History ComicBook / PaperinikNewAdventures

** The last issue of ''Pikappa'' goes to nearly KillEmAll levels. [[spoiler:Aboard Zondag's ship, Lyla self-destructs to clear the way from EliteMooks, Vulnus Vendor is hit by a ray weapon, Juniper is coolflamized, Zondag is devolved into a spore, and Kronin was imprisoned there. Then the ship explodes. Donald and Angus are the only ones to flee in time and return to Duckburg.]]

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* ILoveNuclearPower: Spoofed: Agenore Brazoff is a criminal who's first bitten by a radioactive walrus (thus becoming Lord Walrus) and then by a radioactive lobster (becoming Evil Lobster). Paperinik still defeats him with little trouble.

** [[UpToEleven And then]] comes ''PK New Era''. Despite being published in child-friendly ''Topolino'', it has some of the darkest PK stories. Notably, the first story starts with [[spoiler:Donald's murder]] and it only gets darker from there. Also, most of the stories have a BittersweetEnding at best.

It all starts when, while patrolling the city, Paperinik runs into a TV star being attacked by aliens, and all his weapons prove to be useless against them; he's only saved by the intervention of the police. Soon afterwards, Donald Duck gets a job as the caretaker of his uncle's new purchase, a 150-floor-tall skyscraper called Ducklair Tower, built and previously owned by the genius inventor and eccentric billonaire, Everett Ducklair, who went mysteriously missing sometime ago. Donald accidentally discovers that the building actually has 151 floors: the "[[MissingFloor secret floor]]" is home to an AI called One, by Ducklair, the original owner of the building, who decides to assist Paperinik in his new battles against time-pirates, mad scientists and alien invaders where his old gear would be of no help. And Paperinik is going to need all the help he can get, because he is soon facing major disasters, and even battles for the very future of planet Earth.

It all starts when, while patrolling the city, Paperinik runs into a TV star being attacked by aliens, and all his weapons prove to be useless against them; he's only saved by the intervention of the police. Soon afterwards, Donald Duck gets a job as the caretaker of his uncle's new purchase, a 150-floor-tall skyscraper called Ducklair Tower, and accidentally discovers that the building actually has 151 floors: the "[[MissingFloor secret floor]]" is home to an AI called One, created by the genius inventor Everett Ducklair, the original owner of the building, who decides to assist Paperinik in his new battles against time-pirates, mad scientists and alien invaders where his old gear would be of no help. And Paperinik is going to need all the help he can get, because he is soon facing major disasters, and even battles for the very future of planet Earth.

It all starts when, while patrolling the city, Paperinik runs into a TV star being attacked by aliens, and all his weapons prove to be useless against them; he's only saved by the intervention of the police. Soon afterwards, Donald Duck gets a job as the caretaker of his uncle's new purchase, a 150-floor-tall skyscraper called Ducklair Tower, and accidentally discovers that the building actually has 151 floors: the "[[MissingFloor secret floor]]" is home to an AI called One, created by the original owner of the building, who decides to assist Paperinik in his new battles against time-pirates, mad scientists and alien invaders where his old gear would be of no help. And Paperinik is going to need all the help he can get, because he is soon facing major disasters, and even battles for the very future of planet Earth.

''Paperinik New Adventures'' ran for 52 issues (March, 1996 - January, 2001) plus four special issues detailing various elements of the BackStory and focusing on minor characters. It was followed by another series in the same continuity, ''[=PK2=]'', which was not quite as successful, and ended after 18 issues and one special. It was, in turn, followed by an UltimateUniverse continuity reboot, called simply ''PK'' or ''Pikappa'', which lasted 32 issues but was even less successful. The first series, considered one of the finest things Disney ever made by a very loyal fan community, has been re-printed several times.

* BastardBoyfriend: Two pop out in ''[=PK2=]''.
** One is Tyrrel Duckard, a droid from the XXIII century who was in a relationship with Lyla. When he reappears, he's gone crazy because the microcontration stopped time travel and trapped him in a jail where he had infiltrated on a mission. So he escapes and tries to force Lyla to go back to the future using a device ''that would have erased the whole continuity'', and savagely attacks her when she refuses.
*** Tyrrel is this even in the ''Pikappa'' reboot, despite the completely different origins. [[spoiler:Like Lyla, he was built by a genius in the ''XIX Century'' but he went insane and set their mansion on fire, leaving even Lyla (who was trying to save their creator) behind. When he finds her more than a century later, she has lost her memories and he transmits her some fake ones; when she recovers her true memories, she is enraged.]]
** The second is [[OnlyOneName Lucas]], the former boyfriend of Stella Nice. He forces her to hide him in her house while his gang is fighting a war with another gang to gain control of the streets of Duckburg.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: In [=PK2=] #8, Rupert is going to visit Stella Nice, when outside her house, he sees [[spoiler:the silohuettes of her and Donald Duck, apparently kissing]]. He's furious at first, only to later discover that [[spoiler:it was Paperinik and she was just embracing him, after he discovered about [[BastardBoyfriend Lucas]] and promised her to end it all]].

* ''PK Universe'', published on Paperinik Appgrade, stars the classic Paperinik along with characters from PKNA, and explicitly without One and the advanced gadgetry, counting on Gyro Gearloose's inventions and with economic support from Scrooge [=McDuck=]. It started with a five-part miniseries, written by Faraci, where the hero has to deal with the Evronians. Following stories on the same magazine are set in this new continuity, but after little more than a year of publication, it's been put on hold.

