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== Ducks and friends ==
=== Scrooge McDuck ===
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* [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]: Although not formally educated, this is what he does in his spare time.
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* [[Blue Blood]]
* [[Breakout Character]]: He was introduced as just a wealthy miser uncle for [[Donald Duck]] by [[Carl Barks]], and took off in popularity to become a famous character in his own right.
* [[Byronic Hero]]: In some portrayals, most famously chapter 11 of ''[[
* [[Cane Fu]]: In the present era, as he needs to use a cane to get around but retains his fighting spirit and [[Badass]] nature, he naturally uses it as his main weapon.
* [[Celibate Hero]]: He's been in relationships (notably Goldie), but never married.
* [[Character Development]]/[[Characterization Marches On]]: Scrooge was introduced as a genuine [[Jerkass]], a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Robber Baron]] who was ruthlessly stingy and greedy, well surpassing the meanness and cruelty of his [[
* [[Chaste Toons]]: Definitely in the sense of the trope's function.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Not only does he have a past stuffed fit to bursting with fabulous adventures, he keeps on adventuring despite his advanced age.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Depending
** ''[[
* [[Determinator]]
* [[Early
* [[Fiction 500]]
* [[Genre Savvy]]
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: After he fully grows into his mainstream characterization, Scrooge is an honest man who does care for his family and holds onto his scruples with an iron grip... but he's also cranky, bad-tempered, and a major skinflint.
* [[Greed]]: His defining negative character trait.
* [[Green
* [[The Gump]]: Especially in the comics, Scrooge is legendary for the number of famous historical figures he's interacted with.
* [[Hero
* [[Honest Corporate Executive]]: And proud of it.
* [[Jerkass Facade]]: Formally established in in the Barks comic "Back to the Klondike." He likes people to think he's a heartless skinflint, because it means that less people try to beg or mooch off him. In one story, disillusioned by how many people outright hated him, he tried to drop the facade and become a philanthropist, only to have everyone walk all over him to such an extreme that he immediately put the facade back up.
* [[Jerk
* [[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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* [[Mr. Vice Guy]]: Former and rightful [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Money Fetish]]: As if there's any doubt.
* [[Non
* [[Number One Dime]]: [[Trope Namer]], though whether he actually fits the trope varies from writer to writer -- [[Carl Barks]] and [[Don Rosa]] portray the titular dime's only value as being sentimental (and, for Magica de Spell, sympathetic - it's powerful because it belongs to Scrooge, it's not inherently magical), other writers play this trope straight. [[Carl Barks]] did write a story in which Scrooge had an actual [[Number One Dime]]; a magical hourglass that, when upset, caused his fortunes to start drying up.
* [[Prospector]]: Scrooge's first big break came while he was prospecting, though it took him years of hard work. He's prospected for gold, copper, oil, silver, uranium, and just about anything that one can prospect for.
* [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]]: Because he ''has'' rules he's able to earn even more money.
* [[The Scrooge]]: He's named the way he is for a reason.
* [[Self
* [[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 (''[[
=== [[Donald Duck]] ===
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* [[Chaste Toons]]
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* [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]]: Often, in the adventures he shares with Scrooge and his nephews, Donald is the one most reluctant to come along, and who complains the most... so he's also the one who suffers the most hardships.
* [[Cool Car]]: Donald's old 313 (a 1934 Belchfire Runabout) straddles the line between this and [[The Alleged Car]].
* [[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 ''[[
* [[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
* [[Jerk
* [[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.
** ''[[
*** 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
* [[The Unintelligible]]: Subverted in the comics, since there his dialogue is written for us to read.
** Played straight on ''[[
* [[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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=== Huey, Dewey and Louie ===
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* [[Bratty Half
* [[Chromatic Arrangement]]: Their colors have varied wildly, [[Depending
** Another common combination in the comics is, or at least was, Huey/blue, Dewey/green and Louie/Red. The change of colors was usually ignored, but sometimes [[Lampshaded]] and explained as the boys sometimes borrowing each others' clothes.
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Their Junior Woodchuck guidebook. There's an entry on how to make dragons sneeze in it, for crying out loud!
