History Creator / DonRosa

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Deconstructed in "Super Snooper Strikes Again!". Donald briefly becomes a FlyingBrick after chugging down some AppliedPhlebotinum, and makes several attempts to impress his nephews with his new powers. He tries to travel around the world in an instant, but realizes that he still perceives the passage of time normally despite everyone else effectively being frozen in time while he's moving around at SuperSpeed, so the task could take him several months or even ''years'' to complete, and nobody would notice anyway. He also tries to use his SuperStrength to lift both a mountain and a sunken cruise ship, but the mountain starts falling apart at the base and the ship breaks in two due to years of rust decay to the hull. One could argue that Donald's failure to use his superpowers effectively is because he overcomplicates it--appearing to teleport from one side of the living room to the other or simply lifting a car in front of his nephews would have been sufficient to demonstrate his powers without the realistic drawbacks of his attempted super feats.

* GreenAesop: "War Of The {{Wendigo}}" was actually commissioned to provide AnAesop about the dangers of acid rain and deforestation. Rosa was happy to accept, especially as it gave him a chance to bring back the [[MagicalNativeAmerican Peeweegah]], the Pygmy Indians of Carl Barks.

%%* ArcWelding: ''[[Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck Life and Times]]'' as a work.

%%* AsYouKnow: {{Lampshade h|anging}}ung in ''The Last Lord of Eldorado''.

%%* FunetikAksent: Scrooge's family in ''Life and Times'' as well as Arpin Lusene.

%%* GreatBigBookOfEverything: The Junior Woodchucks' Guidebook. This is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d ''and'' [[JustifiedTrope explained]].

* ComicBook/Attaaack

* ComicBook/Hearts of the Yukon (Secondary story tie-in to ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck)

* Nobody's Business
* Mythological Menagerie
* Recalled Wreck
* Cash Flow
* Fit to be pied
* Fir-Tree Fracas
* Oolated Luck
* The Paper Chase
* Last Sled to Dawson
* Rocket Reverie
* Fiscal Fitness
* Metaphorically Spanking
* The Crocodile Collector
* Fortune on the Rocks

* The Curse of Nostrildamus
* His Majesty, [=McDuck=]
* Forget me not
* Give Unto Others
* On a Silver Platter
* Making the Grade
* Leaky Luck
* The Pied Piper of Duckburg
* Back in Time for a Dime! (his one and only ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' comic)
* The Money Pit
* The Master Landscapist
* On Stolen Time
* Treasure Under Glass
* Return to Xanadu
* The Duck Who Fell to Earth
* Incident at [=McDuck=] Tower
* The Island at the Edge of Time
* War of the Wendigo
* Super Snooper Strikes Again
* ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck 1: The Last of the Clan [=McDuck=]
* The Life And Times Of Scrooge [=McDuck=] 2: The Master of the Mississippi
* The Life And Times Of Scrooge [=McDuck=] 3: The Buckaroo of the Badlands
* The Life And Times Of Scrooge [=McDuck=] 4: Raider of the Copper Hill
* The Life And Times Of Scrooge [=McDuck=] 5: The New Laird of Castle [=McDuck=]
* The Life And Times Of Scrooge [=McDuck=] 6: The Terror of the Transvaal
* The Life And Times Of Scrooge [=McDuck=] 7: Dreamtime Duck of the Never-Never
* The Life And Times Of Scrooge [=McDuck=] 8: King of the Klondike
* Guardians of the Lost Library
* The Life And Times Of Scrooge [=McDuck=] 9: The Billionaire of Dismal Downs
* From Duckburg to Lillehammer
* The Life And Times Of Scrooge [=McDuck=] 10: The Invader of Fort Duckburg
* The Life And Times Of Scrooge [=McDuck=] 11: The Empire-Builder from Calisota
* The Life And Times Of Scrooge [=McDuck=] 12: The Richest Duck in the World

* Of Ducks, Dimes and Destinies (Secondary story tie-in to ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck)
* Hearts of the Yukon (Secondary story tie-in to ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck)
* The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad
* Gyro's Beagletrap
* The Lost Charts of Columbus
* The Once and Future Duck
* The Treasure of the Ten Avatars
* A Matter of Some Gravity
* The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff (Secondary story tie-in to ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck)
* An Eye for Detail

* Attack of the Hideous Space-Varmints

* The Annual Speedskating Race of the Burg of Ducks

* The Cowboy Captain of the Cutty Sark (Secondary story tie-in to ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck)
* The Dutchman's Secret (Secondary story tie-in to ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck)

* The Coin
* The Quest for Kalevala
* Attaaack!

* The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut (Secondary story tie-in to ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck)

* The Crown of the Crusader Kings
* Forget it!

* The Dream of a Lifetime (Secondary story tie-in to ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck)
* Trash or Treasure

* The Prisoner of White Agony Creek (Secondary story tie-in to ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck)

* The Duck Who Never Was (Donald's 60th Anniversary Special)

* The Beagle Boys vs. the Money Bin (50th Anniversary Special for the Beagle Boys)

* The Universal Solvent

* AuthorTract: In his pre-duck comic series "Captain Kentucky", a weekly superhero spoof run in the local paper The Louisville Times, he realised that he could use the space between panels to air minor personal gripes and opinions, like complaints about TV, the projection-quality at his local cinema and the pronounciation of Louisville.

