Daisy Duck

**Daisy Duck** is is the duchess of Disney Castle and the girlfriend/wife of Donald, King Mickey's court magician. She also an anthropomorphic duck who first appeared in the 1940 short, *Mr. Duck Steps Out*. A stylish prima-donna, Daisy is the girlfriend of Donald Duck, and the best friend of Minnie Mouse. Though she often scolds Donald over his anger issues, Daisy has an explosive temper of her own. However, she generally suppresses her eccentricities in attempts to exude elegance and savoir-faire.

1937's cartoon *Don Donald* saw an early precursor of Daisy in the form of **Donna Duck**, who bore similar physical features and even had Daisy's temperament. The character would be renamed and refined in 1940 with the release of *Mr. Duck Steps Out*. Daisy would continue to appear in cartoons throughout the following decades, even playing the lead role in shorts like *Sleepy Time Donald*and *Donald's Dilemma*—both released in 1947. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Daisy would be fleshed out to have more of a comedic edge, with shows like *Mickey Mouse Works* and *House of Mouse* implementing a sassy and somewhat vain side to Daisy's personality.

Today, Daisy is one of Disney's most prominent characters. She appears as a member of the Sensational Six, featuring alongside Mickey Mouse, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto in multiple facets of the company including animation, merchandise, and theme parks.

## Appearance

Daisy is like a female counterpart of Donald. She is a white duck with an orange bill, legs, and feet. She usually has lavender eye shadow, long distinct eyelashes, and ruffled feathers around her lowest region to suggest a skirt. Like Donald, she typically doesn't wear pants, although she sometimes wears an actual skirt or longer dresses and clothes to cover her bottom.

She's usually seen sporting a blouse with puffed short sleeves and a V-neckline. She also wears a matching bow, heeled shoes, and a single bangle on her left wrist. The colors of her clothes change very often, but her signature colors are usually purple and pink. In comic series, while she also wears pink, she mainly later wears red with black.

The television series *Quack Pack* gave Daisy Duck a more mature wardrobe and hairstyle and cast her as a career woman with a television reporter job. *House of Mouse* got her a blue and purple employee uniform, with a blue bow, and a long ponytail. In *Mickey Mouse Clubhouse*, Daisy regained her purple blouse with a purple bow and shoes. She also wears a gold bangle and has a short ponytail, similar to the longer one seen in *House of Mouse*. It was used again in *Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures* while not working at Mickey’s garage. While working, she would wear a blue shirt with dark pants and a red bandanna tied around her head.

In the new *Mickey Mouse* animated TV series, Daisy wears her trademark blouse in a pink and matching bow. She also sports a pair of white boots with pink daisy designs on the outer sides of them.

In the *DuckTales* reboot, Daisy's hair is in a bun with a black ribbon similar to her appearance from *Donald's Diary* and she wears black shoes. In her debut, she wore an overcoat with her traditional pink while wearing a blue and green dress with a black strap. Her main clothing is a long pink sleeve skirt.

Daisy is an anthropomorphized duck, as her name would suggest. Her eyes are light blue and she wears lavender eye shadow. Her eyelashes are rather long as well. Her plumage is white and her bill is yellow-orange. Daisy dresses in much more regal attire than her cartoon counterpart, sporting a gold tiara with a sapphire set in the front. She wears an ornate, sleeveless, violet ball gown with a high collar and a white, lace column of buttons going down the front.

The abdomen of the dress is amethyst-colored, and the top half is lined with a tan, triangular pattern. The bottom of the gown is periwinkle-colored, with a white, wavy pattern separating the lower half from the upper, violet half. There is a pleated purple layer underneath the dress, visible in the front. Daisy also wears long, white gloves over her four-fingered hands.

## Personality

Daisy is shown to be a loving and caring girlfriend, who is always there for Donald and encourages him to change his ways for the better. She has faith that her boyfriend is a good person despite his flaws, and uses their relationship as a means to better Donald's life, specifically with regard to his temper. She has even been known to hype Donald up to Minnie and the others. Even so, Daisy has been guilty of unleashing the same kind of rage whenever something upsets her in some way.

In later years, Daisy's personality was expanded, evolving into a fun-loving, and fashion-forward diva. Compared to the rest of the classic Disney cast, Daisy is rather worldly and contemporary, both in how she behaves and even down to the way she speaks. She enjoys fashion and shopping above all else. Although Daisy is usually well-mannered and sophisticated, she can be a bit eccentric and overbearing at times. Daisy's bombastic and talkative nature can occasionally annoy her friends, who sometimes feel suffocated by her presence. She is extroverted and enjoys spending time with her friends, sometimes having a difficult time suppressing her excitement when she socializes with them. Still, as mentioned, Daisy is generally level-headed and mature, especially when needing to balance out the more cartoony hijinks of the others.

Like Donald, she has a love for attention. This is most notably seen in *House of Mouse*, where Daisy was obsessed with getting a chance to perform at the club. Unlike Donald, who stooped to underhanded deeds to steal the spotlight from Mickey, Daisy was determined to earn her stardom, believing her "big break" should be based solely on her talents, and was heartbroken when Donald (albeit well-intentionally) tried to pay Mickey to get Daisy to perform. Daisy can, however, feel envious toward others that have the attention she craves. For example, when Minnie became the apparent starlight of an ice-skating show, Daisy's obsession with the spotlight drove her to attempt to sabotage Minnie's performance. In spite of this, Daisy soon realizes that friendship is more important than fame. After her schemes nearly injured Minnie, Daisy apologized for her selfish behavior and admitted to her shortcomings. In "Daisy's Debut", Daisy was finally given a chance to perform on stage in a duet with Mickey, but after realizing Minnie was longing for quality time with her boyfriend, Daisy willingly dropped out so that Minnie would take her place, proving that she can be selfless and even sacrificial.

Daisy Duck is a close friend of Queen Minnie of Disney Castle as well as the inhabitants of Disney Town. She is the love of court magician Donald Duck and shows a great sense of strong affinity towards him. She has a short temper much like her love's but controls it until Donald's negligence to contact nor visit her at the Disney Castle during his Gummi travels.

She is reserved and relatively quiet, having no speaking lines in *Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep* and very little of the first two installments until Sora, Donald and Goofy's return to protect the Cornerstone of Light.

## Trivia

* In Sora’s Adventures in Kingdom Hearts Daisy learned about magic and sorcery from Minnie.