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Notable Recurring Villains

Villains that appeared at most in the show.


    Professor Moliarty 
Voiced by: Jim Cummings
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A Gadgeteer Genius mole who lives underground. With his mole army, he tries to usurp the surface world from the surface dwellers and make it inhabitable for moles (like permanently blocking out the sun).


  • Advertised Extra: He prominently appears in the show's intro as well as merchandise, yet he only appears in three episodes total in the entire series, and isn't even the main villain in one of them.
  • Beneath the Earth: Well, he is a mole.
  • Evil Genius: His crimes usually involve some sort of invention he made.
  • Expy: Of the Fantastic Four villain the Mole Man, but as an anthropomorphic mole; and named after Professor Moriarty, rival to the detective Sherlock Holmes.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: He creates at least one invention for every single evil plan.
  • Insufferable Genius: Constantly talks about how much of a genius he is.
    "Behold, the genius of Moliarty... it's amazing my brilliance doesn't blind people!"
  • Just Between You and Me: To Darkwing, much to his chagrin.
  • MacGyvering: Often invents stuff from whatever he can find.
  • The Napoleon: As a mole he is very short, but clearly has big ambitions considering he wants to conquer the surface world.

    Tuskernini & The Penguins 

Arturo Tuskernini

Voiced by: Kenneth Mars
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A film director turned criminal uses his directing background as a gimmick for his crimes. He also has three penguin assistants to aid him.


  • Affably Evil: He is rather polite for a criminal.
  • Expy: His name evokes Toscanini, the famous musical conductor.
  • Falsely Reformed Villain: In "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlatan" and "Adopt-a-Con", he pretends to change his ways in an attempt to shake off Darkwing's suspicions.
  • Fat Bastard: Being a walrus, him being fat comes with the territory.
  • Idiosyncrazy: Movie-themed villainy, which he's the "director".
  • Large Ham: Darkwing even calls him a ham, and then attempts to prove it to a court of law.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: Often uses these, one of his schemes revolved around dressing up as other villains to fool everyone into thinking he wasn't committing crimes, which of course works.
  • Prima Donna Director: Often takes this persona.
  • Unlimited Wardrobe: Has many costumes for his various roles.
  • Wily Walrus: A supervillain walrus.

The Penguins

Voiced by: Unknown
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The trio of penguins who act as Tuskernini's sidekicks. Usually act as gofers, cameramen, or other menial labor at their boss's request.


  • Hypercompetent Sidekicks: So much so that one episode had Tuskernini require gestures from them to get the idea to tell the court that he was framed for crimes he committed.
  • No Name Given: Aside from Tuskernini addressing one of them as "Cecil" in "A Duck by Any Other Name", none of them are given a name of any sort.
  • The Voiceless: In certain episodes they can make sound effects or quacking noises, but they stay silent most of the time.

Other Minor Villains

Villains who have only appeared once or twice in the show or appeared in other media.


    The Ancient Dragon of Kung Pow 
An ancient, mystical dragon that had taken on the form of a stone statue. Goose Lee sought to bring it back to life in order to clear out Kung Pow City and build Ninja Land on top of it... except the dragon turned out to be a baby and only interested in playing.
  • Breath Weapon: Breathes fire as per classical dragon mythology. Darkwing's first attempt to fight it leads to him being turned to ash.
  • Does Not Know His Own Strength: A giant, two-thousand year old baby dragon who just wants to play and has no concept of how strong it is. This inevitably leads to a lot of destruction.
  • Evil Is Not a Toy: While 'evil' is a stretch, since the dragon is an innocent toddler, the dragon quickly gets annoyed with Goose Lee trying to order it about and shakes him off.
  • Kaiju: As a shout-out to the Eastern monster movie genre, it fulfils this role.
  • Obliviously Evil: As it's actually just a toddler, it only destroys the city because it wants to play. In the end, it gets what it wants by becoming an attraction at Ninja Land.
  • Our Dragons Are Different: While clearly meant to be a Chinese dragon, it has some differences. It has only one horn instead of two antlers, a webbed fin in place of a mane and a black head of hair. Also, it's a baby.
  • Really 700 Years Old: The Dragon of Kung Pow is stated by Duck Ling to be two thousand years old despite being a baby. Gosalyn reasons that, for a dragon, that is a baby.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: An ancient dragon sealed away in a statue that can only be awoken again when its horn is placed back onto its head. Subverted in that the dragon isn't evil - its only a baby and is too young to understand how destructive it's being.
  • Tail Slap: Uses this against Darkwing when he "overdoes the terror thing" and frightens it.

    Beelzebub 
Voiced by: Marty Ingels
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Lucifer. Satan. Basically, the devil. Darkwing encountered him in the episode Dead Duck (Where Darking winds up dreaming he's in Hell), and again as the villain of "Hot Spells". In both episodes, he wants to claim Darkwing's soul, though only takes an actively villainous role in the latter.


  • Almighty Janitor: Disguises himself as one to trick Gosalyn into using a cursed spell.
  • The Devil Is a Loser: Is portrayed as being rather whiny and easily frustrated in Dead Duck, and gets a rather humiliating defeat in Hot Spells.
  • Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Even after literally raising Hell, he winds up being chased back down into it by a monster. In this case, though, the monster isn't trying to hurt the victim.
  • Or Was It a Dream?: After the events of Dead Duck are revealed to all have just been a dream, he nevertheless appears again right at the end of the episode to spook Darkwing. Whether it was real or not, he appears for real in Hot Spells.
  • Satan: Has pretty much every aspect of the character, from the red skin and horns to making deals with people in exchange for souls.

