Duck Guy: How to Fix a Basic Character
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- Опубликовано: 17 мар 2023
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Duck is a great example of how to make a jerk character funny, and given how Duck only agreed to search for Yellow Guy because he finished his picnic…yeah, I can definitely see him as a jerk character. Maybe you could argue that those events were only in Yellow Guy’s dream, but that’s still how Yellow Guy thinks of Duck.
It's honestly pretty funny that of all the failed, unbearable jerk characters that have existed over the past few years, the most endearing, funniest jerk character is a duck puppet.
He reminds me of Master Shake! 😂🤣
“HE RUINED IT! I’M NEVER GONNA SEE THAT SKELETON!”
"I HATE YOU!"
@@Crow_Is_My_Pookiewhat the- *I’M DEALING WITH IT!!!*
DHMIS is just one of those shows that are a blast to write fanfics about. The characters are so fleshed out and have so much chemistry, you don't really have to think that hard when coming up with scenarios and about how they'd react.
This is how ive always viewed them: The trio are a family but theyre all different generations. Yellow Guy is childhood, Red Guy is early to mid adulthood, and Duck is the older generation. Yellow Guy is self explanatory, Red Guy is constantly searching for ways to leave the house, which could be interpreted as him growing up and moving on, maybe even taking the father role with Yellow. Duck is the grandparent generation, knowing enough to function but not enough to thrive in this current time like being a little too harsh to Yellow Guy as a way of discipline or teaching, always trying to insert himself into the situation so as not to be forgotten about, and trying to help or take over the parental role entirely because Red isnt doing it right. Idk its just so funny to me imagining them like this, Red guy trying to raise Yellow with Duck barging in trying to show him how its done (and ultimately failing)
I just thought yellow guy was childish, red guy was mature, and duck guy acts like an old person
I am forever obsessed with just how well DHMIS is done. there is SO much effort put into it, and it truly allows for one of the best series of all time, in my opinion. this is the kind of content I want to create someday
Makes sense that he'd carry the jerk role; most trios tend to be idiot, ignored voice of reason, jerk (Ed Edd n' Eddy, Meatwad Frylock and Shake, Billy Grim and Mandy). With the other two roles filled by the other two members, there's nowhere else Duck Guy would go.
I never thought i'd see Ed Edd n' Eddy and DHMIS mentioned in one comment...
Easily my favorite character. Him along with red guy are level headed and questioning the teachers teaching
I would say that with Duck Guy, they took what were minor aspects of his personality in the web series and expanded on it. Duck Guy did have some Jerky moments in the web series too, like insisting on looking for Yellow Guy AFTER they finish the chicken.
I’m surprised you didn’t bring up how Duck is seen reading a “Right Wing” newspaper in the web series, which is expanded upon in the show by him making Krypto and Worshipping the military lol.
duck carried the ending gag of the first 3 of the tv series
1 - had a coin stabbed into his eye
2 - chopping stain's head off
3 - I WANT BOTH
I like how Thomas from Regular Show is basically a direct parody of this trope
I think the best example of a basic, nothing character being fixed is Rob from the Amazing World of Gumball. He starts off as a nothing background character with virtually no role in show, and is recognized as such as time goes on. Come season 3, Rob is made into the show’s main villain, and his main motivation for that is because of his role as a nothing person. (Now of course he was erased from existence first but y’know)
He was there from the beginning?
@@cosmicspacething3474 yeah.
I miss Rob and The Amazing World of Gumball
I feel another character who has a similar issue (ironically also coming from a Web series) is Millie from Helluva Boss.
Like Duck Guy, she really only gets bits and pieces of characterization which makes her fairly weaker compared to the rest of the cast.
Only difference is that Duck Guy would go on to have great characterization in the show.
All the female members of IMP are like this. Moxxie and biltzo get entire episodes dedicated to their backstories and relationships. Mean while Luna and millie get the bare minimum.
@@chantelljordan3670 True, but I would argue Loona at the very least got a handful of episodes that focused on her, whereas Millie is always just along for the ride. I see your point tho.
Now we have a fourth member of the characterless club here are the members
Web series duck guy
Bucky
Stereo
Millie
Any characters with the same issue like these four
Vivziepop's writting (in my opinion-) is bad
Duck guy is the ✨️✨️material gorl💅💅💅
“I don’t know these emotions.” Aggressively pushes button stand over
I would argue that it's okay for a filler/support character to exist. People like Yomi from Azumanga Daioh and Jadzia Dax from DS9 work excellently as supporting roles to the rest of the cast.
My favorite! I can't help loving that saucy attitude
Yeah! And Duck too!
Thinking about it, another character that's similar to OG Duck, Bucky and Stereo would be Starlight from My Little Pony Tales (1992).
Compared to the others, you don't really learn that much about Starlight. Sure, she takes on a leader role from time to time and works at the ice cream parlor that the other ponies hang out at, but that's about it really. There's only one episode that where she's the main focus and it's about her crushing on a boy. Bear in mind the series ran for thirteen episodes, so it doesn't really add anymore depth to her character. There were comics released in the UK, so maybe they flesh out Starlight there, but I don't know for sure. 💫
Duck is by far my favourite.
Over the course of the series, Duck has killed:
- a butterfly (Pesky bee no. 1)
- a maggot (Pesky bee no. 2)
- Warren (Pesky bee no. 3)
- a copy of himself (in the Death episode, i still don't know if it was the real Duck killing Stain-duck, or the other way)
- a bread child (in the Family episode)
- a fly (in the Transport episode)
Also, in Friendship episode he mentions "documents that led to many deaths".
DUCK IS CANONICALLY A SERIAL KILLER
But what about his shredder?
His personal home shredder?
