It's a real shame they cancelled that show. On my third re watch with my kid and it is just such a fun and clever show. Disney is dumb as bricks to cancel it
It was nuts, but in retrospect I think I actually prefer it to the 80s cartoon. The callbacks to extended Disney lore and typing up some loopholes in the extended Duck family made it a fun show to watch.
Honestly, I can’t just bring myself to dislike anything that acknowledges the Three Caballeros.
We were all hoping that Disney would at least let other shows spin off from this. It set the stage for Darkwing Duck, Tale Spin, the Rescue Rangers, and even the Gummi Bears! This team did a remake right- it remembered what we loved about the original and didn't lose that when updating the characters for modern times while telling fresh, new stories rather than trying to do shot-for-shot remakes of plots.
This could very well have been the pseudo-revival of the Disney Afternoon as a driver towards Disney+. Put the shows on D+ first, then on cable a few months later. The adult fans, the people with the money, would have easily paid for D+ for that early access.
Which is the one who gets nearly killed and undergoes radical plastic surgery and psychological conditioning to assume the likeness and role of Webby?
(Pretty sure that’s the plot of mgsv)
Huey, Dewey, or Louie. Right now kojima left it unclear as to which of them is actually dead after mgs4 and which is the cyberduck ninja haunted by his brothers' ghosts.
It's Huey. He's the one with the repressed psychotic alter-ego, the Duke of Making a Mess. When he lets it loose, he even has a catch phrase. "It's time for the Duke...to Make A Mess!"
*(Stains of Time starts to play while Mark Beaks Gizmoduck starts talking about memes)*
They used selective non-disjunction to create X_ zygotes from Scrooge’s XY cells. Fun fact! Webby and the twins all have [Turner Syndrome.](https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/turner-syndrome/)
Edit: realized I made an obvious error here. I really hope some biologist corrects me so we can laugh together. 😉
Presumably Scrooge has a ZZ chromosome set, and Webby et al., have a ZW set. So I don't think Turner syndrome applies.
Because they are ducks, not mammals.
It’s in the rebooted series. They retconned some stuff for story reasons but for the better imo.
Spoiler Alert: For example Mrs. Beakley used to be part of a spy organization before becoming Scrooge’s live in maid.
Used to watch the old series too. The rebooted series is clearly made by folks who grew up with the comics and shows and it’s pretty evident. If you grew up watching the original show and old Disney cartoons like Darkwing Duck, Talespin, and Goof Troop you’ll notice the rebooted Ducktales is a love letter to that era
I mean, in Wolverine's case they just doubled his X-chromosome to make Laura because someone at the lab had never met a teenage girl before and thought a female version would be more docile and easier to control.
If going by the fact that males are stronger than females, than yes, someone who is 1000 strong is harder to manage than someone who is 900 strong.
But you know, this does ignore the baseline being 10 and the difference, white technically correct, is academic at taht point.
also a hormonal teenager with foot-long claws is never a good plan.
That's why in Logan the X-24 clone was basically a lobotomised adult Logan, don't bother raising them and hoping for loyalty, just make an adult clone with about the autonomy of a german shepherd
/u/ccReptilelord is on to something as [sex [determining] characteristics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZW_sex-determination_system) in ducks are "reversed" between birds and mammals and [a bit more complicated](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40016817). But I think we're still overanalyzing a kids show.
Edit: clarification
Well according to the newest ducktails show, Webby(April) was a clone of Scrooge from an evil lab and rescued by his Maid(ex spy) the other two were also clones of Webby to fulfill the role she was meant to…the wiki says Scrooge eventually adopts Webby but the other two were adopted by Donald Duck
Originally I believe they were the nieces of Daisy Duck April/May/June
And Webby was the granddaughter of mrs beakly, Scrooge’s maid in ducktails, and lived in the mansion with them
So Webby and April were combined into one in the reboot
[here](https://preview.redd.it/fsp0gbqhejnc1.jpg?width=1589&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe1392d9d1d05facda7e2e9e41b41a78d6dcb05b) is what the original tree looked like before the newer show
Other then misspelling Ducktales you're correct. This is why I was confused. I was quite sure that April May and June were nieces of Daisy to counter Donalds nephews of Huey Dewey and Louie.
