Scrooge McDuck goes berserk into DEATH BATTLE!

• Real name: Scrooge McDuck
  
• Titles: "the King of Klondike", "the Master of the Mississippi", "the richest duck in the world", "the Last of the Clan McDuck", "the Empire Builder from Calisota", "the Terror of the Transvaal", "the orneriest cuss in the Outback" and several other scary (but not quite accurate) names
• Height: 1'40'' | 41 cm
• Weight: 20 lbs | 7 kg
• First appearance: "Christmas on Bear Mountain" (from Four Color Comics #178, in December of 1947) by Carl Barks
  
• Last appearance: ///// (comics are still ongoing)
• Likes: Money, diamonds, rubies, his family, All-You-Can-Eat chinese restaurants
• Dislikes: Losing money, profiteers, swindlers, modern feminists
• Main theme: Scrooge McDuck doesn't have a main theme. He's got an entire album of main themes, all composed by the popular band Nightwish songwriter and keyboard player, Tuomas Holopainen, as an homage to The Lifes and Times of $crooge McDuck. g.co/kgs/dszCTr
• Was originally created as a one-shot villain to Donald, but Barks liked his character so much that he quickly turned him into a hero, just like Donald himself
• Is the main character of the popular comic series The Lifes and Times of $crooge McDuck by Don Rosa, the animated show Ducktales, and appears in more than 8 movies, 8 TV shows, 16 videogames and lots of comic series, some of them still ongoing today
• Born in Glasgow (Scotland), 1867. Currently lives in his moneybin situated on the Killmotor Hill in Duckburg (Calisota) and is still today portrayed in his sixties/seventies (due to having drank water from the Fountain of Youth for several days in his early ages)
• His name is based on that of Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol, while his looks were most likely inspired from those of the spendthrift manifestation of Donald in the propaganda short The Spirit of '43
• The verse "might solve a mistery... or rewrite history!" in the Ducktales main theme is literal: in the comics, Scrooge was the one who convinced the now 26° President of the U.S.A. Theodore Roosevelt to embark a career in politics (so Scrooge is the reason Teddy Roosevelt became president). In his past, Scrooge also worked for manager Murdo MacKenzie and fought alongside Geronimo, Buffalo Bill, Anne Oakley and Phineas Taylor Barnum. He also went on the Titanic, coined the exclamation "Geronimo!", is the reason to why Standing Bull became the Sitting Bull, has invented concrete, financed the Lumière brothers (basically made the cinema’s creation possible) and is the cause to a lot of other things that happened in history.
• Not only he influenced history, but he’s also known by a couple of Gods from various mythologies: talking about Disney’s originals, the God of Chaos Solego is buried under his moneybin, and his business intuition has beaten the Blinded Goddess’ luck before. He was also offered by divine hero Väinämöinen (from the work of epic poetry Kalevala) to become Eternity together with him once, but refused
• In his Klondike days had a crush on singer Goldie O'Gilt, and after their disastrous love/hate relationship and her death, he started to neglect every kind of love affair. Now, he's constantly stalked and besieged by Brigitta McBridge, a goofy yandere-ish woman obsessed with him. Even though Scrooge rudely rejects her on a daily basis and still has feelings for the deceased Goldie, it's implied that he's slowly starting to fall in love with her. Slowly. Magica DeSpell, one of his most dangerous enemies, apparently has a crush on him too, and antagonizes him so much only because she was forced to do so.
• The Glasgow City Countil has included Scrooge in the list of its honor citizens, alongside the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The Glasgow council spokesman also said that they are extremely proud to have him on the list (www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?…)
• A drawing of Scrooge playing with his money was chosen by the Apple employees to be used to test the Apple II scanner and display, thus making it the very first image ever displayed on a Macintosh computer
• Astro Boy creator, Osamu Tezuka, stated that many characteristics of the action scenes and the overall dark tones of his manga were inspired by The Lifes and Times of $crooge McDuck (one of his all-time favorite comics), thus making the scottish duck one of the main inspirations for the very first concept of mangas
• A tax in the Netherlands is literally named after him ("Dagobertducktaks", which was also chosen as "Word of the Year 2014")

Backstory

Scrooge was born in Glasgow, in 1867. The oldest of three, at the early age of 10 he becomes a shoe polisher to gain money for his family, but his very first client tricks him by paying him with an american dime, unusable in Scotland. This scam leads little Scrooge to believe that he has to be "sharpier than the sharpies" to succeed in life, and keeps said dime (that will later be remembered as the Number One Dime) as the symbol of the start of something big.

