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Hey Doug, do any of these episodes of the Cartoon Network show Victor and Valentino please. "The Lonely Haunts Club" "A New Don" "Love at First Bite" "Tree Buds" "El Silbon" "Starry Night" "Lonely Haunts Club 3: La Llorona"
I never thought of Darkwing Duck as incompetent. He's accident prone, and his ego and pride are huge. However, when he gets his vices under control, he's quite capable.
That was actually part of the story that Old Launchpad told Goslen. When DW snaps out of his funk and gets back into crime fighting, without distractions he is so competent and efficient he wipes out his entire rogues gallery in one go.
@@edo324 Not rly, the one in the german dub for example are at least on par if not sometimes better then the original ones. For example, he once said in my dub "I'm the dutch manual to your japanese tv recorder" xD
I love how this episode shows how much Darkwing cares for his daughter. There was genuine love when it showed how badly Gosalyn "running away" affected him. I really like the parent-child dynamic in stories, especially when they aren't blood related.
I just kinda thought Darkwing and Launchpad's thinking that Gosalyn ran away was a _bit muddied._ Maybe if they thought Megavolt and/or Quackerjack _killed_ Gosalyn it'd make sense for Darkwing to just go insane because the crime of St. Canard cost him his daughter, so it got personal for him. But that's just my two cents.
@Rogue the L.I-Princess I agree. What probably happened was that the writers wanted to do that, but Disney said no to keep it "kid-friendly." The episode was already pretty dark.
@@rogue7723 that would've made more sense for Launchpad and Darkwing Duck to believe that Goslyn had been killed instead of believing that she ran away. In the cartoon Dark Warrior Duck was treating the citizens like a disciplinarian parent to his children.
@@stg4theglitchog768 I remember an episode where they had an entire planet of Supermen and women and they brought Darkwing Duck there so they would have someone to save over and over.
Actually Dark warrior Duck and Negaduck team up in the comics to destroy the city. For all those who don’t know, the above quote came from Negaduck in the Ducktales reboot series
Dead Duck is the Darkwing episode that stuck with me. Darkwing dies, returns as a ghost, and is hunted by Death who is voiced by the legendary Tony Jay. Of course it's all a dream with a lesson about wearing your helmet, but disconcerting none-the-less.
I feel like I remember that moment the most in this episode next to the two wanting this top. So it was great it was shown here. Makes sense that he'd say that line in the other episodes but I can't remember which ones other than this
I loved Darkwing Duck as an eight year old girl, and now I can watch it on Disney+ as an adult. Gosalyn was the best character! R.I.P. Christine Cavanaugh.
@@jamesduncan6729 On December 22, 2014, Cavanaugh died at her home in Cedar City, Utah, of undisclosed causes. She was 51 years old. She was cremated and her ashes scattered into the Great Salt Lake.
I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the bell that rings for your notifications! I am Darkwing Duck! (Shoutouts to Doug’s friend Andre with this quote!)
"Twin Beaks" was another fun, dark Darkwing Duck episode where we get a blend of Twin Peaks and Invasion of the Body Snatchers--oh and Bushroot's "dead" body!
Fun fact: An earlier version of this show was originally going to be called "Double-O-Ducks", based on DuckTales (1987) season one, episode forty-eight, "Double-O-Duck". This idea was scrapped, as it turned out that "Double-O" was a copyrighted name
Huh, that's interesting. There's a Disney COMIC BOOK character called "O.O. Duck" who preceeds Ducktales by quite a lot of years, I assume he was probably originally meant to be called Double-O Duck as well but had to be renamed because of this.
There's an episode where Drake has, I don't know, an identity crisis or something. Or he's trying to adopt a new and different image. I forget the specifics. But one of the identities he considers is a James Bond motif and he refers to himself as "Double-O Duck."
I brought that one up some time ago, and then gave it a rewatch. Admittedly, it's not as dark as this one. I had forgotten how much they sent the main character off the rails in Time and Punishment. Life, The Negaverse, and Everything is more fridge horror...they depict a terrible universe, but not that much darkness on their own. It becomes much darker once our imaginations expand upon the concept...what day to day life would be like, how Negaduck likely abuses alt-Gosalyn, etc.
"I am the jackal that gnaws at your bones. *guy tries to leave and darkwarrior duck shoots at him* I'm not finished." Best line of this episode by far. I loved this show because it made fun of Batman in a good way :)
"Castellaneta as Megavolt sounds like if Krusty survived the electric chair." Heheh... that's actually a really good analogy, given Megavolt's powers and all.
When I first learned to drive, every time I saw a jaywalker cross in front of me, I heard Dark Warrior Duck’s voice chastised them in my head lol!! I still hear it whenever I deal with them!!
I'd say the fact that Darkwing cares deeply for Gosalyn is something established in the very first episode and is a consistent theme throughout the series (and the best way to get Darkwing "get dangerous" is to threaten Gosalyn). This episode just carries it to its logical extreme.
