Ulchthar

Negaduck

I like the one sidedness of their dynamic

Negaduck likes the Prime universe in the sense that he finds it a challenge. His universe is already pretty rotten, and while he finds it fun because he can treat it as a playground in some sort of way–eventually it gets boring. It's why he comes and goes in prime, he appears when he wants, does what he wants and then disappears.

It's interesting because I think a part of him keeps coming back because of Darkwing. (Just a heads up this is NOT negawing) Darkwing is really one of the only characters to put a stick in his wheels and get in the way of his plans, it's why Negaduck constantly has to think of new ways to approach St.Canard. Darkwing is a lot more important in his life than I think he likes to acknowledge.

I do not think Darkwing holds any attachment to Negaduck. He finds him as much of a hassle as he does any other villain in St.Canard. Additionally, I think he's removed himself from Negaduck completely. Darkwing knows they're not the same person (unless we're talking about the good looks they both claim to have). There's no special treatment with him.

When Gosalyn gets involved he obviously doesn't want her there and he'll tell her to go home, but it's nothing nearly as major as Taurus bulba. It gets to the point where Launchpad uses the Quiverwing Quack Episode to tell Darkwing that he's coddling Gosalyn too much. All that's to say, Darkwing doesn't care nearly as much as Nd.

Another thing I think is interesting is his constant attempts to kill Dw. He hates him, and I think a big part of that hate comes from the fact that Negaduck is a varient of Dw. They both have a need to be #1, and tbh I think the mere fact that Negaduck will never be an original, THE varient really annoys him, especially because the original goes against everything he stands for.

It's interesting how tunnel visioned he gets sometimes, how committed he is to offing the hero. Because of how much of a challenge Darkwing is for him, the greatest achievement of all would be to get rid of him entirely.

And he doesn't think that far ahead either because in the case that he does succeed, What then? He'll likely be as bored as he was in his own universe

A DISCOVERY THAT HAS...almost certainly...been pointed out here before. BUT I'VE MADE IT REGARDLESS!!

Out of curiosity, I was doing some research into the names and species of all the birds I didn't recognize in Ducktales (2017).

Regarding Jim Starling/Darkwing Duck from the Duck Knight Returns episode, this was the first image that appeared for a Starling bird:

Whereas most common starlings have this dark, purple, iridescent plumage all across their body, the Hildebrant's starling has a red and yellow chest.

Dark on the outside, but covering a bright red and yellow colour scheme underneath...

Negaduck takes this reveal that he has been used very personally, as something that genuinely hurt him in a way. In the next panels we see him explode and turn everyone into gold, including the rest of the fearsome five.

It is such a particular moment because he rarely loses his cool like this, at least not to this extent that it looks more like an emotional outburst rather than just the typical ¨villain character getting angry their plans failed¨.

Again, it is a moment that takes you by surprise- this wouldn't be unexpected for some villains like Bushroot or Megavolt to do- but not so much for Negaduck.

And as strange as it is, i think it does makes sense when you consider the context in the story and that Negaduck is well... still Drake.

Drake as Darkwing usually cares a lot of how he gets perceived by others to the point he hates it when others ¨steal the spotlight¨ in some episodes like it is the case with Gizmoduck. And in the start of this arc Negaduck is feeling down that he ¨isn't the villain he used to be¨ and that even minor villains are having better ideas than him. So he was trying to come up with an idea to be seen as the ¨Number 1 villain¨ again by stealing Taurus Bulba's plan and finding the Midas' gauntlet by himself.

So it does makes sense why he exploded after all the work he did to find the gauntlet only to learned that he was being used all along. Negaduck was feeling deepy humiliated and it hurt his ego that another villain had outsmarted him like that. He couldn't deal with someone else stealing the glory and attention yet again.