When Della first sent her children over to Donald temporarily in , it was because the three little devils had set a cracker off under Mr Duck's chair, sending him to the hospital for several weeks.
However, in , when the nephews' caretaking was handed over to Donald for good by Della , Mr Duck was nowhere to be seen; his fate post is thus unknown. Mr Duck was first mentioned in the Donald's Nephews comic. Carl Barks believed that he and Della were so irritated by Huey, Dewey, and Louie's behavior that, after leaving them with Donald, they ran away, never to return. Duck's fate which remains unknown to his sons was held in Tralla La ; but the ducks had to leave the land before they were told the truth.
Here, in this unofficial story, he is identified with the Warner Brothers character, Daffy Duck. Rosa would never use Mr Duck in an official story, but he did draw the character for fans several times, basing him on an older depiction of Mr.
In both cases, he is depicted as a smiling duck with short black hair and small eyes resembling his sons'. Various fan theories exist to explain the absence of Mr Duck. But in later films, they are seen to agree on pretty much everything. All three also share joy in tormenting Donald for their own amusement such as when they tied him in his own hammock. However, this is sometimes an act of revenge from a prank committed by Donald instead such as when he impersonated Ajax the Gorilla and they did the exact same thing, inadvertently endangering their uncle's life if they hadn't sprayed both Ajax and Donald with tear gas.
Individually, the personalities and quirks of the boys were inspired by real-life sibling dynamics. Huey is the eldest triplet, so he acts the most responsible.
Dewey is the middle child and just wants to stand out. Louie, the youngest, often shows that he prefers to enjoy a lazy lifestyle. Despite the rivalry, they love their uncle dearly, and he loves them. These young ducks have white feathers and amber bills and webbed feet. Their eyes are oval and light blue with black pupils.
Often their eyes are simply black. Their shirts are in different colors, with the most common color arrangement being Huey in red, Dewey in blue, and Louie in green except in many printed comics, in which all three of their shirts are instead colored black.
In most appearances, they are children no older than However, in the later episode " Bubba's Big Brainstorm ", Louie says Bubba the Cave Duck is in first grade, yet Bubba is also shown to be in the same class as the triplets, implying them all to be in first grade despite the previous fifth grade and years-old episodes.
Meanwhile, they are uniquely depicted in Quack Pack not as young children but instead as teenagers who, by the time of the episode " Need 4 Speed ", are old enough to drive. In the reboot of DuckTales , each triplet wears newly updated clothing to differentiate from each other: Huey wears a red polo T-shirt while still retaining his colored hat as seen in previous appearances.
Dewey wears a long-sleeved shirt inside his normal T-shirt. Louie wears a green hoodie. The distinct character traits of each of the boys seemed to have a large impact on their personalities in the DuckTales reboot.
In 's DuckTales , Huey's role as leader is validated by him being the eldest triplet by three seconds [7] and the most responsible. Huey is tactical and has a strict sense of order.
He shares Scrooge McDuck's intelligence, but values the safety of others as well as himself more so than "the next big adventure". As the oldest sibling, Huey often acts as a caretaker for Dewey and Louie when Donald or Scrooge are absent. The younger ducklings look to Huey for comfort, despite the fact that his persnickety attitude can annoy them at times.
Along with Dewey and Louie, Huey is also a member of the Junior Woodchucks, though he takes the position much more seriously. Huey usually has the official Junior Woodchuck guidebook by his side at all times, and will consult it when trouble arises. According to co-executive producer Frank Angones, Huey's intelligence is due to him being responsible for paying the bills while living with Donald.
In the DuckTales series episode " Duck in the Iron Mask ", Dewey had an identity crisis, as he wanted to separate himself from the trio to stand out as his own individual. This carried over into the reboot, in which Dewey's "middle child syndrome" has made him obsessed with attention and standing out from the crowd. He typically goes about this by trying to embark on death-defying adventures, alone, as a way to prove himself as someone special.
This can drive Dewey to act selfishly at times he even created the " Day of the Only Child! Officially, Dewey's full name is Dewford Dingus Duck. Upon hearing this, Louie and Huey looked at Dewey and nodded at each other, implying that some if not all of Dewey's personality traits in the series are product of brain damage. The episode also implies that he isn't sure of his sexual orientation, as, during his high school dream, he finds a figure which is meant to represent his love interest, which lacks a form as he is too threatened by the concept.
However, when the figure asks Dewey to sing a duet, both male and female voices can be heard from it. In 's DuckTales , Louie is portrayed as the most laid-back of the brothers. While adventurous in his own right, Louie would much rather loaf around on the couch while watching TV all day.
For all his laziness, Louie is also incredibly crafty and intelligent. Like Scrooge, he loves treasure, having grown under the assumption that his life will be easier with more money due to being raised by his broken uncle, [8] but doesn't want to actually put in the work to earn an honest living. Instead, he resorts to creating "get-rich-quick" schemes in hopes of making a buck by doing as little work as possible.
Louie takes after Gladstone Gander in this regard, whom he affectionately refers to as "Uncle Gladstone". Because of his mischievous ways, Huey, Dewey and Webby refer to Louie as the "evil triplet", which he takes in stride. Louie has a moral compass, however. Though he loves money, he will never resort to endangering others for the sake of getting it. In fact, Louie is the most vulnerable and emotional of the triplets.
