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| ]]]The '''Duck universe''' (also called the '''Donald Duck universe''' or '''Scrooge McDuck universe''') is a ] where ] cartoon characters ] and ] live. It is a ] of the older ], yet has become much more extensive. "Duck universe" is a term used by fans and is not an official part of the Disney lexicon. | |||
| The world's continuity has been primarily built in comics by ] (1901-2000), but has its roots in the '']'' short film series and the ''Silly Symphony'' comic strip by ] and ]. Other cartoonists have built on Barks' work including ] (1927-2005) and ] (b. 1951). Other media includes children's books such as ] and Little Big Books, television series such as '']'' (1987-1990) and '']'' (1991-1992), and video games such as '']'' (1991) and '']'' (2000). | |||
| Life in the Duck universe centers around the city of Duckburg in the ] of Calisota. The world is also a ] and characters sometimes visit real-world locations and meet historical figures. | |||
| ==History== | |||
| {{systemic bias|date=October 2011}} | |||
| Most of the characters have appeared in the 1980s ] cartoon series '']''. Disney's '']'' series is nominally set in the ''DuckTales'' universe, in a metropolis called ], although aside from sharing the denizen ], and a few crossover episodes involving ], there is no interaction. The ''Darkwing Duck'' material does not appear in Barks' comics, as the ''Darkwing Duck'' TV series was created decades after Barks's active years as a comic artist. Later, a few characters would be the main characters in the show '']''. | |||
| However, in the magazine '']'', there was a five-part crossover/storyline titled "Legend of the Chaos God" which began with '']'', and continued with '']'', '']'', and '']'', then concluded with '']''. | |||
| Duckburg was the setting of the 1987 ] '']''. The cartoon's version of Duckburg was based heavily on the comics' version. Duckburg appeared in the 1990s animated series '']''. In Quack Pack, Duckburg was populated almost entirely by ]s, with Donald, Daisy, and Donald's nephews as the only anthropomorphized animals that usually appeared. Moreover, the Money Bin is nowhere to be seen. Duckburg was the setting for one of the three initial levels of the ] '']'' and also for the second level of the video game '']''. | |||
| Duckburg was also used for the setting of Mickey's Birthdayland (later Mickey's Starland) at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom from 1988 to 1996. It even included Grandma Duck's Farm and a statue of ], though it was more of a rural town than a burgeoning metropolis. The connection to Duckburg was removed as the land was renovated in 1996 to become ]. However, the Cornelius Coot statue remains. | |||
| ==Duckburg== | |||
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| Duckburg is the fictional city that serves as the home of ], ], ], ], and most of their supporting cast. Duckburg was first mentioned in '']'' #49 in 1944, and was created by ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seriesam.com/barks/comicswdc031.html#ccus_wdc0049-02|title=A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe: W WDC 49-02 tight-wire walkers|accessdate=7 February 2011}}</ref> | |||
| Duckburg is described as a medium size city located in the ] ] of ]. In comic writer ]'s stories, Duckburg is located on the west coast of the United States, though other writers often leave the city's location more vaguely defined. However, in ]'s '']'', the author alludes to where exactly he has situated Duckburg: "I won't bother to say precisely where I situated Duckburg and Calisota on America's west coast... but if you get out a good map and compare the coastline, you'll see that I stuck the old gold-prospector's adopted hometown directly across the bay from a very appropriately named actual city." Knowing how Don Rosa like to play a gag, it is likely that this city would be ] ('']'' meaning 'I found it'!). This fits with the river and a large forest south of Eureka.<ref name='DB1'>{{cite web | url = http://duckman.pettho.com/history/chapter0.html | title = Welcome to Duckburg! | accessdate = 2011-04-11 | last = Grøsfjeld, Jr. | first = Sigvald | publisher = The D.U.C.K.man}}</ref> | |||
| In the DuckTales episode "Double O' Duck", a map is shown which shows Duckburg as being located somewhere in Virginia or North Carolina. The city is populated by various ] animals, with ]s, ]s, and ]s the most dominant ones. The population is estimated 316,000.<ref name='OO'>{{cite book | last1 = Koonce | first1 = Ken | last2 = Wiemers | first2 = David | title = Double-O-Duck | year = 1987 | accessdate = 2011-04-11}}</ref> | |||
| The most prominent landmark in Duckburg is Scrooge McDuck's ], a giant building sitting on Killmotor Hill (formerly known as Killmule Hill) in the center of town. The money bin contains both office space and, most famously, three cubic acres of money, the results of Scrooge's lifetime of business and treasure-seeking adventures. Another major landmark in some stories is a large ] of Duckburg's founder, ].<ref name='MB'>{{cite web | url = http://duckman.pettho.com/characters/scrooge.html | title = Scrooge McDuck | accessdate = 2011-04-11 | last = Grøsfjeld jr. | first = Sigvald | publisher = The D.U.C.K.man}}</ref> | |||
