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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: Scrooge's ruthlessness and adherence to ethics. Older Italian comics (particularly those written by Guido Martina) tended to portray Scrooge much more in line with his initial [[Jerkass]] characterization, veering into [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] territory. Barks himself went back to a more ruthless Scrooge in a few Donald-centered gag stories.
** ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', notably, goes the other way, turning Scrooge [[Lighter and Softer]] by giving him an openly sentimental streak and sense of family values that he seldom, if ever, displayed in the comics.
* [[Determinator]]
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Though it may be a pure coincidence, a character closely resembling Scrooge made an appearence in the [[Classic Disney Shorts|short]] ''The Spirit of '43'' as Donald's "thrifty saver" conscience four years before Scrooge's actual debut in comics, though whether Scrooge as we know him was based on this character is presumably something that only [[Carl Barks]] himself would have known.
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* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Once character development takes him away from being an actual [[Jerkass]] and one learns to see through the above-mentioned [[Jerkass Facade]].
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Scrooge is quite a heroic character, for all his sour, cynical outlook on life.
* [[Lonely
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Morality Chain]]: {{spoiler|His Sisters until [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|1909]] and finally left after [[Ignored Epiphany|1930]].}}
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* [[The Scrooge]]: He's named the way he is for a reason.
* [[Self-Made Man|Self-Made Duck]]: And he's extremely proud of this fact.
* [[Thrifty Scot]]: In the [[Don Rosa]] canon, this is a family trait of the McDuck Clan, and it's one they're very proud
* [[Uncle Pennybags]]: When in a good mood.
* [[Violent Glaswegian]]: He's Scottish, has a real short temper, and won't hesitate to get violent.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: It took twenty years from Scrooge's first appearance in comics (''Christmas on Bear Mountain,'' 1947) to his first proper role in animation (''Scrooge and Money,'' 1967) -- and twenty ''more'' years until he became a star character in animation (''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', 1987) -- but there was actually talk of bringing Scrooge to animation much sooner. In the fifties, when Scrooge's solo comic was beginning to really get popular, The Disney studios contacted [[Carl Barks]] to ask him to provide a story for a Scrooge McDuck cartoon, and Barks complied. According to Barks, the story was based around a similar concept to the opening parts of ''Only A Poor Old Man,'' with Scrooge trying to convince Donald how happy and carefree the life of a rich man is, while at the same time nearly suffering breakdowns at the thought of thieves or other threats to his money. For some reason, Disney ended up not using this story, and as they couldn't seem to get a grasp on the character of Scrooge at the time, the cartoon was never made.
=== [[Donald Duck]] ===
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* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Most notably as the Duck Avenger, where he sometimes reached near-[[Batman]] levels of hyper-competence, but he has '''many''' moments where he gets to be [[Badass]] just being himself.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: In ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' he only appears in a handful of episodes.
* [[Determinator]]: As soon as Donald starts to obsess about something, he'll go to any length.
* [[The Drag Along]]: Donald is frequently this when treasure-hunting with Uncle Scrooge.
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* [[Genius Ditz]]: He's a duck of ''many'' talents. Unfortunately, his biggest and most consistent talent seems to be screwing things up for himself whenever things are going well.
* [[Get Rich Quick Scheme]]. If only they ever worked out...
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Much less prominent in the comic book incarnation of Donald than in his animated counterpart, but still very much a part of his
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: No matter how bad-tempered, self-centered or otherwise annoying he may act, he genuinely does care for his nephews and will sacrifice just about anything for their sake.
* [[The Lancer]]: Serves this role when forced to accompany Uncle Scrooge.
* [[Miles Gloriosus]]: While he often displays amazing talents, he's got a tendency to brag and exaggerate, promising more than he can deliver. Usually his faith in himself is
* [[New Job Episode]]: Donald has much trouble getting jobs. When not working for Scrooge, he is most commonly shown working in a skunk oil factory or a margarine factory, jobs he understandably hates.
