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* In "The Treasury of Croesus", Donald told off Scrooge and Magica for their obsession with wealth that would always keep them from being happy, with the nephews immediately finding a parallel with how Solon told off Croesus for thinking his immense wealth made him the happiest when he doesn't know the plans of the gods, and while Scrooge is silently fuming and breaking his cane in anger Magica instead looks dumbfounded and mildly horrified. Being Italian she's likely more knowledgeable than Scrooge on Ancient Greek history and may have remembered how Croesus' story ended, namely with him defeated by the Persians and almost ''burned to death'' (Croesus realizing that Solon was right and laughing at his own stupidity prompted Cyrus the Great to ask him what was so funny, and after finding out about that encounter between Croesus and Solon Cyrus decided to keep him as an advisor so he could be reminded to not be too arrogant)... And may be seriously wondering if her obsession with the Midas' Touch may end up causing her horrific death.





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\n*** The answer to this is Paperinik: the creditors know that if they try anything funny the Devilish Avenger ''will'' destroy them, so they just wait for Donald to get the money and pay them back (the first think Donald does every time he gets a large sum of money).

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* In one Paperinik story after Donald asks Ludwig Von Drake when he will finally pay off all his debts, Von Drake answers "Never". Does this mean that Donald will be tormented by creditors and blackmailed by Scrooge ''his entire life?''
* Related to the above, considering how long his debt list is, and combined with his [[BornUnlucky bad luck]] making it impossible to find a long-lasting job (not mentioning living with jackass neighbour, girlfriend who sometimes cheats on him, SmugSnake cousin, and an uncle that sometimes treats him like a slave) it's incredible that Donald [[DrivenToSuicide didn't thought about freeing himself from all of his misfortunes]].
** Similarly, it's a wonder that Donald didn't yet ended up living under bridge homeless, given that as soon as he gets possession of a huge sum, his creditors will fleece him of his money.

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* Early on during Donald's parents' relationship we see that Quackmore had proposed the name "Donald Fauntleroy" for one of their children and Hortense reacting in anger and declaring none of her children would get such a name, yet one of their twins was indeed named Donald Fauntleroy Duck. Considering that Donald is the name of Quackmore's grandfather, a war hero that during the American Civil War earned the Medal of Honor during his ''first'' battle, it's likely she changed her mind once he got around telling her of this relative.


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** A possibility is that it was the same thing that happened in real life, both on Duck!Earth and their own... And that they simply made the one on their homeworld worse.

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*** This also has a far horrible undertone, as a ''fattucchiera'' is often hired to ''curse'' someone... And she's indeed proficient in curses, having once cursed Scrooge to be allergic to money and keeping a curse that reverses one's good luck into bad luck just lying around.

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* The Tz'oook from "Threat from the Infinite" are the survivors of the {{Ultraterrestrials}} that caused the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event... However in the finale is discovered they're from an alternate dimension and accidentally and unknowingly crossed the dimensional boundary. But if they didn't cause the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event, ''[[ParanoiaFuel then what happened]]''?
* As pointed out above, in Italian stories and translations [[InsistentTerminology Magica's demands to be called
a far horrible undertone, sorceress]] are translated with her demanding to be called a ''fattucchiera'', [[{{Woolseyism}} a term that designates a professional magic user such as Magica]]... But a ''fattucchiera'' is often hired to ''curse'' someone... And she's people, and given she has indeed proficient in curses, having once cursed shown enough proficience into curses to make Scrooge to be allergic to money and keeping a curse that reverses one's reversing Gladstone's good luck into bad luck just lying around.
luck, one has to wonder what exactly does she do for a living.

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*** This also has a far horrible undertone, as a ''fattucchiera'' is often hired to ''curse'' someone... And she's indeed proficient in curses, having once cursed Scrooge to be allergic to money and keeping a curse that reverses one's good luck into bad luck just lying around.

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** As the Italian language doesn't have a direct equivalent for "sorceror", she claims to be a ''fattucchiera'', that is a female magic user specialized in rituals and creating magic charms... And not only [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin that's what she does for a living]], as a ''fattucchiera'' normally does her thing when paid to do so it carries an air of professionalism (and she's indeed doing it as a professional).

