History Fridge / DuckTales2017S1E5TerrorOfTheTerrafirmians

* Apart of being a ToxicFriendInfluence to Webby and the Triplets, Mrs. Beakley does have a good reason for disliking Lena. During the events of "The Beagle Birthday Massacre", Donald, Beakley, and Scrooge were most likely worried sick when the kids went out on an afternoon boat trip and didn't come home until the next morning, especially moreso when they found out]] [[WouldHurtAChild the Beagle Boys were hunting them down so their mother could kill them. Lena was the reason why they ended up in that situation in the first place, so [[MamaBear Mrs. Beakley's]] first impression of the teenager is that she had no problem with putting people in danger.

* Apart of being a ToxicFriendInfluence to Webby and the Triplets, Mrs. Beakley does have a good reason for disliking Lena. During the events of "The Beagle Birthday Massacre", Donald, Beakley, and Scrooge were most likely worried sick when [[AdultFear the kids went out on an afternoon boat trip and didn't come home until the next morning, especially moreso when they found out]] [[WouldHurtAChild the Beagle Boys were hunting them down so their mother could kill them]]. Lena was the reason why they ended up in that situation in the first place, so [[MamaBear Mrs. Beakley's]] first impression of the teenager is that she had no problem with putting people in danger.

** What caused Huey's fear of the unknown? Was it something he aquired by himself, or did Donald knowingly or unknowingly give him all those fears?

* Apart of being a ToxicFriendInfluence to Webby and the Triplets, Mrs. Beakley did have a good reason for disliking Lena. During the events of "The Beagle Birthday Massacre", Donald, Beakley, and Scrooge were most likely worried sick when [[AdultFear the kids went out on an afternoon boat trip and didn't come home until the next morning, especially moreso when they found out]] [[WouldHurtAChild the Beagle Boys were hunting them down so their mother could kill them]]. Lena was the reason why they ended up in that situation in the first place, so [[MamaBear Mrs. Beakley's]] first impression of the teenager is that she had no problem with putting her granddaughter in danger.

* Apart of being a ToxicFriendInfluence to Webby and the Triplets, Mrs. Beakley did have a good reason for disliking Lena. During the events of "The Beagle Birthday Massacre", [[AdultFear Donald, Beakley, and Scrooge were most likely worried sick when the kids went out on an afternoon boat trip and didn't come home until the next morning, especially moreso when they found out]] [[WouldHurtAChild the Beagle Boys were hunting them down so their mother could kill them]]. Lena was the reason why they ended up in that situation in the first place, so knowing that the older girl had no problem with putting her granddaughter in grave danger would greatly lower Mrs. Beakley's opinion of her.

* While PlayedForLaughs, Launchpad decided to take Dewey with him to the front of the train while grabbing a metal pipe. Keep in mind that Launchpad is most suspicious of Dewey being a mole monster...

* Lena tells [[spoiler: Magica]] that she saved [[spoiler: Mrs. Beakley]] because it would help with a [[spoiler: long con.]] However, there's some real truth to this. If she hadn't saved [[spoiler: Beakley]], then Webby would have been distraught over the death of [[spoiler: her grandmother]], and it likely would have caused a rift in their friendship, as Lena was the one who suggested they go into the subway tunnels to begin with. Failing to save [[spoiler: Beakley]] could easily have cost Lena her in with Webby.

* Why is Lena so disrespectful to Mrs. Beakley giving her a parade of nicknames mocking her British accent? Considering that Magica is also British in the 2017 reboot, she is probably projecting her [[YouRemindMeOfX visible resentment about her Aunt on Beakley]].

