Respect Scrooge McDuck! (Donald Duck Comics Universe)

The quality of your lives depends on what you make of them! The only limits to adventure are the limits of your imagination!

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Scrooge McDuck

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Scrooge McDuck was once a poor Scottish duck with hardly a cent to his name. As a child, he was shown the ruins of the ancestral McDuck castle, and told of how his family once had great stores of wealth. Scrooge became inspired to build a fortune of his own and took on his first job, as a shoeshine boy. However, the pay he got for his first shined shoes was an American dime. Furious, young Scrooge vowed to make his wealth by being tougher than the toughies and sharper than the sharpies- and doing it all square. From there, he set out to America, where his dime would have some value, and began a lifetime of action and excitement as an "adventure capitalist", amassing impossible amounts of wealth and becoming the richest duck in the world.

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Key to Sources

• The Beagle Boys VS Uncle Scrooge ^BBUS
• Four Color Comics ^FCC
• Donald Duck ^DD
• The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck ^LaT
• Mickey's Craziest Adventures ^MCA
• Uncle Scrooge ^US
• Walt Disney's Comics and Stories ^CaS
• Walt Disney's Donald Duck ^WD3
• Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures 2003 ^WD3A
• Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures ^UCA
• Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Don Rosa Library ^DRL

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Strength

Striking

• Smashes his fist down on a set of dentures, breaking Jesse and Frank James's fingers

• Kicks Donald into the air

• Staggers a Beagle Boy with a headbutt, making him drop his shotgun

• Staggers a military man with a headbutt

• Breaks open a wooden door

• Stomps his way through the deck of a ship

• Headbutts a Beagle Boy into a wooden pillar, snapping it in half

• Kicks a full minecart, sending it into several men

• Knocks down several people, creating a domino chain that carries on for miles and miles

• Knocks away a dinosaur with a stick

• Slices through a thick log of wood like butter with an axe

• Breaks a mace by beating a man with it

• Breaks a wooden door with a pickaxe

• Breaks through a wall with a pickaxe

• Breaks a slab of "reinforced sternite" with a hammer

• Cracks off a massive piece of ice with a pickaxe

• Breaks an even more massive glacier with a pickaxe

Throwing

• Throws a man overhead with one hand

• Clobbers a Beagle Boy with a thrown metal pan, hard enough to bend it in half

• Knocks out Roy Bean with a thrown pie tin, then clobbers Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp with thrown rocks

• Throws a pie into a man's face hard enough to knock him off his feet

• Throws a crate with one hand, clonking out a grown man

• Throws a caber so hard it flips multiple times in the air

• Throws a large boulder several meters, breaking a sheet of shale and exposing a silver vein

• Throws himself a great distance while attempting the hammer throw

• Throws a coin across the Potomac

• Threw a grand piano out the window and a cast iron stove through three bulkheads

Push and Pull

• Rips up wooden bars

• Pulls a stone slab as big as he is out of the ground

• Rips a tree out of the ground

• Saws through several trees at once as a child

• Uses leverage to push over a shack

• Pulls on a plunger hard enough to slam himself into a car, denting it

• Opens a car door hard enough to knock out three Beagle Boys

• Pushes on a revolving door hard enough to send a man flying across the street

• Holds a 40 foot crocodile's jaws open, then ties it into a knot

• Wrestles a charging bull to the ground

• Pulls a blue whale with a fishing line

• Tore down two giant smokestacks by pulling on chains

Lifting

• Does rigorous exercises, lifting weights bigger than he is

• Lifts and jumps with four hundred pounds of money

• Rips the stake he's tied to out of the ground

• Carries a massive tree on his back, calling it "light hauling"

• Carries out the entire contents of his money bin

Other

• Crushes a phone receiver in his hand

• Swings a man around with one arm, knocking down several other men

• Holds onto a plane as it flies to Fort Knox

• Holds onto a pole in the face of strong winds that blow people around a plaza

• Jumps on the end of a tree that's stuck on a charging rhino, embedding the tree in the ground and lifting the rhino up

• Runs into a brick wall, smashing his head through it

• Blows hard enough to propel himself backwards in zero gravity, breaking off a door

• Knocks the roof off his money bin by saying "Wow!"