    The Brainteasers (Flarg, Barada, Nikto & Talaya) 
Flarg Voiced by: Rob Paulsen
Barada Voiced by: Jim Cummings
Nikto Voiced by: Richard Karron
Talaya Voiced by: Susan Tolsky
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Hat-shaped aliens that can take over a lifeform's body when placed on top of their head. Led by Flarg the Grand High Potentate of a thousand planets in the Delphonic Nebula. Flarg, Barada & Nikto appear twice in the series with Talaya appearing on their second appearance.


  • Big Eater: Nikto constantly eats metal. This often leads to the undoing of his allies.
  • Body Snatcher: They can control the bodies of people by attaching themselves to their heads.
  • Body Surf: By resting on people's heads like hats, they can control them.
  • Dark Mistress: Talaya is clearly in love with Flarg.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Flarg and the others took over the bodies of cats and dogs. When he ordered Barada to take over Honker's body, Barada's host, a dog, was free of mind control and started chasing Flarg whose host was a cat.
  • The Ditz: Nikto isn't very competent, smart or savvy. Appropriately enough, he takes over Launchpad both times.
  • Do Not Adjust Your Set: Flarg hijacks all TV stations to deliver his ultimatum to the world.
  • The Dragon: Barada serves as the second-in-command.
  • Evil Brit: They all speak with British accents for some reason.
  • Evil Laugh: Flarg and Talaya are very good at their maniacal laugh.
  • Frame-Up: Flarg plans to cause mass destruction on various star systems and put all the blame on Honker.
  • Galactic Conqueror: Flarg wishes to conquer Earth.
  • Hypnotic Eyes: They can all seem to do this and can stun(long enough to hop a head) or even render people and animals unconscious.
  • Planet of Hats: Literally, as in everyone on their planet is an alien that resembles a hat.
  • Puppeteer Parasite: They are able to control people after latching onto their heads.
  • Revenge: In his second appearance, his plan for galactic domination include getting revenge on Honker by framing him.
  • Take Over the World: Flarg was initially interested in leaving the Earth. When he found out this planet has nuclear missiles, he decided to take over the world and add it to his empire.
  • Unholy Matrimony: Flarg and Talaya, once they conquer the galaxy.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Nikto is easily fooled by everyone's tricks because of his lack of intelligence and absence of savviness.
  • Weaksauce Weakness:
    • Pepper easily causes them to sneeze, which in turn will force them to lose control of their hosts.
    • As revealed in their second appearance anything that keeps them from properly sticking to someone's head, such as hair gel, keeps them from being unable to take someone over. Gosalyn uses this to her advantage to protect herself, Honker, and eventually Darkwing from being taken over by them again.

    The Bugmaster/Bianca Beakley 
Voiced by: April Winchell
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A famous news reporter who wanted higher ratings, so she created her criminal persona "The Bugmaster" to create her own personal crime wave so she could reap the rewards of having the highest rated news show in St. Canard, covering her battles with Darkwing. She learned rather quickly that Evil Pays Better and decided to become a true criminal.


    Camille Chameleon 
Voiced by: Jennifer Darling

A shape-shifting criminal, half-duck and half-chameleon, who can take on any shape, size and identity. Camille plans to make herself unspeakably wealthy via money forgery, firstly by stealing $100 printing plates and then by impersonating the millionaire owner of a newspaper chain to get at the printing presses there.


  • Animal-Themed Superbeing: A supervillain named Camille Chameleon with shapeshifting powers.
  • Counterfeit Cash: Camille's Evil Plan was to use stolen $100 plates to become rich by making all the money she wanted. Unfortunately, due to working out of a cave, she had inferior ink and a makeshift printing press. She solved this problem by impersonating the wealthy owner of a newspaper chain, allowing her access to the printing presses.
  • Freudian Excuse: She was much prettier in high school, but her fascination with reptiles leads to her being mocked by her peers, which leads to her Start of Darkness. Lampshaded by Darkwing:
    Camille: I didn't always look like this. In high school I was a beautiful girl, but... I wasn't popular.
    Darkwing: Oh boy, this is it, the "How I became a villain" story.
  • Half-Human Hybrid: Half-duck hybrid, anyway. The other half is chameleon, which grants her shapeshifting powers, a lizard-like tail, a hissing voice and yellow eyes.
  • Hollywood Chameleons: Camille's shapeshifting is based on the pop culture idea of chameleons being able to "blend in anywhere".
  • Logical Weakness: Being half chameleon, Camille is incredibly sensitive to temperature changes. Honker exploits this by turning up the heating in the building - the increased warmth speeds up Camille's metabolic rate, causing her to lose control of her powers.
  • Morphic Resonance: No matter which form Camille takes, she always has her yellow eyes and hissing speech impediment.
  • Shapeshifter Swan Song: Gets a spectacular one when Honker realizes that chameleons are very sensitive to temperature changes, transforming into every shape she'd taken on during the episode, until eventually becoming trapped in the form of a small lizard.
  • Sssnake Talk: Has a heavy lisp that sounds very much like lizard-like hissing, which she keeps even when transformed. It's hearing this that makes Gosalyn realize she's leading Darkwing and Launchpad into a trap.
  • Voluntary Shape Shifting: Camille's gimmick is her ability to transform into anything - mops, chairs, giant bruisers, innocent little girls. Becomes much less voluntary when exposed to high levels of heat.

    Cement Head 
Voiced by: Jesse Corti
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A mutant made entirely of cement, and also a crime lord. He took up an identity of Swenlin Swine to avoid attention, and tried to frame Rubber Chicken for trying to stop his crimes.


    Dark Warrior Duck/Drake Mallard 
Voiced by: Jim Cummings
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Drake's dictator-like persona if Gosalyn had disappeared when Quackerjack and Megavolt went into the future in "Time & Punishment". He rules St. Canard with an iron fist, gives the citizens few liberties, and arrests them on the spot for even the most trivial crimes.