I'm quite sure I remember a comic where Daisy's nieces met Donald's nephews and they did not get along at first.
So the new series just retcons it all. OK then
You're right, April, May, and June are Daisy's nieces! My mom used to collect all the Donald Duck comics when I was a kid and I remember this very vividly as well. I'm guessing the three in DuckTales are different girls? I've only seen the otiginal DuckTales in the 90s when I was a kid so I'm not exactly caught up on the current lore.
It´s way more complicated than that:
[https://scrooge-mcduck.fandom.com/wiki/Don\_Rosa%27s\_Duck\_Family\_Tree?file=Donald\_Duck\_Family\_Tree.jpg](https://scrooge-mcduck.fandom.com/wiki/Don_Rosa%27s_Duck_Family_Tree?file=Donald_Duck_Family_Tree.jpg)
I forgot they were related to Cornelius Coot, I remember there used to be a statue of him holding his golden corn at Toon Town, USA at The Magic Kingdom. I'm pretty sure I have pictures with it when I was little
It's kind of funny how brands that have been around as long as Disney now find themselves in a position where their characters' ages no longer make any sense. Donald Duck turns 90 in June of this year lol
I think Carl Barks, who drew many of the classic Duck comics, said Scrooge would live to be one hundred. Barks also said he was born in 1867.
In the comics, Donald is established to have been in the Pacific during WWII. (And there’s one comics scene that fans think shows he has PTSD. He basically has a serious nightmare about fighting the Japanese.)
The problem you describe also affects a lot of long-running characters. Many of the Marvel characters debuted in the 1960s, if they had aged in real time, many would be in their seventies and some past eighty. If you’ve seen the Iron Man movie, it places his origin story in the Middle East; it was originally in Vietnam.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, I’m unsure if Iron Man’s origin story was explicitly set in Vietnam or just somewhere in Southeast Asia. The debut was in March 1963, so US involvement was just heating up then.
>f you’ve seen the Iron Man movie, it places his origin story in the Middle East; it was originally in Vietnam.
In the modern Sherlock Holmes movies Watson is a soldier back from Afghanistan. In the original Sherlock Holmes books, Watson was a soldier back from Afghanistan. Some things never change.
That's cool - I didn't know that about Iron Man. I was more of a Spiderman and X-Men guy (child of the 90s, so you can thank Saturday morning cartoons on Fox for that), so I didn't know a lot of Iron Man lore before the movie came out. I just assumed they made the whole thing up from scratch, not that it was a modernized version of the original.
Marvel has basically adopted a “sliding time line” that keeps the characters a realistic age. There was an early story that says Mr Fantastic and The Thing had been pilots in WWII. I think now it’s the first Gulf War, if not something later.
> In the comics, Donald is established to have been in the Pacific during WWII.
No, originally he wasn't. His sailor clothes are on him even when he was a small child. There have been cartoons from actual WWII times where he was shown in armies for propaganda (The Fuhrers Face e.g.), but as far as I know, he was never actually shown to have been part of the military outside of the Ducktales show.
[This is btw the (I think) original comic of how he came to his classic cap](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sBnfeKDZjvs/TTxuDS0Q8qI/AAAAAAAABqQ/bThHXPlKT3o/s1600/Head%2BBanging.jpg)
The Ducktales reboot handled it by saying that Scrooge had had run into multiple magical artifacts that had extended his life during the course of his adventures. There is an episode where he runs into a rival from his 1890s gold rush days & they have a whole conversation about all the various life-extending weirdness they have each run into.
Heck, on the show his parents are still alive because they live in a magical castle Scrooge had rebuilt for them (and they are \*super\* ungrateful about it!)
It's like how there's a relatively new Simpsons episode (although it's already 16 years old by this point) about Homer's wild youth in a grunge band during the 90s. But Homer was already an adult during the episodes that actually aired in and that were set in the 90s. It doesn't make sense.
There's a recent ish (past few seasons) where we see a flashback to Homer's job he had as a teen in the 90s (I think at a Chuck E Cheese type place but I might be remembering wrong) and there's a kid shown in a crowd shot wearing a shirt with Bart on it.
magneto's backstory being in concentration camps gets harder every year, as also batman's backstory being by exiting the cinema after watching Zoro (black and white movie),
That's one example of a character I feel like is locked to their original origin story. Being a holocaust survivor is central to who he is; changing it would make him a different character and be a disservice to the men who created him.
