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* '''Morgana McCawber''' - Villainess and later Darkwing's sorceress girlfriend. Though a very powerful sorceress, Morgana has some trouble using her powers, since she forgets which spell she must use on a specific occasion. She is usually accompanied by her pet bats Eek and Squeak and her pet spider Archie. Voiced by [[Kath Soucie]].
* '''Morgana McCawber''' - Villainess and later Darkwing's sorceress girlfriend. Though a very powerful sorceress, Morgana has some trouble using her powers, since she forgets which spell she must use on a specific occasion. She is usually accompanied by her pet bats Eek and Squeak and her pet spider Archie. Voiced by [[Kath Soucie]].
* '''Neptunia''' - A mutated humanoid fish who is the self-appointed protector of the sea. Voiced by [[Susan Silo]].
* '''Neptunia''' - A mutated humanoid fish who is the self-appointed protector of the sea. Voiced by [[Susan Silo]].
* '''Stegmutt''' - Stegmutt is a stegosaurus-type dinosaur who was originally a duck who was turned into a humandoid dinosaur by a mad scientist named Dr. Fossil. Voiced by [[Joey Camen]].
* '''Stegmutt''' - Stegmutt is a stegosaurus-type dinosaur who was originally a duck who was turned into a humandoid dinosaur by a mad scientist named Dr. Fossil. Voiced by [[Joey Votto]].


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Darkwing Duck
File:Darkwing duck.jpg
Darkwing Duck's intertitle
GenreAnimated series
Created byTad Stones
Voices ofJim Cummings
Christine Cavanaugh
Terry McGovern
Theme music composerSteve Nelson
Thom Sharp
Opening themeDarkwing Duck Theme
Ending themeDarkwing Duck Theme (instrumental)
ComposerPhilip Giffin
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes91 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time22:00
Production companyThe Walt Disney Company
Original release
NetworkABC
Syndication
ReleaseSeptember 8, 1991 (1991-09-08) –
December 5, 1992 (1992-12-05)
Related
Duck Tales
Quack Pack

Darkwing Duck is an American animated television series produced by The Walt Disney Company that ran from 1991–1995 and 1996–1997 on both the syndicated programming block The Disney Afternoon and Saturday mornings on ABC. It featured the eponymous anthropomorphic duck superhero whose alter ego is mild-mannered single parent Drake Mallard. It is the only direct spin-off of DuckTales.[1]

Premise

Darkwing Duck is about the adventures of the titular superhero, aided by his sidekick and pilot Launchpad. In his secret identity of Drake Mallard, he lives in an unassuming suburban house with his adopted daughter Gosalyn, next door to the bafflingly dim-witted Muddlefoot family. Darkwing struggles to balance his egotistical craving for fame and attention against his desire to be a good father to Gosalyn and help do good in St. Canard. Most episodes put these two aspects of Darkwing's character in direct conflict, though Darkwing's better nature usually prevails.[2]

Darkwing Duck was initially developed as a spin-off of the very successful DuckTales series. Darkwing Duck entered production roughly one year after DuckTales ended. Darkwing Duck was inspired by two specific episodes of DuckTales: "Double-O-Duck" and "The Masked Mallard". The original concept had Launchpad McQuack as the star. Instead, Launchpad appeared as Darkwing's sidekick in the finished product. GizmoDuck, a character from the final season of DuckTales, also appeared in a handful of crossover-themed episodes. The name "The Masked Mallard" became an epithet often used to refer to Darkwing himself.

Where most prior Disney Afternoon series included at least some characters from classic Disney animation, Darkwing Duck featured a completely original cast. Even the DuckTales characters it reused had no counterpart in early Disney shorts or even the Carl Barks comics. It was also the first Disney Afternoon cartoon to emphasize action rather than adventure, with Darkwing routinely engaging in slapstick battles with both supervillains and street criminals. While conflict with villains was routine in earlier Disney Afternoon, actual fight scenes were relatively rare.

Darkwing Duck was also the first Disney Afternoon property that was produced completely as a genre parody. Prior shows would contain elements of parody in certain episodes, but would otherwise be straight-faced adventure concepts in the tradition of Carl Barks' work in the Disney comics. By contrast, every episode of Darkwing Duck is laden with references to superhero, pulp adventure, or super-spy fiction.

