69 Facts About Scrooge McDuck

Scrooge McDuck is a cartoon character created in 1947 by Carl Barks for The Walt Disney Company.

Scrooge McDuck typically wears a red or blue frock coat, top hat, pince-nez glasses, and spats.

Scrooge McDuck is portrayed in animation as speaking with a Scottish accent.

Originally intended to be used only once, Scrooge McDuck became one of the most popular characters in Disney comics, and Barks's signature work.

Scrooge McDuck is portrayed as an oil tycoon, businessman, industrialist, and owner of the largest mining concerns and many factories to operate different activities.

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Scrooge McDuck was originally created by Barks as an antagonist for Donald Duck, first appearing in the 1947 story "Christmas on Bear Mountain".

However, Scrooge McDuck's popularity grew so large that he became a major figure of the Donald Duck universe.

Scrooge McDuck was most famously drawn by his creator Carl Barks, and later by Don Rosa.

In "Christmas on Bear Mountain", Scrooge McDuck was a bearded, bespectacled, reasonably wealthy old duck, visibly leaning on his cane, and living in isolation in a "huge mansion".

Foxy Relations was the first story where Scrooge McDuck is called by his title and catchphrase "The Richest Duck in the World".

The first was Foola Zoola, an old African sorcerer and chief of the Voodoo tribe who had cursed Scrooge McDuck, seeking revenge for the destruction of his village and the taking of his tribe's lands by Scrooge McDuck decades ago.

Scrooge McDuck privately admitted to his nephews that he had used an army of "cutthroats" to get the tribe to abandon their lands, in order to establish a rubber plantation.

Scrooge McDuck had sought Scrooge for decades before reaching Duckburg, mistaking Donald for Scrooge.

Scrooge McDuck offered a reward to competing cousins Donald Duck and Gladstone Gander, which would go to the one who captured the unicorn for Scrooge McDuck's collection of animals.

Scrooge McDuck first hints that he was not born into wealth, as he remembers buying the Hourglass in Morocco when he was a member of a ship's crew as a cabin boy.

Scrooge McDuck acquired this knowledge from years of living or traveling to the various regions of the world where those languages are spoken.

Later writers would depict Scrooge McDuck having at least working knowledge of several other languages.

Scrooge McDuck has encountered several historical figures during his lifetime, such as US President Roosevelt, Apache leader Geronimo, Czar Nicholas II of Russia, and philologist Elias Lonnrot.

Scrooge McDuck was shown in The Magic Hourglass in a more positive light than in previous stories, but his more villainous side is present too.

Scrooge McDuck is seen in this story attempting to reacquire a magic hourglass that he gave to Donald, before finding out that it acted as a protective charm for him.

Scrooge McDuck starts losing one billion dollars each minute, and comments that he will go bankrupt within 600 years.

Scrooge McDuck finally manages to retrieve it, exchanging the item for a flask of water, as he had found his nephews exhausted and left in the desert with no supplies.

Financial Fable, first published in March 1951, had Scrooge McDuck teaching Donald some lessons in productivity as the source of wealth, along with the laws of supply and demand.

Scrooge McDuck wrote Junior Woodchuck stories where Scrooge often plays the part of the villain, closer to the role he had before he acquired his own series.

Under Barks, Scrooge McDuck always was a malleable character who would take on whatever persona was convenient to the plot.

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Italian writer and artist Romano Scarpa made several additions to Scrooge McDuck's universe, including characters such as Brigitta McBridge, Scrooge's self-styled fiancee, and Gideon McDuck, a newspaper editor who is Scrooge's brother.

Scrooge McDuck considered only Barks's stories canonical, and fleshed out a timeline as well as a family tree based on Barks's stories.

Under Rosa, Scrooge McDuck became more ethical; while he never cheats, he ruthlessly exploits any loopholes.

Scrooge McDuck owes his fortune to his hard work and his money bin is "full of souvenirs" since every coin reminds him of a specific circumstance.

Scrooge McDuck's work is regularly reprinted by itself as well as along with Barks stories for which he created a sequel.

Scrooge McDuck's characteristics are believed to be strongly influenced by the life of a real, incredibly wealthy Scottish-American business magnate, Andrew Carnegie, as well as Ebenezer Scrooge, a rich miser from Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, who was McDuck's namesake.

Comic book series The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, written and drawn by Don Rosa, shows Scrooge's fictional life.

Scrooge McDuck's experiences have changed him into a hostile miser, and his family leaves him in disgust at his new personality.

Scrooge McDuck keeps the majority of his wealth in a massive Money Bin overlooking the city of Duckburg.

Scrooge McDuck is the richest member of The Billionaires Club of Duckburg, a society which includes the most successful businessmen of the world and allows them to keep connections with each other.

