Donald is around 30 years old Gladstone is as old as him Fethry and Daisy a couple of years younger than Donald Mickey and Minnie some 32 or 33 Goofy and Clarabelle around 36 Horace between 37 and 39 Gyro around 45, or in any case already in his forties Jones in his late forties, but not more than 50 O'Hara in his late 50's, something like 58 or 59 (remark: in Italy he has completely white hair, not brown) Casey not more than 45
Never tried to assign an age to other characters, if I remember correctly.
There is a 16-page thread about the characters' age on the Papersera Forum, so maybe we can also open a thread on this forum about the same subject.
Read it through Google translate, it looks like an interesting survey. Also I am surprised so many people think Rockerduck is 20 years younger than Scrooge.
There is a 16-page thread about the characters' age on the Papersera Forum, so maybe we can also open a thread on this forum about the same subject.
Read it through Google translate, it looks like an interesting survey. Also I am surprised so many people think Rockerduck is 20 years younger than Scrooge.
I guess it's because in Italian comics Scrooge often calls Rockerduck "pivello" ("rookie"), while Rockerducks calls Scrooge "vecchia tuba" ("old top hat"), suggesting that Scrooge is much older than him. I prefer Rosa's version when there is only an age gap of about 11-12 years, but I see why many Italian readers would asume the gap between them is 20 years or even more.
Post by Baar Baar Jinx on Jul 1, 2017 15:45:00 GMT
How about Magica? She seems to be the one that provides the most diverse answers. I personally think she's very young, in her twenties, but I've read some opinions that she's "ancient" and makes herself look young through "sorcery" (don't like that idea at all). Brigitta? We really should have a separate thread about characters' ages.
Interesting that we see a sleeve from Donald's traditional blue sailor suit sticking out of the dishwasher in the first promo:
Angones did say that the reason Donald wore a black sailor suit was somehow a "spoiler". I always thought it was simply a homage to the comics, but looks like they're going to make it deeper somehow.
And something brewing between Donald and Beakley? Is that the direction they're going with?
How about Magica? She seems to be the one that provides the most diverse answers. I personally think she's very young, in her twenties, but I've read some opinions that she's "ancient" and makes herself look young through "sorcery".
Yes, there's this misconception in Italian stories that Magica is actually a witch with supernatural powers, which makes some people write nonsense like: no matter which age she shows, she could be actually 1000 years old.
Like you, I see her as being young, maybe even younger than Donald.
Angones did say that the reason Donald wore a black sailor suit was somehow a "spoiler". I always thought it was simply a homage to the comics, but looks like they're going to make it deeper somehow.
Are we sure that all of the "there's a reason for this" we are getting are actually serious answers and not just acts of trolling?
Quackfaster appearing in the reboot wouldn't be surprising, since she was also in the original series, even though for some reason she was renamed "Mrs. Featherby". The character in the picture looks a bit different from her, but it's hard to say with the strange art style and many characters getting a redesign.
How about Magica? She seems to be the one that provides the most diverse answers. I personally think she's very young, in her twenties, but I've read some opinions that she's "ancient" and makes herself look young through "sorcery".
Yes, there's this misconception in Italian stories that Magica is actually a witch with supernatural powers, which makes some people write nonsense like: no matter which age she shows, she could be actually 1000 years old.
Like you, I see her as being young, maybe even younger than Donald.
"Misconception"? I know that was not Barks's intent, but neither was the original intent for Scrooge that he'd be a recurring character, an adventurer and the richest duck in the world; or, to take another Barks-to-Italy example, neither was Barks's intent that Rockerduck would be a sort of archenemy of Scrooge. Magica having inherent powers is simply a choice the Italian comics made, and I'm not entirely convinced it was a bad one, though there's an argument to be made for both sides.
As for my view… it so happened that I was first exposed to Magica through her DuckTales self, and with her voice and slight wrinkles, I thought of her as being 50-something, and possibly even as old as Scrooge himself (whom I saw more as 70-something in DuckTales). Since then, though, I've had more exposure to the classic comics, and I'd say Magica started out in her mid- to late twenties (a tad younger than Donald perhaps, but not much). Of course, with my mental timeline, asking how old the characters are in the present-day is rather pointless.
Yes, there's this misconception in Italian stories that Magica is actually a witch with supernatural powers, which makes some people write nonsense like: no matter which age she shows, she could be actually 1000 years old.
Like you, I see her as being young, maybe even younger than Donald.
"Misconception"? I know that was not Barks's intent, but neither was the original intent for Scrooge that he'd be a recurring character, an adventurer and the richest duck in the world; or, to take another Barks-to-Italy example, neither was Barks's intent that Rockerduck would be a sort of archenemy of Scrooge. Magica having inherent powers is simply a choice the Italian comics made, and I'm not entirely convinced it was a bad one, though there's an argument to be made for both sides.
But I think it's a safe assumption that turning Magica into a witch with supernatural powers was a consequence of authors misunderstanding the original idea as developed in the various Barks stories with the character, and that's why I talked about a misconception.
I think giving Magica actual powers is just more esy way to go. You can solve more problems by going "ow, she just casted a spell" and audiance will buy it cose she's a witch.
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I think giving Magica actual powers is just more esy way to go. You can solve more problems by going "ow, she just casted a spell" and audiance will buy it cose she's a witch.
In other words, giving her actual powers is a sign of laziness on the writer's part.
In a way - yes. At the same time it dose make her more tretening.
I have a biger problem with lack of consequence. Like one Ducktales episode shown her casting magic from her hands (ok, so she has actual magic powers) but later in the same episode she was powerless the moment her wand stoped working... so which one is it?
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