Awesome / DuckTales (2017) - Season 2

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"I am the terror that flaps in the night. I am the overstuffed burrito that spills onto the lap of crime. I...am...DARKWING DUCK!"

Episode 1: The Most Dangerous Game...Night!

• Scrooge easily guessing all of Donald's charades.
• Scrooge wielding Donald as a quite effective improvised club. After all, the duck's got quite a hard head.
  • Not just that, Donald tanks it without even flinching. Scrooge is swinging him around, smacking every Gyropuddlian within reach and Donald isn't fazed at all. It probably explains just how Donald survived travelling the whole world with Scrooge - it seems he is literally made of Iron!
    • Upon closer inspection of the scene, Donald isn't using his head...he's using his fist which seems to be just as iron hard!
• After seriously doubting his own role in the family's adventures, Louie discovers his real skill is being "sharper than the sharpies," quickly analyzing a complicated battle and assigning roles to each family member. Scrooge later tells him his natural skill means he might be an even bigger billionaire than him someday. He gives Louie the golden idol from the beginning of the episode as his own "#1 Dime."
  • Equally awesome is the implication that the other triplets inherited Scrooge's other oft-repeated skills: Huey being "smarter than the smarties" and Dewey being "tougher than the toughies".

Episode 2: The Depths of Cousin Fethry!

• Before the episode even began, Fethry managed to acquire the skills and knowledge of an elite marine biologist... while working as the janitor. How good is he? He has a team of trained krill.
• Launchpad once again going on an epic off-screen adventure with an old flame, coming back wearing armor and armed with a trident.

Episode 3: The Ballad of Duke Baloney!

• Keith Ferguson (Glomgold's voice actor) manages to switch from doing a really good Scottish accent to a really good South African accent, both being notably tricky to do right. They're still both hammy as all get-out though.
• And props to the writers for doing the "Villain Has Amnesia" episode right! Here, while Louie and Webby try to remind a Glomgold that has amnesia of who he is at first, they stop after a little bit and just spy on him instead. Then, they get Scrooge McDuck, who ends up hugging Glomgold and telling the kids that they should let Glomgold be. And they listen! Glomgold gets his memories back naturally, with no one trying constantly to force the villain to remember for some reason! This is an amnesia episode done right!

Episode 4: The Town Where Everyone Was Nice!

• The Caballeros' introduction. José dives from a plane with a parachute while playing his umbrella as a trombone; Panchito appears in the shadows, strumming his guitar, as flower petals fly by.
• The Three Caballeros defeat a giant Man-Eating Plant and save Donald's family while playing a new version of their iconic theme song.
  • Just the fact that Donald was ready to single-handedly fight said plant after seeing his family in danger.

Episode 6: Last Christmas!

• Scrooge tricking the Ghost of Christmas Past into going back to the start of their duel so he can grab the time-brella and get away.
• Proving he's always been a scrapper, Preteen Donald's first instinct in a Wendigo attack is to get to high ground and pelt it with pinecones.
  Donald: I'll deck your halls, ya big palooka!
  • Despite his cynical attitude, Donald is no slouch in the brains department either. He treats tracking Della more of a chore than something dangerous, and proves to be very attentive at deducing minor clues that lead him and Dewey to his sister.
  • And then the Wendigo busts Donald's guitar, causing him to hit his Rage Breaking Point and launch himself at the creature with all the same fury he would later use against the Beagle Boys, and no less ferocious for his youth or small size. He even headbutts the monster into the net that Della and Dewey had waiting.
• Donald and Della taking on the Wendigo together. Seconds after having a fight, they're on the beast like a well-oiled machine, helping each other to make coordinated attacks. Everything you'd expect from a couple of kids living under Scrooge McDuck's roof.
• Scrooge one-shots the Wendigo by emerging from a portal and bumping onto its head with his cane like a pogo stick (in his signature attack from the NES game) as he descends.
• Jörmugandr, the monstrous serpent from Norse Mythology said to be so big that he encircles the world, and destined to kill and die fighting Thor himself, actually exists... and Scrooge is keeping it at bay! He's doing something that Thor can't do without a Mutual Kill. Downplayed in that "The Rumble for Ragnarok" in Season 3 reveals that the titular serpent nerfs himself into an above average-sized wrestler whenever they brawl.

