And Huey, Dewey, and Louie also had voices similar to Donald's...though one would hope they would outgrow it as they got older.
As I recall, at least in
DuckTales, their voices (all Russi Taylor) were somewhat similar to Donald's, but not to the same irritating degree. More just the actress making her voice kind of screechy but still human-sounding, rather than doing that bizarre rasping thing that Clarence Nash and Tony Anselmo did.
Come to think of it, I never understood why weren't Huey, Louie, and Dewey Donald and Daisy's children? Why make them nephews?
Because that would imply that Donald and Daisy were having sex. Best to keep that kind of thing at a remove so the little kiddies don't get their brains warped. Or something.
So where ARE HDL's parents? Deceased?
Just absent, I guess:
Huey, Dewey, and Louie are the sons of Donald's sister; in Donald's Nephews, Donald's sister is named Dumbella, but in the comics, her full name is Della Thelma Duck. In the original theatrical shorts, they were originally sent to visit Donald for only one day; in the comics, the three were sent to stay with Donald on a temporary basis, until their father came back from the hospital (the boys ended up sending him there after a practical joke of putting firecrackers under his chair). In both the comics and animated shorts, the boys' parents were never heard from or referred to again after these instances, with the boys ending up permanently living with Donald, in keeping with Disney's usual elimination of characters' parents.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey,_Dewey_and_Louie
Did any of the other "anatid-people" in the Ducktales universe (and by extension the related Disney universes like Duckman and Tailspin) have the "quacky" accent?
Nope. I guess you mean
Darkwing Duck;
Duckman was a subversive adult-oriented cartoon from Klasky Csupo and Paramount. And only
Darkwing was alleged to be in the
DuckTales universe;
Talespin was a different anthropomorphic-animal reality that was a cross between
The Jungle Book and Donald Bellisario's TV series
Tales of the Gold Monkey (in one of Disney's more blatant cases of plagiarism).
(Except I had trouble buying that
Darkwing Duck took place in the
DuckTales reality, despite having Launchpad and Gizmoduck in common. DT was relatively naturalistic in its physics, in the Disney/Barks tradition; if Scrooge fell out of a plane, you knew he'd implicitly die unless something happened to break his fall. But DD followed Looney Tunes physics; if Darkwing fell out of a plane, he could hit the ground at terminal velocity, get turned into an accordion, march out of frame, and be perfectly all right in the next shot. Darkwing was basically a thinly disguised, Disneyfied Daffy Duck.)
And I'm trying to remember. We had Scrooge's canine butler (Duckworth) where there any other anthropomorphic animals in Ducktales? (Been ages since I've watched it. But I used to LOVE watching Ducktales, Duckman and Talespin in the afternoons when coming home from, ahem, high-school.
There were plenty of dog-people, as the thread title indicates -- notably Ma Beagle and the Beagle Boys, Admiral Grimitz, Black Pete, Dijon from the movie, etc. There were also quite a few pig-people. Gladstone Gander was, well, a gander. Inventor Gyro Gearloose was a chicken, according to Wikipedia.
