When a mysterious magic thief arrives in Duckburg, Lena must confront her past and team up with her treacherous aunt, Magica DeSpell.
Tropes:
- Accidental Misnaming: Magica can't (or won't) remember who Violet and Webby are. Lampshaded by Webby:Webby: ...we've met several times.
- All There in the Script: The Egghead who interrupts the Phantom Blot as he works is named "Pepper" in the end credits.
- And This Is for...: "...Lena! And this one's for my family! And this one's for Lena!", said by Webby when she kicks the Phantom Blot to get the magic glove off him. Lampshaded by Violet:Violet: Stop saying who it's for and get his glove!
- Anything but That!: Gladstone's reaction when he accidentally gives himself a Donald makeover after trying to use Magica's amulet.
- Big Eater: Magica has clearly been indulging herself all this time, seeing as how her lair has piles of Papa Swan's pizza boxes, and yet she hasn't gained any weight.
- Bittersweet Ending: Very heavy on sweet, but it still counts. Lena gains full control over her magic and sheds the final traces of Magica from her life, but Magica regains her magic and powers.
- Born Lucky: This episode confirms that Gladstone's luck is indeed a form of magic, for when the Phantom Blot steals it, he becomes a Donald-level Butt-Monkey, if not worse since he has no idea what to do without his luck.
- Brought Down to Normal: The Phantom Blot's gauntlet does this to every magic-user. Specifically, he robs Gladstone from his supernatural good luck, resulting in him suffering all sorts of accidents due to never needing any basic survival skills before.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Magica doesn’t remember Violet from their last encounter, doesn’t remember Webby despite personally encountering her more than once. The only person worth remembering for Magica besides Scrooge is Lena.
- Butt-Monkey: Gladstone, due to his luck being stolen, to the point that he accidentally turns himself into Donald at one point.
- Call-Back:
- The Nightmare Beast from "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!" returns in this episode, where it emerges from the video game.
- Papa Swan's Pizza makes a return in this episode.
- Lena is seen wielding the Diamond Dagger from "The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck!" when the girls hear Gladstone knocking on the door.
- There are montages both of times Magica intimidated Lena and of when Webby helped her channel her own magic.
- Color-Coded Wizardry:
- The color of Lena's magic is directly discussed in this episode. Magica informs her that her own magical power is blue, while the magic of the amulet is a "superior purple".
- Gladstone's Born Lucky magic is a green color similar to his clothing.
- Crazy Enough to Work: Webby tells a snake to go get help from other snakes, even though she doesn't know if she can talk to snakes. Turns out it did work as several snakes show up to drive the Phantom Blot off.
- Create Your Own Villain: In this case, it's a villain creating her own villain. Magica wiped out the Phantom Blot's hometown and his family decades ago on a whim, so he swore eternal vengeance against her. Magica wasn't worried at first because having her life threatened for her transgressions was common, but unlike the others, the Blot was much more persistent.
- A Day in the Limelight:
- For Lena as she faces her past and seeks Magica's help.
- Also one for the Phantom Blot, who previously only appeared as a background character but is now fleshed out with a backstory as the Sole Survivor of a village Magica ruled and eventually destroyed For the Evulz.
- Death Glare: Webby gives one to Violet when she suggests not having sleepovers as a way to deal with them always going wrong because of Lena's magic.
- Determinator: The Phantom Blot has chased after Magica for ages, no matter how many times she's defeated him. It's payed off.
- Does Not Like Magic: The Phantom Blot is even worse than Scrooge on this, being out to personally destroy everything and everyone magical, be it good or evil, as a result of what Magica did to him.
- Dramatic Irony: The Phantom Blot tries to destroy Lena so Magica can know what it's like to lose family as he did. He's completely unaware that the two hate each other and Magica wouldn't shed a tear over Lena's death, even once having tried to kill Lena herself.
- Enemy Mine: Lena is forced to seek Magica's help in this episode. Magica agrees only after the Phantom Blot is mentioned.
- Everyone Laughs Ending: The girls laugh after Lena tells the boys that they didn't miss much.
- Evil Mentor: Magica to Lena, though she doesn't really do anything evil during the training montage.
- Evil Versus Evil: Magica helps the girls against the Phantom Blot, if only in a bid to regain Lena's amulet.
- Evil Is Petty: Magica tears off and eats Violet's garlic, just so she can taunt that Violet is now vulnerable to vampires.
