#badass donald duck

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how did Donald Duck influence Star Wars? And wasn’t Indiana Jones inspired by Scrooge, not Donald?

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg mentioned that they were inspired by Carl Barks' comics.

So was Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Astro Boy and "Godfather of Modern Manga."

And Donald Duck was going on adventures with his nephews in the Carl Barks comics long before Scrooge McDuck was created and this is precisely why DT17 and other media trying to give all the credit to Scrooge but forgetting that Donald was the FIRST just proves my point in my frustration with them.

Everyone just thinks it was Scrooge McDuck thanks to the later Don Rosa's work: "Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" which was loosely based on Carl Barks' works (Don Rosa exaggerated a lot of Scrooge's abilities at the expense of Donald's).

This is why I advocate for giving credit where credit is due when it comes to canon characters and where I feel DT17 really dropped the ball. Donald was an adventurer looong before Scrooge and some of Carl Barks' best comics don't even have him:

-"Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold" - Carl Barks first full length comic

- "Mystery of the Swamp" - Donald and nephews encounter gnomish creatures in the Everglades which some think were the inspiration for the Ewoks in Star Wars

"The Mad Chemist" (the comic credited with discovering the chemical compound methylene 20 years before it was actually studied and verified!)

-"Lost in the Andes" - Carl Barks claimed was his best work

- "The Golden Helmet" - Donald and nephews: whoever possesses the golden helmet is ruler of North America

- "The Ice Box Robber" - The comic that showcased Donald having WWII PTSD

- "Sherrif of Bullet Valley" - Donald and nephews in the Wild West

- "Dangerous Disguise" - a comic about spies where a Donald look alike commits suicide by jumping out of a window

- "Luck of the North" Donald and nephews rescue Gladstone in Alaska

"Old California" - Donald and the nephews seem to time travel to California in 1848 and they witness the family there living their lives. It turns out they were in a bad car accident and were on the hospital in a coma for weeks. But the house is still there.

"A Christmas for Shacktown" - Donald and the nephews find ways to raise money for the poor kids in town

"The Gilded Man" - A search for a rare stamp leads Donald and the boys finding El Dorado

- "The Forbidden Valley" - Donald and the nephews discover a lost land of dinosaurs

Just to name a few. There are plenty more.

The great thing about the Carl Barks comics especially when it came to Donald was that although he still had bad luck, it showed him also have great skills in practically everything and it tackled deep emotional issues and real world events such as PTSD, spies/espionage, danger/adventure, poverty, but in a way that was relatable and entertaining.

Donald mixed the best of high action adventure with scenes of intimate, heartwarming domestic life with his nephews. It was literally the best of both worlds: adventure and domestic life.

So the world needs to know that actually it's Donald Duck that deserves the credit for the success of the Carl Barks comics. Not only was Donald first but he was used as the protagonist for many more comics than Scrooge. And I hope if we ever get another version of Ducktales that the writers actually credit Donald as he deserves and not a bunch of semi newbies that don't even exist in the original comics.

There's so much he inspired and influenced that people don't know and so it's unfair for him to be sidelined as he was for characters that haven't accomplished one iota of what he has.

It's time to give credit where it's actually due: to Donald Duck.

[thefearsomefangirl]

The dichotomy of being the unlucky Donald Duck or the bamf Pk...

Uno would cheat the game for ensure the safety of his hero...

[michimonie]

An updated set of headcanon sheets.

Gladstone: 3.3 feet tall, athletic/lean build, has a beautiful garden, never exercises, practices ukelele (secretly)

Fethry: 3.1 feet tall, skinny, ENERGY but chill, has ton of unread books, secretly a bit manipulative

Donald: 3 feet tall, dad bod, mom strength, needs sleep, snugglable AF

Daffy: 3.5 feet tall, lean/androgynous, chaotic, a bit smarter than he lets on, impulsive AF

Magica DeSpell: 3.2 feet tall, busty/athletic, no sleep, magic "expert", broke af

Gloria Pascoalina: 3.1 feet tall, skinny, lost library book collection, weed garden, thrift store regular

Daisy Duck: 3 feet tall, curvy/strong, fashion icon, takes no shit, had / would fight god(s)

Tina Russo: 3.5 feet tall, lean/athletic, casual badass, loyal friend, wins motorcycle races

Originals: Guys | Gals

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HUMAN AU MORNING COMMUTE HEADCANONS

Strap in everyone, it's a long list.

MAIN LINERS

Gordon, Henry, James (lives in Tidmouth) - carpools in Gordon's Mercedes-benz. James is a passenger princess. Henry wishes he isn't here. Gordon goes over the speed limit when authorities aren't looking even though it's at most a 20 minute drive or something.

Rosie (lives in Vicarstown) - Motorcycles there. Her ride is a cherry pink customised bike with rose decals.

Donald and Douglas (lives in Arlesburgh) Takes one of the connecting trains from Arlesburgh to Tidmouth. Refuses to take the bus as they don't want to deal with Bulgy.

Diesel (lives in Knapford) - motorcycles there in a Vespa. It's painted black and you KNOW this guy has a vanity plate (D13S3L)

BoCo (lives in Wellsworth) - Takes the train from Wellsworth to Tidmouth. That, or he drives there with his Skoda Octavia Estate.

Bear (lives in Tidmouth) - yknow the loudest motorcycle you can think of? Bear has that, and he usually drives to Tidmouth that way.

Works Diesel/Warren (lives in Vicarstown) - Just walks there like a normal person. Or uses the tramway.

Charlie and Billy (lives in Knapford) - rides a bike for two but it's the most goofy looking bike ever

Emily (lives in Tidmouth) - Bikes there! Occasionally carpools with the Big Engine Drivers.

Murdoch and Neville (lives in Brendam) - Carpool together in Murdoch's Volkswagen Beetle, and after dropping Neville at Wellsworth...

Molly and Hank (lives in Knapford) - They meet up with Murdoch and walk all the way to the sheds!

Rebecca (lives in Tidmouth) - She skips there. No, not jogs, not runs. Skips. She somehow gets there first nearly every time.

Hiro (lives in Vicarstown) - Takes the tramway! Has struck up a friendship with fellow tram takers Warren, Victor, Kevin, and Den and Dart.

Victor and Kevin (lives in Vicarstown) - also takes the tramway! That, or Victor rides his motorbike with a sidecar attached for Kevin to sit in.

Diesel 10 - straight up lives in the dieselworks.

Den and Dart (lives in Vicarstown) - Takes the tram, or uses their Honda Jazz.

Philip (lives in Wellsworth) - Carpools with BoCo, or he takes the train!

Sonny (lives in Vicarstown) - Drives a motorcycle there. Sometimes visits Ruth in Knapford for repairs, and they struck a friendship.

Pip and Emma (lives in Vicarstown) - Drives there with their Mercedes-AMG SL 48, music blasting all the way.

