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This is a key part of the [[Disney Mice and Ducks Comics]], which is a [[Modular Franchise]] that's formed when this [[Verse]] is used in tandem with the [[Mickey Mouse Comic Universe]].
This is a key part of the [[Disney Mice and Ducks Comics]], which is a [[Modular Franchise]] that's formed when this [[Verse]] is used in tandem with the [[Mickey Mouse Comic Universe]].


See [[Carl Barks]] and [[Don Rosa]] for Tropes specific to their stories. '''Numerous''' other authors in both America and Europe have written stories set in this universe with some of the more notable and popular ones being Al Taliaferro, Romano Scarpa, Marco Rota, Tony Strobl, Vicar, Daan Jippes, William Van Horn and Fecchi. As such, there's a LOT of diversity between stories [[Depending on the Writer|depending on who wrote them]], and [[Print Long Runners|over the years]] the series has accumulated [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]. Way more, in fact, than is listed [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe/Characters|on the Characters page]]. Together with the [[Mickey Mouse Comic Universe]] that it occasionally [[Crossover]]s with, there are ''even more''; see [[Mickey Mouse Comic Universe/Characters|this page]] for the characters primarily of that universe.
See [[Carl Barks]] and [[Don Rosa]] for Tropes specific to their stories. '''Numerous''' other authors in both America and Europe have written stories set in this universe with some of the more notable and popular ones being Al Taliaferro, Romano Scarpa, Marco Rota, Tony Strobl, Vicar, Daan Jippes, William Van Horn and Fecchi. As such, there's a ''lot'' of diversity between stories [[Depending on the Writer|depending on who wrote them]], and [[Print Long Runners|over the years]] the series has accumulated [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]. Way more, in fact, than is listed [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe/Characters|on the Characters page]]. Together with the [[Mickey Mouse Comic Universe]] that it occasionally [[Crossover]]s with, there are ''even more''; see [[Mickey Mouse Comic Universe/Characters|this page]] for the characters primarily of that universe.


Character list can be found [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe/Characters|here]].
Character list can be found [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe/Characters|here]].
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* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Donald is the most prominent example of this, most notably when he changes into the Duck Avenger, though he has plenty of [[Badass]] moments even when he's just himself.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Donald is the most prominent example of this, most notably when he changes into the Duck Avenger, though he has plenty of [[Badass]] moments even when he's just himself.
** Fethry is a less prominent version of the trope, as he usually succeeds by accident, but he has his moments of this as well.
** Fethry is a less prominent version of the trope, as he usually succeeds by accident, but he has his moments of this as well.
** Even the Beagle Boys will, [[Depending on the Writer]], sometimes display surprising competense and appear as a credible threat to Scrooge.
** Even the Beagle Boys will, [[Depending on the Writer]], sometimes display surprising competence and appear as a credible threat to Scrooge.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Scrooge. [[Donald Duck]] and the nephews have their moments as well.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Scrooge. [[Donald Duck]] and the nephews have their moments as well.
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: Oh, so very much. For one thing, there's quite a few characters that only appear in stories by some authors whose existences are ignored by others, including cousin Fethry, Birgita McBridge, Donald's superhero alter ago, [[Paperinik New Adventures|Paperinik]], Scrooge's butler Battista, Scrooge's half-brother Rumpus McFowl, Scrooge's ''actual'' brother Gideon McDuck, John D. Rockerduck for most American authors, Flintheart Glomgold for most Italian ones, ectera...
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: Oh, so very much. For one thing, there's quite a few characters that only appear in stories by some authors whose existences are ignored by others, including cousin Fethry, Birgita McBridge, Donald's superhero alter ago, [[Paperinik New Adventures|Paperinik]], Scrooge's butler Battista, Scrooge's half-brother Rumpus McFowl, Scrooge's ''actual'' brother Gideon McDuck, John D. Rockerduck for most American authors, Flintheart Glomgold for most Italian ones, ectera...
