WMG / Ducktales 2017 Jossed

The first special will feature the 3 nephews being kidnapped

Why? Who knows? But in order to prove to his nephews and to himself that he's still a big Deal, Scrooge McDuck is going to rise to the occasion with Webby and Launchpad to save them.

• Jossed, no kidnapping happens in the pilot. However, the nephews and Webby get kidnapped by the Beagle Boys in the second episode, although Scrooge is not involved in rescuing them.

Donald's actually an agent of the US government in this continuity

Thus combining the 2 views we know of Donald in the old and new DuckTales. Old DuckTales had him joining the navy and thus handing the nephews over to Scrooge. In the new trailer, Webby says that Donald is "one of the most daring adventurers of all time." The theory here is that Donald was hired by the US government to recover lost treasures for the government. And this will actually lead him to coming into conflict with Scrooge over the course of the series, with Donald being the patriotic duck serving his country, while Scrooge is trying to recapture his spirit by claiming the treasures for himself.

• Meaning we'll see Kay K and other Agency members?
• Jossed.

Alternately, Webby's introduction involves a misunderstanding.

One shot in the first trailer shows Dewey holding a small bag while addressing his brothers with a smug look. Perhaps suggesting that they'll be able to score some cash here, one way or another? Webby overhears this and, mistaking them for regular thieves, apprehends the boys herself, dragging them into her room for an interrogation. The boys then blurt out their relationship with Scrooge/Donald (or scream for help from either one), leading to Webby cutting them down, snapping a picture and interrogating them in order to learn more about them.

• Jossed.

The fat Scotsman looking duck seen in the newest trailer isn't actually Flintheart Glomgold or he otherwise isn't a straight expy of the older DuckTales' version of the character

When asked what ethnicity Glomgold will be in the reboot, Frank Angones said "I have plans." This a curious choice of words.

For the "Not Glomgold" scenario, the character could be a henchman, impostor, or otherwise a fakeout. For the other scenario, there are more possibilities.

• Jossed, it is indeed Glomgold.
• Or he will have a henchman pose as him who has the same look as Flintheart Glomgold's old design.
• Angones's "I have plans" statement likely refers to Glomgold being a South African boy who built himself a Fake Scot persona to one-up Scrooge even in Scottishness.

Gizmoduck will appear, but Fenton Crackshell won't.

Fenton was part of the original cast because the producers couldn't have Donald. Granted, Launchpad is also a Donald Expy, but he seems more distinct from Donald's characterization than Fenton is. The producers may want to bring Gizmoduck back, especially if they're toying with the idea of also rebooting Darkwing Duck, but not want to bring Fenton back. Therefore, someone else will be wearing the Gizmosuit. Possibilities:

• Donald. This one is iffy, given that the producers may want to keep him open for the role of Paperinik, but he does resemble the original Gizmoduck.
• One of the kids. They used the Gizmosuit in one episode of the original series. If it turned out being Webby, it would also go along with their idea of xenafying her.
• Mrs. Beakley. They hinted at her being given more to do in this series. Also, it would make a good Mythology Gag.
• Launchpad. Again, Rule of Mythology Gag. Besides, if Darkwing is rebooted, it would provide an opportunity for an interesting conflict, with Darkwing being unaware for the first part of the series that his best friend and greatest rival are the same person, and there being a terrific blowout when he inevitably discovers it.
  • Jossed. Fenton is appearing and has been heavily redesigned to differentiate him from Donald.

Alternately, PK (AKA: the previously mentioned Paperinik) will be featured as an alternative to Gizmoduck.

Not only that, but he may even be used as an alternative to Darkwing Duck as well.

The Beagle Boys will be played by a group of Relationship Voice Actors.

Jossed. All three are voiced by the same voice actor, Eric Bauza.

The first episode will end with a tribute to Alan Young.

"To Alan, the true richest duck in the world. Thanks for all the memories."

• Alternatively or additionally there will be a dedication to Carl Barks.
• June Foray, too, since she was the voice for Magica DeSpell in the original show and she passed a month before the show aired.
  • Sadly, Jossed. No such tribute appears at the end of the first episode to any of these late creators.

Duckworth is related to the Beagle Boys.

And Scrooge has earned/will earn his Undying Loyalty by giving him the chance to escape the criminal lifestyle, allowing him to prove himself through hard work.

• And his real name is Butler Beagle.
  • Jossed, he's apparently died before the events of the series and comes back in "McMystery at McDuck McManor", and Ma Beagle talks about him without indicating that he's a relative.

We haven't seen Duckworth because that's Beakley's maiden name

.There is a reason all the things Duckworth used to do for Scrooge is now being done by other characters, mainly Beakley, who acts as his butler and confidant. Also it would only make sense for a character named Duckworth to be an actual duck.

• Jossed. Duckworth (as a ghost) appears in "McMystery at McDuck McManor", and is a dog just like in the original show.

Della's last mission was going to be her last mission.

While the triplets were still eggs, Della looked upon impending motherhood with eagerness. Scrooge, however, dreaded the idea of losing her as a partner. A short time before the triplets' due date, Scrooge offered Della to go on one last escapade with him and Donald and end her adventurer career with a bang. Subconsciously, he hoped he could convince his niece to not give up their life of action. Unfortunately, it was on this mission that Della either lost her life or disappeared, and the care of her boys was left in Donald's hands after they hatched.

• Jossed. Della had no intention of stopping when she stole the spear of selene, and paid the price for it.

Who will voice Della when she appears?

Leave your suggestions below.

• Deedee Magno Hall
• Laura Bailey
• Melanie Lynskey
• Russi Taylor
  • Knowing the show's fondness for callbacks to the source material, this is a strong possibility and would be a fantastic nod to the old show.
• Jennifer Hale
• Kath Soucie
• Grey DeLisle Griffin
• Jessica DiCicco
• Kristen Bell
• Noël Wells
• Megan Hilty
• Susan Egan
  • Jossed. It's Paget Brewster.

Miss Quackfaster is Magica Despell.

Either she's in disguise at the moment, or she will learn sorcery later. Either way her new personality is far too crazy to just dismiss the idea.

• Jossed, as we have seen the new Magica, and she's totally unrelated.

Beakley is a former villain.

Instead of working for S.H.U.S.H. or whomever, Beakley was a villainous Battle Butler or The Dragon. After a lifetime of working for selfish jerks and fighting heroes like Derek Blunt or perhaps even Scrooge himself, Beakley retired, started a family, and went to work for Scrooge. After all, Scrooge may be grouchy and miserly, but he appreciates talent and hard work, has enough money and influence to keep Beakley safe from legal repercussion, and can protect himself and Webby. And if Beakley has some old enemies lurking about, that might explain what happened to Webby's parents...

• Jossed - she's confirmed as a S.H.U.S.H. agent.

The Spear of Selene originally belonged to Magica.

Maybe the incident where Della stole the Spear of Selene is directly connected to why Magica is trapped in an amulet.

• Jossed. The Spear of Selene was the rocket that Scrooge built so he, Donald and Della could go into space.

Lena is Donald's daughter, and is partially responsible for Della's/Magica's fate.

Donald, having served in the US Navy or just having been off on adventure a lot, had a daughter but barely knew her. Lena's mother took her away after Donald's temper, possibly shared by Lena's mother, drove them apart, thus why Lena remembers her parents fighting. She ran away from her mother some time later due to this temper, settling in with Della; her mother died (perhaps due to a temper-related incident) before reconciliation was possible. Della had been dabbling in sorcery and tutoring Lena in it, to the point that Lena nicknamed her "Magica". Della was drifting toward villainy, but protected Lena like her own daughter - even from Donald (in her eyes) by hiding her from him. After the triplets were born but before they were old enough to recognize Lena, Della took the Spear of Selene to try to help Lena (perhaps to try to resurrect Lena's mother, or at least summon her ghost, to allow reconciliation), but the result killed her. (Scrooge figured all this out, and was not fond of Della's antics, but did not tell Donald - perhaps afraid of Donald's worst-case reaction toward her - until it was too late. This contributed to the bad blood between them.) In a desperation-fueled heroic feat of necromancy, Lena bound Della's/Magica's soul to her shadow, and then went feral. Now completely dependent on Lena, Magica subjected her to intense tutelage, not only enabling her to survive on the street but helping her grow as a person and as a mage, with the end goal of sweet revenge and resurrection. Scrooge or Donald might figure this out if they got a good look at Lena, so while at the mansion, she has so far (as of the first two episodes she has been in) avoided being in the same room as either of them. The triplets have only seen their mother in pictures, and have never been told of Donald's daughter; meanwhile, Donald views raising Della's children as a heroic form of revenge.

• Jossed. She's a magical creation of Magica De Spell.

Lena's birthname is Minima De Spell

.She also used to have black hair like her original series/comic and stuff counterpart. But she started going by Lena and either used magic or dye to change her hair in part due to teenage rebelliousness and also to distance herself from her aunt. Just an idea I had.

• Jossed. She was always Lena, and was a magical creation of Magica.

