Bentina Beakley (DuckTales 2017)

Bentina Beakley, also known as Agent 22, is one of tritagonists of the 2017 reboot series, serving as the tritagonist in Seasons 1 and 2, and the deuteragonist in Season 3.
She is the adopted grandmother of Webby Vanderquack, and the partner of Scrooge McDuck.
She was voiced by .
==Personality==
Unlike her original incarnation, Mrs. Beakley is portrayed as a fierce and fearless housekeeper who is very orderly when keeping the mansion clean, organized and safe. After years of being overprotective of Webby, the nephews' arrival causes her to agree to let her granddaughter be a part of Scrooge's adventures.
Beakley also dislikes Webby's friend Lena, regarding her as a bad influence, but after Lena saves her life, she becomes more accepting. Beakley's relationship with Scrooge's butler Duckworth is frosty, due to him criticizing her housework.
==History==
===Background===
In her youth Beakley was an operative for the spy organization SHUSH. during the 1960s, if not beforehand, and quickly distinguished herself as a highly effective agent. At one point she captured Black Heron and brought her to S.H.U.S.H. Headquarters to be placed in custody. Unbeknownst to Beakley, this would be the beginning of a long antagonism between the two of them and mark the birth of threat Beakley would spend decades fighting against. For Heron, shortly after being incarcerated, was released by Bradford Buzzard, and the two joined forces to form the international crime syndicate known as FOWL. Sometime later, F.O.W.L. had become a considerable threat, and Black Heron had become a nemesis whom Beakley regarded with wary respect. During a briefing with S.H.U.S.H. director Ludwig von Drake, Beakley-call sign Agent 22-revealed that she had studied Heron's case file and determined that she was after the last page of the Great Book. Ludwig, somewhat annoyed by 22 already knowing most of what he had intended to brief her on, then gave her one surprise. The page would be one of the items available at an exclusive high society auction, and the only way for 22 to attend in hopes of obtaining the page before Heron was to partner up with Scrooge McDuck.
On one mission, Beakley managed to close in on F.O.W.L.'s then-headquarters and was attempting to find and capture the still mysterious leader of the organization. Upon stumbling across a baby named April, however, Beakley abandoned her pursuit of F.O.W.L.'s leader and escaped from the exploding facility and took the child with her. Knowing that F.O.W.L. would want the child back, Beakley brought April-whom she renamed Webbigail Vanderquack-to the safest place she could think of: McDuck Manor, and despite still dealing with Della's disappearance and Donald's Departure, Scrooge welcomed both in with open arms and Beakley retired from her spy days and became Scrooge's housemaid.
===Season One===
10 years later, she tries to talk Scrooge into spending more time with his family after Donald drops of Della's kids Huey, Dewey and Louie while he goes for a Job interview. She was protective over Webby, but allows her to go on adventures with Scrooge, Donald, Launchpad and the nephews. She also helps Scrooge and the team on some of their adventures.
During one such adventure, Black Heron resurfaces and Beakley is kidnapped by her to steal the gummiberry juice to create super-soldiers. It was during said adventure that her spy past is revealed to Webby for the first time, much to her joy
she eventually leaves Scrooge McDuck's service and mansion because he was rude to her and her granddaughter when the truth about The Spear of Selene came out, but following this, she chooses to save Scrooge and with the help of Webby and Launchpad, Beakley fills the triplets in on how Scrooge nearly went bankrupt looking for Della Duck and scolds them for making him feel more miserable for Della's loss, causing the triplets and Donald to find it in their hearts to forgive Scrooge, she later takes part in the Shadow war to save Scrooge and Duckburg from his sorceress rival Magica De Spell, where she fights off the shadows for Donald to swim the rest of the way to the Bin, accidentally sinking the houseboat in the process. In the End, once Magica is defeated, Beakley and the rest victoriously swim in Scrooge's gold. 
===Season Two===
Sometime later, when Webby decides to host a sleepover with her new friend Violet Sabrewing, Webby points out that Beakley doesn't have friends, she set out to become friends with Launchpad. In doing so, after a rough start, she ends up bonding with him overDarkwing Duck
She is also later surprised when Della finally returns to earth after being on the Moon for all those years, where Della recognized her as Agent 22 before she succeeded Duckworth. Beakley cleaned up after Della's attempted shield-surfing stunt with her sons, reminding her she is used to cleaning up after children. Beakley is worried that Della is having difficulty adjusting to the family's current way of life, until Della saves the family from the rampaging gilded man, where her faith in her is slightly protected
This type of doubt as a responsible parent would continue when, during a typhoon, Mrs. Beakley tries to get Della to implement some tough love with her children as they get up to their usual antics. Della, however, prefers to encourage their activities, claiming she should be supportive. However, during this, Louie hijacked Gyro's time machine and uses it to steal lost treasures before being lost, but in doing so, it turns said hurricane into a "timephoon", and starts blasting people from the past into the present & vice-versa, during which, Beakley is blasted back into pirate times and when she returns, she witnesses Della finally putting her foot down and grounds Louie for his scheme, to which Beakley assures Della that a little tough love now will make her children better people later.
