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Darkwing Dance Crew

## The Darkwing Dance Crew

The **Darkwing Dance Crew** were a group of various species from the 2017 Continuum.

## Description

The Darkwing Dance Crew were a dancing corp assembled by Dewey Duck for the production of the movie *Darkwing: First Darkness*.

## Behind the scenes

The Darkwing Dance Crew appear in the 2019 *DuckTales 2017* episode *The Duck Knight Returns*.

The concept of multiple characters dressed in attire similar to that of Darkwing Duck resembles that of the Darkwing Squad.
Cupid Babies

First & only page of the story.

 ***Cupid Babies*** is a comic story written and drawn by Aristide Twain. It features child versions of a Green Gorilla, Thymon and Li'l Thymon, a Retconning Crocodile and the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids themselves.

## Plot

What if the Cupid cast were aged down into highly marketable baby forms?

### Continuity

* The baby Retconning Crocodile sits by what is labelled a “red fish-egg”, in reference to the Red Herring wielded by the adult Crocodiles in *The Frost King's Treasure* (2019).
* Li'l Thymon, from *A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol* (2019), makes a repeat appearance.
* The box of cogs used to build the first few Clockwork Cherubs is shown to have been “Property of the Horde of the…", cut off by a “Sold” sign. The Horde were shown to be in the business of creating robots in *Mickey Mouse and the Shadow of the Colossus* (2005), with the idea that the Horde are connected to the genesis of the Cupids tying in with *Hare-Brained Hooligans* (2018).

## Behind the scenes

*Cupid Babies* was released on May the 22nd, 2020 on the *Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids* website. It was the 25th Cupid comic strip of the regular series, hence its status as an “event” story.
Contrariwise

First page of the story.

 ***Contrariwise*** is an unofficial comic story written and drawn by Sarah Jolley. It features Magica De Spell, Gladstone Gander, Scrooge McDuck, Soapy Slick Jr. and Donald Duck, and also mentions Soapy Slick. It is a sequel to *Body Swap*.

## Plot

After Magica De Spell's leftover body-swap bombs accidentally go off and switch her up with Gladstone Gander, she decides to take advantage of this happenstance rather than change back, counting on using Gladstone's guise to get the Number One Dime. Complicating matters is that Magica-as-Gladstone also has the real Gladstone's luck, and Gladstone-as-Magica has the original's magic powers…

### Continuity

* This story is a direct sequel to *Body Swap* (2006), its plot kicked off by Magica still having some spare body-swap bombs from the event of *that* story, which seem to have just happened, placing the events of this story in 2006.

## Behind the scenes

This story is one of a series of unofficial homages to the characters written and drawn by Sarah Jolley (author of the acclaimed comic *The Property of Hate*). It was released in 2017 for free on the Internet.
Dark Mines of the Phantom Metal

First page of the story.

***Dark Mines of the Phantom Metal***, entitled **Topolino e le Miniere di Fantametallo'** in the original Italian, is a comic story written and penciled by Casty and inked by Michelle Mazzon. It features Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Eurasia Toft, the Horde of the Violet Hare, and, in their debut, Professor Cartier, Count Zoox, Captain Boiler, the Grandmaster and the Giant of Cornwall.

## Description

Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Eurasia Toft come to Cornwall to meet Professor Cartier, a leading expert on Atlantis. Though Cartier refuses to help them, they find themselves much closer to their goal as they thought, as they once again run into operatives of the Horde of the Violet Hare (this time headed by the ruthless sailor Captain Boiler), who are exploiting a "mine" of Orichalcum that is really priceless Atlantean ruins… And how to the eccentric local Count Zoox, some Phoenicean relics, and the explosives rigged around the "mine" fit into all this?

## Behind the scenes

This story was first printed in August of 2005 in *Topolino* #2880. It was printed in English in *Mickey Mouse* #323. As per the American tradition, the dialogue was not only translated, but also reworked, by Jonathan Gray.

It is the second story in Casty's "Atlantis cycle", following *Shadow of the Colossus* and succeeded by *The Fire Eye of Atlantis*.
Daisy Duck (2017 Continuum)

**Daisy Duck** is a female anthropomorphic duck and the 2017 Continuum's counterpart to the original Daisy Duck.

## Description

This version of Daisy, strong-lived as ever, worked as a professional, no-nonsense party planner by 2020, when she encountered Donald Duck while he was on a mission to make the Three Caballeros celebrities. The two ended up falling in love and soon began dating regularly.

## Behind the scenes

The *DuckTales 2017* was hugely anticipated by the fandom, and her delayed debut was finally announced in July of 2019 at a convention. Prior to her debut in *Louie's Eleven*, she was already present in the unlicensed comic *The Babysitter* in 2018. An earlier plan was to introduce her in *Woo-oo!* in a role similar to Zan Owlson, working for Flintheart Glomgold.

Daisy Duck is voiced by Tress MacNeille.
Debbie Affidavit

**Debbie Affidavit, Esq.** is a female dognose.

## Description

This smarty-dressed, impressively tall woman is an executor (described by Panchito Pistoles as “sleazy”, though she merely demonstrated sheer greed, without any obvious illegality to go with it). In the 1940's, she was tasked with handling Clinton Coot's last will and testament, which gave the Adventure Cabana and its contents to Donald Duck, José Carioca and Panchito Pistoles. She carried out this task efficiently but with utter disinterest, and skipped town the moment she was done. She later returned to confirm Donald Fauntleroy Duck's appointmant as president of the New Quackmore Institute.

