NOTE: This article is only about his original TV show incarnation as his DuckTales 2017 incarnation was voted Near Pure Good, so only his original incarnation information should be put here.
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The city of St. Canard is home to a thousand criminals, but not one of them dares make a move, for this city has a shadowy guardian who hunts them like a phantom in the darkness. I am that guardian. I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the winged scourge that pecks at your nightmares! I am Darkwing Duck!
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~ Darkwing's opening monologue in the episode "That Sinking Feeling".
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Let's get dangerous!
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~ Darkwing's famous catchphrase.
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Suck gas, evil-doer.
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~ Darkwing when he prepares to use his gas gun.
Drake Mallard, also known as Darkwing Duck is the titular main protagonist of the Disney animated TV show of the same name. He is a crime-fighter who protects St. Canard from destruction and villains and is often egotistical and arrogant, but shows a heroic side.
While he turned evil in the episode "Time and Punishment" after Gosalyn went missing, ruling St. Canard with an iron fist, Gosalyn prevented the events leading up to this by returning to her time, and Darkwing's evil alter-ego from that episode appears as his alternate dimension counterpart in the comics, which might indicate that Darkwarrior Duck and Darkwing Duck have been separated into different entities by the timeline split, and the former's actions should not be applied to the latter.
What Makes Him Admirable?[]
In General[]
He protected St. Canard multiple times from various villains.
He stopped several villains such as NegaDuck, Taurus Bulba, and Megavolt who tried to take over or destroy St. Canard.
Even though he has a big ego, he often puts it aside and becomes selfless.
He is very protective of Gosalyn and often keeps her out of danger or rescues her when she in danger and cares for her very much.
He usually treats his sidekick, Launchpad McQuack well despite being annoyed by him at times.
He cares deeply about his reformed girlfriend, Morgana Macawber and is protective of her as well.
In some episodes, he often works with S.H.U.S.H. to defeat F.O.W.L..
He even saved his allies a few times, such as Launchpad and Gizmoduck.
He often works together with Gizmoduck despite being jealous of him.
TV Show[]
In the beginning of the first episode "Darkly Dawns the Duck - Part 1", he stopped a group of bad guys and took them to the police station.
He tried to stop Taurus Bulba's gang when they tried to steal the Waddlemeyer Ramrod from a train.
He saved Gosalyn when she was attacked by Taurus Bulba's gang and took her to his hideout and discovers she's an orphan.
Although at first he didn't let Launchpad McQuack be his sidekick, he later relents and allows him to be his sidekick from now on.
In "Darkly Dawns the Duck - Part 2", he starts to bond with Gosalyn and sings "Little Girl Blue" to her to make her go to sleep.
Although he didn't care much for Gosalyn at first, he started to bond with her and becomes her adoptive father by the end of the two-part episode.
He saves Gosalyn when she was captured by Bulba.
He willingly gives the code to the Waddlemeyer Ramrod for the life of Gosalyn.
He destroys the ramrod so Bulba doesn't use it for destruction.
When he survived the explosion, he adopts Gosalyn from the orphanage and bought a new house for him and her to live in.
He defeated Bushroot and saved Dr. Rhoda.
He defeated Lilliput and retrieves his size gun.
He defeated Bushroot and the vampire potato named Posey and it turns Launchpad, Gosalyn, and Honker Muddlefoot back to normal.
He stopped Trenchrot and saved the island of the apes.
He and Launchpad defeat Ammonia and save Vladimir Gryzlikoff and J. Gander Hooter.
He defeated Megavolt and saved Launchpad, Gosalyn, and Honker.
He stopped Steelbeak from flooding Oilrabia with a portable weather machine.
He and Gosalyn went back in the past to prevent the Greasers from robbing the record store to save the present.
He defeats Bushroot who created a money tree and stole the money and bank vaults.
He stops Megavolt's new invention that controls home appliances and saved St. Canard.
He defeated Steelbeak and reversed the body swap that happened to him, Gosalyn, Launchpad, and Honker.
He defeats Gumbo and Jake by putting Launchpad's brownies in Jake's overalls and calling Jake over to get them and they fall in the sewer drain.
He defeats Steelbeak and the eggmen who kidnapped Gosalyn.
He uses an antidote to turn himself and Herb back into adults.
He defeats Quackerjack and Teddy Terror who tried to kill Gosalyn.
Although he, at first arrogantly refused help from the Justice Ducks, he soon learned from this and worked together with them to stop the Fearsome Five from taking over St. Canard.
He destroys the switch mechanism and saved the Justice Ducks.
He defeats NegaDuck who tried to destroy St. Canard and saves the city from being destroyed.
He sacrifices himself to save Gosalyn from Paddywhack while he goes back to save Quackerjack.
He stops Moliarty by creating Arachno Duck.
He rescued Gosalyn and Honker from Ammnonia.
He and Launchpad stop Isis Vanderchill and restore St. Canard from the heatwave.
He tries to stop Morgana who was spreading sleep sand across St. Canard and defeats Nodoff who was the one behind the plot and saves Morgana.
He tries to stop Bushroot who was Tuskerninni in disguise who robbed a bank.