** [[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
** ''[[
* [[The Smart Guy]]: All three of them share this role when out adventuring with Donald and Scrooge, making for a [[Five
* [[Theme Twin Naming|Theme Triplet Naming]]
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]
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=== Daisy Duck ===
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* [[Blue Eyes]]: In ''[[
* [[Diary]]: Many of the stories starring her are framed as her diary entries, complete with captions where Daisy acts as [[First Person Narrator]]. The idea seems to have started with Dell devoting Four Color Comics #600 (November, 1954) to "Daisy Duck's Diary" which featured stories in this format. The idea proved successful enough for one issue each year devoted to new stories from Daisy's Diary. This sub-series lasted from 1954 to 1961. In 1964, Daisy's Diary was revived as a feature in "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories" with several stories published over the next few years. In 1965, new "Daisy's Diary" stories started being created and published in Italy. Followed by Brazil a few years later. This subset of stories has continued into the 21st century. The Inducks database counts 297 stories of "Daisy's Diary" published between 1954 and 2008. Not bad.
* [[Double Standard]]: Daisy often gets away with leaving Donald for Gladstone whenever it suits her, making ridiculous demands from and sometimes downright mistreating Donald. In her defense, Donald isn't always portrayed as being an all that reliable boyfriend either.
* [[Half
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: In ''[[
* [[Positive Discrimination]]: In the Brazilian comic stories about the McDuck TV channel, Daisy is a way more savvy and effective reporter than Donald and Fethry. Donald gets close to her level sometimes, but Fethry never does.
* [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]]: though [[Depending
* [[Tsundere]]
=== Gyro Gearloose ===
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* [[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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=== Little Helper ===
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* [[His Name Really Is "Barkeep"]]: He's never given any actual name other than "Little Helper" or, more commonly, just "Helper."
** He gets a name in some translation - such as "Edi" ([[Meaningful Name|after Edison]]) in Italy, "Lampadinha" ("little lamp") in Brazil or "Filament" in France.
* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Robot]]: Where Gyro tends to get carried away with his own brilliance, the Helper is usually far more practical-minded and can generally spot disaster long before it actually happens.
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=== Gladstone Gander ===
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* [[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
* [[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.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]
* [[Smug Snake]]
=== Fethry Duck ===
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: As he might say: "Having your feet on the ground just means you're standing still."
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Not as frequently as Donald, but he does have some moments where he manages to step up and pull off some genuinely awesome stunts. He's mostly liable to do this in the [[The Men in Black|TNT (Tamers of Nonhuman Threats)]] stories.
* [[Depending
* [[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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* [[The Klutz]]: He has traces of this and is responsible for inadvertently setting off a number of [[Slapstick]] routines.
* [[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
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Classic Type 1, with Donald. Fethry drives Donald insane on a regular basis, but he ''is'' one of the very few people in the [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe]] who genuinely likes and appreciates Donald as a friend.
* [[Wacky Guy]]: Part of Fethry's charm is that he allows Donald to play the [[Straight Man]] to him in many stories.
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=== Grandma Duck ===
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* [[Depending
* [[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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=== Gus Goose ===
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* [[Big Eater]] / [[Extreme Omnivore]]: It makes you wonder how he got to be the chef on ''[[House of Mouse]]''.
* [[Depending
* [[Lazy Bum]]
* [[Nice Guy]]: Despite being incredibly lazy, always shirking work, and always eating more than his fair share, he's actually very soft-hearted. In one story, it turned out that the reason he hadn't fetched the mail in weeks was that two birds had made a nest in Grandma's mailbox, and Gus didn't have the heart to disturb the baby birds.
* [[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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* [[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 ''[[
** 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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=== Glittering Goldie O'Gilt ===
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* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]
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* [[The One That Got Away]]
* [[Plucky Girl]]
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]] [[Destructo
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]
* [[Trigger Happy]]
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=== Ludwig von Drake ===
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* [[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.
* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: In fact, he'll constantly point out all the various fields he's an expert in. Usually he's right about it too, though he doesn't always go on about things in the most sensible way.
* [[The Professor]]
** [[Absent
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Tends to overcomplicate things.
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=== Rumpus McFowl ===
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* [[Acrofatic]]: He's old and fat and lazy, but can ''really'' move when he wants to.
