Wade Duck

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Wade Duck
First Appearance
Last Appearance
Personality	Coward Dimwit Paranoid Control freak Honorable Loyal Innocent Scapegoat
Gender	Male
Species	Duck
Voice	Howard Morris
Friends	Orson Roy (love/hate friendship) Bo Lanolin Sheldon Booker
Enemies	Orson's Brothers Weasel Fox Wolf
Family	Unnamed father Fred Duck (cousin) Newton Duck (cousin)

Wade Duck (voiced by Howard Morris) is the tritagonist and the "cowardly craven duck" of U.S. Acres.

Physical Appearance

Wade is generally described as a white, domestic mallard. He has two big cartoonish eyes with white sclera and black pupils, a large yellow beak, as well as a thin body, short legs and big three-toed yellow feet. Unlike the other characters, Wade's eyebrows float above his head. He shares his characteristic behavior with his blue and pink lifebuoy, which has a miniature head at the front resembling his own head. The recurring joke is the lifebuoy's head imitating his facial expression and what direction he is looking to match his own.

Personality

Wade’s good nature is sometimes shadowed by his overwhelming hypochondria and pantophobia, which ranges from chocolate doughnuts to finding out that it is Tuesday, as well as nonsensical things that may not exist. His biggest fears include flying and rain. Wade is so scared of drowning that he frequently wears a kiddie pool inner tube. Wade can be easily driven into an incoherent raving of fear, especially by Roy, who enjoys pulling pranks on him.

Despite his massive fears (714 separate phobias, according to Edward R. Furrow) and complaining all the time, Wade cares very deeply about his friends, and whenever they need him, he will muster up the courage to go and save them. When confronting against Orson's brothers, he is quick to know about their plans and tries to warn the others about them. In "Gort Goes Good", Wade tries to warn Orson that Gort cannot be trusted, which is eventually proven true despite Orson's belief that Gort has changed.

Wade also has a tendency of pronouncing silent letters in many words (i.e. 'ansWer', 'parmesEan', 'LincoLn', anGel') or saying a Spanish word in his sentences.

Wade's Fears

Wade possesses an inordinate amount of phobias that constantly cause him extreme terror. While he has made many statements suggesting that he suffers from omniphobia (fear of everything), he also seems to suffer from a large assortment of specific phobias as well. The following are his known phobias:

Real Phobias

• Acrophobia (Fear of heights)
• Aerophobia (Fear of flying)
• Agnostophobia (Fear of the unknown)
• Agnostatomaphobia (Fear of strangers)
• Agoraphobia (Fear of going outside)
• Algophobia (Fear of pain)
• Amaxophobia (Fear of cars)
• Anapnéophobia (Fear of breathing)
• Anécheiaphobia (Fear of going poor)
• Anemophobia (Fear of wind)
• Anthophobia (Fear of flowers)
• Apiphobia (Fear of bees)
• Aquaphobia (Fear of water)
• Astrophobia (Fear of outer space)
• Atrómitophobia (Fear of fearing nothing)
• Atychiaphobia (Fear of bad luck)
• Avariphobia (Fear of loss of gravity)
• Basiphobia (Fear of falling)
• Botanophobia (Fear of plants)
• Brontophobia (Fear of Thunder)
• Carcerophobia (Fear of imprisonment)
• Chioniphobia (Fear of snow)
• Chionothýellaphobia (Fear of blizzards)
• Concolophobia (Fear of cougars)
• Cynophobia (Fear of dogs)
• Deiliaphobia (Fear of cowardice)
• Deinophobia (Fear of dinosaurs)
• Dendrophobia (Fear of trees)
• Eaphtophobia (Fear of oneself)
• Eliáphobia (Fear of olives)
• Enklimaphobia (Fear of crime and criminals)
• Enochlophobia (Fear of crowds)
• Entomophobia (Fear of bugs)
• Epistolophobia (Fear of getting mail)
• Epithesiphobia (Fear of getting attacked)
• Equinophobia (Fear of horses)
• Gelotophobia (Fear of mockery)
• Glossophobia (Fear of public speaking)
• Harpaxiphobia (Fear of being robbed)
• Heliophobia (Fear of The Sun)
• Hodophobia (Fear of travelling)
• Iatrophobia (Fear of doctors)
• Igétiphobia (Fear of being in charge)
• Imeraphobia (Fear of daytime)
• Inyaphobia (Fear of raisins)
• Kakokairophobia (Fear of bad weather)
• Káltsaphobia (Fear of socks)
• Kámpiaphobia (Fear of caterpillars)
• Kanapéphobia (Fear of couches)
• Katanalonophobia (Fear of being eaten)
• Kindynophobia (Fear of danger)
• Leporiphobia (Fear of rabbits)
• Lophiophobia (Fear of feathers)
• Lupophobia (Fear of wolves)
• Monophobia (Fear of being alone)
• Mustelaphobia (Fear of weasels and ferrets)
• Naviphobia (Fear of boats)
• Nevricophobia (Fear of being worried)
• Niátaphobia (Fear of one's childhood)
• Noctiphobia (Fear of nighttime)
• Nyctophobia (Fear of the dark)
• Ombrophobia (Fear of rain)
• Orologiophobia (Fear of timepieces)
• Orycterophobia (Fear of aardvarks)
• Ostophobia (Fear of bones)
• Ouranóphobia (Fear of the sky)
• Paschalitsaphobia (Fear of ladybugs)
• Petraphobia (Fear of rocks)
• Phasmophobia (Fear of ghosts)
• Phobophobia (Fear of being afraid)
• Phoniasphobia (Fear of getting killed)
• Plimmyraphobia (Fear of floods)
• Poukámisophobia (Fear of shirts)
• Poutínkaphobia (Fear of pudding)
• Psychiatriphobia (Fear of therapy)
• Rammenosomaphobia (Fear of Frankenstein's Monster)
• Rýpansiphobia (Fear of pollution)
• Scopophobia (Fear of being watched)
• Sciophobia (Fear of shadows)
• Seismophobia (Fear of earthquakes)
• Sitaphothiphobia (Fear of barns)
• Skiachtrophobia (Fear of scarecrows)
• Sporophobia (Fear of seeds)
• Syngenesophobia (Fear of relatives)
• Synthlivophobia (Fear of getting crushed)
• Taurophobia (Fear of bulls)
• Téraphobia (Fear of monsters)
• Thanatophobia (Fear of dying)
• Thárrophobia (Fear of being brave)
• Timoriaphobia (Fear of punishment)
• Tragoudóphobia (Fear of singing)
• Traumatophobia (Fear of injury)
• Tromázophobia (Fear of someone frightening you)
• Tsaiphobia (Fear of tea)
• Tyrphobatéraphobia (Fear of swamp monsters)
• Veloxrotaphobia (Fear of roller coasters)
• Yparxiphobia (Fear of existing)

