Moonvasion!

You can tell only three episodes from 2017 series you think that they are the best.

Today marks the five year anniversary of Moonvasion. It's my favorite episode of the show and one of my favorite season finales ever.

But if you know me, or seen me on this wiki, you probably know my deep admiration for General Lunaris. In fact, I am proud to say that he is my favorite villain OF ALL TIME.

Actually, here is a character I think that Lunaris is EQUAL to:

And you know I don’t say that lightly. And I’ll talk about what I like about him. Now.

But before we start, I give my condolences to Lance Reddick. I never knew him before I saw Lunaris, but his delivery MADE him the character he was and gave him a screen presence he would not have otherwise. His passing in early 2023 was a huge tragedy. Really put a damper on my Saturday when I learned it from.

Lance Reddick, from Lunaris’ speech to his final Aw phooey, thank you for what you gave to the character and I hope you rest in peace.

When I first saw Lunaris in “What ever happened to Della Duck!?”, I wasn’t really that interested in him. He just seemed like a typical alien guy and not much to it. But in the end, my interest peaked when he said that Della could be useful to them.

In “The Golden Spear”, Penumbra is very jealous of Della, and decides to activate the emergency launch and trick her into leaving. However, Lunaris appears out of nowhere and uses compassion to take her rocket instructions to conquer the earth. And this only happened because he was able to draw Penumbra’s attention to the emergency launch button when he saw the ship.

Also, the way he uses Della’s friendship with the moonlanders and makes it into a weapon is just chefs kiss. And well…yeah he IS a twisted villain, but he's only like that for two episodes, and there's lots of foreshadowing to his true nature, like how he tells Penumbra that Della could be useful to them.

YEP! She sure WILL! 😅

Or when he tells Penumbra that he will not live in fear of the Earth like his father and his people will see it in time.

YEP! They sure will! 😅

But there's also this one that will blow your mind. To open the door to tranquility, Lunaris raised his hand in the air, and it looked a little like a Nazi symbol, foreshadowing his obsession to destroy the other race and make HIS superior!

Whoa. (Also I stole this from @Offie98 sry)

But I think one of the most underrated parts of him are his parallels with Louie.

Think about it: Two green individuals who are surrounded by gold who are sharp thinkers, seeing the angles and parts that can serve their plans. Louie wanted riches, while Lunaris wanted to prove himself as superior. But they also have another factor to them: Their pride. Louie was able to learn humility and admit that he can’t see every angle, while Lunaris was so stuck up, so confident that he had the superior advantage, that he was taken completely by surprise by Glomgold’s plan. And when his plan failed, he didn't realize his mistakes and decided to take everyone down in his humiliation.

Also to take into consideration their relationship with their parents. In “Timephoon!” Della grounds Louie for ruining time, which is a subtle parallel to when Meridien hid Tranquility from the Earth due to his fear of it, which made Lunaris mad.

But Della and Meridian just wanted to protect their family! THAT'S ALL THEY WANTED TO DO!

But when Louie outsmarted Glomgold and became the world’s richest duck, he arrogantly thought he had everything under control. But when the Bombie attacked, he realized that he needed to learn humility and accept help.

But when Lunaris’ plan to make the Earth orbit the moon fails, he refuses to see his faults and tries destroying the earth out of spite.

It's a shame they never interacted. I’m glad they did in Season 3 OH WAIT

And his ending is so ironic and funny, he refuses to accept defeat only for Selene to appear and tell him that his ship is stuck in Earth’s orbit, and he is now their newest moon.

After an entire SEASON where he gets mad when someone says it isn't a planet. XD

Lunaris has just a great screen presence. And his design is great, and he’s a great fighter. And he raises the stakes super high! His ship, his weapons, his voice OMG HE”S AWESOME I know I’m just yapping here, but I can’t find any other ways I could talk about how much I love him. He’s just Mighty. Just like the Moon.

BUT HES NOT IN SEASON 3.

This is without a doubt my most talked about and worst part of Season 3. Lunaris not appearing. Literally my absolute most hyped part of Season 3 was getting more of Lunaris. While the Season was great, I was ecstatic waiting for Lunaris to return. But every time I checked the Disney wiki page of a new Ducktales episode, Lunaris’ name was nowhere to be found. I held out hope that he would come back near the finale but he was nowhere to be found. It was heartbreaking. And the Lunaris related stuff we got? In “They Put A Moonlander On The Earth”, he gets mentioned twice. Twice! And I’m not kidding! That is without a doubt the ONLY time Lunaris is mentioned! This guy nearly destroyed earth and killed you all! WHY AREN'T YOU TALKING ABOUT HIM MORE?!?!?

This is the final mention of Lunaris in the ENTIRE Series. NO.

Just a recap, Magica appeared in 2 episodes after the Season where she was the villain, and “Friendship hates Magic” is because of her, not to mention how she is mentioned in two episodes (one mention per episode). “They Put a Moonlander on the Earth” only MENTIONED Lunaris (and only twice 😓) and that's it. Aside from some cameos, the episode is the only Moonlander related one of the season. Could it have been really that bad if we at least one episode where he got to see him come back for revenge? And it also doesn’t make sense in-universe. Considering Lunaris thought of every possibility, shouldn't he have installed escape pods on his ship? Or called for help from Moonlanders who were still loyal to him?

