Originally posted by cdtmthe fire God wasn't the Hell Lord in that series and Danny was cut off from the amp after Davos killed the new Dragon...
He was amped, big time.And forget punching down a building.. Dude was animating one into his own personal building mecha, and that was only via tapping the the chi of all the people in the building.
The mother load came from the series primary antagonist, who stockpiled a ridiculous amount of chi to summon the hell lord to Earth. Basically, it was a robot that had Danny's fathers personality/memories, and wanted the hell lord to resurrect him and his wife. And of course, the hell lord said "**** you, I don't work that way. In fact, I'm gonna take your city just because you pissed me off."
More or less.
So he dumped all his remaining chi into Danny.
Danny's father Chi was used to restart Danny's. Danny was empowered after he accepted his fate and chose to live.