Lena Sabrewing (formerly De Spell) is a major character in the 2017 DuckTales reboot series.
She is a "well-traveled teen" duck who is in truth, Magica De Spell's niece/shadow, and usually follows her aunt's plan in order to obtain Scrooge's Number One Dime. After seemingly sacrificing herself to save Webby from Magica, she is later brought back by Webby and Violet Sabrewing and becomes an official ally of the McDuck household ever since.
Lena is a female duck with some of her hair dyed pink and purple eye shadow. She wears green and white sneakers, a black and gray striped shirt, and a mint-collared shirt underneath. She also wears a purple talisman, which is later revealed to be magical.
When she fought the Phantom Blot, Lena gains a white outfit with a cloak and teal gloves. Her eyes were also turned to full colored blue. It has since become her super-mode form.
Personality[]
Lena is a street smart and a seemingly carefree teenage girl who befriends Webby. However, she's secretly attempting to win the Ducks' trust in order to gain access to Scrooge's Number One Dime on behalf of her aunt, Magica De Spell. As the first season progresses though, Lena becomes increasingly torn between her aunt's villainous schemes and her growing friendship with Webby. She eventually chooses the latter and fights against her aunt to rescue her friend, seemingly sacrificing herself in the process. After being brought back to corporeal form, Lena remains on the side of good for the rest of the series.
Biography[]
Season One[]
Lena first appears in "The Beagle Birthday Massacre!", when Webby finds her series of fake messages after being left on the beach in bottles and follows them to her, who is sitting at an abandoned amphitheater. Lena invites Webby to a party held in the Duckburg Junkyard, not mentioning the party was a birthday celebration for Ma Beagle. During this time, Lena and Webby develop a friendship with each other. However, at the end of the episode, Lena reveals herself to be the niece of Magica De Spell, and is trying to infiltrate the McDuck household. It is later revealed that Lena intents to steal Scrooge's Number One Dime, which Magica is currently sealed in. Lena doesn't want to do it to begin with, but Magica has promised her freedom and wants her to kill Webby. At the end of "The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck!", when Lena tries to rebel, Magica possesses her body.
In "The Shadow War!", Magica pretends to be Lena and tries to takes the Dime. When her attempts fail, Magica attacks Scrooge and finally gets it just as the eclipse happens, exorcising herself from Lena's body and freeing herself, before trapping Scrooge and Lena. When Lena expresses her desire to have a family like Scrooge's, Magica absorbs her into her shadow and traps Scrooge into the Dime. Meanwhile, Webby and the triplets find out from Lena's journal that she is in fact Magica's shadow given life, and was blackmailed by the latter into working for her. In the final battle, thanks to Webby's friendship bracelet, Lena manifests in spirit form and tries to attack Magica, but is seemingly destroyed in process. However, she is later revealed to have survived and merged with Webby's shadow.
Season Two[]
In "Friendship Hates Magic!", Lena is stuck inside of Webby's shadow and is worried about Webby's new friend Violet Sabrewing, trying to warn Webby that Violet is bad but can't since Webby can't see her. However, with the help of Violet, Webby is able to bring Lena back to the real world. The three then becomes a trio ever since, and Lena becomes Violet's adoptive older sister.
In "A Nightmare on Killmotor Hill!", Lena is haunted by Magica in her dreams. She tries to hide her friends from the latter by keeping them awake, but ends up going to sleep anyways because the others are fast sleep, and the group then realize that they share the same dream. Lena eventually gets turned into Magica, but Webby then realizes her thanks to the bracelet, and the group successfully rescue her. Upon waking up, Lena finds out that Magica has been used technology to control their dreams. Lena then destroys the technology Magica is using, and goes into the mansion with the group, leaving Magica screaming revenge outside.
In "Moonvasion!", Lena is one of the allies recruited by the Gyro's Lil Bulbs to fight against the Moonlanders' invasion.
Season Three[]
In "The Phantom and the Sorceress!", Lena struggles to manage her magic powers properly and accidentally places her friends and herself in a video game at the mansion. During a sleepover, Gladstone Gander arrives at the mansion and begs for Webby, Lena and Violet's help as his luck disappears. Violet assumes that the Phantom Blot is responsible who captures the magic, and the group alongside Gladstone are forced to ask Magica for help. Magica then trains Lena in using magic, before the Phantom Blot emerges and tries to steal Lena's magic powers. After Lena is nearly defeated, Webby and Violet remind her about her abilities, allowing her to defeat the Blot and gain a new form with her own magic aura. Magica, having gotten her magic back, tries to attack Lena, Webby and Violet, but Lena defeats her, before the three return to the mansion.
