Main Characters: Scrooge McDuck | Donald Duck The Duck Triplets | Della Duck | Webby Vanderquack
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Clan McDuck
In General
The proud Clan McDuck of the Dismal Downs of Scotland. Noted for their greed, business acumen, and love of treasure.
- Been There, Shaped History: The Clan has been an influence in Great Britain's history for as long as records have been kept, with their family selling longbows to the English (and charging them extra for the arrows), inventing Golf, and then of course there's all the shenanigans that Scrooge McDuck gets into.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: The fabulous Knights Templar treasure is hidden in Castle McDuck's tunnels. But by McDuck standards, any family member looking for it is a "deadbeat" looking for a "handout".
- Dysfunction Junction: The family throughout the years have had difficult and cold relations with each other. In general, the triplets and Della Duck are the only universally liked members within the family. Donald has distant and cold relations with his cousins Fethry and Gladstone, he's also estranged from Uncle Scrooge, and even when they aren't estranged anymore, they still take turns insulting each other with Scrooge blatantly favoring Della over him and continuing to call him a moocher and deadbeat. The grandparents and Fergus McDuck have a distant relationship with Scrooge and know little to nothing about Donald (based on how they mistake Launchpad for him) and Donald never told the nephews about them. Even the triplets owing to their distinct personalities don't always get along well with each other.
- Feuding Families: They've had a blood feuding going with the DeSpell family for centuries, of which Scrooge and Magica are the latest incarnation.
- Honor Before Reason: The Knight Templar treasure could've restored the family's fortunes long ago, but the McDuck's familial distaste of "deadbeats" and "handouts" insured it remains hidden for centuries.
- Impoverished Patrician: For generations, the family could barely afford to live or maintain their castle or land.
- Riches to Rags: They used to be very wealthy until several misfortunes drove the family into poverty. They stay that way for generations until Scrooge comes along.
- Too Much Alike: Most of the McDucks are hot-blooded and prideful, which no doubt causes them to clash with each other often. Members of the family are also shown to have a bad habit of miss-blaming others (particularly each other) when things go wrong.
- The boys blamed Scrooge for Della's disappearance ignoring her own fault in it.
- Fergus' and Scroodge's strained relationship causes him to unfairly blame him for ANYTHING.
- When the McDucks ancestors statues are given life one immediately blames the other for her missing bagpipes and it starts a brawl between them.
- The Scrooge: Scrooge's stinginess is something he shares with his father Fergus, and which Fergus shared with his grandfather. A hatred of "deadbeats" and "handouts" is something that's passed down in the McDuck Clan though not one shared by others within the family.
- Thrifty Scot: They are from Scotland, and stinginess runs in the family.
Sir Donald McDuck
Sir Donald McDuck
One of Scrooge and Donald's ancestors. Creator of the game of golf.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Something he shares with his descendant. It was so bad that King James II was forced to outlaw golf to save the Scottish people from his tantrums whenever he lost.
- In the original Don Rosa comics, this also tied into the creation of the Scottish sports of hammer-throwing (after he threw his golf club in anger), and log-throwing (after his neighbor threw a log back in retaliation).
- In-Series Nickname: "Black" Donald
- Posthumous Character: He lived during the rule of King James II, so naturally he's long dead.
- Small Role, Big Impact: His temper led to King James II banning golf, which, in change, led to a group of druids creating the "missing links of Moorshire", i.e. a magically hidden golf course where Black Donald's descendants get trapped.
"Dirty" Dingus McDuck
"Dirty" Dingus McDuck
Voiced By: David Tennant
Fergus McDuck's father and Scrooge's grandfather.
- Composite Character: He combines the character of Scrooge's grandfather (who was dead by the time of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck) but his supposed treasure was based on that of sir Quackly Mcduck's treasure in the Carl Barks story. The long treasure hunt he created also takes elements from the unnamed Knight Templar McDuck who hid the order's treasure under the castle.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: When the stone bust of his head comes alive, he's aggrieved that Fergus didn't build a full statue of him.
- Friendly Ghost: He shows up together with the other McDuck ancestors to scare away the Hell Hound of Castle McDuck.
- In-Series Nickname: "Dirty" Dingus.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite the trick he pulled on his son, he was more than willing to help save his great-great grandsons from the Demon Dog.
- Jerkass: He left an elaborate treasure hunt for his son, the "prize" at the end being only a rather insulting note calling Fergus a "deadbeat" looking for a "handout" in the form of the lost family treasure.
- Like Father, Like Son: He was just as estranged from Fergus as Fergus is from Scrooge. Also, Dingus set up the treasure hunt for Fergus the same way Fergus set up the "Number One Dime" incident for Scrooge, to teach their respective children some values. When a stone bust of him is briefly brought to life in "The Fight for Castle McDuck!", he proves to be just as unpleasable toward Fergus as Fergus is toward Scrooge, mocking him for "mooching" off his own son.
- Posthumous Character: His ghost haunts Castle McDuck.
- Thrifty Scot: He was wealthy, but he hid the family treasure from his son Fergus so that the child would learn to make his own fortune.
Simon McDuck
Scrooge's ancestor who was the accountant to the Knights Templar, and hid their legendary treasure in the catacombs of Castle McDuck
- Amoral Attorney: Implied to be one since he kept his client's treasure in his own castle. That is, of course, unless he took charge of the Treasure of the Knight's Templar following the Order's disbandment, in which case Simon is a Subversion of this.
- Posthumous Character: He lived centuries ago.
- Shout-Out: His name and occupation (Simon, accountant to the Knights Templar), may be a reference to Simon Templar, protagonist of The Saint.
Castle McDuck
Fergus McDuck
Fergus McDuck, Laird of Castle McDuck
Voiced By: Graham McTavish
The father of Scrooge, Matilda and Hortense, thus the grandfather of Donald and Della, and the great-grandfather of the triplets.