Darkwing Duck himself is a satirical character. His costume, gas gun, and flashy introductions are all reminiscent of pulp heroes such as the Sandman, Batman, Crimson Avenger, James Bond, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Green Hornet, and most especially The Shadow. The fictional city of St. Canard is a direct parody of Gotham City.

Cast

Main characters

  • Darkwing Duck / Drake Mallard – Average citizen by day and St. Canard's resident superhero by night. Voiced by Jim Cummings.
  • Launchpad McQuack – Darkwing Duck's sidekick, originally from DuckTales. He refers to Darkwing as "DW" and Darkwing sometimes refers to him as "LP" in return. Voiced by Terry McGovern.
  • Gosalyn Mallard – Drake Mallard's nine-year-old adopted daughter. Occasional crime fighter as "Crimson Quackette" and later as "Quiverwing Quack". Voiced by Christine Cavanaugh.

Muddlefoots

  • Herb Muddlefoot – Father of Honker Muddlefoot, next-door neighbor of Drake Mallard (Darkwing Duck). Drake finds him very irritating but they do work together well in at least one episode. Herb sells Quackerware (the Darkwing Duck universe's version of Tupperware) as a salesman for a living. Voiced by Jim Cummings impersonating Andy Devine.
  • Binkie Muddlefoot – A yellow chicken housewife who is invariably overbearing yet ditzy. Competent in housework and doing her chores she is often the foil to Herb's fun. Voiced by Susan Tolsky.
  • Tank Muddlefoot – The eldest Muddlefoot son, Tank is a bully who often makes life difficult for his younger brother, Honker. His full name, Tankard H. Muddlefoot, is revealed in the episode "Life, The Negaverse And Everything". Voiced by the late Dana Hill.
  • Honker Muddlefoot – The Mallards' next-door neighbor and Gosalyn's best friend. His full name, Herbert Muddlefoot Jr., is revealed in the episode "Jurassic Jumble". He is one of the few characters to know Darkwing's true identity. Voiced by Katie Leigh.

Allies

The Justice Ducks

  • GizmoDuck / Fenton Crackshell - Launchpad's old friend and Darkwing's rival super hero who was originally from DuckTales. Voiced by the late Hamilton Camp.
  • Morgana McCawber - Villainess and later Darkwing's sorceress girlfriend. Though a very powerful sorceress, Morgana has some trouble using her powers, since she forgets which spell she must use on a specific occasion. She is usually accompanied by her pet bats Eek and Squeak and her pet spider Archie. Voiced by Kath Soucie.
  • Neptunia - A mutated humanoid fish who is the self-appointed protector of the sea. Voiced by Susan Silo.
  • Stegmutt - Stegmutt is a stegosaurus-type dinosaur who was originally a duck who was turned into a humandoid dinosaur by a mad scientist named Dr. Fossil. Voiced by Joey Votto.

S.H.U.S.H.

S.H.U.S.H. (expanded name unknown) is an intelligence agency that deals with international affairs that regular authorities cannot. Darkwing Duck often works freelance for them, but he is not an official employee.

  • J. Gander Hooter - An owl who is the head director of S.H.U.S.H. He regards Darkwing very highly and often calls him in on cases, where he feels that a certain element of surprise, which only Darkwing is able to create, is needed. Voiced by Danny Mann.
  • Vladimir Goudenov Grizzlikof - A grizzly bear and S.H.U.S.H.'s top agent. He is depicted as very strong and adheres to S.H.U.S.H. standard procedure very closely. Gryzzlikof and Darkwing have a longstanding rivalry which stems from Gryzzlikof by the book procedure to the different style of Darkwing, which relies heavily on instinct and spontaneity. Eventually the relationship changes to mutual respect. Voiced by the late Ron Feinberg.
  • Dr. Sarah Bellum - A S.H.U.S.H. scientist, whose name is a pun on cerebellum. She appears only in a few early episodes featuring S.H.U.S.H. Voiced by Jodi Carlisle.
  • Derek Blunt - A hawk who is the greatest agent in the history of S.H.U.S.H. and the only person to ever bring down master criminal Phineas Sharp. His untrue life story has been dramatized into a movie, which annoys him greatly. When Sharp returns however, Blunt is brought out of retirement by J. Gander Hooter and partnered with Darkwing — a relationship he hates, despising Darkwing's gimmicks, even though he is admired by Darkwing, who claims Blunt was his inspiration. Only appeared in the episode "In Like Blunt" (the title itself is a parody of In Like Flint). He is apparently one of the few people who has been to Darkwing's secret hideout. Voiced by Peter Renaday (in a British accent).