| Duckburg is a major center for ]. Expeditions have been launched from Duckburg to the Moon, ], ], the ], and more remote parts of the ]. The town also features a sea port and is in proximity to several ]s, the most notable being "Old Demon Tooth", usually depicted as a towering pointed peak leaning slightly to the side.<ref name='DB1' /> | |||
| Duckburg is home to Yarvard University (a play on the universities of ] and ]), an institution more notable for its athletic teams than for its academic achievements.<ref name='DB1' /> | |||
| Located near Duckburg is a ] owned and run by ], a direct descendant of Cornelius Coot and Donald's paternal ].<ref name='DB1' /> Donald's cousin ] also lives on Grandma's farm as a "farmhand." The farm is often a gathering site for various Duck family holiday celebrations.<ref name='GC'>{{cite web | url = http://duckman.pettho.com/characters/grandma.html | title = Grandma Duck | accessdate = 2011-04-11 | last = Grøsfjeld jr. | first = Sigvald | publisher = The D.U.C.K.man}}</ref> | |||
| In other languages, Duckburg (for example ''Entenhausen'' in German) is not only home of "the Ducks", Mickey Mouse and friends live there too. | |||
| ===History=== | |||
| In the comics, the location that would eventually become known as Duckburg was originally known as "Fort Drake Borough", a fort built in the 16th century by ] explorer ]. By the 19th century, the fort had been handed over by its departing British occupants to ], who renamed the fort "Duckburg". "Drake" means a male duck, while "borough" and "burg" are ]. | |||
| Duckburg remained a quiet, small town until the arrival of wealthy businessman Scrooge McDuck. McDuck bought the old fort from ], a descendant of Cornelius. Scrooge proceeded to construct his famous money bin and established various businesses in and around Duckburg. This construction caused Duckburg's population to swell, and turned the small town into a bustling city within several decades' time. | |||
| Duckburg is the largest city in the state of ], but not the capital city. There are no references to the governor, legislature, Capitol, etc., of Calisota in any of the many stories about Duckburg. Duckburg seems to have its own governor, however, if it is not a sort of city state. In more than one story a "Duckburg embassy" is shown, which would place it outside the USA at a legislative level. In a story by Barks the Duckburg embassy displays a flag of Duckburg, which consists of a white duck over a green field. However, in the Don Rosa story "]" (Uncle Scrooge Adventures #14, Gladstone Aug. 1989) Scrooge gains a short-lived independence from the United States for Killmotor Hill, thus placing Duckburg within the U.S. | |||
| Duckburg maintains a traditional rivalry with Goosetown, another city of Calisota. | |||
| ===Fort Duckburg=== | |||
| Fort Duckburg is a fictional place in the fictional state of ].<ref>''The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Volume 2''</ref> It was originally created by ] and then intensively developed by ].<ref name='DBD'>{{cite web | url = http://marciodisneycomics.blogspot.com/2010/09/duckburg.html | title = Duckburg | accessdate = 2011-04-11 | work = The Daily Disney | publisher = Marcio Disney Comics}}</ref> It was, in the fictional universe of Barks and Rosa, first built by Sir ], who named it "Fort Drakeborough". It was later acquired by ], who changed the name from "Drakeborough" to "Duckburg" (same meaning). ], the son of Cornelius, sold it to ], who built his world-famous Money Bin in its site. This would eventually cause McDuck an incredible variety of problems and dilemmas. The first one was caused by the ], who were squatting in the site and using it as their headquarters, even though they did not have legal title to it. The dispute led to a small war.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://duckman.pettho.com/history/chapter3.html | title = The Lives and Times in Duckburg | accessdate = 2011-04-11 | last = Grøsfjeld, Jr. | first = Sigvald | work = The D.U.C.K.man}}</ref> | |||
| ===Calisota=== | |||
| {{double image|right|Localisation de Donaldville.svg|175|Northern_California_Map_USGS_Topography2.jpg|175|The map shown on the left indicates the location of Duckburg in Calisota . The Calisota map resembles a map of Northern California (right), with Duckburg corresponding to a coastal area in ] near the city of ], located on ].<ref name = "Rosa">], On The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Gemstone Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0911903968</ref>}} | |||
| Calisota is a fictional ], created by ] in his story "The Gilded Man" (] #422). Duckburg is among the cities located there, as well as ],<ref>"Boxing Donald," '']'' 367 (2007)</ref> and ].<ref>"Back From the Brink", ''Walt Disney's Comics and Stories'' 661 (2005); "The World to Come Part 1: The Numbers Crunch", ''Walt Disney's Comics and Stories'' 703 (2010).</ref> | |||