THE BRANCH LINE LEAGUE

Brendam

Edward (lives in Wellsworth) - Walks, or rides a bike! After getting injured during The Exploit, he takes the bus more often)

Bill and Ben (lives in Brendam) - rides a horse. No, I'm serious. At first it was a prank but they trained it so well. The China Clay Pits have a fucking stable coz of this.

Timothy and Marion (lives in Brendam) - They carpool together. In Marion's forklift.

BoCo again (lives in Wellsworth) - Walks with Edward! After the Exploit, he buys a two person bike and rides it with Edward when Edward's leg pain flares up.

Nia (Lives in Knapford) - Takes the bus there, or uses the main line stopping trains.

Derek, Harvey, Salty, Paxton (Lives in Brendam) - Takes the bus together!

Neville again (Lives in Brendam) - Carpools with Murdoch, or takes the bus!

Ffarquhar

Thomas, Percy, Toby, Henrietta (lives in Knapford) - Usually carpools in Toby's dinky little Wolseley Ten. However, individually... Thomas rides a bike, and Percy jogs.

Daisy and Mavis (lives in Elsbridge) - Mavis picks up Daisy with her badass motorcycle and drops her off before going to the Quarry.

Bloomer (lives in Elsbridge) - Walks. Takes in the sights and sounds and ends up late much to Thomas' endless frustration.

Splatter and Dodge (lives in Ffarquhar) - They walk there but always ends up lost in the middle. Mavis wonders why they aren't always late.

Arlesburgh

Duck, Donald, Douglas, Oliver (lives in Arlesburgh) - Carpools there in Oliver's Rolls-Royce Cullinan. They fight over the radio.

Other Branch Lines

Arthur (lives in Kirk Ronan) - is environmentally conscious, and bikes to his workplace!

Ryan (lives in Arlesburgh) - Drives a dinky, yet fancy car. It's purple. He named it Vera.

Stanley, Flora, and Sidney (lives in Great Waterton) - after Sidney gets lost for the nth time Stanley and Flora agreed to walk together- they're neighbours, anyway.

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Oh god best origin story everrrrr he didnt begin as a hero and thats cooler than just "im good, rightful and flawless! Justice yayyy" kind of hero and pk was made in 1969! Thats the same decade where the avengers were introduced! He was 50 years ahead lf his time fr! And he even had the 'following the legacy' trope!

Btw have y'all SEEN the Fantomious comics? I recommend them so much they add A LOT of lore! It even features gyros family tree!

An amnesiac Donald fighting with a food tray as it was a shield only on muscle memory is fantastic cause it shows how much Paperinik is engraved in his mind and soul.

Donald himself seems to separate his hero alter ego from himself as if they were two different people, there are things PK does that Don doesn’t. Wearing thr mask helps…Not being Donald, a well known loser helps.

But here, he does not remember who Donald is, he doesn’t know who Paperinik is.

It is a little moment, but I love it.

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I think the reason why "Fire Emblem" is the weird kid at the nintendo franchies table is because they don't really have a main charcter throughout their series.

Like, Legend of Zelda has Link, Mario Mario, Kirby Kirby, Pikmin the Pikmin/Olimar etc.

A few exptions that could be said is like, Xenoblade. But seeing as they have 3 games so they can just pick any MC they want for the time being to rep it.

Meanwhile the most noteable FE guy is Marth from number of apparances, but if you remove remakes that's like, two games. Even then, he was more in JP only games.

Other people who could have became the face of FE as the flagship mascot could have been

-Lyn: One of the most popular girls in FE. Was from the first US release of the game as a main lord. She most likely can't because she came at an akward time in gaming and would be seen as "wifu bait" to a lot of annoying people.

-Ike: One of the most popular lords in FE. a HUGE fan favorite and even cult following in Smash Bros (Like Smash HATES FE, but they chill with Ike. Because We Like ike). Most likly why he can't be the icon is Sales numbers. Love the Tellious saga but I'll be real, I did not contribute to the sales figure like most of you and played it years later. Also it's heavily implied through writing and breaking of story conventions that he's Gay/Ace/demi. And while Nintndo's super mario said "Gay people cool" it's a Multi billion dollar company so I don't think they'll want that.

-Chrom: For the 3DS people, Chrom is the most memeorible lord out of the bunch. Was the face of the game for a while, sorry lucina and robin fans, but chrom's popularity was bigger at the time of the game. Most likely why he can't be. well. it's Chrom and people's opions changed over time.

-Edelgard: Switch girlies, this one is for you. WE know you love badass women who break so many ethics we make conventions after it. There isn't really much reason to explain the why she can, but the reasons why she can't are kinda lame. Like Ike, she's outright shown being bisexual. And you can't really market that in some places. Plus, to say this the least. She is one of the most divisive FE characters because of how much Nuance is in 3 houses. Love or hate her, she brings out WAY to much from people to be a masctor charcter (Won't stop the FEH alts though). Plus, She's like tied to the other 2 lords that it's like the contract for Who Framed Rogger Rabbit saying "Bugs bunny and Mickey Mouse must be on screen for the same amount of time. Donald Duck and Daffy Duck (last names unrealated) must be on screen for the same amount of time."

-Ephram: he's here as the sacred stones rep. Reson why he can't. he's from sacred stones. that's a cult following in the FE community, sorry but he's not mascotting anything.

-Celica: With her apparance and precness in Engage, a good argument could be made for her. She's a really well written charcter but comes back to the issue of the amount of peopel who've played her game.

-Alfonse: GOTCHA GAME BABY ITS THE GOTCHA GAME GUY HE PROTAGNIST AND GAMBLGIN GOOD

-Veronica: The real rep from FEH. She is a very interesting character that takes up a lot of the story spot light with her growth into learning empathy and understanding. She isn't very static compared to Sherna (She did't even chage after learning she could have been an orphan swapped years ago into the role o a princess after a magical fairy land adventure. This HAPPENED IN BOOK 4. THE FUCK YOU MEAN SHE BARELY CHANGED.) and Alfonse (He changes but, not as much.). Plus she does have more unquie abilities compared to most of FE Cast which is good for a flagship charcter. Really the only reason she did't become FE's mascot and just FEH's is because, it's a gotcha game charcter. people shit on those ALL the time.

Anyway, next CYL they should make all characters votable again and say "Whoever wins the most popular vote will be the Mascot for Fire Emblem until the next game"

why is eirika's cringefail mid-of-all-trades brother here and not the glass canon queen herself 🤨🤨🤨

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Life and Times B-Sides Retrospective: The Sharpie of The Culebra Cut (Patreon Review for WeirdKev27)

Hello all you happy people. Last year thanks to some patreon reviews from longtime sponsor WeirdKev, I finally finished my long postponed retrospective on the life and times of scrooge mcduck (Which I intend to bring to Substack this year. Stay tuned.).

