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* Rampaging across the African savannah and intimidating a lion into serving as a mount, then publicly smacking down and humiliating a young Flintheart Glomgold, who had just left him to die in the savannah. (''The Terror of the Transvaal'')
** And how did Scrooge intimidate that lion? By ''roaring'' at it!
** When someone tells Glomgold that "a cowboy" (Scrooge) has shown up at the bar, looking for him, he laughs it off, making a crack about a cowboy being an apprentice milkman. Scrooge's response?
--->'''Scrooge:''' No, it's your '''''worst nightmare''''', you no-good, lowdown, backstabbing, dirty-dealing so-and-so! '''''FILL YOUR HAND!'''''
* Choosing to leave a priceless sacred opal in its place, when [[WhatYouAreInTheDark he knew his theft wouldn't be discovered for a thousand years]]. (''Dreamtime Duck of the Never-Never'').
** Made more awesome by the fact he fully knew nobody would find out for such a long time and found himself toying with the idea, started an EvilLaugh, and then [[HaHaHaNo left after putting it back in its place]]:
--->'''Scrooge:''' (''holds the opal above his head triumphantly'') It's worth '''millions!''' And who ''needs'' self-respect when you're rich?! ''[[EvilLaugh HAHAHAHAHAHAA]][-[[WhatYouAreInTheDark aaaw, nuts!]]-]'' (''puts the opal back on its pedestal and leaves'')
* Most of ''The King of the Klondike'':
** Cowing Wyatt Earp by simply taking out his NumberOneDime and swinging it around. Seriously, Scrooge's legend had grown so much by this point that even the legendary marshal was awed by him.
** How he surveys his new claim for gold. Getting a hike with an ''eagle'' that snatched him, and how he casually remarks that it got him a better view; and when he decides to cut off the ride, he just ''cuts off'' a rope to get loose from the bird, making a ''lasso'' in mid-air and aims for the nearest tree to dampen the impact. Then he lassos the top of the tree, and hits the ground feet first; exactly at the right spot.
** Upon establishing a dig site, he spends time building a wooden cabin. Atop a large hill, and alone. Which included chopping down whole trees and carrying them on his back. Not impressive enough? He carries such trees, which could easily be as heavy as 2,000 pounds ''bare minimum'', uphill while remarking that he's exhausted; '''[[http://i.imgur.com/g27oG7e.jpg and he refers to this as 'light hauling'!]]'''
** Bringing down an entire steamboat around Soapy Slick, with his bare hands, [[BerserkButton after Soapy makes fun of the death of Scrooge's mother]] (just before [[CementShoes he tries to kill him, to boot]]), and then hauling the crooked casino host and his cronies to jail. Also a tiny bit NightmareFuel due to Scrooge's UnstoppableRage.
*** You really need to read that to fully comprehend just how badass Scrooge is. The incident was so BeyondTheImpossible that even live witnesses were terrified into believing a variety of freak accident stories to even make sense of it -- including him [[SuperStrength hurling an entire grand piano through a window]] -- with the one constant being Scrooge walking out of there dirtied, angered, but completely ''unscathed'' otherwise.
*** Incidentally, the former page image -- of Scrooge looking pissed beyond all mortal comprehension, chained at both wrists with an ominous CRREEEAAK sound effect -- is from this story, mere moments before he tears both of the steamboat's smokestacks down. And that's ''literally'' just the beginning of what he does to Slick, his boat, and his entire crew of criminals therein.
--->'''Soapy''': (''[[KickTheDog scrunches up and tosses away the letter]]'') Well, I know Scrooge would rather be hard at work than hanging around ''this'' den of iniquity! So get an anchor, boys; "Scroogey" wants to search the river bottom for paydirt! [[EvilLaugh HAR HAR!]] (''in response to [[MassOhCrap his men pointing at an utterly]] '''[[MassOhCrap furious]]''' [[MassOhCrap Scrooge with looks of absolute horror]]'') Hm? What is it? Wha-
--->('''''[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8d50b98595cb2e642cd67848c19ca8a8.jpg CRREEEAAK]]''''')
--->'''Soapy''': (''realises what he's gotten himself into'') [[ThisIsGonnaSuck …oops!]]