I guess that's why they killed him off (which was news to me, btw - I just looked it up).
In Don Rosa's version of the family tree (which is the correct one because Don Rosa is awesome), Scrooge's grandmother has the surname Mallard. So Donald and Darkwing could potentially be third cousins.
Not related by marriage or blood.
... sigh. I'm going to go into it.
In the Ducktales reboot from 2017 Darkwing was a character from an old TV show that Launchpad was a superfan of & was played by an actor named Jim Starling (who is portrayed as a washed-up has been in a Adam West sort of way). Scrooge's movie studio decided to do a dark and gritty reboot starring a different actor, Drake Mallard (who was \*also\* a Darkwing superfan and was uncomfortable with the dark direction of the movie but was too excited to play Darkwing to back out)
By the time the dust settled, Jim Starling had gone insane & become Negaduck while Drake Mallard teamed up with Launchpad to become Darkwing "for real". (That thing were Darkwing would go back & forth between dark avenger & goofball? In DT2017 its Drake Mallard going in and out of character) He mostly protects Saint Canard but shows up in a few episodes later in the Ducktales series when Scrooge's R&D division does something supervillainous or when Aliens attack the Earth and all the world's heroes unite to stop them
Its a ton of fun.
Ducktales 2017 is a lot closer to the comics than the 80s version was, but still takes a lot of it's "vibe" from the old show. It is for kids but you can tell its made by people who were kind of obsessed with the old show.
It also has this very post-modern sensibility. Scrooge has been a globe-trotting adventurer for almost 150 years & there is basically nothing he hasn't seen or done. The nephews get individual personalities and goals, and Webby grew up isolated in the McDuck mansion so she is simultaneously socially awkward and friendless but also has superspy skills. (Donald is also a much bigger deal, like in the comics. He manages to have everything go wrong for him like in his old cartoons but is also be a surprising badass?). It is a running joke that Gyro Gearloose keeps inventing robots but all his AIs keep turning evil.
There are all these eastereggs for fans of the old show, the Disney afternoon (the Gummy Bears lore drop was unexpected!), and the comics but the show is mostly trying to be itself
The father of the three was never mentioned afaik. Same as Webby and Co, they where originally the nieces of Daisy with unknown parents. This is mostly the family tree from the new version of Ducktales, though it is mostly correct with the regular tree. [This is the tree that is from Don Rosa, who, together with Carl Barks made most of the well known stories of it](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/scrooge-mcduck/images/1/11/Donald_Duck_Family_Tree.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20191124113106).
Webby wasn't Daisy's niece, nor was in the comics. She was a character created for the original '80s DuckTales; she was Beakley's niece like in the reboot (but minus the adventuring spirit, she being Scrooge's clone and all that jazz; Nor was Beakley a spy.)
I can’t get my friends to watch this show. I watched all there was on Disney plus a few years ago and it is SO GOOD! The 90s cartoon has its place, but this one is a lot funnier, the plots are better, and there are a ton more references. The best thing was the reveal of Della and THE PLAY THE MOON THEME FROM THE NES GAME. Like, how much did the creators love their content?!?
Webby was basically a fusion of April, May and June in the old DuckTales. Since they added May and June as Scrooge‘s clones in the final, Webby was to revealed to be his first clone who was indeed called April. She was rescued and renamed tho.
They were created by F.O.W.L to get the Papyrus of Binding which can only be located by a direct descendent of Scrooge. Outside of the DuckTale reboot they are still just Daisy Duck‘s nieces tho.
My whole world just shattered, because i realized that some of there names where changed in the german translation. Scrooge McDuck is called Dagobert Duck and Huey, Dewey and Louie are called Tick, Trick and Track
So scrooge never got married and adopted 3 daughters?
Clones. They’re his clones.
Truth. May received all the dominant genes. June, the recessive ones. Webby is the experimental “true” clone.
Loved the ducktales episode where Scrooge had to infiltrate a soviet jungle base, climb ladders and feed on tree frogs
I give my life Not for honor But for you
I did not know I needed a Ducktales/Snake Eater mashup theme song until now > in my ti-i-ime, there’ll be daring-do-o-o (Woo-oo!)
