Comments on: Mini-Analyzations

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By: Bryndel

Bryndel — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:20:57 +0000

…I always thought Gosalyn’s biological dad WAS Darkwing, actually. Huh. (In any case, I certainly recall her calling him “dad” all the time, so she can’t be too tork up over it if not.) And half-assumed Duck Tales’s Webbigail (however it’s spelled) was the daughter of Mrs. Beakly…
According to Wikipedia, anyway, Webby is Beasly’s granddaughter though. And Gosalyn is indeed adopted… though now I want to know where all of this is ever stated in-show, lol.

Lilo & Stitch comes to mind where they DO explicitly say how Lilo’s parents were killed, though. But that’s more modern, too, of course.

By: Darkwing Dick

Darkwing Dick — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:19:35 +0000

actualy…w/ darkwing duck i believe they mention gosalyn’s parents in the first episode…or…at least her father

By: Rob Northrup

Rob Northrup — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:21:46 +0000

I think nephews and nieces are added to established characters either because the authors want to show cutesy versions of the same character like Donald but not burden the swinging single character with a spouse. Plus an uncle is someone you can hang out with, play, get spoiled by, not necessarily a role of disciplinarian like a parent.

Could it be a matter of virginity too? If they’ve never been married, then Batman, Donald, Darkwing Duck and all the other uncles might never have lost those essential fluids that the crazy officer in Dr. Strangelove warned us about.

By: WingedSerpent

WingedSerpent — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:03:11 +0000

I wouldn’t say that Batman really falls into that trope. At least if you’re talking the 1992-1995 Animated Series and the New Batman Adventures. In the Emmy-award winning two parter, “Robin’s Reckoning”, Dick Grayson’s story is explained in full. As for Tim Drake, the adoption was shown in “Sins of the Father”. Bruce Wayne takes Dick Grayson in because of their loss being similar to his own, giving the boy someone who could relate to him. Tim Drake is adopted by Wayne in order to protect him from Two Face, and keep his own secret safe. In both cases, it is pretty clear what happened to the parental units.

By: KanedaX

KanedaX — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:13:13 +0000

I always assumed that the nephew/niece syndrome (HDL on Duck Tales, Penny in Inspector Gadget, Scott Trakker (adopted) in MASK, etc) was there to avoid any complicated discussions with viewer’s parents. To give Gadget a daughter without being married would imply that he had had sex out of wedlock at some point or another, or would at least have to explain where Mommy had gone.