Like, don’t get me wrong, I’m not asking for Lunaris to serve a big role or even become the main antagonist of the season (Bradford fills that role), but I don’t get why the Season pretends that he doesn't exist. Maybe have him cameo as a prisoner in the F.O.W.L prison, or having him in his ship, literally ANYTHING Lunaris related that pretends that he doesn't exist?

BUT…To the season’s credit, Lunaris’ entire motivation is to prove himself superior to the earth and make them live in fear of them. But to have the earth after his defeat be everyone being happy and safe and barely acknowledging him feels like a thematically good ending for him. Huh.

So that's basically I like about Lunaris. He's easily my favorite character in the series and my favorite villain ever. I miss him so much and I hope others can learn to love as well. I might be his ONE fan, but I think he is one of my favorite villains of all time.

Glory to the Moon.

If F.O.W.L. somehow got evidence about the McDuck Family being the cause of Lunaris to complete his plans to invade Earth possibly with the Psychic Division if established, they could secretly show this to the world in hoping they would shun the McDuck Family. After all Scrooge built the Spear of Selene which Della stole after that, Della while being stranded on the moon, gave the plans of the rocket to Lunaris to start his invasion he’s been planning for years before Della’s arrival, and Louie after messing with the Space-Time Continuum, led to the moment of him running the company made horrible bad decisions on unleashing the Bombie and dropping a satellite in a failed attempt to stop the Bombie left Earth completely vulnerable for the invasion to accelerate. Even though by the end of the series Bradford Buzzard was the one who secretly told Della about the Spear of Selene, it was a well kept secret with no clear evidence.

We know that in “Moonvasion!”, Bradford Buzzard and his brothers are hiding right before the General Lunaris’ invasion began to avoid detection and being captured. They did indeed watch the events in the shadows before declaring the Ducks to be eliminated permanently to end Season 2. Now comes “The Shadow War”. In the Season 1 finale, we didn’t see the brothers’ shadows or if they are in hiding or being attacked by shadows, but they still observed the events one way or another.

In “Moonvasion!”, an unknown character (NOT LOUIE) who saw Scrooge underestimated General Lunaris decided that he must do something to save the planet without turning to someone like Flintheart Glomgold for an incompetent idea of help. So while the others are busy or captured or hiding, he somehow snuck into Gyro’s lab to find the Time Tub and brought with him the Time Teaser to stop time. This person is trying to think of what time to go. Like maybe try to remember the date when Della returns home or the moment Donald came to the Moon. Plus he knows the invaders are from the Moon, so he must be prepared for space if the tub can handle it.

He decided to go to the Moon during the time of the events of “Whatever Happen to Donald Duck” and hopefully lands at a spot where the Moonlanders won’t find him or the tub. Next he activates the Time Teaser to freeze time and begins his investigation without messing around frozen people. Later he discovered Lunaris’ secret war and sees all the same stuff Penumbra and Donald discovered. There’s a little problem, he has no idea how to send all of these evidence to McDuck Enterprises on Earth from the computer on the Moon. He has to do something, and add a message it was from Donald telling them that he’s on the Moon and met Della roommate Penumbra where together they discovered Lunaris’ evil plans. Honestly I don’t even know whether or not this will work. Not even the character has no idea if it’s going to work, but it might be to avoid Glomgold so he won’t take all the credit for himself and make most people go crazy. It’s to help prepare allies and learn to work together before the invasion occurs.

I know this might be a dumb idea that seems to be extremely out of the question, but what if someone (not Louie) goes back in time by using the Time Tub or another time vehicle to find General Lunaris’ evil invasion plans and find a way to send them to Scrooge and his family to warn them. For good measure, using a Time Teaser to stop time might work too. It could help give time for to gather proof and maybe find a way to send it all to Earth from the Moon. If using this as the only way to send a warning which no one got back then and Earth almost perished, then so be it. Just thought it could be different if successful.

If there can be possible changes to the Season 2 Finale of DuckTales, that would be seeing more allies coming together instead of Della missing opportunities based on fear, battle between armies in the epic finale instead of everyone being captured in part 1, and that it should be the series finale or a movie. For allies that should have joined in that finale like B.O.Y.D., Gosalyn Waddlemeyer, Panchito and Jose, Daisy, Storkules, Selene, Daisy Duck, Gandra Dee, Djinn, and Amunet. If Gene the Genie was around he could help round up allies quickly. This time Donald, Della, and the kids stick together. I just wanted to see a better idea to form an army and see a better clash between armies in a final battle. What would you change in Moonvasion to be like a series finale or movie?

Well done! Gandra was fit into the right team! Happy 4th Anniversary, everyone! Of course, it would be bad if she didn't do that on time before joining F.O.W.L.

After watching Moonvasion for like the 32nd time, I started to wonder. How are the moonlanders going to get home? Will Scrooge make another Spear to fly them home? Will they just coexist and stay? I hope we see an explanation of any sort in season 3.