List of Darkwing Duck characters

• Drake Mallard / Darkwing Duck (voiced by Jim Cummings, Chris Diamantopoulos in the 2017 DuckTales reboot) is an average citizen by day and St. Canard's resident superhero by night. He possesses a mix of genuine altruism and gigantic narcissism – two drives that constantly clash during his adventures. Darkwing's origins are rather fuzzy. During his childhood and teenage years, Drake was a complete dork, but by his high school days, he had already developed an obsession with crime-fighting. The latter in particular proves to be vital to him, as Gosalyn being hurt or worse is one of his biggest fears and he became a ruthless dictator in an alternate timeline where he lost her. His two recurring catchphrases are "I am the terror that flaps in the night" (followed by an improvised metaphor before he gives his name), and the battle cry "let's get dangerous". Darkwing Duck's costume, gas gun, and flashy introductions are reminiscent of pulp heroes like The Shadow, Batman and The Green Hornet, as well as Zorro. Because of loose continuity in the series, as well as Darkwing's self-aggrandizing habits, he has multiple origin stories as to how and why he became Darkwing Duck – including the following: • "Paraducks", in which the young Drake is inspired by his own time-travelling future self. • "A Star is Scorned", a "what if" episode portraying Darkwing's life as an act for a television series. : In the 2017 DuckTales series, Drake Mallard is an upcoming actor set to star in a Darkwing Duck movie who grew up watching the series of the same name and views Jim Starling, the original Darkwing (voiced by Cummings, Darkwing's original voice actor), as his hero. When Starling goes crazy after finding out the film was not going to star him, Mallard takes it upon himself to be the hero and save the day. After the film is cancelled, Mallard is encouraged by Launchpad to become Darkwing Duck in real life. • Launchpad McQuack (voiced by Terry McGovern, Beck Bennett in the 2017 DuckTales reboot) is Darkwing Duck's sidekick and pilot who originally appeared as a main character in the original 1987 DuckTales. He refers to Darkwing as "DW" and Drake as "Mallardman", to which Darkwing sometimes refers to him as "LP" in return. He is Darkwing's self-proclaimed biggest fan, even spending a year designing and building the Thunderquack aircraft out of fanboy urges. • Gosalyn Mallard (birth name Waddlemeyer) (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh, Stephanie Beatriz in the 2017 DuckTales reboot) is Drake Mallard's 9-year-old adoptive daughter and an unstoppable bundle of energy and spunk. Her grandfather, Professor Waddlemeyer, was a famous scientist who was murdered by Taurus Bulba's underlings. "Yucky Duck", the "Quiverwing Quack" and "Gosmoduck" in the Boom! Studios comics, though she often gets involved in Darkwing's affairs as herself. • Gosalyn's Negaverse counterpart appears in the episode "Life, the Negaverse and Everything" as an extremely sweet, sentimental, and compliant little girl with similar morality as her "prime" counterpart. Despite being an alternate reality version of his adopted daughter, Drake became protective of the Negaverse Gosalyn upon learning her guardian is Negaduck and ensured the Friendly Four could take care of her before returning to his own reality. She makes her first appearance in the one-hour special "Let's Get Dangerous!", which incorporates the origin story of her original counterpart. ==The Muddlefoots==

The Muddlefoots are Drake, Launchpad and Gosalyn's next-door neighbors, Drake finding them irritating due to their intrusive ways. The Mallards and Launchpad usually manage to tolerate them and even grudgingly like them, though not nearly as much as the Muddlefoots imagine. In the episode "Life, the Negaverse and Everything", their evil Negaverse counterparts serve Negaduck in subjugating their version of St. Canard until they are defeated by Darkwing Duck and the Friendly Four. In the episode "A Star is Scorned", Herb and Binkie Muddlefoot are revealed to be actors who have to act out of character as ruthless business tycoons due to a hidden clause in their