Characters / DuckTales 2017: The Duck Triplets

aka: Duck Tales 2017 Louie Duck

DuckTales (2017) character index
Main Characters: Scrooge McDuck | Donald Duck | The Duck Triplets | Della Duck | Webby Vanderquack
McDuck Family Household and Employees | The McDuck-Duck Extended Family | Citizens of Duckburg
Antagonists: Major Antagonists | The Beagle Boys | F.O.W.L. | Minor Antagonists
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Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck

Left to right: Dewey, Huey, and Louie Duck

The nephews of Donald, who end up moving in with their great uncle Scrooge and going on adventures with him across the world.

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Tropes for all three triplets.

• Adaptation Name Change:
  • Averted with Huey; he's the only Duck triplet to maintain his full given name "Hubert" from past works.
  • Played straight with Dewey. In the comics his full name is Deuteronomy, while this version's is Dewford. But everyone still calls him "Dewey" regardless.
  • Played with in regards to Louie. While everyone still calls him "Louie", in the comics his full first name is Louis but in this series, it's Llewellyn (which he absolutely hates).
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the previous adaptation, while the brothers did care for Webby, they also treated her as an Annoying Younger Sibling and hated spending time with her just because she was a girl and had feminine interests. Here, they treat her with respect and enjoy her companionship with no problems with her gender.
• Deuteragonist: The triplets act as the second point of view after Scrooge, with their storylines running parallel to his. Though which triplet fills this role depends on the season.

Hubert "Huey" Duck

"Junior Woodchuck Guidebook, you truly have the answer for everything!"

Voiced by: Danny Pudi
Voiced in French by: Emmanuel Garijo
Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Dalí González
Voiced in Japanese by: Tsubasa Yonaga

"I'm not good at imagination stuff, okay?!"

The oldest and most responsible triplet. Tends to be very 'by the book'. Granted, the book in question is the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook, but he can get very uncomfortable when a situation goes too far outside what is familiar and known to him.

