History Fridge / DisneyDucksComicUniverse

* Creator/DonRosa writing a ''Kalevala''-themed adventure for the Ducks was highly appropriate. As the comic says, Elias Lönnrot wrote the ''TheKalevala'' by compiling various Finnish myths, legends, and poetry together -- exactly what Don Rosa did with ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck''. It's a fitting reminder of how all the great epics were written, from 700 B.C. to 1992.

** By his third appearance, he's trying to blow up the entire Duck family ([[WouldHurtAChild including Huey, Duey and Louie]]) with bombers. While probably not intended as such (the series does run off NegativeContinuity, after all), and DonRosa later interpreted him as [[EvilAllAlong always being a scumbag]], for all the world it looks like he let his [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter sense of inferiority]] get the better of him and then [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumped off the slippery slope]].

** The first Italian story to reuse Paperinika after the long hiatus explicitely states that she had retired for a while (indeed, Daisy had even misplaced the outfit and found it again by accident, only to find out it didn't fit her anymore)-she has grown rusty, while Paperinik, having never retired, has only grown more competent in the meantime.

** By his third appearance, he's trying to blow up the entire Duck family ([[WouldHurtAChild including Huey, Duey and Louie]]) with bombers. While probably not intended as such (the series does run off NegativeContinuity, after all), and DonRosa later interpreted him as [[EvilAllAlong always being a scumbag]], for all the world it looks like he let his [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter sense of inferiority]] get the better of him and then [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumped off the slippery slope]].

** Alternatively he's ticked off at Donald's tendence to go overboard, the one thing that ruins him the times he ''does'' work long enough he comes close to become rich. And to Scrooge, Donald supporting his nephews is no excuse: Scrooge too was supporting a family, one that lived in the ancestral family castle, and struck rich not one but ''three times''.[[note]]first when he sold Longhorns to the Sultan of Djokja for an immense amount of cash that the Dutch authorities fined away for the damage he did to Batavia, then when he gained control of the Anaconda Copper mine but had to sell it back to Marcus Daly to save the family castle, and finally in Klondike, when it finally stuck[[/note]]

* Scrooge is so tough on Donald because [[RenaissanceMan his immense array of skills]] proves he's just as good if not ''better'' than Scrooge was in his youth, yet Donald won't bother to work it off long enough to become rich, thus, in Scrooge's eyes, wasting his potential.

** If the theory about their father being Daisy's brother, Huey, Dewey and Louie support her with Donald because this way they'd symbolically have their parents back. They likely don't realize this.

* Brigitta's debut story explains she knew Scrooge since at least 1898 and was already courting him, and in that year she left his life for a while. Given how insistent she is since they met again in Duckburg that could seem out of character... Thing is, she had the best seat to Scrooge becoming a millionaire and then a billionaire ''and'' his love story with Goldie: [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy she simply stepped aside when Scrooge was recovering from an apparent heartbreak out of respect for his feelings]], and decided to make a new try when he apparently had the time to recover.

* At the start of the "Amazing Files" series, a sequel of the Italian stories about Donald's childhood, Donald is quick to realize that the coincidences that brought him to own the sci-fi magazine Amazing Papers (that he was an avid reader of as a child) actually mean something and that the strange informations contained in the titular amazing files may be true, but his childhood friend dismiss it as too similar to the stories he came up as a duckling (at least until they get involved and actually meet the strange happenings) and initially tell him to grow up. He did, it's just that Donald has found the Holy Grail (and broke it on the head of a villain), found El Dorado, met the GrimReaper and [[CrazyAwesome laughed in his face to brag that Donald Duck laughs in the face of death]], has an alien LoveInterest, and so on-[[SeenItAll to him it's just a typical wednesday]].

* When Scrooge came back Duckburg as the (unknowing) richest duck in the world in 1930 he was furious, and when he found out he was the richest duck in the world he could not believe it. This makes absolutely sense when you remember Scrooge's favouritism for possession of cash and that most of the damage in the Great Depression had been caused by bank panic started in late 1930: he had just given his banks with the money they needed to survive the bank runs that were happening right at that very moment, and while that meant his financial empire had survived and would grow on the long run he probably believed he had just thrown away his lifelong dream of becoming the richest in the world and could not continue his travels to make a final try. Hence his rage (and one final fight with his sisters) and surprise when he discovered that, even after the bank runs had already reduced his net worth, he was ''still'' the richest duck in the world.

