List of fictional ducks
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Disney cartoon ducks
Disney animators have created an entire universe of ducks; most are modeled after the Pekin duck.
Residents of Disney's Duckburg and the Donald Duck/Scrooge McDuck universes
- Scrooge McDuck
- Huey, Dewey, and Louie and their lost brother Phooey Duck
- Mrs. Beakley
- Webby Vanderquack
- Launchpad McQuack
- Doofus Drake
- Flintheart Glomgold
- Magica De Spell
- Fenton Crackshell and his mother Mrs. Crackshell
- Donald Duck
- Daisy Duck
- Gladstone Gander
- Brigitta MacBridge
- Bubba the Caveduck
- Daphne Duck
- Della Duck
- Downy O'Drake
- Eider Duck
- Fethry Duck
- April, May and June Duck
- Humperdink Duck
- Pintail Duck
- Quackmore Duck
- Clan McDuck
Residents of Disney's St. Canard exclusive to Darkwing Duck
Characters of Disney's The Mighty Ducks
- Wildwing Flashblade
- Nosedive Flashblade
- Duke L'Orange
- Mallory McMallard
- Tanya Vanderflock
- Check "Grin" Hardwing
- Canard Thunderbeak
Characters of Disney's PKNA
- Paperinik
- Allies
- Uno / Odin Eidolon
- Lyla Lay
- Everett Ducklair
- Evroniani/Evronians
- Zoster
- Zondag
- Zargon
- Gorthan
- Grrodon
- Trauma
- Others
- Stephan Vladuck/Camera 9
- Urk
- Ducklas Styvesant
Other characters
- Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow
- Abby Mallard 'The Ugly Duckling'
- Moby Duck
- Ludwig Von Drake
Warner Brothers ducks
- Daffy Duck / Duck Dodgers
One of the main Looney Tunes characters and his alias from the Duck Dodgers spin-off series. - Mrs. Daffy Duck (Daphne Duck)
Daffy's dominant wife, known as Daphne Duck in one cartoon. - Danger Duck
Daffy's descendant from Loonatics Unleashed. - Melissa Duck
Daffy's girlfriend from the original cartoons and a main character in the Baby Looney Tunes series. - Plucky Duck (from Tiny Toon Adventures)
A character inspired by Daffy Duck. - Shirley the Loon (from Tiny Toon Adventures)
A character inspired by Melissa Duck, but technically a loon not a duck.
Other cartoon ducks
- Ace Duck, a duck pilot in TMNT.
- Baby Huey, no relation to Disney's Huey
- Bill from Sitting Ducks TV series by Canadian artist Michael Bedard
- Yakky Doodle, a Hanna-Barbera character
- Count Duckula, a vampire duck originally from the British television series Dangermouse. Count Duckula later starred in a cartoon series of his own.
- Croppy the Pule Duck, a fictional duck in a fictional holiday of "Pule" (from pie and yule), featured in an episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Croppy gives good kids apple or cherry pies, and the naughty ones get mince.[1][2]
- Deadeye Duck, a four-armed former space pirate duck and member of Bucky O'Hare's crew.
- Deputy Duck, a duck police Slylock Fox
- Dr. Quackberry, Pinata Island's resident doctor, reminiscent of Groucho Marx, from Viva Pinata
- Duck, elderly valley resident from Skunk Fu; expert at making dim sum.
- Duck, a duck transformed into a girl in the anime Princess Tutu.
- Duck, one of the main characters of the animated film originally called Down and Dirty Duck, but marketed as Dirty Duck, directed by Charles Swenson and starring Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan (Flo & Eddie).
- Duckman, a former USA Network animated character known for his raunchy behavior and foul mouth.
- Mulligan Ducks, in My Gym Partner's A Monkey
- Ming-Ming Duckling, a duck in Wonderpets.
- Alfred J. Kwak, Dutch cartoon character
- Turtle Ducks of Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Pato, from the children's cartoon Pocoyo
- Guard Duck, from Stephan Pastis' Pearls Before Swine
- Quacker from Tom and Jerry
- Quackula, from The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle
- Quasi, Anita and Snozzy from Sally Cruikshank's Quasi cartoons
- Queer Duck, full name Adam Seymour Duckstein
- Wade Duck, from the US Acres segments on Garfield and Friends
- Dr. Quack, the doctor/veterinarian from the now popular Webkinz World, a children's gaming site accessed by secret codes found on the tags of Webkinz stuffed animals
- Gooseberry Sprig the duck duke, comic-strip character created by George Herriman, later appeared in Herriman's Krazy Kat
- Mock Duck, a fowl of Chinese descent who resembles a coolie and operates a cleaning establishment
- Mrs. Katalpa Kwakk Wakk, a duck in a pillbox hat, is a scold who frequently notices Ignatz in the course of his plotting and then informs Officer Pupp.
Other comics
- Arne Anka
- Arthur, from Sheldon (webcomic)
- Dirty Duck from the comic strip of the same name by Bobby London
- Destroyer Duck comic book
- Dr. Quack, doctor from the Sonic the Hedgehog comic.
- El Drako, a character created by Mike Friedrich and Steve Leialoha in Quack! Comics, published by Star Reach.
- Fifi the Duck, character in the Marvel Comics universe.
- Howard the Duck, character in the Marvel Comics universe.
- Kvak the family pet duck from Hägar the Horrible.
- Mailman Duck, postal carrier in Pogo
- In the anime and manga series One Piece, Princess Nefertari Vivi has a pet duck.
- Mousse from the popular manga Ranma ½ transforms into a duck when doused with cold water.
