The story of Mark Beaks from the 2017 DuckTales reboot.
Season 1[]
In "The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks!", Beaks arrives at the Duckburg Billionaires Club, much to the amazement of Huey. After entering Scrooge McDuck and Flintheart Glomgold's shared room, he obnoxiously introduces himself to the two billionaires and announces that he's going to be joining the club as he approaches becoming a billionaire himself thanks to his new invention "Project: Ta-Dah", before annoying them both with remixed bagpipe music. Outside the room, Huey praises Beaks as an idol of his, while Dewey remains unimpressed. Beaks soon leaves the room, insulting Scrooge and Glomgold under his breath, when Huey calls him a genius. Impressed with Huey, Beaks decides to offer him and Dewey an after school internship starting the next day. Meanwhile, Scrooge and Glomgold decide to team up in order to prevent Beaks from joining the Billionaire's Club.
The next day, Beaks gives Huey and Dewey a tour of Waddle, which concludes with him saying that there is only one available internship position, leading to Huey and Dewey competing for it. Alone, Beaks boasts about how he's going to become a billionaire, when he spots a man beating his way through his security. The man walks up and introduces himself as Falcon Graves, a professional industrial saboteur, and claims he has been hired to steal Project Ta-Dah, although Beaks remains unconcerned.
Back at the Billionaires Club, Scrooge and Glomgold begin conspiring on how to get rid of Beaks, who is giving Graves a tour of Waddle at the same time, much to the latter's annoyance. Huey and Dewey encounter Beaks, who declares them both tied for the internship, before being interrupted by a "mandatory dance break". At the same time, Glomgold details his plan to get rid of Beaks; he and Scrooge will trick Beaks into going to a club on a yacht, then sail the yacht into an active volcano, driving him to jump into the yacht's (shark infested) pool, which will scare him into jumping out of the yacht and into the lava. Scrooge notes how he thought they wanted to get rid of Beaks and not kill him, as well as the unnecessarily complexity of the plan, but Glomgold, not listening, moves on to the "complicated" part of the plan instead.
After the dance break, Beaks gives Huey and Dewey their final task; getting him a coffee. Dewey returns with the coffee first, but Beaks almost has a breakdown when the coffee is delivered a minute before he asked. Huey then arrives with another coffee at precisely 2:15, and Beaks gives him the internship for it. However, upon seeing Dewey's ironically fancy briefcase, Beaks hires and promotes him above Huey. Frustrated with Beaks, Graves grabs him and forces Huey and Dewey to take him to Project: Ta-Dah instead. Beaks then finally unveils Project: Ta-Dah to Graves, Huey and Dewey, however, it turns out that it is nothing at all, Beaks revealing that he created interest for a fake product so everyone would invest money into his company. Graves attempts to call his employer, although this turns out to be Beaks as well, which leads to Dewey deducing that Beaks planned to say his product was stolen by Graves so he could keep all the money invested in him. Huey has all his faith in Beaks destroyed because of this, while Graves, enraged at being lied to and having his time wasted, grabs Beaks and takes him up to the roof to throw him off it.
At the Billionaire's Club, after questioning another part of Glomgold's excessive plan, Scrooge ends up discovering a film reel revealing Glomgold's intentions to betray him. Scrooge then storms out, realizing how he had spent the entire day obsessing over someone he doesn't like. In the meantime, Graves prepares to kill Beaks, while Dewey restores Huey's confidence and convinces him that they need to save Beaks. The boys manage to distract Graves, saving Beaks, and knock him off the building (onto a trampoline). Beaks nonchalantly fires Huey and Dewey because they know the secret of Project: Ta-Dah, although Dewey gets back at him by posting a humiliating message on his phone, and drops his phone off the roof, resulting in Beaks tearfully trying to save it, also landing on the same trampoline as Graves. Beaks is then invited to a billionaire's club on a yacht. As he celebrates this, he fails to notice that the mailman was actually Glomgold, who readies his sharks for the yacht.
