DuckTales’ Love Letter to Pro Wrestling is Perfection

Every so often the stars and planets align for two things you love to intersect. I am so glad to have lived to see such a thing occur. I ain’t even going bury the lede on this: the DuckTales reboot did a wrestling episode titled “The Rumble for Ragnarok!” and on kayfabe, it is everything. Every-fucking-thing. Y’all don’t understand — I fucks with DuckTales and pro wrestling heavy. To know me is to already know by my Twitter feed. I had a feeling the DuckTales-wrestling may occur when in a totally unrelated episode, Mrs. Beakly hit a fucking tiger/snapdragon-esque suplex. You don’t add that amount of detail to a suplex unless you’re a wrestling fan. DuckTales keeps making hit after hit, and this wrestling episode is no different. The Rumble for Ragnorak! centers around Norse mythology, as Scrooge tells the kids how every 10 years, Jormungandr, a serpent large enough to encircle the world shapeshifts into an anthropomorphic snake humanoid form and battles Earth’s champion in Valhalla. If Jormungandr wins, then Ragnorak (AKA the end of the world) begins. Scrooge tells the kids because he is Earth’s champion and the torch will eventually be passed to one of them: Webby, Huey, Louie, De–… Webby. Scrooge breaks all this down as we enter Valhalla as we enter we see that this battle is set up as a best of three professional wrestling match. This tradition is so old that pro-wrestling copied them. I love it and just when I couldn’t possibly love it anymore, we see how the Valhalla…