Disney Ducks Comic Universe/Characters: Difference between revisions

== Ducks and friends ==

=== Scrooge McDuck ===

{{quote| The richest, and probably the cheapest duck in the world. [[Catch Phrase|He made his wealth by being tougher than the toughies and smarter than the smarties, and he made it square.]] He resides in a large bin full of money (which [[Money Fetish|he loves to dive around in like a porpoise, burrow through like a gopher, and toss it up and let it him on the head]]) in Duckburg, constantly seeking to increase his wealth.}}

 

 

=== [[Donald Duck]] ===

{{quote| Scrooge's nephew, who has to tolerate living with his three nephews, being dragged along for treasure hunts, fighting annoying neighbors and cousins, and being between jobs.}}

 

 

=== Huey, Dewey and Louie ===

{{quote| Donald's nephews (and Scrooge's grandnephews), living with their "Unca Donald," rising within the ranks of the Junior Woodchucks, and causing trouble at home.}}

 

 

=== Daisy Duck ===

{{quote| Donald's girlfriend, who is almost as temperamental as he is, but does have somewhat better self-control.}}

 

 

=== Gyro Gearloose ===

{{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.}}

 

 

=== Little Helper ===

{{quote| Gyro's tiny, robotic assistant, who aids him with his many inventions and is sometimes hinted to be just as smart, if not even smarter, than Gyro. Usually he's mostly a [[Funny Background Event]] character, but he does occasionally play important parts in the plots and even gets a few [[Day in The Limelight]] episodes now and again.}}

* [[His Name Really Is Barkeep]]: He's never given any actual name other than "Little Helper" or, more commonly, just "Helper."

 

=== Gladstone Gander ===

{{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 ''[[Duck Tales (Animation)|Duck Tales]]'' [[Animated Adaptation]].}}

 

 

=== Fethry Duck ===

{{quote| Donald's eccentric cousin who seems to take on a new obsession every week, but as all of his information on his obsession usually comes from books, TV shows, self-help videos and the like, he often messes up his attempts to apply his "knowledge" and is blissfully unaware of the trouble he causes for everyone around him (especially Donald). Despite Fethry's being an American invention, his stories weren't printed in English until relatively recently. Instead, he enjoyed popularity in other countries, Brazil going as far as to give him his own solo comic, complete with nephew (just one), girlfriend (she's a long-suffering artist), and superhero alter-ego (The Red Bat, borderline useless). He is not part of Barks/Don Rosa canon, though some versions of the Duck family tree do place him there.}}

 

 

=== Grandma Duck ===

{{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.}}

 

 

=== Gus Goose ===

{{quote| Grandma Duck's incredibly lazy and gluttonous helping hand.}}

 

 

=== April, May and June ===

{{quote| Daisy's three nieces, and more or less [[Distaff Counterpart|Distaff Counterparts]] of Huey, Dewey and Louie. Unlike HD&L, however, they live with their mother (Daisy's unseen and unnamed sister) and only occasionally stay with their aunt.}}

 

 

=== Glittering Goldie O'Gilt ===

{{quote| Scrooge's love interest from his gold prospecting days, "the only live one I ever knew."}}

 

 

=== Ludwig von Drake ===

{{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.}}

 

 

=== Rumpus McFowl ===

{{quote| Scrooge's lazy, freeloading, overweight half-brother. Created by, and so far used exclusively by William Van Horn.}}

* [[Acrofatic]]: He's old and fat and lazy, but can ''really'' move when he wants to.

 

=== Brigitta MacBridge ===

{{quote| A shrewd businesswoman duck whose main goal is to one day marry Scrooge McDuck, even though he isn't interested in romance at all. Created by Romano Scarpa, Barks liked the character enough to give Romano a drawing of Brigitta trying to seduce Scrooge with a Money Scented perfume, which Romano then wrote a story based on said premise. The original drawing has been lost.}}

 

 

=== Jubal Pomp ===

{{quote| A younger businessman (about Donald's age, it seems) who really wishes he could be successful like Scrooge, but doesn't really have what it takes, despite being just as eager (and usually just as honest). A friend (and nothing more) and protegé of Brigitta MacBridge. When working with her he can usually accomplish more than on his own. Like Brigitta, created by Romano Scarpa and used mainly in Italian comics, where he is named Filo Sganga.}}

 

 

=== Ms. Emily Quackfaster ===

{{quote| Scrooge's loyal and efficient secretary.}}

 

 

=== Bolivar/Bernie/Bornworthy ===

{{quote| Donald's lazy and stupid St. Bernard, who is generally much more at home sleeping in front of the fireplace than he is going out on adventures and suchlike. Doesn't appear in many stories, but generally makes himself known in a big way when he does appear.}}

* [[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.