Afterwards, when earth is invaded, she sticks with Scrooge to fend of the invaders in Duckburg, but it fails, which reluctantly makes Scrooge to team up with Glomgold. She takes part in his plan which, while dressing up as a "little Boy", she launches Launchpad, disguised as a pebble, onto The invaders flagship to shut it down on the inside, which surprisingly works. 
===Season Three===
Afterward, she takes part in the McDucks escapades to find the missing mysteries of the chronicler for the Junior Woodchucks, Isabella Finch, unaware that FOWL, who have survived her encounter, is racing against them to find them all.
During one where the McDucks are searching for the fabled lost Harp of Mervana, a talking harp who can always tell the truth, and after a good-old fashioned monster fight, Webby and Beakley make up for lying to her earlier, with the latter telling her that following this adventure, she will keep no more secrets from her. Though the Harp states that Beakley the opposite.
Sometime however, the Ducks arm the Manor after Scrooge discovered that his own CEO Bradford is in charge of FOWL, Beakley assigns Webby to train Huey and Dewey in preparing themselves against a possible attack while she and Donald work on adding maximum defense to the mansion, but she takes the training to the extreme and accidentally causes Huey to slowly lose his sanity while Dewey simply prepares for the worst, Beakley arrives and instructs Webby to finish, but she refuses, instead choosing to face Beakley, much to her excitement. However, the fight quickly becomes severe and Webby, Huey and Dewey flee to the roof of the mansion with Beakley in pursuit. On the roof, Donald sees his nephews in danger. Angered, Donald follows and tries to convince Beakley to cease her attack, because this is gone too far, but she tells them that she must do everything she can to prepare Webby for F.O.W.L. as she wants to keep her safe. Beakley nearly tumbles off the roof, but Donald, Webby, Huey and Dewey save her. Webby tells her that she can take care of herself and that with her and their friends by their side, they can face anything, which she apologizes for.
====The Last Adventure====
Eventually, Beakley and everyone else celebrate Webby's Birthday at Funso's cafe, which later escelates into a break into FOWL headquarters, which Huey was able to deduce has at Funso's, but when they get there, the only ones they are able to find are 2 clones of Webby named May & June, fearing for the worst, Beakley, forbids the kids to interact with the clones and locks them in the room for safekeeping and, now determined more than ever to finish the mission she abandoned to take care of Webby all those years ago, prepares to sneak out of the manor to stop FOWL herself, but when Scrooge tries to talk her out of it, she knocks him out and leaves. Discovering that FOWL's new headquarters is now the Library of Alexandria, Beakley sneaks by their defenses by masquerading as one of the eggheads, but soon discovers that FOWL kidnapped Webby and is knocked out by Heron.
Beakley is brought to an interrogation room with "June" and placed with the Harp of Mervana to uncover the truth about her history, where she reveals everything that happened during her last mission and her start to life as a Housemaid to Scrooge. Much to her shock, she learns that June was Webby in disguise, and hearing the revelation breaks her heart as she is hurt and angered over the truth about her upbringing. Bradford arrives with May and the real June as Black Heron knocks out Beakley, brought up to the rooftop with Della, Donald, and the newly reproduced Solego Circuit, where they witness Bradford's ultimatum for Scrooge: either oblige to an airtight contract that will forbid him to adventure again in exchange for his family's safety. Which he immediately does so when Donald's life is threatened.
Fortunately, they are saved by the freed triplets, Webby, and a reformed May & June, and together, they are able to release Scrooge from the contract as has always believed that "family is the greatest adventure of all", destroying the contract and let Magica turn him into a non-anthropomorphic vulture.
As everyone celebrates, Beakley quietly leaves as Scrooge and Webby embrace now knowing the truth about their relation to each other, (as it turns out, while May & June were cloned from Webby, she cloned directly from Scrooge's DNA, thereby making Webby his daughter) but is quickly reassured by her that she forgives her and still considers her family, much to her joy. With Finally defeated, Beakley and everyone head back to Duckburg and prepare for brand new adventures together as a family.
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==Trivia==
*Her first name, Bentina, is a Scandinavian variant of "Benedictus", meaning "blessed".
*Though her physical appearance is similar to her 1987 counterpart, with clothing similar to a nanny, and an apron around her waist, she is taking offense at being treated as her employer's secretary, and has proven to possess an impressive strength.
*In the reboot, it is revealed in “The Last Adventure,” that she and Webby are not related, as Webby was actually Scrooge's daughter, artificially created by F.O.W.L., that was found and adopted by Beakley. It is also revealed that her daughter and son-in-law died before Webby was born, further adding insight on her and Webby’s non-relation.
*Beakley becomes a Darkwing Duck fan thanks to Launchpad.
**Prior to that, she had no friends.
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