- Adaptational Jerkass: In the comics, he was a supportive parent who was very proud of his son, and the only time he expressed disapproval of Scrooge was inside one of Scrooge's own Imagine Spots. Here he seems to take a grumpy and distant disposition towards Scrooge. Though it's later revealed that Fergus is mad at himself for inadvertently driving his son away by teaching him to be self-reliant to the point that Scrooge felt he didn't need his family's help. That said, he's still quite prone to blaming Scrooge for everything, even ones that he is not responsible for.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: Big, bushy, grey eyebrows.
- Companion Cube: He took care of "Whiskers", the ball of hair they bought for Scrooge when he was a child, as if he was a real pet.
- Freudian Excuse:
- The reason why he's so judgmental of Scrooge is because he feels guilty for having his son work for everything when he himself couldn't provide for him, him teaching his son self-reliance being A Lesson Learned Too Well and not seeing Scrooge for long periods in the process.
- It is implied that he is rather Money Dumb and it is why he and his family were so poor in-spite of his successful lineage. The fact that his son would go on to provide for them by reclaiming their family castle likely did no favors for his ego, and thus he projects his inadequacies onto Scrooge when he visits.
- He had a cold and hostile relationship with his own father (in part it seems due to his money issues) who was always ragging on him and now he treats Scrooge the same way.
- Flanderization: In his first appearance he at first seems to resent Scrooge for "cursing" him, in which the castle that Scrooge built for them also made them unable to leave while making them immortal. His difficulties with Scrooge also is centered around Scrooge leaving home too young and hardly seeing them afterwards, as well as sympathizing with "Donald" for the way Scrooge treats him and accusing Scrooge of not taking care of his family. Then when Scrooge calls him out on not being there for him as a kid, realizes he is repeating he same mistakes his own dad made and that attitude is making Scrooge less likely to visit he starts to mellow out. In his second appearance, however, he is upset that the castles magic is fading and has the compulsive need to blame Scrooge whenever something bad happens, even when it was someone else's fault. It seems to just be because that's the way McDuck fathers and sons act with each other.
- Generation Xerox:
- He's a carbon copy of Scrooge in terms of looks and especially his grumpiness. In fact his relationship with his son has eerie parallels with the estranged one Scrooge has with Donald. What are Fergus' first words upon seeing a cab carrying his son and extended family?
- It later transpires he's also one for his own father - "Dirty" Dingus McDuck - who shared an equally antagonistic father/son relationship as he does with Scrooge complete with feelings that no matter what he did his father was never satisfied.
- Hot-Blooded: Much like the rest of his family members he has a bad temper and he's very passionate in a way about family.
- Inadequate Inheritor: It's implied he feels this way, since he wasn't able to rebuild the family fortunes himself either by finding the lost treasure or by hard work. The insulting note left by his father confirms it.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's a stubborn and grumpy person, but is still good on the whole.
- Jerkass Realization: Scrooge blowing up at him that he never needed his help is when Fergus finally realizes how badly he's screwed up as parent and he becomes better. Its thrown out the window in his second appearance where, if anything, he's even more of a Jerkass to Scrooge.
- Outliving One's Offspring: By the time the series starts, he's already long outlived his oldest daughter Hortense.
- Parents as People: He was secretly ashamed that he was never able to properly provide for Scrooge the way he would've liked and was forced to teach him to be self-reliant when Scrooge was just a kid. Fergus regretted it because Scrooge learned it too well and spent most of his life away from home. However, much like Scrooge, his pride and hot-bloodedness means that it manifests poorly, namely a resentful attitude towards Scrooge for "avoiding them" and accusing him of not caring about family while projecting his own inadequacies onto him. In his second appearance he compulsively blames Scrooge for anything bad that happens even when it's clearly another person's fault.
- Parental Favoritism: He considers his daughters, particularly Matilda, more reliable than his son, whom he has a distant disposition with. This is mainly because Matilda spends more time at the castle and takes care of them while she's there while Scrooge is away either on adventures or running his business. He even calls her first when the magic of the castle starts fading when it was Scrooge who bought it in the first place and has more experience dealing with magic.
- Really 700 Years Old: Since Scrooge is around 150 in this continuity, that would make Fergus around 182!note Justified with the immortality-granting druid stones that Scrooge built into their castle.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Fergus quietly passed away from old age the night Scrooge set out with his sisters to move to Duckburg. Here he's still alive due to Scrooge rebuilding Castle McDuck with Druid stones that made Fergus and Downy immortal.
- Strong Family Resemblance: He looks a lot like his eldest son, Scrooge only with gray sideburns instead of white ones.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Once he and Scrooge have a serious talk about their issues, he mellows considerably. Unfortunately, "The Fight for Castle McDuck!" shows that this didn't stick, showing him to be as sour towards Scrooge as ever.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Scrooge paid for Castle McDuck to be rebuilt, inadvertently granting Fergus and his wife immortality in the process, neither of which Fergus has ever shown one shred of gratitude for. While its somewhat understandable in his first appearance because its implied that he and his wife cannot leave the castle and he calls it a curse. However, in his second appearance he is furious that the magic is fading and its revealed that his daughter routinely visits which throws the implied justification out the window. In his introductory episode when Scrooge even asks him if he would prefer that Scrooge let him pass or make him immortal, Fergus says NEITHER is satisfactory and says a thoughtful son would know that, so really he just cant help but act like everything Scrooge does is wrong (like how he blames Scrooge for things that arent even his fault) due to his own issues.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: He and Downy are both still alive as a result of Scrooge utilizing mystic druid stones in the reconstruction of Castle McDuck cursing them with immortality. Fergus isn't all that happy about his son's gift. But when it starts fading in his second appearance he, reluctantly, calls Scrooge for help to fix it so it seems like he's just using it as an excuse to give his son grief.
Downy McDuck neé O'Drake
Downy McDuck
Voiced By: Ashley Jensen
The mother of Scrooge, Matilda and Hortense, thus the grandmother of Donald and Della, and the great-grandmother of the triplets.
- Berserk Button: She really doesn't like having animals inside the castle. Or pets on the dining room table (even if it's not an animal).
- Doting Parent: Unlike her husband, she's overjoyed to see Scrooge again.
- Ms. Exposition: Despite only being a McDuck by marriage, she knows a lot about their history and happily gives the family a tour of all the old McDuck family art and sculpture. She even offers old archive materials to Webby.
