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The Fearsome Five
A team formed by Negaduck with four of Darkwing's most recurring/dangerous villains to take over St. Canard. Despite getting beaten by the Justice Ducks, they still work together at times, but become more of a Big Bad with his bumbling Quirky Miniboss Squad.
Negaduck
Voiced by: Jim Cummings, Gérard Hernandez (French), Nelson Machado (Brazilian Portuguese)
"I am the screeching fingernail of the chalkboard of justice. I am the sour ball in the candy jar of goodness. I am Negaduck!"
Darkwing's Evil Counterpart from a Mirror Universe where he has taken total control. Now he seeks to take over Darkwing's world and be Public Enemy #1, but can never seem to beat out Dr. Slug for the top spot. Not to be confused with the first Negaduck, referred to here as NegaDuck I (with this one being referred to as Negaduck II when discussing both Negaduck.).- Abusive Parents: There's a subtle but chilling indication that he's this to the Negaverse's version of Gosalyn.
- All Your Powers Combined: He steals all the Fearsome Five's powers in "Jail Bird".
- And I Must Scream: The non-canon Dangerous Currency story ends with this as his fate, being trapped in another plane of existence alongside all the villains he merged with into a giant ink monster.
- Animation Bump: Two of his episodes ("Life the Negaverse and Everything" and "Let's Get Respectable") were animated by Disney Japan. His prototype also got this treatment with "Negaduck".
- Arch-Enemy: To Darkwing Duck. He's one of the few Evil Twins in superhero fiction to claim that title.
- Ax-Crazy: Oh boy is he ever. He once considered pushing a button to crush St. Canard with a giant electric wall just because he could, after just using it as a threat. Some of his plans don't even involve stealing and are only aimed at causing destruction. Case in point, when he got enough clay to last his plans to use Hollywood Voodoo for his crimes for years, he states he doubts that St. Canard will last that long.
- Bad Boss: The rest of the Fearsome Five put up with him mostly because they're afraid of him. When ruling St. Canard, he insists that he gets all the loot they steal. In a later episode, he organizes an escape plan to break his allies out of prison, then backstabs them by draining all of their powers.
- Badass Normal: Leads a team of super villains where 3/4 of them have powers, and the other has dangerous gadgets, and he puts the fear into them regardless. Also manages to consistently beat Darkwing Duck on his own.
- Berserk Button: Do not remind Negaduck that he's only the #2 villain in St. Canard, behind Dr. Slug.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: He and Magica DeSpell serve as the main antagonists of "Crisis on Infinite Darkwings".
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: When compared with Darkwing. Only visible when he's posing as Drake Mallard.
- Blob Monster: As a result of being reduced to particles by the Tron Splitter, he eventually festered into an evil inky gunk.
- Breakout Villain: After the Negaduck I episode, Tad Stones (the Show Runner) said he liked Negaduck and wanted him brought back for more episodes; this resulted in Negaduck II, who the fandom embraced as perhaps not just the most popular villain but the most popular character on the show, period. When the revival comic book came around, the writer has said that he intended to have a F.O.W.L. story for the second arc and a Negaduck story for the third arc, but sheer fan demand made him swap the order. The DuckTales (2017) reboot also features a new incarnation and accompanying origin story for Negaduck in Season 2, although it unfortunately never followed up on that. He's also the first DWD villain to get his own comic series, which happened when Dynamite Entertainment got the rights to make a new Darkwing Duck comic in 2023.
- Bright Is Not Good: His color scheme (mostly yellow and red) is noticeably brighter than Darkwing's purple suit and dark hat, but he is one evil guy.
- Butt-Monkey: Since he is a brutal, bloodthirsty creature the universe responds in kind.
- Cain and Abel: "The Secret Origins of Darkwing Duck" portrays him as being Darkwing's evil cousin. This version was also a Space Pirate.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Openly refers to himself as evil, sinister, all sorts of unpleasant adjectives.
- Chainsaw Good: While he carries a number of different weapons, chainsaws seem to be his favorite; in the "Crisis on Infinite Darkwings", he's seen Dual Wielding chainsaws, as well as using a chainsaw that has other smaller chainsaws attatched to the blade.
- Character Catchphrase: "I hate that."
- Corrupt the Cutie: He once tried to do this to the Cute Little Lost Bunnies by instructing them on how to turn mean. Tries being the key word however, as they're so overly saccharine, none of his lessons get through to them.
- Determinator: A trait he shares with Darkwing Duck is that he doesn't give up easily.
- Evil Counterpart: To Darkwing, of course. And an interesting variation, too. Though they have the exact same physical abilities, they have opposing personalities. Where DW's Fatal Flaw is Pride, ND's is Wrath. Though this makes him exponentially more effective in combat than DW, it also means that he can't keep a team together. He thus beats the stuffing out of DW on a regular basis...Aaaand then DW's friends show up and stomp him.
- Evil Is Hammy: He makes Darkwing Duck look absolutely restrained by comparison.
- Evil Is Petty: Is quick to throw a fit the moment things don't go his way, and goes berserk at the notion of not being considered the top villain in St. Canard.
- Evil Laugh: A creepy one at that.
- Evil Overlord: In his own world and he's not satisfied with it.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Has Darkwing's voice, only deeper and more menacing.
- Evil Twin: He is the evil twin of Darkwing, in case you didn't notice.
- Faux Affably Evil: Negaduck greatly downplays this attitude as he is mostly so fixated on being cruel in even the most minor of things that he sees even affected manners as below, or rather above, him. So the very few times that he actually feels like softening his tone, it is a small compromise compared to the sign that he is going to do something especially twisted even for him and that he is ecstatic about it.
- For the Evulz: As a character trait. He thoroughly enjoys spreading misery and destruction for its own sake - turning a profit is just a bonus.
- Foul Waterfowl: Being Darkwing's Evil Counterpart, he is an uncaring leader who loves to cause destruction everywhere he goes.
- Genius Bruiser: He can beat Darkwing in a fight, and he's one of the most competent villain in the show slightly less so than Taurus Bulba.
- Hand Wave: In the Joe Books revival of the Boom Studios comic continuation, he deliberately avoids explaining how he recovered from being zapped into numerous smaller copies of himself in "Crisis on Infinite Darkwings", stating that the details are not important, which at least got a mention, unlike that time he got "sucked into oblivion" when DW pulled the Universal Plug.
- Hates Being Touched: Gets visibly enraged whenever someone touches him without permissions, especially when he's unexpectedly hugged.
- Humiliation Conga: He suffers a lot of humiliating blows in "Just Us, Justice Ducks" part 2.
- Hypocrite: In "Jail Bird", Negaduck steals the Fearsome Five's powers. The rest of the Fearsome Five then team-up with Darkwing Duck to beat Negaduck and he accused his comrades of being "traitors" and "villains".
- I Control My Minions Through...: Fear. The other four members of the Fearsome Five submit to Negaduck's authority largely because they're afraid of him.
- Impersonating the Evil Twin: Done this twice as Darkwing.
- Implacable Man: Not even being sucked into oblivion itself can stop him for very long.
- Jerkass: Negaduck likes only two things; taking valuables from others and causing as much destruction as he can.
- Just Between You and Me: "When I throw... THE SWITCH!"
- Lack of Empathy: He doesn't have any sympathy even towards his fellow villains.
