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"Adventure is the mother of industry!"

—Scrooge to Ventus

Scrooge McDuck is a character that appears inKingdom Hearts II,Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep andKingdom Hearts III. He is the uncle ofDonald and the grand-uncle of the trioHuey, Dewey, and Louie.

Before the events ofKingdom Hearts, Scrooge traveled with KingMickey Mouse on aGummi Ship trying to make a Gummi Highway and setting up a business empire, but they parted ways when theHeartless started to appear.

Story[edit]

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep[edit]

WhenVentus arrives inRadiant Garden, he and Scrooge see each other from across the Central Square, before Ven spotsMickey Mouse heading for the Gardens and follows after him.

Aqua arrives some time later in search of Terra. She encounters the passing Scrooge in the Central Square, and she asks him if he has seen a boy not from around there, impressing him with her polite manner. Scrooge mistakenly believes she is talking about Ventus, and he sends her towards the castle.

Scrooge deduces that Ven came from another world.

Ven chases theα Armor into the Central Square ofRadiant Garden, he finds it accosting Scrooge, who is angrily swinging his cane at it. Ven chases it off, but when he goes to pursue it, Scrooge interrupts him and offers to repay him. Despite Ven's protests, Scrooge beckons him closer, and he reveals not only that he can tell Ven is from another world, but that he is, as well. He explains that he hadMerlin transport him from his home world in the search of new business opportunities. When Ven gets impatient, Scrooge gives him threepasses toDisney Town, telling him to give two to "two grown-ups", and lets him go.

On return trips to Radiant Garden, Ven and Aqua find Scrooge in the Castle Town. He asks Ven if he has been to Disney Town yet and enjoyed the Dream Festival attractions, and he mentions to Aqua that he is having trouble finding the right place to set up shop.

Some time after Aqua's fight withTerra-Xehanort, Scrooge sellssea-salt ice cream toLea andIsa.

BetweenBirth By Sleep andKingdom Hearts II[edit]

Scrooge was busy with the King's help, setting up a transit system to further his business expansion through the worlds, using aGummi Ship to do so. However, when the Heartless appeared in massive droves, this forced Scrooge to abandon his plans out of safety.

How he spent the decade between the games is unknown, but he didn't lose his wealth due to the drop of business between worlds.

Kingdom Hearts II[edit]

Scrooge resides inHollow Bastion, near his three great-nephews. He meetsSora, Donald andGoofy during their first visit to Hollow Bastion, Donald and Scrooge both surprised to see each other. He now owns part of the town and his house seems to be built above the synthesizing shop. Opposite of the shop is a large freezer where Scrooge tries to recreate the originalsea-salt ice cream flavor, but is having little success. Throughout the visits to Hollow Bastion, Scrooge becomes closer and closer to achieving his goal, eventually succeeding. Oddly, though, Scrooge's form of currency is not referred to asmunny. To play theSkateboard freestyle mini-game in Hollow Bastion, Sora must talk to Scrooge.

After Sora andRiku defeatXemnas and return toDestiny Islands, Scrooge is seen with King Mickey, Donald, Goofy,Queen Minnie,Daisy,Pluto, the nephews, andChip and Dale atDisney Castle.

Kingdom Hearts III[edit]

"Provide a bit of entertainment, and then give folks a nice, cozy place to relax. Like me bistro here. They'll all be happy, an' hungry, an' eager to spend their money."

—Scrooge's business plan

After leaving Radiant Garden, Scrooge encounteredLittle Chef after enjoying one of his dishes. As Little Chef wanted to expand his culinary horizons, Scrooge took the little rat's desire as an opportunity and financedLe Grand Bistrot inTwilight Town to help Little Chef fulfill his dream. He also sets up an open air film festival, hiringHayner,Pence, andOlette to put up posters advertising the films with data for promo games.^[1][2]

Little Chef later asks Scrooge to deliver atarte aux fruits to the new arrivals who saved him from Heartless, who turn out to be Sora, Donald, and Goofy. Scrooge explains the history of the bistrot, and asks them to collect ingredients along their travels so that Little Chef can produce even better culinary delights.

After Little Chef fills the menu with dishes beyond compare, Scrooge thanks Sora for his help.

Some time after Xehanort's defeat, Scrooge notices the impatient crowd outside his bistro. He heads into the kitchen to complain about the staff being too slow, but he is flabbergasted to find onlyLittle Chef cooking.

Design[edit]

Scrooge is an anthropomorphized duck with white plumage, four-fingered hands, light blue eyes, yellow-orange feet, and a bill of the same color. He has a thick, half-ring of ruffled feathers going around the back of his head, creating the image of an old, balding man. Scrooge's wealth allows him to dress in fine, stereotypical "rich" clothing. He wears a blue jacket with a folded-down, red collar, red cuffs, and a yellow button near the neck. He keeps the jacket shut with a red belt. A black top hat with a red band near the brim sits on his head, and he wearspince-nez glasses. He also wears red spats on his feet. Completing his image as an old, rich man, Scrooge walks around with a brown cane with a gold tip.

Personality[edit]

Scrooge is the richest duck in the world, having gained his massive wealth from hard work and being "tougher than the toughies and smarter than the smarties and making it square," on the course of his many adventures in finding treasure and through mining and other business endeavors. He's a traveler by nature, journeying all over, and even between worlds, in search of treasure and ways of expanding his many businesses.

Scrooge is known for being a great business planner; he knows a money-making idea when he sees it and seizes the opportunity without a second thought. Sora and Goofy are notably impressed with his usage of the film festival and bistro in tandem.

Having worked so hard to acquire his wealth, Scrooge has become rather stingy and greedy; he loves his money more than anything in the world and seldom spends any more of it than he has to. Still, he values honesty and fair play, and doesn't like to be in anyone's debt. Like his nephew, Donald, he has a temper, and can appear grouchy and selfish, but is a good-hearted person nevertheless and his care for his family exceeds his love for money.

Origin[edit]

Debuting in the 1947 Carl Barks comic story,Christmas on Bear Mountain, Scrooge was originally planned as a one-shot character, but as Carl Barks quickly saw the potential for him, he began making further appearances and soon became a major character in Disney comics, going from supporting character in Donald Duck stories to eventually getting his own comic series in 1952.

Disney early on wanted to use Scrooge in cartoons, but apart from a brief cameo on theMickey Mouse Club TV series, he remained a comics-only character until 1967, when the shortScrooge McDuck and Money made his "official" debut in animation. He was used sporadically in cartoons after that, his most notable role being in the 1983 featuretteMickey's Christmas Carol, where he played his Dickensian namesake, Ebenezer Scrooge.

In 1987, twenty years after his animated debut and forty years after his comics debut, Scrooge became the main star (alongside Huey, Dewey, and Louie) of the animated seriesDuckTales, which loosely adapted many of the original stories from the comics. In this series, which serves as the source for much of his characterization in theKingdom Hearts series, he was voiced by the late Alan Young, who reprised the role inKingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.

TheDuckTales animated series wasrebooted thirty years later in 2017, which notably included adapting more characters from the original comics that were not included in the original animated series. In the reboot, Scrooge was voiced byDavid Tennant.

Notes and references[edit]

• Entelechy
• Disney Town
• Hollow Bastion/Radiant Garden
• Twilight Town
• Disney characters
• Kingdom Hearts II characters
• Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep characters
• Kingdom Hearts III characters