15 Facts About Gyro Gearloose

Gyro Gearloose is a cartoon character created in 1952 by Carl Barks for Disney comics.

Gyro Gearloose was a heroic creator star of the animated DuckTales.

Gyro Gearloose is often assisted by his Little Helper, who is a small anthropomorphic robot with a light bulb for a head.

Some stories have involved the birds leaving Gyro Gearloose's thinking cap, resulting in the cap becoming ineffective.

In high school, young Gyro Gearloose was a baseball pitcher with his "madball" pitch — actually only a straight-ball pitch.

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When Gyro Gearloose is forced to pitch for the Northside, pitting an "unhittable" baseball against another of his inventions, an "unmissable" baseball bat made for the Southside team, the result is total chaos.

Gyro Gearloose has a track record of inventions gaining sentience and becoming evil, though he argues that some of them are merely misunderstood.

Gyro Gearloose later begins brainstorming the creation of the Gizmoduck suit under the codename "Project Blatherskite".

Gyro Gearloose built a child-like defense drone named 2-BO and treated him like a real boy, but Akita tampered with his programming before using him to terrorize the city of Tokyolk.

When Huey brought 2-BO, now B O Y D, to him to be fixed, Gyro was forced to return to Tokyolk and confront his past as well as Akita.

Ratchet Gearloose is Gyro's paternal grandfather, created by Carl Barks.

Gyro Gearloose knew Scrooge McDuck: he first met him during his Mississippi riverboat days.

Gyro Gearloose first appeared in person in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 10 as a young child and one of the first three Junior Woodchucks.

Gyro Gearloose appears as an elderly man in the story Gyro's First Invention.

Gyro Gearloose continued to be used in some Brazilian and Danish-produced Disney comics into the 1990s, while he still appears in Dutch and Italian-produced comics.