## Behind the scenes

Debbie Affidavit first appeared in 2018 in the first episode of *Legend of the Three Caballeros*, *Dope-a-Cabana*, and appears again in its finale *Sheldgoose Square Dance*.
Dart Guns

First page of the story.

 ***Dart Guns*** is an unofficial comic story written and drawn by Mark Spark, set in the 2017 Continuum. It features Webby Vanderquack, Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Gabby McStabberson and the Smashnikov Brothers.

## Plot

As the long return home begins following the events of *Woo-oo!*, Webby and the kids begin a dart gun fight to pass the time, much to the displeasure of McStabberson and the Smashnikov Brothers.

### Continuity

* The comic takes place during the events of *Woo-oo!* (2017), between the Ducks' leaving Atlantis and their arrival back in Duckburg.

## Behind the scenes

This story, published as a fan work on tumblr in 2017 for free, was reblogged on *Frank Angones and the Suspenders of Disbelief*, with Angones praising it as "adorable".
Clock Wise

First page of the story.

 ***Clock Wise*** is an unofficial comic story written and drawn by Sarah Jolley. It features Gyro Gearloose, the Little Helper, Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Elvira Duck and Gus Goose, and mentions John D. Rockerduck.

## Plot

While nearing a burnout, Gyro Gearloose invents a device which increases the dutifulness of anyone who falls prey to its rays — forcing them to do anything which they rationally consider the best use of their time, and blocking any procrastination. Convinced he has finally found the way to solve all of humanity's problems, Gyro whizzes through Duckburg, using it on all he passes…

## Behind the scenes

This story is one of a series of unofficial homages to the characters written and drawn by Sarah Jolley (author of the acclaimed comic *The Property of Hate*). It was released in 2018 for free on the Internet.
Curse Toadstool

A white Curse Toadstool.

 **Curse Toadstools** are a kind of magical mushrooms.

## Description

Curse Toadstools, one of the illicit products sold on the Interdimensional Black Market (where they are purveyed by a literal smug toad of a salesman), are a type of mushroom with the ability to inflict curses on whoever ingests them. The colour of the toadstool corresponds to the type of curse: neon-green specimens cause the target to permanently take on the shade of the mushroom, gray ones leave the subject unable to feel emotions, white ones turn a person into a Wraith, black ones cause death, and glowing orange ones explode upon impact with any surface.

## Behind the scenes

Curse Toadstools first appeared in the 2019 story *Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market*.
Darkwing Duck (2017 Continuum)

* Starling
* Beakley
* Drake
* Manny

Unlike the original, the 2017 Continuum's **Darkwing Duck** was originally a fictional character played by Jim Starling until the identity was taken up in real life by Drake Mallard. A real being, identical to the fictional version portrayed by Starling, also exists in the DW Continuum.

## Description

Darkwing Duck, a caped superhero of the night defeating supervillains throughout St. Canard, known primarily for his large wealth of catchphrases (the most famous being “Let's get dangerous”), started out as the fictional protagonist of a 1980's TV series where he was portrayed by actor Jim Starling. A gender-flipped version of the character was also played by Bentina Beakley in a fan-produced attempt to give the series a proper finale following its early cancellation.

In 2019, following Starling's descent into madness that ended with him taking on the identity of Negaduck, the president of his fanclub, noble-hearted Drake Mallard, who was meant to star in a live-action reboot of the *Darkwing Duck* franchise, was convinced by Launchpad McQuack to actually *become* a real-life Darkwing Duck, with Launchpad as his sidekick.

Scrooge McDuck briefly disguised himself as Darkwing Duck to evade the notice of the Moonlander army during General Lunaris's invasion of Earth. At some point, the Headless Man-Horse also briefly adopted the identity, taking on the name of “Darkhead Horse”.

## Quotes

**Catchphrases:**

*Let's get dangerous!*
**Other (Jim Starling):**

*I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the lone roller skate at the base of villainy's staircase! I am Darkwing Duck!*
*I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the pebble in the penny loafer of depravity! I am--*
*Suck gas, you perfidiously possessed plantain!*
**Other (Drake Mallard):**

*I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the overstuffed burrito that spills onto the lap of crime! I am Darkwing Duck!*
*I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the scream you can hear in space!*
**Other (Scrooge McDuck):**

*I am sharper than the sharpies! I am tougher than the toughies! I am Scrooge McDuck!*
## Behind the scenes

The fictional Darkwing debuted in the 2018 *DuckTales 2017* episode *Beware the B.U.D.D.Y. System*; Drake Mallard debuted, and took up the mantle, in the 2019 episode *The Duck Knight Returns*.

### Voice Actors

* Jim Cummings (*DuckTales 2017*; Jim Starling incarnation)
* Toks Olagundoye (*DuckTales 2017*; Bentina Beakley incarnation)
* Chris Diamantopoulos (*DuckTales 2017*; Drake Mallard incarnation)
* David Tennant (*DuckTales 2017*; Scrooge McDuck incarnation)
Dawn of the Text

First page of the story.

***Dawn of the Text*** is an unofficial title for a *How Are Things In…?* one-panel comic story written and drawn by Sivlia Ziche. It features Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and a Caption Box.

## Description

As he and Minnie run about using a placid Caption Box to shield themselves from heavy rain, Mickey Mouse comments that the square monsters do sometimes have their uses…

### Continuity

* This story serves as a humorous epilogue to Casty's long-form adventure *Night of the Living Text* (2011), first printed alongside *Dawn of the Text* itself.

