History Awesome / DisneyDucksComicUniverse

* In "The Treasure of the Doge" Fantomius goes to Venice to steal the symbols of the Doge's power, but has to give it to the mysterious sept known as the Guardians of Venice, who have captured Dolly and replaced her with a fake... Except that looking, moving and speaking like Dolly Paprika is not enough to convince Fantomius you're the real deal, so he replaced the treasure with random trash.

*** In the Italian story "Uncle Scrooge and the Wonderful Old Slipper" Magica finds the recipe for a potion that will make an object irresistible to anyone who sees it except the owner before adding the potion. What does she do with it? Why, she uses it on an old slipper that she sells to Scrooge for ''his entire fortune and economic empire''. She had won so completely she didn't even need to use the NumberOneDime for that amulet anymore, and it would have stuck had Donald and the nephews not destroyed the slipper, allowing Scrooge to use one of his old planes (whose custodians still apparently don't know of the transfer of property) to go to Naples, find the last of the potion ([[GenreSavvy that Magica had thrown away just in case]], but had missed a very small part), and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard use it on a button to have Magica giv back everything in exchange for the button]].

** After the third door they find an exact copy of the Count's lounge and one of Francis Drake's journals, that reveal exactly what was his beef with Richard Quackett: joining his crew and then staying in New Albion ''with a large part of the loot destined to the Queen''. ''Trying'' to steal from that loot and expecting to get away with it was something Drake called madness, hence him calling Richard Quackett the Mad Duke… Except [[CrazyAwesome the Mad Duke did it, used the money to build himself three castles, buy the lands near Drake's outpost of Fort Drakeborough, give some of it to charity, and still had enough to live in luxury]]. And when Drake came for revenge ''he couldn't find the gold''. Part of which he sneakily passed to his friend the Count of Bad Luck… [[GoneHorriblyRight Who couldn't realize he had it because it was hidden too well]].

* Scrooge [[http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i212/Kerrah_photos/Badass.jpg beating up and tossing]] a Beagle Boy out of his dream so he can talk to Goldie, at the end of ''The Dream Of A Lifetime''. The Beagle Boy threatens Scrooge, only for Donald to point out that this Scrooge in his prime, fifty years younger than any Scrooge McDuck they've ever tangled with. ''This'' Scrooge is '''the King of the Klondike!'''

* Scrooge [[http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i212/Kerrah_photos/Badass.jpg beating up and tossing]] a Beagle Boy out of his dream so he can talk to Goldie, at the end of ''The Dream Of A Lifetime''.
** It gets better: Moments before said Beagle Boy threatens Scrooge, only for Donald to proudly proclaim that this isn't the Scrooge he knows: He's 50 years younger and the rough and tough protecter of the Klondike. Cue asskicking.

*** With Roberta's help, she once ''took away Scrooge's greed'', so they could make him waste his money, get him interdicted, and ''take over his financial empire''. And when said greed took Donald as host, they ''chased it out again''. And when the greed took over the Nephews and Quackmore, [[RuleOfThree they did it again]]. They were on the verge of victory when the greed went back to Scrooge, at which point they had exhausted the unique resource allowing for the spell...

* During a 1994 story, Scrooge had got the plans for ArtificialGravity by a stranded time traveler in exchange for help building a time machine, only to have said plans snatched by Rockerduck's agents claiming to be the TimePolice and that it's illegal to introduce technologies from the future. Thus Rockerduck introduces and ''patents'' artificial gravity, Scrooge is left despairing at that while the time traveler has discovered that 1994 technology isn't advanced enough to build a time machine... And that's when the ''real'' Time Police takes notice:

** This story was published right when some of the authors at Disney Italian's division were creating ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures''... And that appearance was apparently so good they actually went and included the Time Police, to the point of one of the main characters being their surveillance agent for the period.

** A Paperinik story had our hero accidentally go to the future. Without him around, the Beagle Boys had Duckburg almost robbed blind, even with the Nephews stepping in for their uncle after discovering he was Paperinik.

