Saturday, February 27, 2021

Darkwing Duck | Vol. 01

The 1st volume of the 1991 series.

SERIES PREMIERE! Darkwing Duck (Jim Cummings) is a little known crimefighter of St. Canard, dying for a big break, and the publicity that goes with it. Yet when he gets on the trail of the infamous Taurus Bulba's (Tim Curry) latest scheme, he gets into more trouble than he expected, and ends up adopting a young girl, by the name of Gosalyn Waddlemayer (Christine Cavanaugh). Now she's under Darkwing's protection along with Launchpad McQuack (Terry McGovern). But Bulba is still out to get her, believing she has the Waddlemeyer Ramrod arming code. But Gosalyn doesn't know anything about it.

Professor Moliarty (Jim Cummings), the fiendish genius marketer and mole from the deep underground, has rallied his fellow race for an attack to take over the surface city of St. Canard. Stealing buildings, he creates a beam to lock the moon in an eternal eclipse to plunge everything in darkness.

Dr. Reginald Bushroot (Tino Insana), plant scientist, only wants to make the world a better place to live, but his colleagues mock his passion for plants. When he subjects himself to his own experiments, he becomes a half-plant, half-duck, and it's time to get even with his tormentors.

The owner of the local miniature golf course, Lilliput Gooney (Frank Welker), has invented a helmet that allows him to communicate with ants. He then uses a shrink ray to shrink the buildings and landmarks of St. Canard, using the ants to haul the now-shrunk buildings back to the miniature golf, where they become part of the course. Eventually Lilliput shrinks Darkwing down to an even tinier size.

Dr. Bushroot tries to grow a wife for himself, but the result is not the flower that he expected.

S.H.U.S.H. sends Darkwing, Launchpad and Gosalyn to Africa to find the missing Dr. Beatrice Bruté (Victoria Carroll), the famous anthropologist. Darkwing discovers that Major Trenchrot (Charlie Adler) is planning to open a vacation villa for villains.

Someone is stealing the money in St. Canard by erasing all ink on the banknotes and leaving them nothing but worthless papers. S.H.U.S.H. Director J. Gander Hooter (Danny Mann) calls on Darkwing to help solve the mystery but chief Agent Vladimir Gryzlikoff (Ron Feinberg) doesn't trust him. Darkwing discovers that the thief is Ammonia Pine (Mitzi McCall), a woman who used be a maid until some dangerous chemicals caused her to be obsessed with cleaning.

Arturo Tuskerninni (Kenneth Mars) utilizes a special camera gun to pull characters directly out of the movies and into the real world. As director of a specially crafted criminal force, he takes them out on the town to do his bidding.

Darkwing Duck falls afoul of Megavolt (Dan Castellaneta) and comes out blind. Undaunted, DW tries to keep going using a few inventive gadgets, but Gosalyn, Honker and Launchpad almost get killed because of his arrogance. Gosalyn and the gang plan to nab Megavolt themselves, but get caught by him instead.

Darkwing Duck | Comic Book Capers
Infuriated at how he's portrayed in his new comic book, Darkwing decides he can write the comic better himself. But he keeps getting interrupted by everyone, who then add their own little bits. Finally, even Megavolt joins in the writing of the story.

S.H.U.S.H. has given Darkwing Duck a case to travel to Oilrabia and stop Steelbeak (Rob Paulsen). F.O.W.L.'s top agent is threatening to flood the country with a portable weather machine. The only problem is that Darkwing has agreed to let Launchpad assume the role as hero and be a sidekick himself for this mission.

Darkwing Duck | Paraducks
Darkwing goes back in time with Gosalyn and he meets himself in grade school when he was known as "Drakey". He then sees a record shop being robbed by a gang of greasers. Due to Darkwing's inaction, Darkwing's present time world gets changed when the duo comes back to the present. Therefore, Darkwing and Gosalyn must again go back to the past to restore it.

Darkwing Duck | Easy Come, Easy Grows
Darkwing investigates a case in which money is disappearing along with the bank vaults. Bushroot creates a tree covered with money.

Darkwing Duck | Negaduck
Darkwing Duck has been zapped with Megavolt's tronsplitter, separating his good side from his bad. Another zap with the two sides will restore him to normal, but his negative side is certain not to let that happen.

Megavolt gets zapped with his new invention, which lets him turn regular home appliances into living things. He assembles a group consisting of a salon chair, a refrigerator, a guitar, and a TV. Darkwing Duck has to stop them before they take over St. Canard.

Darkwing's computer goes haywire causing him to trade bodies with Gosalyn as do Launchpad and Honker. Now Gosalyn must pose as Darkwing to stop F.O.W.L.'s latest scheme - stopping the Earth's rotation in an attempt to blackmail the planet.

Darkwing Duck investigates the production of a movie, which is plagued by accidents and is being directed by none other than Tuskerninni, who has abandoned his life of crime for the cinema.

Jambalaya Jake (Michael Gough) and his Alligator Gumbo (Jim Cummings), both from the bayou, have moved to the city after hearing it was "easy pickings". By using Launchpad as bait, they try and catch Darkwing. But Darkwing shows them first hand that in the city it is in fact no "easy pickings".

Drake takes Gosalyn on a camping trip in order to teach her about the great outdoors. The national park has been evacuated due to a monstrous bear that has been attacking both campers and wildlife alike. It was the idea of Steelbeak.

While investigating pizza topping crimes, Darkwing falls for a beautiful, creepy sorceress named Morgana Macawber (Kath Soucie).

Darkwing Duck | You Sweat Your Life
Darkwing goes undercover at a health spa to root out a pair of workers responsible for a museum break in. To his dismay, Herb and Binkie Muddlefoot (Jim Cummings and Susan Tolsky) tag along. The health spa owner, Jock Newbody (Hamilton Camp), has discovered the formula for a fountain of youth. The last ingredient he needs is a feather from a true hero: Darkwing Duck.

Darkwing Duck | Whiffle While You Work
Gosalyn and Darkwing are hyped over a video game competition involving the popular Whiffle Boy. However, a toy maker gone insane, Quackerjack (Michael Bell), is out to get revenge on the video game industry that put him out of business. Both Darkwing and Quackerjack end up trapped in Whiffle Boy video game.



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