History YMMV / DuckTales2017

** [[spoiler:Many people were flabbergasted that [[ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse The Phantom Blot]], one of Mickey Mouse's antagonists, appears in the Ducktales Universe despite Mickey himself being off-limits. However this isn't the first time the Blot appeared in Ducktales canon, in the original 1987 Ducktales episode 'All Ducks on Deck' he appears as a one shot villain. He also appeared as one of the main antagonist in the obscure comic Wizards of Mickey which contains elements of both Mickey Mouse comics and Donald Duck comics such as Magica]].

* MagnificentBastard: Goldie O'Gilt, [[Characters/DuckTales2017ScroogeMcDuck Scrooge]]'s old flame and "ex-everything," is a beautiful, conniving treasure hunter who rivals Scrooge's skills but -- possessed of a [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder penchant for betrayal]] -- Goldie has backstabbed Scrooge countless times to leave him in the wake of danger, while she constantly walks off untouched. During the Gold Rush, Goldie competed with Scrooge for the gold under Gumption before helping Scrooge steal a giant gold nugget from John D. Rockerduck. In the present, Goldie plays both Scrooge and Flintheart in her pursuit of the Golden Lagoon, using Scrooge to locate the Lagoon for her before managing to fake her death with the Eye of Demogorgon and making off with the treasure herself, completely untouched in the end. Taking Louie Duck under her wing, Goldie helps him con Doofus Drake, while growing genuinely fond of the young duck, before making off with their stolen gold for herself. Later joining forces with Scrooge to find the FountainOfYouth, Goldie helps stop Ponce de Leon from stealing others' youth before saving Scrooge's life. Even through their constant quarreling and rivalry, Goldie and Scrooge retain a fierce, mutual respect for each other, with Goldie always knowing Scrooge will make it out alive out of whatever conundrum she leaves him in and Scrooge acknowledging her as his greatest WorthyOpponent.

** In "Woo-oo!", when Dewey asks Scrooge "Which triplet am I?", Scrooge responds with "It's, um... Bluey?" In 2018, a show called ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'' premiered on Creator/TheABC, with Disney acquiring the broadcasting rights in 2019 (airing it on Creator/DisneyJunior beginning in September of that year, and adding it to Creator/DisneyPlus in the US in January 2020).

* MagnificentBitch: Goldie O'Gilt, [[Characters/DuckTales2017ScroogeMcDuck Scrooge]]'s old flame and "ex-everything," is a beautiful, conniving treasure hunter who rivals Scrooge himself in sheer wit and tenacity. Lacking Scrooge's scruples and possessed of a [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder penchant for betrayal]], Goldie has backstabbed Scrooge countless times to leave him in the wake of danger while she constantly walks off untouched. In her debut episode, Goldie plays both Scrooge and Flintheart in her pursuit of the Golden Lagoon, using Scrooge to locate the Lagoon for her before managing to fake her death with the Eye of Demogorgon and making off with the treasure herself, completely untouched in the end. Even through their constant quarreling and rivalry, Goldie and Scrooge retain a fierce, mutual respect for each other, with Goldie always knowing Scrooge will make it out alive out of whatever conundrum she leaves him in and Scrooge acknowledging her as his greatest WorthyOpponent.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Even after the final episode, some fics retcon the element of Webby being biologically related to a majority of her peers via being cloned from Scrooge. Some do it due to them having shipped Webby with one of the triplets in the past and not wanting to stop, and others because they feel it [[BrokenAesop defies the show's own lessons]], such as her having a [[FamilyOfChoice found family]] that is no less valid than a biological one.

** [[spoiler General Lunaris]] for being an [[CanonForeigner original villain]] in the reboot and proving to be a master planner managing to outsmart everyone several times and comes nearly close to victory every time.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Even after the final episode confirming the fact, some fics retcon the element of Webby being biologically related to the triplets via being cloned from Scrooge. Some do it due to them having shipped Webby with one of them in the past and not wanting to stop, and others because they feel it [[BrokenAesop violates lessons]] such as a [[FamilyOfChoice found family]] not being any less valid than a biological one.