Episode 7: What Ever Happened to Della Duck?

• Della managing to survive on the moon for ten whole years and rebuild the Spear of Selene from its scraps.
• Della finds her leg hopelessly pinned under a part of the rocket, requiring a Life-or-Limb Decision before another part comes down and crushes her. Her response? A perfectly calm "Ah, phooey," after which she seemingly just gets on with cutting her leg off, and then even makes a fully functional artificial one.
• Thanks to this episode, one of the most beloved pieces of video game music from the 8 bit era now officially has lyrics^note that are not parody lyrics. And they fit perfectly into the franchise's spirit of adventure, so that a lot of people will probably now be singing along on the Moon level.

Episode 8: Treasure of the Found Lamp!

• Just D'jinn himself, a badass and noble warrior who won't let anything get in the way of his quest. A far-cry from his '80s counterpart.
• As a homage to the original series, Scrooge and Ma Beagle racing for the lamp on top of a tower of tires.

Episode 9: The Outlaw Scrooge McDuck!

• After getting caught in rubble from a dynamite blast, Scrooge is left with a dislocated leg. However, upon hearing someone is getting in the way of his prospecting claim he simply pops his leg back into place and angrily goes to confront them good as new.
• After his pickax breaks, Scrooge simply attaches the blade to his foot while grabbing another one, letting him dig twice as fast.
• Gyro builds a working time machine. What really puts it over the top is that it’s apparently so far beyond even Scrooge’s comprehension that he never once considered the weird scientist with futuristic ideas who looked and acted exactly like one of his employees actually was him.

Episode 10: The 87 Cent Solution!

• In order to stop Scrooge from diving into the bin and potentially dying from gold fever, the triplets, Webby, Launchpad, Gyro, Manny and Gizmoduck all dogpile on Scrooge to try to hold him down. An enraged Scrooge throws them ALL off of him. And this is a Scrooge that's become mentally compromised from an alleged illness and lack of sleep.
• A villainous example for Glomgold, who actually comes up with a surprisingly clever plan to drive Scrooge mad and draw in his investors. If he hadn't been prodded into Evil Gloating, he could've easily gotten away with it.

Episode 11: The Golden Spear!

• Donald fighting zombies with a chainsaw, à la Ash Williams from the Evil Dead franchise.
• Donald launching himself at Zeus like a slingshot in an effort to protect Dewey, while vividly aware just what a bad idea it was. And though we regretfully never see it, he manages to drive off the king of Olympus with only his ten-year-old nephew to help.
• Della piloting the Spear of Selene back to Earth...and finally making it.
  Della: I'm home.

Episode 12: Nothing Can Stop Della Duck!

• Della finally reuniting with her uncle and sons after all these years.
• The family taking down El Dorado's golden robot together.
• Equal parts Funny and Awesome: the Gilded Man finds a loophole in using the Sword in the Stone - it pulls the sword together with the stone out of the ground and uses it as a mace.
• The Gilded Man uses the Sword in the Stone to knock out Mrs. Beakley. This enrages Webby, who proceeds to use her grappling gun to pull the sword right out of the golden robot's hand.
  Webby: You just knocked out the wrong old lady!

Episode 13: Raiders of the Doomsday Vault!

• Della using her skills she learned on the moon to rebuild the vault.

Episode 14: Friendship Hates Magic!

• Lena is Back from the Dead.
• Mrs. Beakley gets so much into Darkwing Duck that she decides they should film a Grand Finale based on Launchpad's Self-Insert Fic and dons a Darkwing costume to play the character herself.