He always wears a red polo shirt and baseball cap.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: He's nicer in general. Usually, when the triplets are portrayed with different personalities, Huey is often the reckless, sometimes selfish, hot-headed one. Here, he's the voice of reason and seems to have more of a Big Brother Instinct to his younger brothers. Plus, he's more polite and mild-mannered.
• Age Lift: The show establishes Huey as the oldest triplet, being 3 seconds older than Dewey and 6 seconds older than Louie. An obscure QnA section in the Norwegian Donald Duck comics established that the triplets were the same age since they hatched at the same time.
• All for Nothing: He and Dewey answer Fethry's call expecting that he made a scientific discovery. After numerous near-fatal encounters, one of which where he kisses a mutated deep-sea tube worm, they are greatly disappointed when it turns out that Fethry's discovery is just bioluminescent krill, even more so when Fethry explains that he is not a scientist as assumed.
• All of the Other Reindeer: It's shown that Huey's not very popular among his fellow Junior Woodchucks, as he needed his brothers to be his partners for the annual three man cookout in "Day of the Only Child!" and was teased by them in "Astro B.O.Y.D.!" The primary reason is that they're turned off by him being such a stickler for rules and regulations.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: In "Terror of the Terra-firmians!", Huey doesn't believe that the titular creatures exist, despite all the unbelievable things he sees when adventuring. Webby calls him out on this. This is actually foreshadowed in the pilot, where he gushes about Scrooge finding out the Chupacabra was just a shaved bear, implying he believes all of the supernatural and mystic to have a logical explanation.
• Badass Adorable: A nerdy, book-loving child who goes on daring adventures with his family.
• Badass Bookworm: Huey is the most intellectual, scientific, and book-loving of the triplets and Webby. And it's because of these skills that Huey can not only survive his family's trials but often proves to be a huge asset.
• Bad Liar: Going with his more upstanding personality, Huey is rarely one to lie. And when he does, Huey is shown to be a very bad liar, almost as bad as Webby.
  Donald: [suspiciously] Where's Dewey?
  Louie: Sleeping!
  Huey: Who's Dewey?
• Berserk Button: Although he's nice and mild-mannered most of the time, Mark Beaks first choosing him over Dewey as an intern, but then employing Dewey as his superior breaks his patience and sends him into a rage fit not unlike his Uncle Donald tends to throw. Later, when a boss character ruins his carefully cultivated farm plot in Legends of Legendquest, he goes so berserk fighting it that Della has to physically pry him away from the keyboard in the real world to get him to stop.
  • Showcased again when he goes against Steelbeak, Huey is aware of his anger and has dubbed it "the Duke of Making a Mess," mentally conceptualized as a feral version of himself in shredded clothes with red eyes, jagged teeth, and clawed fingers. This also implies that he's the triplet that inherited the same anger as Donald and his grandparents did.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Huey is normally the nicest and most restrained of the triplets, rarely so much as raising his voice. It's even shown that Huey has quite a bit of repressed anger, and when he lets it out, he becomes nigh-unstoppable. His fight with Steelbeak proves this; all of Huey's attempts to outsmart Steelbeak fall flat, but once he unleashes his Superpowered Evil Side in "the Duke of Making a Mess" (and combines said side with his usual calm intellect), Huey curbstomps Steelbeak.
• Big Brother Instinct: With being the Team Dad, Huey looks out for Dewey, Louie, and Webby.
• Big "NO!": When Donald accidentally destroys the water show that Huey had become enamored with in "The House of the Lucky Gander!".
• Book Smart: In contrast to Louie's Street Smart, Huey is an overachiever who does the most research in any given situation, and keeps a copy of the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook under his hat.
• Brother–Sister Team: Whenever he, his brothers, and Webby go on adventures together and work together to survive along with beating their enemies.
• Calling the Old Man Out:
  • He hits his Rage Breaking Point when Scrooge wants to reach the top of Mount Neverrest with limited supplies, in freezing weather that would kill them, and navigate dangerous terrain. He really lets his great uncle have it for risking their lives recklessly.
  • After Scrooge tells the kids about Della and the Spear of Selene, the boys are understandably angry at their uncle for building a rocket that would allow their mother to go to space while she was expecting and for not doing anything to save her. The truth is quite different, but Scrooge is taken aback by their accusations and loses his temper, causing things to escalate.
• Can't Take Criticism: In "Timephoon", after Huey continually complains how Bubba's behavior does not align with his anthropological research on caveducks, Dewey finally suggests that Huey's research is wrong. Huey's response to this is to start Laughing Mad and insist Bubba is the one who is wrong.
• Character Exaggeration: Of the triplets, he's the one whose character most resembles their shared personality in the comics, particularly Don Rosa's interpretation of them: he's an upbeat, helpful and generally morally-upstanding guy (who nevertheless isn't above the occasional delve into mischief), he's The Smart Guy who values knowledge, history, and research, and he's a dedicated and hyper-resourceful Junior Woodchuck. However, compared to the Nephews' comic counterparts, these traits have been exaggerated to comical extremes.
• Character Focus: As with Dewey of Season 1 and Louie of Season 2, Huey becomes a major key player in Season 3 with the hunt for the Missing Mysteries.
• Character Tics: Huey tends to clench his fists/arms together.
• Child Prodigy: Thanks to the JWG and his scout activities, Huey's become quite proficient in a number of fields from customer service to battlefield tactics to trapping to even advanced robotics!
• Color-Coded Characters: With his brothers and Webby; Huey is associated with red.
• Commonality Connection: With Violet, as they are both intelligent, Book Smart kids. In "Nightmare on Killmotor Hill!", Violet's dream is revealed to be set in a library (as she just wants to read more). Huey is the only one of the group to approve, and joins her in reading.
• Control Freak: Has a very high opinion of his own planning and organizational skills, and gets testy if others don't fall completely in line with his plans and checklists. He also has a tendency to micromanage when he's put in charge of things, needing everything to be perfect by his standards (see: "McMystery at McDuck McManor"), and has at one point expressed a desire for his brothers to just blindly obey him.
  • This even applies to his own life - he tends to fall back on the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook for guidance, and holds its entries as the highest authority on how things should be done.
• Creative Sterility: In "A Nightmare on Killmotor Hill!", his dream is just himself having comically long legs that make him the tallest triplet, in contrast to Dewey creating an entire high school setting revolving around himself and Louie transforming himself into a cat in a mansion. When Dewey points out how lame this is, Huey protests he's not good at using his imagination.
• Deuteragonist: Of Season 3. As the A-Plot focuses on Scrooge leading the hunt for the Missing Mysteries and against F.O.W.L., Huey plays a major key role in assisting Scrooge in discovering the Mysteries as well as being the one who helped out Bradford Buzzard as the leader of F.O.W.L..
• Did Not Think This Through:
  • The boys try to start a pillow fight with Webby. Huey even asks why they thought it was a good idea.
  • Huey teaching the Beagle Boys scout skills that could be used against him and his brothers at a later date.
• Distressed Dude: At the climax of "Terror of the Terra-Firmians!".
• Divergent Character Evolution: Averted, he's the closest the triplets are to their original portrayal (down to even having the same outfit as the classic triplets), whereas Louie and Dewey are diverged in personality & fashion.
• Do Wrong, Right: In "Day of the Only Child!" The Beagle Boys' traps to catch Huey are poorly constructed, so Huey decides to help them make better traps, reasoning that if he's going to get captured, he might as well be captured properly.
• Dub Name Change: He's called Billy in the Russian dub.
• The Dutiful Son: Downplayed. He's the most responsible of the triplets but will go along with their mischievous actions.
• Embarrassing First Name: He doesn't like being called "Hubert"; he prefers "Huey" (although he doesn't seem to mind Violet calling him "Hubert").
• Establishing Character Moment: Two moments in "Woo-oo!".
  • Cooks Donald breakfast and starts to iron his suit for his job interview, showing how responsible and helpful he is. He's also involved with Dewey and Louie's plan to sneak off to Cape Suzette in the houseboat while Donald is away, demonstrating that he's not above getting mischievous. However, unlike Louie, he's not as good at covering his tracks about it.
  • During their gush about Scrooge's adventures in the beginning, each sibling shares what they've heard of his tales, and what they admire most about him. For Huey, it was Scrooge uncovering the truth about the Chupacabra, showing his admiration for wit and mysteries. It also foreshadows his Agent Scully behavior as he's quick to note the Chupacabra was just a shaved bear.
• Fatal Flaw: Blind Obedience. Huey will outright refuse to do anything unless it's in the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook, and follows its teachings and rules as if his life depends on it. Also, Huey will often not give into any of the daring things his family are willing to do because he is too focused on outsmarting his way through his problems with strategy, even when brute force is a better option. This often leads Huey to be close-minded, unable to think outside the box with clever intuition or giving into his ability to fight, since he believes that giving to the animalistic instinct will leave everyone at a disadvantage.
  • In his bout with Steelbeak, Huey tries to outsmart Steelbeak but utterly fails in many attempts to do so, with Lena even saying that it will do Huey no good. Huey slightly overcomes this when he comes to terms with the Duke of Making a Mess, which he attempts to keep hidden but unleashes it to save him and Lena, which ends up working in his favor of beating Steelbeak.
  • When he attempts to go through a Death Course to reach the rank of the Senior Woodchuck, he's so obsessed with following the rules that he allows himself to start going insane and imagine the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook as a Spirit Advisor. He even refuses help from Violet (his competition for the title) when it looks like he might die if it means that he can follow the rules and be the best.
• Flat-Earth Atheist: He refuses to believe in Terra-Firmians because they're not in the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook, but readily admits that most of the stuff they've encountered in the adventures they have with Scrooge aren't in the Guidebook either and has been adding entries for them himself.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Of his brothers, Huey is the one least expected to dive headfirst into danger by actually planning before hand.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Forms this with his brothers and Webby, he is the Melancholic (analytical and organized).
• Freak Out: He has a brief one when, after getting an internship he earned fair and square, Mark Beaks makes Dewey a VP for no other reason than his stylish briefcase and then makes Huey work for him. This deeply offends the eldest triplet's sense of hard work and fair play, and causes him to ramble in an increasingly frustrated manner, throw papers around, and start wrecking an edible desk. Lampshaded by Dewey:
  Dewey: Oh, no. Huey's broken!
• Freudian Trio:
  • With his brothers, he plays the Superego to Louie's Id and Dewey's Ego, being the most responsible and academically smart.
  • In "Terror of the Terra-Firmians", he continues playing the Superego to Webby's Id and Lena's Ego.
• Generation Xerox: To Fethry Duck. Both are red-clad hat-wearing science enthusiasts who are also Junior Woodchucks whose behaviors tend to make others consider them weird. Huey even does the same pose as him in "Moonvasion!".
• Great Big Book of Everything: The Junior Woodchuck Guidebook, and oh so very played with. Huey flat-out admits in Terror of the Terra-Firmians that if the guidebook lacks anything, he adds it personally.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Much less to the explosive extent of his uncle, but still there. Huey inherited Donald's temper, and while he's usually very together he's easily frustrated and the most likely of the triplets to get bristly and stern. While Dewey responds to tense situations with excitement and Louie with panic, Huey tends to respond with (controlled) anger - and in the cases where he can't control it, he can explode just like his uncle after all. In "The Split Sword of Swanstatine!", it is revealed that he has a lot of repressed anger personified as an alter-ego called the Duke of Making a Mess, a side of himself that Lena helps him reconcile with.
• Happily Adopted: While Huey can be exasperated by Uncle Donald's overprotectiveness, there's no doubt he and his brothers had a loving upbringing because of their maternal uncle.
• He Knows Too Much: In "The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks!", after Huey and Dewey find out the truth about Project Tah-Dah, Beaks fires them, reasoning he can ruin their potential credibility by giving them a reason to hold a grudge.
• Heroic BSoD: The boys are so depressed after moving out of the mansion after the events of "The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!" that Donald tries to rally them by suggesting they move to Cape Suzette. Donald looks extremely guilty when Louie reluctantly loses his Egypt adventure trinket and wants to dive back into the water to save it.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Despite more or less being the Only Sane Man when in regards to his brothers and Webby, in "Terror of the Terra-Firmians!", it's revealed that Huey is deathly afraid of the unknown, hence his reliance on his Junior Woodchuck Guidebook.
  • For all of his academic smarts and dutifulness, Huey has a very volatile temper when pushed to the breaking point. To the point where he's willing to just stand by and watch Falcon Graves throw Mark Beaks off a building.
  • In "The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!" Huey is able to pluck out notes on a bow because he's first chair cello in the Junior Woodchuck Philharmonic Orchestra.
  • Huey has shown to have an excellent singing voice...in Italian.
• Hypocritical Humor: He refuses to believe in anything that isn't in the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook, until he adds it there himself. Hilariously there are plans for a Sasquatch trap in the book.
• I Resemble That Remark!: When Lena mocks the triplets for being "exactly the same", Huey, Dewey, and Louie all protest that claim... all at once in the exact same way.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: Triplet ID Tag, in this case; he wears a red polo shirt and is the only one of the triplets to still wear a baseball cap like they do in most other media.
• Imaginary Friend: Conjures up one for himself in "The Challenge of the Senior Junior Woodchucks!" in the form of J.W. Guidebook, a talking Junior Woodchuck Guidebook, after being forbidden to use the actual book during a competition.
• In-Series Nickname: His persona when he hits a Rage Breaking Point, being such a contrast from his usual calm-and-collected nature, is often referred to as "the Duke of Making a Mess" or just "the Duke" (the title stemming from the incident where he sarcastically declared himself the former in the midst of his first major on-screen temper tantrum).
• Insane Troll Logic:
  • "It only exists if it has an entry in the Junior Woodchuck's Guidebook, because if something isn't in the Guidebook I can add an entry for it."
  • He believes that Isaac Newton got his scientific breakthroughs from the JWG.
• Insufferable Genius: Downplayed in that he isn't a genius, but is rather book smart. In "The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks", he scoffs at the idea of Dewey succeeding in the business world. In "Timephoon", he has a mental breakdown when he meets Bubba and discovers that all of the research he had done on caveducks wasn't wholly accurate.
• Intergenerational Friendship: He became friends with Fenton due to their shared love of science. He even dressed up as Fenton's superhero alter-ego for Halloween.
• Irony: Each of Scrooge's traits that the triplets expressed admiration for in the first episode become sources of anger towards him upon learning the truth of Della's disappearance: Huey, who admires Scrooge's intelligence and wisdom, can't believe Scrooge didn't account for the dangerous variables of the cosmic storm and order Della to turn back instead of trying to guide her through it (although given Scrooge's comment that she was stubborn, it's implied he did try to talk her down only to be ignored).
• It Runs in the Family:
  • Each of the siblings inherit a trait from Scrooge. Huey enjoys solving mysteries and uses intelligence above all else, much like Scrooge. He also has his work ethic, and sense of fairness. However, unlike Scrooge, Huey is shown to struggle with going with the flow and adapting to a situation when things don't go according to plan.