- Large Ham: Following Evil Is Hammy, he's a bigger ham than Darkwing.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Negaduck is the worst villain. Fittingly, he tends to suffer the worst defeats.
- Laughably Evil: Most of Darkwing's villains are, but he's the best example. It doesn't mean he's less evil though.
- Mirror Universe: "Life, the Negaverse, and Everything". This is the "true" origin.
- Multiple-Choice Past: Much like Darkwing himself, there have been multiple Negaducks, each with a distinct origin.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Negaduck has a fascination with anything morbid, like in this exchange:Darkwing Duck: [through the intercom and imitating a woman's voice] Flowers for Negaduck!
Negaduck: [through the intercom] I hate flowers!
Darkwing Duck: Did I say flowers? I meant, er— SKULLS!
[Negaduck is turned on and licks his lips.]
Darkwing Duck: Skulls for Negaduck!
Negaduck: I'll be right there. - Not So Above It All: For all his vile tendencies, he does share some of Darkwing's quirks and weaknesses. Like spending most of "Jail Bird" trying and failing to break into a prison to steal the other Four's powers, complete with self-narration, all the while everyone else was continuing their prison routine. Or that time DW beat him by just ducking a flying kick, sending ND tumbling down some stairs. A lot of stairs. Or the entire last five minutes of Just Us, Justice Ducks.
- Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: Negaduck has all sort of weapons, explosives and many vehicles ranging from a motorcycle, a monster truck, two different helicopters, an airplane, a boat, all tailored to his personal tastes. Since he's the evil ruler of the Negaverse, this is probably where he gets all his toys.
- Palette Swap: Being Darkwing's evil twin, he looks identical to him aside from his clothes being colored red, yellow and black.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Much more lucid and capable than standard lunatics like Megavolt and Quackerjack as he may be, he still behaves like a juvenile delinquent who enjoys breaking rules all the time, no matter how minor, and throws tantrums especially when things don't go his way. One standout example is in the episode "Going Nowhere Fast" - when Darkwing Duck revealed that Negaduck's particle accelerator gave him super speed, Negaduck started screaming about how unfair it was that his worst enemy got a superpower off of him.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Accessories? Check. Evil as hell? Check. The only exception is his yellow coat.
- Remember the New Guy?: His first appearance in "Just Us, Justice Ducks", he appears out of nowhere and everybody already knows who he is. Unlike Liquidator and Quackerjack, who were introduced in the same episode, he isn't later given an episode showing how he first met Darkwing Duck, though he is given an origin.
- Significant Double Casting: He's Darkwing's Evil Twin, and has the same voice actor.
- The Sociopath: He enjoys causing destruction and never considers the consequences of his violent actions in any other than a enthusiastic way.
- Something Person: Like his good counterpart, his name scheme fits the pattern.
- Surrounded by Idiots: As seen in "Life, the Negaverse, and Everything", he has absolutely no interest in being around his four considerably less intelligent minions beyond completing a job.
- The Klutz: He may take his role as a villain much more seriously than DW takes his as a hero, but he is still an evil alternate version of Darkwing Duck with all the injuries that this entails.
- Torture Technician: And he thoroughly enjoys it, too."The science of pain! Oooh! Gives me chills!"
- To the Pain: "When I throw... THE SWITCH!"
- Unexplained Recovery: Falls into oblivion in "Life the Negaverse and Everything" and in his next appearance, he's back with no explanation.
- Uniqueness Value: The comic continuation reveals that at least part of Negaduck's hatred and villainy stems from frustration at not being the unique and complete individual he feels he should be in a multiverse filled with Darkwings.
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Starred in at least two comics in the Disney Adventures magazine, and yes, he fit this trope to a "T".
- Would Hurt a Child: In "The Quiverwing Quack", Negaduck, being cruel, heartless, and mean as he is, will go to the lengths of regaining his title as Public Enemy No. 1, even if it means doing away with St. Canard's new young heroine, Quiverwing Quack (Gosalyn Mallard), whether to attempt to feed her to a shark, or send her and her allies plummeting to their doom."So, St. Canard has a new favorite hero, eh? And a little girl at that! The perfect target for public enemy number one!"
"Don't flatter yourself, Darkwing. The Quiverwing Quack is my ticket to becoming public enemy number one, you guys get to go along for the ride!"
Megavolt/Elmo Sputterspark
Voiced by: Dan Castellaneta, Luq Hamet (French), Carlos Silveira (Brazilian Portuguese)
"They called me crazy! They called me insane! They called me looney! And, boy, were they right."
Unintentionally obtaining electrical powers (and maybe frying some brain cells in the process) from his experiment caused by some high school bullies, he now is a crook who wants to "liberate" the appliances and electrical items of St. Canard.
- Affably Evil: Despite being a criminal, he's usually a pretty nice guy to his partners. Too bad they tend to betray him. In fact his overloaded mind tends to combine unstable, violent tendencies with a casual, chatty obliviousness even towards his enemies.
- Arch-Enemy: Negaduck's only real competition for the title; Darkwing's referred to him as such before note , and he appears the most of any villain in the show.
- Animate Inanimate Object: Has done Type 3 a couple times, most notably in "A Revolution in Home Appliances".
- Animation Bump: Three of his episodes were animated by Disney Japan and one by Disney Australia.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: There isn't a better way to describe his thought pattern other than being on a permanent channel switching. Expectedly, sparkly things tend to attract this short-lived attention.
- Ax-Crazy: He does not challenge Negaduck in this department of course but he does have moments of being violently unhinged and attacking people with electricity for little reason.
- Berserk Button: "Don't call me Sparky!"
- Characterization Marches On: While always kooky, he's noticeably more unhinged in his final three appearances, Jail Bird, The Frequency Fiends, and Clash Reunion.
- Companion Cube: All electrical devices, seen with a light bulb the most, are the light of his life.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: He's clearly a very intelligent scientist, if not person, but apart from bringing appliances to life, all he seems interested in is stealing things.
- Ditzy Genius: He is able to invent amazing devices and also found out Darkwing Duck's secret identity "Clash Reunion", but he ended up forgetting it because his damaged brain was giving him memory problems by then and he even forgot his own identity a couple times.
- Embarrassing Nickname: "Sparky". Calling him this is his Berserk Button.
- Enemy Mine: He teams up with Darkwing to defeat greater villains more than once.
- Evil Counterpart: To Darkwing Duck in that both use low-budget costumes.
- Evil Laugh: Like a lot of villains, he laughs fiendishly when things are in his favor.
- Forgetful Jones: His lights upstairs tend to flicker way too frequently which often leaves him helpless and needing his enemies to remind him who he and everyone else is supposed to be in order to proceed with anything. This makes him safe for the heroes to take along and reveal secrets to, as he will eventually forget them anyway.
- Fourth-Wall Observer: His entrance in "Frequency Fiends" has him complaining that the theme song is stuck in his head. Also, mistakes himself for a Scooby-Doo villain in "Clash Reunion" and corrects himself by admitting it was the wrong cartoon.
- Friendly Enemy: Occasionally, especially in Enemy Mine situations.
- Idea Bulb: Literally. He will often hold a light bulb over his head.
- Idiot Savant: When DW speaks on his behalf about him being a genius concerning power-related sciences, he is forced to stop there abruptly.
- Kill It with Water: Naturally as a electricity-themed villain, water will cause Megavolt to short circuit.