** Even so, Donald seems to be doing very well for himself at the margarine factory, at least. He once took a test of skills, and the conclusion was that the ideal job for him would be packing margarine.
** ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' sent Donald off to the Navy for the length of the series, as a plot excuse to leave the three nephews with Unca Scrooge.
*** It also helps them skip around the problem of him being a main character while keeping the defining trait of his animated self; a voice that is functionally impossible to understand.
** A common plot in comics is that Donald starts in a job, and is amazingly good at it, earning money and becoming famous – until he makes a huge mistake that destroys the house, the garden, the road or whatever he’s a specialist in, and has to flee the town.
*** Typically, its his arrogance which causes the fateful mistake. He could be anything from a gardener to an explosions expert. He pretty much creates works of art. His confidence increases with each successful assignment. Then he is offered a more demanding assignment, which seems to him like his crowning achievement. At this point he a) attempts to do by himself a job which would require one or more assistants, b) seriously underestimates the difficulties in accomplishing his goal or c) his single-minded pursuit of his goal prevents him from taking a rest, re-assessing the situation, etc. The scene is set for a spectacular disaster.
* [[Perpetual Poverty]]: Depending on the writer and the story, Donald may or may not have an acute need for money. Whether this is the case or not, however, Scrooge always manages to recruit him and pay him next to nothing.
* [[Supreme Chef]]: [[Depending on the Writer]] to a ''very'' high degree, and some comics even depict him as a [[Lethal Chef]], but in most stories where it comes up he's actually a good
* [[The Unintelligible]]: Subverted in the comics, since there his dialogue is written for us to read.
** Played straight on ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', though, where it's a [[Running Gag]] for people to ask "What did he say?"
* [[Unlucky Everydude]]: Although not as bad as in the Disney animated canon, Donald still tends to have absolutely rotten luck.
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: In several stories.
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** [[Lampshade Hanging|Somewhere in the book there is an explanation of how to find and condense so much information in such a little volume.]]
* [[The Dividual]]: The twindividual variety.
* [[Expy]]: They actually started out as Expys for Mickey's two nephews, Morty and Ferdie, who until the introduction of Huey, Dewey and Louie actually made several appearances in Donald's comic strip, sans Mickey, in order to torment him with pranks and childish mischief. After a while, it was decided to give Donald his own
* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]: The Junior Woodchuck Guidebook, see below.
* [[Identical Twin ID Tag]]: The color of their clothes, at least nominally. In reality, the colorists often vary wildly on which boy wears which color, and since they also wear identical black shirts in the comics and often go hatless or are wearing identical Junior Woodchucks coonskin caps, it's often impossible to tell who is who.
* [[Insufferable Genius]]
* [[Not So Different]]: The nephews are as enterprising and risk-seeking as their Unca Scrooge, which is how he warms to them (and why Scrooge sometimes sees the trio as his true heirs over his more skeptical, less-driven nephew Donald).
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Their mother is Donald's sister Della Duck, and she apparently asked Donald to take care of them while their unnamed father was spending time on a hospital. And she was never heard from again...
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'''Huey, Dewey and Louie:''' We know how ''that'' feels, Unca Scrooge. }}
* [[Single-Minded Twins|Single-Minded Triplets]]: More apparent in earlier stories, where they were often literally treated as one character with three separate bodies, to the point of sharing all their spoken lines. The trope is still in effect in later stories, but the boys seem to have at least stopped speaking in union and finishing each other's sentences.
** ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' occasionally subverted the trope by giving them individual character
* [[The Smart Guy]]: All three of them share this role when out adventuring with Donald and Scrooge, making for a [[Five-Man Band]] with one [[The Hero|Hero]] (Scrooge), one [[The Lancer|Lancer]] (Donald) and ''three'' [[The Smart Guy|Smart Guys.]]