  • In "The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks", he also shows some of his Uncle Donald's traits, namely his resentment about his Boring, but Practical work being taken for granted by his peers and loved ones, and when Dewey gets promoted by Mark Beaks for doing nothing, he dissolves into a meltdown of resentment-driven Unstoppable Rage that would probably make Donald proud, worried, and guilty.
• Jerkass Ball: Grabs it in "McMystery at McDuck Manor!". Huey forces his great-uncle to attend a birthday party, even when it's clear Scrooge is only there because Huey begged him to be. Scrooge completely refuses to partake in any party games or do any activities, since Scrooge is a Birthday Hater. Huey's obsession with throwing a great party for his uncle also irks his little brothers when Huey refuses to call either Beakley or the police for help after Scrooge is kidnapped.
• The Leader: A per usual he's the leader of the nephews and Webby, due to being the oldest and his knack for quick thinking and organization.
• Lethal Chef: Heavily implied in the pilot. His attempt at cooking Donald a big good-luck breakfast of fried egg and fish ends with the fish 'leaking' a rather unpleasant looking green substance and the egg yolk oozing over the whole thing. Donald, naturally, is not incredibly eager to eat it.
  • Justified as Donald is implied to not let the boys cook, and/or it was possibly deliberate with how quickly Huey threw away the breakfast he made that it was to shoo their uncle out for their plan.
• Like Brother and Sister: Word of God has stated that this is as far as Huey (or, any of the triplets) will go with Webby. No Hugging, No Kissing (though Webby has excitedly hugged Huey once), they'll be strictly friends only. Of the triplets, his relationship with Webby tends to stray into Vitriolic Best Buds territory, due to Huey being more practical and safety conscious.invoked
• Like Parent, Like Child: A prequel comic reveals that Huey's mother Della had an archaeologist side, and showed the same passion for knowledge and discoveries. He and his mom are also the eldest of their siblings.
  • "What Ever Happened To Della Duck?!" reveals that his mother was also a Junior Woodchuck and still brings the guidebook on all of her adventures.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Along with Louie. Dewey and Webby haven't told them anything about Della or their investigation into her disappearance for most of the first season. Averted as of "The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!", when Dewey finally confesses.
• Lovable Coward: Downplayed. While Huey is smart and usually brave, he can be crippled by fear of the unknown, as shown in "Terror of the Terra-firmians!".
• Meaningful Name: Hubert means "bright mind" when translated from German. With his knowledge and optimism, Huey's mind is "bright" for two reasons.
• Narrator: He serves as both this and the main host of the This Duckburg Life shorts.
• Nephewism: Huey and his brothers have been raised and cared for by their Uncle Donald all of their lives.
• Never My Fault: In "Sky Pirates...in the Sky!", after Dewey explains why he ran off, Huey tries deflecting any blame for it by claiming that Dewey has poor communication skills. Scrooge promptly nudges him to make him stop and apologize.
• Nice Guy: Huey is thoughtful, friendly, and sweet. He's quite obedient to authority, generally prefers talking through his problems, and is a stand-out Junior Woodchuck. However, he also has a lot of repressed anger that makes him a terror when he unleashes it.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Subverted in "McMystery at McDuck McManor!"; Scrooge thanks Huey for the party because it called Duckworth back from the dead, who rescued Scrooge and gave all his enemies a right scare, in case they ever thought to try and enter the mansion again. But he and Duckworth warn Huey to never host a party again.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Of the triplets, Huey is the "Nice" one, as he is the most responsible and usually the first to point out a rash plan.
  • In notable circumstances, he can switch places with Dewey as being the "In-Between" guy.
    • "Daytrip of Doom!" has Huey and Louie both, at first, think Webby as being too socially awkward to join them on their trip. Dewey is the only one of the triplets who's willing to invite her to tag along.
    • "The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks!": After Mark Beaks is revealed as a fraud, Huey is all up for letting Falcon Graves toss the jerk off the building. Dewey is the one who says they have to intervene. Also, while not unjustified, Huey is revealed to have the most volatile temper of his brothers when pushed to breaking point.
• Non-Action Guy: He and Louie are this, while Dewey and Webby are Action Heroes.
• Not So Above It All: While Huey is much more book smart, responsible, and polite than his brothers and Webby, his status as such has also resulted in him acting prideful, stubborn and slightly condescending:
  • Huey's first Establishing Character Moment shows that he's still just as mischievous and scheming as Dewey and Louie.
  • "The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks!" reveals that he's the one who inherited his Uncle Donald's volatile temper.
• Nothing Is Scarier: His greatest fear is the unknown.
• Obsessed Are the Listmakers: His Control Freak tendencies lets him have checklists to go with his organization/planning, most prevalent in "The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks!".
• Oh, Crap!: His reaction to finding out the lengths the Beagles are willing to go to "protect" him in "Day of the Only Child!".
• Only Sane Man: Out of all the triplets, his cautious and responsible nature results in him being the one most likely to play this role. However, several episodes prove that he's Not So Above It All. In "The Impossible Summit of Mount Neverrest" he plays this to Scrooge as his great-uncle's quest to reach the frankly impossible summit nearly gets himself and the rest of the expedition killed.
  • In Quack Pack!, Huey is the first person to realize that there's something way off about their their life. At first, it's just a feeling of something being off, but once he realizes his Junior Woodchuck Guidebook is blank, he is able to notice the studio audience laughs as well as other TV show transitions, which no one else (except for Donald) is able to notice, even after Huey correctly devises they're in a TV show. It isn't until he tells them to literally notice the lack of a fourth wall that everyone else is able to snap out of their sitcom trance.
• Ow, My Body Part!: When Webby ambushes Huey during their dart gun game, the scene cuts away and we hear him shout "Ow, my tailbone!"
• The Perfectionist: Huey has a tendency to obsessively micromanage everything and follow the rules to a fault, demanding that they be perfectly obeyed. If things ever start going wrong despite his rule-following, Huey's prone to Sanity Slippage. During a race for the highest rank in the Junior Woodchucks, Huey is so obsessed with following the rules in the guidebook that he keeps putting himself in needless danger that allows his competition to overtake him. He even starts imagining the guidebook talking to him as a Spirit Advisor. Part of the lesson Huey tends to learn in episodes that focus on him is that rules must be applied with wisdom for every situation rather than just blindly obeyed all the time.
• Pride: One of his defining flaws, inherited from Scrooge. Huey will often boast about his Junior Woodchuck achievements and a lot of the time he will refuse to admit when he is in the wrong.
• Rage Breaking Point: Sometimes, through anger or obsession or both. He has an epic freakout when Mark Beaks overlooks his hard work in favor of Dewey's flash, and when he thinks Cousin Fethry misled them into a useless adventure, Dewey has to hold him back from throttling him.
• Revenge Before Reason: After Mark Beaks is revealed as a fraud, Huey is content to just watch Falcon Graves toss the guy off a building. Dewey has to snap him out of this line of thinking.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Bubba turning out to be wildly anachronistic compared to what Huey expects a Cave Duck to be like makes his eyes turn red with barely contained rage.
  • The mental personification of his anger, The Duke of Making a Mess, also sports the same crazed red eyes.
• Red Is Heroic: He's the unofficial leader of the triplets, and wears red.
• Red Is Violent: As the series goes on, he becomes more prone to violent outbursts upon losing his temper, similar to Donald.
• Rule #1: Huey apparently knows every one of the 1000+ rules in the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook by heart.
• Sanity Slippage:
  • He does not take Mark Beaks making Dewey a VP well at all.
    Dewey: Oh, no. Huey's broken!
  • He becomes frantic about his sewing skills when Louie points out the stripes on his Junior Woodchucks uniform are coming undone, and slowly grows insane when he tries to sew them back on.
  • He gradually loses both his sanity and his moral compass during the race to become Senior Woodchuck as Violet takes the lead in the race. He imagines the Junior Woodchuck Guide as an anthropomorphic book and refuses to help Violet when she is in trouble even though she had previously helped him.
• Science Hero: To Dewey's Action Hero and Louie's Guile Hero. Huey admires his uncle Scrooge most for the scientific discoveries he made while adventuring.
• Schedule Fanatic: Plans out an entire itinerary for the group's submarine voyage, which Dewey considers lame.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!:
  • At the end of "The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!", the boys, disillusioned with Scrooge, ask Donald to move the boat back to the marina.
  • He attempts this in "The Depths of Fethry Duck!" when he is disillusioned with Fethry and decides to go back to the surface. The arrival of a giant monstrous krill further accelerates the leave for all of them.
  • In "Storkules in Duckburg!", he is so livid that Louie can't pay them due to spending all their money on now-useless merchandise that he wordlessly storms out of their bedroom.
  • In "The Golden Armory of Cornelius Coot!", the boys immediately decide to leave when it turns out Cornelius Coot's treasure was just corn, despite Webby insisting otherwise.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • The triplets are all interested in Scrooge's relationship with Goldie and tease him about it throughout "The Golden Lagoon of White Agony Plains!", even calling their adventure together a date.
  • He's also quick to ship Fenton and Gandra together in "The Dangerous Chemistry of Gandra Dee!", even calling out the Meet Cute trope by name in their first interactions.
• Sibling Seniority Squabble: He frequently becomes involved in these with the second oldest triplet, Dewey, who gets irritated by Huey's older brother tendencies despite only having hatched three seconds earlier.
  Dewey: Why does being hatched three seconds earlier automatically make you in charge of everything?
  Huey: Because the oldest is in charge. That's just how it goes!
• Skewed Priorities:
  • In "Day of the Only Child!" Huey knows the Beagle Brothers are posing as Woodchucks and plan on kidnapping him... but he sticks with them anyways in order to get a badge.
  • In "The Dangerous Chemistry of Gandra Dee!", when Gandra is revealed to be working with Mark Beaks, he becomes more worried about Fenton's heart getting broken than the fact that, y'know, there's a spy for Beaks in the lab.
• The Smart Guy: The most knowledgeable and resourceful of the triplets. He knows a lot about organization, general trivia, history (well good for a layman anyway) and science. His scientific knowledge proves useful in "The Impossible Summit of Mount Neverrest" where he figures out the wormholes and the nature of the mountain.
• Speak in Unison: The triplets do this - albeit unintentionally - after Lena mocks them for being the same.
  Lena: That's cute, with the names and the color-coded outfits... is that like your thing, you're all exactly the same?
  Huey, Dewey, & Louie: Ha, no way! We're all unique snowflakes... Well, this usually never happens! This is really weird! Okay, stop talking! (beat) Antidisestablishmentarianism! Seriously?! GAH!
• Split-Personality Merge: After talking with Lena about how he shouldn't hide his anger and should face his internal struggle in order to come to terms with it, Huey along with the Duke of Making a Mess technically merge into one form where Huey's fighting performance is enhanced but well controlled into a functional mind.
• Squee: The triplets have this reaction when they find out Donald is taking them to stay at Scrooge's in "Woo-oo!".
• "Stop Having Fun" Guy: When Dewey is enjoying the slides and such at the Waddle office, Huey admonishes him for having fun and insists that they're serious work tools that are there to help with worker productivity. Immediately followed by perhaps the flattest 'whee' ever uttered in television.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Justified. Huey shares a striking resemblance to his brothers because they are identical triplets.
• Superpowered Evil Side: Downplayed. Huey's dark side is not necessarily "evil", but certainly less restrained. Huey has a lot of repressed anger that he tends to hold in within himself, which he named "The Duke of Making a Mess". This is a feral form of Huey where his eyes glow red, his teeth get sharp, and he attacks entirely on instinct. This is a far cry from his usual calm, restrained self that likes to think his way out of problems.
• Team Dad: When it's just him, his brothers, and Webby, Huey tends to act as the surrogate father figure.
• Technician Versus Performer:
  • In "The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks!" Huey is the technician, keeping a checklist of work tasks and doing them all meticulously, while Dewey is the performer, mostly slacking off day-to-day work tasks but impressing people by embracing the company culture and doing things like ordering everyone pizza for lunch. The result is that Huey gets the internship for all his hard work, but Dewey gets a much better VP position for no other reason than owning a briefcase. This is actually discussed by Dewey in his pep-talk shortly afterward, telling Huey that while everyone is drawn to and impressed by the performers, it's the technicians' hard work that make the performer's role possible.
  • "Challenge of the Senior Junior Woodchucks!" focuses on Huey and Violet competing for the position of Senior Junior Woodchuck. Huey is once again in the technician role, following the step by step instructions of the group's guidebook to earn merit badges at official troop events. Violet is the performer, focusing on the group's overarching principles rather than the nitty gritty details and applying them to the real world to earn her badges. Violet winds up winning because Huey's focus on instructions causes him to lose focus on the group's philosophy of helping others.
• Throw the Book at Them: In the 'Meet Huey' promotional short, Huey knocks out Bigfoot by throwing the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook at him. If you look carefully, Huey consults the book before throwing it, implying that the guidebook instructed him to use it as a weapon.
• Token Good Teammate: Easily the nicest of the triplets and always willing to lend a hand. While he might not be as good as the other two at lying or getting into mischief, he is great at leading the way out.
• Unstoppable Rage: In "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!", he completely goes on a Super Saiyan-style rampage after he ranks up all his XP points to defeat a monster that destroyed his crops.
  • This is revealed to be a result of Huey's hidden persona the Duke of Making a Mess which represents his hidden anger that he tries to cage within himself at all times so he doesn't lose control and unleash his animalistic rage. However once he unleashes this side he uses it on Steelbeak but only to come to terms with his anger and utilize it correctly without losing his mind.
• What Could Have Been: In-Universe. When Della returns, she reveals that she wanted Huey's name to be "Jet".
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Huey and Dewey are unimpressed with Scrooge's petty show of stepping over George Mallardy's corpse and mockingly saying that now he's the man who made it the second furthest up Mount Neverrest.
    Huey: I think the mountain got even for you!
  • During "The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!", Huey and Louie finally find out about Dewey's investigation into their mom. They are understandably not happy at being kept in the dark.
  • He confronts Louie during "The Most Dangerous Game... Night!", asking him why is so insistent on not going on adventures.
  • He calls out Louie for wasting all their money in "Storkules in Duckburg!".
• Who Writes This Crap?!: Asks this while acting out in the Harp-Be-Gone advertisement, which had a really bad type casting (he's the wife, Webby is the husband, and Storkules is their baby child).
• Wrong Genre Savvy: He is all too familiar with Locked Room Mysteries, but during "McMystery at McDuck McManor!" he fails to identify the right culprit multiple times. Also, he knows the party should end when the right culprit is revealed, but doesn't know what to do after Nik Nokturne (aka. Black Arts Beagle) is "revealed" as such.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: In "Timephoon!", he gets extremely frustrated by Bubba contradicting his cave-duck studies and resorts to documenting his behavior under Dewey and Webby's suggestion. After he submits his research to the Junior Woodchucks, it ends up being rejected due to being considered "wildly outlandish".

