In a future St. Canard, a group of schoolchildren are taken on a tour of the Darkwing Duck museum. All the artifacts though are described as coming from the TV show that only covered the "mythic" exploits of Darkwing Duck. One child who is suspiciously looking like Gosalyn is sure that Darkwing was real. She explodes at her friend (who looks a lot like Honker) though for her hero worship, causing the two of them to be stuck for seven hours underneath the famous seats until the old janitor (who looks very much like Drake) accidentally frees them. After hearing their arguing, he relates that Darkwing Duck was real and gives an explanation behind his lack of birth certificate through a tale of his near escape from the destruction of his planet along with his evil cousin, Negaduck.
This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
- Adaptational Backstory Change: An In-Universe example; Darkwing originally met Launchpad and Gosalyn separately the same week, after he had already established himself as a superhero. In the story told by the janitor, Gosalyn had already established herself as a crime-fighter when Drake encountered her, and she mentored him in becoming a superhero. Darkwing inherited Launchpad's services as a sidekick from her after she suffered Mentor Occupational Hazard.
- Almost Dead Guy: The episode puts Darkwing as the sidekick of the Masked Avenger (Gosalyn). She falls into a vat of Coo-Coo Cola and gives a dying speech, inspiring Darkwing to become his own hero. Then she revives, tells Launchpad to be Darkwing's sidekick, and dies again. Then she gets up again and tells Darkwing where her lair is so he can get some equipment. The duo wait a little to see if she will get up again.
- Chekhov's Gun: In the run-up to him becoming a full crimefighter, Darking receives his smoke-gun, instruction in hand-to-hand combat, and the secret to a dramatic entrance, with those who pass them on observing "It could come in handy someday" and Darkwing eventually using them in his crime-fighting debut.
- Didn't Think This Through:
- As Negaduck's mother pointed out, his father's plan to become Grand Poobah of the planet by threatening it with a planet-destroying bomb wasn't the brightest idea, as there was a risk of it going off.
- After the genie grants Darkwing's wishes and departs, Darkwing realizes too late that he should've wished for a camel.
- I Warned You: Apparently, Negaduck's mother had told his father it was a dumb idea to threaten the entire planet with a bomb, as there was risk of it going off. Once it does and the planet starts blowing up, she voices this.
- Kryptonite Factor: The one weakness of the Masked Avenger (Gosalyn) is Coo-Coo Cola. Sadly for her, she ends up falling into a vat of it, swallows enough to gain a Balloon Belly, and dies.
- Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: While it was Negaduck's father who created the bomb that destroyed their planet, it was Darkwing's who sat on the Plunger Detonator, setting it off and killing everyone.
- Never My Fault: Negaduck's father blames Darkwing's father for the bomb going off because he sat on the detonator. While Darkwing's father rightfully says it was his brother's fault, he's embarrassed about the part he played and just mentions there was a problem with the detonator.
- Parody Episode: With the alien from dying planet origin whose parents' last action was to save him, Darkwing's tale here is set up as a Superman spoof then makes Negaduck an evil version of Supergirl.
- Space Pirates: Baby Negaduck's rocket was found by these characters and he grew up taking command of them.
- Three Wishes: Basically subverted; when the future Darkwing finds a genie, he wishes for a drink, new clothes, and the secret to the genie's dramatic entrance, and is satisfied with all three (although as the genie departs he realises that he should maybe have wished for a camel considering that he's now stuck in the middle of the desert).
- Unreliable Narrator: The old janitor, who's implied to be Darkwing himself, is clearly using a lot of artistic license in telling the kids the story. Not only does it contradict a lot of established facts from the series, but he frequently stumbles at times in ways that show he's making up a lot of what he says on the spot.
