Editing Scrooge McDuck (section)

== In popular culture ==

=== Cultural impact ===
''[[Forbes]]'' magazine routinely lists Scrooge McDuck on its annual "[[Forbes Fictional 15|Fictional 15]]" list of the richest fictional characters by net worth:
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* 2002: #4 with $8.2 billion<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.forbes.com/2002/09/13/400fictional_5.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021017014911/http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/13/400fictional_5.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 17, 2002 | title=The Forbes Fictional Fifteen, 2002 |last= Noer | first=Michael; and Dan Ackman|date=September 13, 2002 | work=Forbes}}</ref>
* 2005: #6 with $8.2 billion<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/fictional/06.html | title=The Forbes Fictional Fifteen, 2005 |last= Herper | first=Matthew|date=November 20, 2005 | work=Forbes}}</ref>
* 2006: #3 with $10.9 billion<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.forbes.com/2006/11/20/scrooge-mcduck-money-tech-media_cx_mn_06fict15_duck.html | title=The Forbes Fictional Fifteen, 2006 |last= Noer| first=Michael|date=November 20, 2006 | work=Forbes}}</ref>
* 2007: #1 with $28.8 billion ([[Pound sterling|£]]17.6 billion)<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.forbes.com/2007/12/11/scrooge-mcduck-money-oped-books-cx_mh_fict1507_1211scrooge.html | title=The Forbes Fictional Fifteen, 2007 | last=Herper | first=Matthew |date=December 11, 2007 | work=Forbes}}</ref>
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* 2008: #2 with $29.1 billion<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.forbes.com/2008/12/18/scrooge-mcduck-money-oped-fictional1508-cx_de_1218scrooge.html | work=Forbes | first=David M. | last=Ewalt | title=No. 2 McDuck, Scrooge | date=December 18, 2008}}</ref>
* 2010: #2 with $33.5 billion<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.forbes.com/2010/04/13/scrooge-mcduck-bio-opinions-fictional-15-10-scrooge.html | work=Forbes | first=Matthew | last=Herper | title=No. 2 McDuck, Scrooge | date=April 14, 2010}}</ref>
* 2011: #1 with $44.1 billion<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/fictional15/2011/profile/scrooge-mcduck.html | title=The Forbes Fictional Fifteen, 2011 | work=Forbes}}</ref>
* 2013: #1 with $65.4 billion<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlg45edmmd/1-scrooge-mcduck/ | title=The Forbes Fictional Fifteen, 2013 | work=Forbes | first=David M. | last=Ewalt}}</ref>
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In 1972, Grupo Ronda S.A acquired the license to use the character among other Disney characters for their board game ''Tío Rico Mc. Pato.'' As of today, it is one of the most popular board games in Colombia and the direct competitor of ''[[Monopoly (game)|Monopoly]]'' in the region.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ronda.com.co/?s=tio+rico|title=tio rico – Resultados de la búsqueda – Ronda S.A|website=www.ronda.com.co}}</ref>

In tribute to its famous native, Glasgow City Council added Scrooge to its list of "Famous Glaswegians" in 2007, alongside the likes of [[Billy Connolly]] and [[Charles Rennie Mackintosh]].<ref name=glasweg>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7022173.stm|title=Glasgow claims McDuck as its own|publisher=BBC|date=October 1, 2007|access-date=2007-10-02}}</ref>

In 2008 ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'' parodied the bailout of the financial markets by publishing a memo where Scrooge applies to the [[Troubled Assets Relief Program|TARP]] program.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/853tzmct.asp | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218172226/http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/853tzmct.asp | url-status=dead | archive-date=December 18, 2008 | title=Scrooge McDuck writes to the Treasury: A parody |work=[[The Weekly Standard]]}}</ref>

An [[extortion]]ist named [[Arno Funke]] targeted German department store chain [[Karstadt]] from 1992 until his capture in 1994, under the alias "Dagobert", the German (first) name for Scrooge McDuck.<ref>{{cite book|last=Schroeder|first=Andreas|title=Fakes, Frauds, And Flimflammery|year=1999|isbn=0-7710-7954-0|pages=[https://archive.org/details/fakesfraudsflimf0000schr/page/213 213–258]|chapter=Extortion by Remote Control|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/fakesfraudsflimf0000schr/page/213}}</ref>

In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "[[Lottery Fever]]", Peter injures himself trying to dive into a pile of coins like Scrooge McDuck.

