Don Karnage

**Don Karnage** is a recruiting antagonist in the *Ducktales reboot* series and the main antagonist in the *TaleSpin* series.

## Character Information

### Aliases:

Captain, Boss (by Air Pirates)
Dread Pirate Karnage

### Occupation:

Pirate
F.O.W.L member

## Other

### Allies:

Air pirates, Flintheart Glomgold (briefly), F.O.W.L

### Enemies:

Kit Cloudkicker, Baloo, Rebecca Cunningham, Scrooge McDuck, Della Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie

## Background Information

### Tv Shows:

TaleSpin
Ducktales (2017)

## Appearances

### TaleSpin

Don Karnage is a recurring character, serving as an adversary to Baloo and his friends. In the series' movie pilot, Karnage steals a stone from Khan industries and then tries to retrieve it from Kit Cloudkicker, who had stolen it from him in turn. In the series, his air pirates often patrol the outskirts of Cape Suzette in his flying fortress carrier called the *Iron Vulture*. There they lie in wait within the clouds for unsuspecting pilots to pass so they can run an air raid. They have tried many times to get into the city to invade and plunder Cape Suzette, but are usually shot down by the artillery guns.

### Ducktales (reboot)

A rebooted version of Don Karnage first appears in the crossover episode "Sky Pirates...in the Sky!" of the reboot. This version of Karnage is just as narcissistic and ruthless as the original, only to be absent-minded as well. Additionally, his megalomania drives him to literally hound the spotlight in show-stopping musical numbers he constantly leads his crew into. As a result, his treatment of said crew is more akin to an instructor rather than a captain, albeit a harsh one (still willing to eliminate underlings who fail him). The end of the episode sees him seemingly coming to terms with how his crew feels mistreated and admitting he is harsh because he wants to help them improve their individual flaws—although this may just have been manipulative lies to ensnare them back into his service.

Karnage encounters the McDucks after successfully plundering them. Karnage later captures Dewey after the latter made his way onboard the Iron Vulture. Unfortunately for Karnage, he is met with opposition by his own crew and overthrown. Forced to work with the McDucks to get his crew back, Karnage boards their plane to get back to the Vulture just as the crew revolts against Dewey. Karnage rallies his crew back before he fights Dewey himself, but he is ultimately foiled by the combined efforts of the McDucks, leading him to declare Dewey a bane on himself when the Vulture crashes into a mountain.

Karnage later appears in the Season 2 episode "GlomTales!" as one of the supporting antagonists in the episode and also one of Scrooge's greatest villains ever fought planning to defeat the McDuck family. He joined the group to gain revenge on Dewey Duck. However, this scheme eventually falls apart once Flintheart Glomgold, who brought all the other villains together, reveals that he was just using them to combine their respective fortunes so that he could beat Scrooge and win the bet they made, with the full intent of stealing all their fortunes afterward for himself. This causes him and all the others to turn on him and subsequently give chase when he flees, effectively dissolving their temporary partnership.

Karnage appears in the Season 3 episode "The Lost Cargo of Kit Cloudkicker!". He was chasing Kit Cloudkicker who was delivering a box containing the Stone of What Was for F.O.W.L, but the stone's magic causes a chicken and goat to fuse; scaring Kit and causing him to drop it somewhere over the ocean. Some time later, Don Karnage returns to search for the stone and when he sees Dewey alongside Kit, he attacks his two "greatest arch-enemies". Kit cloud surfs and defeats Karnage and the pirates by destroying their planes. In the middle of the ocean, Karnage solemnly sings about another failure when he sees a piece of the stone, which was chipped off when the Ducks were getting it back from him, and plots his revenge.

He appeared in the series finale, "The Last Adventure!" as a full-time member of F.O.W.L. He was last seen crashing into the Sunchaser's wing when facing Dewey one final time. He was not seen again after that leaving it uncertain whether he survived the crash or not.