Phantoms

Detailed Information
The Phantoms are the first and only major antagonists in Animal Jam. For unknown reasons, they terrorize Jamaa and all of its inhabitants. While it is unclear where they originated, Phantoms made their first actual appearance in the game as part of the broken Zios statue in the Lost Temple of Zios. Once the statue was restored, Phantoms stopped spawning from it.

Appearance
Phantoms come in a variety of shapes and sizes with a few common features. They are usually a pitch black, circular blob with a single, large white eye that has a small black pupil. Phantoms also tend to have tentacles that stick out from different sides of their body.

Normal Phantom
These are slightly small creatures with six or more tentacles. When approached by an animal, they produce a blue-white electric arc in an attempt to shock the animal.

Proto-Phantom
These are much smaller than regular Phantoms, only being the size of pets. Instead of regular tentacles, they have one or two small black plump tentacles on the right or left side of their head. When approached by a pet, they become scared and attempt to flee.

Heavy Phantom
These are small creatures with eight small black plump tentacles on the top and bottom of their head. When approached by an animal, they attempt to slam down and crush the animal.

Phantom King
Phantom kings are much bigger than regular Phantoms. They have violet-purple round spots around the bottom half of the body and a cracked-looking set of spikes on the head, like a crown. When approached by an animal, they float up into the air and slam back down into the ground in an attempt to stun the animal.

Phantom Goop
The Phantom Goop appears to be large, slug-like goop piles with violet-purple outskirts. They have one large eye in the middle which is followed by three much smaller eyes.

Phantom Coral
The Phantom Coral is an unusual type of phantom that consists of a blob with many sharp spikes in an irregular shape. When touched by an animal, it will produce a white electric arc in an attempt to shock the animal.

Pet Phantom
The Pet Phantom is a friendly kind of phantom that seemingly only wants to be loved. This is the only phantom with good intentions and the only non-animal pet.

Phantom Spitter
A Phantom Spitter is a strange type of phantom that first appeared in. It's a phantom that looks similar to a plant. These phantoms spit out purple spiked.

Phantom Sprouter
The Phantom Sprouter looks like a very old pipe ruin, with rotten plants growing out of it. Phantom Sprouters can appear out of almost nowhere, taking the player by surprise. They spawn about one Phantom every few seconds, with seemingly no limit. This can actually get very out of hand if the Phantom Sprouter is not destroyed quickly. A Phantom Sprouter can be defeated using one boomseed. However, sometimes the timer will lag out, causing another Phantom to be spawned directly during the destruction of the Sprouter.

Phantom Pipe
The Phantom Pipe is a large purple pipe connected to the ground. It is often seen spewing out a purple liquid that is contaminating the environment or blocking a path. The player can destroy the Pipe by finding and putting a cork in it. In sea adventures, the player will need to find a valve to shut it off.

Phantom Watcher
The Phantom Watcher looks similar to a Phantom with no tentacles, except without any movement. They stay perfectly still, hovering above a small prism. Their attack method is to use lasers shooting from their eyes. The lasers are a deadly one-hit-knockout, instantly sending the player back to the latest checkpoint if touched. The lasers are commonly used as for a puzzle effect, forcing the player to try to get past them in order to complete an objective. They can also be dodged by hiding behind a wall. Phantom Watchers cannot be deactivated from Chomper Plants or Boomseeds, but sometimes can be deactivated using a nearby switch.

Phantom Lookout
The Phantom Lookout looks like an eye looking through a bulb. It casts a triangular beam of light across the walking path, and moves back and forth. If an animal crosses the beam, Phantom Webs appear, trapping the player inside, while 2 Normal Phantoms approach the player. The beam does go away in regular increments, or if an animal goes almost off-screen. However, if the latter happens, walking into range again will cause it the resume its beam. The Phantom Lookouts are currently only included in The Phantom Fortress and Storming The Fortress.

Phantom Snare
The Phantom Snare appears to be unseen by a player. When the player gets too close to it, the eyes will pop up and and a thorn circle pops up. The player has the click on the thorn in the middle of the circle to get out. They were first seen. So far this is their only appearance.