acting contracts that says "The Studio is always right"! • Tankard "Tank" H. Muddlefoot (voiced by Dana Hill) is the eldest Muddlefoot son and a bully who often makes life difficult for his younger brother, Honker. Despite being the son of a duck and a canary, Tank takes after his father. In contrast to his brother, Honker takes after his mother. Unlike the rest of his family, Honker is an intelligent individual who demonstrates a mastery of sciences more akin to a laboratory professor than an elementary school student. He is also one of the few characters to know Darkwing's secret identity, though it is unknown how long he has known or how the discovery was made. Unlike Launchpad, who refers to Drake as DW in public, Honker makes sure to address him as "Mr. Mallard". He also calls Darkwing "sir" to make sure he does not slip up. He is also the only member of the Muddlefoots who Darkwing genuinely likes and tolerates most of the time, though he has been annoyed by the youth's stuttering. ==Allies==

The Justice Ducks The Justice Ducks are a team of superheroes formed in the two-part episode "Just Us Justice Ducks" to help Darkwing fend off the Fearsome Five. • Fenton Crackshell / Gizmoduck (voiced by Hamilton Camp, Lin-Manuel Miranda in the 2017 DuckTales reboot) is Launchpad's old friend and Darkwing's former rival superhero who originally appeared as a recurring character in the original DuckTales. While Gizmoduck overshadows him in fame and attention whenever the former is in St. Canard, Darkwing comes to appreciate him following their first encounter in the episode "Up, Up and Awry". • Morgana Macawber (voiced by Kath Soucie) is a sorceress duck who was originally a supervillain, but later reforms and becomes Darkwing's girlfriend. While she is very powerful, Morgana has trouble using her magic. Introduced in the episode "Fungus Amongus", Darkwing first meets her while she is serving as the president and chairperson of a mushroom-producing company that steals pizza toppings in a plot to take control of the pizza industry before she eventually defects and helps Darkwing foil the plot. In "Ghoul of My Dreams", she joins forces with Nodoff to put St. Canard's citizens to sleep and rob them to pay off her student loans, but she reforms in the end and helps Darkwing defeat Nodoff. In the Boom! Studios comics, she sacrifices herself to save Darkwing from the monstrous Duckthulu. However, Darkwing believes she is still alive and lost in another reality, but is unable to find her. • Eek and Squeak (both voiced by Frank Welker) are Morgana's pet bats who usually accompany her wherever she goes. • Archie (voiced by Frank Welker) is Morgana's pet spider who also usually accompanies her wherever she goes. • Neptunia (voiced by Susan Silo) is a mutated anthropomorphic fish and self-appointed protector of the sea. She uses a shell as a horn to command the non-anthropomorphic creatures of the ocean to do her bidding and is often seen with a giant octopus named Hal.The character's name is a play on J. Edgar Hoover and was reworked and redesigned from an earlier DuckTales character named J. Gander Hoover, who appeared in the episode "Double-O-Duck" and worked for a different intelligence agency. • Vladimir Goudenov Grizzlikof (voiced by Ron Feinberg) is a Russian grizzly bear and S.H.U.S.H.'s top agent. He is depicted as very strong and adheres to S.H.U.S.H. standard procedure closely. He and Darkwing have a longstanding rivalry which stems from Grizzlikof's by-the-book procedure compared to Darkwing's instinctual and spontaneous fighting style, though their relationship slowly becomes a mutual one. • The Friendly Four are fairly inept and superheroic versions of the Fearsome Four native to the Negaverse. Because of their pacifistic nature, they are retrained by Darkwing Duck into '''Darkwing's Ducks''' so they can defeat Negaduck, restore order to their version of St. Canard and become the Negaverse Gosalyn's new guardian after Darkwing returns to his reality. ==Villains==

