The Phantom and the Sorceress! is the eighth episode of Season 3 and the 55th episode overall of DuckTales 2017. It first aired on September 21, 2020 on Disney XD.
Synopsis[]
When a mysterious magic thief arrives in Duckburg, Lena must confront her past and team with her treacherous aunt, Magica.
Summary[]
Scrooge McDuck enters the living room to read his newspaper when he is interrupted by the arrival of the kids escaping their video game along with a monster. With Scrooge's quick thinking, he zaps the monster and rescues the kids. Lena had been trying to hone her magic with her amulet, but only succeeded in making another mess. Della enters to tell Scrooge that there is a floating goat in his closet, meaning that the land of Goatool is under attack and needs his help. Huey, Dewey, and Louie excitedly follow Scrooge on a new adventure, but Lena does not want to cause any more trouble, forcing Webby and Violet to stay behind with her.
In the middle of the night, the girls hear a strange noise out front and head down to answer the door. They find a nervous and fear stricken Gladstone Gander bumbling his way through the door. He tells the girls that he suddenly was hit with a string of bad luck as if someone stole it from him and needs to look for Scrooge to help him fix it. The group hear another noise and head upstairs to see a dark hooded figure with a large gauntlet draining magic from Scrooge's closet. The figure attempts to drain Lena's magic, but Webby tosses an ax at the glove, damaging it, and the figure flees. Violet identifies the figure as the Phantom Blot, who despises magic and wants to destroy it. With no other option, they decide to seek out Magica De Spell.
Webby, Lena, Violet and Gladstone end up in a swamp and find Magica's hideout. Still wanting the amulet back from Lena, they mention the Phantom Blot. Magica, tells them that years ago, she once ruled over a village and forced its citizens to bring her gifts. When she grew bored with them, she destroyed the village. One villager, however, survived and came back to hunt her. No matter how many times she faced him, this person, the Phantom Blot, came back stronger and stronger. Lena reluctantly agrees to train with Magica so that she can face the Phantom Blot again.
During her training, Lena discovers that her magic is blue, as opposed to purple like before. Magica tells her that the color of their magic depends on their personality and source. Magica's is purple because of her evil nature, and Lena's is blue due to her friendship with Webby and Violet. Magica has Violet take hold of the amulet and blast Lena with it so that she can learn to use her magic properly. She explains that her magic is internal, and the amulet only focuses her energy. The Phantom Blot arrives, and the girls work together to try and defeat him. During the confrontation, Gladstone obtains the amulet, but blasts himself and turns into Donald Duck, causing him to flee in terror.
The Phantom Blot takes the amulet and tries to drain its power, causing Lena to weaken, since she is made of magic. Realizing that she can summon more magic from her friendship bracelet, Lena becomes powerful and dons a new appearance to take on Phantom Blot. She destroys the gauntlet, and Gladstone regains his luck, while snakes begin to attack the Phantom Blot; Webby had previously "communicated" with some snakes for assistance. Magica reclaims the amulet and gets her powers back, but Lena blasts her back, causing her to lose her staff.
Lena uses her new abilities to fly herself, Webby and Violet out of the swamp and back to McDuck Manor. As they return, Scrooge, Huey, Dewey, and Louie come back from their adventure with numerous treasures and artifacts, as well as armor. They ask the girls what happened while they were away, and they respond, "Eh, not much."
Cast[]
- David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck
- Danny Pudi as Huey Duck
- Ben Schwartz as Dewey Duck
- Bobby Moynihan as Louie Duck
- Kate Micucci as Webby Vanderquack
- Paget Brewster as Della Duck
- Kimiko Glenn as Lena Sabrewing
- Libe Barer as Violet Sabrewing
- Catherine Tate as Magica De Spell
- Paul F. Tompkins as Gladstone Gander
- Giancarlo Esposito as Phantom Blot
- Amy Sedaris as Pepper
Trivia[]
- Main Cast Absences: Launchpad and Mrs. Beakley. Donald appears as a transformation from Gladstone.
- This episode has several callbacks to previous episodes:
- The Nightmare Beast from "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!" makes an appearance at the beginning of the episode.
- The realm of Goat'hool from "The Golden Spear!" alongside the Mythical Goat is mentioned by Della and Scrooge.
- Lena wields the Diamond Dagger from "The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck!" when encountering Gladstone.
- Gladstone previously encountered Magica in the 1987 episode "Dime Enough for Luck".
- The flashback scene of Lena uses clips from "The Beagle Birthday Massacre!", "Jaw$!", "The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck!", "The Shadow War!", "Friendship Hates Magic!", and "A Nightmare on Killmotor Hill!"
- Magica's house is full of pizza boxes from Funso's Pizzaria, where she was working in "GlomTales!" Presumably, she is bingeing on pizza out of depression, much like Scrooge was in "The Shadow War!"
- Gladstone discovers that his luck is magical.
- In the comics, Magica's weakness is a garlic allergy. In the episode, though, she ate them without any repercussions.
- There was originally going to be a scene at Funso's where it is revealed that the Blot took over the role of Funzo after "GlomTales!" specifically to keep tabs on Magica while working on his gauntlet.[2]
- The Phantom Blot gauntlet bears a resemblance to the the Infinity Gauntlet that Thanos wielded in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. One difference is the four-fingered hand style of the Blot's gauntlet.
- Black Arts Beagle was originally going to appear in the episode as one of the victims, having been drained of magic by the Phantom Blot.[3]