Episode 15: The Dangerous Chemistry of Gandra Dee!

• Beaks effortlessly dodging the security system for Gyro's lab and hacking said system on his phone, all the while dancing to music on a hoverboard.
• Gizmoduck fighting the mutated Beaks is pretty much Iron Man vs The Incredible Hulk.
• Gandra tries to justify her punk philosophy with working with Beaks, but Fenton is having none of it. He may have had feelings for her, but he's not going to stand for her screwing him over.
  Gandra: Look, for what it's worth...you're a good scientist.
  Fenton (without hesitation): And you're a crook.
• Fenton and Gandra defeating Beaks with their respective inventions.

Episode 16: The Duck Knight Returns!

• From the title, the return of Darkwing Duck!
• For what it's worth, the replacement Darkwing Duck is actually a really good fighter; he's able to take on Launchpad, who's twice his size in width and a full foot taller than him. Yeah Launchpad wasn't wanting to hurt him, but he had some good moves on him and was able to keep it really well.
• The second Launchpad sees Jim Starling pointing the lightning gun at the film's director, he immediately jumps in front of the director to shield him. Keep in mind, this is Launchpad protecting the person he thought was ruining Darkwing Duck from the person he idolizes the most. And then this is immediately followed by the moment right below.
• Just when Jim Starling is about to blast Launchpad who is defending Boorswan, he is interrupted by the sudden arrival of a mysterious figure making a Badass Boast that sounds too familiar. There on the rafters, the figure emerges from a puff of smoke, and it's the replacement actor now in his superhero guise for the movie, as shown in the page image. Ladies and gentleman, Darkwing Duck is back!
• The fight between Jim Starling and his replacement while the place is on fire.
  • Props to the replacement actor taking repeated hits from Jim Starling (including getting caught in a fireworks explosion, having a piano dropped on him, etc), and not staying down. It culminates in him taking direct hits from Starling's commandeered lightning gun...and striding forward like Darth Vader against the Emperor, refusing to let anyone else get hurt.
    Fan/Darkwing Duck: Keep...getting...up...!
  • The replacement keeps advancing and getting hits from the Lightning Gun until it overheats and explodes.
• Jim Starling's replacement's name is revealed to be Drake Mallard. And Launchpad convinces Drake to become Darkwing Duck for real and help people like Gizmoduck^note Though he is better than Gizmoduck.
• Several moments towards the climax make use of the DW theme, using the horns and the classic Duh-Duh-DUN to punctuate the new Darkwings' entrance, and later a very emotional orchestrated version as LP gives his Kirk Summation to Jim.
• Unfortunately, for every hero, there’s an arch enemy to oppose them...and Drake's nemesis is none other than Jim Starling, who's just become this series' incarnation of Negaduck.
  Jim Starling/Negaduck: It was all a setup. That hack put my fan in danger to steal the glory and humiliate me! They want “grim and gritty”, huh? Happy to play the part... (Evil Laugh)
• The animation deserves a lot of credit in this episode. It does little things, like giving the in-universe Darkwing Duck show Special Effect Failure, and the overall style replicates the Cartoon Physics of the classic Darkwing Duck show. Then we reach the proper hand-to-hand fight between the old and new, and we suddenly get a well-choreographed martial arts showdown that looks fantastic.
• This is the single ballsiest reboot of any reboot ever. Not just because it changes so much from the original, but because it took so many risks while clearly understanding what made the show special in the first place.
  • The ballsiest part of the episode has to be the casting, putting original Darkwing Duck voice actor Jim Cummings against a new Darkwing voiced by Chris Diamantopoulos. The Cummings voice is iconic for many Disney fans, but by the end of one twenty minute episode, you'll fully buy Diamantopoulos as a sincere and worthy successor to the role.
  • Just as awesome is how they handled Negaduck. In the original cartoon, there were two different versions of Negaduck: the first version was a Literal Split Personality representing all the evil within Darkwing (subtly referenced throughout the episode, especially at the climax), while the Negaduck that most fans are familiar with came out of nowhere from a Mirror Universe. Here, Negaduck is given a new origin story that makes him a chillingly believable Evil Counterpart to Darkwing Duck, without being a literal inner manifestation of Darkwing's darkness or an Evil Twin from another universe!
  • To put more emphasis on the balls of the reboot, this episode was the pay-off from all the build-up the team had been playing since the initial episode back in Season 1 that revealed Darkwing Duck was a Show Within a Show, which caused quite a bit of backlash from fans of the original show at the time. Despite all the criticism and hate, the writers stuck to their guns and kept the train going until this episode aired, revealing it was all intentional for the grand origin story of so many fans' favorite terror that flaps in the night! The writers played us in the best possible way, and it was amazing.

