The first season of the DuckTales reboot proved to be more than the equal of the beloved 1980s original. Hewing close to the classic Disney comics beloved by millions worldwide while adding its own sense of punchy irreverence and sincere affection, the show is a clear winner.

Fans were thrown for a loop when it was revealed in the season's final episodes that Huey, Dewey and Louie's mother, Della (Paget Brewster), vanished after stealing an experimental rocket, but is still alive -- yet stranded on the moon, unable to contact anyone.

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With that new status quo, DuckTales' second season looks to be every bit as fun as the first. In celebration of the Season 2 premiere, let's take a look at the new characters coming to the Disney Channel series.

José Carioca & Panchito Pistoles

You might be familiar with these guys already if you really know your Disney trivia. José, a dapper, green, cigar-smoking parrot from Brazil, first appeared in the 1942 film Saludos Amigos as Donald's South American friend (symbolic of the good relations between the United States and South America that Disney had been commissioned to help foster by the U.S. State Department). Saludos was popular enough that two years later, Disney released The Three Caballeros, which was not only the first film in history to combine animation with live-action footage, but also introduced Panchito, a gun-toting rooster from Mexico.

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The two (voiced by Eric Bauza and Jaime Camil, respectively) co-star with Donald in the recent cartoon Legend of the Three Caballeros (currently only available in the Philippines on the DisneyLife app), and appear in the Season 2 premiere "The Most Dangerous Game ... Night!," voiced by Bernardo de Paula and Arturo Del Puerto (Chicago P.D.).

Fethry Duck

Making his TV debut on next week's episode, "The Hidden Depths of Cousin Fethry!," and played by voice icon Tom Kenny, Fethry is a weirdo but a goodhearted one.

Created in 1964 by Disney comics legends Dick Kinney and Al Hubbard, Fethry was initially made for the Disney Studio Program, a unit of comics creators that produced stories exclusively for non-American markets from 1962 to 1990 to meet the voracious demands for Disney comics outside the United States. Fethry was conceived as a beatnik, but in recent years, he's mostly been portrayed as an impulsive, New Age, flighty sort, prone to weird hobbies, strange obsessions and accidental chaos.

In recent years, both Fethry and Donald have been shown in Danish comics (published Stateside at first by Gemstone, then by IDW as part of its Donald Duck monthly comic) as members of the Tamers of Nonhuman Threats, a Ghostbusters-like organization dedicated to confronting and stopping the paranormal.

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John D. Rockerduck

Like the others on this list, Rockerduck is an American creation who's much more notable outside the United States. Created in 1961 by Carl Barks, he was only used in one Barks comic. But he found his fame through the Disney Studios program, appearing in several stories around the world, especially in Italy.

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Don Rosa, Barks' true successor and biggest fan, brought back Rockerduck in his Eisner Award-winning epic The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. In that story, Rockerduck grew up poor and clawed his way to the top like Scrooge, albeit with a fortune inherited from his father.

The first season season of DuckTales established the show's version of the Duckburg Billionaires' Club, to which both Scrooge and Flintheart Glomgold belong.

Bubba the Caveduck

Bubba is probably the most familiar on this list, as he was created for the original DuckTales. As played by the famed Frank Welker, Bubba first appeared in the "Time Is Money" arc that opened that show's second season, along with his pet triceratops, Tootsie, and was a fixture of the show thereafter. Given his prehistoric origins, we can easily assume that a similar time-travel adventure will be how he meets up with the new version of the Duck family.

Della Duck

Della Duck on DuckTales

The oldest character on this list by far, Della was first mentioned in 1937 in the Donald Duck newspaper strip, and in the 1938 cartoon "Donald's Nephews," where she was named Dumbella. She initially sent her triplets to live with Donald on a temporary basis until their father returned from the hospital (where the kids had sent him after putting firecrackers under his chair), she never appeared again.

In comics, Della has only appeared either as a child or in flashbacks, with her appearance in "The Shadow War!" marking her onscreen debut. Clearly, her reuniting with her family will be a big part of the new season, but could we maybe also learn who the triplets' father is after more than 80 years?


Starring David Tennant, Danny Pudi, Ben Schwartz, Bobby Moynihan, Kate Micucci, Beck Bennett, Toks Olagundoye  and Tony Anselmo, new episodes of DuckTales debut Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. ET/PT on Disney Channel.