* ''PK Tube'' is a series of short stories that were published on the Mickey Mouse magazine starting in March 2016, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of issue #0 of PKNA. Some are centered on memories of One through time, while others expand on episodes of both the older and newer stories.
* 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 between 2015 and 2018, with Collector's Editions published a few months after the magazine's.
* A crossover between PK and ''ComicBook/DoubleDuck'', with Donald having to deal with both identities, published in May 2016.
* ''PK: A New Hero'', a dedicated book (the first since 2005, if you exclude reprints and Collector's Editions) published in large format, hardcover issues, launched in November 2019.

* LighterAndSofter: The rebooted series ''Pikappa''. It's not without darker moments on the level of the first two, however: examples are #9, centered around that universe's version of Tyrrell Duckard, and #12 where [[spoiler:one main character is KilledOffForReal (and then resurrected by putting his mind in a robotic body), and PK is seriously ready to throw away his moral code and kill someone for revenge]], among other things.

In the mid-[[TheNineties 1990s]], the italian Disney Comics experimented a rapid diversification with a wave of new talents (Paolo Mottura, Tito Faraci, Alberto Lavoradori, Casty...) eager to experiment beyond the established formulas of the past decades and to tackle more adult themes. During a phase of lack of inspiration for the "classic" Paperinik stories, PKNA came in as an attempt to write single-issue adventures that would fit into an over-arching continuity; a "disruptive" project commissioned to a group of mostly young talents, who had no problem admitting that they were "trying to play Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}". This was the first comic book that Disney Italy published in the American comic book form factor, further emphasizing the attempt to compete with them on their own ground. [[HilariousInHindsight In a twist of irony]], Disney now '''OWNS''' Marvel.

** Issue #40, "''A Single Breath''": it's pretty much stated outright in the ending that [[spoiler:the issue's BigBad, a NietzscheWannabe AGodAmI with almost unlimited PsychicPowers, has survived [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat being swept away by the wave caused by the collapse of a dam]].]] Where did he end up? No one knows.

* ContinuityLockout: A very rare example from Disney, connected only to a specific sub-continuity of the Junior Woodchucks (itself locked out from the rest) that is alluded to in "Xadhoom" and, later, ''ComicBook/DoubleDuck'' and a sub-series of spy stories (mentioned in passing by Paperinik during the crossover).

** The comic drops one in the one episode of the regular series where Trip appears: you are what you ''choose'' to be. Shown when [FutureMeScaresMe Trip's evil future counterpart]] and the whole BadFuture are undone by Trip simply declaring to his future self that he would never be like him

* AGodAmI: When one of the Evronians ([[spoiler:the scientist Zoster]]) manages to acquire Xadhoom's powers, and to a degree Leonard Vertighel, the greatest android designer of the 23rd century, ([[spoiler:who goes crazy trying to create the perfect woman]]).

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, ''The Duckforce Rises'', was released for mobile phones in 2015. It features a mix of the classic Paperinik with the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' universe.

[[caption-width-right:325:PKNA's first issue.]]

** '''All''' of the main characters have died at some point in the series, but their deaths are either from an alternate timeline or they're just brought back to life later on. [[spoiler:Yes, even ''DonaldDuck'' has died.]]

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* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Morgoth from ''[=PK2=]'' #13, a giant humanoid lizard with an armor and a weapon made of morphing metal. When we are introduced to him, it's implied that he and Paperinik have been clashing for some time already. [[spoiler:[[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because he's not real, he's part of the virtual reality where Paperinik is trapped.]]

In the mid-[[TheNineties 1990s]], the italian Disnay Comics experimented a rapid diversification with a wave of new talents (Paolo Mottura, Tito Faraci, Alberto Lavoradori, Casty...) eager to experiment beyond the established formulas of the past decades and to tackle more adult themes. During a phase of lack of inspiration for the "classic" Paperinik stories, PKNA came in as an attempt to write single-issue adventures that would fit into an over-arching continuity; a "disruptive" project commissioned to a group of mostly young talents, who had no problem admitting that they were "trying to play Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}". This was the first comic book that Disney Italy published in the American comic book form factor, further emphasizing the attempt to compete with them on their own ground. [[HilariousInHindsight In a twist of irony]], Disney now '''OWNS''' Marvel.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Basically describes the entire comic, compared to most other Disney productions, but [[Radar/PaperinikNewAdventures has its own page for more specific examples]].

In the mid-[[TheNineties 1990s]], the italian Disnay Comics experimented a rapid diversification with a wave of new talents (Paolo Mottura, Tito Faraci, Alberto Lavoradori, Casty...) eager to experiment beyond the established formulas of the past decades and to tackle more adult themes. During a phase of lack of inspiration for the "classic" Paperinik stories, PKNA came in as an attempt to write single-issue adventures that would fit into an over-arching continuity; a "disruptive" project commissioned to a group of mostly young talents, who had no problem admitting that they were "trying to play Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}". This was the first comic book that Disney Italy published in the American comic book form factor, further emphasizing the attempt to compete with them on their own ground. In a twist of irony, Disney now owns Marvel.

In the mid-[[TheNineties 1990s]], during a phase of lack of inspiration for the "classic" Paperinik stories, PKNA came in as an attempt to write single-issue adventures that would fit into an over-arching continuity; a "disruptive" project commissioned to a group of mostly young talents, who had no problem admitting that they were "trying to play Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}". This was the first comic book that Disney Italy published in the American comic book form factor, further emphasizing the attempt to compete with them on their own ground. In a twist of irony, Disney now owns Marvel.

* ConspicuousCG: Used on several covers of ''[=PK2=]'', with less than stellar results. Also in #10 of the same series, to depict metal and glass melted by the rays of the mini-bots.