History WesternAnimation / DonaldDuck

* WesternAnimation/{{Mickeys Trailer}}, released on 6 May 1938 – in a Mickey Mouse cartoon

* The Vanishing Private, released on 25 September 1942

* CompetitionCouponMadness: Several examples. A Deadly Game... Night from the 2017 Ducktales is a good example

* BigRedDevil: There have been ''many'' times when he's angry that he's resembled a devil. The cartoons [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R09WVwjutus "Rocket Ruckus"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkIrdmY3GlQ "Trombone Trouble"]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kk0AGH50V8 "Soup's On"]] are just a few.

* BerserkButton: It doesn't take a lot to set Donald off, but the most common thing to set him off are things not going his way, either through his own bad luck and pettiness, or because someone else is deliberately sabotaging him.

* GrumpyBear: Donald is often grumpy and temperamental. That said, when he's in a good mood, Donald can be just as cheery as Mickey or Goofy, too bad he's not often in a good mood.

* CartoonyEyes: Blue scleras in animation, white ones in the comics.

%%* CompetitionCouponMadness: Several examples.

After theatrical shorts fell out of favor, his appearances slowed down, but he was never quite out. He appeared in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' as a supporting character and starred in ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack''. He also appeared with WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', starred in the "Pomp and Circumstance" segment of ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'', reappeared with the gang in ''WesternAnimation/MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers'' and in 2004, he got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He also came back in ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseworks'' and ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'', as well as the new series of ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' shorts, ''WesternAnimation/MickeyAndTheRoadsterRacers'' and the ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|2017}}'' revival (as a regular this time). He appeared as a court mage and recurring party member in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series of video games, to say nothing of the few games he got to himself such as the fondly remembered ''VideoGame/{{Quackshot}}''. He is the protagonist of the upcoming ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheThreeCaballeros''.

* ColorBlindConfusion: In ''Donald Get's Drafted'', during his physical exams, Donald correctly identifies a red card, but when shown a green card (The physician even asks "What color is this green card", and Donald begins to spell out the word "GREEN" on the card), he answers "Blue", to which the physician says, "Eh, close enough."

* Moving Day, released on 20 June 1936 – in a Mickey Mouse cartoon, marking the debut of his modernized design.

* Magician Mickey, released on 6 February 1937 – in a Mickey Mouse cartoon

* Mickey's Amateurs, released on 17 April 1937 – in a Mickey Mouse cartoon

* Clock Cleaners, released on 15 October 1937 – in a Mickey Mouse cartoon

* Lonesome Ghosts, released on 24 December 1937 – in a Mickey Mouse cartoon

* Mickey's Trailer, released on 6 May 1938 – in a Mickey Mouse cartoon

* The Trial of Donald Duck, released on 30 July 1948

* WouldHitAGirl: “Chef Donald” has Donald angry at the radio host Mother Mallard because his recipe didn't come out right, and ends with Donald running to the station and (since we don’t see what actually Gordon) seemingly pummels Mother Mallard.

* WouldHitAGirl: “Chef Donald” has Donald angry at the radio host Mother Mallard because of s recipe didn’t come out right, and ends with Donald running to the station and (since we don’t see what actually Gordon) seemingly pummels Mother Mallard.

* WouldHurtAGirl: “Chef Donald” has Donald angry at the radio host Mother Mallard because of s recipe didn’t come out right, and ends with Donald running to the station and (since we don’t see what actually Gordon) seemingly pummels Mother Mallard.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In ''Mickey's Polo Team'' and ''Don Donald'', Donald rides a donkey, and there are parts in each one where Donald gets angry at the donkey and calls it a "jackass".

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Due to being an AdaptationalJerkass in ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'', he has his moments.
** In "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS2E19BroncoBusted Bronco Busted]]", he, Mickey, and Goofy needed money to fix their car, and get the idea to compete in a rodeo to get the necessary money, with Donald pretending to be a horse. A millionaire offers to give Mickey and Goofy money in exchange for Donald due to mistaking him for an actual horse. Mickey is about to correct the millionaire until Donald eagerly accepts his offer, but he did it more because of the millionaire's promise to treat the "horse" like a king. After happily giving the money to Mickey and Goofy on behalf of the millionaire, Donald's parting words to them at the end of the short are even "So long, suckers".
** "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS3E8WondersOfTheDeep Wonders of the Deep]]" has him comfort Mickey when he blames himself for Professor Ludwig Von Drake being shot into sea, only to agree with him that it is his fault.

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: He's short-tempered, rude, and has a cruel sense of bullying and pranking others, so he mostly deserves what he gets.

He has the fewest official voice actors of Disney's Sensational Six; he was originally voiced by Clarence "Ducky" Nash. After Nash's death in 1985, animator Creator/TonyAnselmo has been the official voice of Donald in all Disney productions, except for ''WesternAnimation/MickeyAndTheRoadsterRacers / Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures'', in which Daniel Ross voices Donald.

* AntiHero: Though he means good intent, he can act selfish and temperamental.

* FourFingeredHands: Like most cartoon characters of the era.

* TeamRocketWins: Donald normally loses when confronted with Chip 'n' Dale. In the short "Working for Peanuts", Donald actually manages to repeatedly thwart them, with the aide of Dolores the Elephant. Averted, though, in that they still end up getting what they wanted, by successfully faking a place for themselves in the zoo as rare albino chipmunks.