- Large Ham: He practically screams every line he utters.
- Mad Scientist: He admits to the mad part.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: It's been stated that they've tried and failed to give him the chair, implying that he's committed murder before.
- Pragmatic Villainy: After accidentally giving the original Negaduck superpowers, teams up with Darkwing and company to stop him from destroying St. Canard because it will take his little world and laboratory with it.Gosalyn: Why would you help us?
Megavolt: If Negaduck destroys St. Canard, there'll be nothing left to rob! - Psycho Electro: It's implied that the massive shock to his system that granted him his powers also caused tremendous damage to his brain. Megavolt has electricity-based powers and is more than a little mentally unbalanced, finding electrical appliances much more agreeable companions than carbon-based life forms (although he has at least once bestowed a certain true level of sentience onto said appliances). As he himself says, "They called me crazy! They called me insane! They called me LOONY!... and boy, were they right!"
- Psycho Psychologist: He runs a stress/anger management clinic with Quackerjack in "Stressed To Kill" for the purpose of hypnotizing the patients into a lethargic state of total apathy.
- Psychopathic Manchild: From his point of view he has to deal with nasty neighbors who just won't let a guy enjoy his one hobby in life. Unfortunately that hobby consists of recharging his batteries by pulling the plug on a whole sleepless metropolis, plunging it into darkness and panic. Apart from his tendency to throw tantrums he can get very distracted and involved into immature arguments making him more like a misguided child in the body of a campy supervillain.
- Punny Name: A Psycho Electro with the last name Sputterspark.
- Required Secondary Powers: Averted. He's NOT immune to his own powers, and having them backfire and shock himself is a common source of being struck by Laser-Guided Karma. See also Weaksauce Weakness below.
- Reunion Revenge: Tried to get revenge on the classmates that caused him to get his powers.
- Shock and Awe: His main shtick. He even carries a battery on his back to have available energy at any time.
- Super Mode: Gains one in the comics thanks to the evil ink.
- Technopath: Subverted, he can bring technology to life but not control it. However he actually controlled technology in "Duck Blind".
- They Called Me Mad!: Not that he sees it as wrong. "They called me crazy! They called me insane! They called me looney! And, boy, were they right."
- Treadmill Trauma: Megavolt received his powers by performing a science experiment where he ran on a carpeted treadmill in an attempt to accumulate large amounts of static electricity... and the school bully tied him to it and turned up the speed, trapping him there for hours.
- Villainous Friendship: With Quackerjack; Megavolt once noted they make an "electrifying team."
- Villainy Discretion Shot: While a comedic villain, he's been to the electric chair twice.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Due to his power, water; it'll short him out, zapping himself and (usually) sabotaging whatever scheme or gadget he's got running. Incidentally, anytime he and the Liquidator are fighting together, it's nearly a guarantee that they'll wind up hurting each other as a result.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: So what if appliances aren't actually sentient, he thinks he's saving them from slavery. If it is based in his interests in science, it is good, and if it obstructs, it's bad. And that's how far his understanding of right and wrong goes.
- Worthy Opponent: As a result of being Darkwing's Arch-Enemy, Darkwing has a healthy respect for him. Despite this he still mocks him when they battle.
- Would Hurt a Child: He has no problem with attempting to kill Gosalyn along with the rest of her family.
- You Dirty Rat!: A villainous rat.
Dr. Reginald Bushroot
Voiced by: Tino Insana, Patrick Prejean (French), Hélio Vaccari (Brazilian Portuguese)
"I'm really not sinister, just misunderstood."
After having his funding pulled from his experiments with plants he experimented on himself and unintentionally turned himself into a plantduck capable of controlling plant life. His crimes usually involve him trying to fund his research (i.e. stealing), protecting plants or attempting to cure his loneliness.
- Affably Evil: He's almost not evil, but he's willing to kill Darkwing Duck when he tries to screw up his plans to find/make a mate.
- Anti-Villain: If not for his obsessiveness and lack of impulse control, he might as well actually be an Anti-Hero.
- Benevolent Boss: He's genuinely horrified whenever his plant mooks are cut down to size by Darkwing.
- Beware the Nice Ones: He was actually a really nice guy before his mutation. Even after the transformation, he's gentle and caring with his plants... but he has committed murder, and along with the Liquidator he's one of the most capable and mentally sound members of the Fearsome Five.
- Driven to Murder: The very first thing he does with his newfound powers is kill two of his tormentors. The Joe Books comic reveals that he didn't actually kill them, although they aren't exactly in the best mental shape anymore.
- Enemy Mine: Teams up with Darkwing more than once.
- Evil Genius: He was a botanist before his mutation and often breeds plant monsters to assist with his schemes.
- Expy: Of DC Comics' Floronic Man. Aside from both being mutant plant beings, the Floronic Man's real name is Jason Woodrue, which like Reginald Bushroot, has a surname composed of two plant-related words.
- From a Single Cell: Bushroot can regenerate a new body over time, as he has been mowed down at least twice.
- Green Thumb: In addition to being a plant himself, he's able to control other plant-life or even grant them a degree of sentience and autonomy.
- The Grinch: In the Christmas Episode, obviously, though unlike most Grinches, he has a good reason for it - he has a really hard time doing his Christmas shopping due to his appearance.
- Good Feels Good: Downplayed. In #7 of the Joe Books run, he offhandedly mentions finding super-heroing kinda fun. Fittingly enough, he switches sides and becomes a good guy the next issue.Bushroot: Boy, this hero thing is kinda fun! I mean, I don't like the way you [Darkwing] do it, but I can see the appeal!
- Heel–Face Turn: Seemingly pulls this off in #8 of the Joe Books comic series. However, as that was the last issue made before its cancellation, we never get to see if it actually sticks or not
- I Just Want to Be Loved: Some percentages of his crimes are driven by trying to get himself a friend or girlfriend (as seen in "Beauty and the Beet", "Night of the Living Spud", and "Slime Okay, You're Okay".)
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: As impressive as his powers are, he's really not that powerful a villain, mainly due to his own insecurities and relatively gentle nature.
- Jerkass Ball: While one can still sympathize with the incident that sparked it, his behavior in the Christmas Episode is a lot more petty and sinister than is usual for him.
- Love Makes You Evil: He was in love with Dr. Rhoda Dendron before his transformation and partly turned to a life of crime when she refused to return his feelings.
- Mad Scientist: When his funding was pulled, he used himself in his experiments.
- Man-Eating Plant: His assistant, Spike, a giant Venus fly trap.
- Metamorphosis: From a duck to a plant hybrid.
- No-Sell: Like Poison Ivy, he's immune to poisons like the gas in Darkwing's gun.
- Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: At one point, Bushroot outright describes himself as this.
- Not Wearing Tights: After his mutation, he doesn't pursue a grand evil agenda or devote his life to villainy. He doesn't even adopt a supervillain alias but continues to go by his actual last name. Not that he needed to.
- Plant Hair: Bushroot has foliage instead of hair.
- Professor Guinea Pig: His plant powers came as a side effect of being forced to perform an experiment on himself.
- Punny Name:
- Bushroot is quite the name for someone with the ability to control plant life.
- In the Christmas episode, he offers to introduce Darkwing to his friend Douglas. Last name Fir. Cue a very large fir tree under Bushroot's control attacking Darkwing with a ninja christmas star.
