Scrooge: Here, let me load the cannon and... Huey: I wanna be the one to shoot! Louie: No, I do!

Louie: FIRE! John: Stop, that's my harpoon!

Scrooge: HEEEEEELP! Louie: Uack! We fired uncle Scrooge as well! John: Shiver me timbers! Out of here, saboteurs!

John: I'll sue you for theft of fishing material, you old pirate! Dewey: Poor uncle... straight into the whale's mouth!

Zio Paperone e la balena a pois rosa (1965)

Scrooge, are you really making seven year olds handle land mines?

"Jacob!" he said imploringly. "Old Jacob Marley, tell me more! Speak comfort to me, Jacob!" "I have none to give," the Ghost replied. "It comes from other regions, Ebenezer Scrooge, and is conveyed by other ministers, to other kinds of men."

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

SCROOGE LOOKS AT HARRY AND HELA

Scrooge: A Christmas Carol, 2022

Mickey's getting a visit from Paperinik tonight

I was inspired by @thedivinelights' art to draw my own version of 2022 Scrooge and Marley where they're the same age.

AKA the au where they've been married for decades and Marley is forever fussing over Scrooge's appearance.

I think Only a Poor Old Man has one of the best panels in comics. Scrooge's plan failed him and he lost all his money to the terrible Beagle Boys... but he still has one more trick

Who appears the most in Only A Poor Old Man?

So I remembered that whilst I didn't own the Danish Donald Duck big book, I did own the English version! So I could finally count this one!

As always there are spoilers for the story, but if you haven't read this story yet you should definitely drop everything you are doing and go read it! (And then come back here and like and reblog and follow my account to become a true Atobibster).

Beagle boys - 52 (panels) / 21.9% (of the story)

HDL - 60 / 24.79%

Donald - 84 / 34.71%

Scrooge - 181 / 74.79%

(My thoughts and additional stats below!)

This story beats Scrooge in Back to the Klondike as the story with the highest percentage of any character on the top 100 so far (and also of any story I've counted).

As mentioned this was published in a Donald Duck book, which is a little silly. But it is famously the first Scrooge McDuck story, so this was just one little silly choice.

Let's look at entry and exit stats!

Scrooge - 1 (0.41%) / 242 (100%)

Donald - 1 (0.41%) / 237 (97.93%)

Beagles - 26 (10.74%) / 229 (94.63%)

HDL - 46 (19.01%) / 237 (97.93%)

Same energy

(via GIPHY)

How low are Bess' standards for men?

Her first time out with Ebenezer when he's taking her to see her father's grave (she asked to see it), he offers her his arm because, you know, he's a gentleman, and Bess gets all flustered and blushy and butterflies-in-the-tummy because the only man who ever did that for her, without her asking first, was George.

It's both sweet and sad.🥺

The point of A Christmas Carol was not to teach morals by example; it was to teach morals directly. Ebenezer Scrooge was specifically made to be a reader insert. The lessons of A Xmas Carol can mostly be divided into 'you don't want to be this guy (he's suffering)' and 'you don't want to be this guy (he's evil, like ultimately, Biblically, very un-Xtian)', afforded by the third category of Basically Everything In The Book 'you don't want to be this guy anymore (he's deeply relatable to the upper-class Victorians the book is targeted at)'. The fact that he doesn't spend money on himself is not a sign that he needs to care for himself more; it's to show that he's so greedy to the point that it is useless, to show that valuing money this much is bad and senseless. The fact that he were to die if he didn't change for the better is an example of Cosmic punishment. Maybe the story does have a hint of teaching Scrooge to take care of himself, but that's only for the same reason that Scrooge is given a 'workaholic billionaire' backstory. The rich like(d) to see themselves as hard-working, and were the target audience, and Dickens didn't want to insult his target audience while trying to teach them basic human decency. So he also took the opportunity to slot that into the 'you don't want to be this guy (he's suffering)' method of teaching.

Scrooge: From this day forward I swear to be a good man! I will show them that I have truly changed!

Dr. Jekyll:

SCROOGE LOOKS AT ISABEL'S FAMILY

+ bonus:

Scrooge: A Christmas Carol, 2022

Scrooge: Umpf! Frolicking and merrymaking instead of austere frugality!

Scrooge: And for the last time... yes, your parties are boring!

John: Even the "Eat the Bowler Hat" party?

Un C.E.N.T. per il Club dei Miliardari (2023)