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* [[Fictional Country]]: There have been loads of these over the years as they're often disposable. Special mention must go to Barks for injecting real-world political satire into them, such as with [https://web.archive.org/web/20120328105805/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?s=date&loc=1957%2FW_US_17-02R Brutopia] (a parody of the Soviet Union) or [https://web.archive.org/web/20120422183454/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?s=date&loc=1966%2FW_US_64-02 Unsteadystan].
* [[Fictional Country]]: There have been loads of these over the years as they're often disposable. Special mention must go to Barks for injecting real-world political satire into them, such as with [https://web.archive.org/web/20120328105805/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?s=date&loc=1957%2FW_US_17-02R Brutopia] (a parody of the Soviet Union) or [https://web.archive.org/web/20120422183454/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?s=date&loc=1966%2FW_US_64-02 Unsteadystan].
* [[Funny Background Event]]: In the spirit of Barks.
* [[Funny Background Event]]: In the spirit of Barks.
* [[Gentleman Thief]]: Arpin Lusene
* [[Gentleman Thief]]: [[Spoonerism|Arpin Lusene]]
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]
** "What did Scrooge and Goldie did [https://web.archive.org/web/20100815112058/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?num=31&loc=D2005-061&s=date in that shack] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811040048/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?num=32&loc=D2005-061&s=date that one night?]", found in [[Don Rosa]]'s own commentary.
** "What did Scrooge and Goldie did [https://web.archive.org/web/20100815112058/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?num=31&loc=D2005-061&s=date in that shack] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811040048/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?num=32&loc=D2005-061&s=date that one night?]", found in [[Don Rosa]]'s own commentary.
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* [[Magical Native American]]: The Peeweegah, a tribe of long-nosed pygmy indians with the power to communicate with animals. First appeared in the [[Carl Barks]] story "Land of the Pygmy Indians", they then reappeared in the [[Don Rosa]] story "War of the Wendigo".
* [[Magical Native American]]: The Peeweegah, a tribe of long-nosed pygmy indians with the power to communicate with animals. First appeared in the [[Carl Barks]] story "Land of the Pygmy Indians", they then reappeared in the [[Don Rosa]] story "War of the Wendigo".
* [[The Men in Black]]: Recent European-produced stories sometimes include the half-parodic T.N.T (Tamers of Nonhuman Threats), of which Donald and Fethry are freelance agents, dealing with supernatural or alien threats to humanity while trying to hide their existence to the common public. Unlike many examples of this trope, the T.N.T. are unmistakable good guys and do not wear shades.
* [[The Men in Black]]: Recent European-produced stories sometimes include the half-parodic T.N.T (Tamers of Nonhuman Threats), of which Donald and Fethry are freelance agents, dealing with supernatural or alien threats to humanity while trying to hide their existence to the common public. Unlike many examples of this trope, the T.N.T. are unmistakable good guys and do not wear shades.
** In one T.N.T story, Donald got tired of the [[Boring but Practical]] janitor-like uniforms and tried invoking a more traditonal [[The Men in Black|MIB]] look by dressing himself and Fethry up in stylish black tuxedoes and [[Cool Shades]]. This phase lasted for exactly two pages, and was abandoned when Donald and Fethry discovered that the [[Cool Shades]] were too dark for them to see anything, and they walked straight out into a trafficked road. The results were [[Amusing Injuries]] and ruined tuxedoes.
** In one T.N.T story, Donald got tired of the [[Boring but Practical]] janitor-like uniforms and tried invoking a more traditional [[The Men in Black|MIB]] look by dressing himself and Fethry up in stylish black tuxedos and [[Cool Shades]]. This phase lasted for exactly two pages, and was abandoned when Donald and Fethry discovered that the [[Cool Shades]] were too dark for them to see anything, and they walked straight out into a trafficked road. The results were [[Amusing Injuries]] and ruined tuxedos.
* [[Money Fetish]]: Scrooge swims in it.