The Fearsome Five The Fearsome Five are Darkwing Duck's five greatest enemies who often work independently, but also work as a team on occasion. Negaduck Negaduck (voiced by Jim Cummings) is Darkwing Duck's evil doppelgänger and arch-nemesis. Hailing from a nightmarish parallel universe called the "Negaverse", Negaduck is identical to Darkwing due to being his alternate counterpart, except for his yellow, red, and black costume. Like Darkwing, Negaduck is narcissistic and normally has no special powers or abilities, instead relying on his intellect, physical prowess, intimidation, and gadgets. However, he can also disguise himself as Darkwing. Unlike Darkwing, Negaduck is cruel, ruthless and has no qualms about hurting others to get what he wants, which is primarily great wealth and authority over the world. As such, he serves as the Fearsome Five's leader as he intimidates them into agreeing with what he says. In the episode "Life, the Negaverse and Everything", Darkwing discovers his evil counterpart rules over the Negaverse's version of St. Canard. • Negaduck (negatron version) (voiced by Jim Cummings) is the physical embodiment of Darkwing Duck's negative traits made entirely of negatrons created after Megavolt's tron-splitter device split Darkwing's positrons and negatrons. While he is unrelated to the Negaverse version of Negaduck, like him, this version is similarly evil, malicious, sadistic, and often uses weapons to terrorize people and commit crimes. He later becomes galvanized into a powerful being of negative energy, gaining the ability to fire destructive negatronic energy beams. However, he is forced to fight his similarly galvanized positronic counterpart Posiduck, whom he is later re-fused with to restore the original Darkwing. Wanting to regain his fame, he tries to replace Drake Mallard, the star of a film adaptation of the series, but ends up going insane and attacks the studio. Mallard and Launchpad attempt to stop him, though Starling is apparently killed saving them. Unbeknownst to them, Starling survived; vowing revenge. Unlike the other members of the Fearsome Five, Bushroot is not motivated to commit crime out of greed or a desire for power; rather, he is driven to find or create a companion who will not reject him. Originally pitched as a farmer named "Bib Overalls" who controlled an army of corn by writers Jim Peterson, Rob Humphrey, and John Behnke, Stones changed the character's name to Bushroot and broadened the focus of his powers. • Spike is Bushroot's pet carnivorous plant and assistant. Spike behaves much in the manner of a dog, to the point that he likes playing fetch and craves his master's attention. • Posey (voiced by Frank Welker) is a "vampire potato" originally intended to be Bushroot's wife. However, due to Spike handing him the wrong ingredients, Bushroot accidentally creates a gigantic potato that feeds on people's blood, turning them into zombified couch potatoes, before she is eventually destroyed. Due to his water-based powers, he and Megavolt do not interact well, though he and Bushroot become good friends. He is the only member of the Fearsome Five to team up with another member independent of the organization, twice partnering with Quackerjack. In the comic story "The Duck Knight Returns", he is forced to retire from super-villainy and get an office job, though he eventually returns to being Megavolt at Negaduck's behest.Megavolt is creator Tad Stones' favorite villain, and as a result, is the most frequently appearing antagonist in the series. In Boom! Studios' comics, Quackerjack becomes a more dangerous villain after Negaduck destroys Mr. Banana Brain on the grounds Quackerjack is not "mean enough" to be a serious villain. However, Quackerjack eventually grows tired of being more evil and turns himself into a toy outside his old girlfriend's house, believing "this is the best I can ever be".Unlike the rest of the Fearsome Five, Quackerjack has very little origin story as a result of creator Tad Stones being disappointed that the character did not come across as dark in his initial appearance as he had hoped and is the only member not to have his real name revealed. • Quackerjack also appears in the 2017 reboot of DuckTales, with Bell reprising his role. In the Boom! Studios comics, the rise of the company Quackwerks decimated