- Steven Ulysses Perhero: What are the odds that a guy named Bushroot would turn into a plant monster.
- Too Dumb to Live: A rare non-lethal version. Apparently, he once tried to get away from Darkwing by hiding in the back of a police car. Needless to say, he got caught. Also needless to say that DW wasn't very proud when reminded about the circumstances of his arrest.
- Token Good Teammate: He's the most sensitive and reasonable of the Fearsome Five.
- Villainy Discretion Shot: He may have "done away with" two of his tormentors Dr. Gary and Dr. Larson.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: His environmental concerns have a certain validity.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: His villainy comes from his being persecuted by others, both before and after the fateful experiment.
Quackerjack
Voiced by: Michael Bell, Jean Claude Donda (French), Fábio Vilalonga (Brazilian Portuguese)
"I like coffee, I like tea, I like toys and they like me!"
A deranged toymaker who turned to crime after the video game industry, mainly the game "Whiffle Boy" put him out of business. He creates lethal toys that look like normal ones, but he's infamous for his gigantic sized joke teeth.
- Affectionate Nickname: His girlfriend in the comics, Claire, calls him Jacky.
- Animation Bump: The episodes "Toys Czar Us" and "Stressed to Kill" are animated by Disney Japan.
- Ax-Crazy: Not that he would ever stick to something as unimaginative as an axe however. Instead he makes his arsenal out of innocuous toys and lets them do the mauling instead.
- Badass Normal: Unlike Megavolt, Bushroot, and Liquidator, he has no superpowers, which he makes up for with his fancy gadgets.
- Berserk Button:
- He hates video games with a passion.
- In #2 of the comic series, the mere mention of Negaduck's name causes Quackerjack to go utterly nuclear and wipe out an entire squad of Crimebots.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Despite his goofy nature, he's one of Darkwing's most dangerous enemies.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: His eccentricity makes him stand out even among the other members of the Fearsome Five.
- Character Catchphrase: "It's Playtime!"
- Companion Cube: Mr. Banana Brain, a puppet whom he treats as his best friend. To the point where he doesn't register anything odd when "Mr. Banana Brain" actually starts talking back. and his reason for hating Negaduck in the comic is the latter destroying Mr. Banana Brain
- Deadpan Snarker: Surprisingly given how wacky he is, but he can churn out the sarcasm when he wants to. Often comes up with Megavolt.Stegmutt: [Gasp!] You're a villain!
Quackerjack: [Fake gasp!] You're a genius! - Driven to Suicide: In the comics, he uses a device to turn himself into an inanimate toy. He leaves a note for his ex-girlfriend, claiming that "this is the best [he'll] ever be."
- After his underground toy kingdom is destroyed, Quackerjack claims there's only one thing left to do, and prepares to blow up the remains, with no indication that he planned on leaving before the explosion.
- Enemy Mine: Teams up with Darkwing more than once.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In the comics, during the time DW was out of the game, Quackerjack is revealed to have actually gotten a girlfriend named Claire. Granted, while they break up sometime before QJ goes full-on crazy again, they're still shown to care quite a bit for each other, with him even going to her house and longingly looking at the door for a bit before turning himself into a doll.
- Evil Puppeteer: He carries a puppet called Mr. Banana Brain around, and often has conversations with himself through it.
- Expy: Of the various incarnations of Superman villain The Toyman.
- His interaction with Mr. Banana Brain can be compared to The Ventriloquist and Scarface from Batman, except Quackerjack sees Mr. Banana Brain as his closest friend rather than a cantankerous jerk who intimidates him and bosses him around.
- Evil Laugh: Almost to the point of Laughing Mad.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Many of his more complicated toys are his own invention, and he even built his own time machine.
- Happy Fun Ball: All his non-living toys except for Mr. Banana Brain.
- Idiosyncrazy: Toy-themed villainy.
- Large Ham: Of the full-blown lunatic flavor.
- Living Toys: Obviously the evil example.
- The Mad Hatter: He is completely insane, but does not seem to care.
- Monster Clown: Well, monster court jester anyway.
- My Little Panzer: His modus operandi. He disguises various deadly weapons as harmless-looking children's toys. It's even implied that he went out of business, not because of video games like he claims, but because his toys were so dangerous, parents refused to buy them.
- Mysterious Past: Somewhat downplayed, but at least when compared to Megavolt, Bushroot, and the Liquidator. Aside from the fact that he went insane after his toy company went under and that he blames the video game industry for it, we know next to nothing about his backstory, not even his real name.
- Never My Fault: He constantly blames the video game industry, parents, or some toy fad for putting his toy company out of business, never once accepting that his extremely dangerous toys are the reason no one ever bought them in the first place.
- New Media Are Evil: He hates video games, blaming them for driving his toy company to bankruptcy, and considers them inferior to traditional toys, to the point where expressing fondness for them in his presence drives him into a rage.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Has what he likes to call an acquired taste in toys...and their potential to be turned into weapons of mass destruction.
- Practically Joker: Takes after both The Joker and Toyman. Like the former, he's a clown-themed villain who constantly grins and is completely insane. Like the latter, he uses weaponized toys in his crimes and was originally a legitimate toymaker before he was shut down because his toys were too dangerous. The Latin American Spanish dub reinforce this by changing his name to QuackGuasón (Lit. "QuackJoker").
- Psycho Psychologist: Pulls this trick twice — in "Days of Blunder," he convinces Darkwing Duck that he's not cut out for being a superhero, and in "Stressed To Kill," he introduces his buddy, Megavolt, into this by hypnotizing their patients (including Darkwing) into not caring if they're robbed or their home or business is destroyed.
- Psychopathic Manchild: For him, toys are clearly more than business. Too bad that he likes to play too rough. To compliment his tendency of using weaponized toys in his crimes, he tends to act like a child and occasionally throws tantrums.
- Remember the New Guy?: "Whiffle While You Work" was meant to be his debut, but due to the episodes airing out of order, "Days of Blunder" being Quackerjack's first appearance has this trope's effect. The audience had no idea who Quackjack was throughout this episode, but DW was completely familiar with him.
- Took a Level in Badass: In the comics.
- Toothy Bird: Most bird characters have teeth in the show, but he shows them almost all the time. Plus, they're fake teeth to boot.
- Unexplained Recovery: "Dawn of the Day of the Return of the Living Spud" shows briefly that he somehow recovered from being turned into a doll.
- Villainous Friendship: With Megavolt.
- Villainous Harlequin: He's a psychotic criminal who dresses like a jester.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: His "wackiness". Negaduck is not too pleased to steal it in "Jail Bird".
- Wicked Toymaker: He creates lethal toys that look like normal ones, but he's especially infamous for his gigantic sized joke teeth. More or less what you get when you ask for an arms trafficker for children with the demeanor of a party clown.
The Liquidator/Bud Flood
Voiced by: Jack Angel, Luq Hamet (French)
"Four out of five dentists surveyed say it's time for us to get out of here!"
Originally a Corrupt Corporate Executive named Bud Flood who sold his Bud Flood's Sparkling Crystal Pure Flood Water while he was contaminating his competition during a massive heatwave. Darkwing accidentally startled him and he dropped into a vat of water he'd contaminated. He then turned into a being of pure water with the ability to shape it, heat it, chill it and turn it into hard water. Only appeared with the Fearsome Five afterwards. His salespitch-centric dialogue was difficult to write and the ways to defeat him were quite limited; pairing him with the others made this less of a problem for the writers.