• Along with Donald and his nephews, paddles so hard that he flings his canoe out of the water

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Agility

Reaction Times

• Ducks a jab from Teddy Roosevelt

• Dodges a falling column by a millimeter

• Jumps over a musketball

• Jumps over a bullet fired behind him

• Ducks close range handgun fire

• Ducks twin handguns

• Jumps over a shot from a cane-gun

• Dodges a ray gun blast from the Beagle Boys in the same comic the Beagle Boys blast bullets at close range

• Dodges the aim of two of the Dalton outlaws

• Dodges a rebounding cannonball

• Possibly dodges arrows

• Dodges a thrown spear underwater

• Ducks a harpoon shot underwater

• Throws a bag of money at a Beagle Boy with a gun aimed at him before he can shoot

• Turns around and knocks a gun out of a mountie's hand before he can react

• Fishes with his bare hands, catching dozens and dozens of fish

Movement

• Moves so fast that Huey, Dewey, and Louie only see a blur

• Moves fast enough to seemingly disappear

• Drops his bag and runs out of sight before his bag can hit the ground

• Jumps onto a speeding chariot

• Outruns several wild animals, including a cheetah

• Sprints across a room and grabs a ray gun out of a Beagle Boy's hand before he can react

• Keeps pace with a car, taking first place in a footrace by half a mile

• Beats the world champion foot racer in a sprint, but only when chasing after money

• Throws a coin across the Potomac, then rows a boat across before the coin can land

Agility

• Runs along a waterwheel for a while

• Jumps down a deep well, then climbs back out

• Climbs out of a collapsed canyon

• Jumps higher than a kangaroo

• Hops across travelers mired in the mud flats

• Stands on a tall spire, then walks on a tightrope

• Walks across a thin rope

• Climbs up a totally smooth, supposedly unclimbable pole

• Rapidly climbs up a greased pole when motivated by 50 cents

• Hangs out a window by his cane

• Successfully swings from a vine on his first attempt

• Surfs expertly by complete accident

• Launches himself from a tree, somersaulting in the air as soldiers shoot at him with rifles

• Can swim through money, when the Beagle Boys knock themselves out trying

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Durability

Blunt Force

• Gets hit by a surprise boulder

• Gets smacked by a giant armadillo

• Gets bashed by a giant fist

• Gets hit by a bicycle

• Gets thrown across the street

• Jumps into a sturdy wooden beam, snapping it in half

• Gets slapped into a brick wall hard enough to crack it

• Gets slammed through a brick wall twice

• Slams into a car hard enough to dent it

• Breaks his head through the metal hull of an airplane

• Jumps to the bottom of his empty money bin

• Jumps out of a helicopter

• Falls down a dry well

• Totally unharmed by being launched out of a catapult

• Climbs out after a canyon collapses on him

• Rides a steam shovel that gets thrown into the air, crashing into a mudpit

• Crashes a flying car

• Crashes a helicopter and gets back out

• Rides a ship through a massive wave that throws it high into the air, crashing into the ocean

• Survives being inside a cotton-stuffed boiler inside an exploding steamship

• Survives a blimp crash over the ocean, clinging to a piece of driftwood for days

• Falls out of the sky, roping a tree to soften his fall

• Crashes a plane and walks out unscathed

• Withstands another plane crash

• Survives a rocket crash

• Slams into a cliffside hard enough to cause the snow to collapse

Explosive

• Gets blasted out a window

• Gets blasted into a metal fence hard enough to bend it

• Takes a point-blank dynamite explosion, being revived after some water gets poured on him

• Gets hit by an artillery shell

• Walks over a minefield

  • Runs over multiple landmines

• Gets shot point blank by a cannon and dragged through multiple landmines

• Gets back up after being blasted multiple blocks away

• Survives an explosion that throws an entire temple into the sky

Electricity

• Gets zapped by a live wire

• Short-circuits an electric plate

• Withstands a hit from natural lightning while wearing full plate armor

• Gets hit by a lightning bolt

• Gets hit by lightning that ashes his hat

Heat and Cold

• Withstands a flamethrower blast

• Walks around in a heat that was melting gold (1064°C)

• Withstands a blast of dragon fire that can melt gold

• Runs away from molten magma from the Earth's outer core

• Falls into a frozen over lake and immediately climbs out

• Works in conditions so cold that his whole body is frozen over

• Is unharmed by cold weather that freezes fire solid

Endurance and Willpower

• Does 100 one-handed pushups

• Goes for a week without eating, with no ill effects

• Resists hypnotism through sheer willpower

• Resists Magica's mind control magic through willpower

• Snaps out of hypnosis once he's introduced to a single dollar

Other

• Rides a horse through barbed wire fencing

• Tanks multiple wolves chomping down on him

• Lets a cloud of mosquitoes settle on him

• Holds his breath for minutes

• His body and clothes are coated in gold dust, allowing him to deflect a petrification ray

• Withstands the sound of the Krakatoa explosion by stuffing wool into his ears

• His glasses withstand being run over by a steamroller and being burned by a welding torch without a scratch

