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Bradford Buzzard, chairman of Scrooge’s Board of Directors, is eventually revealed to be the founder and Director of F.O.W.L. Originally, he was merely an accountant at S.H.U.S.H. thanks to {{Nepotism}}, but his desire for S.H.U.S.H. to rule the world from the shadows and make a profit leads to him creating F.O.W.L..
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Director Bradford Buzzard, chairman of Scrooge’s Board of Directors, is eventually revealed to be the founder and Director of F.O.W.L. Originally, he was merely an accountant at S.H.U.S.H. thanks to {{Nepotism}}, but his desire for S.H.U.S.H. to rule the world from the shadows and make a profit leads to him creating F.O.W.L..
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Bradford is already established as the most reviled figure in [=McDuck=] Enterprises, and it doesn't help his case that Scrooge's employees are the petty types that would seek revenge on the director if they find out he's the one firing them. In the finale, once it's clear how far he's willing to go to remove chaos from the world, to the point of ''mind-controlling'' villains, even the villains have no respect for such a spineless coward and would gladly put the buzzard six feet under. That is until Magica decides there's no grave deep enough for a sick bastard like him.
* AboveGoodAndEvil: He feels that’s a matter of perspective. For his part, he knows he's crossing the line, but to ensure there's order and that everything on the other side of the line is reined in, he'll cross it. When all is said and done, no one will brand F.O.W.L. heroes or villains, and have no right to judge them, because as far as he's concerned, the world doesn’t and can't really know them, and they never will. It was also the reason why he ordered the capture of not only all of Scrooge's family, friends and allies, but also Scrooge's hated enemies (including Magica, Glomgold and the Beagle Boys) in the finale.
* AbusiveParent:
** May and June consider him their dad, though when May asks if they did a good job in bringing Webby, he berates her both for failing to capture Webby willingly [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and her]] [[GrammarNazi bad grammar.]] Not to mention he was going to eventually throw them in [[CessationOfExistence the Solego Vortex]] once he was done with them.
** Was on the receiving end of this at the (unwitting) hands his grandmother, Isabella Finch. While she did it without any ill intent (unlike him), she did bring him on countless dangerous adventures, and given that images from their adventures always portray him as terrified and miserable, she was either in denial or oblivious to his suffering.
* AintTooProudToBeg: His last moments involve being on his knees and practically begging others to believe that he's not a villain.
* AllForNothing: He spent thirty years perfecting the contract that would prevent Scrooge from ever adventuring again. Yet it was beaten in under five minutes of signing it via a loophole so illogical and cheesy that neither he or anybody else would have thought to cover it.
* AlliterativeName: '''B'''radford '''B'''uzzard.
* AntagonistInMourning: In "The 87 Cent Solution!", he is seen among the attendees of Scrooge's funeral, and looks genuinely offended when Glomgold crashes it.
* ArchEnemy: With the public reveal of him being the head of F.O.W.L., Bradford has become one of, if not the, biggest nemesis for Scrooge. It's worth noting that unlike with his most traditional enemies, Scrooge actually does treat Bradford very seriously as a threat; after all, unlike the others, Bradford's reveal showed he'd been working with Scrooge for ''years'' without the old adventurer even suspecting him. This leads to Scrooge doubting for a time that he can win against him, due to how well Bradford knows him and his secrets. And to Bradford's credit, he pushes Scrooge to his absolute limit and nearly wins. He's also undoubtedly the one who inflicts the most personal pain and damage to Scrooge by telling Della about the Spear of Selene with the hope that her disappearance would break him. This provokes far more hatred and rage from Scrooge than he has ever previously displayed for any of his other foes when Bradford tells him about it.
** Notably, Scrooge’s other enemies don’t believe he’s worthy of the title due to denying the fact he’s a villain.
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: After defeating Scrooge and forcing him to sign a contract that forbids him from adventuring in exchange for his family's safety, Bradford spitefully decides to kill Donald, knowing fully well that it's a rare act of petty villainy that he himself shouldn't have indulged in; he even admit this to Scrooge, but goes along with this to mark it as a memento for his 'special occasion'.
* BadBoss: Bradford punishes those who so much as embarrass him and can control at least some of his agents in very sick, twisted ways. Case in point: he placed a mechanism in Steelbeak’s metal beak that allows him to clamp him shut whenever he feels like it, and silencing him for an outburst is just one application.
** "The Last Adventure!" reveals that as part of Bradford's plan to erase anything "adventurous" from the world, he's been scheming to erase his own subordinates as well, including Black Heron. However, it's possible he did this on the fly after Scrooge pointed out he'd need to.
* BadLiar: Bradford is this only when he’s stressed and actually fearing for his life. The stress of Bulba’s antics causes him to slip and drop his mask and ultimately expose his conspiracy to Scrooge’s family.
* BatmanGambit: Blows the lid on the Spear of Selene to Della Duck, knowing that she cannot resist taking it for a ride. He succeeds and isolates Scrooge from the rest of his family until the start of the series.
* BeneathTheMask: Beneath the cold and calculating businessman who routinely puts hardened criminals in their place and claims everything he does is for the sake of a better world, is a coward who never got over his childhood trauma.
* BigBad: As the Chairman of the Board and the Director of F.O.W.L., Bradford serves as the main antagonist for Season 3 in addition to being the show's GreaterScopeVillain.
* BigOlEyebrows: Bradford has very thick eyebrows.
* BoringButPractical: A trait he shares with Scrooge. He takes advantage of his position in [=McDuck=] Enterprises to… simply siphon off funds to benefit F.O.W.L. Not the grandest or showiest use of his position but he gets plenty of resources out of the deal. He also stays the MoleInCharge with Scrooge none the wiser for years by simply doing his job and ''not'' acting like a supervillain in the least.
