YMMV / Don Rosa

• Adaptation Displacement: Panchito's horse, Señor Martinez, actually comes from old American newspaper strips written in the '40s which, while popular in some countries, were never reprinted in English until after the publication of "The Three Caballeros Ride Again!".
• Continuity Snarl: In the King Croesus story, Scrooge offers Magica the first coin earned by Croesus as part of a Xanatos Gambit: Either the amulet she makes works, and he's rid of her forever, or it doesn't, and he has definitive proof that he's richer than Croesus ever was. Thing is, as established by Carl Barks, that's not how the amulet would work. The amulet requires coins touched by each of the world's richest men. While the Number 1 Dime would be more powerful based on how many times Scrooge touched it, the amulet would still work with any other of his coins.
• Creator's Favorite: Scrooge McDuck. He admits in interviews and editorial textes that he thinks Scrooge is the single-best comic character of all time in his opinion. While the larger Disney Ducks Comic Universe is usally build around Donald Duck and Rosa did some great work for Donald too, Scrooge clearly is the center of Rosa's Duck work - in this case it turns out as a good thing, as Scrooge was a Breakout Character before at least since DuckTales in addition to Rosa's Version of Scrooge being so popular among fans and later Disney writers his version of the character is by some seen as the definitive version, even outclassing Scrooge's creator Carl Barks. His Scrooge-biography The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is a basis for many stories - impressive for a usually Negative Continuity.
• Fridge Brilliance: Rosa's strict adherence to the idea that Donald's hourly rate when working for Scrooge is 30 cents makes sense on two levels. Firstly, all of Rosa's work is written with the presumption that the Ducks are living in the 1950s, when that kind of wage was, whilst abysmal, something a careful individual could just about squeak a living on (although Rosa himself pointed out it's nowhere near the "princely sum" it was in the digging of the Panama Canal, when Teddy Roosevelt mentioned that was how much he paid his workers). Secondly, Don Rosa knew that due to inflation, this would become an ever-greater indicator of just how stingy Scrooge is.
• Fridge Logic: According to the timeline Donald and his nephews spent with Scrooge in Rosa's stories, their adventures spanned over about ten years before Rosa stopped writing. ^note  In A Letter From Home, Matilda mentions it's been nearly 25 years since she last saw Scrooge, making him almost 90 there. Of course, Huey, Louie and Dewey don't look like they've aged a day, even though they should have been nearing their 20s. Then again, Scrooge does not look like he's aged from 80 to 90 either. Don Rosa did draw a non-canon joke panel◊ of Scrooge's death at age 100 that averts Comic-Book Time.
• Genius Bonus: In His Majesty, McDuck, the British commander at Drake Borough complains that he "could have gone to Tahiti with [his] friend Christian!", referencing the HMS Bounty, famous for the mutiny.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
  • He's a celebrity in Finland, and he has acknowledged this, to the point where he makes his speech bubbles larger than they need to be, to better accommodate an eventual Finnish translation.^note Finnish tends to have longer words than English, and therefore needs more space to fit all the text.
  • He also has a substantial fan-following in the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), to the point were he has often tried to sneak Viking references into his stories.
  • Don Rosa provided the page quote for the trope page, in which he described visiting Scandinavia and getting the rock star treatment as feeling as an immense prank.
• Heartwarming Moments: In "A Little Something Special", Scrooge gets a surprise visit from his old flame Goldie, who tells him she wants to give him something money can't buy and kisses him. Scrooge dismisses her, but not without getting a beaming look on his face once she leaves. Goldie also lets him know that even after all these years, she's still waiting for him. Aww...
• Memetic Mutation: Within this wiki: Scrooge had sex.
• Moment of Awesome: Scrooge gets dozens in Life and Times.
  • And in all of his several-part comics (which there are a lot of), there's at least one. AND in a bunch of the one-part ones, too. Here◊, here◊ and here◊, for example.
• Moral Event Horizon: Blackheart Beagle in "A Little Something Special" goes beyond simply wanting to steal Scrooge's money to preparing to blow the foundations of the city away, just to hurt Scrooge, all with a grin on his face. Just imagine how many people he could have killed.
• Most Wonderful Sound: Towards the end of The Quest for Kalevala, Väinämöinen starts to play his kantele, which apparently produces music so beautiful Scrooge himself is mesmerized and states it to be "more beautiful than gold!"

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