** His discovery of the Goose Egg Nugget:
--->'''Scrooge:''' Great honk, this rock is heavy! How could it weigh so much unless… unless it's gold! Gotta rinse off the mud! A nugget this big would make me the richest man in the Klondike! But if it ''is'' gold, that will mean my quest is finished! I'll be rich! I'll never be the same again! Will clean air smell any sweeter? Will sunny days be any brighter? Will starry nights hold any more wonder or will I lose all that? Do I really want to be… rich? ''(ponders; gets a glim of gold in his eyes)'' '''[[BigYes YES!]]''' ''(washes rock)'' It's GOLD! SOLID GOLD! As big as a goose egg! Ha ha ha ha ha... I'm RICH! RICH! RICH!
** ...and the "The End" message is replaced with "The Beginning".
** Related to ''The King of the Klondike'', there is.
---> "GET--OUT--OF--MY--'''DREAM'''!"
* Scrooge going back to rescue the bad guy's sled dogs (but not the bad guys themselves) from an ice floe about to go over a waterfall. (''The Prisoner Of White Agony Creek'') The bad guys survive anyway due to crashing into Soapy Smith's ''new'' riverboat below the falls.
--> '''Soapy''': I don't know why, but somehow, I have the feeling that [=McDuck=] just cost me a second riverboat…
** And then there's later in the story where he and Goldie's ultimate SlapSlapKiss relationship leads to the most sexually charged scene in a core Disney Story. Extra points for the interference of HangingJudge Roy Bean, who up until this point had been portrayed as a comically strict KnightTemplar who tried to hang people for basically any reason.
--->'''Roy Bean:''' Based on careful deliberation -- and many years of experience with life -- it is the verdict of this court that what's going on in that cabin is ''not'' a hangin' offense in Langtry, Texas -- or anywhere else. Thank gosh!
** Chasing after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid through the Yukon while riding two caribou at once and dual-wielding a pair of pickaxes. It doesn't get much more badass than that.
*** Cassidy and Kid couldn't believe what they were seeing when they saw this, and the only thing stopping them from [[OhCrap screaming in holy terror]] was [[AwesomenessIsAForce the sheer awesomeness of the sight]].
* Beating up UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt in ''The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut''.
** Not to mention almost negotiating perpetual rights to the ''airplane'' and ''the movie camera'' in exchange for keeping his mouth shut about the archaeological treasures he's found.
* Taking out a group of Beagle Boys fifty years his junior in ''The Richest Duck In The World''.
** From that same chapter, showing a very skeptical Donald his ginormous money bin.
* Scrooge gets one by collapsing Fort Duckburg on Teddy Roosevelt, and then preparing to fight him with a piece of wood the size of a telegraph pole. (''The Invader of Fort Duckburg'')
-->'''Scrooge:''' [[PreAssKickingOneLiner It'll be a dark day when I give in to a mere]] ''[[PreAssKickingOneLiner superpower]]''.
** Roosevelt gets one too: after having a fort tower fall directly on him and seeing his entire cavalry run away in terror, his reaction is to charge at Scrooge without hesitation, sword and gun in hand.
* "Cold Heart of the Klondike" from the ''Life and Times'' album, which was written for Scrooge and Goldie:
-->Oh me! Oh life! Here in the wild\\
Nothing but two cold Klondike hearts\\
Charm of a dancehall girl\\
A true star of the North\\
Those precious 30 days\\
A letter in the snow\\
Love lost yet always there\\
A burning need of life
* Scrooge defeating Angus Whiskerville in an old-fashioned duel (complete with plate armor and swords), despite the old bastard cheating like crazy. It's covered in the ''Life And Times'' album track "Duels And Cloudscapes".