Dewford Dingus "Dewey" Duck

"That sounds like a challenge!"

Voiced by: Ben Schwartz
Voiced in French by: Alexis Tomassian
Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Jose Luis Piedra
Voiced in Japanese by: Takuma Nagatsuka

"If you can dream it, you can Dewey it!"

The middle child of the Duck triplets. Dewey is adventurous, overconfident, and always looking for a chance to prove himself.

He always wears a blue double-layered T-shirt.

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• 10-Minute Retirement: Just outside the Garden of Selene, Dewey decides not to enter and blocks Webby from doing so. As soon as she agrees to leave the mystery unsolved to preserve his memory of his mom, he brings her through the rapidly closing portal.
• Action Hero: To Huey's Science Hero and Louie's Guile Hero. Dewey admires his uncle Scrooge most for his brave acts of derring-do and is the most enthused about going on adventures with him.
• Adaptational Dumbass: More "impulsive" than "dumb", but his character is probably the most dumbed down of the triplets compared to the previous adaptation. While the previous adaptation had Dewey be the arguably most intelligent of the triplets, this version of Dewey rarely thinks before thrusting himself into dangerous scenarios, can't tell when Webby's doing an obvious imitation of Scrooge in a game of charades, and is implied to have suffered brain damage from being dropped as an egg.
• All for Nothing: Feels this way when he, Huey, and Fethry nearly faced death just so Fethry can show them bioluminiscent krill that he thought looked pretty.
  Dewey: Krill? We stole the sub for krill? (laughs madly) We almost DIED for krill?
• Alliterative Name: Dewford Dingus Duck. Also applies when using his more well-known nickname, "Dewey".
• Ambiguously Absent Parent: Like his brothers, the identity of his father is never revealed in the show, nor is he even mentioned.
• Ambiguously Bi: In "A Nightmare On Killmotor Hill!", Dewey's dream is about him as the beloved popular guy in high school. His romantic interest in this dream is a formless blob (he’s “too threatened by that concept” to picture something concrete) with a voice that switches between sounding masculine and feminine. But it’s possible that this is just the dream being well, a dream.
• Attention Whore: Very often loud and dramatic. His personal dreamworld is revealed in Season 2 to be a high school centered solely around himself including Dewey mascots.
• Badass Adorable: Dewey is a hyperactive, friendly, cute child who is as daring as his famous family.
• Bad Liar: Not as much as Huey or Webby, but when caught in a deception he has a tendency to conspicuously overact and/or give suspiciously specific denials.
  Scrooge: What have you got there?
  Dewey: Noooooot secrets!
  Louie: Literally the worst answer you coulda given.
• Berserk Button: As part of his need to feel special, he does not take kindly to people calling his feats "basic". In "The Lost Cargo of Kit Cloudkicker!", he is so outraged by Huey calling his plane landing basic that he purposely goes into a dangerous crash landing just to prove he's not.
  Dewey: "Basic"?! There's nothing basic about Dewey Duck!
• Big Brother Instinct: Does not display this trait as much as Huey, but he does show this towards Louie at times. For example, in "The Secrets of Castle McDuck!", Dewey immediately becomes contrite and sorry for his actions when he sees how much his secret hurt Louie, while he had only gotten defensive when confronted by Huey.
• Big Little Brother: Subverted. Dewey briefly becomes one in "The Forbidden Fountain of the Foreverglades" after being exposed to a youth-draining pool that makes him taller than his brothers, leading him to assume the role of big brother, (which really just means bossing his brothers around). Huey has an extremely hard time with not being the big brother anymore, while Louie seems relatively uncaring, possibly due to him being the youngest anyway.
  Huey: So... Dewey's not oldest! When he dipped his toe in the water, he supernaturally aged.
  Dewey: Supernaturally oldest is still oldest!
• Big "NO!": Lets one out in "The Town Where Everyone was Nice!" when his phone gets eaten by a carnivorous plant.
• Birds of a Feather: A platonic example. Out of all the triplets, he's the closest with Webby due to their mutual love of adventure and conquering dangerous situations. Deconstructed in "The Most Dangerous Game... Night!" where it turns out they don't have much in common when it comes to anything else.
• Blue Is Heroic: Wears blue and aspires to be a brave, daring adventurer like his great uncle.
• Boring, but Practical: In "The Lost Cargo of Kit Cloudkicker!", he was shown that he's inherited his mother's piloting skills. However he finds it boring as all it amounts to is keeping the plane straight for long periods of time. He had to be shown why that's important through Kit who is a terrible pilot and just wings it most of the time.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Of a different stripe than Louie is. While Louie prefers minimal effort to get results or personal interest to take action, Dewey is naturally motivated but only if it's something he is passionate about. He shows dislike for things he finds tedious or boring and will opt for what he deems exciting over uninteresting if he doesn't just avoid it outright.
• Brother–Sister Team: Whenever he, his brothers, and Webby go on adventures together and work together to survive along with beating their enemies.
• Calling the Old Man Out:
  • In "Woo-oo", he gets mad at Scrooge for not letting him adventure. It fall flats because as Scrooge points out Dewey is too young and inexperienced; and he proves Scrooge's point by strutting through dangerous lasers.
  • After Scrooge tells the kids about Della and the Spear of Selene, the boys are understandably angry at their uncle for building a rocket that would allow their mother to go to space while she was expecting and for not doing anything to save her. The truth is quite different, but Scrooge is taken aback by their accusations and loses his temper, causing things to escalate.
  • Played for Laughs in "The Duck Knight Returns!" where he finds out Scrooge owns a movie studio and furiously demands to know why he didn't tell him since it would fulfill his dreams. When Scrooge answers "to avoid this exact conversation", Dewey concedes the point.
• Calling Your Attacks: Scrooge advises Dewey against it, as it spoils the element of surprise.
• Character Catchphrase: "Nailed it!" Frequently used when he most definitely did not nail it. Additionally, variations on "Dewey-ing it." And of course, "yerp/nerp."
• Character Development: Has received a lot over the first season. To list: learns to be less impulsive; learns to think on his feet; learns to fight; and has gotten more moody and cynical regarding his family's history.
• Character Focus: Season 1 mostly has Dewey has the main focal character after Scrooge.
• Childhood Brain Damage: As revealed by José and Panchito, Donald dropped one of the triplets as eggs when he bet he could juggle them. Huey and Louie silently agree it was Dewey, seeing as how he didn't seem to be paying attention and slowly blinked his eyes out of synch.
• Color-Coded Characters: With his brothers and Webby; Dewey's associated with blue. Lampshaded by both Scrooge and Lena when they first meet him as seen under Embarrassing Nickname. Penumbra also calls him “Blue Della.” (Given that she calls all the kids “Small Dellas”.)
• Combat Pragmatist: In "The Spear of Selene!", he is able to fight toe-to-toe with Webby by using wits and slightly dirty tactics to even the odds against her.
• Composite Character: He has a strong Intergenerational Friendship with Launchpad, much like Doofus Drake in the original cartoon.
• Constantly Curious: Dewey has an eye for details and picking up cues, and is the one leading the mystery of what happened to his mother Della Duck.
• The Cuckoo Lander Was Right: In "Louie's Eleven", Dewey proposes a few ideas for Louie's scheme such as him doing his "yo-yo tricks", claiming he understands how celebrities think. Louie, assuming that Dewey is just being his usual Attention Whore self, rejects his proposals and insists on sticking with his scheme as planned. But then when the plan falls apart, Dewey helps save the day by impressing everyone with his performance.
• Death Glare: Has a surprising tendency to throw out a lot of these.
• Deuteragonist: Of Season 1. He gets the most Character Development of any character besides Scrooge, and episodes related to the Myth Arc tend to revolve around him. Season 2 still gives him a fair amount of focus but shifts the Deuteragonist role to Louie.
  Dewey: Classic Scrooge/Dewey banter. The seasoned-but-tired explorer Passing the Torch to his cocky young successor.
• Did Not Think This Through:
  • In "Woo-oo!" he mistakenly believed Glomgold and his henchmen took Donald hostage, so he confronts them by himself, demanding they let his uncle go. When Glomgold casually responds with a simple "no," Dewey then admits how ill-prepared he was in case that happened.
  • In "The Living Mummies of Toth-Ra!" Dewey teaches the Living Mummies how to imitate pop culture monsters (like a shambling zombie army, Frankenstein, and finally a zombie dance in an attempt to intimidate Toth-Ra. Funny enough, Scrooge tries to warn him that Toth-Ra is an undead monster himself, but Dewey doesn't listen until it's too late.
    Dewey: This was a terrible idea, and I see that now. RUN!
  • The boys try to start a pillow fight with Webby, who is even more passionate about adventuring than Dewey is. Huey even asks why they thought it was a good idea to fight her.
  • In "Day of the Only Child!" Dewey realizes that he drove off both of the potential guests he could have had, and spends much of his talk show being awkward and alone, having to pretend a toy robot and a lamp are his brothers to keep things interesting.
• Digging Yourself Deeper: He lampshades this when he recounts his adventures of finding out what happened to Della to his brothers, because it makes him sound horribly selfish.
• Dub Name Change: His name is Wily in the Russian dub.
• Easily Forgiven: While they're still angry at Dewey, and angry at the fact that Webby knew about the quest for information about what happened to Della before them, Huey and Louie agree that they will work together with him to solve the mystery.
• Embarrassing Middle Name: Earlier on in the show's run, Frank Angones stated that Dewey's middle name is Deuteronomy; however, in the Season 2 episode "The Raiders of the Doomsday Vault!" his middle name is given as Dingus instead.invoked
• Embarrassing Nickname: Both Scrooge and Lena call him "Bluey" the first time they meet him, highlighting how he's the overlooked middle child compared to the dutiful Huey and the laid-back Louie. And that's an improvement! Initially Scrooge just called him "the third one."
• Establishing Character Moment: Two moments in "Woo-oo!".
  • In "Woo-oo!", Dewey is introduced hot-wiring the family houseboat so he and his brothers can go for a joyride, showing his daring, adventurous personality. However, he neglects to make sure Donald has left first and consequently gets caught, which makes it apparent that he's too impulsive for his own good.
  • During their gush about Scrooge's adventures, each sibling shares what they've heard of his tales, and what they admire most about him. For Dewey, it was slaying a Rock Monster and carving a statue of himself out of its leg, demonstrating both his desire for physical adventure and his lust for glory.
• "Eureka!" Moment: In the first episode, while in the flooding treasure room, Dewey gets distracted by a lamp on the ceiling. But Atlantis fell upside-down, which meant the lamp would have originally been on the floor, surrounded by treasure. He and Scrooge conclude that the reason why the "lamp" was in such an important place was because it was the real Lost Jewel of Atlantis.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: In "Last Christmas!", he realizes that Della is mad at Donald for not spending Christmas with his family, and in the middle of explaining realizes he's doing the same thing as Donald.
  Dewey: She just wanted to spend Christmas with you. But you were to caught up in your own thing to notice. Locked in your room, ignoring everybody. And... I have a lot of apologizing to do when I get back.
• Expressive Accessory: His DJ Daft Duck helmet has a display that shows various graphics to show how he's feeling, such as an exclamation point, emoticon-like faces and a few phrases.
• Fatal Flaw: Stubbornness. Once Dewey's made up his mind about something, he can't be talked out of it. Unfortunately, what he makes up his mind about is nearly always made without thinking through the potential consequences or how it's going to affect anyone but himself. His character arc through Season 1 has Dewey investigate what happened to his mother, Della Duck. But a lot of sordid family history is behind Della's fate, and the buried feelings of betrayal, anguish, and grief that her disappearance caused the Duck family come to the surface as a result. This makes Dewey's quest nearly tear his family apart, especially since Dewey refuses to let his brothers know what he's doing. Once Huey and Louie find out what Dewey's up to, they promptly chew him out for keeping secrets, especially when it's secrets about their Missing Mom. But in spite of seeing firsthand that his quest is tearing his family apart, Dewey soldiers on all the same, simply because he's made up his mind that he just has to know.
• Fearless Fool: In his thirst for adventure, and his intense desire to be noticed as an individual and not just one-of-three-brothers, he'll take any risk and rush headfirst into danger even after he's been explicitly and repeatedly told why this is a bad idea.
• Flanderization: While Small Name, Big Ego has always been a part of Dewey's character, it was a rather secondary trait in Season 1. Since then, it has increased to narcissistic territory as the show has progressed, with his need for attention, desire for the spotlight, and forcing his name into any word he can being focused on in practically every episode he appears in by Season 3.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: In-between Huey and Louie, as he's not as mature as the former but not as morally dubious as the latter.
• Forgiveness: In "The Shadow War" he rescues the Dime and talks to a trapped Scrooge in it, apologizing for blaming him for Della's disappearance. He says he understands now that the triplets didn't just lose their mother; Donald lost his sister and Scrooge lost his niece. Scrooge, with a sorrowful expression in agreement, in turn has long forgiven the kids and Donald for his anger, since they came to his rescue and he wanted them back.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Forms this with his brothers and Webby, he is the Choleric (passionate and strong-willed).
• Freudian Trio: With his brothers, he plays the Ego to Louie's Id and Huey's Superego, being the most outgoing but also the most socially smart.
• Generation Xerox: He and Donald are daring adventurers who have a deep love for their family. Although, Donald would prefer to stop such dangerous activities. They even share the same pose in "Moonvasion!", much to Dewey's chagrin.
• Happily Adopted: Dewey may not always give his Uncle Donald enough credit at times, but he (with his brothers) were raised in a loving home.
• Happy Dance: He makes one when Scrooge announces his intention to move the family into McDuck Manor.
• He Knows Too Much: In "The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks!", after Huey and Dewey find out the truth about Project Tah-Dah, Beaks fires them, reasoning he can ruin their potential credibility by giving them a reason to hold a grudge.
• Heroic BSoD: The boys are so depressed after moving out of the mansion after the events of "The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!" that Donald tries to rally them by suggesting they move to Cape Suzette. Donald looks extremely guilty when Louie reluctantly loses his Egypt adventure trinket and wants to dive back into the water to save it.
• Hidden Depths: So far he's the most emotionally sensitive of the triplets.
  • He's also the most level-headed of his brothers when placed under pressure. Louie will break down in tears, while Huey would either be paralyzed with fear or lose himself in a fit of Uncle-Donald-like rage. In "The Lost Cargo of Kit Cloudkicker" in particular, he shows he can put his antics aside and take things seriously when his family is on the line.
  • He shows a surprising amount of talent at golf.
  • Dewey's social smarts and the ability to think on his feet are showcased most prominently in "The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks!", where it's he - and not Huey - who figures out Mark Beaks' Get-Rich-Quick Scheme.
  • He's actually a talented singer and dancer.
  • His skill at keeping a plane steady is impressive for his age.
• Hot-Blooded: Energetic and emotional, Dewey is.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Being the middle child of the triplets, Dewey is desperate to stand out. This is why he latches onto the idea of becoming Scrooge's "successor" in adventuring.
• I Resemble That Remark!: When Lena mocks them for being "exactly the same", Huey, Dewey, and Louie all protest that claim... all at once in the exact same way.
• I Think You Broke Him: When Huey loses his cool after Dewey getting promoted to VP, Dewey says, "Oh, no, Huey's broken."
• Identical Twin ID Tag: Triplet ID tag in this case; he wears a blue T-shirt with a lighter blue long-sleeved shirt underneath. He also has a different hairstyle from his brothers, sticking up from the top of his head instead of the front.
• Innocently Insensitive:
  • Furious at Scrooge for what happened, Dewey remarks that Scrooge probably stopped searching for Della the second it put a dent in his money bin. The ending of "The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!" reveals that Scrooge had nearly depleted the bin searching for her and had to be forcibly stopped by his board members.
  • In "The Richest Duck in the World!", Dewey sends Della into a Heroic BSoD after casually pointing out that Penumbra may not have been her friend like she thought (initially).
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Launchpad. According to "Terror of the Terra-Firmians!", Launchpad sees him as his best friend. "Beware the B.U.D.D.Y. System" expands on their relationship by showing the two hanging out and watching Launchpad's favorite TV show from when he was a kid and him telling Dewey all about passing his driver's test.