## Behind the scenes

This story was first printed in *Topolino* #2900, and has never been printed in English.

Like many other similar one-panel cartoons by Ziche, the story was nameless in its first printing. *Dawn of the Text* is a fan-generated title which alludes to George A. Romero's self-spoof *Dawn of the Dead*, to match *Night of the Living Text!*’s English title being an allusion to Romero's notorious 1968 horror film, *Night of the Living Dead*.
Cupid Prime

## The Cupid Prime

 The **Cupid Prime** is the first Mark 1 Clockwork Cherub.

## Description

The first fully-functional Clockwork Cherub crafted by the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids's mysterious Creator, the Cupid Prime was later appointed supreme leader of the Crew after the Creator became a recluse. In practice, however, the Cupid Prime is a dissolute layabout who leaves all of the actual ruling to the Supreme Quaestor of the Cupid Intelligence Institute and to the Cupid Parliament.

## Behind the scenes

The Cupid Prime was first mentioned in 2019 in *Cupid Fact File No. 001 — The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids*. He later appeared in person as a secondary character in *The Trial of a Dark Lord*.
Count Zoox

**Count Zoox** is a male dognose.

## Description

A nobleman from Cornwall, Count Zoox is well-known as an eccentric dingbat obsessed with Atlantis, though knowing very little about it. In truth however, his lisp and his crazy manners are but a cover for one who is actually one of the leaders of the Horde of the Violet Hare, namely Haremaster Nine.

In 2011, assisted by shady character Captain Boiler, Zoox set up an elaborate plan to harvest Orichalcum from some nearby Atlantean ruins. Zoox intended to use the metal, whose properties he gravely misunderstood, to build battleships for the Horde. In testament to their true evil, Zoox and Boiler were prepared to murder all the miners who had extracted the Orichalcum, thus keeping the whole operation a secret. Naturally, both plans fell through, thanks to the efforts of Eurasia Toft, Mickey Mouse and Goofy.

## Behind the scenes

Count Zoox was first seen in the story *Dark Mines of the Phantom Metal*, written in 2007 and published in 2011.
Cupid Fact File No. 180 — The Society of the Rhyming Dove

***Cupid Fact File #180 — The Society of the Rhyming Dove*** is a prose story, written by Lupan Evezan. The fourth *Cupid Fact File*, it features the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids and also mentions the Society of the Rhyming Dove and the Gang of the Green Gorilla, as well as an individual Cupid, Philatel-426.

## Description

Like other *Cupid Fact Files*, the short story purports itself to be a digitized version of a file from the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Archives, detailing information about a target that is, or was once, of interest to the Crew. In this case, it is the secret organization known as the Society of the Rhyming Dove — with most of the article taken up by the history of the Cupids' first encounter with the Society.

### References

* The Cupid Intelligence Institute includes a Department of Postal Services, headed by Philatel-426.
* The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids eventually allied itself with the Society of the Rhyming Dove.

### Continuity

* The Society of the Rhyming Dove are inexplicably enamored with the idea of locating Atlantean artifacts, as shown (and explained) in *Hare-Brained Hooligans* (2018).
* When referring to the Gang of the Green Gorilla and their rivalry with the Cupids, the article links directly to a previous installment of *Cupid Fact Files* that was all about said Gang, *Cupid Fact File No. 177 — The Green Gorillas* (2019).

## Behind the scenes

This short story was released in 2019 on the *Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids* website.
Crimson Crate

The ***Crimson Crate*** is or was Yellow Beak's sailing ship.

## Description

When he took the Seven Dwarfs on a treasure-hunting adventure to Nothing Atoll, a still-two-legged Yellow Beak was the skipper of this ship, called the *Crimson Crate* for its bright red hull. However, by 1942, when he sailed to Morgan's Island with Donald Duck and his nephews, Yellow Beak had to charter a new boat, and hadn't the funds to do so, suggesting he had lost the *Crate* by then.

## Behind the scenes

The *Crimson Crate* appears in the 1949 story *The Seven Dwarfs and the Pirate*.
Daily Dirge

A 1963 issue of the Dirge.

The ***Daily Dirge*** is a newspaper published in Duckburg.

## Description & History

The *Daily Dirge* is a local Duckburg newspaper read (among others) by Gyro Gearloose. In 1963, one of its issues reported on the City of Duckburg's wish to hire "daredevil painters" to repaint Narrows Bridge, which caught the eye of a Gyro who was, at the time, eager to test a new invention of his.

## Behind the scenes

The *Daily Dirge* appears briefly in the 1963 Carl Barks story *A Helper's Helping Hand*.
Crump

**Crump** was an individual of unknown gender.

## Description

According to a story once told by the Ghost Host, a book by Crump was among the volumes in the bookcase in architects Mr Davis and Mr Coats's study as they got to work designing Gracey Manor. It was filed next to a book by Atencio.

## Behind the scenes

Crump's name appears in the 2005 story *Blueprint for Murder*. Like all the names of authors in the story, it is an allusion to one of the Imagineers responsible for designing *The Haunted Mansion* in the real world — in this case, Rolly Crump.

It is unknown if Crump is to be taken to be related to the Caretaker of the Haunted Mansion, whom certain sources identify as “Silas Crump”.
Department of Postal Services

## The Departmentof Postal Services

Thymon's hat during his employ in the Department of Postal Services (as seen in the comic strip “Whatever Happened to Lord Thymon?”).

## Background

### Founder

Philatel-426
& Mailbag-431

## Behind the scenes

### In

*Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race*

 The **Department of Postal Services** is one of the departments of the Cupid Intelligence Institute, itself a subdivision of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids.

