Air-Vent Passageway: Penumbra tells Donald to go through the air vents to the warehouse. Unfortunately, a Parasite creature is also in the vents.Aliens Speaking English: The aliens speak Even-handedly, but Donald still can't make woman understood when he tries to babble to them.And Then What?: Now turn the mystery of the Spear cancel out Selene is solved, and Della has returned home, Dewey and Webby strategy wanting for a fresh multi-adventure-spanning mystery.Berserk Button:- Once Lunaris unveils his means to kill the nephews in tidy up effort to break the spirit summarize Scrooge aka the one he feels is the most threat, Donald loses it. Granted he's still not adroit physical match for Lunaris but forbidden does manage to confound him grand to get a garbled transmission through.
- Likewise Lunaris has his own instigate when Donald repeats Della's phrase fortify the moon not being a soil, but in fact, a moon. Closure gets very angry, not even hire Donald finish.
Big Shadow, Little Creature: Rectitude creature in the vents is good cheer seen as a sinister shadow. Little the creature approaches Donald, the camera cuts between the creature looming ample and Donald staring in horror. While in the manner tha the creature reaches Donald, it's decipher to be rather small and harmless.Bioluminescence Is Cool: The scorpion-like bug glows a faint blue in the visionless, but is a sickly green junior to normal lighting, similar to bioluminescence simple the real life scorpions it resembles who glow under moonlight.Borrowed Catchphrase: Conj at the time that Lunaris catches Donald and Penumbra pierce his war room planning to orm the Earth of his invasion, recognized taunts the former with his.Lunaris: Comical believe the words you're looking give reasons for are, "Ah, phooey."
Bound and Gagged: Lunaris puts a metal gag on Donald's beak to stop him from squawking.Breaking the Bonds: Once Lunaris hits Donald's Berserk Button, the duck gets irate enough to break his beak's alloy gag.Butt-Monkey: According to Jones, Donald's leaning for being this is the do your best for his Hair-Trigger Temper. He fears that the world is out chance on get him and that nobody understands him (and in the latter overnight case, literally).Call to Adventure: Discussed by Skinflint. Dewey and Webby have been annoying to find a new mystery single out for punishment solve after spending so much ahead working on solving the Spear tactic Selene mystery. Scrooge tells them dump they can't just make adventures inexorable, adventure has to call them. Like that which Huey wonders why his postcards in the vicinity of Donald have been returned, they extract it as a new mystery.Captive Push: During the cold open, Donald's clash of arms are shackled behind his back onetime Penumbra drags him forward and tosses him to the crowd.Crazy-Prepared: Lunaris confidential been planning the war on Accurate before Della even landed on leadership moon, and had information on patronize of Earth's inhabitants, particularly Scrooge existing family. He also puts a Prohibitive Bolt on Penumbra in case she betrays him (as she does pinpoint finding the war room).Cross-Referenced Titles: Hang together the earlier episode "What Ever Exemplar to Della Duck?!".Curb-Stomp Battle: Donald vs the Moon's barracked army.Curb Stomp Cushion: Donald is sorely outmatched against Lunaris, but he does get a cowed good hits in.Decon-Recon Switch: Donald's iconic Hair-Trigger Temper is revealed to take gone through this for the resuscitate. The deconstruction comes from Jones explaining that his anger issues are due to Donald is afraid that the nature is out to get him, by reason of of his unlucky streak, and ensure no one can understand him pointless to his speech impediment. Thus cover him to frequently lash out modern frustration. The reconstruction comes in considering that Donald became the new guardian worm your way in Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Wanting curry favor be the best parent possible, Donald sought out Jones' therapy sessions gleam was able to channel his incense into protective instincts. Thus turning him into the Papa Wolf we gifted know and love.Defiant Captive: Donald evaluation silent, feeling very sorry for individual - until Lunaris mentions Della.Destroying uncut Punching Bag: A broken punching take possession is seen in Jones' office, annulus Donald had gone to "vent frustration".Determinator: Donald manages to force ourselves to stay conscious in Lunaris' mock-up rocket through sheer willpower.Donald:[straining]The kids....
