Can I ask what’s so wrong about Della Duck? Because I had a Della Duck blog follow me when I first made mine, and now I kinda wanna know why yours is a hate page 😂
Oh my god. There are so many reasons I dislike her.
First off, she knowingly did something really, really bad, days before her children were expected to be born. Considering they’re ducks, they were eggs, and she wasn’t actively pregnant, but she still endangered her own life like that.
The bad thing in question was stealing a rocket ship, going into space alone, and abandoning her unborn children. Her claim is that she wanted to “give them the stars”. (The subtext, if you pay attention to the backstory episode, is that she didn’t want children at all)
So anyway, she got lost in space and her children grew up without her. I’m not faulting her for getting lost or anything, I’m just faulting her for making such a horrible decision and being that selfish.
And that’s not even my main qualm with her.
When she does get back, it just so happens that Donald Duck, who raised the kids, is away.
With him gone for the month, someone needs to take care of the kids. But she immediately tries to insert herself into their lives specifically in the role of “mom”. And she does it horribly.
Within the first day, she directly causes her kids to get sick and injured (and traumatized, because she told them an R rated bedtime story!)
She also encourages one of her kids to steal a plane with her (and stranding a family member in the middle of nowhere by doing this), and then break into a place designed to be a shelter for the apocalypse, destroying it in the process, endangering her son’s life.. so they can see a cool tree.
Another time, she led her autistic (coded, not canon) son into a meltdown because she didn’t like the way he liked playing his favorite video game.
And here’s the big one.
Her other son (cause she has triplets) did something pretty bad. Like a good parent, she grounded him. A lot of people think that we have a problem with the fact that he got grounded. No! He deserved to be grounded!
The problem is how Della handled it. She took away one of his biggest dreams. She forced him to go to his room, alone, after he went through an incredibly traumatizing experience. His family vanished from existence. He was the only one left. He was scared out of his mind. And she made him go be alone after that?
She handled that entire situation horribly.
And then! When he was grounded! She decided to take the whole family on a fun vacation! Specifically to the one place he ever wanted to go. He’s forced along on trips he hates almost every day, but the one time he desperately wants to go somewhere.. he’s left alone.
An 11 year old boy was left home alone while his whole family went out (on an overnight trip, mind you).
His only babysitter was a robot that was created by a guy who has a reputation for only being able to create very evil things. The robot fired lasers at the boy, btw.
The cherry on top is that Della left a video for Louie to watch! About why he’s a bad person! And! She threatened his place in the family!
She’d barely been back for a few weeks at this point, remember.
He was a kid who made a poor choice of judgment and did a bad thing. He didn’t deserve the emotional abuse that ensued.
On halloween, Della also advocated for legitimately traumatizing children, so.
As someone who was “jokingly” attacked by an adult like that on Halloween once, that made me really upset.
I have a million more reasons, but these are the ones I could think of right now. Della is an awful parent and doesn’t deserve praise. Thank u for coming to my Ted Talk
