Scrooge McDuck
| Scrooge McDuck | |
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| First appearance | Four Color#178 (Dell Comics) (December 1947) |
| Created by | Carl Barks |
| Voiced by |
Dallas McKennon (1960) Bill Thompson (1967) Will Ryan (1987) Alan Young (1974–2016) Pat Fraley (young Scrooge, in Ducktales episode "Once Upon a Dime") John Kassir (Duck the Halls: A Mickey Mouse Christmas Special) David Tennant (DuckTales) |
| Developed by | Carl Barks, Don Rosa |
| Nickname(s) | Uncle Scrooge |
| Species | Pekin duck |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Tycoon |
| Family | Clan McDuck |
| Significant other(s) |
Glittering Goldie Brigitta MacBridge |
| Relatives |
Donald Duck (nephew) Huey, Dewey, and Louie (grandnephews) Ludwig Von Drake (brother-in-law) |
| Nationality | Scottish |
Scrooge McDuck is a fictional character created in 1947 by Carl Barks during his time as a work-for-hire for The Walt Disney Company. Scrooge is an elderly Scottish anthropomorphic Pekin duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a red or blue frock coat, top hat, pince-nez glasses, and spats. He is portrayed in animations as speaking with a Scottish accent, also sometimes known as a Scottish burr. Named after Ebenezer Scrooge from the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is a wealthy Scottish business magnate and tycoon whose dominant character trait is his thrift. He is the maternal uncle of Donald Duck, the grand-uncle of Huey, Dewey and Louie, and a usual financial backer of Gyro Gearloose. Within the context of the fictional Duck universe, he is the world's richest person. His "Money Bin"—and indeed Scrooge himself—are often used as a humorous metonyms for great wealth in popular culture around the world.
McDuck was initially characterized as a greedy miser and antihero (as Charles Dickens' original Scrooge was), but in later appearances he was often portrayed as a charitable and thrifty hero, adventurer, explorer, and philanthropist. He was originally created by Barks as an antagonist for Donald Duck, first appearing in the 1947 Four Color story "Christmas on Bear Mountain" (#178). However, McDuck's popularity grew so large that he became a major figure of the Duck universe. In 1952 he was given his own comic book series, called Uncle Scrooge, which still runs today. Scrooge was most famously drawn by his creator Carl Barks, and later by Don Rosa. Like other Disney franchise characters, Scrooge McDuck's international popularity has resulted in literature that is often translated into other languages. Comics have remained Scrooge's primary medium, although he has also appeared in animated cartoons, most extensively in the television series DuckTales (1987–1990).
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