  • All Crimes Are Equal: And all punished with death. Or at least a life sentence.
  • Anti-Hero Substitute: A parody of the concept. He's Darkwing Duck with a far more extreme attitude towards fighting crime.
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: All three will get you a life sentence in prison or worse because he thinks All Crimes Are Equal.
  • Boring, but Practical: He beats Megavolt with a fire hose.
  • Combat Pragmatist: He apparently wised up after Gos disappeared.
  • Despair Event Horizon: The disappearance of Gosalyn. After she disappeared, Darkwing completely fell apart, even losing his will to fight crime, letting criminals basically take over St Canard. That is, until one day when he saw a bully trying to steal a doll from a little girl who looked like Gosalyn from behind. Helping her reignited Darkwings passion for justice, but unfortunately it worked too well, turning him into an authoritarian monster once he'd disposed of all the real criminals.
  • The Dreaded: The citizens of St. Canard are more afraid of him than of actual criminals. And the actual criminals themselves decided to run out of town when Darkwarrior Duck began his war on crime.
  • Even Evil Can Be Loved:
    • Despite Darkwing having become ruthless as a vigilante (to the point where he's all but directly stated to have a massive body count), Gosalyn still tries to reach and redeem him, believing that on some level he's still her father. His love for her keeps her relatively safe (though he does throw her in prison after she pushes him a bit too hard), but doesn't much affect the way he treats others.
    • To a somewhat lesser degree, Darkwarrior's version of Launchpad still cares about him. He's clearly regretful that his former friend threw him out, and when Darkwarrior softens upon seeing Gosalyn, he seems hopeful that things can go back to normal. However, he's (understandably) less trusting than Gosalyn that it's possible to reach whatever's left of Darkwing, and knocks him out to protect her from him.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: When Gosalyn realizes she has to restore time to what it was—meaning Darkwarrior Duck will not have existed—he becomes livid and attempts to dispose of her. However, he ultimately can't bring himself to harm his surrogate daughter (who was the reason for him becoming a Knight Templar in the first place) and breaks down into tears.
  • Evil Counterpart: From a Bad Future, showing what Darkwing himself would be like as a Knight Templar.
  • Expy: Essentially a Take That! to Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.
  • Future Badass: As evil as he is, you have to admit he's scarily more competent than the present Darkwing. He just ignored Joker Immunity completely and disposed of every major and minor bad guy in one move.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: Packing a set that are far more lethal and destructive than the modern Darkwing Duck's.
  • He Who Fights Monsters: His criminal-hunting has made him the worst criminal St. Canard has ever faced.
  • Jerkass: His extremist views lead to him being unrelenting to everyone who breaks his rules, even when they are innocent people. And we do mean his rules, as he punishes people for things that aren't crimes, such as eating fast food, having a bad haircut, or throwing his old elementary school teacher in jail because she gave him bad grades in penmanship decades ago.
  • Knight Templar: He goes way too far in the name of punishing crimes.
  • Large Ham: A far more menacing ham than before, but still hammy.
  • Love Makes You Evil: A platonic example; Gosalyn's sudden disappearance set him off on his path toward evil.
  • Make Wrong What Once Went Right: When he finds out about Quackerjack's time machine, he plans to use it to go back in time to change the Code of Hammurabi (the infancy of the concept of the justice system) so that every crime is punished by death, or go even further back and "set a few things straight" with the first land-living life form.
  • Mecha-Mooks: He has an army of robots policing St. Canard.
  • Mood-Swinger: Being Darkwing's future self, Darkwarrior shares his trait of flipping from one mood to another quite rapidly. The problem is that now his mood swings are a lot more hazardous.
  • Never Say "Die": This is still a Disney cartoon, so Darkwarrior is shown disposing of several of his old enemies by cartoonishly dropping a huge anvil on them, but since this is a flashback to how he put an end to all crime in the city for good, it's heavily implied that it's a much more permanent solution than usual. Same goes with Launchpad's remark that many of the criminals were "driven out of town".
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: When wearing his mask.
  • Sanity Slippage: There are a few hints that Darkwarrior stopped playing with a full deck a ways back. Prior to discovering time travel was involved, he believes Gosalyn has returned after disappearing for years, even though (as Gosalyn herself points out) she shouldn't still look like a child if that was the case. Darkwarrior doesn't even seem to realize anything is out of place with the situation. Then there's pulling a missile launcher on her when she gets in the way of his plans. (He can't bring himself to actually shoot, but that he went so far to begin with says something.)
  • Secret-Identity Identity: He appears to have abandoned his civilian identity of Drake Mallard.
  • Shoulders of Doom: His costume gives him huge shoulders.
  • Something Person: He is a duck who is a dark warrior.
  • Spikes of Villainy: His costume has spikes on the shoulders.
  • Tragic Villain: As zealous and uncompromising as he acts, it must be remembered that Darkwarrior is ultimately a man who was broken by the loss of his daughter, and took up his extreme methods because he felt his old ways were what led to said loss.
  • Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: A few moments of comedy aside, he's a no-nonsense and terrifying Knight Templar, ready to use lethal force for the slightest offense, and whose sheer ruthlessness is enough to make even former loved ones, like Gosalyn and Launchpad, targets for his purges.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: He may rule St. Canard with an iron fist, but it's only for his now warped views of best intentions.
  • Worthy Opponent: When he finds out Quackerjack and Megavolt are in the future too, he gets excited at the idea of finally fighting some actual villains again, and gets all disappointed and pouty when he also learns his attack drones have already captured them.

    D-2000/Didi 
Voiced by: Victoria Carroll

D-2000 begins as the latest in S.H.U.S.H. gadgetry, a supercomputer that can practically run its owner's life for him. However, its efficiency in crime-fighting annoys Darkwing, and, confused, it accepts Gosalyn's suggestion that it watch soap opera The Young and the Brainless to gather data on emotion. One accident with a cola later, D-2000 believes itself to be the show's female lead, Didi Lovelost, and declares itself madly in love with Darkwing...whether he likes it or not.