## Description

The Department of Postal Services is the organization which, in the Cupid Homeworld, handles the sorting and delivery of mail, be it from the outside or internal to the Crew. The Department was founded by Philatel-426 and Mailbag-431, who soon left the Homeworld to become an explorer, and eventually died, leaving grumpy old Philatel-426 alone as Prefect of the Department. Lord Thymon, after he was turned loyal to the Cupids by Juliet-178, was invited to work for the Department, becoming a much more efficient mail-sorter than the Department had ever enjoyed.

## Behind the scenes

The Department of Postal Services was first mentioned in the 2019 *The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids* story *Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race*.

### Notes & References

1. ↑ *A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol* (2019).
2. ↑ *Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving* (2019).
3. ↑ *Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race* (2019), *Whatever Happened to Lord Thymon?* (2019).
Concavia

Mickey Mouse and Wing Ding arrive in Concavia.

**Concavia**, officially the **Kingdom of Concavia**, is an underground world located in the depths of the planet Earth.

## History and Description

Concavia is a mysterious underground kingdom, located, according to its inhabitant Wing Ding, about 5000 miles beneath the surface of the Earth. It is a place where ordinary physics appear not to apply, as it is as common to walk on the (grassy) ceiling as it is on the ground, and, indeed, most people do. Light in Concavia is supplied by the Concavia Lights Work, a factory which somehow vacuums up raw darkness and converts it into bright sunlight. Other strange features of Concavia include the Uphill River (which flows ever upwards, until it reaches the surface as Old Faithful) and the fact that aside from the Twitz, none of its denizens ever utter a noise.

Aside from various animals, no different from their surface-world counterparts, there are two species that inhabit Concavia. The first are the Concavians, short, elf-like humanoids who live a peaceful life as the Kingdom of Concavia. Concavians, who have many peculiar customs and enjoy surprisingly advanced technology, were locked until 1954 in perpetual war with the Twitz, a mischievous race of two-dimensional beings with a taste for marshmallows.

In 1954, Mickey Mouse was brought to Concavia by the Concavian explorer Wing Ding using the Earthaplane to become its King and find new and better ways to fight the war with the Twitz. Unfortunately for the Concavians (who privately thought the war their first and best source of entertainment), Mickey proved too good at this and captured the entire Twitz army by luring them into a goldenrod field where their out-of-control sneezing ended up incapacitating them; thus ending the war for good. Mickey then appointed Wing Ding the new King of Concavia in his stead, and headed back for the surface through the Uphill River (the Earthaplane having been destroyed).

## Behind the scenes

Concavia is the main location in the 1954 comic strip continuity *A Fatal Occupation*.
Cupid Fact File No. 444 — The Faction of the Fooling Fish

***Cupid Fact File #444 — The Faction of the Fooling Fish*** is a prose story, written by Lupan Evezan. The fifth *Cupid Fact File*, it features the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids and the Faction of the Fooling Fish, as well as obliquely referencing the Horde of the Violet Hare. Individual Cupids playing a part in the story include Colonel-028, Acquaintanceship-982 and Bibliophile-962. The character of Archibald Fishflipper is also mentioned.

## Description

Like other *Cupid Fact Files*, the short story purports itself to be a digitized version of a file from the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Archives, detailing information about a target that is, or was once, of interest to the Crew. In this case, it is the secret organization known as the Faction of the Fooling Fish, who end up highjacking the file themselves…

### References

* The Cupid Intelligence Institute includes a Department of Documentation which keeps the Cupid Archives supplied, as well as a Department of Rifts. Members of the former are called Recorder Cupids.
* For cases not requiring the attention of the elite Scarlet Wings, the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids sends in the nigh-untrained Blue Feather.
* The Faction were founded by Archibald Fishflipper.

### Continuity

* The account of Archibald Fishflipper's foundation of the Faction of the Fooling Fish is consistent with that of the origins of the various Horde of the Violet Hare copycats given in *Hare-Brained Hooligans* (2018).
* Like in the *Joe Torcivia's The Issue At Hand* comments where they made their debut, the Fish's first interaction with the Copper-Colored Cupids saw them try to play April's Fools tricks days too late, and then attempt to brainwash their victims into forgetting it *wasn't* April the 1st.
* This story introduces the Rifts plot point given more heft as “the Rifts Crisis” in *The Mad Cupid of the Euclidean Plane* (2019), becoming a recurring story arc throughout the *Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids* series and eventually dovetailing into the events of the *DuckTales 2017* episode *Let's Get Dangerous!* (2020).

## Behind the scenes

This short story was released in 2019 on the *Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids* website and later collected in *The Quintessential Cupid*, where it was given a new illustration as well as supplemented with a “Tech Note” from Technician-042 tying in with other such Tech Notes seeded throughout the book.
Crash Course

* Page 1
* Page 2

 ***Crash Course*** is an unofficial *DuckTales 2017* comic strip written and drawn by Christine Ridgway. It was retweeted and canonized by Francisco Angones. The comic features the 2017 Continuum's version of Drake Mallard's Darkwing Duck, Launchpad McQuack and Della Duck, as well as a cameo by Gosalyn Mallard, who hadn't actually made her 2017 Continuum debut at the time.

## Plot

While washing dishes, Della Duck receives a panicked phone call from Drake Mallard…

## Behind the scenes

This comic strip was posted on Twitter by artist and noted *DuckTales 2017* fan Christine Ridgway, before being retweeted and therefore effectively canonized by Francisco Angones.
Dalek Emperor

## Secondary relatives

The **Dalek Emperor** is a a humongous Dalek from Earth-5556.

