History ComicBook / TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck

* KnightOfCerebus: Bombie is a good deal more sinister than he was in his debut story, where Scrooge basically laughed off the old curse. Here, it's a direct threat to his life whenever he shows up, and Bombie just keeps showing up at random moments.

* KnightOfCerebus: Bombie is a good deal more sinister than he was in his debut story, where Scrooge basically laughed off the old curse. Here, it's a direct threat to his life whenever he shows up, and Bombie just keeps showing up at random moments.

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: When Scrooge goes on his RoaringRampageOfRevenge, he monologues about cutting himself loose and trash-talks the animals of the savanna he fights his way through.

* RedBaron: Scrooge earns himself the titles the Master of the Mississippi, the Buckaroo of the Badlands, the Pizen of Pizen Bluff, the King of the Klondike and finally, The Richest Duck In The World.

** In ''Voodoo Hoodoo'', Scrooge looked like Donald Duck when Bombie the Zombie first went after him because that was his natural youthful appearance. Here, it was just a disguise, including the flattened sideburns, which are never visible in other pictures of him with Bombie.

* InnocentInnuendo: "[[http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i212/Kerrah_photos/BetweenTheLegs.jpg Between the legs]]." Yeah, about as innocent as a FreudianSlip...

* WretchedHive: Louisville is this. Te city is depicted as full of thieves, gamblers, river pirates, and other unsavory types.

** And it immediately [[ZigZaggingTrope zigs]] to KissKissSlap: Goldie promptly punches Scrooge across the cabin, even though she's the one that initiated the kiss.

* HesBack: After start out the chapter as a broken shell of his former self, his fight to recover his wealth from the Beagle Boys and his reconnecting with his nephews causes him to once again become the brave adventuerer he once was.

* DreamEmergencyExit: Donald must pry the Beagle Boys out of Scrooge's dream by getting them to fall off the "edge" of the dream world.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Has its own [[Radar/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck page.]]

* AttentionDeficitOhShiny: Scrooge takes 20 years to go back to Duckburg and reconciliate with his family because he smells business oportunities everywhere.

** Scrooge calls the goose egg nugget "the rock that dreams are made of", which is what Sam Spade said about the eponymous treasure in ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon''.

* BreakingTheBonds: Scrooge doesn't simply break the chains - he pulls them so hard that the ship's chimneys, which is he is chained to are torn apart, [[ShroudedInMyth though the scene is told as if it might not truly be what happened there, as the incident is both denied and embellished through history.]]
** According to Scrooge himself during the events of Hearts Of the Yukon, the chimneys collapsed due to a timely boiler explosion, and he took out Soapy and his gang in the resulting commotion. Whether he is just trying to downplay the events or not is left to the viewer.

* ReadTheFinePrint: Soapy Slick doesn't use fine print to sucker Scrooge into a bad loan- He just leaves enough room on the contract to turn a 10% interest rate into 100%! While Scrooge could have easily contested this obvious fraud, Soapy flees to Canada with the contract. It isn't until after Soapy is deported back that the contract is restored to its original terms.

--> '''The chief:''' ''(after Scrooge accidentally points at the wrong place at a map)'' Hm... ten miles out into the ''pacific ocean?'' [Scrooge] is way off, but he must have ''good lungs!''
--> '''Scrooge:''' ''(as Theodore)'' Er... yes! Quite a remarkable fellow! Handsome, too!

This is the chapter where Don Rosa had to address a NoodleIncident most Scrooge fans try to ignore: [[https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4b8n7-21a5Q/VwOCQEeOkVI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/echsMvRG4jcg58l97atSVtvVgH-lkGblA/s1600/story.png the story]] from ''Voodoo Hoodoo'' about how Scrooge hired a band of thugs to chase an African tribe off their land so he could use it for a rubber plantation -- a [[WhatTheHellHero blatantly criminal, despicable, completely unjustifiable act not at all in sync with making money "square."]] Don Rosa initially considered just ignoring this story altogether, dismissing it on the grounds of CharacterizationMarchesOn. But after closer consideration, he instead decided to make it the turning point in Scrooge's life -- the trigger that set him down the road of {{greed}} and cynicism toward becoming the hardened, villainous character he was when Barks first introduced him to the world. After crossing the line he swore never to cross since he earned his NumberOneDime, Scrooge avoids Duckburg and his sisters for 27 years. When he returns, he has achieved his dream of becoming the richest man in the world, but loses his family in the process, after meeting his nephew for the first and last time for 17 years.

** Scrooge tells Donald "If you'll just lean forward a bit, I can crack you on the skull with this cane", which is a line spoken by Waldo Lydecker in ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_(1944_film) Laura]]''.

* ShoutOut: The leader of the African tribe shouts "M'gawa niktimba!", a phrase lifted from the Creator/JohnnyWeissmuller {{Franchise/Tarzan}} films where it was a made-up [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign exotic phrase]] used on several different occasions to mean whatever was needed for the script. Here it apparently means roughly "Grab him, stick him into the most embarrassing getup you can think of and then throw him out."

** Scrooge tells Donald "If you'll just lean forward a bit, I can crack you on the skull with this cane", which is a line spoken by Waldo Lydecker in ''Laura''.

* ShoutOut: Loads to ''Film/CitizenKane'':
** Right at the start of the story there is a black and white television report about Scrooge modeled after the one in ''Citizen Kane''.
** Scrooge is shown holding a snow globe depicting a scene from Yukon as he mutters "Goldie".
** While digging through Scrooge's storage room, Donald comes across Rosebud itself.

* NightmareFetishist: Toyed with, in the depiction of Goldie. Scrooge enters Dawson City, with an enraged expression on his face, dragging Soapy Slick's broken body behind him. The entire population of the city gets the impression that Scooge is out for blood, and they hide from him in terror. Everyone except Goldie, who observes Scrooge unnotticed, seems very impressed with him, and smiles happily. While they have briefly met each other before, at this point they are strangers and her infamous theft of his gold has not happened yet. She seems attracted to his death glares.

* ContinuityNod: Goldie mentions that she rebuilt the Black Jack ballroom into a tourist hotel with money she "came into a while back", a nod to Carl Barks' first ever story where she is introduced: "Back to the Klondike". In it, Scrooge eventually challenges Goldie to a digging contest to see who can find gold first, and (despite his claims) purposefully loses by leading Goldie to a spot he buried nuggets 50 years ago.

* SuckinessIsPainful: In the Highland Games, singing good poetry is one way to gather points, but Scrooge's song is so bad (and implied to be extremely explicit), that the female judges faint. In-story, the judges seem to be rather prudish Victorian ladies, and Scrooge chooses to sing lyrics from songs that were popular in Klondike saloons. He is again forgetting that this in not Dawson City, and he is not surrounded by miners and saloon girls.

* EatTheRich: The people of Dismal Downs antagonize Scrooge because of their jealousy of his wealtyh and a perceived slight from his part.

* CallForward:Hortense and Quackmore are not married yet, and their children were born 18 years later (in 1920). But the story ends with them discussing baby names, and Hortense protesting against the silly name "Donald". Their future son is Donald Duck.