#scrooge's nephew

[molinaesque]

“Bah, humbug!” (Scrooge: A Christmas Carol, 2022)

[diogxnxs]

A Warning from Uncle Scrooge

This is a warning, Donald!

[blaithnne]

Scrooge definitely made Donald cry as a teenager because he spent like an hour at the kitchen table yelling at him over maths homework

[ducksinspaceadventure]

Phooey Duck is canon to me and always has been and he will be. Prove me wrong.

[meerkatp]

I feel like DT17 Scrooge wouldn't union bust (anymore) because Donald, Della, and Beakly would all just beat his ass on the spot. Not because of any moral hiccups, but solely cause his family would kick his ass over it.

[fantasticenthusiasttale]

Scrooge has almost the same annoying behavior to his nephew both dt17 and comics, the only difference is in comics where Donald just go "well guess what fuck you too" and Scrooge throws a brick on him

[lemonadosoap]

I love how they were always just little devil's even in their first appearance

[polisena-art]

can you picture donald and/or panchito getting in fights with some guys to which zé owes money? i mean, how would they deal with zé's indebted existence? both from a more comedic and also a more dramatic perspective, that is

Ok so, since you specified for both a comedic take and a dramatic one, I feel like I have to do a small disclaimer just so people that don't have access to the Zé Carioca comics understand what's up with this parrot's way of life. As you know, every one of these Disney birds has some kind of over exagerated dysfunctional trait. Donald has his cartoonishly bad luck and temper, Scrooge has his stinginess, Panchito is literally trigger-happy and Zé's thing is that he likes being indebted! José so much enjoys owing people money that him not paying up is an actual point of pride for him in some stories. While in others, when under miraculous circunstances he's able to set his life straight by having all his debts forgiven, he refuses to accept that! It's agaisnt his nature to not have that kind of pressure on his back, and, in the end, he quite enjoys scamming, asking for money and running from bill collectors!!

So, I'm taking this specific trait of José's personality into account for the comedic answer. I guess I don't see Panchito and Donald getting necessarily violent to deal with Zé's debt collectors because... well, they would soon find out that Zé is in the wrong and, also, Zé usually manages to defend himself (run away) on his own quite alright. Although, if ANYONE were to try and hurt Zé, there's no doubt Panchito and Donald would jump up to protect their friend from getting beaten up. There's also that thing in some comics where José actually tries to hide that he is economically struggling from Donald and Panchito, so yeah, the caballeros would first have to figure out that Zé is 1. VERY POOR (something heavily implied to be his own fault for not working) and 2. chronically indebted (something heavily implied to be his own fault for not working.... x2)

I guess what I mean is, if Panchito and Donald were to find out the way that Zé lives in canon, they probably wouldn't mind much. Maybe there would be some chiding, in par with every other friend of Zé, but I can't imagine they'd change the status quo. That is because Zé owing half the city of Rio money is just one more of his lovable character's traits.

NOW, if we were to dial the drama way up and make Zé's debt something that he truly wished to get rid of... I imagine Panchito and Donald would move heaven and earth to help him! And if that means getting into a few fights, then so be it! Even if Donald and Panchito themselves don't have much money to which to help, they're the Three Caballeros, together through fair or stormy weather!

[aaandbackstabbed]

Kidnapper: I have your child

Scrooge: which one I have five?

Kidnapper: th annoying one who won’t shut the fuck up

Scrooge:

Scrooge: which one I have five?

[stargayzerlily03]

Ducktales 2017 Odin Eidolon in his golden battle armour, looking gorgeous as ever! 💛

I used the amazing and talented @marziafantasia94 's design of Odin in these drawings, but with my little headcanon of him having differently colored eyes.

[penig]

Scrooge’s nephew Fred is crucial to the story, one of the two people (the other being Bob Cratchitt) whose relationship with Scrooge is used to mark Scrooge’s relationship with the world, but he tends to fade out of adaptations. This is probably because he’s hard for most people to relate to.

Who among us has not had to be even tempered and docile while overworked and underpaid by a powerful asshole? We all feel you, Bob!

But who among us has gone out of our way to invite That Relative to our holiday party, knowing he would do his best to ruin it? Who has bearded That Relative in his lair, called down his ire upon our heads, deliberately opened ourselves to his nastiness, and returned a merry answer to each sneer? Why make nice to this awful man? It’s not to get into the will. Fred says here that he wants nothing and asks nothing, and we will see later that he’s not talking through his hat; Fred leads a perfectly comfortable life, with either a good job or a secure passive income from a source other than Scrooge. So why does he bother?

