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Line 4: This is a key part of the [[Disney Mice and Ducks Comics]], which is a [[Modular Franchise]] that's formed when this [[Verse]] is used in tandem with the [[Mickey Mouse Comic Universe]]. See [[Carl Barks]] and [[Don Rosa]] for Tropes specific to their stories. '''Numerous''' other authors in both America and Europe have written stories set in this universe with some of the more notable and popular ones being Al Taliaferro, Romano Scarpa, Marco Rota, Tony Strobl, Vicar, Daan Jippes, William Van Horn and Fecchi. As such, there's a ''lot'' of diversity between stories [[Depending on the Writer\|~~LOT~~depending on who wrote them]], and [[Print Long Runners\|over the years]] the series has accumulated [[Loads and Loads of ~~diversity~~Characters]]. ~~between~~Way ~~stories~~more, ~~depending~~in fact, than is listed [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe/Characters\|on ~~who~~the ~~wrote~~Characters ~~them~~page]]. Together with the [[Mickey Mouse Comic Universe]] that it occasionally [[Crossover]]s with, there are ''even more''; see [[Mickey Mouse Comic Universe/Characters\|this page]] for the characters primarily of that universe. Character list can be found [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe/Characters\|here]]. {{tropelist}} * [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Of the [[Classic Disney Shorts]], utilizing several characters introduced there but giving them a more coherent setting and introducing numerous new characters. Line 17 ⟶ 18: * [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Some of Don's Hidden Mickeys refer to Mickey's real-life status as a fictional character, while the Ducks are "real" people. Take into account that Donald started off as Mickey's co-star in the cartoons, and you see how this fits. * [[Comic Book Time]] * [[Convicted by Public Opinion]]: A recurring theme. In ''[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?loc=1951/W_WDC_129-02R Pool Sharks]''{{Dead link}}'' by Barks, Donald lets a couple of kids use his brand new swimming pool. This leads to dozens of kids getting wind of it, using and ruining the pool, which leads to their parents getting worked up about accidents happening to their kids, which leads to Donald closing the pool without ever having gotten to use it, which leads to everyone hating Donald. To be frank, the people of Duckburg are dicks. * [[Cool Old Guy]] / [[Cool Uncle]]: Scrooge, all the way. ** Once [[Character Development]] brings him out of being the crusty, skinflint, gouging, near-heartless old miser that he is when [[Carl Barks]] first introduces him to the Ducks Universe, anyway. * [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Donald is the most prominent example of this, most notably when he changes into the Duck Avenger, though he has plenty of [[Badass]] moments even when he's just himself. Fethry is a less prominent version of the trope, as he usually succeeds by accident, but he has his moments of this as well. Even the Beagle Boys will, [[Depending on the Writer]], sometimes display surprising ~~competense~~competence and appear as a credible threat to Scrooge. * [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Scrooge. [[Donald Duck]] and the nephews have their moments as well. * [[Depending on the Writer]]: Oh, so very much. For one thing, there's quite a few characters that only appear in stories by some authors whose existences are ignored by others, including cousin Fethry, Birgita McBridge, Donald's superhero alter ago, [[Paperinik New Adventures\|Paperinik]], Scrooge's butler Battista, Scrooge's half-brother Rumpus McFowl, Scrooge's ''actual'' brother Gideon McDuck, John D. Rockerduck for most American authors, Flintheart Glomgold for most Italian ones, ectera... Line 42 ⟶ 43: * [[Fictional Country]]: There have been loads of these over the years as they're often disposable. Special mention must go to Barks for injecting real-world political satire into them, such as with [https://web.archive.org/web/20120328105805/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?s=date&loc=1957%2FW_US_17-02R Brutopia] (a parody of the Soviet Union) or [https://web.archive.org/web/20120422183454/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?s=date&loc=1966%2FW_US_64-02 Unsteadystan]. * [[Funny Background Event]]: In the spirit of Barks. * [[Gentleman Thief]]: [[Spoonerism\|Arpin Lusene]] * [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] ** "What did Scrooge and Goldie did [https://web.archive.org/web/20100815112058/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?num=31&loc=D2005-061&s=date in that shack] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811040048/http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?num=32&loc=D2005-061&s=date that one night?]", found in [[Don Rosa]]'s own commentary. Line 48 ⟶ 49: * [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: your average person off the streets of Duckburg has a black button nose, may have unusually shaped ears and something of a snout but doesn't really resemble any known animal. Some stories by Barks have actual realistically drawn humans which makes things more confusing. It can get even weirder when characters appear who are basically humans with a ''beak''! (In fact, Gyro Gearloose comes very close to this.) Occasionally some colourist even has the gall to give such a character a [[Up to Eleven\|human skin tone]], instead of white feathers... * Gyro. Has. ''[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?num=6&loc=H89174&s=date HUMAN FEET.]''