** This is a key reason as to why he's such a threat to Scrooge. Most of the richest duck in the world's enemies have exhaustive resources of their own, high end technology or mystical powers. Bradford's biggest advantage is... that he knows Scrooge well from working for him for years and has information about him no one else has from the former point. This makes Scrooge more concerned and worried over Bradford than any other enemy so far, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness to the point that Scrooge is honestly questioning if he can win this time]].
* TheBully: Strip away his title, and this is who Bradford is at heart. He berates, insult, humiliates, and terrorizes those weaker than him and to make himself be the dominant bringer of order. He goes as far as to target the perpetually unlucky Donald first, showing that he picks on the most vulnerable. Sure enough, when those he oppresses gain the will to fight back and win, he breaks down and begs for mercy.
* CardCarryingVillain: {{Defied|Trope}} with Bradford, unlike every other member of F.O.W.L. and even pretty much every villain in the series. Bradford does not believe himself to be evil insisting over and over again that F.O.W.L. is not a supervillain organization and that his actions will ultimately bring order and stability to the world. "The First Adventure!" reveals Bradford simply wanted to call it O.W.L., but was forced to add the F to get Black Heron to join.
* ColdEquation: In the finale, Bradford summarizes the Second Law of Thermodynamics about how chaos in the world is increasing and it’s only going to get worse if left unchecked. His solution? Keep Scrooge from adventuring again and eliminate all the chaotic elements (i.e. people) that resulted from Scrooge's adventuring. Of course, the "calculus" of his plan is complete madness driven by childhood trauma, and will result in nothing but serious backlash, which will ultimately create more chaos.
* TheComicallySerious: Most of the humor surrounding Bradford stems from his role as this, such as when he attempts to imitate Dewey playing an imaginary saxophone as part of his cover during his and the triplets' escape from Bulba's lab, or attempting (and failing) to be the voice of reason to Heron's CardCarryingVillain antics.
* CrazyPrepared: Bradford spent thirty years designing an airtight, magically binding contract that would stop Scrooge from adventuring forever in exchange for his family’s safety. However, there was one thing he didn’t count on: since [[ArcWords family is the greatest adventure of all]], that renders the contract null and void.
* CreativeSterility: One argument Bulba gives to Bradford is that his lack of creativity renders him and the other directors unable to hold a candle to real supervillains. This results from his own cowardice stemming from his own childhood trauma and rendered him unable to adapt to a changing world.
* DeathOfPersonality: Bradford's ultimate fate upon defeat, as he is turned into a mindless vulture by Magica. Theoretically Magica can restore him since it’s heavily implied she learned the reversal spell for Poe’s sake, but there’s no reason to believe she'd bother.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Bradford is more or less the result of what would happen if a real-life child was brought along on dangerous adventures instead of someone like the triplets, Webby, or any of the other kids so commonly found in these sorts of cartoons. Rather than treat it with a sense of excitement and wonder, the constant fearing for his life caused him to resent the very concept of adventure and seek to wipe it off the face of the planet.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: The revelation that ''he'' was the one who tipped Della off about the Spear of Selene and caused the decade-long estrangement between Scrooge and Donald makes Bradford guilty of this. Hoping to drive Scrooge to give up adventuring by crushing his spirit, Bradford learned of the prototype rocket Scrooge was building to gift Della upon the hatching of her sons and informed her of it, knowing she wouldn't be able to resist taking it out for a test run and hoping that she would get lost in space, which would destroy Scrooge emotionally and make Donald resent his uncle for his role in his sister's disappearance. While that occurred exactly as Bradford hoped it would, it's likely that he didn't account for how Scrooge's desperation to find Della would drive him to nearly bankrupt himself by opening nearly his whole fortune in his efforts to accomplish it, which was money that could have been used to benefit F.O.W.L. while Bradford was Scrooge's accountant. Despite this, Bradford took no concern over the loss of the money as he was more focused on making Scrooge giving up his desire for adventure.
** Another case was when he finally outwitted Scrooge into signing a contract containing the Papyrus of Binding to force Scrooge into abandoning his desire for adventure in exchange for his family's safety. To ensure his point, Bradford callously throws both Heron and his clones into the black hole to erase them from existence, and spitefully tries to do the same to Donald after Scrooge signs the contract. However, it never occurred to him that getting rid of Heron would drive a traumatised June and May to perform a HeelFaceTurn and free the others. In addition, the triplets were able to deduct a minor yet pivotal loophole in the contract in order to free Scrooge.
* DirtyCoward: Director Bradford is nothing but a huge coward, a common stereotype for his species. He will run the moment things go wrong. When Taurus Bulba betrayed him and is about to destabilize reality, Bradford is only focused on escaping so as to not put himself in danger; even the heinous Bulba rightfully chews him out on this. In fact, it was established as early as Season 1 that he and the rest of the buzzards all fear retaliation from those who have the ''guts'' to do so if they find out they're being fired. Worst of all, Bradford doesn’t have the dignity or bravery to face Scrooge without hiding behind machines. This is implied to be the real reason Bradford never gets his hands dirty if he can avoid it and never goes out in the field, and his rant about Clan [=McDuck's=] adventures seems more about how much he is personally inconvenienced than genuine concern for people. In the finale, the fact that Bradford only fights Scrooge the moment the Sword of Swanstantine gives him magic armor is rather telling that he's only brave enough to threaten his enemies only when they're at their lowest and unable to imperil him in any way. Once he loses all his power, he's last seen pathetically begging before Magica furiously punishes him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Bradford's PragmaticVillainy means that he highly disapproves of grandiose world domination schemes and sadistic revenge plots against Scrooge and his family, since his aim is to steal the world from Scrooge's nose in order to prevent the VillainsActHeroesReact trope from being dominant, and turn a tidy profit along the way, not to destroy the world. Because of this, he reprimands Heron just as much as Steelbeak since the latter couldn't have gone on his world-destroying power trip if the former hadn't created the tech to make it possible.
