Father Duck

The Father Duck is a minor character in Disney's 75th and final Silly Symphonies short film, The Ugly Duckling. At the film's beginning, he and his mate the Mother Duck are anxiously awaiting the birth of their ducklings. As he paces back and forth, carving a trench into the ground, the sudden? peeps of newbown hatchlings calls him back to the nest where four beautiful little ducklings have been born. The joyous father showers his wife and new children with kisses until the final (and noticeably larger) egg hatches and out pops the most unusual looking duckling either of them had ever seen. The duckling's? awkward? build? and loud honk; completely unlike the pudgy? bodies and soft quacks of the other babies; infuriates the Father Duck and he angrily demands the mother explain why the last duckling's appearance is so abnormal. The spat quickly escalates until the Father Duck? insinuates? that no child of his could? be so ugly? and accuses the mother of being at fault for its appearance, prompting her to slap him with her wing. Thoroughly disgusted with the whole situation, the Father Duck storms off and leaves the mother to deal with the Ugly Duckling on her own. It is unknown if they ever reconciled as at the end of the film, he did not reappear along with the rest of his family.