102 Facts About Velma Vanderduck

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Velma Vanderduck is portrayed with the same feisty temperament and impatience and was even voiced by Donald's voice actor Clarence Nash.

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Velma Vanderduck is closely associated with the hillbilly Hard Haid Moe who dislikes Fethry very much, and with Donald's pet cat, Tabby.

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Velma Vanderduck has been reimagined for the DuckTales reboot as a thieving adventurer that Scrooge has fought against and partnered with time and time again since they first met in Dawson.

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Velma Vanderduck develops a brief mentorship with Louie Duck and reconciles with Scrooge by the end of the series.

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Velma Vanderduck still looks like a hippie, but she acts more like an eccentric and a bit neurotic urban girl.

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Velma Vanderduck is the grandmother of Magica De Spell, and taught Magica sorcery when she was a child.

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Velma Vanderduck was used for the first time in the May 1966 story "The Luck of Pali" by Bob Gregory and Tony Strobl, where he and Scrooge both take a part in a museum contest to know who has the most unusual valuable object.

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8.

Velma Vanderduck has long and white hair on the right and left sides of his head and is always holding a crutch.

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Velma Vanderduck bought her an expensive fur coat and in exchange asked her to never bother him again.

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10.

Velma Vanderduck has proven to be cunning and skilful and seems to have a very strong will.

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11.

Velma Vanderduck is among Scrooge's most trusted allies and she volunteers to help whenever he asks for it.

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12.

Velma Vanderduck put Brigitta on a strict budget and says she should do her own cooking, as she was once a restaurateur.

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13.

Velma Vanderduck was originally hired by Scrooge's sisters Hortense McDuck and Matilda McDuck.

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Velma Vanderduck was known as Miss Typefast in some stories and on the 1987 show DuckTales she was called Mrs Featherby.

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Velma Vanderduck is always ready to sell his services in different professional areas to Uncle Scrooge McDuck in most of his oldest stories.

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16.

Velma Vanderduck had previously discovered that those shares suddenly became highly valuable.

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17.

Velma Vanderduck has become popular in Italy, Denmark, Brazil and some other countries, while she is almost unknown in the USA and others.

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18.

Velma Vanderduck tells to his grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie before her arrival at his house that she was the most charming girl of her town, being daughter of a tycoon who lived in a mansion.

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19.

Velma Vanderduck has a joyful personality and she loves to give parties on her riverboat by using Scrooge's money.

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20.

Velma Vanderduck first appeared in "Rescue of the Grand Mogul" by Vic Lockman and Tony Strobl.

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21.

Velma Vanderduck is often portrayed as a self-confident, demanding and rigid leader, but not rarely he has clumsy attitudes.

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22.

Velma Vanderduck is a goose guy with blonde hair, being quite more easy-going than the original Mogul.

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23.

Velma Vanderduck has a crush on the leader of the Italian version of the Chickadees, Clarissa, a human-like girl.

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24.

Velma Vanderduck is a witch friend of Magica De Spell and has been used in various Italian stories, becoming a relatively popular character.

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25.

Velma Vanderduck is a queen who governs an undersea kingdom inhabited by duck-like aliens forced to live in our planet after losing their spaceship in a disaster.

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26.

Velma Vanderduck had a cameo appearance in a commemorative story to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Italian comic book series Topolino.

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Velma Vanderduck is a lookalike and probable ancestor to Donald Duck.

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28.

Velma Vanderduck has a girlfriend named Aydis who looks like Daisy Duck, and he has five soldiers, two of them are named Little Bo and Big Brutus.

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Velma Vanderduck is an alien who came from space, and more precisely from the planet Duck, with his spaceship shaped as a coin and that can be shrunk to the size of a dime and reads O K Quack's fingerprints as a means of activating its size mechanism.

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30.

Velma Vanderduck was created by Italian cartoonists Carlo Chendi and Giorgio Cavazzano in 1982 to be used as a supporting character in two stories with O K Quack.

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31.

Velma Vanderduck is a radical ecologist who became friends with Huey, Dewey, and Louie and the Junior Woodchucks.

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32.

Velma Vanderduck was traveling on a holiday in Europe, flaunting his riches and trying to flirt with the local ladies, who were not very receptive to this behavior.

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33.

Velma Vanderduck has not appeared in any animation, though she is similar to the DuckTales character Bubba the Caveduck.

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34.

Velma Vanderduck has protruding front teeth, similar to Goofy, and thick black eyebrows.

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35.