Fergus and Downy McDuck are ghosts

"The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck" seems to be building up to Scrooge facing his disapproving parents. But, if Webby's blabbing about Scrooge being born in 1867 are correct, that would make Fergus and Downy over 170! Assuming, of course, this isn't an imagined story, or that it's not the "modern day" in that it's our time, the best logical sense is that Downy and Fergus are haunting Castle McDuck until they can see that their son is taking better care of their great-grandchildren than he did for Hortense's children.

• Jossed - they're alive and well (if rather cranky in Fergus's case), having been made immortal due to some of the materials Scrooge used in the rebuilding of the castle.

Della chose to never return to Earth

.Della survived the cosmic storm that blew her out of contact with Scrooge, and then never bothered to try and find her way back. Maybe because she didn't want to be a mom, maybe because she's gotten so caught up in the thrills of exploring space that she's forgotten all about Earth, but the truth is, she's out there and doesn't give a damn about her family. This is a really dark WMG, but not totally implausible, given the kind of selfishness and short-sightedness displayed in "The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!"

• Jossed. She hasn't been able to get back because she crashed on the moon.

Poe De Spell is Lena's father

Like in the original series, he was transformed into a raven. Desperate to return her father to normal, Lena makes a deal with her aunt, only to get caught in her scheme. How did this happen? Poe and Magica had a falling out that ended with Magica (discreetly) unleashing a transformation curse on her brother. This works in a few ways: 1) The original series never gave a reason to Poe's raven state. 2) In the original, Magica actually wanted to help her brother turn back to normal. Making her the one who did this to him is a great way to contrast this Magica and make her even darker than her predecessor. 3) It's never been previously established whether Poe and Minima De Spell (supposedly Lena's inspiration) are related.

• Jossed. Lena was a magical creation of Magica, albeit one who just wanted to be free.

Della Duck is dead.

The incident with the Spear of Selena that keeps getting brought up ended up being the one that did her in. Donald blames Scrooge for this, which is why they haven't spoken to each other in years. The triplets were told that she'd abandoned them; why they were told that, I don't know, but it's going to cause some friction between them, Scrooge, and Donald when the truth finally comes out.

• Della was reckless and headstrong like the nephews are which what got her killed. Scrooge tried to rein her in, but she was too stubborn which is why he keeps insisting what happened wasn't his fault.
  • Still unconfirmed. As of The Last Crash of the Sunchaser, all we know is that she's lost in space.
  • Jossed. She's alive and on the moon, as of the end of "The Shadow War!".

The Spear of Selena incident involved a scuffle between Scrooge, Donald, and Della, which ended in the latter dead.

This troper's guess is that the death involved was gruesome enough (perhaps impaled) that Donald couldn't tell the likely extremely young triplets what really happened to her.

• In "The Great Dime Chase", it is implied that she stole the Spear; it might still have resulted in her death, but probably not stabbed by the spear.
  • The Last Crash of the Sunchaser reveals that she's lost in space The Spear of Selene was the rocket she took.
  • Jossed. She lives.

Magica will use Della against the triplets.

After spending some time spying on McDuck Manor to learn more about Scrooge's young nephews, Magica will make contact and try to convince the boys that she can help them find out what happened to their mother. Part of this involves the claim that if she just had Scrooge's Number One Dime, she could use it to divine her location — it has to be that dime due to its connection to their kin. This lets her frame Scrooge's reluctance to part with it as more selfishness on his part — because what matters more to him: money or family?

Or she might briefly disguise herself as Della in order to trick them. While Donald, Scrooge and others who knew her would be able to see through this, the boys were too young to really remember her, and she weaponizes this — and rubs it in upon the inevitable reveal.

To twist the knife further, Magica may actually be aware of the truth of the matter. If so, she'll use this information in the most painful way possible, in order to hurt the boys... or tell a bald-faced lie or use Exact Words in order to sow discord.

• Jossed, she never brings up Della.

Della Duck

is trapped in the pastThe Portrait is the whole key. Not just that Scrooge is fighting Peghook with both nephew and niece, but that it's aboard a pirate ship. What if Della was trapped in the past somehow? But the twist? She chose to be stuck there. Unable to give up the idea of a perpetual adventure, and saying before tricking Scrooge and Donald back to the present, "Family is nothing but trouble".

• Jossed. She's lost in space, having crashed on the moon.

