DuckTales (2017)

This Disney XD series is a reboot of the original 1980s DuckTales. While it has its share of changes from the 1987 series, fans of the old series should be pleased that the reboot has its share of Mythology Gags and is Truer to the Text. Fans of Disney comics might also be pleased with it returning more to the comics.

The series involves Triplets, Huey Dewey and Louie, their friend Webby, And host of over characters, going on adventures, battling villains, and/or saving the world.

The Triplets lived with Donald and at the end of the first episode all four become homeless, so Scrooge takes them in.

Tropes used in DuckTales (2017) include:

• Aborted Arc:"The Duck Knight Returns!" culminates in a suspenseful moment at the end wherein the character of Jim Starling transforms into this series' Negaduck. Nonetheless, the character in question does not make any further appearances in the series, not even "Let's Get Dangerous".
• Action Mom: Della Duck, a badass mom who speak majority of the boys' lives battling the inhabitants of the moon, trying to get back to her family.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade:
  • In the original show, the triplet's mother is never really shown or mentioned. Here, not only is she acknowledged, but it's a huge plotline that causes tons of angst both before and after she comes back.
  • For once, Donald's Butt Monkey tendencies and his Hair-Trigger Temper aren't Played for Laughs. Having so much crap, unwillingly, foisted on him is what makes him so angry, to the point that he needs professional help to control that anger, all with the backdrop of having no idea what happened to his sister. The presumed death of his sister also made him an Angsty Surviving Twin.
  • Unlike classic media, Scrooge has a much more strained relationship with Donald, thanks to their fallout from Della's disappearance, and with his own father.
• Adaptation Name Change:
  • Zig-zagged. Fenton still has Crackshell as a last name but it's hyphenated with Cabrera.
  • His mother isn't just Ms. Crackshell anymore, she's named María Antonia Magdalena Aldonsa Cabrera. Strangely, she no longer has Crackshell as her last name despite her son having it.
  • Deuteronomy "Dewey" Duck is now Dewford Dingus "Dewey" Duck.
  • Louie's first name is now "Llewellyn" instead of "Louis".
  • Glomgold's birth name is "Duke Baloney".
• Adaptation Species Change: Unlike most Disney works starring Mickey Mouse and his ilk, Santa Claus is depicted as a Talking Animal, a polar bear specifically, rather than a human.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: Fenton's mother goes from a couch potato with rollers in her hair to a stunning middle-aged cop.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Webby in the original show was The Drag Along who needed to be rescued. This Webby throws herself into battle and is fully capable of taking care of herself.
  • Zig-zagged for Darkwing Duck. While he's far more capable in a fight, he's also just starting out and lacks his original counterpart's experience.
• Adaptational Jerkass:
  • Gyro. The original Gyro was a helpful Nice Guy. This Gyro is an Insufferable Genius who knows, and will remind everyone, of how much smarter he is than everyone else. It's presumably why Lil' Bulb gets the same treatment.
  • Glomgold is even more petty than in the original show.
• Adapted Out: While Donald and Goofy are old friends, there's no mention of Mickey Mouse.
• Alien Invasion: The Lunarians invade Duckberg in "Moonvasion!"
• Ambiguous Clone Ending: Gyro creates a bunch of Expendable Clones of himself to fight in "Moonvasion!". By the end, only one survives and no one, not even the duck in question, is sure if it's the original Gyro or a clone.
• Ascended Extra: Della Duck, the triplets' mother and Donald's sister. At no point did any Disney Duck universe media, since its inception, touch on her. Here, she's a main character starting in Season 2.
• Avengers Assemble: Clan McDuck calls on all their colourful allies to defend Earth in "Moonvasion!"
• Big Bad: Season 1 has Magica De Spell.
• Christmas Episode: "How Santa Stole Christmas!"
• Create Your Own Villain: In trying to recreate his own success story, Scrooge angers a tiny Glomgold, thus making him devote his life to being better than him.
• Crossover Cosmology: Deities, legends and spirits from various mythologies show up in the show.
  • Despite Ithaquack being largely based off Greek Mythology, Storkules is a riff on Hercules, the deity's Roman name rather than Heracles.
• Darker and Edgier
• Death by Adaptation: Duckworth is a ghost this time around.
• Disappeared Dad: The boys' father goes unmentioned, the reboot preferring to just show Della.
  • We also never see Fenton's father/Maria's husband.
• Evil Versus Oblivion: F.O.W.L.'s motives following the Lunarian invasion. F.O.W.L. wants only to create evil they can benefit from, an Alien Invasion that can wipe out all life is not something that helps them.
• Fangirl: Webby towards the triplets, Donald and anything that has to do with Scourge.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Della and Donald respectively.
• Insistent Terminology: The Lunarians insist that the moon is a planet. Della lampshades it.
• Jerkass Gods: Zeus who is depicted as a petty and insecure tyrant. Averted for the other Olympians.
• Laughably Evil: Glomgold, Magica Del Spell (though more when she's depowered), and Mark Beaks.
• Like Reality Unless Noted: Despite being populated by Talking Animals, Earth is pretty much the same as it is in the real world.
• Punch Clock Villain: The Moonlander army.
• Race Lift: In the original show, Fenton and his mother don't seem to have a particular race. However, in the reboot, they both are latinx.
• Reality Ensues: In trying to recreate his own success story, Scrooge finds out the hard way that what works for someone doesn't necessarily work for others.
  • At the end of "Timephoon", it's expected Louie's expecting to be Easily Forgiven like he always is, and everyone actually seems to be on board with it...all except Della. Yeah, a mother whose already spent majority of children's lives out of said lives isn't going to take almost losing them again well. Louie gets a scalding scolding from his mother about not thinking about consequences, though he does throw a line back at her.
• Related in the Adaptation: Webby is an Opposite Sex Clone of Scrooge.
• Truer to the Text: Unlike most Disney takes on Classical Mythology, the Olympians are portrayed as fickle Jerkass Gods with a Blue and Orange Morality with Hades being an example of Dark Is Not Evil.
• The Unintelligible: Donald Duck as always. It gets so bad that in "The Shadow War!", Gyro Gearloose shoves a voicebox into Donald's throat, giving him Don Cheadle's voice, so they can understand him.