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* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Some of Don's Hidden Mickeys refer to Mickey's real-life status as a fictional character, while the Ducks are "real" people. Take into account that Donald started off as Mickey's co-star in the cartoons, and you see how this fits.
* [[Comic Book Time]]
* [[Convicted by Public Opinion]]: A recurring theme. In ''[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?loc=1951/W_WDC_129-02R Pool Sharks]{{Dead link}}'' by Barks, Donald lets a couple of kids use his brand new swimming pool. This leads to dozens of kids getting wind of it, using and ruining the pool, which leads to their parents getting worked up about accidents happening to their kids, which leads to Donald closing the pool without ever having gotten to use it, which leads to everyone hating Donald. To be frank, the people of Duckburg are dicks.
* [[Cool Old Guy]] / [[Cool Uncle]]: Scrooge, all the way.
** Once [[Character Development]] brings him out of being the crusty, skinflint, gouging, near-heartless old miser that he is when [[Carl Barks]] first introduces him to the Ducks Universe, anyway.
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* [[Funetik Aksent]]: Scrooge and his family.
* [[Fiction 500]]
* [[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
* [[Funny Background Event]]: In the spirit of Barks.
* [[Gentleman Thief]]: Arpin Lusene
* [[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.
* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]: The Junior Woodchucks' Guidebook. This is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] ''and'' [[Justified Trope|explained]].
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: your average person off the streets of Duckburg has a black button nose, may have unusually shaped ears and something of a snout but doesn't really resemble any known animal. Some stories by Barks have actual realistically drawn humans which makes things more confusing.
** It can get even weirder when characters appear who are basically humans with a ''beak''! (In fact, Gyro Gearloose comes very close to this.) Occasionally some colourist even has the gall to give such a character a [[Up to Eleven|human skin tone]], instead of white feathers...
*** Gyro. Has. ''[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?num=6&loc=H89174&s=date HUMAN FEET.]{{Dead link}}''...
* [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: In the first ''[[The Three Caballeros]]'' comic Rosa did, he changed the lyrics of the eponymous song to remove the verse "the three gay caballeros". In the second one, the line is intact. You could almost swear there's a guy giving them a knowing gaze as they sing it that time...
* [[Heads or Tails]]: In "Flip Decision", Donald is conned by a charlatan into believing in [[wikipedia:Flipism|Flipism]]: the idea that all of life's choices can be made on the flip of a coin. [[Hilarity Ensues]], of course, though the coin does show uncanny predictive power.
* [[Historical In-Joke]]
* [[Homage]]: The two stories with [[The Three Caballeros]]. Complete with them [https://web.archive.org/web/20100815200026/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?num=13&loc=D2000-002 performing the theme song].
* [[Impossible Thief]]: Arpin Lusene
* [[Little Bit Beastly]]: The dog-nosed but otherwise human supporting cast.
* [[Long Runner Tech Marches On]]: With the notable exception of [[Don Rosa]], most Duck-writers let their stories take place in the present. Thus, while none of the characters has aged a day, the technology since the times of [[Carl Barks]] has marched on.
* [[Lovecraft Lite]]: You could call ''[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?loc=1956/W_US_13-02R Land beneath the Ground]{{Dead link}}'' a Barksian version of [[H.P. Lovecraft]], surprisingly enough - just read it. And while you're at it, check out ''[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?loc=1950/W_OS_275-02R Ancient Persia]{{Dead link}}'' ...''The Case of Charles Dexter Ward'', anyone? None of these are gloomy enough to count as real [[Cosmic Horror]], of course.
* [[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.
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* [[Non-Idle Rich]]: Scrooge
* [[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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20111027042744/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?s=date&loc=1950
*** 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]].
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* [[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...]{{Dead link}} ''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...)
* [[Riches to Rags]]: Happens to Scrooge in several [[What If]] stories.
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* [[The Stinger]]: An extra page for ''The Quest for Sampo''.
* [[This Is Reality]]
* [[Time Stands Still]]: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120414195618/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?s=date&loc=D90147 On Stolen Time]'' by Rosa.
* [[Tsundere]]: Daisy Duck is one of the more iconic western examples, type A towards Donald. Considering it's Donald, most people consider her mood swings justified.
* [[Villain Team-Up]]: ''A Little Something Special''
* [[Vulcan Has No Moon]]: In one comic, Earth appeared improbably big in the sky of Mars.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: In the Tony Strobl and [[Carl Barks]] story, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20111218080941/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Strobl/show.php?s=date&loc=W_US_71-01 King Scrooge the First]", the reason the immortal King Khan Khan wants to find the lost treasure of Sagbad so badly is because it contains the antidote to the immortality potion he took when he raided the city centuries ago. He has grown tired of endlessly outliving everything and everyone dear to him, and after getting his hands on it, [http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Strobl/show.php?num=21&loc=W_US_71-01&s=date gladly eats it and wanders into the desert to join the dust that is all that is left of his civilisation]{{Dead link}}.
* [[Wonderful Life]]: ''The Duck Who Never Was'' does this to [[Donald Duck]]. [[Tear Jerker|It works]].
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Scrooge and Arpin Lusene.
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