Other notable

  • Comet Guy - An alien humanoid superhero with numerous superpowers (shoots fireballs, flies, water freezing, super strength, super speed). However, he is dull witted and has a weakness: the sound of a bell makes him dance, and he cannot stop dancing until he hears a whistle. A failure on his planet, Darkwing trains him to turn his weaknesses into strengths. Darkwing later learns he comes from a planet where everyone is a superhero. Voiced by William Callaway.

Villains

The Fearsome Five

  • Dr. Reginald Bushroot - A scientist who tried to fuse animal DNA with that of plants in an attempt to give people the ability to feed themselves through photosynthesis. The experiment was a success but with a price. Bushroot was turned into a half-duck/half-plant creature who now desperately seeks a friend. Bushroot uses his newfound control over plants as his main weapon. Voiced by Tino Insana.
  • The Liquidator - Bud Flood is a slimy dog salesman who was in the bottled water business, Liquidator was mutated into his present state (a water based monstrosity) after falling into a vat of a competitor's water which was revealed to be laced with a corrosive chemical during a battle with Darkwing and Launchpad. Since he is made of water, he and Megavolt do not interact well. Voiced by Jack Angel.
  • Megavolt - A former high school classmate of Drake Mallard, Megavolt gained the power to control electricity after a bully sabotaged one of his science experiments. Megavolt is quite psychotic and uses his control over electricity as his main weapon. His costume consists of his original jumpsuit, gloves, boots and safety goggles from the power company as well as a giant battery worn on his back to keep his power flowing on the go and a headpiece that resembles a big plug. Megavolt was the show's creators' favorite villain and therefore the most recurring. Megavolt often referred to Darkwing as either "Darkwing Dork" or "Dorkwing". He shorts out when hit with water, a weakness that Darkwing often uses when defeating him. His real name is Elmo Sputterspark. Voiced by Dan Castellaneta.
  • Negaduck - An evil version of Darkwing from a parallel reality called the "Negaverse" which is a nightmarish reverse version of St. Canard. Negaduck is virtually identical to Darkwing except that the colors of his costume are red, black, and yellow. Negaduck has no special powers or abilities but can disguise himself as Darkwing to make the hero look like a criminal. He is very ruthless and has no problem with hurting people to get what he wants: great wealth and authority over both worlds. He is the leader of the Fearsome Five, a group he formed with Bushroot, Liquidator, Megavolt, and Quackerjack. Voiced by Jim Cummings.
  • Quackerjack - A toy maker gone insane and wearing a harlequin-style jester costume, Quackerjack uses his arsenal of dangerous playthings as weaponry while he robs banks or just causes chaos for the fun of it. He is almost never without his trademark doll, Mr. Banana Brain, which can be used as an explosive. His most common toys are mechanical toy chattering teeth of various sizes. He has been known to team up with Megavolt. Voiced by Michael Bell.
Minions
    • Spike - Bushroot's pet/assistant, a large carnivorous plant loosely resembling a Venus Flytrap with a shaggy mop of orange hair. He behaves much in the manner of a dog, to the point that he likes playing fetch. He once helped Darkwing Duck and Launchpad escape because he was jealous that Bushroot was paying less attention to him.
    • Posey - A "vampire potato", originally intended to be a wife for Bushroot. However, due to Spike handing him the wrong ingredients, Bushroot accidentally creates a gigantic potato that feeds on the blood of non-plants. Victims of Posey become zombified couch potatoes, doing nothing but sitting in front of the TV and eating potato-based food products. She appears (and is destroyed) in the episode "Night of the Living Spud".
    • Liquidator's Mascots - A pair of females who appear with Liquidator in his origin episode "Dry Hard". They were the mascots for Sparkling Crystal Pure Flood Water and later for the Liquidator himself. They dressed up as various items (from water bottles to lobsters) and sang catchy tunes that related to whatever the Liquidator said.
    • Mr. Banana Brain - A banana-headed doll that Quackerjack seems to always have with him. Not really a character, but the closest thing he has to a recurring sidekick and frequently makes "talk" via squeaky-voiced ventriloquism. The doll was possessed by the demon Paddywack in "The Haunting of Mr Banana Brain".