** Bradford chews out Bulba on the use of the RAM Rod due to how it threatens to destroy the world, which he tells Bulba is not the intent of F.O.W.L. Not only that, he points out that its usage also risks Scrooge finding out, which ultimately happens.
** While most of his behavior seems to be PragmaticVillainy, Bradford does seem to genuinely reject the idea of being a supervillain as well as F.O.W.L. being made up of any. Plus, he'd rather play by reality's rules. However, this is all subverted in "The Last Adventure!" as it indicates that this particular aspect is more denial on his part than anything legitimate however as he reveals that he's engaged in a multitude of incredibly petty acts of abject villainy against Scrooge out of a personal dislike for him.
* EvilAllAlong: He and his "brothers" are introduced as Scrooge's Board Of Directors far back in season 1. While not very pleasent people they work for Scrooge in all their appearance and seem to be just cold but competent advisors for Scrooge. It isn't until the final shot of the final episode in season 2 it's revealed that Bradford is the GreaterScopeVillain of the whole series leading the NebulousEvilOrganisation F.O.W.L.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Defied. Bradford is all too familiar with the VillainsActHeroesReact concept, and it’s why he finds outright villainy to be so dumb because they provoke resistance from the “heroes”. Conquering the world causes people to fight for it back, and destroying enemies from the outside will cause them to rise again. As such, Bradford believes gradual subterfuge, subversion and manipulation are preferable to rein in chaos. So, Bradford infiltrated Scrooge’s company and slowly subverted it to serve F.O.W.L.’s agenda. Also, he knew Webby had a burning need to know her origins, so he made it a point that May and June had to convince her to come ''willingly'' and not kidnap her. And, he knows he can't kill Scrooge because he will either come back or [[DontCreateAMartyr Bradford might make a martyr out of him]] if he did succeed. With that, he settles for negotiating with Scrooge. The trope is still played straight in "The Last Adventure!" with the MagicallyBindingContract forcing Scrooge to renounce adventure forever (that Bradford spent decades working on to prevent Scrooge from finding any loopholes) has the [[LoopholeAbuse loophole]] of "[[ArcWords family is the greatest adventure of all!]]". All Bradford can think of doing is go "ThisCannotBe" and point out that [[WhoWritesThisCrap it's an extremely dumb loophole]] as the contract breaks apart.
** It's also shown in his younger days where he proposes the idea for O.W.L. to Ludwig Von Drake, assuming that Drake would instantly approve of his idea of taking over the world and ruling it from the shadows.
* EvilCounterpart: Bradford is this for Scrooge. Both are elderly, highly intelligent businessmen with many talented people who work under them, but Bradford is much more easily irritated toward his operatives, made most of the organization's money off of siphoning it from Scrooge rather than making it "square", and wouldn't dare to go out in the field anywhere near as often as Scrooge does.
** He is also one to Huey, Dewey and Louie, being a second generation heir to a great adventurer. But while the nephews embrace adventure in one way or another, Bradford loathes it and seeks to rid the world of it entirely.
* EvilGenius: Implied. While he is chastising Black Heron and Steelbeak for their failure, [[RubiksCubeInternationalGeniusSymbol he's simultaneously solving a Rubik's Cube in a matter of seconds]]. This was done in an episode that heavily focused on the intelligence of several characters. Also when Don Karnage was hired by F.O.W.L., he sang that if he had failed his mission, Bradford would've outright killed him.
* EvilIsHammy: Subverted much to the irritation of his subordinates. Bradford behaves like villainy is just an extention of business and treats all his wicked deeds like something you check off a list with just as much passion. He gets annoyed with his CardCarryingVillain underlings, who are in turn frustrated by him for refusing to admit he's a bad-guy.
* EvilIsPetty: As revealed in "The Last Adventure!", Bradford seems to want to eliminate adventure at least partly because he was traumatized by his grandmother dragging him along on adventures as a kid. He also tries to throw Donald into the Solego Circuit void even after he forces Scrooge to sign the contract binding him to never adventure again in exchange for his family's safety by threatening Donald. Earlier, he rubbed Scrooge's face in how he arranged for Della to find out about the Spear of
* EvilVersusEvil: He may be the true villain of the series, but he still considers Scrooge’s RoguesGallery threats he needs to take out as well. In the second season, he knows that the most favorable outcome is for Scrooge to win the bet against Glomgold, because if Glomgold wins, it would be a huge defeat for F.O.W.L. as well. In the finale, once they’re freed from his control, they quickly finish him off.
* ExactWords: Frank Angones previously said that Bradford didn’t have a hand in Della’s disappearance when asked if he sabotaged her ship. This is then subverted by the finale in which Bradford reveals he told Della about the Spear of Selene, and sincerely hoped she’d be lost in space. While Bradford paved the way for Della’s disappearance, he didn’t necessarily ''cause'' it himself via foul play (no pun intended) with the rocket ship. The distinction certainly doesn’t make any difference, however, since Bradford openly gloats to Scrooge about being the indirect cause of the worst time of Scrooge’s life.
* FamilialFoe: Bradford has spent decades engineering misfortunate events for [=McDuck=] family members, and shares a mutual hatred with them.
* FateWorseThanDeath: As previously established in "The Life And Crimes of Scrooge [=McDuck=]!", Magica's polymorphing abilities both obliterate the normal cognitive abilities of their victim, and are irreversible because only Poe bothered to learn how to change people back. So now Bradford is cursed to live out the rest of his life as a literal vulture, and worse yet, Magica's new familiar.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Almost always speaks in a polite, professional manner and even acts downright friendly to Huey at one point. However, it's all an act to hide the hateful, delusional narcissist underneath.
* FinalBoss: With Season Three being the last, Bradford serves as this for the entire series. As is only fitting for his nature as the GrandFinale ClimaxBoss, he also has a number of recurring characters and villains working for him, showing that he and F.O.W.L. have been involved with nearly everything in the plot, even before they were revealed.