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[[caption-width-right:335:Huey is having a mental emergency]]

Mrs. Beakly and Launchpad have taken the children and Lena to see scary movie on Lena's (misleading) recommendation. However, instead of scaring any of the children, they are either excited or bored from a lack of production quality. Webby tries to defend the movie by it being "based on an actual true novel", while Huey says the only resource he trusts absolutely is the Junior Woodchuck Handbook. Webby rhymes off a bunch of seemingly fictional creatures like Were-ducks, Tri-clopes and Terrafirmians. While Huey refutes them all, Webby defends the existance of the Terrafirmians. Lena suggests they go investigate, and sneak off down a subway tunnel while Mrs. Beakley is distracted by Launchpad's freak-out.

Once in the tunnel, Lena finds a barred-off subway tunnel that is "closed for renovations", but Webby claims is inhabited by a bunch of Terrafirmians. As they go in past the barricade, the tunnels rumble a bit, which Huey passes off as passing subway trains. Webby recounts the supposed history of the Terrafirmians, but Huey tries to explain it off with science. In fact, Huey is more interested in rock samples than potential monsters.

Lena screams to lure Webby and Huey over to an abandoned train, where she sets up a prank for them. While Webby appreciates the joke, Huey is annoyed and just wants to leave. Just before he leaves, however, a large shadow barges into the car. It turns out it was just Mrs. Beakley and the others, come in after them once noticing they were missing.

Shortly thereafter, rumbling occurs and a rockfall blocks them from leaving down the tunnel they came. Mrs. Beakley suggests Launchpad tries to start the train moving, while she and Lena uncouple the last car that is buried in rubble. Once out of the car, Beakley threatens Lena from ever seeing Webby again. Because of this, Lena is very reluctant to help until she sees how much Beakley is struggling.

Rocks keep falling from above, strong enough to leave dents in the subway car's roof. Webby excitedly climbs up, thinking it's a Terrafirmian, but sees it is just a rock. Despite this, Webby refuses to give up on her belief that Terrafirmians still exist.

Launchpad, having convinced himself that Dewey is a mole monster and freaked out by the noises in the tunnel, freaks out and start the train up without consulting any of the others. A frantic progression down the tunnel leads them far away from where they were, but crashed the train further down. Dewey finally confronts Launchpad of his fear and points out that with his insane logic, Launchpad himself could be a mole monster. Launchpad denies it... which is exactly what a mole monster would say. Thus Launchpad must be an evil mole monster, but he knows he's not evil. Thus, maybe mole monsters aren't evil.

Because of the crash, Mrs. Beakley was trapped under one of the cars, unconscious. Despite Magica's shadow form trying to convince her to just leave Beakley, especially since she was so suspicious all this time, Lena uses her magical amulet to help rescue her.

Huey has a brief freak-out, not wanting to leave from a dangerous situation because he's in the light. Webby and Louie help him deal with the unknown and feel safe enough to venture out of the doomed car.

Everyone meets up together, relieved they are all safe, and find a beam of light shining from above. Huey, excited to have found a way out, rushes towards the light before the Terrafirmians cut them all off. However, as they entered the light, they see they aren't so scary, and in fact might have been just as scared of the ducks as the reverse. Huey and the lead Terrafirmian have a brief exchange, then the Terrafirmian break an exit for the ducks.

Beakley quiftly cures Launchpad of his delusion by confidently stating he's not a mole monster, then apologises to Lena by way of inviting her to the mansion. Lena assures Magica this was all of her plan to get close to the children and their long term goal.