- Outliving One's Offspring: By the time the series starts, she's already long outlived her oldest daughter Hortense.
- Parental Favoritism: She favors Scrooge over Matilda in their Sibling Rivalry, partially because Scrooge doesn't break the castle rules like Matilda does.
- Really 700 Years Old: Since Scrooge is around 150 in this continuity, Downy is around 177!note Justified with the immortality-granting druid stones that Scrooge built into their castle.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck she passed away while Scrooge was beginning to make his fortune in the Klondike. Here she's still alive due to Scrooge rebuilding Castle McDuck with Druid stones that made her and Fergus immortal.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She looks a lot like her oldest daughter, Hortense.
Matilda McDuck
Matilda McDuck
Voiced By: Michelle Gomez
Younger sister to Scrooge and Hortense, she is Donald's and Della's aunt and the triplets' great-aunt.
- Adaptational Personality Change: While Matilda in the comics does have her silly moments (a Running Gag has her and Hortense chasing men in the background), she is generally treated as the more serious of Scrooge's sisters. This version is an Annoying Younger Sibling.
- Age Lift: In the comics, she was the middle child and the older sister to Hortense. Here, she is said to be Scrooge's youngest sister, making her younger than Hortense.
- Alliterative Name: Matilda McDuck.
- Ambiguous Situation: It was originally unclear if she was still alive or had passed away. "The Fight for Castle McDuck!" confirmed that she's indeed still around.
- Animal Lover: Matilda has a full grown emu for a pet and she has a variety of emu-themed trinkets in her room.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: While they appear to have been the best of friends when they were kids, Scrooge now sees Matilda as one of these. He's especially peeved when he learns she lied about Whiskers (his pet hairball) running away when she stole him to practice color dying.
- Basement-Dweller: Scrooge accuses her of being this because she lives with Fergus and Downy in between niche business ventures.
- Cool Old Lady: Not much younger than the century plus old Scrooge, and Matilda is full of spunk and good humor.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Her blouse is half-tucked into her trousers.
- Flowers of Femininity: She has a light orange flower in her hair, unlike her mainstream counterpart who wore the flower in her hat.
- Foil: Matilda to Scrooge; the latter is a successful billionaire who is The Ageless thanks to hard work and determination, whereas the former flops from one hare-brained scheme to another and has immortality thanks to the same Druid stones as their parents. The best example can be gleaned from the incident where Matilda stole Whiskers to practice dying hair for her "very popular" hair salon. Presumably she was the same age as Scrooge was when he had his shoe shining business.
- Older Than They Look: Her appearance in the reboot makes her look younger compared to how she's commonly depicted in the comics but like her brother she must have been around for over a century. She gains the same immortality as her parents through the stones of Castle McDuck.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: She teases Scrooge for (from her perspective) starting his business off “family money” (ie the dime that their father indirectly gave Scrooge as a child). However, in reality, their father only gave him one dime which he never even spent but simply wears as a lucky charm while every other cent he made on his own. Though she may still consider it the same since it inspired Scrooge to move to America where he started his fortune and giving him “good luck.”
- Strong Family Resemblance: Matilda looks like an older version of her niece, Della. The same is true of her other niece, Webby.
- Unrelated in the Adaptation: In many of the comics, Matilda was married to Prof. Ludwig von Drake, which apparently isn't the case here.
- Unseen No More: Matilda was the only relative who didn't appear as a picture on Webby's cork board, with only a label with her name on it to indicate that she exists in this continuity. She finally made a full appearance in "The Fight for Castle McDuck!"
The Duck Family
Hortense Duck neé McDuck
Hortense McDuck
Scrooge's younger sister, Matilda's older sister, Quackmore Duck's wife, mother of twins Donald and Della, and maternal grandmother of Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
- Absurdly Elderly Mother: Given how she's the middle child in this continuity and Matilda is shown to be fairly close in age to their elder brother, she was at least 100 years old when her children hatched. (Possibly accounted for if she spent some time living in Castle McDuck with her parents and sister after Scrooge had it rebuilt, given what
Word of God has said about it.) - Age Lift: In the comics, she was the youngest of Scrooge's siblings. According to "The Fight For Castle McDuck!", she is the middle child.
- Birds of a Feather: She and Quackmore both had short tempers.
- Gift-Giving Gaffe: According to Scrooge, Hortense had a habit of sending him less then stellar gifts like wool sweaters or scented candles.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Hortense's temper was defining and legendary. Her son Donald inherited it.
- Love at First Sight: With Quackmore — when they met there were fireworks.
- Posthumous Character: She passed away a long time ago.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She looks a lot like her mother, Downy.
Quackmore Duck
Quackmore Duck
Hortense's husband, Donald's and Della's father, and the nephews' maternal grandfather. His sister Daphne was Gladstone's mother and his brother Eider was Fethry's father.
- Birds of a Feather: He and Hortense both had short tempers.
- Butt-Monkey: He apparently suffered quite a bit raising Donald and Della. A prime example was him having to go to the hospital due to the twins lighting a firecracker under his chair.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Like his wife, Quackmore had a short fuse.
- Love at First Sight: With Hortense — when they met there were fireworks.
- Posthumous Character: Just like his wife, he has passed away.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Looks just like a mustachioed Donald. Actually a departure from the original comic version, which was Generation Xerox between father and son.
The Extended Family
Gladstone Gander
Gladstone Gander
"I am the best at getting something for nothing."
Voiced By: Paul F. Tompkins
Donald's impossibly lucky cousin, who isn't on good terms with either him or Scrooge. The son of Quackmore's sister, Daphne Duck.
- Accidental Hero: There are times when Gladstone's luck indirectly causes good things to happen to people more deserving than himself, for instance "foiling" a bank robbery by gently holding down a robber who fell over in front of him. Egotist that he is, Gladstone thinks these absurd contrivances actually make him a good person.
- Achilles' Heel: His luck is magic based, which means he will not be protected from Anti-Magic attacks.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Unlike his comics counterpart who would compete with Donald for Daisy's affections, this version doesn't show any interest in Daisy and is perfectly willing to let her and Donald's relationship be.