- Faux Horrific: Many of the things that cause Gladstone to freak out are things other people would take for granted. For example, walking into a restaurant and being expected to pay; or going to an ATM, requesting $20, and receiving only $20; or even something being closed. Yet Gladstone treats these mundane non-events as though they're the end of the world, because they're just that different from what he's used to.
- Four-Leaf Clover: During the training montage, Gladstone finds a four-leaf clover and brightens up, thinking he will get lucky again. He doesn't, as he’s promptly attacked by a rock golem conjured by Lena.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus:
- Scrooge is reading The Wool Street Journal. The headline reads, "Shearholders fleeced!!!"
- An article on the back of the paper says, "Lorem Ipsum Stone Finally Translated."
- Which doubles as a
Genius Bonus, in that "Lorem Ipsum" is the term for the nonsense Latin often used as placeholder text in layout and design, most often a corrupted version of Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum.
- Which doubles as a
- Magica has posters in her lair saying "Vengeance will be mine" and "Amulet sweet amulet". One is just an angry slice of pizza.
- At one point in the Training Montage, Gladstone gets a magical blast while wearing "Magica's lucky shirt" and reading the Duckburg Transit Timetable.
- Freudian Excuse: The Phantom Blot hates magic because Magica destroyed his village.
- Girl's Night Out Episode: Gladstone aside, the focus is on Lena as the main character with Webby and Violet helping her.
- Glowing Eyes: The Phantom Blot's eye sockets glow green.
- Going to Give It More Energy: The Phantom Blot's gauntlet is defeated by being overloaded with Lena's friendship magic.
- He Who Fights Monsters: The Phantom Blot is characterized as someone seeking vengeance against Magica for destroying his village after ruling it tyrannically for years. Unfortunately, in his quest for revenge, he's allied himself with F.O.W.L.
- Hero of Another Story: Scrooge and the boys' dealing with Goathouls.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: As Lena happily points out, thanks to how well Magica trained her in the use of her magic, she is now a match for Magica even when the witch gets her powers back.
- How Is That Even Possible?: The Phantom Blot shouts this when Lena starts to resist his gauntlet with her new magic.
- I Have Your Wife: The Phantom Blot attempts to break Magica by killing Lena in front of her as retribution for what she did to his family. Unfortunately, that tactic doesn’t work on Magica.
- I Will Show You X!: When Magica snarks that Lena is never focused, Lena responds "I'll show you focused."
- Innocently Insensitive: Scrooge goes on about how no good comes of magic with Lena, who is Made of Magic, nearby. He sheepishly amends the statement to exclude her, but Lena actually agrees given how much trouble magic has given her.
- Kick the Dog:
- Magica destroyed a village that had been placating her with all manner of gifts just because she got bored.
- The Phantom Blot is well aware that draining Lena's magic will destroy her but he doesn't care, even seeing it as a good thing because it will give Magica a taste of what she did to him.
- Leitmotif: When Gladstone successfully catches the magic amulet, his theme briefly plays. It gets ripped away after he points the amulet the wrong way.
- Let Me at Him!: Webby and Violet restrain Magica as she lunges at Lena to get her amulet back.
- Light Is Good: While unleashing her full power, Lena changes appearance into a white and turquoise outfit to temporarily replace her dark striped shirt, and light blue eyes instead of the usual black pupils.
- The Load: Gladstone doesn't really contribute to the girls and spends his time stumbling and complaining. Except for when he catches the magic amulet, but that doesn't last long, and he shoots himself with it.
- Magic Versus Science: Lena and Magica, magic-users, are pitted against the Phantom Blot, who uses a mechanical glove to absorb and negate magic.
- Mana Drain: The Blot has a gauntlet, apparently of his own design, that can drain the magic from people and items, trapping it within. When Lena destroys it at the climax of the episode, the trapped magic is released.
- Misplaced Retribution: In response to Magica destroying his village, the Phantom Blot had dedicated himself to destroying all magic, not just Magica's.
- Mythology Gag:
- The plot point of Gladstone losing his luck is similar to the episode in the original series called "Dime Enough for Luck". Incidentally, it also featured Magica DeSpell, though here, she didn't even do it.
- Violet speculates that Gladstone's luck is magical in nature, which is the case in the comics.
- Magica eating garlic, when in (Italian) comics the mere smell is enough to incapacitate her.
- Magica falls into Gladstone's arms near the end, much to her repulsion. This is a nod to the relationship between them in some of the comics.
