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  • Accidentally-Correct Writing: General Lunaris and Lieutenant Penumbra consistently insist that the Moon is a planet, calling it the "planet Moon". While this is generally not accepted as true, there is a genuine argument to be made that the Earth-Moon system should be considered a binary planet, primarily due to the Moon being disproportionately massive in comparison to its parent body.Elaboration
  • Acting for Two: In general if there is an incidental or minor male character, expect them to usually be voiced by Keith Ferguson (who also voices Glomgold) or Eric Bauza (who voices the Beagle Boys) while if there is an incidental or minor female character in the first two seasons, expect the voice to be Kari Wahlgren.
    • Jane, the Funzo's Fun Zone waitress that Webby was talking to, was also voiced by Toks Olagundoye, who voices Mrs. Beakley.
    • Chris Diamantopoulos voices Storkules, Drake Mallard, and Donald when he's doing the voice of his Companion Cube watermelon that sounds like Mickey Mouse.
    • April Winchell voices both Black Heron and Zenith
    • In the French dub, Jean-Claude Donda voices Scrooge, Launchpad, and Ludwig Von Drake.
    • In the Mexican Spanish dub, Arturo Mercado reprises both Scrooge McDuck and Darkwing Duck.
  • Actor-Shared Background: Frank Angones revealed that they attempted to mostly cast international characters with actors of their respective ethnicity. For example:
    • David Tennant is Scottish, just like Scrooge himself, making him the first actual Scot to voice the character.
    • Gizmoduck becomes Latino, taking inspiration from his voice actor Lin-Manuel Miranda. To emphasize this, his name has been changed from Fenton Crackshell to Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera. The same thing was done for Gosalyn, voiced by Stephanie Beatriz, although her name is kept the same as it was originally.
    • Every member of the McDuck family that's been voiced so far is voiced by a Scottish actor: Graham McTavish voices Fergus McDuck, Ashley Jensen voices Downey McDuck, and Michelle Gomez voices Matilda McDuck.
    • Toad Liu Hai, a Chinese spirit, is voiced by B.D. Wong.
    • Bassem Youssef, who provides the voice of Toth-Ra, is Egyptian in real life.
    • In "The Spear of Selene!", Zeus, Selene and Storkules are voiced by actors Michael Chiklis, Nia Vardalos and Chris Diamantopoulos, who are of Greek descent.
    • Don Karnage, a Hispanic pirate, is voiced by Mexican actor Jaime Camil. His ethnicity was not explicit in TaleSpin (where Jim Cummings voiced him with Just a Stupid Accent), but he has the Spanish "Don" prefix in his name.
    • D'jinn, a Middle Eastern warrior, is voiced by Omid Abtahi, an Iranian born actor.
    • Dr. Akita, a Japanese Akita dog, is voiced by Japanese actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Similarly, Inspector Tezuka, who appears in the same episode, is voiced by Japanese-American actress Tamlyn Tomita.
    • Jormungandr, a Nordic serpent wrestler, is voiced by Norwegian actor Kristofer Hivju.
    • One of the few examples of this not being the case is American Corey Burton as Ludwig Von Drake, who is Austrian.
    • Though the Three Caballeros' home countries aren't mentioned in this show, the canonically Brazilian Jose Carioca is played by Brazilian-American Bernardo de Paula. To a lesser degree, Mexican Panchito is played by Puerto Rican-Spanish-American Arturo Del Puerto, keeping with the Hispanic representation.
  • Adored by the Network:
    • It was renewed for a second season before the first season even premiered. Disney seemed to have a lot of faith in this series' success, perhaps rightly so. After all, the Ducks have a large built-in fanbase, and they have always been one of Disney's major moneymakers.
    • The show's first episode aired every hour for the entirety of its August 12th premiere. The following Monday, it was put on YouTube where anyone in the US can see it, even if they don't have Disney XD in their cable package.
    • Ever since the announcement that it would move to the main channel in May, the network has been crazy in how it's been treated, from a Ducktales: Treasure Hunt Live event, to a Duck Week starting May 6, and new episodes in primetime every Friday that month, among other things. They even reuploaded the pilot movie to the Disney Channel YouTube page. That's dedication.
    • On September 21, 2018, the show was renewed for a third season even though season 2 didn't premiere yet.
    • From June 10 to June 14, 2019, the show had a huge marathon, with 243 airings, only stopping for Beyblade Burst and Pokémon: The Series.
    • In general, DuckTales received tons of love from both Disney Channel and Disney XD. That is, until it got screwed as mentioned below.
    • During the week of March 8-15, 2021, Disney XD aired a week long marathon of the series leading up to the series finale.
    • Like the series premiere, the series finale aired for 24 hours nonstop on the night of its premiere. Add that with the podcast "This Duckburg Life", and the adoration may not be going away any time soon.
    • The show would also receive an art book that came out on November 8, 2022 and has an EPCOT attraction set to be released later that year, so the adoration still hasn't faded even a year after the show's conclusion.