  • Affectionate Nickname: When he accepts it as a sidekick, Darkwing nicknames the computer "D." It quickly stops when D-2000 first renders him useless and then starts acting like a soap opera heroine.
  • Character Catchphrase: Before the accident, it often repeats "have a nice day."
  • Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: D-2000's ability to distinguish between real life and the storyline of the soap opera Gosalyn and Honker showed her gets shaky after she gets showered with cola. Launchpad and Gosalyn take advantage of this by posing as characters from the show to manipulate her.
  • Job-Stealing Robot: Launchpad isn't pleased with the D-2000, feeling that there's nothing he can do as Darkwing's sidekick that it can't (and won't) do as well. In fact, he can't even do any household chores. Darkwing's disenchantment with the device begins when it starts doing too much of his crime-fighting for him.
  • Large Ham: Befitting its belief that it's a soap opera heroine, D-2000's dialogue becomes much more dramatic and florid after the accident that results in it taking up a new identity.
  • Thinks Like a Romance Novel: Her style of expressing her love for Darkwing involves Grand Romantic Gestures, suggestions of stereotypically lovey-dovey activities, and a barrage of syrupy pet names.
  • Violently Protective Girlfriend: She decides that crime-fighting is too dangerous for her true love and handles it herself to keep him out of harm's way. Darkwing is not pleased.
  • Yandere: D-2000 falls in love with Darkwing, and she refuses to take no for an answer. Once she understands her "love" doesn't reciprocate, she launches into If I Can't Have You… territory.

    Dr. Fossil 
Voiced by: Barry Gordon
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A former paleontologist, Dr. Fossil was responsible for turning himself and Stegmutt into dinosaurs. Obsessed with dinosaurs and the lack of respect they received, he plotted to smash a comet into the earth ("BAM BOOM!"), wiping out civilisation and giving dinosaurs a second chance.


  • Berserk Button: Despises the way dinosaurs, including himself, are treated by modern people as mere entertainment. When Honker asked him why he didn't just turn himself back into a duck, he assumed the kid was making fun of him and flew off the handle.
  • Blow You Away: Uses wind generated by flapping his wings to counter Darkwing’s gas gun.
  • Character Catchphrase: "BAM! BOOM!" and "Sorry, I have the wrong number!”
  • Deadpan Snarker: One of the snarkiest villains to appear in the show, despite barely appearing.
  • Devolution Device: He uses one of these to turn every duck in St. Canard into dinosaurs.
  • Dumb Dinos: An aversion - as a pterosaur, he keeps his intelligence.
  • Evilutionary Biologist: He planned to mutate everyone into dinosaurs, then wipe out mankind to start a new dinosaur era.
  • Expy: Of Sauron from the Marvel Comics, who is also an evil scientist who transformed himself into a pterosaur and sometimes plots to turn everyone into dinosaurs.
  • Fantastic Racism: He believes himself (and dinosaurs as a whole) to be a victim of this, brandishing dinosaur-themed merch to prove his point.
  • Freudian Excuse: He claims that the disrespect he got from others after his transformation drove him to villainy.
    "I mean, the stares! The resentment! The people running in the streets, screaming 'Look, look, it's Godzilla'!"
  • Good Wings, Evil Wings: Being a pterosaur, he has evil bat-like wings (despite the fact real pterosaurs have wings different than a bat's).
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: The super-magnet he was using to pull in the comet gets turned against him, resulting in him being squished by a battleship.
  • Mad Scientist: Dr. Fossil.
  • Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: He is called Dr. Fossil and is not a nice guy at all.
  • Prank Call: Pulls these to distract others while Stegmutt kidnaps his real targets.
  • Professor Guinea Pig: He deliberately turned himself into a Pteranodon.
  • Taxonomic Term Confusion: He refers to himself as a dinosaur, when he is actually a pterosaur. Makes all the more jarring in that he is supposed to be a paleontologist.
  • Terror-dactyl: He's a scientist who turned himself into a bat-winged Pteranodon, though at least he lacks teeth (except during certain expressions).
  • Use Your Head: Headbutts Honker during his rant about dinosaurs not getting any respect.

    Frequency Fiends 
Radiowaves Voiced by: Sherry Lynn
Heatwaves Voiced by: Pamela Adlon
Lightwaves Voiced by: E.G. Daily
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Three evil duplicates of Gosalyn representing the worst parts of her personality: Heatwaves (her anger), Lightwaves (her goofing off), and Radiowaves (her ego). Together, the 3 attempt to turn St. Canard into their personal playground, forcing Darkwing and Megavolt to team up to stop them.


  • Alpha Bitch: Radiowaves has a voice and snobbish attitude that you would expect to see from a stereotypical high school queen bee.
  • Color-Coded Elements: Heatwaves is naturally red, Lightwaves is yellow, and Radiowaves is green.
  • Energy Beings: Not only are they aspects of Gosalyn's personality, they're also embodiments of different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: Heatwaves is in a state of perpetual rage, and it takes precious little to make her even angrier.
  • The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: At the end of the episode, they're revealed to be Not Quite Dead and egg the viewer into finding a particle accelerator for them...
  • Insufferable Genius: Radiowaves loves to boast about how intelligent she is.
  • Keet: Lightwaves has the personality of a hyperactive kid, and all the powers that come from being an entity of light.
  • Kids Are Cruel: They are the worst aspects of Gosalyn's already childish personality given form, and they use the powers of the electromagnetic spectrum to cause chaos across St. Canard for giggles. And they're all tremendous jerks as well.
  • Playing with Fire: Heatwaves' powers are fire-based, and she loves to set things ablaze.
  • Terrible Trio: They're three energy beings with destructive powers.
  • Top-Heavy Guy: Their three-headed giant form is as tall as a skyscraper and has a chest as wide as a blimp, but her legs don't look like they could even clear a two-story house.