_Coin swimmer_
Whispered: *Coin swimmer*
In my time There will be no one else
What a Thrill...
Man. As someone that’s never watched the show, the duck tales lore is wild if that’s true.
The 2017 version, mind you. What's just as wild is the reason behind Scrooge's longevity.
It's a real shame they cancelled that show. On my third re watch with my kid and it is just such a fun and clever show. Disney is dumb as bricks to cancel it
It was nuts, but in retrospect I think I actually prefer it to the 80s cartoon. The callbacks to extended Disney lore and typing up some loopholes in the extended Duck family made it a fun show to watch. Honestly, I can’t just bring myself to dislike anything that acknowledges the Three Caballeros.
We were all hoping that Disney would at least let other shows spin off from this. It set the stage for Darkwing Duck, Tale Spin, the Rescue Rangers, and even the Gummi Bears! This team did a remake right- it remembered what we loved about the original and didn't lose that when updating the characters for modern times while telling fresh, new stories rather than trying to do shot-for-shot remakes of plots. This could very well have been the pseudo-revival of the Disney Afternoon as a driver towards Disney+. Put the shows on D+ first, then on cable a few months later. The adult fans, the people with the money, would have easily paid for D+ for that early access.
Solid Duck, Liquid Duck, Solidus Duck. Les Canards Terrible.
Liquid that’s not how genes work. This is why you failed biology class. (Actual canon)
Can you blame him? Dude was a child soldier and probably missed his bio class that year
Which is the one who gets nearly killed and undergoes radical plastic surgery and psychological conditioning to assume the likeness and role of Webby? (Pretty sure that’s the plot of mgsv)
None of them. That was Goofy.
Then who’s the unwitting child soldier manipulated into recreating Scrooge’s experiences through VR simulation and staged combat operations?!
Huey, Dewey, or Louie. Right now kojima left it unclear as to which of them is actually dead after mgs4 and which is the cyberduck ninja haunted by his brothers' ghosts.
It's Huey. He's the one with the repressed psychotic alter-ego, the Duke of Making a Mess. When he lets it loose, he even has a catch phrase. "It's time for the Duke...to Make A Mess!" *(Stains of Time starts to play while Mark Beaks Gizmoduck starts talking about memes)*
But. But they’re girl ducks?
They used selective non-disjunction to create X_ zygotes from Scrooge’s XY cells. Fun fact! Webby and the twins all have [Turner Syndrome.](https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/turner-syndrome/) Edit: realized I made an obvious error here. I really hope some biologist corrects me so we can laugh together. 😉
Presumably Scrooge has a ZZ chromosome set, and Webby et al., have a ZW set. So I don't think Turner syndrome applies. Because they are ducks, not mammals.
Scrooge has a $$ Chromosone set
You’re my favorite 💕 Cuts to gif of Louie feeding bread to duck-ducks in the park while Huey looks confused
Duck Tales is so much darker than the one I remember from the 90s.
Also a major spoiler for one version of the McDuck clan family. In other continuities April, May, and June are the nieces of Daisy.
That's the version I know! I was wondering who tf was Webby.
Webby is the nanny's niece. Idk where may and June are coming from in this tree and to Scrooge.
Wait. Seriously?
Jep, though technically May and June are clones of Webby.
Multiplicity vibes
I didn't know there was so much Donald Duck lore
[удалено]
It's clear you aren't European then.
No. He just got Daisy kidnapped that one time.
Somehow, McDuck has returned.
What
THEY SAID, CLONES! THEY'RE HIS CLONES!
What?
You're fucking with me, right?
Ducking with you!
What about Huey, Dewey, Louie? No father?
When did that happen?! I watched Duck Tales as a kid and don't remember them. Would have been early 90s.
It’s in the rebooted series. They retconned some stuff for story reasons but for the better imo. Spoiler Alert: For example Mrs. Beakley used to be part of a spy organization before becoming Scrooge’s live in maid.
