| “ | Ah, phooey!! | „ |
| ~ Donald's catchphrase |
Donald Fauntleroy Duck is one of the tritagonists of the Mickey Mouse franchise.
He is a short-tempered, impatient, white anthropomorphic duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. Donald usually chooses riches over friends until someone talks him out of it. Donald can realize he does not have the best luck.
Due to Donald's jealousy towards Mickey's popularity, it can make him heinous. Since Donald can be loud, rude, and selfish, his temper has landed him in many tight spots with Daisy in their relationship.
He was voiced by the late Clarence Nash from 1934 to 1985, and Tony Anselmo from 1985 to onwards.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- In "Mickey's Amateurs", he pulls out a machine gun and fires at everybody at an amateur concert.
- In "Donald's Penguin", he nearly kills his baby penguin with a shotgun after the penguin ate Donald's pet fishes almost crossing the Moral Event Horizon.
- In several cartoons, he picks on and bullies others (including his friends and small creatures) for his own amusement.
- In "Trick or Treat", when his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie visit his house for Halloween, Donald intentionally puts live firecrackers, instead of candy, in his nephews bags as a "treat." After the firecrackers explode, destroying their candy, Donald then pours a bucket of water on his nephews as a trick, then laughs and closes the door on the boys.
- In "Donald's Crime", he steals Huey, Dewey, and Louie's piggy bank, breaks it, and takes $1.25 to go on a date with Daisy.
- In "Cured Duck", after struggling to open Daisy's window, he throws a massive tantrum and wrecks Daisy's house, which leads to Daisy kicking him out until he controls his temper, after he learns to control his temper, he keeps calm when he tries to open it again, then he laughs at Daisy's new hat which leads to Daisy losing her temper in the end, repeatedly hitting Donald with her broom.
- In "Golden Eggs", he breaks into a nearby hen-house and steals as many eggs as possible, putting them in a huge basket. When a rooster notices him, he disguises himself as a hen, and the rooster falls for him and dances with him. Afterwards, Donald walks off with the eggs, but then trips into the basket.
- In "Wet Paint", he tries to kill the mother bird with an axe who keeps ruining his paint job on his car.
- He sometimes torments Chip and Dale despite never being provoked.
- In "Bee at the Beach", he remorselessly ruins Spike's activities at the beach, taunting him, and then temporarily keeping him captive in a soda bottle.
- In "Chef Donald", he violently attacks Old Mother Mallard as an act of "revenge".
- In "Magician Mickey", he comes off as a stubborn bully who tries to crash Mickey's magic act in several ways, until he steals Mickey's gun and shoots it at him, destroying the stage.
- In "Dragon Around", Donald tries to remove Chip and Dale's tree, so Chip and Dale become knights in armor to fight back. Donald mounts a welding torch in the digger's shovel so that it can breathe fire like a dragon and then activates it which burns Chip and Dale's sword, scaring them away. After, Chip and Dale are grabbed and eaten by the digger controlled by Donald. Eventually, Chip and Dale manage to escape and foil Donald's plans, so the raging duck sets explosives around the tree and runs off, but this backfires as Chip and Dale extinguish the explosives and use them against Donald, sending him into the air.
- There is an entire compilation involving Donald Duck and Spike the Bee, in which Donald tries various schemes to get Spike's sweet supply.
- In "Donald's Golf Game", he throws his club at Huey, Dewey, and Louie in a attempt to kill them.
- In "Let's Stick Together", he attempts to kill Spike's girlfriend with a flyswatter.
- In "Soup's On", he sends Huey, Dewey, and Louie to bed so they can starve and at the end of the cartoon, he turns into a literal devil and chases the boys through the woods.
- In "Donald's Happy Birthday", he cruelly forced his nephews to smoke an entire box of cigars (that was a birthday gift for him) and made them pass out.