** "The 87 Cent Solution!" is certainly one of the weirdest - and as an effect, ''hilarious'' - episodes of the show thus far...

* CantUnhearIt:

* CryForTheDevil: Magica for most of the three seasons has been a ManipulativeBitch, abusive aunt to her "niece" Lena, would-be child murderer, and RevengeBeforeReason sorceress. Then we get to her testimony in "The Life and Crimes of Scrooge [=McDuck=]!". As she explains, however, she ran into Scrooge when one of hers and her brother's spells tried taking his dime, and he refused to let go of it. Poe was the OnlySaneMan if as evil as she was, pegging that Scrooge wasn't a threat as long as they didn't irk him. Magica didn't listen, stole his amulet and attempted to turn Scrooge into a fly and then a raven for saying she never earned anything fair in her life. [[spoiler:Scrooge managed to use his NumberOneDime to deflect the spell, and Poe jumped in the way before it could hit his twin sister. He became a nonsapient raven, and Magica stops dead cold. She begs him PleaseWakeUp and change back because she doesn't know how to change him back. Scrooge callously took a share of gold and let Poe fly out the window despite Magica saying she would give him anything to save her brother. This solidified Magica's hate of Scrooge and determination to take away everyone he loves. Louie, who is serving as Scrooge's lawyer, admits he can't defend that one because he understands Magica's pain all too well]].

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Glomgold's LastDisrespects at Scrooge's fake funeral in "The 87 Cent Solution!" are a spectacle in [[EvilIsPetty sheer pettiness]]. Wearing a glittery white tux and top-hat with dollar sign shades, Flinty bursts uninvited through the cathedral doors and starts dancing and making it rain while "[[Music/DJKhaled All I Do Is Win]]" blares in the background before he {{ninja run}}s up to the casket, gloats about his victory with an EvilLaugh, ''and starts twerking at the corpse''.

** While not as vocal, some [[WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel Hazin Hotel]] fans have recently got into the series as well due to some Hazbin fans finding Louie a bit similar to Angel Dust (personality-wise).

*** How Gosalyn will be introduced into the show and interact with Drake, Launchpad and the kids.

** Quite a few fans only expressed interest once it was revealed that WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck was making an appearance, and teased that Creator/{{Jim Cummings|1952}} would be [[RoleReprise voicing him again]]. [[spoiler:And now that it's been revealed that he wasn't playing Darkwing, but '''Negaduck'''...]]

* WTHCastingAgency:
** Creator/CatherineTate, a comedic actress, as the menacing villainess Magica De Spell. It should be noted that her original voice Creator/JuneForay was also primarily a comedic actress, but in that show Magica was [[EvilIsHammy extremely hammy]], whereas here she's a dead-serious KnightOfCerebus. [[spoiler:That's only in her first speaking episode, though; later episodes show her with the EvilIsHammy personality she's well known for, though she's still pretty dangerous.]]
** Some people feel this way about the casting of Creator/AllisonJanney as Goldie O'Gilt, mostly due to [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the lack of her southern drawl]] (never mind that in relation to what is known about her in the comics, it makes ''no sense'' for Goldie to have a Southern accent when she's an Irishwoman who immigrated to Dawson City). There are also those who think she's just essentially using her [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Charlene Doofenshmirtz voice]] .
** Downplayed with Don Cheadle doing Donald's normal voice in the season 1 finale. While many people think he is good, they think it's unnecessary given that Tony Anselmo could've just used his regular voice.
** A similar case happens in "Last Christmas!" while some were glad to have Russi Taylor voice young Donald in the same voice she used for Huey, Dewey and Louie in the 1987 ''[=DuckTales=]'', others wonder why they didn't just pitch Tony's Donald voice higher, like with the triplets in ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' and a few other properties.
** Speaking of Huey, Dewey and Louie, while their voice actors are by no means terrible, many viewers still can't get over the fact that the boys sounded too old to be preteens.
** Though Chris Diamantopoulos was praised for his performance as Drake Mallard in "The Duck Knight Returns!", considering how Creator/{{Jim Cummings|1952}} was cast as Jim Starling aka [[spoiler:Negaduck]], some fans wished this had gone full circle and cast Cummings as Drake Mallard as well. Then again, [[AnAesop the theme of the episode]] was about accepting newcomers who prove to do a capable and passionate job at performing, so this may be somewhat justified.

