Line #40 Recap/DuckTalesS1E5NothingToFear


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:The evil nephews throw Scrooge out of his mansion.]]
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4	Magica casts a spell over the [=McDuck=] mansion, causing everyone to hallucinate their worst nightmares.
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6	!!Tropes:
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8	* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: Duckworth sees the limo become a monster and Doofus is threatened by a banana he is trying to eat.
9	* BigOlEyebrows [=/=] EvilEyebrows: On closeups the evil versions of both Scrooge and Huey, Dewey, and Louie have these as telltale signs that they aren't the real deal.
10	* BlameGame: Huey, Dewey and Louie get into an argument about responsibility when Nightmare!Quackenbush shows up.
11	-->'''Louie''': Whose idea was it not to do our homework?
12	-->'''Dewey and Huey''': YOURS!
13	-->'''Louie''': Whose idea was it to ''listen'' to my idea?
14	* BorrowedCatchPhrase: Scrooge says "Quackaroonie!" along with the triplets during the climactic confrontation with Magica.
15	* {{Cumulonemesis}}: Magica [=DeSpell=] summons an evil cloud over the [=McDuck=] manor, that brings the heroes' worst fears to live. After Scrooge and his nephews overcome their fear, the cloud turns against Magica instead (her worst fear) and chases her away, repeatedly zapping her with lightning.
16	* EvilDebtCollector: Even Scrooge [=McDuck=] isn't immune to this trope. Scrooge's worst fear is debt collectors taking away everything he owns, even to the point of trying to take away Huey, Dewey and Louie.
17	* EvilLaugh: The nightmare version of Scrooge, which only brought the boys' to tears.
18	* FaceYourFears: In the end, the real Scrooge, HD&L band together to face their evil-magic versions. The nephews sling mud at Magica's "Scrooge" to turn him into a penny which vanishes, while Scrooge embraces the nephews. He then tells off the "evil versions" of HD&L, causing the evil nephews to shrink and vanish:
19	--> And as for you three kilt-nippers, [[OutOfCharacterAlert my boys love me, therefore]] '''[[OutOfCharacterAlert you're not my boys!!]]'''
20	* FoodEatsYou: A giant banana monster threatens to eat Doofus Drake as one of his nightmares.
21	* TheGameComeToLife: A video-game villain materializes because the boys are afraid of him. The hero from the game comes to life as well, but gets vaporized by the villain.
22	* KidsAreCruel:
23	** "We created that magic rain cloud with our junior woodchucks chemistry set...JUST TO RUIN YOUR DAY!" This is one of Scrooge's worst fears brought to life.
24	** Doofus' fear manifests as school bully Bully Beagle who constantly picks on him.
25	* IKnowWhatYouFear:
26	** Magica De Spell used real-life images of Uncle Scrooge & Co.'s worst fears to descend upon them. For Uncle Scrooge, this took the form of being told by Huey, Dewey and Louie that they secretly couldn't stand him and they only wanted his money, [[ResentfulGuardian for HD&L it was that Unca Scrooge never loved them]].
27	** Meanwhile, Doofus, a fellow duck on the Junior Woodchucks with Huey, Dewey, and Louie, faces fears of having trouble with a school bully. To make things worse, it seems he really ''does'' have this problem.
28	* LaserGuidedKarma: Magica falls victim to her own spell.
29	* LiteralAssKicking: When the fear cloud turns on Magica, it zaps her in the butt with lightning. Scrooge even makes a pun on how she "got it in the end".
30	* ManlyTears: Scrooge breaks down weeping after the illusions of Huey, Dewey, and Louie tell him he's an old fogey and only good for the money they can mooch off him.
31	* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The monster banana after it turns big and mean.
32	* ResentfulGuardian: The boys' deepest fear manifests as an illusion of Scrooge who tells them that he's been behind all the things that have been scaring them as he never wanted them there anyway.
33	* RidiculousRepossession: One of Scrooge's worst fears is a repo man army taking all of his possessions and fortune. The hallucination then dips into this trope when the repo men take all of Scrooge's friends and his nephews as collateral.
34	%%* SadisticTeacher
35	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The nightmare version of Scrooge representing the boys' fear that he never loved them uses this as the excuse for how he was able to create the cursed rain cloud. "I'm rich! I can do anything!"
36	* SpoofingInTheRain: Doofus sings a ditty that is clearly based on "Singing in the Rain."
37	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Doofus disappears early on in the third act of the episode after deciding not to eat a banana because of his previous experience.
38	** Same can be said of Duckworth, who pretty much spends the entire episode hiding in the closet.
39	* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: The episode starts by [[PlayedForLaughs playing this for laughs]] before the nightmares suddenly become dark and heartbreaking. Not even Magica De Spell is spared this: once Scrooge and the boys face their fears, her own worst nightmare of one of her own spells coming back onto her comes true.
40	* YourLittleDismissiveDiminutive: The video game villain gloats that he's going to "conquer your puny little planet, starting with this puny little mansion."

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