I reviewed all 12 chapters of the epic original story, a vivid and wonderful tale that strings all of Carl Barks various scrooge anctedotes and flashabacks into a story of a man's slow rise to power and descent from a kind trusting young man to an honorable but shady, bitter and selfish old badass what abuses his Nephew frequently. You can find links to the retrospective here.. inclduing a link pile in a link pile because of Tumblrs link limits. Gee I can't imagine why i'm considering changing platforms.

Shortly after it ended though Kev asked to do something I was already considering: finish the rest. Life and Times is the key to Don Rosa's scrooge work, his most rightfully celebrated story and a 12 part epic.. but he couldn't cover EVERYTHING in 12 parts. Scrooge's history was vast, and there were gaps in the story to be filled. Some were ones he wanted to but simply couldn't in the main story: Scrooge's Wild West reunion with his uncle at Buffalo Bill's show was planned but had to be scrapped as it didn't fit the overall arc, while Scrooge's doomed romance with goldie was such an epic it required THREE more stories, one he'd already done and two he did over the rest of his career with one being his last. There was also potetial to be mined like a reunion of Scrooge and Teddy Rosevelt, a what if where Magica swipes the dime that serves as a soft pilot. And as for the present there was the lingering plot thread of whatever happened to Matilda McDuck? Donald's mom was a mystery on purpose, we knew who she was but she was presumed dead or something. But did scrooge ever reconcile with his sister? And if not .. could he still? And finally a spiritual finale to both rosa's duck work and this series where Donald travels through time via dreams. There was a lot to do and Rosa did it.

So this year, a little later than planned but still over a year, we're covering all of it. The supplemental chapters as well as sequel letter from home and spiritual finale "Dream of a Life Time", aka my favorite duck story. I haven't read most of these prior to their reviews either, so buckle up. We also got a brucey bonus Rosa Review thrown in too for Scrooge's birthday, but that's all the hint your getting.

Originally I was going to cover these in order.. but Kev wanted this one for presidents day so I shuffled the order around. Which is fine by me as these stories weren't far as I can tell published in chronological order. And this is a great one to start on.

The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut takes place between chapters 10 and 11, during Scrooge's travels with his sisters on occasion. The fact theeir here dosen't completely jibe with him constantly leaving them home... but hey would YOU deny the world more Hortsense McDuck? Thought so.

Culebra Cut takes place during the construction of the Panama Canal, and finds a greedy billionare in the way of progress. Good thing that never happened again. President Teddy Rosevelt has to contend with Scrooge owning a portion of the planned land, a tyriancial general planning a power grab and his own sexism getting him punched in the gut.

As you can gather, this is a loose sequel to chapter 10 of life and times "The Invader of Fort Duckberg", bringing Teddy Rosevelt back as Rosa was both a huge fan and felt the two were so similar: both self made men, both stubborn, both independent and both having an appreciation of nature. They also each embody a diffrent dark side of that self made image... i'm not sure if this is a parellel rosa intended but it's one i'm certainly drawing: Scrooge shows how going for big riches can isolate someone and make them bitter, divorced from the needs of the working man and cruel, and Teddy shows how even a seemingly good man can easily follow dark paths like colonalism and racisim because it was the style of the time. BOth aren't the worst people in the world, but both are deeply flawed men.

HAPPY PRESIDENTS DAY EVERYONE!

I'm glad for it: while not as good as the original, which is a very high bar, Invader is a great adventure and has fun with which stage Scrooge as at: this is Scrooge at his worst, most racist and most selfish, so while he's co-lead for this adventure, teddy is the real hero, trying desperately to help scrooge to keep the Panama Canal deal from falling apart. It also makes a sad but engaging contrast to the previous two teddy adventures: the first time the two were friends, with Teddy's words staying with scrooge all this time. The second time they were enemies thanks to a stupid mix up... but the second it was clear they were friends again and both had risen, Scrooge being a billionare and Teddy being president. Now it's not too far removed from the last meeting.. but Scrooge is at his lowest while Teddy has settled with age. He's still teddy rosevelt, teddy rosevelt's gonna fuck shit up and have adventures, but he's ahead of scrooge in having settled down, leanred from experince and has a empathy he dosen't. It's a meeting of two old friends.. but i'ts a friendship that's truly not the same as it was and with Teddy being long gone by the time Scrooge finds himself again it never will be.

So on that dour note join me under the cut as we witness the worst deal scrooge ever made... well someone made it for him anyway.

We open as most these stories do on Scrooge in his vault. Scrooge has his memento chest from life and tims out again so the boys take a chance to poke around and find something truly curious in a sack

They also find a seperate sack containing a treasure Scrooge is ashamed of. Despite donald's protests the children gotta know so Scrooge tells the tale

It was 1907. Panama had just been founded and Scrooge was trading with the local Guaymi people, an indgineous tribe. Scrooge uses his usual racist as fuck bead tactics. I give rosa props for having Scrooge be so racist and assholish he literally barters with beads. Granted a few points are deducted for having a tribesman actually fall for that in "Empire Builder from Callisota" but it's clear Scrooge is a fucking asshole and portraying one of Disney's greatest cash cows as a racist asshole is a bold choice and i'm shocked he got away with it.

The negotations .. aren't going great

I love this gag.. and the fact the two are just.. used to Scrooge's cruelty. You can tell from the expressions they don't like what he's become and can tell he's getting darker and meaner. Initially I thought this clashed with Empire Builder a bit, that they knew he was already bad... but honestly it enhances it. They knew he was resulting to bastardry now and was bad.. but assumed he'd get past it. This is their first sign his greed is overtaking him and his assault on the village not much later in the timeline was the last straw.

Scrooge needed to know where some gold from a mountain he bought was hidden but decides fuck it i'll just dig everywhere! While he does we cut to Teddy, whose overseeing the digging of the canal, something truly impressive.. and I did not realize it was dug through FUCKING MOUNTAINS. It's genuinely impressive what humans are capable of when their not being dicks.

Speaking of dicks we meet our secondary antagonist, General Esteban. He's your standard schemeing villian who wants any excuse to stage a coup. Pretty boilerplate scrooge villian honestly, the politics are the only thing that seperate him from your usual one off villianous treasure hunter. Rather than be a corrupt buisness type.. he's a corrupt politican. It's the thinest line but still.

Roosevelt is understandably worried as if Esteban seeizes power he'd become one of the most powerful dictators on earth.. but Teddy is here for more pressing issues. Turns out this isn't just a states visit, there's a crisis that needs handeled and it's once again Scrooge.. and unlike last time there is no miscommuincation: he claims rights to a mountain, the same one he's digging in.... that' sin the path of the canal. Teddy decides to go use his big stick and some rough riders turned canal police to go settle this since Scrooge keeps shotgunning anyone who gets close.