In the 2013 episode of ''[[Breaking Bad]]'', "[[Buried (Breaking Bad)|Buried]]", [[Saul Goodman]] associate [[Patrick Kuby]] remarks to fellow associate [[Huell Babineaux]] "we are here to do a job, not channel Scrooge McDuck" when Huell lies down on [[Walter White (Breaking Bad)|Walter White]]'s pile of cash stored in a storage facility locker.

In the ''[[Clarence (American TV series)|Clarence]]'' episode "Clarence's Millions", Clarence dreams that he swims in money like Scrooge McDuck only on a pile of bills instead of coins until a money monster chases him.

''Dagobertducktaks'' ("Dagobert Duck" is the Dutch name for Scrooge McDuck), a tax for the wealthy, was elected Dutch word of the year 2014 in a poll by [[Van Dale]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-LHNtqjxjo Hét officiële Van Dale Woord van het Jaar 2014 – Nederland], [[Van Dale]], announcement on YouTube, December 15, 2014</ref><ref>[http://www.nu.nl/boek/3954174/dagobertducktaks-verkozen-woord-van-jaar-2014.html Dagobertducktaks verkozen tot Woord van het jaar 2014], [[NU.nl]], December 16, 2014</ref>

In August 2017, the YouTube channel [[The Film Theorists|''Film Theory'']], hosted by [[MatPat|Matthew "MatPat" Patrick]], estimated the worth of the gold coins in the money bin of Scrooge McDuck based on four sources, with the lowest source equaling $52,348,493,767.50 and the highest source ("three cubic acres") equaling $333,927,633,863,527.10 of gold value.<ref>The Film Theorists: ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-hQf-F3hyU Film Theory: Scrooge McDuck's Net Worth SOLVED! (Disney's DuckTales)]''. Youtube, 8 August 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2017</ref>

=== Scrooge McDuck Universe ===
{{Main|Donald Duck universe}}
The popularity of Scrooge McDuck comics spawned an entire mythology around the character, including new supporting characters, adventures, and life experiences as told by numerous authors. The popularity of the [[Duck universe]] – the fandom term for the associated intellectual properties that have developed from Scrooge's stories over the years, including the city of [[Duckburg]] – has led Don Rosa to claim that "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."

In addition to the many [[List of characters from the Scrooge McDuck universe|original and existing characters]] in stories about Scrooge McDuck, authors have frequently led historical figures to meet Scrooge over the course of his life. Most notably, Scrooge has met US president [[Theodore Roosevelt]]. Roosevelt and Scrooge would meet each other at least three times: in the Dakotas in 1883, in Duckburg in 1902, and in Panama in 1906. ''See [[List of characters from the Scrooge McDuck universe#Historical figures|Historical Figures in Scrooge McDuck stories]]''.

Based on writer [[Don Rosa]]'s ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'', a popular timeline chronicling Scrooge's adventures was created consisting of the most important "facts" about Scrooge's life. ''See [[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck#Scrooge McDuck timeline according to Rosa|Scrooge McDuck timeline according to Don Rosa]]''.{{Citation needed|date=November 2017}}

In 2014, composer [[Tuomas Holopainen]] of [[Nightwish]] released a conceptual album based on the book, ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]''. The album is titled ''[[Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge]]''. [[Don Rosa]] illustrated the cover artwork for the album.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://comicsalliance.com/don-rosa-tuomas-holopainen-nightwish-the-life-and-times-of-scrooge-album-art/|title=Don Rosa Draws For A Finnish Rock Album About Scrooge McDuck|website=ComicsAlliance|date=February 26, 2014 |access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref>