Behind his mellow attitude, he is somewhat of a coward, which plays into why he'd rather lounge around at home than partake in Scrooge's adventures. In most of their animated portrayals, the nephews speak with a similar "duck speech" as their Uncle Donald. As such, Clarence Nash - who originated the voice of Donald - gave the boys the exact same trick voice as their uncle, which lasted for a number of decades until the s. From the '60s onward, there was an effort to make the boys more intelligible than Donald, while still maintaining a duck-like quality in their voices.
This began with the Mellomen , who voiced the boys in the animated educational films Scrooge McDuck and Money and Donald's Fire Survival Plan , but was cemented with the introduction of Russi Taylor in the late s. Russi's portrayal of the triplets was so well-received that she continued to voice them in a majority of their speaking roles until her death in In the episode " Duck to the Future ", adult versions of the triplets were voiced by Hal Smith.
Daily voices Louie. Development of an animated short centering the nephews of Walt Disney 's popular character, Donald Duck, had already been underway by The idea of Donald's nephews came from Al Taliaferro , who served as an artist for Disney's Silly Symphonies comic strip. It has also been noted that the duck triplets were influenced by Mickey Mouse 's nephews, Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse. Before the short's completion, Taliaferro featured the nephews in the comic strip simply titled Donald's Nephews , released on October 17 , Huey, Dewey, and Louie in their first animated appearance, Donald's Nephews.
Six months afterward, the short of the same name would debut on April 15 , , and marked Huey, Dewey, and Louie's first animated appearance. In the short, Huey, Dewey, and Louie were portrayed as wily and mischievous, while Donald's perspective was an exaggerated look at the difficulties of parenting. The tone, like most of Donald's cartoons, was comedic and filled with adversarial hijinks, and this battle-of-wits relationship between Donald and the boys would become a staple in the former's animated career from that moment forward.
Over the span of 27 theatrical short cartoons, Huey, Dewey, and Louie were amongst Donald Duck's most frequent adversaries rivaled only by Chip and Dale , who first encountered Donald in They were interchangeable, having the exact same physical appearance, personality traits, and voices usually provided by Clarence "Ducky" Nash , who also voiced Donald.
Their colors varied by short except red, which had always appeared on at least one of the triplets sans 's The Nifty Nineties , where they all wore blue. Throughout the late '40s and s, all three of the nephews wore red. Over the course of their career, while still filled with comedic slapstick, the relationship between the boys and Donald became slightly more domesticated and down-to-earth.
In 's The New Spirit , for example, Donald listed the boys as his dependents on his tax form, which also stated that they were legally adopted by him. As the name suggests, it starred Scrooge McDuck , a character created by Carl Barks for Disney comic strips, who first appeared two decades earlier in The boys had previously interacted with Scrooge regularly on the printed page, but never before in animation until this point.
The boys would not appear on the silver screen again until 's Mickey's Christmas Carol , where they were briefly seen trimming a Christmas tree during Fezziwig 's party. In the television special, the boys team up with Scrooge and Goofy to win back the latter's coveted trophy by beating the Beagle Boys in a soccer game.
Russi Taylor most famously known for her work as Minnie Mouse voiced the boys for the first time here, and she would reprise her role numerous times in the following decades. Months later marked the debut of DuckTales , an animated series part of the Disney Afternoon television block.
It was based on the Carl Barks Uncle Scrooge comics and centered the miserly duck on his globe-trotting adventures, with Huey, Dewey, and Louie under his care following Donald's enlistment in the U. The short established what would become Huey, Dewey, and Louie's trademark colors: red, blue and green. Disney archivist Dave Smith once said, "Note that the brightest hue of the three is red Huey , the color of water, dew, is blue Dewey , and that leaves Louie, and leaves are green.
In , after the huge success of DuckTales , Huey, Dewey, and Louie would star in their own series, Quack Pack , which significantly featured them as teenagers.
The series ran for one season, and a total of 39 episodes. In , Disney debuted a reboot of DuckTales. The producers of the series made an effort to develop the nephews into their own, individual characters. They also established that the order of how audiences say their names - "Huey, Dewey, and Louie" - is also the order of their birth. The boys later starred in the animated television series DuckTales as the main protagonists, in which they appeared in adventures with their great-uncle Scrooge McDuck due to Donald having enlisted in the U.
The boys' personalities were mainly based on their comic book appearances as opposed to the ones in the theatrical shorts. The series focuses on the boys' life with Scrooge while Donald is off serving in the Navy. Throughout the course of the series, the boys come to know various characters such as Launchpad McQuack Scrooge's personal pilot and bumbling sidekick , Gyro Gearloose a wacky inventor who's convoluted inventions constantly cause mayhem in Duckburg , Scrooge's maid Mrs.
Beakley and her granddaughter Webby. A giant firecracker exploded under his chair. The little darlings are so playful. I hope you enjoy them. With open arms and a willing heart, Donald welcomed his nephews into his home.
So what happened to their dad? This is the last we really hear about their dad. On other depictions of the family tree, their dad is seen as a nameless face beside his wife.
Drawing from what little information is available, Daddy Duck either died in the hospital or abandoned his kids and fled as far away as possible to avoid any more of their high jinks. Dumbella Duck, aka Della, is a bit more complicated of a case. On this line thinking, some fans have suggested that Dumbella, Della, and Thelma are different characters, while others argue that Della is just short for Dumbella.
For instance, in the comic book series, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck , written in the mids, Donald and Della were shown wearing identical sailor outfits as kids and depicted not only as siblings, but as twins. However, when they put the boys in the cartoon, they decided to explain where the characters came from in a way that made a little more sense; so Donald ended with a sister, instead of a cousin, sending him his nephews.
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