but is no fighter because of her preference for using guile and manipulation to get her way as well as her disdain for physical effort or getting her own hands dirty. Subverted in “Empowered” where she becomes a major physical threat to both Team Phantom and Amity Park after receiving ghost powers.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: Towards Danny, much to his dismay.
  • No Social Skills: The fact that she's a major Spoiled Brat and Rich Bitch who isn't afraid to use her wealth to throw her weight around shows that she's not good with interacting with real people. In fact, the closest she seems to have in social skills is when she's either trying to bribe someone or manipulate them.
  • No Sympathy: A victim of this. Team Phantom make it clear they don't care if Colette gets hurt and are relieved when she gets stuck in the hospital after her little adventure in New York since she's not around to bother them anymore.
  • Not Blood, Not Family: "Blackmailed" shows that she never once truly loved or respected Stella or any of her previous stepmothers, seeing them more as tools to use and a walking ATM at best. The only parental figures she seems to hold any real love and respect for are her father Jean-Luc and her biological mother Suzette.
  • Not Good with Rejection: That's putting it mildly. It's taken to the most extreme when after acquiring ghost powers and letting them go to her already enormous ego in “Empowered”, she’s willing to murder Danny’s loved ones and threaten him into being with her just so she can finally have him all to herself.
  • Not Helping Your Case: She wants Danny to love her but her bitchy Control Freak nature and constant harassment of him as well as his loved ones only make him hate and avoid her to the point he wants her out of his life.
  • Not Me This Time:
    • In "Staged", Puck was revealed to be the true culprit of the stuff she was wrongfully blamed for.
    • In "Blackmailed", she didn't send Sam's parents fake invitations to the country club.
  • Not-So-Harmless Villain: Twice. In "Empowered", she temporarily gets ghost powers that she uses to menace Amity Park and Team Phantom. In "Blackmailed", she frames Team Phantom to get them out of Danny's life and blackmails him into dating her.
  • Not So Similar: To her fellow elitist snobs and/or Abhorrent Admirers:
    • Team Phantom acknowledges that as nasty as Paulina is, she’s ultimately just a spoiled bully and harmless nuisance who wouldn’t stoop to endangering others or ruining people’s lives to get what she wants, unlike Colette who is sociopathic enough to resort to murder after getting ghost powers or frame Team Phantom just to get them away from Danny then blackmail him into dating her.
    • Donovan Loadman is just as much of an elitist Spoiled Brat and sociopathic yandere as Colette but isn’t as manipulative or dangerous due to lacking the cunning and creativity to pose an effective threat to Team Phantom. He is also fully aware of Star’s hatred towards him but doesn’t care since he feels entitled to her and openly admits it by calling her his property.
    • To her own father, Jean-Luc. Everyone points out that they're alike in being Dirty Coward elitist snobs that take pride in coming from Old Money and have no problem with stealing someone else’s lover but when you look beneath the surface, they’re actually quite different. Jean-Luc is a hardworking wine salesman while Colette plans to live off her family’s wealth without working a day in her life. Jean-Luc believes that the elites should maintain a certain level of dignity to keep up appearances and not act unruly like commoners while Colette is The Unfettered who doesn’t care what she has to do to get what she wants. Jean-Luc is mostly apathetic towards Team Phantom and is fine with ignoring them, whereas Colette is a sadist who goes out of her way to torment them for kicks. Jean-Luc flirts with any pretty face he sees while Colette only has eyes for Danny Fenton. Jean-Luc is capable of accepting rejection while Colette becomes insanely possessive of Danny for being the first boy to ever turn her down and is obsessed with stealing him from Star by any means necessary. While FAR from a good husband since he’s an unapologetic womanizer, Jean-Luc is never abusive to his romantic partners nor does he use force or manipulation to make someone date him, as he’s fine with his wives leaving him. Colette is incredibly controlling and possessive towards Danny as she treats him more like property than a person and is fine with threatening him into being with her.
    • Colette and Misty both have an unrequited crush on Danny and are jealous of Star, wanting to steal him from her using questionable means, and have troubled family histories which spur their motives. However, Misty has enough of a conscience to avoid going too far as she strives to avoid collateral damage by not physically harming others while Colette doesn’t care who she steps on to get her way. Misty relies on her magic while Colette relies on her money and wits. Misty genuinely cares about her family despite their dysfunction and eventually reconnects with them while Colette treats her own stepmothers as pawns at best and has a very distant relationship with her biological parents. Misty's darkest actions are the result of her being manipulated by the real villains while Colette needs no such trigger.
    • At the end of “Blackmailed”, Danny confesses that he doesn’t believe Vlad and Colette are that similar because his Arch-Enemy proved in an alternate timeline that he’s at least capable of redemption because he felt guilty that his actions cost him everything and created Dark Phantom. On the other hand, Colette proved Beyond Redemption by stubbornly refusing to change her evil ways to the bitter end despite all the opportunities and having the genuine love of several maternal figures.
  • Obliviously Evil: She's too delusional and narcissistic to grasp why forcing Danny into a relationship with her is wrong and actually thinks she can make him like her if he sees what dating her is like, but only manages to get him to utterly despise her. In "Blackmailed", Colette outright insists to Danny that she's not a bad guy because she's only trying to "save [him] from a life of mediocrity".
  • Oblivious to Hatred:
    • She can't get it through her head that Danny absolutely loathes her and can't stand to be around her, no matter how many times he tells her point-blank. For example, when he confesses to turning her hair green in "Forgotten", Colette can't understand why, even after Danny points out he's still angry about everything she did to him and his loved ones while he had amnesia, and immediately accuses Star of putting him up to it.
    • She doesn’t know her step-grandfather Richard Traville has hated her and her father Jean-Luc since they first met for being obnoxious snobs.
  • Oblivious to Their Own Description:
    • She refers to Star as a "boyfriend-stealing harpy" at one point in Staged and a "thief" in Blackmailed in her envy over Star dating Danny, clearly not seeing the irony or hypocrisy.
    • She calls Misty a stalker to Danny when they encounter each other at the flea market while both of them are stalking him.
  • Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: While only a teenager, she's already just as bad if not worse than Beatrice Traville in this department, to outright abusive levels. Colette demands Danny become her boyfriend and future husband regardless of his feelings on the matter, makes him stay away from his loved ones so he’ll only listen to her, has no respect for his opinion or consent since she constantly orders him around and violates his personal space, expects him to wait on her hand and foot, snaps at him whenever he disobeys or displeases her, and uses threats to make him stay with her.
  • Offended by an Enemy's Indifference:
    • She refuses to accept that she can’t get Danny to fall for her like she got Star’s past boyfriends to.
    • While she has no interest in Donovan, she’s still upset that he would make her his third choice for a potential wife, behind Star and Sam.
    • In “Blackmailed”, she’s enraged that Johnny 13 and Danny Phantom think they’re too good for her and avoid her as a standard.