Donald has Survivor's Guilt from whatever happened to Della

All right, here is what we know so far from the premiere episode. Donald, Scrooge, and Della used to go on adventures together and apparently all adventuring stopped upon her demise/disappearance. Donald and Scrooge stopped speaking ten years ago around the time that Donald took over raising the triplets, who he is extremely overprotective of. The fact that Mrs. Beakley and Donald know each other and are familiar enough with each other for him to refer to her as "Mrs. B" indicates that she was around prior to the decade of no contact. This also implies that she probably knows what happened to Della. Donald also gives every indication that he blames Scrooge for what happened to Della while Scrooge claims that it wasn't his fault. And since Mrs. Beakley states that Webby is safe with Scrooge even while exploring dangerous locations, she apparently doesn't believe that it was his fault either.

Now, taking all this into account, here's a working theory. Della's fate was an accident. Something went wrong during an adventure. But rather than it being something that just threatened her, perhaps it put her and Donald in danger. And while Scrooge might have been able to yank one of them out in time, the other was lost. It wouldn't be Scrooge's fault what happened to Della and Mrs. Beakley would certainly still believe that he would do his best to keep those he cares about safe. But it would be enough to cause Scrooge to stop adventuring. And it would be enough for Donald to blame Scrooge for what happened to his twin sister.

But Donald would also internally blame himself for escaping alive when Della did not. He would try to claim that Scrooge was at fault, that they should have never gone, that the old man only cared about the adventures. But Donald would know that if Scrooge didn't save Donald first, Della would still be all right. So to make up for the fact he's alive when his sister is gone, he puts all his efforts into raising the triplets and keeping them safe. He failed Della, but he wouldn't fail these three kids.

• Jossed. Donald's anger is more at Scrooge being an enabler for building a secret rocket rather than any guilt of outliving her.

Neither Donald nor Scrooge is actually certain what happened to Della

When Donald drops the boys off with Scrooge, he pointedly asks "Can I trust you to watch the boys without losing them?". He emphasizes the last two words. That suggests that maybe Della isn't dead, or suffering some known fate like being trapped on the moon. Instead, she simply vanished while on an adventure with Scrooge.

• Jossed. They know she's lost in space. The "losing them" refers to the communications between Earth and Della's ship being cut off. However, they still don't know she's crashed on the moon.

When the Gizmoduck armor finally gets built, things will go horribly, horribly wrong.

It's been stated that a lot of Gyro's inventions turn sentient and/or evil in this series, so this might be a given. Here's how I picture the scenario going:

After building the armor (and installing an AI a la JARVIS), Gyro needs someone to test it out. He's not going to do it, since he's become wise about his various inventions going nuts at this point, so he tries to find another person to do it.

Enter musical-loving, Adorkable intern Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera.

Gyro, seeing an opportunity, asks Fenton to try on the Gizmoduck. Fenton, being the Nice Guy he is, agrees to do so.

Now, once he gets in, something happens. Maybe the AI is pissed that its "father" isn't in the machine, maybe something else. But however it happens, the AI locks Fenton in the suit and utterly messes with his mind, getting Fenton to renounce his humanity (duckmanity? Whatever) and lead an electronic uprising to take over Duckburg.

Cue multiple electronic appliances rising up against their masters, a Continuity Cavalcade of Gyro's inventions attacking him, etc.

Eventually, of course, the Duck-McDuck family (and Webby and Beakley) will find a way to save the day and purge the AI from the Gizmoduck's systems, allowing Fenton to try using the suit for more heroic deeds.

But I, for one, support Hamilton as our new robot overlord.

• Jossed so far. Fenton is Gyro's assistant who knows about Project Blatherskite, and summons the Gizmoduck suit in an emergency situation. The only problems the suit causes are due to Fenton's lack of experience with using it.

Della Duck took The Spear of Selene to save Donald or prevent some other crisis

Della, in the comics, is an astronaut. The Spear of Selene, as mentioned in other WMG, is likely a spacecraft, probably designed by Ludwig von Drake. Either it hadn't undergone sufficient testing or Scrooge deemed it too unsafe for use and had it set aside, and some sort of catastrophe rose up, giving Della need to use the craft, even knowing the danger. She left Scrooge the note apologizing for taking it because she knew that it was likely she wouldn't be around to apologize in person, i.e. the use of the Spear of Selene, even for noble purposes, would likely be a suicide run. Donald, unaware of these facts, blames Scrooge for Della using the craft, and Scrooge, though denying responsibility, believes that he should have put more safeguards in place to keep Della from harm. Since he didn't want anyone to remember Della for a failure, he wiped her from the records, but kept a space for her in his Archives, so that he, and his future family, would never forget her sacrifice.

• Jossed. It was a desire for more adventure that led to her going into space and getting stuck on the moon.