- Adaptational Dumbass: While his comics self was simply arrogant with no direction whatsoever, this version is shown to be even dumber than Donald. It really shows when he loses his magical luck: he doesn’t know that stores or establishments can close, at one point he forgets how to walk, and he doesn't know how to turn a doorknob.
- Adaptational Jerkass: This version of Gladstone is more of a Jerkass than his counterpart in the 80s show, where Gladstone was an Adaptational Nice Guy. This puts the character more in line with his original portrayal in the comics, where he's usually a petty, selfish Smug Snake.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: As bad as this version of Gladstone is, he still comes off slightly nicer than his counterpart in American comics. While he maintains his negative qualities he's also much less overt in showing them and his antagonism toward Donald is implied to be unintentional on his part. The comic version delights in aggravating and setting Donald off.
- Aesop Amnesia: Played for Laughs in "The Phantom And The Sorceress!": It seems as getting rid of his luck and assisting the girls against the Phantom Blot finally teach him a lesson in being less selfish and relying on his skills as he finally can prove himself. However, as soon as he gets back his luck he becomes the old self-centered jerk immediatly.
- Alliterative Name: Gladstone Gander.Gladstone: Loose as a Goose, and ready to Gander.
- Anatomy Anomaly: Unlike Scrooge and Donald, he has visible eyebrows.
- Back for the Finale:
- He briefly cameos in the season 1 finale, where he ends up as one of the many people whose shadows are stolen by Magica DeSpell after she brings it to life. Of course, since it's Gladstone's shadow, it gives him a $20 bill before leaving.
- He returns in a more significant role for the season 2 finale, as his good luck leads to him discovering Della, Donald, and the kids stranded on an island, and plays a part in stopping Lunaris's plans.
- He is also present in the season 3 finale, at Webby's (fake) birthday party.
- Birds of a Feather: His "get something for nothing" attitude really endears him to Louie. He also seems to frequently hang out with Fethry, another member of the family whom most other members go out of their way to avoid spending time with.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Louie gets a rude shock when Gladstone snaps at him in a moment of stress and leaves him to chase after Donald, and that the reason he called his family to Macaw was so he could use them to get him out of a jam.
- Blessed with Suck:
- In "The House of the Lucky Gander'', Gladstone's luck turns out to be keeping him imprisoned in the lair of a mystical luck vampire that feeds off good fortune.
- It becomes increasingly clear that Gladstone is so lucky that all of his other life skills have been stunted to the point of effective nonexistence. He literally does not know how to handle a situation where his luck fails him, to the point that he can only call Scrooge and Donald to come bail him out. His Ignored Epiphany at the end of the episode suggests he still has a long way to go if he's ever going to grow as a person, because his luck rarely gives him a reason to try. Further exemplified in "The Phantom and the Sorceress!" when the Phantom Blot steals his luck and not only does he become as unlucky as Donald but also almost completely helpless.
- Born Lucky: Sharp contrast to Donald, Gladstone's luck is downright supernatural. "The Phantom and the Sorceress!" reveals that it is magic, and when the Blot steals it, he becomes as big a Butt-Monkey as Donald. However, it's deconstructed, as it becomes clear that while Gladstone is incredibly fortunate in the short term, it's clear he's anything but in the long term. His lifelong luck and the smug selfishness that he developed because of it means he has no friends and it has atrophied any life skills, to the point where when he loses his luck, he has absolutely no idea how to do anything, including something as basic as using a doorknob.
- Brought Down to Normal: "The Phantom and the Sorceress!" has Gladstone magically stripped of his magical good luck, and he finds himself helpless.
- Butt-Monkey: When the Blot steals the magic responsible for his luck in "The Phantom and the Sorceress!", he turns into one. He even briefly gets turned into a duplicate of Donald.
- Cain and Abel: Despite being cousins, they grew up together, making him the Cain to Donald's Abel, callously leaving Donald to suffer while he relishes in his good luck.
- Carpet of Virility: The tufts of feathers peaking out of his neckline seem to invoke this.
- Character Catchphrase: "Hey, twenty dollars!"
- The Charmer: Explicitly called "charming" by Huey.
- Cool Uncle: Well the nephews certainly think so — especially Louie. Scrooge and Donald try to persuade the kids otherwise, the kids concede their viewpoint at the end when they find out how selfish he is.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of someone who is Born Lucky, just like in the original comics. Gladstone relies on his good luck for everything, which has not only left him smug and lazy, but without any aspirations or life skills to speak of. As a result, he has no friends and, by the end of the casino adventure, has completely alienated his family leaving him completely alone. At the end of his debut episode, Webby even notes that in the grand scheme of things Gladstone really isn't all that lucky. In "The Phantom and the Sorceress!", when his luck is taken by the Phantom Blot, he becomes as big of a Butt-Monkey as Donald, as because he spent his entire life coasting on said luck, he has zero idea how to live life without it.
- Determinator: Inverted. As part of being a foil to Donald who won't give up no matter what life throws at him, if Gladstone can't achieve a goal without any effort then he won't do it.
- Distressed Dude: Spends the majority of his debut episode held captive by luck vampire Liu Hai.
- Everyone Has Standards: Even he was taken aback when Scrooge seemingly sells out Donald to the same luck vampire keeping Gladstone prisoner.Gladstone: Kid's not wrong, Uncle McDunkle. What do we do?
- He also knows that he ought to leave when "awkward family drama" is happening between other people, as seen in "The Last Adventure!"
- The Ditz: So much that he doesn't know how to use a doorknob without his luck.
- Fearless Fool: He doesn't give a second thought about walking into situations that he wouldn't get out of alive if he didn't have his insanely good luck.
- Foil:
- To Donald — While Donald is an unlucky but hard-working, (relatively) Nice Guy, Gladstone is lazy and arrogant, with an attitude that, while not overtly hostile, leaves much to be desired. He relies on his luck to see him through any conflict.
- To Scrooge — While Scrooge earned every penny of his vast wealth, Gladstone's luck allows him to live a carefree existence without having to work for anything he has.
