Ma Beagle

"The only thing she's ever dusted off were her fingerprints!"

- Scrooge McDuck Ma Beagle is a recurring villain from DuckTales. She is the mother of the Beagle Boys and the matriarch of the clan.

Personality
Ma Beagle always bails out her sons by providing cakes or other goods with means of breaking out of prison hidden inside. She's far more competent then her children, but even then tends to fail because Scrooge McDuck and the nephews always find a way to outwit the Beagle Boys. An interesting note regarding Ma Beagle is that whenever she appeared in the first season, she was often the only Beagle to escape successfully. This trait notably seems to disappear in the later seasons. In the second season premier, "Time is Money", it is implied that she was eventually arrested; when Big Time disguises himself as an elderly woman, Burger initially mistakes him for Ma, saying "She must've broke out of jail!" Additionally, two episodes in the show's later seasons, "The Bride Wore Stripes" and "New Gizmo-Kids on the Block", end with Ma Beagle going to jail along with her sons.

In Don Rosa 's The Beagle Boys vs. the Money Bin, one Beagle Boy briefly mentions Ma Beagle when recalling the reason why he does not know his actual name.

Trivia

 * She is a spoof of a famous criminal mastermind known as Ma Barker.
 * The Beagle Boys' aunt Corrie from the Dutch Disney comic Een Slang Voor Een Suikertante (2004) was originally intended to be their mother.
 * In more recent comic appearances, such as the  Uncle Scrooge  comic  Honds Behandeld  (first published in 2011), she was given a slightly younger appearance.