## Description

The ruler of all Daleks, and, per some sources, the first Dalek of all times, the booming-voiced Emperor Dalek resides in a giant golden casing on the planet Skaro, almost as large as his overinflated ego which makes him see himself as the God of All Daleks, and the only one worthy to create new forms of Daleks (even above Dalek creator Davros).

When Lord Vortech recruited a number of Daleks as part of his armies of villain in his bid to take over the entire multiverse, he did not inform the Dalek Emperor, who nonetheless got wind of the strange interdimensional happenings when he stumbled upon one of the Keystones, the Scale, a device which allowed him to enlarge himself or other Daleks at will.

Believing the interdimensional hijinks to be the doing of the Doctor as part of a plan to harm the Daleks, the Emperor captured Wyldstyle, Batman and Gandalf, hoping to get the Doctor's plan out of them. In the ensuing battle, however, the Emperor was hit with a ray from his own Keystone and shrunken to mouse size. As the trio escaped in the TARDIS with the Doctor, the miniaturized, helpless Emperor was last seen being bullied by the CyberKing, another villain encountered by the adventurous trio on Earth-5556 and greatly diminished as a result.

## Behind the scenes

A recurring antagonist in the *Doctor Who* series, the Dalek Emperor, who debuted in 1966 in the episode *The Evil of the Daleks*, appears in the 2015 crossover video game *LEGO Dimensions* as a secondary antagonist.

### Voice Actors

**Note:** Most of these performances were in non-Disney productions involving the Doctor's adventure in his own continuity, and they are not covered on this wiki but on the *Tardis Data Core*, the primary *Doctor Who* Wiki. The links for those of the actors listed below who did not have any other roles considered canonical on this Wiki likewise point to their pages on *Tardis*.

* Peter Hawkins (*The Evil of the Daleks*)
* Nicholas Briggs (*The Parting of the Ways*, *Desperate Measures*, *The Heavenly Paradigm*, *LEGO Dimensions*)
Double-O-Duck (disambiguation)

***This is a disambiguation page for "Double-O-Duck". By "Double-O-Duck", you might mean:***

## In-universe

* **Launchpad McQuack**, given the title of **Double-O-Duck** in 1987 while he was confused with Bruno von beak;
* **Double-O-Duck**, Launchpad McQuack's hyperintelligent alter-go in the 2017 Continuum;
* ***Double-O-Duck***, the augmented-reality video game from the 2017 Continuum which inspired Launchpad's alter-ego's creation.

## Real-world

* ***Double-O-Duck***, the 1987 episode of the original *DuckTales* series;
* ***Double-O-Duck***, the pitched cartoon series which eventually morphed into the finished *Darkwing Duck*;
* ***Double-O-Duck in You Only Crash Twice***, the 2020 episode of *DuckTales 2017*.
Cupid Parliament

## The Cupid Parliament

The pre-2019 Parliament building.

 The **Cupid Parliament** is the governing body of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids.

## Description

The Cupid Parliament is made up of the various Prefects of the Cupid Intelligence Institute, as well as the Copper-Colored Council of Elders, the council of the ten earliest Cupids in the Cupid Homeworld.

Although intended to determine the Crew's policies and the leadership of the Homeworld, the Parliament is a largely inefficient organization, spending most of its time locked in endless arguments between its members about irrelevant details; being robots with no need to eat or sleep, the Cupid dignitaries have been known to hold the floor for days on end belaboring their points.

A general frustration with this mode of government is at the heart of the Triangular Society's rebellious intent. The destruction of the Parliament building was finally enacted in 2019 by Conquest-932, who was exiled to Shenanig for the offence; the Parliament itself, as a body politic, was not dissolved, however, with Conquest's coup failing to cohere.

## Behind the scenes

The Cupid Parliament was first mentioned in *Cupid Fact File No. 184 – The Mob of the Maroon Magpie*.
Cowboy Robots

A 2002 issue of the comic, peered over by Donald Duck.

***Cowboy Robots*** is a comic book series read by Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck.

## Description

*Cowboy Robots* is a popular American comic book. Judging by its title and cover, it appears to be a fanciful tale combining loose science-fiction with western, focusing on robotical "toughies" acting the part of Far West heroes.

In 2002, Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck found ads for the "Sorcerer Supreme Magic Kit" in issues of *Dragons & Damsels* and *Cowboy Robots*, and subsequently ordered said kit. A short while later, Donald Duck combined plagiarized ideas from both these titles to create his own nightmarish "character", the two-headed robot-dragon Melvin.

## Behind the scenes

*Cowboy Robots* appeared in the 2002 story *Can You Imagine… Melvin?*.

It is interesting to note that, in yet another example of Disney comics characters' apparent amnesia when it comes to skepticism, Donald scoffs at the concepts of both *Dragons & Damsels* and *Cowboy Robots*, even though he has encountered more than one robot or dragon in his day.
Dedi

**Dedi** was a human man from Egypt.

## Description

Dedi was a hypnotist and illusionist from Egyptian times who once impressed King Cheops by appearing to take control of the mind of a wild lion through sorcery, though in truth, it was only a mundane bit of hypnosis. Dedi remained famous, and, by 1957, Mickey Mouse told his story as part of a lecture he gave on magic throughout human history.

## Behind the scenes

Dedi appears in flashbacks in the 1957 story *Mickey Mouse in Magic Land*.

