Gosalyn Waddlemeyer is a character voiced by Stephanie Beatriz that debuted in Season 3 of DuckTales. She is now permanently the partner of Darkwing and Launchpad while she and Darkwing find a way to bring her grandpa back.
Biography[]
Let's Get Dangerous![]
The St. Canardian Guardian![]
Gosalyn first encountered Drake Mallard in his Darkwing Duck persona when he spotted her breaking into Taurus Bulba's McDuck Enterprises lab. His arrival also alerted security, and Gosalyn was forced to flee the scene without completing her mission. Gosalyn was able to track Drake, Launchpad, and Dewey back to Darkwing Tower, where she insisted that Drake help her expose the truth about Bulba. As she explained, her grandfather Dr. Waddlemeyer had developed the Ramrod for Bulba, but later discovered a dangerous instability in the machine. He disappeared after leaving to warn Bulba, who proceeded to claim that he had invented the Ramrod.
Drake, seeing Bulba as a respectable citizen and basking in the praise he had received for stopping the break-in, was reluctant to help in Gosalyn's investigation. Frustrated, Gosalyn went off to sulk, but was then approached by Dewey, who convinced her to give Drake and his friends another chance while Launchpad persuaded Drake to help her. Breaking into Bulba's office, the four were forced to hide from Bulba when he arrived, but the bull soon revealed he was aware of Drake's presence at least. Drake showed Bulba a photo of himself, Waddlemeyer, and Gosalyn and asked about it, and Bulba claimed that Waddlemeyer had perished in an accident involving the Ramrod. Gosalyn was quick to accuse Bulba of lying, and stole the Solego Circuit needed to activate the Ramrod from his pocket.
Dewey aided Gosalyn in her game of keeping the key out of Bulba's clutches, but Drake briefly believed Bulba's story and attempted to stop her. However, when she revealed that the Ramrod had in fact sent her grandfather to another dimension, and Bulba contradicted himself in trying to reason with them, Drake took Gosalyn's side. A furious Bulba promptly attacked him, but was delayed in pursuing Gosalyn by Launchpad, who fled out onto a window-washing platform. Drake quickly pursued them and attacked Bulba, but in the process Gosalyn was thrown off. Drake dove after her, and Gosalyn was then able to save both of them by tying the corners of Drake's cape around his ankles in midfall, allowing them to glide down safely.
In the scuffle, Bulba had regained possession of the key, which he promptly used to unleash the Fearsome Four on an unsuspecting Saint Canard.
A Case of Mistaken Reality![]
Drake proved less than willing to face off with super-powered villains, but Gosalyn was eventually able to persuade him to take them on, though he insisted on doing so cautiously. Following intel from W.A.N.D.A., she joined Drake and Launchpad in heading to the city's abandoned toy warehouse district. Determined to find answers, Gosalyn slipped away from a distracted Drake and Launchpad, who eventually noticed her missing and came looking for her. The trio were then confronted by Quackerjack and his massive attack mech, which they quickly fled from using the Ratcatcher.
Managing to elude Quackerjack, the three then ran into Liquidator, whom Gosalyn charged to confront in spite of Darkwing's protests. The three later made their way back to Darkwing Tower, where Gosalyn exploded at Drake over his approach to the crisis. After an argument, Gosalyn left to be by herself, but was approached by Launchpad, who informed her that Drake did indeed care about finding her grandfather. The two then listened to the latest in a series of calls between Drake and Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera, who informed Darkwing that the Ramrod's instability threatened the entire universe. Despite Fenton's vehemence on the matter, Drake refused to give up on the chance of rescuing Dr. Waddlemeyer.
Moved by Darkwing's dedication, which had led him to go without sleep for days, Gosalyn settled him down on a couch with a lullaby before resting in a nearby armchair. She later awoke to find that Drake had gone out without her or Launchpad, and was in the midst of confronting all the villains by himself. At Launchpad's suggestion, Gosalyn-albeit with obvious discomfort-joined him in dressing up as Darkwing Duck villains, with Gosalyn adopting the outfit of the Bugmaster while Launchpad impersonated Jambalaya Jake. The act was enough to fool Quackerjack, and the two were able to rescue a captured Drake, Gosalyn doing her own variation on Darkwing Duck's trademark intro as they leaped in to confront Bulba and his villains.
After briefly battling alongside Drake and Launchpad, Gosalyn went to the Ramrod control panel and began searching for her grandfather, rescuing Dewey, his brothers, and Scrooge McDuck from another dimension in the process. Sadly, her frantic search yielded no trace of her missing grandfather, and the Ramrod had grown so unstable it was no longer possible to shut down. Bulba pled with Gosalyn to let their universe perish in favor of using the Ramrod to create a better one where she could have her grandfather back, but Gosalyn refused and fired off an arrow to destroy the Ramrod. Left on her knees at the apparent lost chance to save her grandfather, she was embraced kindly by Drake, the villains having been sucked into the Ramrod portal before it closed.
Back at Darkwing Tower, Drake-now in his civilian clothes-assures Gosalyn that he's not giving up on the search for Dr. Waddlemeyer, intending to ask for help from Launchpad's various scientist acquaintances. In the meantime, he offers Gosalyn the role of his crime-fighting partner, which she eagerly accepts. Launchpad, having already begun to think of the group as a "family" in similar fashion to what he's experienced with Scrooge's clan, decides to devote his nights to helping Darkwing and Gosalyn fight crime in Saint Canard. With that, Darkwing Duck suits up and heads out on the Ratcatcher, Gosalyn and Launchpad in the sidecar.
The Last Adventure![]
Gosalyn is among the many attendees of Webby's birthday party at Funso's Fun Zone, which in reality is part of a mission to infiltrate F.O.W.L. headquarters. She helps take out the various surveillance devices around the establishment. Later, Gosalyn joins Dewey, Louie, Lena and Violet Sabrewing, and B.O.Y.D. in insisting on accompanying the mission to the Library of Alexandria, citing Fenton's efforts to help rescue her grandfather as her reason for joining the mission. The kids initially remain on the Sunchaser, but later engage in a dogfight with Don Karnage that results in the plane crashing in the desert.
Gosalyn comes across B.O.Y.D.'s detached head and, in horror, proposes means by which the group may avoid being held responsible for what happened to him, before it turns out that he's completely unharmed. The two of them then split from the others and enter the library, coming to Launchpad's aid as he battles Steelbeak. Unfortunately, they are soon subdued by Steelbeak's mindless minions and thrown into one of the many cells in which F.O.W.L. is keeping various captives they intend to eliminate. However, the captives rally in expressing support of Launchpad, who dons the Gizmoduck armor and succeeds in defeating the villains.
Together with her friends and other freed captives, Gosalyn appears on the roof of the library during the final confrontation with Bradford Buzzard, standing beside Drake and Launchpad. She later sits next to Drake aboard the Sunchaser during the flight home, expressing exasperation when Drake expresses the belief that Launchpad has secretly been Gizmoduck the entire time. She and the other passengers are later sucked out of the Sunchaser's cargo door after Launchpad accidentally opens it. Fortunately, she and Launchpad are able to grab the corners of Drake's cape as they fall, and it billows out into a parachute shape that presumably allows them to make the rest of the descent safely.
Appearances[]
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Trivia[]
- Gosalyn originally appeared in the 1990s Disney Afternoon cartoon Darkwing Duck as the title character's adoptive daughter. Her DuckTales appearance was revealed at the 2019 Comic Con.
- In "Friendship Hates Magic!", an episode of the show-within-a-show "Darkwing Duck" credits Paddywhack's release to Quackerjack. In the 1990s cartoon episode "The Haunting of Mr. Banana Brain", it was Gosalyn who released him.
- According to Francisco Angones, this version of Gosalyn is of Latin American descent[2], similar to the change made for the series' version of Fenton Crackshell and his mother. Additionally, her original surname, like that of her original series counterpart, is Waddlemeyer.[3]
- She is credited as Gosalyn Waddlemeyer in her debut, though a promotional clip for the episode identified her as Gosalyn Mallard.
- Gosalyn was originally going to be introduced in "Challenge of the Senior Junior Woodchucks!" as Huey’s Woodchuck rival who kept all her merit badges shoved in a plastic shopping bag.[4]
- This is the second time that Beatriz and Ben Schwartz have worked together since the 2019 film The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.
- Gosalyn's use of a crossbow is a reference to her arrow-themed superhero identity from Darkwing Duck, the Quiverwing Quack.
References[]
- ↑ Stephanie Beatriz and James Monroe Iglehart Drop by 'DuckTales' Darkwing Episode: First Look (Exclusive).
- ↑ https://suspendersofdisbelief.tumblr.com/post/188584023316/can-you-tell-us-anything-about-gosalyn
- ↑ https://suspendersofdisbelief.tumblr.com/post/188615145841/is-gosalyns-original-last-name-still
- ↑ https://mobile.twitter.com/FrankAngones/status/1246180185587609601