![]() Rockerduck's habit of eating his hat when defeated by Scrooge. Some of his evil deeds include framing Scrooge for theft and having him arrested, banishing Scrooge to a remote island through the power of a genie, and even having Scrooge's own employees work for him. He would go on to the scheme and battle Scrooge in several episodes. Glomgold teams up with a villain named El Capitan to stop Scrooge and gain the treasure for themselves. He makes his series debut in the second part of the pilot movie " Treasure of the Golden Suns", in which Scrooge and his nephews find a map to a sunken treasure. (Rockerduck, would, however, appear in the 2011 DuckTales comic arc " Rightful Owners".) This may have been an amalgamation of another one of Scrooge's rivals, Rockerduck, who did not appear in the show itself. The animated Glomgold was shown as a big spender. Another departure from the comics was that Glomgold is also just as notoriously stingy as Scrooge, but even more so, whereas Scrooge will at least be generous with his money on occasion. Wishing to avoid controversy, as South Africa had been associated with apartheid and not with diamonds at that time, the Disney animators changed Glomgold's domicile from South Africa to Duckburg, and further accentuated his Scottish origins. government had tensions with the Republic of South Africa. However, when he made his animated debut in the TV series DuckTales ( 1987- 90), the U.S. Under Carl Barks comics, Glomgold hailed from South Africa. As in the comics, Glomgold tries his best to become the world's richest duck. ![]() Glomgold serves as one of the main antagonists of the series, making recurring appearances. In the comics, he wears an ascot, a black coat, and a Scottish bonnet. Glomgold, like Scrooge, is a slender duck with glasses, but he is depicted with a bushy beard, a black or purple coat instead of Scrooge's red or blue, and a dark bonnet instead of Scrooge's top hat. ![]() However, unlike Scrooge, who does not believe in obtaining money through dishonest methods, Flintheart makes un-smart immoral decisions, which often leads to his downfall. Many of Glomgold's appearances are centered around the fact that he is similar to Scrooge in so many ways (even having a Money Bin that is nearly identical to Scrooge's), both in appearance and personality. Each time he is defeated and ignores his own idiocy caused him to fail. In Ducktales (2017), Glomgold can rather bluntly be described as dumb as dirt, as he constantly does idiotic things to make himself look better and ruin Scrooge. This hardened him, he became more ruthless than Scrooge, but also leaves him vulnerable to being simply outnumbered by his rivals. While Scrooge has his nephews and friends, helping or advising him, Flintheart often faces situations alone. He also cares for no one other than himself, acting as a loner at some points. Like Scrooge, Glomgold also has a love for money and gold, however, unlike him, he is dishonest and often resorts to cheating, or using other unfair tactics to increase his fortune. However, this often leads to his downfall what into Glomgold's bitterness and intensifies his hatred of Scrooge. But the thing that makes him such a cruel is the fact that he will cross every line to achieve his goals, even to the point where he might try to murder Scrooge. He hates being second only to Scrooge and often uses immoral methods, to get around him. Selfish, sneaky and incredibly greedy, Glomgold strives to become the world's richest duck. He became Scottish, just like McDuck and appearance in a traditional Scottish kilt about with a much longer beard and his voice actor Hal Smith gave him an unidentifiable generic accent instead of an Afrikaans accent. However, some drastic changes came to the character, mainly, touched on his nationality and design. That same year, DuckTales premiered in which Flintheart was a major character, bringing him fully back into the spotlight. He was appearance as an elderly duck with a short beard and wearing in a black coat and a bonnet and was depicted as a ambitious miser and plutocrat, which made him ready to break the law in order to fulfill his goals.īarks only used Glomgold three times in his stories, however renown "duck" writer and artist Don Rosa, considered to be Bark's true successor, brought the character back in 1987. Under Barks authorship, Glomgold hailed from South Africa, where he made his fortune in diamond mining. Glomgold was created by Disney Legend Carl Barks, and made his first appearance in his 1956 comic The Second-Richest Duck ( Uncle Scrooge #15).
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