Disney Ducks Comic Universe/Characters: Difference between revisions

** 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.

* [[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 cook—not quite in Grandma Duck's class, and often limited by the fact that he can't afford to buy the proper ingredients, but a talented enough chef that family members will come running when he's doing the cooking.

* [[The Unintelligible]]: Subverted in the comics, since there his dialogue is written for us to read.

* [[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.

* [[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 thing—when it comes down to it, Gladstone's lifestyle and attitude has left him with absolutely no friends and only marginal support from his family. A few stories have speculated that this is the ''real'' reason he enjoys riling Donald up so much; it's the closest thing he has to a friendship.

* [[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.

* [[Lazy Bum]]

* [[Lucky Bastard]]

* [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]]

** He worked once, earning a dime. That job and the dime are his greatest shame.

* [[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/orange—and sometimes they all wear the same color. It's impossible to say which color belongs to which girl, as they never got an official color assignment.

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[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.''

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* [[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.

* [[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 numbers—one story goes as far as to show a Beagle wondering what his name is, as his own mother preferred to call him by number. Averted in ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', where they all get names and different appearances ([[Word of God]] states that this was because the prisoner's numbers were too unclear as identity tags in animation.)

 

* [[Obviously Evil]]

 

== [[Canon Foreigner]]s from ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' ==