=== In other media ===
Although first established as a character in the comic books, Scrooge has also appeared in various other mediums. [[Carl Barks]] created an earlier film prototype of Scrooge while working as the lead story man ([[Screenwriter|writer]]/[[Storyboard artist|designer]]) of the early ''Donald Duck'' cartoons. The prototype was featured in the animated short, ''[[The Spirit of '43]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168184/ | title=The Spirit of '43 | website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>

Scrooge's voice was first heard on the 1960 record album ''Donald Duck and His Friends;'' [[Dal McKennon]] voiced the character for this appearance. It took the form of a short dramatization called "Uncle Scrooge's Rocket to the Moon", a story of how Scrooge builds a rocket to send all his money to the moon to protect it from the Beagle Boys.<ref name="cartoonresearch1">{{cite web|url=http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/mickeys-christmas-carol/|title="Mickey's Christmas Carol" -|website=cartoonresearch.com}}</ref> In 1961 this story was reissued as a 45rpm single record entitled "Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge's Money Rocket."

Initially, Scrooge was to make his animated debut in the Donald Duck theatrical cartoons. Late in 1954, Carl Barks was asked by the Disney Studios if he would be free to write a script for a Scrooge McDuck 7-minute animated cartoon.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cbarks.dk/theshelvedcartoonapproach.htm|title=Theshelvedcartoonapproach}}</ref> Scrooge was a huge success in the comic books at the time, and Disney now wanted to introduce the miserly duck to theater audiences as well. Barks supplied the studios with a detailed 9-page script, telling the story of the happy-go-lucky Donald Duck working for the troubled Scrooge who tries to save his money from a hungry rat.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cbarks.dk/theshelvedcartoonsynopsis.htm|title=Theshelvedcartoonsynopsis}}</ref> Barks also sent number of sketches of his ideas for the short, including a money-sorting machine, which Barks had already used on the cover of one of the Uncle Scrooge issues.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cbarks.dk/theshelvedcartoonsketches.htm|title=Theshelvedcartoonsketches}}</ref> The script was never used as Disney soon after decided to concentrate on TV shows instead.

Scrooge's first appearance in animated form (save for a brief ''[[Mickey Mouse Club]]'' television series cameo<ref>{{cite web|url=https://comics.ha.com/itm/animation-art/production-cel/mickey-mouse-club-opening-sequence-production-cel-walt-disney-1955-/a/7196-95038.s|title=Mickey Mouse Club Opening Sequence Production Cel|date=December 8–9, 2018|access-date=June 1, 2020}}</ref>) was in Disney's 1967 theatrical short ''[[Scrooge McDuck and Money]]'' (voiced by [[Bill Thompson (voice actor)|Bill Thompson]]), in which he teaches his nephews basic financial tips.<ref>Berg, Bill (writer) & Hamilton, Luske (director). ''[[Scrooge McDuck and Money]]'', [[Walt Disney Pictures|Walt Disney Studios]]. March 23, 1967.</ref>

In 1974, [[Disneyland Records]] released an adaptation of the [[Charles Dickens]]' ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''. Eight years later, [[Walt Disney Pictures]] produced a [[featurette]] of this same story, this time dubbed ''[[Mickey's Christmas Carol]]'' (1983). He also appeared as himself in the television special ''[[Sport Goofy in Soccermania]]'' (1987).

Scrooge's biggest role outside comics would come in the 1987 [[animated series]] ''[[DuckTales (1987 TV series)|DuckTales]]'', a series loosely based on Carl Barks's comics, and where [[Alan Young]] returned to voice him. In this series, premiered over two-hours on September 18, 1987, while the regular episodes began three days later, Scrooge becomes the legal guardian of Huey, Dewey and Louie when Donald joins the [[United States Navy]]. Scrooge's ''DuckTales'' persona is considerably mellow compared to most previous appearances; his aggression is played down and his often duplicitous personality is reduced in many episodes to that of a curmudgeonly but well-meaning old uncle. Still, there are flashes of Barks' Scrooge to be seen, particularly in early episodes of the first season. Scrooge also appeared in ''[[DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp]]'', released during the series' run. He was mentioned in the ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' episode "Tiff of the Titans", but never really seen, apart from on a billboard in Duckburg, in the aforementioned episode.