In "Beware the B.U.D.D.Y. System!", Beaks announces that he has created a self driving robot called B.U.D.D.Y., to the disbelief of Gyro Gearloose, who believes Beaks to be a fraud, and that a robot driver would turn evil extremely easily. Gyro, Dewey, Launchpad and Scrooge then attend a seminar where Beaks explains B.U.D.D.Y., to the displeasure of Gyro and Launchpad. Launchpad begins to feel threatened when Scrooge offers to buy the B.U.D.D.Y. system, and he challenges the robot to a race. That night, Gyro also obsesses over finding out how Beaks managed to create B.U.D.D.Y..
The next day, Launchpad races B.U.D.D.Y., and loses horribly due to having to avoid crashing, much to Beaks' pleasure. Gyro then arrives and reveals that the B.U.D.D.Y. system is actually just a remodeled version of Lil Bulb, and accuses Beaks of stealing his technology. Nonchalantly, Beaks explains that he stole the Lil Bulb design from an online forum, leading to Gyro realizing his assistant Fenton had put the Lil Bulb design on the internet and firing him immediately. Beaks, Dewey, Scrooge and the reluctant Gyro agree to ride back to Duckburg with B.U.D.D.Y. Gyro asks how Beaks managed to prevent Lil Bulb from going evil, and Beaks explains that he didn't, leading to him enraging Lil Bulb, which causes the robot to turn evil. Beaks and the other passengers are restrained and driven around by the mad Lil Bulb, however, they are soon saved by Fenton wearing the Gizmosuit. Beaks is noticeably enthralled with the superhero, who takes up the alias Gizmoduck, and then destroys Lil Bulb with help from Launchpad and Dewey. At the end of the episode, Beaks is seen at Waddle, ominously remarking that he must have Gizmoduck.
In "McMystery at McDuck McManor!", Beaks is invited to Scrooge's birthday party, where he and the other guests (Ma Beagle and Flintheart Glomgold) wear costumes to hide their identities. After Huey discovers that someone had hacked into Scrooge's advanced power grid, and that one of the guests had been posting pictures of the party all night, he uncovers Beaks and suspects him as the one who had kidnapped Scrooge during Black Arts Beagle's magic act. Beaks, however, while confirming that he had hacked the power grid, states that he actually wanted to hack the security cameras to get a hold of humiliating footage, showing off a video of Scrooge accidentally walking into a closed door. Plotting to make Scrooge look dumb while getting a "dumb amount of views", Beaks prepares to exit the room, only to forget that the door is locked and ironically run right into it. Beaks is still present when Flintheart Glomgold is revealed as the third guest, and takes a selfie with Scrooge's other enemies. He later vanished mysteriously upon being accused as the true mastermind behind Scrooge's disappearance, following the same thing happening to Glomgold and soon to Ma Beagle as well. Beaks is last seen being kicked out of the mansion by Duckworth's ghost, as he and Scrooge were truly behind the latter's disappearance.
In "Who Is Gizmoduck?!", Mark Beaks is first seen in his office, where he has spent days obsessing over Gizmoduck and building a device to set his plot in motion. Later, as Fenton tests the abilities of the Gizmosuit, he accidentally fires a rocket and subsequently rescues Beaks before his helicopter is blown up. Beaks offers his savior a job at Waddle, but Fenton declines. Despite this, having planted the idea of working for him in Fenton's head, Beaks is assured that he will return. Because of Fenton's recent mishaps, Gyro decides to fire Fenton and have the Gizmosuit incinerated. Fenton, however, runs off with the suit and consults Beaks to hire him.
Upon being rebranded as Waddle Duck, Fenton realizes Beaks is using him for marketing purposes, meaning only people with the app will be able to receive his services. This becomes clear when Fenton is forced to do menial tasks for customers across Duckburg but is futile to stop the Beagle Boys from mugging a family on the street because of Beaks' device compromising the Gizmosuit.
An irritated Fenton makes his way to Beaks and quits. Beaks responds by stripping Fenton of his armor and stealing his identity as Waddle Duck. Having no idea how to control the suit, Beaks causes it to malfunction from overload, endangering a crowd of people and initiating self-detonation upon himself. Fenton manages to reclaim the suit - rescuing his mother, Huey and Beaks in the process - before disposing of the suit's processor at the risk of his life. As Fenton returns hurt but alive, Beaks is seen sitting in an ambulance with a doctor, phone in hand and a bandaged head.