Magica DeSpell and Della Duck are the same person

Given that Magica DeSpell is one of the more prominent villains from the comics and 1987 series, the fact that she hasn't been shown or mentioned in any trailers, nor does she show up in the title sequence with the other villains, is suspicious. It may mean that not only will she be a major arc villain on par with Bill Cipher or Toffee, but that the creators also don't want us knowing what she looks like yet. Given that Della apparently took the Spear of Selene, perhaps it corrupted her and turned her into Magica, creating a new dark and personal twist for an old villain. This may also be an explanation for why Scrooge and Donald don't talk about her.

• Jossed. Della's stuck on the moon, and Magica was imprisoned within the Number One Dime five years before.

Della Duck and Mrs Beakley are the same person

Needing to hide the spear of Selene from Scrooge, Della went to the only place safe from the greatest adventurer and richest duckperson in the world: in the past. There she grew old, and learned to disguise herself as Mrs Beakley (probably by magic). As Mrs Beakley, she got hired as Scrooge's maid to keep an eye on him, and erase all traces of her and the Spear from the archives. She did so because the Spear is an empathic artefact prone to grant wishes of destruction (hence the Spear). The kicker? Estranged in time, the Spear did grant her wish for a family by turning into Webby, which would be a distaff counterpart to the triplets.

• Jossed. Della's stuck on the moon.

Della's fate will turn out to be a "You Didn't Ask" situation.

Scrooge is a cantankerous old man at times, but he's been shown to be reasonable, and despite claiming at times that family is nothing but trouble, he's shown to be glad to have them around. He would understand why Huey, Dewey, and Louie might be curious about their Missing Mom. He may have erased Della from the eyes of the world, but he keeps records of her in his own personal archive, an archive that grants access to people from his bloodline. It'll turn out that Scrooge would have happily told the triplets about their mother if they'd asked, because he would understand that it was something of value to them as her (and his) family.

• Possibly Jossed. He wasn't particularly willing to do it, and only told the truth under duress from Dewey's insistence.

Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera will be introduced as an intern for Mark Beaks.

After Beaks is defeated at the end of "The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks!", Fenton will move over to work with Gyro instead, discovering the Gizmoduck suit he is working on.

• Jossed for "The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks!", where Fenton does not show up. It might happen in a later episode though.
• And jossed in general - Fenton is introduced as Gyro's intern, and has apparently been in the position for quite a while.
• In fact, in "Who Is Gizmoduck?" the exact opposite happens: Fenton gets fired from his internship by Gyro and then gets recruited by Mark Beaks.

Louie and Huey will eventually get curious about what happened to Della as well, and due to Dewey and Webby locking them out of the loop, will form their own investigative team with a third person.

I'd say the third member would probably one of Scrooge's employees. My money is that it'd be either Launchpad or Gyro.

• Jossed. They find out about it when Dewey confesses in "The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!".

There will be a Calling the Old Man Out moment later in the series

That for some reason, the true reason behind the connection between Della and the Spear of Selene was something the nephews believed they could handle. And so in a change of pace, all three of them will call out both Scrooge and Donald for their secretive choices with FAMILY, calling them selfish, stupid cowards.

• Oh there was definitely a calling out, but not for these reasons. So, Jossed.

Mark Beaks will have someone steal Project Blatherskite for him.

"Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks!" showed that Mark Beaks's big "Ta-Da" project was just a big stunt to get investors. So, he could possibly hear about this big tech project going on at McDuck Industries and could hire someone to get it for him. Which, could also be a possible way to introduce a certain terror that flaps in the night so he could help get it back....

• By the end of "Beware the B.U.D.D.Y. System!", Mark Beaks learns of Gizmoduck's existence, and plans to steal it. Whether he'll hire someone to do it for him is still up in the air.
  • Jossed. In "Who Is Gizmoduck?!", Beaks steals the Gizmosuit himself in a plan to persuade Gizmoduck into working for him.

"The Living Mummies of Toth-Ra!" has a Double Meaning in its title.

Beside featuring actual animate Egyptian mummies, the episode will end on a reveal that suggests that Della Duck is still alive, making her also a "living mummy".

• Jossed. Della doesn't get mentioned in the episode.

Webby is Della Duck

Della confronted Magica de Spell in an epic battle that left Magica as Sealed Evil in a Can, and Della an amnesiac who was permanently de-aged. Beakly took her in as her own. On some level she still remembers her past, which is why she's so obsessed with McDuck history, and was the first to insist that Donald was a great adventurer. It's also why she was so quick to take to Huey, Dewy, and Louie. Some part of her still remembers her past connection to her own children. (And also why the show's producers insist on No Hugging, No Kissing.)