* In Paperinik stories Gyro has created [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory-erasing candies]] by his own initiative, and by his own decision takes one whenever he learns Paperinik's real identity (Donald actually revealed him he was Paperinik in the second Paperinik story, and Gyro immediately revealed the existance of those candies and took one specifically to forget it). Considering that Gyro's great-grandfather was Fantomius' personal GadgeteerGenius and they had a few misadventures due his real identity getting out...

* Reading some [[CarlBarks Scrooge]] [[Creator/DonRosa McDuck]] comics coincidentally after reading ''Daisy Miller'' got me wondering -- Could John D. Rockerduck's [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff popularity in Europe]] somehow be related to the traditional "old money vs. new money" conflict between old European and American values? Glomgold may be a dishonest CorruptCorporateExecutive, but he ''is'' a SelfMadeMan like Scrooge. Scrooge's conflict with someone who inherited his fortune like Rockerduck might be more significant to Europeans. Or I could just be far too presumptuous.

* In real life, Scrooge would've run out of business quickly. His workers and families will quickly figured that working for ANYONE else will bring much more money and less headaches. Or worse, he will go to jail sooner or later when someone sued him for pay his workers at much more lower than minimum wage. However, since he owned nearly any kind of company (from resorts to oil refinery), he can get away with it since he contributed so much to taxes and people lives that he's practically invincible to law, and people who starved for job will still work with him anyway. The effect is showed in some of Creator/DonRosa and CarlBarks's comics, where Scrooge's showed as the only man in Duckburg that able to pay things like Rocket Project and giant robot's production cost.

** Lord Quackett's (AKA Fantomius) estate was acquired from the state because he had no heirs, leading to his manor becoming the prize of a lottery and ultimately ending in Donald's hands due a mailman's error. Either lord Quackett and Dolly never married, or they married and Gladstone, being the closest relative, inherited the lot but refused it for some reason.

* As we know, [[DoubleStandard Daisy gets away with flirting with Gladstone whenever it suits her, making ridiculous demands from and sometimes downright mistreating Donald, while Donald never gets away with doing half of that]]. Why? Because [[LadykillerInLove Donald used to be a (rather successful) ladies man]], and he knows Daisy is ''extremely'' jealous. It's their MasochismTango.

* Creator/DonRosa writing a ''Kalevala''-themed adventure for the Ducks was highly appropriate. As the comic says, Elias Lönnrot wrote the ''TheKalevala'' by compiling various Finnish myths, legends, and poetry together -- exactly what Don Rosa did with ''TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck''. It's a fitting reminder of how all the great epics were written, from 700 B.C. to 1992.

* Why is Rockerduck so obsessed with defeating Scrooge? Two reasons: the first is that he usually comes as the second richest by very little but he also ''spends'' more, and given his standard insult to Scrooge is pointing out he's a thighwad the fact he's less rich because he's not as much as a skintflint obviously burns; the other is that Rockerduck's own father taught Scrooge how to be a prospector, and he most likely ''knows'' (he had all the elements to guess it. All he needs to do is to check the records for the name of the prospector who staked a claim to the Anaconda Copper Mine...).

* In real life, Scrooge would've run out of business quickly. His workers and families will quickly figured that working for ANYONE else will bring much more money and less headaches. Or worse, he will went to jail soon or later when someone sued him for pay his workers at much more lower than minimum wage. However, since he owned nearly any kind of company (from resorts to oil refinery), he can get away with it since he contributed so much to taxes and people lives that he's practically invicible to law, and people who starved for job will still work with him anyway. The effect is showed in some of Creator/DonRosa and CarlBarks's comics, where Scrooge's showed as the only man in Duckburg that able to pay things like Rocket Project and giant robot's production cost.

* Why is Rockerduck so obsessed to defeat Scrooge? Two reasons: the first is that he usually comes as the second richest by very little but he also ''spends'' more, and given his standard insult to Scrooge is pointing out he's a thighwad the fact he's less rich because he's not as much as a skintflint obviously burns; the other is that Rockerduck's own father taught Scrooge how to be a prospector, and he most likely ''knows'' (he had all the elements to guess it. All he needs to do is to check the records for the name of the prospector who staked a claim to the Anaconda Copper Mine...).

* At the end of the epic story "Zio Paperone e l'Ultima Avventura", Donald questions Gladstone's supposed contibution to the happy ending, with Gladstone smugly saying he provided good luck and asking what would have happened without that. Thing is, [[JerkassHasAPoint he's right]]: ThePlan hinged on the disguised Jubal Pomp and Scrooge getting Rockerduck to not read a contract before signing it and [[TheKlutz Fethry getting hired among the demolition workers trying to destroy the money bin and Killmotor Hill to sabotage them by being himself]], and both either need Rockerduck and Glomgold grabbing the IdiotBall... Or enough good luck that the usually savvy Rockerduck would fall for Jubal and Scrooge's scam so completely to not read and nobody who knew Fethry (that is, nobody from Duckburg) spotted him before he did his part.