* {{Foil}}:
** Where Bradford is an EvilCounterpart to Scrooge, he's a Foil to Huey. Both are highly intelligent, desire to further their goals no matter the cost, get frustrated with those they work with acting up and utterly hate chaos. Where they differ is how these traits manifest. Huey can be selfish if he truly wants something but will generally have a stroke of conscience if things go too far while Bradford will resort to harsh methods to ensure his will is enforced. Huey can find it aggravating if those he's working with are too chaotic but will give credit where it's due and be fair in spite of frustration while Bradford scolds and punishes his subordinates when they screw up. Huey responds to chaos and a lack of control with fear and panic while Bradford reacts with rage at things spiraling out of control. As it turns out in the finale, he was also a Junior Woodchuck who is also interested in solving Missing Mysteries like Isabella Finch, his ''grandmother''. But unlike Huey who loves adventuring like Scrooge, Braford HATES it, due to the constant dangers he and Finch got into, and is only gathering the Missing Mysteries to put it an end to it. Also while Huey is one of the best Junior Woodchucks, Bradford was considered the ''worst''.
** Bradford is also a foil to Donald. Both of them are adverse to the chaos in their lives and wish that those around them could just be normal and safe. However, upon actually seeing his ideal world upsetting his family, Donald backs off and merely accepts the chaos as normal for him and his family. Bradford, however, refuses to accept that reality and would rather forcibly rule said chaos from the shadows and doesn't care who he has to hurt as long as everything is in order, all the while firmly believing that he's not in the wrong about anything.
* ForcedTransformation: As payback for having her brainwashed, Magica turns Bradford into a mindless buzzard and takes him as her pet.
* ForTheEvulz: There is really no pragmatic reason for Bradford to torment Scrooge as much as he did outside of pure sadism. Him manipulating Della into taking the Spear of Selene and attempt to throw Donald into the Solego Circuit void after Scrooge signed the contract forbidding him from going on another adventure come to mind.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the end of a story in the tie-in comics, Scrooge claims he believed the Buzzards were forming a conspiracy against him, to which Bradford replies by muttering "Never said I wasn't."
* FreudianExcuse: It turns out that his obsession with eliminating the concept of adventures and hatred of disorder came from the constant danger he was put in whenever his grandmother Isabella Finch took him on one of her adventures.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: In spite of Bradford's trauma due to the adventures that his grandmother made him go through, it serves no justification of creating a supervillain organization to obtain power and control, as well as his attempts to take down the Duck family due to their love for adventure, and for all the trouble he inflicted on them, their friends, allies, and even their enemies; even Scrooge himself takes NoSympathy over Bradford's backstory for the same reason.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Bradford used to be an accountant for S.H.U.S.H., but his desire to rein in chaos led him to found an EvilCounterpart organization and act as a mole for years.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Bradford serves as this for the entire series for numerous reasons, including but not limited to:
** Telling Della about the Spear of Selene (which was supposed to be a secret) and then stopping Scrooge from searching for her, kicking off most of the events of the plot, including Scrooge's family breaking apart (which he even admits to his face). And Della getting stranded on the moon leads to Lunaris being able to invade Earth.
** Indirectly contributing to Magica being released.
** Being the founder and leader of F.O.W.L. and acting in the shadows for the entire series, also being the reason Scrooge started working with the S.H.U.S.H. organization to begin with. He was also the one who indirectly got Scrooge to realize his love for adventuring again.
* {{Greed}}: While he's mainly motivated to rein in all "adventure", he does explain to Heron that F.O.W.L. can make "a tidy profit" on the side.
* HateSink: For all his claims to be a WellIntentionedExtremist, "The Last Adventure!" shows the depths of Bradford's pettiness, making it very clear that he is meant to be as hated as much as possible. If you don't already hate him for the crimes he's committed prior (which include siphoning several of Scrooge's finances to fund his operations for F.O.W.L., punishing his agents for their failure, and treating his creations as expendable), then you will definitely hate him when he cruelly admitted to having told Della about the Spear of Selene. This means that all the misery that befell Scrooge and his family can be traced back to Bradford. If that wasn't enough, he proceeds to dispose of three of his trusted members (his clones and Black Heron) before attempting to do the same to Donald, all just to force Scrooge to sign a contract to never adventure again. And when Scrooge does sign it, Bradford sadistically attempts to outright kill Donald just to spite him further. Dedicated to bringing order to the world by taking it over through any means necessary, Bradford proved himself to be more the most personal and despicable foe that Scrooge ever faced up against. Oh, and he is also a DirtyCoward, something that earns him the contempt of Scrooge's other foes who believe he doesn't deserve to be Scrooge's ArchEnemy.
* HeroKiller: Potentially. Bradford, during his slideshow presentation to Scrooge in the finale, explains that one of his goals had been to isolate him. As he says this, a slide showing Bradford glaring at Duckworth and Scrooge at a party is shown, followed by one of Scrooge solemnly hanging a portrait of Duckworth after the latter's passing. This heavily implies that Bradford had a hand in Duckworth's death, but he speeds past the point so quickly that many viewers -- and even Scrooge himself -- fail to pick up on it.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Bradford was once a mere employee for a benevolent spy agency. While he did propose a plan to TakeOverTheWorld to his boss, he did so with genuine good intentions, wanting to eliminate crime and bring world peace in a more efficient way. After aligning himself with Black Heron and founding F.O.W.L., however, Bradford gradually becomes the exact type of supervillain threat that he initially sought to eliminate.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Bradford does have a plan for dealing with the Duck family but the details are kept ''very'' well hidden. He makes a few comments here and there, such as how they plan to steal the world, but they're so enigmatic and ambiguous that they offer no hints. The only solid knowledge about it is that it requires the Missing Mysteries.