    • In 2024, the shows' versions of Scrooge, the triplets, Webby, Gyro, Flintheart, Della, Lena and several places and items such as McDuck Manor and the Lucky Dime were all included as cards in Disney Lorcana.
  • Awesome, Dear Boy: According to Frank Angones, Keith David was very excited to voice Manny, aka the series version of Goliath, specifically because it meant he would get to help keep the spirit of Goliath alive.
  • Channel Hop: In May 2018, the show moved to Disney Channel.
    • In 2020, premieres moved back to Disney XD. The reason for this was because the crew wanted to better ensure that episodes would be aired in order without the bomb format.
  • Children Voicing Children:
    • BOYD was first voiced by 15 year old Nicolas Cantu before being replaced by 13 year old Noah Baird.
    • In the Hungarian dub, Huey, Dewey and Louie are voiced by child actors. In the Mexican Spanish dub, Dewey is voiced by a teenager (Jose Luis Piedra).
  • Creator Cameo:
    • Dialogue director Sam Riegel voices Tenderfeet/Gavin in "The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck!", as well as various minor roles across the series.
    • In "The Duck Knight Returns!", one of the background characters attending the Jim Starling signing is a ducksona of series creator Frank Angones.
  • Creator's Favorite:
    • Frank Angones has joked that an easy way to get him to approve of a pitch is to include Manny, the Headless Man-Horse.
    • Matt Youngberg's favorite antagonist is Zeus.
    • Storyboard artist Samantha King's favorite character is Penumbra.
  • Creator's Oddball: This is Matt Youngberg's first series he co-created that isn't a superhero action cartoon for Cartoon Network.
  • Creator's Pest:
    "I did a deep dive on the internet to make sure that there wasn’t some passionate 'Cult of Doofus' fandom that would be devastated by a change to their favorite character in all of fiction. I literally only found a couple of drawings of him falling down and kissing a hamburger."
    • Samantha King, a storyboard artist, evidently dislikes Mark Beaks and Bubba according to comics about her storyboard experience on the series (but admitted that Bubba grew on her later on).
  • Cross-Dressing Voices:
    • The young Donald was originally voiced by the late Russi Taylor in "Last Christmas" and then by Cristina Valenzuela.
    • Jeff Bennett provides the vocal effects for all of the Rescue Rangers in "Double-O-Duck in You Only Crash Twice!", most notably Gadget, who is female.
    • In the European Spanish dub, Huey, Dewey and Louie are voiced by the same woman (Isacha Mengibar), returning from the original series. Averted in most other languages, including English, where they all have male voice actors.
    • In the Polish dub, Ma Beagle is voiced by a male (Krzysztof Cybinski).
  • The Danza:
    • Jim Starling, the in-universe actor that plays Darkwing Duck, is voiced by Jim Cummings.
    • Donald‘s perfectly intelligible voice is provided by Don[ald] Cheadle.
    • John Hodgeman as John D. Rockerduck.
  • Dawson Casting: The triplets and Webby are all preteens, but are voiced by actors who are actually in their 30's-40's.
  • Disowned Adaptation: Don Rosa is reportedly not fond of the show and has largely tried to distance himself from it, feeling it has no similarity to the comics whatsoever. Despite this, when told by a fan that his name was featured in a then-recent episode in 2018, he smiled at the reference.
  • Executive Meddling:
    • Disney XD execs severely messed with the episode order to make Season 1 as front-loaded with episodes focusing on the nephews and Webby as the show's reasonably tight continuity would allow (and also apparently to air episodes prominently featuring monsters and/or Magica DeSpell before Halloween). This led to Scrooge being absent for two consecutive episodes, and Huey not getting any focus until episode 5 since his actual focus episode had been pushed back several months. Donald gets hit the worst by this; the Disney XD airing order almost makes him the occasional guest character he was on the original show.
    • Frank says that there were difficulties in getting "The Golden Lagoon of White Agony Plains!" approved, saying the network was "antsy" about an episode where the nephews had little-to-no involvement, but the episode was largely unaltered.
    • Despite showing some major steps forward in allowing LGBT representation on its animated shows the same year with The Owl House, and even letting Violet's parents be two men, Disney refused to have Penumbra be explicitly shown to be homosexual in Season 3 beyond a pointedly delivered line that she's not interested in "Earth males."
  • Exiled from Continuity:
    • Frank Angones (one of the co-producers), upon being asked about Mickey Mouse's chances of showing up in the series, said that Mickey is "way above [his] pay grade", and that two stories involving/mentioning the character he wrote were vetoed, leaving it unlikely he's going to show up. This isn't anything unusual for Disney, as they've always been protective of the character. Goofy, however, seems to be fine, due to Spoonerville, Goofy's home town in Goof Troop, being mentioned in the very first episode, and Goofy appearing in Season 3. It is worth noting it's not uncommon for Goofy to have appeared in media centered on Donald Duck.
