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Super
DuckTales Part 3: Full Metal Duck
The idea of Gizmoduck is interesting. An all-powerful robotic duck controlled by a
bumbling accountant is quite a setup, and this arc pulls it off well. While the last episode introduced Gizmoduck,
this one shows off exactly what he can do, albeit faltering in a few
places.
His full display begins where
the last part left off while also shows that even though Gizmoduck is powerful,
he does have his drawbacks. Fenton, as
Gizmoduck, only takes out Scrooge’s money bin’s security system by pushing random
buttons. Unlike the last part, he
doesn’t have the instruction manual for help, which becomes a bigger deal.
For now, it doesn’t have much weight to it,
for Fenton can function the Gizmoduck suit perfectly from then on. It’s kind of unnatural that he’d control it
so well after fumbling through one fight.
At least the scenes of Gizmoduck impressing Duckburg through little
service acts are well done. They build
appeal for him which works for later on, and allows Fenton to do a lot of
productive good considering what he’s like.
His bumbling side is very much intact though. He has problems of getting
the Gizmoduck suit on and off. Getting
it off comes as a surprise when his mother hits a button on her TV remote,
causing the suit to disassemble. This
works because it was unknown to the audience prior.
What the audience did know was how to get it
on. This makes, the following scene of
Fenton and his mother trying to put it on when Gizmoduck is called to help
again goes on longer than welcome. There
are so many failed attempts to get Fenton into the suit, you most likely won’t
help but wish he’d just say “Blabbering Blatherskite” already. Fortunately, when he does, there’s more of
Gizmoduck in action. This includes short
scenes of Gizmoduck instantly becoming popular which start painting him as
perfect again along with Fenton remaining his friendly self. In fact, his mother is more irrational about
his son’s fame, saying they don’t spend time anymore when they never did before
Gizmoduck was a thing.
The perfection
angle is soon shot down when Ma Beagle spots exactly what happened to
Gizmoduck’s instruction manual. It was
left behind when he fell into her car in the last episode. With it, she breaks a new Beagle Boy,
Megabyte Beagle, a technical beagle and the only one who went to college,
out of jail. Megabyte’s genius and the
manual lead to Gizmoduck’s overpowering.
A remote control is made which not only gets the Gizmoduck suit off, but
controls his actions. From there, the
rest of the episode is Gizmoduck humiliating himself live and performing random
thefts. While this further better rounds
Gizmoduck, it does so by ignoring logical solutions that could protect his
reputation. Duckburg is shocked that
Gizmoduck is stealing things and soon turn their loyalty into protest. Fenton could just try to explain that
someone’s controlling him, and while he tries, he keeps saying the wrong things
which can get frustrating. Heck, Huey,
Dewey, and Louie even suggest what’s up, but for some reason don’t follow up on
it.
The last scene of Gizmoduck bringing
Scrooge’s money bin to Ma Beagle is what all this builds up to. As the Beagle Boys’ ultimate goal nears
fulfillment, the irrationality to this scenario builds, but that’s for the next
part. This particular part still
succeeds in balancing out Gizmoduck’s strong points and weak points. In spite of what happens, it’s clear that
this hero is successfully fleshed out.
A-
The Ranking
1. Once Upon a Dime
2. Duck in the Iron Mask
3. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. McDuck
4. Spies in Their Eyes
5. Nothing to Fear
6. The Uncrashable Hindentanic
7. Dime Enough for Luck
8. Super DuckTales Part 2: Frozen Assets
9. Duck to the Future
10. Launchpad’s First Crash
11. Jungle Duck
12. Super DuckTales Part 3: Full Metal Duck
13. Ducky Horror Picture Show
14. Time is Money Part 4: Ducks on the Lam
15. Time is Money Part 1: Marking Time
16. Time is Money Part 2: The Duck Who Would Be King
17. All Ducks on Deck
18. Super DuckTales Part 1: Liquid Assets
19. Till Nephews Do Us Part
20. Time is Money Part 5: Ali Bubba’s Cave
21. The Status Seekers
22. Time is Money Part 3: Bubba Trubba
The next DuckTales review continues the arc as even though the Beagle family gets Scrooge's money, they're somehow allowed to go out in the open with all the other billionaires.
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