- In "Dumb Bell of the Yukon", he captures a baby bear and then thinks of the ways he could kill the bear. Donald tries to hang the bear to death with no success. The mama bear notices her baby is gone, she follows Donald's footprints to his house. Donald disguises himself as the baby bear, but the mama bear squeezes so tight, that his costume comes off. Donald attempts to trick the bear, but the baby bear foils Donald's plans and Donald is defeated, while the mama bear and baby bear lick honey off his head.
- In "Grand Canyonscope", he behaves irresponsibly at the Grand Canyon National Park. Such irresponsibilities include attempting to drop a rock at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, attempting to bother a Native American elder by taking a picture of him before scooping sand, taking a rain dance costume before wearing it, yelling at the canyons, asking the ranger to take a picture of him, he instead took a picture of Donald's burro, blinding him temporarily before the latter lets go of Donald, and getting into a chase with Louie the Mountain Lion, destroying the Grand Canyon entirely.
- In "How to Have an Accident at Work", he behaves irresponsibly in the workplace. Such irresponsibilities include using the wrong work gear, smoking (even if there's a big "No Smoking" sign right in front of him), and putting dinner in a dangerous place. He has run-ins with a punch press, flammable paint, a conveyor belt, loose clothing, a monkey wrench, and other problems.
- In "Donald's Snow Fight", he crashes his sled into Huey, Dewey, and Louie's snowman, humiliates them, and after getting into a huge war with them, tries to exterminate them.
- In "Fun and Fancy Free", he has a breakdown and started chomping on plates and forks and spoons and grabbed an axe to kill Mickey's cow for food after having been starving for an extended period of time.
- In "Out on a Limb", he tortures Chip and Dale by tormenting them with his leaf cutter throughout the cartoon which leads to his defeat at the end where he gets electrocuted and get splattered with tar by Dale.
- In "Reginella's Wedding", Donald shows up with a shotgun and many salt shells and then he single-handedly inflicts a Mook Horror Show on an entire middle ages-equipped army, and while he doesn't kill them, they are horribly beaten, and so terrified they melt their weapons into agricultural tools when Donald orders them and threatens to wreck everything they still have of healthy if they don't.
- In the comic "Hook, Line and Succor!", Donald threw a fish at Goofy and put an anchor on his leg so he would not swim up leaving him to sink after being hit with a fish.
- In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, he shot a cannon at Daffy Duck when they were competing against each other in a piano duel for insulting him.
- In "Donald's Rocket Ruckus", he intentionally made the rocket Huey, Dewey, and Louie were riding on go extremely fast in an attempt to make them dizzy, and almost killed them, although he did try to save them later on.
- In the attraction “Mickey's PhilharMagic”, he steals Mickey’s Sorcerer’s hat, disobeying Mickey’s orders. It causes the instruments to play uncoordinated. Donald orders then to stop, but a tiny flute keeps going to mess with Donald. Donald bullies the tiny flute in response, angering the other instruments who go after Donald, creating a giant storm of magic in which the hat gets lost in. Donald travels to the worlds of multiple Disney movies to try and retrieve it.
- In "The Nutcracker", he portrays the villainous mouse king and kidnaps Minnie to make her his queen.
- He has committed vile acts out of jealousy purely because of Mickey. In The Mickey Mouse Club, it was revealed Donald was always jealous of Mickey and wanted the spotlight.
- In "Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas", he destroys Mousey's Christmas display in a fit of rage, after hearing the Christmas Carols from everywhere, and gets disowned by Daisy and his nephews.
- In "Donald's Applecore", he uses deadly atomic mixture and atomic pills to kill Chip and Dale, not caring about all of the other the lives he could've killed and also not caring about the damage he caused.
- In "The Really Mighty Ducks", Huey, Dewey, and Louie refuse to clean their room, so Donald gets enraged and uses one of Ludwig Von Drake's machines to turn into a supervillain called "Duck of Doom", in which he destroys Earth, killing everyone who lived there and he also tampers with the rings of Saturn, using it to destroy more planets and the whole universe.
- In "Big Bad Wolf Daddy", he hires the Big Bad Wolf to perform on stage which wrecks the House of Mouse club in the process.
- In "Timon & Pumbaa", he attempts to change the House of Mouse to House of Duck.