Season 2[]
In "Storkules in Duckburg!", Beaks is targeted by harpies (because harpies are after the most precious items to people- in Beaks' case, him phone), but the harpy is quickly apprehended by Storkules and Louie hands Beaks an invoice for 5,000 dollars.
In "The 87 Cent Solution!", After someone stole 87 cents from Scrooge's money bin, Gizmoduck shows Scrooge that Beaks was live posting at Crowchella when it happened.
In "The Dangerous Chemistry of Gandra Dee!", after Fenton invites Gandra Dee into his lab for an evening session (and a romantic date constructed by Huey and Webby), it is revealed that Gandra is actually working undercover for Beaks in order to gain Fenton's passcode for a scientific experiment.
Impatiently biding his time, Beaks consumes a large amount of serums made by Gandra before deciding to break into the lab and get the job done himself. Once Fenton sees through Gandra's scheme, he utters his passcode in frustration, unwittingly giving Beaks everything he needs to activate stolen nanotech fitted into his body. Because he drank more than one serum, he transforms into a hulking, musclebound monster. Beaks gets into a brawl with Gizmoduck, destroying his armor and escaping the lab with Huey and Webby held hostage.
Beaks is later shown scaling the Waddle building, explaining to the kids that this was all a plan to gain public visibility. Fenton, without the aid of the Gizmosuit, arrives to face him, followed shortly by a reformed Gandra. Just as the odds seem to be in Beaks' favor, he realizes that he is now too big to use a phone and cries in bitter anguish, allowing Gandra to hit him with of Fenton's experiments, returning Beaks to his normal stature.
In "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake", Beaks attends Doofus Drake's birthday party with his new "son" B.O.Y.D., claiming his recently discovered family pics get a lot of likes online. After most of the guests are exposed as faking being relatives, including Glomgold, Beaks has B.O.Y.D. push Louie and Goldie so hard they get thrown out of the pool and Beaks gloats with B.O.Y.D. as they plot to take them out next. Louie and Goldie eventually discover that B.O.Y.D. is actually a robot Beaks created (or more specifically, as revealed later, stole and passed off as his own) and B.O.Y.D. stands for "Beaks Optimistic Youth Droid". Louie uses this to ask B.O.Y.D. what he did two days ago and B.O.Y.D. can't answer, confusing him. Beaks tries blaming it on all the ice cream they had at Funso's yesterday but Louie continues by asking B.O.Y.D. when his birthday is. When he states yesterday he realizes that doesn't make sense and starts malfunctioning, eventually exposing himself as a robot and getting Beaks kicked out of Doofus' party.
In "GlomTales!", Beaks was recruited to become apart of Glomgold's family along with the Beagle boys, Ma Beagle, Don Karnage, and Magica De Spell in order to destroy Scrooge and his family before their bet was over. He was brought on board to combat Gyro's technological prowess. At first, Beaks declined to join since he was busy building his social media presence and promoting his new cryptocurrency Beaks Coin. But after Glomgold and Ma Beagle deliberately started dismissing him as a non-threat and saying they didn't need him after all as a form of reverse psychology, he joined. Once all of the villains were assembled, he spent his preparation time using a fist app on his phone. Once the group arrived at McDuck Manor, Beaks hacked the phone lines so that no one could call for help. Once everyone realized that the only one in the manor was Louie, they all became frustrated with Glomgold and needed a new plan to destroy Scrooge and his family. To their surprise, Louie gave them a new plan and everyone was off to the Money Bin where Glomgold was supposed to admit defeat and hand over his company to Scrooge. Once the villains arrived, they declared their desired for vengeance against Scrooge (with Don also swearing vengeance against Dewey) and they started to fight the McDuck family. Beaks fought Launchpad, but surrendered since Gyro wasn't present. He also became a cushion for Beakley, who was fighting Ma. Once Louie appeared, he and Glomgold revealed that the villains pooled their collective fortunes into Glomgold's which allowed him to win the bet. But since he didn't use his real name on the form that Louie made, everyone's fortunes went to Louie. The villains now wanted revenge on Glomgold, with Beaks attempting to punch Glomgold with his phone, but only managed to knock himself down. Once Glomgold escaped, he and the rest of the villains escaped with their fortunes onto Don Carnage's ship.