In "The Split Sword of Swanstantine!", Lena and Violet accompany Scrooge, the triplets and Webby on a mission to retrieve the pieces of the Split Sword of Swanstantine. To their surprise, they find that F.O.W.L. is already there, lying in wait. While Scrooge battles Black Heron, the kids pair off, with each pair setting out in search of a piece of the sword. Lena pairs up with Huey, and they quickly discover the blade. However, Steelbeak appears and assaults the duo. Lena uses her powers to transport herself and Huey into the latter's mindscape, so that they can have an infinite amount of time to plan for the immediate fight with Steelbeak. To her frustration, Huey asks her to run innumerable simulations, and each time, he tries to outwit the villain rather than fight him. Lena grows weary of this approach but Huey will not listen to her. Suddenly, Lena discovers a secret vault within Huey's mind -- a vault which houses his out-of-control alter-ego, The Duke of Making a Mess. Lena persuades Huey to embrace and control this dark side of himself, rather than lock it away. When Huey agrees, Lena transports herself and the former back to reality, and Huey fights Steelbeak. Huey heeds Lena's advice and learns to use his more violent side to overwhelm Steelbeak, in what Lena describes as the best butt-kicking she has ever seen. They successfully retrieve the blade, and ultimately Scrooge's group is able to secure the Split Sword in its entirety.
In "The Last Adventure!", Lena attends Webby’s birthday party. She later joins the others stop FOWL, and eventually befriends May and June.
Powers and Abilities[]
Magic: When Lena had the amulet, Lena is shown able to lift heavy objects as seen in the episode "Terror of the Terra-Firmians!" where she uses it to lift/levitate the train car and help Mrs. Beakley to get out from below it so the two can escape. After being freed from Magica, Lena can transform objects into other things, as shown in "Moonvasion!" where she transforms one of the Moonlanders' weapons into a bird. Later on, after some training with Magica, Lena gains her own magical powers which include some of her original ones like Flight/Levitation, Energy Burst, and Telekinesis. Her abilities extend to the point where she also learned some Time Freezing/Stopping Magic that freezes time just before Steelbeak attacks her and Huey. She is also able to create a mental loop to play out various encounter scenarios between her, Huey and Steelbeak. In "The Last Adventure!", during the investigation of May and June, she uses her magic to carefully examine them.
Skilled hand-to-hand combatant: As demonstrated throughout the series, Lena is able to hold her own in hand to hand combat, especially when she nearly bested Magica while she was distracted.
Occult knowledge: Due to growing up in the care of Magica, Lena possesses great knowledge of the occult and other things of mystical origins.
Former Powers[]
Shadow Physiology: While in her original form which is a shadow and as Webby's Shadow, Lena has similar abilities to that of a ghost such as phasing through walls by turning intangible and briefly float/levitate off the ground, though not for long. These powers seem to be exclusive to her shadow form and cannot be used in her normal form.
Equipment[]
Sumerian Talisman/Amulet: Unfused from the amulet, as she can be seen wearing it. Lena learns that she has Magic of her own without the amulet, and after Phantom Blot is defeated, Magica gains her powers back as she takes the amulet, and Lena uses her own Magic, leaving the Sumerian Talisman with Magica.
Trivia[]
Her relationship to Magica makes her Magica's second-known niece, the first being Minima De Spell from the comics. However, other than being related to Magica, Lena has no connection to Minima.
Concept art revealed that Lena was originally going to sport black hair and feathers, and had the surname "Le Strange". However, this was intended to be a placeholder name to keep her relationship with Magica a secret.
She probably does not age as she has not changed anything since her creation 15 years ago until "The Shadow War!" as seen in a flashback, though this is left ambiguous as it could've easily been because it was seen through Webby's imagination, since she was still wearing her stripped shirt when made in the flashback despite claiming to have gotten it from the Feather Weights band with Angones stating she wasn't lying about that.
According to herself, her shirt came from the lead singer of the Featherweights, during one of their gigs in Paris.
One of the covers of DuckTales (IDW) #9 says that Lena failed boarding schools.
It has been confirmed by Frank that Lena's new outfit is called the Super Sorceress Outfit and that it activates when she uses the full breadth of her powers.[1]
She likely calls Magica her aunt due to being made from Poe's half of the magic amulet.
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