History WesternAnimation / MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries

* TheTeam: In this case, a six-anthropomorphic duck hockey team.
** TheLeader: Wildwing is the team leader both in the hockey team and the superhero team, "Team Captain".
** TheLancer: Two of them.
*** Duke was not a hero or a solider but a ''thief'' pre-series. This sets quite a contrast to the noble Wildwing, who was a civilian.
*** Nosedive is Wildwing's little brother, and so the contrast between them is also played up. On the ice, he is also better at scoring while his brother is the goalie.
** TheSmartGuy: Tanya maintains all their gear and innovates new stuff.
** TheBigGuy: Two of them.
*** Grin is the biggest, tallest and broadest of the ducks.
*** Unlike the rest of the team, Mallory was actually part of Puckworld's military and well-versed in both hand-to-hand and puckblasters.

''The Mighty Ducks'' animated series was a surprise for viewers expecting [[Film/TheMightyDucks a comedy series about misfit kids playing hockey]]. This animated series lasted from September, 1996 to January, 1997 on Creator/{{ABC}} (during their transition to Disney ownership -- the season after this brought in ''Creator/OneSaturdayMorning''), and also aired in FirstRunSyndication (as part of the remnants of what was ''WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon'').

* MaskOfPower: The mask of Drake [=DuCaine=], with the power to see through {{invisibility cloak}}s and possessed XRayVision, which can see through any kind of [[GlamourFailure disguise]].

** For similar reasons, the Ducks' arena is only known as "The Pond", or the "Anaheim Pond"; at the time the show was made it was called the "Arrowhead Pond", as the naming rights were sold to a regional bottled water company (these days, it's the Honda Center, sometimes dubbed the "[[JustForPun Ponda]]").

* The villains' ship cloaks itself by changing the exterior's shape a la the chameleon circuit on Series/DoctorWho's TARDIS.

''The Mighty Ducks'' animated series was, to put it gently, rather a surprise for viewers expecting [[Film/TheMightyDucks a comedy series about misfit kids playing hockey]]. This animated series lasted from September, 1996 to January, 1997 on Creator/{{ABC}} (during their transition to Disney ownership -- the season after this brought in ''Creator/OneSaturdayMorning''), and also aired in FirstRunSyndication (as part of the remnants of what was ''WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon'').

* OffModel: This is a mid-Nineties Disney Cartoon after all. And five of the animation studios [[note]]Creator/AnimalYa, Creator/SunwooEntertainment, [[Creator/WaltDisneyAnimationUnits Walt Disney Animation Japan]], Creator/WangFilmProductions and Creator/KokoEnterprises[[/note]] used to work on ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' too. This was also Creator/PlusOneAnimation's first Disney series as well.

* DonutMessWithACop: During "Duck Hard," Klegghorn is knocked out. As the villains take out the ducks, a box of doughnuts falls to the floor, with one rolling right past Klegghorn's nose. Klegghorn quickly revives, and holds the baddies at gun point.

* TheDogBitesBack: Happens to Dragaunus in "Bringing Down Baby" and "Jurassic Puck."

* EvilSorcerer: There are two, Wraith and Asteroth.

* IKnowMaddenKombat: The ducks and their hockey based combat.

* NonMammalianHair: All of the ducks in the series, one could make the case for Canard, Wildwing, and Duke’s just being feathers stylized into different styles. Mallory, Tanya, Nosedive, Grin and Lucretia’s though...

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Anaheim Mighty Frogs. Not ''quite'' 100%, but the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaheim_Bullfrogs Anaheim Bullfrogs]] were a local inline roller hockey team that were founded shortly before the cartoon began to air and also played their games in the Arrowhead Pond.

* WithMyHandsTied: "The Most Dangerous Duck Hunt" sees Wildwing, Duke and Tanya being hunted by a cybernetically-enhanced huntsman who has captured them as part of a deal with Draganus. While the hunter takes their communicators and Wildwing's armor, he leaves Duke and Tanya their SignatureWeapons as he wants to give them a sporting chance, rather than just kill them while they're defenceless.

* WeaponOfChoice: Each Duck (and each of the villains) has their own personal weapon. Wildwing has his [[IKnowMaddenKombat explosive puck]] launcher (essentially a grenade launcher,) Duke l'Orange uses a [[LaserBlade laser sword]], Tanya has various gadgets on her wrist device including a [[ChainsawGood small chainsaw]], Grin [[BarefistedMonk fights with his fists]], and the rest of the ducks mostly use pistols.

* TheyFightCrime: Alien hockey players by day, alien super heroes by night.

--> ''DUCKS ROCK''!

* StockDinosaurs: "Jurassic Puck" features ''Geosternbergia''/''Pteranodon'', ''Diplodocus''/''Seismosaurus'', ''Triceratops'', and ''Tyrannosaurus'' as the prehistoric reptiles cloned by Dragaunus.

Despite being ducks created by Disney, they are not [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse part of the Disney Duck Canon]]. One would be intrigued to see Scrooge's reaction to these guys...

* AbnormalAmmo: ''Explosive'' hockey pucks.