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* In the ''Literature/LesMiserables'' parody Javert has initially the same relationship with Scrooge Valjean that their literary counterparts have, but when he finally catches him Javert explains he spent the last five years chasing him because Valjean has been pardoned. This is actually consistent with his literary status as a PrinciplesZealot: Javert spent the first half of his ten-years chase of Valjean to arrest him because the law said he was a criminal, but the moment the king had pardoned Valjean the law said Valjean was as good as if he had never been a criminal, and as the man who had chased him for so long it was his duty to find him and inform him of the pardon.

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* In the ''Literature/LesMiserables'' parody Javert has initially the same relationship with Scrooge Valjean that their literary counterparts have, but when he finally catches him Javert explains he spent the last five years chasing him because Valjean has been pardoned. pardoned and he was to inform him about it. This is actually consistent with his literary status as a PrinciplesZealot: Javert spent the first half of his ten-years ten years chase of Valjean to arrest him because the law said he was a criminal, but the moment the king had pardoned Valjean the law said Valjean was as good as if he had never been a criminal, and as the man who had chased him for so long it was his duty to find him and inform him of the pardon.

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* Magica [[InsistentTerminology referring to herself as a sorceress and correcting anyone who calls her a witch]] has two very good reasons, [[DependingOnTheAuthor depending on where the story is from]]:
** In American stories, where Magica normally doesn't have powers in her own rights and relies instead on magical trinkets and MagicFromTechnology, she's technically a ''magician'', that is someone who performs magic through magic objects that anyone could use as long as they know what they're doing... But nobody would take her seriously. Hence her claiming to be a ''sorceress'', who draws her powers from a stronger supernatural entity.
** According to the Italian story "Magica and the 7 Volcanic Witches" she's an Oceanic Witch, that draws power from the sea... Meaning she's indeed a sorceress (if an unusual one), and doesn't want to be compared to more "generic" magic users.
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* Donald calling out how Scrooge and Magica make their lives miserable through their dedication to avarice in "The Treasury of Croesus" also feeds into how, when Scrooge gives Donald money to test his suitability to inherit in other stories, Donald immediately spends it. Yes, Scrooge sees this as wasteful, but remember: Scrooge's defining characteristic is that he's a ''miser''. That is, ''somebody who hoards money even when it's impractical'' -- the kind of person who would rather freeze in winter than spend money to buy firewood, even though he literally owns lumberjacking companies. The fact Donald is willing to spend money for comfort when his grand-uncle would rather suffer through misery to hoard money is another little reminder that Donald is, in certain earthy ways, [[WisdomFromTheGutter smarter than Scrooge]].

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* Magica's humility and willingness to learn from her mistakes and try ''everything'' are explained by one of her potential origin stories, the one presenting her as a villainous WorkingClassHero: coming from a poor background and being entirely self taught she ''had'' to be humble, learn from any and all mistakes, and try everything to succeed... And the fact she's actually fairly wealthy from her business selling potions and charms only reinforce this mindset.

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** [[NegativeContinuity The other origin story]], where she's self-taught and the Midas' Touch was originally her parents' attempt at achieving wealth, also provides explanations: being self taught she hadn't yet learned ''how'' to use her powers until later, so she relied on potions and tools (with the recipe for her trademark "Foof" bombs being from her mother's stash); the obsession with the Midas Touch is because her parents ''died'' attempting it; and the other witches have little respect for her because she's the self-taught daughter of two "failures"... Though the Witches Council has seen what she's capable of and has come to respect her for it.
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** In ''ComicBook/{{Ultraheroes}}'' Paperinik and Paperinika have another of their fights when Paperinika muses that Dolly Paprika was the main reason for Fantomius' success and Paperinik takes offence. He knew that Fantomius' own genius was the main reason for their group's success because ''Dolly himself had told him when he was a child''.

