My How They Have Aged. Look At The Cast Of The Mighty Ducks 25 Years Later.

Emilio Estevez (Gordon Bombay)

The role of Gordon Bombay allowed Emilio Estevez to shake off the Brat Pack tag he carried throughout the '80s. He'd already attempted to move away from coming-of-age dramedies with his turn as Billy the Kid in the Young Guns movies, though Bombay was his first real grown-up character. He carried on acting into the late '90s and early '00s, but now spends much of his time directing, with the cast of his recent project The Public recently bolstered by the addition of Christian Slater. He still holds Gordon Bombay close to his heart, however, which he proved in 2015 when he live-tweeted support for the Anaheim Ducks during their playoff showdown with the Chicago Blackhawks in full character. After Anaheim pulled the game back in true Ducks fashion, the actor risked the ire of Blackhawk fans by calling them "windy city windbags" and telling them to "suck it."

Joshua Jackson (#96 Charlie Conway)

The part of championship-winning penalty scorer Charlie Conway was originally supposed to be played by Jake Gyllenhaal, who was offered the part on the back of his performance as Billy Crystal's son 1991's City Slickers. Young Jake's dreams were soon dashed by his parents, however, who refused to let him miss months of school for the part. Joshua Jackson stepped in, starting a career that's grown to include five-season stints on Dawson's Creek and Fringe.

Jackson fell into TV work two years after making his final bow as Charlie in 1996's D3 and he remains a man of the small screen today, currently preparing for the recently confirmed fourth season of Showtime's The Affair. His only big screen success of any note in recent years is 2008's Shutter, an American remake of the Thai horror film of the same name. It scored an embarrassing 7 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, yet still managed to rake in six times its budget at the worldwide box office.

Elden Henson (#44 Fulton Reed)

It's hard to believe Matt Murdock's loveable sidekick Foggy Nelson is the same guy that played hulking enforcer Fulton Reed. Elden Henson made his first appearance in The Mighty Ducks when members of the titular team were cornered by players from their rival team the Hawks, dispatching the bullies with ease. Henson went on to be a key member of the team and the cast over the course of the three movies, though when the Ducks disbanded he struggled to make an impact in the industry, resorting to supporting parts in such films as Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd and Evil Alien Conquerors.

Henson's fortunes have a taken a turn for the better over recent years—not only on the big screen (he played the part of Pollux in the two-part Hunger Games finale) but on television, too. He's portrayed well-meaning lawyer Foggy in two seasons of Netflix's Daredevil, and has confirmed he'll reprise the character in the upcoming team-up series The Defenders.

Shaun Weiss (#33 Greg Goldberg)

Shaun Weiss worked on several TV shows before making his film debut in The Mighty Ducks, including a short stint on Pee-wee's Playhouse in 1986 and an appearance on The Cosby Show in 1989. By 1992, he'd grown into a big-boned 14-year-old and was considered a perfect fit for the role of netminder Greg Goldberg, though acting on the ice proved a challenge for the teen.

"We had three months of hockey camp," Weiss revealed. "Skating didn't come easy for me—I spent the first month on my ass."

Luckily, his position involved a minimal amount of actual skating, and Weiss learned enough to stay off his backside and on his feet. He went on to portray the flatulent goalie in the Ducks sequels, taking time off between the two to star in early Ben Stiller comedy Heavyweights, a film that went on to amass a cult following of its own. Weiss saw the '90s out with a four-episode stint on Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks, though the next decade wasn't kind to him, with his most significant appearance in a feature film coming as the unnamed bus driver in 2008's Drillbit Taylor.

Matt Doherty (#4 Lester Averman)

Matt Doherty made his debut in 1990's Home Alone, though spotting him is like a game of Where's Waldo. He plays the son of Uncle Rob (whose New York home Kevin turns into a house of horrors in the sequel) and is credited as Steffan, though only appears for a matter of seconds in the family's French hotel room. He went on to play bespectacled goofball Lester Averman in the Mighty Ducks movies, and has another '90s classic on his resume in So I Married an Axe Murderer.

As he approached adulthood, roles started to dry up for Doherty, and he walked the tightrope between supporting actor and extra—"Computer Guy", "Masterpiece Video Employee", "Drunk," and "Twitchy Guy" are among the roles on his filmography. He didn't even get a credit for his appearance as a butler in 2012's Argo, and in recent years, he's turned to TV movies, including the 2015 sci-fi production Supernova 45. Doherty plays Jetset, the tech-savy sidekick of spectacularly named AWOL pilot Ganymede Pan.

Garette Henson (#00 Guy Germaine)

Garette Henson got off to a flying start with his movie career, appearing in ten feature films over a six-year period. He made his bow in Arachnophobia in 1990 and appeared in Albert Pyun's Captain America later that year, though (with perhaps the exception of 1995's Casper, in which Henson played a young Christina Ricci's crush) he's best remembered as Guy Germaine from The Mighty Ducks movies. While he admits to enjoying a chat about the Ducks today, being associated with the films started to wear thin towards the end of the decade. "I think it most annoyed me around 1998 right when I went to college, when I first stepped away from acting," he explained. "It's obvious I didn't have a traditional childhood, but for me, going to college was my opportunity to experience traditional young adulthood."

He made a brief return to acting in 2007 when he played a prisoner in The Mannsfield 12, though despite a few positive reviews (the film was described as "unexpectedly inspiring and poignant"), the movie didn't get the attention Henson needed to launch his comeback.

Danny Tamberelli (#2 Tommy Duncan)

Italian-American actor and musician Danny Tamberelli played the role of defenseman Tommy Duncan in The Mighty Ducks, though he didn't return for either sequel. Instead, Tamberelli opted to take on the role of Little Pete Wrigley in Nickelodeon's The Adventures of Pete and Pete, the role that he's still best remembered for. The kids' network added him to the cast of their slimy game show Figure It Out and their live sketch comedy All That in the late '90s, though he departed from Nickelodeon at the turn of the millennium and transitioned into voice work.

He'd already acquired experience in voice acting after providing the distinctively squeaky tones of Arnold Perlstein in The Magic School Bus, and a stint on Disney's animated action comedy Fillmore! was then eventually followed by a move into the gaming world, with Tamberelli cast as the voice of protagonist Michael De Santa in 2013's Grand Theft Auto V. Nowadays Tamberelli fronts Brooklyn-based rock band Jounce, a career goal he's had in mind ever since an amp-exploding encounter with Iggy Pop on the set of Adventures of Pete and Pete.

Jussie Smollett (#1 Terry Hall)

Justin "Jussie" Smollett recently pulled off a comeback worthy of the Mighty Ducks, turning his fading career around and putting himself firmly back on the Hollywood map. Smollett appeared in the first Ducks movie but didn't reprise the role of Terry Hall in either sequel, instead choosing to work alongside Elijah Wood and nine-year-old Scarlett Johansson in the 1994 Rob Reiner comedy North. Those are Smollett's only two major film credits from the '90s, and it'd be nearly two decades before he added a third to his résumé.

The 2012 indie dramedy The Skinny was criticized by the New York Times for reinforcing gay stereotypes, but Smollett won widespread praise for his portrayal of another homosexual character (he himself came out to the world during a chat with Ellen in 2015) in Fox's hit series Empire. His turn as a talented musician struggling to come to terms with his father's homophobia got him noticed by numerous directors, though Ridley Scott was the first to snap him up, casting him in his upcoming Prometheus sequel Alien: Covenant.