  • Offended by an Inferior's Success: She's so narcissistic she can't stand anyone getting more attention than her and it enrages her to no end that Danny vastly prefers Star's company to her own.
  • Ojou: Colette likes to act as the Proper Lady kind but is just the Spoiled Brat kind. She is the daughter of two French aristocrats and was handed everything on a silver platter growing up.
  • Old Money: She and Jean-Luc come from a French old money family, whose fortune came from their vineyard.
  • One Side of the Story: Colette constantly invokes this when she tries to manipulate other people who aren't aware of her true nature. She only gives her side of the story and always twists things to make herself look like an innocent victim and other people, such as Star or Team Phantom, are in the wrong. Stella, her mother, and stepmothers were certainly gullible enough to buy it for years.
  • Opportunistic Bastard: She is willing to take any chance to get what she wants, no matter who she has to hurt.
  • Opposites Attract: A deconstructed one-sided example, as she’s an elitist snob from Old Money that is obsessed with the modest, middle-class Nice Guy Danny Fenton, who she has nothing in common with but seeks to forcefully change into being more like herself to suit her tastes.
  • Parental Title Characterization: Despite being the same age as Danny and Star, she refers to her father as "Papa" and Stella as "Mama".
  • Peerless Love Interest: She sees herself as this in her "relationship" with Danny.
  • Pestering the Reluctant: Colette is constantly pestering Danny in hopes to make him date her, but Danny doesn't hesitate to reject her.
  • Pet the Dog: While she has some hidden spite and bitterness towards her biological mother Suzette, Colette's love and regard for her seem genuine, unlike with her ex-stepmothers. Even when manipulating Suzette, Colette notes her mother's admirable qualities which even Jean-Luc lacks, like being more understanding and open-minded.
  • Playing Hard to Get: She deludes herself into believing that Danny refuses her advances because he’s shy. She thinks the same thing about his ghost-self in “Empowered” when he’s grossed out by the Forceful Kiss she gave him.
  • Playing the Family Card: Colette's tactic when she tries to manipulate her mother and stepmothers is to exploit their love for her in order to get whatever she wants. She desperately tries to use this to get out of trouble when she gets caught in "Blackmailed", but they are having none of it.
  • Playing the Victim Card: Whenever things go bad for her, you can expect her default response is to refuse to acknowledge any wrongdoing she did to deserve it and find someone to blame, usually Star.
  • Plot Allergy: "Traveled" reveals she is allergic to latex and peanuts.
  • Polite Villains, Rude Heroes: Inverted. Colette is a snobby Alpha Bitch while Danny is a heroic, well-meaning Nice Guy.
  • Politically Incorrect Villain:
    • She constantly refers to people of lower status than her as "peasants", and "Empowered" also implies that she may be a racist; Colette refers to Misty as Japanese, who later corrects that she's Chinese but the French girl doesn't care. After getting her memory of the events wiped and being in a bad mood due to suffering from her injuries, Colette still stoops low enough to call Misty "Rice Breath" to her face.
    • In "Blackmailed", Colette dismisses people who depend on charity as lazy. She also believes mental health is a problem for poor people and she is above such things.
  • Popular Is Dumb: Played With and Subverted. Colette is actually stated to do well academically, and is clearly sharper and more clever than Paulina and Dash. However, she is very spoiled and lazy, focusing more on short-term gratification and never seeming to consider the consequences or long-term effects of her actions. Colette is also shown to be very reckless, especially when she is frustrated and impatient. This is most evident during her failed attempts to gain Danny as a boyfriend.
  • Popular Is Evil: Deconstructed as Danny points out in “Blackmailed” that her horrendous personality is killing her popularity because it repulses people who are aware of what an awful person she is and it makes her too unbearable for even shallow snobs like the A-Listers to put up with. Even Dash points out in “Golden” that her unhealthy obsession with Danny is taking a huge toll on her social life since the A-List is becoming increasingly creeped out by her fixation with the Fenton boy.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Despite being very impulsive and selfish, she sometimes have moments of this, especially when she thinks she has the upper hand.
  • Preppy Name: Her full name is Colette Anastasie Marie Bevier.
  • Pride: One of her biggest flaws is her giant ego and need to be the best.
  • Pride Before a Fall: Colette Bevier smugly believes that she has finally won against Star in the story Blackmail.
    • To go into detail, Colette discovers Danny's secret identity as Danny Phantom and uses this information to successfully blackmail him into breaking up with Star and being HER boyfriend. Danny initially tried to refuse and intimidate her into backing off, but failed due to Colette's sheer stubbornness and because she knew that he wouldn't seriously hurt her. Reluctantly, Danny publicly breaks up with Star to Colette's cruel satisfaction, who enjoys Star's humiliation and pain. To add insult to injury, Colette also successfully framed Danny's sister Jazz, two best friends Sam and Tucker, and Star for crimes that would get them expelled/suspended from school and threatens Danny that she will frame them for worse stuff if he refuses to go along with her orders.
    • Also, Colette believes that her father's marriage to her current stepmother Stella is going to end soon, having never cared for that woman and believing that Stella outgrew her usefulness after playing the part of a loving stepdaughter to her for over four years she's happy never to see Stella again as she plans on returning to Paris with her father and Danny so she can mold him into her perfect version of a husband.
    • In her last act of petty spite, she blackmailed Star into taking her birthday party for herself and revealed to Star that she never had a reason to be a bully to her and that this was just a competition and fun for her. But unknown to Colette, her plan was falling apart.
      • First, Danny's friends and sister, along with Star, were working hard to stop her plan; they even teamed up with Danny's ghost enemies and an enemy turn ally, a sorcerer who all hate Colette and, despite technically being villains are disgusted by her evil and vile actions. Together, they discover most of Colette's blackmail material and crimes and clear their names at school. Finally, at Colette's birthday party, where she is on cloud nine because of how she won, things begin to unravel and destroy her.
      • Second Star, parents, and family are shocked that the party is for Colette and are more shocked when she presents Danny as her boyfriend, causing them to become suspicious. Finally, when Colette tells Danny to show everyone how he feels about her, Danny spits in her face in front of everyone. This causes Colette to go into an angry rant about her plans, but unknown to her, Kwan, who she blackmailed to help, is sick of her behavior and wants to help Danny and Star put a microphone into her purse, which causes everyone to hear her crimes, including Stella, her former stepmother's, and her biological mother, Suzette Dumont. And then she found that her blackmail material was gone because Tucker had secretly destroyed it with his PDA. What little of her reputation was left among the public, who have all seen her as psycho for her obsession with Danny but believed was a harmless brat, was destroyed as everyone was disgusted with her crimes, and she lost the love, respect, and influence she had on her stepmother and biological mother. Realizing how badly she is in the situation, Colette attempts to run from the country club and the party, but because she stole the party from Star, Star's loved ones are able to stop her from escaping, and she is now forced to face the consequences of her actions.
