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TheBeagle Boys are supporting antagonists in theMickey Mouse and Co, franchise.
They are a repugnant group of villainous thugs as their name implies, they are a family of anthropomorphic beagle criminals who constantly try to robScrooge McDuck.
Their introduction and first appearance was in "Terror of the Beagle Boys" inWalt Disney's Comics and Stories #134, although in this story, they only appear in the last panel and have no lines. They appear again in the next issue in a similar fashion, in "The Big Bin on Killmotor Hill." They first get a more prominent role in the later story, "Only a Poor Old Man." They are the main antagonists of the 1987 featuretteSport Goofy in Soccermania. They and their mother,Ma Beagle, also appeared as major antagonists in the Disney animated seriesDuckTales, both the 1987 original and its 2017 reboot.
The Beagle Boys made their first appearance in the 10-page storyThe Terror of the Beagle Boys (WDC #134) that was first published in November 1951. Although the Beagle Boys are only shown very briefly on the last page of this story, it is implied that Scrooge has known about them for a long time. The first story to feature the Beagle Boys in a major role isOnly a Poor Old Man from March 1952, which serves as a template for virtually all future Beagle Boys appearances, and establishes them as a serious threat to steal Scrooge's fortune.
Babyface Beagle.
The Beagle Boys are usually depicted as a gang of about six to ten members, who are similar in appearance and personality, and without an established leader. However, sometimes the Beagle Boys are led by their grandfather,Blackheart Beagle (prison number 186-802). The Blackheart character originates from two characters created by Carl Barks: Blackheart Beagle, a riverboat pirate fromThe Fantastic River Race andGrandpa Beagle, who appeared inThe Money Well. Don Rosa later combined the character into one in chapters 10 and 11 ofThe Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. According to Rosa, Blackheart Beagle semi-retired in 1947, following a failed attempt at robbing Scrooge's money bin.
Bankjob Beagle.
According to Don Rosa'sLife and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Scrooge first met The Beagle Boys in his Mississippi riverboat days, circa 1880. Those Beagle Boys included Blackheart Beagle and his three sons. Scrooge first met the modern Beagle Boys during Christmas 1947, which was when he first met his grandnephews Huey, Dewey and Louie and met his nephew Donald for the second time. Since then the Beagle Boys have been a constant threat to Scrooge's huge money bin.
The three most common numbers on Beagle Boys prison tags are 176-167, 176-671, and 176-176. In fact, no digits other than one, six, or seven appeared on their prison ID tags. Carl Barks used to include the words "Beagle Boys Inc" on their shirts under their numbers, which was later deleted.
According to one of Don Rosa's stories, the Beagle Boys have been known by their prison numbers since their childhood, and they don't even know their real names themselves. (Their parents do know their real names, but demand a bribe from their sons to let them know.) Also according to that story, Blackheart Beagle doesn't remember his sons' names.
In the Barks/Rosa universe, the Beagle Boys have almost identical personalities, but one of the members (176-167) is known to be very fond of prunes, a weakness that proves to be the Beagle Boys' downfall in some stories. The Beagle Boys usually operate on their own, but collaborated with Magica De Spell in the 1963 Barks storyIsle of the Golden Geese, and again in the 1997 Don Rosa storyA Little Something Special where they also teamed up with Flintheart Glomgold.
Other comics[]
In all comics, the individual Beagle Boys are referred to by their prison numbers, indicated on the tags seen on the chests of their distinctive orange or red shirts. The original depictions by Barks in American comics always showed the Beagle Boys with orange shirts. European comics recolored these same Barks drawings to show Beagle Boys in red shirts. Subsequent European comic depictions of the Beagle Boys by artists other than Barks also showed them in red shirts, as did the DuckTales cartoons.
In later years, they appeared in the comics as a trio (some combination of the most common numbers with 176-167, 176-671 and 176-761), plus cousins and other relatives of various talents as spin-off characters. They live in a small tumbledown hide-out in Duckburg; in 1980s American-produced stories, their pet cat Ratty often lived there as well. In the Italian stories, they are sometimes accompanied by their pet dachshund, 64, who shares their criminal mindset, but it is often overcome with 64's constant, voracious appetite.
Sometimes they team up with other villains such as Magica De Spell, Black Pete, Mad Madam Mim, or hire out their services to Flintheart Glomgold orJohn D. Rockerduck. During these occasions they continue to operate out of their own interests rather than their employers. The Beagle Boys make cameos in theDarkwing Duck episode "In Like Blunt", where they are among the villains bidding on a list of S.H.U.S.H.'s secret agents.
Many other authors use a character purely based onThe Money Well version as the Beagle Boys' grandfather. In particular, Italian authors use a "Grandpa Beagle" who differs from Blackheart in being much skinnier and constantly smoking a pipe.