- Rubberduck from Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew (DC Comics)
- Truman, from Frank Cho's Liberty Meadows
- Mallard Fillmore, protagonist of the eponymous conservative political comic strip
Live or costumed ducks on television and film
- The Chick and The Duck from American sitcom Friends
- The Aflac duck
- Dooby Duck's Disco Bus
- Gertrude, Hans Belker's pet and companion from the film Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Orville the Duck
- Edd the Duck
- Howard - "Howard The Duck" aka "Howard: A New Breed of Hero" (1986)
- Ferdinand from the movie Babe
- Tom Holden
- Saturnin [1] from 1960s French children's tv show "Les Aventures de Saturnin"
- Woody Woodbine the cycling duck (appeared on Blue Peter sometime in the mid 80s. He cycled through two hoops and into a bowl of salt).
- Dynamo Duck from The adventures of Dynamo Duck, voiced by Dan Castellaneta
- Plucka Duck from the Australian television program Hey Hey It's Saturday
- The starring duck from the 2005 film Duck.
- Elfrida Beetle in The Shooting Party.
- Watson, duck sidekick to Dr. Nitwhite, Between the Lions
Ducks in literature and song
- The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen (In the end not actually a duckling, but a Cygnet)
- Jemima Puddle-Duck and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Rebeccah Puddle-Duck, in The Tale of Tom Kitten and The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter
- Jim Dodge's novel Fup is about a duck named Fup.
- The duck in the traditional song "Froggy would a-wooing go"
- Ping from The Story of Ping.
- Freda the duck from the "Key to Rondo" series
- The duck from Peter and the Wolf. (Known as Sonya in the Disney version from Make Mine Music.
- Ducks in Four Ducks on a Pond by William Allingham.
- Duck in Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell and Helen Oxenbury.
- Ducks in Ducks are a Dabbling, poem in Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
- Mr. and Mrs. Mallard and their children from Robert McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings.
- The titular ducks from Angus and the Ducks by Marjorie Flack.
- Dab-dab the duck, one of Dr. Doolittle's close companions in Hugh Lofting's series of books.
- The title character in Duck and His Friends, illustrated by Richard Scarry.
- The duckling who couldn't help chuckling at the bear's sentimental air, in L. Leslie Brooke's Johnny Crow's Party.
- The title fowl in John Masefield's The Wild Duck.
- The ducks for whom the weather is lovely in Lovely Weather for Ducks, a song by the songwriting team of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.
- The subject of Burl Ives' song, Little White Duck.
- Duck separated the water from the land at the behest of Eagle and Crow in the Yokut Creation Myth.
- In Hungarian mythology, the Sun takes the form of a golden diving-duck to retrieve the first living creatures from the bottom of the sea.
- In a Spokan myth, Duck takes revenge on Coyote, who stole Duck's wife, by blowing on him until Coyote freezes to death.
- The disco hit "Disco Duck" by Rick Dees: "All of a sudden I began to change, I was on the dance floor acting strange, Flapping my arms I began to cluck, Look at me.., I'm the disco duck"
- A locomotive named Duck, as in Duck and the Diesel Engine by the Rev W Awdrey.
- "I Want a New Duck", parody of Huey Lewis and the News's hit, "I Want a New Drug", by "Weird Al" Yankovic
- Andy's rubber ducky in the Just series by Andy Griffiths. A mutated duck also appears on the cover of Just Disgusting
- In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden asks several people about and thinks about what the ducks of Central park do during the winter.
- In Sarah Varon's graphic novel "Robot Dreams," the title character's canine friend goes on vacation with a family of ducks who later move to Florida.
- In the children's book Duck For President, the self-named Duck moves up the political ladder from head of a farm to President of the United States.
- An injured wild duck living in an attic in Henrik Ibsen's play The Wild Duck
Duck mascots
- University of Oregon's Oregon Duck, mascot of the Oregon Ducks
- Stevens Institute of Technology's Attila the Duck, mascot of the Stevens Ducks
- Long Island Ducks minor league baseball team.
- The Mighty Ducks (Self-selected name of a fictional youth hockey team from the titular movie series)
- National Hockey League's Anaheim Ducks (originally the Mighty Ducks, named after the Mighty Ducks movies)
- International Hockey League's Quad City Mallards.
- Northwoods League summer college wood-bat Madison Mallards.
- Millard the Mallard of WRVA Richmond, Virginia.
- Trust E. Duck, the duck from Duck Products' adhesives.
- Richland College's Thunderducks
- Taylor High School Ducks in Taylor, Texas. Name taken from first football coach, Coach Drake.
Other media
- Bean the Dynamite from the Sonic the Hedgehog video games and comics.
- Derwin, Mallary, Pate and Scoot from the Animal Crossing video-games
- Duckman Drake, a humanoid shotgun-wielding duck from the TimeSplitters video games
- Le Quack From Courage The Cowardly Dog
- Montague, a steam engine from The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry is better known as Duck.
- Ernie's rubber ducky from Sesame Street.
- Ty characters Jake, Quackers, Allegro, Splash, Flip Flop, Gemma, Duck-e, Puddles, and Huggyducky.
- The game Duck Hunt (1984) for the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) involved aiming the supplied Nintendo Zapper Light Gun, plugged into the NES console, and attempting to shoot down either ducks or clay pigeons in mid-flight.
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots features a duck mascot called "Ga-Ko".
- Toilet Duck
- Sgt. Joe, Rhett, Wilder, and the entire Duck clan from the video game Suikoden III.
- Dr. Dell, a character from the video game Dark Chronicle.