In the episode "Jurassic Jumble", Darkwing gets turned into a dinosaur that not only retains his feathery duck's head, but also appears to be covered in green feathers. And this was only a few years before the first feathered non-avian dinosaur would be discovered. Ironically, Darkwing's dinosaur form is a Not Zilla, much larger than any feathered (or featherless) dinosaur. Doubly ironically, one of the largest dinosaurs with feathers, Deinocheirus, would be revealed to have a duck-like head in 2014.
Similarly, Stegmutt is drawn with "hair" on his head. While Stegosaurus itself is not known to have hair-like protofeathers, earlier ornithischians almost certainly did have them, as shown by the discoveries of Tianyulong in 2009 and Kulindadromeus in 2014. Likewise, one of Johnny T. Rex's gang from "Extinct Possibility" has a mop of such hair. Before it would be confirmed that tyrannosaurs had hair-like feathers.
In "Jurassic Jumble", Stegmutt denies using his tail to fight Tyrannosaurus as Gosalyn assumes. Stegosaurus would never have fought Tyrannosaurus in real life, having gone extinct roughly 80 million years prior.
Jim Cummings is Darkwing, Negaduck, Herb, and Moliarty.
In most dubs, Darkwing and Negaduck share a voice actor.
In the Mexican dub, Arturo Mercado is Darkwing, Negaduck, and Bushroot. Diana Santos is Honker, Binkie, and Tank.
In the Russian dub, Megavolt and Liquidator are both voiced by Vadim Andreev.
In the French dub, some of the most notables examples include Gérard Hernandez as Darkwing and Negaduck, Jean-Claude Donda as Launchpad and Quackerjack, Sophie Arthuys as Gosalyn and Tank, and Luq Hamet as Megavolt and Liquidator.
In the Brazilian dub, both Honker and his brother Tank were voiced by Angélica Santos.
In addition to publishing an omnibus of revised versions of the majority of the Boom Studios comic that was released February 2015, the new publisher Joe Books published a new Darkwing Duck series written by Aaron Sparrow that lasted only 8 issues before Joe Books discontinued and IDW Comics got the license.
The show itself initially aired briefly on The Disney Channel, before entering First-Run Syndication as part of The Disney Afternoon. There were also several episodes that aired exclusively to ABC.
Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Some of the Disney+ episode descriptions are inaccurate, such as the description for "Jurassic Jumble" saying that the story focuses on Darkwing and Launchpad turning into dinosaurs, when in the actual episode is only Darkwing that this happens to and it doesn't happen until near the end of the episode.
The description for "Just Us Justice Ducks" refers to Negaduck as "Megaduck", and the description for "Tiff of the Titans" refers to Steelbeak as "Beakpuss".
Creator Backlash: Aaron Sparrow, who started the comic book with the storyline for "The Duck Knight Returns" hasn't really been satisfied with the direction Ian Brill eventually took the series, culminating with the issues within Dangerous Currency, with him and artist James Silvani having written their own ending for said crossover.
Aaron Sparrow has since rewritten much of the old Boom material for its 2015 reprint. Whether there will be a new crossover or not remains to be seen.
Disney disapproved of Brill's "Dangerous Currency" storyline as it was done without their involvement since Boom hurriedly did it before their publication rights had expire, which is why it's not on Joe Books' Definitively Dangerous Edition.
Downplayed with Tad Stones in regards to the Fearsome Five. He noted that he regrets tying the group so closely to Negaduck, who tends to steal the show, and if done again he'd bring back Splatter Phoenix to join the group instead.
Creator's Pest: Downplayed. Liquidator was considered too "one-note" to carry episodes by himself, according to Tad Stone, but worked fine for team-ups with the Fearsome Five. Other accounts also suggest the writers didn't care much for his predominantly sales slogan dialogue, which meant his dialogue was incredibly hard to keep fresh.
Dueling Dubs: Aside from the short-lived 1994 Polish dub, which covered only 8 episodes, there's also a second dub made in 2004, which for some reason didn't premiere until January 2022 on Disney+ (sans the banned Hot Spells episode).
Dummied Out: Villain Anna Matronic was created as a possible enemy for Darkwing, but never showed up in any episodes aside from a brief crowd cameo during "In Like Blunt". She ended up having a few appearances in the books (such as "The Silly Canine Caper") and comics.
God-Created Canon Foreigner: The comic book story "The Terror of the Time Turtle" was written by Tad Stones and introduced a new villain called Chronoduck.
Harpo Does Something Funny: All of Darkwing's "I am the [noun] that [verb]s your [other noun]!" intros were written in the script as "It doesn't matter what I write here, Jim's going to make something funnier up."
The final 37 episodes (that is, everything starting from "Inside Binkie's Brain") are not on DVD, and are unlikely to get an official release anytime soon. However, three of said episodes ("Negaduck", "Tiff of the Titans", and "A Brush With Oblivion") have previously been released on VHS and LaserDisc.
This also applies to the original, uncut two episode "movie" that launched the show; while the originals were released on VHS and LaserDisc in their entirety, the episodic versions that have appeared in syndication since are available on the DVD release.
For the Boom comic series, the original versions are likely to be this by default, but Dangerous Currency is the only one that doesn't even get the George Lucas Altered Version treatment. Correspondences with Aaron Sparrow claim that the story wasn't approved by Disney. And now the Definitively Dangerous Edition itself is out of print, and actually command higher prices than the original versions of the stories.
The episode "Double Darkwings" had two versions of one scene. note In order to get Darkwing's attention, Jambalaya Jake and Gumbo disrupt St. Canard's electricity. In the original version, Gumbo simply bites through the power line, while in the second version, he uses a super spicy gumbo to melt the line. Only the second version is available on DVD.