    • Also Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series (which wasn't in the Disney Ducks universe at all)- they wanted to reference them somehow, but they're "trickier for legal reasons" (possibly stemming from the fact that the now-Anaheim Ducks still use Wildwing Flashblade (leader of the cartoon Ducks) as their mascot). However, one of the Beagle Boys is seen wearing a Mighty Duck mask, whilst attempting to rob a bank, in Who is Gizmoduck?!.
    • Francisco Angones revealed that the cast of Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers were off-limits, due to other people developing projects that wanted to utilize the characters. By Season 3, "Double-O-Duck in You Only Crash Twice!" featured them, but the full-on origin story wasn't planned; it was initially only going to be Gadget, who was left unnamed in the concept period so the crew wouldn't get in trouble, but the crew were given the go-ahead to use all of the Rangers once Disney found out what they were up to.
    • Daisy is a complicated case. The writers made it clear that if they are to include her, they will have to tread carefully and make her more than just Donald's love interest or even female counterpart. She eventually made her first appearance in the season 3 episode "Louie's Eleven!" with Angones confirming Daisy will be appearing in more episodes.
  • Fake American:
    • The Beagle Boys' voice actor, Eric Bauza, was born in Canada, though it's still downplayed since he lives in Los Angeles and a Canadian accent is quite American-sounding.
    • British actress Jameela Jamil uses an American accent for Gandra Dee.
  • Fake Brit: Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley are respectively voiced by David Kaye and Toks Olagundoye, the former being Canadian-American and the latter being Nigerian (though Toks spent a portion of her life in England and picked up a very convincing English accent there.)
  • Fake Scot:
    • Averted with Scrooge and his father, who are played by the very Scottish David Tennant and Graham McTavish respectively.
    • Played straight with Flintheart Glomgold whose voice actor Keith Ferguson is American. Glomgold is also revealed to be a Fake Scot in-universe as well, since he's actually a South African putting on a Scottish persona to emulate Scrooge.
  • Flip-Flop of God: Frank Angones initially stated that Bradford wasn't responsible for the Spear of Selene incident and that was all of Della's doing, which only his doing was stopping Scrooge from almost depleting his money bin. However, during the series finale, Bradford outright admits to Scrooge that he told Della about the Spear of Selene, stating that he "broke him once before". It comes down to Exact Words - Bradford didn't actively sabotage the rocket himself, as it was a freak accident that caused Della to be lost, but he certainly did hope she would be lost in space.
  • Follow the Leader: The reboot was announced while Gravity Falls (Disney's other insanely popular show about siblings going on fantastical adventures with their greedy great uncle and searching for a long lost relative) was halfway through its final season and it puts a lot more focus on adventure and mystery than the 1987 show did. A more justified example than most, as a sizable chunk of Gravity Falls' staff is now working for this series.
  • He Also Did:
  • Hey, It's That Sound!: The spinning noise from when Dewey dances as the end of Woo-oo! is the same one used in Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy.
    • Additionally, the sound Donald makes while climbing the bag-a-tell machine in "The House of the Lucky Gander!" sounds very similar to the one used for the Warp Star in the Super Smash Bros. series.
    • The poofing sound produced when a monstrous Mark Beaks swallows Fenton's electrical paddleball and messes up his hair is the same one used in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. In that game, it is used to depict something being spat out, such as postboxes rejecting mail.
    • The growling noises used by Fenris, Hecka's wolf partner in The Rumble for Ragnarok! are the same ones that Bob the bulldog uses in Oggy and the Cockroaches.
  • Improv: When writing Glomgolds' schemes, the writers have a rule: "First Idea, Only Idea!" and doesn't go back and rewrites, just build on what was said before.
  • I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine:
    • Certain actors from Bojack Horseman have come together again on this show Ben Schwartz (Rutabaga as Dewey), Paget Brewster (Paige Sinclair as Della), Paul F. Thompkins (Mr. Peanutbutter as Gladstone), Margo Martindale (Margo as Ma Beagle), Kimiko Glenn (Stefani as Lena), Stephanie Beatriz (Gina Cazador as Gosalyn), Jaime Camil (Jorge Chavez as Don Karnage), Amy Sedaris (Princess Carolyn as Pepper), and Lin Manuel Miranda (Crackerjack as Gizmoduck).
      • Speaking of Ben Schwartz, he's meeting up with his Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja co-star Danny Pudi, where the former played the title character and the latter played Levander Hart.
    • Bobby Moynihan (Louie) and Kate Miccuci (Webby) are once again working together again after Nature Cat, with the former as Hal and the latter as Daisy.
    • Danny Pudi (Huey), Jim Rash (Gyro), Paget Brewster (Della), John Hodgman (Rockerduck), Giancarlo Esposito (Phantom Blot), Chris Diamantopoulos (Storkules and Darkwing Duck), and Keith David (Manny) are working on the same series again after starring in Community.
