Editing Scrooge McDuck

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{{Character
|name=Scrooge McDuck
|image=[[File:Scrooge McDuck KHIII.png|350x400px]]
|katakana=スクルージ
|romaji=Sukurūji
|fr=Picsou
|de=Dagobert Duck
|type=Entelechy
|charworld1=Disney Town
|charworld2=Radiant Garden
|charworld3=Twilight Town
|origin=Christmas on Bear Mountain
|company=Disney
|enva=Alan Young
|envan=(''BbS'')
|enva2=Enn Reitel
|enva2n=(''KHIII'')
|java=Atsushi Ii
|javan=(''BbS'')
|java2=Mitsuru Ogata
|java2n=(''KHIII'')
|game1=Kingdom Hearts II
|game2=Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
|game3=Kingdom Hearts III
|journalKH2=Scrooge McDuck and Money (1967)<br><br>Donald's uncle. Before the Heartless appeared, he was using the Gummi Ship to travel across worlds, setting up a big business empire. Scrooge has more money than most folks can count. But for some reason, he's pretty stingy about spending it.<br><br>Nowadays Scrooge is working on an ice cream venture he hopes will make him millions.
|journalBBS=Scrooge McDuck and Money (1967)<br><br>An entrepreneur and shop owner from Disney Town. Hoping to take his already massive fortunes to cosmic levels, he moved to Radiant Garden with Merlin's help.<br><br>{{JBBS|v|The lifetime passes to Disney Town were a gift from Scrooge.}}<br><br>{{JBBS|a|Scrooge and Aqua got their wires crossed when she asked for help. She was looking for Terra, but he assumed she meant Ventus and sent her in the wrong direction.}}
|journalUX='''Scrooge'''<br>Christmas on Bear Mountain (1947)<br>Donald's wealthy, but stingy uncle.
|journalKH3=Scrooge McDuck and Money (1967)<br><br>A jet-setting tycoon and uncle to Donald. He recently entered the restaurant business in a joint venture with Little Chef.
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{{Q|Adventure is the mother of industry!|Scrooge to Ventus}}
'''Scrooge McDuck''' is a character that appears in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'', ''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep]]'' and ''[[Kingdom Hearts III]]''. He is the uncle of [[Donald Duck|Donald]] and the grand-uncle of the trio [[Huey, Dewey, and Louie]].

Before the events of ''{{c|Kingdom Hearts|game}}'', Scrooge traveled with King [[Mickey Mouse]] on a [[Gummi Ship]] trying to make a Gummi Highway and setting up a business empire, but they parted ways when the [[Heartless]] started to appear.

==Story==
===''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''===
When [[Ventus]] arrives in [[Radiant Garden]], he and Scrooge see each other from across the Central Square, before Ven spots [[Mickey Mouse]] heading for the Gardens and follows after him.

[[Aqua]] arrives some time later in search of Terra. She encounters the passing Scrooge in the Central Square, and she asks him if he has seen a boy not from around there, impressing him with her polite manner. Scrooge mistakenly believes she is talking about Ventus, and he sends her towards the castle.

[[File:An Invitation to Disney Town 01 KHBBS.png|thumb|left|Scrooge deduces that Ven came from another world.]]
Ven chases the [[α Armor]] into the Central Square of [[Radiant Garden]], he finds it accosting Scrooge, who is angrily swinging his cane at it. Ven chases it off, but when he goes to pursue it, Scrooge interrupts him and offers to repay him. Despite Ven's protests, Scrooge beckons him closer, and he reveals not only that he can tell Ven is from another world, but that he is, as well. He explains that he had [[Merlin]] transport him from his home world in the search of new business opportunities. When Ven gets impatient, Scrooge gives him three passes to [[Disney Town]], telling him to give two to "two grown-ups", and lets him go.

On return trips to Radiant Garden, Ven and Aqua find Scrooge in the Castle Town. He asks Ven if he has been to Disney Town yet and enjoyed the Dream Festival attractions, and he mentions to Aqua that he is having trouble finding the right place to set up shop.

Some time after Aqua's fight with [[Terra-Xehanort]], Scrooge sells [[sea-salt ice cream]] to [[Lea]] and [[Isa]].
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===Between ''Birth By Sleep'' and ''Kingdom Hearts II''===
Scrooge was busy with the King's help, setting up a transit system to further his business expansion through the worlds, using a [[Gummi Ship]] to do so. However, when the Heartless appeared in massive droves, this forced Scrooge to abandon his plans out of safety. 

How he spent the decade between the games is unknown, but he didn't lose his wealth due to the drop of business between worlds.
<!--'''Goofy''': "Before the Heartless showed up, he traveled the worlds on a Gummi Ship with the King. He was helpin' to set up a traffic system." / '''Donald Duck''': "A transit system!"-->

===''Kingdom Hearts II''===
Scrooge resides in [[Hollow Bastion]], near his three great-nephews. He meets [[Sora]], Donald and [[Goofy]] during their first visit to Hollow Bastion, Donald and Scrooge both surprised to see each other. He now owns part of the town and his house seems to be built above the synthesizing shop. Opposite of the shop is a large freezer where Scrooge tries to recreate the original [[sea-salt ice cream]] flavor, but is having little success. Throughout the visits to Hollow Bastion, Scrooge becomes closer and closer to achieving his goal, eventually succeeding. Oddly, though, Scrooge's form of currency is not referred to as [[munny]]. To play the [[Skateboard]] freestyle mini-game in Hollow Bastion, Sora must talk to Scrooge.

