Editing Scrooge McDuck (section)

=== 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>