Major Courage is a minor character from DuckTales, featured in the episode "Where No Duck Has Gone Before".
Role in the Series
Major Courage is a character on the TV show Courage of the Cosmos, of which Huey, Dewey and Louie, and Doofus Drake were big fans. (The actor's real name is never given.) When the young ducks meet up with him, they are eager to make his acquaintance. However, Scrooge and Launchpad are both scornful of him because they know everything on his show is just make believe. Scrooge announces that he's going to completely renovate the show to make it more realistic. When he meets Launchpad, Courage immediately jumps to the conclusion that Scrooge is going to replace him with Launchpad. To prevent this, he decides to get on Scrooge's good side by buttering up his nephews and Doofus. On the day the renovations are finished, Courage invites the boys to come along. Launchpad comes along before Courage fires up the star ship, unaware that it's a real spaceship. Most of the time, Courage remains unaware that they really are in space and contines to think that everything that's happening is all part of his show and that the aliens are actors in costumes. He refuses to beieve Launchpad when he tells him it's real even after the boys realize that Launchpad is right. When he tries to fight Overlord Bulvan he realizes that Launchpad is right and runs off, leaving the boys behind. Scrooge makes contact with him and tells him to go back for the boys but Courage refuses. The boys escape on their own thanks to Launchpad. Scrooge punishes him by cancelling his show and putting him in charge of handing out suviners to kids until his contract expires.
Courage makes a cameo in issue #6 of Joe Books' Darkwing Duck comic book.
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