- And I Must Scream: Just about any of the ways Liquidator can be stopped (turned into concrete or chocolate pudding, trapped in a small glass jar, trapped in a sponge) would qualify as this from his perspective.
- The Brute: He's the member of the Fearsome Five most likely to engage in physical attacks, and is near invincible and larger than the other four members.
- Conservation of Ninjutsu/Villain Decay: He's a lot easier to beat when he's part of the Fearsome Five than when he acts on his own. Part of why his appearances were restricted was that there were few ways that he could be believably defeated when the episode revolved around him. The potential to turn him and Megavolt against each other solved that problem. Even then, at least one episode showed him restrained by a mundane rope.
- Cool, Clear Water: What he advertised his water was.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: If contaminating your competitors' water supplies isn't corrupt, then what is?
- Create Your Own Villain: Darkwing wound up unintentionally being the reason Bud Flood became Liquidator (he was already an unscrupulous crook, though).
- Elemental Shapeshifter: His most dangerous power is that his watery body makes him nearly immortal and impossible to detain without specialized equipment.
- Enemy Mine: With Darkwing against Negaduck when the latter stole the rest of the Fearsome Five's powers in "Jail Bird".
- Even Evil Has Standards: In the second comic story arc, he was sucked into St. Canard's waterbed against his will, but managed to escape and reveal to the city that whatever's in there (Paddywhack) is more horrifying and dangerous than anything they've ever faced. He warns them to flee, as their lives are "a limited time offer!"
- Faux Affably Evil: He never drops the salesman act, and treats every criminal act, from threats of violence to hostage situations, as a sales pitch.
- Forgot About His Powers: In an episode where the Fearsome Five were exiled to Alcatraz, Negaduck steals the powers of the other four and uses Liquidator's powers to ride a column of water down to sea level, and then simply parts the sea. Liquidator wonders why he never thought of doing that.
- Greed: A bit of a given considering his introduction has him sabotage his competitors' water supply just to get more money. Heck, he nuzzles a treasure chest at one point to showcase even more what is his one true love.
- Harmless Liquefaction: After falling into a vat of contaminated water, he became a being made out of water.
- Large Ham: Probably the only villain capable of rivaling Negaduck in the Ham department. His dialogue largely consists of him talking like an over-the-top salesman.
- Lethal Harmless Powers: Not that his powers were harmless to begin with, but with the level of control over water Liquidator had, imagine what he could have done. Start with boiling the water that is naturally part of the human (and presumably Funny Animal) body...
- Making a Splash: Control over water, and is made of it himself.
- Meaningful Name: He's a water salesman who becomes a water elemental, and his real name is Bud Flood. Moreover, to "liquidate" means to shut down a business by taking all its assets, which is what Bud was doing by contaminating the bottled water produced by all his competitors. His highly lethal superpowers also fit another meaning of the word "liquidation".
- Metamorphosis: From a dog to an elemental embodiment of water.
- Only Sane Man: Out of all the Fearsome Five, he's probably the most levelheaded member, company slogans notwithstanding.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In the first comic arc, he put his salespitch-inspired speaking style on hold to warn someone never to mention Negaduck within Quackerjack's hearing.
- Power Creep, Power Seep: His hard water and boiling water abilities vanished, and his other abilities got scaled back after his solo appearance. Mainly, his hydrokinesis was mostly ignored in favor of simply shapeshifting his own body. Lampshaded when Negaduck temporarily gained Liquidator's powers and escaped from an island prison by using hydrokinesis to part the sea - Liquidator wonders why he never thought of doing that.
- Punny Name: Honestly, there's probably no more fitting last name for a water elemental than Flood. 'Liquidator' is also likely a reference to liquidation sales.
- Put a Face on the Company: Both before and after he changed into the The Liquidator, he constantly uses sales pitches with jargon like But Wait, There's More! and Operators Are Standing By.
- Remember the New Guy?: Appears out of nowhere in "Just Us, Justice Ducks", which aired before his introductory episode, "Dry Hard". This was due to some disorganization in episode airing order.
- Story-Breaker Power: While most villains lose to Darkwing in a straight fight and are a threat mainly due to the episode's gimmick (and are only really fought for real near the end of the episode), almost all of Liquidator's introductory episode consists of Darkwing battling him to no effect.
- Third-Person Person: During his sales pitches as the Liquidator.
- Unexplained Recovery: No explanation is given on how he escaped from the concrete statue that Darkwing turned him into after hitting him with a bag of cement, or the mold of chocolate pudding, he just... did.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Sponges. Cement mix. Chocolate pudding mix. Getting trapped in a glass bottle. Very ironic, as he can survive electrocution, evaporation and other obviously lethal attacks unharmed.
F.O.W.L.
The Fiendish Organization for World Larceny or F.O.W.L. is a criminal organization whose goal is to Take Over the World.
F.O.W.L. High Command
The three leaders of F.O.W.L. who give the operatives their orders. Their faces are covered in shadows and only their eyes and mouths are seen.
- Ambiguous Gender: The smallest one. Sometimes this commander has a male voice actor, other times a female one.
- Berserk Button: They hate it when their agents disobey them. When Steelbeak considers disobeying their orders, he suddenly remembers that they fed his predecessors into six trash compactors.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: They tried unleashing Duckthulhu in "F.O.W.L. Disposition". It seems they haven't learned their lesson after resurrecting a vicious criminal mastermind with all his memories intact and didn't consider the possibility of him turning down their offer for employment.
- The Faceless: All we ever see of them is three vague avian-like shadows.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: It obviously didn't happen onscreen, but they executed Steelbeak's predecessor by putting him through six trash compactors.
- The Man Behind the Man: To Steelbeak and their other F.O.W.L. agents.
- The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: They're clearly in charge of the organization, but we don't really know anything else about them.
- Orcus on His Throne: They give orders to their underlings, but don't actually get involved themselves.
- Toothy Bird: The duck-looking commander sometimes sports vampire-like fangs.
Steelbeak
Voiced by: Rob Paulsen, Max André (French), Élcio Sodré (Brazilian Portuguese)
F.O.W.L.'s top agent whose smooth exterior masks the true villain he is. He literally has a steel beak, which can cut material in half if close enough.
- Animation Bump: The episode Smarter than a Speeding Bullet is this for him, animated by Disney Japan. Two other episodes were by Disney Australia.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: He's always dressed to the nines, and although he usually prefers to stay away from the action, he's strong enough to squish Darkwing into a ball. Literally.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Sure he's a laid-back snarky rooster prone to quips and jokes, but he's also a bonafide Hero Killer who has many S.H.U.S.H. agent murders under his belt and manages to keep his job as F.O.W.L.'s top agent despite failing to take out Darkwing.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Much like the James Bond villains he parodies, Steelbeak is deceptively clever and cunning, but relies heavily on his minions to do the grunt work for him, as he considers it beneath his station.
- Brooklyn Rage: Speaks with a stereotypical "1930's gangster" accent, see? Nyah!
- Butt-Monkey: Actually manages to take this role over from Darkwing in his appearances.
- The Chew Toy: When Steelbeak appears, he will suffer horrible and frequent injury. And it will be funny as hell.