Sometimes they antagonize Super Goof, Mickey Mouse, or some other characters from Walt Disney's comic books.
Although the characters are obviously based on dogs, they in no way resemble the actual beagle breed.
Ottoperotto is the Beagle Boys' pet dachshund. Like his masters, he wears a red shirt and a green cap, marked with the number 64. The Beagle Boys frequently take 64 along on their robberies, to act as a guard dog and to reach spaces too small for the Beagle Boys themselves. However, the plans are often spoiled by 64's constant, voracious appetite. Whenever Ottoperotto smells food, he abandons everything else to get to eat it.
Beagle Boys inDuckTales (2017)[]
In the 2017 reboot ofDuckTales, the Beagle Boys are separated in several different gangs who follow a theme, as revealed in the episode "The Beagle Birthday Massacre!".
The Original Classics[]
The Original Classics consisted of Bigtime, Burger, and Bouncer Beagle who were in the original series. They debuted in the episode "Daytrip of Doom!", where they kidnapped Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Webby and held them for ransom.
Bigtime Beagle
Burger Beagle
Bouncer Beagle
The 1987 Beagle Boys[]
Debuting inLast Christmas, the 1987 Beagle Boys are led byGrandpappy Beagle. Unlike the other current-day Beagle Boys, they wear prison numbers on their clothing, likely as an homage to their original counterparts from the 1987 series. Their members also consist of three brothers who served on the same team in the original series.
Bankjob Beagle
Bugle Beagle
Babyface Beagle
Other Appearances[]
Sport Goofy in Soccermania[]
In the featurette, the Beagle Boys try to win the one-million trophy of the football competition, which was accidentally provided as a prize by Scrooge.
Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers[]
The Beagle Boys appeared asPete's henchmen and the secondary antagonists of Disneytoon Studios' 21st feature filmMickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers. These three beagle boys differ from the previous incarnations in that they have gray skin, yellow eyes, and wear dark cloaks and hoods. Two of the Beagle Boys are tall and speak with British accents (provided by Maurice LaMarche and Jeff Bennett) and the third is relatively short and speaks with a French accent (provided by Jeff Bennett). While none of them have official names, the smallest beagle is referred to as "Shorty", "Small Fry" or "Shortstop" in several scenes. However, the Japanese version of the film and KH:3D list the Beagle Boys separately as "Small", "Medium", and "Large" (despite the fact that two of them are about the same size).
The boys are first seen in Princess Minnie's palace, preparing to murder her by dropping a safe on her. Their attempt fails and they run off to tell their boss, who is revealed to be Pete, Captain of the Musketeers. Pete is outraged by the Beagle Boys because the plan was not to murder the princess, but only to kidnap her. The boys are then banished to the pit as punishment, when the pit is actually sufficient. Later, at Minnie's behest, Pete assigns three janitors, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, to protect her as musketeers. Believing they will do a terrible job, Pete orders the Beagle Boys to kidnap Minnie with high hopes of success. However, after the beagles return, Pete realizes that the three are better musketeers than he thought and devises a plan to take them down one by one. Pete and Clarabelle go after Mickey and Goofy while the Beagles lure Donald to Pete's lair to behead him. Time constraints force Pete's plan to take place at the grand opera house, where Mickey, Donald and Goofy appear to survive their planned deaths and fight the beagles. Pete intervenes and seemingly murders Donald and Goofy along with the Beagles. Pete shows no remorse for the loss of his henchmen and continues with his plans. The Beagles are not seen or mentioned again in the film afterwards, but in the comic book adaptation they are shown being arrested along with Pete.
Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers[]
The Beagle Boys appear as supporting antagonists of this game, third in place behindMerlock andMagica De Spell.
Kingdom Hearts[]
The Beagle Boys inKingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
The Beagle Boys also make an appearance in the video game,Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance.
Mickey Mouse[]
The Beagle Boys appear in the episode "Sock Burglar" as one of the suspects interrogated by Minnie Mouse.
They later reappeared as Pete's henchmen in the episode "Touchdown and Out". After being freed from prison, a trio of Beagle Boys join Pete andChernabog as a football team against Mickey, Donald, and Goofy where they cheat their way to the lead. When Chernabog is handicapped toward the end of the game, he slowly collapses into the ground, taking a horrified Pete and the Beagle Boys down to the fiery depths with him.
Trivia[]
In the original 1987DuckTales series Burger Beagle was shown with a strong obsession with food. In the2017 reboot he is shown as very slim who does not generally speak. This change in personality was done deliberately by the the showrunner Frank Angones of the reboot, due to Burger's behavior being associated with outdated mean-spirited fat jokes that are considered too offensive for the present modern audiences.
Burger is overall the first character introduced in theDuckTales reboot whose characterization was changed in the reboot due to outdated fat joke humor, followed byDoofus Drake.
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