Gizmo Duck

Gizmo Duck (also GizmoDuck and Gizmoduck). "The Littlest Gizmo-Duck" (KZ0890). Disney's Cartoon Tales: DuckTales. W.D. Publications 1992. Disney's Colossal Comics Collection #5 (1992). Various issues, Disney Adventures Magazine. DarkWing Duck story "Just Us Justice Ducks" (KJL010-1). Source: hyr/rich/dzone/hoozoo/gizmo.html.

Fenton P. Crackshell, mild-mannered accountant to Scrooge (also $crooge) McDuck, can pronounce the phrase "Blatherin' Blatherskite!" and be turned into GizmoDuck, a relatively hesitant and ineffective superhero encased in armor developed by Gyro Gearloose and somewhat similar to powered armor worn by such non-ducks as the Mobile Infantry in R. A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers and UNEF ground forces in J. Haldeman's The Forever War (q.v. under Fiction). Also compare and contrast the Green Goblin's exoskeleton in SPIDER-MAN (2002), Ellen Ripley in the loading machine at the end of ALIENS (film), and RoboCop as armored cyborg in ROBOCOP (1987). Duck Tales also appeared as animated cartoons on TV, cited. under Drama.

(SpenceC, SumukhT, JeffV: 07/IV/04)