History Awesome / DuckDodgers

* It's odd to think of Duck Dodgers having Crowning Moments of Awesome, given that he's often played up as TheLoad and utterly inept, with much of his success being the work of The Cadet, a fluke accident, or both. However, there are moments where Dodgers manages to do exactly what he set out to do. These are those moments:

It's odd to think of Duck Dodgers having Crowning Moments of Awesome, given that he's often played up as TheLoad and utterly inept, with much of his success being the work of The Cadet, a fluke accident, or both. However, there are moments where Dodgers manages to do exactly what he set out to do. These are those moments.

* In the very first episode, Dodgers successfully laid out a seemingly unlikely plan to save the Earth [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer by cramming loads of potatoes]] into the gun ports of the Martian ship.
* In "The Spy That Didn't Love Me", he successfully laid out explosive charges on a tower broadcasting a control signal to the Martian Centurions, allowing an effective revolt against Martian control.
* In "Enemy Yours", Dodgers gets two.
** First, at the opening of the episode, he deliberately and successfully pulls off a BigDamnHeroes moment by putting his ship between Commander X-2's and a damaged Protectorate medical supply ship.
** At the end of the episode, having previously made a fool of himself, manages to rescue the Martian Queen and defeat the dreaded Doctor Woe while wearing something that greatly resembles [[Creator/MarvelComics Doctor Doom's armor]] and firing EyeBeams at his opponent. He even treats the Queen with gallant chivalry.
* During the trials to see if he was fit to be the King of Mars, Dodgers wins all three challenges on his own.
** In the first trial, he goes GuileHero on his opponent in a moment that would have made WesternAnimation/BugsBunny proud.
** In the second trial, he not only survives the Martian Desert, he does so while eating copious amounts of salty snacks without water, and is able to endure the ordeal better than X-2 because he's lived in Palm Springs.
** In the third and final trial, he defeats the Sages of Mars in a game of Three Card Monte. Effortlessly.
* In ''Where's the Baby Smartypants'', Dodgers manages to stall for time at a peace conference and actually manages to get them to like each other. It's pretty extraordinary that he was just reading off fortune cookies, but did a better job promoting peace than Osmo did.

** Also the cadet saving Dodgers from the bug monsters with a giant mech.

** At the end of the episode, having previously made a fool of himself, manages to rescue the Martian Queen and defeat the dreaded Doctor Woe while wearing something that greatly resembles [[MarvelComics Doctor Doom's armor]] and firing EyeBeams at his opponent. He even treats the Queen with gallant chivalry.

* Both Dodgers and X-2 get one in "The Fudd", when they conquer their inability to read and fear of heights, respectively.

** In the first trial, he goes GuileHero on his opponent in a moment that would have made BugsBunny proud.

* Say what you will about Dodger's self-serving avarice, but when the chips were down, he really came through for the GreenLantern Corps, providing and entrance for Kilowog, Katma Tui, and Ch'p, and then, even as he was being pressed by Sinestro, using his borrowed ring to revive the captured Green Lanterns.

** In the third and final trial, he defeats the Sages of Mars in a game of Three Card Monte. Effortlessly.

* In the very first episode, Dodgers successfully laid out a seemingly unlikely plan to save the Earth by cramming loads of potatoes into the gun ports of the Martian ship.

--> '''Duck Dodgers'''(elsewhere): '' '''[[OhCrap WE ARE!]]''' ''

--> '''Dodgers''':''[[BondOneLiner Rock takes Queen.]]''

--> '''Dodgers''': ''Then this time, '''I''' take the fall.''

--> '''Dodgers''':I'll raise this crate or die trying!
--> '''Cadet''':''No, w-w-we will!''
--> '''Dodgers''':''[[ThatsAnOrder I gave you an order, Mister!]]''
--> '''Cadet''':''C-cheerfully disobeyed, Captain.''

--> '''Dish''':''Shall we call off the attack, General?''
--> '''Z-9''':''Maintain course, Counselor Dish.''
--> '''Dish''':''But, no Martian ship will make it through the shields. We'll be vaporized.''
--> '''Z-9''':''We're not '''in''' a Martian ship.''

* 'In Space, no one can Hear you Rock.' Calling in Megadeth to fight off the Martian Fleet's "Sax "oblivion". Dave Mustaine's guitar has a laser.

--> '''Dodgers''':''I gave you an order, Mister!''

--> '''Duck Dodgers''':''[[BondOneLiner Rock takes Queen.]]''

--> '''Duck Dodgers''': ''Then this time, '''I''' take the fall.''

--> '''Duck Dodgers''':I'll raise this crate or die trying!

--> '''Duck Dodgers''':''I gave you an order, Mister!''

--> '''Counselor Dish''':''Shall we call off the attack, General?''

--> '''Counselor Dish''':''But, no Martian ship will make it through the shields. We'll be vaporized.''

* 'In Space, no one can Hear you Rock.'

* 'In Space, no one can Hear you Scream.

--> '''Duck Dodgers'''(elsewhere): '' '''[[OhCrap WE ARE!]]''' ''

--> '''Cadet''':''C-cheerfully disobeyed, Captain.''

* In "Hooray for Hollywood Planet", Dodgers manages to tame a rampaging space dragon by treating it [[AllAnimalsAreDogs like an overgrown puppy.]]

* Say what you will about Dodger's self-serving avarice, but when the chips were down, he really came through for the GreenLantern Corps, providing and entrance for Kilowog, Katma Tui, and Ch'p, and then, even as he was being pressed by Sinestro, using his borrowed ring to revive the captured Green Lanterns.

--> '''Duck Dodgers''':''[[BondOneLiner Rock takes Queen.]]''

* Commander X-2 manages to get one on Dodgers, as well. When it looks like his hated foe is about to become his King and wed the Queen, he convinces Dodgers that the King's sole purpose is to run the non-existent [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar methane farms of Uranus]].