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Old 09-30-2015, 03:41 PM   #1
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Ace Duck

So was Ace Duck ever an actual character from any kind of story arc or cartoon episode or anything, or was he just made to sell toys? I had his action figure when I was little and it was one of my all-time favorites! Alas that is all I personally ever knew of the Ace Duck...
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Old 09-30-2015, 03:47 PM   #2
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He was a character in the archie comics, a big beefy wrestler that was champion of the intergalactic league. He didn't resemble the toy at all. Strangely enough the toy was based on a Cartoon being played in the the TMNT Cartoon's universe that the turtle were watching. But When I was little I paired him up with Merdude and made em best friends as a poor man's mutanimal group, that had em face off against Two Face and the Dr Kilimov from the Toxic Crusaders.
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Old 09-30-2015, 03:49 PM   #3
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Ace Duck is hated by most TMNT writers/directors. The Nick cartoon made fun of him by showing his picture getting torn to shreds when Baxter pitched it to Shredder as a mutant, and the original cartoon showed him as a character on a TV show instead of a real character. Then Murphy turned him into an alien completely different than what he's supposed to be.

Ace Duck is doomed to never have an actual role in anything.
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Old 09-30-2015, 04:20 PM   #4
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How sad! He made for an awesome action figure!! Lol
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Old 09-30-2015, 08:29 PM   #5
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There's literally nothing to suggest that Ace Duck is "hated by most TMNT writers/directors", that's just Cybercubed being a goof.

He probably won't ever get his "fair due" but that could be said of many toyetic TMNT characters. Oh well. At any rate, yeah, he was developed to be a mere toy, nothing more.
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Old 09-30-2015, 08:43 PM   #6
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Well considering the character has existed since when...1988 or so, and has had virtually no screentime or presence in 25 years of TMNT history says a lot in itself.
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Old 09-30-2015, 09:16 PM   #7
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Hated & being thought of as too boring/weird/whatever are very different things, 'ole chap!
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Old 09-30-2015, 10:09 PM   #8
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He is the Finest Feathered Fowl of all Planet Perdufus. How dare you marginalize Ace Duck? WHO ARE YOU TO DOUBT EL DAND-... uhhh, I mean, Ace Duck.

Ace Duck beat Cryin' Houn' an' all them guys. Who'd you ever beat, hambone?
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Old 10-01-2015, 06:20 AM   #9
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I miss his awesome bomber's jacket and his egg-like grenades...
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Old 10-01-2015, 02:43 PM   #10
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He was apparently liked enough for Murphy to use him in multiple issues of the Archie series and put him into the TMNT Mutant Universe Sourcebook A-M volume.
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Old 10-01-2015, 07:16 PM   #11
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I miss his awesome bomber's jacket and his egg-like grenades...
What's there to miss? Just get (or display/stare at, assuming you have it already) the toy.
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Old 10-01-2015, 07:26 PM   #12
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In my head he sounds like John Travolta or Jimmy Stewart.
Yeah I know, those are radically different voices...I know...

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Old 10-03-2015, 03:30 PM   #13
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Ace Duck is hated by most TMNT writers/directors. The Nick cartoon made fun of him by showing his picture getting torn to shreds when Baxter pitched it to Shredder as a mutant, and the original cartoon showed him as a character on a TV show instead of a real character. Then Murphy turned him into an alien completely different than what he's supposed to be.

Ace Duck is doomed to never have an actual role in anything.
I haven't been on the forums in a year, I come back to quickly check Season 4 info, and this is what I see?

Cubed, can you just stop! I mean, seriously, you have no FACTUAL basis to any of these claims.

YOU don't like Ace Duck. I got it. Just like you only like one of the Punk Frogs, Bebop being black etc

To the original poster. I happen to LOVE Ace Duck. He was always one of my favourite characters, and one I never thought got his proper due. I always imagined his as a bad ass fighter pilot/spy. Remember there are no truly bad characters, only bad writing.

I still hold out hope that Ace Duck will re-appear somewhere, sometime.

The world needs more Ace Duck!
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Old 10-03-2015, 04:29 PM   #14
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Old 10-03-2015, 09:20 PM   #15
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Ace Duck is a cool.
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Old 10-03-2015, 11:00 PM   #17
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Strangely enough the toy was based on a Cartoon being played in the the TMNT Cartoon's universe that the turtle were watching.
I'm pretty sure it was the other way around.
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Old 10-04-2015, 06:32 PM   #18
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It was rather obvious Ace Duck was only created to capitalize on the success of all the Disney duck characters who had their own shows in the 80's, like Scrooge Mcduck and his nephews, Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, etc.
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It was rather obvious Ace Duck was only created to capitalize on the success of all the Disney duck characters who had their own shows in the 80's, like Scrooge Mcduck and his nephews, Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, etc.
Or to, you know, mock it.
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Old 10-04-2015, 08:37 PM   #20
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That's what I always thought, too. Ace was pretty obviously a parody of Launchpad. Not that that is a bad thing, mind you. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and all....
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