So while the cowboys run in fear of Hortense before she can cheat on Quackmore, Roosevelt finds out that sadly... Scrooge is in his rights. He bought it from one of the agents who sold the canal to the us. So Teddy has to negotiate an important piece of land away from Scrooge McDuck at his worst

So the quartet head to Teddy's personal train car to hash things out.. though hortense is busy flirting and when teddy tries to interupt her

I love Scrooge having the same expression in both time periods, as well as the boys being shocked.. while Donald, as he damn well should be, is proud.

Teddy is in a bind as Scrooge refuses to see reason and only sees dollar signs: So Teddy makes a backroom deal: He'll help scrooge dig up the mountain faster and in secret so scrooge will give up the mountain rights. Scrooge gets his gold, Teddy gets an adventure and saves this trade deal everyone's happy.

So that night Scrooge and Sisters join, though Teddy scoofs "This isn't work for women".. and the way Hortense stares at him he's very lucky she doesn't throat rip him then and there and put his severed head on her mantle as a warning to others.

The sisters do come in handy as they need a key to the steam shovels, so the girls try to seduce a card. We get a brilliant bit where Teddy is, like the audience, horrified at how he treats his family, saying they should be paid 30 cents (Which was a living wage back then)

The girls flirting works.. till the guy mentions he was in duckburg.. he remembers matilda fondly.. hortense not so much whic earns him a punch in the gut. Thankfully the secret service is around to ... tie the man up and hide him for the president's clandestine mission in Columbia, the only time in history fictional or otherwise that's been a GOOD thing.

So Teddy and Scrooge prepare to take off in the shovel, while they send HOrtense and Matilda to protect the first lady... but not before teddy gets a compuance for poking the bear one too many times as shooting and wrestling so many has apparently removed his sense for actual danger.

Huh.. so this is why roosevelt died. Though props to the man for lasting ten more years than anyone else would've.

So our heroes do some fantastic slapstick as Teddy TRIES to drive the steam shovel.. he instead does a series of flips that attract general "oh yeah he's in this storys" attention. I forget how good Don rosa is at slapstick sometimes. We get another great sequence when they deal with the chief who understandably hates Scrooge with the Guaymi having been screwed by colonalism ever since Columbus. Luckily Teddy is an actual politican and manages to seal the deal.. mostly. But he drinks a powerful sleep tonic that's part of a key ritual so Scrooge has to weekend at bernie's our 26th president.

So they have the gold location, but soon run into General Oh Yeah That Dude who uses their deal as a pretext for war, planning to that thing he coup and leaving Teddy as a hostage. Naturally the duo break out easily as you'd expect.. and badassly as Scrooge uses the seam shovel to lift their captors to the top of a hill and go on with his day

Back with the First Lady she is worried a bit.. if only because she senses Scrooge is as crazy as Teddy. She also shows Hortense and Matilda the first Teddy Bear, a prototype a candy store sent them. As that Chekov's gun gets put on the shelf to go off later, the secret service agent returns to update everyone... and to die a painful and preventable death

Look I try to be judicious with my panels as I encourage you to read the stories yourself... but every scene with Hortense in this is gold.

Back with the digging scrooge feels something is off.. the soil isn't like what he usually encounters. So he does something unlike himself.. take a break. It's a beautifully drawn scene, reminding me just how wonderful a talent don rosa is. I may disagree with him on some things.. but it's sad how much talent we lost when he lost his ability to draw.

It's a nice moment and a reminder of the scrooge buried under the bitter monster he's becoming.

The two soon find out WHY their having no success though as the ground shakes.. and a giant, gorgeous stone temple is found

They soon fine it's a mix of Mayan, Incan and Aztec work, as it was a place to offer to the guards long when it was all one contienet centuries ago. Scrooge naturally goes inside to raid this monument to history.

Teddy to his credit thinks it belongs in a museum.. but sadly... we're facing a scrooge who can only think of himself

I told you scrooge may be the protaganist of this story.. but he's also the villian. Roosevelt was a flawed man.. but I can buy his reaction. He can't let all this history be sold for money friend or no and stands firm against scrooge. IT's sad to see Scrooge faced with someone who genuinely shaped his life, a friend, a mentor, someone truly like him, possibly the only person like him with scruples.. and only see dollar signs. Only feel he's been cheated instead of doing the right thing. The same duck who did this

Is now ready to fight his friend to plunder a culture's riches for himself.

The two have the awesome fight you'd expect, doubled by the fact the temple is now sliding down the mountain.. but as funny and awesome a spectacle it is... it's still sad seeing these two come to blows.

Yup Scrooge beat Teddy Roosevelt. And he gets the claim could be tied up legally for years.. but since the Canal is needed NOW, Scrooge agrees to terms to be named later at dawn and Teddy has no choice but to concede.

This allows teddy to get some shine back as he BRONCO BUSTS THE TEMPLE down.. just as general oh yeah he's in this and his men are in a standoff with the canal police.. and busts into the middle of it.

Teddy soon realizes the issue though: EVERY country is going to want a piece of this, and it could cause a whole damn world war. So his solution.. is to bury it. Dig it up in a hundred years and hope to godfrey humanity is better. Spoiler warning: we were not, though we neve rhave gotten that story of the future clan mcduck.

General I've given up at this point tries to take some gold... but Scrooge made the choice to make sure the jaguar gets buried... and pulls a brilliant gambit: talk loudly about how the general is giving him the gold.. and frame him as his friend.. to the chief who hates his guts. Thus the Guyami get the gold and make sure general mouthface never gets back to panama.

So Scrooge naturally plans to milk this: He considers getting the rights to the airplane, or the motion picture camera, just reveling in the ideals. The only rule is one Teddy makes for damn good reason: while he won't go back on his word , he will delclare no take backs. Thankfully for world progress, one ghoul, far as I know, does not get control of film cameras or planes. The cheif left a gift.. the drink from earlier.. which scrooge drinks in a toast.. and falls into a coma. The remaning mcducks are given control as his proxy as the deal HAS to be made at dawn.. so they bargin.. for the teddy bear. A nice bit of revenge and a chekovs gun fired. Scrooge admits to the boys he would've bargined down to millions.. but far as he knows he got nothing

And then.. we get a part i'm not too happy about. The boys point out Scrooge DID make out pretty damn well.

My issue.. is Scrooge dosen't deserve the win even decades later. All he sees is a terrible deal he made and not how terrible HE was acting. This isn't teh same man who was awful.. but scrooge didn't deserve the win. Donald who he abuses CONSTANTLY, who Scrooge looks down upon deserve dit. Hortense deserved to trick him. Pointing this out.. just means scrooge won.