F.O.W.L.

F.O.W.L. (Fiendish Organization for World Larceny) is a terrorist organization that antagonizes Darkwing Duck on different occasions.

  • The High Command - They are the head agents of F.O.W.L. It seems that throughout the entire series, they never left their certain area (the area they were was possibly F.O.W.L. headquarters). Also they were always hidden in the shadows and their true names were never mentioned during the Darkwing Duck series run at all. The ones that usually talked were the one with a big head and fangs and the one with a hunched back. The one wearing the oversized hat never talked. It also appears that they were anthropomorphic birds.
  • Steelbeak - Acting like a 1920s gangster, Steelbeak is a rooster who is the top agent of F.O.W.L.. He gets his name from the metal beak he wears in place of his original one which was apparently lost sometime before the events of the show, though it is not revealed how. This trademark beak also serves as a weapon because it can bite through almost anything. Voiced by Rob Paulsen.
  • Ammonia Pine - A former cleaning lady who worked at a research lab, Ammonia accidentally inhaled the fumes of an experimental bathroom disinfectant, which had a strange effect on her and turned her into a cleaning-obsessed villain. She was later recruited by F.O.W.L. for their dastardly plans. She hates and even fears dirt. She has a sister named Ample Grime, also a F.O.W.L. agent. Voiced by Mitzi McCall.
  • Ample Grime - Ample is Ammonia's messy, dirt-loving sister. No origin story is given for why she loves messes so much. She hates and fears cleanliness as much as Ammonia hates dirt which proves to be a problem when the two are required to team up. Voiced by Ellen Gerstell.
  • Major Synapse - The typical R. Lee Ermey-type military man. He once sent an Eggmen military unit into an active volcano so it could be "captured." He steals S.H.U.S.H.'s Norma Ray, using it to turn his useless hippie underlings into superpowered malcontents. He later used it on himself turning into a giant head with a giant brain that had major telepathic abilities until his own stupidity caused his underlings "Hotshot" and "Flygirl" to be flattened by a cartoon anvil which they are last seen crawling away under. His own superbrain explodes when Darkwing Duck, Launchpad, and Gosalyn overloaded him with questions. Voiced by John Stephenson.
    • Hotshot - One of Major Synapse's hippie underlings changed by the Norma Ray. He controls both fire and ice.
    • Flygirl - One of Major Synapse's hippie underlings changed by the Norma Ray. She can move things with her mind and can also fly. Voiced by Teresa Ganzel.