- The scene where Gladstone tries to be the 1,000th customer is a reference to one of the many lucky things that happened to him in his debut in the original series.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: Violet mentions the possibility of an alligator attack as they're trekking through the bog. None show up though.
- Noodle Incident:
- The episode opens with Scrooge finding the kids leaping out of the TV after accidentally being transported into the world of Legends of Legendquest.
- Scrooge and the boys busy themselves with an adventure in the mystical land of Goathul.
- Power Incontinence: This episode shows that Lena has been having a lot of trouble controlling the magic of the amulet due to it being cracked, it going off with little if any prompting such as idle wishing.
- Rapid-Fire "No!": This is Lena's response to the prospect of having to get help from Magica in mastering her magic and defeating the Phantom Blot.
- Revenge: The Phantom Blot's motivation is revenge against Magica for destroying his village, and with Magica powerless, he's waited a long time for that.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Magica tells him she can't bring back his luck, Gladstone decides to walk out... but he can't because he doesn't know how to use a door knob.
- Seen It All:
- When the kids come out of the video game at the start of the episode, Scrooge guesses correctly just how they wound up like that without even a slight change in expression.
- Violet sleeps with garlic and a stake in case of vampires, figuring they're due for that particular problem. Webby and Lena also keep weapons nearby in case of trouble and Lena is just annoyed when they think said trouble has shown up.
- Ship Tease: Gladstone briefly flirts with Magica when she lands in his arms.
- Shown Their Work: Rattlesnakes are depicted living in a bog and climbing trees, both of which are known in some species of real-life rattlesnakes.
- Shout-Out:
- Part of the training Lena goes through is polishing the windows, something akin to Mr. Miyagi's training in The Karate Kid.
- Training magical powers in a swamp by a (sometimes) green mentor? Seems vaguely familiar.
- When trying to shoot out her magic without the amulet, Lena takes the pose of a hadouken. The fact that the magic peters out as soon as Lena shoots it could also be a reference to Joke Character Dan Hibiki‘s gadouken.
- The girls' attempt to restrain and subdue the Blot to remove the gauntlet is very reminiscent of Iron Man and the Guardians of the Galaxy trying to get the Infinity Gauntlet off of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War.
- Webby and Violet joining energies with Lena which enables her to defeat the Blot is like the Guardians in their first film linked together to use an Infinity Stone against Ronan.
- Lena's friendship magic being "the greatest magic of all" seems awfully reminiscent of another series where friendship is magic.
- One of the customers waiting at the restaurant resembles Shaggy.
- Significant Wardrobe Shift: Lena gets one when she stops using Magica's amulet and instead uses her own magic. She replaces her gray and black oversized shirt and pink-dyed hair for a baby blue and white outfit complete with gloves, tights, and a sorceress' cape while her dyed hair takes on the new baby blue coloring.
- Snakes Are Sinister: Inverted. Webby tells a snake to help her defeat the Phantom Blot, and at the end an army of snakes chase him away. They are sinister from the perspective of the Blot though.
- Super Mode: Lena manages to unlock one with light abilities when facing the Blot.
- Tell Him I'm Not Speaking to Him: Lena's attempts to ask Magica to train her quickly devolve into this due to how much they hate each other.
- Training Montage: Whilst Magica trains Lena to use her magic.
- Trapped in Another World: Scrooge and the boys go into the realm of Goathoul again, with the girls staying behind to finish their sleepover. Unfortunately the Phantom Blot chooses this time to strike, draining the magic from the portal and leaving them truly trapped there, although they are unaware of this.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Della's reactions to anything supernatural have been relegated to: "Uncle Scrooge! There's a(n) X in the Y that needs your attention!".
- Vampires Hate Garlic: Violet wears a garland of garlic in case of a vampire attack. Magica later eats it to spite her.
- Villain Forgot to Level Grind: The ending has Magica get her powers back and turn on the three girls. But Lena just curb stomps her aunt and the witch is done in quickly.
- Wham Episode: Lena masters her own magic and gains a new outfit while Magica regains her amulet and its powers.
- X Days Since: In the background of Magica's hut she has tally marks recording "Days since I've last had Dark Magycks". It's very long (at least 300 days).
- Yank the Dog's Chain:
- Magica once ruled over a village where they gave her gifts in exchange for not destroying their village. Magica one day destroyed it anyway.
- As Magica reclaims her amulet (and turns it back into her staff) and tries to destroy Lena, Lena retaliates by levitating Magica and her staff then drops them in the bog, where the staff is lost.