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Skill

Martial Arts

• Knocks out a Beagle Boy with a flip

• Easily defeats two large, armed men while carrying a full bag of gold nuggets

• Beats up a grizzly bear

• KO'd world champion boxer Jim Corbett, leaving a scar

• Wrestled Teddy Roosevelt in the middle of a giant stone bull that was sliding down a mountain, and makes him tap out

• Wrestled Standing Bull; afterwards they started calling him Sitting Bull

• Wrestled at the St. Louis Olympics

• Fights two of the armed Dalton outlaws, with no weapons, and easily beats them

  • However, the Daltons were shooting blanks

• Fights several dozen miners by himself, easily defeating them

• Defeats so many hired thugs that he can climb a pile of their unconscious bodies to the second floor of a barroom

  • Partially shown here

• Body-slams a mountie that has him restrained

• Knows some judo

Swordfighting

• Has the upper hand in a swordfight

• Defeats another man in a swordfight and marks him with the Mark of Scrooge

• Fights evenly with an immortal knight that has spent hundreds of years defending a treasure

• Learned Injun knife-fighting from Buffalo Bill

Marksmanship

• Gave Buffalo Bill the idea to do travelling shows; he compliments Scrooge's shooting skills

• Shoots a sign hinge with a rifle, causing it to fall down and break a Dalton's nose

• Shoots flies out of the air with a rifle

• Shoots a moth with a blunderbuss

• Knocks out a Beagle Boy with a thrown gold nugget

• Nails a sleigh-riding Beagle Boy with a metal pan

• Knocks out Roy Bean with a thrown pie tin, then clobbers Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp with thrown rocks

• Throws a knife to cut Goldie's hair at 20 yards, calling it easy; claims he could curve the knife around the tree

• Disarms a robber with a boomerang

• Throws a boomerang through a house, making it loop several times in midair before hitting a Beagle Boy

• Nails a swooping hawk with a coinpurse

• Flings a beehive in a tree branch to send it next to the Beagle Boys

• Aims a cannon to put out the torches of three men on horseback

Animal Handling

• Manages to keep on the back of an ornery horse his first time riding

• Rides a horse across floating rocks in the ocean to catch up to a steamboat

• Jumps from his horse to a Dalton's horse, then brings it to a stop

  • P.T. Barnum calls it the finest trick riding he's ever seen

• Rides his horse through a building, then jumps from one window to another

• Ropes a lion and rides him into town

• Rides two caribou at once, one for each foot

  • Jumps over Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, grabbing rope from them and using it to save Goldie

• Scares off a grizzly bear

• Scares a lion and makes him act like a tame housecat

• Knows the mating call of the Canadian moose

• Knows the mating call of the emu

• Learned how to track prarie weasels by their scent

Vehicle Riding

• Rides a motorcycle over a raised drawbridge

• Rides a helicopter into another helicopter, breaking its rear propeller without breaking his own helicopter

• Uses a helicopter's blades to disarm a man in midair

• Battles a chopper in midair and performs karate moves with his helicopter

• Figures out how to fly a plane quickly after trying

• Crosses the ocean on a leaky fishing boat pulled by sharks

• Sails a ship through a hurricane

• A sailor calls him the best natural seaman he's ever seen

• Captain Moore of the Cutty Sark says he's never met a more talented sailor, and gives him his hat out of respect

Roping

• As a child, catches a faraway beam with a rope and pulls himself up

• Lassos a cattle rustler from atop a canyon

• Ties up a Dalton with a thrown rope, holding him hostage with his own gun

• Taught Wild Bill Hickok; lassoes up three fleeing Beagle Boys

• Grabs the noose off Roy Bean as he runs by, then trips him, Wyatt Earp, and Bat Masterson simultaneously

• Uses his snapped bungee jumping rope to lasso a building and break his fall

Languages

• Knows:

  • Spanish
  • Ancient and modern Arabic
  • Dutch
  • Latin
  • Sign language
  • Hieroglyphics
  • An African tribal language
  • A South Seas tribal language
  • An ancient Chinese dialect

• Can speak to cormorants

• Learned several ancient languages by reading the inscriptions on the back of coins

Senses

• Sees a coin on a faraway mountain

• Sees a dime while skydiving and lands on it

• Can smell money from two blocks away

• Can track an axe by the smell of the gold in its gilt inlays

In-Character Behavior

• Attempted to attack his nephew with a chainsaw

• Attempted to spear a salesman with a harpoon

• His "burglar stunner" is lethal

• Almost shoots Donald with a cannon

• Will shoot burglars with missiles

Other

• Recognizes every single coin and remembers where he earned it

• Remembers the serial number on every dollar he's ever made and can tell when he's missing a few bills from his money bin