* HiddenVillain: Bradford and his siblings are present from the pilot, but he isn’t revealed as an antagonist until the final scene of Season Two. Then it’s revealed he’s the main antagonist of the series as a whole.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Bradford keeps insisting that F.O.W.L. isn't a supervillain organization, despite the concept of wanting to TakeOverTheWorld and run it from the shadows being blatant supervillainy. That is without also considering him trying to fight Scrooge with a giant robot.
** He delves into this several times in "The "Last Adventure!":
*** Bradford's EvilPlan is to bring order and stability by removing the "Adventure" from a world of adventure. Unfortunately for him, accomplishing this requires using cloning tech to create clones of Scrooge so that he can use a magic, reality-warping contract on him, use a modified teleporter[=/=]virtual-reality device to erase people and objects from existence, fighting Scrooge using a magic sword and doing all of this with the help of a RoguesGallery of supervillains. Basically, he is not above using the FantasticScience and magic that makes the world so adventurous to end those adventures.
*** He blames Scrooge for the Moonlander invasion, but ''he'' is the one who made sure that Della found the Spear and was lost in space as part of a plan to keep Scrooge from adventuring, and if he hadn't done that Lunaris would never have been ''able'' to invade.
*** He blames Scrooge for Magica being unleashed, but he played a part in it by having a hand in Della’s disappearance; the drama around the event resurfacing by the time of the first season finale and leaving Scrooge alone and vulnerable enough for Magica to be freed.
*** By the time Bradford has Scrooge cornered and his allies captured, he has donned a {{Red and Black|and Evil All Over}} suit that makes him look like a TinTyrant, is using a massive convoluted EvilPlan using science and magic, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness has his own accomplices killed when they no longer have cause for them]] and even indulges in an EvilLaugh when he goes back on his deal with Scrooge to try and kill Donald for the hell of it. Keep in mind that for the entire season Bradford insists that he isn't a supervillain, that type of vaudevillian malice the kind of thing he is trying to do away with.
* InsaneTrollLogic: He proposes to Ludwig von Drake in the 60's for S.H.U.S.H. to TakeOverTheWorld and run it from the shadows, just so that other potential villains don't have the opportunity. Von Drake laughs it off, leading Bradford to form his own Organisation, F.O.W.L. He also plans to get rid of adventures, somehow making them responsible for bringing chaos into the world.
* {{Irony}}: What ultimately proves to be Bradford's undoing comes in two:
** Tossing Black Heron into the Solego Unit void while May and June were still watching makes them able to reconsider their alliance. This, coupled with them finding out they're technically Scrooge's genetically-made daughters, causes them to aid Scrooge's family by setting them free. The irony becomes stronger when Bradford literally made more members of Clan [=McDuck=] to end them.
** The Papyrus of Binding's contract states Scrooge can't be adventuring anymore if he wishes to keep his family around. However, the contract becomes null and void because [[LoopholeAbuse having a family at all is an adventure in itself]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: It's hinted that Bradford's crusade to ridding the world of "chaos" is to make sure ''he'' doesn't suffer any emotional trauma, everyone else be damned.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Though Bradford is a crook who cares more about making money than anything else, he's right that Scrooge's adventuring has inadvertently almost destroyed the world twice in the last in-universe year. As Bradford tells Bulba, F.O.W.L. is striving to make the world ''more'' stable, not less. True, that's only because a stable world is easier to get money out of, but still, they'd be unable to control things if said chaos goes past a certain threshold.
* KickTheDog: One could argue that forcing Scrooge to cancel his search for Della was just pragmatism. Bradford seemingly giving NoSympathy to Scrooge in the background however… Made worse in the series finale when it's revealed that Bradford was directly responsible for Della going missing to begin with as he told her about the Spear knowing that she would try to use it and get herself lost in the process. And he gets even worse when he forces Scrooge to sign the Papyrus of Binding that would forbid him from adventuring for the rest of eternity and even beyond that by threatening to throw Scrooge's nephew Donald into the Solego circuit void which would kill Donald, and he was still planning to do that even AFTER and WHEN Scrooge signed the contract.
* LongGame: Bradford prefers eliminating Scrooge with a long master plan, to the point he passes up having godlike power to rewrite reality the way he wants. At least this way, there’s room for error.
* NearVillainVictory: In "The Last Adventure", Bradford has succeeded in stealing all of the Lost Artifacts, as well as capturing all of Scrooge's family, friends, allies and enemies before placing them in cells in hopes of erasing them all from existence to cement F.O.W.L.'s rise to power in the world. He even managed to defeat Scrooge using his wits before forcing him to sign a contract forbidding him to ever adventure again, right before deciding to kill Donald out of spite. However, he did not expect that his willingness to kill his own henchmen (as he did with his clones and Heron) would drive a horrified May and June to make a HeelFaceTurn and [[TheDogBitesBack free the others to save Donald just in time]], and that the triplets would deduce a loophole in the contract to defeat him.
* NeverMyFault:
** When the Sword of Swanstantine turns him into a hulking TinTyrant, Bradford snaps at the [=McDucks=] for turning him into a malevolent villain. Beakley and Della furiously call him out on it, saying that the Sword reflected his own dark heart, meaning that he was always a malevolent villain even before taking hold of the Sword. Unfortunately, Bradford still refuses to accept this as he violently bashes both Beakley and Della in response.
** Bradford blames Scrooge for the Moonlander invasion due to Della giving them the means to come to Earth. The series finale reveals ''Bradford'' was the one who told Della about the Spear of Selene in the first place, meaning that the eventual alien invasion, at least indirectly, was due to his own actions.
** It also proved to be part of his downfall; this was shown when he is defeated by the Ducks and left at the mercy of Magica, Glomgold, and the Beagle Boys, who are all very furious of what he did to them and the Ducks. As usual, Bradford tried to plead for mercy by still refusing to admit that he was ever a villain, but this only drove a furious Magica to curse him as a literal buzzard for the rest of his life.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His haircut in the 70's is based on Creator/RobertRedford. Fitting, since Redford's most famous role of the modern day was [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Alexander Pierce]] who shares much of Bradford's character traits.