* ArcWelding: ''[[Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck Life and Times]]'' as a work.

* AsYouKnow: {{Lampshade h|anging}}ung in ''The Last Lord of Eldorado''.

* BunglingInventor: Gyro Gearloose.

* ButtMonkey[=/=]TheChewToy: [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Take a wild guess?]]

* CoolOldGuy: Scrooge, all the way.

* DeadpanSnarker: Scrooge. Donald and the nephews have their moments as well.

* EveryCarIsAPinto: Mocked.
* ExtremeOmniGoat: Averted. Goats eating things that they shouldn't never appears in his stories.

* FunetikAksent: Scrooge's family in ''Life and Times'' as well as Arpin Lusene.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the spirit of Barks.

* GreatBigBookOfEverything: The Junior Woodchucks' Guidebook. This is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d ''and'' [[JustifiedTrope explained]].

* ItsAWonderfulPlot: ''The Duck Who Never Was'' does this to Donald.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140729175142/http://cdn.zocoi.com/191/02.jpg This well-known panel (bottom left)]], for instance.

* MoneyFetish: Scrooge swims in it.
* MrViceGuy: Scrooge and Greed.

* NumberOneDime: Just don't call it "lucky".
* OlderHeroVSYoungerVillain: Scrooge to several members of his RoguesGallery.

* PooledFunds: Scrooge, of course.

* StockholmSyndrome: Played with in "Escape from Forbbiden Valley", where Donald finds himself abducted by a large female dinosaur mistaking him for her baby. Despite not having appreciated her... unusual treatment of him, he feels very sorry for her seeing how sad she is when he gets saved, and makes sure to give her a real dinosaur egg to care for (while also allowing our heroes their escape).

* ThrowTheDogABone: He did this to Donald in ''The Duck Who Never Was'', ''The Three Caballeros Ride Again'' and ''The Magnificent Seven (Minus Four) Caballeros''.

* TimeStandsStill: ''On Stolen Time''; played with in ''Super Snooper Strikes Back''.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Twice in ''A Matter Of Some Gravity''.

** Downplayed/subverted in "Back in Time for a Dime!", his one and only ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' comic. In his commentary on it in volume 2 of the Don Rosa Library, he states plainly that he does not like the show, considering it an inferior rendition of the original Creator/CarlBarks stories, but he does not harp on about his dislike and the story itself treats the characters fairly respectfully.

* Return to Plain Awful

* The Last Lord of Eldorado

* The Son of the Sun

* The Sign of the Triple Distelfink (50th Anniversary Special for Gladstone Gander)

* Escape from Forbidden Valley

* The Sign of the Triple Distelfink

* The Beagle Boys vs. the Money Bin (Beagle Boys 50th Anniversary Special)

* The Magnificent Seven (Minus 4) Caballeros

* The Treasury of Croesus

* Gyro's First Invention (50th Anniversary Special for Gyro Gearloose)

* ComicBook/WHADALOTTAJARGON (60th Anniversary Special for Huey, Dewey & Louie)

* W.H.A.D.A.L.O.T.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N. (60th Anniversary Special for Huey, Dewey & Louie)

* The Three Caballeros Ride Again

** In ''The Once and Future Duck'' Donald and nephews travel back in time and meet King Arthur, the legendary knight in shining armor! Except it's not Arthur, it's the barbarian warlord Arturius, who the legend was ''based'' on, who promptly tries to kill them all.
** One Barks story has Donald gaining superpowers after drinking a bottle of isotopes that's supposed to be delivered to a secret lab, only to lose the power after a while, and losing his memory of the incident afterwards. Rosa would retell this story, but have Donald's superheroic feats fail because of physics (e.g. he tries lifting up a boat from a sea, only to have it snap in half and crush him). There's also the reason of Donald drinking the isotope--in Barks' story, he drank it by accident because he mistook it as his stomach medicine, in Rosa's Donald deliberately drank the isotope in hopes of becoming a superhero that his nephews can be proud of.

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Deconstructed in "Super Snooper Strikes Again!". Donald briefly becomes a FlyingBrick after chugging down some AppliedPhlebotinum, and makes several attempts to impress his nephews with his new powers. He tries to travel around the world in an instant, but realizes that he still perceives the passage of time normally despite everyone else effectively being frozen in time while he's moving around at SuperSpeed, so the task could take him several months or even ''years'' to complete, and nobody would notice anyway. He also tries to use his SuperStrength to lift both a mountain and a sunken cruise ship, but the mountain starts falling apart at the base and the ship breaks in two due to years of rust decay to the hull.

* FurryConfusion: In "The Magnificent Seven (Minus 4) Caballeros", Josè, the anthropomorphic parrot, is at one point seen communicating with a normal parrot.

* LeftHanging: Some of the stories and Don Rosa's commentary leave the implication that Scrooge intends to return to Goldie someday (perhaps most notably at the end of ''The Quest for Kalevala''), an implication that never comes to fruition. Apparently, Don Rosa had intended to write the story where Scrooge faked his death and returned to live out the rest of his years with Goldie, but Disney editorials refused him this as it would go against the Duck universe "canon" of Scrooge permanently living in his money bin. Cue the mourning of every Scrooge/Goldie fan.

*** Considering Don Rosa’s opinion of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', [[TakeThat that comic might have served another purpose]].