He has appeared in some episodes of ''[[Raw Toonage]]'', two shorts of ''[[Mickey Mouse Works]]'' and some episodes (specially "House of Scrooge") of ''[[House of Mouse]]'', as well as the [[direct-to-video]] films ''[[Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas]]'' and ''[[Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas]]''. His video game appearances include the three ''DuckTales'' releases (''[[DuckTales (video game)|DuckTales]]'', ''[[DuckTales 2]]'', and ''[[DuckTales: The Quest for Gold]]''), and in ''[[Toontown Online]]'' as the accidental creator of the Cogs. Additionally, he is a secret playable character in 2008 quiz game, ''[[Disney TH!NK Fast]]''. In the 2012 [[Nintendo 3DS]] game ''[[Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion]]'', he is one of the first characters Mickey rescues, running a shop in the fortress selling upgrades and serving as a Sketch summon in which he uses his cane pogostick from the ''DuckTales'' NES games.

Scrooge also makes sporadic appearances in Disney's and [[Square Enix]]'s ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series, helping Mickey Mouse establish a world transit system to expand his business empire to other worlds. He first appears in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'' as a minor non-playable character in Hollow Bastion, where he is trying to recreate his favorite ice cream flavor – sea-salt.<ref>[[Kazushige Nojima|Nojima, Kazushige]] (writer), [[Tetsuya Nomura|Nomura, Tetsuya]] (writer/director), Oka, Masaru (writer), Sakemi, Harunori (writer) & Watanabe, Daisuke (writer). ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'', [[Square Enix]] and [[Buena Vista Games]]. March 28, 2006.</ref> Scrooge later appears in the prequel ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep]]'', this time with a speaking role. He works on establishing an ice-cream business in Radiant Garden and gives [[Ventus (Kingdom Hearts)|Ventus]] three passes to the Dream Festival in Disney Town. Scrooge returns in ''[[Kingdom Hearts III]]'', now managing a bistro in Twilight Town with the help of Remy from ''[[Ratatouille (film)|Ratatouille]]''. Alan Young reprises the role in the English version of ''Birth by Sleep'', while [[Enn Reitel]] voices the character in ''III''.

Scrooge has appeared in the [[Boom! Studios]] ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' comic, playing a key role at the end of its initial story, "The Duck Knight Returns". Later he would also play a key role on the final story arc "[[Dangerous Currency]]", where he teams up with Darkwing Duck in order to stop the [[Phantom Blot]] and [[Magica De Spell]] from taking over St. Canard and Duckburg.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}

In 2015, Scrooge was seen in the ''[[Mickey Mouse (TV series)|Mickey Mouse]]'' short "Goofy's First Love", where Mickey and Donald are trying to help Goofy find his love. Donald suggests money, and they head over to Scrooge's mansion where Donald tells his uncle that Goofy needs a million dollars. Scrooge then has his butler kick them out. When Goofy is inadvertently launched from a treadmill and catapulted off another building, he lands in Scrooge's mansion. The butler kicks Goofy out and the process repeats itself but this time Mickey and Donald are catapulted as well and kicked out by the butler. Scrooge is seen at the end attending Goofy's wedding with a sandwich. In the 2016 ''Mickey Mouse'' Christmas special, "Duck the Halls", after Young's death, [[John Kassir]] took over voicing Scrooge McDuck, however he later [[Twitter|tweeted]] that he would not be reprising his role in the reboot. Kassir continues to voice the character in subsequent appearances in this series. Scrooge makes a cameo appearance in the ''[[Legend of the Three Caballeros]]'' episode "Shangri-La-Di-Da".

Scrooge also has a cameo appearance with his outfit from ''Mickey's Christmas Carol'' in the 2023 short film ''[[Once Upon a Studio]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Reif |first1=Alex |title=Disney's "Once Upon a Studio" – List of Characters in Order of Appearance |url=https://www.laughingplace.com/w/disney-entertainment/disneys-once-upon-a-studio-list-of-characters-in-order-of-appearance/ |website=Laughing Place |date=October 16, 2023}}</ref>