Tantalus is a large male non-anthropomorphic condor.
Description[]
A huge, malevolent, well-trained condor, Tantalus was the pet of St. Canard criminal mastermind Taurus Bulba throughout his imprisonment. Outfitted with a CCTV device projecting Bulba's face and allowing him to see what Tantalus was seeing, he was his literal eyes and ears in the outside world, as well as a convenient henchman to get rid of the punier of his foes. In 1991, during the showdown between Bulba and Darkwing Duck, Tantalus's tailfeathers got caught in the “mouth”-hinger of the Thunderquack, preventing him from steering his flight and sending him spiraling to the ground.
Behind the scenes[]
Tantalus appeared exclusively in Darkly Dawns The Duck, the Darkwing Duck pilot, and its comic adaptation. He is presumably named for the figure in Greek mythology, infamous for being punished to never taste food or water for eternity (comparable with Bulba's status of being stuck in prison and having to go through Tantalus to witness the outside world which he is forbidden from experiencing himself).