Disney has been remaking classic movies and is now rebooting one of their animated TV shows, "DuckTales." The new series will feature Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, and the theme song, with David Tennant voicing Scrooge. A lingering question among fans is the identity of Huey, Dewey, and Louie's father, which remains a mystery. The show may explore this in greater detail, but traditionally, Disney narratives often involve deceased parents, suggesting the father may not be alive. Theories abound, but no definitive answer exists in the Duck family lore.
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1. Disney has been remaking and rebooting its movies and TV shows, including a reboot of the animated TV series "DuckTales".
2. The new "DuckTales" show is picking and choosing elements from the previously established universe and comics.
3. The show's theme song has been kept, but the actor playing Scrooge McDuck is David Tennant.
4. The "DuckTales" universe is based on the Disney duck comics, which were created by Carl Barks and later expanded upon by Don Rosa.
5. Don Rosa drew a family tree of the Disney duck characters, which is considered the most canon representation of the characters' relationships.
6. The family tree shows that Huey, Dewey, and Louie's father is a duck named Mr. Duck, but his face is obscured by a bird.
7. The mother of Huey, Dewey, and Louie is Della Duck, who is Donald Duck's sister.
8. In the comics, Della left her sons with Donald to care for while their father was in the hospital.
9. The note that Della left with Donald mentions that the father was injured by a giant firecracker exploding under his chair.
10. The theory is that the father probably died in the hospital, but this is not explicitly stated in the comics.
11. In the history of the comics and animations, there has been some confusion as to whether Della is actually Donald's sister or not.
12. The generally accepted canon now is that Della is Donald's sister and the biological mother of Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
13. The new "DuckTales" show may be exploring the character of Huey, Dewey, and Louie's mother in greater detail.
14. The duck family tree is complex and has been revised over the years, with different writers and artists contributing to it.
15. Don Rosa used to give copies of the family tree to his fans, with the fan's name written in the blank space where the father's name should be.
16. The duck family tree was drawn by Don Rosa, who wrote about 90 stories centered around the Disney duck universe.
17. The family tree shows that Scrooge McDuck is the uncle of Donald Duck and the great-uncle of Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
18. The theory is that Huey, Dewey, and Louie's father is dead, and this is supported by the fact that Donald officially adopted them.
19. In the 1942 cartoon "The New Spirit", Donald states that he officially adopted Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
20. The cartoon was commissioned by the U.S. Treasury Department to educate people about how their tax dollars were being used.
21. The evidence points towards the father of Huey, Dewey, and Louie being a character that has never been met and is also dead.
22. The family dynamics of actual ducks are different from those of the Disney duck characters, with most breeds of wild ducks maintaining monogamous relationships.
23. Domestic breeds of ducks, like the Peking duck, are more likely to be neglectful of their eggs or ducklings.
24. The Peking duck is a domestic breed of duck derived from the common mallard and was originally brought to America from China in the late 1800s.
25. In the U.S., about half of all ducks raised to be slaughtered are Peking ducks, which are used almost exclusively for meat.