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[Relique du Madde]

Are people in America aware of Paperinik? I used to own all of the classic stories when I was younger and I used to think that everyone knew about him. Much later I found out he was actually an Italian thing.

As a consequence I found Darkwing Duck baffling. Not the character, but his existance. Why come up with that when the franchise already had something more complex built up.

I think because there continuity issues involved and the fact that in the US people liked Scrooge so having Donald be Scrooge's badguy wasn't cool as it was to have him be Mickey's Nemesis. If anything, I think they decided to create file the numbers off Paperinik and name him DarkWing because they decided to play up Donald being in the Navy for the us cannon and thought they should have someone new be the superhero character they turned Paperinik into. Of course, that said, although I liked Darkwing, I always hated Gizmo Duck.

 

[jonesy]

still, sorry. never seen it. when did it aire?

Paperinik you mean? Just in comics, I think. I don't know what format the Disney stories in the US ran, but here there was (and still is) this long running series of pocketbooks that have all sorts of Disney stories. Though mostly it's Mickey, Donald and Scrooge. Paperinik, called Magic Cape here, was a semi-regular appearance in them. I used to buy only the ones that had him or Scrooge as the main character.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I've only dabbled in Planescape so I don't really know for sure, but since belief plays such a huge part there in everything that is and happens I'd guess that you could make a god fall there simply by getting all of his followers to stop believing in him. Not that it'd be simple.

But the carebear beam? Did that ever not work on the show? It seemed to run on the power of plot resolution.

I think in one episode the beam failed because the world stopped caring. Then they had to do one of those stupid Anime "Everyone we need you to grant us your power of [caring]!" power up events. Then they all powered up and used the beam to blast the badguy into oblivion*.


* I might be confusing some of my drawings I did as a kindergardener with the plot of the tv show. I had one picture I drew were they were blasting people to bits.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Side note; I bought the Kolbold guid to world building book.. It had some interesting essays.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Awww...Armageddon Bear!

 

[jonesy]

That version of the show sounds much more interesting.

 

[jonesy]

Hah. There's a new version happening now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care_Bears:_Welcome_to_Care-a-Lot (is this what started this conversation?)

One of the bears is called Thanks-a-Lot Bear. LOL. That sounds like my kind of bear character, but I kinda doubt it's being sarcastic.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Sarcastic Bear would be awesome...black fur with an image of of a roll-eyes smiley (with an eerie resemblance to Robert Smith of The Cure) on its belly.

Catchphrase: "Yeah, lets go do that!" Usually delivered right after another bear has suggested a course of action, just as SB bonelessly plops down to sit. Occasionally punctuated with a massive *SIGH*

 

[Scott DeWar]

.. .. .. .. .. Occasionally punctuated with a massive *SIGH*

and don't forget to roll those eyes!

 

[Relique du Madde]

He need's to be be voiced by someone with a british accent... preferably Allen Rickman.