* [[Big Eater]]: Especially when it's other people's food he's eating.
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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
=== Brigitta MacBridge ===
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: To Scrooge.
* [[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
* [[Woman Scorned]]: Many stories starring Brigitta have her being rudely rejected by Scrooge, then starting her own business trying to outperform him. Sometimes she even succeeds.
* [[Zany Scheme]]: She's really good with them... they actually succeed a fair number of times too.
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=== Jubal Pomp ===
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Business is business!" - And that's pretty much all he knows about business.
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: In his first appearance he was the villain of the story. In later appearances he became more sympathetic, but was still a bit of a cheat and a con man. Later still, he became an out-and-out good guy with only the occasional lapse into dishonesty.
* [[Clean Dub Name]]: Sort of. His first name in English was Jubal [[Species Surname|''Cock'']]...
* [[
* [[Honest
* [[Inconsistent Dub]]: The Norwegian translators have ''real'' difficulty agreeing on a name for this character.
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With Brigitta.
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=== Ms. Emily Quackfaster ===
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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
* [[Depending
* [[Plucky Girl]]: On some occasions.
=== Bolivar/Bernie/Bornworthy ===
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* [[Characterization Marches On]]: He first appeared in the cartoon ''The Alpine Climbers'' where he was a genuine rescue dog who stoically braved the icy alps to rescue Mickey, Donald and Pluto. When he was brought over to comics as Donald's pet, he pretty much lost his stoic heroism and became a lazy, stupid coward who hates the cold and runs inside to huddle by the fireplace the moment a snowflake falls.
* [[Depending
* [[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}}
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=== The Junior Woodchucks ===
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* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Taking the "Be Prepared" motto to ludicrous extremes, members are pretty much ''required'' to be this.
* [[Fun
** 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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=== General Snozzie ===
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* [[The Ace]]: As weird as it may seem to have an Ace who's a non-anthropomorphic, non-talking dog, General Snozzie manages to pull it off. Is there nothing this dog can't do?
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== The Clan McDuck ==
=== Fergus McDuck ===
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* [[Happily Married]] :To Downy
* {{spoiler|[[Together in Death]].}}
=== Downy [[McDuck]], née O'Drake ===
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* [[Happily Married]] :To Fergus
* {{spoiler|[[Together in Death]].}}
=== Matilda McDuck ===
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* [[Big Brother Worship]] : {{spoiler|Until [[Broken Pedestal|Chapter 11
** {{spoiler|it returns though when they finally reconcile.}}
* [[Hair of Gold]]
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=== Hortense McDuck ===
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* [[Badass Adorable]]: Already as a little girl she was tough as nails, as a teenager she effortlessly chased and beat up fully grown men, and as a young adult she managed to chase away an entire ''army'' by chasing them with a broom.
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: With Quackmore Duck, {{spoiler|Donald's father}}.
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* {{spoiler|[[Missing Mom]].}}
* [[The Unintelligible]] : As a baby her only words were "glxblt"
* [[We Named the Monkey "Jack"]]: Scrooge names his horse in America "Hortense" in honor of his sister because they both have a bad temper. Hortense is not amused.
== Villains ==
=== The Beagle Boys ===
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* [[Card
* [[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
** 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 ''[[
* [[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 ''[[
* [[Murder, Inc.]]
* [[Paper
** 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 ===
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* [[Big Bad]]: Mostly in [[Don Rosa]]'s stories.
* [[Composite Character]]: Blackheart as depicted in Don Rosa's stories is based on two characters from two different stories by Carl Barks that may or may not have been intended to be the same character.
* [[Depending
* [[Genre Savvy]]: He's been around the block a few times and knows most of the old tricks.
* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: In Italian stories, he generally plays this trope in an unusual way, since he's usually seen with a corn pipe in his mouth.
* [[Grumpy Old Man]]
* [[Surrounded
=== Magica De Spell ===
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* [[Arch Enemy]]: With Scrooge, and they have had a couple of [[Enemy Mine]] moments.
* [[Chaste Toons]]: A ''[[
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: One of the earliest examples from Disney.