Whatever the amount, Scrooge McDuck never considers it to be enough; he believes that he has to continue to earn money by any means possible.

Scrooge McDuck never completed a formal education, as he left school at an early age.

Mostly self-taught as he is, Scrooge McDuck is a firm believer in the saying "knowledge is power".

Scrooge McDuck is an accomplished linguist and entrepreneur, having learned to speak several different languages during his business trips around the world, selling refrigerators to Eskimos, wind to windmill manufacturers in the Netherlands, etc.

Scrooge McDuck seems to have gained significant experience in manipulating people and events towards his own ends.

Scrooge McDuck seems to have a personal code of honesty that offers him an amount of self-control.

Several fans of the character have come to consider these depictions as adding to the depth of his personality, because based on the decisions he takes Scrooge McDuck can be both the hero and the villain of his stories.

Scrooge McDuck has opined that only in fairy tales do bad people turn good, and that he is old enough to not believe in fairy tales.

Scrooge McDuck believes in keeping his word—never breaking a promise once given.

Series fleshes out Scrooge McDuck's upbringing by depicting his life as an individual who worked hard his entire life to earn his immense fortune and to fiercely defend it against those who were truly dishonest but, he defends his family and friends from any dangers, including villains.

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Scrooge McDuck's value teaches his nephews not to be dishonest with him or anybody else.

The boys make it appear that Scrooge McDuck's love is allergic to money; however, he simply decides to give up his wealth so he can be with her.

The DuckTales episodes show a Scrooge McDuck who hailed from Scotland in the 19th century, yet was clearly familiar with all the technology and amenities of the 1980s.

Don Rosa's solution to the issue of Scrooge McDuck's age is that he set all of his stories in the 1950s or earlier, which was when he himself discovered and reveled in Barks' stories as a kid, and in his unofficial timelines, he had Scrooge McDuck die in 1967, at the age of 100 years.

Popularity of Scrooge McDuck comics spawned an entire mythology around the character, including new supporting characters, adventures, and life experiences as told by numerous authors.

Roosevelt and Scrooge McDuck would meet each other at least three times: in the Dakotas in 1883, in Duckburg in 1902, and in Panama in 1906.

Carl Barks created an earlier film prototype of Scrooge McDuck while working as the lead story man of the early Donald Duck cartoons.

Scrooge McDuck's voice was first heard on the 1960 record album Donald Duck and His Friends; Dal McKennon voiced the character for this appearance.

Scrooge McDuck was a huge success in the comic books at the time, and Disney now wanted to introduce the miserly duck to theater audiences as well.

Scrooge McDuck appeared as himself in the television special Sport Goofy in Soccermania.

Still, there are flashes of Barks' Scrooge McDuck to be seen, particularly in early episodes of the first season.

Scrooge McDuck appeared in DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, released during the series' run.

Scrooge McDuck was mentioned in the Darkwing Duck episode "Tiff of the Titans", but never really seen, apart from on a billboard in Duckburg, in the aforementioned episode.

Scrooge McDuck has appeared in some episodes of Raw Toonage, two shorts of Mickey Mouse Works and some episodes of Disney's House of Mouse, as well as the direct-to-video films Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas and Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas.

Scrooge McDuck makes sporadic appearances in Disney's and Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts series, helping Mickey Mouse establish a world transit system to expand his business empire to other worlds.

Scrooge McDuck first appears in Kingdom Hearts II as a minor non-playable character in Hollow Bastion, where he is trying to recreate his favorite ice cream flavor – sea-salt.

Scrooge McDuck later appears in the prequel, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, this time with a speaking role.

In 2015, Scrooge McDuck was seen in the Mickey Mouse short "Goofy's First Love", where Mickey and Donald are trying to help Goofy find his love.

Scrooge McDuck is seen at the end attending Goofy's wedding with a sandwich.

Scrooge McDuck makes a cameo appearance in the Legend of the Three Caballeros episode "Shangri-La-Di-Da".

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Scrooge McDuck develops a pessimistic attitude about family as a result until Donald re-enters his life with Huey, Dewey, and Louie, rekindling his spirit of adventure and appreciation of family, and he invites them to live with him at McDuck Manor as they travel the world on adventures.

Scrooge McDuck is a playable character in the mobile game Disney Magic Kingdoms, being the most expensive premium character.

Scrooge McDuck is one of the townspeople to already be living in the valley when the player character arrives and plays a role in the village not unlike Animal Crossing's Tom Nook in that he is the one in charge of both building and upgrading buildings and stalls, although all buildings and upgrades are paid for up front, not via loan.

Scrooge McDuck is the character responsible for the Rebuild the Valley quests and teaches the player how to use the crafting bench.