It's a problem with Rosa: He will NEVER let donald win because while he likes him as a character, I don't get the sense he respects him. That Scrooge must get one over on him. He gets the inherent tragedy: donald can enjoy life and scrooge can't. But he often let's Scrooge get a win when he raelly shoudln't but tends to be far stingier with donald. I get it if donald's being a jackass: his butt kicking in the christmas story was well deserved and he gave him the cabs ride again to show off donald rocks.. but there's times like this where he just dosen't seem to grasp how badly donald deserves at least ONE fucking win over scrooge. Scrooge has millions, pays donald next to nothing, berates him, fires him, genuinelly is shitty. I don't think Rosa grasped both how bad a look it is for a billionare to be doing this or how this didn't age well from the comics of his youth. I hate always getting into this shit because I do respect rosa, I dont' hate him.. but being a good critic.. means being honest. And Rosa honestly favors scrooge to donald. Maybe there's more stories wherehe dosen't, I hope there is, but it feels like he dosen't get sometimes Scrooge and Gladstone winning all the time was a flaw, not a key part of barks work.

Still.. this story is great. The ending is frustrating, but everything else.. works. Scrooge gets to be the villian again in a way that works, Roosevelt is played well and we get hortense punching sexism in the heart and testicles. It's a good story. It's not perfect: like Scrooge, Rosa puts Roosevelt on a pedistal as I don't buy he was this altrustic. Some people really are that good.. but not someone who belivied in colonalism this much. As you could tell I was also not impressed with the general and felt he had no reason to be in the story whatsoever. He adds nothing but a few pages. That's all. He feels like padding and ends up impacting nothing and is only a threat to our heroes because he has an army.. and even that.. really isn't one as we saw Hortense one shot a cadre of rough riders with a fucking broom. Her and scrooge together could take down the panamanian army.

Still flaws aside.. it's a good story a solid adventure and an excellent start to this retrospective.

Next Month: We begin our Goldie Three Parter. Scrooge Kidnaps her and Don Rosa desperately tries to make this not nearly as horrible as it sounds.

[thepagansun]

do you have any headcanons for Donald and Pete’s friendship?

Ooooh. Nice question. I do.

- I think that their friendship feels like big brother (Pete) and little brother (Donald) especially in their more recent cartoons because Donald was originally depicted as the youngest of his friends while Pete is technically Disney's oldest recurring character

- Pete almost adopted Donald ("Officer Duck")

- They share many common interests: love of boats, love of cars (in particular RVs), love of fishing, love of music, and they both enjoy working with their hands, they both love wrestling, they both have heritage besides American.

- Based on "Mickey's Service Station"(1935) and "Timber" (1941), Pete seems to have French Canadian heritage because he has a French accent. So I like to think that Pete's father was French Canadian and his mother was American. And Donald is half Scottish thanks to his mother, Hortense McDuck.

- Based on the above headcanon, while Donald is famous for his pancakes among his family in the European comics, he gets his maple syrup from Pete who gets it from Quebec. In order to get it, he always has to do Pete some favor.

- WWII left its mark on both of them and they always spend two days of the year together. Can you guess which ones? (Hint: Think military)

- Pete refuses to acknowledge that ducks technically have two birthdays (the day the egg was laid and the day they hatched) and only recognizes June 9 as Donald's birthday. But...he sometimes goes on March 13 for free cake and ice cream. He won't bring a gift on March 13, but in exchange, he'll tell Donald a story (since Pete notices that Scrooge gets away with not bringing gifts by telling stories)

- Except for Daisy and HDL, Pete doesn't like Donald's family. He doesn't like how Donald will bend over backwards for them and how Donald's family doesn't appreciate Donald. In one comic, Pete got the Beagle Boys to drug Donald (who he called "our dear little Donald") and HDL while they tried to steal Scrooge's Money.

- Pete and Donald will sometimes sleep near each other (this was seen in a few cartoons)

- Pete taught Donald French because he couldn't quite understand him in English originally and because of this when Walt Disney (who was their boss) asked Pete who he should send as an ambassador to Latin América, Pete suggested Donald (who was a bit depressed since it was still during WWII). Walt Disney at first didn't want to since he thought they wouldn't be able to understand him but Pete said that he already taught him French and Spanish and Portuguese wouldn't be too hard to learn after that. So Donald went...and met José Carioca and Panchito Pistoles.

- Pete helped Donald through the worst parts of WWII and so whenever Donald feels emotionally damaged, he'll go to Pete who will cheers him up by doing something they both love

- Donald seems to be the only Mickey Mouse friend who knows Peg isn't PJ's (who he calls Junior) biological mother and is the only one who met him as a little kid/brat ("Bellboy Donald")

- Pete knows that Donald's desperate desire to fly during WWII was his desire to find his sister, Della before Donald decided to offically adopt Huey, Dewey and Louie on his tax return

- Whenever Donald fights with Scrooge and needs a job, he can always go to Pete who will give him one

- Pete has a bunch of nicknames for Donald, the most common being "Quackers" and "Ducky" (when he's particular affectionate)

- They still fight each other sometimes. Pete is stronger under normal circumstances, but when Donald gets truly mad...he surpasses anything Pete can do. Pete fought Donald twice ("Canvas Back Duck" and "Tapped Out") and lost both times. But they both have a grudging respect for each other.

- There's a stamp that shows them giving blood together (The Gambia D1)

- Pete doesn't believe that Donald has bad luck and instead thinks that most of Donald's issues are caused by his own recklessness. This is partly because in Goof Troop, Pete says that Goofy has bad luck when he never said anything like that about Donald

- In some other media, they're depicted as being quite close. And Pete is the only one of the Mickey crew that's involved in almost all of Donald's media. For example, he's the only that shows up in the Carl Barks comics. He had cameos in 1987 Ducktales and in Legends of the Three Caballeros. And you can tell Donald had an influence on Pete's character in Goof Troop.

I might think of more but these are the main headcanons. 😁

[angelina8611]

Damn look at them

That's what I call a badass moment there

Textless Variant

To the anon who asked if I enjoyed the Marvel What If Comics...

I would say it's fun but a bit lackluster and that we could've absolutely had this instead but Disney decided to be a coward about it.

[tokuvivor]

1, 15 and 23 for Daisy Duck?

Okay, sure. Round 2 of Daisy, coming up.

1. Why do you like or dislike this character?

I like this iteration of Daisy because it keeps her refined, yet badass, personality, while doing a much better job at giving her a healthy relationship with Donald. I mean, even from just 2-3 episodes of her in this series, their relationship is way deeper than basically anything else they’re in together.

15. What's your favorite ship for this character? (Doesn't matter if it's canon or not.)

Donald. Definitely Donald. (Though I also enjoy the fanon polycule of her, Donald, and Storkules.)

23. Favorite picture of this character?

This one of her and Donald. Look at how happy he is. 🥺

[msfbgraves]

The leaks and spoilers for S6 have got me Big Mad. S6 is officially dead to me, I thought it was going to be bad, but this is WORSE. Just awful. Fuck this show.

