Thursday, June 17, 2021

Darkwing Duck | Vol. 02

 

The 2nd volume of the 1991 series.


Posing as a psychiatrist, Quackerjack convinces Darkwing that being a superhero isn't right for him. With Darkwing out of the picture, the criminal is free to go on a crime spree.

Bud Flood (Jack Angel), spring water salesman has been poisoning his competitors' drinking water in order to promote his own. Darkwing moves to stop him, but ends up sending him into a vat of poisoned water. Flood survives in a new watery form, "The Liquidator". Now, the Liquidator has turned all of St. Canard's water hard and DW must stop him.

Honker Muddlefoot (Katie Leigh) and Gosalyn track down a set of dinosaur footprints, and are led to the nefarious Dr. Fossil (Barry Gordon), duck turned dinosaur. With his de-evolution ray and the aid of a passing comet, Fossil plans to end the current life on the planet to give dinosaurs a second chance.

A day at the beach gets turned upside down when the gang has to deal with attacks from sea creatures. In comes Neptunia (Susan Silo), who is sick of the pollution that is dumped in the sea and caused her to mutate. She plans revenge by flooding the city of St. Canard!

Fenton Crackshell, alias the crime-fighting Gizmoduck (Hamilton Camp), heads to St. Canard in pursuit of Steelbeak. The F.O.W.L. agent soon finds out and frames Darkwing so Gizmoduck will think he's evil. The two fight it out, while Steelbeak tries to steal a new, top-secret weapon.

Negaduck (Jim Cummings), Bushroot, Quackerjack, Megavolt, and Liquidator all join together as the Fearsome Five to defeat Darkwing Duck and take over St. Canard. When the other superheroes, Neptunia, Gizmoduck, Morgana, and Stegmutt (Joey Camen) hear about this, they band together to form the Justice Ducks. Darkwing, who wants all the credit for the Fearsome Five's defeat, is less than thrilled — but when he faces the Fearsome Five, he soon finds out the job is more than he can handle. However, the remaining members are each defeated and captured by the Fearsome Five. Darkwing soon becomes their only hope, and the five heroes join in battle against the five villains, with the ultimate victors deciding the fate of the whole city.

To get revenge on Darkwing, Jambalaya Jake has Granny Whammy (Billie Hayes) mix him up a hex. He mistakes Launchpad for Darkwing (while he is posing as Darkwing Decoy) a targets him with the curse. Now Jamabalya is using Launchpad as a partner in crime, and Darkwing is getting all the blame for it. NOTE: there are two versions of this episode, in one Jambalaya Jake lures Darkwing to a tower by having Gumbo bite a power line, in the other Jamablaya Jake lures Darkwing to the power company by causing a black out by pouring hot sauce into a telephone. Otherwise the episodes are identical.

Under Binkie Muddlefoot's advice, Drake decides Gosalyn should act more like a "lady". Meanwhile, Tuskerninni has developed a spray that makes people act the way they are dressed and targets the rich citizens attending the school masquerade party.

In this parody of Spider-Man, A mutated spider bite causes Darkwing to grow four extra arms. When this creates the hero trouble while trying to catch Moliarty, Darkwing adopts a new super-hero identity - Arachnoduck.

Gosalyn comes upon a space ship that has crashed in the park. A cute alien (Hal Rayle) emerges, wearing a rather restrictive collar which he doesn’t seem to be fond of. It turns out, however, that the extraterrestrial is actually a wanted space criminal and Darkwing has to stop him.

Darkwing Duck | Cleanliness is Next to Badliness
Steelbeak teams up with agent Ammonia Pine to clean out banks for F.O.W.L. Gosalyn starts a Darkwing fan club.

As Steelbeak is stealing rubber duckies, Darkwing's attempt to stop him is interrupted by Comet Guy (William Callaway), a superhero from another planet who is looking for a hero renowned throughout the galaxy to train him.

Darkwing becomes fed up with the cold, so he decides to go on a vacation. But before he can, he finds out that banks are being robbed, with no forced entry.

Darkwing Duck | Calm a Chameleon
The shape-changing villainess, Camille Chameleon (Jennifer Darling) plots to take control of the Howl publishing empire so she can print her own money. Honker undergoes a personality transformation when he is bullied at school.

Morgana is using sleep sand to rob the citizens of St. Canard while they sleepwalk. When Darkwing steps in to set things right, he ends up in dreamland. Nodoff (Neil Ross), controller of dreamland and supplier of Morgana's sleep sand wants the entire city to snooze, and will see to it that no one gets in his way.

Alien hats (Rob Paulsen, Jim Cummings and Richard Karron) from outer space invade earth, take control of a slew of nuclear weapons, and demand to be made rulers of the universe.

In this case, Adopt-a-Con means the Adopt A Convict Program. The program has sent Tuskerninni to Drake's house. DW is sure that Tuskerninni won't reform, even though he acts as if he has. Posing as Bushroot, he takes Launchpad, Gosalyn, and Drake hostages in order to fish out Darkwing. But Drake's already a hostage himself.

F.O.W.L. is at it again! This time, the fiendish organization is in control of the tides themselves. J. Gander Hooter teams up Darkwing and Grizlikoff to foil the plot, and they end up fighting amongst themselves rather than getting to the bottom of things.

When Quackerjack learns that parents won't buy his dangerous toys, he decides to create a toy utopia for children, with him as the ruler. Gosalyn gets into trouble at school, causing the principal to suggest Drake take a better look at his parenting. Drake gives up Darkwing to become the perfect parent just as Quackerjack executes his insane plot.

Inspired by the Superman origin, 2 centuries in the future, Gosaloid (a futuristic version of Gosalyn) and her friend, Honkulon (a futuristic version of Honker) get trapped in the Darkwing Duck Museum after it closes, and hear the alleged story of the "secret origins" of Darkwing Duck from a suspiciously familiar janitor.


Darkwing Duck | Up, Up and Awry
Gizmoduck comes to St. Canard in order to help stop Megavolt's latest scheme: stealing horseshoes and cable to build a giant electromagnet. Darkwing is hardly receptive and wallows in self-pity as the super-suited superhero takes the spotlight.

Darkwing Duck | Going Nowhere Fast
Negaduck zaps Darkwing with a particle accelerator, unknowingly giving him super speed. Unfortunately, DW soon learns the major side effect – increased aging. With Darkwing old and decrepit, Negaduck easily takes control of the city.

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