• Jossed. Magica vanished five years before Della did, and Della is stuck on the moon.
  • Double Jossed, since Webby is revealed to be an opposite-sex clone of Scrooge created by F.O.W.L. in the series finale, meaning her origins are completely unrelated to either Della or Magica.

Dewey fighting Don Karnage and the Sky Pirates is a fantasy sequence.

TaleSpin was implied to take place in the 1930s. Assuming that the same is true here, there's no way Dewey can encounter them (unless Time Travel is involved). The two short scenes we see in the trailer are part of a fantasy sequence: Dewey reads or otherwise hears about the Sky Pirates that plundered Cape Suzette in the 1930s (perhaps from Scrooge, who is old enough to have encountered them), and then imagines himself as an air captain fighting them and dueling with Don Karnage.

• Alternatively, TaleSpin is a Show Within a Show similarly to Darkwing Duck that Launchpad used to love as a child (and perhaps inspired him to become a pilot). Dewey gets obsessed with the show after Launchpad introduces it to him, and that's when the above fantasy sequence happens.
• Both Jossed: Don Karnage and the pirates attack Scrooge's plane in the present day in "Sky Pirates... in the Sky!".

Professor Von Drake created the Spear of Selene.

Coinciding with the theory that the Spear is a rocket or spaceship, Della's brilliant uncle designed the craft for her to explore outer space. When the incident happened, Ludwig blamed his invention and himself, and cut ties with the family in shame.

• Jossed. Scrooge made the rocket, and as a result, Donald blames him for Della's disappearance.

"The Day of the Ducks!" will be the big one revealing Della's fate.

A clue to Della's disappearance will be revealed to the entire family, and when Scrooge recognizes it for what it is but tries to tell them not to worry about it because "It's nothing, really", Dewey will counter that "This is a clue to what is, as far as I'm concerned, the biggest mystery of all." At his response, Scrooge will immediately realize what he means, but presses him to explain... and Dewey admits to everyone that he's been trying to find out what happened to Della, because dang it all, she's the triplets' mom, and he wants to know why he and his brothers grew up without she or their birth father. (There will also be a heartwarming bit where one of the boys tells Donald that "You've been a great parent to us... but sometimes, I can't help but wonder where our other dad went.", with the others agreeing. And Donald will have a tearful smile at them calling him their dad.)

• Half-Jossed. The boys learned about Della in the last episode before the finale... but Della's true fate is indeed revealed in "The Day of the Ducks!", as we see her ship, and Della herself, on the moon.

The season 1 finale will end...

with the computers in Scrooge's secret room coming to life, as Della's voice is heard - either a recorded message, or Della herself in person, having managed to reconnect with them and saying she's on her way back.

• Jossed, and inverted: Della's on the moon, and picks up a broadcast from Earth showing her Scrooge and the boys.

Della is living on an alien planet

The Spear of Selene crashed on a planet that happened to have very similar qualities to Earth. The ever-curious Della Duck found herself surrounded by its alien inhabitants, so she made the best of her situation by studying these beings and their lifestyle, ultimately becoming a member of their community. That, or they enslaved her.

• Half-Jossed. She's on Earth's moon, altough it is later revealed to be inhabited by aliens who consider it to be a planet.

Mark Beaks will turn out to be a character from the comics disguised as a new one.

He will be turn out to be John D. Rockerduck, the Third Richest Duck in the world.

• Jossed - Beaks is a completely new character who is both too young to be Rockerduck and the wrong species (a parrot rather than a duck). At most, he's a substitute for Rockerduck.
• And now Rockerduck is introduced as a completely separate character.

Mark Beaks will turn out to be The Fourth Richest Duck in the world.

After first, second, and third richest ducks in the world. Scrooge McDuck, Flintheart Glomgold, and John D. Rockerduck, respectably.

• Beaks isn't even a duck.
• Jossed. Rockerduck is introduced as a historic villain from Scrooge's prospector days, and it's unlikely he's alive in the present day.

Scrooge crossed the moral event horizon in the past; driving Della and the rest of his family away.

Much like in the comics; his desire to be the richest duck in the world drove him to do something terrible in order to make money. This created a rift between him and the rest of his family; and caused Della to steal the Spear of Selene.

• Jossed. Della was seeking adventure when she took the Spear to go into space.

Why Lena is working for Magica.

Lena's disinterest in family implies she is not in league with her aunt simply because she wants to. Just as was in the original cartoon, Magica's brother Poe has been transfigured into a raven. Lena is Poe's daughter and she wants to change him back.

• Alternatively, the rest of Magica's known family from the comics will show up, and considering how insanely annoying they are, Magica is her only anchor to sanity.
• Jossed. Lena is a creation of Magica, spawned from her shadow.