    • Don Cheadle providing Donald's "normal" voice with the modulator reunites him with his Hou$e of Lie$ co-star Ben Schwartz (Dewey).
    • Tony Anselmo (Donald) is also reunited with Chris Diamantopoulos (Storkules, Drake Mallard, and the melon) after working together in Mickey Mouse (2013).
    • "The Lost Harp of Mervana" reunites Ben Schwartz (Dewey) with his Parks and Recreation co-star Retta (Harp).
    • "Friendship Hates Magic" has Libe Barer (Violet) and Kate Micucci meet up again after The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water and Star Darlings. note 
    • Paget Brewster (Sadie Doyle as Della), Paul F. Tompkins (Jib Janeen and Frank Doyle as Gladstone), and Mark Evan Jackson (Sparks Nevada as the Buzzards) are reunited after working together on The Thrilling Adventure Hour.
    • Getting Michelle Gomez in as Uncle Scrooge's sister is a clever way to make Whovians scream with glee.note 
    • When they announced that Catherine Tate was set to voice Magica DeSpell, There Was Much Rejoicing by the Whovians.
    • "The Last Adventure!" reunites Noel Wells (as June) and Ben Schwartz who were previously in Netflix's Happy Anniversary.
      • It also reunited Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome (as May) who were Garfunkel and Oates.
  • Line to God: Story Editor and Co-Producer Frank Angones frequently answers questions on his blog, typically about why certain characters were changed.
  • Lying Creator:
    • Frank Angones once answered to a question that Lena is one year older than Webby. Considering The Reveal in "The Shadow War!", this is obviously not true, though he possibly could have meant that she was depicted as one year older.
    • Frank Angones also claimed that Flintheart Glomgold is Scottish, which is only Metaphorically True: Duke Baloney is South African, and only the Glomgold persona he created for himself to get his revenge on Scrooge is Scottish.
  • Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.": This is Darkwing Duck's first appearance on television in Hungary, as his series was never released there (only a picture book in 1998).
  • Method Acting: Don Cheadle jokes about doing this for his role as Donald Duck, saying that he ate only duck meat and did not wear pants for an entire month.
  • Milestone Celebration: For both the original series' 30th Anniversary and the 70th anniversary of the comics.
  • Missing Trailer Scene: Played with. Almost all of the scenes from the first trailer are very skillfully edited scenes from the very first episode, with dialogue changed or rearranged to completely obscure the context.
    • Some of the animation, such as how Huey, Dewey & Louie act in the car, appears to have some changes between the trailer and pilot.
  • Never Trust a Trailer: Combined with Serendipity Writes the Plot, in her appearances in Season 2 Magica was initially mistakenly colored the green she appears at full power rather than a depowered white, and the crew took the opportunity to put some of those shots into the ads to build up the hype for her return.
  • No Export for You: The pilot episode is available to watch on Disney XD and Disney Channel's official YouTube channels, only if you live in the US.
  • Non-Singing Voice: Donald's singing in "Louie's Eleven", when seen from Daisy's perspective, was done by series composer Dominic Lewis rather than Tony Anselmo.
  • The Original Darrin:
    • After being replaced by Daniel Ross on Mickey and the Roadster Racers, this show has Donald once again voiced by Tony Anselmo.
    • A partial example occurs with the Rescue Rangers where after initially being replaced by Jeff Bennett (though he only provided vocal effects) for their first appearance in "Double-O-Duck in You Only Crash Twice!", Corey Burton would return to voice Dale and Zipper for the Rescue Rangers' brief speaking line in "The Last Adventure!"
    • In the Polish dub, Webby is voiced again by Magdalena Krylik, her voice actress from second Polish dub of the original DuckTales.
  • The Other Darrin: Barring Donald and Von Drake, the series replaced the entire cast from the original, though it wound up becoming necessary to recast Scrooge anyway after Alan Young died in May 2016; in December of the same year, it was announced that David Tennant would play Uncle Scrooge.
    • The announcement for the cast came a week after the Mickey Mouse (2013) episode "Duck The Halls", the first episode where John Kassir voiced Scrooge after Alan Young's death. In essence, David replaces him as well for this series.
    • Some of the actors from the 2013 video game who replaced those from the original series that died didn't reprise their roles here. For example, despite Eric Bauza being in both projects, he does not reprise the role of Gizmoduck, and instead voices the Beagle Boys.
    • For the Darkwing Duck TV show featured at the beginning of "Beware the B.U.D.D.Y. System!", Megavolt is voiced by Keith Ferguson instead of Dan Castellaneta (though the impression was so good that virtually no one noticed). Jim Cummings and Michael Bell still voice Darkwing Duck and Quackerjack though.
      • Liquidator in that episode was voiced by Corey Burton, replacing Jack Angel from the original Darkwing Duck series. Burton was originally supposed to reprise the role in "Let's Get Dangerous", but Keith Ferguson took over the role instead.