F.O.W.L., leading to a disgruntled High Command compensating for this by trying to summon the demon Duckthulhu. • Steelbeak (voiced by Rob Paulsen, Jason Mantzoukas in the 2017 DuckTales reboot) is a suave, urbane rooster who serves as F.O.W.L.'s chief agent and second-in-command who acts like a 1920s gangster. He gets his name from the metal beak he wears, which F.O.W.L. provided him with after he lost his original beak under unrevealed circumstances, that also serves as a weapon similarly to recurring James Bond villain Jaws. • Fang is a robotic bear and agent of F.O.W.L. who works for Steelbeak in the episode "Bearskin Thug". • Ammonia Pine (voiced by Mitzi McCall) is a former cleaning lady who worked at a research lab and accidentally inhaled the fumes of an experimental bathroom disinfectant, which turned her into a cleaning-obsessed villain and recruited by F.O.W.L. for their dastardly plans. True to her obsession, she hates and fears dirt. • Ample Grime (voiced by Ellen Gerstell) is Ammonia Pine's messy, dirt-loving sister, who hates and fears cleanliness as much as Ammonia hates dirt. In the comic story "The Duck Knight Returns", Bulba secretly establishes the company Quackwerks and launches a corporate takeover of St. Canard, maintaining control of the city for a year before he is eventually exposed and defeated a third time.His name is a reference to Nikolai Gogol's hero Taras Bulba, and the Latin word for "bull". • Hammerhead Hannigan (voiced by Hal Rayle in "Darkly Dawns the Duck", Tad Stones in "In Like Blunt") is a surly goat and Bulba's lead henchman who talks and acts like a stereotypical 1930s gangster. He is capable of using his head like a blunt object via headbutts. The King The King (voiced by Patrick Pinney) is an Elvis impersonator and gang leader who wields a guitar he calls "Cecile", which is capable of firing concussive soundwaves. He takes over St. Canard after Darkwing and Gosalyn accidentally travel back in time and cause Drake's younger self to join the King's gang and helped him rob a music store, though they eventually defeat him in a musical battle.He is named after famed conductor Arturo Toscanini. • The Zombie is a fictional chainsaw-wielding zombie whom Tuskernini brings to life to assist him in committing crimes. • The Snake-Eyed Kid is a fictional western gunfighter whom Tuskernini brings to life to assist him in committing crimes. • Gumbo (voiced by Jim Cummings) is Jambalaya Jake's non-anthropomorphic alligator henchman. His name is a reference to Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, James Moriarty. • Wacko (voiced by Hal Rayle) is an alien criminal capable of altering his physical structure from a small and cute "normal" form to a huge and muscular one. He seeks to destroy the universe using explosives called "seismospheres", but was captured by extraterrestrial legal authorities who outfitted him with a collar that negated his abilities and prevented him from speaking. Wacko escaped custody, acquired the seismospheres and fled to Earth, where he is found by Drake, Gosalyn, Honker and Tank. He is adopted by Gosalyn, who helps him evade arrest, get the collar off and reacquire the seismospheres, which Tank kept after he mistook them for jawbreakers. While he attempted to fight back, Wacko is ultimately defeated by Darkwing, Gosalyn and Captain Big Nasty of the Outer Space Patrol. • Doctor Fossil (voiced by Barry Gordon) is an anthropomorphic Pteranodon and the creator of Stegmutt. Dr. Fossil was originally a paleontologist duck who worked at St. Canard's natural history museum until he turned himself into a prehistoric reptile using his Retro-Evolution Gun, an invention of his own making that he used to create Stegmutt and turn him into his henchman. As a result of his transformation, Fossil became an outcast and plotted revenge by turning St. Canard's citizens into dinosaurs as well as use a passing comet to destroy mankind so that dinosaurs would once again be the dominant lifeforms on the planet. However, he is foiled by Darkwing, Honker and Stegmutt. In the Joe Books ongoing comic series, she is accidentally thawed from her frozen state during Negaduck's attack on the