Samantha "Sam" Manson is one of the main characters from the Nickelodeon animated series Danny Phantom. She is a teenage girl who is a self-proclaimed Goth and a vegetarian, revealed to be Jewish in the series' Christmas episode, and one of Danny Fenton's two best friends, alongside Tucker Foley. She has unholding interest in the subliminal and netherworldly, but combines this with an outspoken attitude on vegetarianism, animal rights and environmentalism. Throughout the series, she and Danny repeatedly deny the idea that they are boyfriend and girlfriend, though they eventually become a couple in the series finale.
In the Christmas episode, "The Fright Before Christmas!", she is unusually peppy and asks Danny why he isn't happy, only to find out that he hates Christmas because of his parents' constant arguments about the existence of Santa Claus (oddly, Sam had apparently never learned this until Tucker told her about it, despite that she has known Danny since at least second grade). When the Ghost Writer magically steals all the presents in Amity Park and tricks everyone into believing Danny is responsible, he does the same with the Mansons' Hanukkah gifts and then has Sam get in a fight with her not-yet-boyfriend over it. At the end, she and Tucker later help Danny and the ghosts return all the holiday items to their homes at the end.