This list of fictional ducks is subsidiary to the list of fictional birds. It is restricted to notable duck characters from the world of fiction.
Disney animators have created an entire universe of ducks, most of which are modeled after the Pekin duck.
Andold Wild Duck, Brigitta MacBridge, Fenton Crackshell, Moby Duck, and Launchpad McQuack, supporting character ducks from Donald Duck's universe
Angus McDuck, Dingus McDuck, Downy O'Drake, Fergus McDuck, Hortense McDuck, Hugh McDuck, Jake McDuck, Malcolm McDuck, Matilda McDuck, Molly Mallard, Pah-Peh-Rheo, Quagmire McDuck, Sir Eider McDuck, Sir Quackly McDuck, Sir Roast McDuck, Sir Stuft McDuck, and Sir Swamphole McDuck, duck members of Clan McDuck, Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck's family and ancestry
April, May and June, Daphne Duck, Della Duck, Eider Duck, Fethry Duck, Gladstone Gander, Grandma Duck, Humperdink Duck, Pintail Duck, and Quackmore Duck, duck members of Donald Duck's family and ancestry
Bushroot, NegaDuck I and II, Quackerjack, Stegmutt, duck villains from the Darkwing Duck spinoff
Daisy Duck, Donald Duck's female counterpart
Darkwing Duck/Drake Mallard, main character and hero of the Darkwing Duck spinoff
Donald Duck, a cartoon duck created by Disney in 1934. Known as Paperinik in Disney's PKNA and as Maui Mallard in Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow
Flintheart Glomgold, one of the main duck rivals of Scrooge McDuck
Gosalyn Mallard and Morgana Macawber, secondary heroes and supporting character ducks from the Darkwing Duck spinoff
Huey, Dewey, and Louie and their lost brother Phooey Duck, nephews of Donald Duck
John D. Rockerduck, an antagonist duck from Donald Duck's universe
Ludwig Von Drake, Donald Duck's scientist uncle
Magica De Spell, a duck witch who is one of Scrooge McDuck's main antagonists
Mrs. Beakley, Bubba the Caveduck, Doofus Drake, Gandra Dee, and Webby Vanderquack - ducks from the animated show Ducktales
Scrooge McDuck, a cartoon duck created by Disney in 1947 as Donald Duck's miserly uncle
Canard Thunderbeak, Check "Grin" Hardwing, Duke L'Orange, Mallory McMallard, Nosedive Flashblade, Tanya Vanderflock, Wildwing Flashblade, the Mighty Ducks, superhero ducks from Disney's The Mighty Ducks
Everett Ducklair, a main character duck from PKNA
Flick Duck, from the TV show PB&J Otter
Stephan Vladuck/Camera 9 and Urk - minor duck characters from PKNA
Daffy Duck / Duck Dodgers, one of the main Looney Tunes characters and his alias from the Duck Dodgers spin-off series
Danford Drake and Margo Mallard, students of the Perfecto Preps, from Tiny Toon Adventures
Danger Duck, Daffy's descendant from Loonatics Unleashed
Melissa Duck, Daffy's girlfriend from the original cartoons and a main character in the Baby Looney Tunes series
Plucky Duck, a character inspired by Daffy Duck, from Tiny Toon Adventures
Mrs. Daffy Duck (Daphne Duck), Daffy's dominant wife, known as Daphne Duck in two cartoons
Tina Russo, Daffy's girlfriend, from The Looney Tunes Show
See List of fictional ducks in animation.
Gooseberry Sprig the duck duke, comic-strip character created by George Herriman; later appeared in Herriman's Krazy Kat
Mock Duck, a fowl of Chinese descent who resembles a coolie and operates a cleaning establishment
Mrs. Katalpa Kwakk Wakk, a duck in a pillbox hat; a scold who frequently notices Ignatz in the course of his plotting and then informs Officer Pupp
Anduck Duckanan, an occasional character in the Thai comic series Apaimanee Saga
Arne Anka, protagonist of Swedish comic strip Arne Anka drawn by Charlie Christensen
Arthur, from Sheldon
Choo Choo Curtis, postal carrier in Pogo
Conardo, protagonist of Inspector Canardo
Count Duckula
Daddles
Deadeye Duck, from Bucky O'Hare
Deputy Duck, a duck policeman in Slylock Fox
Dirty Duck, created by underground comix artist Bobby London
Doctor Quack from Sonic the Hedgehog, a duck who works at the Tommy Turtle Memorial Hospital; has a wife and kids
Doodles Duck and his nephew Lemuel (DC Comics)
Fifi the Duck, character in the Marvel Comics universe
Guard Duck, from Stephan Pastis' Pearls Before Swine
Howard the Duck, character in the Marvel Comics universe
Karoo, in the anime and manga series One Piece, the pet duck of Princess Nefertari Vivi
Kvak, the family's pet duck from Hägar the Horrible
Lobo the Duck, a Marvel/DC amalgam character based on Howard the Duck and Lobo
Lucky Ducky from Tom the Dancing Bug
Mallard Fillmore, protagonist of the eponymous conservative political comic strip
Mousse, from the popular manga Ranma ½, transforms into a duck when doused with cold water
Rubberduck, from Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew (DC Comics)
Super Duck
Truman, from Frank Cho's Liberty Meadows
Live or costume ducks on television and film
Aflac Duck, the duck mascot for Aflac; has appeared in Aflac commercials
Brian, from Spaced Invaders, spends the film dressed as a duck for Halloween
Duck Girls, in Big Barn Farm
Charlie, the duck from Disney's The Million Dollar Duck
The Chick and The Duck, from the American sitcom Friends
Edd the Duck, a puppet mallard from CBBC's The Broom Cupboard
Ferdinand, an adventurous white male duck who appears in Babe and Babe: Pig in the City
Howard the Duck, from the 1986 film of the same name based on the comic book
Orville the Duck, a green duckling puppet operated by Keith Harris
Pato Torquato and Pata Vina, duck antagonists in Cocoricó
Plucka Duck, from the Australian television program Hey Hey It's Saturday
Saturnin le canard, from the 1960s French children's TV show Les Aventures de Saturnin; renamed Dynamo Duck and voiced by Dan Castellaneta for American audiences in the show The Adventures of Dynamo Duck
Ducks in literature and song
Dab-Dab, a female duck who is one of Dr. Dolittle's close companions in Hugh Lofting's series of books
"Disco Duck", the novelty song by Rick Dees
The Duck, briefly seen in the fantasy novel Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Duck Flock, a flock of gangster mallard ducks who want revenge on a human gang in the music video "Get Up (Rattle)"
The duck on the head of the beggar The Duck Man in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett
DuckBob Spinowitz, a man transformed into an anthropomorphic duck by aliens in the novel No Small Bills by Aaron Rosenberg.