      • For his brief appearence in "Friendship Hates Magic", Paddywhack is voiced by Jim Cummings instead of Phil Hartman due to the latter's passing in 1998.
    • Jim Cummings does not provide the voice of Don Karnage, with Jaime Camil taking over the role. Justified when Agones later revealed that this show's Don Karnage was not the original, and that the original's fate was planned to be revealed in an untold follow-up story.
    • Panchito and Jose, rather than being voiced by Carlos Alazraqui and Rob Paulsen (who voiced them on House of Mouse and Mickey and the Roadster Racers) or Jaime Camil and Eric Bauza (who voice them on Legend of the Three Caballeros), are instead voiced by Bernardo De Paula and Arturo Del Puerto.
    • Played with in regards to Darkwing Duck. Jim Cummings does play Jim Starling, the original Darkwing Duck. However, he does not voice this universe's incarnation of Drake Mallard, who is voiced instead by Chris Diamantopoulos. Drake Mallard becomes the new Darkwing at the end. However, Starling ends up becoming Negaduck, meaning that Cummings is technically reprising his role as the latter.
    • The Funzo mascot was voiced by Jason Marsden during his appearance in early season 1. When he reappeared more in season 2, he was voiced by Eric Bauza.
    • The Phantom Blot is now voiced by Giancarlo Esposito, replacing Frank Welker, who voiced him in the original DuckTales series, and John O'Hurley, who voiced him in Mickey Mouse Works and House of Mouse.
    • For the episode "Louie's Eleven", Sam Riegel voices both Hack and Slash, unlike in the pilot, where Jason Marsden voiced the former.
    • Noah Baird replaces Nicolas Cantu as Boyd starting in "Astro BOYD".
    • James Monroe Iglehart replaces Tim Curry as Taurus Bulba. Likewise, Stephanie Beatriz replaces the late Christine Cavanaugh as Gosalyn.
    • In "Last Christmas", which aired in December 2018, young Donald was voiced by Russi Taylor. Due to her death in July 2019, the role was recast with Cristina Valenzuela starting with "The First Adventure".
    • For the Rescue Rangers' appearance in "Double-O-Duck in You Only Crash Twice!" their vocal effects are provided by Jeff Bennett instead of their original actors. Partially averted in "The Last Adventure!" where Corey Burton provides the voice for Dale and Zipper, who were voiced by him in the original series, although he also voices Chip and Monterey Jack instead of Tress MacNeille and Peter Cullen or Jim Cummings respectively. Additionally, April Winchell voices Gadget instead of Tress MacNeille despite Tress returning as Daisy in the episode.
    • In the Italian dub, the Drake Mallard Darkwing Duck had three different voices in the show's run. Alessandro Tiberi voiced him in his debut episode, in the season 2 finale he was voiced by Oliviero Dinelli (the same voice actor as the original series Darkwing, who already voices the Jim Starling Darkwing in this series) and in season 3 he was replaced again with George Castiglia.
  • Out of Order: As revealed here, the episodes are not being aired in the order they were written in. For example the third episode should have been a Huey ep, but it was moved to December. Why? Because it has snow in it.note 
  • Permanent Placeholder: "All I Do Is Win" was originally added to a certain scene in "The 87 Cent Solution!" as a joke among the crew, but it fit so well they decided to get the rights to use it in the episode proper.
  • Playing Against Type:
  • Predecessor Casting Gag:
    • In "Last Christmas!", a Time Travel episode, the child version of Donald Duck is voiced by Russi Taylor, who voiced Donald's nephews in the original DuckTales (and in a number of other works). Sadly, when she passed away in 2019 before Young Donald's planned second appearance in "The First Adventure!", the role was recast.
    • Played with. Jim Starling, an actor known In-Universe for playing Darkwing Duck on television, is played by Jim Cummings, the original Drake Mallard/Darkwing Duck from the Darkwing Duck cartoon. In "The Duck Knight Returns!", this universe's Drake Mallard is revealed to be an Ascended Fanboy of Starling's Darkwing, Taking Up the Mantle of Darkwing first in a Darker and Edgier reboot of the In-Universe series, and then as an actual superhero, more in the vein of the real world series.
  • Production Posse:
    • Many people who worked on Gravity Falls and Wander over Yonder have moved onto this series.
    • Fred Tatasciore, Kimiko Glenn, Keith Ferguson, Jennifer Hale, Kate Micucci, Russi Taylor, Tress MacNeille, Keone Young, Carlos Alazraqui, Clancy Brown, Grey Griffin, Jim Cummings, Kari Wahlgren, and Robin Atkin Downes worked with voice director Sam Riegel on Sofia the First.
    • Corey Burton, David Kaye, Tom Kenny, Tara Strong, Kate Micucci, Dee Bradley Baker, and Cree Summer meet up again after Transformers: Animated, Ben 10: Omniverse, and Avengers Assemble, with Matt Youngberg in charge of the former two.