Episode 17: What Ever Happened to Donald Duck?!

• Doubles as a moment of funny. Donald rocking four Moonlanders to sleep at the same, so they won't notice him trying to sneak to Lunaris' base.
• Even though it's accidental, Donald single-handedly taking out the Moon's army. The Moonlanders had weapons, Donald had a broom. Donald won.
  Penumbra: (after seeing the aftermath) Hmm, perhaps you're not so puny after all!
• Donald vs Lunaris:
  • After Lunaris threatened Donald's kids, Donald uses up his pent up anger and frustration (by shattering the hard gold clamp that Lunaris clamped onto his beak into pieces!), and releases his anger at Lunaris. Let's Get Dangerous!, Donald Duck!
  • Lunaris also deserves Kudos for facing down and holding off a rampaging Donald Duck. Bear in mind that Donald has taken on the biggest beagle boy in Duckburg, an entire horde of shadow demons, and the King of Olympus all by himself and won. But once the initial surprise wore off? Donald couldn't even touch him.
  • Even though he looked to be on the losing side, Donald got to the end of the fight with not even a scratch on him, despite Lunaris landing multiple hits on him. In comparison, Lunaris hit Scrooge once during the season finale and left him covered in bruises and too hurt to put up further physical resistance.
  • During the fight, Donald was able to send a transmission to Scrooge, warning him about the Moon invasion. Too bad Scrooge doesn't understand the message at the end.
  • Donald tops it off by successfully escaping in a pod that would kill anyone else and seemingly making it back to Earth by sheer strength of will!
    Penumbra: There goes the bravest man on two worlds.
• A villainous one, but Lunaris shuts down Penumbra's rebellion with the touch of a button and the foresight to give her a booby-trapped badge the day before. Penumbra hadn't shown any insubordination before then beyond some pragmatic doubts, yet he (successfully) predicted that she'd go rogue just by her demeanor and personality. His manipulation of Della and Penumbra in Episode 11 wasn't just a one-shot fluke; this is one puppet-master par-excellence.
  • It's also revealed that he's been planning this invasion since before the series began; that's the third time he has blindsided the characters (and audience) with his deviousness.

Episode 18: Happy Birthday Doofus Drake!

• Doofus' enslaved parents finally get one over on him and ground Doofus.
• That fact that Louie is able to impress Goldie so much that she decides to keep a photo of him in her wallet. Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment

Episode 19: Nightmare On Killmotor Hill!

• Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment. The subplot with Magica and Lena served as a disturbingly accurate metaphor for abusive familial relationships in Season 1 - being chained to someone who couldn't give a damn about you, keeping their secrets, doing things for them that no child should ever have to, and suffering in secret - which culminated in Magica literally taking possession of Lena's body. That metaphor is furthered here, when Magica spends the entire episode gaslighting Lena and trying to draw her back into being her slave by preying on the girl's insecurities, the sort of creepy things that abusive parents who have had their children taken away from them actually try to do sometimes. So the coda to this episode - where Lena acknowledges that she never needs Magica again now that she has actual friends and a support system, and rejects her for good now that the power balance between them has shifted in Lena's favor - feels immensely cathartic.