At the age of 13, he leaves Scotland and his family to work as a riverboater in Mississippi, America, together with his uncle. Here, the latter dies two years later, and the family of outlaws called "the Beagle Boys" begin to harass the little Scrooge, even destroying his riverboat, leaving him without a job. After a short career as a cowboy hired by Murdo MacKenzie, the scottish duck decides to become a miner and search for silver and copper. He befriends the millionaire Howard Rockerduck, who became rich thanks to the California gold rush of 1849. Howard's spoiled kid, John Rockerduck, will then grow up to be one of Scrooge's main rivals.
After a quick return to his homeland to defend his Clan's castle from being bought, Scrooge decides to tempt fate by searching gold in South Africa, where he saves the life of a duck named Flintheart Glomgold, who will grow to be the second richest duck in the world and Scrooge's ruthless mortal enemy. His search in South Africa fails, so he continues it in Mississippi and Australia, but fails once again.
When he finally decides to participate in the Klondike Gold Rush, he begins by exploring the White Agony Creek, a territory untouched by man, as it was said to be protected by a giant monster living in a cave. Scrooge soon discovers that the "giant monster" simply was the well-conserved corpse of a mammuth, so he passes through, starts mining and discovers the Goose Egg Nugget, a legendary gold nugget of incredible dimensions.
As soon as the other gold diggers hear about the scottish duck's success, they begin to exclude and badmouth him, filled with jealousy and remorse for not having found the nugget before him. A group of gold diggers guided by profiteer Soapy Slick even kidnaps him and tries to torture him by taking the mick out of him and his family's recent tragedies, but that costs them all of their lives, and the destruction of the cruise ship they were standing on.
Right after the accident, Scrooge goes to a local saloon in which she meets the singer (and as implied many times in the uncensored versions, also a prostitute) "Glittering" Goldie O' Gilt, and he falls in love with her right away. Unfortunately, Goldie takes advantage of his sincere love and drugs him to steal the nugget and all of his gold. Feeling betrayed, Scrooge doesn't give up: he returns to the saloon, beats up all of her guards, force her to write a one thousand dollars I.O.U., takes the Nugget back and kidnaps her, forcing her to work as a miner for him, underpaying her even.

Ironically, their stay in the White Agony Creek helped establishing a weird love-hate relationship between the two, in which both treated the other badly but secretly loved one another (and the constant various sexual innuendos in that comic issue also imply that they had a lot of fun there together).

After that Goldie goes through an inner conflict about whether to begin a possible relationship with Scrooge or not, her crook nature prevails, so she steals a billion dollars, escapes, and frames Scrooge for a crime he never committed. The King of Klondike will only meet her again 50 years later, when she repays her debt and entrusts her grand-daughter Dickie Duck to him.

Anyway, after the heartbreak, Scrooge sets in to continue mining gold and making all kinds of deals around the world to become a billionaire. He then goes to Scotland and convince his sisters to move with him in Duckburg, Calisota, where he begins to turn it into a modern metropolis. His dad stays in their castle, where he dies a few minutes later.

Scrooge continues to do business, beginning to lose a bit of himself in the way bycommitting immoral acts (such as forcing an african tribe to get off their land, which results in a voodoo wizard casting a curse on him, that consists in a zombie stalking him forever) to accomplish some deals. Matilda and Hortense (and the latter's twin kids, Donald and Della Duck), disgusted by Scrooge's behaviour, abandon him forever.