  • Promoted Fanboy:
    • Essentially everyone. Frank Angones says that nearly all members of the cast practically begged him to work on the show. David Tennant even joked that he should be paying them to let him play Scrooge, and Ben Schwartz (who, it must be noted, had the Moon Theme as his ringtone for years) was the one who organized the sing-along video.
    • On the other side of the spectrum, Francisco Angones is a big fan of Rob Paulsen and his work, and was glad to have him in the series.
  • Real-Life Relative:
    • Doofus Drake's parents are voiced by Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt, who are married in real life.
    • In the French dub, Jean-Claude Donda is the voice actor for Scrooge, Launchpad, and Ludwig Von Drake, while his daughter, Camille Donda, is the voice actress for Webby. Also, Vincent Ropion is the voice of Gyro, while his wife, Delphine Braillon, is the voice of Della.
    • In the Polish dub, Scrooge is voiced by Marek Robaczewski. His father, Eugeniusz Robaczewski was the first Polish voice actor of Scrooge, including first Polish dub of the original DuckTales.
    • In the Norwegian dub, Huey, Dewey, and Louie are voiced by the Maurstad brothers (Scott, Aslak and Stinius, respectively). Their mother Mari Maurstad (also the official Norwegian voice of Daisy) did the voices of all three in the orginal DuckTales and their other appearance before with Quack Pack being maybe the only exception before this.
    • In the Brazilian dub, Fenton/Gizmoduck is voiced by Raphael Rossatto, and his father, Ricardo Rossatto, is the voice of Zeus.
  • Real-Place Background: The Von Drake Doomsday Vault in "Raiders of the Doomsday Vault!" is based on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen, Norway.
  • Recast as a Regular: In the Brazilian dub, Hélio Ribeiro, who voiced Launchpad's father Ripcord McQuack and other one-shot characters and extras in the original series, now voices the main character, Scrooge McDuck.
  • Recursive Adaptation: Just like with the original show, it has been announced that this series is getting its own Comic-Book Adaptation, which originally came from the comics to begin with.
  • Refitted for Sequel:
    • An episode involving Donald meeting Jose and Panchito again was considered for season 1, but was scrapped. Season 2's fourth episode, "The Town Where Everyone was Nice!", includes them proper.
    • Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera was supposed to show up intermittently in Season 1 before his name would be revealed in "Beware the B.U.D.D.Y. System!", but this subplot had to be cut to keep focus on establishing the cast, and because it ate up too much time. The crew repurposed the twist for Season 2 in "The Duck Knight Returns!", where the actor playing Darkwing Duck is revealed to be Drake Mallard.
    • The Rescue Rangers were planned to be referenced fairly early on, but were barred from appearing due to other projects starring the characters being developed. By Season 3, the Rescue Rangers were approved to show up in "Double-O-Duck in You Only Crash Twice!", albeit primarily unvoiced and unnamed aside from a Mythology Gag.
    • The Season 1 episode "The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks!" was planned to feature an homage to Die Hard, with a fight between Donald Duck and Falcon Graves (which is why Graves resembles Hans Gruber). While this scene was ultimately cut, a similar fight happens in the Season 3 episode "Louie's Eleven!", complete with Donald yelling "Yippie-ka-yay, Mister Falcon".
  • Remake Cameo: In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, the original voices of the nephews (Carmem Sheila (Huey), Marisa Leal (Dewey) and Miriam Ficher (Louie)) return as Downy McDuck, Selene, and Amunet, respectively. Coincidentally, Selene only interacts with Dewey in her first appearance.
    • Also Hércules Franco, who voiced Fenton/Gizmoduck, returns as Black Arts Beagle.
    • In the Mexican Spanish dub, Angela Villanueva, the original voice of Mrs. Beakley, plays the unnamed nanny in the pilot episode.
    • Jim Cummings, who voices Jim Starling aka Negaduck, voiced El Capitan in the original series pilot.
    • Russi Taylor (the original voice for Webby and the triplets) came back to voice Young Donald in "Last Christmas!"
    • Rob Paulsen, who voiced Gladstone Gander in the original cartoon, voices one of the Moonlanders in Season 2. He makes a reappearance in the third season.
    • Tress MacNeille, who respectively voiced Circe and both Queen Griselda and Swanwhite in the original series episodes "Home Sweet Homer" and "Maid of the Myth," reprises her role as Daisy Duck.
  • Role Reprise:
    • The only actors from the original series to reprise their roles are Tony Anselmo as Donald and Corey Burton as Ludwig Von Drake (and they both play a much bigger role than they did in the original). This may or may not have to do with the fact that a lot of the original talent is sadly no longer available...