- To Louie — Both are lazy and selfish (and wear green!), but Louie is undergoing character development by being put into situations where he has to apply himself whereas Gladstone appears incapable of either growing as a character or actually applying himself... even when the situation demands it.
- To his fellow relation Fethry. Both are family outsiders but Fethry is a lot more friendly and well meaning than Gladstone is. Notably Fethry wants to meet the triplets and know them while Gladstone doesn't particularly care for them. Fethry ends his first episode with a Rebuilt Pedestal while Gladstone ends his with a Broken Pedestal.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Just calling him friend at all is a massive stretch. Anyone who meets him will immediately be unable to stand him after only a few minutes with him. The sole exception is Fethry, who is friendly to everyone by default and doesn't seem to really notice Gladstone's Jerkass qualities.
- The Gambler: The first time we see him is in a Macaw casino resort. And he has no qualms about using his luck to give him a decidedly unfair advantage.
- Generation Xerox: To Louie, both being self-sufficient hucksters with a lazy streak, not to mention a penchant for green.
- Green and Mean: His outfit is all green and here are all of his admirable traits — Lazy Bum, Smug Snake, Lack of Empathy, and a bad influence on the kids.
- Hairstyle Inertia: As seen in the flashback in his debut episode, Gladstone has maintained the same hairstyle from his youth.
- Hard Work Hardly Works: Gladstone lives by this motto since he never has to try at anything. The show, though, disagrees, as Gladstone's massive luck can't overcome hard work and determination as shown by Scrooge being the richest duck and Donald beating him in a race when he decides to try.
- Hate Sink: Like his comic version, he has few sympathetic tracts. His superficial charms are entertaining at first, but it's soon made clear he cares only about himself.
- The Hedonist: He prefers to take pleasure in his luck rather than do any character building with himself.
- I Thought Everyone Could Do That: Yes and no. He's well aware of the fact that his luck is extraordinary and is proud of that fact, but he has no concept of what life is like with ordinary luck, and so doesn't understand how extraordinary his luck really is. He makes this clear when he asks the other characters if they were aware that businesses could close, and clearly expects them to be as surprised as he is.
- Ignored Epiphany: At the end of "The House of the Lucky Gander" he resolves to get his hands dirty and make something of himself. This lasts all of two seconds before some woman in a gold-plated yacht sails up and sells him the yacht for $20. Though, it's downplayed in that during "Moonvasion!", he will at least try to use his supernatural good luck to help others get out of trouble.
- Informed Species: He looks more like a duck than a goose. Although this may be justified in that he's half-duck.
- Innocently Insensitive:
- There is a hint that he might not fully realize what a smug, insufferable jackass he can be; he seems genuinely taken aback when Donald finally snaps and lays into him for making him look like a pathetic loser in front of his family. Of course, this is also because in doing so, he's risking Donald storming out and leaving him still in the lurch.
- In "Moonvasion!" he chows down on some melon that he found in the ocean and offers to share it with his cousins, completely unaware that Donald has been trapped on the island for months and the melon was his Companion Cube.
- It Runs in the Family: His first appearance has him getting into some trouble — as in being-held-prisoner-by-an-Asian-luck-vampire kind of trouble. Lazy bum he may be but he is a member of the McDuck-Duck family.
- It's All About Me: "Treasure of the Found Lamp!" has him literally singing his own praises, To the Tune of... Beethoven's "Ode to Joy".
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: "Moonvasion!" shows he does care for his family, given how he willingly came to help Donald, Della, and the kids. Plus, he has a good relationship with Fethry, who Donald and Scrooge make an active effort to avoid because they consider him weird.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He is willing to share the spoils of his good luck with the triplets, but clearly he's only doing so to buy their respect, as shown in "Treasure of The Found Lamp!".
- Jerkass: While not as bad as his comic counterpart, he's still a selfish, lazy, smug, uncaring goose.
- Karma Houdini: Justified, as his supernatural good luck will prevent him from receiving any bad karma whatsoever. In other words, he's a living embodiment of this trope. It also leaves the people who would otherwise care about him not wanting anything to do with him, and as Webby points out, there are some very important ways at which Gladstone isn't very lucky at all. The worst he'd get is when his good luck is a diminishing return, such as winning at games while his life is in complete danger. However, this isn't the case in "The Phantom & The Sorceress", when Gladstone loses his good luck because of the Phantom Blot, and is put through quite the humiliating ordeal.
- Lack of Empathy: He spends most of his first appearance making Donald look like an incompetent idiot, and only shows concern for him leaving when it looks like it will jeopardize his plans of leaving the House of Lucky Fortune.
- Laser-Guided Karma: In "The Phantom & The Sorceress", he's given a taste of what being an ordinary person is like when the Phantom Blot steals his famous luck from him, turning him into someone who's as big a Butt-Monkey as Donald, while also lacking any survival skills at all. At the peak of his Humiliation Conga, Gladstone magically turns himself into Donald by accident, and freaks out about the symbolism.
- Lazy Bum: Scrooge calls him a "layabout", which is completely true. His way of earning income is by using his luck to win at casinos.
- Lineage Comes from the Father: Gladstone's mother was a duck and his father was a goose, but still identifies as a goose, as opposed to being a half-breed.
- The Load: Gladstone is one in "The Phantom & The Sorceress". Without his usual luck, he's pretty much useless. He does one thing to help the girls when they're all in danger - catch Lena's amulet to prevent it from falling into the Phantom Blot's hands - and he immediately undoes that only a few seconds later.
- Lonely at the Top: Gladstone has a lot of great things happen to him, but having real friends isn't one of them. People will stay around him for personal benefit or because of his superficial charm, but everyone who gets to know him is inevitably driven off by his selfishness.
- Nice Mean And In Between: In the Duck Cousins trio, selfish and smarmy Gladstone is the Mean to Donald's In-Between and Fethry's Nice.
- The Nicknamer: Gladstone refers to his family and friends by ridiculous nicknames more than he does by their real names. Instead of friendly, it's just another way he comes off as patronizing and disrespectful.