  • Privilege Makes You Evil: She has a comparably more opulent and privileged lifestyle than Star, and her overall motivation is to make her stepsister's life a living nightmare.
  • Privileged Rival:
    • Played with. While Star also comes from a rich family, Colette has a more luxurious lifestyle and Stella and Jean-Luc rarely discipline or set limits for her, making her run wild and cause trouble for others, especially her stepsister.
    • She’s also this to Misty since they’re both pursuing Danny despite him already going out with Star, with Colette being a Blue Blood from an Old Money family while Misty comes from a lower-middle class household.
  • Professional Butt-Kisser: She and Jean-Luc suck up to Stella's parents Richard and Beatrice in the hopes of being included in their will (not that Richard ever will since he's hated them from day one).
  • Proper Lady: Subverted. She believes that she is one but is just a spoiled brat.
  • Proud Beauty: She seems to be on par with Paulina, although is more discreet about it.
  • Psychopathic Womanchild: She's not just bratty, but very obsessive and implied to be sociopathic. She's demanding or dismissive with almost everyone, easily consumed by jealousy and hatred, throws tantrums whenever she doesn't get her way, and refuses to let go of what she wants no matter how many times she's beset with failure.
  • Psychological Projection:
    • Colette often calls Star a witch and believes that she is not worthy of Danny's time, even describing her as "boy/boyfriend-stealing", traits that fit her better than Star.
    • She also accuses Star of manipulating Danny into being with her and doing illicit things together behind their parents' backs, since it's exactly what Colette would do.
    • In "Blackmailed", Colette's fabricated complaints to her mother about her home life are the exact inverse of her real relationships with her father, Stella, Star, and Danny, twisted to make herself the victim.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: She gives two in "Blackmailed":
    • Colette gives one to Donovan Loadman about how he's nothing but a nuisance regardless of how rich he is and he's not even 1/10th of the man Danny is, along with being even less worth her time now that he's a disgraced fool that's been disinherited and forced to work a lowly job like some peasant.
    • Colette later gives one to Kwan about how he doesn't have the moral high ground over her since he was a bully who blindly followed the A-Listers for his own benefit long before she blackmailed him because he secretly knew he was nothing without his status at school.
  • Punished with Ugly: A variant as after Colette is arrested, Misty curses her tiara to cause her to swell up with hives whenever she tries to reveal Danny’s secret identity.
  • Pygmalion Plot: A dark example. More than once, she has stated that she wants to "help" Danny by forcefully turning him into her idea of the perfect gentleman that she will one day marry. Needless to say, Danny wants nothing to do with her.
  • Redheads Are Ravishing: Subverted to the max. She’s a (fake) redhead who boys find gorgeous at first, but quickly become repulsed by her extremely toxic personality. Danny is nauseated by the mere thought of her, Tucker completely loses interest, the jocks grow sick of her Control Freak attitude, the rest of the boys in Amity Park see her as a total psycho for her obsession with Danny, and Johnny 13 wouldn’t even consider asking her out if she were the last girl on Earth or the Ghost Zone.
  • Red Herring: She's this in "Staged", initially blamed for Puck's antics at first.
  • Red Is Violent: She’s a fake redhead obsessed with ruining Star’s life and those of people she just doesn’t like or who get in her way, and grows even worse as she undergoes Sanity Slippage over time from her never-ending series of failures to steal Danny from her stepsister. She becomes full-blown Ax-Crazy after getting ghost powers in “Empowered” and learning Danny's secret in “Blackmailed”, where she even physically abuses him for refusing her for the final time.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: She’s the impatient and immature Red Oni to her father Jean-Luc's snobby and apathetic Blue Oni.
  • Rejection Affection: Colette continues to pursue Danny, despite the fact that he is dating her stepsister and dislikes her.
  • Relationship Sabotage: Colette's entire M.O seems to revolve around ruining Star's entire love life and Danny is her latest target.
  • The Resenter: She deeply hates and resents her stepsister very much for unknown reasons, and this resentment extends to Star's friends and loved ones (with the possible exception of Danny).
  • Revenge Through Corruption: Colette wants to steal Danny from Star and turn him into her ideal boyfriend. Which is basically someone who is just as arrogant and snobby as she is.
  • Rich Bitch: Colette revels in hailing from an affluent family and believes it makes her inherently superior. She frequently lords the prestige of the Bevier name over others, especially when someone won't cater to her whims or fall over themselves to please her.
  • Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: As far as she's concerned, the world only exists to fill her needs.
  • Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor: Has this dynamic with Misty Smith-Yang as they're both interested in Danny (despite him already dating Star), with Colette being the Rich Suitor since she's a spoiled Alpha Bitch that comes from a French Old Money family.
  • The Rich Want to Be Richer: Despite already being from a wealthy Old Money family, she tries to use Misty’s magic necklace to wish for $100 billion and/or legal ownership of the United States of America in “Empowered”. It doesn’t work because the wish is powered by Misty’s magic and she refuses to help Colette since she completely hates her, plus the wish is so outrageous Misty physically doesn’t have the power to grant it.
  • Ridiculously High Relationship Standards: Played with; Rather than go after someone who already meets her standards, Colette makes it clear that if she ever did manage to get Danny as a boyfriend, she'd try to change him into HER idea of the perfect partner, which is essentially a high society snob who is obedient to her. During "Blackmailed", she even plans to force Danny to take lessons that will teach him to be the ideal gentleman she wants him to be. Her demands include etiquette, elocution, posture, chivalry, chess, waltz, music, etc., along with a long list of rules that she threatens him to follow. Danny is shocked that the list is even taller than she is.
  • Right for the Wrong Reasons:
    • In "Bonding", she does notice that Danny Phantom shares a physical resemblance to Danny Fenton but just assumes it's because they must be related.
    • Colette is right about Danny being different from the other guys in Amity Park, but not for the reasons she thinks.
  • The Rival:
    • She and Star have been rivals since they were 11 and have always competed for things. Now, Colette is trying to rival her for Danny Fenton.
    • To a lesser degree, she soon becomes a rival to Paulina for the status of the most popular girl at Casper High, with the two of them fighting to come out on top over the other in events like the Miss Teen Amity Park beauty pageant and a Halloween costume contest.
  • Sadist: It's been made clear on more than one occasion that she genuinely enjoys making Star miserable, taking pleasure in her suffering and actively plotting ways to hurt her.
  • Sanity Slippage: Her obsession with Danny and rivalry with Star, as well as her many defeats and humiliations, have taken a toll on her mental health. Prime examples are in "Empowered" and "Traveled".
  • Sarcasm-Blind: She's incapable of realizing when Danny is snarking at her.
  • Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!: Colette seems to live on this trope and while she is considered physically attractive, her personality is anything but beautiful. Also, Screw the Rules, I Have Money! seems to be her fallback strategy when her looks won't work as she is not above bribery either.
  • Second Place Is for Losers: She certainly seems to think so.