Nonnie, look on the bright side. It'll be over and you won't have to engage with anything these writers write ever again. Whatever bullshit they want to pass off as badass and canon, however much they abuse any of the characters, you can ignore its existence. It's simply fanfic that doesn't appeal.

Will I have a hard time resisting any of Ralph's future turns as Daniel? Maybe! But Ralph has been reported to be fine with whatever those dudebros write for the character. He has also said to have pushed back, but I used to think Ralph's involvement was a guarantee they'd treat the character with respect and in my view, it isn't, or not anymore. Especially not since the Miyagi AI fiasco.

Pure depiction does not a story make. Slight tangent to make that point: one of my first character loves was Donald Duck, but, as I didn't know then, my country has its own very specific way and tradition of writing that character. There's some Disney oversight but the Dutch writers have created a very Dutch Donald. So one time on vacation I picked up a German language Donald Duck comic, and it was - off. That wasn't my Donald, even though he looked like him. So I put it aside. And if Ralph chooses to play Daniel again, it may not be my Daniel - how I enjoy watching him. Again, my Daniel tried to end Terry Silver over suggesting his kids would don CK gis, so some of these leaks have made me question my sanity, or theirs. Is my Daniel the only valid interpretation? Of course not. But even Ralph cannot make me enjoy watching Daniel if they write him doing things Ralph cannot sell the Daniel LaRusso we met in The Karate Kid doing. That boy would not rage break his son's iPad while yelling at him to be Quiet!!! He would not give up on Robby. He, to his detriment, never goes behind people's backs, and when he tries, he's insanely bad at it. If he confronts people he is always right in people's face. He wouldn't go back to the Sekai Taikai! "Karate fought for trophy, karate no mean nothing" - and then a kid DIES and Daniel is still like "This is fine!"??? If he liked tournaments so much he was willing to disregard Miyagi's feelings over them so completely he would have competed sooner. (Yeah but Miyagi was - no he was not that contradicts the first film in several ways and it doesn't fit with the timeline. It is a bullshit retcon so they can stage a spectacle).

So when Germany didn't write my Donald, I stopped engaging with that Donald and read something else until there were new stories with my Donald to be had. This does not mean that other Donalds are not allowed to exist and anyone is bad for writing or liking that Donald, but I have happily ignored him since. I know where to find my Daniel, too- in the films and in snippets of CK, mainly throughout S2 parts of S3 and in his interactions with Terry. I have high hopes for the films but if that is, again, not my Daniel I am completely free to ignore that iteration of him and go back to minding my own business, Ralph or no Ralph. Anything John, Josh and Hayden touch I am dismissing on sight. Am I right about that? Maybe not, but who cares? There are many people in this world who have had rich, fulfilling lives without interacting in any way with Daniel LaRusso, though I still think that I'd recommend The Karate Kid to anyone alive. And no one can touch that if I don't let them, not Ralph, not Hayden, not a hundred AI Miyagis.

Just as I can come back to my Donald, (while knowing full well that is a very specific interpretation that appeals to me and likely not others) I can come back to my Daniel.

[violetganache42]

Highlights from Saturday's Oops! All Episodes! night celebrating everyone's favorite adorable and badass pink duckling, courtesy of @knuckles-junior and yours truly!

(I couldn't make it to most of it, so any highlights I do add in the episode up until "The Last Adventure will be anything that catches my eye while scrolling back through the chat. As such, mine will be in purple while Any's are in pink. If we both have the same highlight, then it'll be left uncolored.)

Garfunkel and Oates - Rainbow Connections

Learning this song was originally for Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome's friend

Discord and YouTube already experiencing technical difficulties to where everyone went straight to the episodes/There was a delay but don’t worry, Will. Thanks Puffy for hosting!

"Cold Duck"

Huey, Dewey and Louie are hunting for Beakleys (*Elmer Fudd laughter*)

Launchpad appearance!

Literally everyone being racist/sexist to the girls (1987, everyone. Shit like this is why the phrase "product of its time" exists.)

Dreamy: Webby is my favorite fan artist.

I never like HDL in the 87 version. Thank god I didn’t get jumped. (You're in good company with the Cafeteria Table, and we don't tolerate getting jumped for different opinions. ^^)

Puffy: WHO RAISED THEM TO HATE WOMEN SO BAD Will: Uncle Donald Puffy: "NOOOOOOOOOO BUT DONALD LOVES WOMEN HAVEN'T YOU SEEN THE THREE CABALLEROS" Dreamy: "He respects women while craving that bisexual crisis"

Everyone agreeing the DT87 triplets deserved to get sent to penguin jail

Club Penguin

Puffy: "it's not a toro it's a uuuuh goes to google morsa"

"Um, Mr. Scrooge?"/"Call me Uncle Scrooge."

Webby gaining a new sister in the form of Skittles the Penguin

"Daytrip of Doom!" (Rewatch)

Me freaking out about Scrooge being spectacless

OW MY TAILBONE (That line always cracks me up. 😂)

"Um, ocupado." Me: HOUSE MEETING. NOW.

“Wait are they gonna kiss?” (Again: I don't need that image burned in my brain, Llewellyn. >< This is why you're the evil triplet!)

*Webby kicks a sack into a tree, causing it to fall down* “WEBBY DAAAAANNNNGGGG” (This is what I would've shared in response to that scene. lol)

Spider Webby real

The entire scene with Donald flooding the mansion's main bathroom with his hose and Scrooge's golden reaction to it

Jane appearance!

THE SPORK (Shout out to @danaterrace for storyboarding that scene!)

"Like New Zealand" (I did recently hear New Zealand is a great place to live in.)

Just the entire Beakley and Donald subplot in general

Webby being a mood

Ma Beagle appearance!

THE COINS JUST SHOWED UP OUTTA NOWHERE (THAT SHIT IS SO FUCKING HILARIOUS. 🤣)

"Well, that's not something you wanna hear when you're tied up in a meat locker."

"Normal's overrated."/"We want you to be Webby normal."

Everyone when Donald attacked Bouncer and Burger:

Surprise batman appearance

"I'm on Webby's team!"

"The Good Muddahs" (Rewatch)

Us remembering Bubba was in the later seasons. -_- (Yeah, I don't blame you guys at all. 😓 DT17!Bubba can stay though; he's cool, especially since he didn't replace DT17!Webby in the group unlike his original version.)

The return of whitewashed Daffy Pt. 2: Electric Boogaloo

Missy's Discord making a random ass scream thanks to a server she's in

HDL continuing to be sexist (Seriously, WHO THE FUCK GENDERS SOMETHING LIKE HOPSCOTCH?!)

Beagle Babes appearance!

