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Ziggy Flaggstar runs into a mysterious girl with odd blank eyes, pursued by some threatening men in black. Soon enough, Mary Ann and Paperinik are involved, as they find out about the girl's past, her psychic powers and the organization who wants her back...
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* TheAce: A quick glance at Ziggy's file reveals that he had top scores in most subjects taught at P.B.I. and it shows.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: How Ziggy ends up in this story.
* AntagonisticOffspring: It's left ambiguous, but it's implied that Ethan is Froud's biological son. Depends on wether you consider him calling Max "father" ironical or literal. It would explain why Max cares so much about him.
* ArcWords: "Breathe". This is some sort of mantra used both by Jana and Ethan.
* IAteWhat: Subverted, when PK arrives in Mary Ann's house he's seen eating an apple, commenting on its flavor. Mary Ann informs him that it's made of wax, causing him to spit... but then Ziggy informs them that he swapped them for real fruit.
* BroughtDownToNormal: What ultimately happens to Jana after she uses all her powers to cause a landslide and prevent a flood. She's perfectly happy with that.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Ziggy curb-stomps the rude agents in black in the airport he apologize to an old lady who was sitting nearby. She tells him she doesn't matter, altough she'd prefer he had used boxe rather than karate.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Plenty of focus on Ziggy in this volume.
* DePower: Halfway through, Jana is briefly depowered when Uno finds a way to temporarly give her powers to PK so that he can fight Ethan on equal footing.
* DeadpanSnarker: When Jana wonders who's throwing guns down the chimney, Mary Ann claims that it can't be Santa Claus, he would have packeted them up first.
* DisneyVillainDeath: The last time we see Ethan, he lets himself fall from a crumbling dam into the rushing water flow below. While they NeverFoundTheBody it's implied he didn't survive.
* EntitledToHaveYou: Ethan for Jana. He seemingly expects her to be with him only because both share psychic powers, and because he revealed to her his greatest ambition.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Max Froud is an amoral and manipulative executive, who nonetheless shows a good deal of respect for Ethan, tries to reason with him when his rage gets the better of him and is visibly shocked when the latter lets himself fall into the abyss. Also worth noticing that he tried to save Ethan even after the latter unleashed his powers on him, and seems to care for his wellbeing.
* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: Offscreen, PK takes down and disarms several Factory agents while eating three apples. [[BananaPeel And a banana]].
* FatalFlaw: For all his powers and charisma, Ethan is far too impulsive and has trouble controlling himself when he's angry.
* AGodAmI: Ethan. He shows Jana some ancient ruins depicting classical gods and demigods, only to start ranting about how "gifted" people like he and Jana should use their powers to rule over the other men like gods.
* {{Guyliner}}: Ethan's GagLips are green, though it's unclear if it's makeup or a side effect of his powers.
* IronicEcho: Invoked by PK, who throws back Ethan's "Yes, I can do that" from earlier when he shoots him with his psychic powers.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Jana is clearly distressed by her own powers and is much happier without them.
* TheMenInBlack: The agents of Factory, the organization raising a generation of psychis to TakeOverTheWorld.
* MookHorrorShow: Downplayed, though when Factory mooks are attacking Mary Ann's mansion, PK, from the shadows, proceed to defeat them one by one, the only sign being the occasional guns, googles and apple cores thrown inside.
* MundaneUtility: Paperinik's first application of his psychic powers? Make donuts float from a distant plate to his open mouth.
* MysteriousWaif: Jana, a mysterious pink-haired girl with blank eyes pursued by black-clad strangers. Clearly the sign that an adventure is coming!
* PossessionImpliesMastery: Averted, when One uses his powers to give Jana's powers to PK, he has to spend a whole night training to use them properly.
* PowerLimiter: Factory deploys "Restraining Hoods" on their psychics to keep their powers under control. However, Ethan is so powerful the Hood does nothing to him.