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** In ''ComicBook/{{Ultraheroes}}'' Paperinik and Paperinika have another of their fights when Paperinika muses that Dolly Paprika was the main reason for Fantomius' success and Paperinik takes offence. He knew that Fantomius' own genius was the main reason for their group's success because ''Dolly himself herself had told him when he was a child''.

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** The whole situation also offers an explanation on her going from having little more than parlor tricks and a hoard of items used by ancient witches to gaining actual magic powers of her own: her powers had been originally sealed as part of the quest, but once the Witches Council decided she had more than proved herself her magic was restored.

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*** A later story shows that [[spoiler:there was no lottery, Fantomius had used a time machine to set up everything for his manor and legacy to fall into Donald's hands]].



* In the ''Literature/LesMiserables'' parody Javert has initially the same relationship with Scrooge Valjean that their literary counterparts have, but when he finally catches him Javert explains he spent the last five years chasing him because Valjean has been pardoned. This is actually consistent with his literary status as a PrinciplesZealot: Javert spent the first half of his ten-years chase of Valjean to arrest him because the law said he was a criminal, but the moment the king had pardoned Valjean the law said Valjean was as good as if he had never been a criminal, and as the man who had chased him for so long it was his duty to find him.

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** 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 Creator/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]].

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** By his third appearance, he's trying to blow up the entire Duck family ([[WouldHurtAChild including Huey, Duey Dewey and Louie]]) with bombers. While probably not intended as such (the series does run off NegativeContinuity, after all), and Creator/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]].
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* 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 friends 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]].

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* 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 friends 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 [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu 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]].

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** This is also part of why she has such a poor relationship with her grandmother Caraldina and her niece Minima in spite of them loving her as she is: [[DontYouDarePityMe she considers herself undeserving until she gets the Dime]].
** The Witches Council and other authorities treat Magica as an adult, at times making her mentor younger witches and wizards and assigning her other tasks and being more than willing to replace the Midas Touch task with an easier one for her rite of passage: they know how tough Scrooge is, so Magica has nothing to prove to them anymore.

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** She has actually switched between characterizations mid-story, more than once: in "Scrooge's Last Adventure" she's at one of her most evil moments, as she can now take her long-awaited revenge on Scrooge, at least until a miscalculation prompts the Witches Council to [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment turn her into a fairy]], and when Scrooge convinces the Council to reverse the punishment she becomes ''immediately'' extremely nice and gives back the money from the Money Bin she had stolen earlier in the story in gratitude; also, in "Scrooge, Magica and the Mondor's Cup" she starts snappy and angry due being set right before the 2018 edition of UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup [[SeriousBusiness that Italy failed to qualify for]], gets worse, and positively relishes in humiliating a random guy after failing an assault on the Money Bin, and at the end, after archmage Mondor's [[spoiler:stripping her powers]] got reversed and for once she was getting respect from the other mages she gave Scrooge's family and friends gifts for helping her getting out of trouble and, to Scrooge himself, a chance to restore the Money Bin's defenses after she almost dismantled them at the start of the story.

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** She has actually switched between characterizations mid-story, more than once: in "Scrooge's Last Adventure" she's at one of her most evil moments, as she can now take her long-awaited revenge on Scrooge, at least until a miscalculation prompts the Witches Council to [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment turn her into a fairy]], and when Scrooge convinces the Council to reverse the punishment she becomes ''immediately'' extremely nice and gives back the money from the Money Bin she had stolen earlier in the story in out gratitude; also, in "Scrooge, Magica and the Mondor's Cup" she starts snappy and angry due being set right before the 2018 edition of UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup [[SeriousBusiness that Italy failed to qualify for]], gets worse, and positively relishes in humiliating a random guy after failing an assault on the Money Bin, and at the end, after archmage Mondor's [[spoiler:stripping her powers]] got reversed and for once she was getting respect from the other mages she gave Scrooge's family and friends gifts for helping her getting out of trouble and, to Scrooge himself, a chance to restore the Money Bin's defenses after she almost dismantled them at the start of the story.story.
** WhatIf stories where she finally wins show her as very nice, [[UsedToBeASweetKid just as she was as a child]]... And her FreudianExcuse is centered around the quest for the Midas Touch spell that left her embittered and angry even before arriving to Scrooge's coin. Her ''real'' personality is the nice one, she's just so angry most of the time that she's constantly lashing out at the world.
** This also explains her poor relationship with her cousin Adelia the fairy: her personality is very close to how Magica ''used'' to be, and meeting her is too harsh a reminder of what she was and may or may want to be again.