Velma Vanderduck is frequently seen in various short-timed jobs, but his laziness and clumsiness prevent him from holding them for long.

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36.

Velma Vanderduck is a rich Dutch woman who competes with Scrooge.

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37.

Velma Vanderduck supported her boyfriend on his nearly every adventure and often took advantage of her seemingly harmless appearance to fool her adversaries.

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38.

Velma Vanderduck is an operatic chicken who is a good friend of Mickey Mouse.

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39.

Velma Vanderduck is usually seen with the rest of the "classic" Disney cast.

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40.

Velma Vanderduck is usually portrayed as one of Daisy's best friends, not to say her best friend, in American, Italian, Danish, Dutch and Brazilian comic stories.

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41.

Velma Vanderduck returned in the 1944 film The Three Caballeros along with Donald and a Mexican rooster named Panchito Pistoles.

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42.

Velma Vanderduck later became a recurring minor character, making various other printed appearances in recent years.

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43.

Velma Vanderduck is Clara Cluck's pen pal, and when he comes to Duckburg, Clara and Daisy decide to have a double date, Clara taking Rockhead and Daisy taking Donald.

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44.

Velma Vanderduck appears as an upstart businessman who happens to overhear Scrooge mentioning his "Secret of Prosperity".

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45.

Velma Vanderduck took the opportunity to explain that his "Secret of Prosperity" were the virtues which led him to wealth, not some kind of shortcut.

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46.

Velma Vanderduck was designed and invented as the result of the Finnish Aku Ankka magazine's "design a villain" competition.

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47.

Velma Vanderduck is loyal and dedicated to his boss, Scrooge, and not rarely he is in trouble because of all this loyalty and dedication, creating invariably funny situations.

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48.

Velma Vanderduck appeared in the 1995 Don Rosa story "The Lost Charts of Columbus", pulling a similar scam.

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49.

Velma Vanderduck was meant to appear in The Lost Charts of Columbus, but was cut from the story.

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50.

Velma Vanderduck's home has been said to be a castle in Portofino on the Italian Riviera, although he has been described as coming from the French Riviera.

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51.

Velma Vanderduck once removed the filament from the lightbulb of a camera's flash, without breaking the bulb glass.

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52.

Velma Vanderduck's third appearance was in Rosa's The Black Knight GLORPS Again which is a direct sequel to events in The Black Knight and Arpin restores his suit in it.

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53.

Velma Vanderduck's name comes from a spoonerism of Arsene Lupin, a fictional character from novels by Maurice Leblanc.

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54.

Velma Vanderduck was arrested again, and when he was released, the rural area he loved to terrorized had turned, thanks to Scrooge's financial impulse, into a San Francisco-esque metropolis in which he did not really belong anymore.

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55.

Velma Vanderduck first appeared in 2005, in the Sergio Badino story "Arriva Penny".

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56.

Velma Vanderduck closely resembles, and is often mistaken for Auntie Beagle, who is the aunt of the Beagle Boys.

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57.

Velma Vanderduck is usually the one to come up with schemes, whether for a great heist or a jailbreak.

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Velma Vanderduck has the prison number “1”, is greatly trusted by later generations of Beagles, which is perhaps somewhat foolish of them, as, being a Beagle, Great-Grandpappy is as shifty as they come.

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Velma Vanderduck is portrayed as being as short-tempered as Donald, and more truculent.

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60.

Velma Vanderduck's name was first mentioned in The Old Castle's Secret by Carl Barks, but his true first appearance was in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Part 9: The Billionaire of Dismal Downs, by Don Rosa.

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61.

Velma Vanderduck later reappears as an agent of F O W L, having been artificially reconstructed as "Frankenjeeves" to act as Rockerduck's caretaker while he is in suspended animation.

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62.

Velma Vanderduck just has the same last name as the rest of them, since he happens to be a pig and the rest of them are dogs.

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63.

Velma Vanderduck appears in the story titled The Old Castle's Other Secret or A Letter From Home, in which he and Maurice plan to steal the treasure from Scrooge's old ancestral castle and using Scrooge's sister Matilda to get it.

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64.

Velma Vanderduck is named after Jacques de Molay, last Grand Master of the Knights Templar.

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65.

Velma Vanderduck appears as a sheep owner while Scrooge competes in a Scottish games sheep shearing contest.

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66.

Velma Vanderduck became a kind of non-official girlfriend of Moe, including she almost married him.

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67.