--> '''Glomgold''': (on the verge of a nervous breakdown) It's worse than that! 300 years of interest - ''I ower Scrooge all the money in the world!!''

*** When her raven familiar Poe fell for the raven familiar of a wizard she had a poor relationship with, the two ravens decided to run away and elope... But Magica, unwilling to lose her MoralityPet, instead went out, picked a fight with the wizard, and then ''threw it and manipulated him into becoming her friend''. And she was improvising-one moment she was helping Poe preparing for the elopment, the next she was shouting in anger and promising she'd settle things so he'd be able to stay before walking to the wizard's shack.

*** One Christmas story reveals that, for six years in a row, she had ''[[RefugeInAudacity requested the Number One Dime from Santa]]''. And when, on the seventh year, she found out from her niece Minima that by doing it for seven years in a row Santa would ''have'' to give her the Dime she flew to Santa's home, [[OneManArmy overpowered all of Santa's assistants]], gave him the letter, and went back to Duckburg on his sled to watch ''Santa Claus get through the anti-witch defenses of the Money Bin and steal the Number One Dime for her''. And when Scrooge convinced Santa to help him get it back, she ''beat Santa in a fight''. The only reason she lost was that while she was flying to Santa's home Minima had replaced the Dime with a chocolate coin (the Bin's defenses at the time were triggered by evil intentions, and as Minima just wanted to give her aunt a Christmas present the defenses let her pass) that threw the spell out of whack.

*** When her raven familiar Poe fell for the raven familiar of a wizard she had a poor relationship with, the two ravens decided to run away and elope... But Magica, unwilling to lose her closest friend, instead went out, picked a fight with the wizard, and then ''threw it and manipulated him into becoming her friend''. And she was improvising-one moment she was helping Poe preparing for the elopment, the next she was shouting in anger and promising she'd settle things so he'd be able to stay before walking to the wizard's shack.

*** As the first time she had forced Paperinik had worked, she decided to try again... Only, this time she insured his compliance by ''learning his secret identity''. And when it came to take it, she easily anticipated him trying to slip her a [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory-erasing candy]] when he proposes a celebratory toast, only losing because [[BatmanGambit he expected her to demand they swapped glasses and so spiked his own]].

* In the Italian story "Zio Paperone e la Meravigliosa Vecchia Ciabatta" (Uncle Scrooge and the Wonderful Old Slipper) Magica finds the recipe for a potion that will make an object irresistible to anyone who sees it except the owner before adding the potion. What does she do with it? Why, she uses it on an old slipper that she sells to Scrooge for ''his entire fortune and economic empire''. She doesn't even need to use the NumberOneDime for that amulet anymore...
** After Donald and the nephews catch on what's happening and destroy the slipper, Scrooge's counterattack is devastating: they use one of Scrooge's old planes (whose custodians still apparently don't know of the transfer of property) to go to Naples, find the last of the potion... And Scrooge uses it on a ''button'', [[HoistByHisOwnPetard resulting in Magica giving back everything in exchange for the button and then getting in a fight with Ratface for it]].

** About her ability to obtain magical artifacts, there's the time she took on the 99 Caves of Spelonca. The caves host a number of dangerous tasks, with the reward for each being an ingredient of the potion to obtain the powers of Spelonca, [[TheArchmage the most powerful witch ever]]. Ever since Spelonca's death of old age many have faced the Caves, but none managed to pass the halfway point and had to give up due the injuries. Cue Magica and Ratface, who waltz through the Caves in ''three days'' before finding in the final one a magic-repellent giant spider that could actually beat them-up until Ratface produced knitting needles and ''knitted its web into a trap to neutralize the spider''. The only reason Magica failed to get the powers was that the final ingredient happened to be her worst enemy's most prized possession, that is Scrooge's NumberOneDime... But she still got everything else where every other witch in centuries ''failed''.