* [[Theme Twin Naming|Theme Triplet Naming]]
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{{quote|Duckburg's local inventor, who frequently works on strange and often useless inventions that have a tendency to end up in the wrong hands. Donald and Scrooge are his friends and his most frequent customers.}}
* [[Bungling Inventor]]: Sometimes, though his inventions do tend to work
* [[Chaste Toons]]: Like so many other Disney comics characters, Gyro too has a nephew, whose name is Newton and who sporadically shows up in stories.
* [[Ditzy Genius]]: He's brilliant, but sometimes his genius overrides his common sense.
* [[Mr. Fixit]]
* [[Nice Guy]]: One of the most genuinely nice guys in the Universe. Tends to veer into [[Extreme Doormat]] territory: he has a hard time asking for money for his service, even if it's just to cover his expenses. Which [[Taking Advantage of Generosity|explains]] why Scrooge is his best costumer.
* [[Inner Monologue]]: Prone to these in his first solo
* [[The Professor]]
* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: Gyro seems to be capable of inventing almost anything, but generally doesn't focus his work on anything that might be of any use to the world unless asked to. Granted, this may be for the best, since his inventions often go horribly wrong in stories where Scrooge tries to sell them.
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=== Gladstone Gander ===
[[File:gladstone_3420.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|Donald's impossibly lucky cousin. Gladstone's incredible luck allows him to live a life of leisure without ever doing anything resembling working, much to Donald's chagrin. He is Donald's heated rival in almost everything, including Daisy's affections. Everybody -- including the writers -- [[The Scrappy|loves to hate this guy]], but of course, the "[[Lucky Bastard]] loses his luck" plot would lose its meaning if overdone; it was actually very rarely used in the comics and only once in the ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' [[Animated Adaptation]].}}
* [[Born Lucky]]: Literally.
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: Gladstone is so ridiculously lucky he could probably become richer than Scrooge with no effort, but lacks the ambition to do so. Gladstone could even become Scrooge's heir if he weren't so lazy. The only reason Scrooge considers him a better heir than Donald is that Gladstone is least likely to squander the money.
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: In some of Gladstone's earlier appearances (Such as [https://web.archive.org/web/20111027040540/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?s=date&loc=1948
* [[Hidden Depths]]: In most stories he averts this, but there have been stories where it's revealed that his constant good luck isn't ''always'' a good
* [[Jerkass]]: In the comics. He's actually pretty nice to his relatives in Duck Tales, coming off more as a cheerful guy who's oblivious to the fact that not everyone's as lucky as he is.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Jerk]]
* [[Lazy Bum]]
* [[Lucky Bastard]]
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Occasionally -- ''very''
* [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]]
** He worked once, earning a dime. That job and the dime are his greatest shame.
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* [[The Determinator]]: When he gets an idea, he'll see it through to the end no matter what... or at least until he gets a new idea to be obsessed about.
* [[Ditzy Genius]]: Though as (bad) luck would have it, his tactlessness and lack of common sense punish others around Fethry more than Fethry himself.
* [[
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Not so much in his normal, day-to-day life, but shows distinct traits of this as a TNT agent; a lifelong obsession with fantasy, sci-fi, horror and the supernatural has taught him just about every trick in the book, which comes in useful when going out to deal with real monsters.
* [[Granola Girl]]: A rare young male example.
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* [[Man Child]]
* [[Nice Guy]]: There's absolutely no guile or malice to him, and he genuinely wants to help everybody (and especially Donald). [[Stop Helping Me!|His ways of helping people, however, generally lead them to wish he wasn't so helpful]].
▲* [[Power Trio]]: In many stories [[Freudian Trio|Donald is the id, Fethry is the ego, and Gladstone is the superego]].
* [[Soapbox Sadie]]: Occasionally, but unlike most examples of the trope he's hardly ever a soapbox for the ''writers'' and is probably wrong more often than he's right.
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: While it's obviously not a romantic interest, Fethry adores Donald's miserable pet tomcat, Tabby, and behaves in [[Tiny Toon Adventures|Elmyra]]-like fashion when Tabby is near.
