Scrooge and the boys take a trip to visit an old friend of his, Count Roy. However, unknown to Scrooge, Roy's evil twin Ray rules Roy's kingdom with an iron fist.
This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
- Coordinated Clothes: Dewey intentionally breaks up the habit that he and his brothers have of dressing alike after becoming annoyed that people can't tell them apart. He winds up ditching his new outfit when he and his brothers need to use their identical appearance to trick a guard.
- Disproportionate Retribution:
- The Count of Monte Dumas' evil twin brother locks him in an iron mask, because said evil twin brother was lost in a childhood game of hide and seek.
- Scrooge, Launchpad and Huey, Dewey and Louie are sentenced for life imprisonment after Scrooge angrily tears up the fines he's been issued by Captain Pietro.
- Divergent Character Evolution: Slightly, but with more use later on. This episode introduced the idea that among the triplets, Dewey is the smartest and most resourceful, which - while limited to this episode in DuckTales - later became the basis for his character in Quack Pack.
- The Good King: Roy.
- I Take Offense to That Last One: Before Ray orders the party sent to the dungeons, he flings a number of insults at them. Launchpad retorts that Ray can call them idiots or fools but not knaves.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Roy is many years younger than Scrooge, but the latter shows great respect to his character and talent, and remembers him more fondly than other people from his past adventures.
- Man in the Iron Mask: The episode is pretty much a Whole-Plot Reference to the novel by Alexandre Dumas, right down to having the rightful king being imprisoned while his twin brother impersonated him.
- Meaningful Name:
- Roy, which is an Anglicization of the French "roi" meaning king.
- The Count of Monte Dumas references both the author of The Man in the Iron Mask and the The Count of Monte Cristo (another work by the same author).
- Persona Non Grata: After defeating Ray, Roy punishes him by lifetime banishment.
- Possession Implies Mastery: Scrooge, Ray and Launchpad get their hands on some swords during the coup. While Scrooge and Ray (who taught him) are explicitly skilled swordsmen, Launchpad has never handled a sword before. He's still good enough to keep two guards at bay, despite yelping the whole time.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: The true ruler of the kingdom, Roy, was able to help Scrooge and his friends save his kingdom after the mask is removed.
- Shout-Out:
- The whole episode is essentially one large reference to The Man in the Iron Mask.
- These lines reference The Three Musketeers:
Scrooge: All for one...
Roy: ...And one for all!
Launchpad: And three against four! - Title Drop: As the title of the episode is also the nickname of one of the characters, it gets referenced multiple times.