- No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: He shows signs of being dissatisfied by only getting things through luck instead of accomplishment, especially when stuck in Liu Hai's Gilded Cage and after he realizes his family all dislike him. However, this doesn't come close to overcoming his complacency.
- Pet the Dog: When Louie angrily calls out Scrooge for seemingly selling out Donald to Liu Hai, Gladstone agrees with him and then concerningly asks Scrooge how they're going to save Donald.
- He's downright helpful in the season 2 finale, showing practically none of his usual Smug Snake traits (though he does still get some Innocently Insensitive comedy by eating Donald's melon friend).
- Both the season 2 and season 3 finale shows that he and Fethry actually get along quite well. In the season 3 finale, he even uses a "look, twenty dollars!" excuse to take Fethry out of a situation that he'd inadvertedly made awkward for Donald, Daisy and Della.
- Phrase Catcher: "He's the worst."
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Because of his overall lack of effort in anything that's magically Already Done for You, he has many faults with his attitude.
- Running Gag: 20-dollar bills appearing out of nowhere in front of him.
- Shadow Archetype: To Louie. Gladstone represents what Louie could become if he always kept the mindset "getting something for nothing".
- Sitcom Archnemesis: More or less to be stated this to Donald and Scrooge.
- Smug Snake: He revels in his luck. When it's taken away from him, though, in "The Phantom and the Sorceress!" he ends up a tad humbler for a bit.
- Species Surname: A gander is a male goose, which he is according to canon (despite being the cousin of a duck as well as the son of a goose and a duck).
- Spoiled Brat: It's his impossible good luck that has been spoiling him since he was a kid.
- Thicker Than Water: Both Donald and Scrooge are united in a shared disgust with him, seeing as how he not only coasts through life depending on his freakishly good luck, but shamelessly revels in his ability to do so. The trailer for his introductory episode shows both of them giving him nothing but a Disapproving Look whenever they see him or hear his name. But since he's familynote , they tolerate it to some small extent, if only for the kids' sake.
- Toxic Friend Influence: Neither Scrooge nor Donald think he's a good influence on the kids since he's completely lazy.
Fethry Duck
Fethry Duck
"Set your minds to wonder!"
Voiced By: Tom Kenny (English), Beto Castillo (Latin American Spanish)
Donald's eccentric and accident prone younger cousin. The son of Quackmore's brother, Eider Duck.
- Adaptational Badass: Compared to his original comics incarnation, Fethry in this series is a lot more competent and capable, with a much higher success rate. Mind you, he hasn't lost any of his Cloudcuckoolander traits or his tendency to attract disasters wherever he goes.
- Affectionate Nickname: Likes to call the triplets "little Donalds" after his favorite cousin.
- Almighty Janitor: Fethry works as the caretaker of an undersea lab, but after being down there for years, he's gained the capability and knowhow of a genuine marine biologist.
- The Baby of the Bunch: Fethry's the youngest between his cousins and gets treated like an irresponsible, overly imaginative child by his relatives. This is why he is a "Cousin," rather than an "Uncle" like Gladstone, to the triplets.
- Back for the Finale: During season 2 finale, he rides his giant shrimp friend with Gladstone to save Della, Donald and the kids. He also ends up taking them to Duckburg to destroy Lunaris's ship.
- Big Damn Heroes: In Moonvasion, he arrives on Mitzi with Gladstone to rescue his cousins and the kids from a desert island.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: He has unusually thick black eyebrows, probably to emphasize his unkempt nature.
- Birds of a Feather:
- Gets along pretty well with Huey, also being a quirky, nerdy Junior Woodchuck who wears a red hat. The only other cousin he gets along with is Gladstone, possibly because their family wants nothing to do with either of them.
- He also gets on surprisingly well with Fenton/Gizmoduck when they team up in the final issue of the DuckTales comic.
- Cannot Keep a Secret: In the series finale, he reveals to Della that Donald and Daisy are planning on taking an extended vacation alone together even after Donald had told him to keep quiet about it.
- Character Tics: When idle, Fethry's forearms will be extended with his hands palm down, otherwise known as "zombie arms". This is a tic mainly taken from the Brazilian comics featuring him.
- Cloudcuckoolander: A total weirdo even by Duck/McDuck Family standards. Donald, of all people, calls him "cuckoo-bananas".
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: More of a weirdo than a moron, but he's adept at dealing with dangers (most of which he attracted in the first place).
- Crying Wolf: The reason why Scrooge has stopped paying attention to his calls is that he has a tendency to do this — though unlike the original Boy Who Cried Wolf, Fethry doesn't have any ulterior motives and isn't trying to trick anyone. It's just that whenever he sees something he thinks is cool he wants to share the experience with his family, and forgets that he's only supposed to call about discoveries of scientific importance.
- Ditzy Genius: Fethry is smart and quite capable when he applies himself. Unfortunately, he chooses to apply himself to random madcap fads.
- Fluffy Tamer: Adores all of the creatures he comes across. His solution to dealing with mutated worms that try to crush anyone they get ahold of is to complement and fawn over them, which he's found keeps them from being dangerous. His debut episode ends with his riding Mitzi, the giant mutated krill, off into the horizon.
- Foil: He's this to both of his cousins:
- Like Donald, Fethry has a bit of a hard-luck life, but unlike Donald he's upbeat and cheerful, and tends to meet adversity with good humour unlike Donald's bad temper.
- Like Gladstone, Fethry exasperates and annoys his family, who want little to do with him — but while Gladstone is a selfish jerk, Fethry means well and is just eccentric and over-enthusiastic in sharing his esoteric interests. Notably both are implied to cry wolf but Gladstone does it for minor problems he could solve himself while Fethry does it because he wants to spend time with his family. This notably colors the way Scrooge and Donald react to them: they loathe Gladstone but they find Fethry either harmlessly annoying or nuts with a fair bit less antagonism.
