Scrooge McDuck

Scrooge McDuck, also known as Mr. McDuck, Uncle Scrooge, Mr. McDee, The Richest Duck in the World, Skooge, Scroogey, Scroogie, The Masked Mallard, Uncle Moneybags, Lammiekins, The Neverrest Ninny, Millionaire Miser and The Richest Man in the Cemetery, is one of the major characters from the Disney series.
== Charactah Account ==
The richest duck in the world, the heir of Clan McDuck, and one of the oldest still-living members of the Duck Family. A native of Scotland, he came to the USA as a youth to make his fortune and succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. He eventually settled in Duckburg, where his gargantuan money bin dominates the landscape. Scrooge hates to admit it but he cares deeply about his family and is close to his nephew Donald and grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie. When Donald joins the Navy, Scrooge becomes the boys' caretaker. Soon, Scrooge is regularly taking the nephews, often accompanied by Launchpad and Webby, on treasure-hunting adventures around the world. His enemies include his ruthless rival Flintheart Glomgold, Vain Sorceress Magica DeSpell, and the criminal family known as the Beagle Boys.
Scrooge McDuck's prestigious title of the "richest duck in the world" was earned through years of hard work, well-utilized intelligence, honesty, and perseverance, and, above all, extreme thriftiness. He is an adventurer and opportunist, having trotted some of the most exotic corners of the world in search of treasure and wealth. Scrooge's expertise and lucrative business methods have put him leagues beyond his competition, and he carries this reputation knowingly and with pride. He has a great love for money, gold, and other valuable treasure, and experiences great distress when his money is in danger, and goes to great lengths to spend as little money as possible and protect his beloved fortune from getting stolen or otherwise harmed. In doing so, Scrooge constantly has to protect his money from countless threats like the Beagle Boys, who keep trying to break into Scrooge's Money Bin and rob him of the hoards of cash stores inside, and the conniving sorceress Magica De Spell, who is determined to steal Scrooge's Number One Dime, in order to melt it into an amulet that will grant her the Midas Touch.
In putting so much time and dedication into increasing his wealth, Scrooge has become somewhat of a lone cheapskate over the years. Cold and nearly unforgiving, he is deathly protective of his fortune, and seldom spends any more of it than he has to. When asked to donate to the poor, Scrooge exclaimed, "They're not worth it!". Scrooge has a volatile temper and rarely hesitates to use cartoon violence against those who provoke his ire (often his nephew Donald, but also bill and tax collectors as well as door-to-door salesmen). As such, he is extremely mistrustful of anyone trying to enter his office in his Money Bin; a common running gag is that he welcomes visitors with a cannon and a lit matchstick, ready to fire if whoever is at the door is not welcome. Similarly, Scrooge's office has a trap door (which is located opposite Scrooge's desk and often covered with a rug), which Scrooge activates whenever he wants his visitor to leave immediately. Upon activation, the door opens and the baffled intruder falls into it, passes through all the floors via an ejection chute, and usually lands in a trash can outside the building.
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* Aladdin (TV) Season 2
* Chibi Tiny Tales
* Darkwing Duck
* Darkwing Duck Season 2
* DuckTales
* DuckTales (2017)
* DuckTales (2017) Season 2
* DuckTales (2017) Season 3
* DuckTales Season 2
* DuckTales Season 3
* DuckTales Season 4
* House of Mouse
* House of Mouse Season 2
* House of Mouse Season 3
* Legend of the Three Caballeros
* Mickey Mouse Season 2
* Mickey Mouse Season 3
* Mickey Mouse Season 4
* Mickey Mouse Works
* Mickey Mouse Works Season 2
* Mickey Mouse Works Season 3
* The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse
* The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse Season 2
=== Comics ===
* Donald Duck
* Donald Duck & Co
* Donald Ducks Show
* Four Color Comics
* The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
* Uncle Scrooge
* Uncle Scrooge Adventures
=== Manga ===
* Kingdom Hearts II
=== Movies ===
* Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
* DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
* Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse
* Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
* Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
* Scrooge McDuck and Money
* Sport Goofy in Soccermania
=== Video Games ===
* Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse
* Deep Duck Trouble
* Disney All-Star Racers
* Disney Crossy Road
* Disney Dreamlight Valley
* Disney Emoji Blitz
* Disney Heroes: Battle Mode
* Disney Infinity
* Disney Magic Kingdoms
* Disney Magical World
* Disney Magical World 2
* Disney Mirrorverse
* Disney Sorcerer's Arena
* Disney Sports Football
* Disney TH!NK Fast
* Disney Tsum Tsum
* Disney's Party
* Donald Duck's The Magic Hat
* DuckTales
* DuckTales 2
* DuckTales: Remastered
* DuckTales: Scrooge's Loot
* DuckTales: The Quest for Gold
* DuckWorld Adventures
* Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion
* Goofy's Railway Express
* Kingdom Hearts HD I.5 + II.5 Remix
* Kingdom Hearts II
* Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
* Life of D. Duck
* Mickey's 123's The Big Surprise Party
* Mickey's Great Adventure in Tokyo Disneyland
* Mickey's Magical Maths World
* Mickey's Typing Adventure
* Quackshot starring Donald Duck
* The Disney Afternoon Collection
* The Duckforce Rises
* The Lucky Dime Caper starring Donald Duck
* Toontown Online
== Trivia ==
* Scrooge is named after the character Ebenezer Scrooge from the novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, whom he fittingly plays in Mickey's Christmas Carol (based on the novel).