  • Seduction as One-Upmanship: Her favorite "hobby" is stealing Star's boyfriends for herself, and then dumping them once she grows bored of them. She has no shame in this, seeing it as nothing more than a sadistic game.
  • Selective Obliviousness: In "Blackmailed", Danny lampshades that Colette is so possessive and controlling of him because deep down, she knows he prefers anyone else's company over hers since he has nothing but deep loathing for her, but can't admit it to herself.
  • Self-Proclaimed In-Law: She sometimes refers to Jazz as her future sister-in-law, much to Jazz's disgust.
  • Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: She stubbornly insists that Danny is her soulmate and becomes creepily possessive of him, despite him constantly making it 100% clear he loathes her to the core.
  • Self-Serving Memory: She likes to twist events to make herself look like the victim to get away with her horrible behavior, which Team Phantom lampshade by noting she’s a Psychopathic Womanchild that’s incapable of taking responsibility for her own horrendous behavior, and always blames everyone else for her problems.
  • Serial Homewrecker: She's had a habit of stealing Star's boyfriends, though never keeping them just to mess with her. Danny, however, is the exception she wants to keep.
  • Seven Deadly Sins: She's demonstrated characteristics of all seven deadly sins:
    • Lust: She's obsessed with Danny regardless of the fact he's in love with Star and will stop at nothing to get together with him, often fantasizing the future she wants for them while disregarding his feelings in the matter.
    • Sloth: She admits she plans on living on her family's wealth so she doesn't have to work a day in her life. Also, while she's smart enough to do her own schoolwork, she prefers to make Mikey do it like the rest of the A-Listers.
    • Wrath: She gets even nastier when she's denied what she wants, to the point of throwing loud tantrums or even inflicting physical and emotional harm on others.
    • Envy: Part of the reason she's obsessed with Danny is that her ego can't handle the fact that Star is dating a boy who genuinely likes her instead of Colette.
    • Greed: She always wants more despite already being rich. She even tried to use a wish from Misty's enchanted necklace in "Empowered" to get $100 billion and legal ownership of the United States of America.
    • Pride: She takes her narcissism to unhealthy levels. She's snobby, vain, elitist, and is determined to make Danny hers by any means just because she's too full of herself to accept that there's a boy who has no interest in her or that she can't steal from Star.
    • Gluttony: She's not really a glutton because of her fixation with maintaining her figure but she does have a preference for haute cuisine and never knows when to stop indulging her hobby of messing with Star's life.
  • Shabby Heroes, Well-Dressed Villains: Downplayed. Colette is a narcissistic, sociopathic Alpha Bitch whose usual outfit consists of a gaudy and overpriced yellow dress while the Humble Hero Danny prefers to stick with casual clothing.
  • Shadow Archetype:
    • She is one to Star. They're both rich kids who live with their divorced father, but Colette is what Star could have ended up being like if Johnathan spoiled her and enabled her worst impulses.
    • Of Paulina since they’re both Alpha Bitch Spoiled Brats that are Abhorrent Admirers to Danny and bully Team Phantom, but Colette has all of Paulina’s negative qualities and none of her few redeeming ones, like her genuine if unhealthy crush on Danny and admiration for the ghost boy's heroism.
    • Of her own father Jean-Luc Bevier since they’re both elitist Dirty Cowards that hate Team Phantom and have no problem trying to steal someone else’s lover but unlike her father, Colette has no maturity, work ethic, or genuine love for her family (with a few exceptions) whatsoever.
  • Shallow Cannot Comprehend True Love:
    • Colette just can't seem to understand why Danny would prefer Star over her.
    • She's incapable of grasping what genuine love is and believes that Danny only dates Star because she's controlling him and that he only hangs out with Team Phantom so he can use them, since that is why Colette hangs out with the A-Listers and makes sure to stay on good terms with her stepmothers.
    • Colette deludes herself into believing she can make Danny love her by blackmailing him into dating her and keeping him away from his family and friends, convinced it is only their influence that is preventing the two from falling in love. She's also convinced she can make Danny as vile as her after he spends enough time with her and experiences the full lavish lifestyle befitting a future Bevier.
  • I Shall Taunt You: She does this whenever she thinks she has the upper hand against Team Phantom, especially Star.
  • Shameless Fanservice Girl: She’s naturally this on account of her narcissism and Attention Whore tendencies, as she enjoys flaunting her beauty in public and having guys drool over her. She especially likes wearing revealing outfits just to get Danny’s attention, like when she wore a skimpy bikini at the water park in an attempt to steal him from Star in “Sunk”.
  • Sheltered Aristocrat: She is from a rich family and clearly does not know how the real world works.
  • Sibling Rivalry: She and Star hate each other and compete for things, with Colette usually winning due to Stella taking her side (at first).
  • Sibling Yin-Yang: With her half-brother Pierre, who she considers a pest at best. While Colette is a manipulative, narcissistic Spoiled Brat with sociopathic tendencies whose mere existence is abhorred by the heroes and their loved ones, Pierre is a genuinely sweet and harmless infant who everyone adores, even people who utterly despise his snobby family.
  • Silver Spoon Troublemaker: She is the daughter of a wealthy family, and she's made it her life's mission to make Star miserable, namely by stealing away her boyfriends.
  • Single-Target Sexuality: For all her wealth and looks, you'd assume that Colette would go for someone who is more of a match for her, but she only has eyes on Danny Fenton, who can't stand her. Not even Danny Phantom makes a blip on her radar, even if she admits that he is attractive.
  • Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy: A unique but deconstructed example as Colette plans to forcefully groom Danny into someone as popular and cruel as herself, showing she cares more about status than him as a person. This stands in stark contrast to Star, who grows to love Danny regardless of his unpopularity enough to permanently quit the A-Listers.
  • Situational Sociability: Colette created a facade of an innocent, sweet, well-behaved girl around her parents, stepmothers, and anyone whom she wishes to manipulate. To people who she looks down on or otherwise doesn't care about, she doesn't bother to hide her despicable nature and is willing to further degrade and harass them if she thinks she can get away with it.
  • Skewed Priorities: Big time! Even if you count that she's a Dirty Coward, she usually worries more about her looks and material possessions than her own life. The Ghost Writer even calls her out on this (instead of fearing for her life, she starts to complain about her hair and clothes).
  • Slobs Versus Snobs: The humble and compassionate middle-class Danny Fenton utterly despises the elegant but rotten to the core Rich Bitch Colette Bevier. Interestingly, it’s one-sided since Colette is fixated on making Danny hers but hates his common background and aims to mold him into a sophisticated gentleman to so he’ll be a better match for her, regardless of what means she has to use.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: She thinks her looks and pedigree make her superior to everyone else.
  • Smarter Than You Look: She appears just as vapid and shallow as Paulina but reveals herself to be observant enough to notice Star’s romantic feelings for Danny and has the cunning to formulate elaborate plans that make her a frequent thorn to Team Phantom.