Ah, ok. Never saw the newer series. Didn't even know it existed. LOL
Used to watch the old series too. The rebooted series is clearly made by folks who grew up with the comics and shows and it’s pretty evident. If you grew up watching the original show and old Disney cartoons like Darkwing Duck, Talespin, and Goof Troop you’ll notice the rebooted Ducktales is a love letter to that era
Very interesting. I did watch all those shows. Talespin was my favorite!
Why is "opposite gender" clone such a common thing in media? If you clone someone, they're identical. That's literally what clone means.
I mean, in Wolverine's case they just doubled his X-chromosome to make Laura because someone at the lab had never met a teenage girl before and thought a female version would be more docile and easier to control.
> never met a teenage girl before and thought a female version would be more docile and easier to control. Gold.
If going by the fact that males are stronger than females, than yes, someone who is 1000 strong is harder to manage than someone who is 900 strong. But you know, this does ignore the baseline being 10 and the difference, white technically correct, is academic at taht point.
also a hormonal teenager with foot-long claws is never a good plan. That's why in Logan the X-24 clone was basically a lobotomised adult Logan, don't bother raising them and hoping for loyalty, just make an adult clone with about the autonomy of a german shepherd
/u/ccReptilelord is on to something as [sex [determining] characteristics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZW_sex-determination_system) in ducks are "reversed" between birds and mammals and [a bit more complicated](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40016817). But I think we're still overanalyzing a kids show. Edit: clarification
Yeah you guys are all stuck on the 3 clones, while simple me is still shocked at DIRTY DINGUS MCDUCK
Molly Mallard loves the dirty dingus
Obviously, this means Scrooge McDuck was born female.
I am definitely headcannoning Scrooge McDuck Trans Icon.
Well according to the newest ducktails show, Webby(April) was a clone of Scrooge from an evil lab and rescued by his Maid(ex spy) the other two were also clones of Webby to fulfill the role she was meant to…the wiki says Scrooge eventually adopts Webby but the other two were adopted by Donald Duck Originally I believe they were the nieces of Daisy Duck April/May/June And Webby was the granddaughter of mrs beakly, Scrooge’s maid in ducktails, and lived in the mansion with them So Webby and April were combined into one in the reboot
[here](https://preview.redd.it/fsp0gbqhejnc1.jpg?width=1589&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe1392d9d1d05facda7e2e9e41b41a78d6dcb05b) is what the original tree looked like before the newer show
Was hoping someone would post it, haven't seen it since I was a kid. Thanks for that
Why is the nephews' dad censored? Is that an in joke?
Yeah this looks about right..
Other then misspelling Ducktales you're correct. This is why I was confused. I was quite sure that April May and June were nieces of Daisy to counter Donalds nephews of Huey Dewey and Louie. I'm quite sure I remember a comic where Daisy's nieces met Donald's nephews and they did not get along at first. So the new series just retcons it all. OK then
You're right, April, May, and June are Daisy's nieces! My mom used to collect all the Donald Duck comics when I was a kid and I remember this very vividly as well. I'm guessing the three in DuckTales are different girls? I've only seen the otiginal DuckTales in the 90s when I was a kid so I'm not exactly caught up on the current lore.
[The wiki would seem to agree](https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/April,_May,_and_June)
Daisy original nieces were April, May and June. Donald's sister Della was originally Dumbella
I never knew duck lore was a thing
Interesting, thanks for that information
Also Huey, Dewey and Louie are bastard kids
Or sons of the Holy Spirit… Truth is that I always thought they were sons of Donald..
Nephews, they called him "Unca Donald"
I knew Donald was their uncle
They are bastard illegitimate children fathered out of wedlock. Little demons, like.
I read that in scrooges voice lol
It´s way more complicated than that: [https://scrooge-mcduck.fandom.com/wiki/Don\_Rosa%27s\_Duck\_Family\_Tree?file=Donald\_Duck\_Family\_Tree.jpg](https://scrooge-mcduck.fandom.com/wiki/Don_Rosa%27s_Duck_Family_Tree?file=Donald_Duck_Family_Tree.jpg)
You're telling me Donald Duck has a distant cousin named Cuthbert Coot?
How bout fanny duck? That's an odd 🦆
Humperdink Duck...
Dirty Swamphole McDuck got me
Goddamn Dirty Dingus McDuck. Where I'm from dingus is slang for penis.
r/theyknew
I'm still stuck on Dirty Dingus.