* NonActionBigBad: Bradford Buzzard is an intelligent schemer but he when does personally try act in his own plans, he demonstrates he's not a man of action. Averted in the finale, where the Sword of Swanstantine gives him the strength to fight Scrooge's family directly.
* NotSoAboveItAll: For all of Bradford’s insistence on PragmaticVillainy, his fixation on ruling the world and choosing to fight Scrooge in a giant robot once he’s exposed proves he’s more of a supervillain than he thinks he is.
** This becomes especially apparent in "The Last Adventure! particularly once he starts using the Sword of Swanstantine, which amplifies the user's own inner nature, which starts off by making him a TinTyrant in red and black armor with a distinctly villainous tint, decides to "indulge in petty villainy" by trying to drop Donald into the Solego Vortex ''after'' he'd already forced Scrooge into signing the MagicallyBindingContract on the Papyrus by threatening his nephew's safety, complete with an EvilLaugh (when he had previously told his subordinates off for doing the same earlier in the episode), pulling a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on his clones and Black Heron, and using various magical artifacts in his plot, all of which proves that he's more a villain than he'll admit to being.
* NotSoStoic: Bradford is calm, collected and concise in his comfort zone, but if you take him out of it and put him in actual life-threatening danger, he quickly loses his composure. Paired up with the triplets, he begins ranting at them and venting his long-standing frustrations with Scrooge’s family. Despite having worked under Scrooge’s radar for years, the stress of the situation weakens his ability to lie and he fails to protect his identity from the kids.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Bradford doesn't actually see himself as evil, and after he reveals his true nature to the triplets, he tells them that "bad guy" is a matter of perspective. He wants to take over the world because he genuinely wants to bring order to it, and he wants to steal artifacts because he genuinely sees them as threats to the order of the world. The catalyst that made him decide to directly oppose Scrooge was out of a genuine concern that Scrooge's antics continually bring about world-endangering threats. The only reason F.O.W.L. has "Fiendish" in its name is because [[CardCarryingVillain Black Heron]] demanded it, against Bradford's protests (the former suggestion, O.W.L., was embarrassing as it is). That said, as much as Bradford claims not to be a villain, and that his actions are in the name of world stability, in "The Last Adventure!" he's implied to be at least partially motivated by his trauma from adventuring with his grandmother as a child, he's willing to eliminate innocent people and children to rid the world of anything "adventurous", let alone his own subordinates, threatens to have Donald erased from existence in order to force Scrooge to sign the Papyrus, and even ''after'' he signs it Bradford tries to throw Donald into the Solego void anyway. This is emphasized when he becomes a TinTyrant upon using the Sword of Swanstantine, and blames the Ducks for turning him into a "base villain", they tell him that the Sword simply amplifies who you already are on the inside, so it's [[YouAreWhatYouHate all him]].
* ObliviouslyEvil: Bradford genuinely doesn't see his goals to conquer the world as evil, even when talking about "defeating all who oppose us" and "ruling the world from the shadows with an iron fist." Even after being told that his TinTyrant form generated from the Sword of Swanstantine was a reflection of his own dark heart, he adamantly refuses to believe he's a villain. This denial even becomes his last words.
* ObsessivelyNormal: His criminal schemes in the end are all aiming towards destroying adventure as a universal concept, and Scrooge [=McDuck=] in specific because he dares to be an adventurer. In the final episode, this gets as exaggerated as it can be, with him forcing Scrooge to sign a magical contract forcing him to renounce adventure forever [[IHaveYourWife while holding a proverbial gun to the head of everybody Scrooge loves as leverage]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: He was there for Isabella Finch's adventures that inspired Scrooge as a kid. How exactly he managed to live so long is never explained, though his access to various means of cloning (magical and mundane) and body modification give some indications.
* OneWingedAngel: The Split Sword of Swanstantine gives Bradford an EvilCostumeSwitch that reflects his negative inner-strength. When he is confronted by Scrooge's family, whom he thought was imprisoned, his heart causes the sword to reflect his hatred by turning him into a giant evil knight. Notably, both of these transformations improve his physique: the first makes him lean and athletic and fixes his posture, and the second gives him an unnaturally muscular build.
* OnlySaneMan: Bradford Buzzard seems to be this to the shenanigans of the [=McDuck=] family in general, not to mention F.O.W.L. itself, such as reprimanding Black Heron for flying him away in a helicopter [[SigilSpam with the group logo]] [[OvertOperative clearly on the side]]. In the past, he saw himself as this to S.H.U.S.H., though Ludwig felt the opposite. He arguably sees himself as this to the entire world even, given that it's one of his prime motivations to rule it.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Both Bradford's cover identity on Scrooge's board of directors and position as part of F.O.W.L. High Command means he doesn't get into the action very often. In the meantime, he lets others do his dirty work. In "Let's Get Dangerous!", he openly admits that he's never been so close to death as he and Scrooge's nephews try to get past the Fearsome Four.
** Before he joined Scrooge's board of directors, he did undertake a F.O.W.L. mission personally alongside Black Heron, but he ended up hating every minute of it, which is probably why he took to the Orcus throne by joining Scrooge's company afterwards, devolving him into DirtyCoward territory.
** He fights using the Sword of Swanstantine in "The Last Adventure!", completely averting this.
* OrderVersusChaos: One of Bradford's biggest motivations is stopping Scrooge's adventures, mostly for the havoc they wreck. He also clearly despises flashy supervillain style plans, preferring more controlled schemes. His final plan is straight out of an Order villain's playbook, an attempt to effectively destroy all chaos and let order reign supreme. Scrooge and his family represent the Chaos in this scenario.
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Enforced and overseen by Black Heron. Bradford had a noble goal in mind when he presented his plan to Ludwig von Drake as a young man, even though he failed to recognize the villainous nature of his suggested method. From the moment Heron allied with him, she began strong-arming him into making concessions towards evil, with adding the F to F.O.W.L. being the first example. Bradford was ultimately responsible for his own choices, but Heron was dead-set on making a villain out of him -- and succeeded beyond her wildest expectations, to the point even she feared his wrath during their final years together.
