New DuckTales Animated Series

Donald can be surprisingly competent in comics too Like that Don Rosa comic were Beagle Boys steal time stopping watch from Gyro were he manages to track their hideout by pretending to be frozen in place in his angry pose

Or Return to Tra-la-la in which he summons up some serious Heroic Willpower to save everyone in the valley by sawing through a solid bar of metal while underwater.

Or The Mark of Sebek in which he manages to actually be smarter than his nephews by remembering a minor detail from their traditional Woodchucks Lecture.

Or A little Something Special where he successfully inspires the entire population of Duckburg to help save Scrooge.

And many more examples. Donald is very much the Comic Relief of the series, but also regularly saves the day with his temper, stubbornness, quick thinking and occasionally even real courage. Which is always a delight to see, because the poor unlucky fellow really deserves it.

I don't like this conversation because it's threatening to make Donald Duck my favorite character in the series and I don't know if I'm comfortable with that.

Hey, there is reason why Nordic Countries(or at least Finland) in general likes him more than Mickey

edited 19th Sep '17 7:36:30 AM by SpookyMask

Tell me none of you had even a PASSING thought of acting like Louie if you were thrust into a billion-dollar lifestyle. :D Even if you wound up not stooping that low.

This is the year Americans will start respecting Donald Duck. He deserves it, that poor guy.

edited 19th Sep '17 7:56:58 AM by megaeliz

^^Not really, throwing perfectly fine items to trash is just dumb

I hate to say it,but I'd probably be about as lazy as Louie,if Ii was rich.

edited 19th Sep '17 9:33:05 AM by InfiniteDreamer

I really do like the reboot version of Donald. Maybe I'm more sensitive, but it's sweet just how much he cares for the boys. I remember reading a fic before the show premiered about how HDL dealt with being bullied from Donald's POV. Actually,I might read it again.

edited 19th Sep '17 9:36:04 AM by InfiniteDreamer

Statistically speaking, most people would. It's why lottery winners often wind up filing bankruptcy. People who spontaneously come into money often don't really understand the value of it because they can't actually process how much it is. There is a certain financial threshold for every person abovewhich it becomes impossible to distinguish the difference between a lot of money and literally infinite money.

The threshold increases along with people's earnings because as you start to make more money, you start to understand better what that money can do for you. But when people suddenly rocket up above the threshold, that's when problems start to happen. Sudden millionaires start spending like they're billionaires and before they know it, it's all gone and they're left with bills they couldn't afford to pay even if they hadn't excitedly quit their jobs.

Now, that being said, what Louie's doing is actually healthier for the economy than Scrooge's money bin. Keeping so much of the nation's wealth locked away in his money silo is crippling for the nation. At least if he'd put it in a bank, it would still be contributing to the economy through investment and lending, but it's not. It's just rotting away like a dragon's treasure horde, passively increasing the economic burden on everyone else.

Every one of those sodas Louie isn't even bothering to finish drinking is putting some of Scrooge's money back into the workforce.

edited 19th Sep '17 10:53:13 AM by TobiasDrake

Since most money is made of silver or nickel, I wonder if most the gold in Scrooge's money vault is stuff he collected adventuring, and anything else that has sentimental value to him. I would have it be something like, when he was younger kept finding huge stashes of coins and treasures, and came up with his money bin to store them. At first he kept the rest of his his money in it as well, but when that proved to be impractical, he decided to just keep the coins that are sentimental to him in it.

Here it is on AO3:

and here's afew more Donald centered ones for good measure

And since I like this one, Scrooge and Webby.

edited 19th Sep '17 12:31:47 PM by megaeliz

One of my favorite Donald moments in the comics is when he defeats a villain with a suit that can dissolve literally anything - including Donald himself - with a single touch by locking himself in a small, cramped vault with him and holding out until the suit dissolves all the breathable oxygen inside.

edited 19th Sep '17 11:55:35 AM by KnownUnknown

....why didn't he just dissolve his way out of the vault?

Well, the suit couldn't dissolve literally anything, it only worked up to certain density. So it wouldn't dissolve through a diamond. Thus they did what every sensible person would do - locked a the guy in an air-tight room coated in diamond dust.

@Scrooge's money bin:

Life and Times states that the money stored in the bin is only a fraction of Scrooge's true wealth, with the rest doing work around the world. The money in the bin is just that which he earned with his own two hands. So yeah, basically just sentimental value.

Was that the same stuff that almost unbalanced the earth's core and destroyed the world when Scrooge poured it on the ground and it ate through everything beneath?

Yes. The guy weaponizing the substance originally stole it from Scrooge's bin as a sort of Token of Victory - it was the best-guarded item in the entire building, naturally he assumed it was also the most valuable.

The Universal Solvent was more like a universal headache. XD

Yeah, it was also interesting to see the suave cat-burglar basically turn into a power-mad thug once he strapped on the black armour. He completely left behind all pretence of subtlety and just ploughed through Scrooge's defences with the Solvent like a kid abusing cheatcodes in a video game.

And yeah, Donald's big moment at the end of Revenge of the Black Knight was awesome. I especially liked the way Don Rosa set it up much earlier in the story by way of a physical humour gag of which Donald was the butt. That's some damn good writing.

edited 19th Sep '17 2:20:20 PM by Kayeka

I always liked the story—maybe it was the same one as the one you mentioned—where Donald knocked a thug out with the Holy Grail.

Don't ask me why, but using an ancient mystical artifact to knock someone out just is a such a Donald thing to do.

edited 19th Sep '17 4:44:45 PM by megaeliz

It strikes me that the boys being mischievous harkens back more to their earliest appearances. Barks most often had the boys serve as a kind of triple-conscience for Donald and/or Scrooge.

@megaeliz Yup,now i remember the HDL bullying fic was called 'Problem Children'. What i really liked about that particular fanfic was that Donald was something of an unconventional parent in that one and I also like how it brings up the point that going to an adult to help with bullying won't always work.

If I had to give recs for DT 2017 fics I'd say that all the one-shots by this author https://archiveofourown.org/users/ectoviolet/pseuds/ectoviolet ,are worth it.

I'm pretty sure this one was mentioned in passing but this fic was a fun ride: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5235285/1/Ducktales-Twenty-Years-Later

edited 19th Sep '17 8:37:20 PM by InfiniteDreamer

There isn't a lot of fic yet, but there is a lot of fantastic fan art out there.

This is just a fun little comic

Put your life vests on!

Duck Family adorableness with Donald and his kids

launchpad's letter

adorable Baby Donald and Della

Scrooge and Duckling! Donald

The Original Adventurers

Redraw of Carl Barks' Christmas painting

Duckstacks!

http://sleepychu.tumblr.com/post/165070650662/tower-of-ducks

https://stubbornpotato.tumblr.com/post/164514885194/the-new-ducktales-captured-my-heart

And for Specific Artists, this person's has an adorable style

https://nokcha-matcha.tumblr.com/tagged/ducktales

edited 20th Sep '17 6:06:23 AM by megaeliz

I saw fanart on Instagram of a young Donald and Della building a boat called the Duck O' War.