  • The Smart Guy: Deconstructed. She KNOWS she’s smarter than the A-Listers and it only fuels her hatred for them.
  • Smitten Teenage Girl: With Danny, to yandere levels. She stalks, flirts with, and tries to cling to him every chance she gets, keeps a Stalker Shrine of him, and ardently fantasizes married life with him.
  • Smug Smiler: She is prone to these when she is acting particularly haughty.
  • Smug Snake: She acts very arrogant and condescending towards those she looks down on... which is pretty much everyone, especially Star.
  • The Sociopath: Heavily implied, as she's extremely self-centered to almost inhuman levels. Colette has an overinflated image of herself with a blatant inability to see herself in the wrong, no genuine loyalty or attachment to anyone (save maybe her biological parents), values relationships only in terms of self-gain as she is pathologically unable to even treat people with basic decency unless she can get something out of it, actively strives to tear others down for her own sick gratification to the point of hating if her targets are happy for any reason, places more value on her material possessions than people’s lives, and seems incapable of real emotion, though is an expert manipulator who can feign innocence and sincerity if need be. Several characters, including Spectra, explicitly note that Colette either is a sociopath or at least becoming one.
  • Social Climber:
    • She only hangs out with the A-listers for the perks and status that are part of the group.
    • While she would love nothing more than to date middle-class Danny Fenton, Colette makes it clear that she'd force him to cut ties with his family and be emancipated or adopted by a Blue Blood family of her choosing if she could get away with it.
  • Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond: She's too much of a narcissist to even fathom why Danny would be the first guy to completely reject her advances, and becomes obsessed with making him hers regardless of how low she has to stoop to steal him from her stepsister Star.
  • Sore Loser: She never takes it well if someone (especially Star) is better than her at anything or has something she doesn't.
  • Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Downplayed, but more than likely defied by the present. Colette had little interaction with her mother for most of her childhood, something that seemed to have bothered her greatly, and grew up with a doting but self-absorbed father and a revolving door of well-meaning but clueless stepmothers. However, "Blackmailed" shows that any real sadness Colette may harbor over not having a mother anymore is overshadowed by how little she thinks of Suzette and her work, as well as her four stepmothers whom she doesn't truly respect, regarding them as pawns who are only useful for doing her bidding and can be easily replaced as if they're just a pair of shoes.
  • Spoiled Brat: Colette is spoiled by her extremely wealthy father and is so used to getting her way that she'll act out if her demands aren't met exactly how she desires and won't accept it when she doesn't get something she wants. Notably, she won't take Danny saying no for an answer.
    • In Snowed, she has a fit over getting "only" three dozen Christmas presents from her parents because it's less than last year.
    • In Traveled, she insults a restaurant server for making her wait 10 minutes for her order.
  • Stalking Is Funny if It Is Female After Male: Averted as Colette's obsession with Danny is realistically portrayed as unacceptable. Team Phantom is annoyed to no end with her antics and even trying to get a restraining order against her, her parents struggle to control her and are even considering taking extreme measures like sending her to boarding school and/or a therapist, and even the A-Listers are creeped out by her fixation on Danny to the point it's having a negative effect on her popularity.
  • Stalker Shrine: She has one of Danny in her room, which includes doctored photos of a wedding picture between them. She's even created one in her locker at school like Paulina's.
  • Stalker with a Crush: She keeps an eye on Danny without his consent.
  • Stupid Evil: For all her scheming and manipulations, Colette is still just a whiny brat who is willing to continue harassing others to get what she wants, even after all the pain, trouble, and humiliation it causes her. She never gets better either.
    • Colette could easily use her looks, charm, and wealth to get a boyfriend that’s a better match for her but prefers to waste all her time obsessing over a guy who never even liked her to begin with and only has eyes for her stepsister Star, who he is dating, just for the sake of her wounded pride over being told “no” and to spite Star in some petty sibling rivalry.
  • Surrounded by Idiots: She doesn’t bother hiding her justifiably low opinion of the A-Listers' intelligence, given her frustration in dealing with Brainless Beauty Paulina and Dumb Jocks Dash, Dale, and Kwan because they value looks, sports, wealth, and status above all else.
  • Sympathy for the Devil: Colette Bevier's biological mother, Suzette Dumont, and her previous stepmothers are all horrified by her crimes and to learn how much she secretly doesn't respect them once they learn she was tricking them all of this time. They are heartbroken and furious to learn that Colette was only playing the part of a loving daughter for years while secretly using them for her own goals and never really loved them. All of the women are broken by their delusions of Colette being a good girl and agree that she needs to be punished for her crimes and are angry at her father, Jean-Luc Bevier, for raising her to be a sociopathic brat, but despite everything, the women acknowledge that they had played a role in shaping her to be a sociopathic brat who believes she can do whatever she wants because all the women indulged and spoiled her and failed to help raise her to be a good person and shape a moral compass for her.
    • Her biological mother, Suzette Dumont, is especially heartbroken by the anger and contempt Colette has for her for never spending time with her growing up due to her career. Suzette took her daughter's words to heart and realized too late that she should've prioritized raising her daughter and then focusing on her charity projects, and that's partially her fault that her daughter ended up like this.
  • Taking Advantage of Generosity: Colette often manipulates Stella into giving her what she wants. In “Blackmailed”, it’s revealed she’s been doing this to ALL her stepmoms by pretending to be a good girl who loves them since she remains in contact with them solely so they’ll satisfy her materialistic needs. She’s not above doing this with her biological parents too.
  • Tautological Templar: Colette's entire worldview is based on satisfying her sense of entitlement so in her warped mind, it's perfectly fine to step on anyone she wants to because it's her right as a Blue Blood.
  • Teens Are Monsters: She is an unfeeling girl who is willing to cause trouble, including harming others, to get whatever she wants, be it her stepsister or the guy whom she is supposedly in love with.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: She doesn’t like working with Yolanda and Cartland in “Blackmailed”, but does so because she needs their help to get Team Phantom away from Danny by framing them for crimes they didn’t commit.
  • Tender Tomboyishness, Foul Femininity: With Star. While Star is a reformed Beta Bitch and Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak who became a superheroine, Colette is a haughty and prissy Rich Bitch who enjoys wearing fancy dresses and despises any physical labor.
  • Then Let Me Be Evil: She’s already rotten to the core, but she has two instances where she becomes even worse:
    • In “Empowered”, she goes from a pampered brat to a full-blown supervillain obsessed with ruling the world and making Danny her king after acquiring ghost powers, determined to take whatever she wants by force.
    • In “Blackmailed”, having reached her limit with Danny’s rejections, Colette goes from a manipulative Spoiled Brat to a full-blown yandere (barring only her actions in "Empowered") who's fine with ruining Team Phantom's lives just for fun and to steal Danny from Star. She decides to force Danny into a relationship by blackmailing him with his Secret Identity and threatening to destroy his friends and family's lives (which she plans to do anyway once she has him under her control).