The triplet's father's identity...

... is Darkwing Duck. Why not.

• Unlikely, as the images of Darkwing that we've seen show him as a much younger duck in his 20's or so, as opposed to the middle-aged Darkwing of the original series.
• Pretty much Jossed. Jim Starling is too old to be their father and Drake Mallard is too young.

Donald's service in the Navy will be canonized and used to explain why he hasn't got a stable job in Duckburg

He's only recently gotten back into civilian life. This might give the writers an opening to reintroduce Von Vulture (although presumably updated since Nazis would be a bit anachronistic and wouldn't match the tone).

• Isn't Von Vulture a Looney Tunes character, an enemy of Daffy Duck?
  • I think that he got Von Vulture mixed up with Don Karnage...
    • But Don Karnage isn't a Nazi. I think the OP was thinking of Von Vulture but remembered incorrectly that it was Donald, not Daffy, fighing him.
    • OP here: Whoops, that's embarrassing.
    • Jossed either way.

Lena's full name will be revealed in a future episode.

Lena's full name will be Minima Lena De Spell, and she is using her middle name as an alias.

• Alternately, Minima is a cruel nickname that Magica uses for her after she's back in the material world and their relationship is revealed to the heroes, and Lena, during a Heel–Face Turn, will royally chew her out and yell "And my name is Lena!"
• Jossed. She's revealed to be created by Magica from her own shadow, and the name "Minima" is never mentioned.

Lena is not a Minima De Spell Expy but rather her older sister/cousin

.And Lena is taking the burden that should have been Minima's to protect her but will ultimately side with the McDuck Clan and throw off her ties to Magica.

• Jossed. There is no mention of Minima, and Lena is created by Magica's shadow rather than being her biological niece.

Gyro is hiding his chicken comb under his hat

It's so small that he's ashamed of being seen with it.

• Jossed. In "The Shadow War!" he takes off his hat to get rid of the water in it, and there's no comb under it.

Glomgold is actually Rumpus McFowl.

While this clashes with Rumpus's usual characterization, it would make his and Scrooge's rivalry either Harsher in Hindsight, Hilarious in Hindsight, or - for some - both.

• Jossed: Glomgold is actually Duke Baloney, a simple shoeshine boy from South Africa that got shortchanged by Scrooge.

Tenderfeet will have an appearance in "Storkules in Duckburg!"

Frank Angones said that Tenderfeet "will return in stupid ways", and the official synopsis of said episode claims Louie invites Storkules to Duckburg as a monster slayer. One monster we know of that Louie has a personal grudge with is Tenderfeet. It may be plot-relevant, but will more likely be just a brief, few-seconds gag, with Storkules chasing or punching out Tenderfeet while Louie gleefully watches.

• Jossed. The monster-slaying business focuses solely on harpies, and although the episode has a bit of a Continuity Cavalcade with many characters reappearing, Tenderfeet is not among them.

The magic lamp subplot will feature internal conflict over whether it should be used to bring back Lena or Della.

How can they not bring up the possibility for both when they have a proper Genie at their disposal? But since you can't have a Deus ex Machina solving all the show's problems, there'll have to be a restriction on the wishes, limiting the possibility to just one. And that's going to lead to some angry words between Webby and the triplets....

• Jossed. The lamp was empty, and no discussion of the Ducks using it was ever brought up.

Darkwing/Jim Starling was actually a secret agent of SHUSH. The tv show was a cover story.

He was a secret agent who was very bad at the secret part, so they invented the Darkwing Duck show to cover for him. That way if the general public saw him running around fighting crime, he could just pass it off as part of the show and no one would question it.

• Jossed.

Launchpad is actually the father of the triplets, and Della was one of his Amicable Exes

• Given the other things the two of them have been involved in separately, imagine the two of them working in tandem.
• Since we know (from two different episodes) that Launchpad was born in 1987 and the triplets were born between 2000 and 2009, this means that if Launchpad is their father, he was at most 22 years old when he dated Della. At that age, he was probably even more immature than now, so he wouldn't have been a very responsible father...
• Jossed. When Della meets him in "Nothing Can Stop Della Duck!" she give no indication of having ever seen him before.

Negaduck will appear, but as Jim Starling's twin brother

Jim will have a jerk brother who is jealous of his wealth and fame. There will be a scene where he knocks out Jim and pretends to be him on the set of Darkwing Duck. Only the nephews and Lauchpad will notice Jim's change in behavior.

• Jossed. Jim IS Negaduck.

The caveduck skeleton in Scrooge's mansion will get resurrected and become Bubba.