- Like Huey, Fethry is an eccentric and nerdy Junior Woodchuck who is obsessed with gathering arcane knowledge and has a fondness for red coloured clothing and hats. Unlike Huey, who is focused and organized, Fethry is a scatter-brained, disorganized, and impulsive Cloud Cuckoolander.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Judging from how they describe him, Scrooge and Donald lost their tolerance for Fethry's rambling and cries for attention long ago, though to Scrooge's credit, it's implied he's aware enough of Fethry's better qualities enough to try sugarcoating how tiresome he finds Fethry (which he doesn't even try to do when it comes to Gladstone). Fortunately, subverted with Huey and Dewey who come to appreciate him and his weirdness after getting to know him in "The Depths of Cousin Fethry!"
- Friend to All Living Things: Fethry's not the type to judge a creature based on outer appearances. He keeps fourteen krill for company down in the labs, and when he realizes the giant sea monster attacking the aquavator is really one of them, he immediately tries to stop Dewey from scaring her.
- Generation Xerox: Much like Gladstone to Louie, serves as this to Huey. Both are red-clad hat-wearing science enthusiasts who are also Junior Woodchucks.
- Go Mad from the Isolation: Downplayed. While Scrooge and Donald imply that he was always a bit off (even by Duck Family standards), it becomes clear that living alone at the bottom of the ocean with nothing but krill for company certainly did not help.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: Fethry seems to want affection and love from his family. Hence his constant calls to Scrooge and Donald to share his interests with them. He's also heartbroken when his little cousins rebuke him after it turns out he's only the caretaker and not the scientist they saw him as.
- Keet: Like his comic counterpart, Fethry's very energetic.
- Long-Lost Relative: Due to the fact he's, in Donald's words, "cuckoo bananas", the triplets never met him before Huey and Dewey visited him at the undersea lab.
- Loon with a Heart of Gold: Despite the fact that he's got a slight case of Go Mad from the Isolation, he's an overall sweet guy who cares for both his marine life friends and his favorite cousin's nephews.
- Mock Cousteau: Wears a red knitted hat and has an affinity for sea life. Huey and Dewey initially mistake him for a marine biologist.
- Mythology Gag: Of the two regions Fethry stories are most popular in, Fethry is most often depicted wearing red clothes in European stories, and Yellow clothes in Brazilian stories. Fethry's design here references both outfits with a yellow sweater worn under a red coat.
- Nice Guy: His oddness aside, Fethry is kind, encouraging and open-minded, and generally a very good-natured guy. Even if he has also had a hard-luck life, he lacks Donald's incredible temper and self-pity.
- Nice Mean And In Between: In the Duck Cousins trio, eternally friendly and optimistic Fethry is the Nice to Donald's In-Between and Gladstone's Mean.
- The Nicknamer: As another contrast to Gladstone. Where Gladstone calls people by friendly if patronizing nicknames, Fethry usually calls people by their names when he actually knows those names... but when he doesn't know someone's name, he has a tendency to come up with surprisingly unimaginative nicknames for them instead of actually asking what their names are. Hence, in his first appearance he calls Huey and Dewey "Little Donalds," and in his second appearance he calls Louie and Webby respectively "Green kid" and "Girl kid."
- Perma-Stubble: He's got two small hairs on his chin.
- Reassigned to Antarctica: It's implied that Scrooge sent him to mind an abandoned lab just to keep him out of his feathers.
- Rebuilt Pedestal: Huey and Dewey both become disillusioned by Fethry turning out to be a janitor instead of a scientist as anticipated, but when they see how capable he is in his own way, they regain their respect for him.
- Red Is Heroic: The majority of his wardrobe consists of red colors and eccentricities aside, he's one of the nicest guys you can meet.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: At the end of his debut, he expresses a desire to become a legitimate scientist. This is never followed up upon in his subsequent appearances.
Ludwig Von Drake
Professor Ludwig Von Drake
Voiced By: Corey Burton
Donald's other uncle and the director of the spy agency S.H.U.S.H.
- Adaptational Badass: He keeps his inventor background, but now, he's also the director of the super secret spy organization.
- Ambiguous Situation: How does he fit into the family tree, exactly?note
- Ascended Extra: Very slightly. He's still a very minor character since he appears to no longer be around, but as a Small Role, Big Impact kind of player he still has a notably bigger presence here than he did in the original (where he only appeared once, as Launchpad's shrink in the episode "The Golden Fleecing"). He mainly appears in flashbacks as the then-director of S.H.U.S.H. and as a video recording in "Raiders of the Doomsday Vault!"
- Composite Character: He gets J. Gander Hooter's position as head of S.H.U.S.H.
- Death by Adaptation: Most of his incarnations are currently alive, but this version of Von Drake is very heavily implied to be deceased, as his elderly children are running the Doomsday Vault and Scrooge refers to him in the past tense. In "The Last Adventure", it is revealed that he was still alive, not having aged since he was captured by Bradford. When asked how this was possible, he claims that Bradford had kept him so busy that he didn't have the time to age.
- Everyone Has Standards: While Ludwig has no problem with S.H.U.S.H. agents acting reckless and financially wasteful when it comes to saving the world, he draws the line at taking over the world and becoming like the villains they constantly fight.
- Mad Scientist: He's a bit on the loopy side, but a brilliant scientist nonetheless.
- Posthumous Character: Heavily implied to be this in "Raiders of the Doomsday Vault!", as he's talked about in the past-tense and doesn't appear outside of video recordings. Subverted when we find out in the finale that he’s alive in the present day.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He was the director of S.H.U.S.H. back in the 1960s, and as such he set off a few plot threads that would have an enormous impact in the show's present day. See Unwitting Instigator of Doom below.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In "The First Adventure", him casually brushing off Bradford's presentation of having S.H.U.S.H. take over the world to maintain order would result in the buzzard turning traitor and creating the Fiendish Organization of World Larceny.
Cornelius Coot
- Broken Pedestal: Very briefly becomes one to Webby and HDL when they discover his fabled "Golden Armory" is an underground corncrib. Becomes a Rebuilt Pedestal when the kids learn what the corn is really for, and it wasn't strength or weapons that made Cornelius mighty, but his craftiness.
- Famous Ancestor: Is the great-grandfather of Daphne, Eider and Quackmore Duck, the great-great-grandfather of Gladstone Gander, Fethry Duck and the twins Della and Donald, and the great-great-great-grandfather of the triplets Huey, Dewey and Louie.
