Gyro Gearloose
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| Gyro Gearloose | |
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Gyro Gearloose, as seen in DuckTales. |
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| First appearance | "Gladstone's Terrible Secret" in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #140, 1952 |
| Created by | Carl Barks |
| Voiced by | Hal Smith |
Gyro Gearloose is a fictional character, an anthropomorphic fowl created by Carl Barks for The Walt Disney Company. He is part of the Scrooge McDuck universe, appearing in comic book stories as a friend of Donald Duck, Scrooge and anyone who is associated with them.
Gyro is Duckburg's most famous inventor, even though his inventions don't always work the way he wants them to. His outrageous productivity is presented as a factor in the quality of his inventions; because he always comes up with new ideas, his inventions often lack an important feature that will often cause trouble for Scrooge or Donald who have bought the invention. He is known as being good-natured towards others. Gyro is often assisted by his Little Helper (or just "Helper"), who is a small anthropomorphic robot with a light bulb for a head.
Some of Gyro's relatives include his father Fulton Gearloose, his grandfather Ratchet Gearloose, and Newton Gearloose, his nephew. In some stories, Gyro's primary rival is Emil Eagle although he is also antagonized by the Beagle Boys and Magica De Spell.
In the 1987 animated series DuckTales, Hal Smith supplied Gyro's voice. Among Gyro's noteworthy inventions in the series was the creation of the GizmoDuck suit, intended to be worn by a security guard for Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin.
Contrary to his entry in Don Markstein's Toonopedia, Gyro never once appeared on House of Mouse.
In the Toontown universe Gyro created the cogs, the main antagonists of the game. They are grim business-men-like robots, who can't take a joke, so to take care of the infestation, the toons, (the main protagonists of the game) destroy them with gags, such as squirting seltzer water and throwing pies at them.