- Cocky Rooster: His cockiness is mostly present in his smug, arrogant attitude.
- Deadpan Snarker: Not above making witty remarks. One occasion being that he said "Looks like we got a problem-o here" when Taurus Bulba made it clear to F.O.W.L. that he did not appreciate being rebuilt as a cyborg and had no intention to ever serve them.
- Diabolical Mastermind: A parody of James Bond villains, he is always up for convoluted espionage and world domination schemes.
- Dirty Coward: When the going gets tough, Steelbeak gets going... out of there.
- Evil Counterpart:To Drake Mallard/Darkwing Duck. Both are such a butt-monkey, they are arrogant,overconfident and works for a spy organization but unlike Darkwing he isnt morally good.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Is horrified after he helped unleash Duckthulhu.
- Evil Cripple: Insofar as losing his beak can be considered crippling.
- Evil Laugh: Imagine a rooster trying to cluck and laugh at the same time. Or to better illustrate it, think Beavis, but not as annoying.
- Expy: References several James Bond villains by his steel beak (Jaws), his attitude and dress (Emilio Largo) and his name (Goldfinger).
- Faux Affably Evil: Generally up for some mock-polite conversation that he will abruptly end, by ending his co-speaker.
- General Failure: F.O.W.L. high command keeps relying on him for schemes despite the viewers never actually seeing him succeed in any of them, he possibly has more success when he isn't fighting Darkwing Duck.
- Leitmotif: The only character to have one all to himself.
- Man Bites Man: His metal beak and teeth allow him to bite through anything. Most frequently, it'sDarkwing Duck's gas gun.
- My God, What Have I Done?: In the comics, after he helps F.O.W.L. bring about Duckthulhu.
- Oh, Crap!: After Taurus Bulba is brought back as a cyborg and makes it clear he is not going to be work for F.O.W.L., Steelbeak realizes F.O.W.L. has "a problem-o here".
- Red Right Hand: His beak.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: Dismisses F.O.W.L. High Command stating the now cyborg Taurus Bulba will be their "ultimate agent." Clearly he's making the claim out of arrogance, but he turns out to be right that Taurus Bulba won't replace him as F.O.W.L.'s top agent because Taurus Bulba has no interest in working for F.O.W.L..
- Small Name, Big Ego: He's awfully confident for a villain who keeps getting his plans thwarted by Darkwing Duck. When F.O.W.L. High Command talks about how they plan to bring Taurus Bulba back as a cyborg, stating he will be their greatest agent, Steelback makes it clear he thinks he will still be their best agent.
- Smug Snake: Always smug, until his plans come crashing down. He's not jealous or the angry type, simply because he can't consider anyone as worthy enough to make him feel that way.
- Toothy Bird: Under his metal bill, yet!
- Villainous Breakdown: Often loses his temper when his plans start to fail.
- Would Hurt a Child: As to be expected from a very ruthless criminal who routinely has plans of mass-murder, he has no qualms about disposing of Gosalyn and comes close a few times, too.
Ammonia Pine
Voiced by: Mitzi McCall, Monique Thierry (French)
A former cleaning lady for a research lab who had accidental contact with an experimental bathroom disinfectant. Inhaling the fumes turned her into a cleaning-obsessed villain. She was later recruited by F.O.W.L. for their dastardly plans. She hates and fears dirt.
- Abhorrent Admirer: To Steelbeak in "Cleanliness is Next to Badliness." While Steelbeak is repelled by her affections, he strings her along for his own purposes.
- Acrofatic: For someone so rotund, she can sure run and jump with great ease.
- Almighty Janitor: Literally. She was once just a cleaning lady before being recruited by F.O.W.L..
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: She really enjoys making bad cleaning puns, often followed by a screechy Evil Laugh.
- Fat Bastard: Is overweight in contrast to her skinny sister Ample Grime and in accordance to the stereotype of the old cleaning lady.
- Freak Lab Accident: She had an accident with an experimental bathroom disinfectant, inhaled some fumes and became a villain.
- Idiosyncrazy: Cleaning-themed villainy.
- Improbable Weapon User: Lethal cleaning supplies, uses brooms and mops as staves etc.
- Neat Freak: It's both her villainous gimmick and her one driving purpose as she gets the chance to clean out all kinds of messy stuff including valuables, evidence, possible witnesses, etc.
- Sibling Rivalry: With her sister Ample. They really, really don't see eye to eye on dirtiness vs cleanliness, and Ammonia was rather dismayed that F.O.W.L. High Command was forcing them to work together.
- Sibling Team: Once with her sister Ample after forced by F.O.W.L. for a mission.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: With Ample. Ammonia is tightly wound, very serious, and very clean. Ample is very laid back, a bit lazy, and has terrible housekeeping and personal hygiene.
- Unexplained Recovery: In spite of being turned into mud in the Boom Comics continuation's "F.O.W.L. Disposition" arc, she somehow returns to normal in the non-canon "Dangerous Currency" arc and in the first arc of the Joe Books revival.
- Woman Scorned: By Steelbeak after he toyed with her emotions. The result wasn't pretty.
Ample Grime
Voiced by: Ellen Gerstell
Ample is Ammonia's messy, dirt-loving sister who hates and fears cleanliness.
- Idiosyncrazy: Dirt-themed villainy.
- Lean and Mean: She is skinny in contrast to her obese sister Ammonia Pine.
- The Pig-Pen: In contrast to her sister, she's absolutely dirty and smelly.
- Sibling Rivalry: With her sister, Ammonia. They really don't get along over dirtiness vs cleanliness, and Ample likes to annoy Ammonia by dirtying things up, knowing Ammonia will compulsively clean them.
- Sibling Team: Once with her sister, Ammonia after forced by F.O.W.L. for a mission.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Ample is very laid back, lazy, has terrible housekeeping and personal hygiene, and is a good bit more attractive than her uptight, cleanliness-obsessed sister.
Major Synapse
Voiced by: John Stephenson, Michel Barbey (French)
A stereotypical Drill Sergeant Nasty who was formerly the leader of F.O.W.L.'s military, but was demoted to their para-psychic research division as punishment for an earlier misdeed. He steals S.H.U.S.H.'s Norma Ray and gives himself powerful psychic abilities, but eventually explodes after Darkwing, Launchpad and Gosalyn overload his mind with questions. May have been Killed Off for Real.
- Disability Superpower: His shortsighted megalomania mean he barely qualifies to use the Norma Ray safely. Even then, it looks as though he perished the first time he used it, and when Darkwing turns the ray on him and barrages him with pointless trivia questions, it proves too much for him and he explodes.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: He is a military officer who is very short-tempered.
- General Failure: Led his first set of troops into an erupting volcano, which in turn led to him losing favour with High Command and being reassigned to the para-science psychic division, where he could not waste them any more foot-soldiers.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Even though bringing up the event that resulted in his demotion makes him break out in a nervous sweat, Synapse stands by his decision to send those troops to the volcano.
- Killed Off for Real: Explodes after being made to think while being exposed to the Norma Ray.
- My Brain Is Big: Towards the end of his episode, he overloads himself with psychic abilities and turns into a giant floating head with a bulging brain.
- Noodle Incident: We never learn just why he thought sending troops into an erupting volcano was a good idea, only that it got him demoted.