Vincent Larusso (#99 Adam Banks)

When we first meet Adam Banks in The Mighty Ducks, he's the star player for the Ducks' archrivals the Hawks, though he ends up their teammate when coach Bombay discovers that he actually resides within his team's district. Forced to accept his fate, he becomes happier and healthier for it, ending up a key part of the Ducks' championship triumph. Vincent Larusso portrayed Banks in all three Mighty Ducks movies, though he was originally just cast as a background actor, promoted to a major role after the original Adam Banks proved a troublemaker. (According to the film's technical adviser Jack White, the unnamed actor was fired after cross-checking Marguerite Moreau and firing a puck at US Olympian Eric Strobel during hockey camp.)

Larusso made a brief and unexpected return to the big screen when he portrayed the bank robber in the 2008 spoof Superhero Movie, though that remains his last credit of any note. Today, the former Duck works as an inventory controller for the hospitality chain Soho House.

Brandon Adams (#9 Jesse Hall)

Brandon Adams was exposed to the world of acting as a toddler when he appeared in a number of commercials, but his big break came when he was cast as Zeke "Baby Bad" Michael in Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, a bizarre 1988 fantasy/action/musical hybrid that pitted the King of Pop against a drug-dealing Joe Pesci. He went on to work with Wes Craven (referring to the horror legend as Uncle Wes in an interview he gave the year before the director's death) in 1991's The People Under the Stairs before portraying sharpshooting forward Jesse Hall in the first two Mighty Ducks movies. Adams always had one foot in film while the other remained in television, however, and he started to lean more heavily on the latter as his career progressed. He has some genuine '90s classics to his name, appearing in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Boy Meets World, and Sister Sister, though as the decade fizzled out, so did his career.

Marguerite Moreau (#18 Connie Moreau)

Marguerite Moreau seemed to grow up pretty quickly after the Mighty Ducks trilogy ended in 1996, appearing as camp counselor Katie in Wet Hot American Summer a short five years later—a film that flopped at first, but went on to achieve cult status. A major role in Queen of the Damned followed soon after, but while the Californian continued to make regular movie appearances throughout the '00s, the parts she was offered became increasingly unfulfilling and she turned her attention to television.

Moreau has plied her trade in small-screen classics such as Smallville, The O.C., and Lost, and continues to pick her parts wisely today, appearing in Mad Men, Shameless, and the Emmy Award-winning The People v O.J. Simpson. Moreau also reprised the role of Katie in 2015 when she reunited with her Wet Hot American Summer castmates for the positively received Netflix prequel series First Day of Camp, and the actress is now leading calls for a movie sequel.

J.D. Daniels (#24 Peter Mark)

J.D. Daniels was a prolific child actor in the 1990s, with more than 30 film and TV credits to his name by the time the decade drew to a close. While he wasn't invited back to reprise the role of Peter Mark in either of the Mighty Ducks sequels, he went on to win a number of new roles across a variety of genres. He's arguably best remembered for his part in N.W.A spoof CB4 (a film most definitely made with a different target audience in mind) and he dipped his toe into horror with Man's Best Friend.

Like some of his Ducks colleagues, Daniels moved into voiceover work, providing the voice of the football-headed protagonist in the pilot episode of Hey Arnold before being summoned back to the Mouse House to work on animated series versions of Aladdin and The Little Mermaid. Although he hasn't notched up an acting credit in almost a decade, Daniels remains active in the industry, currently working for the Actors' Equity Association.

Aaron Schwartz (#11 Dave Karp)

Practically unrecognizable today, the broad and bearded Aaron Schwartz has come a long way since playing chubby prankster Dave Karp in the first Mighty Ducks. He hooked up with fellow Duck Danny Tamberelli for an eight-episode stint on The Adventures of Pete and Pete in 1993, then teamed up with another former castmate, Shaun Weiss, for Judd Apatow's Heavyweights in 1995.

When the formerly heavyset Schwartz reappeared after a 15-year absence from the industry in the CW's Gossip Girl, he'd grown into a primetime-worthy hunk. His three-year stint on the show represents the longest period of time he's spent playing one character, with jobs on Law and Order, Suits and The Originals proving short-lived. He'll join the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2017 when he takes on the role of Young Ego in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, playing a younger version of the character being portrayed by Kurt Russell.