Darkwing Duck, an up-and-coming crime fighter dying for a big break, is stuck busting regular criminals in the bustling metropolis of St. Canard. Annoyed that he isn't getting enough attention from the press, Darkwing longs to fight a super-villain. He gets more than he bargained for however when he stumbles onto a fiendish plot by criminal mastermind Taurus Bulba to steal a top-secret weapon from the military: an anti-gravity beam cannon called the Waddlemeyer Ramrod. "Darkly Dawns the Duck" is the pilot movie of the Darkwing cartoon series. After the success of the pilot, the film was edited for the launching of the series, it was then split and used as the first two episodes.