• Irony: Each of Scrooge's traits that the triplets expressed admiration for in the first episode become sources of anger towards him upon learning the truth of Della's disappearance: Dewey, who looks up to Scrooge for his daring and adventurous personality, is furious that Scrooge built the incredibly dangerous rocket Della took to outer space.
• It Runs in the Family: Each of the siblings inherit a trait from Scrooge. What Dewey inherits is his addiction to adventure, and also his concern for his family. Not so much his caution and reason.
• It's All About Me:
  • Huey accuses Dewey of not telling him and Louie about trying to find out the truth about Della's fate for selfish reasons connected to his need to feel special.
  • In "Quack Pack!", he was the only one who wanted to stay in the world Donald wished for, since it meant having an audience who would always laugh at his jokes.
• Jack of All Trades: As the middle child of the triplets, and the second oldest of the main kids, Dewey seems to have a strength shared with each of them, with his logical weaknesses being that he isn't necessarily a master at any of those crafts.
  • Like Huey, he has shown a surprising level of intelligence, relying on Sherlock Scan in the pilot and conducting his own private investigation (with assistance from Webby) to find information on his mother. In "Terror of the Terra-Firmians!" he points out logical fallacies in Launchpad's paranoid claims about mole monsters. But unlike his older brother, Dewey is a Book Dumb child who usually resorts to direct, impulsive action to get himself out of tight spots.
  • Like Louie, Dewey has shown a good deal of social savviness, as shown in "The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks!" where he figures out Mark Beaks' Xanatos Gambit. In "The Great Dime Chase!", Dewey also shows an apt ability to think on his feet. Unlike Louie, however, Dewey is too reckless to be a Guile Hero.
  • Like Webby, Dewey is a courageous Action Hero who has no problem jumping straight into any (usually dangerous) situation. However, he isn't as much of a skilled fighter as Webby is, often resulting in Leeroy Jenkins scenarios which his friends have to bust him out of.
    • End result? Dewey is a well-rounded Jack of All Stats adventurer, but a Master of None. Fridge Brilliance ensues when you realize that his Middle Child Syndrome originates from the fact that he's a Master of None - he doesn't stand out as much when compared to his brothers or Webby.
• Jerkass Realization: "Last Christmas!" has him realizing that he was wallowing in his bitterness and ignoring his family who just wanted to spend time with him on Christmas.
• Jumped at the Call: While all of the kids are excited to join Scrooge on a voyage to Atlantis, Dewey is the one who runs right into the city and ahead of Scrooge without any concern for what dangers lie ahead.
• Kid Detective: Spearheads the effort of trying to find out what happened to his mother. And up until the last few episodes of Season 1, he takes to it surprisingly well too.
• The Lancer: If Huey is indisposed, kept in the dark, or otherwise unfit to be leader, Dewey usually steps up to the plate.
• The Leader: Actively leads his brothers and Webby in the Season 1 finale. He's come a long way.
• Leeroy Jenkins: He has the habit of intentionally running into danger, such as navigating the submarine through a sea full of monsters and crossing a rope bridge with laser-triggered fire traps as a self-imposed challenge.
• Like Brother and Sister: Word of God has stated that this is as far as Dewey (or, any of the triplets) will go with Webby. No Hugging, No Kissing, they'll be strictly friends only. And of the triplets, he easily gets along best with Webby, as the two have an equal thirst for adventure and a love for danger. A very good thing, since Webby is technically Dewey's cousin, biologically speaking.
• Like Parent, Like Child: It appears Dewey takes after his mother a great deal, sharing not only Della's thirst for adventure, but also the same stubborn recklessness that got her lost in space. "Nothing Can Stop Della Duck!" reveals she also has a habit of making puns with her name.
• Locked Out of the Loop: While he and Webby ARE the only ones of the main kids to be investigating Della, he's also completely unaware of what actually happened to her. Until The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!. And even then, he still doesn't know just how much effort and money Scrooge put into trying to rescue her before his board of directors make him stop.
• Middle Child Syndrome: The middle child of the triplets and wants to prove himself because of this. He even goes so far as to create a holiday where he gets to spend the day pretending he's an only child so he doesn't have to share any attention or time with the other two.
• Momma's Boy: Seems to be the most driven out of his brothers to find out what happened to their mother. In "Last Christmas!", he isolates himself from his family due to depression over his mother not being here, and he stows away on Scrooge and the Spirits' trip to the past so he can at least meet her younger self. When Della finally returns on Earth, Dewey is the first to run up to and hug her. Then when she continually screws up motherly tasks, he's the one who keeps encouraging and complimenting her while defending her to the others.
• Nephewism: Dewey and his brothers have been raised and cared for by their Uncle Donald all of their lives.
• Never My Fault: After Donald catches the boys trying to go on a joyride in their houseboat, Dewey blames Huey for not getting Donald away by ten o'clock. Huey then points out that Dewey wasn't supposed to start the engine until Huey and Louie made sure the coast was clear. Has grown out of this habit since then, fully admitting he's at fault when Huey and Louie call him out on keeping their mother a secret from them.
• Nice Guy: Generally friendly and easygoing, albeit a bit more impulsive than Huey.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Him tricking Launchpad into taking a shortcut creates a chain of events that lead to Glomgold finding out that Scrooge is also after the jewel of Atlantis, and he plans to murder the old McDuck and the nephews. Dewey also sets off a number of death traps that nearly get the family killed, and Donald injured.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Of the triplets, Dewey is the "In-Between" one, as he's more impulsive than Huey but not as selfish as Louie.
  • In notable circumstances, he can switch places with Huey as being the Nice Guy.
    • "Daytrip of Doom!" has Dewey be the only one of the triplets to invite Webby on their excursion to Funso's Fun Zone. Huey and Louie both, at first, think Webby as being too socially awkward to join them on their trip.
    • "The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks!": After Mark Beaks is revealed as a fraud, Huey is all up for letting Falcon Graves toss the jerk off the building. Dewey is the one who says they have to intervene.
• No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: He is deeply disappointed upon discovering that, due to Atlantis being upside-down, all of its floor traps are now stuck on the ceiling.
• Not Helping Your Case: He keeps arguing for Scrooge to let him try out the adventure during "Woo-oo!", while endangering himself and his family every step of the way. He finally averts this in the climax, where Glomgold sets off the final deathtrap and Dewey figures out how to dismantle it.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • When he finds out Launchpad just recently got his driver's license in the Cold Open of "Beware the B.U.D.D.Y. System!".
  • Dewey's reaction upon seeing the money shark in "Jaw$!".
• Only Sane Man: In "Beware the B.U.D.D.Y. System!" he tries to convince his great-uncle that Launchpad is a rightfully better driver than the BUDDY robot, to no avail. And when Scrooge, Beaks and Gyro start arguing and pointing fingers once Beaks' car gets hijacked by Lil' Bulb, Dewey gets fed up with the arrogant and/or greedy jerks and tells them to stuff it and at least try to do something useful, while he tries to get Launchpad's assistance.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Dewey tries to talk his brothers out of finding their family treasure in their grandparents' house because he's afraid that it might lead them to discover he's researching information about their Missing Mom. Lampshaded by Louie when Dewey asks them to give up their treasure quest because it might be dangerous. Louie also calls out Dewey for acting "weird".
  • Despite being established to be a shameless Momma's Boy, Dewey disagrees with his mother for insisting they stay on the island they're stranded in order to avoid the Moonlanders' invasion.
  • When Dewey says "Let's do it," instead of "Let's Dewey it," in "The Lost Cargo of Kit Cloudkicker," you know Dewey means business.
• Person as Verb: Usually uses some form of "Dewey" to describe an action he's doing or about to do.
• Prefers Going Barefoot: While the majority of the cast are Barefoot Cartoon Animals, Dewey is the first to explicitly state that he does not like wearing shoes, after trying out a pair. He even awkwardly stumbles around in pain while wearing those shoes, but that may be because those particular shoes were too tight for him as he is able to wear snow boots just fine.
• Pungeon Master: Whenever Dewey has an opportunity to make a pun based on his name, it's a safe bet that he will "Dewey it."
• Rage Breaking Point: Just before Quackfaster starts chasing him and Webby, Dewey makes his frustrations about the librarian refusing to divulge information about his mother very clear.
  Dewey: That is LITERALLY YOUR JOB! I'm out! She doesn't know anything!
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ironically, he's the red oni to Huey and Louie's blue oni.
• Say My Name: Played with. During "Woo-oo!" Dewey, due to his middle kid syndrome, is obsessed with Scrooge learning his name, especially since Scrooge clearly doesn't care enough to remember it. He goes so far as to sing his own name while carelessly traversing the Laser Hallway. He gets his moment after they escape Atlantis because he figured out how to get out of the trap room and where the real jewel of Atlantis is. Scrooge compliments him by name on his quick thinking.
• Screaming Warrior: He was one when playing with Nerf guns with his brothers, but Scrooge suggests against is, as to not lose the element of surprise.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!:
  • At the end of "The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!", the boys, disillusioned with Scrooge, ask Donald to move the boat back to the marina.
  • Attempted in "The Depths of Cousin Fethry!", when he and Huey felt that they answered to Fethry's call and came to the underwater lab all for mere krill. They all do leave when a monstrous krill arrives.
    Dewey: Okay. Alright, cuz, this has been fun. Hope we never meet again. Now we need to get back to dry land, so can we get to it?
  • In "Nightmare on Killmotor Hill!", he runs away upon meeting his blob-like "love interest" in his dream.
  • In "The Golden Armory of Cornelius Coot!", the boys immediately decide to leave when it turns out Cornelius Coot's treasure was just corn, despite Webby insisting otherwise.
• Secret-Keeper: He's one of the first three people, along with Gyro and Launchpad, to know Fenton is Gizmoduck, and he doesn't reveal the secret. (Fenton does. Frequently. He's not good at having a Secret Identity.)
• Sherlock Scan: He's quite observant when it comes to his surroundings, like when he realizes which is the real Jewel of Atlantis in "Woo-oo!" and notices that some of the books in Scrooge's private library were purposely out of order on the shelves in "The Great Dime Chase".
• Shipper on Deck: The triplets are all interested in Scrooge's relationship with Goldie and tease him about it throughout "The Golden Lagoon of White Agony Plains!", even calling their adventure together a date.
• Sibling Rivalry: He comes up with the whole idea for "Only Child Day" so that he can have all the attention without competing with his siblings.
• Small Name, Big Ego: While Dewey does have some genuine skills and a quick mind, all too often, his ambition tends to overshadow his abilities, leading to believe he can accomplish things he doesn't have a clue how to do.
• Social Media Before Reason: A Running Gag in "The Town Where Everyone was Nice!" has him taking pictures of the village's customs without actually participating in them, with Louie encouraging him and Webby getting irritated by it. He continues taking selfies even when he's about to get eaten by a carnivorous plant.
• Speak in Unison: The triplets do this - albeit unintentionally - after Lena mocks them for being the same.
  Lena: That's cute, with the names and the color-coded outfits... is that your thing, you're all exactly the same?
  Huey, Dewey, & Louie: Ha, no way! We're all unique snowflakes... Well, this usually never happens! This is really weird! Okay, stop talking! (beat) Antidisestablishmentarianism! Seriously?! GAH!
• Squee:
  • The triplets have this reaction when they find out Donald is taking them to stay at Scrooge's in "Woo-oo!".
  • Dewey and Webby's reactions when they realize they're surrounded by wormholes in "The Impossible Summit of Mt. Neverrest!". Also, their reaction to heading towards "certain death".
• Strong Family Resemblance: Justified. Dewey shares a striking resemblance to his brothers because they are identical triplets.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: A byproduct of being the Fearless Fool.
• Taught by Experience: Perhaps the reason why he is so outgoing and adventurous. If he doesn't find out how to do things firsthand, then it's missed opportunities, in his eyes.
• Tell Me About My Father: Genderflipped version. Dewey wants anyone who has the knowledge to tell him about his mother.
• Theory Tunnelvision: Downplayed a bit, but Dewey clings to his first assumptions about a situation with a stubbornness not unlike his uncle Donald's. If told the assumption is wrong, his first instinct is to double-down on it. This is taken to hilarious levels in The Most Dangerous Game... Night! when Webby and Dewey team up for charades.
  Webby (Getting the word for charades): Oh, this is easy.
  (Webby acting out an old man with a cane)
  Dewey: Sour! Sour grapes! Old fruit!
  (Webby gives Dewey a look and mimes putting on a hat before doing the old man with a cane walk again)
  Dewey: Hat! Fruit hat! Yeah, it was a fruit hat!
  Dewey: Bowler full of smoothies! Nailed it?
  (Webby Facepalms and starts acting like she's counting money)
  Dewey: Money? Expensive smoothies!
  (Webby does a dive and swims across the floor)
  Dewey: Smoothies with cash in them!
  Dewey: Swim away from the smoothies!
  Dewey: An old man? Prune smoothies! No?
  Beakley: Time!
  Webby: Ah! It was Scrooge McDuck!
  Dewey: But Uncle Scrooge doesn't like smoothies...
• This Is Gonna Suck: He does this in "The Depths of Cousin Fethry!" when Huey decides to follow Fethry's advice and sing to the giant krill.
  Dewey: Well, Huey's gone sea-mad. We're dead.
• This Is Reality: In "Terror of the Terra-Firmians!" he tries to explain to Launchpad McQuack that mole monsters are just in movies, while this is real life.
• Thrill Seeker: If there's a path that leads to danger and adventure he is sure to take the most dangerous route.
• Throw the Book at Them: In "The Great Dime Chase", Dewey and Webby defend themselves against Quackfaster by throwing several books at her, the old librarian catching them all with ease.
• Too Dumb to Live: In an effort to prove himself while facing a laser deathtrap that triggers tall flames, Dewey hits every laser beam while dancing across a bridge. If Donald hadn't been below blocking the flames, Dewey would have been a roast duck.
• Took a Level in Badass: In "Woo-oo!" he challenges Glomgold to a fight, but is easily cowed and backs down before a blow is even exchanged. In "The Spear of Selene!", he takes on Webby in a brawl that lasts for several minutes and manages to hold his own before Webby eventually pins him.
  • His ability to think on his feet in general has vastly improved compared to when the show started. Compare his actions in the climax of "Beware the BUDDY System!" to his actions in the climax of "Woo-oo!", and it's clear that Dewey has only gotten more proactive and competent with experience.
  • This is taken even further in "Sky Pirates...in the Sky!", where in less than a day, he stowed away on a pirate ship, won over the crew's respect with a long-winded story, convinced them to overthrow the captain and took his place. Then when Don Karnage seizes back control, he frees his family from being tied up and engaged in a series of cleverly improvised keep away tactics that ended with tricking the crew into musical numbers so they could escape.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy:
  • Of the Triplets, Dewey is the guy who most visibly seeks some form of parental validation from both Donald and Scrooge. The former is a perpetual worrywart and the latter is a Grumpy Old Man and Dewey is a little miffed at first but at the end of "Woo-oo!" both of them respect him.
  • In "Raiders of the Doomsday Vault!", he spends much of the episode trying to prove himself worthy in his mother's eyes. Luckily, Della assures to him that he doesn't have to prove himself because she'll always believe in him.
• What Could Have Been: In-Universe. When Della returns, she reveals that she wanted Dewey's name to be "Turbo". He doesn't take it well.
  Dewey: I COULD'VE BEEN TURBO?!
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Huey and Dewey are unimpressed with Scrooge's petty show of stepping over George Mallardy's corpse and mockingly saying that now he's the man who made it the second furthest up Mount Neverrest.
  • In "The Missing Links of Moorshire!" he eventually grows sick of Scrooge trying to hog all the glory of being the best at golf, at the expense of his family's wellbeing.
  • In "Day of the Only Child!" Dewey lashes out at Webby for her stunt with the security bot and trying to ruin his personal time.
  • In "Sky Pirates... in the Sky!" he rightfully calls out Scrooge and the rest of his brothers for not noticing he left them and boarded the pirate ship.
  • In "The 87 Cent Solution!" he stops believing Scrooge after nearly getting killed during one of his insane escapades.
    Dewey: There's something about your uncle firing missiles and a plane at you that SORTA changes your mind!