* PsychopathicManchild: [[DownplayedTrope A downplayed example]], but when taking his past into account, it's clear that Bradford is just a frightened child who never got over his childhood trauma. His desire for order doesn't come from genuinely wanting to do good but as a means of removing whatever could cause him emotional distress, which really speaks to a lack of emotional maturity on his part.
* RiddleForTheAges: Bradford's reason for creating Buford and Bentley was clear enough: running both F.O.W.L. and [=McDuck=] Enterprises alone would be incredibly difficult, and cloning himself a pair of assistants, altered in appearance so he could pass them off as siblings, would be a perfect solution. Why he ''continued'' to make clones of himself and put them in cold storage is another question entirely. The fact the one Webby encounters is borderline braindead and a more direct copy than Buford and Bentley raises some [[GrandTheftMe disturbing]] [[WalkingTransplant possibilities]].
* SafetyFreak: Bradford is this trope taken to its darkest and deconstructed extreme. After being traumatized by being the TagalongKid for his grandmother's perilous adventures, he saw the world as dangerous and chaotic and wants to take over the world because he genuinely wants to bring order to it. The catalyst that made him decide to directly oppose Scrooge was out of a genuine concern that Scrooge's antics continually bring about world-endangering threats. However, later events reveal this all to be a crock. He's essentially motivated to maintain his own sense of safety due to his trauma and wants to destroy adventures because of the dangers they might pose to him.
* SayingTooMuch: While walking through Taurus' lab in "Let's Get Dangerous!", Bradford's passive aggressive comments towards the [=McDuck=] family's dangerous and costly adventures tip off Huey about his dark secret.
* ShadowArchetype: To Donald. Just like Donald, Bradford was taken on adventures and due to circumstances (Bradford fearing danger, Donald losing his sister) grew contempt for adventure. However, while Donald accepts he can’t stop Scrooge’s adventures from happening and that adventure will keep finding him, Bradford wants to put an end to adventures and chaos forever.
* TheSociopath: He doesn't seem like one at first, but the finale throws any doubts out the window when he disposes of his "siblings" and Black Heron, his oldest and closest ally, on a whim after Scrooge points out he'd be a hypocrite not to, without a moment's hesitation.
* StartOfDarkness: Bradford apparently wanted to conquer the world even as a S.H.U.S.H. accountant in the '60s, but after getting his idea shot down by Ludwig Von Drake, he turned to [[CardCarryingVillain Black Heron]] and founded F.O.W.L. Even before that, his traumatic experiences with his grandmother gave him a deep hatred for adventuring.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Every time members or allies of F.O.W.L. work on some crazy hair-brained supervillain scheme against his wishes, Bradford has to remind them time and again that they're not only '''not''' supervillains, but they're trying to accomplish world-domination in a subtle and pragmatic way that won't get them noticed. He doesn't verbally quote this trope, but his visible frustrations as well as a few {{facepalm}}s here and there make it clear this is what he thinks of his subordinates.
* TautologicalTemplar: By the end of the series, the only one who believes Bradford isn't a supervillain is Bradford himself. In his mind, everything he does is completely justified in his pursuit of ridding the world of all disorder or [[NeverMyFault something forced upon him by someone else]].
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: This applies to Bradford's relationship with the more maniacal members of F.O.W.L., particularly Black Heron. Bradford sees himself as a WellIntentionedExtremist trying to protect the world from "chaos," while his underlings (with the presumed exceptions of the Phantom Blot and Gandra) tend to be [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Villains]] who just want absolute power for themselves, and Heron ends up embarrassing him the most because of this.
* TheyCalledMeMad: Bradford’s proposed solution to Von Drake while he was in S.H.U.S.H. was to rule the world from the shadows and rein in chaos and Von Drake thought he was insane. Despite there being many potential constructive ways he could’ve made the world better, him applying such a solution to the whole world was out of subconscious desire to prove everyone wrong, and because of childhood trauma.
* TinTyrant: Using the Sword of Swanstantine in "The Last Adventure!" covers Bradford in black and red armor that's distinctly villainous. As his plans begin to unravel, it takes on a more extreme form that one would expect to see on an EvilOverlord -- which Bradford had been trying to become since his S.H.U.S.H. days, despite the fact he'd insist otherwise.
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* UnanthropomorphicTransformation: At the end of the GrandFinale, he is turned into a regular buzzard by Magica [=DeSpell=].
* UnevenHybrid: He is one quarter finch on via his maternal grandmother Isabella Finch, making him one of only two characters in the series other than his own clones to be descended from two different species (the other being Gladstone, who is half duck/half goose).
* UnPerson: Despite being Isabella Finch's grandson and having gone on a number of adventures with her, she evidently never mentions Bradford in her diaries -- at least not by name -- since Scrooge would've picked up on their familial connection otherwise. As for the Woodchucks as a whole, Ludwig von Drake explains that Bradford was one of, if not the worst member, so it's understandable he wouldn't be an honored figure within their ranks.
* VileVulture: He's a buzzard, and the leader of a villainous organization.
* VillainHasAPoint: While escaping from the supervillains summoned by Taurus, Bradford gets pissed when Dewey claims he enjoys adventuring. He then yells at the Duck triplets for constantly putting the world at jeopardy, and he's not wrong considering that Magica, Lunaris and even the current threat were all thanks to the [=McDuck=] family constantly going on adventures that risk the safety of the world.
* VillainousBreakdown: As the [=McDuck's=] continue to fight him even after he makes Scrooge sign on the Papyrus of Binding, the Sword of Swanstatine turns Bradford into a monster, but he only breaks down when Huey manages to destroy the Papyrus through use of a paradox, having him drop the sword and turn to normal, just in time to [[DeathOfPersonality be turned into a mindless buzzard minion]] by Magica [=DeSpell=].
