Line #18 Fridge/DuckTales2017S2E7WhatEverHappenedToDellaDuck


1	!!!Fridge Brilliance
2	* The reason Della was screaming out the iconic Moon Theme when she went full LeeroyJenkins and attempted to jump off the moon's gravity: it's the lullaby she used to sing to her kids. The tune reminds her of them and steels her determination in order to get back to them. Not that it helps her much in that case.
3	* The presence of the [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace Oxy-chew]] seems to be an AssPull as to how Della survived on the Moon without oxygen and food. However, considering that the [=McDucks=] were going to space in the first place, having no backup supplies in case of helmet damage is nothing short of folly.
4	** The rocket was not supposed to be launched for at least another month and the rocket was completely untested, so the rocket neither having any backup supplies or backup gold makes sense, Scrooge didn't believe that Della would find out about the rocket that early and would steal it for a joyride before it was even tested.
5	* Della not being able to blow out the boys' birthday candle makes some sense considering that Moon has no atmosphere and Della is getting her oxygen from the Oxy-Chew, thus there's no air she could use to blow the candle. Although that begs the question [[FridgeLogic how the candle can burn in the first place]]…
6	** It was probably an emergency flare with its own internal oxidizer. Though that raises other questions, like why didn't she use that to signal with when the [=McDuck=] search ship had passed overhead...
7	* So Della's been transmitting this whole time to Earth and yet no-one's received them. Why? Because the Moon Planet inhabitants were hiding themselves with cloaking technology. It'd stand to reason that this could've including blocking out any transmission leaving the surface.
8	* Della's characterization shows traits from all three of her sons:
9	** Like Huey, she is an enthusiastic Junior Woodchuck.
10	** Like Dewey, she has an impulsive, daredevil attitude.
11	** Like Louie, she recognizes narrative patterns. Like how she may become FireForgedFriends with Penumbra.
12	** While Donald is her brother, she most certainly shares his temper when frustrated.
13	* No wonder Scrooge almost went bankrupt when sending so many ships to search for Della; they're fueled with GOLD. Normal rocket fuel is expensive enough; using gold, plus the obvious expenses from making the ships, would be a huge funds-drainer, even for Scrooge's fortune.
14	** Of course it does seem out of character for Scrooge to use a far more expensive fuel for his rockets, unless using gold has it's own benefits. Maybe gold is actually far more efficient and thus actually (slightly) more cost effective?
15	** Gyro's explanation in his notes beyond it not being something evil (yet) is that Scrooge has a lot of it. Which sounds dumb, but actually would be very useful as far as keeping it in [=McDuck=] Enterprise's control since it's experimental and dangerous technology. Fueling it by gold means that only the richest duck in the world could reliably power them. Well as far as anyone on Earth knew anyway.
16	** There's actually a very simple explanation: using gold means those rockets only need a single, ''highly stable'' fuel source. Yes, gold is more expensive than a similar quantity of fuel, but the unusual cost pays for itself by ''completely erasing the need for the far more expensive and time-consuming logistics involved with other rocket fuels.'' In fact, these savings are probably how Scrooge was able to send a whole search team up in the first place, and for years at that.
17	* The far side of the moon turns out to be hollow, but made mostly of gold. The high density of gold would compensate for the missing mass, combined with the tidal locked orbit, would leave the true nature of the moon undetectable from earth.
18	* Part of the reason the Moon people might be having so much trouble with the Mites is because their weapons are made of gold. Gold is, while heavy (under usual gravity conditions) a soft metal that would be less effective made into sharp edged or pointy weapons like spears.
19	* As for the dangerously toxic lunar regolith issue, that's the easiest thing to resolve.
20	** Looking closely, Della only wears her goggles when she's not on the crater floor or the Spear of Selene; that soil's either been pulverized into a grit fine enough that it's harmless, or it's in large enough pieces that it doesn't fly up high enough to harm her.
21	** If you take it as a deliberate effort on the part of the animation staff, the fact that it's animated as Della kicking up ''dust clouds'' when she pushes off of the lunar soil, is part of this. Video of the Apollo astronauts shows it to look more like clumps of beach sand, compacted by its own weight but not eroded to the fineness of dust, staying in the "air" for an unintuitively long time before landing.
22	** Plus, Della has a scarf.
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24	!!!Fridge Horror
25	* There weren't exactly a lot of sharp objects near Della when her leg was trapped in the wreckage. Either she found another way to get the debris off her leg and only had it transformed afterwards, or...[[NauseaFuel she had to BASH her leg off with a blunt object]].
26	** Or she could've used the glass from her helmet? Maybe a sharp piece of metal broken off?
27	*** Still pretty horrifying considering that, unless she got a big and heavy enough piece she would have had to saw her leg off rather than just chopping it off. Unless of course instead of actively removing her leg, it came off more naturally due to gangrene, which isn't much better.
28	** There is actually a shard of metal next to her, conveniently hand-sized and sharp-looking. Brr...
29	* The Moon Mite is revealed to be stealing metal because [[MonsterIsAMommy she's trying to keep her baby fed]]. The city of the Moon Planet inhabitants is filled with gold, the Moon Mites' preferred food. Since the Moon Planet cops have been actively hunting the Moon Mite, she probably wasn't able to forage for food properly, meaning that she (or worse, her baby) could have starved to death.
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31	!!!Fridge Logic
32	* It's clear that her {{Apocalyptic Log}}s also serve as her SOS transmissions, which was her first method of getting rescued. Throughout the first year of her disappearance, Scrooge had been burning his Money Bin to look for her. How did her transmissions not get through back to Earth?
33	** It's possible that the equipment used to transmit the messages back to Earth was damaged in the crash, and Della hasn't figured it out yet. Or she knows, but still makes the transmissions as a coping mechanism to keep herself sane.
34	* It's been established that Della went into space before the triplets were hatched. How did she know what gender they were going to hatch into? She clearly states that the lullaby was something she sang to them ''before'' they hatched.
35	** Doctors in this universe probably developed ultrasound that works on eggs.
36	* The second half of the episode comes about when Della realizes she had a gold filling in her mouth the whole time. How did she not realize it was there during the ten years she spent on the moon chewing Gyro's [=OxyChew=]? Also, given the Moon Mite can sense gold, how did it not detect it inside her mouth?
37	* The moon ''does'' have an "atmosphere" in real life, but it's so thin that it's only an atmosphere compared to the vacuum of space; essentially, it lacks the mass necessary to keep gasses from floating away. The Planet Moon clearly ''has'' something resembling a proper atmosphere, thinner than Earth's though similar enough for the Moonlanders to invade it - but in order for that to happen it'd have to be a very different body.
38	** The easiest way to make this happen semi-realistically is for Planet Moon to be ''considerably'' denser than ours, while also closer to Earth and smaller to keep the tides working. This would explain why Della (and later Eagle One) is able to get there so quickly, and why Tranquility seems to be city-sized... but the size of Earth in the moon sky is approximately what it ought to be in the real world (cf. "Earthrise") so this doesn't seem to be the case.
39	** (Granted, since Selene is an actual being in this world, she may have had something to do with it. Unsatisfying, but better than a bare bulb.)
40	* Because of how physics work, the material the Spear of Selene is made out of would have to be extremely efficient at radiating heat. It'd be very much like Gyro to have invented literal cold iron.

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