Della Duck

Gladstone Gander (paternal first cousin) Fethry Duck (paternal first cousin)Webby Vanderquack (maternal first cousin)

### Children

* Huey Duck (oldest triplet son)
* Dewey Duck (middle triplet son)
* Louie Duck (youngest triplet son)

### Parents

Quackmore Duck (father)
Hortense McDuck (mother)

### Siblings

* Donald Duck (twin brother and best friend)

### Allies

* Adriana Pendleton
* Dawlyn Duck
* Dumbella Vanderquack (counterpart)
* Madeline Winter
* Clara Heaven
* F.O.W.L.+

**DuckTales 2017:**

* Scrooge McDuck
* Flintheart Glomgold
* Gandra Dee
* Launchpad McQuack (close friend)
* Bentina Beakley (close friend)
* Huey Duck
* Dewey Duck
* Louie Duck
* Webby Vanderquack
* Lena Sabrewing
* Violet Sabrewing
* Bubba Duck
* B.O.Y.D.
* Gosalyn Waddlemayer
* Donald Duck
* Daisy Duck
* Gladstone Gander
* Fethry Duck
* Officer Cabrera
* Gyro Gearloose (close friend)
* Ludwig Von Drake
* Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera/Gizmoduck
* Drake Mallard/Darkwing Duck
* Zan Owlson
* Emily Quackfaster
* Zeus
* Don Karnage
* Magica De Spell
* Mark Beaks
* Ma Beagle
* Original Classics (Bouncer Beagle, Burger Beagle and Big Time Beagle)
* Goldie O'Gilt
* Faris Djinn
* Storkules (friend)
* Selene (best friend)
* Penumbra (best friend)
* Duckworth
* Goofy
* Rescue Rangers (Chip, Dale, Gadget Hackwrench, Monterey Jack, Zipper)
* José Carioca
* Panchito Pistoles
* Kit Cloudkicker
* Molly Cunningham
* Gene the Genie
* Manny
* Lil Bulb
* Tootsie
* Butterbear

**Amphibia:**

* Anne Boonchuy
* Sprig Plantar
* Hop Pop Plantar
* Polly Plantar
* Frobo
* Mrs. Boonchuy
* Mr. Boonchuy
* Domino
* Sasha Waybright
* Marcy Wu
* Leopold Loggle
* Wally Ribbiton
* Sadie Croaker
* Archie
* Captain Grime
* General Yunan
* Lady Olivia
* King Andrias

**The Owl House:**

* Luz Noceda
* Eda Clawthorne
* King
* Hooty
* Owlbert
* Amity Blight
* Willow Park
* Gus Porter
* Lilith Clawthorne
* Hunter
* Emperor Belos

### Enemies

* Dark Lord
* Unauthorized and insignificant characters
* Lunaris (Former ally and attempted killer)

### Quote

"Nothing can stop Della Duck!"

Della Duck is one of the fiftysix main characters of 2017's *DuckTales*. She is the younger twin sister of Donald Duck, the niece of Scrooge McDuck, the cousin of Webby Vanderquack and the mother of Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck.

## Background

The character was created by Carl Barks. Although she went through changes over the years with her name and relations to Donald, she officially was established as Della Duck, twin sister to Donald by Don Rosa.

## Personality

Despite the fact that Della was missing in action, she is known as an adventurous high-spirited, daring, and headstrong woman, who loves going on adventures with her family.

In many early adventures, she has been shown to be smart, kind, and compassionate to help her family and others out of trouble, making everyone around better. Although she is good-natured, Della is also mischievous and highly impulsive. She is referred to as a prankster in "The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!", as it's shown she had a dark sense of humor.

However, it has been implied that her thrill-seeking attitude can blind her to the dangers and consequences of her actions. This apparent selfish impulsiveness is what led to her being manipulated by Bradford Buzzard into becoming lost in space, although in "The Most Dangerous Game...Night!", Scrooge reveals that Della did, in fact, have the ability to read a situation and perceive all the possible outcomes, and in "Last Christmas!", she was also shown to be far more family-oriented and less impulsive than previously implied. What young Donald perceived as thoughtless and reckless behavior on Della's part was actually a well thought out plan to bond with him while simultaneously attempting to get Scrooge the best Christmas gift ever.

In the episode, "What Ever Happened to Della Duck?!", it was shown that Della shares the traits of being as temperamental and impatient as her brother up to a point where she quotes his catchphrase: "Aw, phooey.", but in contrast to Donald, Della speaks more clearly. Also, after returning to Earth, when she first meets Launchpad and learns that he is a pilot as well, she displays a small act of hostility towards him; naïvely thinking Scrooge had replaced her with Launchpad after her disappearance. She also demonstrates a similar musical inclination, a sense of humor, love for adventure, and childish impulsiveness to Dewey, an enthusiasm for the Junior Woodchucks and a nerdy love of video games like Huey, and Louie's ability to read situations, perceive all possible outcomes and unintentionally cause trouble without understanding the consequences of their actions or the people they would hurt. Nonetheless, after witnessing how off-the-rails her children's antics could get, she works up the courage to show tough love in "Timephoon!" by grounding Louie after one of his schemes gets too crazy and nearly costs him his family.

## Physical Appearance

Della Duck is a white anthropomorphic duck with shoulder-length hair and swoop-bangs. She has a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. She is known to wear a brown flight jacket, a sea-green shirt, tan shorts, a brown flight helmet, black goggles, and a light blue scarf.