Does he just enjoy poking the bear, secure in the knowledge that his uncle’s rants can’t hurt him? Does he pity the old sour lonely man? Did he make a promise to his mother? Or is he an example of the flaw many critics of Dickens have charged him with, a character too good to be believable?

We’ll have more evidence later in the month and new readers may postpone judgment till then.

One thing that stands out here: we have now met the three most important characters in the book, and two of them have been neither introduced nor described. Scrooge has been described at length, physically and morally, before any action occurs; then Fred walks onstage, action begins, and all but incidental description stops. Bob is just hanging out doing clerky things in the background and shivering while Fred bursts in, flushed with exercise and breath smoking in the cold, and leaps into his verbal sparring match with Scrooge. And suddenly the cold grasping figure of Scrooge moves and speaks.

Dickens had to spend all those words describing Scrooge; because, left to himself, Scrooge does nothing. Nothing but convert the people around him into cash. Fred does’t need describing, because he moves and speaks and acts in the world. We are what we do, and Scrooge is a negative presence.

[ducklooney]

Sorry to ask you, but first I want to congratulate you for having 1000 followers, and secondly, one question. Who do you think would best play Donald's nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie? Since I saw you complained about their voices? It's just purely out of curiosity. Thank you. 😁

Hi and sorry for the late reply, and thank you very much for these words of yours.

I assume you saw my post about my comments for Donald's nephews at House of Mouse. I absolutely do not like how they sounded there. Yes, it's a bit of a complicated topic, but I think Donald's nephews would sound best like boys their own age. After all, the boys are smart, albeit naughty, but they would sound much better that way. They were at their best in these educational cartoons like "Scrooge McDuck and Money" from 1967 and "Donald's Fire Survival Plan" from 1965. Dick Beals played them and I know Mellomen played them too.

However, even though many people don't like her, I think Russi Taylor voiced them as well as Webby in OG Ducktales. And then she gave their voices in several cartoons. And she gave voices so that if you listened carefully you could tell by the tone which was which Donald's nephews. It sounds funny, but those who followed the OG Ducktales closely would certainly know. You could imagine their voices while reading Donald Duck comics. Of course, Clarence Nash's voice wouldn't be bad, but that would be more true for old comics, while for newer ones more voices than Russi Taylor or boys of their age. Unfortunately she passed away five years ago and the big question is who could replace her to do her voice for Huey, Dewey and Louie. I hope they find some good voice actresses for it.

Of course, actresses like Jeannie Elias, Pamela Adlon and Elizabeth G. Daily did a great job of portraying Donald's nephews in the Quack Pack and did a good job of voicing Donald's teenage nephews. Too bad they didn't give them another chance to play Donald's nephews properly afterwards. As for Ducktales 2017, I know everyone praises that version, although I didn't like it, but that doesn't mean it's not a good version. However, the most I dislike about them are their voices, which absolutely did not sound like boys of their age, but as if they were 20 years old. I know it's pretty trendy in modern cartoons to have famous TV and movie actors play boys, but somehow it doesn't always work. You know about Danny Pudi, Ben Schwartz, and Bobby Moynihan who played Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck in Ducktales 2017. Let's face it, those actors are very good, but they just kind of gave me bad voices in a way that didn't even sound like boys from 11 years old, already from 21 and older, which is quite annoying. For me, I wouldn't want Donald's nephews to sound like that in the future. Although with how Disney treats all these characters, I can only say that I expect only negative experiences and nothing more.

This is only for the original version, while for the dubbing of other countries Donald's nephews are mostly played by boys or female actresses and they did a good job. In my opinion, the best Latin American Spanish, Spanish and Hungarian dubbing. Another interesting fact is that for the German dub a male voice actor voiced Donald's nephews in Quack Pack, while in the French dub the voice actors who voiced Dewey and Louie in Quack Pack also voiced the same characters in Ducktales 2017. Although they have totally different personalities. XD But I hope you understand what I'm talking about.

