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** When you think about it, Glomgold's a white South African (I assume he's white, though of course the ethnicity of the ducks is kinda ambiguous) who's made his fortune by dirty means, so maybe the Italian duck artists thought such a character would have too many [[Unfortunate Implications]] to be in a kiddie comic. (The left wing in Italy is much stronger than in the US, so presumably the anti-apartheid movement was stronger there too.) As an American billionaire (who, as mentioned above, seems to have gathered his fortune by more lawful means than Glomgold), Rockerduck might've been considered a "safer" antagonist to Scrooge.
** When you think about it, Glomgold's a white South African (I assume he's white, though of course the ethnicity of the ducks is kinda ambiguous) who's made his fortune by dirty means, so maybe the Italian duck artists thought such a character would have too many [[Unfortunate Implications]] to be in a kiddie comic. (The left wing in Italy is much stronger than in the US, so presumably the anti-apartheid movement was stronger there too.) As an American billionaire (who, as mentioned above, seems to have gathered his fortune by more lawful means than Glomgold), Rockerduck might've been considered a "safer" antagonist to Scrooge.
*** He's Scottish just like Scrooge
*** He's Scottish just like Scrooge
**** Glomgold? Only in the [[Duck Tales]] universe. in the comics universe, his nationality his less certain, though according to [[Don Rosa]], he's a boer. Rockerduck, by contrast, is very clearly an all-American businessman born into money.
**** Glomgold? Only in the [[DuckTales]] universe. in the comics universe, his nationality his less certain, though according to [[Don Rosa]], he's a boer. Rockerduck, by contrast, is very clearly an all-American businessman born into money.
**** The name "Glomgold" definitely suggests Dutch/Boer ancestry, as does the fact that he lives in South Africa. ''[[Duck Tales]]'' changed this, either for simplicity's sake, or because it was a bit... problematic to incorporate an Afrikaner into a children's cartoon in the late 1980s without wading into the hot-button issue of apartheid.
**** The name "Glomgold" definitely suggests Dutch/Boer ancestry, as does the fact that he lives in South Africa. ''[[DuckTales]]'' changed this, either for simplicity's sake, or because it was a bit... problematic to incorporate an Afrikaner into a children's cartoon in the late 1980s without wading into the hot-button issue of apartheid.
* It's only referenced a couple of times, but why does Scrooge maintain a private zoo? We hardly ever see him there unless it involves his unicorn, and it's gotta be a huge drain of money to maintain it and not open it up to the public. I know he's a nature-lover in the vein of Roosevelt but it doesn't gel with the rest of his character.
* It's only referenced a couple of times, but why does Scrooge maintain a private zoo? We hardly ever see him there unless it involves his unicorn, and it's gotta be a huge drain of money to maintain it and not open it up to the public. I know he's a nature-lover in the vein of Roosevelt but it doesn't gel with the rest of his character.
** [[WMG|Breeding program for the animals he discovers, so he can sell them as exotic pets to millionaires.]]
** [[WMG|Breeding program for the animals he discovers, so he can sell them as exotic pets to millionaires.]]
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