Post by Hector on Jan 15, 2018 22:08:37 GMT
I came up with a theory that can fit into the same canon universe all the duck stories
ever made! But it's a shocking one. Read it on your your own responsibility! Are you
ready? Here we go...
Scrooge is in a coma! The whole Duckburg universe is just a dream of his! Have you ever
watched the movie Inception? If you haven't, here's how it goes. In that movie, when
one dreams deeply, his mind functions faster and more time passes in the dream world
than in the real life world. The deeper the dream level, the greater the time dilation. If
you dream at the deepest level (limbo), you can experience decades worth of dreaming
in a few hours of sleep!
So, here is what happened. When, at the fifth episode of Scrooge's biography (Don
Rosa), Scrooge fell off the tower, he fell into a coma. The brain damage was so bad
that his mind was sucked into the limbo dream level. Therefore, all those countless of
Disney stories with the ducks, that should logically require decades or even centuries to
take place, are nothing more than a Scrooge's limbo dream. In the real life world, he has
only been in the hospital for a few days!
Meanwhile, his relatives lost their tower, because the taxes were never paid. Scrooge
never became the richest duck in the world, he never lived all those glorious adventures
in reality.
This explains everything. Why nobody ages, why there are often logical inconsistencies
among adventures (i mean, dreams are often 'non canon' to your real life or to past
dreams of yours, ain't that right?), why Scrooge has so much money (i mean, seriously,
what are the chances that he'd have pulled off such a fortune if all that was real?).
Donald, the nephews and all Barkses heros never existed, they're just illusions of
Scrooge's imagination. Each of them symbolizes something. Goldie is a projection of
Scrooge's youthful desire for a relationship with a woman (don't forget he's 18 when he
falls into the coma). However, Scrooge never having had an affair and therefore not
knowing how such a situation would work is the reason he never got with Goldie; his
subconscious did not know what a relationship would be like, so it couldn't produce
something like that.
Donald is the projection of Scrooge's hidden desire for a life free of that perpetual
worry about how to gather more money, a worry that never let him enjoy other
things in life. Nephews represent the lost childhood he never trully had because he
was born in poverty. Gyro is his thirst for learning, a thirst he never quenched, since
he never went to school.
Glomgold incarnates Scrooge's potential to become something horrible for the sake of
a greater profit, he's actually a part of himself that Scrooge fears and has tried to
defeat all his life. Don't we all have a dark self inside us that we try to defeat?
Magica and Beagle Boys symbolize Scrooge's fear of losing what is precious to him.
This fear of being poor, of the life's hardships is Scrooge's greatest demon, whom
his subconscious has given the form of those thieves and witch.
Grandma Duck is a personification of a strong motherly figure, something Scrooge
lacked in his childhood, considering his mother seems a woman who is compromised
with her misery and does not try to fight for something better (remember her at the
first episode of Scrooge's biography).
Lastly, Gladstone is the manifestation of Scrooge's jealousy (hence the green color of
his clothes). Since he was a poor duckling, Scrooge had been naturally envious of
those who were born rich, away from the misery he had to face all his life. He hated
those who were served on a silver plate what he had been struggling to achieve.
ever made! But it's a shocking one. Read it on your your own responsibility! Are you
ready? Here we go...
Scrooge is in a coma! The whole Duckburg universe is just a dream of his! Have you ever
watched the movie Inception? If you haven't, here's how it goes. In that movie, when
one dreams deeply, his mind functions faster and more time passes in the dream world
than in the real life world. The deeper the dream level, the greater the time dilation. If
you dream at the deepest level (limbo), you can experience decades worth of dreaming
in a few hours of sleep!
So, here is what happened. When, at the fifth episode of Scrooge's biography (Don
Rosa), Scrooge fell off the tower, he fell into a coma. The brain damage was so bad
that his mind was sucked into the limbo dream level. Therefore, all those countless of
Disney stories with the ducks, that should logically require decades or even centuries to
take place, are nothing more than a Scrooge's limbo dream. In the real life world, he has
only been in the hospital for a few days!
Meanwhile, his relatives lost their tower, because the taxes were never paid. Scrooge
never became the richest duck in the world, he never lived all those glorious adventures
in reality.
This explains everything. Why nobody ages, why there are often logical inconsistencies
among adventures (i mean, dreams are often 'non canon' to your real life or to past
dreams of yours, ain't that right?), why Scrooge has so much money (i mean, seriously,
what are the chances that he'd have pulled off such a fortune if all that was real?).
Donald, the nephews and all Barkses heros never existed, they're just illusions of
Scrooge's imagination. Each of them symbolizes something. Goldie is a projection of
Scrooge's youthful desire for a relationship with a woman (don't forget he's 18 when he
falls into the coma). However, Scrooge never having had an affair and therefore not
knowing how such a situation would work is the reason he never got with Goldie; his
subconscious did not know what a relationship would be like, so it couldn't produce
something like that.
Donald is the projection of Scrooge's hidden desire for a life free of that perpetual
worry about how to gather more money, a worry that never let him enjoy other
things in life. Nephews represent the lost childhood he never trully had because he
was born in poverty. Gyro is his thirst for learning, a thirst he never quenched, since
he never went to school.
Glomgold incarnates Scrooge's potential to become something horrible for the sake of
a greater profit, he's actually a part of himself that Scrooge fears and has tried to
defeat all his life. Don't we all have a dark self inside us that we try to defeat?
Magica and Beagle Boys symbolize Scrooge's fear of losing what is precious to him.
This fear of being poor, of the life's hardships is Scrooge's greatest demon, whom
his subconscious has given the form of those thieves and witch.
Grandma Duck is a personification of a strong motherly figure, something Scrooge
lacked in his childhood, considering his mother seems a woman who is compromised
with her misery and does not try to fight for something better (remember her at the
first episode of Scrooge's biography).
Lastly, Gladstone is the manifestation of Scrooge's jealousy (hence the green color of
his clothes). Since he was a poor duckling, Scrooge had been naturally envious of
those who were born rich, away from the misery he had to face all his life. He hated
those who were served on a silver plate what he had been struggling to achieve.
"German National Socialist")? Is it a dream within a dream? And Donald Duck's Worst Nightmare or The Dream Planet by Barks? Or Van Horn's Close-Ups? Yes, I've seen Inception... But it has a very special concept and doesn't even closely represent how dreams work in reality. But of course, it's fiction, we can accept "sci-fi rules" if it serves the story...
) and it's a fantastic thing that some people can relate to Gyro, other people to Magica... I wouldn't take that away from them. Besides, if we say it's all a dream then we basically state that the stories don't really need a connection. But that's not true. Let's say Don Rosa makes a last chapter to the life of (his) Scrooge. But it totally contradicts everything he wrote before that. Even the first five chapters of Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. In the dream theory, this would be okay, because it's all in Scrooge's head. But for me (and a lot of fans) that would be a lot of plot holes! 
Let the nerds to be angry.