Yes, Webby is the first clone of Scrooge, created by FOWL with the explicit purpose of getting the Papyrus, but rescued as an infant by Ms. Beakley in her SHUSH agent days. Webby is hurt when she discovers her grandmother is not her grandmother, but is very excited to learn that she’s not just part of the found McDuck family, but part of the genetic McDuck family, too.

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It’s exactly what Webigail has wanted, but it feels like it undercuts the finale’s message that found families—the people who care for you and about you—are just as important, if not moreso, than families by blood. It’s why all the DuckTales protagonists band together to rescue Webby and stop Bradford. It’s why May and June are vaguely adopted into the McDuck family after the battle’s over. And it’s why Scrooge and his friends win the day, naturally. Still, “legitimizing” her place with the McDucks gives a sense of delegitimizing her role in the found family.

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All that said, there were plenty of great moments in “The Last Adventure.” The reveal that Webby had actually captured June was played perfectly. Launchpad gets a turn in the GizmoDuck armor to the cheers of all the people he’s inspired with his cheerfully incompetent heroism. I’m not sure Bradford can truly be blamed for Delia getting stranded on the moon simply by telling her about the Spear of Selene rocketship, but it gives him a big boost of villainy that raises the stakes of the final battle. And, after Bradford is defeated, Magica DeSpell, who isn’t pleased to learn she and the other villains were also going to be erased from reality if FOWL won, transforms Bradford Buzzard into a regular buzzard, which probably isn’t a callback to this moment but boggled my ding-dang mind yet again.

All in all, “The Last Adventure” wasn’t DuckTales’ greatest adventure, even if it was the biggest, loudest, and busiest. But if you’ve been watching this wonderful show, watching all these characters come together to fight as one giant, extended family is still satisfying and heartwarming. Even so-so DuckTales episodes are very good. So whatever problems the finale had, the biggest one by far is that it was the last DuckTales adventure we’ll get to see.

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