Kinda funny that he says "in any other universe Darkwing would probably be the villain" when that has happened both in with Negaduck and in the Ducktales Reboot were the actor that played Darkwing in that world's version of the show becomes Negaduck.
And don't forget the banned episode where Gosalyn sold Darkwing Duck's soul to the Devil in exchange for magic powers in the Season 3 episode Hot Spells
@@darknessrising2453 Yes, it truly did. It's a banned episode simply because the Devil is featured heavily in it as the main villain--and yet, he also appears in a few other episodes in a smaller role.
I remember watching this as a kid. At first, I was troubled seeing Darkwing as so menacing and cruel. But when I realized he was doing this because he thought he lost Gosalyn, I felt so sad for him. Never thought it justified what he was doing, but showed the depths of how much one person can love another, especially family. It was honestly one of the episodes I remembered the most because of this.
I saw this episode growing up. At that age, I didn't pick up on any of the satire but it comes in loud and clear as an adult, which goes to show how good the writing was. The Christmas episode is one that has some good satire and is one of my favorite episodes.
Megavolt is truly up there in terms of supervillians. He even created Negaduck, what other villain in comic books have created the Arch-nemesis of the hero?
I still wanna see Doug tackle the episode "Haunted" from Teen Titans. Yeah, that show was geared towards older audiences, but for a show that typically aped anime tropes and styles, the episode was still dark and sad at the same time.
Seeing what dark and twisted form a hero can take makes the audience appreciate and anticipate the moral decisions that character makes all the more. Especially when the/a temptation to go down that dark route appears.
*How about the episode of Gargoyles called "Future Tense" where Elisa, Goliath, Angela, and Bronx go 40 years into the future and everything is terrible and dark. I remember Broadway came out and he was blind and that whole episode was just insane*
3:48 It's a general "iconic" rogues gallery. Megavolt is Darkwing's main villain because they're opposites: Megavolt wants more lighting and electricity while Darkwing operates from the shadows and smoke. Having a popular superpower was secondary for him.
Fan Fact: Megavolt is actually based on Marvel's Electro, an enemy of Spider-Man. In fact, most of Darkwing Duck's enemies are mostly parodies of Batman & Spider-Man foes (like Liquidator, who was based on Spider-Man enemy Hydro-Man)!
@@OmegaChance27 Darkwing Duck would be three from the nineties, with Ducktales as second and Gargoyles as number one. Also, when are we going to get a Dark Toons episode on Deadly Force? I don't care if this show focuses more on younger shows, an episode with a character played by Patrick The Star, shooting one of the main characters and a creature going on a rampage in vengence deserves an episode on Dark Toons.
Man did I love the Disney afternoons. Darkwing Duck was always my favorite, probably because of Batman '89. I grew up watching this, Duck Tails, Rescue Rangers and Tailspin every day after school with a peanut butter sandwich and glass of milk in hand.
I always thought that episode was more gloom than dark. Haunted (robin fighting "slade"), Beast within and spellbound were certainly a lot darker, with spellbound (Raven being mainpulated by a false profile) and Beastwithin with beastboy dealing with anger issues and some creepy moments from adonis. Personally I think spellbound is the darkest one for it's relatable theme of being scammed/exploited by a fake profile.
They've actually made a Darkwing Duck comic called "The Duck Knight returns". It was the very first comic of the Darkwing Duck reboot comic series. Heavily inspired by Frank Miller's run on Batman.
This was by far one of my favorite Episodes in the entire series. I loved how it was gritty and tragic, yet still held on to it's zany comedic tone. It also really solidified Drake and Gosalyns relationship.
This is the best episode, and the most memorable one. One scene I remember after all these years, was when they had to go to Disneyland for some reason, but the guard wouldn't let him in, cause he never heard of a Darkwing Duck, so he had to cosplay as Donald Duck, which may have hurt his ego.
Darkwing Ducks catchphrase is based on the Shadows catchphrase, 'Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?' Even his scarf and slouch hat is based on the Shadows outfit.
Well, you haven't seen the show Legend of the Three Caballeros. Donald Duck DIES in an episode and must fight DEMON DUCKS to escape the underworld. It's as awesome as it sounds.
The odd thing is, the finally released Vol. 3 of _Talespin_ had both of the naughty episodes that Disney+ likes to omit so I wonder had Disney been willing to finish _Darkwing_ would the next volume or two included such an episode? The DVDs thankfully didn’t have any of the Toon Disney edits in them either so I have to believe we could have gotten lucky with this show too.
Late replay, I thought the exact same thing how injustice is very similar to this episode. You're like (and the other reply to your comment) the only one who noticed this.