Episode 20: The Golden Armory of Cornelius Coot!

• Cornelius Coot is revealed to have just been a farmer rather than a soldier, but still drove off the Beagle family's ancestors alone and unarmed, by rigging several underground corn silos to explode into popcorn, making them think a whole army was shooting at them. He's now remembered as a legendary warrior revered by all Duckberg.

Episode 21: Timephoon!

• Up to this point, Della has had a hard time learning to be a parent to Huey, Dewey and Louie, but after seeing Louie's reckless behavior lead to nearly blinking everyone out of existence, it caused her to step up and chew him out for it, and ultimately ground him, as well as shut down "Louie Inc." Even Mrs. Beakley, who had been critical of Della's parenting, praised her for it.
• The battles against the time-displaced subjects, specially Beakley and Della versus a ninja, with great teamwork on the females' side, and good fight moves from both sides.
• Just this series' incarnation of Bubba. He makes his debut as some sort of Old Stone Age treasure hunter narrowly dodging death traps, adapts to the modern world and masters its technology in less than a day, deals with a Triceratops like he would with the large prehistoric mammals from his time, and even helps out Louie send back all the time-displaced subjects, including himself. Is it any wonder why he would turn out to be the first of the McDucks?
  Bubba: BUBBA CLUBBA!

Episode 22: GlomTales!

• Flintheart swallows his pride and goes to his fellow villains for help, trying to build an honourary family to match the one Scrooge has. Although he is hesitant in recruiting Magica, since he wants Scrooge to be hated by him more than anyone else, but he soon relents (under prodding from his "family").
• Despite Della claiming she prepared for every possible escape scenario, Louie did manage to come up with one plan she didn't foresee. Namely, disguising himself as Huey and telling the DT-87 "Louie" managed to escape and trap "himself" there instead. It would've gone off without a hitch had Huey not coincidentally made a video call at that same moment.
• The evil family's attack on McDuck Manor is quite well planned out. Using force and toughness to bypass the initial defenses, hacking the phone lines, and Magica even sends Duckworth packing with a well-used artifact.
• Brief though it is, Scrooge and Glomgold's "families" square off with each other. First lining up, then going into battle.
• Louie should get props for managing to keep a cool head while alone in mansion full of villains. He managed to stay calm enough to came up with a plan to not only save his own skin, but his family's as well.
• Louie manages to save the day with a particularly clever scheme—getting all the villains to pool their resources with Glomgold so he can win the bet, only for Louie to lay claim to everything via a combination of fine print and taking advantage of the fact that "Flintheart Glomgold" is a fake identity, making him the richest duck in the world.
  • Louie's acting right before the reveal of how he tricked the villains. He had everyone, including Scrooge, believing he was on the villain's side. Dewey's isn't the only actor in the family, huh?
  • A bit of a minor one, but it can't be restated enough. The main members of this show's Rogue's Gallery, when you combine their resources and fortunes, have MORE wealth than that of the Richest Duck in the World. Even Scrooge is in shock that his enemies have that much money.
  • The following season, Louie even discovers this move has made him a Living Legend among the world's criminals, beyond any story he could make up.
• It's minor, but when going to recruit Don Karnage, Glomgold actually manages to duel him with his cane for a while. They're actually evenly matched, and it's implied that the only reason Karnage got the upper hand was because Glomgold was distracted by the timeline he set for recruiting him.

Episode 23: The Richest Duck in the World!