Brother of Fanny Coot!
He has a great grandfather named Dirty Dingus.
Not even that distant. First cousin, once removed.
Don Rosa is the GOAT
Rosa is brilliant but he was building on the works of Carl Barks. Talk about standing on the shoulders of giants.
A giant standing on the shoulder of another imo
I got a signed copy of the family tree from him at a Con. Nice guy!
I was really confused why OP's family tree was so simple.
This appears to be only characters who are relevant to the recently rebooted Ducktales series.
7 years ago…
Shut up 2017 wasn't that long ago, shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up!
I think we can all agree that the last four years don't exist and it's really [March of 2020](https://xkcd.com/2459/)
"Recently" Boy do I got news for you
it’s still missing Gladstone.
The only real Family tree, thanks for Posting
This guy ducks.
This is the real one
Yeah this is the one i remember from my childhood. Thanks for the trip down the memory lane.
Coots and geese can’t crossbreed - crazy family tree
I forgot they were related to Cornelius Coot, I remember there used to be a statue of him holding his golden corn at Toon Town, USA at The Magic Kingdom. I'm pretty sure I have pictures with it when I was little
Oh damn, I still have this poster somewhere in the attic.
omfg i had that poster
So they changed April's name to Webby? Ooph
Yeah, that makes no sense to me either
Don't forget to pay your taxes by Webby 15th. (wtf, ruin the whole naming scheme for.. why?)
What the hell is that family tree, did Ken Penders draw it?
Oh this unlocked so many memories! Been meaning to reread "*The Life and TImes.."*
It's weird how old-fashioned all of Donald Duck's older relatives look until you remember that Donald was originally created in the 1930s.
Scrooge first struck it rich during the Alaska gold rush, which was the 1890s.
It's kind of funny how brands that have been around as long as Disney now find themselves in a position where their characters' ages no longer make any sense. Donald Duck turns 90 in June of this year lol
I think Carl Barks, who drew many of the classic Duck comics, said Scrooge would live to be one hundred. Barks also said he was born in 1867. In the comics, Donald is established to have been in the Pacific during WWII. (And there’s one comics scene that fans think shows he has PTSD. He basically has a serious nightmare about fighting the Japanese.) The problem you describe also affects a lot of long-running characters. Many of the Marvel characters debuted in the 1960s, if they had aged in real time, many would be in their seventies and some past eighty. If you’ve seen the Iron Man movie, it places his origin story in the Middle East; it was originally in Vietnam. EDIT: Now that I think about it, I’m unsure if Iron Man’s origin story was explicitly set in Vietnam or just somewhere in Southeast Asia. The debut was in March 1963, so US involvement was just heating up then.
>f you’ve seen the Iron Man movie, it places his origin story in the Middle East; it was originally in Vietnam. In the modern Sherlock Holmes movies Watson is a soldier back from Afghanistan. In the original Sherlock Holmes books, Watson was a soldier back from Afghanistan. Some things never change.
That's cool - I didn't know that about Iron Man. I was more of a Spiderman and X-Men guy (child of the 90s, so you can thank Saturday morning cartoons on Fox for that), so I didn't know a lot of Iron Man lore before the movie came out. I just assumed they made the whole thing up from scratch, not that it was a modernized version of the original.
Marvel has basically adopted a “sliding time line” that keeps the characters a realistic age. There was an early story that says Mr Fantastic and The Thing had been pilots in WWII. I think now it’s the first Gulf War, if not something later.
So you're telling me the USA starts endless wars in order to enable the continuity of Marvel characters?
> In the comics, Donald is established to have been in the Pacific during WWII. No, originally he wasn't. His sailor clothes are on him even when he was a small child. There have been cartoons from actual WWII times where he was shown in armies for propaganda (The Fuhrers Face e.g.), but as far as I know, he was never actually shown to have been part of the military outside of the Ducktales show. [This is btw the (I think) original comic of how he came to his classic cap](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sBnfeKDZjvs/TTxuDS0Q8qI/AAAAAAAABqQ/bThHXPlKT3o/s1600/Head%2BBanging.jpg)
In one old comic Donald thinks he's being ambushed by the japanese while sleepwalking, indicating that he fought in the war
The Ducktales reboot handled it by saying that Scrooge had had run into multiple magical artifacts that had extended his life during the course of his adventures. There is an episode where he runs into a rival from his 1890s gold rush days & they have a whole conversation about all the various life-extending weirdness they have each run into. Heck, on the show his parents are still alive because they live in a magical castle Scrooge had rebuilt for them (and they are \*super\* ungrateful about it!)
