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** 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 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.