Holy fucking shit. NuNegaduck is batshit psycho.
I love it.
Why am I just now hearing about this? Is NuDucktales starting to get good?
Negaduck
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Jose Collins
I was pleasantly surprised by that episode. It gave a wonderful new origin to Darkwing. Now if that can put donald as maui mallard. That would be awesome.
Tyler Cooper
In the original DW, negaduck has and uses a chainsaw several times, and if memory serves, even in the first episode he appears in. It's a pretty clever callback, I think.
Parker Davis
>Negaduck is psycho
So what exactly has changed here?
Nathan Carter
>what exactly has changed here?
OLD BAD NEW GOOD moral lesson on part of the writers. Classic DW was just a TV show that Launchpad watched. They rebooted the show with a new actor. Launchpad and the original DW actor planned to get rid of the new guy. Launchpad eventually sees the new guy is a good person. Old DW cant deal with it so he becomes the villain.
Tyler Cook
So....the writers were inspired by the show's critics for this episode? Figuratively and literally?
Rabid criticism, I can understand. Rabid critism is like shit being thrown in the face from monkeys. But I hope the showrunners were at least willing to pay heed to constructive criticism.
Dominic Rivera
>Is NuDucktales starting to get good?
Season 2 has been a hell of a lot stronger than the first, although whether it's "good" is subjective. There's far less Webby, the show's gotten better at knowing when to take itself seriously, and there's been noticeably less of the characters sitting around in duckberg doing mundane shit.
Sebastian Rodriguez
If you ignore how the new film was being side-eyed and occasionally insulted by the cast. And that Old Darkwing, Jim Starling, was into the idea of a dark and gritty reboot. And the new Darkwing, Drake Mallard, was mostly playing the part because he loved the character but disliked the movie's direction itself.
If anything it reinforced the exact opposite.
Jaxson Evans
I don't recall the psycho aspect being so apparent in the original DW series. The chainsaw was there, but I seem only able to recall the character being more of a run-of-the-mill evil doppelganger. Not the kind of maim and dismemberment serial killer type of personality here. Then again, it's been forever since I saw the old 90s show, so it could be I've just forgotten.
Jace Rogers
So it's true in NuDucktales/NuDW too...
You either die a hero, or you become the villain
Charles Harris
>starting
Brayden Wilson
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain....
Jaxson Edwards
You're implying it was never good?
Benjamin Lopez
The original Negaduck episode was a parody of the Star Trek episode titled The Enemy Within. In that episode, Captain Kirk is split into two versions of himself. One is passive and wishy-washy, while the other is aggressive and decisive.
The Darkwing writers parodied that by having Darkwing also split into two versions of himself, but making the contrast between the two versions much more extreme. One version of Darkwing is a meek pansy who wants to give up crimefighting and become a pacifist, while the other (Negaduck) is a cruel lunatic who revels in causing unnecessary pain and suffering.
The character was originally meant to be a one-off, but the writers had so much fun coming up with his over-the-top dialogue that they decided to bring him back for future episodes.
Here's a compilation video someone made showcasing some typical Negaduck behavior:
Matthew Gray
It's a real shame because Jim Cummings was on point and having the old actor be the egomaniac lunatic who learns to became a real hero would have been so much more in line
Logan Flores
But then you wouldn't have a Starling Negaduck who is the old inspiring hero of the successor Mallard Darkwing, which causes even more drama, as the Mallard Darkwing and Launchpad don't wanna really harm Starling too much.
Chase Butler
Sounds like they’re implying the opposite.
Aaron Johnson
The fact that Negaduck had two false switches in place on his torture machine, just to be that much more of a sadist to his victims, is probably his best moment IMO.
Brody Thomas
Also, this Negaduck can be motivated to marginal acts of heroism so long as saving a person reinforces his hero/martyr complex.
David Green
>theatre shooting
Yikes. How'd they get away with this?
Hudson Rogers
Darkwing Duck predicted the future.
Lucas Garcia
>is a cruel lunatic who revels in causing unnecessary pain and suffering
And then Megavolt accidentally roided him up to eldritch abomination levels. Literally the stench that pollutes the air and which also destroys everything around just by walking.
Dominic Thompson
in 1991 it seemed like a stupid idea that would only happen in a cartoon
Aaron Rodriguez
>Donald has an amnesia and believes himself to be a detective named Maui Mallard
Jaxson Robinson
Anyone got the megavid link for ep 14,15,16.
Torrents are failing me.