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{{quote|Donald, Fethry and Gladstone's grandmother and Huey, Dewey and Louie's great-grandmother. She lives at a farm outside Duckburg with her gluttonous, incredibly lazy farmhand Gus Goose (Donald's cousin), and is renowned for her pie-baking skills. Her rarely heard real name is Elvira Coot.}}
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: According to [[Don Rosa]], she is Donald's paternal grandmother and therefore not related to Scrooge at all, but before that, in European comics, it was widely accepted that she was Scrooge's sister and actually Donald's ''aunt''
* [[Cool Old Lady]]: While she can be strict, especially in early stories, she's also kind and loving... not to mention, she can be tough as nails when she needs to be.
* [[Granny Classic]]
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* [[Ultimate Job Security]]: The only logical explanation for why Gus hasn't been fired is that he's Grandma Duck's nephew, as she crossly reminds us now and then.
** There is another theory (spoilered because you may find it inappropriate): {{spoiler|Gus is actually Grandma's lover.}}
** There have been a couple of stories where Gus (temporarily) either got much more energetic, or Grandma hired another farmhand to help
* [[Supreme Chef]]: In general, he's far more interested in eating than in cooking, but on the rare occasions when he does cook, he's almost as good as Grandma (he has, after all, picked up a lot from her).
* [[The Voiceless]]: In the cartoons he only utters the occasional honk, but in the comics he's a fully-voiced character.
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=== April, May and June ===
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{{quote|Daisy's three nieces, and more or less [[Distaff Counterpart
* [[Chromatic Arrangement]]: Only in about half their appearances do the girls follow the classic red/blue/green scheme; they're often seen to wear yellow/magenta/cyan, and sometimes they discard the chromatic part and wear yellow/purple/
** That said, some fans have assigned April with the blue clothes, as that was the color she wore when she appeared solo in one story.
*** Also, in more recent Dutch comics, the girls have gained more modern appearances and can now be told apart by their [http://www.mysites.nl/upload2/donald_duck/328375.jpg hairstyles]{{Dead link}}: April wears her hair in a ponytail, May has short hair and wears a headband, while June wears twin pigtails.
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Few Disney characters are this blatant about it.
* [[The Dividual]]: Like Huey, Dewey and Louie, the girls look and act pretty much the same. so it's impossible to say if they have any individual character traits.
* [[Out of Focus]]: The girls were never major characters in the comics, and with the advent of ''[[DuckTales (1987)]],'' where their combined [[Expy]] Webby appeared, they seem to have been phased out, maybe to avoid confusion. Since the eighties they have only made very occasional cameos.
** However, this is again avoided in the Dutch comics, where the girls have made more appearances with their modernized looks. Certain Danish stories have also begin featuring the redesigned girls, so it remains to be seen whether they'll make a glorious return.
* [[Identical Twin ID Tag]]: Again, in the modern Dutch comics, their hairstyles. In older comics, the colors of their clothes is probably supposed to be this, but since the girls' colors are even more inconsistently handled than Huey, Dewey and Louie's are, this really doesn't help.
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{{quote|An absent-minded scholar/inventor who is referred to as Donald's uncle (according to [[Don Rosa]], he is/was married to Scrooge's sister Matilda, making him Donald's uncle by marriage) and an expert on everything. He originally appeared in ''Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color'', but has since appeared as a recurring character in comics by some authors. He appears ''very'' rarely in stories by Carl Barks and Don Rosa. Has become somewhat similar to Gyro, which is probably why you rarely see the two together. Just remember, Ludwig is [[The Professor]] first, and a [[Bungling Inventor]] second, while Gyro is the other way around.}}
* [[Ditzy Genius]]: Even moreso than Gyro, in fact. There's no doubt that he's brilliant in every way, but he's also somewhat of an eccentric, at times bordering on being a [[The Wonka|Wonka]]
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: On a bad day. But even on a good day, humility is not his strongest suit.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]
* [[Out of Focus]]: In later years he hasn't been used much in
** Strangely enough, another character that was banned from use at Egmont was Launchpad McQuack, and when asked why the two characters were not seen in Disney comics nowadays, Byron Erickson famously answered: ''"Ludwig and Launchpad ran off to Las Vegas, where they came out as transvestites and joined a drag show."''
