It's a regular December night in Duckburg: snow is falling, temperatures are dropping and Donald Duck is at his job of chairman of Ducklair Enterprises.
...Wait, what?Yes, it appears things are a little different in the present just like in the future, where droids are claiming their superiority over humans and demanding more and more privileges. Which means an old friend must return to the past and find out what went wrong.
Tropes Present In This Issue:
- Alternate Company Equivalent: Paperinik is more similar to Batman than ever in this issue. Done completely on purpose.
- As You Know: Odin and the Time Police commander explain to each other how they monitor the timestream and how their database is completely protected despite both knowing it already.
- The Cameo: Mickey Mouse from Steamboat Willie is seen on one of the panels monitored by the timecops.
- Continuity Nod: Geena, the mastermind behind the droids' revolt, returns, and her previous encounter with Paperinik is remembered.Heck, it was the reason she came up with that plan.
- Death Is Cheap: Invoked but then averted on Paperinik's request:Paperinik:"Machines can be repaired! Not her!
- For Want Of A Nail: Just because Donald became Ducklair's assistant, the whole timeline emerges completely different. Which is actually what the droid that set all of this in motion wanted.
- Kill and Replace: Well, she tecnically isn't killed (after all, as Odin mentions, droids are really difficult to destroy) but Geena takes the place of Lyla to better manipulate Donald in serving her plan.
- Heterosexual Life-Partner: Apparently in the new timeline Donald Duck and Everett Ducklair were this, before the latter went to the monastery of Dhasam-Bul.
- Honest Corporate Executive: Donald became one in the new timeline. Uncle Scrooge is as surprised as you are.
- I Die Free: Geena's ultimate fate.Geena:: "I've proved... I'm not an... obedient machine!"
- Redemption Equals Death: Geena dies to save the continuum... after being the one wanting to change it in the first place.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Played With: nobody can actually remember the old timeline, but flashes of it leak out at times, and only droids can see them. So Odin confronts it with a recording of his old memory put in a place where it can't be altered, and discovers the problem.
- Time Bomb: The villain wants to use it to destroy the Time Police's database, so that history manipulation can be easier.
- Tragic Villain: Goodbye, Geena.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: It's deconstructed: Geena just wants to make droids equal to humans, but in the new reality she help create, droids are becoming oppressive towards humans as humans were towards droids. She ends up doing a Heroic Sacrifice to avert this.