Dedi (more properly spelled "Djedi") is a genuine figure of a magician from Egyptian folklore, though it is unlikely that such a person ever existed. Taming wild lions is cited as merely one of his many feats in the original tale, which does not call into doubt that he was genuinely supernatural.

The comic story amusingly describes "animal hypnosis" as a mundane, non-magical trick, as was common in the 1950's, before it became widely accepted that most forms of hypnosis as depicted in media were as bogus as the magic it is supposedly standing in for in this story. Although within the confines of the Disney comics universe, it is long-accepted that hypnosis is a genuine phenomenon, and a separate school from sorcery, this should not be confused with historical truth.
Concentrated Fuel

The Concentrated Fuel is a chemical.

## Description

Professor Mollicule had found a cheap way to fly up to space and grab falling satellites before they burn up due to re-entry friction.

Pr. Mollicule’s fuel is concentrated, and therefore has a lesser volume than other fuels. But because it is so tightly packed, it burns slowly. And while planes powered by it go only around 100 km/h, it allows cheap space flight.

At slow speeds, there is no risk of breaking into a space/time warp, something that always worried Pr. Mollicule.

## Behind the scenes

It was featured heavily in *The Duck Who Fell to Earth*.
Coats Automatic Hydraulic Coffinizer

Mr Davis is caught in the Coats Automatic Hydraulic Coffinizer.

The “**Coats Automatic Hydraulic Coffinizer**” was a machine supposedly built by Mr Coats.

## Description

According to one of the stories of the Haunted Mansion's history told by the Ghost Host over the years, one of the Mansion's two architects, Mr Coats, murdered the other (Mr Davis) by trapping him inside an inescapable coffin using his “Coats Automatic Hydraulic Coffinizer” (Parent Pending), which, after Coats activated it by pulling a wall sconce, entrapped Davis into the box where he stood. This was the origin of the Coffin Occupant.

## Behind the scenes

The Coats Automatic Hydraulic Coffinizer appears in the 2005 story *Blueprint for Murder*.
Department of Gender Studies

## The Department of Gender Studies

 The **Department of Gender Studies** is one of the Departments of the Cupid Intelligence Institute, itself a subdivision of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids.

## Description

Little is known of the C.I.I.'s Department of Gender Studies, save that it is understandably "immensely interested" in Juliet-178, the only female Clockwork Cherub ever to come out of the Great Foundries.

## Behind the scenes

The Department of Gender Studies is briefly mentioned in *Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving* in 2019.
Daisy Duck

**Daisy Duck** is a female anthropomorphic duck.

## Description

Daisy is Donald Duck's primary love interest and sometimes his fiancée. Much like her boyfriend, Daisy has a hot temper and large, unpredictable moodswings; however, also like him, she is, deep down, a good and caring person. Additionally, Daisy tends to be rather vain; she has a bigger social life than Donald (often gossiping with the likes of Clara Cluck or Clarabelle Cow) and has expensive tastes that Donald can seldom satisfy. Due to both members' tempers, and also to Donald's clumsiness, Donald and Daisy's couple is often put to trial, or broken for a short while, during which Daisy will often flirt with Donald's cousin Gladstone; however, invariably, they are soon driven back to each other.

Daisy is quite skilled at cooking, and her cakes are often featured in Junior Woodchucks raffles as prizes. She is also the president of the Duckburg Ladies' Society, and has spearheaded some great initiatives, such as the "Christmas for Shacktown" initiative which provided for a better Christmas for all children living in a certain poor district of Duckburg.

### Physical Appearance

Daisy looks very much like Donald, although she has longer eyelashes and a more feminine figure. She wears a pink or purple bow on top of her hairless head, and she often has featheres styled upwards as if they were hair.

## Gallery

***Scrooge McDuck Wiki*** has a collection of images and media related to ***Daisy Duck***.
## Behind the scenes

Daisy first appeared in 1940 in *Mr Duck Steps Out*, though she was very much a reworking of older character Donna Duck.

### Voice Actors

* Clarence Nash (*Mr Duck Steps Out*)
* Gloria Blondell (Classical voice from 1945 to 1950)
* Ruth Clifford (*Donald's Dream Voice*)
* Vivi Janiss (*Donald's Diary*)
* June Foray (*How to Have an Accident at Work*, *This Is Your Life, Donald Duck*)
* Janet Waldo (*An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol*)
* Patricia Parris (*Mickey's Christmas Carol*)
* Tony Anselmo (*Down and Out with Donald Duck*)
* Kath Soucie (*Quack Pack*)
* Russi Taylor (*Fantasia 2000*)
* Diane Michelle (Classical voice in 1998 and 1999)
* Tress McNeille (Classical voice since 1999)
* Suzana Binti Ahmad (*Mickey Go Local*)
* Debra Wilson (Classical voice alternate beginning in 2022)

### Notes and References

1. ↑ According to *Disneystrology*.
2. ↑ According to the story, *Forget Me Not* .
3. ↑ *Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree Sketch*.
4. ↑ *Island of the Not-So-Nice*
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 *Daisy's Pet Project*
6. ↑ https://inducks.org/character.php?c=Dinkie
Dingus

***This is a disambiguation page for "Dingus". By "Dingus", you might mean:***

* **Titus McDuck**, also known as **Dingus McDuck**, the grandfather of Scrooge McDuck;
* **Dingus McDuck**, the above character's counterpart in the 2017 Continuum;
* **Dewford Dingus "Dewey" Duck**, the great-great-grandson of the above character.
* **Dexter Dingus**, an electronics genius and criminal, former partner-in-crime of Peg-Leg Pete.
Cupid Fact File No. 315 — The Szaclowk & the Halfworld

The story as presented in “The Quintessential Cupid”.

