History Recap / DuckTales2017S3E22TheLastAdventure

* AnAesop:
** Family are those who look out for and care for you.
** In the end, only you can decide who you are.
** Listen to what your kids actually want instead of blindly forcing your passions on them.

** The Papyrus of Binding could only be found by Scrooge's "true heir". Webby qualified as such, but May and June did ''not'', despite all three being Scrooge's children genetically. This may have been because the latter were technically clones of Webby, it needed to be a blood relative Scrooge knew as family, or [[FamilyOfChoice the blood relationship was completely irrelevant (or possibly simply a legal heir as Webby is older and the heir is typically the oldest)]].

* HandWave: Ludwig Von Drake was already an old man in the 60s, but unlike other ancient characters on the show who have some sort of magic explanation for their longevity, Ludwig is still alive because he's been ''[[PurposeDrivenImmortality too busy to die]]''.

* CardCarryingVillain:
** Steelbeak and Black Heron, as usual (the latter in particular delights in Bradford becoming more "villainous," even when she's about to die).
** Ma Beagle, Glomgold, and Magica insult Bradford for being a subpar villain.

* CloningBlues:

* BuriedAlive: Beakley defeats Jeeves by knocking him into a stone wall, causing it to collapse and bury him in sand and rubble.

* OffModel: When Louie is explaining the flaw in Bradford's contract, Donald is standing behind Huey. He suddenly disappears when the focus switches to Huey.

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** Scoorge flies into a rage when Bradford reveals to him that he was one who made sure Delia found out about Scoorge's top-secret construction of the Spear of Selene, thereby kicking off the event which tore his family apart and caused him to stop adventuring out of grief for over a decade.

* BalefulPolymorph: Bradford's final fate is to be turned into a non-anthropomorphic buzzard by Magica.

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Bradford takes this to a TautologicalTemplar level, insisting that he's ''not'' a villain, but instead a WellIntentionedExtremist trying to make the world more orderly and stable by eliminating anything "adventurous", when it's clear that he's [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist largely motivated by childhood trauma from his grandmother dragging him on adventures]], is willing to erase innocent people and children in the process - not even his own henchmen being safe - is implied to have had Duckworth killed in an attempt to isolate Scrooge, along with getting Della lost in space for the same purpose, and even when the Sword of Swanstantine amplifies his inner nature and turns him into a TinTyrant exhibiting villainous behaviors like an EvilLaugh and a YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo moment with Donald, Beakley and Della making it clear that [[YouAreWhatYouHate the blade only amplifies what's already there]] when they fight with him, he still [[NeverMyFault blames them instead]]. His last words before Magica hits him with a BalefulPolymorph are a desperate plea that he's not a villain.

* TautologicalTemplar: Bradford seems to ''genuinely believe'' that he's not a villain, and that he's instead a WellIntentionedExtremist trying to bring order to a chaotic world by eliminating anything "adventurous" from existence, while in reality [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist he seems to be largely motivated as a result of the trauma he had adventuring with his grandmother as a child]], and is willing to eliminate innocent people, even ''children'', from existence as well. He even [[NeverMyFault blames the Ducks for turning him into a "base villain"]] when the Sword of Swanstantine turns him into a TinTyrant by magnifying his inner nature, and his last words before his BalefulPolymorph have him deny that he's a villain.

** TheReveal that Bradford told Della about the Spear of Selene before it was ready becomes this in hindsight. He retired from adventuring to focus on saving Della, nearly bankrupting his businesses and forcing the vultures to intervene and going against what he wanted. Instead of stopping Scrooge from adventuring, it instead invited ''more'' disaster the minute he broke out of his funk with the triplets' help. Safe to say that if Bradford had just let things lie, the Ducks would have probably willingly taken a break from adventure to raise the boys, rather than leaving it all to Donald.

* AdultFear: Having an existential crisis over your background and identity.

** Making Webby Scrooge's daughter also harkens back to another character from the Italian comics who was partial inspiration for the 1987 Webby: Dickie Duck, Goldie's granddaughter who (jokingly?) called Scrooge "granddad."

** Donald is once again shown is his signature blue sailor suit.

* MagicSkirt: Hats, rather than skirts, but when the cast are falling out of the plane at the end, none of the hat wearing charcters (Donald, Della, Huey, Scrooge, Darking or Gyro) lose their headwear.

* DressingAsTheEnemy: Beakley takes an Egghead's suit, allowing her to surprise attack Jeeves.

** One of the reasons Bradford wants to stop Scrooge from adventuring is because of adventures leading to things like the Moonlander invasion, but Lunaris would have never gotten the plans for the Spear of Selene if ''Bradford'' hadn't leaked the news of the ship to Della in an attempt to split Scrooge's family apart in the first place. Additionally, in "Let's Get Dangerous!", he rants about how Magica De Spell was one of the other reasons as well. Had Della not been stranded on the moon in the first place, the triplets wouldn't have had a falling out with Scrooge, which wouldn't have broken him and left him vulnerable to Magica in the first place; even a furious Magica lampshades this to Bradford before turning him into a mindless buzzard.

* LampshadeHanging: When Scrooge initially tries to stop Dewey, Louie, Lena, Violet, B.O.Y.D., and Gosalyn, from boarding to plane to go save Webby, Huey, and the others, Louie asks him if they're really going to do the usual "thing where you tell us not to go and we sneak along anyway?" Scrooge promptly lets everyone onboard.

* CrossCompanyReferences:
** One of the drawings on Isabella Finch's original Junior Woodchuck Guidebook is [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls a triangle with an eye]].
** So, a Disney animated villain who insists he's ''not'' a villain but merely makes deals with people to improve things goads the protagonist into signing a MagicallyBindingContract, which leads to the signer being surrounded by swirling bands of gold light. You can almost hear Bradford singing [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 "Take a gulp and take a breath and go ahead and sign the scroll!"]]
** The musical stinger and his spoken line when Manny takes his true form are one to the main theme of WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}.

** One of the drawings on Isabella Finch's original Junior Woodchuck Guidebook is [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls a triangle with an eye]].

** So, a Disney animated villain who insists he's ''not'' a villain but merely makes deals with people to improve things goads the protagonist into signing a MagicallyBindingContract, which leads to the signer being surrounded by swirling bands of gold light. You can almost hear Bradford singing [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 "Take a gulp and take a breath and go ahead and sign the scroll!"]]
** The musical stinger and his spoken line when Manny takes his true form are one to the main theme of WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}.

* AssholeVictim: Bradford Buzzard is turned into a mindless buzzard by Magica. More than ever he shows how much he earned that fate.

* AffablyEvil: Subverted. Bradford plays this card with Huey, appealing to their shared Woodchuck membership, and claiming he only wants to complete his grandmother's work. However, this is only a ruse to try to trick Huey into helping him convince Webby to willingly aid him as part of his true plan to rid the world of all adventures; even throwing Huey in a cell after the latter discovers this and refuses to go along with it.

* EvilerThanThou: When Bradford once again pleads that he's not a villain, Magica counters that he certainly isn't (in the sense that she and the others are much better at it), but to consider the fact that Bradford has done far more heinous crimes and used Magica and the other villains as pawns, you can say that they are not very happy about it.

* EvilIsPetty: As mentioned under FreudianExcuse, Bradford seems to want to eliminate adventure at least partly because he was traumatized by his grandmother dragging him along on adventures as a kid. He also tries to throw Donald into the Solego Circuit void even after he forces Scrooge to sign the contract binding him to "never adventure again" in exchange for his family's safety by threatening Donald. [[LampshadeHanging He even points out that it's a villainously petty moment of indulgence]].