In September 2019, the "complete" series was finally released on iTunes. Why is "complete" in quotes? Because it lacks "Hot Spells", an episode which hasn't been shown since its original airing. As of November 2019, this also applies to the Disney+ release.
Kids' Meal Toy: Pizza Hut sold collectible cups and crime-fighting kits in 1992.
Meaningful Release Date: The Joe Books revival of the comic had its first issue released in Spring of 2016, 25 years after the cartoon first premiered on the Disney Channel in Spring of 1991.
Tom Lockjaw is voiced by S. Scott Bullock in most of his appearances, but he is voiced by David Lodge in "A Duck by Any Other Name", Jim Cummings in "Stressed to Kill", and Corey Burton in "Mutantcy on the Bouncy".
In the French dub of DuckTales, Gizmoduck was voiced by Laurent Hilling. Here, he's instead voiced by Pascal Renwick.
Out of Order: Like most of the Disney cartoons of the time, the episodes weren't shown in the order they were written. But because of the superhero format of the series, villain origin stories were shown after episodes they appeared.
The production order and the airing order were completely different. Because the show was mostly a Monster of the Week format, this wasn't much of an issue. The main exception is the two part "Just Us, Justice Ducks" which was supposed to be a big team up of some of Darkwing's biggest villains and allies that was produced mid-series (Episodes 44 & 45), but because they aired much earlier (Episodes 18 & 19) it ended up being the debut episode for most of the cast instead with their actual origin episodes occurring later. It really was the debut of Negaduck, however.
The order of the episodes on Disney+ is not the broadcast order. Most egregiously, "Darkly Dawns the Duck", the original two-part pilot episode, is listed as episode 29 for Part 1, and episode 30 for Part 2.
The order on Disney+ is the syndication broadcast order. Several episodes originally aired on ABC and didn't re-air in syndication until later, which is why those earlier episodes appear much later on the streaming service.
Climax of "The Incredible Bulk" is very similar to the one of "Planet of the Capes", since in both of them Darkwing and his opponent keep using Applied Phlebotinum to out-grow each other. There is also almost identical gag in both where character is lifting buildings to find someone and scares woman in shower. It's worth noting that two episodes are right next to each other in production order. Oddly enough "The Incredible Bulk" also has a scene where villain tries to kill Darkwing using giant kettle, just like "Smarter Than a Speeding Bullet", the other out of two episodes starring Comet Guy.
Darkwing also wasn't above recycling scripts from its fellow Disney Afternoon shows. "Star-Crossed Circuits" meshes together the plots of DuckTales episodes "Armstrong" (Launchpad grapples with and ultimately overcomes a robotic competitor) and "Metal Attraction" (the local superhero deals with a mechanical Stalker with a Crush).
Bonkers: In "Of Mice and Menace", Flaps the Elephant's mouse henchmen, Meanie, Minie, and Moe watch an episode of Darkwing Duck on Bonkers' television.
Duckman: In "I, Duckman", the series' first episode, as Wolfgang Cracker tries to guess Duckman's name, one of the names he uses is "Darkwing".
Goof Troop: In "Axed By Addition", Max wears a watch with Quackerjack's face on it.
A sketch from "Kramer Vs. Showgirls" involves Launchpad McQuack and seventeen seagulls being sucked into the turbine of the jet engine of the US Airways Flight 1549 airplane. This resulted in Darkwing receiving a lawsuit that forced him to donate his body to a Chinese restaurant to pay for his daughter Gosalyn's kidney transplant. Gosalyn is horrified to see her father being cooked in front of her. At the end of the sketch, the cooked Darkwing is served to Michael Moore, and Gosalyn is even more horrified when the chef cuts Darkwing's head off.
A sketch from "May Cause Random Wolf Attacks" has Darkwing appear in Duck Hunt to avenge his fallen duck brethren. As he does his Badass Boast, he gets shot in the head by the hunter and caught by the dog. Launchpad also appears before getting shot.
As Launchpad went from Duck Tales to Darkwing Duck, so did his voice actor Terence McGovern.
And when Fenton Crackshell AKA Gizmoduck became a recurring character, Hamilton Camp returned to reprise his role of the character as well.
Inverted for the Duck Tales revival; neither McGovern nor Camp returned (the latter having died in 2005), but Jim Cummings did.
Schedule Slip: The remastered omnibus of the Boom Studios comic published by Joe Books and entitled Darkwing Duck: The Definitively Dangerous Edition, was originally given the release date of January 21, 2015, but ultimately was released in February 2015. In addition, the planned revival of the comic has been reported to be shelved for the time being as of July 2015, before finally being released in April 2016.
The comic book. Due to various factors, including the licenses returning to Marvel.
In Poland, it was aired in 1994 on TVP 1 (the first channel of TVP, Poland's equivalment of The BBC), but they aired only 8 episodes. When they aired the 8th episode, TVP took the series off air and replaced it with Goof Troop, because according to KRRiT (Poland's Media Watchdogs) this cartoon couldn't be watched by kids.
Un-Canceled: In early 2015, a new publisher called Joe Books, Inc. published an omnibus collecting revised editions of most of the original Boom Studios comics series to pave the way for a revival of the comic, but the project was reported to have been put on hold until further notice in July 2015.
Uncredited Role: The Definitively Dangerous Edition removed former writer Ian Brill and former editor Christopher Burns from the credits. As noted above, unlike most examples of this trope, this was done by their request.
Voiced Differently in the Dub: The European Spanish dub randomly gave Beelzebub a thick Andalusian accent, which is exceedingly weird (dubs of children's shows in Spain don't usually play with regional accents, not even for Accent Adaptation).
Word of God: According to Tad Stones' interview with fan-site Flapping Terror, Bushroot would eventually undergo a Heel–Face Turn.
, to the extent that they requested to have their names omitted from the collection.