Fictional Phobias

• Blotchiphobia (Fear of your locker being filled with butterscotch pudding)
• Clavameniphobia (Fear of someone named "Pete" using your garbage disposal)
• Clipclopiphobia (Fear of wooden shoes)
• Delanophobia (Fear of having nothing to fear but fear itself)
• Excesséphobia (Fear of lint in the dryer)
• Gonerophobia (Fear of someone putting ketchup on a corn beef sandwich)
• Gumbophobia (Fear of finding things in your soup you can't identify)
• Offtuniphobia (Fear of one's friends singing "Happy Birthday")
• Oopsaphobia (Fear of having to pry an obese person off plastic lawn furniture)
• Swoopiphobia (Fear of a cartoon ending)
• Tiltiphobia (Fear of your doctor using the x-ray equipment to play video games while giving you an x-ray)
• Walterphobia (Fear of people named "Walter")
• Zanifabawikadoobicanganifogakédēdikēdowbēdentaforēwawtēsipēdényēhapyakēdēcanfīnēphobia (Fear of phobias with long, ridiculous names)
• Zelmonikowicaphobia (Fear of being attacked by talking flashlight batteries during a potato sack race)
• Zibitaphobia (Fear of getting trapped in a phone booth with a group of bagpipe players)
• Fear of abaci
• Fear of being at the bottom of the ocean
• Fear of being attacked by a large group of Pat Sajak impersonators
• Fear of being attacked by giant, flying hoagies
• Fear of being attacked by giant lobsters from outer space
• Fear of being attacked by giant knockwurst
• Fear of being in a clock store during Daylight Savings Time
• Fear of being mistaken for a kangaroo by a pickpocket
• Fear of being used as a couch by an overweight person
• Fear of broken radios
• Fear of everyone in Paraguay gossiping about you
• Fear of evil staplers spying on important business documents
• Fear of magazines
• Fear of people not pronouncing the letter H.
• Fear of radioactive saltines from Saturn invading your tomato soup
• Fear of the pimentos in olives staring at you
• Fear of your friends being trapped on a flagpole while being chased by horses

Trivia

• In the August 30, 1995 Garfield strip, Jon Arbuckle is seen wearing Wade's inner tube.
• He appears in the game Scary Scavenger Hunt II: Donuts of Doom in the gallery hall giving some details of advice to Garfield.
• In the cartoon version, in Once Upon a Time Warp, Wade has been trying to get his five dollars back from Roy for 14 years. Although it is not clear what relationship they had, before they moved to the farm (friends, frenemies, love/hate friendship, etc.), it seems that Roy and Wade knew each other for 14 years or so. In "Holiday Happening", Roy says he is Wade's uncle, though he may have been just mocking. Wade in "Temp Trouble" called him 'pal'. In Jack II - The Rest of the Story, he called Roy 'Br'er Rooster' (Brother).
• In the cartoon version, although Wade has numerous fears, he is usually not afraid to argue with Roy.
• According to Edward R. Furrow, Wade has 714 different phobias
• In the cartoon version, in the episode The Thing in the Box, it is revealed that Wade sleeps on a haystack in the barn, with the cows as his neighbors.
• Wade's favorite poem is "Casey at the Bat", as mentioned in "Orson at the Bat".