* [[Depending
** In her third [[Carl Barks]] appearance she finds a hoard of magical items used by ancient witches, but before that [[Magic From Technology|she used hypnotism, gas bombs and quick disguises]].
* [[Evil Sorcerer|Evil Sorceress]]
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** Barks himself played a part in this happening, despite desperately trying to avoid it. This also resulted in [[Flanderization]] of the Number One Dime itself, since by the original explanation it was "lucky" because it belonged to Scrooge, Scrooge was not lucky because of having it.
* [[Foe Yay]]
* [[Hey,
* [[Hot Witch]]: Specifically created to invoke this trope; [[Carl Barks]] admitted that when he created her, he deliberately went against the "old, ugly crone" type of [[Wicked Witch]] so prevalent at Disney at the time, and instead created a witch that was young and pretty.
* [[Implacable Man]]
* [[Older Hero vs. Younger Villain]]
* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]
* [[Surveillance
* [[Stalker
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: She has starred in her own stories since the 1960s. With supporting characters including Mad Madam Mim, her blonde ward Witch Child (actually the bratty little girl of a witch neighbor), her brunette niece Minima, Granny De Spell, unwanted fiance Rosolio, etc.
* [[Witch
=== Flintheart Glomgold ===
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* [[Arch Enemy]]: Due to Glomgold's role as Scrooge's [[Foil]], his tendency for [[Kick the Dog]] moments, and the [[
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]
* [[Create Your Own Villain]]: In ''[[
* [[Dub Name Change]]: A lot of Duckverse characters have their names changed, but an especially cool one could be the Polish one: Granit Forsant ('granite', and 'cash') - not only it matches lipsynch, has very close meaning but also the initials match as well.
* [[Depending
* [[Et Tu, Brute?]]: See "The Terror of the Transvaal."
* [[Evil Counterpart]]/[[Foil]]/[[Shadow Archetype]]: Glomgold's whole character can be described as what kind of person Scrooge would be like if he never even tried to make his fortune square. Not to mention his lack of relatives and allies in comparison to Scrooge's large group of family and friends.
* [[Flanderization]]: In his first appearance, Glomgold wasn't especially dishonest- the story was more Scrooge Vs. Himself. The second story had him attempt to sabotage Scrooge's fortune in order to win a competition, but he was shown stricken with guilt at "betraying my dear old mother's fondest hopes" and "becoming a scoundrel- all to win the title of world's richest duck!" (at least until he was offered another chance to sabotage Scrooge, which he readily accepts) It was his third appearance that he became the bad guy he's known as today, attempting to murder Scrooge and his nephews multiple times.
* [[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 ''[[
** 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
* [[Race Lift]]: in ''[[
* [[The Rival]]
* [[Self
=== John D. Rockerduck ===
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* [[Affably Evil]]: He can be pretty pleasant, unlike Glomgold.
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* [[Breakout Villain]]
* [[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
* [[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
** An European trait of his is eating his bowler hats after defeat.
** In fact, Rockerduck was in no way portrayed as a villain in his only [[Carl Barks]] story.
* [[Non
* [[Older Hero vs. Younger Villain]]
* [[Pet the Dog]]: He gets a few moments of this; notable was one Italian story where he thought Scrooge was [[Disney Death|dead]] and honestly grieved for him.
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=== Neighbor J. Jones ===
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* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: When we are given a reason for why Donald and Jones are fighting (if they themselves even remember it), it's usually something like this.
* [[Cranky Neighbor]]
* [[Jerkass]] - he's essentially a bigger, angrier Donald.
* [[
* [[One Name Only]] - it's implied that either his first name is Jones, or his last name is Neighbor
** Er, no. It's more like his first name is problematic: Carl Barks called him Jughead, which can't be used today because there's a [[Archie Comics|more famous Jughead Jones]] in comics.
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=== P.J. McBrine/Argus McSwine ===
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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
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=== Launchpad McQuack ===
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* [[Awesome McCoolname]]
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: He is the only character from ''[[
* [[Captain Crash]]
*
** Even before that, one episode had a situation that was an homage to [[The Flight of the Phoenix]], where Launchpad managed to cobble together a working plane out of wreckage from the crash and various other junk... and then, of course, once he and Scrooge had gotten (mostly) to safety, he crashed it.