...{{Dead link}}~~''...~~ * [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: In the first ''[[The Three Caballeros]]'' comic Rosa did, he changed the lyrics of the eponymous song to remove the verse "the three gay caballeros". In the second one, the line is intact. You could almost swear there's a guy giving them a knowing gaze as they sing it that time... * [[Heads or Tails]]: In "Flip Decision", Donald is conned by a charlatan into believing in [[wikipedia:Flipism\|Flipism]]: the idea that all of life's choices can be made on the flip of a coin. [[Hilarity Ensues]], of course, though the coin does show uncanny predictive power. Line 56 ⟶ 57: * [[Little Bit Beastly]]: The dog-nosed but otherwise human supporting cast. * [[Long Runner Tech Marches On]]: With the notable exception of [[Don Rosa]], most Duck-writers let their stories take place in the present. Thus, while none of the characters has aged a day, the technology since the times of [[Carl Barks]] has marched on. * [[Lovecraft Lite]]: You could call ''[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?loc=1956/W_US_13-02R Land beneath the Ground]''{{Dead link}}'' a Barksian version of [[H.P. Lovecraft]], surprisingly enough - just read it. And while you're at it, check out ''[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?loc=1950/W_OS_275-02R Ancient Persia]''{{Dead link}}'' ...''The Case of Charles Dexter Ward'', anyone? None of these are gloomy enough to count as real [[Cosmic Horror]], of course. * [[Magical Native American]]: The Peeweegah, a tribe of long-nosed pygmy indians with the power to communicate with animals. First appeared in the [[Carl Barks]] story "Land of the Pygmy Indians", they then reappeared in the [[Don Rosa]] story "War of the Wendigo". * [[The Men in Black]]: Recent European-produced stories sometimes include the half-parodic T.N.T (Tamers of Nonhuman Threats), of which Donald and Fethry are freelance agents, dealing with supernatural or alien threats to humanity while trying to hide their existence to the common public. Unlike many examples of this trope, the T.N.T. are unmistakable good guys and do not wear shades. ** In one T.N.T story, Donald got tired of the [[Boring but Practical]] janitor-like uniforms and tried invoking a more ~~traditonal~~traditional [[The Men in Black\|MIB]] look by dressing himself and Fethry up in stylish black ~~tuxedoes~~tuxedos and [[Cool Shades]]. This phase lasted for exactly two pages, and was abandoned when Donald and Fethry discovered that the [[Cool Shades]] were too dark for them to see anything, and they walked straight out into a trafficked road. The results were [[Amusing Injuries]] and ruined ~~tuxedoes~~tuxedos. * [[Money Fetish]]: Scrooge swims in it. * [[Mr. Vice Guy]]: Scrooge and [[Greed]]. Line 72 ⟶ 73: * [[Rebus Bubble]] * [[Remember the New Guy?]]: A ''lot'' of characters have been introduced over the years, and several of them (especially the ones created by Carl Barks and Romano Scarpa) tend to be treated as if they've always been around, just not on-page. ** A particularly noticable example is the Beagle Boys, who in their first story only [http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?num=10&loc=1951/W_WDC_134-02R&s=date make a silent cameo appearance on the very last panel...]{{Dead link}} ''after'' Scrooge has spent the entire story ~~worring~~worrying about them. * [[Retro Universe]]: [[Depending on the Artist]] to which degree. (Although considering that the [[Outdated Outfit\|iconic outfits of Scrooge and other characters]] have been consistently used by everyone...) * [[Riches to Rags]]: Happens to Scrooge in several [[What If]] stories. Line 81 ⟶ 82: * [[Shoe Shine, Mister?]]: Scrooge famously won his Number One Dime shining shoes. * [[Shout-Out]]: Rosa never wrote any Mickey Mouse stories, but that doesn't keep him from littering various Hidden Mickeys within his stories. The D.U.C.K. dedication also counts.{{context}} <!-- More detail, please. --> ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' gets quoted at least twice. Arpin Lusene is an obvious nod to ''[[Arsène Lupin]]''. Another one from Arpin : at one point, he refers to Scrooge as "Ze chipskate! Ze '''picsou'''!'. Now, '"picsou'" ''is not'' a ~~french~~French word for '"cheapskate'". It is, however, Scrooge's name in the ~~french~~French version of his stories (Balthazar [[Punny Name\|Picsou]]). ** The afterwords for each chapter in [[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]] actually list all the [[Shout-Out~~\|Shout Outs~~]]s. ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' was a popular one. * [[Status Quo Is God]]: As well as [[Negative Continuity]], due to the numerous different writers who have written these stories with little to no regard for each other.. ** Though the series in many ways is also great for aversions. As Scrooge is already the richest duck in the world, any treasures he finds will usually be a drop in the bucket. And so success or failure isn't as guaranteed as with other characters. 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