Llewellyn "Louie" Duck

"As long as you can talk, you can talk your way out. Trademark Louie Duck."

Voiced by: Bobby Moynihan

Voiced in French by: Donald Reignoux

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Marc Winslow

Voiced in Japanese by: Daiki Kobayashi

"Lying—it's the responsible thing to do."

The youngest of the Duck triplets, he isn't bothered by much and just likes going along for the ride. Possessed of a cunning mind and the best social skills of his brothers, Louie wants to be successful but is hampered by his tendency to shy away from putting in significant effort or focus into achieving long-term goals. His own impulsiveness is perhaps his worst enemy.

He always wears a green hoodie.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: Downplayed. While he is kinder in this adaptation on some things), he is now very lazy and money-hungry and frequently lies and cheats to get what he wants, none of which are personality traits he had in the 1987 show.
• Aesop Amnesia: No matter how many times it's proven to Louie that success requires hard work, or that he can't talk his way in or out of everything or that he has the answer to everything, he just keeps formulating get-rich-quick schemes and resorting to fast-talking his way out of trouble or into money. By the end of "The Richest Duck in the World!", he finally learns that he needs to gradually build up a fortune, so he can be ready for the responsibility of possessing so much money. In Season 3, this trope usually happens when he gets too stubborn or when his priorities change that it warrants disregarding a good number of things he learned previously. But, Louie ends up having to learn that, while there are some nuances, the lessons he learned in the previous season apply in very much every situation and circumstance.
• All for Nothing: In "The Great Dime Chase!" the number-one dime that Scrooge has on display is just a dummy, so Louie ends up trying to reclaim it for nothing. Or at least nothing except the knowledge that he had still worked hard to accomplish a goal, which he admits does feel pretty good.
• Ambiguous Criminal History:
  • In "Let's Get Dangerous", after picking the lock on the glass cell, he mentions, "You think this is hard? Try picking the lock on the bin. Not that I have..."
  • Also in "Let's Get Dangerous", as police officers corner Dewey, Huey says that if he thought that any of the triplets would be arrested, it would be Louie. Louie responds that he is equally as surprised.
  • In "Beaks In The Shell" it is revealed that Louie is involved in a major fraud case for running a Fake Charity known as 'Louie's Kids'. Detective Crackshell mentioning it makes him fear for his arrest, implying he is actively wanted by the police.
• Ambitious, but Lazy: Louie wants to be rich and successful like his Uncle Scrooge, but, until his Character Development kicks in, is not willing to put in any real effort to do it, preferring to smooth talk and scheme into easy money.
• Armor-Piercing Response: After all the problems he caused in "Timephoon" are seemingly solved, everyone seems to have forgiven Louie but Della who chews him out for wanting to use the Time Tub as a means of making easy money. When she gets to how irresponsible he was for endangering his family recklessly by using a machine Louie passive-aggressively mutters, "I wonder who I got that from?" This causes everyone to get uncomfortably quiet and for Della to ground Louie, send him to his room and tell him that Louie Inc. is no more.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: In "The Great Dime Chase", when he looks up how to open a locked door, he gets distracted by an advertisement for the TV show "Ottoman Empire". Later, he accidentally uses his (not Scrooge's) newly acquired #1 Dime in the vending machine, while going on about how he's going to take good care of it.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Louie is the youngest of the triplets and the most emotionally vulnerable, being the easier to upset or frighten compared to his brothers.
• Badass Adorable: Louie is a cute kid who has shown to "see all the angles" to play to his advantage.
• Badass Pacifist: Louie manages to defeat Glomgold and his recruited villains in "GlomTales" by using a nonviolent scheme.
• Beat Them at Their Own Game: When he discovers "Tenderfeet" (Gavin) is scamming Huey and Dewey, he decides to get rid of him by tricking them again, this time by making them think the Bigfoot will die if kept indoors.
• Big Brother Instinct: Inverted with Louie since he is the youngest of the triplets, but he has shown on more than one occasion that any one messing with or taking advantage of Huey and Dewey will face his retaliation. Just ask Gavin/Tenderfeet from the "Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck" what Louie did to him for manipulating his brothers and threatening his family.
• Big "NO!":
  • In "The Great Dime Chase!" when he spends the dime Scrooge gave him as a reward on another soda.
  • In "The Outlaw Scrooge McDuck!" when Scrooge tells him that the giant gold nugget fell into the river.
• Big "WHAT?!": In "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!" when Goldie pins the blame on him in ruining Doofus's birthday party.
• Blatant Lies: In "The Living Mummies of Toth-Ra!" he claims that he's a more powerful pharaoh than Toth-Ra a few times. No one believes him.
• Book Dumb: Formal learning just isn’t Louie’s strong suit, and he'd never even go near a book. Heck, Louie couldn't understand even half of Huey’s Junior Woodchuck guidebook.
• Bratty Half-Pint: He's not even a teenager yet, and is lazy, scheming, and greedy. That said, there are a few lines he refuses to cross, and he gets a few foils like Doofus to show that he could be much worse.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: He's clever like Huey, but he's largely unmotivated, preferring to mooch off people - the show's Eye Catch even has him break the fourth wall and ask viewers to come do his chores for him during the commercial break. One of the three intertwining plots of The Great Dime Chase! has Scrooge trying to teach him the value of hard and honest work.
  • Brought to its full potential when Louie discovers his true talent; playing all the angles to achieve the best possible outcome. The problem though is that Louie would be perfectly happy gaining the biggest reward with the least possible effort, so it doesn't come into play often. And he learns the hard way he cannot see every angle, and others will often see those before he does.
• Broken Pedestal: He initially idolized his uncle Gladstone. This faded after Louie discovered how selfish and uncaring Gladstone can really be.
• Brother–Sister Team: With his older brothers and Webby, as they go on daring adventures together.
• Buffy Speak: He refers to the kelpies that try to lure the group to their deaths in "The Missing Links of Moorshire!" as "murder ponies".
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: An almost literal lawyer, except he's not licensed. Louie may be lazy, but he proves surprisingly adept in coming up with solid defenses for Scrooge when he's on trial at Karmic Court, and he's able to figure out the loophole in the Big Bad's Magically-Binding Contract.
• Calling the Old Man Out: After Scrooge tells the kids about Della and the Spear of Selene, the boys are understandably angry at their uncle for building a rocket that would allow their mother to go to space while she was expecting and for not doing anything to save her. The truth is quite different, but Scrooge is taken aback by their accusations and loses his temper, causing things to escalate.
• Character Catchphrase: "Trademark Louie Duck." Also, often responds to uncomfortable or annoying situations with a nasal "H'oh boy," and refuses things with "hard pass!"
• Character Focus: In Season 1, which focuses a lot on Dewey and Webby, Louie gets relatively little Character Development or time with Scrooge. Season 2 practically flips this, putting a lot of emphasis on Louie's growth and Scrooge's relationship with him.
• Character Development: Louie starts off as a Lazy Bum who wants to become wealthy so he can live a pampered and frivolous lifestyle. Over the course of Season 2, he learns just how much effort it takes to become rich, that being a billionaire still requires work to maintain one's fortune, and wealth doesn't just turn your life into one big party. By the end, he decides to start the slow and steady journey to becoming an entrepreneur, so he can handle success once he's earned it legitimately.
• Character Focus: As with Dewey in Season 1, Season 2 focused more on his solo adventures away from the trio.
• The Charmer: He's very good at flattering people and has no problem using it for his own personal reasons.
• The Chessmaster: Zig-Zagged. In the Most Dangerous Game...Night !, while he laments on his uselessness on adventuring with his family he later finds what he brings to the table: improvising and quick thinking (Indy Ploy), finding out all the angles of a situation and using his family's abilities to reach the best outcome (The Chessmaster).
• Color-Coded Characters: With his brothers and Webby; Louie's associated with green.
• Comically Missing the Point:
  • He's convinced that he's going to receive a large amount of inheritance in Scrooge's will, ignorant of the fact that Scrooge is already aware (and disdainful) of his "something for nothing" mentality, not to mention Scrooge dislikes the idea of giving "handouts".
  • In "The Most Dangerous Game... Night!", he admits that he thought life with a treasure hunter would involve "way more treasure and way less hunting".
  • At the end of "The Outlaw Scrooge McDuck!". He decides to become Goldie's apprentice, believing it to be the best way to get rich with as little effort as possible. While Goldie does tend to steal treasure from under the noses of others (even Scrooge), this practice regularly calls for her to be able to keep up with them every step of the way. As lazy as he is, Louie has little chance of pulling this off. Which is proven to be true in "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!"
• Con Man: He very much wants to be as rich as his uncle Scrooge, but he would very much rather get it through unscrupulous means like Goldie rather than hard work and effort like his great uncle which is why he decides to become her apprentice. Alas, this bites him real hard when this finally happens in "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!", since Goldie ends up conning him in the end.
• Conscience Makes You Go Back: After getting sent out of Doofus's mansion with all of the gift bags, he eventually chooses to go back and save Goldie because he couldn't allow Doofus to keep her prisoner.
• Crocodile Tears: Though he does legitimately cry more often then his brothers, he can easily break out the waterworks more intentionally for less honest situations. Both Goldie and Scrooge recognize this as the "Crocodile Waterworks".
• Cruel to Be Kind: He manages to slap Gavin around a bit at the end of "The Other Bin Of Scrooge McDuck" by pretending he's driving him away "for his own good."
• Deadpan Snarker: Makes many dry, sarcastic remarks.
• Decomposite Character: Louie Duck retains a lot of aspects of Comics!Donald, namely his scheming, his fixation on get-rich-quick schemes and his constant haggling with Scrooge about what part of the inheritance he will get. These aspects are played down in the show version of Donald, allowing Louie to retain it as part of his own character arc.
• Depending on the Writer: Just what unethical lengths he'll go to to obtain money tends to vary. "The Great Dime Chase!" implies that he won't outright steal money as he plans on paying Scrooge back for using his "emergency dime" later while "The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck!" reveals that he's been tricking Donald into donating to a fake charity he started for years.
• Deuteragonist: Of Season 2. While the season's A-plot is focused on Della's return and Lunaris's invasion plans, Louie's efforts to emulate Scrooge and build his own successful company are the focus of the season's B-plot.
• Didn't See That Coming: One thing Louie had trouble accepting is that he cannot see every possible outcome, and there will always be at least one angle he doesn't see.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • To get extra money for a soda, Louie grabs a dime from a display. It doesn't occur to him to ask why it's on a pedestal. He then finds out that Uncle Scrooge values it highly since it's his First Dime. Or so he thought. It was actually a decoy.
  • The boys try to start a pillow fight with Webby. Huey even asks why they thought it was a good idea.
  • Louie puts zero thought into the long-term operation of his harpy-capturing business and thus when Storkules happily informs everyone that they've caught all the harpies in Duckburg, he not only has no clue what to do next, but he can't even pay his employees because he blew all the money on merchandise that is now useless.
  • In "Louie's Eleven", His plan to get the Three Caballeros into the party was unraveled by Emma Glamour's Breaking Speech due to a: Unoriginality and b: Someone tries that on her every year.
• Dirty Coward: Though a Lovable Coward most of the time, he has some questionable moments, such as exclaiming "Take my brothers first" when he mistakes Manny for a monster.
• Do Wrong, Right: When he learns Webby didn't tell Mrs. Beakley that she went on a journey with him, his brothers, Launchpad, and Scrooge, he admonishes her since it'd mean she'd be worried sick. He then has Webby call Mrs. Beakley and lie to her grandmother saying she's sleeping at a friend's house.
• Does Not Like Spam: According to "The Beagle Birthday Massacre!", Louie hates hot dogs.
• Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: He's often seen with these to allude to his sly nature.
• Drink-Based Characterization: Louie's main drink he is often seen with is the In-Universe soda brand, "Pep".
• Dub Name Change: His name is "Dilly" in the Russian dub.
• Easily Forgiven: In "Timephoon" after he sends all the treasures and anomalies back to their respective time periods, everyone else returns to the present quickly forgive him, with Webby making note of how this happens a lot anyway. However, Della is the only one who doesn't and ends up grounding Louie for endangering his family just so he can get rich through shortcuts. As Della points this out, everyone can't really bring themselves to defend Louie as he's being punished. Played Straight in "Moonvasion", when it’s revealed Louie was the one who shut down the satellites. Despite the danger Louie put everyone in, the everything Louie went through then proved to be a life-changing experience for him, so he’s earned even her forgiveness.
• Embarrassing First Name: "The Spear of Selene" reveals that Louie's first name is Llewellyn. Unlike his brothers, he seems horrified at it being used. In "The Night of DeSpell", he won't even say it aloud when he reads Webby's letter addressed to "Hubert, Dewford, and Llew-*mumbles*". Making it worse is that "Nothing Can Stop Della Duck!" reveals his mom had intended on naming him Rebel.
  • He seems to be unaffected when Storkules calls him "Employer Llewellyn" numerous times in Storkules in Duckburg, however.
  • Likely unknown to him is that one interpretation of his name's meaning is "lion of the gods of light." As things stand now, it just sounds to him like Lou-Ellen.
  • The only time he's shown so far not to be embarrassed by it is revealing the contract he made with Glomgold to swindle him out of Glomgold Industries. It's also an extra pinch of salt in the wound, as the contract hinged on the fact that "Flintheart Glomgold" was a fake identity created by Duke Baloney, while Louie explicitly signed the paper "Llewellyn Duck"—his real, legal name.
• Enfant Terrible: Downplayed. Louie is known as the evil triplet even among his own brothers, despite not being evil, more so dangerously ambitious and cunning. He is able to manipulate a group of supervillains into signing away their fortunes to himself despite being only eleven.
• Establishing Character Moment: Two moments in "Woo-oo!".
  • Tosses away Donald's sailor suit and forces him to wear a jacket and tie for his job interview, telling him to "dress for the job he wants, not the job he has, which is no job" showing his sarcasm and lax morals but also his good heart as well as his good people skills. Then when Donald asks where Dewey is, he easily lies through his teeth and gets mad at Huey for being a Bad Liar.
  • During their gush about Scrooge's adventures, each sibling shares what they've heard of his tales, and what they admire most about him. The simple fact that Scrooge is so rich he can swim in his Pooled Funds is enough to excite Louie.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Downplayed. While Louie isn't "bad" so much as lazy, scheming, and greedy, he is most visibly shaken by Dewey's secrecy regarding the fate of their mother Della. While Huey calls Dewey out, Louie can only sit quietly in a corner, forlornly cradling his mother's old aviator jacket. He also remains the most troubled by her disappearance after his brothers have had time to process what happened to her. However, when he is finally reunited with his mom, his feelings are conflicted; while he is happy to have her back, he is not sure on how to interact with Della or handle her actions since he doesn't know what it's like to have a mother.
• Everyone Has Standards: In spite of how he "plays all the angles" and is willing to use his family to get rich quick, Louie does have a few moral lines that he considers unacceptable to cross:
  • When Webby reveals that she didn't tell her grandmother she was going out with the others during the pilot, Louie admonishes her for unnecessarily making Mrs. Beakley worried sick (Although he encourages her to lie about spending the night at a friend's house).