I DIDNT KNOW THERE WERE BEAGLE GIRLS CALLED “BEAGLE BABES”. (Unlike the Beagle Boys, they're not created by Carl Barks. They're a trio of one-off characters exclusive to DT87.)

THE COPS DON’T DO SHIT JUST LIKE IRL COPS

Pink guns!

(It's around this vicinity that Any's highlights for this episode dramatically decreased because she still couldn't believe what she watched, so the rest will be handled by me. Besides, she was more eager to cover Confidential Casefiles and TLA.)

Any: 12 HOURS (Remember, DT87!Webby is younger than her reboot counterart by what? A few years or something? It's normal for a kid as young as her to cry. Between how the DT87 triplets treated her and being kidnapped at literal gunpoint, she was not having a good day, so of course she would be upset. That being said, 12 HOURS? Someone get this girl some water to rehydrate herself with because that cartoon logic went into overtime!)

Shoplifting list

THE ICONIC WORRY ROOM

Missy and Puffy rooting for Beakley

nepdapurrbeast: "the police shouslve been pigs smh"

caro: "Bubba thinks he’s part of the team 💀" (FR)

WEBBY WITH A GUN

puff

The triplets behind the wheel, with Dewey driving

"From the Confidential Casefiles of Agent 22!" (Rewatch)

OTTOMAN EMPIRE MARATHON!

Black Heron appearance!

Louie having Pep priorities

Webby's special interest in Scrooge and Clan McDuck

Donald somehow locking himself in the pantry (Easily the FUNNIEST moment in season 1. 🤣)

LUDWIG APPEARANCE!

Scrooge being a sassy bitch in the flashbacks. (He was a lot cockier in the 1960s. lol)

"First ever Webby-McDuck team-up!"

Beakley punching Scrooge in the face

Story Blossom: "A rubber ball? PERRY THE RUBBER BALL?"

"Louie mostly just cries." (He is not wrong. In all seriousness, someone give Louie all the hugs.)

Scrooge McFucking dies ("Worse. I got a stem caught in my throat.")

Vengeance for Number 4

"Aww, that was gonna be so impressive." (NGL, I would do the same thing. XD Just chucking a nearby object at a runaway enemy and feeling bummed about it missing.)

Scrooge and Webby bonding (I can hear the scene in my head and I am SMILING. 😊)

spam: "every evil plot starts with a declaration of hatred speech…"

Any and Puffy: "OH NO"

Everyone freaking out about Webby almost getting killed

The art book revealing Black Heron realized Webby is April after seeing her kick the Gummiberry Juice out from her hand, drinking it, and untying Scrooge

“Call me Uncle Scrooge.”/“I’m Webby!”

Any: Several episodes later (STOOOOOOP. 😭 IT'S BAD ENOUGH DISNEY XD AIRED LAST CRASH A FEW HOURS BEFORE WEBBY NIGHT.)

Oh, and we were jumpscared by Goldie three times. (THREE?! Aw, man!)

"The Last Adventure!"

Pt. 1: A Tale of Three Webbys!

Crazy that Lena can rig an import game.

Can we talk about how Scrooge only wasted money on a birthday party at funzo’s for Webby? Slay king. (YES, WE CAN. FULL. FUCKING. PRICE. FOR HIS DAUGHTER. IT SPEAKS VOLUMES ON HOW CLOSE THE TWO HAVE GOTTEN.)

Us when Missy wants to smash both Bradford and Drake:

Violet joining at the right time ^^ (Glad to have made it in time for the family storming the Funso's base!)

Darkwing showing off by walking on two fingers

MAY AND JUNE

Any and I commenting about how OP Lena is/Violet: “We may need to start putting handicaps on Lena XD”

“You already got sisters.”

Me and Violet: AMONGUS (btw you read my mind) (I had to. 😂 On a related note…)

Puffy: "WEBBY VENTED SHE'S SUS"

"Have you eaten a hamburger?"

“COUGH UP THE INFORMATION, BENTINA!”

Webby's conspiracy board now turned into her family board

Puffy: "you know who else came out in 1996" Me: "MY MOM!"

Beakley lying to Webby./Everyone calling out Beakley and her fabricated story about Webby's parents

SHES FIBBING FIBBING FIBBING. (Oh, hey! I quoted that! :D)

NOT THE VULCAN NERVE PINCH

Webby vs. June:

Pt. 2: The Lost Library of Isabella Finch!

Donald wearing his signature blue sailor outfit again

spam: "The ducktales logo looks like a censor there i cant"

Bradford abuses/manipulates children/Us talking about Bradford being a child abuser in the finale

"It's Webby."

Scrooge smiling proudly at the kids as they board the Sunchaser

Bradford being a manipulative creep towards Huey

Phantom Blot and Pepper appearance!

Scrooge: "Any questions?" Me: "GOLD TEAM RULES!"

Lena being really op by making the sunchaser invisible.

THE ORIGINAL THREE!/TRIPLE MCDUCK FAMILY TEMPER!!!

Gyro being the biggest baby ever./Pepper obliterating the twink

"I live again!"

Violet—the character, not me—panicking

“Finally!”

Everyone after Bradford after ripping the pages off the journal: 🤬🤬🤬/Me, Toku, and Any: "BASTARD"

Donald and Della gushing over baby Jeeves

Us talking about the implications of Bradford killing Duckworth

Steelbrain

Gandra appearance!

Ludwig revealing he got way too busy to die (King shit. XD)

The revelation that Bradford kidnapped EVERYONE! EVEN SANTA CLAUS!

April.

Beakley killing Jeeves

This out of context photo Any took:

Jeeves and Don Karnage die/Dewey officially getting a kill count in the funniest way possible

Everyone freaking out at the end of part 2.

ME POINTING OUT A VERY HEARTBREAKING PARALLEL RIGHT AS PART 2 ENDED

Pt. 3: Tales' End…

Dewey hitting the dab

Puffy, Missy, and I complimenting the finale

Manny being a living Gargoyles reference

"When they do something right, they're heroes. When it gets a little hard, wE’rE cHiLdReN!"

"Aw, phooey."

Me and Missy: "STOCK POSE"

"All women… are queens!"/"If she breathes… she's a THOOOOT!"

Puffy: "hard cut to scrooge getting his spine broken lmao" EllaKai: "legit i vocalized 'agh my back'"

"How do you think Della found out you built the Spear of Selene?"/This scene and everyone freaking out in the chat again myself included:

I’m literally the only one who is happy that Heron died. Rest in Piss. (I'm sure Scrooge would agree with you on that, mainly because he did not react to her erasure from existence at all. Like, that boy just STOOD THERE. 😂)

The Webby twist never gets old. 🙂 (HUGE agree. Also…)/YOUR DAILY FUCKING REMINDER, EVERYONE:

Launchpad becoming Gizmopad

ALL OF US PANICKING AT BRADFORD NEARLY ACHIEVING VICTORY (NO FUCKING JOKE! MY BODY WAS SHAKING WHEN I SAW THAT SCENE AGAIN! ><)

"Ow?"

