Quote taken from a discussion at DCF, copied here to McDrake because of too enthusiastic banning there:
13-05-2007 00:44, DCF, Olivier wrote:Speaking of creating characters, I like Arpin Lusène / The Black Knight a lot; he is quite different from the other adversaries (more specifically, thieves)-- as Rosa once said, Magica is after the dime, the Beagles want the whole fortune (but don't care for the dime), while Lupin is not interested in the dime nor the money as such but in what stealing them would mean for his reputation (hence the sly decision of glorping everything out of existence if he can't rob anything, the point being the Money Bin would be empty after his visit); in a sense, he is another status-seeker (Barks' story).
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