** The animated version of Ludwig, however, remains fairly central and is usually the character who appears whenever [[Mickey Mouse]] or his friends need a scientist to explain things.
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* [[Lazy Bum]]: A strange version; he energetically puts every bit of effort he can into being extremely lazy, and does it in such a way that he's ''as annoying as possible.''
* [[The Load]]: Treated as one in-universe. Every single Duck family member dreads it when he's coming over for a visit, because they know he'll eat all their food, hogs all their things, and keeps them awake all night with his infernal snoring, which can be heard through concrete-thick walls.
* [[No Social Skills]]: Though it doesn't seem to be the cause of any strange upbringing or Asperger's Syndrome or anything like
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* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Occasionally with Daisy (at least it's implied she's moderately older). She also gets along very well with Huey, Dewey and Louie.
* [[Mad Love]]: She is perfectly aware that [[All Love Is Unrequited|Scrooge doesn't return her feelings,]] but this doesn't stop her from hoping, and trying again, and again, and again...
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With
* [[Plucky Girl]]
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: To Scrooge, though the actual stalking has been toned severely down since her early appearances.
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* [[Ascended Extra]]: The fact that Quackfaster was mostly just a background character in [[Carl Barks]]'s stories probably contributed to her inconsistent portrayals.
* [[Depending on the Artist]]: For some reason, she is sometimes shown as being blonde and much taller than any of the other duck characters (rather than old, grey-haired and relatively short). Some artists go the middle road and make her the same height as the other ducks, but make her look younger.
* [[Depending on the Writer]]; Quackfaster's name is inconsistent between writers. Her British name is "Miss Typefast," and is occasionally left in American rewrites by mistake. She was "Miss Featherby" on ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', where writers evidently [[Did Not Do the Research]]. Her first name, "Emily", was invented by [[Don Rosa]].
* [[Plucky Girl]]: On some occasions.
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* [[Furry Confusion]]: Bolivar is on the same anthropomorphic level as Pluto; i.e. he's mostly just a dog...
* [[Hidden Depths]]: ...but there are hints that he may be [[Obfuscating Stupidity|smarter than he lets on.]] In one story, as a [[Funny Background Event]], he plays checkers with Gyro's Helper, and ''wins.''
* [[Ironic Fear]]: He's a ''St. Bernard'' who's afraid of ''snow.'' Donald even [[Lampshaded Trope|Lampshades]] [http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?num=3&loc=1951/W_WDC_125-02R&s=date it on occasion.]{{Dead link}}
{{quote|}}
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** See here for a complete alphabetical listing of all the acronym-based ranks that have shown up in the comics: http://www.cbarks.dk/theseriesjwtitles.htm
* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]: The Junior Woodchucks' Guidebook is a pocket version of this; it has virtually all the information in the world gathered between two covers, including tons of information that doesn't exist anywhere else.
** [[Don Rosa]]'s stories frequently lampshade the impossibilities of this, on some instances taking it even
** One other story does reveal that the book does ''not'' contain the most basic information, things that are covered in elementary school. Trying to look up such information in the book will just lead you to a page that says something to the effect of "Any third-grader should know the answer to this, and if you don't, we have all reason to doubt whether you're even qualified to be a Junior Woodchuck."
* [[Merit Badges for Everything]]: As a vital part of the parodic aspects of the organization; the Woodchucks hand out badges for every big and little thing. Several stories show Huey, Dewey and Louie's collection of merit badges to be so huge by now that they literally fill up every closet, cupboard and storage space in Donald's house.