* [[Money Fetish]]: Scrooge swims in it.
* [[Mr. Vice Guy]]: Scrooge and [[Greed]].
* [[Mr. Vice Guy]]: Scrooge and [[Greed]].
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* [[Rebus Bubble]]
* [[Rebus Bubble]]
* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: A ''lot'' of characters have been introduced over the years, and several of them (especially the ones created by Carl Barks and Romano Scarpa) tend to be treated as if they've always been around, just not on-page.
* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: A ''lot'' of characters have been introduced over the years, and several of them (especially the ones created by Carl Barks and Romano Scarpa) tend to be treated as if they've always been around, just not on-page.
** A particularly noticable example is the Beagle Boys, who in their first story only [http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?num=10&loc=1951/W_WDC_134-02R&s=date make a silent cameo appearance on the very last panel...]{{Dead link}} ''after'' Scrooge has spent the entire story worring about them.
** A particularly noticable example is the Beagle Boys, who in their first story only [http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?num=10&loc=1951/W_WDC_134-02R&s=date make a silent cameo appearance on the very last panel...]{{Dead link}} ''after'' Scrooge has spent the entire story worrying about them.
* [[Retro Universe]]: [[Depending on the Artist]] to which degree. (Although considering that the [[Outdated Outfit|iconic outfits of Scrooge and other characters]] have been consistently used by everyone...)
* [[Retro Universe]]: [[Depending on the Artist]] to which degree. (Although considering that the [[Outdated Outfit|iconic outfits of Scrooge and other characters]] have been consistently used by everyone...)
* [[Riches to Rags]]: Happens to Scrooge in several [[What If]] stories.
* [[Riches to Rags]]: Happens to Scrooge in several [[What If]] stories.
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* [[Shoe Shine, Mister?]]: Scrooge famously won his Number One Dime shining shoes.
* [[Shoe Shine, Mister?]]: Scrooge famously won his Number One Dime shining shoes.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Rosa never wrote any Mickey Mouse stories, but that doesn't keep him from littering various Hidden Mickeys within his stories.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Rosa never wrote any Mickey Mouse stories, but that doesn't keep him from littering various Hidden Mickeys within his stories.
** The D.U.C.K. dedication also counts. <!-- More detail, please. -->
** The D.U.C.K. dedication also counts.{{context}} <!-- More detail, please. -->
** ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' gets quoted at least twice.
** ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' gets quoted at least twice.
** Arpin Lusene is an obvious nod to ''[[Arsène Lupin]]''.
** Arpin Lusene is an obvious nod to ''[[Arsène Lupin]]''.
** Another one from Arpin : at one point, he refers to Scrooge as "Ze chipskate! Ze '''picsou'''!'. Now, 'picsou' ''is not'' a french word for 'cheapskate'. It is, however, Scrooge's name in the french version of his stories (Balthazar [[Punny Name|Picsou]]).
** Another one from Arpin : at one point, he refers to Scrooge as "Ze chipskate! Ze '''picsou'''!'. Now, "picsou" ''is not'' a French word for "cheapskate". It is, however, Scrooge's name in the French version of his stories (Balthazar [[Punny Name|Picsou]]).
** The afterwords for each chapter in [[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]] actually list all the [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]]. ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' was a popular one.
** The afterwords for each chapter in [[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]] actually list all the [[Shout-Out]]s. ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' was a popular one.
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: As well as [[Negative Continuity]], due to the numerous different writers who have written these stories with little to no regard for each other..
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: As well as [[Negative Continuity]], due to the numerous different writers who have written these stories with little to no regard for each other..
** Though the series in many ways is also great for aversions. As Scrooge is already the richest duck in the world, any treasures he finds will usually be a drop in the bucket. And so success or failure isn't as guaranteed as with other characters.
** Though the series in many ways is also great for aversions. As Scrooge is already the richest duck in the world, any treasures he finds will usually be a drop in the bucket. And so success or failure isn't as guaranteed as with other characters.