| Although it has many fictional elements and a variable climate, Calisota is probably roughly equivalent to ]. Duckburg is located north of ] and ], with a map in ]'s '']'' showing Calisota corresponding to the part of California north of ].<ref name = "Rosa" /> | |||
| The name is a ] of ] and ], supposedly to allow all kinds of weather or climate in the stories, although Calisota bears very little in common with the latter (a state in the ], far from the ocean coasts and Northern California region weather is sufficiently variable by itself. The name also be a reference to ], a small town in ], which, like Duckburg, is north of ]. | |||
| ==Money Bin== | |||
| The '''money bin''' is the building where ] stores the portions of his money he earned by himself. Carl Barks invented the "money swim" in 1950, followed by the "money bin" in 1951.<ref>''Carl Barks: Conversations'', p xxxviii. </ref> | |||
| The money bin was built in 1902, shortly after Scrooge entered the ] market and could no longer sleep at night because all the money he was storing under his ] raised his bed too close to the ceiling, necessitating a more suitable storage facility for his money. His favorite ] is to ] off a ] into his money and swim through it. | |||
| Don Rosa has said that Scrooge had earned all the money in his bin by himself, but not only does the bin's size possibly contradict this idea, in Rosa's Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, he said that Scrooge was traveling around the world, starting businesses and having the money sent home. It is unlikely that Scrooge actually earned that money just when he started the business. In the same series, however, he states that he doesn't keep all his money in his bin. Also, in Rosa's Last Sled to Dawson, he implied that Scrooge McDuck no longer earns money with his "own two hands". | |||
| Although the money bin is a twelve-] ] and ] (filled with "three cubic acres" of money), on various occasions it has been pulled around by a ], lifted to the top of a ], stolen by ]s from the bottom of the ], and blasted open with a ]. The traditional location of the Money Bin is on top of Killmotor Hill. The money bin sits atop Futterman's Fault, a ] which would prove catastrophic in the event of an ] (this earthquake occurred in the story ]). | |||
| The money bin is the victim of repeated assaults by Scrooge's enemies who try to steal his money, such as the ], who are after the bulk of Scrooge's money, and ], who is after Scrooge's "]" (the first ] Scrooge ever earned). To protect against these attempted break-ins, Scrooge has installed the greatest ] in the world to thwart any thought of even trying to intrude onto the premises. | |||
| Barks defined the volume of money contained inside as "three cubic acres", but the exact meaning, and therefore the volume, of a "cubic acre" is subject to interpretation by the reader, since an ] is a measure of ], not ], a ] acre would be a 6-]al space of 247,961,850,048,000 feet to the sixth power.<ref>, James Taranto, '']'', 8 June 2005. Retrieved 4 April 2010.</ref> A series of blueprints created for the Scrooge McDuck story '']'' by ] state that the money bin is approximately {{convert|127|ft|m}} tall, and {{convert|120|ft|m}} wide. In the story, said blueprints are accredited to an architect named Keno D. Rosa (which is Don Rosa's actual name). | |||
| The Norwegian name for the Money Bin is "Pengebingen", and has become regular word in the Norwegian language for a large amount of money or cash.<ref> ("Our time's adventure") nrk.no May 6, 2003 {{no icon}}</ref> | |||
| Russell W. Belk mentions the money bin in ''Material Values in the Comics: A Content Analysis of Comic Books Featuring Themes of Wealth'', where he remarks that Scrooge's "childish fascination with money", where he takes pleasure in diving and swimming in the money bin, might account for Scrooge not being portrayed as a villain.<ref>The Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 14, No. 1. (Jun., 1987), pp. 26-42.</ref> Penelope Fritzer in the article ''Scrooge McDuck: Postmodern Robber Baron'' considers it possible for the money bin to symbolize the entire Disney empire.<ref>The Journal for the Liberal Art and Sciences, Scrooge McDuck: Postmodern Robber Baron, Penelope Fritzer, Florida Atlantic University</ref> | |||
| ===Glomgold's bin=== | |||
| ] also owns a money bin, located near ] Valley. Glomgold's bin substitutes the dollar sign (]) that appears on Scrooge's with a pound sign (]).<ref name='SRD'>] comic by Carl Barks, February 2, 1956</ref> This is due to Glomgold's heritage which puts him in as a citizen of ] with British blood compared to Scrooge who embraced America despite his pure Scottish blood. It has been said that Glomgold's bin is protected by the native African wildlife. | |||
| ==Number one dime== | |||