* PragmaticVillainy: Max Froud. While he's adopting and training powerful psychichs for nefarious plots, he stress that only by clear thinking and strategy he'll be able to TakeOverTheWorld, shooting down Ethan's proposal of using brute force to conquer the world. He also saves Mary Ann and Ziggy from Ethan's wrath, as they can serve as hostages to lure Jana out.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: Paperink makes one before trying to slug Ethan with his shield... but unfortunately, he didn't took his pyschic powers in account.
-->'''Paperinik''':"Ok big boy, you can open a plothole with a nasty look... but can you do this?!" (shoots the shield)
-->'''Ethan''':(Stopping the Extransformer midair)"Well yes, buffoon... I can do that." (sends it back).
* ProphetEyes: As a sign of their [=ESP=] powers, both Jana and Ethan have blank, greenish eyes. Jana's turn to normal after she loses her powers.
* PsychicPowers: Jana and Ethan have them, as well as many other people adopted by Factory, which plans to use them to dominate the world. As evidenced by both, they can [[MindOverMatter move objects with their mind]], [[TheEmpath read minds and sense people]], sends people flying with a glance and even stops someone's breath. Oddly enough, Ethan scoffs at Ziggy when he identifies his powers as mere Telekinesis.
* ReverseShrapnel: Much to [[ThisCannotBe Ethan's shock]], PK proves able to use the rabble caused by the former's attack to attack him by having all the rabble converge on him, implying that it requires an incredible control.
* TakeMyHand: Oddly enough, is the villain, Max Froud, who reaches at Ethan as he's dangling from the crumbling dam and begs him to take his hand. Ethan rejects what he considers his "last order" and apparently choose suicide.
* TakingAThirdOption: When Froud and Ethan pulls an HostageSituation on PK and asks for Jana, rather than giving her in or trying to have her, who's currently under PowerLimiter, Paperinik cuts the knot by having Uno using his technology to temporarly transfer Jana's powers to him, so that he can use the powers to defeat Ethan.
* VillainousBreakdown: A rage-induced one for Ethan when Froud tries to use Jana as an hostage to stop PK. With a bit of TheDogBitesBack thrown in.
-->'''Ethan''': "You know what? I'm fed up with you! Fed up with Factory, fed up with everything!!"
-->'''Froud''': "Calm down Ethan, you don't even know what you can cause if you lose control..."
-->'''Ethan''': " 'Calm down Ethan', 'relax Ethan', '[[ArcWords take a good breath Ethan]]', [[RageBreakingPoint ENOUGH!]]"
-->'''Froud''': "[[OhCrap W-wait! I just want to help you, I..]]"
-->'''Ethan''': "I don't want your help! All I want is that you stay back! Did you hear me? (Blasts Froud down) BACK!"
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Ethan has a wild long mane of white hair, but deep down is a psychotic, rageaholic madman with a god complex.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Possibly to tie in with her unusual powers, Jana has magenta hair.
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* TheAce: A quick glance at Ziggy's file reveals that he had top scores in most subjects taught at P.B.I. and it shows.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: How Ziggy ends up in this story.
* AntagonisticOffspring: It's left ambiguous, but it's implied that Ethan is Froud's biological son. Depends on wether you consider him calling Max "father" ironical or literal. It would explain why Max cares so much about him.
* ArcWords: "Breathe". This is some sort of mantra used both by Jana and Ethan.
* IAteWhat: Subverted, when PK arrives in Mary Ann's house he's seen eating an apple, commenting on its flavor. Mary Ann informs him that it's made of wax, causing him to spit... but then Ziggy informs them that he swapped them for real fruit.
* BroughtDownToNormal: What ultimately happens to Jana after she uses all her powers to cause a landslide and prevent a flood. She's perfectly happy with that.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Ziggy curb-stomps the rude agents in black in the airport he apologize to an old lady who was sitting nearby. She tells him she doesn't matter, altough she'd prefer he had used boxe rather than karate.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Plenty of focus on Ziggy in this volume.
* DePower: Halfway through, Jana is briefly depowered when Uno finds a way to temporarly give her powers to PK so that he can fight Ethan on equal footing.