* In more recent comics, John D. Rockerduck has replaced Glomgold as Scrooge's rival in European comic, and he has the same goal as Glomgold to become the world's richest duck. However, it is established that ''Glomgold'' is the second richest, with Rockerduck at a third place, if he places at all. Shouldn't he focus his efforts on beating Glomgold first? Not really, because Glomgold's first appearance established him as Scrooge's equal in ''every'' way. The only reason Scrooge won the contest was because Glomgold had collected less thread than him. With that in mind, it doesn't matter wether Rockerduck beats Glomgold or Scrooge; He'll become the world's richest either way.

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* In more recent comics, John D. Rockerduck has replaced Glomgold as Scrooge's rival in European comic, and he has the same goal as Glomgold to become the world's richest duck. However, it is established that ''Glomgold'' is the second richest, with Rockerduck at a third place, if he places at all. Shouldn't he focus his efforts on beating Glomgold first? Not really, because Glomgold's first appearance established him as Scrooge's equal in ''every'' way. The only reason Scrooge won the contest was because Glomgold had collected less thread than him. With that in mind, it doesn't matter wether Rockerduck beats Glomgold or Scrooge; He'll Scrooge, he'll become the world's richest either way.way... And with Scrooge, ItsPersonal.


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* Magica's ''obsession'' with the Number One Dime and the little respect she gets from most witches have a very good reason: when becoming an adult every witch has to complete a difficult task as a RiteOfPassage, and hers was the Midas Touch... Thus in the eyes of most other witches she's a failure and little more than an overgrown child, with few aside those who have actually tried their hand at Scrooge realizing [[OvershadowedByAwesome she's a formidable witch in her own right facing an even tougher opponent]], and this won't change until she succeeds. And while enough time has passed that she could petition for another task, [[SunkCostFallacy she's poured too much effort in this one to do so]], with the only time she actually did being when completing the new task would give her the power to waltz through Scrooge's defenses and ''finally'' take that Dime for herself.
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* In the ''Literature/LesMiserables'' parody Javert has initially the same relationship with Scrooge Valjean that their literary counterparts have, but when he finally catches him Javert explains he spent the last five years chasing him because Valjean has been pardoned. This is actually consistent with his literary status as a PrinciplesZealot: Javert spent the first half of his ten-years chase of Valjean to arrest him because the law said he was a criminal, but the moment the king had pardoned Valjean the law said Valjean was as good as if he had never been a criminal, and as the man who had chased him for so long it was his duty to find him.
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* In more recent comics, John D. Rockerduck has replaced Glomgold as Scrooge's rival in European comic, and he has the same goal as Glomgold to become the world's richest duck. However, it is established that ''Glomgold'' is the second richest, with Rockerduck at a third place, if he places at all. Shouldn't he focus his efforts on beating Glomgold first? Not really, because Glomgold's first appearance established him as Scrooge's equal in ''every'' way. The only reason Scrooge won the contest was because Glomgold had collected less thread than him. With that in mind, it doesn't matter wether Rockerduck beats Glomgold or Scrooge; He'll become the world's richest either way.
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** When Donald comes across some money, he almost always uses it on luxury. Taking Daisy and the boys out on dinner, buying a nice car, etc. He's trying to do something nice for children whom he usually have to be strict on.

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** 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.

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

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* 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 friends 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]].
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* 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.

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* When Scrooge came back to 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 in the long run 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.
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* 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...