** [[spoiler: General Lunaris]] for being an [[CanonForeigner original villain]] in the reboot and proving to be a master planner managing to outsmart everyone several times and comes nearly close to victory every time.

** [[spoiler: General Lunaris]] being the shows first [[CompleteMonster completely evil arc villain]] who is always two steps ahead of Scrooges and his allies, and manages to manipulate all his followers with ease.

* [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter/DuckTales2017 TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
** Many fans feel this way about Donald, since one of the big draws for the reboot was that he was supposedly going to play a bigger role this time around and he has only appeared a handful times so far since the pilot, with some of those appearances being brief cameos. It's since been explained by WordOfGod, and subsequently confirmed in ''The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!'', that he was spending most of his time working on repairing his houseboat so he and the boys can move back to the marina. Frank has said we will be seeing more of him in Season 2.
*** While he did get more screentime in the first half of the second season, he was notably PutOnABus for most of the second half, leaving people split on how whether his somewhat bigger screentime in Season 2 made up for his lack of screentime in the first, or if it was just more of the same, especially when given his relatively small role in the finale. Season 3 made some effort to rectify this like giving him more focus and development (especially with the introduction of Daisy and Goofy) like Season 2 only this time he doesn't get PutOnABus, and he played a much bigger role in the GrandFinale.
** Fans loved the new take on Mrs. Beakley by giving her more of a bodyguard-type role, but aside from ADayInTheLimelight in "From the Confidential Casefiles of Agent 22!," most of her appearances in the show have been minor, and she's had the same amount of screentime Donald has, namely not much. And unlike Donald, she doesn't even have [[WordOfGod an excuse]] for all her absences, and her screentime in Season 2 has remained limited.
*** It gets even more evident in season 3 where despite F.O.W.L (who was a past enemy of hers from her time in SHUSH) being the main antagonists that season, she still barely got any focus that season only playing a major role in three episodes and appearing in the least amount of episodes that season among the main cast at only '''eight''' episodes total.
** Gabby [=McStabberson=] made a huge impact in the pilot as a badass DarkActionGirl with the mellifluous voice of Creator/JenniferHale, and promptly disappeared. She finally showed up again in the Season 2 finale, but without any lines, implying a major reason for her absence is they’ve been unable to get Hale back. She finally speaks again in "Louie's Eleven!", but it's to start talking about a backstory and motivations that get cut off by Webby and never elaborated on afterward.
** Negaduck (aka Jim Starling) hasn't been seen since the {{Cliffhanger}} ending of "The Duck Knight Returns!", and Launchpad and Dewey still haven't learned the truth. He's still lurking around in the shadows somewhere, plotting revenge against Darkwing which has yet to be unleashed...[[labelnote:note]]WordOfGod has it that they couldn't fit him anywhere in Season 3 cause they felt he deserved better, and he was supposed to be in Let's Get Dangerous according to storyboards.[[/labelnote]] However, with the show confirmed to be ending after the third season, this means that, unless he is planned to be involved in a recently announced Darkwing Duck reboot by Creator/SethRogen, [[AbortedArc he'll likely never appear again.]]
** Many of the recurring villains present throughout both of the first two seasons have become sidelined in season 3 to make way for F.O.W.L. While Magica de Spell and Flintheart Glomgold served as major arc villains in seasons 1 and 2 respectively, and both got two episode in season 3 where they played a significant role in the plot (with the former progressing the MythArc in one of her episodes due to her connection with one of F.O.W.L's operatives), Mark Beaks has only had one focus episode and two brief appearances in others, and the Beagle Boys had a minor appearance and with Ma Beagle only given one major role in an episode.
** ''Huey Duck.'' Compared to his brothers he's drastically underdeveloped and gets far fewer moments to take the spotlight. To make matters worse, while Season 1 was focused on Dewey's story arc of finding out about Della, and Season 2 on Louie learning not to be greedy, Season 3 did ''not'' focus on Huey so much as on the Missing Mysteries and the [=McDuck=] family's feud with F.O.W.L. and only a handful of episodes centered on Huey. Even the final two episodes before the mega finale were ''once more'' focused on Huey's brothers, with Dewey learning not to be reckless or put people up on pedestals (though Huey got Dewey to realize that lesson) and Louie learning to take responsibility for one's mistakes, and in the finale itself most of the attention and development goes to Webby.
** Gladstone and Fethry barely appear in the show (they have exactly seven appearances total, one of which is a cameo) despite being major characters in the comics, as well as Donald and Della's cousins. It's debatable which one of them has it worse - Gladstone for having the potential for interesting CharacterDevelopment and never getting involved in the Della MythArc, even though no reason is ever given for why Dewey and Webby can't just ask him what happened to Della, or Fethry for never playing a major role in any episodes outside of his debut and his quest to become a scientist never being followed up on.
** Out of all the characters from the Disney Afternoon who appeared, it's widely agreed that the Rescue Rangers were the most underused. Unlike the other characters, who were the focal point of their episodes, the Rangers come off as being more of a ChekhovsGunman, appearing as Black Heron's experiments, who Launchpad helps escape, before they return at the end of the episode. While it was sadly understandable, as the Rangers had to be snuck into the show in the first place, many fans were hopeful that they could have had a larger role in the finale, much how Darkwing had a decent role in "Moonvasion!". Instead, they were reduced to two cameos, one of which could easily be missed.
** The other Beagle Boys from "The Beagle Birthday Massacre!" and Black Arts Beagle from "[=McMystery=] at [=McDuck=] [=McManor=]!". With all their different cliques, they would make interesting antagonists and potential allies or enemies to their ordinary brothers.
** It would have been totally awesome if Daisy Duck got to participate in some of the Duck Family's adventures, and we could have seen a few more dates of her with Donald and maybe interactions with Della Duck and Gladstone Gander. Unfortunately they did not do any of this before the show ended.