• Following on from last episode Louie decides to keep Scrooge's vast fortune for himself. How does Scrooge respond? Go into an apoplectic rage? Get heartbroken over his nephew's betrayal? He actually laughs like he's just heard a hilarious joke. He knows blasted well that Louie is going to get a reality check over this and treats the whole thing like a childish game that his nephew will get tired of at some point because that's exactly what this is so far as Scrooge is concerned. He even jovially tells Louie he can give the fortune back once he's tired of it and decides to just lounge around like Louie normally does, acting like he just got a day off. In a way, Scrooge turns his own loss into a meaningful gain by allowing Louie to have the proper experience that will enable him to make responsible decisions.
• Louie has continued refining his money-swimming skills offscreen, to the point that he feels comfortable in an actual swimsuit while doing so!
• It's both a Noodle Incident and an Offscreen Moment of Awesome, but Scrooge somehow managed to seal the Bombie, an undead Implacable Man with Super-Strength who "cannot be fought or bought", in a metal bin and keep him in with some magical artifacts for over 60 years.
• Zan Owlson, after a solid year of having her advice ignored by Duckburg's billionaires, finally reaches the end of her patience, going on a long, angry rant about how she doesn't deserve to be treated this way, culminating in her quitting her job to become a better billionaire on her own. Not only that, she clarifies that she will stay on for two weeks to train her replacement, because, unlike the billionaires she's been advising, she's a professional.
• Louie finally starts to grasp the lessons he's learned about humility and hard work, admitting he's not ready to be the world's richest duck and offering to shine the Bombie's shoes. Scrooge follows along, lifting the curse from both of them, and admits that, for accepting the Humble Pie after one day when it took him decades, Louie was a better billionaire than him. Louie not only learns the above lessons, but by learning them does he take a big bite out of a centuries-old curse.
• Penumbra definitely has an Offscreen Moment of Awesome in managing to get a message to Della. The last time she was seen she had been at Lunaris' mercy, got out a choppy and distorted message and could only pray that Donald was able to get to Earth alive. Here she's able to send an up to date warning right to Della that gets through crystal clear. She would only have been able to do that if she managed to escape Lunaris, get proper equipment to send a message and was either keeping a close eye on Earth or intercepting intel her own people were gathering.

Episode 24: Moonvasion!