Phantom Watchtower
The Phantom Watchtower looks like a lamp with a phantom in it with a red light on the top. It appears in the adventure The River's Heart. When the player gets close to it, the Phantom's eye will open and will surround itself with a yellow light. When a player gets into the light, the eye will look alerted and in The River's Heart, will activate Phantom Watchers. It remains this way for about 13-19 seconds.

Phantom Mimic Chest
Appears as a normal chest at first, but when a player opens a Phantom Mimic Chest, it will turn purple and will spawn a phantom. The phantom then briefly seeks out a player, once it finds one, and the chest then vanishes.

Origins
According to the original legend, it was Mira who made the very first Phantoms, presumably from her tears. However, this story alone does not provide a clear explanation for what happened between Mira and Zios or how the Phantoms actually formed. In a more recent story, the Phantoms are said to have invaded Jamaa from some other world. This suggests that only the companionship between Zios and Mira was lost, as both of them were still in Jamaa when the Phantoms invaded. It also suggests that the combination of Mira's tears and the elements of Jamaa somehow created an entirely new world where the Phantoms evolved, as they did not invade Jamaa initially.

Goals
It is unknown why the Phantoms came to Jamaa, but they cause destruction where ever they go. Their behavior of quickly spreading and imprisoning the other species suggests that they want control over Jamaa. This also provides an explanation for the initial lack of species in Jamaa, as most species were trapped by the Phantoms. In their efforts to take over Jamaa, the Phantoms captured and may have captured as well. While it is not clear if this was part of the Phantoms' plan, removing the guardian spirits from Jamaa would prevent them from creating any more Alphas.







At the end, a Phantom King appears to try get rid of the Player and the player must defeat the King to finish the adventure.

The player must find a way to escape the Tower and get to the top to see what the Phantoms are doing. In the end, it is discovered by that the Phantoms plan to use a volcano to destroy Jamaa.



They are seen when the Player enters the while trying to stop the player from rescuing.



The Phantoms begin to attack when the player starts to destroy their factory. At the end, it is discovered that the Phantoms captured the Alpha Tavie.

Near the end, many of them are defeated by both the Player and the Bottlenose Brigade in the process of rescuing Tavie.

Games
The Phantoms appear in all types of games in Jamaa. Mostly being the villain of them all. They appear in games such as Falling Phantoms, Phantoms invasion, and Hedgehog. They also appear in all the Summer Carnival games as targets.

Side Games
They briefly appear at the start of a video in the short animated video. The group of Phantoms try to kidnap a female but was stopped by the bunny's supposed lover. The biggest Phantom of the group creates a portal where the male bunny is teleported to another dimension. It is unknown if Phantoms can do this on the main game. They also appear in Sky High where they try to prevent the Player from going higher by striking them with their electricity.

Trivia

 * The first story of Jamaa said that "A mysterious dark force has crept into the land, stealing away animals and ruining the beauty of Jamaa." This may have been in reference to the Phantoms.
 * Phantom electricity only appears as blue and white, but the items based on Phantoms include a variety of colors for the electricity.
 * The meaning of "Phantom" is Ghost. This is understandable because of their ghostly behavior and movement.
 * At the parties, players can get cotton candy shaped as a Phantom by choosing black cotton candy, followed by white cotton candy, then black cotton candy again. They can also get a Phantom with a crown by choosing the star cone, and then doing the black-white-black pattern. This Phantom's eye is more narrowed than the regular cotton candy Phantom's eye.
 * During the the is replaced by a giant red.
 * Before September 29, 2016, there were no Phantoms that were known to be friendly; that changed with the introduction of the Pet phantom.
 * If a Jammer turns into a phantom (which Jammers can do with The Phantomizer or in the adventures) there will be no animation for it with the exception of Sit.
 * They are also very bad at spelling, as can be seen from their edits to the adventures and during the Night of the Phantoms, one of the Messages in a Bottle, and the adventure Storming the Fortress.
 * In more recent phantom designs, they are shown to have rounder bodies and dark purple color.
 * The phantoms may be a metaphor for humans polluting animal environments.