Velma Vanderduck first appeared in the Donald Duck cartoon Trick or Treat in 1952, voiced by June Foray, where she helps Huey, Dewey, and Louie get candy from Donald.

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Velma Vanderduck is short, has a hairy, warty chin and a large red nose with green eyes.

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Velma Vanderduck wears a long blonde wig, dresses in archetypal black witches clothes, and her hat is very tall.

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70.

Velma Vanderduck is far more benevolent than the Looney Tunes version.

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71.

Velma Vanderduck appears to be the first boss of the NES game Mickey Mousecapade, despite being originally a good character.

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72.

Velma Vanderduck is currently voiced by Corey Burton and Jeff Bennett.

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Velma Vanderduck first appeared in two 1954 Donald Duck cartoons Grin and Bear It and Grand Canyonscope.

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Velma Vanderduck has recently made appearances in Disney comics produced in the Netherlands.

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75.

Velma Vanderduck hired the original Beagle Boys to destroy McDuck's boat but then they double crossed him.

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Velma Vanderduck appears in many stories, both by Carl Barks and others.

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Velma Vanderduck was introduced in The Wise Little Hen, in which he was the lazy and greedy friend of his much more famous fellow first-appearance character, Donald Duck.

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Velma Vanderduck is a recurring character in Brazilian and Dutch ones.

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Velma Vanderduck has been used in various Italian stories where Scrooge McDuck and John D Rockerduck both are involved in some competition.

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Velma Vanderduck was introduced by Carl Barks in North of the Yukon.

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81.

Velma Vanderduck discovers Scrooge's fortune by using an interstellar spyscope.

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Velma Vanderduck became a relatively important rival to Donald Duck.

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83.

Velma Vanderduck is usually more closely associated with the Mickey Mouse universe where he has remained a central figure since Steamboat Willie.

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84.

Velma Vanderduck was used by Carl Barks in ten stories of the comic series "Grandma Duck's Farm Friends".

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85.

Velma Vanderduck first appeared in the Mickey Mouse cartoon Alpine Climbers where he rescued Pluto from freezing in the snow, the two later found by Mickey and Donald to be drunk on Bolivar's own brandy.

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86.

Velma Vanderduck appeared in the Silly Symphonies cartoon More Kittens under the name "Tolivar".

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Velma Vanderduck has even been used by Carl Barks as a companion for Huey, Dewey and Louie, and appears now and then in recent stories.

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Velma Vanderduck first appeared in Bootle Beetle dodging Donald's attempts to catch him for his bug collection.

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Velma Vanderduck has the ability to sniff out a substance on command.

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Velma Vanderduck sometimes joins Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Donald Duck, and Scrooge McDuck on their adventures.

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Velma Vanderduck appears in Lion Around, Hook, Lion and Sinker, Lion Down, Father's Lion, and Grand Canyonscope.

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92.

Velma Vanderduck later reappears in the Mickey Mouse Works short Goofy's Big Kitty and in the House of Mouse episodes Goofy's Valentine Date and Pluto Saves the Day.

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Velma Vanderduck appeared in some 1970s stories drawn by Tony Strobl.

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94.

Velma Vanderduck is different from the raven named Poe in DuckTales, who is Magica's brother.

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Velma Vanderduck first appears in "Sentimental Journey" by Tony Strobl, in which the Beagle Boys try to shoot at him through a door, thinking that they were being raided.

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Velma Vanderduck appears in Window Cleaners, Home Defense, Pluto's Blue Note, Inferior Decorator, Bubble Bee, Honey Harvester, Slide, Donald, Slide, Bee at the Beach, Bee on Guard and Let's Stick Together.

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Velma Vanderduck later reappears in the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episodes Goofy's Bird, Minnie's Bee Story and Mickey's Little Parade as well in the Mickey Mouse short films Bee Inspired and New Shoes.

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Velma Vanderduck was summoned on Halloween in 1952 by Witch Hazel to scare Donald Duck into giving away candy to trick-or-treaters Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck.

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Velma Vanderduck was originally going to appear in the short film Morgan's Ghost which was set to feature Mickey Mouse, Donald, Goofy and Pete, but was cancelled.

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100.

Velma Vanderduck reappeared in the short film Don Donald, where Donald rides her to Donna Duck's house to seduce her, being replaced by a car after she laughs at her owner after being rejected by Donna.

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101.

Velma Vanderduck is capable of buzzing, which he mostly uses to attract Gyro's attention.

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Velma Vanderduck appears by the same name in the reboot series, in which he is depicted as a fairly hostile robot with a tendency towards violence.

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