Beagle Boys

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The Beagle Boys are a group that features in DuckTales.

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Donald Duck (Comics)

The Beagle Boys were a family of canine criminals who operated outside of Duckburg.

Scrooge's rivalry with the Beagle Boys goes back to his Mississippi riverboat days. Those Beagle Boys include Blackheart Beagle and his three unnamed sons. Since then, the Beagle Boys have been a constant threat to Scrooge's huge money bin.

The Beagle Boys all looked largely identical, only differentiated by their prisoner numbers.

DuckTales

Scrooge McDuck's rivalry with the Beagle Boys goes back to his Mississippi riverboat days. In those days, the Beagle Boys included Blackheart Beagle and his three unnamed sons. Since then, the Beagle Boys had been a constant threat to Scrooge's huge money bin.

Ma Beagle came to be the ruling matriarch of the family.

Overview

They typically wore black bandit masks to hide their identities and on their turtleneck sweaters, most often being orange or red, along with their prison number signs. Some variations were shown to have the words Beagle Boys, Inc. on their shirts under their numbers. Donald Duck had referred to them as being the most awful gang of crooks in the country.

The Beagle Boys are usually depicted as a gang of about three to ten members or more depending on the story, who are identical in appearance and personality. They wear black bandit masks to hide their identities and on their turtleneck sweaters, most often being orange or red, they have their prison number signs. The Beagle Boys are often characterized to be very crude, boastful, aggravating, greedy, and self-centered – among themselves, however, they are very loyal and have a strong connection of sibling camaraderie. Although, on some occasions, they have shown irritation toward each other, often relating to someone making a mistake or saying something that does not fit in with the consensus. Some of the Beagle Boys had been known by their prison numbers since their childhood, and they do not even know their real names themselves. One account stated that their parents did know their children's real names, but demanded a bribe from their sons to let them know.

The Beagle Boys have lots of relatives who count each other as brothers and cousins. On occasion they are even shown to have highly intellectual capacities, as they are able to earn academic degrees in various fields. Among individual Beagle Boys, some of these degrees include: cranial encephalography, psychology, chemistry, metallurgy, and electropyrotechnology.

Their main goal for stealing Scrooge McDuck's money was so they can create a life of luxury for themselves.

They came to form a worldwide organization known as Beagles International, in which the Beagles had spies in different countries around the world.

Members

  • Blackheart Beagle :
  • Grandpa Beagle :
  • Ma Beagle : family matriarch
  • 176-167 :
  • 176-671 :
  • 176-761 :
  • Babyface Beagle :
  • Baggy Beagle :
  • Bankjob Beagle :
  • Bebop Beagle :
  • Bigtime Beagle : Placard Number 167–671, he was the second-in-command of the command and being the leader of the group in absence of Ma Beagle. He was distinguished by being rather short for someone with the word "Big" in his name. He was the smartest of the seven main Beagles and often had to correct his companions whenever they get something wrong or misheard his directions.
  • Bookworm Beagle :
  • Bouncer Beagle : Placard Number 716-167, he was distinguishable for his teeth, one of which is missing, Bouncer was the strongest Beagle after Bankjob.
  • Burger Beagle :

Notes

  • The Beagle Boys were created by Carl Barks where they featured in the setting of the DuckTales universe.
  • They came to be loosely based on Ma Barker and the Barker-Karpis Gang.

In other media

Television

  • In DuckTales, the Beagle Boys appeared in the setting of the 1987 animated television series. The Beagle Boys were given names and different personalities and reimagined to be loosely based on the popular image of Ma Barker and the Barker-Karpis Gang. The usual character combination was Bigtime, Burger, and Bouncer and/or Baggy; or Babyface, Bugle, and Bankjob. Other known names are Bomber and Blitzkrieg. Their leader is usually Big Time, Bankjob or their mother Ma Beagle. Like in the comics, the Beagles sometimes team up with Scrooge McDuck's other enemies to achieve their goals, particularly Flintheart Glomgold.
  • In DuckTales, the Beagle Boys appeared in the setting of the 2017 animated television series reboot. They were shown to be divided into several smaller gangs with Ma Beagle serving as the leader of all of them, as revealed in the episode "The Beagle Birthday Massacre!", and all were voiced by actor Eric Bauza. The feud between them and Scrooge McDuck originated from a battle between Duckburg's founder Cornelius Coot and the Beagles of that time. The latter attempted to attack a fort the former was holding, only to be tricked into retreating when Coot used popcorn makers to make the Beagles think he was everywhere at once. The fort would go on to become Fort Duckburg and strike up the feud for control of the land it was on. In a flashback depicted in the episode "The Life and Crimes of Scrooge McDuck!", the Beagle Boys under Pappy Beagle temporarily took control of Fort Duckburg after stealing its deed, but Scrooge took it back from them, leading to a young Ma Beagle taking control of the gang from her father.

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