| The Number one dime is the first ] that ] ever earned (or, according to some stories, produced). The Number One Dime first appeared in the story titled "''The Round Money Bin''", created by ] and first published in '']'' #3 (September, 1953).<ref name='US3'>{{cite book | last1 = Barks | first1 = Carl | authorlink1 = Carl Barks | title = Uncle Scrooge #3 | publisher = Walt Disney Company | date = September, 1953 | accessdate = 2011-04-11}}</ref> In this story, the dime is so old that it has become thin as a razor blade and allows Scrooge to cut binding ropes and escape from the Beagle Boys. In later stories, it is insinuated that the dime brings good luck to Scrooge and has helped him become a rich man, and in some stories he instantly starts losing money whenever the dime is no longer in his possession. It is never made clear whether the dime actually brings good luck or if Scrooge merely believes in it so much that he is distressed and makes bad decisions whenever he no longer has the dime. Since Barks never actually said that it was because of the coin that Scrooge was the richest duck in the world, Don Rosa, after various informations exchange with Barks, for a faithful production of Life and Times Of Scrooge McDuck, clarified that The Number One Dime is not actually an amulet, and that this vision was just a myth. The Number One Dime is just a sentimental object that happens to be the first coin Scrooge received for his work. Rosa made clear, also, that Scrooge made his fortune working hard and being honest.<ref name='NOD'>{{cite web | url = http://duckman.pettho.com/characters/dime.html | title = The number one dime | accessdate = 2011-04-11 | last = Grøsfjeld jr. | first = Sigvald | work = The D.U.C.K.man}}</ref> This point is heavily reinforced in the ] TV Series where Scrooge basically tells his nephews about the value of hard earned cash. | |||
| The dime is a key plot point in practically every story featuring ], a character invented by Carl Barks, as the main villain. Magica believes that by stealing the first coin earned by the richest person in the world and melting it down to a magical ], she can gain the power of the ancient ], so that everything she touches becomes ] and she can be rich beyond her wildest dreams. The fact that this will only work if the coin indeed belongs to the richest person in the world at the time, and is the first coin that person earned, is crucial, and is made into a plot point in some stories. | |||
| According to a comic story by ],<ref> p. 5</ref> it is an 1875 ] ], but in a comic story written by ] and ] and drawn by ],<ref>See Kalle Anka & C:o issue 1-2/2010 p. 66-69.</ref> the last two digits have been swapped, making it an 1857 Seated Liberty dime. | |||
| Scrooge earned the dime in 1877 in his hometown of ], when he started working as a shoeshine boy on his tenth birthday.<ref name= "LTSM">'']'' by Don Rosa</ref> Before that it belonged to ] (the father of ]). The customer who paid it to him, a ditch-digger called Burt, "cheated" Scrooge (] were discontinued in 1891). In reality, Scrooge's father, ], gave Burt the dime specifically for paying Scrooge for his services. Scrooge McDuck never learned that fact, although Fergus did reveal it to Scrooge's sisters Matilda and Hortense. Burt and Magica De Spell, who learned about this when she traveled in time to the day Scrooge earned the Dime, are the only other ones who know. McDuck kept it as a reminder not to be fooled again in the future. When he emigrated to the ] three years later, he carried it with him. Scrooge still has the dime and keeps it on a pillow under glass because it is very special to him. ], ], and ] among many others think it is really a lucky charm, but Scrooge himself maintains it has only sentimental value.<ref name='NOD' /> | |||
| ==Characters== | |||
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| ==The Junior Woodchucks== | |||
| {{main|Junior Woodchucks}} | |||
| The Junior Woodchucks are the ] organization to which ] belong. They have a uniform with a ]. The Junior Woodchucks were created by ] in 1951, in the story "Operation St. Bernhard" ('']'' #125). Later stories introduced a similar organization for girls, ], to which ]'s nieces, ] belong. A hallmark of the Woodchucks are exalted titles and ranks (Huey, Dewey, and Louie being promoted to become ''Ten Star Generals'' in the 1952 story of that name) and the awarding of buckets of badges, along with severe ideals as to decorum. In this way Barks poked gentle but pointed satire at aspects of the Boy Scouts. | |||
| ==Brutopia== | |||
| '''Brutopia''' (a portmanteau word from ''brute'' and ''Utopia'') is a ] appearing in several ] stories. It was created by ] in 1957. Brutopia is a hostile country, aiming for world domination. It is clearly a ] of the ]. In the Duck universe, Brutopia occasionally attempts to steal Scrooge's money so as to devastate the American economy, and to fund the creation of doomsday weaponry. The ] of Brutopia is the ]. Its coat of arms is the hammer and handcuffs. | |||