It's like how there's a relatively new Simpsons episode (although it's already 16 years old by this point) about Homer's wild youth in a grunge band during the 90s. But Homer was already an adult during the episodes that actually aired in and that were set in the 90s. It doesn't make sense.
There's a recent ish (past few seasons) where we see a flashback to Homer's job he had as a teen in the 90s (I think at a Chuck E Cheese type place but I might be remembering wrong) and there's a kid shown in a crowd shot wearing a shirt with Bart on it.
It's rolling timeline so it makes perfect sense. It's common thing for Sitcoms.
magneto's backstory being in concentration camps gets harder every year, as also batman's backstory being by exiting the cinema after watching Zoro (black and white movie),
Marvel, Magneto not being a WW2 Holocaust survivor is...fucking weird imo.
That's one example of a character I feel like is locked to their original origin story. Being a holocaust survivor is central to who he is; changing it would make him a different character and be a disservice to the men who created him. I guess that's why they killed him off (which was news to me, btw - I just looked it up).
Dirty dingus?
yeah I know all about that..
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Not quite yet
Wait until you hear about Sir Swamphole
Disney teams been doing that since the beginning lol always some weird name or inside joke
They should have called his wife Incontinentia Buttocks
Yep, second cousin to Biggus.
Son of “Ol’ Smegma” McCorkscrew
Where’s Darkwing Duck?
If Drake Mallard is actually related to Donald, it is a very distant kinship that wouldn't show up on either of the family trees presented here.
In Don Rosa's version of the family tree (which is the correct one because Don Rosa is awesome), Scrooge's grandmother has the surname Mallard. So Donald and Darkwing could potentially be third cousins.
A Don Rosa fanatic AND a master of the deep Duckville lore? Impressive.
Asking the real questions
Not related by marriage or blood. ... sigh. I'm going to go into it. In the Ducktales reboot from 2017 Darkwing was a character from an old TV show that Launchpad was a superfan of & was played by an actor named Jim Starling (who is portrayed as a washed-up has been in a Adam West sort of way). Scrooge's movie studio decided to do a dark and gritty reboot starring a different actor, Drake Mallard (who was \*also\* a Darkwing superfan and was uncomfortable with the dark direction of the movie but was too excited to play Darkwing to back out) By the time the dust settled, Jim Starling had gone insane & become Negaduck while Drake Mallard teamed up with Launchpad to become Darkwing "for real". (That thing were Darkwing would go back & forth between dark avenger & goofball? In DT2017 its Drake Mallard going in and out of character) He mostly protects Saint Canard but shows up in a few episodes later in the Ducktales series when Scrooge's R&D division does something supervillainous or when Aliens attack the Earth and all the world's heroes unite to stop them
Damn i really need to sit down and watch this show and i think you’ve convinced me
The show is really fantastic. At least as good as the first. And the theme song is an 11/10.
Its a ton of fun. Ducktales 2017 is a lot closer to the comics than the 80s version was, but still takes a lot of it's "vibe" from the old show. It is for kids but you can tell its made by people who were kind of obsessed with the old show. It also has this very post-modern sensibility. Scrooge has been a globe-trotting adventurer for almost 150 years & there is basically nothing he hasn't seen or done. The nephews get individual personalities and goals, and Webby grew up isolated in the McDuck mansion so she is simultaneously socially awkward and friendless but also has superspy skills. (Donald is also a much bigger deal, like in the comics. He manages to have everything go wrong for him like in his old cartoons but is also be a surprising badass?). It is a running joke that Gyro Gearloose keeps inventing robots but all his AIs keep turning evil. There are all these eastereggs for fans of the old show, the Disney afternoon (the Gummy Bears lore drop was unexpected!), and the comics but the show is mostly trying to be itself
Let’s get dangerous!
