History ComicBook / PaperinikNewAdventures

** In the ''Pikappa'' reboot it's shown the Evronians had not always been like that, and imply that they had become that way due a combination of the emotion-powered technology and the war with the Guardians of the Galaxy (in fact, when [[spoiler: Zondag changes the timeline to prevent the birth of the Guardians it results in the Evronians becoming peaceful, not using emotion-powered technology anymore and using their dietary needs to free people from bad emotions). ]]

** Back when the dinosaurs roamed the planet, Earth became the battlefield of two advanced alien races, now apparently extinct. One of them, forced to leave in the face of an invasion with overwhelming strength, left around a MindControl device that brainwashed the dinosaurs into attacking their enemies [[spoiler: and, [[RagnarokProofing after surviving under Duckburg for over 65 million years]] brainwashed Rupert into attacking Paperinik, as his costume happens to resemble the uniforms of the aliens]].

* AntagonisticOffspring: Korinna and Jupiter Ducklair, in ''[=PK2=]'', have a deep hatred for their father because they feel [[spoiler: robbed them of their destiny to become rulers of the planet Corona, and they don't get any better after Juniper becomes queen. Only by the end of PKNE #6 has some reconciliation between Juniper and Everett been reached.]]

** [[ChekhovsGun Many stories later, Seamus Hogg is shown dabbling with artificial gravity]]. However, his generator was faulty, resulting in [[spoiler: the flow of time going literally out of its banks]], with one of the most nightmarish scenarios in the series until [[spoiler: Paperinik, Lyla and the Raider travel back in time and destroy it before activation]]. Too bad he only knows that the generator had worked...

* BavarianFireDrill: One of Paperinik's usual tricks is this: walking in whatever place he's infiltrating while wearing some disguise, issue orders or demands, and wait for everyone to fall for it. His greatest hit so far comes from the PKNE story "Chronicle of a Return", where he used the fact the new group of Evronians [[spoiler: had lost all their officers and was led by the only surviving sergeant]] to take over command of their Planet Spaceship by telling them he was an ally and that the emperor would be pissed if they bothered him just for that.
* BenevolentAlienInvasion: Urk's AlternateUniverse, where America has been invaded by the local counterpart of the [[spoiler: Evrons]] in the far past: the invaders gave the local humans advanced technology with little impact on the environment, united them in three nations and then left.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Being DarkerAndEdgier, it is less idealistic than the usual Disney comics: [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools this doesn't stop it from being genuinely entertaining and well written, or causes it to be depressing]].

* TranquilFury: This comic series has the weirdest example of all in Xadhoom, of all people. It's not apparent due the fact she's always killing Evronians in the most painful way she knows while thinking how to make their deaths more humiliating, but then a short story showed her allowing a tiny bit of hatred and rage flow free for a single istant, and kill by indigestion an Evronian cyborg capable to harness the energy of the emotions of everyone in the area. That's how we know she's in TranquilFury, that and the fact she ever went in UnstoppableRage for a single instant she'd become a nova and destroy a solar system.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Being DarkerAndEdgier, it is less idealistic than the usual Disney comics: [[TropesAreNotBad this doesn't stop it from being genuinely entertaining and well written, or causes it to be depressing]].

* NecessaryEvil: Destroying the Evronian spores, one-meter large vegetal-like blobs that are the Evronian mean of reproduction and that they lay on the worlds they conquer. The spores, while gifted with formidable defenses against natural predators, are nothing more than defenseless ''fetuses'' against anyone equipped with ranged weapons. On the other hand, leaving a field of spores intact means that, in two months and half, hundreds of ''trained'' and indoctrinated Evronian warriors will pop out...

* The proper return of PK, informally called ''Paperinik New Era'' (PKNE). It started with the four-part storyline ''Might and Power'', published on the weekly Italian Mickey Mouse magazine in July 2014, and set an unspecified amount of time after the end of ''[=PK2=]''. Further PKNE storylines were published on the same magazine aperiodically, just like ''ComicBook/DoubleDuck''; six more have been made so far. Collector's Editions of these storylines are published a few months after the magazine's. A new dedicated book has been announced in June 2019, to be launched later the same year.

* AffectionateParody: Angus, of [[{{Spiderman}} J. Jonah Jameson]]. To clarify: Angus usually tries to ruin Paperinik's reputation for no apparent reason, but he's also a surprisingly capable journalist, who apparently became famous for exposing a traffic of NUCLEAR WEAPONS, exposing a member of the Congress in the process, and is hellbent on exposing the crimes of a CorruptCorporateExecutive.

