Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Dec 4, 2016 18:20:04 GMT
If one takes in account almost all Disney comics, in the Duck/Mouse universe, the Earth came very short of getting destroyed or taken over by some evil madman hundreds of time in the 20th century alone. Now, I wonder… what if the reason it survived this long is Gladstone Gander? His luck might just be nudging events in just the right way every time (allowing Mickey to see the crucial clue the police missed and so on) because the world as a whole being destroyed would be an annoyance for Gladstone?
If one takes in account almost all Disney comics, in the Duck/Mouse universe, the Earth came very short of getting destroyed or taken over by some evil madman hundreds of time in the 20th century alone. Now, I wonder… what if the reason it survived this long is Gladstone Gander? His luck might just be nudging events in just the right way every time (allowing Mickey to see the crucial clue the police missed and so on) because the world as a whole being destroyed would be an annoyance for Gladstone?
That is a possibility. But I think that Gladstone's luck is so fabulous and ridiculously impossible, that if The Earth were destroyed, it would sweep Gladstone safely (in some protected situation -from the cold and lack of oxygen) up into space, and deposit him on another planet in a better situation than he had on Earth, so he would NOT be "irritated" (by missing Daisy, for example).
If one takes in account almost all Disney comics, in the Duck/Mouse universe, the Earth came very short of getting destroyed or taken over by some evil madman hundreds of time in the 20th century alone. Now, I wonder… what if the reason it survived this long is Gladstone Gander? His luck might just be nudging events in just the right way every time (allowing Mickey to see the crucial clue the police missed and so on) because the world as a whole being destroyed would be an annoyance for Gladstone?
That is a possibility. But I think that Gladstone's luck is so fabulous and ridiculously impossible, that if The Earth were destroyed, it would sweep Gladstone safely (in some protected situation -from the cold and lack of oxygen) up into space, and deposit him on another planet in a better situation than he had on Earth, so he would NOT be "irritated" (by missing Daisy, for example).
It's definitely a possibility. I could see two counter-arguments, though:
— The first one is that Gladstone isn't a complete monster, and would probably still feel sad to know all his family and acquaintances arre dead. And barring this, there's probably some other very lucky guy(s) around who are a little nicer than Gladstone and would be sad if the Earth got destroyed. I seem to recall at least two stories where Gladstone had "rivals"; one was a lucky duck from Goosetown and the plot was a "luck contest" between the two (it was an Italian story, I believe), while the other one featured the only lady duck Gladstone is genuinely interested in, who is lucky just like him -- their love is torn apart by the fact that they lose their luck whenever they're geographically close to each other.
— The second idea is a little more complicated… Let me explain: the whole "protected from cold and lack of oxygen" would require quite an extraordinary and literally airtight series of coincidence. This is definitely something Gladstone's luck could achieve, but it would definitely be simpler for it to simply nudge events so that someone from Earth saves the Earth, especially when there are already heroes on Earth who just need a little help from Fate to succeed in saving the world. This is multiplied up to eleven when it's not just the Earth, but the whole universe that is in danger of being destroyed or taken over; it would require a coincidence powerful enough to rip reality apart and send Gladstone into another dimension, which, again, his luck can probably do, but it'd be complicated. So it all boils down to the unanswered question of whether Gladstone's luck follows Occam's razor or not.
I think it's logical - You CAN'T even blow up Duckburg as long Gladstone Gander is in town since his Luck will protect him and therefor most likey stop the bomb before it erupts.
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