Line #33 Recap/DuckTales2017S1E12TheSpearOfSelene


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:The Ducks meet Donald's best friend... I mean [[InsistentTerminology acquaintance]].]]
3	The ducks end up making a crash landing on the mythical island of Ithaquack, the resort of the Greek gods. While Huey, Louie, and Donald are pulled into Scrooge's rivalry with Zeus, King of the Gods, Dewey and Webby try to find out more about the Spear of Selene.
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5	!!Tropes:
6	* TenMinuteRetirement: Just outside the Garden of Selene, Dewey decides not to enter and blocks Webby from doing so. As soon as she agrees to leave the mystery unsolved to preserve his memory of his mom, he brings her through the rapidly closing portal.
7	* AllThereInTheScript: Charybdis, the monster guarding the Spear, is named in the credits only. The credits also reveal the siren's name to be Ligeia.
8	* AlwaysSecondBest: Zeus hates Scrooge because the last time he was here, he bested Zeus at nearly everything and made him look bad in front of the other gods.
9	* AmbiguouslyGay: Storkules is very physically-affectionate to his best friend, Donald.
10	* ApologeticAttacker: The brainwashed Storkules keeps apologizing to Scrooge and the boys for being forced to fight them.
11	* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Storkules is surprised that Donald doesn't seek adventure anymore because Donald is scared of someone getting hurt, and asks him, "What would Della say if she could hear you now?" Donald snaps back that his sister can't, only to realize that he's acknowledging her existence.
12	* AsYouKnow: Webby recaps everything the pair has uncovered about Della to Dewey after landing on Ithaquack, despite Dewey being the one who initiated the search.
13	* BatmanGambit: The final challenge, stealing Golden Fleece from a little girl was really a ploy to kill the [=McDucks=], because the little girl was a mind-controlling siren whom Zeus used to get Storkules to crush them.
14	* BestOutOfInfinity: When Scrooge and his family keep besting Storkules in various contests, Zeus keeps challenging them to more contests.
15	* BorrowedCatchphrase: When Donald says his infamous "Aw phooey!" after Zeus forbids the family from leaving Ithaquack, Scrooge also says it perfectly in sync with him, suggesting that Donald may have gotten his catchphrase from his uncle.
16	* BrickJoke: At the beginning, Launchpad stays behind to figure out what's wrong with the plane. This is forgotten about until the last scene when the group wants to leave and finds that Launchpad has taken the entire plane apart.
17	* BrokenPedestal: Invoked. Dewey is reluctant to learn more about Della and why she took the Spear of Selene because he fears he might find out that his mother was a bad person. Thankfully, his original sentiment was vindicated.
18	* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: A DiscussedTrope. Storkules notes that as much as Donald wants to be done with adventures, he isn't able to escape them.
19	* CaptainCrash: Launchpad, as usual - although this time, unknown to him or anyone else, Dewey and Webby have deliberately made him land on Ithaquack by sneakily pushing various buttons.
20	* CastingGag:
21	** Crossing over with FridgeBrilliance - all three of the Greek gods/demigods portrayed in the episode are voiced by [[ActorSharedBackground actors of Greek descent]].
22	** Storkules, self-proclaimed best friend of Donald Duck, is voiced by Chris Diamantopoulos, who also voices Donald's official best friend, WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, in the [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013 2013 shorts]].
23	* CharacterCatchphrase: Webby repeats her standard greeting when she and Dewey meet Selene - [[CallBack "Hi! I'm Webby!"]]
24	* CombatPragmatist: Dewey exploits Webby's weaknesses - namely, her scatterbrained and childish mindset - to hold his own against her during their brief brawl. He also admits he isn't trying to beat her; he just has to hold her off until the door to the Garden of Selene closes completely.
25	* CombatTentacles: Charybdis is a cephalopod monster with plenty of tentacles that he uses to grab Webby and Dewey.
26	* CreepyChild: Scrooge uses the exact phrase to describe the Siren.
27	--> '''Scrooge:''' No good has ever come from a creepy child singing.
28	* CryIntoChest: After learning that Della was as good a person as he believed, Dewey cried into Selene's legs (since he's too short to reach higher). Webby is standing nearby awkwardly until [[GroupHug Dewey pulls her in]].
29	* DeathGlare: The first time Webby suggests the idea that Della might have betrayed the family, Dewey shuts her up with this.
30	* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Part of TheReveal is that Della Duck was a great person whom everyone loved. It's unclear whether she's just lost or actually dead, which is a crucial part of the mystery.
31	* EmbarrassingFirstName: Louie pleads with Storkules to not call him by his full name, Llywellyn.
32	* FluffyTheTerrible: The last match is against a small child who is a mind-controlling Siren.
33	* ForeShadowing: Not just Donald but Scrooge of all ducks is adamant about leaving the mythical island as soon as they arrive, making it clear they know more about the place than they let on or that they have been there before.