Bonkers had that dark episode that was actually banned after the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995 but did have significance because it was the end of Lucky being Bonkers' partner and the beginning of Miranda being his partner
This was one of my favorite DW episodes. Although you cut out my favorite part.. when he pulls the gun on Gosalyn at first there's no missile and she tells him she's not afraid of his gas gun. Then he says he got rid of the gas gun a long time ago and THEN sends out the missile. So the weapon that used to solely incapacitate now kills.
i have always remembred and loved this episode very powerfull stuff when darkwing drops the gun is so emotional never forgot it loved that he was still darkwing deep down no matter how far he had fallen
god i loved this series, Darkwing Duck never came off as a "Batman Knockoff" like some of the haters called it, it definitely drew inspiration from Batman, quite heavily i might add, but it never went without the quirky sense of humor it had.
Always was one of my favorites as a kid. It’s interesting how the point of the episode (not that I knew anything about that stuff as a kid) was to lampoon the over the top darker and edgier reimaginings of classic comic book superheroes to make them “cooler with the teens” or whatever and showing how ridiculous it was. As an adult I can really appreciate all that, but as a kid, I just thought Darkwing was super cool in this episode! Lolol
This was always my favourite episode, being a fan of “The Dark Knight Returns” I guess that’s natural. I love how it shows what happens when Darkwing goes into “Let’s get dangerous mode” 24/7, people stop treating him like a joke and are genuinely scared of him.
Next Dark Toon suggestion: The "Riddles in the Dark" scene from the 1977 Hobbit!!! I know technically it's a scene from a movie, but it's pretty dark in both the animation, voice acting and music, and I don't know ANYBODY who wasn't scared of Gollum in that!
I remember seeing this around the time it first aired. I loved the alternate history/future aspect of it and not long afterwards realized how much I enjoyed time travel and what-if stories. From here I remember watching BTTF for the first time, and later in the decade the TV show Sliders, all of which I enjoyed. Great video! I would love to see more. :)
I remember Jim Cummings once said that he read in his script “I am the terror that flaps in the night, I am the scourge that pecks at your nightmares ‘or something like that’, IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT I WRITE BECAUSE YOUR GOING TO MAKE SOMETHING UP ANYWAY”
'Negaduck' (the one where Darkwing gets split in two ) is my favorite episode. The darkest moments came later during Gargoyles, especially whenever Demona showed up and straight up murdered people. Can't wait to see if you cover some of those episodes.
It definitely showed that even good guy can become a bad guy who thinks he is a good guy if they lose something or someone important to them. Dw thinks he is preventing people from getting hurt or lost again. But even when Goslayn returns in the future he's almost too far gone to care about anything. It's only at the last moment he stopped himself from hurting his daughter. But when she returns back to her time and he gives her a regular she is happy because he's himself again. Good review
Just putting it out there. The Suitcase episode of Adventures from Moominvalley. It's the moomin show from the 90's. I know a lot of people that was scared by that episode way back when
I've got a recommendation for Dark Toons: the episode "The KO Trap" from OK KO Let's be Heroes. That episode has the main characters first going slowly insane because they're trapped inside a small room and then later we find out that the main villain, Professor Venomous, was trying to psychologically traumatize them by murdering goo clones of themselves so he could dissect them. And also, the goo clones were apparently sentient with their own memories and a soul. It's a really dark episode of OK KO Let's be Heroes and I think you should cover it on Dark Toons, Doug.
I began rewatching Darkwing Duck recently and I like it even more because the comedic and gloomy tones are balanced. 1990's cartoons still are the shit
This ep is VERY similar to the "Future Tense" episode of Gargoyles, where Xanatos has turned Manhattan into a militarized city state and it's a dystopian nightmare much like this episode.
Speaking of Superman, I think you should do a Nostalgia Critic of Superman: Red Son. There's some pretty twisted stuff in it, like Superior Man getting mutated by an overdose of electricity, and the Soviet Batman blowing himself up with a hand grenade after bombing a museum. (The graphic novel is a great read too).
I saw this twice- once as a kid, once when I re-watched the series in college. I didn't get the batman references as a kid, but I did get a few of them the second time around. And this is one of my favorite episodes as well. So if you'll excuse me, I think I'm gonna go rewatch it now.
Dear NC. I have had an idea which I think you might consider doing. It’s another film themed month and that is streak month. I would love to see you review these movies and share your opinion along with some good ol’ nostalgia. Sincerely: a person who does not have to remember it because you do it for me.
I grew up with Darkwing as a Russian kid (the episodes were translated with legitimate love and effort in the 90s), and it was one of my first introductions to American culture and the superhero genre. In my mid 30s now, I still have great love for Drake Mallard and hope that we see more of him in the ducktails reboot. Notably, for a kids cartoon, darkwing has gone pretty damn dark a number of times: major Synapse is turned into a grotesque telepathic monster before being destroyed (as far as I remember, he stays dead for the series). Splatter Phoenix is outright dissolved, commenting that her art will be worth more after her death. And I think Doug is way off: the darkest (and one of the greatest ) episode has to be the one with Darkwing dying, becoming a ghost, and helping to fight Megavolt one last time while bargaining with the grim reaper and at one point spending some time in hell with the devil . And yeah, yeah, yeah, it was all a dream, but Damn!