“GET AWAY FROM MY DAD!” ("Wait, what?")

FAMILY IS THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF ALL!

SCROOGE FINALLY SAYING "WEBBY DARLING" 😭💖/WERE ALL DEFENDERS OF THIS FINALE DUCKBLUR FOR LIFE. SCREW THE HATERS.

Team Uncle embracing their fatherly roles, from Donald taking May and June under his wing to Scrooge making a parallel to "Woo-oo!" and worrying about Webby's safety

THE FINAL END CREDITS

[puffyducks]

DCRC Week #9 (Part 1)

There is a fungus among us....

Sorry I have nothing better to say. We're reading PKNA #6: Spore! (or I guess sometimes I've heard it called "Spores" plural idk)

Listen, I know we LITERALLY just read Dangerous Disguise and I already said this, but it will never not be scary to just have like human people walking around in the Duckverse!! LIKE THAT IS JUST A HUMAN MAN!!! And don't even @ me with the like "oh it's a dog person that just LOOKS really human" cause he doesn't even have a black nose. That's just a guy.

Now THAT'S a dog.

Guys do you think Xadhoom is doing well after her encounter on the Evronian star base cause idk if she's doing that well. can we get a wellness check on her maybe.

SNOOZEEERRRRRRR 🛌😴🌙

Donald we TRIED telling you to just leave Angus Fangus to be harvested for infinite energy but noOoOoOO you had to SAVE HIM because it's the "right thing to do" or whatever. I'm just saying nobody would even be mad if he mysteriously disappeared.

The art in the issue is already CRAZAYYYY idk how to describe it but I'm really liking the vibe. It feels really jiggly wiggly, like all the characters look really bendy and active and there's just a lot of detail packed into these panels. It's not something I'm used to making or even seeing but I'm really enjoying the eye candy!

How many times is Donald gonna poke his nose into government business before he learns his lesson

Sorry Don I think she's busy having serious PTSD over her entire race being enslaved, you're on your own for this one bud

I'm serious about that wellness check you guys she's just lying fetal position on the floor now

DEPARTMENT..... SIGMA??!?!?!?!

Donald is so short they barely even put him in this panel 😭 it's just his forehead man

These two poses are driving me insane. This is what I look like when I'm in distress 💃

??!?!?!??!?!?!?! THAT'S A PENI-

*Narrator voice* Little did he know, it could, in fact, get much worse.

Dude I'm putting those fabric folds in my mouth and chewing on them so fucking hard holy shit... the cross hatching ououghh.... he does NOT deserve to have a cape that badass

Donaaaald don't look around like that..... YOU'D BETTER NOT-

NOOOOOOO FUCK

NEVERMIND KILL

bro she is crumpled up like a fucking paper bag be NICE

that's probably bad. right?

Anyways woah ending on not one but TWO cliffhangers? Wowie zowie! I'm sure PK and Xadhoom are gonna have a very civilized and normal conversation and we'll totally find out what they talked about at the start of next chapter and they DEFINITELY won't just jump into a chapter about Angus Fangus. RIGHT???

Now to read Ducks on the Road which is apparently like 170 pages good god-

[moon-swag-tourney]

Propaganda below!

Luther Hargreeves

He is a weird huge monkey man with daddy issues. What’s not to love 

Spaceboy!

Della Duck

just look at her shes badass she amputated her own leg and made a prosthetic out of spare rocket parts shes not perfect but shes trying her goddamn best to be a good mother okay she is The character ever

greatest character of all time!

dear tournament runner i am so so sorry for the essay i'm about to write but i am not normal about my girl della

della duck is donald duck's twin sister and huey dewey and louie's mother

the whole history behind her is so interesting bc she unintentionally became the greatest mystery of the disney duck comic verse

one of disney's many weird rules is that their main 6 characters are not allowed to have children or parents. this rule is kinda wobbly in the sense that on one hand, it does get broken (goofy has a son in some canons & donalds mother is shown in some comics (though only in scrooge's flashbacks, she's never allowed to interact with donald)), on the other hand, it also tends to sometimes get applied to characters who are not part of the main 6 but still main characters. this rule meant, that when they wanted their main characters to interact with kids, they invented nieces and nephews. which had the added bonus that when they wanted to stories without them, they didn't have to explain the kids' absence (like for example mickey's nephews, which barely ever appear and, fun fact, were actually invented before huey dewey and louie). so, in one newspaper comic strip, huey dewey and louie were introduced and with them, della was mentioned for the first time, in a letter asking donald to take care care of the boys while their father is in a hospital from a prank they pulled. (said father was never mentioned again btw.)

after that, della didn't appear again for a while, and several shorts and comics revealed that donald has legally adopted the kids. different comics implied that donald has been taking care of the triplets their entire life, instead of just since recently like in their first appearance.

later comics actually showed della for the first time - however, only in flashbacks to donald's childhood. these comics also made her donald's twin. the only piece of media that showed her as an adult was her portrait in the duck family tree.

that is, until 2014 the first comic showing adult della and her fate was released - a dutch comic that was only reprinted in brazil, germany and the netherlands, and even in those countries, anything containing this story is pretty hard to get. it was never officially translated to english (thank god for fantranslations, tho). this comic showed della as a pilot, who tested a rocket and got lost in space when huey dewey and louie were babies. this is where her association with space and a lot of her ducktales 2017 characterisation originates from.

so, let's get into her biggest ever appearence - the ducktales reboot!

from the very beginning of this show, she's set up as the big overarching mystery - a little bit like the author from gravity falls. the pilot ends with dewey discovering a painting of her. it's a very shocking moment and for most viewers the first time they've ever seen della.

so like in the comic, she's a pilot, and she's been going on adventures with donald and scrooge for years. scrooge builds a rocket for her as a surprise gift for when her children hatch but she finds out about it and decides to take it for a test ride, during which she crashes it on the moon. so, she's stuck there, but nothing can stop della duck! she spends the entire 10 years fixing the rocket until she finally manages to get back to earth to her kids.

della is funny, strong, determined and just one of the best characters in the entire show. and she tries so hard to be a good mom to her kids after being absent for a decade even though she struggles so much to adjust back to life on earth.

i just love della so so much

[michimonie]

Grandma Duck being a natural badass.

(Young Donald Duck, issue 14)

[fellomenking]

#would have drawn varre as donald if the failings of my body did not prevent it

"Mohg as a Kingdom Hearts character"

That tag alone inflicted me with the mwntal images of Mohg dressed up like Sora.

...

I mean, Sora has the spikey hair! Mohg's horns could pass for the hairdo!

🤔🤔🤔

My wrist was aching too bad to finish so just imagine how silly and large his shoes are in the second image