Fluffy (Darkwing Duck)
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| First appearance | "The Kitty Kat Kaper" (July 1992) |
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| Voiced by | N/A |
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| Friends | Al (second-in-command) |
| Rivals | Darkwing Duck, Launchpad McQuack |
Fluffy is a fictional cat who appears as an occasional antagonist in the Darkwing Duck comic stories published in Disney Adventures. Through an experiment gone wrong, he has an extraordinary IQ and repeatedly aims to take over St. Canard.
[edit] "The Kitty Kat Kaper"
The first story to feature the character is titled "The Kitty Kat Kaper", published in the July 1992 issue. Here, Fluffy has only just gained his high IQ, and has already escaped the SHUSH labs from which the experiment occurred, leaving behind a forged (and badly-spelled) ransom note. Darkwing and Launchpad place the demanded satchel of money in the trash can they're told to bring it to, then disguise themselves as hot dog vendors while they wait for the crook to show up. But they get distracted and don't notice Fluffy making off with it.
Darkwing finds a note in the trash can that brings them to a hotel room where several of his other enemies are eating chicken and watching "The Miss Corn Fritters Paegent" on TV. After the end of the show, (the paegent was on pay-per-view, and the villains were not willing to miss it after all the money they put down for it), Darkwing then proceeded to defeat, arrest, and interrogate the group of bad guys, only to learn that none of them know anything about Fluffy.
Shortly afterward, Darkwing and Launchpad catch sight of a cat with a satchel. They give chase until they are finally led to Fluffy. After revealing himself to be the mastermind, Fluffy sics his minions (a whole bunch of cats) on Darkwing and Launchpad. Darkwing scares the cats away and captures Fluffy.
Notably, in this story, Fluffy speaks with a lisp not unlike that of Sylvester, which he does not have in later stories.
[edit] "Cat in a Hot Tin Suit"
Fluffy breaks out of the St. Canard Penitentiary in "Cat in a Hot Tin Suit" (October 1993), taking refuge in an abandoned tuna factory along with his minions, who don't really have a clue what he's saying. After appointing a cat named Al to his second-in-command for being the only to raise his paw when told to (he was actually trying to swat a fly), Fluffy sends his minions to the Grocerama supermarket to steal all the cans of tuna.
This act confuses Darkwing and Launchpad, but it is subsequently revealed (to the readers) that Fluffy has used the tin cans to make himself a robotic suit of armor (hence the title) that allows him to walk on two feet, complete with gloves that give him opposable thumbs. He then challenges Darkwing to a duel and soundly defeats him.
With the hero out of the way, Fluffy and the cats take over the city. However, Fluffy becomes bored in his luxury penthouse and decides to increase Al's intelligence. Darkwing and Launchpad sneak in and distract Fluffy long enough for Darkwing to snatch away Fluffy's robotic gloves.
Fluffy attempts to get away, but his rocket pack dies out and Darkwing nabs him again; after returning Fluffy to the penitentiary, Darkwing gives him his robotic gloves back. Grateful for this, Fluffy decides to live out his sentence peacefully.
[edit] "Fluffy's Reign of Terror!"
Fluffy's third (and final) appearance was in a two-part story titled "Fluffy's Reign of Terror!" (February and March 1994). This story opens with Fluffy having (seemingly) been rehabilitated and thus set free from jail.
Still bent on taking over the city and having regained his robotic suit, Fluffy fills St. Canard with a green snow-like substance he calls "Flee Powder", which fills anyone who comes in contact with it the urge to evacuate thousands of miles away.
Darkwing and Launchpad are initially affected by the powder, but eventually return to St. Canard where they distract Fluffy's feline minions with fish.
Just then, Megavolt, Bushroot, and The Liquidator (who, being mutants, were not affected by the Flee Powder) show up to mock Darkwing. Fluffy, having seen Darkwing's return, also shows up. Darkwing and Fluffy fight while Launchpad subdues the other three villains.
Eventually, Fluffy surrenders and decides to go back to the penitentiary willingly, because, as he states, it's no fun being the boss of a bunch of minions who never listen.