* The 99 Caves of Spelonca host a number of dangerous tasks, with the reward for each being an ingredient of the potion to obtain the powers of Spelonca, [[TheArchmage the most powerful witch ever]]. Ever since Spelonca's death of old age many have faced the Caves, but none managed to pass the halfway point and had to give up due the injuries. Cue Magica and Ratface, who waltz through the Caves in ''three days'' before finding in the final one a magic-repellent giant spider that could actually beat them-up until Ratface produced knitting needles and ''knitted its web into a trap to neutralize the spider''. The only reason Magica failed to get the powers was that the final ingredient happened to be her worst enemy's most prized possession, that is Scrooge's NumberOneDime...

* Magica's power level varies across continuities,but all of them maintain how her true power lies in her smarts. Aside from being [[Determinator unwilling to stop pursuing dime no matter what]], for all ridicule she sometimes gets from other witches, Magica is incredibly capable, able to locate, acquire and understand some of rarest spells and artifacts around the world. Another factor in her being such great threat is her sheer unpredictability and creativity. While other antagonist, though tricky in their own right, generally follow same modus operandi, there is no end and limit to variety of Magica's schemes, which are only increased with her magical powers and knowledge, allowing her to come up with rather impressive and often bizzare plans that sometimes require lowkey [[RealityWarper alteration of reality]]. She will turn off gravity, turn in giant bird, start a cult, brainwash Scrooge, take away his greed, burst in with machine gun...
** In Italian comcics Magica is perhaps at her most powerful. She generally doesn't do a lot of (relatively speaking) impressive and bombastic magic, because she only desires dime, needs to conserve her magical reserves for flight from Duckburg to Italy and for her ritual ( Duckburg likely being in America, making it awesome in it's own right, as Magica is regularly travelling from one continent to another and then abck again, often faster than planes), and Scrooge is [[WeaksauceWeakness well-equipped with garlic]]... and it is repeatedly shown that if she wanted to, she could easily raze Duckburg to ground, [[HumongousMecha Scrooge's high-tech defences included.]]

* The climax of ''The Magnificent Seven (Minus Four) Caballeros'' gives at least one to each of the titular [[Disney/TheThreeCaballeros Three Caballeros]]: First, Donald, after being put down by Scrooge, Gladstone, and Daisy earlier in the story, finally snaps when the villain of the comic (a native chief turned greedy by civilization) escapes in a canoe, leaving Donald, Jose and Panchito in the lost city of Ophir, with no way to get out (due to the piranha-infested river and the city's location on a high plateau). Donald then grabs a vine, swings into the chief's canoe, and proceeds to give him what for. During the scuffle, Panchito and Jose decide to help their friend. Just then, they notice a ''gigantic'' anaconda (which had previously attempted to eat Donald) swimming toward the canoe. Panchito ties the snake's tail to a nearby bridge, while Jose subdues it with only his umbrella. Finally, after the chief falls off an InevitableWaterfall, Panchito ties up the Anaconda by its neck and he and the other Cabelleros ''ride out of the ruins on it like a bucking bronco''.

* Scrooge's most awesome moment of brilliance has got to be the end of Creator/CarlBarks' last story "Horsing Around With History." When Donald and the boys deduce that the Beagle Boys are inside the Trojan Horse, they rush into Scrooge's bin to warn him... only to find that Scrooge was GenreSavvy enough to figure out something was up even before they did with all their clues and already has the Beagle Boys captured!

** Almost forgot: [[spoiler: the works to demolish the Killmotor Hill had already started, and by the time Scrooge counterattack hit them it should have been already erased. So, how did they stop them? Easy: Fethry weaponized [[TheKlutz his tendence to accidentally set off disasters]] by getting hired as a worker for the demolition, thus ''continuously destroyed the demolition engines'' without even trying]]. [[GenreSavvy And it was apparently his idea to begin with]]. When ''Fethry Duck'' manages to outsmart the likes of Flintheart and Rockerduck in a realistic way, you know this ''really'' is the [[ItsTheBestWhateverEver Best. Story. Ever!]]