    Isis Vanderchill 
Voiced by: Sheryl Bernstein
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Formerly the owner of the Vanderchill Ice Factory in St. Carnard, the vain Isis Vanderchill underwent an experiment to preserve her beauty by literally freezing her face. However, it backfired and froze her blood instead, granting her power over cold but leaving her unable to feel any kind of warmth. She secretly plans to cover Saint Canard in stolen gold so that the sun's rays will overheat the city and keep her constantly warm - at the expense of everyone else in the city.

Her first appearance is in "All's Fahrenheit in Love and War."


  • Abhorrent Admirer: To Darkwing. She is instantly smitten with him on first sight, but he can't stand her forceful personality.
    Darkwing: Why do the weird ones always fall for me?
    Launchpad: Maybe it's the mask?
  • Acrofatic: She's overweight, but very formidable in combat.
  • An Ice Person: As a result of the botched experiment, Isis can control cold in various ways, especially by freezing, and has a resistance to extreme heat. Ironically, she hates the cold.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She acted like a charming socialite at first, but is really selfish, vain Fat Bitch.
  • Breath Weapon: Breathes a snowstorm at Darkwing during their final battle, sending him flying into a wall.
  • Extreme Omnivore: In her desperation to get warm, she eats hot charcoal briquettes.
  • Expy: Of Killer Frost from DC Comics, being an ice-themed villainess who has a crush on the main hero.
  • Fat Bitch: A selfish, overweight Rich Bitch who considers her needs more important than the lives of others.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Throughout her episode, she never dropped her facade of being a charming socialite, nor her infaturation with Darkwing.
  • Genre Savvy: Humorously, she's smart enough to not blab her entire plan to Darkwing and Launchpad.
    "Reveal my plan? What do you think this is, a cheap cartoon?!"
  • Hoist by Her Own Petard: Ironically, Isis isn't immune to the cold. Darkwing defeats her by freezing her with snow from her own ice machine.
  • In-Series Nickname: Insists that Darkwing calls her "Icy" as a pet name.
  • Large and in Charge: Of her firefly army.
  • Leotard of Power: Is almost always seen wearing a form-fitting leotard and tutu reminiscient of a ballet dancer.
  • Meaningful Name: An ice-themed villain named Isis (which sounds close to ice) Vanderchill.
  • My Blood Runs Hot: Inverted; her blood runs freezing cold... which is actually a problem for her, as she feels cold all the time and can barely keep herself warm.
  • Personality Powers: She has control over ice and cold, and despite her seemingly warm exterior, she proves herself to be quite cold-hearted and uncaring of others.
  • Power Incontinence: Because of My Blood Runs Cold, she has only limited control over her ice powers at best; her powers seem to be constantly "on" with no way to turn them off.
  • Put Them All Out of My Misery: She clearly doesn't care that her plan will cause problems for the city of Saint Canard and its people; she only wants to be able to stay warm. As she herself puts it, "them's the breaks!"
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: She's the Blue Oni to her army of criminal fireflies which act as the Red Oni.
  • Rich Bitch: She owns the Vanderchill Ice Factory, which would make her quite wealthy, but she's also a selfish and vain monster who only cares for her own immediate needs.
  • Stout Strength: She is very strong in spite of her girth.
  • Vain Sorceress: This is what led to her Start of Darkness - she was already vain long before her botched experiment that granted her ice powers.

    Jambalaya Jake & Gumbo 

Jambayala Jake

Voiced by: Michael J. Gough
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A thief and Cajun hick who lives in St. Canard's sewers who has bested Darkwing more than once. He is aided by his gator, Gumbo and witch doctor grandmother, Granny Whammy (the latter offered her help for $10,000). He appears in the episodes "Can't Bayou Love" and "Double Darkwings".


  • Bald of Evil: He has no hair on his head and has no scruples against stealing from or threatening other people.
  • Beard of Evil: He has a full beard and is an unashamed crook.
  • Berserk Button: Jake doesn't take kindly to having his height mocked - a jab by Darkwing gets him so furious, Gumbo has to drag him out of danger.
  • Character Catchphrase: "I guarantee". Pronounced "gir-Awn-TEE"
  • Book Dumb: He can't count to two, but is cunning enough to play cat and mouse with Darkwing and come close to victory.
  • Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Most of Darkwing's previous (and later) Rogues Gallery are supernatural in some way, have powerful gadgets, or the backing of powerful criminal organizations. Jambalaya Jake is just a surprisingly strong, nimble, and cunning guy with an alligator sidekick.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Not the brightest of Darkwing's foes, but once managed to brainwash Launchpad into turning on him.
  • Deep South: Jake embodies most of the stereotypes. Loud, rude, unhygenic, wears broken overalls, lives in a shack...
  • Edible Theme Naming: Named, appropriately enough, after jambalaya, an American Creole and Cajun rice-and-meat dish.
  • Funetik Aksent: Talks this way to go with his Cajun image.
  • Hollywood Voodoo: With a spell from Granny Whammy.
  • Leitmotif: A frenetic banjo tune.
  • The Napoleon: Short on stature, but big in plans.
  • Never Mess with Granny: Jake learned this the hard way when he didn't pay Granny Whammy her money.
  • The Pigpen: Does not have very good table manners - he slurps his soup and throws his fishbones to the floor for Gumbo to pick up.
  • Pint-Size Powerhouse: Quite a bit shorter than Darkwing, but strong enough to throw manhole covers like frisbees.
  • Ragin' Cajun: His major gimmick.
  • Worthy Opponent: Darkwing is forced to admit a grudging respect for Jambalaya Jake after he dodges a wrecking ball, but gets hit by the return swing and smashed into a wall. Later, he says the world cannot be secure from a person who almost beat him and lived through experiencing Launchpad's brownies.