34	* FriendOrIdolDecision: When Dewey breaks down and admits he doesn't want them to enter the Garden of Selene for fear that it will turn out Della was a bad person, Webby clearly weighs the desire to discover something about Della Duck (who, it should be pointed out, she'd been trying to investigate for years without any success) against possibly breaking Dewey's heart. She chooses Dewey, but Dewey himself realizes the sacrifice she's making and pulls her into the Garden.
35	* FunWithHomophones: When Dewey asks her about what did Della do with her spear, a confused Selene assumes he meant her ''sphere''. This is after he had tried to get the Sword of Selene and the Spear of Poseidon.
36	* GentleGiant: Charybdis, once learning that Dewey and Webby aren't after the Spear of Poseidon, becomes very friendly and polite for a gigantic tentacled monster.
37	* GracefulLoser: Storkules takes losing to the [=McDuck=] clan much better then his father does.
38	* HereWeGoAgain: Dewey accidentally drops the memory orb he got from Selene, spoiling Zeus's winning bocce ball match and making the god angry again.
39	* HeroicWillpower: Storkules manages to fight his father's brainwashing to slow down his assault on the Duck family long enough for Donald to get into position.
40	* HesBack: Implied at the end of the episode--Donald is back to adventuring after a long period of retirement, whether he likes it or not.
41	* InnocentlyInsensitive: Webby is so blinded by her HeroWorship of Scrooge and the hype of solving the mystery of Della Duck's disappearance that she doesn't realize how afraid of the potentially AwfulTruth Dewey is until he physically bars her path.
42	* InsistentTerminology: Donald insists that he and Storkules are just acquaintances, not friends. In the end, he relents.
43	* ItsLikeIAlwaysSay:
44	-->'''Launchpad:''' I always say, better safe than..... whatever the opposite of safe is. ''[Pause]'' Yeah, I do say that.\
45	'''Scrooge:''' ''When have you ever said that?''
46	* JerkassGods: Played straight with Zeus, who's essentially an all-powerful crybaby. Averted with the goddess Selene, who is very nice and cool to be around, and the demigod Storkules, who is affable and polite if overeager.
47	%%* LetsGetDangerous: Donald before fighting a brainwashed Storkules.
48	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: No one on the island knows that Della has been missing for years. Selene in fact sneaks up on Dewey and Webby because she thought Della had returned.
49	* MarshmallowHell: Rare male-male example when Storkules [[HoYay pushes Donald's face between his pecs]] and holds him there for several seconds. Hilariously, Donald is still stuck in between Storkules's pecs after the god lets go.
50	%%* MeaningfulEcho: Donald's repeated line of "Someone always gets hurt" becomes "Nobody gets hurt today."
51	* MixAndMatchCritters: When the plane first lands in Ithaquack, there is a small scorpion with a lion's head (Manticore) at the beach. Later, Webby finds a small statue of a chimera in the model of the island in the antechamber of the Spear of Selene.
52	* MonsterFacade: Charybdis, the cephalopod monster is just doing its job keeping intruders from grabbing the Spear of Poseidon. It quickly drops the façade when Dewey says they're looking for the Spear of Selene, and gives him and Webby directions.
53	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Dewey probably wouldn't have started having doubts, culminating in him trying to stop Webby from entering the Garden of Selene, if Webby herself didn't keep bringing up the idea that Della betrayed Scrooge and Donald or otherwise selfishly put them into harm's way.
54	* NoEnding: Ends with Launchpad having disassembled the entire plane, trapping them on the island. And right when they needed a quick getaway.
55	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: We never see exactly how Dewey and Webby get through the various traps protecting the Sword of Selene.
56	* OurSirensAreDifferent: The child with the Golden Fleece turns out to be a siren whose singing controls minds.
57	* OhCrap: Scrooge and Donald's reaction when they realize they are on Ithaquack.
58	* PalsWithJesus: The [=McDuck=] family is well acquainted with the Olympian Gods. Scrooge has a rivalry with Zeus, Storkules (the show's version of Hercules) considers Donald his best friend ([[MutuallyUnequalRelation although the feeling isn't mutual]]), and Selene and Della were apparently close friends.
59	* PapaWolf: Donald takes on the super strong Storkules who has been mind-controlled into attacking his family to save Scrooge and the boys.
60	* PercussiveMaintenance: In the initial flight, Launchpad hits a bunch of random buttons to stabilize their flight. He tries it again later for the blinking red light, but it doesn't work as well.
61	* PunchClockVillain: Charybdis, the guardian monster of the Spear of Poseidon, grabs and attempts to devour anyone who tries to steal it - but is friendly and polite with those who are looking for different artifacts.
62	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
63	** The cephalopod monster guarding the Spear of Poseidon stops strangling Dewey and Webby when they explain they're looking for the Spear of Selene. He gives them directions to the right antechamber and accepts Dewey's apology for insulting him.