- Guile Hero: Cornelius was just a humble farmer with no military skills, but when the Beagle militia attacked Fort Duckburg, he used his industrial and engineering knowledge to turn his corn crops into underground popcorn rockets. The popcorn simulated the sound of an armed battalion, successfully scaring the Beagles away from the fort. Scrooge himself would be impressed!
- Our Founder: Has a statue of himself depicting him on top of fallen Beagle militia. It also serves as a secret entrance to his hidden armory.
- Posthumous Character: Obviously had passed away long ago.
- Punny Name: The duck named Cornelius found a way to employ corn into a battle.
Bubba
Bubba
BUBBA CLUBBA!
Voiced By: Dee Bradley Baker
A cave-duck that is accidentally brought to the present thanks to Louie messing with Gyro's Time Tub.
- The Ace: Bubba spends most of his appearance mastering every modern day concept he comes across almost instantly, becoming a Totally Radical cool guy in the space of a single evening. Likewise, apparently he was some kind of Paleolithic ace explorer: Louie finds him while he's in the middle of a dungeon crawl. He also seems to be capable in handling megafauna, even ones that have been extinct for millions of years in his time.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the original series, Bubba had a pet Triceratops named Tootsie who was always friendly and loyal to him. Here, he and Tootsie meet for the first time due to being from separate time periods, and they do battle with each other due to the ceratopsian's ferocity.
- Adaptational Curves: The original Bubba wasn't very top-heavy. This Bubba is proportioned like a gorilla, with longer and stronger arms allowing for a Primal Stance.
- Adaptational Intelligence: The original Bubba was not particularly smart. This version figures out modern technology almost instantly and is explicitly said to be smarter than what's expected from his species. In fact, he's "smarter than the smarties", indicating that he's a McDuck ancestor.
- All Cavemen Were Neanderthals: Bubba has very ape-like body proportions and thick brows. However, he is presented as a direct ancestor of modern ducks and, in particular, the McDuck clan. Huey calls him a Duckuslopithecus. He does avert one aspect of the trope by being intelligent (just like real Neanderthals).
- Contemporary Caveman: A young cave-duck who ends up in the modern era through Time Travel, like his original counterpart. Downplayed in that he returns to his time in the end, unlike his original counterpart.
- Demoted to Extra: The original series, Bubba was a permanent addition to the cast. Here, at the end of his debut episode, he willingly goes back to his original time so that he can give rise to the McDucks.
- Fiery Redhead: Subverted. He's actually fairly calm, quickly figures out his surroundings and adapts to them.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: Subverted. At first, Huey expects Bubba to be this, so he prepares replicated shelters and food from the Stone Age to make him feel more at home. To his disbelief, Bubba immediately proves to be very adaptable and masters modern technology in less than a day, plus treats an extinct dinosaur as no different than whatever megafauna he would encounter in his time. This is in stark contrast to the other time-displaced subjects that immediately turn hostile and go on a rampage.
- Foreshadowing: He makes his first appearance hunting for treasure in a cave and dodging the traps for it, which is a major hint that he is a McDuck ancestor.
- Genius Bruiser: He's bulky and strong, but he's also surprisingly smart and quickly figures out modern technology. He's tougher than the toughies and smarter than the smarties, indicating that he's an ancestor of Scrooge.
- Greater-Scope Paragon: He's the original patriarch of Clan McDuck.
- Hero of Another Story: He's quite likely had a lot of his own adventures offscreen.
- Like a Duck Takes to Water: Pun not intended. Bubba has an astounding aptitude for modern technology. He also treats an extinct Triceratops like a prehistoric bull.
- Pokémon Speak: His language is halfway between this and Hulk Speak. The only words he speaks are "Bubba" and words that rhyme with it, including "grubba", "flubba", "chubba" and "tubba".
- Primal Stance: He has a gorilla-like body and walks on his knuckles like one.
- Primitive Clubs: When he sees Tootsie about to attack Huey, Bubba arms himself with a club to fight her off. To be precise, that club was the cane of the first McDuck.
- Reimagining the Artifact:
- In the original show, Bubba had an orange pet Triceratops named Tootsie. The reboot averts Hollywood Prehistory and Domesticated Dinosaurs by Bubba encountering an orange Triceratops due to a time anomaly, and his attempt to tame it isn't very successful.
- The original Bubba was very much Dumb Muscle, reflecting the common perception that cavemen (particularly Neanderthals) were very slow-witted. Since that stereotype was discovered to be inaccurate, this Bubba completely inverts it, being a Genius Bruiser who figures out modern life very quickly.
- The original Bubba was armed with a club, based on the popular depiction of cavemen. In a case of Shown Their Work, the rebooted Bubba does not have a club at first and only finds one in modern times, specifically the cane of the first McDuck.
- Related in the Adaptation: Bubba is unrelated to the McDucks in the original series and is alive by the modern age, while in here he show hints of being the ancestor of the McDucks.
- Stable Time Loop: He first gained his cane from present times, then it was passed down Clan McDuck as the cane of the first of the clan.
- Top-Heavy Guy: He has ape-like body proportions with a broad chest, long arms and large hands.
- Totally Radical: He likes things like backward baseball caps, sunglasses, skateboarding and playing the keytar.
- Trademark Favorite Food: During his time in the modern era, he gains a liking for chili cheese dogs. Especially if the chili is vegetarian.
- Undying Loyalty: He quickly gets over his shock of being in the future and almost immediately bonds with the McDuck family. He is constantly nice too all of them, even Louie, who he recognizes as the one who brought him there, and plays with the kids. He is also notably the only time abnormality that is never hostile or attacks the McDuck family, and actually defends them against the other abnormalities. In the climax of the episode he willingly allows himself to go back to his time to ensure the family is safe and protect the space-time continuum. This all makes more sense when the ending of the episode reveals he is actually the first member of the McDuck family, meaning he is their ancient ancestor and he was protecting his family.
- Wham Shot: The final scene of his debut episode has him carving a top hat out of stone and using the McDuck's club he brought with him as a cane, revealing that he is the very first McDuck.