Other notable

  • Taurus Bulba - Taurus Bulba is a bull who is shown to be a ruthless and extremely dangerous major super-villain in St. Canard. Among his objectives are his desire to give St. Canard a new kind of villain. He considered the other villains too unprofessional. He was the first major villain that Darkwing fought against and defeated, although only after Bulba proved willing to destroy himself, in order to try to kill Darkwing in the process. Though he was believed to have perished in the explosion of Canard Tower, he was later revived by F.O.W.L. in "The Steerminator" in order to become their new major agent, to which he refused. Voiced by Tim Curry.
    • Hammerhead Hannigan - A goat who is Bulba's lead henchman. Hammerhead is a surly goat wearing a pinstriped suit who talks and acts like a stereotypical 1930s gangster. His gimmick is that he uses his head as a blunt object to headbutt his enemies. He appears to be based on the Marvel Comics villain of the same name (an enemy of Spider-Man), although a Three Stooges reference suggests he may also have been inspired by Shemp Howard's character named Hammerhead in The Invisible Woman. His choice of attack, headbutting, may also be based on actual male goat behavior as a show of aggression & dominance. Of Taurus' henchmen, Hammerhead is the only one who went on to appear in a third episode. He was shown briefly in the episode "In Like Blunt" about to beat up Phineas Sharp when the list that Phineas was going to sell was replaced with a grocery list. Voiced by Laurie Faso in "Darkly Dawns the Duck" and Tad Stones in "In Like Blunt".
    • Hoof and Mouth - Bulba's lackeys, a ram and a mute donkey. A lanky, bucktoothed donkey with red hair and a green fedora, Hoof is possibly the least intelligent of the three. Both he and Mouth wear bowties (which adds to their already humorous appearance) and are exceptionally clumsy, and often physically abused by Hammerhead. Hoof is apparently a mute because he never says a single word in either of the episodes he appears in, apart from the occasional grunt. Slightly smarter than Hoof is Mouth, a ram wearing a red bowtie and a driving cap. Their combined names are a pun on hoof-and-mouth disease. Whereas Hoof is eternally silent, Mouth, conversely, has an apparent speech impediment which makes him talk very rapidly and repeat almost everything he says (Ironically, he has few speaking parts in both parts of Darkly Dawns the Duck). He is the smallest of the trio, yet still bigger than Darkwing as seen during his confrontation with him aboard Taurus' airship. Voiced by Eddie Deezen.
    • Clovis - Bulba's personal secretary, a blonde cow. Voiced by Marcia Wallace.
  • Professor Moliarty - A mush-mouthed mole who schemes to put the surface world into an eternal darkness. His name is a reference to Sherlock Holmes nemesis James Moriarty and his persona may be inspired by Marvel Comics' Mole Man. Voiced by Jim Cummings.
  • Splatter Phoenix - A rejected artist known for her pompous speech (in "Paint Misbehavin'", she proclaims herself a "daringly innovative pseudo anti-neo post modern deconstructionist"), her chief weapon is a brush covered with paint that can allow her to enter paintings, animate them, or even to paint wholly new (and usually surreal-looking) creatures that help her. Along with Major Synapse, she is the only villain to ever "die" in the series, as she was "erased" by turpentine. She first appears in the episode "Brush With Oblivion", in which Darkwing Duck and his sidekicks attempt to stop her from stealing the Mona Lisa's smile. This episode features a number of clever parodies of works by famous artists such as Grant Wood, Salvador Dalí, and Pablo Picasso. It is implied that she is actually aware that she herself, along with the entire universe of the TV series, is actually animated/painted by "some higher being". Voiced by Dani Staahl in "Brush With Oblivion" and Andrea Martin in "Paint Misbehavin'".
  • Phineas Sharp - Appearing in the episode "In Like Blunt". Phineas Sharp is a vulture who is the most evil villain in the history of S.H.U.S.H. It took super spy Derek Blunt to defeat him. He soon returns for revenge stealing a list of S.H.U.S.H.'s agents and trying to sell it off to the highest bidder. He invited a number of other villains — including Flintheart Glomgold, the Beagle Boys, Magica De Spell, Steelbeak and Ammonia Pine of F.O.W.L., and Hammerhead Hannigan, among others — to his resort to auction off the list and use the resulting billions to buy all the tea in China. His scheme was foiled by Darkwing Duck and Blunt who switched the real list with a grocery list taken off of Horatio, his short falcon assistant. Voiced by the late Jonathan Harris.
  • Tuskernini - A walrus and an ego-driven but failed Hollywood film director whose schemes are built around films. He travels with a cadre of silent yet efficient penguin sidekicks. His name is a reference to famed conductor Arturo Toscanini, though the resemblance ends there. Voiced by the late Kenneth Mars.
  • Lilliput Gooney - Owned the miniature golf course, Gooney Golf, and was using a strange hat to communicate with and control ants. With his tiny minions, and his trusty shrink ray, he began turning St. Canard's monuments into miniature props for his golf course. This is essentially his modus operandi, as well as collecting some cash along the way. He is defeated when he shrinks Darkwing down to the size of the germ, and the caped crusader "infects" him. Apparently symptoms of Darkwing-itus involve one's face turning green and spotted, and is accompanied by uncontrollable sneezing. See your local doctor immediately, if symptoms worsen into a pervasive urge to wear a cape and speak in obsessive Alliteration. Voiced by Frank Welker.
  • The Bugmaster - Her real name is Bianca Beakley, a former newscaster and Gosalyn's role model. To boost ratings, Bianca became a villain and started to commit crimes by controlling insects. She is voiced by April Winchell.

