>>114267841I mean, I get it. He's a foil for Launchpad. The only way that match up makes sense is if:
1) He's equally dumb
2) He's so full of himself he overlooks Launchpad's innate abilities.
Honestly, I would have preferred the second one, but they needed to go with 1) to set up the Double O Duck persona.
I was really hoping Steelbeak was to get hit with the ray too and turn into classic Steelbeak, but this is what we get because it fits the narrative better.
If he were up against Darkwing proper, yeah, we could have had classic Steelbeak, because the joke was they were both full of themselves.