Certainly, in my opinion, it would be preferable if in the future Donald's nephews are played by someone who knows how to do children's voices or do voices like the late Russi Taylor did or they are played by boys their own age. That's how I imagine them talking while reading Donald Duck comics. However, this is just my opinion. I hope you are happy with this and I apologize to others if this bothered them, I was just stating my opinion.

[polina-me]

It's scary!

Donald had to go on an "exciting" expedition with his uncles again. Only no one told him that the expedition would be in the cave! In any case, it's not his fault that he's scared, so don't let them be outraged! Especially Scrooge...

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Donald swallowed. His knees bent slightly reflexively. His muscles tensed, and his fingers tightened on the straps of his backpack.

"Why does this cave look so intimidating?" — the question just popped into my head, as I immediately felt the impact of someone's particular cane.

— Come on, you bum! Move your legs! — Scrooge barked as usual and confidently headed into the cave.

"Tyrant." — Donald stated the fact in his head. Suddenly, Po felt a hand on his shoulder.

— I hope you haven't forgotten why we're here, right, Donald? — Ludwig was smiling cheerfully and expectantly.

— Yes, don't worry about it, Uncle Ludwig.. — Donald smiled awkwardly, regretfully recalling how throughout the 12-hour flight on the plane, while he was preparing their bags, Uncle Ludwig talked nonstop about this cave.

"Why can't we just say that there are treasures and possible pools of diamonds and oil?" — Donald still didn't know how oil and diamonds could be in the same place. Or as lucky as you can be...

— Great! Then I don't think it will be too difficult for you. — Ludwig cheerfully pinched one cheek of his nephew with his hand, and kissed the other.

— How long have you been there?! — After Scrooge's scream from the cave (how long and far is he in there?) Ludwig and Donald walked quickly.

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— How long do we have to go? — trying to hide the tremor in his voice (with a failure), Donald asked, looking around fearfully.

— Don't complain, Donald. You're not a little duckling anymore. — Ludwig said the last sentence in a joking manner.

— I will always be a duckling, Uncle Ludwig. — The sailor rolled his eyes and smiled. It usually annoys him when he is teased or treated like a child, but in this situation it calms him down.

— Surprisingly, it's a really good idea, nephew. — For the first time in the cave, Scrooge said something.

But why did he say that? Donald was about to say something, but then the light of Scrooge's flashlight fell on my bats, which flew searchingly at three ducks.

— WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!!! — Donald's reaction was not long in coming.

Scrooge was only a little grateful, because his scream scared away the bats. He turned around to assess the condition of his nephew and son-in-law.

And... This made him jealous. Again.

Donald hugged Ludwig's neck with his eyes closed, legs tucked under him, while Ludwig himself looked very surprised.

The professor noticed the expression on his brother-in-law's face. He narrowed his eyes and smiled slyly.

— Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh~ — he hugged the sailor, thereby pressing him even closer to himself (much closer?!) and kissed him on the forehead — It's just bats, don't be afraid~

Scrooge's face became more and more red and distorted due to anger and jealousy. He gripped the cane with such force that it might have broken if the remaining strength had not gone to restrain himself.

He abruptly grabbed Donald with his cane and pulled him away from Ludwig.

— Enough of these stupid games! — Scrooge took him possessively by the hand and pulled him forward. — Time is money, and I don't want to waste either of them!

They continued on their way while Scrooge and Donald held hands. With some changes in appearance, when Donald hugged Scrooge out of fear.

At the same time, Ludwig, with a satisfied smile and hands behind his back, followed them, proud of his "prank".

[ducktoonsfanart]

Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck - Christmas Naughty List - Duckmber - Debt and Winter

This is one of the first drawings I did this year, but I didn't want to publish it until now. I drew as a continuation of a genius drawing where Donald Duck shows a list of naughty and there are his nephews, and in this drawing you can see that Donald's uncle Scrooge McDuck shows another list of naughty and that is Donald who does not pay his bill on time. Funny, isn't it?

It's my Debt Duckmber themed drawing! And to everyone celebrating, I wish you a Merry Christmas!

[cienie-isengardu]

Each time I reread Greek myths and related stuff, my love for Hades only grows stronger. I mean, if I have a family like his, I too would happily sit in the Underworld, enjoy darkness & silence and ignore what is going on up there between them all, bothering to get in contact with this bunch of petty idiots only if my hard work, family or pet were put in danger.

Hades really had the right idea and priorities set right and I totally respect him for that.

[balu8]

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