Distribution

Episodes

Over three seasons there were a total of 91 episodes.

"Hot Spells" controversy

In the third season of the show, the creators developed a Halloween-themed episode in which Gosalyn unknowingly makes a deal with the Devil that costs Darkwing his soul. This episode was never replayed on Toon Disney after its initial airing.

Opening introduction

There are seven different versions of the Darkwing Duck introduction. The first two were aired on the Disney Channel when Darkwing Duck first premiered and featured alternate animation and a different version of the familiar theme song. The third version was used on the "Darkly Dawns the Duck" VHS. The fourth version was used in syndication, and is actually the one they currently use today. The fifth is the version used on The Disney Afternoon, and is the same as the fourth version only cut for time. The sixth and seventh introductions were used on the ABC Saturday Morning airings, and contained mostly scenes from those episodes, starting with Darkwing tiptoeing up the Audubon Bay Bridge.

Broadcast history

The two-part episode "Darkly Dawns the Duck" originally aired as an hour-length TV special on September 7, 1991 as part of a larger TV special, "The Darkwing Duck Premiere and Back to School With the Mickey Mouse Club". The film served as the show's pilot. Seasons 1 and 2 were aired simultaneously in the Autumn of 1991. Season 1 on syndication as part of The Disney Afternoon block of shows. Seasons 2 and 3 aired on Saturday mornings on ABC. All episodes remained in syndicated reruns on The Disney Afternoon until 1995 and then returned to the line up from 1996 to 1997.

The series was last seen in the U.S. on Toon Disney, but due to the rebranding of Jetix and other Disney shows to the channel, it has since vanished completely from the network. Along with a number of other shows, it has been removed from schedules in November 2004. Toon Disney aired the Christmas episode "It's a Wonderful Leaf" featuring Bushroot on December 25, 2004. The show was last seen on Toon Disney in the United States on January 19, 2007 as part of the Toon Disney Wild Card Stack. Certain episodes from the show's original run rarely re-aired while the show was on Toon Disney. These episodes appear to have been removed for content reasons. The most prominent of the rarely-seen episodes is "Hot Spells", which features a Satan-like character called Beelzebub.

Darkwing Duck was one of the first American animated TV series to be officially broadcast in syndication in the former Soviet Union. [3]

Home media

Four VHS tapes, each containing two episodes of Darkwing Duck, were released under the title Darkwing Duck: His Favorite Adventures in the United States on September 20, 1991: "Darkly Dawns the Duck". However, most countries around the world only received releases of "Darkly Dawns the Duck" and "Justice Ducks Unite!" Each video came with two "glow-in-the-Darkwing" trading cards. Featured on the cards were Darkwing Duck, Launchpad, Gosalyn, Honker, Negaduck, Bushroot, Megavolt, and Taurus Bulba.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released three-disc DVD box set entitled Darkwing Duck: Volume 1 on August 29, 2006. It included 27 episodes, including the two-part pilot "Darkly Dawns the Duck", which was presented in edited form [clarification needed] as opposed to the uncut version's release on VHS. The second volume, containing the next 27 episodes, was released on August 7, 2007.[4] Unlike DuckTales and Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, the episodes on the DVDs are presented in the order they aired. The sets do not contain any special features.

Product Episodes Release date
Darkwing Duck: Volume 1 27 August 26, 2006 (2006-08-26)
Darkwing Duck: Volume 2 27 August 7, 2007 (2007-08-07)
Darkwing Duck: Volume 3 37 TBA (TBA)

Video games

Darkwing Duck video game released by Capcom on the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Game Boy as a platform side-scroller. Another game with the same title was also released for the TurboGrafx-16 as an action side-scroller.