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* 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 to his real identity getting out...
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* 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 owns nearly any kind of company (from resorts to oil refineries), he can get away with it since he contributed so much to taxes and people's lives that he's practically invincible to law, and people who are starved for jobs will still work with him anyway. The effect is showed in some of Creator/DonRosa and Creator/CarlBarks' comics, where Scrooge's showen as the only man in Duckburg that able to pay things like rocket projects and giant robot production costs

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* 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 owns nearly any kind of company (from resorts to oil refineries), he can get away with it since he contributed so much to taxes and people's lives that he's practically invincible to law, and people who are starved for jobs will still work with him anyway. The effect is showed in some of Creator/DonRosa and Creator/CarlBarks' comics, where Scrooge's showen shown as the only man in Duckburg that able to pay things like rocket projects and giant robot production costscosts.
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* 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 Creator/CarlBarks' 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.

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* 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 owns nearly any kind of company (from resorts to oil refinery), refineries), he can get away with it since he contributed so much to taxes and people people's lives that he's practically invincible to law, and people who are starved for job jobs will still work with him anyway. The effect is showed in some of Creator/DonRosa and Creator/CarlBarks' comics, where Scrooge's showed showen as the only man in Duckburg that able to pay things like Rocket Project rocket projects and giant robot's robot production cost.costs
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* A fridge tearjerker: Huey, Dewey and Louie are pretty spoiled. Why would they be such brats when they live in near constant poverty? ''They don't know''. Donald may be intentionally hiding the true extend of his financial difficulties, simply because he doesn't want them to worry about money all the time.
** When Donald comes across some money, he almost always uses it on luxury. Taking Daisy and the boys out on dinner, buying a nice car, etc. He's trying to do something nice for children whom he usually have to be strict on.

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* Why is Magica ''obsessed'' with AssociationFootball in Italian stories? Easy: [[DudeWheresMyRespect she gets little respect for her magic abilities]], but [[PassionateSportsGirl she's a]] ''[[PassionateSportsGirl champion]]'' [[PassionateSportsGirl at that]] and she ''gets'' respect for it, and that on top of her being from Italy (where the sport is extremely popular).

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* Why is Magica ''obsessed'' with AssociationFootball UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball in Italian stories? Easy: [[DudeWheresMyRespect she gets little respect for her magic abilities]], but [[PassionateSportsGirl she's a]] ''[[PassionateSportsGirl champion]]'' [[PassionateSportsGirl at that]] and she ''gets'' respect for it, and that on top of her being from Italy (where the sport is extremely popular).popular).
* Magica being [[AffablyEvil relatively nice]] or [[CardCarryingVillain extremely petty and vile]] [[DependingOnTheWriter depending on stories]] has actually a good in-universe reason: her mercurial temper. If she's in a good mood she's relatively nice, but if something got her angry beforehand she becomes progressively worse, even being willing to enslave Santa Claus on Christmas (and yes, that actually happened-and [[EvenEvilHasStandards even her witch grandmother considered that too vile]]).
** She has actually switched between characterizations mid-story, more than once: in "Scrooge's Last Adventure" she's at one of her most evil moments, as she can now take her long-awaited revenge on Scrooge, at least until a miscalculation prompts the Witches Council to [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment turn her into a fairy]], and when Scrooge convinces the Council to reverse the punishment she becomes ''immediately'' extremely nice and gives back the money from the Money Bin she had stolen earlier in the story in gratitude; also, in "Scrooge, Magica and the Mondor's Cup" she starts snappy and angry due being set right before the 2018 edition of UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup [[SeriousBusiness that Italy failed to qualify for]], gets worse, and positively relishes in humiliating a random guy after failing an assault on the Money Bin, and at the end, after archmage Mondor's [[spoiler:stripping her powers]] got reversed and for once she was getting respect from the other mages she gave Scrooge's family and friends gifts for helping her getting out of trouble and, to Scrooge himself, a chance to restore the Money Bin's defenses after she almost dismantled them at the start of the story.
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* Why is Magica ''obsessed'' with AssociationFootball in Italian stories? Easy: [[DudeWheresMyRespect she gets little respect for her magic abilities]], but [[PassionateSportsGirl she's a]] ''[[PassionateSportsGirl champion]]'' [[PassionateSportsGirl at that]] and she ''gets'' respect for it, and that on top of her being from Italy (where the sport is extremely popular).

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