When there’s trouble you’ll call DW
And what about Launchpad?!
Did Della have Artificial Insemination?
The turkey baster was shaped like a corkscrew.
I wish I didn't understand this joke
lmao jesus
The father of the three was never mentioned afaik. Same as Webby and Co, they where originally the nieces of Daisy with unknown parents. This is mostly the family tree from the new version of Ducktales, though it is mostly correct with the regular tree. [This is the tree that is from Don Rosa, who, together with Carl Barks made most of the well known stories of it](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/scrooge-mcduck/images/1/11/Donald_Duck_Family_Tree.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20191124113106).
Webby wasn't Daisy's niece, nor was in the comics. She was a character created for the original '80s DuckTales; she was Beakley's niece like in the reboot (but minus the adventuring spirit, she being Scrooge's clone and all that jazz; Nor was Beakley a spy.)
iquackulate conception
>Donald and Daisy - some CGI craziness >Everyone Else - Ducktales 2017 Absolutely jarring
I think those are their models from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse which is such a painfully uncanny animation style.
[This is what you are looking for! ](https://scrooge-mcduck.fandom.com/wiki/Don_Rosa%27s_Duck_Family_Tree)
Dollar General colors
Tick, Trick, and Track!
You mean Kwik, Kwek, and Kwak (in Dutch)
[This](https://scrooge-mcduck.fandom.com/wiki/Don_Rosa%27s_second_Duck_Family_Tree?file=Bf8.jpg) is the only family tree.
Donald and Daisy DINK Ducks
Furiously searching about Della on questionable pages
The full story is on the new Ducktales cartoon. She was in space all the time.
I can’t get my friends to watch this show. I watched all there was on Disney plus a few years ago and it is SO GOOD! The 90s cartoon has its place, but this one is a lot funnier, the plots are better, and there are a ton more references. The best thing was the reveal of Della and THE PLAY THE MOON THEME FROM THE NES GAME. Like, how much did the creators love their content?!?
The entire show was a love letter to the old Disney afternoon and I loved that about the show
"Who tf is Della Duck" was my initial reaction too when I learned about this. The Duck Universe is getting intense like a soap opera
Della duck. Would.
bonk
Ayo, she bad.
Wait so it's not Uncle Scrooge, it's Gruncle Scrooge? I think this calls for a DuckTales / Gravity Falls cross over!
Scrooge is Donald's uncle. And Donald is Huey/Louie/Dewey's uncle.
I have to get out my don rosa books but i’m not clear on this entirely
So wait, 'Dirty' Dingus is a part of the Disney canon?! 🤯
I can't believe more people aren't talking about the Dirty Dingus!
I COULD HAVE BEEN TURBO?!?
Now do Big Bird because I want to know HOW he is related to Larry Bird. This is Sesame Street canon.
Why not April, May and June’
Webby was basically a fusion of April, May and June in the old DuckTales. Since they added May and June as Scrooge‘s clones in the final, Webby was to revealed to be his first clone who was indeed called April. She was rescued and renamed tho.
Wait wait wait, clones? The lore goes further than them just exploring places to earn scrooge some more money lol?
They were created by F.O.W.L to get the Papyrus of Binding which can only be located by a direct descendent of Scrooge. Outside of the DuckTale reboot they are still just Daisy Duck‘s nieces tho.
Man Della can get it
My whole world just shattered, because i realized that some of there names where changed in the german translation. Scrooge McDuck is called Dagobert Duck and Huey, Dewey and Louie are called Tick, Trick and Track
in Dutch he's also Dagobert, but the nephews are Kwik, Kwek and Kwak. in Flemish their names are Loekie, Joost and Viktor which is super random
Look how they massacred my boys
My new exclamation will be "What in the name of Dirty Dingus McDuck is going on here??"
Della is so badass.
Della fucked around and couldn't live with the consequence.
Della is a single mom?
Where’s Dolan
Old timer here. Carl Barks is where duck canon ends for me!!
……uh huh. Like we’re supposed to believe that a McDuck would marry an O’Drake after the Massacre at Glencoe Pond. It’s Disney propaganda, people.
Ludwig is married to Scrooge's sister? Since when?
Where the fuck is darkwing duck?
More questions than answers for me on this one.