More than fifteen years later, Scrooge finally gets too lonely and invites Donald (now an adult) and his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie for Christmas. Even though Donald initially seems to despise him, the three kids' curiosity for Scrooge's past convinces the King of Klondike to tell them the story of his life, and even Donald begins to respect him after hearing it.

And just after telling them his story, the new generation of Beagle Boys attack the moneybin: finally, the King of Klondike stands up and shows everyone what he's truly capable of, by defeating and stopping them.
After that Christmas, Scrooge got back to be the great explorer he once was, actively continuing to get richer by exploring the planet like in his younger days, but, this time, in the company of his nephews.

Don Rosa has drawn a comic strip that portrays Scrooge dead at the age of 100 with all of his relatives crying over his grave, but he himself stated that his death is non-canon, and he said that if Scrooge should ever die, it should happen in a desolate, wild location and his body would be never found again.
Scrooge's adventures still continue today in multiple, on-going comic series.

Personality

Scrooge absolutely loves money, is extremely greedy and would do anything for it (for example, he often runs in the traffic causing a lot of incidents just to catch a penny, and got in fights over some gold with various alien races more than once). He’s usually very stingy and cranky with others, and is even used to close bad affairs by shooting and (mildly) hurting the entrepreneurs that proposed them. If he’s particularly angry, the nephews might have to tie him up to avoid him going berserk and kill whoever made him angry.

“But I will crush those guys!

I WILL CRUSH EVERYTHIIIIING!”

He has got a very, very sharp tongue, and knows how to talk to women, too.

However, even though he often appears as an unlikeable prick to which money is the most important thing in the world, he undoubtedly cares about people -especially his relatives- more than how much he does about his money. He has sacrificed multiple times a lot of money in the past, in order to save human/duck lives: in the European story “Zio Paperone e il tuffo nel black hole”, for example, he gave up all of his money to save the planet from a black hole, and in a Ducktales episode he gave up a lot of gold he has just found moments before to save his relatives.

In one particular occasion, a Norse god offered him to go together to Eternity (that would have gave Scrooge infinite wealth forever, and make him become eternity as well), but he refused, because he didn’t want to abandon his family and his lost love, Goldie.

Scrooge doesn’t like himself very much. Despite trying to appear tough and proud of his actions, he always feels immense regret for how much he neglected his loved ones in the past. He often hurts himself and sometimes even tries to commit suicide when things aren’t going well, and has shown multiple times that he’s more than ready to sacrifice himself for who he has left, in order to avoid doing the same error once again.

He’s actually really kind-hearted, and will help and save even his enemies (unless they are flat-out evil and really hate him, like Flintheart Glomgold), to which he ultimately got attached to. He has seriously spent some time together and assisted the Beagle Boys and Magica when they were in need, and this caused the latter to grow a crush on him, too.

The person Scrooge cares about the most is undoubtedly is Donald. The two have a really weird relationship: they fight violently and even make inconsiderate death threats to each other in front of the nephews on a daily basis, but they are inseparable and would go out of their ways to assist the other in every way possible.

Donald usually accuses his uncle of underpaying him and treating him very badly, but Scrooge himself revealed that he's harsh with him only because he likes his stubbornness and wants him to toughen up and get rid of his typical laziness. As Don Rosa said:

in the beginning Scrooge [owed] his existence to his nephew Donald, but that has changed and today it's Donald that [owes] his existence to Scrooge.

Despite various quarrels that happen on a daily basis, Donald and Scrooge care a lot about each other, and are considerably each other's closer and most reliable fellow companions of adventures (and scuffles). They still have one hell of a way to show affection to one another though.