* Scrooge is one of the few Disney comic characters to have ever been given a confirmed age; in the 1955 one-pager Watt an Occasion, written and drawn by Scrooge's creator Carl Barks, Scrooge celebrates his 75th birthday.
* As mentioned in Scrooge's character profile poster in issue 39-2003 of the popular German Disney magazine Micky Maus Magazin, Scrooge's constellation is the Capricornus, meaning he must have been born between December 21 and January 19.
* According to the Carl Barks one-pager The Cheapest Weigh, first published in 1953 (Uncle Scrooge #4), Scrooge weighs 20 pounds. In Barks' 1963 adventure comic For Old Dime's Sake (Uncle Scrooge #43), Magica De Spell measures that Scrooge is about 3 feet tall.
* In 2002, Forbes magazine named Scrooge McDuck history's fourth richest fictional character at $8.2 billion but moved him down to sixth place in 2005. In 2006, Scrooge was moved back up to third place, with a worth of $10.9 billion, trailing only Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks and Charles Montgomery Burns. In 2007, the self-made Scottish businessman finally got on the top of the Forbes Fictional 15 with a net worth of $28.8 billion. In 2009, he landed in second place and eventually made it back to first place in 2011. In 2012, he didn't appear on the list although Flintheart Glomgold made the list at #2 that year. Scrooge made his way back to #1 in 2013.
** Scrooge is one of five characters in the Disney company to make the Forbes Fictional 15 list, with the others being Glomgold, Warbucks, Cruella De Vil, and Tony Stark (even though Stark is a character from Marvel).
* In 2007, Glasgow City Council added Scrooge to its list of "Famous Glaswegians", alongside the likes of Billy Connolly, Sir Alex Ferguson, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
* In 2008, The Weekly Standard parodied the bailout of the financial markets by publishing a memo where Scrooge applies to the TARP program.
* Scrooge McDuck was the very first image to be displayed on the first Macintosh computer.
* In the Italian Disney comic Paperino e l'uomo del West (first printed in 1955), Scrooge has a twin brother living in the West, called Papirone "Mani buche" De' Paperoni (his nickname "Mani buche" meaning "spendthrift"). In contrast to Scrooge, he is an extremely generous person. The story reveals that Scrooge's twin left Duckburg twenty years ago, and met his nephew Donald only once when Donald was only a few months old. Papirone was never used again after his first comic appearance.
* Carl Barks was one of the scriptwriters of the short The Spirit of '43, in which a Scottish duck appears with a design similar to Scrooge's.
* In Disney on Ice, Scrooge appeared in two shows: 10th Anniversary and Beauty and the Beast. In the introduction to Beauty and the Beast, he appeared playing his bagpipes as part of the orchestra but retired around 2004.
* Scrooge was featured as a question in the popular app-based quiz game Icomania, where was represented by his iconic top hat and spectacles. In the similar app Icon Pop Quiz, he was represented by his Money Bin.
* According to Frank Angones, co-executive producer and story editor of DuckTales (2017), Scrooge's least favorite decade is 2070.
* In the Italian comics, Scrooge was rumored to be Grandma Duck’s younger brother. It also revealed that he raised Donald while he was a duckling for his remaining childhood and throughout his whole teenage years.
* In the Netherlands, Dagobertducktaks ("Scrooge McDuck tax", a special tax levied on the wealth of super-rich people) was officially declared Word of the Year in 2014.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Scrooge McDuck at Disney Wiki
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