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Okay, so I just read a fanfic that had an interesting idea if this is King!Danny.
As ruler of the dead, Danny has control over the dead. Including those who have been touched by death, even if it was something like their heart temporarily stopping. Those he controls (at least the living) are still very aware of what their bodies are doing, and no amount of willpower or mental strength can overcome this power.
So, in his grief and anger, Danny uses this power to control every member of the Justice League who has been touched by death, and it's a lot of them. He forces them to destroy, just as his home was destroyed by their negligence, all the while those controlled are forced to watch as they destroy what they sought to protect. Any contingency plans made by Batman are useless when a different controlled hero gets in the way of an attack they are immune to. They can't even attack Danny, who has walls of supers that he isn't afraid of using as meat shields.
What's worse, no one knows Danny is the Ghost King, and no one knows why he's only able to control certain members. Everyone who isn't controlled is basically going in blind until one of them has a near death experience and is suddenly under Phantom's control.
After being ignored by the Justice League for years and thought of as a scam Phantom finally faces an opponent he didn't win against and his city is destroyed, killing everyone. The monster is heavily wounded by Phantom however as it was a brutal fight for both of them
Danny is heartbroken and in shock while the Justice League face off against this threat and also lose. Eventually they get thier second wind and rematch it and kill the thing, but just barely.
Later a small memorial was held for Amity Park and Phantom was enraged at how small it was. 70,000 people died and this was it? Most of the people hear weren't even mourners. They were press and fake ghost enthusiasts trying to catch internet points for thier viewer count. He hears some redhead say that the people of Amity were scammers and this whole ghost thing was fake. With tears in his eyes he screams, not as Fenton but as Phantom, "I'm fake?!" He grabbed the man by his throat and flew a few feet into the air, "You think I'm fake?! Here! Let's see how fake I am!" His words were dripping venom as he possessed the man and laughed as he used him as a puppet, attacking the people around him with ectoblasts and sending them running away screaming.
Bruce Wayne watched on as some unknown Elderich entity possessed Wally West and began attacking people. So Amity Parks pleas for help as well as the pleas from thier supposedly fake superhero were not just part of an elaborate tourist trap.
Green lantern had some explaining to do. Hopefully it wasn't too late to salvage the situation and save this child.
It was.