Gumbo

Voiced by: Jim Cummings
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Jambalaya Jake's near civilized, more intelligent alligator sidekick. He tends to act as the muscle for Jake's capers, but never passes up the chance to eat when he gets it.


  • Battle Butler: He is basically Jake's manservant and aids him in battle.
  • Berserk Button: Don't call him "Dumbo", whatever you do.
  • Bizarre Taste in Food: Enjoys Launchpad's brownies, which sent Darkwing to the water cooler for a long drink.
  • Edible Theme Naming: Named after a kind of stew popular in Louisiana, much like his master.
  • Fancy Dinner: He treats every meal he eats this way, putting on a bib and eating daintily.
  • Hypercompetent Sidekick: He can cook, clean and stand on two legs - that's pretty good, for an alligator! He also knows better than to stiff Granny Whammy on her money.
  • Never Smile at a Crocodile: An alligator sidekick of Jambalaya who will snap at anyone his master orders him to.
  • Non-Human Sidekick: While Jambalaya isn't exactly human himself, Gumbo is much less anthropomorphized.
  • Servile Snarker: Makes a point to show that he does not think highly of Jake's incompetence or messy habits.
  • Villainous Glutton: Gumbo never passes up the chance to eat if he can help it. Gumbo often exploits this to get him to do the dirty work - but it can also be easily turned against him, as Darkwing proved via one of Launchpads' brownies.
  • Wicked Cultured: Far more cultured and intelligent than Jambalaya. He even treats every meal as a Fancy Dinner in comparison to Jake's messy eating habits.
  • The Unintelligible: He does not say any real words aside from "Yum, yum, yum!".

    Jock Newbody 
Voiced by: Hamilton Camp
An incredibly aged bodybuilder and owner of the Hale and Hearty House of Health. Jock Newbody is secretly creating a Fountain of Youth in order to restore himself to the prime of his life. All he needs now is a feather from a true hero - and it just so happens that Drake Mallard, aka Darkwing Duck, has signed up for a trial membership at his gym...
  • Badass Normal: Fountain of Youth aside, Jock has no superpowers, supernatural abilities or funding from a criminal organization. He's just an incredibly strong and fit individual (after he takes his potion, of course) who can kick Darkwing's tail six ways from Sunday.
  • Evil Old Folks: An elderly dog with a villainous plan to create a Fountain of Youth and become immortal.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Ends up regressing into a toddler after he falls into his Fountain of Youth.
  • Immortality Seeker: Jock seeks to create a Fountain of Youth to restore himself to his younger self and essentially become immortal.
  • Let No Crisis Go to Waste: He's initially incensed that his minions failed to grab the feather he wanted from the museum, but changes his tune when he's told that Darkwing Duck is investigating them. After all, his Fountain of Youth needs a feather from a true hero, and any hero will do.
  • Meaningful Name: A jock is someone enthusiastic about sports, and a new body is what he desperately wants.
  • Really 700 Years Old: Is actually 122 years old, having seemingly kept himself going via his fitness regimen.

    Johnny T. Rex 
Voiced by: Chick Vennera
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The leader of a Tyrannosaurus biker gang who terrorized the citizens of Duckbill-ville during the Cretaceous period.


  • All Bikers are Hells Angels: The leader of a T. rex biker gang that play the Predators Are Mean stereotype.
  • Badass Biker: If the biker is a Tyrannosaurus rex, then very much yes.
  • Crystal Prison: The end of the episode shows he got encased in amber. Somehow.
  • A Dog Named "Dog": A T. rex named Johnny T. Rex.
  • The Dreaded: Being the prey of tyrannosaurs, the hadrosaurs of Duckbillville are absolutely terrified of Johnny and his gang.
  • Faux Affably Evil: He puts up a pleasant demeanor even when he's threatening to eat others.
  • The Napoleon: Johnny is pretty short for a T. rex, although he is still big compared to the ducks.
  • No-Sell: He can barely feel Darkwing hitting him. In fact, Darkwing literally shattered to pieces when he attempted to karate-kick the T. rex.
    Darkwing: (dazed) Maybe it's the bigger they are, the harder they are.
  • Stock Animal Diet: Unsurprisingly, he and his gang love the taste of meat. Especially hadrosaur meat.
  • Terrifying Tyrannosaur: He and his cronies are antagonistic Tyrannosaurus.
  • Top-Heavy Guy: Very ironic considering he's a tyrannosaur, which are anything but top-heavy.

    The King & Lamont 
The King Voiced by: Patrick Pinney, Jim Cummings (singing)
Lamont Voiced by: Candi Milo
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The King is a two-bit thug, who would have taken over St. Canard in the present day if Darkwing Duck didn't intervene in the past. Lamont is his little brother who picked on Drake when they were kids.