    • The beginning of "Beware The B.U.D.D.Y. System", which establishes Darkwing Duck as an in-universe TV show, has Jim Cummings and Michael Bell reprise the roles of Darkwing Duck and Quackerjack. This is averted with Megavolt, who's voiced by Keith Ferguson instead of Dan Castellaneta. At the end of "The Duck Knight Returns", Jim Starling, the original actor to play Darkwing Duck in this series, becomes Negaduck, who Jim Cummings also voiced in the original series, while this show's version of Drake Mallard (voiced by Chris Diamantopolous) becomes the new Darkwing Duck like Drake Mallard in the original series.
    • Played with in "Moonvasion!" Donald's been stuck on a desert island after crashing his ship in "Whatever Happened to Donald Duck?!", and has been kept company by a melon with Mickey Mouse ears that he carved a face into a la Wilson. Donald's voice for the melon is provided by Chris Diamantopoulos, who voices Mickey in the Mickey Mouse (2013) shorts.
    • Bill Farmer and Tress MacNeille reprise their long-standing roles as Goofy and Daisy.
    • In Castilian Spanish, most of the cast from the original series returned: Isacha Mengíbar as the triplets, Ivan Muelas as Launchpad, Sandra Jara as Webby, Celia Ballester as Mrs. Beakley, and even the same translator (Kenneth Post) and studio (Abaira changed its name to Soundub, and later SDI). Scrooge is instead voiced by Jose Escobosa, as Carlos Revilla had died in 2000.
    • In the French dub, Alexis Tomassian (Dewey) and Donald Reignoux (Louie) reprise their roles from Quack Pack. Also returning is Jean-Claude Donda as Launchpad McQuack.
    • In the Mexican Spanish dub, Arturo Mercado reprises his roles as Scrooge, Ludwig Von Drake and Darkwing Duck from the very original series. Also returning are Francisco Colmenero as Glomgold and Moises Palacios as Gyro.
    • The Hungarian dub keeps Péter Pálfai as Scrooge and Titanilla Bogdányi as Webby, both from season 4.
    • The Swedish dub has the voice actors of Donald, Mrs. Beakley, Glomgold note  and Duckworth all reprise their roles from the original show. Anders Öjebo also reprises his role as Darkwing Duck.
    • The Norwegian dub has the voice actors for Scrooge, Beakley, Gyro, Ma Beagle, Big Time, Bouncer, Magica, Daisy, and Darkwing Duck reprise their roles. Launchpad is a special case; in the "Meet Launchpad" web short, he was voiced by his original voice actor Harald Mæle (who also voices Scrooge in both incarnations), but in the series proper he's voiced by Anders Bye.
  • Same Voice Their Entire Life: Even Della and Glomgold's child selves are still voiced by Paget Brewster and Keith Ferguson respectively.
  • Science Marches On: Bubba and Tootsie for their appearances in "Timephoon!" have both been recharacterized and redesigned to better correspond with modern theories about Neanderthals and dinosaurs. The former being reimagined as an ancestor of the McDucks brings to mind new genetic studies that most non-African modern humans are partially of Neanderthal ancestry, due to Neanderthals and Homo sapiens having mated in the past. Also, the Tyrannosaurus skeletons seen in "Louie's Eleven!" are in the bird-like horizontal posture as per modern understanding (and immortalized by Jurassic Park released years after the original DuckTales), rather than the outdated tripodal one seen in the Tyrannosaurus in the original show.
  • Screwed by the Network: The show falls into this territory from time to time despite its popularity, as evidenced by the Executive Meddling and Series Hiatus entries above and below. Additionally, some people felt like it suddenly moving back from Disney Channel to Disney XD made it much less accessible for a bigger audience, with many people not even having any idea about episodes airing (though that was more due to the crew wanting episodes aired in the consistent proper order rather than the show itself being unsuccessful).
    • As of 2020, it was not renewed for a fourth season ahead of the third season's premiere unlike the others, which questions the fate of the show despite the fact it has a World Showcase Adventure yet to open.
    • On December 1, 2020, Drew Taylor confirmed on his Twitter that the third season will be the end of the show. The final episodes will roll out in early 2021. On the plus side, the entire crew was well aware this could happen and were able to construct the entire season from the start as a conclusion to the story.
  • Series Hiatus:
    • In the US, the hiatus lasted roughly 5 months from December 2, 2017 to May 1, 2018, due to the channel hop to Disney Channel. However in Scandinavia, the hiatus ended three and a half months later on March 21.
    • To make matters worse, Season 2 went on hiatus after the Christmas episode, which lasted for 3 months and aired one episode, before going back on hiatus until May again. And after two weeks where new episodes were aired Monday through Friday it was put on hiatus again this time until September!
    • A little over a week before the season 2 finale, Francisco Angones revealed that this is all part of Disney Channel's new binge watching strategy, where there have to be at least 8-10 episodes ready to be released all at once instead of just 1-2. Season 3 didn't come out until early April 2020.
    • After the seventh episode of Season 3, the show went on a four month hiatus from May to September with the COVID-19 pandemic being the reason for the hiatus being longer than intended.