  • It's shown that he does have some restraints when it comes to acquiring money. In "The Great Dime Chase!", when he takes Scrooge's "emergency dime" from the display so he can buy a soda, he has every intention of paying Scrooge back later.
  • In "McMystery At McDuck McManor", Louie thinks it's unfair for Huey to force Scrooge to celebrate his birthday and attend a party when Scrooge clearly wants nothing to do with either of those. Louie eventually calls his brother out for his It's All About Me attitude, since Huey was clearly more interested in getting people to do what he wanted than in helping Scrooge have a good time.
  • In The Secrets of Castle McDuck!, Louie is absolutely heartbroken over not being told about Dewey's investigation of their mother and her disappearance, especially after he'd learned a few things but kept quiet. It shows that even though Louie's willing to con his brothers into doing his chores, he wouldn't go as far as to deceive them about something that important, and he definitely doesn't condone what Dewey has done.
  • Louie might con his uncle out of money for a bogus charity and trick his brothers into doing his laundry, but even Louie seems revolted by Gavin's mean-spirited scam against his brothers, mooching off their goodwill and mocking them for being too naive to realize it behind their backs.
  • Money-grubbing he may be, even he thinks 87 cents is nothing that Scrooge should obsess over.
  • He couldn't bring himself to leave Goldie as Doofus's prisoner, especially after she saved his life.
  • Despite everything he's done up to that point including conning Scrooge himself out of his company at one point Louie was still shocked at Scrooge's callousness for not helping out Poe DeSpell or the citizens of the town being enslaved by Magica and Poe, going as far to question whether he even wants to try to talk them out of it.
• Evil Me Scares Me: Inverted. The Sapphire of Souls that Louie holds in "Sky Pirates...in the Sky!" is supposed to show someone his truest darkest desires. But Louie's natural greed and manipulative tendencies makes his dark self get creeped out instead. Though it turns out the gem was fake and he was really just talking to his reflection.
• Evil Twin: Played for Laughs. When Webby asks which one of the triplets is evil, Huey and Dewey immediately point to Louie... who just shrugs and gives an agreeable "eh." When he makes the same claim to Goldie, she calls him "the scariest bunny in the petshop".
  • Note that "30 Things With Louie" includes "being the evil brother", establishing that he not only believes this himself, but actually takes pride in it.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!:
  • In "The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!" Louie, Huey and Webby attempt to distract Scrooge by pretending to be scared for their safety. As the predicament they are in is described to Scrooge, Louie suddenly understands the full extent of the situation the whole family is in and he becomes understandably scared for real.
  • Subverted and double subverted in "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!". He gloats to Goldie that he is now outside the Drake mansion rich while she is now being held captive by Doofus and is possibly suffering. After she turned on him. And then saved his life. Which he assumes is part of a con. He eventually decides to go back and save her.
  • In "The Trickening!", Louie explains that he wanted to get them a lifetime supply of candy, only to realize it's against Huey's wishes on keeping to celebrate Halloween.
• Facepalm: Out of the three brothers, he tends to do this the most.
• Failed a Spot Check: He somehow managed to miss the price sticker on the gem he's been carrying throughout "Sky Pirates...in the Sky!".
• Fatal Flaw: Laziness. Louie is shown multiple times to be Brilliant, but Lazy, with some implications that he could potentially be a better adventurer and businessman than Scrooge himself if Louie wasn't so interested in taking the easy way out.
  • In "The Great Dime Chase!", his laziness, combined with not thinking things through and not paying attention to Scrooge gets him in trouble. He gets pulled to the Money Bin because he makes the mistake of being openly slovenly and wasteful in front of Scrooge, a known penny-pincher. Then later on, Louie accidentally uses what he thinks is an emergency dime, only to find out it was Scrooge's #1 Dime, having to spend the entire episode trying to get it back as a result. Scrooge was about to tell Louie the dime's importance before the Money Bin distracted him. Furthermore, if he'd searched for the Dime himself rather than making Little Bulb do it, most of the resulting chaos would have been avoided. Louie doesn't really get better by the end, though he seems to have learned to listen to Scrooge and does come to admit that earning the Dime after all his hard work for it did feel pretty good.
  • In Season 2, Louie's laziness leads to him into all kinds of trouble because he wants to take the easy way out. He tries turning to Goldie to mentor him in gathering riches shiftily (she betrays Louie and leaves him with nothing), steals Gyro's Time Tub to gather lost treasures from the past (Louie almost destroys time and space, and his mother grounds him for it), and claims both Scrooge and Glomgold's company after winning their bet through Loophole Abuse (Louie cuts off several funds to save money, leading to the Bombie's release and Lunaris's invasion gaining further support).
  • Louie's cowardice in "The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!" ruins one of the kids' attempts to retrieve the missing picture piece without the adults noticing. The botched attempt caused by Louie's panicking also leads to the jeep accidentally being jump-started and knocked loose, further damaging and unbalancing the plane, nearly leading to the entire Duck family's deaths.
  • His confidence in his ability to con others borders on smug arrogance. He's so sure he can pull off his schemes flawlessly that he allows himself to get in over his head, often requiring his family to bail him out of the messes he makes.
• Foil: To Scrooge. Scrooge's point of pride is that he made every penny of his fortune through hard and honest work. Louie would prefer his desired fortune to be handed to him on a silver platter. He hates the idea of working hard for a good life and much prefers to get it through scamming and trickery which is why he asked Goldie to make him her apprentice. "The Richest Duck in the World" also demonstrates that unlike his uncle, Louie is considerably more humble and willing to admit his faults, unlike the prideful Scrooge. It's what results in Louie being able to end the Bombie curse after a day, while Scrooge had resorted to keeping the monster trapped in a bin for decades to keep the curse at bay.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Of his brothers, Louie is the laziest and the one most likely to attempt a morally dubious scheme in order to get out of work.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Forms this with his brothers and Webby, he is the Phlegmatic (reserved and lazy).
• Freudian Excuse: Frank Angones confirmed that part of Louie's obsession with becoming wealthy stems from wanting to have an easier life after growing up with Donald and his money troubles.
• Freudian Trio:
  • With his brothers, he plays the Id to Huey's Superego and Dewey's Ego, being the most lazy and inconsiderate.
  • In "Terror of the Terra-Firmians!", he plays the Ego to Huey's Superego and Webby's Id, telling Webby that Huey's "usually right about nerd stuff", while coaxing Huey to be more flexible and adaptable to the unknown.
• Generation Xerox: To Gladstone Gander. Both are self-sufficient hucksters with a lazy streak, not to mention a penchant for green. However, Louie looks like he will grow up to be more hardworking than Gladstone. The two even share the same pose in "Moonvasion!".
• Glad I Thought of It: He dismisses Webby's ideas on training the harpies, only to later have the very same idea and ask why no one asked what the harpies love most. Webby is not amused.
• Grade-School C.E.O.: In Season 2 he starts his own company, "Louie Incorporated". Then, at the end of "GlomTales!", he becomes the C.E.O. of both Glomgold Industries and McDuck Enterprises.
• Greed: Louie is pretty obsessed with wealth. When they find Scrooge's treasures, he puts green labels on them to mark which ones he will get when Scrooge eventually passes and the comic adaptation features him doing several schemes to make money.
• Green and Mean: Downplayed. Louie's main color scheme is green (as seen by his green hoodie) and while he is greedy, selfish, and lazy, he has a good heart and is nowhere near a much of a jerkass as his uncle Gladstone.
• Guile Hero: To Huey's Science Hero and Dewey's Action Hero. Louie admires his uncle Scrooge most for the vast wealth he has collected, as well as the charisma and cunning it took to get it.
• Happily Adopted: Louie may not show it, but he loves his Uncle Donald and all the care he gave to him and his brothers.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • Goes through one in "The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!". Unlike Huey who lashes out at Dewey when the latter reveals he was investigating their mom's disappearance while intentionally keeping Huey and Louie Locked Out of the Loop, Louie just sits in the corner in silence before somberly telling Dewey what he did was "not okay."
  • The boys are so depressed after moving out of the mansion after the events of "The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!" that Donald tries to rally them by suggesting they move to Cape Suzette. Donald looks extremely guilty when Louie reluctantly loses his Egypt adventure trinket and wants to dive back into the water to save it.
  • Suffers a big one in "The Most Dangerous Game... Night!" because he's so worried he will end up getting hurt due to lacking special talents and abilities, as well as the fact that his mother was an expert and still got hurt.
• Hidden Depths:
  • In "The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!", he knows enough about the properties of gold to find the true key to the crypt - amidst a huge pile of fakes, no less - in seconds. He's also shown to carry a jeweller's loupe on his person to this purpose.
  Louie: Found it! Real gold weighs more than fool's gold, so you just search the bottom of the pile. Y'know, check the lustre and the karat quality and boom - pure gold key. [beat] What? You like nerd stuff; I like gold! C'mon.
  • In "The Most Dangerous Game... Night!" Scrooge realizes that Louie's trademark ability to find an angle in every situation to achieve the best possible outcome would make him a better adventurer in some ways than Huey and even Scrooge himself, if he just applied himself.
• High-School Hustler: He's not yet in high school but he already has this act. His antics at the start of the "Great Dime Chase" also mark him as a slacker.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: In "The Impossible Summit of Mt. Neverrest!", upon learning that the resort town vendor has tricked Launchpad into thinking "Ice Fever" exists and the only way to stop it is by buying a lot of merchandise.
  Louie: Nobody cons my family but me!
• Iconic Item: He is shown to carry a jeweller's loupe on his person on at least two occasions: first during their trip to Castle McDuck, where it comes in handy for finding a specific pure gold key among a pile of fakes; and during the Game Night incident when the rest of the family save Huey and Louie are shrunk down to microscopic size.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: Triplet ID tag, in this case; he wears a green hoodie.
• Incredibly Lame Fun: His opinion of golf.
  Louie: It's a sport where you try not to score points to make it end sooner. Hard pass.
• I Resemble That Remark!: When Lena mocks them for being "exactly the same", Huey, Dewey, and Louie all protest that claim... all at once in the exact same way.
• Irony: Each of Scrooge's traits that the triplets expressed admiration for in the first episode become sources of anger towards him upon learning the truth of Della's disappearance. Louie, who always held Scrooge's vast fortune and Pooled Funds in esteem, lashes out at him for seemingly not using them to fund more ships to go up to space and find her (though it turns out Scrooge actually did do this).
• It Runs in the Family:
  • Each of the siblings inherit a trait from Scrooge. Like Scrooge, Louie has a love of money and riches, despite not being as much of an honest, hard worker as his Great Uncle. His schmoozing and ability to charm people to do his job for him also shows parts of Scrooge's exploitative cheapskate nature and that Louie also believes in "work smarter not harder" albeit by being smart enough to not work at all (which was not Scrooge's message at all).
  • In "Shadow War", it's revealed that Louie has actually taken the time and effort to learn how to dive and swim in money just like Scrooge can, which pleases his uncle.
  • His charmer personality and his wanting something for nothing attitude gives him a lot with common with his Uncle Gladstone.
  • In The Most Dangerous Game... Night!, Scrooge tells Louie that he inherited his keen mind from his mother.
• Jaw Drop: He does one in "The Great Dime Chase!" when Scrooge reveals the dime on the pedestal is a decoy, and he wears the real one around his neck.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's greedy, money-grubbing and rather lax when it comes to morals, but despite being labeled the "evil triplet", he still has a good heart and cares about his loved ones. He even makes Santa's "Nice" list in "How Santa Stole Christmas!".
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • After getting separated from the others in "The Living Mummies of Toth-Ra!", Webby wants to leave the treasure room to rejoin the group. Louie convinces her that the better option is to stay put because, in his words, "it's a room full of treasure. Scroogey's gonna find it."
  • In "The Impossible Summit of Mt. Neverrest!", Louie is understandably annoyed that Scrooge takes them on a spontaneous family adventure on Christmas, that has no extrinsic award aside from Scrooge getting the satisfaction of being the first to climb a mountain. He was expecting a warm evening by a fire with presents to open, not climbing up a death-defying mountain and risking his life for no reason. The other kids eventually get fed up with the hike and even Scrooge admits at the end Louie's decision to stay behind at the sauna and drink hot cocoa was a wise one.
  • In "McMystery at McDuck Manor", he's the one who calls out Huey on how much of a jerk he's being by first throwing Scrooge a party he didn't want to show off his planning skills then treating his going missing as a game. Huey admits it by the end.
  • Considering the others put in a lot of work and regularly risk their lives to get the treasure on their adventures, Louie does have a right to be miffed about Scrooge refusing to let them keep any of it.
  • In "The Most Dangerous Game... Night!" Louie is pretty callous for raining on everyone's adventuring parade, but he's not wrong about them making adventuring a lot harder and a lot more dangerous than it needs to be by blindly stumbling into every trap every time, and getting him into needless trouble despite knowing he Can't Catch Up.
  Louie: Can we just wrap up the "WHOOOA!" and get to the "Wait, what?" already? [Scrooge looks puzzled.] "WHOOOA! Some cool hidden city or treasure or whatever." "Wait, whaaat? That cool thing is dangerous or cursed or guarded by centaurs?" "AAAH! Louie almost dies!" Can we please move it along, that's how it goes.
  • When Della scolds him for destroying time and space by stealing the Time Tub, Louie passive-aggressively mutters that it's no different than her stealing the Spear of Selene. Della doesn't refute his remark, even wordlessly cutting Beakley off when she speaks up to rebuke him for it, but still puts her foot down.
• Jerkass Realization:
  • He gets one in "The House of the Lucky Gander!" when he sees how emotionally hurt Donald is, to the point that Donald wants to stop playing. When Donald prepares to forfeit the climactic footrace, knowing the odds are against him, Louie gives him a rousing speech that motivates Donald to finish and actually win.
  • Another is implied in "Glomtales!" When Louie watches Glomgold confront his "family" after another of his half-baked evil schemes goes sour, the uncomfortable look on Louie's face suggests that Louie has noticed how he and Glomgold are similar.
  • In "The Trickening!", he realizes how Innocently Insensitive he had been around Huey, who wanted to keep celebrating Halloween.
  Louie: I was just trying to get us a lifetime supply of candy... and that is the problem.
• Laborious Laziness: Part of Louie being Brilliant, but Lazy. He tries anyway he can to cut corners and not put in the work.
• Like Brother and Sister: Word of God has stated that this is as far as Louie (or, any of the triplets) will go with Webby. No Hugging, No Kissing, they'll be strictly friends only. Of the triplets, he is usually either a Toxic Friend Influence teaching Webby how to Do Wrong, Right, or Webby getting annoyed with him over his tendency to cut corners and take the easy way out.invoked
• The Load: We learn in the first episode of season 2 that he fears that he is this, given that his only real strength seems to be his Guile Hero skills. Discussed when Louie fears he Can't Catch Up and is becoming a permanent Distressed Dude. Ultimately averted when he and Scrooge discover his ability to analyze and work out an angle to in every situation can be very useful when applied to adventuring, not just getting out of situations.
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • Along with Huey. Dewey and Webby haven't told them anything about Della or their investigation into her disappearance for most of the first season. Averted as of "The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!", when Dewey finally confesses.
