Can somebody who understands how cloning actually works tell me what kind of relation Webby has with Scrooge?
Wouldn’t that make Webby Scrooge’s identical twin or something?
I need someone to lay down the facts to me.
Because we know Webby and Scrooge share genetic similarities and she was a by product of a cloning this actually means…
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Okay so theoretically speaking, by cloning you get two exact copies of dna, so yeah technically genetic twins.
(However you start with an embryo, since as far as I know, you can’t create a whole adult being out of nowhere. Of course, when it comes to any creature, there’s more factors apart from dna that determines the character or the features of an individual, so it’s not unusual for clones to look or behave different.)
What I don’t understand is that we’ve had several cases of cloning in the series before but none of them followed this, so by in-world logic, Webby and Scrooge should be identical twins just like all the other ones.
My pet theory of the moment is that Black Heron hadn’t perfected cloning juuuust yet, so rather than making a full clone, she literally created the heir with perhaps a cloned (blank) egg and Scrooge as the paternal DNA. Which means Webby would have a biological mother…leaving a lot of fun possibilities open for who that donor might be, anyone from a completely random anonymous duck to someone significant.
I like the implication that most of the prisoners in these boxes were probably people Launchpad had dated, given that info from the crew about how Launchpad’s ex-girlfriends and boyfriends ended up becoming better people after being together with him.
And considering how the show established that Launchpad goes on his own offscreen adventures to help his exes, Bradford probably thought they needed to go as well.
“the mcducks meant everything to me. not just because of their great name, but because they were a great family, where i thought i could be a part of.”