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!Tropes:
* AbsenteeActor: Scrooge and Donald are absent for the entire episode.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: While not precisely evil, the Terra-firmians in the 1987 series and the original Carl Barks story were [[JerkAss massive jerks]] who couldn't care less about the destruction their Games caused. The only thing at all frightening about these Terra-firmians is how they look in the dark.
* AdultFear: Because Beakley was helping Launchpad with his misia of mole people, she's distracted long enough for Lena to take Webby and Huey down to the subway, and going down the abandoned tracks. Unsurprisingly, she chews out Lena for endangering everyone with her recklessness.
* AesopAmnesia: After the adventure is done with, it seems that Huey has learned that just because something is unknown and not in his guidebook doesn't mean it's scary. Cue Huey frantically writing about the Terra-firmians in the guidebook before declaring them not mysterious.
* AngerBornOfWorry: The minute she finds Webby, Lena and Huey, Mrs. Beakley chews them out for going into a dangerous place.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Huey refuses to believe in the Terra-Firmians because they're not in the Junior Woodchuck guidebook. As {{lampshaded}} in the episode, this is despite the fact that he's visited {{Atlantis}} and fought a ghost pirate (and that those things are only in the guidebook because Huey added them himself). To be fair, the movie that got him started on this had logical inconsistencies he was complaining about (like attacking someone in the shower) and he may have just been a bit stubborn.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion:
** Lena delivers one to Beakley after the latter told Lena that Webby and the boys were "good kids with bright futures".
-->'''Lena''': So what does that make me?
** Before that, Mrs. Beakley asks Lena "Who raised you, anyway?" While Lena doesn't respond, it's clear on her face that that question hit a nerve.
* BadassInDistress: Beakley is an incredibly strong and tough duck, but even she cannot protect herself from a train car falling on her. Lena's magic is the only thing that saves her.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: A variant. Lena saves Mrs. Beakley, not because she's been "nice" to her, but because she's the first adult in a long who's taken a sincere interest in making sure she turns out right.
* BlackComedy: Launchpad's mistrust of Dewey's goes as far as a joke about potentially killing him with a pipe.
* CannotTellFictionFromReality: After seeing a horror movie about mole monsters, Launchpad spends the entire episode worrying that one of his friends is a mole monster in disguise, not realizing that the film's plot is entirely fictional.
* CaptainCrash: Launchpad seems to have trouble with the idea of ''not'' crashing a vehicle he's driving.
* CharacterFocus:
** The first episode in the series, at least based on airing order, to focus on Huey, giving a real sense of his character, his flaws, and his quirks, when before he was SatelliteCharacter to Louie, Webby, and Dewey.
** Lena also gets a lot of focus as we see her use magic, interact with her Aunt and even get a WhatYouAreInTheDark moment.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Implied with the Terra-firmians, who cause a lot of unintentional damage to the metro car when chasing the ducks, simply because of their sheer bulk.
* FaeriesDontBelieveInHumansEither: The Terra-firmians apparently viewed "billed creatures in the land above" as a myth or legend. "I told you they were real!"
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The movie the gang watches in the beginning of the episode is about mole monsters, foreshadowing that they will encounter another type of underground monsters (the Terra-firmians) in the episode.
** If you look closely, the first time Huey bumps into a Terra-Firmian, the Terra-Firmian reacts in the same way as Huey, screaming in fright in reaction to Huey's scream, showing that they are freaking out just as much over the ducks.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the old metro car, some of the posters are advertisements for [[ContinuityNod Glomgold Industries]].
* GlowingEyesOfDoom:
** Magica's LivingShadow has red, glowing eyes.
** Subverted by the Terra-Firmians: their eyes glow red in the dark, and they are built up as scary monsters over the course of the episode, but are revealed to be quite friendly in the end.
* GreatBigBookOfEverything: The Junior Woodchuck Guidebook, of course. Though unlike in the original series where the book was weirdly applicable to any situation, Huey admits that there are some things the book doesn't know about so he adds them himself.