-->'''Paperinik:''' "Oooff! This instead never happens!"
* AlienBlood: Xerbians have black-ink blood, as shown in a flashback. If this still applies to Xadhoom, after her transformation, is up to debate.

* AlternateUniverse: Where Urk comes from, a world where the Americas are ruled by a [[InjunCountry confederation of the Natives of North America]], the Empire of the Plumed Serpent and the Incan Empire, while the Vikings are the dominant power of Europe and are trying to conquer the New World, failing because their opponent were [[BenevolentPrecursors given high technology and the knowledge on how to use it in accord with nature by aliens]] (that are the local version of the [[spoiler:Evronians]]). PK ends up visiting it briefly.
** Three stories without Urk in PKNA have traveling to an AlternateUniverse as a plot point. The first is ''The Day of the Cold Sun'': the Raider has a prototype device to reach other dimensions and attempts to power it up (adequate power sources in the future are too well-guarded), [[spoiler:not knowing it's incomplete and would make himself stuck into all realities at once until the TimePolice managed to get him out]]; he accidentally brings Urk to our universe and by the end of that story, One has the technology needed to travel safely among the multiverse. The second is ''Ancient Future'', where PK accidentally ends in a ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''-like world ruled by [[spoiler:an alternate and dimension-hopping Raider]], who finally brought an end to the incessant wars and rules benevolently. The third is ''The End?'', the finale of the UltimateUniverse reboot, where [[spoiler:the Paperinik of the original series shows up just in time to aid Donald in defeating the last Evronian fleet]].

* DidntThinkThisThrough: According to the Raider, the Organization planned to dispose of Paperinik after they saved time. But Paperinik still had to defeat the Evronian Empire and get rid of that Evronian invasion fleet sitting in the asteroid belt...

* EvilVersusOblivion: In one issue there is a bubble of nothing that will eventually ''erase time''. [[TheSyndicate The Organization]] won't have any of it. {{Lampshaded}}:

* JustAMachine: It's... tricky: Paperinik respects artificial intelligence as much as he does with human intelligence (after all, two of his closest friends and allies are an A.I. and a droid) but he has no qualms about destroying robots if they are threatening someone; in ''[=PK2=]'' another A.I. calls him an "enemy of my species".

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Paperinik has pills that erase the last few hours (or more) from a character's memory. They are actually one of the few special creations of Gyro Gearloose he keeps troughout all his appearances, and [[spoiler:Gyro uses the last one on himself in order to forget about Donald being Paperinik in PKNA, thus severing the last tie to his old life and allowing him to protect Earth as a full-time superhero]].
** In an interesting case of CharacterDevelopment, Paperinik decided to not use them anymore after losing memory himself, because he now knows how that makes people feel.

* MiniMecha: Paperinik uses one to fight Trauma, and another against Morgoth.

* MorphWeapon: PK's Extransformer, which can - among other cool functions - change its shape from square to circular and transform into a boomerang, a drill, a suitcase, and a ''robotic puppy''.

* MythologyGag: The FinalBattle between Paperinik and Trauma in PKNA #10 takes place at the Cathedral of Notre Duck, which appeared in a Creator/CarlBarks story. Also in #13 Bravestone, the village attacked by the Evronians, has the same name as a village in another Barks story, and two old citizens speak about a young Scrooge [=McDuck=].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Ducklair [[spoiler:escaped with his daughters to Earth in order to give them a normal life, rather than allow them to potentially become Queens at the cost of their emotions. Turns out, they ''don't like'' having lost years of their lives in a coma and seeing a future as rulers denied... so they pull a FaceHeelTurn and try to become '''Earth's''' rulers.]]

* PlanetOfHats: The Xerbian racial hat is holding doctorates. Also a subversion of the associated trope [[NotThatKindofDoctor as some of them ARE that kind of doctor]].

* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Colonel Neopard, at your service... if you have enough cash.

** In "Phase Two", an Evronian commander is interrupted by his suprior while pondering if one of his subordinates is planning on usurping Zotnam. When the superior asks what he was talking about, the commander claims he was talking about PK, causing his superior to laugh at the prospect of PK making a carier in the Evronian hierarchy.

