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* [[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...
** One other thing that's wildly inconsistent between authors is the 'verse's relation to the [[Mickey Mouse Comic Universe]]. Some authors have them share a universe, but have the Mouse stories set in a different town called Mouseton, whereas others have both set in Duckburg same as the Duck stories. Some authors seem to set the stories in separate continuities. As noted under [[Celebrity Paradox]], Don Rosa has an odd take on this: [[Mickey Mouse]] seems to exist within his stories... as a cartoon character.
** The Italian-produced comics view the characters through a completely different cultural lens: most evident with Scrooge, who tends to be less of a crafty [[Self-Made Man]] and more of a cross between [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] and [[Cloudcuckoolander]]. It's not rare to see him cross the line from [[Anti-Hero]] to straight-up [[Villain Protagonist]], or be used as the villain against Donald (who isn't much better).
*** Could be because as the Italian universe was set up during the Italian 50's, the era of neorealism, the Donald/Scrooge couple looks like the [[I Blame Communism|class struggle]] rather than Barks' [[Adventure Duo]].
* [[Detectives Follow Footprints]]: The comics get a lot of mileage out of this trope. For instance, they have a whole subtrope for characters exploiting the trope, knowing they are being followed, manipulating the footprints to mislead the pursuers.
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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".
* [[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.
* [[Money Fetish]]: Scrooge swims in it.
* [[Mr. Vice Guy]]: Scrooge and [[Greed]].
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* [[Number One Dime]]: [[Trope Namer]], with Scrooge treasuring the very first dime he ever made for an honest day's work. Because of Magica de Spell's avid pursuit of it to make an amulet that would grant her fortune, it often becomes [[Flanderization|exaggerated]] into being the actual source of Scrooge's wealth. [[Don Rosa]] ''hated'' this interpretation of the #1 Dime.
** Ironically for someone noted for favoring [[Continuity Porn]] from [[Carl Barks]], he never did take note of the fact that [[Carl Barks]] actually ''did'' write a story in which Scrooge's fortune was aided by possession of a magical artifact; the 1950 story [http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?s=date&loc=1950/W_OS_291-02 The Magic Hourglass].
*** He did, and mentioned it in his commentary of ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]''. As this was from the period when Barks was still only experimenting with Scrooge's character, and hadn't yet come to interpret him as the penultimate [[Self-Made Man]], Rosa decided to quitely ignore this story in his personal continuity.
* [[Older Hero vs. Younger Villain]]: Scrooge to several members of his [[Rogues Gallery]].
* [[Phonetic Accent]]: Scrooge's family in ''Life and Times'' as well as Arpin Lusene
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* [[Putting the Band Back Together]]: In the second story featuring the Three Caballeros, Donald becomes especially depressed and Huey, Dewey and Louie decide to reunite the Three Caballeros in the hopes that it will cheer Donald up.
* [[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.
** 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...] ''after'' Scrooge has spent the entire story worring 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...)
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* [[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. -->
** ''[[Monty Python and
** 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]]).
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