St. Canard Penitentiary and, after updating her hairstyle and dress, resumes her advances on Darkwing, only to be foiled once more. When Negaduck and Liquidator attempt to float all the villains out of the prison by raising the water levels, Darkwing stops them by throwing Isis into the water, flash-freezing everyone and ending Negaduck's plan. • Nodoff (voiced by Neil Ross) is the ruler of Dream World and one-time partner-in-crime of Morgana Macawber, whom he provides with sleep sand to help in her efforts to steal money from St. Canard's citizens and pay off her student loans. Unbeknownst to her, Nodoff's real plan is to make all of St. Canard sleep forever. He is defeated by Darkwing and Morgana after they weaken him by bringing him into the real world. • Beelzebub the Devil King (voiced by Marty Ingels) is the king of devils, lord of flies and ruler of Hell and corruptor of souls who first appears in Darkwing's dreams before briefly appearing in the real world on two separate occasions, using different aliases across his encounters. • Phineas Sharp (voiced by Jonathan Harris) is a vulture reputed to be the most dangerous villain in the history of S.H.U.S.H. He was previously defeated by Derek Blunt years prior, but Sharp eventually returns to seek revenge by stealing a list of S.H.U.S.H. agents, only to be foiled by Blunt and Darkwing. • Paddywhack (voiced by Phil Hartman) is a supernatural entity who inhabits a haunted jack-in-the-box and feeds on negative emotions caused by pranks. He is capable of possessing inanimate objects and imbuing them with his will. In "The Haunting of Mr. Banana Brain", Paddywhack manages to get out of his jack-in-the-box and temporarily possesses Quackerjack's titular doll. However, Darkwing joins forces with Quackerjack to defeat the supernatural entity. • Bleeb (voiced by Jess Harnell) is an alien with the ability to telekinetically move things with his mind and hand gestures. In the episode "U.F. Foe", Bleeb plots to take control of the galaxy by controlling Launchpad, who was set to marry Tia, the queen of the galaxy, only to be devolved into a fish. • The Board of Directors are the governing body of Mushrooms Unlimited, the only mushroom-producing company in St. Canard, which was originally headed by Morgana Macawber, who served as the company's president and chairperson of the board. Together, they conspire to steal pizza toppings to grow a crop of mushrooms that taste like a complete pizza without the manufacturing costs associated with pizza production; thereby gaining control of the pizza industry. After Morgana defects from them and helps Darkwing destroy the mushroom crop, the four remaining board members are exposed to sunlight and turn into mushrooms. She later appears in the Boom! Studios comics, working for Magica De Spell. In the Joe Books ongoing comic series, she attempts to take advantage of Negaduck's takeover of the St. Canard Penitentiary, but Darkwing exploits her weakness once more. • The Brainteasers are hat-shaped aliens from the planet Fez who subsist on metal and are capable of taking over host bodies by latching onto their heads, gaining complete control over them and immense strength. • Flarg (voiced by Rob Paulsen) is a ruthless, planetary destruction loving bowler hat-like Brainteaser and the former "Grand High Potentate of a thousand planets in the Delphonic Nebula" before he was deposed by revolutionaries. He attempts to conquer Earth after crash-landing on the planet, but is defeated by Honker and arrested by the "Girdist Revolutionaries". In her second appearance, "Paint Misbehavin'", Splatter makes it her personal mission to "correct" every "wrong" piece of art in St. Canard and steal a profit along the way, only to be foiled by Darkwing and dissolved by turpentine. • The Chicanerous Cheese Gang are a group of five mouse criminals who wield cheese guns and whose leader is voiced by Charlie Adler. • Heatwave (voiced by Pamela Adlon), Lightwave (voiced by Elizabeth Daily), and Radiowave (voiced by Sherry Lynn) are three evil energy beings created by Darkwing after he accidentally shoots Gosalyn with a weapon he received from S.H.U.S.H. All three can manipulate