* SuperSoldier: One-off Evronian character Trauma willingly chose to become one.
** The Evronians have a few different kinds of these. Grrodon is basically a weaker warrior [[ShapeShifting capable of changing his looks]] (warriors like him resurface in the UltimateUniverse Continuity Reboot, and are implied to have gone rogue and murdered the last Emperor before Gorthan got their loyalty); [[ShoutOut Kravenn]] is the perfected version, having both the shape shifting ability, slightly superior strength and [[ScarilyCompetentTracker magnificent tracking abilities]] (he managed to track Xarion ''across the entire planet of Xerba'', and it took throwing him into space ''twice'' to get rid of him); the already mentioned Trauma, with SuperStrength, psychic powers enabling him to amplify fear into utter terror and the ability to feed from it; a group of [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Evronian Hybrids]] based on the genes of the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Beasts of Rhaghor]] and the data of the never-seen [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Project Abominion]], stronger, faster and with superior smell than standard warriors but indisciplined and apparently much stupider (they mutinied and closed the normal warriors of their ship in a cell guarded from the outside; somehow, the standard Evronians evaded and made short work of the guards); finally, in an alternate universe, Evronian-''Angus'' hybrids with SuperStrength superior to Trauma and the ability to feed from negative emotions - on the downside, they need constant feeding or they'll collapse, and they are quickly dispatched when Paperinik and the US Army stop fighting and start thinking about nice things.

** Becomes both FridgeHorror and FridgeLogic when you think about how exactly she knows that. After all, the only time she turned nova on-panel, [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice it killed her]]]].
*** She is a GeniusBruiser who managed to personally control thermonuclear processings. She probably knows a thing or two.
* SurpriseCreepy: It's a Disney series, that features Donald Duck as it's protagonist. So far so good... And then you learn that the main plot is derived from a genocide event.
** To say nothing of the [[AnyoneCanDie extensive casualties]], and assorted ApocalypseHow incidents.
** Fethry Duck turned into a Coolflame, although only in an allucination, must be ridicolous, right? [[http://i.imgur.com/EmisfCX.jpg Think again.]]

* TimeBomb: It doesn't need to be a bomb. In PKNA #4 ("Earthquake") it's an earthquake machine - of course, it's disarmed JustInTime. And when the bomb cannot be disarmed, it can be thrown towards an enemy (#7, "Invasion").

* TokenMinority: While most "brown" characters count as AmbiguouslyBrown due to being birdfaces, Angus is explicitly identified as a Maori.
* TookALevelInBadass: The series revolves around him, the supporting characters and the villains, taking one.
** And in [[UltimateUniverse ''Pikappa'']], PK is ''[[ThisIsUnforgivable pissed.]]'' Saying why would be a spoiler, but let's just say that what happened is enough to ''make him actually consider killing someone.''[[note]]To put that in perspective, the only time it happened to ComicBook/SpiderMan, it was in the "Back in Black" storyline, where a similar pressure of his BerserkButton made Spidey wonder, "was I actually going to kill him? The answer comes straight away. ''Yes, I was.''".[[/note]]
** In all continuities Paperinik has little issues about killing people... If it's absolutely necessary and/or the enemy is actively trying to kill him. Murder of a defenseless enemy, however, it's something else... And in the above part of the entry, he was charging a small laser cannon aimed at the head of a now defenseless MadScientist.

* VillainDecay: In his first appearance, VisionaryVillain Professor Fairfax was a ruthless but brilliant evil genius whose patiently planned [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans cataclysmic conspiracy]] had been decades in the works with no one the wiser, as well as sufficiently badass to credibly go toe-to-toe with PK with a fire axe inside a crashing airplane. Despite multiple interruptions and a premature launch, his scheme almost succeeded due to [[CrazyPrepared well-laid contingency plans]] and his skill at XanatosSpeedChess. He was also a [[GentlemanAndAScholar suave and charismatic]] figure, as well as [[TallDarkAndHandsome physically imposing, tall and handsome]]. In other words, very arguably one of the comic's most memorable [[MagnificentBastard magnificent bastards]]. And then when he returned as a consulting MadScientist for [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny Belgravia]], he inexplicably became a [[JerkAss petty and spiteful]] InsufferableGenius with [[HairTriggerTemper absolutely no self-control]]. He also ''[[ArtShift physically]]'' turned into a [[TheNapoleon ridiculous dwarf]].
** In his final appearance in the original series, he was tall again, but still more neurotic than ever, and had also become [[FatBastard seriously overweight]].
*** As of ''Might and Power'', he's back in physical shape but [[spoiler:[[MotiveDecay he has even thrown away his original goal]] of [[WellIntentionedExtremist causing a disaster that would however result in new inhabitable lands]], and has become an ally of the Evronians just to get back at the world for not "appreciating" his efforts]].

