In the Ducktales series, Uncle Scrooge is famous for highdiving into his money bin.
I've always wondered how he does it without hurting himself. Wouldn't he bang his head and knock himself out? Is there an in-universe explanation?
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381He makes sure that all his funds are in liquid assets.– Mike ScottNov 14, 2017 at 17:51
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6scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11519/…– TheAshNov 14, 2017 at 20:19
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141You have a cartoon with intelligent, talking, civilized animals and "dive into money without hurting" is what breaks the suspension of disbelief? :)– DVK-on-Ahch-ToNov 15, 2017 at 6:22
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45You're not the first one to wonder about this. In the comics, there is no explanation as to how he does it (because, well, you really can't do this), but it is at least made clear this is a skill unique to Scrooge -- when the Beagle Boys did it, they just landed on a very hard pile of gold.– Jeroen MostertNov 15, 2017 at 11:29
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13To wake for an answer, but as a kid I once read a comic, where some adversaries (I think the Beagle Boys) where defeated by letting them try to dive and knock themselves out in the process. So it was used as a plot device even.– kratenkoNov 15, 2017 at 12:37
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It took him years of practice.
This question was finally answered in-universe in the new Ducktales S01E3 "The Great Dime Chase":
[Huey attempts to dive]
Scrooge: Are you out of your head? You'll crack your skull open!
Huey: But you swim in money all the time!
Scrooge: Yes, but I worked hard to perfect that skill, building muscles and dexterity.
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9I don't think this is even an answer. If we knew the technique he practiced for example ... I btw always thought he was able to because he is a cartoon duck Nov 14, 2017 at 17:29
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22@Raditz_35 There wouldn't be a realistic technique for doing that. I assume it was the show poking fun at the idea of a pool of money.– JMacNov 14, 2017 at 17:31
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8@Raditz_35 The show felt it was indeed an answer, or at least a skill that can be learned....– TheAshNov 14, 2017 at 17:32
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3He seems to be saying "Yes, but I worked hard to perfect that skill", not what is currently written.– HarrisNov 15, 2017 at 1:43
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12I always assumed that scrooge was more dense than his gold... Nov 15, 2017 at 4:21
In the comics there is also an explanation: in the eleventh part of the comic book The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, by Don Rosa (The Empire-Builder from Calisota), where Scrooge is pushed off a cliff by some bandits planning to hijack his train full of gold.
"[...] Scrooge thought "it's the end" but he miraculously found that he could dive through the hard metal coins as if they were liquid [...] Apparently, his years of bathing and burrowing through his money had taught him some instinctive trick [...]".
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31This doesn't really explain anything, though, as Barks (wisely) avoids going into detail about how an ability to "bathe and burrow" through his money (which is already implausible, especially if he moved to any significant depth) would extrapolate to suddenly becoming able to dive into it with great force. The cheeky "it works only in cash" is the icing on the cake. A masterful application of handwaving. :-) Nov 15, 2017 at 18:33
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33@JeroenMostert yeah, absolutely right. Mind you, it also doesn't explain how an intelligent talking duck exists either.– gbjbaanbNov 15, 2017 at 19:24
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3@JeroenMostert - Note: Don Rosa, not Carl Barks. Don would be the last person to claim credit for something Barks used first - it's only fair to note what Don himself added to the canon.– RDFozzNov 15, 2017 at 19:33
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2@gbjbaanb: but that's different. The talking duck is clearly a given, and asking how talking ducks exist in the Ducktales universe would just be silly. :-) Nov 15, 2017 at 20:33
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9And don't forget that Barks addressed this in his very first full-length Uncle Scrooge story "Only a Poor Old Man". imgur.com/a/ivTc6 Nov 16, 2017 at 17:18