• Walks backwards in his own footprints to avoid leaving a trail

• Skilled at ballet

• Sort-of rebuilds a bicycle quickly

• Tricks the Beagle Boys and their metal liquidator with a plastic gun and rubber watch

• Wyatt Earp was awed by Scrooge's reputation

• He is very sneaky

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Wealth

Scrooge McDuck is most famous for how much money he has, but the exact number is always changing. He's often said to have impossible amounts of money, like nine fantasticajillion, four billion-jillion, centrifugillion dollars, but the only consistent thing about his net worth is that he's got more money than he could ever spend- not that he'd want to spend his money when it's much more fun to ski on it.

Money Bin

The Money Bin is Scrooge's largest repository of liquid assets. It's a massive cubic building that has nothing but piles and piles of cash for Scrooge to play around in, and it's only one of several; when it was all consolidated into one bin, it was a legitimate ocean of currency with its own horizon. Here is a blueprint of the money bin

• Has three cubic acres of cash

• The money stash piles up to 100 feet high

• It has state of the art security

• Giant robots battering it with sledgehammers doesn't break it

Cash

• Richest man in the world

• Richest person in history

• Counts nine billion trillion thousand-dollar bills

• If he lost a billion dollars a minute he'd go bankrupt in 600 years

• Keeps 90 tons of money in a safe

• Continually earns a thousand dollars at every moment of every day and night

• The mint has a conveyor belt that pours money into his money bin for convenience's sake

• Owns three cubic acres of star sapphires at four feet height, twelve tons of rubies, and over a thousand oil wells

• Makes 764 trillion dollars on a single business venture

• Makes so much money there's no more money left to make

• Bathes in money

  • All of his bathtubs and showers are filled with money

Expenses

• Bought a restaurant with his pocket money

• Bought a stadium and two soccer teams out of his pocket

• Makes himself a spaceship for a joke

• Had a rocket ship built in a few days

• Rented out a workforce of robots

• Had a reservoir transformed into a secret money storage site

• Summons the world's greatest engineers to his house in a day

• Gets a rocket to Venus built in less than a day

Land Ownership

• Bought an entire lake on a whim

• Has a private island

• Owns the biggest zoo in the world, with nearly every animal

• Owns an airline service in the Yukon

• Owns the largest media outlet in Calisota and almost a hundred printing outlets

• Owns all the candy, popcorn, hot dog, and bun production centers in Duckburg

• Owns the whole city and everything in it

• Owns a large amount of sea farms that produce vitamin-rich plants for health foods

• Owns oil wells, railroads, gold mines, farms, factories, steamships, theaters, sawmills, stores, radio stations, canneries, fisheries, race horses, and newspapers

• Owns 51% of an enterprise that sells water that cures colds

• Presumably owns one-third of the world's known copper

• Owns so many businesses he can't keep track of them all

  • Can't lose money by spending it because it goes right back into his businesses

• Owns property in 69 countries

• Owns a 24-karat 500-mile-thick solid gold moon

Miscellaneous Equipment

• His razor-sharp first dime

  • It's also good for unscrewing screws

• A tranquilizer rifle so powerful it wilts a tree

• Two ray guns, one that removes all friction on an object and one that removes all inertia on an object

• A "burglar stunner" that shoots through steel-titanium

• A flying sword that obeys his commands

• A gravity-defying rod

• A hammer that turns iron into gold

• A watch that is so accurate it predicts the movements of planetary bodies that aren't discovered yet

• A super-diving gear that can withstand being 3,000 feet underwater

  • A variety of extremely advanced diving equipment

• A shrinking machine

• A time machine chariot

• Another time machine

• An army of birds to send his messages

Influence

• Has the police and civil services in his pocket

• Can call up the National Guard and get them to launch a missile wherever and whenever he wants

• Can get a state of emergency declared and have people detained on his say-so

• Bosses around a general

• Demands that the city police and the army surround his house and shoot down buildings for him

Other

• Has the fastest horse in the world

• Has the first traffic tickets ever issued, addressed to him

• Has a stockpile of Confederate money

• When convinced that fish is the new currency, works his way into a massive stockpile of fish in a few hours

• After being transported to an alternate universe where he's broke and in massive debt, manages to rebuild his entire fortune within a week

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But if it is gold, that will mean my quest is finished. I'll be rich! I'll never be the same again... will clean air smell any sweeter? Will sunny days be any brighter? Will starry nights hold any more wonder? Do I really want to be... rich?

YES!

Submitted September 27, 2019 at 06:54PM by Cleverly_Clearly https://ift.tt/2nS927V