- Oracular Head: He becomes this at the end of his episode.
- Psychic Powers: At first he uses his psychic assistants Hotshot and Flygirl instead of having his own powers, but when his plans start to fail, he overloads on them as described above.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Is frustrated by the ditzy hippies he's stuck with as underlings, as they aren't his idea of model soldiers."Results?! They're not even good enough for luaus and birthday parties!"
- Your Head Asplode: After Darkwing and co overload him with questions while he's overloaded with psychic powers.
Hotshot & Flygirl
Hotshot Voiced by: Danny Mann
Flygirl Voiced by: Teresa Ganzel
Hotshot (left) and Flygirl (right).
Major Synapse's hippie underlings changed by the Norma Ray, Hotshot could burn or freeze and Flygirl could move things with her mind.
- An Ice Person: Hotshot, despite the name, can just as easily control ice as he can fire.
- The Ditz: Both of them. Being gifted psychic powers doesn't increase their general smarts, either.
- Flight: Flygirl's psychic powers allow her to fly.
- Mind over Matter: Flygirl's powers are this.
- New-Age Retro Hippie: Before being exposed to the Norma Ray, they were just two hippies.
- Playing with Fire: Hotshot, naturally.
- Pstandard Psychic Pstance: They make this pose when they use their powers.
- Spider-Sense: They are difficult to fight because they are able to predict any and all attacks.
- Squashed Flat: Ended up crushed flat as paper by a giant anvil.
- Sunglasses at Night: Hotshot is always wearing sunglasses for no explicable reason.
- Would Hurt a Child: In the 2010 comics, where they attempt to run down Honker and kill him.
F.O.W.L. Eggmen
Voiced by: Unknown
F.O.W.L. soldiers that usually serve under Steelbeak.
- Faceless Goons: We never see what any of them look like under those masks.
- Giant Mook: Among the eggmen, there's always a larger and muscular version of them hanging around. Combat-wise, they're not any better however.
- Mooks: The lowest level of F.O.W.L.'s army.
Taurus Bulba's Gang
The primary antagonists of the two-part pilot movie, "Darkly Dawns the Duck". Most of them don't return afterwards.
Taurus Bulba
Voiced by: Tim Curry, Michel Barbey (French)
Probably Darkwing's most dangerous villain. A crime lord whose organization killed Gosalyn's paternal grandfather for his invention, the Ramrod, an anti-gravity gun he used to steal from the citizens of St. Canard. He was killed off when he was caught in the explosion of the Ramrod caused by Darkwing Duck, but he returned when F.O.W.L. salvaged his body and turned him into a cyborg.
- Achilles' Heel: After he's resurrected as a cyborg, making him extremely angry can cause his parts to overheat and shut down for a little while. Being the most collected and capable villain in the show, though, that's easier said than done.
- Animation Bump: His introduction episode was animated by Disney Australia and Disney Japan.
- Arm Cannon: After his resurrection, his left hand is replaced with an energy cannon.
- Badass Normal: Doesn't have any powers, but he's a very big man.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Once becoming a cyborg.
- Brutish Bulls: A massive bull crime boss, though he uses his brain a lot more than his brawn.
- The Chessmaster: He is able to come up with complex schemes to meet his goals.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Easily overpowers Darkwing Duck in their first fight.
- Deadpan Snarker: One particular instant has him saying in a deadpan way "I know, I heard" in response to Darkwing repeating his Mad Libs Catchphrase.
- Diabolical Mastermind: He is very deceptive and cunning, even concocting his schemes while still in jail.
- The Dreaded: Is the only villain in the cartoon's run that Darkwing is actually afraid of. And when he appears before Gosalyn, she's stunned from fear.
- Evil Counterpart:To Drake Mallard/Darkwing Duck. Both are egotistical, self centered and arrogant but unlike Darkwing he doesnt have his redeeming qualities.
- Electronic Eyes: After F.O.W.L. rebuilt him, one of his eyes is replaced with a cybernetic one.
- Establishing Character Moment: Within a minute of his introduction, Taurus Bulba shows off his Bad Boss qualities by callously brushing off his henchmen's concerns about stealing a weapon from a mobile train, caring more about his own goals.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When profiling the psyche of a person, he notably assumes their possible motivations are selfish first rather than altruistic. He immediately sees Darkwing for the glory hound that he is, but also clearly believes that he wouldn't kill Gosalyn only out of a need to protect his reputation instead of having qualms about murder (or even getting attached to her). When presented with evidence to the contrary however, he easily takes advantage of the situation.
- Faux Affably Evil: He is voiced by Tim Curry, so he naturally brings the same air of sophistication, even though he's heartless and has clearly no respect for anyone but himself.
- Furry Reminder: In "Steerminator", when fighting Darkwing, at one point he stands on all fours, paws the ground and snorts like a real bull. As a response, Darkwing shows him a piece of red cloth.
- Genius Bruiser: The smartest villain of the series and a very huge guy.
- Hollywood Cyborg: After he's brought back to life.
- It's Personal: Blames Darkwing for foiling him in the pilot episode and turning him into a cyborg, as he so eloquently puts it.THIS IS NO GAME little girl! Because of that meddler, I am more metal and machine, than flesh and blood. THIS. IS. NO. GAME!!!
- I Work Alone: His response to F.O.W.L. trying to recruit him after turning him into a cyborg.Bulba: Taurus Bulba works for no one but himself!
- Killed Off for Real: Seems to be the case as of Darkwing Duck #4, in which he uploads his mind to a machine that is "shut down" in the end.
- Large and in Charge: A crimelord and a very big guy.
- Luxury Prison Suite: In the pilot, hidden behind his usual cell is his evil lair. He later lifts off the prison into the air.
- Mad Eye: Shows an absolutely unhinged one during his rant in The Steerminator.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: Apparently does this a lot. He complains that one of his men arranged for Gosalyn's grandfather to "have an accident" before they could get the activation code for the Ramrod. He also notes they can do the same for Gosalyn when they no longer need her.
- Meaningful Name: Both his first and last names relate to him being a bull.
- Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All: He managed to turn his prison cell into a secret lair that he can transform back into a prison cell when somebody is looking, and he turned his cell block into a flying ship that looks like his head. After turning the block into a ship, he even lampshades the trope saying, "It's a shame to lose a hideout as perfect as a prison."
- Minion Maracas: Loves doing this to Hammerhead.
- Punny Name: It's a reference to the novella Taras Bulba.
- The Sociopath: He has no concerns for the lives and feelings of others, and while he is able to maintain a pretense of friendliness, it's paper-thin.
- Starter Villain: He's the first proper supervillain that Darkwing contends with despite being one of the more serious minded villains in the series. He also serves this role in the comic book adaptation.
- Surrounded by Idiots: His henchmen aren't very bright. A source of frustration for him is that one of them killed Gosalyn's grandfather before they could get the activation code for the ramrod.
- Taking You with Me: When the Ramrod overloads, he grabs Darkwing so they will both die in the explosion. Inexplicably, Darkwing survived, though he was hurt pretty badly.
- Top-Heavy Guy: One of the biggest in the series. He has a massive upper body with huge horns, a thick neck, very, very broad shoulders and a beefy (no pun intended) torso... which then tapers down into a tiny waist with little legs and feet so small they barely look like limbs. Even when he gets turned into a cyborg, this build was retained (he even arguably became more top-heavy, due to the addition of all the clunky metal bits and the guns on his horns).
