History WesternAnimation / DarkwingDuck

* BadassNormal: Darkwing was a parody of the concept, but often proved himself able to save the day when heroes with actual powers couldn't.
** Well, unless you count his 'power' to seemingly teleport into his "trademark blue smoke."
*** Yeah, but the show offers contradictory explanations for that, and he only uses it to make his entrance.
**** No. In the episode "Getting Antsy", he uses it to somehow cause the cars that were barreling towards him to crash into apparently nothing, creating a large pile of useless metal, with Darkwing standing unharmed on top.
***** However, in "Clash Reunion," he can straight up teleport into the soke, costume and all. Later he is seen to teleport (via smoke) to another room, out of costume, within seconds.
** Darkwing also had the power to survive things that would normally kill someone in the show's spiritual predecessor ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'', but it's not too noticable, since most people in this series seem to have that power.

** Negaduck also frequently demonstrated this trope (which was part of what made him one of Darkwing's most dangerous villains). Most notably in the ''Just Us Justice Ducks'' two-parter. He even intentionally leaves behind an impossibly obscure piece of evidence to lead Darkwing to his hideout, because he knew Darkwing "wouldn't notice the enormous flag." Considering this came ''right after'' Darkwing missing the flag seemed like a throwaway joke, this makes the savviness all the more impactful (and hilarious).

Darkwing was comedically inept, hampered by his vainglory, short-sightedness, bad temper, and general klutziness. He always came through in the end, usually after being brought to his senses, and uttering the phrase, [[LetsGetDangerous "Let's get dangerous,"]] after which he'd really show his [[BadassNormal true skills.]] His other catch phrase "I am the terror..." changed pretty much every time it was used. DW always tried to make it fit his current situation, but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RJsjeoP8_w it didn't always work.]]

* PunnyName: Dr Sarah Bellum ([[ThePowerPuffGirls no relation]]), Bud Flood (water salesman), Elmo Sputterspark (better known as the villain Megavolt), Morgana's family name as [=MacCawber=] (macabre).

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: The surprisingly aware Darkwing.
--> '''Darkwing''': Oh boy, this is it, [[TroubledBackstoryFlashback the "How-I-Became-A-Villain" story]]
** At one point, he even takes advantage of CartoonPhysics. He increases the air pressure in a locked room, causing him to go flat as a pancake and allowing him to slide under a door.

***** There's nothing necessarily "superpowered" about that at all. The smoke obscured the view the drivers as they were trying to ram him, allowing Darkwing to move out of the way under cover of his smokescreen.

* RoleReprisal: As LaunchPad went from Duck Tales to Darkwing Duck, so did his voice actor Terence McGovern.
** And when Fenton Crackshell/GizmoDuck became a reoccuring character, Hamilton Camp returned to reprise his role of the character as well.

''Darkwing Duck'' was a superhero cartoon produced by {{Disney}} that ran from 1991 to 1995. It followed the adventures of a masked duck, who was somewhere between {{Comicbook/Batman}}, [[SandmanMysteryTheatre Sandman]], TheGreenHornet and {{The Shadow}}, parodying many superheroic tropes and characters along the way. Nevertheless, it was one of Disney's DarkerAndEdgier series, fondly remembered for things like total aversion of NeverSayDie and an episode featuring ''{{Satan}}'' (albeit a comical version) as the MonsterOfTheWeek.

* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Morgana, Dr. Sara Bellum, Phoenix Splatter, and Bianca Beakley [[spoiler: a.k.a. The Bugmaster.]]

* GreeneyedRedhead: Gosalyn.

* ShinyMidnightBlack: Morgana and Sara Bellum's hair colors can be described as this.

* BigBeautifulWoman: Icy thinks of herself as this.

-->--'''Taurus Bulba'''

-->--'''Darkwing Duck'''

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: For [[RuleOfFunny whatever reason]], one of the alternate Darkwings ("[[CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon Gill-Duck]]" Darkwing) talks like this.

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Tia in "U.F.Foe"

* DeathCourse: two, ostensibly for training purposes. Darkwing had one of these as how he cooks breakfast in 'Darkly Dawns the Duck' (he always gets creamed; Gosalyn runs it once too). SHUSH seems to have one of these as well for its agents; the final exam seems to be designed to make sure agent recruiting stays low. The test? 'Survive'. As you're shot with increasingly inordinate ordnance.

* IWorkAlone: Darkwing. Mostly in "Darkly Dawns the Duck" and "Just Us Justice Ducks", where he actively refuses help so he can defeat Taurus Bulba and the Fearsome Five, respectively, alone. [[IGotBetter He gets better.]]