  • They Just Don't Get It: She can't get it through her thick head that Danny doesn't want anything to do with her no matter how many times he tells her to her face that he completely hates her and wants Colette out of his life for good.
  • They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: She is quite possibly one of the biggest sociopaths in the fic series, being a yandere towards Danny and a Big Sister Bully towards Star. However, she is not a ghost monster, just a mere human teenage Rich Bitch with entitlement issues.
  • Thin-Skinned Bully: Colette is a very arrogant and cruel girl who enjoys causing others grief, especially her stepsister. However, she starts whining and throwing tantrums when things don't go her way or if she faces any trouble from anyone/anything.
  • Token Evil Teammate:
    • She is the most malicious member of the Bevier family.
    • She is undoubtedly the most awful of the A-Listers because of her sheer sociopathic cruelty and unmatched narcissism that makes even Paulina look humble by comparison.
  • Token Human: With Freakshow in prison and Beatrice Traville & Donovan Loadman out of the picture, Colette is the only genuinely evil human that Team Phantom has to contend with on a regular basis.
  • Token Rich Student: She's from a ludicrously wealthy family with even more money than some of the A-Listers combined, but attends a public school like Casper High. However, it is justified as Stella sent her there due to moving the Beviers to Amity Park in order to remain close to Star.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Twice
    • She temporarily got ghost powers in "Empowered" and became a terrifying supervillain who Team Phantom was only able to defeat with trickery to depower her.
    • In "Blackmailed", she devises a complex scheme to frame Team Phantom so they'll stay away from Danny. After discovering Danny's secret identity, she successfully blackmails him into being her boyfriend and refuses to back down no matter how much he tries to intimidate her.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass:
    • Shockingly, yes. In "Empowered" after Misty grants her wish, Colette is fully willing to resort to kidnapping, murder and world domination with her newfound powers to get everything she thinks she deserves.
    • She was already an Abhorrent Admirer, Alpha Bitch, and Big Sister Bully but in "Blackmailed", she's willing to ruin Team Phantom's lives by framing them just to have Danny all to herself.
  • Too Important to Remember You: Colette admits to Star she doesn't care to remember the names of "peasants" or boys not cute enough to be worth her time like Tucker Foley and Donovan Loadman.
  • Too Much Alike:
    • Probably why she and Paulina hate each other, as they are both spoiled Daddy's Girls and stuck-up, unpleasant Alpha Bitches who are obsessed with being above everyone else and hopelessly fixated on a boy out of their reach.
    • Donovan is just as much of an entitled brat and yandere as Colette, and she finds him unbearably annoying because of it as she admits to Donovan that she vastly prefers Danny for having a much more bearable personality.
  • Too Proud for Lowly Work: She makes it clear that she has no intentions of ever getting a job, preferring to mooch off her family's wealth.
  • Toxic Family Influence: Her years of bullying played a major role in shaping Star's Beta Bitch personality.
  • Toxic Lover Influence: She WANTS to be this to Danny since she feels they’d be a better match if he was just like her: a cruel bully who looked down on everyone. Not that Danny would ever go along with it even if he weren’t an All-Loving Hero since he hates her too much to ever want to be anything like her.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: She enjoys high-class French cuisine, including escargot, foie gras, caviar, and pigeon pie.
  • A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Most, if not all, of Colette's misfortunes are due to her acting without thinking or understanding how the repercussions would affect her.
  • Tragic Villain: Despite Colette's snobbish and cruel nature, there is some tragedy to her life as her father pays little interest in her outside of supplying her materialistic needs and her biological mother Suzette left them due to his infidelity. This, along with Jean-Luc's constant remarriages, may be part of the reason she acts the way she does, such as her need to be showered with attention and expensive gifts and how she developed her shallow, cynical views on love. Colette also seems to be sincerely attracted to Danny in some way due to being the first boy she met who has resisted her advances, as she does admit that she finds him cute and more interesting than the rest of the boys who vie for her attention, but has become fixated with him overtime.
  • Troll: She enjoys teasing Star and generally making things difficult for her.
  • Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Star claims that Colette has behaved the way she has since they were kids, right down to needlessly bullying her. "Blackmailed" reveals this goes even further back, possibly since her parents' divorce.
  • Turned Off by the Jerkass: Even she finds Dash Baxter and Donovan Loadman too obnoxious and dimwitted to date. It's ironic, given that she's not much better than they are.
  • Übermensch: Deconstructed. She feels justified in being a sociopathic bitch because she's descended from an Old Money Blue Blood family, and it only gets worse in "Blackmailed" where after forcing Danny under her heel, she plans to exploit his superpowers to eventually make herself queen of the entire world, believing it's her natural right to. This just makes her an enemy of everyone who is fully aware of how much of an irredeemable witch she is, which causes her to get arrested for her crimes.
  • The Unapologetic: She feels no guilt or remorse for how she tormented Star or all the trouble she caused Team Phantom, even after she is sent to boarding school. Even the thought of apologizing is completely alien to her.
  • Underestimating Badassery: Played with. Even after discovering Danny's secret, she still tries to boss him around and blackmails him into a relationship with her, knowing he doesn't have it in him to physically get rid of her. However, Colette thinks she can use her leverage to force Danny to use his powers at her beck and call once his friends and family are out of the picture, not counting on him finding another way to bring her down (especially once he has nothing more to lose).
  • Underestimating Intelligence: Lots of her schemes fail because she underestimates what her enemies are capable of and her arrogance makes her easy to be tricked.
  • Undying Loyalty: Subverted. Jean-Luc seems like the only person she has any genuine respect for or attachment to as she will not hesitate to defend him if anyone insults him, but she's still not above lying to her father or going behind his back to get what she wants. Her growing disregard for his authority and wishes due to her worsening obsession with Danny worries even Jean-Luc and shows she doesn't value him as a parent anymore than Stella. Team Phantom points out in "Blackmailed" that the ONLY reason Colette wants Jean-Luc in her life is because she doesn't need to manipulate him into letting her have her way since he doesn't even try to parent her. The fact that she's fine with pairing her father with a manipulative Gold Digger like Yolanda who she knows doesn't care about him, and doesn't care at all about costing him his reputation, business, and connections when her crimes are exposed because all that matters to her is getting back into his good graces to re-obtain her wealthy lifestyle, proves he's ultimately just another tool to her.
  • The Unfettered: Colette is willing to do anything to get what she wants, including bribery, blackmail, threats, sabotage, seduction, and manipulation. In "Empowered", she upgraded to kidnapping and attempted murder after receiving ghost powers.
  • Ungrateful Bitch: It's especially highlighted in “Blackmailed”:
    • She has no love or respect for any of her stepmothers despite them loving her as if she were their own child. Colette only pretends to be a caring daughter so they’ll satisfy her materialistic needs, as she regards them Brainless Beauties that can be easily manipulated for her own ends and then replaced. It’s somewhat understandable since even if Colette's stepmothers do genuinely love her, they never stick around after finally getting sick of Jean-Luc’s shameless skirt-chasing habits.