• Lunaris thwarting Scrooge's first three plans before Scrooge even got on with them!
• Darkwing Duck comes up with the perfect form of his Character Catchphrase for fighting aliens: "I am the scream you can hear in space!"
• Scrooge's Rousing Speech once all the heroes are rounded up.
  "My great-grandfather used to say, give me twelve Highlanders and a bagpiper, and I'll give you a rebellion. We may be a ragtag gang of underdogs, but we'll survive like we always do. Because we're smarter, we're tougher, we're sharper! Follow my lead, and we'll win this battle square!"
• Scrooge's fourth plan was very well schemed and he almost won. It's just Lunaris was one step ahead. Said plan consists of Scrooge having all of the allies he's gathered Hold the Line against the Moonlanders guarding his manor. With every member getting their own moment.
  • Scrooge takes a few out as a first strike by using his pogo cane Signature Move from the games.
  • Beakley takes some out with her spy training and when one of them lands a punch right to the face all it does is make her angrier, given how she judo flips the mook unconscious.
  • Duckworth uses his ghost form to take out a few and chase some more into the forest...
  • ... where Lena is waiting for them and uses her magic to turn one of their guns into a bird and then blast them. Then Violet shows up with a mace that seems to be made of Lena's magic, disarms a mook, and gets him to surrender.
  • Gabby McStabberson returns and shows her sword skills aren't just hype, setting Quackfaster up to show her sword skills, which makes three Moonlanders scream in terror and run away. Having seen Quackfaster in action, can't say we blame them!
  • Gyro is revealed to have cloned himself into a small army and takes them on with a Zerg Rush.
  • Officer Cabrera takes town a Moonlander with just her police training.
  • Fenton shoots pie in the Moonlanders faces. Lemon meringue pie that attracts some harpies to attack them.
• We see D'jinn and Amunet fighting off the Moonlanders in Egypt and are doing a pretty good job of it.
• Drake taking one hell of a beating yet still defeating the Moonlanders, once again showing just how insanely durable he is and proving that he is the real Darkwing Duck.
• Scrooge exploiting how the Moonlanders don't see Darkwing as a threat to them by switching outfits with him.
• While sneaking through McDuck Manor dressed as Darkwing, Scrooge brings down Zenith and Gibbous, and gets his own variation of DW's catchphrase.
  Scrooge: I am sharper than the sharpies! I am tougher than the toughies! I am Scrooge McDuck!
  • How awesome is this? The couple begins applauding!
• The results of Louie's Character Development. At the start of the season, he had been lamenting how being a Guile Hero was all he had and worried over falling into Can't Catch Up. Here, he puts his ability to see all the angles to good use by implementing it into strategic payoff, even taking the lead at a few points. This is the "lovably lazy" triplet we're talking about.
  • Really, just how far Louie's grown as a person since the series started. That Louie would have gladly gone along with Della's plan of hiding away, but the current Louie will have none of it. He knows that it's up to them and goes out of his way to convince Della of this as well, getting her back in the fight and ultimately leading the whole Duck clan to stand united.
• Donald survived being alone in an island for a month by drinking seawater, eating sand, and talking to his Companion Cube who suspiciously looks and sounds like Mickey Mouse.
• Also a heartwarming moment AND a funny moment, but Donald and Della's reunion.
• Fethry, Gladstone, and Mitsy saving Donald, Della, and the children from the island. After getting off the island, the Duck cousins and the kids do Let's Get Dangerous! poses.
• Glomgold's idiotic scheme actually working in stopping Lunaris's invasion. With the bonus of humiliating Scrooge by having him dress up as Santa and giving him his company back.
  • Followed by Scrooge and Glomgold teaming up (alongside Manny) to directly fight Lunaris.
• Just as when Lunaris is about to defeat Scrooge, the Duck cousins and the kids appear just in time.
  Lunaris: Any last words, earther?
  Scrooge: (sees the kids on top of Mitsy) Hi, kids.
  The kids: Hi, Uncle Scrooge!
  Lunaris: NONE OF THIS MAKES ANY SENSE!
• The moon rocket being taken down by a combination of Glomgold's ridiculous scheme, Mitsy's strength, and Gladstone's insane luck.
• The Duck family flying to space to face Lunaris once and for all with the kids on weapons and the Duck twins piloting a Moonlander ship. While an orchestral rendition of the Moon Theme plays.
• Penumbra saving the Duck family by crashing into Lunaris's ship with the original Spear of Selene.
  Penumbra: Hello, General!
• Selene and Storkules doing their part by Selene making Lunaris' ship the Earth's second Moon (with Lunaris in it!) and Storkules bringing back Earth into orbit. A Freeze-Frame Bonus shows that they tied up Zeus in order to keep him from stopping them as well.
• Doubles as heartwarming, but Darkwing Duck is in the group shot front and center. It is very clearly a sign that he has joined them, especially with The Reveal below.
• The villain reveal for season three: it's F.O.W.L.! And the High Command is none other than Scrooge's Board of Directors!
  • Doubles as a moment of funny, but the reveal that Funso was actually the Phantom Blot this entire time.
  • Even better? Guess the newcomer who's among the agents of F.O.W.L.. It's Steelbeak!
• At the end of the episode, Goldie can be seen pushing through the crowd to get to the McDuck/Duck family. This implies that she survived the alien invasion without any help and with her own skills. She wasn't imprisoned after all! There's a reason why Scrooge considers this woman a Worthy Opponent.
  • Frank Angones actually confirmed this. She spent the whole invasion stealing stuff, which is also a funny moment.
• While he's a Posthumous Character we never actually get to see, we get a Badass Boast from Scrooge's great-grandfather, based on a real-life Scottish proverb: "Give me twelve Highlanders and a bagpiper, and I'll give you a rebellion."

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