| Whether Brutopia is a stand-in for all of the former USSR, or just for part of it, varies with the story. Sometimes parallels to Russia are drawn directly. Don Rosa has suggested that Brutopia might instead represent the eastern part of ]. | |||
| The language of Brutopia often looks somewhat ]. On some occasions it is written in ] script. On the other hand, Brutopians seem to speak perfect, non-accented English; and other stories show English language texts being used by Brutopians, suggesting that the national language could be English. | |||
| In 1957, Brutopia's military spending budget amounted to one trillion dollars plus all the kitchen sinks of its happy people (a number that on closer inspection turned out to be five). ] outbid the Brutopian government by paying one trillion dollars and six kitchen sinks for a sample of the recently discovered substance of ]. | |||
| According to Disney stories written and drawn in the post-Barks period, the capital of Brutopia is Brutengrad. The country is no longer a dictatorship, as the former regime was overthrown by a popular revolt, and the ] forced to flee. | |||
| ===In modern usage=== | |||
| The Australian centre-left then ], ], used the term to criticize the economic policies of the ], notably in an essay in the November 2006 issue of ] magazine entitled "Howard's Brutopia: The Battle of Ideas in Australian Politics".<ref></ref> According to Rudd, a "brutopia" is a place of "unchecked market forces", incompatible with both "fairness" and "the so-called conservative institutions of family, community, church and country". Rudd argues that Australia is becoming such a place due to the Howard Government's "]". For example, he claims that as a result of the Government's ], "Breadwinners are now at risk of working less predictable shifts, spread over a seven-day week, not sensitive to weekends and possibly for less take-home pay. The pressures on relationships, parenting and the cost and quality of childcare are without precedent... Neo-liberalism's core philosophical dilemma is that it has no answer to the relentless march of market fundamentalism into the sanctum of the family itself. The Christian churches should be concerned about where this march ultimately ends." In the essay, Rudd writes that the term "brutopia" was borrowed from British conservative ]. | |||
| The then Australian ], ], ridiculed Rudd's use of the term on 8 February 2007 in the ]: "We have unemployment at 4.5 per cent. We have had 300,000 new jobs in the last year and we have had 2 million new jobs over the last 10 years. The Leader of the Opposition says that all of this represents free market fundamentalism, and he describes this economy as Howard's Brutopia... There has been some speculation as to what a Brutopia is. I can now authoritatively inform the House that Brutopia is a fictional country which appears in several Donald Duck stories... Labor drawing inspiration for its economic analysis from a Donald Duck magazine, ]! This is the evolutionary cycle of the Labor Party. We have now moved from ]'s roosters to Kevin Rudd's ducks, Mr Speaker. Managing the Australian economy, which is a $1 trillion economy, takes experience and commitment—and you do not get your analysis from Donald Duck comics. It is much more serious than that."<ref></ref><ref>{{dead link|date=October 2010}}</ref> | |||
| ==Bombastium== | |||
| Bombastium is a ].<ref name='BB'>''Uncle Scrooge No. 17'' by ]</ref> Its ] and atomic symbol are unknown. Bombastium is stated to be the rarest element in the world. Even though it is very coveted, its usage potential is not entirely known. One characteristic is that it tastes different every time you try it, and scientists eventually discovered that one atom of bombastium dropped into a barrel of water becomes one barrel of ] - a different flavor of ice cream each time. To avoid evaporation, bombastium must be kept frozen. | |||
| The last piece of bombastium known to exist (about the size of a ]) was acquired by ] of ] in 1957, but at that time it was also heavily sought after by the hostile nation of ]. Brutopia's military spending budget that year amounted to one trillion dollars plus all the kitchen sinks of its happy people. ] therefore had to pay one trillion dollars plus six kitchen sinks to win the auction. | |||
| The element was also used for the 5-part '']'' episode '']'', which introduced ]. In this cartoon episode, bombastium is the fuel for one of ]'s inventions, a ]ing ] named the Millennium Shortcut. The bombastium itself must be kept frozen in order for it to be usable as fuel (a small ] is equipped on board the Shortcut for this purpose). Otherwise, the Shortcut could not travel through time. | |||
| One of the treasures that can be obtained in the computer game '']'' is bombastium. Unlike the other treasures, bombastium is worth more than just money, as Gyro Gearloose can use it to build a matter transporter which takes away the risk of flying from place to place while having the possible downside of sending the player to a location they hadn't intended to go. | |||
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