Flintheart Glomgold
Flintheart Glomgold is a male comic character who features in DuckTales-Darkwing Duck.
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Biography
Origin
Flintheart Glomgold
He came to be the second-richest duck in the world, and frequent rival of the richest duck in the world, Scrooge McDuck.
Scrooge, who holds the title of the Richest Duck in the World, learns that a businessman from the valley of the Limpopo, South Africa has also claimed this title. Scrooge decides to confront this claimant to his title and travels to South Africa along with his nephew Donald and three grandnephews. The rest of the story concentrates on comparing and contrasting the two rivals during a race through "The Heart of Africa" (a recurring phrase in the story), by seeing who has the largest ball of string, because they are shown equal in everything else, from cash to gold mines to even who has the most pumpkins. The race is supposed to determine which one of them deserves the title.
Flintheart and Scrooge are often in competition, and Glomgold has initiated many schemes to separate McDuck from his money and claim the title of the world's richest duck. He has even allied himself with Magica DeSpell and the Beagle Boys towards that end.
Glomgold was invited to Phineas Sharp's auction to bid on the master list of SHUSH agents. Exactly why he wanted the list was never revealed, and he was mysteriously outbid by Hammerhead Hannigan.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Flintheart Glomgold was an elderly duck with a short beard and wearing in a black coat and a bonnet.
Typically, he was shown as being depicted as a ambitious miser and plutocrat.
Selfish, sneaky and incredibly greedy, Glomgold strives to become the world's richest duck. He hates being second only to Scrooge and often uses immoral methods, to get around him. 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. However, this often leads to his downfall what into Glomgold's bitterness and intensifies his hatred of Scrooge.
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. He also cares for no one other than himself, acting as a loner at some points. While Scrooge has his nephews and friends, helping or advising him, Flintheart often faces situations alone. This hardened him, he became more ruthless than Scrooge, but also leaves him vulnerable to being simply outnumbered by his rivals.
He rarely saw any problem with breaking the law, cheating, or using other unfair tactics in order to fulfill his goal of becoming the world's richest duck.
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Flintheart Glomgold was created by Carl Banks where he made his first appearance in Uncle Scrooge v1 #15 (September, 1956).
In other media
Television
- In DuckTales, Flintheart Glomgold appeared in the setting of the 1987 animated television series where he was voiced by actor Hal Smith.
- In Duck Tales, Flintheart Glomgold appeared in the setting of the 2017 animated television series where he was voiced by actor Keith Ferguson. This version was born Duke Baloney in South Africa where as a young duck he worked as a shoeshine boy. One day, he shined Scrooge's spats and Scrooge decided to make Duke learn the same lesson he once learned when he was a child. This backfired, however, as Duke felt cheated when he is paid with only a dime when the charge was a dollar plus tip. Scrooge explains that he wanted to teach him self-reliance, but Duke felt mocked and stole money from his pocket along with a gold band. He used this money to reinvent himself as Flintheart Glomgold and began a lifelong quest to outdo Scrooge; even going so far to change his accent and attire to a Scottish one and even sports a fake beard, just to show that he could outdo him at being an elderly Scottish man.
Appearances
- Uncle Scrooge v1: (1956)
- DuckTales:
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