* HalloweenEpisode: Deemed as one by Creator/DisneyXD [[https://twitter.com/FrankAngones/status/914331295995400193 according to Frank Angones]], despite having only a few Halloween-specific elements[[note]]the central theme of the episode is fear from the unknown, it features Magica and the (seemingly) monstrous Terra-Firmians, and the family watches a horror film in the beginning of the episode[[/note]], thus airing four spots earlier than production order intended, so that it can be aired all through October.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: It's heavily implied that the Terra-Firmians are a bunch of kids from Terra-Firmian society who are having their own explorational adventure just like our main characters are.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Magica is quite eager to get blood on Lena's hands and is skeptical about her reluctance to kill and desire to save Beakley. Lena insists at the end that it was PragmaticVillainy, but Magica is still skeptical about Lena's commitment if her expression is anything to go by.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Launchpad's TomatoInTheMirror bit is a beautiful example.
** Huey isn't much better. "It only exists if it has an entry in the Junior Woodchuck's Guidebook, because if something isn't in the Guidebook I can add an entry for it."
* {{Irony}}: The movie the family watches at the beginning of the episode is, presumably, a PG-13 or R-rated horror film. The children either love it, are bored by it, or criticize its {{plot hole}}s, but Launchpad, an adult, is utterly traumatized by it, believing the film's plot could happen in {{real life}}.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: From his mother's side, Huey has apparently inherited his great-uncle's, grandfather's, grandmother's, and uncle's stubborn, argumentative nature, particularly with members of the opposite sex.
* JerkassHasAPoint: An unwitting point, at least; while Mrs. Beakley's suspicions of Lena cause her to act towards the girl in a way which is not entirely admirable, Lena actually ''is'' a bit of a ToxicFriendInfluence on Webby and the others and, unbeknownst to them, is in league with one of Scrooge's deadliest enemies in some scheme that doubtless has none of their best interests in mind. Lena doesn't really help her case when she encourages Webby and Huey to explore the abandoned subway tracks, which nearly gets everyone killed. It's also suggested that Mrs. Beakley's unwitting implication that Lena is ''not'' "a good kid with a bright future" touches a nerve with Lena because of this, since she knows full well that Beakley has more of a point that she realizes.
* JerkassRealization:
** Mrs. Beakley is very hard on Lena throughout the episode since she believes she's a bad influence on the kids until this exchange when she realizes that Lena doesn't seem to have anybody looking out for her.
--> '''Mrs. Beakley:''' They're good kids with bright futures!
--> '''Lena:''' So what does that make ''me''?
--> '''Mrs. Beakley:''' [taken aback realizes the implications of what she just said] ... I don't know.
** It's implied Lena gets one when Beakley protects her from the impact of the train crash. Her expression screams MyGodWhatHaveIDone and she lifts the car off Beakley long enough to save her.
* LiteralMinded: Launchpad thinks a man-child is a kind of creature.
* LivingShadow: This episode shows that Magica can take control of Lena's shadow in order to communicate with her.
* LongGame: Referenced by Lena to Magica as justification for saving Beakley. Notably, Magica isn't happy regardless...
* MamaBear: For all her contentions with Lena, Mrs. Beakley protects her when Launchpad accidentally starts up the old subway car and endangers them.
* ManChild: Beakley outright refers to Launchpad as one. Considering how he reacted to the movie, she's got a point.
* NoYou: When Huey dismisses the Terra-Firmians as "ridiculous", Webby retorts "''You're'' ridiculous!"
* NothingIsScarier: The ''real'' reason that Huey is pulling a major case of ArbitrarySkepticism.
* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Scrooge and Donald are once again absent.
* NotSoDifferent:
** Despite their constant arguing in this episode, the events that cause them to argue also reveal how similar Webby and Huey are - both love exploration and discovery (Huey of natural phenomena like earthquakes and rocks, Webby of the supernatural), and both keep a book where they write about their passions (except Huey writes about what he's discovered and Webby writes about what she imagines).
** The ending shows that the Terra-firmians see the ducks just as mysterious as the ducks see them. Furthermore, it's implied that the five Terra-firmians that chased the ducks are also a group of adventurous children, and their color scheme matches the clothes of the triplets, Webby and Lena. And the red one and the purple one have a conversation almost verbatim the same as Huey and Webby.
* PaintingTheFrostOnWindows: Webby suggests that the Terra-Firmians are responsible for tectonic plates moving, a MythologyGag to the original Creator/CarlBarks comics, in which their races caused earthquakes.