Properties and Resources - Arsenal

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Wealth
Scrooge is the richest character in the whole Disney universe, being worth "five multiplujillion, nine obsquatumatillion, nine impossibidillion, seven fantasticatrillion and six hundred twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents", with that number inexorably increasing without signs of stopping. The gold he has in his moneybin is just an incredibly small portion of his total wealth: he owns all of Duckburg (except for a few properties in the inner city), has the monopoly on a big part of the marketplace all over the world, and has secondary moneybins literally everywhere, even on the other planets of the galaxy (and on all of their satellites). He is also the owner of Duckburg's football team and of the Chronicle, the most influential newspaper in Calisota, for which Donald and Fethry work as reporters. He also created his counter-intelligence serv

Capabilities - Superpowers - Signature Attacks - Alter Egos

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Is a great strategist who can keep calm and quickly come up with a plan in no time no matter what’s happening. He is also great at tricking his foes into making them think that they’ve got the upper hand, while in reality he’s just planning a way to defeat them
Is a skilled hand-to-hand fighter and practiced both boxing and some martial arts
Knows many grapple and clinching attacks (both in stand-up and ground fighting), some of which he invented himself. If confronting multiple foes at once, he also knows where to hit to deal the more damage as possible to everyone, and is not new to using his very foes as melee weapons against others
Was taught how to knife fight “Injun Style” by Buffalo Bill
Has trained extensively in sword-fighting; his daily training lasted hours and hours non-stop, and he is capable both at

Feats

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Strenght
Striking Strenght
When some gold diggers were insulting her dead mother, broke two chains out of pure rage, beated all of the gold diggers that were taunting him, broke two iron smokestacks with his own hands, threw a piano out of the window and punched a gold digger so hard, he flied off the window leaving his silhouette on it (the two smokestacks later hit a boiler who caused a fire). Basically destroyed the whole cruise ship they were on, killing most of his aggressors
Using a tree as a lever, uprooted a fort and threw it away
Casually threw a rhino on a tree by using another tree as a lever, with zero effort
Can do an incredible caber toss, ma

Weaknesses

• His older-self tries to hide his more violent side if it's not needed
• Could actually faint if a relative asks him for a loan of more than 10 dollars, or if he hears about a major financial loss of his
• Can instantly recover if he sniffs his gold-bearing salts (in the second case, he might need to sniff his Number One Dime because the Salts might not be enough)
• Brigitta McBridge
• All-You-Can-Eat chinese restaurants

Quotes

Mottos

I'll be thougher than the toughies, and sharper than the sharpies - and I'll make my money square!
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Work smarter, not harder!

Sheer Badassery

"Be careful, bub! I'm Scrooge McDuck, and, if I don't like what you say, I'll buy this whole city and fire you!"

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"It's important to always remember who you are... but it's more important to never forget who I am!"

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Don't fuck with McDuck

Donald is talking about his legitimate rights after an argument, Scrooge grabs a nail hammer
"Nephew, not even your right to live is legitimate with me..."

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Huey, Dewey and Louie: 

"Stop, unk! You don't want to kill him!"

Scrooge:

"You're right! Death is not enough!"

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"But I will crush those guys! I WILL CRUSH EVERYTHIIIIING!”

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While riding a modified motorbike with cannons on it:

"Call an ambulance, nephews! A lot of people will need it!”

Blasting, Scottish style

Donald:

"Don't exaggerate, unca! There are leagues between you and the rest of the world!"

Scrooge:

"There are leagues between your mental faculties and normal ducks' too, but we have to put up with you nonetheless!"

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Donald:

"I'm here, efficient and ready to work! Got any problems?"

Scrooge:

"Yes, and you're the biggest one, but unfortunately the only way to deal with it is illegal!"

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Donald:

"You pitiful cheapskate! I didn't come here to get insulted by you!"

Scrooge:

"And where do you usually go then?"

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At the zoo

"Ah, the monkeys remind me of my nephew!"

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Scrooge gets close to Donald while he's sleeping

You're a (CENSORED), and a (CENSORED) (CENSORED)...

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(Writer's note: Keep in mind that Donald insults Scrooge the same way he does with the same frequency and savagery, and if I collected all of their insults in a single place, I could have made a book with them)

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His butler approaches him while wearing sandals with socks

"Boss! Horrible news!"

Scrooge:

"Can't be more horrible than your clothing, Quackmore! What happened?"

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After Magica threatens him while riding her broom

"Look, guys! You can't distinguish the witch from the broom!"

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by Sean Jimenez, lead art director for Ducktales 2017