  • Short Run in Peru:
    • "The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks!" aired on Disney XD Canada on October 14, 2017, a week ahead of its American release date of October 21, but in line with its original release date before "The House of the Lucky Gander!" was moved ahead.
    • Beginning March 21, 2018 new episodes began airing in Scandinavia, while the series remained on hiatus in the U.S. until May 1, 2018.
  • Shown Their Work: in relation to Scotland:
    • In "Moonvasion!" Scrooge paraphrases the Scottish proverb "Twelve Highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion."
    • In "The Fight For Castle McDuck!" the McDucks' dinner includes black pudding, a kind of blood sausuage made from the leftovers of a slaughtered pig out of Scottish frugality, and they use the Scots term "tatties" to describe potatoes.
  • Shrug of God: When asked what type of bird Gabby McStabberson was, Frank Angones responded "Is 'Grace Jones' a type of bird?"
  • Teasing Creator:
    • Frank Angones, whenever directly asked about Darkwing Duck's chances of showing up, would quote his Mad Libs Catchphrase, and then say "Never heard of him." He was later confirmed to be showing up at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con.
    • Frank Angones also revealed that Duckworth appears in the intro sequence, but not any more details. Fan speculation has gone wild. "McMystery at McDuck McManor!" finally reveals the truth: he is the skull-headed ghost that scares the children.
    • Darkwing Duck is introduced as a character in an in-universe tv show, played by an in-universe actor named Jim Starling. In real life, a fan asked if that meant a Gosalyn also existed. Frank Angones's response was "Darkwing without Gosalyn is not Darkwing." Fans thought that meant Gosalyn would be appearing eventually. As it turned out, there was no Gosalyn in the in-universe TV show, and therefore that Darkwing was never the real Darkwing. In fact, Jim Starling becomes Negaduck. (Gosalyn does eventually appear, but alongside the real Darkwing Duck, Drake Mallard.)
    • In the weeks leading up to the second season finale, Frank Angones teased that a character would be killed off before the season was over, and that said character was on the Season 3 poster from that year's San Diego Comic Con. Epileptic Trees ensued, with Penumbra being seen as the most likely candidate. The "death" was that of a Mickey Mouse-shaped (and voiced) Companion Cube watermelon, which was unceremoniously eaten by Gladstone and Fethry, as well as two of Gyro's clones, one of whom may or not have been the real Gyro.
  • Technical Advisor: To accurately portray Della Duck as an amputee in terms of design and movement, Jack Richmond and Tonya Osborne-Simpson of the Amputee Coalition were tapped as consultants.
  • Throw It In!: Fethry Duck's blue krill song in "The Depths Of Cousin Fethry" was improvised by Tom Kenny.
    • For "Woo-oo!", Dewey singing his own adventure music in Atlantis was in the script, but it didn't have a melody planned ahead of time. Ben Schwartz just made it up on the spot while recording his dialogue.
  • Time-Shifted Actor: "Last Christmas" had a young Donald voiced by Russi Taylor instead of Tony Anselmo, even though she was ironically older than him. Later on, after she passed away, the role did go to a younger actor, Cristina Valenzuela.
  • Tuckerisation: To two of their greatest contributors.
    • The thing that made Donald speak in a normal voice was named the "Barksian voice modulator", named after comic book writer Carl Barks, whose Donald Duck character was always perfectly understandable in his dialogue-cloud.
    • The thing that made gravity go sideways and upway in a episode was named "The Rosa Stones", named after Don Rosa who once wrote a story where Magica cursed Scrooge and Donald to fall sideways.
    • Zan Owlson is named after Suzanna Olson, who served as the show's producer for 46 episodes.
  • Word of Gay:
    • In "They Put a Moonlander on the Earth!", Penumbra says she's not interested in dating an "Earth male". Storyboard artist Sam King later confirmed Penny is meant to be a lesbian.
    • After the show ended, Sam King herself thought every character, except Lunaris, was "LGBTQIA+ in some shape or form".
  • Word of God:
    • Frank Angones confirmed in advance that there would be no romance between Webby or any of the triplets because he didn't want to verify a ship and shut down another one in the process, as well as the fact that the show is about family, with only a few aspects being about romantic relationships. Of course, this hasn't stopped people from shipping Dewey/Webby. In hindsight, the primary reason for this is likely that Webby is biologically related to the triplets via cloning.
    • Duckworth's Last Words were "Very good, sir." Takes on a darker context when the Grand Finale all but states that Bradford had Duckworth murdered, meaning Duckworth’s death was likely extremely sudden and he neither saw it coming nor did he know the culprit given he never brings it up to Scrooge.
    • Dewey and Louie are members of the Junior Woodchucks too. They're just not as enthusiastic about the organization as Huey is.
    • Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is required reading for new crew members.
  • Write Who You Know: Matilda owning an emu farm is something that Madison Bateman based on her high school theater teacher's husband, who was known for crazy, get rich quick schemes.

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