He and Gizmoduck stop Megavolt from stealing the horseshoes.
He cured Gosalyn before she melted into goo by giving her a bath.
Darkwing uses Quackerjack's timetop to travel to the prehistoric past and discover the unusual speciman.
He leads the Friendly Four into making the Negaverse a better place and stop NegaDuck.
He pours a bag of cement on Liquidator, making the water turn back to normal in St. Canard.
He freezes Bushroot and the trees who were causing mayhem at the mall.
He tells Rockwell he should use his own ideas instead of using the helmet to get material from the cartoon show.
He teams up with the Fearsome Five to defeat Negaduck who stole their powers.
He redeemed Neptunia after she thought he was polluting her home and gave her a new shell to use as a trumpet, earning a kiss from her.
He and Gizmoduck stop Steelbeak from stealing the new weapon of St. Canard.
He stopped Taurus Bulba again when he became Steerminator while in a wheelchair and saved Gosalyn and Honker.
He saved Ham String and his girlfriend Prenna from Megavolt despite them bullying him in his teenage years and as an adult today and forgave them when they apologized for their behavior towards him.
Video Game[]
In the video game, he stopped the Fearsome Four (only Megavolt, Quackerjack, Bushroot, and Liquidator) and Steelbeak and saved St. Canard.
Comic Books[]
In "The Duck Knight Returns", he investigates Quackwerks when Honker gets arrested for illegally downloading music.
He and the Fearsome Four fight against Taurus Bulba when he was revealed to be the CEO and eventually defeat him.
In "Crisis on Infinite Darkwings", he tries to stop NegaDuck who brainwashed the alternate Darkwings and broke out the rest of the villains to go on a crime spree.
He was able to make Morgana turn back to normal.
He tried to save NegaDuck when he and the others were attacked by Paddywhack.
He saved the alternate Darkwing Ducks from NegaDuck and defeated Paddywhack by using Morgana's magic to trap him in his jack-in-the-box.
In "Toy With Me", he was determined to save Quackerjack from his anger and turns the two banana brain dolls back to normal.
In "F.O.W.L. Disposition", he willingly works together with Steelbeak to stop Duckthulu who was being summoned by The High Command.
He defeats the Robot Walrus by attacking it with a frozen Steelbeak and saving Steelbeak from being frozen.
In "Campaign Carnage", he tries to stop One-Shot.
He covers the nuke with One-Shot's jacket to save everyone from being blown up.
He tries to stop Cat-Tankerous who tried to destroy St. Canard.
In "Dangerous Currency", he works together with Scrooge McDuck to stop the Phantom Blot who was causing mayhem to their homeworlds.
He tries to take down the possessed Gizmoduck.
He saves Morgana from NegaDuck.
He ultimately defeats NegaDuck by telling him he won't let himself have friends, sucking him back into the portal.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
He has too many corrupting factors and vices such as his frequent moments of constant egotism, arrogance, pettiness, vanity, and jerkishness. Due to his conflated ego, he often craves the spotlight and can get jealous if someone takes it, is sometimes rude to his sidekick Launchpad and often butts heads with other allies. He also tends to rudely refuse help from others, thinking he can fight crime alone, but he usually accepts help from them later on when the problem becomes too much for him to handle and apologizes to them for being arrogant.
He will sometimes take credit for Gosalyn or Launchpad's ideas and claim them as his own.
He also tends to get into arguments with S.H.U.S.H. agent Vladimir Gryzlikoff over which of their methods to save the day is better, but they usually work together in the end, making it a minor prevention.
He's also shown to act jerkish towards his next-door neighbors, Herb and Binkie Muddlefoot due to their annoying personality and looks down on them, though he sometimes gets along with them, especially Herb.
He is an anti-hero as he sometimes does heroics for fame and recognition rather than for justice and the benefit of others.
He is jealous of Gizmoduck and hates him for being a better and more respected hero than him.
He can act stubborn and sometimes ignore the advice of others, including Launchpad or Gosalyn, believing he always knows best, but he usually takes their advice in the end when he realizes his ego.
He has shown to be extremely wrathful, lethal and overboard crazy, as he once blew up his house with a dynamite to kill a fly that was bothering him while relaxing. He can also be a bit irritable as well as he sometimes yells at people who anger him, even if it was unintentional.
He can at times be a bit of a condescending jerk to Gosalyn, but it's usually because she's being mischievous.
He can be a bit too overprotective of her and often forbids her from going with him on his missions. While she is only a kid and he doesn't want her to get hurt, he can still be a bit stubborn and not need her help, even though Gosalyn has been a useful companion plenty of times.
He quoted about using a mallet to put Gosalyn to sleep, even though she's only a child.
When she was covered in slime, he used her slime powers to catch Bushroot, not caring that she was infected, but he soon feels remorse for his actions and turns her back to normal.
Trivia[]
He's the only Mickey Mouse Inconsistently Admirable not to be part of Duck family and the only one not to appear in DuckTales.
Only his original version is Inconsistently Admirable, as his new counterpart has far less corrupting factors (Although it may change in the upcoming reboot of Darkwing Duck).