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=== Matilda McDuck ===
{{quote|The oldest of Scrooge's two younger sisters.}}
* [[Big Brother Worship]] : {{spoiler|Until [[Broken Pedestal|Chapter 11
** {{spoiler|it returns though when they finally reconcile.}}
* [[Hair of Gold]]
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* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: In the Beagle Boys' early appearances, they actually represented a threat to Scrooge. Today they are incompetent buffoons who are usually easily thwarted.
** Not all the time. Italian-produced comics make them buffoons, but quite a number of Egmont and Dutch-produced stories feature the Beagles being quite
* [[Comic Trio]]: Many European comics feature the three "main" Beagles as this. 176-176 is the schemer, 176-761 is the stupid, food-obsessed moron, and 176-671 is the one who gets dragged along. Italian comics often add Grandpa Beagle to the mix as their hands-on boss.
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: Just how many Beagle Boys exist is very inconsistent. They are commonly shown three at a time, but in [[Don Rosa]]'s stories, there are seven of them (who are occasionally aided by their much smarter grandfather, Blackheart). Some authors show the Beagle Boys to be all over the world in some form or another. Their relationship is also somewhat inconsistent. They are usually seen as being brothers, but according to Don Rosa they are actually a group of brothers and cousins.
** Even Carl Barks at one point showed them by the hundreds. They're implied to be a very large family with dozens of branches, but only one of them is usually active in Duckburg. He used thirty different numbers in his stories.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: In ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', at least. The closest thing to Ma Beagle in the comics is their grandfather or, occasionally, Granny Beagle.
* [[Evil Is One Big Happy Family]]
* [[Harmless Villain]]
* [[Informed Species|Informed Breed]]: They look nothing like real beagles.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Ma Beagle in the first season of ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]''
* [[Murder, Inc.]]
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: The Beagle Boys constantly wear black masks that only serve to make them more recognizable (which was played in one story, where they robbed a jewelry store and the witness didn't recognize them because they weren't wearing their masks despite the fact they were otherwise dressed like typical Beagle Boys), since they never, ever take them off, not even when they are actually trying to disguise themselves. Let alone the ''prisoner's numbers'' on their chests.
** Don Rosa used to play with it, and in ''one'' occasion Barks draw one of them (young Blackheart) without his mask from stupefaction: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811035454/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?num=15&loc=1957
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: There are plenty of comic stories with the Beagle Boys as the main focus, often showing them trying to rob someone ''other'' than Scrooge for a change. It's these stories that usually features their [[Comic Trio]] characterizations.
* [[You Are Number Six]]: In the comics, the Beagles are only known by their prisoner's
=== Grandpa Beagle/Blackheart Beagle ===
[[File:grandpabeagle_7453.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|The Beagle Boys' grandfather, founder and occasional leader. In ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' he's replaced by Ma Beagle, and some of the fans [[Epileptic Trees|assume that she's his wife]].}}
* [[Big Bad]]: Mostly in [[Don Rosa]]'s stories.
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* [[Arch Enemy]]: With Scrooge, and they have had a couple of [[Enemy Mine]] moments.
* [[Chaste Toons]]: A ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' comic gave her a niece named Minima, who's made several appearances in the foreign comics since then.
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: One of the earliest examples from Disney.
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: Just how much power Magica has varies between writers. [[Carl Barks]] and [[Don Rosa]] generally showed her as not having any genuine magical abilities on her own, but merely using magical trinkets, but many other writers show her as a powerful witch in her own right and interacting with many other powerful witches.
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* [[Humiliation Conga]]: He gets these in "The Last Lord of El Dorado", "The Terror of the Transvaal" and "A Little Something Special." [[Don Rosa]] seems to be fond of putting him through these.
* [[Master of Disguise]]: Since his third appearance, Glomgold has fooled Scrooge and his nephews numerous times with his disguises in order to stay one step ahead, sabotage, or both. Even his female disguise was once convincing enough for Donald to steal a kiss!