  • Bald of Evil: The King is actually bald as an egg, and his impressive pompadour is a Dodgy Toupee. Strangely, the future crimelord King is greying around the temples, meaning he went through the trouble of upgrading his wig as he aged, just to keep up the illusion.
  • Dark Is Evil: Both the King and Lamont dress up as greasers, complete with black leather jackets and black pompadours. They're also the main antagonists of the episode "Paraducks". Lamont in particular is also Drake Mallard's childhood bully.
  • Formerly Fit: The Crimelord King is rather overweight to make him look like latter-day Elvis, complete with a rhinestone suit.
  • Gang of Hats: His gang consists of 1950's greasers.
  • Greaser Delinquents: The King is a two-bit thug who dresses up like a greaser in emulation of Elvis Presley, leads his own criminal gang of greasers, and, if not for time-travel, would have become a powerful crimelord in the future. His little brother, Lamont, is also a greaser and part of the gang, and bullied a young Drake Mallard when they were kids.
  • Hidden Depths: The King is a great singer and guitar player, and could probably have made a living that way if he wasn't more interested in crime.
  • I Call It "Vera": The King's guitar is named Cecile, which is a reference to B.B. King and his guitar, Lucille.
  • Instrument of Murder: The King's guitar that fires destructive energy beams. He calls it Cecile.
  • Kids Are Cruel: Lamont is a bully to young Drake Mallard and has no qualms with helping his older brother in his crimes.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: The King and Lamont are heavily inspired by Elvis Presley. It's implied in the show that the King is imitating Presley, judging by young Mallard's remark that "he's not the real King!". The King and his guitar Cecile is also a Shout-Out to bluesman B.B. King and his guitar Lucille.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Lamont's older brother is only called "The King", and it's implied he's imitating Elvis Presley. His real name is unknown.

    Lilliput 
Voiced by: Frank Welker
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The owner of the Gooney Golf course in St. Canard, Lilliput created a Shrink Ray to shrink buildings in the cities for his golf course with the bonus of stealing money for the banks he targets. He has a helmet allows him to communicate with a group of ants that do his stealing and fight his battles for him.


    The Mad Cheese Gang 
Voiced by: Unknown
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A gang of rats that commit cheese related crimes.


  • Cool Car: They drive some sort of 50s sports car that they've rigged to shoot cheese sauce out of the exhaust pipes to aid in getaways.
  • Harmless Villain: They've never had an episode to themselves. They only appear at the beginning of another villain's episode to get busted by Darkwing.
  • Idiosyncrazy: They're possibly a parody of this phenomenon. All of their crimes have cheese related themes.
  • No Name Given: None of them have distinct personalities let alone names.
  • Running Gag: They basically are the running gag.

    NegaDuck
Voiced by: Jim Cummings
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When Darkwing was accidentally zapped by Megavolt's tron splitter, he was separated into purely good and purely evil halves. The evil half was unreasonably nasty and enjoyed violence. However, after being galvanized via another zap from the tron splitter, he ended up becoming supercharged into a nearly-unstoppable force. Was remerged with PosiDuck back into the regular Darkwing.


NegaDuck I pre-galvanization:

NegaDuck I post-galvanization, plus most of the above:

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  • Bioluminescence Is Cool: He literally glows with energy.
  • Black Eyes of Crazy: His sclera turn black.
  • Casting a Shadow: Kinda. His negative energy manifests itself as evil-looking lightning and energy balls.
  • Dark Is Evil: He appears as a black-and-white photographic negative of Darkwing, though NegaDuck goes more to the Light Is Not Good aspect.
  • Deliberately Monochrome: Not just black-and-white, but also shading-inverted. The only colored parts are his glowing red eyes.
  • For the Evulz/Eviler than Thou: In his own words (post-galvanization): "Crime!? Who cares about crime?! I'm into wanton, mindless destruction!"
  • Humanoid Abomination: Well, as humanoid as one can be in a world of funny animals anyway. He has unbelievably destructive power.
  • Light Is Not Good: His evil costume is a lot lighter than Darkwing's dark costume and produced light blue energy.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: He wants to destroy everything.
  • Power Glows: He was surrounded by a grey-white static aura.
  • Reality Warper: He seems to be capable of causing destruction. Not just with energy blasts, but literally causing spontaneous disarray just by existing.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: He was monochrome except for dark red pupils in his eyes.
  • Super Mode: As with his positive counterpart, galvanization significantly boosted his abilities.
  • Walking Wasteland: His presence alone causes streetlights to burst, fences to fall apart, glass to shatter, and pavement to crack. And then there's what happens when he goes after specific targets...

    Ordinary Guy 
Voiced by: Rob Palillo
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From Comet Guy's planet, Mertz. Has something of a grudge...not only is he the only guy on Mertz with no powers, but the heroes protected him and coddled him so much that he turned evil.


  • Cast as a Mask: He's initially voiced by Jim Cummings, until he throws his disguise away.
  • Empowered Badass Normal: When he found out his ray gun could work in reverse.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: To take on the supers.
  • Human Aliens: Like all inhabitants of Mertz, he has the distinction of resembling a human being instead of an anthropomorphic animal.
  • Planet of Hats: The only one who doesn't have the hat.
  • Power Copying: With his ray gun. At first he uses it to drain the superheroes of their powers; later, he finds it also works in reverse.
  • Ridiculously Average Guy: He resembles a normal person and doesn't have much personality aside from being endlessly annoyed by the superheroes' oblivious attempts to "save" him all the time.
  • Start of Darkness: Ordinary Guy from planet Mertz is the only guy on Mertz with no powers. Because of this, the other superheroes on the planet have to constantly rescue him from dangerous situations. He grows sick of this, so he disappears, takes on a supervillain persona, Not-So-Ordinary Guy, and invents a large ray gun which steals the superpowers of all of Mertz's heroes. He justifies this by saying he is fed up with no privacy, no social life, and the beatings he takes. He asks Darkwing Duck "Surely you know what I'm talking about, I watch them do to you what they did to me." While Darkwing Duck is sympathetic and admits the other superheroes are pesky, he points out "You don't see me going bad." Ordinary Guy fires back "Maybe I like being a villain, Mr. High-and-Mighty."
  • Unwanted Assistance: The reason he turned evil. The rest of the denizens of Mertz kept putting him in danger just to save him.

    Paddywhack 
Voiced by: Phil Hartman
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An evil clown-like aberration who feeds on misery. Likes Gosalyn and Quackerjack for their prank playing.


    Phineas Sharpe 
Voiced by: Jonathan Harris
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An arch-enemy of Derek Blunt. He came into possession of a list of S.H.U.S.H. agents and began murdering them to draw Blunt out of retirement for revenge. Darkwing was asked to support Blunt by J. Gander Hoover.