 ***Cupid Fact File #315 — The Szaclowk & the Halfworld***, subtitled ***Part 1 of 2*** is a prose story, written by Aristide Twain. The fifth *Cupid Fact File*, it features the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids and the Szaclowk.

## Description

Like other *Cupid Fact Files*, the short story purports itself to be a digitized version of a file from the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Archives, detailing information about a target that is, or was once, of interest to the Crew. In this case, it is the dimension known as the Halfworld and the sentient species that inhabits it, the curious "half-beings" who call themselves Szaclowk.

### References

* The Szaclowk call the event that split them in half "the Halving", and, in their mythologies, depict it as an intentional decision by their distant ancestors.
* The Cupid Intelligence Institute includes a Department of Phenomena, a Department of Cutlery and a Department of Applied Mathematics.

## Behind the scenes

This short story was released in 2019 on the *Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids* website and later collected in *The Quintessential Cupid*.

In a bit of metatextual play, the Fact File presents itself as “Part 1 of 2” and contains a link (reading *Continue Reading*) to the supposed Part 2. However, Part 2 does not exist, making the article about the half-things of the half-world itself a half-story. As a link could obviously not be used in a book, the edition of the story in *The Quintessential Cupid* instead refers readers to page 89 for Part 2 — even though the book only has 83 pages (plus covers).
Cupid Fact File No. 177 — The Green Gorillas

***Cupid Fact File #184 — The Green Gorillas*** is a prose story, written by Aristide Twain. The second *Cupid Fact File*, it features the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids and also mentions the Gang of the Green Gorilla and two individual Cupids, Amadeo-378 and Amour-159.

## Description

Like other *Cupid Fact Files*, the short story purports itself to be a digitized version of a file from the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Archives, detailing information about a target that is, or was once, of interest to the Crew. In this case, it is the malevolent organization known as the Gang of the Green Gorilla — with a detailed history of the origins of their rivalry with the Cupids.

### References

* The Gang of the Green Gorilla were already active in 1978, when the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids first heard of them.
* The Cupid Intelligence Institute is mentioned. Its researchers observe other dimensions than the Cupid Homeworld using Celestial Telescopes. In 1978, they fruitlessly tried to use Mind Probes to understand the Gang of the Green Gorilla's brainwashing techniques.
* Vanityville is a city on Earth where the Cupids and Gorillas had their first major skirmish.
* The "soul of the processing unit" of a Clockwork Cherub is a gemstone. Most Cupids are equipped with mere rose quartz, but Amadeo-378, for unclear reasons, was granted a five-point diamond, which made him better at thinking outside the box.
* The existence of a Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids Tax Department is mentioned; Amour-159, a member of it, labels himself a “Collector Cupid”.

## Behind the scenes

This short story was released in 2019 on the *Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids* website and later collected in *The Quintessential Cupid*, where it was given a new illustration as well as supplemented with a “Tech Note” from Technician-042 tying in with other such Tech Notes seeded throughout the book.
Cupid Fact File No. 184 — The Mob of the Maroon Magpie

***Cupid Fact File #184 — The Mob of the Maroon Magpie*** is a prose story, written by Lupan Evezan. The third *Cupid Fact File*, it features the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids and also mentions the Mob of the Maroon Magpie (including its leaders Dr Jeckle and Mr Heckle) and an individual Cupid, Amity-964. The Horde of the Violet Hare is obliquely mentioned.

## Description

Like other *Cupid Fact Files*, the short story purports itself to be a digitized version of a file from the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Archives, detailing information about a target that is, or was once, of interest to the Crew. In this case, it is the malevolent organization known as the Mob of the Maroon Magpie — with a detailed history of their past feud with the Cupids and how a truce was reached.

### References

* The Mob of the Maroon Magpie were already active in 1995, when the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids first heard of them.
* The Scarlet Wings (of which Amity-964 is an operative) are the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' top corps of explorers.
* The Cupid Logic Commission is mentioned.

### Continuity

* The Cupids found "a surprising number of cakes decorated with little purple rabbit heads" among the Magpies' loot, in a reference to two posts (here and here) on *Joe Torcivia's The Issue At Hand* (2018) wherein the Horde of the Violet Hare mention that the Mob crashed the Horde's celebratory party for the induction of their 900th member by stealing all their cakes.

## Behind the scenes

This short story was released in 2019 on the *Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids* website.
Dismal Downs Debacle

**Dismal Downs Debacle** (titled **Opgøret ved Dismal Downs** in the original Danish) is a 2016 comic story by Stefan Printz-Påhlson and Cèsar Ferioli Pelaez. It features Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, Louie, and the Junior Woodchucks, Scrooge McDuck and Flintheart Glomgold.

## Plot

The original Junior Woodchucks Guidebook will be exhibited in London and Donald and the nephews sail there to see it. But when two villains attempt to steal the book, the Ducks discover that Flintheart Glomgold plans to use it to become the richest duck in the world and kill Scrooge McDuck in the process...

## Behind the scenes

This story was first printed in *Anders And & Co.* 27/2016 in Denmark. It has never been published in English to date.
Deus Ex Calibur

Dewey Duck wielding the Sword.

The **Deus Ex Calibur** is an enchanted sword from the 2017 Continuum.