▲** 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.
* [[Expy]]: Another Expy of Donald. Mostly filling Donald's roles of "in charge of travel" and "saying stupid things".
* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]
* [[Lantern Jaw of Justice|Lantern Bill of Justice]]
* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]
* [[Universal
=== Fenton Crackshell / Gizmoduck ===
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* [[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 ''[[
* [[Good
** [[Up to Eleven]]: He can count Scrooge's entire fortune right down to the cent, in a matter of seconds.
*** [[Beyond the Impossible]]: And he once did it while that fortune was sitting at the bottom of a lake, just by putting on goggles and sticking his head underwater briefly.
* [[Large Ham]]: Especially when he's Gizmoduck.
* [[Momma's Boy]]: Occasionally crossing into just a bit of:
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: [[They Really Do Love Each Other]] though... on at least one occasion, Fenton was in trouble, and his mother (despite hating to leave her trailer) donned the Gizmoduck suit and went to save him.
* [[Part
* [[Secret Keeper]]: The only ones who know him being Gizmoduck are Scrooge and his mother.
* [[Something Person]]
* [[Superhero]]: The straightest example on the show.
* [[
* [[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.
=== Webbigail "Webby" Vanderquack ===
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* [[Cheerful Child]]
* [[Children Are Innocent]]: [[Depending
* [[Composite Character]]: She is a single-character [[Expy]] of Daisy's nieces.
** Interestingly enough, in the Dutch dub of ''[[
* [[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 ''[[
* [[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.
* [[Women Are Wiser]]: Despite her youth and naivete, episodes would often [[Positive Discrimination|find a way]] to have her suddenly be the [[Only Sane Man|only one]] in the otherwise all-male party with any common sense.
=== Doofus Drake ===
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* [[Big Eater]]: Not to the extent of, say, Gus Goose, but still.
* [[Blind Without
* [[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.
* [[The Klutz]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]: His parents were either very cruel or very foreseeing when they decided to name him "Doofus." Unless, of course, [[Only Known
* [[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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* [[All Animals Are Dogs]]: Tootsie acts more like a [[Big Friendly Dog]] than a dinosaur.
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=== Duckworth ===
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* [[A Day in
* [[Fake Brit]]: Speaks in an appoximation of an upper-class English accent, though his voice actor Chuck McCann is from New York.
* [[Jack of All Trades]]: Not ''quite'' a [[Renaissance Man]], but still highly skilled at a variety of tasks. Which is good, considering that Scrooge isn't going to pay for a large household staff when one man can do the job.
* [[The Jeeves]]: He's not omnicompetent, but he knows how to run house with meager money he gets from his Boss.
* [[Non
* [[Servile Snarker]]: Not the most obvious example of this trope, but he has his moments.
* [[The Stoic]]: It takes a lot for him to drop his stone-faced exterior.
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=== Mrs. Bentina Beakley ===
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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 ''[[
* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Originally; see above.
* [[Expy]]: For Grandma Duck, who weirdly enough never appears in ''[[
* [[Granny Classic]]
* [[Team Mom]]: She plays this role on occasion, especially in the first season.
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=== Admiral Grimitz ===
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* [[Ax Crazy]]: He loves it when things go ka-blooey!
* [[Hey,
=== Merlock ===
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* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: He sank Atlantis, destroyed Pompeii using Vesuvius, and created anchovy pizza.
* [[Atlantis]]: Ever wonder why Atlantis ''really'' sank?
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: He managed to survive this and became the final boss in ''Donald Duck Goin' Quackers''.
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* [[Evil Sorcerer]]
* [[A God Am I]]
* [[Hair
* [[Immortality Immorality]]: His first wish to the [[Benevolent Genie|Genie]] was to live forever.
* [[Large Ham]]: To be expected, considering his [[Christopher Lloyd|voice actor]].
* [[One
* [[Our Gryphons Are Different]]: Turns into one for his [[One
* [[Three Wishes]]: His talisman allows him to bypass this rule.
=== El Capitan ===
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* [[Jim Cummings]]
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=== Dijon the Thief ===
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: Yep.
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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
* [[Sticky Fingers]]: It's an obsession with him.
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