All exasperated ducks in Darkwing tell the tale of the Bill Snatcher, a crookedly long-beaked avian with a malevolent air, who creeps around the nests, searching for the noisiest and most ill-behaved ducklings. He is drawn to the sound of their quackings, and lures the little beggars with grubs to his ornately decorated ship, where he warp scrams them and neuts.

The poor captives are taken to his master. There the mute ship-less ducklings are podded, leaving nothing but their bill-less corpse. Legend say the bills continue snapping in horrid abandon in the mists of the nebula, chasing after those who wander too far from their cozy station undock. The ducklings fear the Bill Snatcher, and its continuous use as a ploy to quieten little ones has lost none of its power over the generations.