* PassThePopcorn: A RunningGag in the episode comes from Louie having brought his popcorn with him on the adventure and his tendency to pull it out when things get interesting.
** He even admits that he refilled it on the way out.
* PowerGlows: Lena's telekinesis.
* PragmaticVillainy: Lena justifies saving Beakley as this to Magica.
* ProperlyParanoid: Beakley is very suspicious and untrusting of Lena, and just knows she's up to no good. She's not wrong; even without the Magica plot and Lena being TheMole, Lena does endanger Webby and the nephews with her actions.
* RealAfterAll: The Terra-firmians turn out to be quite real. Amusingly, the ducks are apparently just as mythical to the Terri-firmians, being referred to as the "bill-faced creatures from above" by them.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While Beakley (rightly) doesn't trust Lena and plans on putting the kibosh on her visiting Webby, she spends a lot of the time trying very hard to understand her, and even protects her when Launchpad gets the train moving out of control. Beakley eventually relents after Lena she saves her life, and even lets her come to the mansion for pancakes.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Beakley wants to keep Lena away from Webby and the nephews, stating that "these are good kids, with good futures." She's right that Lena ''is'' a threat to the [=McDuck=] family. But Beakley is concerned about Lena's generic rebellious nature, and knows nothing of Lena assisting Magica [=DeSpell=] with her plans against the [=McDuck=] family.
* RockMonster: The Terra-firmians are large, boulder-like creatures that move around rolling. Whether they are made of rock or just resemble rocks is ambiguous, but their weight compared to their size (as evidenced by their impact on the metro car) implies the former.
* RomanticismVersusEnlightenment: Lena and Webby are Romantic, believing in the UrbanLegend about the Terra-firmians while Huey is enlightened, being committed to rational and natural explanations, and having a strictly empirical view (hence the whole the Junior Woodchuck book is never wrong, because whatever is not in it, will be added inside it). This even applies to their reaction to the movie, both Webby and Lena love the gorefest while Huey points out the implausibility of the scenes and actions.
* SheKnowsTooMuch: Magica wants Lena to eliminate Beakley because she's suspicious of her origins, and poses a real threat to her agenda.
* ShoutOut: Huey and the red Terra-firmian making contact by touching their fingers parodies the famous scene from ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''.
* SuddenlyVoiced: This is the first episode in which Magica speaks.
* TakingTheBullet: Beakley gets knocked out protecting Lena from the impact of the subway crash. It's implied that Lena saves her for this reason.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Magica and Lena turn out to this, arguing over their methods and seeming to have an argumentative relationship in general. Lena also doesn't react very well when Beakley asked who raised her.
* ThinkingOutLoud: Launchpad does this without realizing it, which causes him to believe Dewey is reading his mind.
* ThisIsReality: Dewey tries to explain to Launchpad [=McQuack=] that mole monsters are just in movies, while this is real life.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Parodied; when the paranoid Launchpad (who, after watching a creepy movie, believes anyone could be a mole monster) is told by Dewey that by his logic, ''he'' could be a mole monster. Launchpad agrees with this and decides to improve his "brethren's" reputation above ground.
* {{Troll}}: Louie zig zags between supporting Huey and Webby just because he finds the arguing more entertaining than the movie.
* UniversalDriversLicense: Beakley immediately tasks Launchpad to drive the subway train out of the tunnel without even bothering to ask if Launchpad can drive a train. He gets right to it.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When Beakley gets trapped under a train car, Magica tries to convince Lena to leave her there, as she's only getting in the way of their plans. Lena instead saves her with her magic. Though Lena passes it off as PragmaticVillainy, since she knew that saving Beakley would get her to stop trying to separate her and Webby.
** It's worth noting, however, that she only claims this ''after'' Mrs. Beakley allows her to stick with Webby; as if she's trying to convince Magica of it more than anything else.
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