Quackerjack
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Quackerjack is a fictional character from the Disney television series Darkwing Duck, and a major rival of a popular video game star, Whiffle Boy. Quackerjack is voiced by Michael Bell.
[edit] Background
He was once a toymaker who was run out of business after the video game market expanded, but more because his toys were so lethal no one in their right mind would buy them. He became a supervillain who robbed banks to get money to fund his toymaking ventures, in lieu of bringing joy to the little children of St. Canard.
Quackerjack seems to be an amalgamation of the two DC supervillains the Joker and the Toyman.
He also has a little doll named Mr. Banana Brain who he carries around everywhere and talks to. Most of the time he then adapts a high pitched voice to have the puppet talk back, generally in rhyming form. This gives him some elements of another villain The Ventriloquist.
He's a twisted genius, and has built many successful, if a little creepy, toys.
He has been known to team up with Megavolt, and he was a team player of the Fearsome Five (Headed by Negaduck and including Bushroot, Liquidator and Megavolt); but more often than not he works alone. He is also the only member of the Fearsome Five whose real identity and personal back story were never revealed.
His catchphrase is "It's PLAYTIME!"
[edit] In the series
His debut was "Whiffle While You Work", in which he first met Darkwing (though he seemed to know him from somewhere, Darkwing didn't know him) and their rivalry was established.
Sometimes he steals toys, like in "The Haunting of Mr. Banana Brain", where he stole a haunted Jack-in-the-box that contained a demonic entity named Paddywhack, who possessed his doll for a little while, and feeds on the emotion of suffering that he causes others. Quackerjack noticed a change in the voice of his doll (Paddywhack's voice was far deeper than the high pitch Quakerjack used for the doll himself), but seemed unsurprised that the doll was moving and talking under its own power. This means Quakerjack likely is not aware of the doll lacking life of its own, suggesting insanity and draws a parallel to the Batman villain The Ventriloquist. In that episode he was forced to team up with Darkwing Duck to get rid of Paddywhack, or submit to eternal torment specifically designed by Paddywhack with Quackerjack in mind: Paddywhack would fiendishly (from Quackerjack's point-of-view) force Quackerjack to adopt "normal" modes of behavior. This was raucously characterized by the depiction of Quackerjack dressed in a business suit.
Sometimes he attacks rival toy companies, like in "Toys Czar Us", where he forced the manager of a toy store to stock shelves with his personal brand of fun, despite protest.
Once he went back in time using his Time Top to eliminate the very first yo-yo, in Quack of Ages. This ended in his accidental aiding of the invention of the yo-yo, thanks to Darkwing.
Once he used the Top to travel into the future with Megavolt to discover more advanced toys, in Time And Punishment, and thanks to an accidental kidnapping of Gosalyn, turned Darkwing into the revenge-crazed Dark Warrior Duck. Dark Warrior proved to be far more deadly than NegaDuck, and succeeded where the Fearsome Five could not, in that he actually conquered St. Canard and instituted a permanent state of city-wide martial law-style lockdown. He would humorously but viciously punish malefactors for even slight offenses.
As a member of the Fearsome Five Quackerjack appeared in the episode Just Us Justice Ducks. In a fight with Gizmoduck, it is reveled Quackerjack has false teeth.
In "Stressed To Kill", Quackerjack teamed up with Megavolt again, and, using a toy called Mr. Relaxatron, the two had the city in an apathetic daze as they robbed it blind and caused mass mayhem. Throughout the episode he constantly annoys Megavolt by calling him "Sparky".
He briefly appeared as a Fearsome Five member again in the episode "Jailbreak". When Negaduck stole all the powers of the Fearsome Five, it was revealed that Quackerjack's superpower was "wackiness" (Similar to Batman's Joker "superpower" often being referred to as his "super insanity"), without which he became depressed and whiny. Negaduck disliked this power, as it caused him to do silly thing for the sake of comedy and laugh hysterically for seemingly no reason.
[edit] Trivia
Besides Mr Banana Brain, which can be inflated to crush victims, this demented clown of crime's lethal toys include:
- An egghead talking doll which recites only useless and obscure facts to torment helpless victims.
- A flame throwing toy fire engine to destroy St. Canard
- A Giant King Kong Gorilla toy that demolishes rival toy warehouses and then self destructs.
- A Giant Crying Crissy doll that can flood an entire town.
| Darkwing Duck | |
|---|---|
| Characters | |
| Main Characters | Darkwing Duck/Drake Mallard | Gosalyn Mallard | Launchpad McQuack | Honker Muddlefoot |
| Villains | NegaDuck | Megavolt | Bushroot | Quackerjack | The Liquidator | F.O.W.L. | Splatter Phoenix | Taurus Bulba | Hammerhead, Hoof and Mouth | Dr. Fossil |
| Minor Characters | Herb, Binkie and Tank Muddlefoot | J. Gander Hooter | Vladimir Goudenov Grizzlikof | Gizmoduck | Morgana Macawber | Stegmutt | Dr. Sarah Bellum | DarkWarrior Duck |
| Other | |
| Misc | St. Canard | Calisota | Darkly Dawns the Duck | List of Darkwing Duck characters | Tad Stones |
| Media | List of Darkwing Duck episodes | Darkwing Duck DVD releases | Darkwing Duck video game |