64	** Unlike Zeus, Selene is quite calm when two strange children enter her realm seeking answers, though she tries to prank them because she thinks Della has returned. She gives Dewey the truth -- she doesn't have a Spear and Della was a good person who brought joy to everyone -- as well as her Sphere to help him find out what happened to Della.
65	* RedHerring: Webby and Dewey seek out the Greek goddess Selene, since Della Duck apparently took her spear - only to find that the goddess has no such spear, and the "Spear of Selene" refers to something completely different.
66	* TheResenter: Zeus, who kept getting beaten by Scrooge.
67	* TheReveal: Selene doesn't have a Spear. She has a Sphere, but Della didn't take it. Also, Della was one of her best friends and always welcome on the island, so she wasn't a thief and she wouldn't have betrayed Scrooge. Webby concludes that the Spear wasn't a mythological artifact, and Selene gives her sphere to Dewey to help with his quest.
68	* SacredHospitality: Storkules invokes this to convince Zeus to let the ducks stay on the island, but Zeus ends up averting it when it becomes clear the ducks are going to win all the challenges again, in frustration opting to try to kill them.
69	* SeaMonster: Charybdis is one with tentacles, multiple eyes, and a mouth full of sharp teeth.
70	* ShoutOut:
71	** The Greek gods have very similar designs to their counterparts from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' (apart from being birds, of course), with Storkules wearing the same outfit as Hercules did from that film.
72	** Storkules resembles his Marvel counterpart [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]] in terms of personality and behavior.
73	** After an establishing shot of the plane and the rest of the characters, Donald comes into frame wearing a parachute and an army helmet. Last time we saw him dressed like that (albeit with way less kit this time) was ''Commando Duck''; a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWAf3dQxAfQ 1944 war cartoon.]]
74	* ShownTheirWork:
75	** Zeus is most famous for being the king of gods and the god of lightning; but in the myths he's also the god of SacredHospitality, something often not mentioned in pop culture. He also had a fragile ego and a vindictive streak, and would be very arbitrary as we see in the episode.
76	** The message outside the Garden of Selene is written in Greek, and does roughly translate to what Webby reads out.
77	** Ligeia and Charybdis are actual names of a siren and a huge-mouthed sea monster, respectively, from Greek mythology.
78	** Storkules's affection for Donald is extremely homoerotic. The mythological Hercules had male as well as female lovers.
79	* StopHittingYourself: As Donald and Storkules fight each other, Donald jumps on Storkules's shoulder and then dodges a hit, resulting in the demigod punching himself in the face.
80	* ThrowingTheMatch:
81	** Donald puts little to no effort into any of the contests Zeus forces the [=McDuck=] family to participate in. But due to his ridiculous bad luck, keeps [[SpringtimeForHitler winning accidentally]] (except for sculpting, which he is terrible at) and upsets Zeus.
82	** Scrooge challenges Zeus to a "winner take all" game of bocce, and throws the match just so Zeus will let them leave in peace.
83	* TookALevelInBadass: Dewey manages to take on Webby in a fight that lasts for several minutes. Even though he eventually loses, it's still a step-up from "Woo-oo!" where he challenged Glomgold to a fight but was all talk and no show.
84	* TroubledFetalPosition: Dewey goes into one twice, once played for comedy, the other played straight.
85	** First, after he and Webby get through the traps to get to the Sword of Selene (off-screen) he's gripping onto Webby, blubbering incoherently and rocking back and forth. Played for comedy.
86	** The second is when Webby finally takes him down during their brief fight and demands to know why he won't let them enter the Garden of Selene and find out the truth about his mother, and Dewey admits he's afraid they'll learn Della was a bad person. Not played for comedy.
87	* TheUnReveal: Dewey and Webby fail to find out anything about the "Spear of Selene", other than it has nothing to do with the Greek goddess of the moon. {{Downplayed\|Trope}} in that they ''do'' find out that the Spear probably isn't a literal spear, and Dewey is vindicated in his belief that his mother is not an evil person.
88	* VehicularSabotage: Webby and Dewey mess with the controls of Launchpad's plane so that they would land in Ithaquack.
89	* VitriolicBestBuds: Storkules considers Donald a dear friend, but Donald is reluctant to say the same (until the end of the episode).
90	* VocalDissonance: When the siren child stops singing and speaks normally, she has a very rough, raspy voice similar to an old woman. Doubles as SingingVoiceDissonance.
91	* WeWinBecauseYouDidNot: Invoked by Dewey when he decides to prevent Webby from entering the Garden of Selene. With a door slowly lowering back into position, he bluntly tells Webby he doesn't actually have to stop her; he only needs to hold out until the door is shut.
92	* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Briefly discussed by Dewey and Charybdis. After the monster releases Dewey and Webby, Dewey apologizes to him for calling him "hideous", telling him that he's probably very attractive by sea monster standards. Charybdis admits that he isn't, but thanks Dewey for saying so anyway.

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