![]() ![]() Disney's merchandising division never got the full memo about the change, so most of the show's merchandise portrays all the villains as FOWL agents with Steelbeak as their leader.FOWL occasionally pops up but only two of the show's dozen or so recurring villains actually work for the organization, and it's run by three unknown shadowy figures. DW sometimes does missions for SHUSH as a freelance agent, so some of the spy elements survive. ![]() Eventually the concept was combined with ideas from a superhero-based DuckTales (1987) episode and became Darkwing Duck, the new name a result of an in-studio contest that was won by Alan Burnett. All the villains were going to be agents of FOWL (Fiendish Organization of World Larceny) with Steelbeak overseeing them as the show's big bad. It was originally going to be a James Bond spoof called Double-O Duck, with Drake Mallard as a globe-trotting spy working for SHUSH. As mentioned in the Shout-Out entry on the main page, the original pitch for the show was very different.When it was learned they didn't have the rights, the animator brushed off his Double-O Duck proposal because they needed a replacement pitch in a hurry. The show almost never came to be! In fact, If Disney had only owned the full rights to Rocky and Bullwinkle, not just video distribution rights, they would have produced a new Bullwinkle series instead.I am the Concept Art that Doubles your O's. ![]()
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