@@redacculous His shreeeeedddddeeerr~
Yes yes and his shredder
I don't know if it's official, but Duck Guy actually has an auto-biography about his personal home shredder called "What about my shredder?: My personal shredder?" For the quotes on the back, it's the other two characters and all they say is:
"I'm friends with my dad." - that one
"This book is really boring. It's just "What about my shredder" over and over again." - the other one
Red Guy is correct, the entire book is just Duck Guy's solo "What about my sshhhhhhhhrrrrrreddddddaaaaahhhhhh? My personal sshhhhhhhhrrrrrreddddddaaaaahhhhhh?" over and over again. Just full pages of it nonstop. It's on Amazon and TV Tropes has a link to it.
i relate to duck the most,, most people relate to Red guy but i really kin the Duck,, i was already kinning him in the original web serie actually so seing him react the same way as me during the season 2 was really funny,, like the scene where the Family song start to get messy with random letters,, i was litterally writing down every letters during the song to see if it meant a word and then saw Duck did the same and reacted the same way with the "thats not a word" or the fact that hes bored and want a job but hate every job given to him and get fired,, the fact that he see himself as the family chef of is friend,, getting pissed by stupid things,, him counting stuff with is own way,, HE DIED BECAUSE HE FORGOT TO DRINK WATER !! i never drink water ! the rock thing is so relatable too
Is that where the "Duck's the best" song from that one Sonic RUclips channel came from? The fact that Duck really is the best?
Man I love this show, great video!
One character like that type was Tord from eddsworld. Back then all the characters were the same with the only things different were the things they liked. The real reason Tord was written off to leave was because he didn’t like how the fans treated him and as the three remaining characters got more different from each other, tord came back in the finale as a villain who wanted to take over the world which is hard to see in the old episodes except from him having violent tendencies.
duck is the peggy hill of dhmis (and i love peggy hill)
They fixed him and gave him more to offer
I think it helped his tv show personality was kinda pulled from the fandom interpretation of him. They already knew what fans wanted!
One way they could’ve fixed Stereo in Space Goofs is by having both his heads bicker with each other and have conflicting personalities.
methinks ling-ling falls under the stereo syndrome, i can't really remember any important episode he had other then the clum babies episode and the super nanny episode
Random DHMIS fun fact: I think Duck Guy (webseries) voice is more high and "autotuned", while they gave him a normal one in the TV series.
Tho i might be wrong
It's kind of funny. I don't think the duck guy was intentionally supposed to come across as a jerk in the original webseries, he just made a few off-handed remarks that might've came off as negative to some viewers because of how blunt they were, most of which were targeted at yellow guy. Now in the show, this has become one of his defining character traits, and he pretty much hates yellow guy.
Lovely.
The fact that he’s playing a theme from the original ducktails game on the GBA. I think it’s the GBA I’m not sure I could be wrong.
“What about my shreeeddaaaahhhh”
I loved both this video and ADORE Duck.In every form.
But, why do you sound like Greg from Succession got fired from Waystar and this is what he does now?
Believe me, this is nothing but a compliment.
The character was too boring, had no character, and there were no stories to be had... That was the popularized classic justification for writer Gerry Conway choosing to kill Spider-Man's love interest Gwen Stacy back in 1973, a justification that ignored that Gwen Stacy being "boring" would have been the responsibility/fault of the writers. While it was long debated whether Gwen was "boring" in the first place, the "fault of the writers" part particularly seemed to show through with future movies, animated series, and even comics that did better with Gwen Stacy. Mind, further comments by Conway arguably brought his whole justification into question, and perhaps raised some questions about Conway himself. Conway openly stated the belief that only a "damaged person" could end up with a "damaged guy" like Peter Parker, and that he couldn't understand how Peter instead ended up with a "babe" (Gwen) who was "perfect". Conway went on about how Stan Lee had a fault where he'd base female characters on his(Lee's) "very attractive" "babe" wife.
Am I the only one thinking that the trio remind me of the ATHF series?
Red Guy = Frylock
Duck Guy = Master Shake
Yellow Guy = Meatwad
He is my fav
Yay!
you know I wish Ling ling did what Duck had, this would save him BIG time in drawn together
I mean, don't most of the characters in that show fall into the jerkass group?
Live laugh love Duck
I know you don't do requests but are you planning on a character quest on bucky and stereo
Never seen this series, but it sounds like a puppet version of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Can you do one about Teardrop from BFDI
*David BFDI Reference here*
You know he doesn't take request
When does things need to change tho whether is tv show or movies
Pretty sure you’re the only person who calls him duck guy and not just duck
Mark eddsworld don't see him doing anything. Eduardo doesn't do much better
Then you have the amazing world of gumball were they have a place called the void were all the world mistakes that they don't like goes there,I'm saying this because you remind me of characters like rob and molly
Engraçado eu estava fazendo uma imitação do Pato
Basically, they just made the Duck from a one-note character to a literal child murderer (I am not joking, he is canonically a child murderer).
Darn basically he oofed one of the bread kids in ep 3 of the TV series
@@Crow_Is_My_Pookie That was exactly what I was referring to lol. Did the duck murder other people too?
Well he did oof the duck clone but honestly Idk which duck got oofed
@@Crow_Is_My_Pookie Probably the main duck, since he literally murders a child in the next episode, it would seem pretty in character for the main duck to be extremely selfish and just murder the clone for no reason (since he murdered someone’s child for petty reasons in the following episode).
Well that's just a theory a film theory
Duck guy kinda reminds me of early Kenny McCormick
Basic is ok. Its easier to stay consistent if they are.
this might be the smuggest channel i've ever seen.
@@benwebb4567 Thank you!
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Nah half of that Video isnt really true