* Scrooge taking on the Dalton Gang alongside Geronimo himself. He takes down the gang after they steal the revolvers belonging to Buffalo Bill and Angus [=McDuck=], not realizing that a western show actor wouldn't load his guns with real bullets.

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* When Goldie first encounters the frozen mammoth that serves as the guardian to Scrooge's mine, she does not faint as he expected but whips out a derringer and shoots it… which Scrooge quickly realizes she could have done to ''him'' any moment before that. (''The Prisoner of White Agony Creek'')
** In the same story, HD&L (remember, preteens) innocently ask whatever happened while Scrooge and Goldie were alone in White Agony Creek. Donald quickly shoos them away, implying that he is perfectly aware of what would happen when a young woman and man, both attracted to the other, spend a month alone together…
* Hortense [=McDuck=] defending Castle [=McDuck=] from the Whiskerville, complete with CasualDangerDialogue… (''The New Laird of Castle [=McDuck=]")
* …topped, of course, by scaring away the United States Cavalry with a broom. (''The Invader of Fort Duckburg'')
* Howard Rockerduck working his tail off to help Scrooge register his copper claim, knowing all the while that he'll lose his own mine in ''Raider of the Copper Hill'', because [[BatmanGambit he hopes it will teach his own son a lesson]]. It's also implied that he does it to share the sheer experience of prospecting again with Scrooge, the way he once felt when he was a gold miner during the 1848 gold rush.
** Also, he taught Scrooge how to be a prospector for ''two cents''. This makes him indirectly responsible for Scrooge becoming rich.
* Every deceased member of the [=McDuck=] clan, popping out to frighten away the Whiskervilles in ''The New Laird of Castle [=McDuck=]'', which finally drives off the bastards from Dismal Downs for good.
* Huey, Dewey, and Louie deducing that Scrooge has owned the map to the Last Dutchman mine for years and had never realized it. (''The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff'') Cue Scrooge's OhCrap moment when he realizes he ''glued the map face down into the memory album''.
* When Scrooge's Uncle Pothole makes the mistake of talking down to Annie Oakley, her response is to blow the bowl of his corncob pipe off with a rifle blast (''The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff''):
-->'''Pothole:''' I… I think I '''riled''' her!\\
'''Buffalo Bill:''' Nah! When she '''really''' gets mad, she'll aim for the '''other''' end of your pipe!
* Creator/DonRosa's most awesome act was resisting the urge to [[CanonDisContinuity ignore]] the infamous robber baron NoodleIncident and not only working it into the story but depicting it and what it does to Scrooge so well.
** As an extension of this? Foola Zoola goes from a HollywoodVoodoo-practicing EthnicScrappy to being ''the only antagonist in the book with '''more''' moral fiber than Scrooge'' (who, granted, has [[FallenHero fallen]] quite a bit at this point). Complete with his own PreAsskickingOneLiner!
-->'''Foola Zoola:''' I see that arrogant duckboy getting his '''tail kicked''' from here to Cape Town if he doesn't show '''respect''' for the Gods!
* When Scrooge gets knocked out while making a deal, Matilda and Hortense get a crowning moment by deciding to teach him a lesson by making the deal in exchange for Roosevelt's stuffed bear (''The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut'')…
** …And then Huey, Dewey, and Louie get a moment forty years later by pointing out something that Scrooge missed: that he is the owner of ''the very first teddy bear'', as important (and expensive) an artifact as any of his other finds.
* UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, bronco-busting a giant jaguar statue in a landslide down a mountain.
** Followed up with a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} two panels later:
--->'''George:''' Mr. President, are you all right, sir?\\
'''Roosevelt:''' Yes, George, but this jaguar is about to cause a '''''big mess'''''!\\
'''George:''' [[ToiletHumour Not house-broken]], [[DeadpanSnarker sir?]]
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