- Ungrateful Bastard: He does not thank F.O.W.L. for resurrecting him - instead, he immediately turns on them and destroys their base to vent his anger for what DW did to him. Yes they only brought him back to recruit him, but one would think that granting him a second chance at life would at least merit a thank you.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: An unusual example in that he's the first villain featured on the show, but unquestionably the most competent villain in the show's run and the only one never played for laughs. While there is some comedy in his dry remarks when he is in a mood good enough to act Faux Affably Evil, he only contributes to Slapstick by causing it and never being on the receiving end of it. His episodes are also darker in tone than most other episodes.
- Villain Has a Point:
- When dismissing his minions' concern about stealing the Ramrod from a train, he points out that if they wait for the train to stop, by that point the army will have the weapon "-and with it tanks, jeeps, and hundreds of guards!" They admit stealing from a train is preferable to stealing from the army.
- When going to face Darkwing Duck, he rightly mocks him for being so arrogant to think he would actually surrender himself to an egomaniac like Darkwing Duck for no reason whatsoever.
- We Can Rebuild Him: By F.O.W.L., who resurrect him as a Cyborg. He immediately turns on them afterwards.
- We Will Meet Again: "I will be back!" Too bad he never was... At least not until the 2010 comic series.
- Would Hurt a Child: He's perfectly willing to have Gosalyn dropped down a hundred-foot skyscraper to get what he wants out of Darkwing. As well as after he gets what he wants because he has no further use for her. This is not Played for Laughs.
- Xanatos Speed Chess: Bulba is a master of this. He certainly didn't plan on Darkwing interfering with his theft of the Ramrod and being blamed for it by the police, but he wastes no time in exploiting that fact to his advantage.
- You Have Failed Me: The way Mouth reacts to Hammerhead saying they lost Gosalyn, by freaking out and whimpering "We're all gonna die, we're all gonna die!", suggests Bulba has a nasty reputation for executing henchmen who disappoint him.
Hammerhead Hannigan
Voiced by: Hal Rayle (in "Darkly Dawns the Duck"), Tad Stones (in "In Like Blunt"), Guy Pierauld (French)
Taurus Bulba's lead henchman, he's more brawn than brain and uses the horns on his head (he's a goat) as weapons. He also makes a short appearance in "In Like Blunt".
- Alliterative Name: Both his first and last name begin with "H".
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Wears some stylin' gangster threads.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: He's the Big to Hoof and Mouth's Thin and Short.
- Brooklyn Rage: Rivals Steelbeak in this department.
- Butt-Monkey: He's constantly on the receiving end of various painful gags. Bulba himself also seems to love picking him up by the throat.
- The Dragon: To Taurus Bulba
- Dumb Muscle: More intelligent than Hoof and Mouth, but that really isn't saying much.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He tears up hearing Gosalyn's story about how no parents wants her since her grandfather died, despite having been involved in her grandfather's death in the first place.
- Evil Minions: He's the leader of Bulba's Mooks.
- Gruesome Goat: A goat who serves as TheDragon to Taurus Bulba, though he's a lot less depraved than his boss.
- Took a Level in Badass: During his small appearance in In Like Blunt, he throttled Phineas Sharp. Since he was willing to pay a lot for a list of S.H.U.S.H. agents, he might've taken a couple levels in smarts specifically.
- Top-Heavy Guy: Not as much as his boss, if only because his legs are longer and his feet are larger, but he still qualifies.
- Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Not as much as Hoof and Mouth, as he has some pretty serious moments where his large size and his headbutting attack make him a threat, but he's still a pretty comical character when compared against Bulba.
- Yes-Man: It doesn't matter if he, for once, forgets to nod his head in agreement, because his boss will nod his head anyway.
Hoof & Mouth
Voiced by: Eddie Deezen (Mouth)
Taurus Bulba's henchmen, they're all brawn, no brain and in Mouth's case, can't shut up.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: The Thin (Hoof) and Short (Mouth) to Hammerhead's Big.
- Bumbling Henchmen Duo: They are Bulba's goofy henchmen who are rarely seen apart and all the characterization they get is by their inbetween interactions. Or more accurately by Mouth's interactions, as he can't shut up, whereas Hoof never talks. They form a Terrible Trio with the more competent and more cruel Hammerhead.
- Dumb Muscle: They're very large and presumably strong (Darkwing calls them "muscleheads") but not terribly bright.
- Evil Redhead: Hoof has red hair/mane.
- Evil Minions / Mooks: They're the primary underlings in Bulba's group.
- Fat and Skinny: Hoof is very tall and thin, while Mouth is a little shorter and pear-shaped.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: They weren't much help when Hammerhead encountered Darkwing Duck. Or Gosalyn. Or in any case where brute strength wasn't enough to do the trick.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: They're strongly implied to have been the ones who killed Gosalyn's grandfather.
- Punny Name: A combined name pun version, on hoof and mouth disease.
- The Speechless: Hoof never talks (in the show anyway; in the four-part comic adaptation of the pilot, he has several lines).
- Verbal Tic: Mouth tends to repeat things, repeat things.
- Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: They are not very threatening. Despite having been the ones to kill Professor Waddlemeyer, they never really pose a serious threat to Darkwing or anyway, and are more of a hindrance than anything else, in stark contrast to their hulking, brutish boss.
Clovis
Voiced by: Marcia Wallace
Taurus Bulba's secretary and assistant. According to her parents, she should have been a dental hygienist.
- Creepy Monotone: Her dialogue mostly consists of "Yes, Taurus Bulba" in the exact same tone of voice. If a mindless automaton were to replace her there wouldn't be much of a change.
- Evil Minions: She works for Taurus Bulba and matches him in coldness and seriousness.
- Full-Name Basis: She always calls Taurus Bulba by his full name, presumably as a compulsion of her professionalism.
- Gender-Blender Name: Clovis is mostly a name for male individuals.
- Punch-Clock Villain: For her, being a feared crime boss's secretary is not much more than a possible career choice not all that different from a dental hygienist. When everything blew up, she likely pondered if her experience would look good on her CV.
- Sexy Secretary: She is Taurus Bulba's secretary and is rather curvaceous for a cow.
- The Reliable One: Certainly one of the most dangerous members of Taurus Bulba's gang. To her credit as a villain she took initiative and tried with their turret to simply shoot Darkwing Duck In the Back while he was distracted.
- Yes-Man: A downplayed, female example. The majority of her dialogue is "Yes, Taurus Bulba" but this goes mostly for her communication with Bulba and she is otherwise very capable of taking care of whatever issues may arise.
Tantalus
Voiced by: Unknown
Taurus Bulba's pet condor, who's as evil and ruthless as his master.
- Feathered Fiend: A nasty and unpleasant condor.
- Furry Confusion: Being a non-anthropomorphic condor who is the pet of an anthropomorphic bull but more capable than a lot of the anthropomorphic members.
- Kidnapping Bird of Prey: He kidnaps Gosalyn.
- Pirate Parrot: Of a sort. He is a pet bird with his own perch which he flies around at will and he does Bulba's bidding.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Bulba's most competent underling. He successfully stops Darkwing from interfering with the theft of the Ramroad, and succeeds in kidnapping Gosalyn where Hammerhead, Hoof and Mouth fail.
