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Topic: Barefoot Gyro
(38 messages)
Fernando Ventura
Barefoot Gyro
Message 31 -
2011-10-10 at 17:13:38
Usually Matilda is afraid of Gyro trying to use some of his inventions to improve the restaurant work.
Quackberg
Barefoot Gyro
Message 32 -
2011-10-20 at 00:35:45
When I got the birds with human feet (and ears) more to my attention and tried to give myself a "realistic" answer, I started to think that they are build up in that way becasue they have bird and dog parents/ ancestors (or pigs, mice etc.) and their genes carries on to their children. In real life this wouldn't work but I don't want to see the people in the Duck/ Mouse Universe too much segregated and I have also seen in the comics at times two different animals married/ together so I think it's reasonable to think that.
So I think it's possible that Gyro has a dog ancestor on his family tree.
So I think it's possible that Gyro has a dog ancestor on his family tree.
Furienna
Barefoot Gyro
Message 33 -
2011-10-22 at 11:33:02
That's actually a good theory, Quackberg.
Quackberg
Barefoot Gyro
Message 34 -
2011-10-24 at 18:44:18
Quote from user: FuriennaThat's actually a good theory, Quackberg.
Thank you :)
Thank you :)
MrCleveland
Barefoot Gyro
Message 35 -
2011-11-04 at 19:25:05
Quote from user: Gerd SyllwasschyChicken ... eagle ... maybe we should settle for "chicken hawk"?
Quote from user: ramapithI won't try to figure out why he's got human feet!
Gyro has a "human" body, as opposed to the Ducks' bent-over posture which makes their waddle feet look more natural. Try to imagine Gyro without pants, this wouldn't really work either.
True...
As I saw in 2 scans in the "Full Frontal" Thread...Gyro not only has human feet and body...but...yeah...he has a butt too!
Quote from user: ramapithI won't try to figure out why he's got human feet!
Gyro has a "human" body, as opposed to the Ducks' bent-over posture which makes their waddle feet look more natural. Try to imagine Gyro without pants, this wouldn't really work either.
True...
As I saw in 2 scans in the "Full Frontal" Thread...Gyro not only has human feet and body...but...yeah...he has a butt too!
Coolwater
Barefoot Gyro
Message 36 -
2011-11-05 at 10:01:49
Especially among the taller bird-likes, rather humanoid body shapes are not rare. Here are examples for two other guys having a bird face, but "human" feet (the guy on the second picture has even hyper-humanised feet, having more than five toes on his foot):
WDC 266:
http://coa.inducks.org/hr.php?image=http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2006/09/us_wdc_266_02_001.jpg&normalsize=1
WDC 276:
http://coa.inducks.org/hr.php?image=http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2006/09/us_wdc_276_02_001.jpg&normalsize=1
I don't regard that as a big problem or mystery. In the world of the Ducks one sees a great variety of body shapes and many levels and grades between animal- and humanlikeness (calling "human" and "humanoid" that what we in our world understand as such--in Duckburg, however, somebody with an even strongly animal-like shaped body does not really seem to be regarded as less "human" than somebody looking "human" according to our scale), whatever the evolutionary reasons for that are. Also among the dog-faced people there's a variety between more and less human look: some have dog-style hanging ears, others have human-like shaped ears; some have pronounced snouts, while others have absolutely flat faces, like humans in our world. Variety, however, is also among the small duck-likes (and even within the family Duck), with some having "human" hair and others not.
WDC 266:
http://coa.inducks.org/hr.php?image=http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2006/09/us_wdc_266_02_001.jpg&normalsize=1
WDC 276:
http://coa.inducks.org/hr.php?image=http://outducks.org/webusers/webusers/2006/09/us_wdc_276_02_001.jpg&normalsize=1
I don't regard that as a big problem or mystery. In the world of the Ducks one sees a great variety of body shapes and many levels and grades between animal- and humanlikeness (calling "human" and "humanoid" that what we in our world understand as such--in Duckburg, however, somebody with an even strongly animal-like shaped body does not really seem to be regarded as less "human" than somebody looking "human" according to our scale), whatever the evolutionary reasons for that are. Also among the dog-faced people there's a variety between more and less human look: some have dog-style hanging ears, others have human-like shaped ears; some have pronounced snouts, while others have absolutely flat faces, like humans in our world. Variety, however, is also among the small duck-likes (and even within the family Duck), with some having "human" hair and others not.
Dutch Duckfan Down Under
Barefoot Gyro
Message 37 -
2011-11-05 at 15:48:46
There seems to be some kink in evolution in the comics that seems to divide every species into both "human-like" and "animal-like". Barks showed us stuffed ducks in "The Gilded Man", little rodent mice have been running around Disney since the mid-20s, there's Goofy and Pluto, and many dogfaced characters (Jones, lots of others) live next to pet dogs (Pluto, Bolivar, General Snozzie). Even pigs have this: in the early Mickey strips (and I'll fondly direct you to your copy of Mickey Mouse: Race to Death Valley now) there are actual pigs running around on the barn, and a few strips later we get Peter and Patricia Pig, two lost characters of the 1930s. You might also remember Duckburg's pig mayor. Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar are special examples, because they were two barn animals in the old cartoon "The Plow Boy" (1929?) that had human-like intelligence.
Yes, evolution is a strange thing in the Disney comic universe...
Yes, evolution is a strange thing in the Disney comic universe...
Lars Jensen
Barefoot Gyro
Message 38 -
2011-11-05 at 16:33:53
Quote from user: Dutch Duckfan Down Undera few strips later we get Peter and Patricia Pig, two lost characters of the 1930s.
Patricia and Percy (not Peter!) are hardly lost characters -- they're still being used. Although not much, I admit.
Patricia and Percy (not Peter!) are hardly lost characters -- they're still being used. Although not much, I admit.