 

=== General Snozzie ===

{{quote| One of three official Junior Woodchuck canine mascots (both [[Pluto the Pup|Pluto]] and Bolivar have functioned as Junior Woodchuck mascots in some stories), and by far the most talented of them. He's an expert bloodhound who can sniff out anyone or anything, and is hinted to be the smartest dog in the world.}}

 

== Villains ==

=== The Beagle Boys ===

{{quote| The Beagle Boys are a family of masked and usually not-too-bright thugs that unsuccessfully seek to rob Scrooge of his fortune.}}

 

 

=== Grandpa Beagle/Blackheart Beagle ===

{{quote| The Beagle Boys' grandfather, founder and occasional leader. In ''[[Duck Tales (Animation)|Duck Tales]]'' he's replaced by Ma Beagle, and some of the fans [[Epileptic Trees|assume that she's his wife]].}}

 

 

=== Magica De Spell ===

{{quote| A sorceress who seeks to steal Scrooge's #1 dime and melt it in the fires of Mt. Vesuvius for a spell that could give her the power to turn any substance into gold.}}

 

 

=== Flintheart Glomgold ===

{{quote| The second richest duck in the world, Flintheart Glomgold, just like Scrooge is a cheap old miser who lives in a bin full of money, except in South Africa; and just like Scrooge, Flintheart started his fortune from nothing. Flintheart, however, has none of Scrooge's integrity and didn't make his fortune square. Flintheart seeks to gain the status of the richest duck in the world, and unlike Scrooge, doesn't have much morality to slow him down.}}

 

 

=== John D. Rockerduck ===

{{quote| A notorious, Duckburg-based business rival of Scrooge's. He presumably holds the dubious honour of being the third richest duck in the world. John D. Rockerduck was created and used by [[Carl Barks]] in just one story, "Boat Buster", but for some bizarre reason, Brazilian and European writers almost always use him in Flintheart Glomgold's place and rarely acknowledge Flintheart's existence. Unlike Scrooge (and Glomgold), Rockerduck has no qualms about spending money if it suits him (which in some ways makes him somewhat more sensible than Scrooge), and he inherited his wealth from his hard working father, Howard Rockerduck, rather than earning it himself.}}

 

 

=== Neighbor J. Jones ===

{{quote| Donald's next door neighbor. He and Donald have a heated rivalry that comes close to being a full-fledged war, with the yard between their houses as the battlefield.}}

 

{{quote| Characters who were created exclusively for the [[Animated Adaptation]] series, ''[[Duck Tales (Animation)|Duck Tales]]''.}}

=== Launchpad McQuack ===

{{quote| A tall, strapping pilot who worked as Scrooge's go-to guy for piloting, but with a bad habit of pulling off crash landings. Later became [[Darkwing Duck]]'s sidekick.}}

 

 

=== Fenton Crackshell / Gizmoduck ===

{{quote| Scrooge's accountant in the second season of ''[[Duck Tales (Animation)|Duck Tales]]'', who possesses an almost supernatural ability to count things very quickly with only a quick glace. He also guards the Money Bin as Gizmoduck.}}

 

 

=== Webbigail "Webby" Vanderquack ===

{{quote| A young female duckling who lives with her grandmother, Mrs. Beakley, in Scrooge's mansion.}}

 

 

=== Doofus Drake ===

{{quote| A chubby Junior Woodchuck, friend to Huey, Dewey and Louie, and Launchpad's biggest fan.}}

 

 

=== Bubba the Cave Duck & Tootsie the Triceratops ===

{{quote| A young caveduck and his pet dinosaur who stowed away with Scrooge and company during a time-traveling trip.}}

 

 

=== Duckworth ===

{{quote| Scrooge's butler and chauffeur in ''[[Duck Tales (Animation)|Duck Tales]]'', who has actually also appeared in some non-Rosa comics. It should be noted that though Duckworth himself was a ''[[Duck Tales (Animation)|Duck Tales]]'' 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".}}

 

 

=== Mrs. Bentina Beakley ===

{{quote| Scrooge's maid and the nephews' nanny, hired because she offered to work for nothing except food and shelter for herself and her granddaughter Webby.}}

 

 

=== Merlock ===

{{quote| A ruthless, immortal, shape-shifting sorceror who goes on the warpath when Scrooge gets hold of the magic lamp in ''[[Duck Tales the Movie Treasure of The Lost Lamp (Animation)|Duck Tales the Movie Treasure of The Lost Lamp]]''. He was one of the Genie's former masters, and will do ''anything'' to get him back into his clutches.}}

 

 

=== Dijon the Thief ===

{{quote| A kleptomaniac who's always going after valuable treasures but has trouble keeping them. He's occasionally hired by other villains to aid them in their goals, and has been seen working for both Flintheart Glomgold and Merlock -- though he's really not such a bad person when it comes down to it.}}