Appearances

Garfield and Friends

Season 1

• "Wanted: Wade"
• "Unidentified Flying Orson"
• "Banana Nose"
• "Shell Shocked Sheldon"
• "Wade: You're Afraid"
• "The Bad Sport"
• "The Worm Turns"
• "Return of Power Pig"
• "Keeping Cool"
• "Short Story"
• "National Tapioca Pudding Day"
• "Shy Fly Guy"
• "I Like Having You Around!"

Season 2

• "The Impractical Joker"
• "Grabbity"
• "Scrambled Eggs"
• "Fortune Kooky"
• "Goody-Go-Round"
• "Double Oh Orson"
• "Show Stoppers"
• "Sleepytime Pig"
• "Rooster Revenge"
• "Hogcules"
• "No Laughing Matter"
• "First Aid Wade"
• "Mud Sweet Mud"
• "Origin of Power Pig"
• "Barn of Fear"
• "Swine Trek"
• "Gort Goes Good"
• "The Bear Facts" (cameo)
• "Nothing To Be Afraid Of"
• "Hogcules II"
• "Little Red Riding Egg"
• "Shelf Esteem"
• "Hamelot"
• "Flop Goes the Weasel"
• "Cock-a-Doodle Dandy"
• "Hog Noon"
• "The Mail Animal" (cameo)
• "Peanut-Brained Rooster"

Season 3

• "The Bunny Rabbits is Coming!"
• "Cock-A-Doodle Duel"
• "Barn of Fear II"
• "Orson Goes On Vacation"
• "Secrets of the Animated Cartoon"
• "Orson's Diner"
• "Much Ado About Lanolin"
• "Ben Hog"
• "Read Alert"
• "Quack to the Future"
• "Mystery Guest"
• "The Legal Eagle"
• "Cornfinger"
• "The Orson Awards"
• "Robin Hog"
• "Orson in Wonderland"
• "The Well Dweller"
• "Election Daze"

Season 4

• "Big Bad Buddy Bird"
• "An Egg-Citing Story"
• "Birthday Boy Roy"
• "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Wade"
• "Weatherman Wade"
• "Over the Rainbow"
• "Fast Food"
• "Flights of Fantasy"
• "Orson at the Bat"
• "Sly Spy Guy"
• "The Ugly Duckling"
• "For Butter or Worse"
• "Fan Clubbing"
• "Bedtime Story Blues"
• "The Son Also Rises"
• "It's a Wonderful Wade"

Season 5

• "Rainy Day Robot"
• "The Wolf Who Cried Boy"
• "Forget-Me-Not Newton"
• "The Name Game"
• "Stark Raven Mad"
• "Badtime Story"
• "The Bo Show"
• "Make Believe Moon"
• "Sooner or Later"
• "The Caverns of Cocoa"
• "Jack II - The Rest of the Story"
• "Once Upon a Time Warp"
• "Who Done It?"
• "Gross Encounters"
• "Roy Gets Sacked"
• "A Mildly Mental Mix-Up"

Season 6

• "The Incredibly Stupid Swamp Monster"
• "Uncle Roy to the Rescue"
• "What's It All About, Wade?"
• "Snow Wade and the 77 Dwarfs"
  • "Snow Wade and the 77 Dwarfs Part 1"
  • "Snow Wade and the 77 Dwarfs Part 2"
• "Fine Feathered Funny Man"
• "How Now, Stolen Cow?"
• "Payday Mayday"
• "A Little Time Off"
• "Return of The Incredibly Stupid Swamp Monster"
• "The Life and Times of the Lasagna Kid" (cameo)
• "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere's Duck"
• "Winter Wonderland"
• "Mind Over Melvin"
• "Holiday Happening"

Season 7

• "Grape Expectations"
  • "Grape Expectations Part 1"
  • "Grape Expectations Part 2"
• "Temp Trouble"
• "Double Trouble Talk" (mentioned)
• "Egg Over Easy"
  • "Egg Over Easy Part 1"
  • "Egg Over Easy Part 2"
• "The Discount of Monte Cristo"
• "Happy Garfield Day" (cameo)
• "Kiddie Korner"
• "The Thing in the Box"
• "The Old Man of the Mountain"
• "The Farmyard Feline Philosopher"
• "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Alpha Centauri"
• "Deja Vu"
• "Newsworthy Wade"
• "The Monster Who Couldn't Scare Anybody"