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| ā | Blabbering Blatherskite! | ā |
| ~ Fenton Crackshell-Cabera's catchphrase and codeword used to summon The Gizmo-Duck Armour. |
Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera, also known as Gizmoduck, is a supporting protagonist from the 2017 DuckTales reboot series.
He's the counterpart of the character Fenton Crackshell from the original series, only here, he is given Cuban roots, hence the slight renaming and noticeably different apperance. He is an intern for Gyro Gearloose and the alter-ego of Duckburg's iconic superhero, Gizmoduck.
He was voiced by Lin-Manuel Miranda who also voiced Vivo in Sony's animated film of the same name and portrayed Alexander Hamilton from the 2015 broadway musical of the same name.
Overview[]
Fenton is Gyro's former intern promoted to doctor. Eventually, Scrooge hires to be Duckburg's protecter in his absence as the superhero Gizmoduck.
Appearance[]
In the 2017 reboot, Fenton Crackshell has light brown feathers and wears a cream colored top with a light purple tie.
Once he dons the Gizmoduck outfit, it is white and black with a red emblem on his chest. A helmet is also worn that is white, with purple goggles. He has a singular wheel instead of two legs that is red and white.
Personality[]
Fenton is an optimistic, impossibly earnest, and brilliant young intern who wants what's best for everyone. Fenton is well-meaning but naive and has an issue with causing Gyro's secret projects to be leaked to the public. Despite Gyroās poor treatment of him, Fenton remains optimistic, has a strong sense of justice and is dedicated to helping the world however he can; it probably helps that his mother, who wants him to get a better job that actually pays, is a police officer. Because of this, he has an especially strong interest in a suit of armor that Gyro created called the Gizmosuit.
History[]
Fenton is introduced in the episode āBeware the B.U.D.D.Y. System!ā as an intern of Gyro Gearloose whom he doesnāt pay and is frequently abusive towards. By the end of the episode, he uses it for the first time to team up with Launchpad to save Scrooge, Dewey, Gyro and Mark Beaks when the B.U.D.D.Y. driver theyāre in a car with, which is really a Lil Bulb made by Gyro and that Beaks stole, turns evil and put them all in danger. This would be the first occasion that he would take on the persona of Gizmoduck.
Fenton's next appearance is in the episode āWho is Gizmoduck?!ā where he foils an attempted bank robbery by the Beagle Boys as Gizmoduck, but unfortunately ends up causing major damage to the bank due to the core processor overheating and making the suit go haywire. When Gyro finds out about that and other exploits, he fires him, declares the project a failure and intends to destroy the suit. However, Fenton then steals the suit before he can and goes to Mark Beaks since, in an effort to recruit him, he had previously made an offer to help him by providing him with a new phone app-based life-saving service. With his former employer having lost faith in him, Fenton accepts the offer due to thinking itās the best way he can do some good with the suit. However, it eventually turns out that the Waddle Duck app only allows him to help those who actually have it, and all the ārescue requestsā end up being frivolous requests for minor chores and menial labor. It even actively prevents him from helping victims of actual crimes simply because they donāt have the app. When Fenton protests this, Beaks strips him of the armor and becomes Gizmoduck himself, only to quickly lose control of it at a public event thanks to his showboating. Knowing the core processor is about to explode, which puts everyone nearby at risk, Fenton seizes it back from him, and with some help from Huey, manages to take control of the suit. He then risks his life by using the suit to fly away with the core processor so that it safely explodes over the bay, which destroys the suit, but thankfully, Fenton survives, albeit in a badly injured state. In the aftermath, he wakes up in the hospital to find out that not only is Scrooge paying his medical bill, but heās hiring him as a direct employee, rather than just as Gyroās intern, to defend the city as Gizmoduck whenever heās away, with Gyro creating a new more stable version of the suit.
From there on, both as Gizmoduck and even on certain occasions as himself, Fenton would go on to do numerous heroic deeds. In āThe Shadow War!ā, even without the suit, he played a great part in the battle against Magica De Spell after she seized Duckburg by combining Gyroās laser gun with Lil Bulb, and proved to be extremely effective in destroying the evil shadows of the citizens she was stealing and using as her personal army. By āThe Dangerous Chemistry of Gandra Dee!ā, he has being engaging in his superhero duties so much that heās burned out by them, and spends most of the episode going on a date with fellow scientist Gandra Dee. However, it eventually turns out that she was a spy working for Mark Beaks, who eventually interrupts the date himself and uses Gizmotech to turn into a much stronger and monstrous version of himself. He then kidnaps Huey and Webby and brings them somewhere public so heāll get massive media attention. However, even without the suit, which Gandra shocked and shut down, Fenton manages to use his love of social media to distract him by prompting him to use a phone, which Beaks canāt do properly in his monstrous form, causing him to have a breakdown. He then gets help from Gandra, who grew to actually care about him over the course of their date, to electrify his invention, Fentonium, and uses it on Beaks, which destroys the nanites inside of him, returning him to normal, and saves Huey and Webby.
Later on, he would help out as Gizmoduck during the Moonlanderās invasion by trying to greet them with a peace offering, then subsequently taking part in a ragtag rebellion consisting of Scrooge and his familyās various allies to allow Scrooge to reach the mothership above McDuck Manor. It turns out to be a trap, and most of Scroogeās allies, including Fenton and his mother, are captured, but they would subsequently be freed later on. Despite generally helping out Duckburg, which he mentions he has saved numerous times by the final episode, Fenton has also shown to be completely willing to help out in other places where he can do some good. This is shown in āAstro B.O.Y.D.!ā where he foils a jewel store robbery while in Japan, and in āLetās Get Dangerous!ā, where he travels to Saint Canard after Taurus Bulba uses the Ramrod to bring 4 supervillains from the Darkwing Duck TV show into their dimension to wreak havoc on the city. Specifically, he is shown putting himself in harmās way to combat Bushroot on the cityās bridge. On both occasions, he does this as Gizmoduck of course.
In āBeaks in the Shell!ā, he is revealed to be privately working with Gandra on a top-secret experiment; a virtual landscape called the GizmoCloud. In it, anyone has the ability to make any ideas they think of become reality, and because itās all virtual, it allows the pair to freely experiment without having to worry about the possibility of anyone getting hurt if the ideas donāt work out. The main purpose of it is to push the boundaries of science in a way thatās completely safe in the hopes that theyāll be able to share super science with the world for free. Unfortunately, Mark Beaks hacks in and tries to take control of it in order to pre-steal other peopleās ideas, but thankfully, after the two recruit Huey, Gyro and Officer Cabrera, Fentonās mother, to help them out, they manage to collectively overpower Beaks and boot him out of the program. Finally, in the series finale, āThe Last Adventure!ā, he assists the Duck family in a raid on F.O.W.L.ās headquarters, then does so again later in a raid on the Lost Library to save Webby and Huey. He ends up temporarily trapped in a cell along with many of the others, but even then, he offers words of encouragement to Launchpad about how he inspired him to become a hero, which leads to him temporarily using the Gizmosuit to defeat F.O.W.L.ās henchman, Steelbeak, along with several other villains he had brainwashed, and subsequently freeing everyone who was captured.
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Trivia[]
- In The Dangerous Chemistry of Gandra Dee! his mother, Officer Cabrera gifts Fenton with a suit that she says belonged to his father: this implies that Fenton's father is deceased.
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