Comic books

Disney Comics published a four-issue Darkwing Duck comic book mini-series in late 1991, right around the time of the show's syndicated premiere. This mini-series was an adaptation of a draft of the script for "Darkly Dawns the Duck". Like the TaleSpin comic before it, it was meant to spin off a regular comic series, but the Disney Comics implosion happening at the time prevented that plan. However, Darkwing Duck stories were regularly printed in Disney Adventures magazine between the November 1991 and January 1996 issues. Additionally, Darkwing Duck stories were also regularly featured in Marvel Comics' short-lived Disney Afternoon comic book.

On March 13, 2010, BOOM! Studios announced that they would be releasing a four-issue Darkwing Duck miniseries, titled "The Duck Knight Returns", starting in June of that year. The series will be written by Ian Brill and drawn by James Silvani, and will be set some time after the end of the show.[5] BOOM! later announced that due to positive fan reaction, the comic series would be extended indefinitely as an ongoing title.[6] This first trade paperback collection of the initial four issues of the comic was released in the fall of 2010[7]

"Let's get dangerous!" in other languages

The show was dubbed in several different languages for international distribution. As such, Darkwing's catchphrase "Let's get dangerous!" had to be translated into a similarly catchy phrase for the target language. It often did not keep its literal sense, as a direct translation was unlikely to hold the same impact.

Language Phrase Literal translation
Arabic (specifically Egyptian) !يلا بينا نغامر (Yalla biina nghamir!) C'mon, let's risk it!
Bulgarian Пипвам ги за миг! I capture them quick!
Cantonese Chinese 等我搞破壞! Wait till I do some destruction!
Czech Kačer Darkwing! Darkwing Duck!
Danish Lad os så vove fjerene! Now let's risk our feathers!
Dutch Laten we lekker link gaan doen! Let's get nice and risky!
Finnish Ollaan vaarallisia! Let's be dangerous!
French (Canada) Cette chanson craint un Mask! This song is Dangerous!
French (France) Cette chanson craint un Mask! (pun with "Max") This song is creepy!
German Zwo, Eins, Risiko! Two, one, risk!
Greek Ας γίνουμε επικίνδυνοι! Let's get dangerous!
Hindi हो जाए खतरों से टक्कर। (Ho jaye khatron se takkar) Time to face danger!
Indonesian Mari hadang bahaya! Let's charge the danger!
Italian Dagli addosso, Duck! Go for it, Duck!
Japanese 危険が俺を呼んでるぜ! (Kiken ga ore o yonderu ze!) Danger is calling me!
Korean 덤벼 보라고! Go ahead and attack me!
Mandarin Chinese 讓我搞破壞! Let me do some destruction!
Norwegian La oss bli farlige! Let's become dangerous!
Polish Oj, powieje grozą! Oh, it's gonna be dangerous!
Portuguese (Brazil) Vamos encarar o perigo! Let's face danger!
Portuguese (Portugal) Vamos correr perigo! Let's get dangerous!
Russian Ну-ка, от винта! Well, clear prop![8]
Spanish (Mexico) ¡Hay que entrar en acción! Let's get into danger!
Spanish (Spain) ¡Hay que entrar en acción! Let's get into action!
Swedish Nu blir vi farliga!/(Alternatively: Dags att bli farliga) Now we'll get dangerous!/Time to get dangerous!
Thai เสี่ยงภัยกันดีกว่า! Let's go into danger!
Turkish Haydi, tehlikeye atılalım! Let's go into danger!

Reception

Darkwing Duck was named the 93rd best animated series by IGN, calling it "one of the many reasons why after-school cartoons rule".[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Disney's 'Darkwing Duck' enlists a super fowl in fight against crime; ABC telecasts Easter Parade". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-10-19.
  2. ^ "Disney's 'Darkwing Duck' Can't Fly Very High". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-10-19.
  3. ^ "Darkwing Duck".
  4. ^ Darkwing Duck DVD news: Volume 2 release information and artwork for 'Darkwing Duck' | TVShowsOnDVD.com
  5. ^ ECCC: Whack, Smack! “Darkwing Duck” is Back | Comic Book Resources
  6. ^ [1]
  7. ^ Darkwing Duck Vol. 1 The Duck Knight Returns | BOOM! Studios
  8. ^ This is aviation slang
  9. ^ "93, Darkwing Duck". IGN. January 23, 2009. Retrieved January 23, 2009.