After Sora and [[Riku]] defeat [[Xemnas]] and return to [[Destiny Islands]], Scrooge is seen with King Mickey, Donald, Goofy, [[Queen Minnie]], [[Daisy]], [[Pluto]], the nephews, and [[Chip and Dale]] at [[Disney Castle]].

===''Kingdom Hearts III''===
{{Q|Provide a bit of entertainment, and then give folks a nice, cozy place to relax. Like me bistro here. They'll all be happy, an' hungry, an' eager to spend their money.|Scrooge's business plan}}
After leaving Radiant Garden, Scrooge encountered [[Little Chef]] after enjoying one of his dishes. As Little Chef wanted to expand his culinary horizons, Scrooge took the little rat's desire as an opportunity and financed [[Le Grand Bistrot]] in [[Twilight Town]] to help Little Chef fulfill his dream. He also sets up an open air film festival, hiring [[Hayner]], [[Pence]], and [[Olette]] to put up posters advertising the films with data for promo games.<ref>'''''[[Kingdom Hearts III]]''''', '''Scrooge:''' ""Oh, I had the business side of it planned down to the finest detail— the open-air theatre, the flyers, the promo data... the whole kit and kaboodle."</ref><ref>'''''Kingdom Hearts III''''', '''Olette:''' "He gave us a short job putting up these special posters. Mr. McDuck's hosting an open-air film festival in the courtyard."</ref>

Little Chef later asks Scrooge to deliver a ''{{w|tarte aux fruits}}'' to the new arrivals who saved him from Heartless, who turn out to be Sora, Donald, and Goofy. Scrooge explains the history of the bistrot, and asks them to collect ingredients along their travels so that Little Chef can produce even better culinary delights.

After Little Chef fills the menu with dishes beyond compare, Scrooge thanks Sora for his help.

Some time after Xehanort's defeat, Scrooge notices the impatient crowd outside his bistro. He heads into the kitchen to complain about the staff being too slow, but he is flabbergasted to find only [[Little Chef]] cooking.

==Design==
Scrooge is an anthropomorphized duck with white plumage, four-fingered hands, light blue eyes, yellow-orange feet, and a bill of the same color. He has a thick, half-ring of ruffled feathers going around the back of his head, creating the image of an old, balding man. Scrooge's wealth allows him to dress in fine, stereotypical "rich" clothing. He wears a blue jacket with a folded-down, red collar, red cuffs, and a yellow button near the neck. He keeps the jacket shut with a red belt. A black top hat with a red band near the brim sits on his head, and he wears {{w|Pince-nez|pince-nez}} glasses. He also wears red spats on his feet. Completing his image as an old, rich man, Scrooge walks around with a brown cane with a gold tip.

==Personality==
Scrooge is the richest duck in the world, having gained his massive wealth from hard work and being "tougher than the toughies and smarter than the smarties and making it square," on the course of his many adventures in finding treasure and through mining and other business endeavors. He's a traveler by nature, journeying all over, and even between worlds, in search of treasure and ways of expanding his many businesses. 

Scrooge is known for being a great business planner; he knows a money-making idea when he sees it and seizes the opportunity without a second thought. Sora and Goofy are notably impressed with his usage of the film festival and bistro in tandem.

Having worked so hard to acquire his wealth, Scrooge has become rather stingy and greedy; he loves his money more than anything in the world and seldom spends any more of it than he has to. Still, he values honesty and fair play, and doesn't like to be in anyone's debt. Like his nephew, Donald, he has a temper, and can appear grouchy and selfish, but is a good-hearted person nevertheless and his care for his family exceeds his love for money.

==Origin==
Debuting in the 1947 Carl Barks comic story, ''{{w|Christmas on Bear Mountain}}'', Scrooge was originally planned as a one-shot character, but as Carl Barks quickly saw the potential for him, he began making further appearances and soon became a major character in Disney comics, going from supporting character in Donald Duck stories to eventually getting his own comic series in 1952.

Disney early on wanted to use Scrooge in cartoons, but apart from a brief cameo on the ''{{w|Mickey Mouse Club}}'' TV series, he remained a comics-only character until 1967, when the short ''{{w|Scrooge McDuck and Money}}'' made his "official" debut in animation. He was used sporadically in cartoons after that, his most notable role being in the 1983 featurette ''{{w|Mickey's Christmas Carol}}'', where he played his Dickensian namesake, Ebenezer Scrooge. 

In 1987, twenty years after his animated debut and forty years after his comics debut, Scrooge became the main star (alongside Huey, Dewey, and Louie) of the animated series ''{{w|DuckTales}}'', which loosely adapted many of the original stories from the comics. In this series, which serves as the source for much of his characterization in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series, he was voiced by the late Alan Young, who reprised the role in ''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep]]''. 

The ''DuckTales'' animated series was {{w|DuckTales (2017 TV series)|rebooted}} thirty years later in 2017, which notably included adapting more characters from the original comics that were not included in the original animated series. In the reboot, Scrooge was voiced by {{w|David Tennant}}.

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