PKNA Main Characters
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This is a list of the main characters depicted in the Paperinik's New Adventures (PKNA) comic book.
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[edit] Paperinik
First Appearance: PKNA #0/0.
The superhero, and main character of PKNA. He is often called PK for short, and is the secret identity of Donald Duck. Throughout the series he faces many enemies and dangerous events, travelling in time and space. He befriends Uno, the artificial intelligence that runs the Ducklair Tower, and Lyla Lay, a journalist of 00 Channel, who actually is a droid coming from 23rd century. These two become main allies of Pk.
Donald already had a superhero identity known only as Paperinik, under which he fought the common criminals of Duckburg. The new threats he had to face, such as the Evronian aliens, prompted a total change in his lifestyle and fighting equipment, and he adopted "Pk" as his new nom de guerre, though the previous one also remains common in dialogue.
[edit] Uno
First Appearance: PKNA #0/0.
An A.I., created by Everett Ducklair. He resides in Ducklair Tower, in downtown Duckburg, on the 151st (secret) floor. He is "the tower itself", controlling all the floors, the underground levels and the sophisticated machinery that Everett built inside of it. He meets Paperinik for the first time when he is exploring the 151st floor, and becomes his first ally and, most importantly, his friend. When he wants to express appreciation for a human he always says something like "Not bad... for being a biological." His dream is to walk in the city he always explored through his innumerable sensors. "Uno" means "One" in Italian.
| “ | "Do you see it, hero? I dream. I hope. I suffer. And this means only one thing... I'm alive, and as long as you will keep remembering me, I'll keep existing." | ” |
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—Pk² #1 - Ducklair |
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[edit] Odin Eidolon
First Appearance: PKNA #5.
Odin Eidolon is the 23rd century droid incarnation of Uno. In 2186, his old creator, Everett Ducklair, returns to the Ducklair Tower to solve the problems experienced by Uno in making his own artificial body. Uno, in fact, is becoming very tired of his unsuccessful attempts to transfer his complex software into a robotic body. That body has the necessary hardware to contain his whole enormous software plus the possibility of expansion, but even with Everett's help, he can't transfer. Only after a dramatic and emotional fight with his twin Due, which happens both in the present and in the future, Uno understands how to be complete. His evil twin gives up his plain to destroy Uno, because it would spell his own destruction in the future. An erasing software manages to cancel Due but, before this happens, Uno saves the remain parts of his twin and tries for one last time to transfer. This time the operation is successful. Every human is made by good and evil, and so Uno is now.
Odin also means "One" in Russian.
[edit] Lyla Lay
First Appearance: PKNA #0/0.
A journalist for Duckburg-local Channel 00, working for the "00 News" evening newscast. Not only she is a journalist, but she actually isn't human: she's a Class 5Y droid from the 23rd century, sent by the Time Police to preserve history in 20th century. She's the second person, after Uno, to discover the identity of Donald Duck under the mask of Pk, thanks to her advanced sensors. During the series, she's always aware of Uno's presence in Ducklair Tower, but only in PKNA #48 she sees his real aspect for the first time.
- She was designed, along with droids of her same class, by famous engineer Leonard Vertighel.
- She's tall and rather slim, being portrayed in a rather sexy way for a Disney comic, especially when drawn by Claudio Sciarrone.
[edit] Razziatore
First Appearance: PKNA #0/2.
He is a time-traveling master thief from the 23rd century. He works for the criminal cartel Organizzazione ("The Organization") and was initially one of the main villains. During the series he sometimes decides to help Pk, as seen in PKNA#2, preventing the destruction of Duckburg in the 20th century, but only to further his own interests. Later in the series we find out that his main motivation is to care about his son Trip and his future. In Italian his name means "Raider" or "Forayer".
[edit] Xadhoom
First Appearance: PKNA #0/3.
A mutant female alien from planet Xerba. Before her mutation, she was one of the most brilliant young scientists on her planet, and her name was Xado. She believed in a peaceful pact between Xerba and the Evron Empire, but, while she was off-world, busy with completing her final and greatest experiment, the Evronian fleet attacked Xerba and had its entire population killed or enslaved as "coolflames". Witnessing the devastation of her planet, Dr. Xado was left with nothing but desire for revenge. Due to the apparent success of her experiment, she is now a thermonuclear being, requiring not food, but only the byproducts of an internal atomic process to survive, with a virtually inextinguishable power: a power she swore to use for fighting the Evronians until the destruction of their whole race. Her powers also threaten to become her doom, because overexerting herself in extreme anger could cause her to completely lose control and explode in a nuclear blast with the power of a small nova. Later in the series she will say "Power is its own contrary. Power is control and knowledge.". Her name means "Creditor" in Xerbian language. Donald Duck once said to her that he always had to deal with creditors (this is an humorous reference to his "classical" Donald Duck persona, perennially marred by debts.)
She is one of the very few characters to have spoken an uncensored expletive in Disney comics in recent years[citation needed].
[edit] Angus Fangus
First Appearance: PKNA #0/0.
| “ | Angus Fangus. You open a vocabulary, look up "arsehole" and you'll find his photograph. | ” |
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—Paperinik, PKNA #1 |
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Another Channel 00 journalist, working for the "00 News" evening newscast. He is a kiwi and comes from New Zealand. He meets Pk for the first time at a soap opera - Patemi - party, during a fight with Evroniani. He doesn't believe that aliens are trying to take over Earth; instead, he believes that Pk is a criminal, and that all mayhem happening in Duckburg and around the world in which the masked duck is somehow involved is his doing (in a humorous reference to J. Jonah Jameson). Pk becomes his first enemy and the objects of many of his false scoops, but later the two also become reluctant allies. His mother is Rangi Fangus, a strong woman, the leader of Māori Villages.
[edit] Everett Ducklair
First Appearance: PKNA #0/0.
A billionaire and highly talented inventor, creator of Uno, Due, Ducklair Tower and many futuristic machines. When he realizes that he is somehow unwittingly producing more and more dangerous weapons, he leaves Duckburg for the monastery of Dhasam-Bul, to give rest to his soul and mind. When something dangerous, related to Due, happens in Duckburg, he comes back to help Paperinik and Uno.
| PKNA | |
| Media | | PKNA issues |
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| 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 |
