DuckTales (1987)/Awesome

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Scrooge McDuck

  • His battle with the phony Masked Mallard. The Weapon of Choice? Canes!
  • Fighting and capturing the invisible villain in "Hotel Strangeduck."
  • The ending of "Robot Robbers" is awesome if only because of the sudden twist in its Aesop. In 9 out of 10 cases where the villain mocks the hero by calling him "too soft," the hero learns that may be true, but that's what makes him the good guy. This time, after Flintheart Glomgold tells Scrooge he's gotten soft and afraid to take risks, Scrooge proves Good Is Not Nice when Glomgold needs to hire McDuck Construction to rebuild the city his giant robots destroyed:

Glomgold: How much will that cost?
Scrooge: How much ya' got?
Glomgold: Scrooge, you're a low-down, ruthless rat!
Scrooge: What can I say, Glomgold? You bring out the best in me.

  • The one time this version of Scrooge really resembles the Badass comics' version is when he's wrongfully sent to prison in "Duckman of Aquatraz": The other prisoners challenge him to an arm wrestling match, and he effortlessly beats each one in a second or two, one after another. "Next... next... next..."
    • Well, if he's strong enough to bathe in gold coins without getting injuried...
  • The Moon level in the video game is pure Crazy Awesome. Here's why, courtesy of BrentalFloss

Wait Uncle Scrooge, you need a suit out there
How are you alive?
You need heat, also air.
That's gotta be one expensive cane...
You are up on the moon, looking for treasure; YOU'VE GONE INSANE.

  • Early in the series El Capitan points his shotgun at Scrooge, and Scrooge's response was to give El Capitan quite a glare despite the fact that El Capitan is pressing his Shotgun at Scrooge. That alone is good evidence on how much of a Badass Grandpa Scrooge is.

Glittering Goldie

  • Crashing Scrooge's wedding in "Til Nephews Do Us Part." She tears into Duckburg, shotgun in hands, to break up Scrooge's marriage to a Gold Digger. And you thought EVE was too Trigger Happy...
  • Her Xanatos Gambit in "Ducky Mountain High:" Scrooge found gold trees growing on her land adjacent to his and "tricked her" into trading their land because he thought the gold deposit underneath the trees giving them their color must be there, too. It's not until he starts digging that he finds out what Goldie knew all along -- he now owns the land with the gold trees, and she now owns the land with the gold! And she rubs it in Scrooge's face while flirting with him!

Scrooge: Why you poker-face prospector! You knew about the trees and the gold all along!
Goldie: Well, who do you think sent you that gold stationary to lure you up here? I've been working on a way to get your land for months. Now I've got a gold deposit, and you've got a lousy bunch of tree stumps.
Scrooge: Oooh... Goldie, you're a dirty deal-maker!
Goldie: I learned from the master. *Smooch of Victory*

Magica de Spell

  • Hypnotizing Gladstone Gander to use his luck to steal Scrooge's Number One Dime in "Dime Enough For Luck." Not only is it incredibly satisfying to see Gladstone suffer for once, but the fact that she was able to do pull this off at all makes Magica possibly the only force in the Scrooge McDuck Universe that's stronger than Gladstone's infamous luck! Carl Barks would have loved this episode, seeing one of his favorite characters take down one of his least favorite. Oh, and "Bad luck, old chum!"
  • Trapping Scrooge in the future, finally getting his Number One Dime, and taking over the world in the alternate future (starting a trend for Disney villainnesses?) in "Duck to the Future."

Others

  • Launchpad gets a few of these in the episode "Where No Duck Has Gone Before". Huey, Dewey, Louie, Doofus, and Launchpad have gotten stuck in outer space with an egotistical actor who plays a hero in a sci-fi show and thinks he's still filming an episode. When the actor realizes they've actually been captured by aliens, he escapes back to Earth, abandoning the others. Launchpad then shows the boys what real heroes do, and saves the day.
  • The triplets defeating Circe in "Home Sweet Homer."
  • Mrs. Beakley gets one in "Down and Out in Duckberg". Scrooge is suffocating on the bottom the ocean. When warned that the waters are infested with sharks, her only reply is "Now they're Beakley-infested waters!" Then she dives off the boat and saves Scrooge almost single-handedly.
  • Fenton Crackshell gets his by defeating the Master Electronic Leader in their counting contest in "Super DuckTales".

"Sorry, M.E.L.! These are nuts, not bolts! Trick question! You lose!"

  • Another for Mrs. Beakley is in Cold Ducks. After seeing a giant woolly walrus smash a museum, she proceeds to shout "Hey lardo!" and use a scarf as a bullfighting cape.
  • Duckworth revolting against the plant aliens in "Duckworth's Revolt". Particularly when he threatened to have Huey, Dewey, and Louie kill the aliens.

Duckworth: "Are you aware that these lads could destroy every plant on this spaceship with the push of a few buttons?"

  • In the series finale, Scrooge, Launchpad, and Dijon have to return the Golden Goose to a temple, lest it's curse consume the entire planet, and turn everyone and everything to gold. With time running out, and nowhere to land, Scrooge, for once, actually orders Launchpad to crash their plane, which he gladly does...only to execute a perfect, flawless landing for the first, and only, time in the entire series.
    • That wasn't the first time, he was told to crash the Hindentanic, and the crashing in itself was pretty awesome since the blimp was on fire and in the middle of a meteor shower.
  • Huey's moment comes in "Pearl of Wisdom," when he destroys a torpedo using only a marble.
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