  • Laughing Mad: He was more restrained than some villains, but he spent a lot of time cackling and he was very obsessed over gaining revenge on Derek Blunt.
  • Man of Wealth and Taste: Owned a palatial island estate and dressed in a very fine suit.
  • Non-Action Guy: Phineas did pull out a ray gun to use on two unarmed opponents, but he was an intellectual villain who preferred to hire muscle and keep his own hands clean. This came back to bite him when his auction for the list of agents didn't go as planned and he had no plans on what to do about an audience full of angry, violent villains.
  • Theme Naming: Sharpe versus Blunt, of course.
  • Toothy Bird: Sharp toothed bird, no less.
  • Unpleasant Animal Counterpart: A vulture who is the nemesis of an eagle.
  • Vile Vulture: He is an anthropomorphic vulture and an unapologetic supervillain.
  • Villain Ball: As a parody of James Bond villains, Phineas has Darkwing and Derek Blunt captured and creates a ridiculously elaborate death trap instead of killing them.

    Splatter Phoenix 
Voiced by: Dani Staahl (in "Brush With Oblivion"), Andrea Martin (in "Paint Misbehavin'")
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A daringly innovative pseudo anti-neo post modern deconstructionist with an eloquent and intelligent vocabulary. Using her paint and paintbrush applied with Applied Phlebotinum she can breathe life into her creations and can enter works of art with the master stroke of her brush. Her intentions are to receive recognition, fund her work (steal paintings to make money) and let no obstacle prohibit her.


  • Applied Phlebotinum: She uses a special paint in her crimes.
  • Art Attacker: She fights by using her paint to either bring paintings to life or to create creatures to fight on her behalf.
  • Art Initiates Life: She can bring paintings to life.
  • Back from the Dead: She returns from death in the comics thanks to a portrait of her being done using ink from The Phantom Blot.
  • Cut Lex Luthor a Check: She could easily make more money selling her invention legally than stealing paintings.
  • Evil Vegetarian: Mentions being vegan (and anti-gluten) in the Joe Books comic, which does not come as a surprise to Darkwing.
  • Idiosyncrazy: Painting-themed villainy.
  • Living Drawing: She meets her end when the heroes splash turpentine on her accidentally, causing her to melt and hinting that she herself was a living painting.
  • Mad Artist: She is so obsessed with proving her superiority that her sanity is questionable.
  • Motor Mouth: Possibly invoked for effect, but those big words tend to fly off of her bill quickly.
  • Non-Mammal Mammaries: She is a duck with breasts.
  • Parody Product Placement: When she returns in the Joe Books revival of the comic book, Darkwing defeats her by trapping her inside a comic book ad for Mostess Veggie Pies, resulting in a spoof of how many Hostess ads in superhero comics from the 70's and 80's showed superheroes thwarting villains by offering Hostess products.
  • Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Her vocabulary is quite immense.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: Turpentine, which melts her, and looks to have killed her...for a while.
  • Wild Hair: Her hair is black and spiky.

    Weasel Loman 
Voiced by: Brian Cummings
A disgraced former Quackerware salesman turned jewel thief. Weasel Loman has created living Quackerware in order to steal money and valuables from unsuspecting customers, all while framing Herb Muddlefoot, his old colleague, for his crimes.
  • Animate Inanimate Object: Not Loman himself, but the Quackerware he sells has been animated and is totally loyal to him. He uses it to steal jewels from his marks... or hold people prisoner.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Herb Muddlefoot. Both are portly and middled aged, and Herb is a full-time Quackerware salesman while Weasel pretends to still be one. Herb is a dim-witted yet honest and well-meaning Nice Guy and solid company man who genuinely believes the products he sells will make his customers lives better. Weasel, by contrast, is a dishonest and shifty jewel thief who uses Quackerware to commit his crimes and wants to tear down both Herb and Quackerware a whole as revenge for his firing. Herb calls Weasel a "disgrace" to Quackerware for his dishonesty, while Weasel derides Herb as a "boy scout" for standing by a "tenth-rate product".
  • Fat Bastard: Is as portly as Herb Muddlefoot is, which he takes advantage of to frame Herb for his robberies.
  • Genius Bruiser: Stout Strength aside, he's also smart enough to build a machine that creates subservient living Qauckerware to carry out his crimes.
  • Greed: Loman's eventual goal is to sell his sentient Quackerware to the rich and powerful, allowing him to fleece truly valuable jewels from across the world.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Ends up trapped inside a giant Quackerware bowl and handed over to Agent Gryzlikoff for arrest.
  • Large and in Charge: The portly Weasel Loman leads sentient Quackerware in stealing money and valuables from customers.
  • Latex Perfection: Loman has an impressive mask that looks exactly like Herb that he uses as a disguise. Thanks to having a similar build to Herb, he can look like his doppelganger. It's so good, in fact, that even S.H.U.S.H. is fooled into thinking Herb is behind his crimes.
  • It's Personal: Loman carries a huge grudge against both Herb Muddlefoot and his former place of work.
  • Noodle Incident: We never learn the circumstances that got Loman fired from his job. Given that Herb declares him "a disgrace to Quackerware", it's entirely possible that he was already a dishonest and shifty customer even before he turned to crime.
  • Revenge: Aside from profiting from his thievery, Weasel desires this against both Herb Muddlefoot and the Quackerware company for his being fired.
  • Shout-Out: To the character of Wily Loman from Death of a Salesman. He also sounds suspiciously like Richard Nixon.
  • Stout Strength: Despite his portly frame, he's strong enough to send Darkwing Duck flying with a single belly bump.
  • Wicked Weasel: A cunning weasel con-artist and jewel thief.

    Other Minor Villains 


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