Rosa has an especially large following in Finland, and in 1999, he created a special 32-page Donald, Scrooge, Gearloose & nephews strip for his Finnish fans ; Sammon Salaisuus ( translates to The secret of the Sampo, but it is officially named The Quest for Kalevala

Douglas is a cousin of Scrooge who has appeared in several Danish Disney comic stories.

Gideon also has an antagonistic relationship with his brother Scrooge.

Other notable artists from Whitehorse are the actors Tahmoh Penikett of Battlestar Galactica and Dollhouse ; Amy Sloan who has done many television shows ,( Molly Lang ) Dancer, Singer, Northern Icon, the storyteller Ivan Coyote, punk rock bassist Jonas Smith of JJS3, and the creator of Scrooge McDuck occasional resident Carl Barks.

Magica has an odd relationship with Scrooge, sometimes even manifesting itself in mutual attraction.

He rarely has issues breaking the law, cheating and using other unfair tactics in order to fulfill his goal of becoming the world's richest duck, distinguishing him from Scrooge McDuck.

In this story, Scrooge, who holds the title of the Richest Duck in the World, learns that a businessman from South Africa has also claimed this title.

While Scrooge has his nephews helping him or advising him, Flintheart faces every situation alone.

Even at the end of the story when Scrooge has won and Flintheart passes out after finding he is only second best, he has to be carried home by Huey, Louie and Dewey since he has no one else there to help him.

Since then Flintheart Glomgold has appeared in more than 100 Egmont stories, some of which depict him as an influential member of Duckburg's Billionaires Club ( which also includes Scrooge and John D. Rockerduck ).

After Scrooge completes all the regular levels, Flintheart challenges him to a race in which the winner will take all of the treasure Scrooge has acquired.

The third spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, harrows Scrooge with dire visions of the future if he does not learn and act upon what he has witnessed including Tiny Tim's death.

It is shown that Scrooge has passed away where businessmen planned to attend if lunch is provided.

Scrooge has become a different man overnight and now treats his fellow men with kindness, generosity and compassion, gaining a reputation as a man who embodies the spirit of Christmas.

However, in Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, 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.

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.

To protect against these attempted break-ins, Scrooge has installed the greatest security system in the world to thwart any thought of even trying to intrude onto the premises.

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.

* Jubal Pomp, an unlucky wanna-be businessman always trying to imitate Scrooge and failing miserably ;

His outrageous productivity is presented as a factor in the quality of his inventions ; because he always comes up with new ideas, the fact that his inventions often lack an important feature, will often cause trouble for Scrooge or Donald who have bought the invention.

Scrooge exclaims, " One thing about Magica -- she always knew how to make an exit.

The name " Scrooge " is used even outside of the UK and the US as a word for a person who is always complaining.

The prominent recurring antagonists in the show include the Beagle Boys and Magica De Spell who are always finding ways to rob and swindle Scrooge and his nephews.

Scrooge's nemesis in the show is Flintheart Glomgold, who always tries to devise plans to unseat Scrooge McDuck from his " Richest Duck in the World " title.

When Ebenezer Scrooge accuses them of always criticizing him, they reply " We were always heckling you.

* Disney's Scrooge McDuck is thought to have been inspired by Carnegie.

Since early childhood Don Rosa had been fascinated by Carl Barks ' stories about Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck.

Since those titles belong to Scrooge and Flintheart respectively, it can be inferred that he owns the title of " The Third Richest Duck in the World ", but this has not been explicitly stated in any major story.

In many countries Rockerduck is almost as well known as Scrooge himself, to the point that his name has been used as a metaphor example in many scholar articles.

In Italy, the character is so familiar in popular culture that his name has been occasionnally used as a metaphor for " unlikeable and / or dishonest wealthy person ", " go-getter ", or " rival millionaire " ( i. e., a millionaire who is the rival of another millionaire, in this instance, Bill Koch, rival of Raul " Uncle Scrooge " Gardini ).

Scrooge has been portrayed by:

Scrooge and the nephews hurry back to Duckburg ( where they encounter Donald still in front of the TV, making condescending remarks about their passion for " some dusty old library books ") to search Scrooge's above-mentioned Spanish logs to find out whether the library had ever been removed from the island.

The Clan has been searching for the treasure for centuries but Scrooge, the last McDuck, thinks that he can locate it thanks to an X-Ray machine that can look behind / through the castle's walls.

During this, Scottie the caretaker of the castle, seems to have been murdered by Sir Quackly, and Scrooge, Donald, and the Nephews are trapped on a locked battlement.

There have also been many versions of Dickens ' A Christmas Carol, the best known of which is probably the 1951 Alastair Sim film Scrooge.

Having been immersed so much in stopping crime for nearly two years ( the time being Year Two in which the story takes place ), Bruce undergoes a change, much like Ebenezer Scrooge, in which he is reminded what it is to be human.

At the dinner table, Donald, Daisy, Scrooge, and the boys are ready for dessert, but when Scrooge uncovers the dessert tray, he finds that all the cookies have been eaten by the boys.

In the boys ' bedroom, Scrooge tells the boys not to make mistakes in life because Santa will put them on his Naughty List, just like he had been when he was young.

Fictional characters such as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster, Walt Disney's Scrooge McDuck, Jean de Brunhoff's Babar the Elephant, Jiggs from the comic strip Jiggs and Maggie, Rich Uncle Pennybags the iconic man from the Monopoly board game, the Sixth Doctor from Doctor Who and Bustopher Jones from the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, among others, have been depicted as wearing spats.

His father is probably best known for conceiving, producing and headlining ( as Scrooge ) a popular musical comedy adaptation of A Christmas Carol that has been performed in Raleigh and, more recently, in nearby Durham since 1974.

The film is directed by Clive Donner who had been an editor of the 1951 film Scrooge and stars George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge.