Line #22 Fridge/PaperinikNewAdventures


1	[[WMG: '''FridgeBrilliance''']]
2	* In the first 23rd century story Grrodon, the last Evronian, tells us Paperinik will go on and destroy the Evronian Empire, with him surviving only because he was on Earth preparing for Evron's triumphal return when it happened, but the series ended before we saw how. Then, two issues after Grrodon infiltrated the US Army for some Evronians that survived Xadhoom's final rampage, and one after he was arrested by the military police for espionage, we see Paperinik vowing he'll get Xadhoom out of the artifact she copied her mind into, and we still don't know what happened to the Evronian invasion fleet hidden in the asteroid belt. Want to bet Xadhoom is involved?
3	** Probably confirmed. The memory of Xadhoom is at least partially self aware, and [[spoiler:it gave the secret of Xadhoom's powers to Zoster, the MadScientist Evronian. [[BatmanGambit He overused his newfound powers as soon as he got them,]] [[PhlebotinumOverload and was destroyed as a result.]]]]
4	* This is a long shot, but Uno and Due's behaviours seems awfully similar to [[{{VideoGame/Marathon}} Rampancy]];
5	** Melancholy: when he first met PK, Uno admitted to suffer loneliness. Meanwhile, Due's entire motivation is that he was never allowed to work and express its potential (he was the backup unit, but Uno never malfunctioned);
6	** Anger: Due, obviously. Becomes more and more deranged during the series. (His second appearance doesn't count - he explicitly stated that it was missing some pieces of data; therefore, it behaved more like a machine and less like a psycho). One develops anger much later on, [[spoiler:frustrated by his inability at producing a humanoid (well, duck-noid) body that can host his entire memory and pass for a real person]].
7	** Envy: [[spoiler:in the future, after PK is gone, Uno tries repeatedly to build a "perfect body" for himself... and constantly fails. Even the one builded by Everett refused to activate. Also, as soon as a time-traveling Due learns about said body, he ''immediately'' wants to steal it.]]
8	** '''Metastability''': none of them apparently reached it. [[spoiler:Uno absorbed the remains of Due's code after almost killing it. This resulted in the possibility of doing evil (manifested as Odin's slightly JerkAss side) and, therefore, free will.]]
9	* Took me a while to realize that the first series' final issue, a WhatIf episode, regards the first three regular issues.
10	* Why is Raghor the only one of the mutated supersoldiers able to talk coherently? Because he is an officer and therefore smarter that the average soldier, so when his genes were fused with those of the Beast of Rhagor he avoided to become stupider.
11	* Duckburg's people seem awfully willing to believe Angus when he accuses Paperinik of pretty much anything. Seems strange, right? Well, as most Italian fans will remember, Paperinik started out as a ''criminal'', one so feared that him merely showing up after a leave of absence was enough to ''cause city-wide panic'' (third story, "Paperinik Strikes Again"), and when some supposed scientists declared him a robot everyone, even people who should have known better, believed them until he [[ItMakesSenseInContext terrified into submission half of the city population with a gun made of chocolate]] (fourth story, "Paperinik's Double Triumph"), and even after reforming he was known to be rather sadistic and capable of literally ''steal away half of the city to track down a mob boss'' (he gave back the loot once he didn't need to fake a FaceHeelTurn). Nothing too easy to believe he simply changed his mind again.
12	* Being one of the early stories, PKNA #5 was written before most of the following events were planned; this led, over time, for the future it showed to have some contradictions, and the reveal that [[spoiler:one-shot character [=McCoy=] was Grrodon in disguise]] almost 40 issues later only patched things up partially. Comes ''Might and Power'', which sees PK back in action against a resurgent Evronian menace, and the events in it now have PKNA #5 as their most logical future.
13	* In ''Might and Power'' we are told that the Evronian conquest of Earth after reorganizing from within our own planet began at the end of 2014, while the story was published in July 2014. Even taking ComicBookTime in perspective, it means that the seemingly too easy defeat of the Evronians at the end of the storyline is plausible: not only they are taken by surprise, and attacked with a new technology they didn't expect, but while at an advanced stage they are simply still not ready - Nebula Faraday even laments they are behind schedule.
14	** Partially confirmed in-story: the various air forces have no new special weapon (the most advanced thing we see is the F-22), yet they still defeated the Evronian fleets.
15	* In ''The Banks of Time'', the Raider is back working for the Organization, and the leaders have apparently been replaced. Both have good reasons: the Raider retired when time travel stopped working, but now it works again; as for the change of leaders, the last time we saw the old ones they were being arrested with all the known Organization members, [[spoiler: and even with Time 0 and its prison conquered the new ones aren't stupid enough to free their only possible rivals]].
16	* Why don't we ever see Paperinik's pre-PKNA opponents, aside for Lord Walrus ([[RememberTheNewGuy who had never actually appeared in previous stories]])? Easy: they're just no match for a Paperinik equipped with Ducklair technology and supported by One. Most of them are one-shot characters relying on a gimmick that Paperinik would always neutralize (as shown by Lord Walrus), and One would find a way to neutralize them even faster, and the ones who aren't (namely Perfidus, still one-shot but an EvilCounterpart of Paperinik who was ''not'' apprehended, and the recurring Lola Duck and Spectrus) are either no match for Paperinik's new tech (Perfidus, who relied on gadgets literally made out of garbage, and Lola Duck, who was a ClassyCatBurglar) or have lost their one advantage (Spectrus relied on his HypnoticEyes... And Paperinik became ''immune'' to that after his brief time at Dhasam-Bul).
17	* In the real-life kiwi birds, the mothers have a horrible relationship with their chicks. Now, what species of human-like animal Angus and his mother are?
18	* It's strange that Paperinik doesn't recognize Xari when he meets him, not after seeing a Coolflame that looked ''exactly'' like him. Thing is, he also knew that the Xerbian was collaborating with the Evronians to be able to steer them away from the survivors of Xerba, and he just didn't expect Xari, who he knew had strongly opposed them, to do that, so he mistook him for a lookalike until Xalya calls him by name.
19	** Before that, but after meeting the Coolflame, he apparently mistakes Xarion (another Xerbian, who looks completely different from him) for Xari upon hearing the name. Xarion had just come to Earth after a ''very'' difficult travel and Paperinik knows he has no idea how Xerbian physiology works, he probably thought he had simply grown older and proven by the tasks.
20	* Early on Paperinik assumes that CasualInterstellarTravel is a thing in the series, until One sets him straight. Thing is, he's used to Gyro, who can make spaceships that can casually travel interstellar distances ''in an afternoon'': he just didn't know how hard it actually was, and with Ducklair's weapon technology being usually superior to Gyro's he assumed it was the same for spaceships.
21	* Xadhoom didn't come to Earth the first time by accident: she knew of Xerba's evacuation plan, that the Xerbians knew of Earth, and that the ships had been launched, and guessed at least one of the ships had set course to Earth to warn them about Evron and that she could find the survivors there. And, as shown by the ''Antra'', the only reason she was wrong is that the Evronians intercepted the ship.
22	* The abrasive personality of the Omega Custodian aka Solomon Hicks makes more sense after TheReveal that [[spoiler:during their stay on Earth, Juniper and Korinna had secretly reprogrammed him to be their servant - they may have also put some bits of themselves into him. For all we know, Everett may originaly have programmed him to be more sympathetic than he's been with Paperinik.]]
23	* Two moments from "Ur-Evron":
24	** The Evronians have visited Earth at least twice in the past, the first time over 20,000 years ago, and this story reveals that planet Evron is actually relatively close to Earth. Of course they visited Earth since 20,000 years ago, they've always been in the neighbourhood.
25	** More than once, the Evronians demonstrate they know enough of time travel technology to counter or block it if they expect it being used, though they have no access to actual {{Time Machine}}s. This story shows that [[PredecessorVillain the original Evron]] had invented the Galaxy Gates, devices that, among other things, enable actual time travel, and as the Alpha Spore he was even working with the time traveler, [[spoiler:Tuiroon, an Evronian who had found the hiding place of the Galaxy Gates]]. While the Evronians lost access to the technology when [[AntagonisticOffspring their first generation killed Evron]], they clearly maintained knowledge it exists and remember enough of its basic principles to act against it.
26	* "Ur-Evron" can be worked to explain the part of ancient Evronian history shown in the third series, specifically how the ancient Evronians fought with another species on their homeworld and followed a honor code: Ur-Evron shows there was indeed another species on ancient Evron, and their honor code would be a remnant of [[spoiler:Ur-Evron's own sense of honor before he was absorbed in the Alpha Spore]].
27	* When the original Evron is born in "Ur-Evron" it looks like a larger Evronian Emperor but lacks the second head at the end of the tail and talks from the first, though its previous appearance in the short stories showed him as having the second head and talking from it. As [[spoiler:it was just born from absorbing Ur-Evron]], he was likely still experimenting with its new form, and may have created the second head later to [[spoiler:keep it away from what was originally Ur-Evron's head and maintain better control of their shared body]].
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29	[[WMG: '''FridgeLogic''']]
30	* Why are Darker And Edgier stories about Donald Duck as a superhero so [[RuleofCool darn]] [[RuleofFunny Entertaining]]?
31	** Good writing.
32	* Xadhoom's traveled far through space, visiting various planets along the way, all so she could fight and kill Evronians. So how come she didn't recognize the avenger's shield as Coronian technology when she first saw it?
33	** Probably Xerbians haven't met Coronians yet.
34	*** Plus, she probably think he alredy knew. I mean, if one of your friends had a Ferrari, would you tell him "You know, your car came from Italy"?
35	*** Confirmed: [[AllThereInTheManual Inserts in the second series]] mention Xerba and Corona as former trading partners. She may have not recognized the shield and the Pkar (the latter actually being something Ducklair invented himself), but issue #1 implies she recognized Pk's spaceship as a Coronian model modified with a cold fusion reactor ''based on her own researches''. She was a little pissed when Uno declared it "Master Ducklair's masterpiece" and replied she knew something about it...
36	* Xadhoom losing control of her powers would not only kill her, but cause an explosion equal to a supernova: how, exactly, does she know that, if it's fatal?
37	** Well, she ''is'' a scientist.
38	* In "Chronicle of a Return" Bonton explains that, in the face of the Rettificators' overwhelming powers and [[YouAreInCommandNow killing every Evronian of higher rank on his ship]], he took the correct decision and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere ordered a general retreat]] and started searching for [[spoiler:another Evronian Emperor]] to which he'd hand over command while Manootensyon tried breed a high-caste scientist that would be able to recreate the chain of command. [[AllThereInTheManual The inserts explained early on that low-caste Evronians have limited intelligence and initiative and rely on orders from higher-caste Evronians whenever something they can't deal with happens]]... And as Bonton and Manootensyon are low-caste Evronians (if geniuses for their standards), they literally couldn't ''think'' of anything but, in their own ways, try and procure ''someone'' who could tell them what to do.
39	** This also explains the ease with which they fall for [[spoiler:[[BavarianFireDrill Paperinik's claim of being the local representative of the Evronian government]]]]: it was exactly what they were looking for and he was providing a logical explanation, at which point their very nature made them stop thinking about it and just ask for instructions. [[spoiler:Manootensyon suspecting something's amiss comes from him being a ''scientist'' and thus more incline to investigate]].
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42	* In 'Under A New Sun', you'll notice that the characters never referred to Xadhoom as dead. What if it's not just an ElephantInTheLivingRoom? What if she's still alive in there, sustaining the sun, [[AndIMustScream every second of every day, never sleeping or resting, always expending her energy, forever, or until she dies, dooming the very Xerbians she helped save, to freeze to death?]]
43	** '''Confirmed''' in "Chronicle of a Return": Xadhoom constantly disintegrates and reforms ([[spoiler:or she did, least until the En'tomek tried to absorb her and accidentally shut her off]]). Upon finding out, Paperinik is as horrified as you'd expect, and wonders how Xadhoom could tolerate it.
44	* How did Xadhoom knew that Zoster would disintegrate upon achieving her power? Easy: the same nearly happened to her, but, differently from Zoster, her self-control allowed her to reverse the process in time.
45	* The Xerbian survivors managed to [[spoiler: engineer a process that reverts Coolflames to their original form]]. However, Xadhoom often didn't hesitate to [[spoiler: blow up Coolflames along with their Evronian masters. How many innocents could have been saved?]]
46	* During "The Xadhoom Trilogy" Paperinik travels on board an evronian ship with an artificial intelligence. We later learn that said AI was used to take care of children on some planet. Considering that she is now in the hands of the Evronians, it's easy to guess that the planet she lived before was conquered by them and that everybody, ''children included'', was turned in a coolflame. But wait,it gets worse: since the Evronians probably didn't need the children (infants aren't exactly good slaves) they probably let them on the planet,with no one to care for them,''to slowly die of hunger without even realizing it''.
47	** Arguably, we can infer that they were Evronian children; why would they program an AI to care for children other than their own? Furthermore, given that they're generally AlwaysChaoticEvil, [[JerkassHasAPoint not a big loss]]. [[OhCrap Those kids might even help rebuild the empire.]]
48	** Actually,the AI showed Paperinik footage of the kids she was taking care of. Not one of them looked like an Evronian. It's implied that they took the AI after conquering the planet.
49	** There's a less (or possibly more) horrifying solution to this: ''the Evronians programmed the AI to take care of the kids of conquered peoples''. We have been shown the Evronians ''do'' keep around non-coolflame members of the peoples they conquer (see issue #25 and the Xadhoom Trilogy itself), some because they're more valuable with their intelligence and some presumably as breeding stock (Evronians do need to eat their emotions, after all), so it would make sense to them to take the children from their parents and have them raised by AI[=/=]s to make them loyal subjects of the Empire.
50	* In "Portrait of the Young Hero" the Evronians of Styvesant's show have two kinds of warriors, the normal kind (portrayed by actors in costumes) and a less numerous force of 'Super Evronians' (portrayed by robots). The 2014 relaunch has the Evronian troops that [[spoiler: conquered Earth in about one month]] show up in two kinds, the normal warriors and a less numerous force of '[[SuperSoldier Augmented Units]]'... That look ''identical'' to Styvesant's 'Super Evronians'. And Styvesant brags about the realism of his productions.
51	* The revelations of PKNE #4 cast a shadow on the optmistic future from which Lyla hails. [[spoiler:The events of ''Might and Power'' apparently rectified the timeline into an Evronian-free Earth, with only Grrodon remaining and in hiding; the discovery of the existence of multiple Evronian empires, however, means that peace may be apparent. It could take from years to millennia for them to show up, but Evronians may still be somewhere in the universe, and Earth may be even less prepared for a new coming of them.]]
52	** Thankfully, later stories reveal that One found out. As Odin Eidolon, he won't let Earth being caught unprepared.
53	* "Ur-Evron" reveals that planet Evron is currently known as Shikaar, a devastated world in Earth's neighbourhood. ''Earth had PlanetLooters in the neighbourhood for millennia'', and wasn't invaded until after we had the means to mount a resistance only because [[PragmaticVillain we weren't worth the effort until recently]].
54	* In "The Day of Pikappa" Paperinik prevents Tuiroon's scheme to begin with, annulling all his changes... Including Pk's own time travel to the ancient planet Evron, meaning that the Alpha Spore's plan to [[spoiler:possess Ur-Evron]] and become Evron went off without a hitch.

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