* VillainEpisode: PKNA #30, "Phase Two", centers much more around the Evronians and Two than the heroes.

* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: The Evronians did it with Xerba, as the Xerbian orbital defenses were too powerful for a frontal assault.
** They did it again with Earth, though it was for the opposite reason: no orbital defences, but earthlings are [[TheDeterminator far too determined]] to be defeated by a small scout fleet, and assembling a bigger fleet would be impratical.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Fairfax, kinda. Fighting overpopulation with the creation of a new continent... and the destruction of the West Coast in the process. By ''Might and Power'', however, he's entered MotiveDecay, [[spoiler:as he collaborates with the Evronians and lays the foundation for the transformation of Earth into a Worldship]].
** Geena is a deconstruction. She wants to [[spoiler:change history to make droids equal to humans, even going as far as destroying the only safe way to keep an eye on history]]. However, after seeing the actual results ([[spoiler:in the future she created, machines think of themselves as superior, and a war is about to explode]]), she [[spoiler:sacrifices herself to stop it]].

* WhatTheHellHero: Evronians reproduce by depositing 'spores' (actually 1-meter large vegetal-like blobs) on the worlds they conquer (or are attacking), and said spores, while gifted with formidable defenses against natural predators, are nothing more than defenseless ''fetuses'' against anyone equipped with ranged weapons. Yet, Paperinik, Xadhoom and the US Army have burned them down in more than one occasion.
** This was actually called out by [[TheDragon Zondag]] in the AlternateUniverse Ultimate Continuity, when he denounces a slaughter of billions of defenseless spores as the worse crime of the super soldiers created by the Guardians of the Galaxy.
** This is actually a NecessaryEvil: due to how fast Evronians go from being spores to be fully functional, indoctrinated and ''trained'' warriors (about a couple months as spores, and then a week before the warriors are adults), Paperinik and the US Army consider leaving those spores alone akin to having a sizeable enemy contingent behind the lines ready to attack at the worst possible moment, as it ''actually happened twice''. Xadhoom, on the other hand, [[PayEvilUntoEvil considers it payback]].
*** ''Might and Power'' shows exactly what happens when you leave the spores unattended and an Evronian with general-level smarts get to them: [[spoiler:the Evronian conquest of Earth]]. So yeah...

* WomenAreWiser: With the possible exception of Lyla Lay (and even that is debatable) this comic is mostly an inversion of this trope: Paperinik and One must act as rationable and level-headed yins to Xadhoom's brash, angry and irruent yang, while Everett is way more in control than [[spoiler:his daughters]] and an infinitely better [[spoiler:parent than his wife]].

* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: Xadhoom's war against the Evronians: they are an imperialistic AlwaysChaoticEvil species who destroyed her homeworld and exterminated almost all of her people, so she's going to exterminate them in return. It's deliciously karmic to see the BigBad of the comic so scared out of their wits by [[GenocideBackfire a problem they themselves created]].

In an obvious case of [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Italians Love Donald Duck]], the character of Paperinik was created way back in the late [[TheSixties 1960s]] as a GentlemanThief SecretIdentity to make Donald Duck less of a loser and capitalize upon the success this kind of stories was having in the country at the time (see ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'', which also inspired Paperinik's name — "Paperino" is Donald Duck's Italian name), but he quickly switched from avenging the wrongs he suffered in his Donald Duck persona to generally [[NonPoweredCostumedHero fighting crime]], thanks to the various super-gadgets [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys built for him by Gyro Gearloose]]. For more than a quarter century many stories about him were written, most of them totally out of continuity, and some even contradicting previously established facts, with the popularity of the character waxing and waning in cycles, though he was always well-received.

* The proper return of PK, informally called ''Paperinik New Era'' (PKNE). It started with the four-part storyline ''Might and Power'', published on the weekly Italian Mickey Mouse magazine in July 2014, and set an unspecified amount of time after the end of ''[=PK2=]''. Further PKNE storylines were published on the same magazine aperiodically, just like ''ComicBook/DoubleDuck''; six more have been made so far. Collector's Editions of these storylines are published a few months after the magazine's. On hiatus as of 2019, with news of a new dedicated book being considered.

* The proper return of PK, informally called ''Paperinik New Era'' (PKNE). It started with the four-part storyline ''Might and Power'', published on the weekly Italian Mickey Mouse magazine in July 2014, and set an unspecified amount of time after the end of ''[=PK2=]''. Further PKNE storylines were published on the same magazine aperiodically, just like ''ComicBook/DoubleDuck''; six more have been made so far. Collector's Editions of these storylines are published a few months after the magazine's. On hiatus as of 2019, with rumors of a new dedicated book being considered.