** Their most elaborate and successful scheme is in "The Lentils of Babylon". After discovering [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashurbanipal king Ashurbanipal]] personal stash (he ''really'' liked them), and unable to profit from the legendary recipe because the lentils won't grow more, they export them to Duckburg, then can and sell them to a certain African country, who then sell them to their neighbour country, and so on until the Beagle Boys buy them back... And, due the complicated exchange between the local currencies, the transation ended up giving them ''ten times the expense of exporting and canning them''. Rinse and repeat, and perfectly legal, with them [[GenreSavvy canning them with linen oil to make sure nobody in Duckburg will eat them]].

* In ''The Last Lord of El Dorado'', Scrooge and his nephews are on a quest for the titular city of gold, with Flintheart Glomgold following them in a variety of [[PaperThinDisguise incredibly obvious disguises]]. Near the end of the story, Scrooge confronts Glomgold and not only reveals that [[GenreSavvy he saw through all of his guises]], but also takes the opportunity to rub Glomgold's face in some of his past defeats. Finally, after Glomgold himself discovers the treasure of El Dorado, he "tricks" Scrooge into selling him the bank in which the gold is deposited for a bargain price... which is when Scrooge points out that where Glomgold might own the '''bank''', the '''gold itself''' is the property of the owner of the land-which happens to be Scrooge. And as the bank owner, Glomgold owes Scrooge ''major'' interest on his deposit-to the tune of ''all the money in the world.'' Scrooge never gets this, but he determines that the look on Glomgold's face made the whole thing worth it.

* Scrooge and John D. Rockerduck saving Christmas together when Santa is injured doubles as both this and CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

** Another MomentOfAwesome for Gladstone is his rescue of Donald in "Donald's Lucky Day". Donald falls into a river and is about to drown. Gladstone, instead of relying on luck, or even just letting Donald flail around, instantly rips of his coat and throws himself into the strong current, carries Donald to shore, and gives him the needed help afterwards.

** The final sequence, back in Duckburg... With ''Scrooge [=McDuck=] back in town for a few days'' [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming and asking of his sisters]] but missing them as they're out of town, [[TearJerker preventing their possible reconciliation]]. Also, it's an awesome moment for the guy who's with Scrooge: ''Cartesio Pitagorico'', who will now install the first defensive devices to the Money Bin. Whatever he did to talk Scrooge into this, deserves this trope.

''See also CrowningMoment/DuckTales.''

*** And he did that while finely dressed and ''without expecting any reward'', as it was the right thing to do for the citizens of Atlanta (that had a very poor opinion of him due his uncle telling everyone why he had been expelled from West Point and later refusing to enlist in the Confederate Army as he knew they couldn't win the war, even delivering an abridged version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S72nI4Ex_E0 Rhett Butler's famous speech]] when Paperella confronted him about why he had not enlisted). His reasons were good enough that the Union Army, that had arrested him as a profiteer due Jaffery framing him, not only let him go even if he had taken part to the Confederate war effort, but let him keep the gold they had confiscated as evidence.

*** Post-battle awesomeness: the Hero of Duckburg was awarded the Medal of Honor.

*** And he did that while finely dressed and ''without expecting any reward'', as it was the right thing to do for the citizens of Atlanta (that had a very poor opinion of him due his uncle telling everyone why he had been expelled from West Point and later refusing to enlist in the Confederate Army as he knew they'd lose the war). His reasons were good enough that the Union Army, that had arrested him as a profiteer due Jaffery framing him, not only let him go even if he had taken part to the Confederate war effort, but let him keep the gold they had confiscated as evidence.

** "Donald, Hero of Fort Duckburg", has the modern day Donald tell the nephews about how his great-grandfather Donald (that is, Grandma Duck's father-in-law) became a war hero: after a Confederate unit occupied Duckburg, he's forced to join the Union Army by his uncle to escort supplies for the troops trying to retake it in the face of just how invulnerable Fort Duckburg is... And he not only completes the mission, but ''demolishes Fort Duckburg himself'', winning the battle. There's a reason Donald was (in-universe) named after him...