There's so much that's so memorable about Darkwing Duck from the theme song, to his dramatic entrances, "I am the terror that flaps in the night..." that it's a standout in this genre.

Originally conceived of as a send up of spy stories called Double O duck, Disney changed its mind and Darkwing Duck instead became a send up superheroes.

The writers based their stories on their experience reading silver age comics, so Darkwing Duck had a whole 1960s Batman feel to it at times. They'd also do silver age stuff with imagining Darkwing and Negaduck having ancestors who battled each other during the pirate era, or having an imaginary origin of Darkwing told by a maybe ghost of Darkwing who was masquerading as a janitor in a museum in the land of the Jetsons. (Like I said silver age.)

He had a fun rogues gallery filled with great characters such as Quackerjack, Megavolt, Negaduck, the Liquidator, Reginald Bushroot, and Taurus Bulba. The show also retained some of the spy stuff with Darkwing serving part time as an agent of SHUSH and often going toe-to-toe with Agent Steelbeak.

However, beyond it's humor and great villains, the series also had a serious side. Darkwing in his secret identity of Drake Mallard adopted the rambunctious Gosalyn and serves as a single father. Trying to love and care for a child on his own, and unlike Batman with Robin, he tries to keep her away from crimefighting with limited success.

Darkwing has his share of faults including his massive ego and as a parent, he can be controlling and sometimes smothering. Most episodes teach a solid (and usually unforced moral message).

If the series has a weakness, it's that Darkwing Duck's primary power is that he's a cartoon character. who rather than dying when you drop something heaving on him, flattens like a pancake or goes up and down like an accordion. This makes the perils Darkwing in harder to take serious than the death traps of the 1966 Batman TV show. Still, this is definitely one of the bests.