When she appears in the present day when she was standed on the moon, her hair is long and part of her jacket and shorts had been torn, leaving her right arm bare save for bandages around her forearm & wears a fingerless glove on her right hand. She has a bionic left leg, after her original leg was crushed by the wreckage from the Spear of Selene's crash, and was forced to amputate it somewhere above the knee to avoid being crushed by collapsing debris.

After returning home to Earth, she got new, clean clothing and cut her hair closer to its original style, though only slightly longer than shoulder-length. She also replaces her flight helmet with a gray headband whenever she isn't adventuring as seen in episodes such as Timephoon!, **The Richest Duck in the World!**, the beginning of **Moonvasion!**, The Phantom and the Sorceress!, They Put a Moonlander on the Earth!, and one scene of The Last Adventure!.

## Skills and Abilities

* **Skilled hand-to-hand combat**: Della has shown to be a competent hand-to-hand combatant. Her expertise in combat is demonstrated in "What Ever Happened to Della Duck?!".
	+ **Swordsmanship**: Della has also proven to be skilled in a fight, as she has shown to be handy with a sword and other tools.
* **Genius-level intellect**: Additionally, Della is pretty good at building machinery, as she built her own bionic leg, and learned rocket science from a manual to rebuild the *Spear of Selene* over the course of five years. Also, Scrooge has stated in "The Most Dangerous Game...Night!" that Della was very good at figuring out shortcuts and calculating plans in their adventures. However, it's also shown that she isn't always the sharpest as she thought she could jump back to Earth from the Moon. Also, after returning to Earth, when she first met Launchpad and learned that he was a pilot as well, she naively thought that Scrooge had replaced her with Launchpad after her disappearance and displayed slight hostility towards him before leaving to confront her uncle. In "GlomTales!" she made a hard security system to keep Louie in his room during his punishment.
	+ **Piloting**: Della also has skills as a pilot, as it was shown that she flew planes and somewhat flew a rocket-like an astronaut.
	+ **Engineering**: Della was able to create a fully functional prosthetic leg after she lost her real foot in her crash on the moon. She was also able to rebuild the Spear of Selene successfully before the Moon Mite dissolved her base and made it collapse. She also helped Launchpad rebuild the Sunchaser/Cloudslayer in "The Golden Armory of Cornelius Coot!".
	+ **Survival skills:** Della gained experience in surviving alone in uninhabitable areas such as the moon when she was lost for over a decade, as seen in the episode "What Ever Happened to Della Duck?!".
	+ **Video games**: In "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!", she proved to be as agile and skilled a player as in real life.
	+ **Junior Woodchuck Knowledge**: Like her eldest son, Huey, Della was a Junior Woodchuck herself, even bringing the guidebook to space. Later, in Challenge of the Senior Junior Woodchucks!, she is shown supporting Huey in her Junior Woodchuck outfit before getting thrust into an adventure with her Uncle Scrooge.
* **Indomitable Will**: Della is a very driven and determined individual, as well as virtually fearless in the face of death and danger. She manage to survive on the moon with the oxygen gum and wanted to see her kids made her more driven to succeed.

## Trivia

* The *DuckTales* reboot is Della's animated debut.
* Della has the least number of appearances of all the nine protagonists of the series, (i.e. Scrooge, The Boys, Webby, Donald, Beakley, Launchpad & herself.)
* This version of Della is very different than her appearance in comic series. She had blonde hair, had a bottom in form of a ruffled skirt and wore no pants like her brother and other family relatives as well as other anthropomorphic ducks including Daisy.
* Della was occasionally referred to as **Dumbella Duck**, before Don Rosa's "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" established **Della Duck** as her one official name. However, in the episode "Last Christmas!", when she and Donald were young, it was revealed that the name **Dumbella** was just a name Donald used to tease her. She is also occasionally referred to as **Thelma Duck**, however, this alternate name has not been acknowledged in the series.
* Della is the second known character in the series to have a physical disability due to the loss of her left leg, with the first being Black Heron having lost her right arm.
* Della may be an ambidextrous person, as she is shown to be left-handed in What Ever Happened to Della Duck?!, and also shown to be right-handed in The Lost Harp of Mervana!.
* Della and her brother Donald are the first descendants of three major families; the Duck Family, Clan McDuck, and the Coot Family.
* Della and Donald's confirmed birthday is June 9.
* It is shown in "The Spear of Selene!" that her face and bill were much wider than Scrooge's or Donald's.
* Della's Lullaby was written to the tune of the Moon Stage Theme that is in the Duck Tales video game.
* Della’s husband (if she has/had one) never appeared or was even mentioned in the series. Since he was never around in his sons’ lives, Donald had to raise them in Della’s 11-year absence.
* In The Lost Harp of Mervana!, it is revealed that Della is scared and disgusted by fish, to the point of barfing when she says something related to fish or fish anatomy.
* In The Richest Duck in the World!, Della claims to have *eisoptrophobia* (fear of one's own reflection) a result of how she was so desperate for companionship during her 11-year ordeal, she started talking to her reflection in a mirror and started to believe it was a real person.
* Della's appearances within each season gradually increased overtime. in Season 1 she only amassed a single appearance that didn't involve a photo nor flashback, in Season 2 her status grew to a recurring character after her return to Earth, and in Season 3 she was officially branded as a main character.
	+ Her position as a newly main character also gave her a spot on the intro for season 3.
* She is related to her counterpart, Dumbella Vanderquack.