All of the primary characters in Carl Barks' funny animal comic book stories have had their ups and downs through the years. When they failed, they always had a price to pay in the end whether it be loss of prestige, credibility, reputation, or money. This page gives a few examples of some of Gyro Gearloose's most regrettable moments.
Gyro is ashamed that he has never learned to swim so he is forced to use his degrading water wings. So he tries to invent himself out of the problem but in the end he has to capitulate after all... |
Gyro is not satisfied with his toaster which does not deliver his breakfast toast fast enough. He modifies it - to the utter astonishment of two astronauts on the Moon! |
Gyro is tired of annoying crows plundering his garden and he invents a very advanced - and lively! - scarecrow to chase them away. But it does not fool the sly crow Old Blackie for a minute... |
From time to time all great inventors experience that some of their inventions prove to be mediocre or even useless. This is presumably the 'price' they have to pay in order to better themselves. In this, his first story, Gyro is seen aimlessly hopping around on a pogo stick in order to churn cream into butter... |
 U$13 'Lightning Power' Gyro has been helping most of the other primary characters out in the stories with Grandma as a reluctant guinea pig (examples: FC1010 Weather Watchers, FC1047 Milktime Melodies, FC1073 The Snow Chaser, and CP8 'The Food Machine'). In this story she is almost killed after Gyro had 'improved' on her car... |
Gyro wonders why many picnickers are unsatisfied with their visit to nature. He decides to solve the problem, and we follow how he builds more and more protection around him. Barks leads us without words, and step by step, to the great finale in which we suddenly realize that Gyro has ended up with - a house... |
Gyro invents a nourishment survival kit for castaways. He maroons himself on a desolate island to try it out on himself. The invention works far beyond expectations - it just does not stop making food... |
Gyro wants to help the poor farmers of Farbakistan by supplying them with electric water pumps. He then installs the pumps only to discover that the country has no electricity... |
Gyro is hired by a film company to invent a war paint for their Native American Indians. It is supposed to make them wild. And it does to a point where the hired extras turn against everybody else... |
Gyro is waiting at the patent office to register an invention. It seems another inventor is waiting there as well, and as it turns out he has the better invention. Then the depressed Gyro returns to his workshop with his mediocre Hydraulic Ramjet Peanut-butter Spreader... |
Gyro does not feel that he has invented anything worthwhile, so he quickly constructs an ingenious one-man touring rocket, but he forgets about the environment. The gigantic blast from the rocket fills all of Duckburg with nasty smoke via the sewer system. |
Gyro is breeding worms that drag fish out of the water and Donald wants to try them out. Unfortunately, the overpowering worms - both in strength, efficiency, and numbers - threaten to empty the lake. Then the accommodating Gyro informs the fishermen that he can easily breed another batch! |
| See also the natural counterpart page HERE. |
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| http://www.cbarks.dk/THEGYROFAILURES.htm | Date 2011-02-18 |
