Launchpad McQuack is a self-made billionaire who left Scotland in his youth and came to America with his Number One Dime, eventually establishing his home in McDuck Manor and erecting his famous Money Bin.
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27 Facts About Launchpad McQuack
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Launchpad McQuack is characterized as younger than the nephews, despite being the same size.
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Launchpad McQuack is a tenderhearted girl who is always seen carrying her "Quacky-Patch" doll.
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Launchpad McQuack's love for animals is a recurring theme, be it penguins, koalas, dinosaurs, or even the Yeti.
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Launchpad McQuack is an enthusiastic adventure fan and Clan McDuck historian who idolizes Scrooge as one of the greatest adventurers of all time.
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Launchpad McQuack is Scrooge's pilot, and an original DuckTales character.
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Launchpad McQuack is an able flyer, but is somewhat incompetent and rarely ever lands a plane safely, usually crashing them and walking away without injury.
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Launchpad McQuack is introduced in the third part of the pilot episode, but has been Scrooge's pilot since his early youth.
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Launchpad McQuack is of Irish descent and his ancestor Rhubarb McQuack played an important role in the American Civil War, and prior to the series Launchpad used to perform with his parents and sister as the stunt pilot team "The Flying McQuacks".
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Launchpad McQuack later crossed over as a main character in Disney's Darkwing Duck.
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Launchpad McQuack is an avid fan of the Darkwing Duck show-within-a-show, as evidenced by a bobblehead and a series of video tapes he owns as well as his watching the show with the family.
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Launchpad McQuack is hired by Scrooge as a nanny for the nephews in the third part of the pilot episode, not asking for any payment other than a shelter for herself and Webby.
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Launchpad McQuack has been in the line of work for a long time and used to take care of the young Prince Greydrake, and she has proven to be a capable opera singer.
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Launchpad McQuack is much more resourceful than her 1987 counterpart and has worked for Scrooge for years before the series' start.
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Launchpad McQuack's sons grew up without knowing their mother and the first season sees the ducklings – initially Dewey and Webby - investigating her disappearance.
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Launchpad McQuack's fate following the crash is seen in season two – having lost her left leg, she built a prosthetic replacement and she managed to survive using Gyro's Oxy-Chew gum, which provided her with oxygen, water and nutrients, along with her skills as a former Junior Woodchuck.
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Launchpad McQuack is eventually able to return to Earth, unaware that the Moonlanders have declared war on Earth and that her spaceship has left Earth with Donald on board, and is reunited with her family.
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Launchpad McQuack speaks with an Eastern European accent, and is often assisted by her brother Poe, who was trapped in the shape of a non-anthropomorphic raven.
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Launchpad McQuack cares more about his own image and popularity than his fortune, going to great lengths to gain as many followers on social media, keeping several back-up phones on hand if any one of them gets destroyed, and stealing others' ideas and passing them off as his own.
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Launchpad McQuack has been described by the producers as "Gizmoduck's Lex Luthor".
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Launchpad McQuack first appears in the first part of the pilot episode, and appears as a supporting character throughout the series, serving both as butler and chauffeur.
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Launchpad McQuack plays a bigger part in the episode "Duckworth's Revolt", where he and the nephews get abducted by aliens where he explained the difference between employment and slavery to their fellow prisoners, and in the episode-segment "Take Me Out of the Ballgame" where he acts as the temporary coach of the Junior Woodchuck baseball team.
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Launchpad McQuack's ghost has since returned to his duties as Scrooge's faithful butler.
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Launchpad McQuack was often seen with the boys during their Junior Woodchuck events, and was seen with Launchpad, who referred to him as his "little buddy".
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Launchpad McQuack can count at a blazing speed, but he generally is incompetent with almost everything else.
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Launchpad McQuack is later revealed to be a cyborg after experimenting on herself and an agent of F O W L Despite this, she maintained her relationship with Fenton and eventually decided to leave F O W L, only to be caught by Bradford and imprisoned in the Library of Alexandria.
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Launchpad McQuack's name is a reference to author Edgar Allan Poe, and Poe often ends his stanzas with the word "nevermore", quoting the poem "The Raven".
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