History Characters / DisneyDucksComicUniverseFriends

* DistaffCounterpart: The Girl Scouts equivalent, the Junior Chicadees, though they appear much more rarely.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Downplayed. In one story, Huey, Dewey and Louie finds his birth sertificate and moves it from the G-section in the city archives to D for Duck. While they treat this as him being part of the family, it's clearly not true adoption, as he's back to his street rat ways in the next story.

* ArchEnemy: Mr. Phelps, a train inspector who wants the boy out os his train station and trains, is Garvey's designated opponent. Him being an adult and Garvey a child, it's not a hostile relation and often puts the focus on "friendly" in FriendlyEnemy. In fact, in ''"How The Other Half Live"'', it was Phelps' request for Garvey to return because he considered the train station too quiet that helped the boy make up his mind.

* ItRunsInTheFamily: Being brilliant and building incredible machines seems to be a family trade of the Gearlooses. Newton is nonexception.

* ItRunsInTheFamily: Being brilliant and building incredible machines seems to be a family trade of the Gearlooses. Newton is nonexception.'

* GeniusGadgeteer: Just like his uncle Gyro.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Being brilliant and building incredible machines seems to be a family trade of the Gearlooses.

* AnimatedAdaptation: The original "Tralla-La" story recieved a relatively faithful adaptation in ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales19987'', with the biggest change being the ending, due to the presence of Gizmoquack.

* EasilyForgiven: When the Ducks return to Tralla-La, the inhabitants are happy to see them again, having long since forgiven the chaos Scrooge and his bottle caps caused on their first visit. This lasts all of five minutes, until Scrooge reveals that he's brought the Crown of Kublai Khan with him - the same conqueror who brutalized and opressed Tralla-La centuries ago, sending the people into a panic.

![=McDuck=] employees

[[folder: Clerkly]]
!! Clerkly
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[[AC:First appearance: ''"No Such Varmint"'', 1951]]

Scrooge's accountant. His appearance and age tend to vary, but his appearance as in the selected image (minus the missing green eyeshades) is his most common design.

* DependingOnTheArtist: Even his creator, Carl Barks, didn't stick with one design. He is always a {{dogface}} taller than Scrooge, but his variations include: yes or no green eyeshades, yes or no glasses, orange or brown shade of hair or bald, as old as Scrooge and Quackfaster or somewhere in his 30s, long muzzle or short muzzle.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: What he has with his colleague Quackfaster and to a lesser extent with Scrooge.
* UndyingLoyalty: Like all Scrooge's longterm employees, he refuses to switch employers as long as he can work for Scrooge and doesn't take well to hostile takeovers.
* {{Woolseyism}}: In Norwegian, his name is Kontorsen (Office-son).

[[folder: Quackmore]]
!! Quackmore
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[[AC:First appearance: ''"Zio Paperone e la lana vulcanica"'', 1966]]

Scrooge's butler.

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* WorthlessYellowRocks: Jabiru doesn't even bat an eye at the magnificent giant opal kept inside the Dreamtime cave, as his role is to record his visit, not stare at glittery relics.

![=McDuck=] employees

[[folder: Clerkly]]
!! Clerkly
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[[AC:First appearance: ''"No Such Varmint"'', 1951]]

Scrooge's accountant. His appearance and age tend to vary, but his appearance as in the selected image (minus the missing green eyeshades) is his most common design.

* MrViceGuy: In his comics in Brazil, he's essentially an exaggeration of the "Brazilian Way" (a.k.a. "Get advantage over everything"): a lazy slob who avoids having to work at all costs, dodges his debts like oncoming traffic (seriously, there's a whole organization of bill collectors devoted to making sure José pays his debts) and is always on the lookout for the next harebrained get-rich-quick scheme. In spite of all this, he manages to be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold by supporting his friends and girlfriend when they need and never resorting to criminal ends to get his way.

* RemixComic: In 60's, stories of Donald and Mickey were redrawn and re-lettered as if they were, he started to have two nephews, Zico and Zeca.

%%* CatsAreSuperior: Absolutely.

!!Houn' Dog

* ADogNamedDog: He's a hounting dog called "Houn' Dawg".

* ApatheticPet: He's very lazy and often just comments the action in ThoughtSpeechBubbles.

* FriendOfAllChildren: While he's always grumpy, one Italian story reveals he really has a soft-spot for children and acts far nicer around them.

* HalfWittedHillybilly: A kid-friendly version: He's often shown to be really uneducated and hates "town folks" and their modern shenanigans.
* HiddenDepth: Despite being grumpy and egoistic, he actually loves children and enjoys their company.

* ApathicPet: He's very lazy and often just comments the action in ThoughtSpeechBubbles.

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* OneSteveLimit: His last name, which is all he's known by, is the last as the first name of Scrooge's brother-in-law and Donald's father, Quackmore Duck.

* DependingOnTheWriter: Sometimes they can't talk to humans, but mostly they can -- see AnimalTalk above. The most different take on them, however, was in the MickeyMouse comic strip, in a serial adventure named ''Mousepotamia.'' Here, they were fully anthropomorphic characters and the same size as Mickey, coming from the country of Mousepotamia, where Jaq is prime minister and Gus is head of intelligence.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In his first appearance he opposed both Donald and Gyro. Later, the three of them become close friends.

* HiddentDepths: He's usually depicted as stubbornly fool, but can be rather cunning when needed and used to be a surprisingly effective superhero armed only with white washing tools.
** On a good day he's actually a very competent white washer - but he's also still suffering from the depressing events that pushed him to leave his previous lucrative job at a construction company and abandon his superhero persona (see below), so he rarely has good days.

[[folder: Bum Bum Gighno]]
!! Bum Bum Gighno

* FutureFamousPeople: First met Scrooge during his days as a rancher in Montana, long before his presidency.

* VictoryIsBoring: Downplayed; he takes his role as President seriously, but is all too eager to take himself and his Rough Riders out of retirement during the events of ''The Empire-Builder From Calisota''.