The skeleton is clearly implied to be Bubba, as it has scraps of red hair. It's currently serving as a prop on Dewey Dew-Night. For example, it might be hit by one of Gyro's inventions that can resurrect fossils. Bonus point if the Triceratops skeleton also gets resurrected and becomes Tootsie.

• Jossed. Bubba is brought to the present day when Louie steals the Time Tub. This does not exclude the possibility that the skeleton is Bubba's (and then, it's lucky Bubba didn't find it).

The triplets were an unwanted pregnancy.

A darker twist on the WMG about Huey, Dewey and Louie being illegitimate. We know from "The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!" that Della literally couldn't wait to get off into space, even when she had three chicks on the way, and ultimately abandoned them by going up in the rocket before they hatched and getting lost. That is not the behavior of a woman who was looking forward to motherhood. A logical inferral is that Della didn't want to be a mother, but couldn't terminate the pregnancy because Scrooge would have enforced Good Girls Avoid Abortion; so she settled for abandoning her kids at the first possible opportunity.

• Regardless of how Scrooge would feel at the idea, it's impossible to "abort" an egg. It's already laid and the mother can simply walk away.
  • It's possible to "abort" an egg by, say, cracking it or boiling it. So if Della didn't want to walk away from Donald and Scrooge to avoid motherhood, and didn't want to give up the eggs for adoption, such "abortion" would have been an option.
• Jossed. Della loved her eggs and even wrote a song to them. After crashing on the Moon, she tries her best to get back to her family.

Bubba will undergo Adaptational Villainy and be an antagonist.

The main reason Doofus became an antagonist was because the creators admitted to hating him in the original series. As Bubba was The Scrappy to many for the original cartoon, the creators may attempt to appease the audience by making him an antagonist in the show to give them an excuse to humiliate him as much as possible.

• Jossed. Bubba is a good guy, and the show attempts to make him more likeable by making him a bit smarter. Also, he's the ancestor of the McDuck clan.

Zan Owlson is Magica in disguise.

Following Glomgold's disappearance, Magica took on the form of Owlson to take over his company in an elaborate scheme to form a partnership with McDuck Enterprises; earning Scrooge's trust just long enough to steal his dime from under his nose. Unfortunately for her, Glomgold returned. Eventually, she will be so fed up with Glomgold and his idiotic plots holding her back that she either turns him to stone or traps him in a crystal and then locks him away in a secure location where the real Owlson is also being held.

Why else would Magica be given a Promotion to Opening Titles in Season 2 but have yet to make a single appearance this season? ^note except a reference and likeness cameo in "The 87 Cent Solution" Because she was here all along and we didn't even know.

• Jossed. At the end of "GlomTales!", Owlson and Magica appear in the same scene together. Also, it's implied that Magica lost all her magical powers, so she wouldn't have the means to shapeshift into Owlson.

Gandra Dee will show up, but she'll be a lot nicer then her original counterpart.

Her return is Confirmed: she'll appear in the Season 2 episode "The Dangerous Chemistry of Gandra Dee!"

• Being an Adaptational Nice Guy, however, is jossed. She's actually a morally ambiguous freelance scientist here who was initially working to betray Fenton to Beaks.
• By the end of Season 2, she's flat-out a F.O.W.L. agent.

Ludwig von Drake is married to Matilda McDuck.

The creators refer to Ludwig as Donald's other uncle, but he's hard to fit on the existing Duck family tree. Although he might be simply an Honorary Uncle, it is also possible that he's married to Scrooge's sister Matilda, making him the uncle of Donald by marriage.

• This was true by Word of God in earlier comics despite it being basically an Informed Attribute.
• Implicitly Jossed: in "Raiders of the Doomsday Vault!", Ludwig von Drake's three children briefly appear, and they treat Scrooge as an old family friend rather than a relative.
• Matilda appears in "The Fight for Castle McDuck" and there's no indication she's married to anyone.

Rockerduck is Glomgold's shark guy.

Jossed. Rockerduck was a villain from the time Scrooge was young, so he's presumably already dead.

• The Season 2 finale shows him cryogenically frozen, so he is still alive, but not active, so he cannot be the "shark guy".

Bubba, before arriving to present day, spent some time in the 1980s and/or early 1990s.

The promotional clips of him show him to be Totally Radical, with skateboards, sunglasses and a keytar. Perhaps the Time Tub took him to the 1980s first, where he fell in love with these things, but another Time Tub accident took him forward to the 2010s (or, if not the Time Tub, then another form of time travel).

• Jossed. Bubba is transported directly from prehistoric times to the present day and learns these Totally Radical things from the kids, primarily Dewey.