    • Danny is disgusted by Colette’s callous insults toward Stella despite the latter treating Colette like her own daughter for all these years.
    • Colette is more upset that Danny stained her dress instead of focusing on the fact he saved her life by pushing her out of the way of Ember’s attack.
  • Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: While we can hardly call her obsession with Danny "love", even after she is sent away to boarding school in London and cut off by her family, Colette still clings to her delusion of someday being with Danny.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: Becomes this in “Empowered” after temporarily getting ghost powers from Misty’s wish-granting necklace by accident. Star even mocks her for having no technique or combat experience and relying entirely on her powers, which allows the former to humiliate her stepsister in a fight.
  • Unwanted Harem: She never has a problem getting guys to notice her but while she enjoys the attention, she’d prefer if Danny was the only guy who pursued her.
  • Unwanted Spouse: Discussed. She’s fixated on marrying Danny someday and is fine with forcing him into a relationship since his consent doesn’t matter to her as long as she has him.
  • Upper-Class Twit: Despite her family's wealth and being admittedly smarter than Dash and Paulina (she is stated to do well academically at school), Colette's social tact leaves a lot to be desired.
  • Usurping the Alpha Bitch: As soon as she transfers to Casper High, Colette proves to be an even worse Alpha Bitch than Paulina ever was.
  • Uptown Girl: Subverted and darkly deconstructed. Colette is from an Old Money French family and wants to become this towards the middle-class Danny Fenton. But because of her privilege, she’s an insufferable Spoiled Brat who he’s hated since day one and her feelings for him are extremely shallow at best, since she only regards Danny as property that she feels entitled to because of her inability to accept rejection, stemming from a massive ego and her refusal to let Star “beat” her at winning a boy over.
  • Uptight Loves Wild: Deconstructed to the max. She’s a stuffy, classist snob who's interested in the laidback and casual Danny Fenton, only because she considers him a challenge and is obsessed with grooming him into her ideal boyfriend by making him just as uptight and stuck-up as herself, regardless of his feelings or opinion on the matter. It gets worse when Colette meets Fun Danny in “Split” since his nature as a cruder slob who’s even more openly disdainful of her than his regular self is only makes her more interested in trying to change someone so “untamable” into (her idea of) the perfect upper-class gentleman, and her unwanted advances creep Danny out to no end.
  • Using You All Along: In "Blackmailed", it's revealed that not only has she never loved or respected Stella as a parental figure, but Colette has been manipulating her since she married her father the same way she manipulated her previous stepmothers and even her biological mother in order to get whatever she wants.
  • The Vamp: A rare underage version as she’s more than happy to use her beauty to get her way, including luring guys to her. However, she's incapable of grasping that looks will only get you so far when dealing with someone who hates you too much for your repulsive Jerkass personality to care what you look like, as Danny demonstrates.
  • Vanity Is Feminine: She has traditional feminine interests like dresses, makeup, shopping, and boys but she's even vainer than Paulina.
  • Victory Is Boring: Whenever she successfully stole a boy from Star, Colette would dump them not long after once she grew bored with them. It's why she obsessively pursues Danny since he's impossible to seduce away her stepsister.
  • Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: While Vlad and Danny's ghostly enemies are evil, they at least have moments of being Affably Evil and have lines even they won't cross. Colette on the other hand is a sociopathic Spoiled Brat who doesn't care what lines she has to cross in order to get what she wants. She even admits that she only tormented Star since childhood For the Evulz and her obsessive pursuit of Danny is mostly to spite her stepsister and for her own wounded pride at the mere thought that anyone would reject her.
  • Villain Cred: Colette admits she respects her step-grandmother Beatrice for always getting her way sooner or later, going so far as to call her one of her favorite grandmothers, despite her lack of love or respect for Beatrice's daughter Stella.
  • Villain Decay: Star notes that Colette's refusal to leave well enough alone has made her predictable, especially now that she can't hide behind her father and stepmother anymore. In "Dressed" and "Staged", several of her petty schemes fail because Star anticipated Colette would try to sabotage her.
  • Villain Has a Point:
    • She's understandably bitter toward her biological mom Suzette for breaking her promises in the past to spend time with Colette because of her work commitments and weather problems.
    • While not an excuse to lie to and manipulate her stepmoms, Colette does have understandable reasons for not becoming attached to them because even if they sincerely love her, they never stick around since they eventually divorce Jean-Luc after getting fed up with his philandering ways. The fact that her father is planning on leaving Stella in "Blackmailed" only further proves her point.
  • "The Villain Knows" Moment: She discovers Danny's secret during her latest plot in "Blackmailed", and doesn't hesitate to use it to blackmail him.
  • Villains Never Lie:
    • Surprisingly in “Empowered”, Colette admits to Team Phantom that she doesn’t know how she got ghost powers.
    • Ironically, the one time she tells the truth in “Blackmailed” about Danny Fenton being Danny Phantom, no one believes her.
  • Villains Out Shopping: When not bullying others or stalking Danny, she spends her down time shopping, going to the spa, or engaging in typical classy pursuits of the elite as listed below.
  • Villain Respect: Despite being a shallow brat obsessed with high society, having no respect for the middle class, and being a selfish and spoiled bully, she turns out to be more psychopathic and cruel than she appears. Colette sincerely admires Danny and finds him more tolerable than most Amity Park boys.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: She's the apple of her father and stepmother's eyes, one of the popular kids at Casper High, and seems to have high status in high society, but is actually a vile and hateful person and a Big Sister Bully to Star. Subverted as Colette gradually loses any respect or status she once had thanks to her vendetta against Team Phantom and by the end of "Blackmailed", is reduced to a social pariah Hated by All.
  • Villainous Breakdown: She completely loses it whenever her plans fail, which only worsens her determination.
  • Villainous Crush: She develops an unhealthy fixation on Danny because of his repeated rejections of her.
  • Villainous Lineage: Downplayed. Her father is a self-absorbed Rich Bastard who barely acknowledges her true colors unless she makes him look bad. It's also implied that her paternal grandparents were just as bad, as Jean-Luc states they didn't care whenever he played "pranks" (like what Colette does to Star) on his brother growing up.
  • Villainous Underdog: Despite not having any ghost powers (with the exception of "Empowered"), she still manages to cause trouble for Team Phantom with her antics, especially Danny and Star. She doesn't have Danny's powers or Star's combat skills, but she compensates with her wealth, intelligence, guile, and lack of scruples, all of which she will not hesitate to use to get whatever she wants.
  • Villainesses Want Heroes: She becomes very taken with Danny and flirts with him heavily, trying to take him away from Star.
  • Viler New Villain: Overtime, she quickly establishes herself as a FAR worse person than the A-Listers or any of Team Phantom’s regular enemies, including Vlad, because of her sheer sociopathy.