** A 2012 ''ComicBook/DoubleDuck'' storyline has Belgravia prominently involved, with Nestor and Grigorij Grimka explicitly mentioned and the latter having succeeded his father as President. Since at times the series mentioned Donald already having the Paperinik identity (which also explained his abilities as a secret agent), it led many to think that Donald may have become ComicBook/DoubleDuck after ''[=PK2=]'', but [[WordOfGod the writer]] said it was only intended as a big nod to PKNA fans... until the official release of the crossover story in early 2016 confirm that the stories are set in the same universe.

** The ''New Era'' stories can be hard to follow for who has come in contact with the franchise starting with ''Might and Power'' and the ''PK Giant'' reprints, on top of giving them massive spoilers for the original series. For example, whoever read ''The Mark of Moldrock'' at the time of first publication in May 2017 would be familiar with the returning [[spoiler:Trauma]], but completely baffled at the mentions of [[spoiler:Juniper and Corona]], especially with no reprints of ''[=PK2=]'' in sight.

** Three stories without Urk in PKNA have traveling to an AlternateUniverse as a plot point. The first is ''The Day of the Cold Sun'': the Raider has a prototype device to reach other dimensions and attempts to power it up (adequate power sources in the future are too well-guarded), [[spoiler:not knowing it's incomplete and would make himself stuck into all realities at once until the TimePolice managed to get him out]]; he accidentally brings Urk to our universe and by the end of that story, One has the technology needed to travel safely among the multiverse. The second is ''Ancient Future'', where PK accidentally ends in a ''LordOfTheRings''-like world ruled by [[spoiler:an alternate and dimension-hopping Raider]], who finally brought an end to the incessant wars and rules benevolently. The third is ''The End?'', the finale of the UltimateUniverse reboot, where [[spoiler:the Paperinik of the original series shows up just in time to aid Donald in defeating the last Evronian fleet]].

** When Paperinik ends up in a ''LordOfTheRings''-esque world, he never notices that there's something wrong with [[spoiler:Lyla's unusual attitude]] until the truth is showed right on his face, namely that [[spoiler:it isn't Lyla but a shape-shifting droid sent by the Organization to kill the future version of the Raider who has become the ruler of that world. After finding out, however, he's so pissed [[CurbStompBattle he utterly trashes the droid]]]].

* ScienceFantasy: In PKNA #18 ("Ancient Future"), Paperinik is transported to a [[TheLordOfTheRings LOTR-like]] {{Fantasy}} world where hi-tech Cyber-Elves fight against Techno-Orcs. The same issue also features other classic fantasy tropes, sometimes subverted: e.g. members of LaResistance are orcs, and the EvilOverlord [[spoiler:turns out to be not-so-evil after all]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: Unquestionably so, if compared to the not-quite-Marvel-like Paperinik stories from the more family-friendly ''Topolino'' (Italian for Mickey Mouse) weekly comic book.[[note]]New Era stories, however, are published on it and''Might and Power'' is probably the darkest story on the magazine in years[[/note]] To clarify, the first volume of the trade paperback CompilationRerelease features a behind-the-scenes about how the series came to be: it includes such stuff as "Duckburg becoming a big metropolis like [[Film/Batman1989 the Gotham City seen in the movies]], although obviously not as dark", and some ideas go as far as having "dream fights in ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''-like situations [[CaptainObvious (within Disney-level limits!)]]". The fact that ''characters are actually KilledOffForReal'' is only a natural consequence.

A video game based on the comics, ''VideoGame/DisneysPKOutOfTheShadows'', was made and released in English in 2002, but failed to attract a substantial audience and was only loosely related to the comics. A second video game, ''VideoGame/TheDuckforceRises'', was released for mobile phones in 2015. It features a mix of the classic Paperinik with the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' universe.

For a long time, the original series has had no official translation into English; only part of the reboot, ''Pikappa'', had been made available in English with the title ''Superduck''. In August 2016, PKNA began getting an official English release as ''Duck Avenger'' through Creator/IDWPublishing... only for it to be suspended after six issues, leaving once again scanlations as the only way for non-English speakers to read PKNA, ''[=PK2=]'' and the rest of ''Pikappa''.

A video game, ''Disney's PK: Out of the Shadows'', was made and even released in English, but it wasn't very successful. [[InNameOnly Nor related with the original comic books in any substantial way]]. A second video game, this time for mobile phones, was also released. It features a mix of the classic Paperinik with the WesternAnimation/DuckTales universe and it's much, much better than the other game.