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: In the ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' episode "Attack of the Metal Mites", Dijon could never pronounce his name correctly.
** Also, his second appearance "The Money Champ" (September, 1959) has several people failing to get his name right, calling him Goldflint Heartglom, Flintgold Glomheart, and Heartflint Goldglom. Albeit it was more likely that Glomgold himself coined these variations of his name to get away with his dirty schemes. Even [[Paper-Thin Disguise|Scrooge failed to connect these names to Flintheart Glomgold]].
* [[Race Lift]]: in ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' he's no longer a Boer because a TV show setting a [[The Apartheid Era|South African villain in the 80's]] could have had [[Unfortunate Implications|Unfortunate]] [[What Do You Mean It's Not Political?|Implications]]. So [[Executive Meddling|they]] changed it to Scottish.
* [[The Rival]]
* [[Self-Made Man]]
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* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]
* [[Evil Counterpart]]/[[Foil]]/[[Shadow Archetype]]: Not surprisingly to Scrooge, though generally in a different way than Glomgold. If Glomgold can be described as what Scrooge would have become if he didn't have his sense of morality, then Rockerduck is a younger and arguably more modern Scrooge who was born into luxury. [[Depending on the Writer|at least in]] the [[Don Rosa]] continuity.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: He does have his moral
* [[Friendly Enemy]]: Towards Scrooge and his allies, on occasion. Is arguably one of the major traits he has that differentiates him from Glomgold.
** [[Depending on the Writer]]: Rockerduck has sometimes helped Scrooge to foil the Beagle Boys for no other reason than that he can't stand thieves, but at other times has allied with them against Scrooge, acting almost like a thief himself.
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* [[Obviously Evil]]
* [[Zany Scheme]]: His plots have included stuff like turning pineapples to stone with a poison or destroying Duckburg's cucumber crop so he could sell his own unpalatable foodstuffs ([https://web.archive.org/web/20110826045628/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?s=date&loc=1957
== [[Canon Foreigner
{{quote|Characters who were created exclusively for the [[Animated Adaptation]] series, ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]''.}}
=== Launchpad McQuack ===
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* [[Awesome McCoolname]]
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: He is the only character from ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' to star in his own comics even long after the show ended its run.
* [[Captain Crash]]
* [[The Ditz]]: Sometimes going into [[Genius Ditz]] area. Not only is he several times shown being quite inventive and capable in a pinch, at one point he manages to work the Gizmoduck suit, and by the time he made the migration to ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' had managed to singlehandedly build a gadget-laden, VTOL and hover-capable subsonic jet plane.
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=== Fenton Crackshell / Gizmoduck ===
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{{quote|Scrooge's accountant in the second season of ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', who possesses an almost supernatural ability to count things very quickly with only a quick glace. He also guards the Money Bin as Gizmoduck.}}
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of Robocop.
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* [[Clothes Make the Superman]]
* [[Expy]]: Fills in Donald's missing role; especially glaring in episodes based on Barks' comics such as "The Land of Tra La La."
* [[Genius Ditz]]: To quote the manual for the video game ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]: The Quest For Gold'': "Fenton can count faster than the speed of sound, but his judgement is not always very sound."
* [[Good with Numbers]]: He got the job as Scrooge's accountant by counting how many shotgun pellets Scrooge fired at him to scare him away.
** [[Up to Eleven]]: He can count Scrooge's entire fortune right down to the cent, in a matter of seconds.
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* [[Something Person]]
* [[Superhero]]: The straightest example on the show.
* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: He was introduced in the second season of ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' and almost immediately became the show's main character apart from Scrooge himself.
* [[Visual Pun]]: Before going to work directly for Scrooge, Fenton's putting his counting skills to work as a bean counter... literally. He ''counts beans'' for a living.
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* [[Children Are Innocent]]: [[Depending on the Writer|Depends a little on the episode]] just how innocent and naive she really is, but she is definitely this trope, sometimes bordering on [[Friend to All Living Things]].