  • Virtue Is Weakness: She looks down on charity and sees her maternal figures' attempts to teach her kindness as a waste of time.
  • Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: As far as she is concerned, Danny should be over the moon that she even noticed him and is enraged that he rejects her offer to "help improve his mediocre life", which is basically controlling every aspect of his life and forcing him to be her ideal boyfriend.
  • Wants to Be Hated: She enjoys making Star hate her since she relishes ruining her stepsister’s life. She doesn’t even seem to care if Danny hates her as long as she has him all to herself.
  • Wasted Beauty:
    • She is this to Danny because while he admits Colette is pretty, he finds her insufferable due to her self-absorbed and bratty personality, as well as the fact that she treats him like a trophy. When she gives him a Forceful Kiss in "Empowered", he's utterly revolted.
    • In general, most boys who're around Colette long enough come to see her as this since despite her beauty, there's only so much they're willing to take before getting fed up with how mean-spirited and uncaring she really is, as well as the extent of her obsession with Danny. This eventually causes even Tucker, Kwan, and Dash to lose interest in her, with the latter two refusing to do her bidding anymore.
      • It’s not just Dash and Kwan who have lost interest in Colette as by “Blackmailed”, the rest of the jocks in the A-List have gotten so sick of her overbearing personality (to the point they consider her even bossier than Ms. Tetslaff) and creepy fixation with Danny that they’d actually feel sorry for him if he did date her. Not to mention they’re fine with kicking Colette out of the group and getting her arrested if they find proof that she committed crimes to get Danny to date her since they don’t want to associate with a criminal.
      • Theodore admitted that Colette was hot in “Blackmailed” despite how much of a bitch she is to him but after her crimes are revealed, he agrees with Vivian in “Theft” about her being nothing but an insane lunatic and is glad she’s gone.
    • In “Blackmailed”, Johnny 13 flat-out tells Danny he wouldn’t ask out a witch like Colette if she was the last girl on earth or the Ghost Zone. It surprises Danny that a dirtbag like Johnny 13 has standards while Colette is enraged that the two ghosts think avoiding her is a standard.
  • Weak, but Skilled: She is not a fighter, but is very manipulative and conniving, using her looks, wits, and wealth to get her way.
  • Weakness Turns Her On: Played with and implied. It's hinted that part of her reason for her attraction to Danny is because she views him as weaker than her and she wishes to control him. She even refers to him as "weak and malleable" in "Empowered" when she briefly had ghost powers.
  • Went Crazy When They Left: It's implied that Suzette divorcing Jean-Luc and having a distant relationship with her daughter since then is part of the reason Colette became evil in the first place.
  • We Will Meet Again: At the end of "Blackmailed", despite her crimes being revealed and her being arrested, cut off, and sent to boarding school as punishment, then threatened by Team Phantom to leave them alone, Colette insists that she's not done with them and plans to get payback in the future after teaming up with Yolanda.
  • What Beautiful Eyes!: Colette admits she finds Danny’s blue eyes nice.
  • When You Coming Home, Dad?: Gender-Inverted. She rarely gets to spend time with her biological mother, Suzette, because the latter is always busy with her global charity work. Colette hasn't even seen her mother in person for years and is lucky if she can talk with Suzette on the phone every few months, which has secretly left a mark on her.
  • Wicked Cultured: Colette is a Spoiled Brat Alpha Bitch who enjoys opera, classical music, gourmet food, going to art museums and other posh activities of the upper-class.
  • Wicked Wastefulness: Even her overindulgent parents have limits with her Money Dumb tendencies since they cut her off from her allowance and even began monitoring her transactions after she spent over 12 grand for a queen costume in “Costumed”. She also isn’t above stealing to get what she wants like she does to Stella in “Blackmailed” to pay Yolanda to help her with her scheme to blackmail Team Phantom, as well as for extra decorations for the birthday party she stole from Star.
  • Wig, Dress, Accent: In "Bonding", she uses this disguise in order to sneak into the country club as a waiter and sabotage the Fenton and Strong families' dinner.
  • With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Colette wasn't the most stable person to begin with but her worst qualities are amplified after her wish to be able to get rid of both Star and Starlight Spirit temporarily grants her ghost powers, turning her into a downright Ax-Crazy supervillain.
  • With Great Power Comes Great Perks: As far as she's concerned, being a French noble makes her above the rules and gives her the right to look down on everyone.
  • With Us or Against Us: To Colette, you either support every little thing she says or does (no matter how heinous or outrageous it is), or you're an enemy she needs to destroy. She makes it clear she's fine with completely destroying the lives of Danny and his friends for refusing to give in to her demands.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Since the side story "Bonding", she's developed an overpowering fear of tigers. Even a mascot costume or a tabby cat with a similar fur pattern are enough for her to shriek and pass out from shock.
  • Wounded Gazelle Gambit:
    • Her default tactic to get away with being a Big Sister Bully was to bring out the Crocodile Tears and tell Stella, "Mama, Estelle was being mean to me!" Thus, Stella would always take Colette's side and even punish Star (not that it was particularly hard to fool her). Subverted overtime as Stella begins wising up about Colette's lies and bad behavior due to her obsession with stealing Danny, which is impossible to pin on Star in any way. After being exposed at Star's birthday party in "Blackmailed", she resorts to her classic excuse out of desperation, only for Stella to NOT buy it this time after learning it was always the other way around in the stepsisters' quarrels, leaving Colette frustrated that her Dumb Blonde stepmother is actually getting smarter.
    • "Blackmailed" also reveals that she also relies on her former stepmothers' pity for her to convince them to give her whatever she wants, even after they had divorced her father.
  • Yandere: A non-lethal example. Colette is hopelessly infatuated with Danny and she's not above lying to, manipulating, bribing, or outright blackmailing people in order to get his attention away from Star.
  • You Are What You Hate: She sees Stella as a pathetic Upper-Class Twit for being too delusional to see that Jean-Luc doesn’t care about her but she’s a Spoiled Brat who refuses to accept Danny doesn’t want anything to do with her despite openly hating her guts with every fiber of his being.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Non-fatal examples.
    • She steals Star’s boyfriends just to hurt her stepsister and breaks up with them after she's had her fun with them. Danny is the sole exception.
    • In "Blackmailed", she is fully aware that her father has lost interest in Stella and it's only a matter of time before they divorce. Colette barely makes an effort to get along with Stella now and recruits Yolanda in her schemes. Unlike with her previous stepmothers, it's implied Colette isn't even planning to stay in touch with Stella after Jean-Luc dumps her, considering her intention to gleefully rub in Stella's face how she always lied to and manipulated her stepmom to turn her against Star.
    • It's also implied that after blackmailing Danny with his Secret Identity, she plans to discard her former stepmothers along with Stella because she sees no more use for them now that she can acquire all the power and riches she wants with the ghost boy at her side; Colette even wants to use Danny to take over and reign destruction on the women's homes as a twisted form of "payback" to signify how she really feels about them.