their respective frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum and represent the three worst aspects of Gosalyn's personality; with the red Heatwave being her anger, the yellow Lightwave being her fondness for irresponsible fun, and the green Radiowave being her ego. To defeat them, Darkwing is forced to work with Megavolt. • Bianca Beakley / The Bugmaster (voiced by April Winchell) is a newscaster for the Canard Copy and Gosalyn's role model. To boost ratings, Bianca becomes a supervillain and commits crimes herself as all of St. Canard's supervillains were away at a convention at the time. She utilizes an armored bug-themed suit, a beetle-themed rocket-pack, the "Wasp's Sting" ray gun, and the "Sonic Cricket's Chirp Blaster" sonic gun. She temporarily convinces Gosalyn to become her sidekick, the "Grub", but Bianca is eventually defeated, loses her job as a reporter, and arrested by the police. • Johnny T. Rex (voiced by Chick Vennera) is a Tyrannosaurus rex and the leader of a motorcycle gang who bully and threaten prehistoric scientists before Darkwing traveled back in time and defeated Rex and his gang in a motorcycle race. • Throttle and Mudflap are Johnny's Tyrannosaur associates.Madam Matronic was originally intended to appear in the show, but was cut for unknown reasons despite making a cameo appearance in the episode "In Like Blunt".) is a villain who was featured exclusively in the Darkwing-based segment of the Walt Disney's World on Ice show Double Feature... Live! His goal was to win the heart of a dancer named Dazzles (Daisy Duck), and tried to do so by having his Hoods steal the Diamond of Love so he could present it to her. When she rebuffed him, saying her heart belonged to another, he had her tied to a keg of dynamite, but Launchpad called in Darkwing to stop Harry and rescue Dazzles. Wolfduck Wolfduck is a werewolf-like duck villain who was originally created exclusively for the Darkwing Duck Capcom/NES video game. In a similar manner to lycanthropy, he transforms from a small frail duck to a larger musclebound duck whenever there is a full moon. He later makes an appearance in the Joe Books series' Darkwing Duck #1 as one of the villains Negaduck releases during his takeover of St. Canard's new penitentiary. ==Other==

• Warden Waddlesworth (voiced by Laurie Faso in "Darkly Dawns the Duck", Jim Cummings in subsequent appearances) is the warden of St. Canard's unnamed maximum security prison. • Cousin Globby (voiced by Jim Cummings) is Morgana's intelligent, blob-like cousin. • Dean Specter McHex is the dean of Morgana's alma mater, the Eldritch Academy of Enchantment. However, he later attempts to replace Darkwing with Bushroot to save money.His name is a pun on Bruce Lee. • Duck Ling (voiced by Candi Milo) is a boy who resembles Honker and lives in Kung Pow City. Despite knowing martial arts, he is pacifistic and can rarely bring himself to hurt anyone. When he is pushed too far however, Ling becomes a force to be reckoned with. They also re-appear as plant mutants in the comic story "Dawn of the Day of the Return of the Living Spud". • Dean Tightbil (voiced by Frank Welker) is the dean of St. Canard University who cut the funding for Bushroot's experiments. • Opal Windbag (voiced by Tress MacNeille) is a talk show host and Oprah Winfrey parody. • Doctor Beatrice Bruté (voiced by Victoria Carroll) is a S.H.U.S.H.-funded anthropologist who stumbles on Major Trenchrot's plans while studying gorillas. • Webwolf the Barbarian (voiced by Jim Cummings) is a barbarian warrior. • Tia (voiced by Allyce Beasley) is an alien who fell in love with Launchpad during their childhood and later became queen of the galaxy. • Mr. Mikey (voiced by Charlie Adler) is a famous food critic. • Gosaloid (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh) is a futuristic version of Gosalyn. • Thug Neanderthal is a convicted criminal who is adopted by the Muddlefoots as part of the "Adopt-a-Con Program", which is meant to reform convicts. • The Darkwing Duck Fan Club are a fan club dedicated to Darkwing Duck. • Mrs. Howell is the owner of a publishing company who Camille Chameleon impersonates. ==References==