** It also goes the other way, as Glomgold was changed from South African to Scottish in the '80s series due to their discomfort in having a character be associated with Apartheid. Now that it's long over, Glomgold in this series is revealed to actually be South African, and just pretending to be Scottish to mess with Scrooge.

* EvilIsSexy:
** Don Karnage, a handsome, dashing pirate captain with a Hispanic accent, has quite a few admirers.
** Magica de Spell's outfit is [[HotterAndSexier both more form-fitting and more revealing]] than in the original show, and she quite suggestively announces how much she missed "the body" when she gains her physical form back. This is despite the fact that she also got some AdaptationalUgliness via her [[GreenAndMean sickly green plumage]] and snake-like yellow eyes.
** Black Heron. More so when she was younger. Not that she hasn’t aged well otherwise.
** [[spoiler:Bradford]] of all people gets this for the series finale climax thanks to an EvilMakeover courtesy of the Sword of Swanstantine.

** While not as vocal, some [[WebAnimation/HazbinHotel Hazin Hotel]] fans have recently got into the series as well due to some Hazbin fans finding Louie a bit similar to Angel Dust (personality-wise).

* ToyShip: WordOfGod has [[NoHuggingNoKissing denied any possibility of Webby and any of the trio bros becoming a "thing".]] Unfortunately for the writers, it seems regardless of their intent, Webby is well on her way to being a LauncherOfAThousandShips ... [[spoiler:that is before TheReveal that Webby was actually Scrooge's daughter via cloning, making it awkward for the triplets.]]
** Many people almost immediately started shipping Dewey with Webby due to having similar personalities and also being close to each other during the theme song - not to mention how much time they spend together, sharing wonderful experiences with each other.
** By the end of the second episode, Louie and Webby began to gain popularity.
** Huey and Webby gained steam from the Terra-Firmian episode.

** Huey/Violet fics began popping up after their competition in the Season 3 premiere.

* ObviousCrossoverMethod: Due to the show featuring several characters becoming superheroes, it's not uncommon with fics that cross over with ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' (or classic Paperinik) by having the Duck Avenger be an older or even retired hero who Gizmoduck and/or Darkwing Duck look up to and admire, often with plot revolving around them finding out that Donald is the Duck Avenger.