Mark Beaks had a small cameo in "Moonvasion!" where he was taking selfies with the Moonlanders, only to get himself captured.
Season 3[]
Beaks returns as the overarching antagonist in the episode "Louie's Eleven", having once again anonymously hired Falcon Graves (much to his surprise and ire) to steal the phone of Emma Glamour, his mother, which is the key to her entire company, for the sake of putting himself on his mother's "it" list. He and Graves then briefly fight over the phone before being distracted by Dewey with a yo-yo performance, with Beak remarking that "it's the worst, but fascinating somehow". For the similar reason of finding the failure of it "ridiculous but beautiful", Glamour was impressed as well, which Beaks objected to and caused him to resume his fight over her phone before an irritated Graves declared his intent to "take them both out and end this infuriating family once and for all", only for Donald and Daisy Duck (the latter of whom works for Glamour) to come crashing in on them through an airvent they were using. Eventually, Graves is knocked out by Daisy and taken into custody, after which the party returns to full swing, where Beaks is forced to miserably sit by his mother as punishment, complaining about how boring the party is.
Mark Beaks makes a brief cameo in the episode "Astro B.O.Y.D.!" when Gyro and Huey are viewing B.O.Y.D's memories with previous owners. It is revealed that Beaks found him while searching through wreckage to steal whatever he can to claim he invented it himself and increase his wealth. After finding him and being told that his name is 2-BO, Beaks doesn't like the name and decides on the spot to rename him B.O.Y.D, short for "Beaks Optimistic Youth Droid". Delighted to be given a real name, B.O.Y.D. offers to give him a hug to thank him, but Beaks refuses since he doesn't like touching and claims he smells like garbage before putting him in his shopping cart along with other pieces of technology he's taking.
Mark Beaks returns at the main antagonist of the episode "Beaks in the Shell!". By now, his popularity has dwindled to such a degree that he's giving a presentation about a software update on his phones that no one's attending, except for a single reporter who asks him "why he's still a thing" and if his latest project involves stealing Gizmoduck's armor again, which Beaks not-so-convincingly denies. The reporter then comments that he's tried that 5 times already and that "it's very sad" before leaving. Panicking that "they have his number", Beaks realizes he may have to actually come up with an original idea.
He's later seen brainstorming, but completely unable to come up with anything, and after seeing some citizens admiring Gizmoduck, he promptly gives into the idea of stealing the armor again. He then breaks into Fenton's house, where he overhears Huey talking about his latest invention, the GizmoCloud, a virtual landscape that he's been secretly working on with Gandra Dee and that allows any ideas that people come up with to materialize. Beaks then hacks into the landscape and traps Fenton and Gandra in a cube, declaring his intent to rename it the "WaddleCloud" and use it to pre-steal any ideas others come up with before anyone finds out about them and take all the credit. Fenton then tries to use the Gizmoduck armor as a security measure, but due to being trapped in the cube, Beaks simply steals it and starts using it to give the place a personalized makeover. However, at Gandra's suggestion, Fenton sends a message to Huey in the real word through Morse code, who then recruits Officer Cabrera (Fenton's mom) and Gyro Gearloose to help them. The trio then enter the GizmoCloud, with Officer Cabrera freeing them from the cube, after which they all team up to try and take down Beaks. Despite each of them coming up with good ideas to combat Beaks, he simply steals each of them away and adds them to the Gizmoduck armor, becoming even more powerful. However, they then get to him by criticizing him for having no original ideas of his own, which causes him to turn into a giant head and two hands and brag about how he has the power to take any of them down whenever he wants. However, they then rematerialize each of their inventions/ideas and attack him as a group, rather than individually. Together, they prove to be too much for him, which culminates in Fenton reclaiming the Gizmoduck armor and punching him with enough power to boot him out of the system.