* Why is Rockerduck so obsessed to defeat Scrooge? Two reasons: the first is that he usually comes as the second richest by very little but he also ''spends'' more, and given his standard insult to Scrooge is pointing out he's a thighwad the fact he's less rich because he's not as much as a skintflint obviously burns; the other is that Rockerduck's own father taught Scrooge how to be a prospector, and he most likely ''knows'' (he had all the elements to guess it. All he needs to do is to check the records for the name of the prospector who staked a claim to the Anaconda Copper Mine...).

* Why is Rockerduck so obsessed to defeat Scrooge? Two reasons: the first is that he usually comes as the second richest by very little but he also ''spends'' more, and given his standard insult to Scrooge is pointing out he's a thighwad the fact he's less rich because he's not as much as a skintflint obviously burns; the other is that Rockerduck's own father taught Scrooge how to be a prospector, and he most likely ''knows''.

** On the other hand, he pays so little to Donald... because it's time off for him. He doesn't consider it 'real work', he simply covers the time lost by Donald when on treasure hunts, but since Scrooge is an explorer, he also considers the treasure hunt to be a reward in itself... Or at least this is what he'd tell Donald!

* In real life, Scrooge would've run out of business quickly. His workers and families will quickly figured that working for ANYONE else will bring much more money and less headaches. Or worse, he will went to jail soon or later when someone sued him for pay his workers at much more lower than minimum wage. However, since he owned nearly any kind of company (from resorts to oil refinery), he can get away with it since he contributed so much to taxes and people lives that he's practically invicible to law, and people who starved for job will still work with him anyway. The effect is showed in some of Creator/DonRosa and CarlBarks's comics, where Scrooge's showed as the only man in Duckburg that able to pay things like Rocket Project and giant robot's production cost.

* Reading some [[CarlBarks Scrooge]] [[DonRosa McDuck]] comics coincidentally after reading ''Daisy Miller'' got me wondering -- Could John D. Rockerduck's [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff popularity in Europe]] somehow be related to the traditional "old money vs. new money" conflict between old European and American values? Glomgold may be a dishonest CorruptCorporateExecutive, but he ''is'' a SelfMadeMan like Scrooge. Scrooge's conflict with someone who inherited his fortune like Rockerduck might be more significant to Europeans. Or I could just be far too presumptuous.

* DonRosa writing a ''Kalevala''-themed adventure for the Ducks was highly appropriate. As the comic says, Elias Lönnrot wrote the ''TheKalevala'' by compiling various Finnish myths, legends, and poetry together -- exactly what Don Rosa did with ''TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck''. It's a fitting reminder of how all the great epics were written, from 700 B.C. to 1992.
* In real life, Scrooge would've run out of business quickly. His workers and families will quickly figured that working for ANYONE else will bring much more money and less headaches. Or worse, he will went to jail soon or later when someone sued him for pay his workers at much more lower than minimum wage. However, since he owned nearly any kind of company (from resorts to oil refinery), he can get away with it since he contributed so much to taxes and people lives that he's practically invicible to law, and people who starved for job will still work with him anyway. The effect is showed in some of DonRosa and CarlBarks's comics, where Scrooge's showed as the only man in Duckburg that able to pay things like Rocket Project and giant robot's production cost.

* In real life, Scrooge would've run out of business quickly. His workers and families will quickly figured that working for ANYONE else will bring much more money and less headaches. Or worse, he will went to jail soon or later when someone sued him for pay his workers at much more lower than minimum wage.

* In real life, Scrooge would've run out of business quickly. His workers and families will quickly figured that working for someone else will bring much more money and less headaches. Or worse, he will went to jail quickly after someone sued him for pay them at much more lower than minimum wage.

* DonRosa writing a ''Kalevala''-themed adventure for the Ducks was highly appropriate. As the comic says, Elias Lönnrot wrote the ''TheKalevala'' by compiling various Finnish myths, legends, and poetry together -- exactly what Don Rosa did with ''TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck''. It's a fitting reminder of how all the great epics were written, from 700 B.C. to 1992.

** I think you're reading far to much into that. In fact, I, even though I'm an European, prefer 'self-made men'. Times changed, I do not believe that the Europeans still (if they ever did as a whole group) find someone who inherited his fortune more important. ('Cept maybe the English.)