- In "Donald's Lamp Trade", he attempts to get revenge on Mickey for calling him "a ham" by bringing Jafar Genie’s lamp.
- In "Donald's Pumbaa Prank", he attempts to stink up the club (encouraged by Pete) by using Pumbaa to fart through the air conditioner.
- In "Everybody Loves Mickey", he is offended that everybody loves Mickey more than him. So he becomes disappointed and reproaches Mickey for a mistake to be loved by everyone and attempts to ruin to him and everyone (encouraged by Mortimer).
- In "Dennis the Duck", he grows a hatred towards Black and White characters and Dennis the Duck (who is his biggest fan) and outright tells him he doesn't think he's funny which makes Dennis try to commit suicide by erasing himself.
- In "Donald's Halloween Scare", he terrorizes anybody who comes to his door and steals all of their stuff. He also seemingly scared Huey, Dewey, and Louie to their death.
- In "No Service", he cheats his way to victory when he and Mickey drew straws and laughed at Mickey when he was naked while Donald was getting lunch for their girlfriends which lead to his comeuppance when he unintentionally showed Mickey's ID instead of his and gets kicked out of Goofy's restaurant with his clothes coming off and gets humiliated in the end.
- In "Tapped Out", he selfishly refused to help Mickey win a wrestling match against Pete and gleefully watches him and Goofy get hurt. While he is the one who beats Pete in the end, it's only because he touched his food and not because he was attacking his friends.
- In "Down the Hatch", he tries to kill Mickey and Goofy when they got shrunken to miniature sizes and trapped in Donald's body.
- In "Feed the Birds", he joins and parties with the crude pigeons that had beat up Mickey and Tuppence and kicked them out of their house.
- In "Bronco Busted", he selfishly abandons Mickey and Goofy in exchange for being treated like a king by the millionaire in the end. It's also worth noting that he's also abandoning his girlfriend, Daisy, in the process, something that the two take notice of.
- In "Roughin' It", he rudely brings his RV in the woods despite Mickey wanting to camp the old fashioned way. During the day, he and Goofy constantly ruin Mickey's camping activities, which usually resulted in him getting hurt in one way or another. When Mickey justifiably gets fed up and tries shutting down the power to the RV, Donald aggressively confronts him by shoving him away and screaming at him even though he never did anything to warrant such behavior. He also hypocritically accuses him of ruining the trip when it was the other way around.
- In "Turkish Delights", he and Goofy were against Mickey's sales of Turkish Delights simply because he was unintentionally stealing customers from them. Because of this, the two spend the entire episode trying to get rid of him.
- In "Game Night", he initially contemplated letting Mickey fall to his death so that he could be the extreme Game Night's winner and be worshipped by everyone, including Walt Disney himself. While he does ultimately help Mickey up and sacrifice himself to a horde of pies coming their way so he could win, he aggressively slams a pie in the mouse's face himself when he asks their friends if they wanted to play the game again.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He has many comedic moments, hardly ever wins, and is almost never taken seriously, preventing him from being NPE or PE.
- He's is On & Off since he's often a hero for most of the time.
- He often feels remorse for his actions.
- He has people he genuinely cares about like his nephews (though he gets irritated by them) and his girlfriend, Daisy Duck. Furthermore despite his jealousy of Mickey's popularity, he does genuinely view him as his best friend.
- He could be considered a scapegoat since he suffers unprovoked abuse on many occasions (he even has a theme song that highlights the fact Donald has a lot of bad luck and would often be thrown to mishaps), especially in the 2013 Mickey Mouse series.
- While creating the show Legend of Three Caballeros, Disney was hesitant about Matt Danner’s ideas for Donald in the show since they made the character look like a terrible person. In response, Matt made a video compilation of all the most terrible things Donald did over the years which left a “look of shock on their faces” according to him.
External Links[]
- Donald Duck on the Antagonists Wiki
- Donald Duck on the Heroes Wiki
- Donald Duck on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
- Donald Duck on the Disney Wiki
