Stories with dopplegangers from parallel universes?

[juicymcduck]

There is an Italian story from 1995 (by Rudy Salvagnini and Giorgio Cavazzano) in which "our" Scrooge briefly switches places with a doppleganger of his from a parallel universe.

Does anyone know of other stories that deal with the same kind of notions (a.k.a. parallel universes)?

[TheMidgetMoose]

Sept 21, 2020 17:21:45 GMT juicymcduck said:

There is an Italian story from 1995 (by Rudy Salvagnini and Giorgio Cavazzano) in which "our" Scrooge briefly switches places with a doppleganger of his from a parallel universe.

Does anyone know of other stories that deal with the same kind of notions (a.k.a. parallel universes)?

I've never read the story, so I must ask... is that supposed to be DuckTales Scrooge?

[bats]

Martina/Carpi's Zio Paperone e le criminose imprese dei Gufo-Robot is a good one where Gyro sends Scrooge, Donald and the nephews to an alternate "purified" Earth where life has developed without the vices we have on our Earth (though it ultimately turns out that aside from a legitimately generous alternate Scrooge, everyone's alternates are fairly similar to their normal selves after all)

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Sept 21, 2020 17:39:48 GMT TheMidgetMoose said:

I've never read the story, so I must ask... is that supposed to be DuckTales Scrooge?

Nah, they just gave him Scrooge's coat colours (or, more accurately, the classic Italian coat colours) to distinguish him from the main one. IIRC he's from a parallel universe where he is more-or-less happily married with Brigitta.

At any rate, Uncle Scrooge and the Two Thousand and One Nights involves Scrooge crossing over into a 1001-Nights-based alternate universe where Brigitta is Scherehazade and he is a despotical sultan (whom he helps force to change his ways).

[juicymcduck]

Sept 21, 2020 17:39:48 GMT TheMidgetMoose said:

I've never read the story, so I must ask... is that supposed to be DuckTales Scrooge?

No. Once you read the story, it's obvious that the universe from this Scrooge has nothing to do with Ducktales whatsoever. In this verse, this Scrooge is married to Brigitta, and he's on the verge of bankruptcy because she keeps spending outrageous amounts of money without consulting him.

That being said, the existence of parallel universes in the comics does open an interesting possibility: the Duck Multiverse!
There's the Barks-Rosa 'verse, the Martina 'verse, the Ducktales '87 'verse, the Ducktales '17 'verse... That would account for the many discrepancies created by authors having their own idea of what the world of Scrooge and company looks like.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

I suppose it would, but it's a rather boring conception. And not necessarily faithful to authorial intent. Certainly, while I can conceive of a walled-off, more restrained Rosaverse (which also include most of Barks), and the view of the 1980's DT as its own continuity is not entirely unspported by the text, it seems hard to posit that Martiana was intending a hard break from the American stories, and os on.

[juicymcduck]

I'm not trying to read Martina's intention here. I'm elaborating a fan theory. It's just for fun, but it's not meant to be a text commentary. ^^

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Fair 'nuff!

[Sandopaper]

inducks.org/story.php?c=I+AT++266-A

Scrooge and Donald meet a doppelganger of Scrooge in this one. In the world the doppelganger comes from there are no thieves and everything measures ten times as much, so Scrooge decides to move his 18 tonnes of money to such world because they're gonna weigh 180 tonnes and because they won't be stolen.

inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2318-5

This one introduces two parallel universes from where Magica steals two Number One dimes since the Magicas from those dimensions were not aware of the dime's power, therefore Scrooge had no reason to install any defensive system.

inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2355-5

This story introduces an evil PK (Duck Avenger) from another dimension.

I'll think of more examples to contribute to the list, there's certainly many more to mention.

[Matilda]

Ah, Sandopaper beat me to it with "Amelia e le due numero 1"! I like that story quite a bit, because it allows us to see alternate paths for Magica if she hadn't gotten obsessed with stealing the Number One dime.

[juicymcduck]

Sandopaper Thanks for these recommendations!  I just looked up Zio Paperone e gli incontri ravvicinati del Gran Mogùl, but it seems that the planet from which the other Scrooge originates is not exactly a parallel Earth, but just another planet (at least in the French version, he calls Earth a colony of his own planet, "The Great Mogul." 

[duckman87]

I TL 2381-1 Paperinik... un eroe dell'altro mondo where Paperinik goes to an alternative dimension via a Gyro's invention and meets an alternate version of himself never became a superhero. 

I TL 2037-1 this one is a different case; as Mickey and Goofy time travel to meet the author of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to find out what events inspired his book, a malfunction from the time machine unites Mickey with a doppelganger from an evil dimension, who comes out like an evil personality and causes chaos both in the Victorian London, where he inspires Robert Louis Stevenson, and later in the present when he and Goofy go back.

[Sandopaper]

Sept 22, 2020 16:57:33 GMT juicymcduck said:

Sandopaper Thanks for these recommendations!  I just looked up Zio Paperone e gli incontri ravvicinati del Gran Mogùl, but it seems that the planet from which the other Scrooge originates is not exactly a parallel Earth, but just another planet (at least in the French version, he calls Earth a colony of his own planet, "The Great Mogul." 

I believe you're right, I totally forgot that! I gotta re-read that story one of these days.