The Mighty Ducks (animation)/YMMV

The Films: ""This is a drug-free neighborhood!""
 * Counterpart Comparison: Subverted. Russ goes from arguing with Jesse in the second movie to using his term "cake eater" in the third. No one makes light of this, although the issue of roster slots had come up before. This might explain Jesse's absence.
 * Fulton, the tough guy with the nearly-unbeatable slapshot, is also the first one to exclaim over Russ' knucklepuck.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: The kids mistaking Gordon for a drug dealer when they first meet him.

"You can have it back at the end of the school term."
 * Gordon making Mr. Tibbles hand over his whistle.


 * Crowning Music of Awesome: Queen's "We Are the Champions" at the end of D2.
 * Even Better Sequel: Specifically, D2. The increase in violence disturbed parents, though.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: Emilio Estevez's character is obsessed with winning in the first film. Nearly twenty years later, his brother Charlie Sheen began using "Winning" as one of his catch phrases.
 * Moral Event Horizon: Riley, the Hawks' Coach having one of his players check Adam Banks (who had been playing for him until a few weeks ago and was only a Duck because Bombay took advantage of a Change in the District boundaries to have him play for his team) into the net so hard that he had to leave the game due to injury.
 * He drove the kid's neck into the post! He could've been paralyzed, for cripe's sake. It's amazing Gordon didn't try and sue Riley for that. Oh yeah, and apparently the Hawk player has a name for this maneuver. What the hell, adults?
 * Retroactive Recognition: Charlie was played by Joshua Jackson, who went on to Dawsons Creek and Fringe.
 * Sequelitis: D3
 * Title Confusion: The Mighty Ducks was called Champions in the UK and Commonwealth countries. D2: The Mighty Ducks was simply called The Mighty Ducks, the same as the international name for the first film. Ultimately the third film was called D3: The Mighty Ducks everywhere.
 * Toy Ship: Connie and Guy
 * The Woobie: Bombay, believe it or not. Missing a penalty shot to lose the district championships as a child costs him his passion for the game, although he's very skilled. He makes a comeback as an adult, tears up the minors and seems to be on the fast track to the NHL when a cheap shot to the knee by a frustrated opponent ends his career for good.

The TV show:
 * Ear Worm: The Theme Song.
 * Its resemblance to a sports team anthem doesn't help.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Ask the fanbase about their favorite character. Duke, Nosedive and Mallory are the usual answers.
 * Hatedom: Many seem to loathe the show outright, and enjoy making fun of it simply for staring anthropomorphic ducks from space.
 * Narm / Narm Charm
 * Needs More Love
 * So Bad It's Good: In a weird way, you can't not love that premise.
 * Tear Jerker: The Disney Death of Canard Thunderbeak was very shocking for the little kids of the 90's who weren't used to that sort of thing from a Saturday Morning cartoon.
 * Too Good to Last: The series was cancelled before any of the plot threads could be finished.