## Description

A long scimitar-like sword with a razor-sharp (incredibly sharp, able to cut right through stone with the barest of effort, as seen with Peghook used the sword to decapitate the stone statue of Scrooge), but significantly damaged blade, the Deus Ex Calibur is a cursed sword. As described by Webby Vanderquack, the Deus Ex Calibur won't rest until it slays its target, flying through the air and glowing with power to chase after its victim.

At some point before 2017, the Sword which found its way to the ownership of Scrooge McDuck (who carelessly kept it in his garage in McDuck Manor). In September 2017, Dewey drew the sword on Dewey Duck out of self defense, unaware to the sword's nature and power. As he pointed the sword towards the captain, it flew away from his hands in an attempt to slay Captain Peghook. However, the sword was caught mid-flight and was then used as a weapon for Peghook. Peghook used the weapon in his brief duel with Scrooge and even managed to cleave off the head of a statue modeled in his likeness. However, Peghook was quickly outsmarted by his opponent and banished to the afterlife.

After their trip to Atlantis, Webby was seen playing with the the sword, to the shock of Dewey.

## Gallery

The sword seeking its targetPeghook catching the swordWebby playing with the Deus Excalibur
## Behind the scenes

The Deus Ex Calibur appears in the 2017 episode of *DuckTales 2017*, *Woo-oo!*.

The name is a pun on the Latin phrase *Deus Ex Machina* ("god from the machine"), which refers to a piece of storytelling where a powerful entity external to the plot comes in to save the protagonists from an inextricable predicament, and the sword Ex Calibur.
Donald Ducks Out

First strip of the story

***Donald Ducks Out*** is a comic story by unknown authors. It features Donald Duck and Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck.

## Description

Donald Duck, fed up with the constant noise of disco music emanating from the houses of Duckburg, decides to move somewhere more peaceful - specifically, outer space. His nephews elect to join him, and the four travel to a new planet in Donald's homemade spaceship. Unfortunately for Donald, even this brand new world is plagued by a noise suspiciously reminiscent of the thumping beats of disco - namely, Huey, Dewey, and Louie testing out the planet's lower gravity by jumping up and down.

### References

* Donald Duck hates disco music.
* Donald Duck is sufficiently technologically skilled to build a working spacecraft.
* Donald has pictures of both a spaceship and a fireman on his wall.
* Books that Donald owns include *Mars on $5* and *Space Houses.*

## Behind the scenes

*Donald Ducks Out* was printed in *Mickey's Space Quiz Fun'N Numbers Book*, a booklet included with the 1980 educational toy *Mickey's Space Quiz*. The story is part of the larger arc featured in the booklet, which details Mickey and friends' discovery of the planet Multiplus Minus.

Oddly, the first strip of the story was printed on page 20 of the booklet, while the final panel, which follows from the strip directly and serves as its punchline, was printed on page 30. An illustration which may have been intended to be a part of the story, featuring Donald and his nephews travelling through space, was printed on page 25.

The final panel of the story
Dogwatch County

Dogwatch County sits in the northeastern region of Calisota. Its county seat is Spoonerville. The southern part of the county is detached from the northern part by the Bay of Biscuits. Its southern part is composed largely of fishing villages and farms. Its northern part is largely composed of the city of Spoonerville. Spoonerville is composed of a mainland attached to the rest of the county and the rest is made up of two large islands. The county is surrounded by Gooseegg County to the north, Murids County to the west and Hot Dog County to the South.
Donald Junior

## Donald Jr

**Donald Junior** (name uncertain) is a peculiar anthropomorphic duckling.

## Background

According to one account, Donald Duck and Daisy Duck settled down together at one point in the 1950's and had a son, who, as a toddler, displayed the same impish temper that his cousins Huey, Dewey and Louie had at his age.

## Behind the scenes

Donald Junior is an oddity who has a small role in the 1959 cartoon *How to Have an Accident at Work*.

It is obviously hard to reconcile his existence with most accepted canon, as in no stories posterior to 1940 do Donald and Daisy ever hint at ever having committed to their relationship to the point of having a child, instead continuing to refer to themselves as "girlfriend" and "boyfriend". The comic story *A “What-If” Love Story of Imaginary Proportions* (1987), in particular, clearly portrayed Donald and Daisy settling down and raising children of their own as a "what-if" scenario about which Donald has a nightmare.

Donald Junior was not explicitly named as such, the name being technically fanmade. In possible allusion to this Donald Junior, the 2014 *Mickey Mouse Clubhouse* episode *Donald Jr.* introduced a character of the same name, a young lookalike of Donald whom Goofy dubs "Donald Jr". Despite misreporting to this effect, the 2014 Donald Jr. is explicitly not the return of Donald's son, but a separate character.
Donald Duck meets Princess Oona

First page of the story.

***Donald Duck meets Princess Oona*** is a comic story written by Stefan Printz-Påhlson and Unn Printz-Påhlson and drawn by Vicar. It features Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Gyro Gearloose, and, in their debut, Princess Oona, Blubba, Slubba and King Mold. The American localization also mentions Professor Mollicule.

## Synopsis

After Daisy accuses her boyfriend Donald of being no more refined than a common caveman, Donald gets so worked up that he and Gyro decide to travel back in time to caveman days to prove he's better than then. There, they come across assertive caveduck princess Oona, who takes a liking to Donald.

## Behind the scenes

This story was first published in November of 1995 in the Swedish *Kalle Anka & Co.* #1995-47. It was printed in English in 2017 in *Donald Duck* #387, with localization by Joe Torcivia.