* The proper return of PK, informally called ''Paperinik New Era'' (PKNE). It started with the four-part storyline ''Might and Power'', published on the weekly Italian Mickey Mouse magazine in July 2014, and set an unspecified amount of time after the end of ''[=PK2=]''. Further PKNE storylines are being published on the same magazine aperiodically for now, just like ''ComicBook/DoubleDuck''; six more have been made so far. Collector's Editions of these storylines are published a few months after the magazine's.

* FiveBadBand: The five bandits from issue #18:

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Zoster]]'s death. It's unclear if the body ''melts'' or ''disintegrates''.
* FantasticRacism: Many human timepolicemen in PKNA consider their droid "coworkers" as disposable machines despite them being as intelligent and able to feel emotions as them. Also in #36 two Evronians soldiers joke about the biological inferiority of Xerbians.

* The proper return of PK, informally called ''Paperinik New Era''. It started with the four-part storyline ''Might and Power'', published on the weekly Italian Mickey Mouse magazine in July 2014, and set an unspecified amount of time after the end of ''[=PK2=]''. Further PKNE storylines are being published on the same magazine aperiodically for now, just like ''ComicBook/DoubleDuck''; four more have been made so far. Collector's Editions of these storylines are published a few months after the magazine's.

** In PKNE #7 "Droids" [[spoiler:''Paperinik himself'' is revealed to be one at the end, a copy of his personality put into a robotic body. Tyrell Duckard wanted to use it to lure out some other droids he was hunting (PK is well regarded among droids in the 23rd century) but unfortunately for him, the copy is still an hero and ultimately unravels his plan.]]

* AnAssKickingChristmas: In PKNA #13, "The Darkest Night", Paperinik had to fight the Evronians on Christmas's Eve to rescue the people of a small village near Duckburg.

* AntagonisticOffspring: Korinna and Jupiter Ducklair, in ''[=PK2=]'', have a deep hatred for their father because they feel [[spoiler: robbed them of their destiny to become rulers of the planet Corona.]]

* TimeTravel: Naturally. One of the protagonists (Lyla) is a member of the time police, and one of the major enemies (the Rarder) is a thief who steals in the past.

* RedShirtArmy: Averted. Quite unusually for a superhero comic, the US Army has proved to be able to hold its ground against the Evronians. At least when they're not attacking in force, but after ''Might and Power'' they forces are more even, since [[spoiler:the Army now have guns tha can devolve the Evronians into spores]].

* A large-format reprint of the original series called "PK Giant - 3K Edition", with new covers by the original artists, a return of the beloved fan mail section and new extras. Publication has been suspended as of issue #43, but it has been announced that the remaining stories will be published as 128-page double issues starting from late 2018. The 1997 and 1998 Specials have been reprinted into a single big issue; the 1999 Special, however, has been reprinted alone.

** In PKNE #7 "Droids" [[spoiler:''Paperinik himself'' is revealed to be one at the end: a copy of his personality put into a mechanical body. It was a plan by Tyrell Duckard to lure out some other droids he was hunting (PK is regarded as a friend to droids in the 23rd century) but, unfortunately for him, the copy came out so good that it had doubts on the mission at hand and ultimately finds out who the real villain is.]]

* ActuallyADoombot: [[spoiler:In "Fragments of Autumn" Lyla is put on trial for shooting a human member of the TimePolice. He was actually a robot-replica used in a plan to destroy both the droids and the TimePolice.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: Unquestionably so, if compared to the not-quite-Marvel-like Paperinik stories from the more family-friendly ''Topolino'' (Italian for Mickey Mouse) weekly comic book.[[note]]New Era stories, however, are published on it and''Might and Power'' is probably the darkest story on the magazine in years[[/note]] To clarify, the first volume of the trade paperback CompilationRerelease features a behind-the-scenes about how the series came to be: it includes such stuff as "Duckburg becoming a big metropolis like [[Film/{{Batman}} the Gotham City seen in the movies]], although obviously not as dark", and some ideas go as far as having "dream fights in ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''-like situations [[CaptainObvious (within Disney-level limits!)]]". The fact that ''characters are actually KilledOffForReal'' is only a natural consequence.

* NonlethalWarfare: Some alien wars in the setting are this this. Most combatants are non-sentient mechas, with a few living commanders directing them - and you aren't allowed to actually kill anyone except in specific circumstances.