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Named after the character Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens' 1843 holiday novella A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is an incredibly rich business magnate and self-proclaimed "adventure-capitalist", whose dominant character traits are his wealth, frugality, and tendency to seek more money through adventure and treasure hunting. Scrooge founded the ...
On Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge (Scrooge McDuck), a greedy and lonely moneylender of Victorian era London, resents the merriment of Christmas; he refuses to give money to a panhandler outside his counting house, declines his nephew Fred's (Donald Duck) invitation to Christmas dinner, and dismisses two gentlemen (Rat and Mole) fundraising aid for the poor.
Ebenezer Scrooge (/ ˌ ɛ b ɪ ˈ n iː z ər ˈ s k r uː dʒ /) is a fictional character and the protagonist of Charles Dickens's 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol.Initially a cold-hearted miser who despises Christmas, his redemption by visits from the ghost of Jacob Marley, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come has become a defining ...
Uncle Scrooge is one of the core titles of the "Duck universe". Its early issues by famed writer/artist (and creator of Scrooge McDuck) Carl Barks formed the inspiration for the syndicated television cartoon DuckTales in the late 1980s. Several stories written by Barks and published in Uncle Scrooge were adapted as episodes of DuckTales.
Instead, Ebenezer has the mindset that Christmas is a sham for opportunists to take money from him in the name of the holiday. Therefore, he refers to it all as "humbug," only later to understand ...
He's then almost run over by Daffy Duck's (in an Ebenezer Scrooge-like role) gas-guzzling SUV. Daffy is the owner of the Lucky Duck Superstore (a Costco-esque megastore). True to his Scrooge-like role, he treats his employees (played by other Looney Tunes characters) like they're garbage.
Paul Carlin, right, as Ebenezer Scrooge and Curt Denham as The Ghost of Christmas Present in "A Christmas Carol" at The Maltz Jupiter Theatre in Jupiter, Florida, earlier this month. Carlin, who ...
Scrooge first met the modern third-generation Beagle Boys during Christmas 1947, which was when he first met his three grandnephews, along with his nephew Donald Duck for the second time. [10] Since then, the Beagle Boys have been a constant threat to Scrooge's Money Bin. Grandpa Beagle from "The Money Well" (1958).