  • Additionally, he was one of the very few people who had no idea Fenton was Gizmoduck, until it was accidentally revealed to him by M'ma Cabrera in "Beaks in the Shell!".
• Lovable Coward: Louie is the most likely of the children to show fear in the face of danger; just look at the picture on the main page. That said, he will still fight to protect his friends and family.
• Mellow Fellow: Louie is quite laidback and easygoing, to the point of being The Stoic.
• Morality Pet:
  • Word Of God has confirmed his family is this to him.
  • In turn, he serves this role for Goldie since seeing him trapped was what convinced her to go back and help Scrooge in "The Forbidden Fountain of the Foreverglades!".
• Mr. Vice Guy:
  • Much like his great uncle, one of Louie's biggest motivators is his Greed, being the only nephew who routinely tries to milk an inheritance out of Scrooge, more interested in the treasures that come with the adventures and not the history (Huey) or for the thrill (Dewey). When push comes to shove however, he would give up promising opportunities for his family and can sometimes channel his Con Man skills into a zeal for good.
  • Unlike his great uncle though, he is also very lazy. He is less willing to put in the hard work to make a buck, will try to trick others into doing something for him and will often take shortcuts that causes more problems than it solves. However, this has also given him an eye for detail and a capacity to use the strengths of others to their fullest potential, a quality that he inherited from his mother.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • He is visibly having this in "Timephoon!" when his latest scheme causes time and space to collapse, more so when he sees his family get blasted out of existence.
  • He's also visibly aghast after his Logic Bomb gambit at Doofus Drake's birthday party causes Boyd to meltdown and become a killbot. When given the chance to make amends and restore him to "normal", he doesn't hesitate to try.
  • See Nice Job Breaking It, Hero, but he essentially has this look when General Lunaris is successfully able to attack the Earth thanks to his greed one episode later.
• Nephewism: Louie and his brothers have been raised and cared for by their Uncle Donald all of their lives.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • Going back in time to steal treasures lost to the world? Destroys time and space as we know it.
  • In "The Richest Duck In the World!", when he tries to kill the Bombie with an Orbital Bombardment, it leaves Earth totally open to an extraterrestrial attack, right when there happens to be one on its way.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Of the triplets, Louie is the "Mean" one, as he is the most greedy and selfish of his brothers.
  • Became the in-between in "McMystery At McDuck McManor", while Huey became the mean one and Dewey became the nice one.
• Non-Action Guy: He and Huey are this, while Dewey and Webby are Action Heroes.
• No Sense of Direction: Apparently gets lost when he's in charge of the map when the triplets kayak. Dewey even calls him "Captain Lost".
• Not So Similar: From his Uncle Gladstone; they both believe in trying to get something for nothing and coasting through life but Gladstone only cares about himself, while Louie cares for others. Additionally, Louie is clever enough to get through life though not necessarily book smart, while Gladstone has no common sense and doesn’t even know how to turn a doorknob.
• Not So Stoic: In normal circumstances, he affects a laid-back, carefree attitude. But there are moments where he loses his cool.
  • When Webby ties up the triplets and begins interrogating them, Louie actually starts crying.
  • When Lena nearly attacks him in "The Beagle Birthday Massacre!", he looks darn near traumatized, crawling to Huey for comfort.
  • He also gets very squeamish when he peeks into a canopic jar in a pharaoh's tomb and learns firsthand that they weren't used for storing treasure.
  • Gets very upset when he finds out Dewey was investigating their mom's fate and didn't tell them.
  • In general, he tends to lose his composure in dangerous situations he can't talk his way out of, or when his attempts to talk his way out fail.
  • Comes to a head in "The Most Dangerous Game... Night!" where he becomes so distressed about being The Load and that he will never catch up with the others in adventuring, entering a Troubled Fetal Position.
  • He breaks down at the end of "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!" after Goldie has double-crossed him again and escaped with all the money he has earned.
  • When Della grounds him and shuts down his company in "Timephoon!", he is left begging that he will clean everything up and turning to Scrooge and Beakley for help, to no avail.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • In "The Great Dime Chase!", when he finds out that the dime he borrowed to use the soda machine was actually Scrooge's number-one dime.
  • He has this reaction when he figures out what Doofus Drake is really like.
  • He realizes he and Goldie are in big trouble when Doofus turns on them after Boyd's breakdown and they've run out of guests to frame, and then Goldie frames him. Later after defeating Doofus by giving his parents a second son in Boyd, Louie sees that Goldie is gone...and so are the gift bags full of gold.
• Only in It for the Money:
  • The only reason he goes on Scrooge's adventures is because he wants to find treasure. In "The Impossible Summit of Mount Neverrest", upon learning that there is no treasure on the mountain and the group is just climbing it for adventure's sake, he immediately drops his equipment and goes to get hot cocoa and relax at a sauna in the resort town.
  • Further, he's not exactly thrilled to play golf with the family. Only tags along because he gets tipped by Glomgold as his substitute caddy.
  • He's terrified of Doofus Drake, so he strongly objects to attending his birthday day. He only agrees to come because it's the only way he would get Goldie to teach him how to gain riches.
• The Only One Allowed To Insult You: "No one cons my family but me!"
• Only Sane Man: On rare occasions, he plays this role when everyone else gets too caught up in the thrill of adventure and mysteries while he stays Closer to Earth.
  • In "The Impossible Summit of Mount Neverrest" Louie proves to have been correct all along in his wisdom to just sit back and lounge around the base town and drink hot cocoa on the sidewalks. Scrooge himself admits at the end that he should drink some.
  • In "McMystery At McDuck McManor", while Huey wants to solve the mystery of who kidnapped Scrooge himself to prove he's a great party planner, Louie wants to call the police or Mrs. Beakley for help. He even lampshades how having to be the sensible one of the trio wigs him out.
  • In "Nothing Can Stop Della Duck", he is the only one of the triplets not to be swayed by his mother's thrill for action when she comes into their lives.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • In "The Missing Links of Moorshire!", when the kelpies mention the treasure at the end of the course, Louie of all people says they should ignore them and go home.
  • When the other two finally learn about Dewey's clandestine investigation of their mother's disappearance, in contrast to Huey's angry reaction, Louie just silently sits in the corner until they notice him, at which he somberly tells Dewey keeping the secret was "not okay."
  • The money grubber who enjoys living in McDuck Manor the most, is the one who tells Donald the triplets want to move back to the marina.
  • He has a breakdown in the first episode of Season 2 over his lack of enthusiasm for adventuring and concern that he wouldn't catch up with the others and will end up getting hurt.
• Opportunistic Vendors: In "The Rumble for Ragnarock", when Dewey is being booed by the wrestling crowd, he is hit in the head with a "Stop the pop" hate shirt. He turns around to see Louie with a full rack of the shirts and a smoking Tshirt launcher. Louie then asks him if he could wear the merchandise to up his sales.
• Pooled Funds:
  • Attempts it in "The Great Dime Chase", but is stopped by Scrooge because it's far harder than he makes it look.
  • Pay close attention and you'll see Louie slowly learning to swim in gold as the first season goes on: he "treads water", swims in plastic poker chips, et cetera.
  • He seems to have figured it out by "The Shadow War", as he dives into the money bin and jets through it to dodge blasts from Magica's staff. As the family celebrates at the end, we see him swim through the gold again in front of Scrooge, even replicating the classic coin-spitting move. Scrooge notices and is visibly proud.
• Prone to Tears: Of the triplets, he's generally the one who cries the easiest. (When he's not doing it on purpose.)
  Scrooge: (to Webby) You know, most kids wouldn't get this excited about impending doom. Louie mostly just cries.
• Pyrrhic Victory:
  • In "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!", he finally gives Doofus some well-deserved karma, but lost his golden goodie bags due to Goldie backstabbing him again.
  • In "GlomTales!", he successfully tricks Glomgold, taking over both McDuck Enterprises and Glomgold Industries. However, in the very next episode, "The Richest Duck in the World!" he realizes he doesn't know how to handle the massive wealth he inherited, and then learns that his wealth also comes with a terrifying curse...
• Really Fond of Sleeping: Louie frequently goes to sleep at inopportune moments out of boredom and laziness. He even went to sleep inside of his own dream.
  Huey: I've divided the castle into a grid. We sweep counterclockwise-
  Louie: GAH! Oh, sorry, I was taking a Hueze. That's a snooze I take while Huey explains boring nerd stuff. (Yawn) Trademark Louie Duck...
• The Scapegoat: At the end of "The Depths of Cousin Fethry", his brothers plan to blame him for the whole situation of the episode.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!:
  • In "The Impossible Summit of Mount Neverrest" after Scrooge tells the group that they'll be climbing all the way to the mountaintop (and that there's no treasure involved), Louie tells them he's sitting this one out and goes to relax at the local coffee shop instead.
  • At the end of "The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!", the boys, disillusioned with Scrooge, ask Donald to move the boat back to the marina.
  • Attempted in "The Shadow War" when he sees Magica's return.
  Louie: (Walking off-screen) So, we're still going to Cape Suzette, cool? Cool.
  • He attempts this again in "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!" when Doofus's arrival is announced. Goldie stops him.
    Louie: Great party! Can't wait to tell my therapist about it when I'm older. Bye!
  • In "The Golden Armory of Cornelius Coot!", the boys immediately decide to leave when it turns out Cornelius Coot's treasure was just corn, despite Webby insisting otherwise.
• Shipper on Deck: The triplets are all interested in Scrooge's relationship with Goldie and tease him about it throughout "The Golden Lagoon of White Agony Plains!", even calling their adventure together a date.
• Skewed Priorities: In "The Missing Links of Moorshire!" he is hired as Glomgold's caddie. Louie immediately proceeds to charge Glomgold for every gesture of assistance. Not exactly skewed yet, but this behavior reaches mind-blowing levels at the climax, where even though the curse has started turning everyone to stone, he still tries to charge money for handing out golf clubs - to his own family.
• The Slacker: His laziness annoys Scrooge greatly. At the start of "The Great Dime Chase!", he's chugging cans of Pep Soda (but only one sip of each, to get "peak carbonation") while watching TV, taken to calling Beakley by cell (which he throws away when its battery runs out, because he didn't want to bother charging it) while still in the mansion and more or less puts on a couch potato act before Scrooge. In "The Outlaw Scrooge McDuck!", he temporarily goes back to being a couch potato and decides to scrap Louie Incorporated altogether because of a line (consisting of only five people) at the patent office.
  • According to Word of God, he's been this since before he hatched - while Huey and Dewey hatched within three seconds of each other, Louie didn't make his way out of his egg for another 48 or so minutes.invoked
• The Smart Guy: Huey is best with logical thinking, but Louie is best at thinking on his feet, analyzing a situation, and putting everyone to their best use. As Scrooge put it; if Huey is smarter than the smarties, then Louie is sharper than the sharpies, which makes them both potential inheritors.
• The Social Expert: Louie has a knack for schmoozing people and recognizing what makes them tick. He also has a rather gifted Silver Tongue. Early on, he uses these gifts mostly to manipulate and fleece others. After Character Development, these skills manifest in his knowing exactly what to say to restore his family members' confidence when they hit emotional low points.
• Speak in Unison: The triplets do this - albeit unintentionally - after Lena mocks them for being the same.
  Lena: That's cute, with the names and the color-coded outfits... is that your thing, you're all exactly the same?
  Huey, Dewey, & Louie: Ha, no way! We're all unique snowflakes... Well, this usually never happens! This is really weird! Okay, stop talking! (beat) Antidisestablishmentarianism! Seriously?! GAH!
• Squee: The triplets have this reaction when they find out Donald is taking them to stay at Scrooge's in "Woo-oo!".
• The Stoic: He's the most calm and neutrally expressive of the cast, though in a laid-back manner. Makes it more notable when something happens to break his cool (namely dangerous situations).
• Strong Family Resemblance: Justified. Louie shares a striking resemblance to his brothers because they are identical triplets.
• Street Smart: In contrast to Huey's book smarts, Louie doesn't care much for research, but is very good at thinking on his feet and using what he knows about people to get out of a jam.
• Sure, Let's Go with That: After he finally takes off Launchpad's goggles in "The Impossible Summit of Mount Neverrest":
  Launchpad: You saved me! You carried me down the mountain single-handedly and cured me of ice fever!
  Louie: Sure, yeah, why not?
• Talking Your Way Out: This is Louie's main skill to get out of situations caused by him or his family, but his smooth talking is his 'only' trump card and if that doesn't work.... Oh, Crap! . In "The Living Mummies of Toth-Ra!": Once he realizes that he can't talk down the giant mummy monster he caves in and admits to being Just a Kid.
• Taught by Experience: One thing Louie gets from Della is that he learns better from experience.
• Tempting Fate: He assures Scrooge that he knows what he's doing when he becomes an apprentice to Goldie. Immediately afterwards, Goldie has trapped him inside a treasure chest.
• Token Evil Teammate: The other triplets insist he's the evil one, an assertion he merely shrugs at. Indeed, while not really "evil", he is the least moral of all the protagonists, being a rather self-serving schemer who has no qualms about lying or swindling people out of money. Over time he begins to understand more how his actions can hurt others, leading him to adapt his scheming to noticeably less selfish causes (though he remains the most selfish of the trio on average).
• Too Clever by Half: Louie is rather street smart and clever that his talent is trying to analyze a situation and look at all the angles. Problem is, he has very little life experience, patience and humility that he makes rather idiotic decisions which only place him in a deeper hole. Heck, he'll end up making decisions that create bigger problems for himself and those around him, that he can't scheme himself out of it.
• Took a Level in Kindness: The events of Season 2 temper his selfishness a bit, and by Season 3 he's using his wits to aid others about as often as he uses them for personal gain.
• Toxic Friend Influence: He frequently tries to teach Webby skills like lying, schmoozing with people to get free stuff, and cutting corners with buying things.
  Louie: Lying: it's the responsible thing to do!
• Trademark Favorite Drink: He's definitely the one who loves Pep soda the most (especially the first sip at peak carbonation).
• Troll: Pretends to support both Webby and Huey's viewpoints in "Terror of the Terra-Firmians!" solely to keep the argument going because he thinks that it's more entertaining than the movie they just saw.
• What Could Have Been: In-Universe. When Della returns, she reveals that she wanted Louie's name to be "Rebel".
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • He calls Huey out on his It's All About Me attitude throughout "McMystery at McDuck McManor!".
  • During "The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!", Huey and Louie finally find out about Dewey's investigation into their mom. They are understandably not happy at being kept in the dark.
  • In "The Trickening!", he furiously calls out Huey for lying to them about not knowing about Hazel House.
• You Are Not Ready: Scrooge by no means considers Louie an Inadequate Inheritor; in fact, Scrooge knows Louie has potential to be a businessman, due to him being so clever that he could one day surpass his uncle, but that kind of success requires patience.
• Young Entrepreneur: In Season 3, Louie is aiming more towards getting a steady source of income rather than Get Rich Quick Schemes (which were often less than legal and tended to put people in danger), usually by stoking demand based off of what is relevant at the time (such a T-Shirts humiliating the Heel in a wrestling match).

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