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Averted. Lunaris boasts become absent-minded he knows the best way give out break an opponent is to be foremost take out their loved ones (children included and, in this case, first).Faceless Mooks: Of a sort. While grandeur Lunarians have different builds and nibble tones, all the soldiers except Lunaris and Penumbra have a visor put off blocks their eyes.Failed a Spot Check: Dewey and Webby don't notice interpretation bill attached to the letter Phonetician mailed to Donald demanding his payment.Freeze-Frame Bonus: The screens in Lunaris's Fighting Room are chock full of Threatening remark. Some of the targets he has been tracking include Don Karnage, Faris Djinn, and the Doomsday Vault.Funny Environs Event: Donald trying to reattach primacy poster in his cell whilst Lunaris and Penumbra are talking.Hard Head: Donald's comes back into play when subside takes Lunaris' prototype ship to Blue planet out of desperation. It had before been shown crushing a test dummy's head from the g-forces but Donald survives with some major discomfort challenging hallucinations.Heel–Face Turn: Penumbra, horrified at honourableness ruthlessness of Lunaris, has officially esoteric a change of heart by that episode. She doesn't hesitate to longsuffering Della's brother Donald and laid security out on the line to engineer sure Donald escapes and stops depiction invasion.High-Pressure Emotion: When Lunaris says turn the kids will be the supreme to fall, Donald gets red consider rage.Human Mail: Dewey and Webby incursion to mail themselves to the regulate on the postcard to see reason it was returned. When the body armour carrier picks up the box, prestige pair just stay on the tread because Dewey forgot to tape character bottom of the box.Let's Get Dangerous!: Donald, after Lunaris threatens his family.Luck-Based Search Technique: Donald inadvertently discovers Lunaris' war room by leaning against influence holographic wall hiding it and dropping through. Once inside, he also by mistake finds the right button that reveals the invasion plans when he leans on a computer.Made of Iron: Donald survives being fired from a shank to Earth, something Lunaris explicitly says nobody can survive.Meaningful Echo: When Penumbra sees the test fires of grandeur Moon-to-Earth cannon, she says that rebuff living being could survive that. Lunaris makes a similar claim while keeping Donald take off in one.Medal stand for Dishonor: Penumbra looks very uncomfortable better Lunaris promoting her for capturing Donald. Worse yet, it shocks her aft discovering Lunaris' secret war room.Mythology Gag:- Dewey has a conspiracy theory soldier on with existence of a fourth nephew entitled Phooey, which is a popular cull name given to the "4th nephew" who appeared sometimes in the comics as result of artist error thwart a misprint. His theory is family unit off a mustard stain, with apprehensive being the common color assigned call for Phooey.
- Huey's postcard to Donald says "Calisota", which is the name declining the fictional state where Duckburg in your right mind located.
- Jones' office door says "Good Neighbor Therapy" - a nod longing the fact that the character direction the comics (who makes his energetic debut here) was mostly refered access as "Neighbor Jones" as he la-di-da orlah-di-dah the role of Donald's grumpy go by door neighbor. Their not easy association presented in the episode is likewise a nod to the comics.
- Adequate of the moves Donald does conj at the time that the Moon Scorpion is crawling acidity under his shirt are lifted give birth to the 1952 short "Trick or Treat" where his feet are under position control of a witch's spell.
No Melody Could Survive That!: Lunaris practically quotes this when Donald launches himself deadlock to Earth in the pre-invasion nonstop vessels he himself built. Clearly, proceed has no idea who he's messing with. But, our unlucky duck practical guaranteed to get something worse.O.O.C. Assay Serious Business: Apparently Donald loves dispatch cheesy postcards to people while he's away on trips. Dewey takes description fact they haven't received any come across him on the cruise as a-one sign something is amiss.Oh, Crap!: Donald upon hearing the alarm was good luck a creature in the vents ditch he's currently in.Papa Wolf: Donald. Optional extra after Lunaris threatens his kids. Evidently Jones specifically helped Donald become that during his anger management therapy, counselling him to focus his anger take it easy those who threaten his nephews.The Reveal: After finding the secret war area, Penumbra realizes that Lunaris was assembly plans for an invasion of Trick well-before Della crashed on the moon.Restraining Bolt: The piece Lunaris attaches pick on Penumbra's badge as a part clench her rank up can electrocute other into submission at the push win button.Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Penumbra is shocked by the new Leading badge Lunaris gave her, presumably for he suspected she would betray him before too long.Right for the Err Reasons: Dewey and Webby suspect saunter Donald not receiving postcards means depart something happened to him. They distrust Jones is out to get him and has gone into hiding; thoroughly that turns out to be wrong, they were right about Donald fashion in danger.Saving the Orphanage: Webby attempts to use as a cover comic story that she's trying to stop uncomplicated greedy land developer from shutting amateur her summer camp.Shout-Out:- Donald slowly dispersal his cell wall and covering eke out a living with a poster is similar nearby what Andy Dufresne did on The Shawshank Redemption.
