18 facts about the real names of Disney cartoon characters

For most of us, childhood is still associated with the heroes of these cartoons… But the insidious censorship and the imagination of the translators have greatly distorted their real names. Maybe it's for the best?..

"Duck Stories"

A shrine. The first Disney series for many… So Billy, Willie, and Dilly turn out to be Huey, Dewey, and Lew.

Zigzag McQuack, an aerial eagle in the form of a duck, was indeed a McQuack, but in the original it is called Launchpad McQuack. And how could it be adequately translated? MccRack launch pad?

Ponochka (what a strange name!) initially, it seemed suspicious. And that's right, she is not a Ponochka, but Webbigail "Webby" Vanderquack — Webbigail "Webby" Vanderquack. They say webby is something like "with webbed feet".

Under the mask of the good-looking Mrs. Klyuvdia hides Mrs.. Bentina Beakley-Bentina Bickley (comes from beak — "beak").

Inadequate inventor Screw Loose-even Gyro Gearloose, Giro Girlus.

Let's end with the Havs brothers, who are no strangers to hiding their true names. Across the ocean, this gang is known as The Beagle Boys-an obvious reference to the Beagle dog breed.

"Chip and Dale rush to the rescue»

It seems that this was the second most important series of those times. Behind the euphonious and neutral "Rescuers" were hidden Rescue Rangers, that is, rangers, and this already sounds much more ominous!

Gadget, the sexiest mouse in the world, who left unhealed scars in the souls of many boys, was officially called Gadget Hackwrench. It's hard to imagine how it would sound in Russian... the Burglar thing?..

What about Rocky? Accept it — he's not Rocky, and he never was. He's a drum roll-Monterey Jack! The reason is that the Monterey Jack cheese was not very popular in our stores. But everyone knew about the Roquefort cheese.

Whizz is a Zipper, a Zipper.

Fat Cat, the main antagonist of the series, was more lucky — he became Fat Cat from Fat Cat, which, you will agree, is not very offensive.

"Miracles on bends»

Baloo was lucky, but the well-known Whale Vetrogon, a cheerful, but responsible air bully, actually bore the name Kit Cloudkicker, that is, Kit... ahem... Cloudminder?

Balamut, the permanent flight engineer of the "Dive" and part-time mad inventor, in English was called a little bland and strange-Wildcat, Wildcat.

"Black Cloak»

First of all, it went to Chae-pae himself. Darkwing Duck — that's what his name is in the original, however, the children who were the happy owners of the 8‑bit game console and the game of the same name were aware of this. His trademark cry "From the screw!"was also adapted. The authentic Chae-pae proclaimed: "Let's get dangerous! "-which can be translated as" Let's do dangerous! " or something like that.

Gusena, a rather cute, though demonic, duck, is familiar to the English-speaking viewer as Gosalyn Mallard. Something like a Mallard Goose.

Antiplash, the main enemy and villain of the local world, originally sported the name Negaduck.

"Gummi Bears»

Here we were deceived in everything. Warlock Gummy — Zummy Gummy, Grumpy-Gruffy Gummy, Granny-Grammy Gummy, Fat-Tummy Gummy, Sunny-Sunny Gummy, well, Baby-Cubby Gammy.

Ah and kavaynyy nedogoblin Podlizha. In the original, he was a Toadie, but here you can judge in two ways, whether he really is a Flatterer, a Sycophant, or some kind of Toad. Anyway, it doesn't work out very well.