* WalkingSpoiler: Easily. Who would’ve thought that one of those three buzzards from the pilot was secretly the GreaterScopeVillain of the series?
* WhamLine: Two notable ones:
** "This has gone too far. The Ducks almost cost us the world today. And, without the world, who would we larceny against?"
** "How do you think Della found out you built the Spear of Selene?"
* WouldHurtAChild: Even before Bradford is outed as the leader of F.O.W.L., he appears to have attempted this:
** After Louie became the richest duck in the world and then angered the board of directors by spending company funds to pay the Ottoman Empire brothers to build a lavish ottoman for him while clearly not caring about their opinion as well as being a threat to the financial well-being of Scrooge's (and their) company, Bradford spends a moment to think and then just happens to suggest to Louie that they cut funding to the magic wards on a mysterious island in the Heron Sea. His facial expressions and body language imply that he actually knew exactly what he was doing when he tricked Louie into releasing the Bombie, a being that would hunt Louie down.
** In "Let's Get Dangerous!", Bradford throws the triplets into an unstable dimensional rift after they uncover his true colors.
* XanatosGambit: After the reveal, the next two episodes are Bradford pulling a perfect KansasCityShuffle and BatmanGambit, showing they know how to do this.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: "The Last Adventure!" confirms that for all Bradford's talk about hating villains, he's more of a villain himself than he'd like to admit, with the Sword of Swanstantine turning him into a TinTyrant. When he tries to blame the Ducks for turning him into a "base villain", they point out that the Sword amplifies one's existing inner nature, so that's "all him".
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: "The Last Adventure!", Bradford kills Bentley and Buford by throwing them into the Solego Circuit, erasing them from existence, because Scrooge said they might be too chaotic for Bradford. He then does the same to Black Heron.
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* AntiVillain: Despite being spies for F.O.W.L., they are sad, misguided pawns who just want to gain love and acceptance and understand why they were created. Plus they care about their older sister Webby and are unaware of F.O.W.L.'s true intentions.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Her last words after Bradford tosses her into the Solego Vortex are an amused and rather petty admiration of such a villainous action, implying everything Black Heron did from the moment Bradford originally approached her was for the sake of turning him into an absolute villain. With that in mind, it puts into perspective that literally everything F.O.W.L. accomplished over the last few decades and every awful thing Bradford did was the result of her goading and manipulations.
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* EvilerThanThou: Thanks to his AntiMagic gauntlet, he proves to be this towards Magica.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Surprisingly enough. In most Disney media, he's generally depicted as a CardCarryingVillain; here, while he still actively steals the magic of others and works for F.O.W.L., he's largely motivated by his desire to destroy Magica de Spell after she destroyed his home ForTheEvulz.
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* {{Foil}}: To Lena. Both of them dress in black, are involved in the supernatural, and have sympathetic grudges against [[WickedWitch Magica de Spell]]. They even serve as the edgy and moody friend to the preppy and amicable Pepper and Webby respectively. The main differences are that Lena was born from magic and came to accept her magic vowing to use it for good while the Blot was an ordinary person who vows to destroy all magic no matter the cost. This is highlighted in their battle in the series finale where Lena declares that all magical beings are under her protection; a sharp contrast to the Blot who is a destroyer of magic.
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* TheCorrupter: It's implied throughout "The Last Adventure!" (and, retroactively, "The First Adventure!") that she functions as this towards Bradford, having turned him from a WellIntentionedExtremist into a full-on supervillain despite how much he denies it, with her actions in both episodes arguably being her most extreme examples of her CardCarryingVillain and ForTheEvulz tendencies in the third season. Heck, even after directly telling Bradford she knew she'd be able to make a villain out of him in the finale, he ''cannot'' come up with a way to refute her, only growling at her in anger. mmediately after Bradford pushes her to her suppposed death, Black Heron has a reaction of satisfaction after realizing what has happened and uses her last moments to taunt Bradford over his status as a villain, suggesting her true goal was [[ManipulativeBastard turning Bradford into a supervillain in order to completely pervert and ruin his goal of protecting the world.]] ''And she did.''
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* TheCorrupter: It's implied throughout "The Last Adventure!" (and, retroactively, "The First Adventure!") that she functions as this towards Bradford, having turned him from a WellIntentionedExtremist into a full-on supervillain despite how much he denies it, with her actions in both episodes arguably being her most extreme examples of her CardCarryingVillain and ForTheEvulz tendencies in the third season. Heck, even after directly telling Bradford she knew she'd be able to make a villain out of him in the finale, he ''cannot'' come up with a way to refute her, only growling at her in anger. mmediately Immediately after Bradford pushes her to her suppposed death, Black Heron has a reaction of satisfaction after realizing what has happened and uses her last moments to taunt Bradford over his status as a villain, suggesting her true goal was [[ManipulativeBastard turning Bradford into a supervillain in order to completely pervert and ruin his goal of protecting the world.]] ''And she did.''
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* CastingGag: May, a clone of Creator/KateMicucci's character, is fittingly voiced by Micucci's Music/GarfunkelAndOates bandmate Creator/RikiLindhome.
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* CastingGag: May, a clone They're clones of Creator/KateMicucci's character, Webby, who is voiced by Creator/KateMicucci, and May is fittingly voiced by Micucci's Music/GarfunkelAndOates bandmate Creator/RikiLindhome.
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Changed line(s) 602 (click to see context) from:
* CastingGag: Creator/RikiLindhome (May) voices a clone of her Music/GarfunkelAndOates bandmate Creator/KateMicucci's character.
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* CastingGag: Creator/RikiLindhome (May) voices May, a clone of her Creator/KateMicucci's character, is fittingly voiced by Micucci's Music/GarfunkelAndOates bandmate Creator/KateMicucci's character.Creator/RikiLindhome.
