Evroniani
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Evroniani or Evrons are an alien race in the fictional world of the Paperinik New Adventures comic, based on Walt Disney's Donald Duck. The Evroniani are the main enemies of Paperinik and his friends.
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[edit] Characteristics
Physically, Evrons mostly resemble ducks, and are about as tall as normal humans. Evrons have purple skin and completely blue eyes without irises, and they have long, flat beaks with teeth.
They look like the creatures designed by H. R. Giger for Alien, but the authors never admitted or denied the xenomorphs as an inspiration source.
Evrons develop from "spores" of unspecified origin (no obvious female Evrons have ever appeared in the series, instead, one issue showed tree-like organisms that formed Evron embryoes inside sack-like spores). When critically injured they have the ability to revert back to their spore state to fully regenerate. They can also survive floating though deep space in their spore state.
Evrons' most notable characteristic is that they feed on emotions. Although Evronian infants take physical nourishment like humans or other animals do, this is very soon replaced with a more telepathic form of nourishment that does not involve physical matter. Upon encountering a victim, an Evron shoots it with a special gun, which transfers the victim's emotions to the Evrons. The victim is left mindless and utterly docile. Such drained victims, called "coolflames", are distinguishable by a cold, blue-white flame constantly burning around their heads.
[edit] Society
Evron society is extremely hierarchical, militaristic and merciless, governed by a ruthless, despotic emperor and basically divided into two castes, a caste of warriors and one of scientists. Under the rule of the emperors, the Evrons have conquered an extremely large number of solar systems; the first emperor is said to have expanded his territory so much that he became feared throughout the universe. However, the main stories in the comic focus mostly on the Empire's doings inside the Milky Way.
Evronian spaceships mainly come in two forms: podships used for colonising conquered worlds, and warships used for combat. Evron spaceships are styled according to the Evroniani face, complete with a long, flat beak. This is characteristic for most structures and devices seen in the Evron Empire.
[edit] Notable Evrons
[edit] Evron
Evron is the emperor of the planet Evron and the founder of the Evronian Empire. Evron is also the name of the planet-turned-spaceship on which Evrons originated. A descendant of his lineage rules the Empire in the time of Paperinik.
[edit] Gorthan
Gorthan is a high-ranking Evronian scientist who loves reading Shakespeare. He is responsible for the modification of an Evronian general into the mutant Trauma. In PKNA#20 "Mekkano", he is forced to form an alliance with Paperinik after betraying his people and losing his energy storage tanks to a rogue, self-repairing robot. Tracking it down, Gorthan is eventually assimilated with it and is captured by the Empire. In the flashback-comic "La Fine Del Mondo" (meaning "The End Of The World" in Italian), which describes the end of Xerba, Gorthan is the general who leads the invading forces of Evron on that planet.
[edit] Grrodon
Grrodon is the last of the Evrons on Earth. He is a shapeshifting mutant, and hides on Earth for about three hundred years after the Empire's defeat, only to resurface and attempt to kill Paperinik when he is first brought to the 23rd century.
[edit] Trauma
Trauma is a mutant Evron. He was a general that allowed genetic experimentation to be conducted on his body, gaining the power to provoke fear in his enemies. He is able to absorb that fear and feed on it. Eventually defeated by Paperinik, he has a backlash and reverts to a weaker form, being carried off into space by his retrieval pod.
[edit] Zargon
Zargon is a general sent to Earth to establish a spore-colony in Africa, during a political crisis on Evron. He dislikes being used as a propaganda tool, but attempts to complete his mission, until his force is destroyed by Xadhoom and Paperinik and he is almost killed himself. Though he is seen to have survived the battle, his ultimate fate is unknown.
[edit] Zondag
Zondag is a general in charge of a battlecruiser in orbit of Venus. He aids the scientist Zoster in testing negative emotions in humans as a new source of energy. He appears both in the comic and in the videogame "Disney PK: Out of the Shadows" along with Zoster. . In Dutch Zondag means Sunday
[edit] Zoster
Zoster is a scientist who attempts to utilize negative emotions as a new energy-source. He is stationed on general Zondag's battlecruiser and utilizes his forces to collect a suitable specimen to experiment on. He later affiliates with a band of mercenaries to get revenge on Paperinik, after he learns about his Empire's demise. Eventually, he manages to grasp the formulas which transformed Xado into Xadhoom, and uses them (with the energy provided by the Sun of the Solar System) on himself. Zoster transforms into a gigantic and all-powerful entity, but as "power is control, power is discernment", and he possesses none, his power ends in killing him. He appears with Zondag in PKNA#1 and #15.
[edit] Zotnam
Zotnam is a high-rank Evronian in charge of the invasion force in our Solar System. He resides in an enormous mothership near Jupiter and oversees the operations being conducted on the nearby planets. When Paperinik and Uno finally trick his amassed fleet into being destroyed, he is forced to relocate and is never heard from again. Due to his important status, he has a red outfit and two heads, the one used for speech growing out of his tail, like the emperor's.
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| Media | | PKNA issues |
|---|---|
| PKNA Arcs | | Evroniani Arc | Xadhoom Arc | Lyla Lay Arc | Angus Fangus Arc | Razziatore Arc | Uno Arc | Due Arc | PBI Arc | Time Police Arc | Urk Arc | Belgravia Arc | Stand-alone Issues | Short stories |
| Characters | |
| Main: | Paperinik | Uno | Lyla Lay | Xadhoom | Razziatore | Angus Fangus | Everett Ducklair |
| Evroniani: | Evron | Gorthan | Grrodon | Trauma | Zondag | Zoster | Zotnam |
| Other Enemies: | Due | Belgravia Republic | Fenimore Cook | Geena | Organizzazione | Morgan Fairfax |
| Minor Characters: | Abraham L. Wisecube | Camera 9 | Colonel Neopard | Eugene Photomas | Leonard Vertighel | Mary Ann Flagstarr | Mike M. Morrighan | Odin Eidolon | Rangi Fangus | Stefan Vladuck | Trip | Urk | Clint E. Westcock | Ziggy Flagstarr |
