I recently had a chance to speak with Ducktales producers Matt Youngberg and Francisco Angones ahead of the return of another classic Disney character, in the special hour-long Darkwing Duck focused episode “Let’s Get Dangerous.”
I asked the pair if there had ever been a Disney character that they had been unable to include in Ducktales, any that perhaps Disney was less willing to let go of.
Francisco Angones did say that there have been times they’ve had to get a bit creative in order to find a way to bring certain characters in, the big one being Mickey Mouse himself, who the show did depict in a roundabout way at the end of Season 2 because that way one way they could do it at all.