History YMMV / DisneyDucksComicUniverse

* DesignatedVillain: Similar to [[DesignatedHero above]], this also surprisingly common:

** "Nice to know at three in the morning."[[note]]In 2011, an anonymous user of the Finnish image board Ylilauta posted an edited panel from the Carl Barks story "The Firebug" in which one of Donald's nephews wakes him up from a nightmare. The speech bubble of the nephew was blank, but Donald's had been edited to contain the aforementioned text. Other users of the board, and later people elsewhere as well, subsequently edited the panel further, with the nephew announcing various things ([[InsaneTrollLogic Donald having forgotten to take his sleeping meds]], [[ToiletHumour Huey's poop exploding through the house's foundations]], film and song references etc.) to the disinterested Donald. The memetic statement was later referred to e.g. by the name of the Facebook meme page [[https://www.facebook.com/3am.fi/ Kolmelta aamuyöstä]].[[/note]]
** "Turn off the lights!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]In the rather censored first Finnish translation of the Carl Barks story "Cap'n Blight's Mystery Ship", one character saying "Viva the revolution!" is translated as "Sammuttakaa valot!" ("Turn off the lights"). This has resulted in "Sammuttakaa valot" becoming a common phrase among Finnish duck fans, especially in talks about censored comics.[[/labelnote]]

** Scrooge McDuck, [[DependingOnTheWriter who's in some stories]] depicted as a ''flat-out'' [[AdaptationalVillainy villain]], who abuses his family and employees and cares only about money. Example; in [[https://inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+1623-A one story]], after Gyro invention goes haywire thanks to Donald, resulting in movie monsters coming from the screen to real life, Scrooge decides to [[DisproportionateRetribution punish]] Donald by '''''[[AndIMustScream trapping him in movie screen]]''''' and letting him being chased by a King Kong to the delight of customers of his cinema.

** Scrooge McDuck, [[DependingOnTheWriter who's in some stories]] depicted as a ''flat-out'' villain, who abuses his family and employees and cares only about money. Example; in [[https://inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+1623-A one story]], after Gyro invention goes haywire thanks to Donald, resulting in movie monsters coming from the screen to real life, Scrooge decides to punish Donald by '''''trapping him in movie screen''''' and letting him being chased by a King Kong to the delight of customers of his cinema.

* DesignatedMonkey: Sure, Donald is BornUnlucky, but given how much [[YankTheDogsChain abuse and misfortune he endures]], is no wonder that there are some people who stopped laughing at joke that Donald is ''forbidden'' for working in certain places in Duckburg and has ''an entire army'' of creditors hanging over his neck, and who want to strip him out of his money.

* DesignatedVillain: Surprisingly common:

* {{Moe}}: Reginella. Little body, big eyes, nice and adorable personality. Even her woobie status helps.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Carl Barks' comic books tend to suffer from this nowadays. For their time, there simply weren't any other FunnyAnimal or kids comics like them; most of the competition was juvenile hackwork or just banal kids filler in regards to story. Barks was one of the first writers for those kind of books to actually respect the intelligence of his audience and try to have consistent and dynamic characterization, strong plotting and surprisingly witty humor. But come the following decades, and the idea of having this kind of storytelling in comics is not only extremely common but downright ''necessary'' in order to hold the attention of a mainstream audience, making newcomers to his comics [[HypeBacklash wonder just what makes them such a big deal]] and leaving them unimpressed with the admittedly generic plots and somewhat dated humor of them.

** Goldie. Used only once by her creator Creator/CarlBarks and far more often by Romano Scarpa, Creator/DonRosa, and others, not to mention her multiple appearances on ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales''.

* ShipsThatPassInTheNight: Despite them rarely ever interacting in any comics or the shows, there are some fans who have taken to ship Gladstone Gander and Magica [=DeSpell=] together, the idea of the FoeYay and how their personalities would clash probably being a reason why.

** Quite a few stories have Rockerduck actually being far more benevolent than Scrooge, or simply being completely moral. He still always loses in the end.