* [[Composite Character]]: She is a single-character [[Expy]] of Daisy's nieces.
** Interestingly enough, in the Dutch dub of ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' she is named "Lizzy," which is the Dutch name for April.
* [[Tagalong Kid]]: Huey, Dewey and Louie tend to view her as this as she is both younger than them, and a ''girl.'' It varies how much they tolerate her; for the most part they're willing to let her hang out with them, but they loathe it when she tries to arrange tea parties and suchlike.
* [[Morality Pet]]: More than any other character in ''[[DuckTales (1987)]],'' she is this to Scrooge.
* [[Pink Means Feminine]]: Her outfit is pink, and she's ''very'' much a girly-girl.
* [[Ship Tease]]: With Doofus; though they usually don't interact much, one [[Time Travel]] episode showed them as married adults.
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* [[Blind Without'Em]]
* [[Hero Worshipper]]: To Launchpad.
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: In the second season. He only showed up in one single non-speaking cameo in one episode and afterwards was never seen or mentioned
* [[Ship Tease]]: With Webby; according to one [[Time Travel]] episode they marry some time in the future. (Of course, that particular future will no longer come to pass, but Scrooge acts as though he's convinced Webby and Doofus will still marry.)
* [[Sidekick]]: Sometimes to Huey, Dewey and Louie, sometimes to Launchpad.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: His parents were either very cruel or very foreseeing when they decided to name him "Doofus." Unless, of course, [[Only Known by Their Nickname|it's a nickname,]] in which case [[Kids Are Cruel|it becomes another trope entirely.]]
* [[Nice Guy]]: Doofus by name and doofus by nature, but nobody can deny that he's a ''good-hearted'' one.
=== Bubba the Cave Duck & Tootsie the Triceratops ===
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=== Duckworth ===
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{{quote|Scrooge's butler and chauffeur in ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', who has actually also appeared in some non-Rosa comics. It should be noted that though Duckworth himself was a ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' creation, the idea of Scrooge having a butler ranges as far back as to Scrooge's first story, ''The Christmas on Bear Mountain''. Italian comics have a similar character named Battista as Scrooge's butler, and the Mexican dub of the animated series actually translated Duckworth as "Battista".}}
* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: For the most part, he's mostly a background character who gets a few minor moments here and there, but he did get two episodes that centered on him, ''Duckworth's Revolt'' and ''Take Me Out of the Ballgame.''
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* [[Apron Matron]]: At least in the beginning; though less strict and more soft-spoken than most examples of the trope. Of course, she didn't quite stay that way: see below.
* [[Chickification]]: In the first episode, she was able to put up with everything the nephews could throw at her. In ''[[DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the
* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Originally; see above.
* [[Expy]]: For Grandma Duck, who weirdly enough never appears in ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]''
* [[Granny Classic]]
* [[Team Mom]]: She plays this role on occasion, especially in the first season.
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=== Merlock ===
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{{quote|A ruthless, immortal, shape-shifting sorceror who goes on the warpath when Scrooge gets hold of the magic lamp in ''[[DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: He sank Atlantis, destroyed Pompeii using Vesuvius, and created anchovy pizza.
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=== El Capitan ===
{{quote|A former sea captain who's even more greedy and miserly than Scrooge is; he literally goes insane with gold fever and will go to any lengths to retrieve even a lost penny -- even if it should risk losing all his other money or even his life. Appears in the five-part pilot for ''[[DuckTales (1987)]].''}}
* [[Jim Cummings]]
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* [[I See London]]: A [[Running Gag]] with him is that he'll lose his pants because he's stuffed his pockets too heavy with his loot... and yes, he wears [[Goofy Print Underwear]].
* [[Lovable Coward]]: When danger lurks, Dijon will step up and... make any excuse not to have to face it.
* [[Minion with an F In Evil]]: To Merlock in [[DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
* [[Sticky Fingers]]: It's an obsession with him.
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