BEEP BEEP, LOOK OUT
In pirate au, Jim Starling was an actor as he plays Darkwing Doubloon at the theatre until his show got canceled as he takes a job of selling furniture. When he heard that a new Darkwing Doubloon show is being performed, he saw it as his chance to reprise his role as Darkwing Doubloon.
However, his role is being replaced by a young actor named Drake Mallard as he becomes enraged. Jim Starling takes advantage of Launchpad's hero worship into helping him break into the theatre. He reaches into a psychotic state as he imprisions Drake Mallard and several guards before hijacking a stage prop and setting the stage on fire.
Then, Drake Mallard as the new Darkwing Doubloon intervenes as the new and original Darkwing Doubloon went to a swordfight while Launchpad puts out the fire. Starling gets the upper hand is about to kill Mallard with his cutlass. Launchpad intervenes and attempts to stop the conflict with an rousing speech, however, he was unaware that one of the set is about to fall on him, which the two Darkwings rush to save him.
Starling ends up saving both Launchpad and the new Darkwing Doubloon as he ends up getting caught beneath the falling set which then explodes, and was left of Jim is his hat and his doubloon necklace. Forcing the new show to be cancelled.
With Jim gone, Launchpad motivates Drake Mallard to be a real pirate in Jim's honor as Drake accepts it. However, Jim survives the explosion, driven with madness and his costume discolored as he becomes Negaduck.
Now as Negaduck, he gathers a crew and become as the Fearsome Pirates as he plunders ships and wants to reclaim his title as the scourage of the seven seas.