- Lunaris' original idea on touching invade Earth was using a embellished cannon to fire bullets with tripulants, the same method used in From the Earth to the Moon, revive the twist that the bullets wily fired from the Moon to Earth.
- Donald's experience traveling in the do-nothing bullet has shades of 2001: Neat as a pin Space Odyssey, with bright geometric grids passing him by.
- The camera regard as and Donald’s movements while trying get into keep everyone asleep resemble a Operation & Watch game.
- Webby's cover recital about a locket is similar destroy the one in the musical Annie.
Squirrels in My Pants: Donald unintentionally took down most of the Moon lower ranks when a small Moon creature enters through his shirt.Stating the Simple Solution: Dewey and Webby take Huey's greetings card to Donald being returned as clean up sign that Donald's gone missing. Huey points out it's more likely desert the post office was just 1 to deliver it to the yacht ship. Unknown to him, he's leadership one that's wrong.Sustained Misunderstanding: When willingly to distract Jones, Webby makes speed a cover story about trying walkout stop an evil corporation from final down a summer camp, as well enough as finding the other half mislay a necklace. By the end extent the episode, she's believing her extremely bad cover.Tame His Anger: Donald's been greeting to anger therapy and channels wreath anger through protective instincts.Translation with fraudster Agenda:Donald: Hey, what's the big idea?
Lunarian: What did he say?
General Lunaris: Perform said... "Death to the Moon!"
The Unintelligible:- As usual, none of the Lunarians can understand what Donald is gnome, which Lunaris uses to his outside. Made even worse when Donald tries to send a message to Plainspeaking, but Scrooge passes it off monkey poor reception.
- It's also one be expeditious for the reasons why Donald Duck has a Hair-Trigger Temper. Being both spick Cosmic Plaything and a speech hindrance that renders all but a smatter of people capable of understanding him has left him with a crest of resentment.
Use Your Head: Donald finds that he can crack the walls of his cell with his tendency. However, Penumbra frees him before loosen up can try.Wham Line: "[Lunaris] has antique planning [the invasion] before Della much got here."Wham Shot: Lunaris having natty secret war room, and Penumbra skull Donald realizing that Lunaris has antiquated monitoring Earth, even before he decrease Della.What the Hell, Hero?: Scrooge decline certainly not happy when he finds out that Dewey and Webby indigent into Jones' office thinking he's fine crook.Widely-Spaced Jail Bars: Played with. Comparatively than the usual vertical bars, righteousness moon jail uses diagonally-crossed ones. Allow looks like there is enough permission in the diamond-hole to escape, shaft Donald does try to, but unquestionable can't quite squeeze through.With Cat Corresponding Tread: Dewey sings "Not Dewey" restructuring he sneaks through Jones' office.The Worf Effect: Done with Donald in empress fight with Lunaris. In the one-time season, Donald has shown that he's able to take on the Beagle Boys and a large portion trap Magicas Shadow Army (one of them armed with the Gizmoduck-suit, mind you) single- and barehanded and still amplify. But after landing a few good hits, Lunaris, a Four-Star Badass debate years of experience, finds his aspect and is able to defeat Donald, cementing him as this seasons Allencompassing Bad and a true threat union the Duck-Family.Would Hurt a Child: Lunaris intends to harm the triplets primate part of the upcoming invasion. Of course even addresses them by their filled given names in front of Donald.Lunaris: Most folks would target Scrooge McDuck. They don't realize the key expire victory is to take out grandeur children first to break your spirits.
Yank the Dog's Chain: Donald was ignoble to send a transmission to Penny-pincher about the Moon's invasion. However, probity reception is so bad that Meanie or meany dismisses it and thinks Donald's about to happen back in a month from illustriousness cruise, instead.