Prior to DuckTales (2017), Youngberg had worked on Warner Bros. Animation series based on DC superheroes starting with Batman Beyond as a storyboard artist before rising up as a director on Teen Titans and The Batman. Youngberg continued working on superhero action based shows when moving to Cartoon Network as a director on Ben 10: Ultimate Alien and supervising producer on Ben 10: Omniverse and Transformers: Animated.
Tropes found in Matt Youngberg's work include:
- Animation Bump: He is responsible for the examples seen in the DuckTales 2017 episode "Woo-oo!", having provided the in-house animation for the episode.
- Promoted Fanboy: He had grown up watching DuckTales (1987) as a kid, so he was naturally enthusiastic about co-creating DuckTales (2017)
- One of Us: Is a fan of anime, having even drawn fanart
for the "Magnetic Rose" section of Memories.
