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Added to your cart. Close search. Cart 0 items. 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's 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 , the Green Hornet , James Bond , the Scarlet Pimpernel , and most especially, The Shadow. The fictional city of St. Canard is a direct parody of Gotham City , the fictional city in which Batman resides and operates. In the second season of the show, the creators were developing a Halloween-themed episode.
In the episode " Hot Spells ", Gosalyn makes a deal with the devil that costs Darkwing his soul. The episode was never replayed on Toon Disney after its initial airing. 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 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.
The film served as the show's pilot. Seasons 1 and 2 were aired simultaneously in the Autumn of Season 1 on syndication as part of The Disney Afternoon block of shows.
His competence varies by case but when he finally hits his stride and focuses, the cases are always solved. Darkwing's main weapon of choice in his crime-fighting escapades is his gas gun , which functions much like a grenade launcher.
It fires grenades with a variety of different gases smoke bombs, laughing gas, tear gas, etc. It also has a retractable line and grappling hook for transportation purposes, and can fire other random objects that are loaded in its barrel. He invariably employs various other weapons and gadgets though many do not work as intended. His main forms of transportation are the Thunderquack and the Ratcatcher. Darkwing is sometimes sent on missions as a freelance agent of SHUSH , a covert crime-fighting organization that deals with criminal activity that the normal authorities cannot handle, though he is not officially employed by them.
While he is known to an extent as a hero in St. Canard, he frequently deals with citizens misunderstanding him. Numerous episodes bring up the fact that he's very unpopular, due to his intimidating tactics and dark appearance, to the point where the episode "Let's Get Respectable" was devoted to making him over as a more likable hero with nicer language, a brighter costume, and flower petals instead of smoke and gas.
Once it interfered with the episode's case, however, the makeover quickly ended. In some episodes, people fail to recognize Darkwing, and at times, do not even know who "Darkwing Duck" is.
This lack of popularity and recognition often clashes with his inflated ego. Despite a large degree of clumsiness, Darkwing is an expert in martial arts and generally quite proficient in physical combat; he employs several techniques he has developed on his own including the satirical, but effective "double reverse, paddle drop, boom, boom kick" and his "patented flying web kick".
Even though he is referred to as a "superhero" by himself and other citizens , Darkwing has no true superpower. Instead, he relies on his weapons, finesse, and intellect to solve crimes and stop villains. While he is shown to be a struggling hero at the beginning of the series he later becomes a popular and well known figure in St. When not fighting crime Darkwing spends his time as his alter ego Drake Mallard, Gosalyn Mallard's adopted father.
Most of the show is based on their father-daughter relationship. Darkwing and Gosalyn forged a close bond in a short period of time because they were so much alike. In later episodes, Morgana Macawber, with whom Darkwing has an on-again-off-again relationship, also discovers his secret identity.
Canard, located in the state of Calisota. The first episode shows that Darkwing lives in his lair in the Audubon Bay Bridge, he purchases a home and starts using his alter ego again only after adopting Gosalyn Waddlemeyer. This hints that he, for some reason, may not truly even need his alter ego anymore and only uses it to give Gosalyn some semblance of a normal life. Despite this, Darkwing has been seen going out of his way to protect his secret identity from being discovered.
Drake does not seem to act any differently as Darkwing, yet even those close to him, such as his next door neighbors the Muddlefoots, cannot tell they are one and the same.
He has even dressed up as Darkwing Duck while attending a Halloween party, with many patrons stating he was too short to pull off being Darkwing Duck convincingly. However, Launchpad, Gosalyn, and Honker, who have no alter egos, are all often seen with both Darkwing and Drake, yet no one questions this.
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