Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Scrooge McDuck originally portrayed as the epitome of greed and heartlessness in the Disney version of A Christmas Carol? And now he’s some good guy? Get the fuck outta here. Also he has a coin vault he swims in daily. Now what the fuck is that all about?
In the original Carl Barks comics, he is an exploiter, but that’s not always portrayed as a bad thing. In the stories where he goes on adventures to steal some treasure from the global south, he’s definitely meant to be seen as a hero. There’s some serious racism too.