Ducky Lucky and Drakey Lakey, from Henny Penny/Chicken Licken
Freda the duck from Emily Rodda's Key to Rondo series
Fup, one of the main characters of the eponymous book by Jim Dodge
Jemima Puddle-Duck, appears in The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck and with the other two Puddle-Ducks, Rebeccah and Mr. Drake, in The Tale of Tom Kitten, as well as Jemima Puddle-Duck's Painting Book
The Lonesome Duck from The Magic of Oz, thirteenth volume in the Oz canon written by L. Frank Baum
Mrs. Leda Duck, and Duck siblings, who adopt the human boy Arnold in Arnold of the Ducks by Mordicai Gerstein
Mr. and Mrs. Mallard, and children Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, and Wuack, in the children's book Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Mr. and Mrs. Quack from "The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack" by Thornton Burgess in the "Old Mother West Wind" series of books
The Mechanickal Duck in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, a fictionalized version of the Digesting Duck created by Jacques de Vaucanson
Ping, a domesticated duck who lives on the Yangtze River in China; his story is told by Marjorie Flack with illustrations by Kurt Wiese in The Story about Ping
Rapanden Rasmus from Rinkenæs Sogn, the main character of the eponymous song, "Rapanden Rasmus fra Rinkenæs Sogn". In the song Rasmus takes a ride in his one horse carriage and problems ensue. The song was written by Danish poet Halfdan Rasmussen.
The Rubber Duckie, owned by Sesame Street Muppet Ernie, and the subject of several of his signature songs, including "Rubber Duckie", "Put Down the Duckie", and "Do De Rubber Duck"
The Aflac Duck, used in advertising for the insurance company Aflac
Attila the Mighty Duck, the mascot of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey
Dax the Duck, the mascot of the internet search engine DuckDuckGo
Duck Norris, mascot of Vanbrugh College, University of York
Floyd D. Duck, mascot duck punk of Bubble Yum
Lewis the Duck, mascot of Homewood Suites; has a wife Lois, daughter Lisa, and son Lance
Irwin the Disco Duck, created by Peter Pan Records
Millard the Mallard, mascot of WRVA in Richmond, Virginia
The Oregon Duck, mascot of University of Oregon's Oregon Ducks
QuackerJack, mascot for the Long Island Ducks minor league baseball team
Webster, the Orange RubberDuck of the Akron RubberDucks
Wild Wing, mascot for the National Hockey League's Anaheim Ducks (originally the Mighty Ducks, named after the Mighty Ducks movies)
Bean the Dynamite from the Sonic the Hedgehog video games and comics
Deadly Duck, the eponymous character of the Atari 2600 video game Deadly Duck (1982). The 2600 retrogame Duck Attack! (2010) features a mallard named Bruce, and additionally a grey variant named Mandy, a gold variant named Pat, a blue variant named Groucho, and a ruddy variant named Clarice.
Gunbrick, a yellow cinnamon teal from the Nitrome game Gunbrick
The Mad Duck, one of the enemies in EarthBound
Prince Drake from Crazy Drake, a 2D platformer released in 1996 for DOS and PC afterwards
John Mallard, the announcer from the videogame Duck Game (2015). All other characters in the game are anthropomorphic ducks, but they are unnamed.
Some of the villagers in the Animal Crossing series are ducks, including Bill, Deena, Derwin, Drake, Freckles, Fruity, Gloria, Joey, Ketchup, Maelle, Mallary, Miranda, Molly, Pate, Pompom, Quillson, Scoot, Shinabiru, and Weber. Three of them only appeared in Dōbutsu no Mori e+ (also known as Animal Forest e+): Fruity, Ketchup, and Shinabiru. However, most of the other duck characters have been featured in that game as well (except Drake, Gloria, Molly, and Quillson) and almost all of the duck characters that were in that game were also in the original Animal Crossing game (except Miranda).
The NES video game Duck Hunt (1984) features unnamed ducks as an integral part of gameplay. By pointing the NES Zapper gun peripheral at the TV, the gamer shoots down ducks that fly across the screen.
Dolan, Dafty, Dasee, Hupu, Tupu, and Lupu, in The Uncle Dolan Show
Psyduck, the duck Pokémon from the game and anime Pokémon, and its evolution, Golduck
Robin, a green duck-like bird character from Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
Sonic Duck, a monster from the card game Yu-Gi-Oh!
Witzy, Suzy Ducken, and Jack Quacker from Suzy's Zoo