* DeadpanSnarker: When Jana wonders who's throwing guns down the chimney, Mary Ann claims that it can't be Santa Claus, he would have packeted them up first.
* DisneyVillainDeath: The last time we see Ethan, he lets himself fall from a crumbling dam into the rushing water flow below. While they NeverFoundTheBody it's implied he didn't survive.
* EntitledToHaveYou: Ethan for Jana. He seemingly expects her to be with him only because both share psychic powers, and because he revealed to her his greatest ambition.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Max Froud is an amoral and manipulative executive, who nonetheless shows a good deal of respect for Ethan, tries to reason with him when his rage gets the better of him and is visibly shocked when the latter lets himself fall into the abyss. Also worth noticing that he tried to save Ethan even after the latter unleashed his powers on him, and seems to care for his wellbeing.
* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: Offscreen, PK takes down and disarms several Factory agents while eating three apples. [[BananaPeel And a banana]].
* FatalFlaw: For all his powers and charisma, Ethan is far too impulsive and has trouble controlling himself when he's angry.
* AGodAmI: Ethan. He shows Jana some ancient ruins depicting classical gods and demigods, only to start ranting about how "gifted" people like he and Jana should use their powers to rule over the other men like gods.
* {{Guyliner}}: Ethan's GagLips are green, though it's unclear if it's makeup or a side effect of his powers.
* IronicEcho: Invoked by PK, who throws back Ethan's "Yes, I can do that" from earlier when he shoots him with his psychic powers.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Jana is clearly distressed by her own powers and is much happier without them.
* TheMenInBlack: The agents of Factory, the organization raising a generation of psychis to TakeOverTheWorld.
* MookHorrorShow: Downplayed, though when Factory mooks are attacking Mary Ann's mansion, PK, from the shadows, proceed to defeat them one by one, the only sign being the occasional guns, googles and apple cores thrown inside.
* MundaneUtility: Paperinik's first application of his psychic powers? Make donuts float from a distant plate to his open mouth.
* MysteriousWaif: Jana, a mysterious pink-haired girl with blank eyes pursued by black-clad strangers. Clearly the sign that an adventure is coming!
* PossessionImpliesMastery: Averted, when One uses his powers to give Jana's powers to PK, he has to spend a whole night training to use them properly.
* PowerLimiter: Factory deploys "Restraining Hoods" on their psychics to keep their powers under control. However, Ethan is so powerful the Hood does nothing to him.
* PragmaticVillainy: Max Froud. While he's adopting and training powerful psychichs for nefarious plots, he stress that only by clear thinking and strategy he'll be able to TakeOverTheWorld, shooting down Ethan's proposal of using brute force to conquer the world. He also saves Mary Ann and Ziggy from Ethan's wrath, as they can serve as hostages to lure Jana out.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: Paperink makes one before trying to slug Ethan with his shield... but unfortunately, he didn't took his pyschic powers in account.
-->'''Paperinik''':"Ok big boy, you can open a plothole with a nasty look... but can you do this?!" (shoots the shield)
-->'''Ethan''':(Stopping the Extransformer midair)"Well yes, buffoon... I can do that." (sends it back).
* ProphetEyes: As a sign of their [=ESP=] powers, both Jana and Ethan have blank, greenish eyes. Jana's turn to normal after she loses her powers.
* PsychicPowers: Jana and Ethan have them, as well as many other people adopted by Factory, which plans to use them to dominate the world. As evidenced by both, they can [[MindOverMatter move objects with their mind]], [[TheEmpath read minds and sense people]], sends people flying with a glance and even stops someone's breath. Oddly enough, Ethan scoffs at Ziggy when he identifies his powers as mere Telekinesis.
* ReverseShrapnel: Much to [[ThisCannotBe Ethan's shock]], PK proves able to use the rabble caused by the former's attack to attack him by having all the rabble converge on him, implying that it requires an incredible control.
* TakeMyHand: Oddly enough, is the villain, Max Froud, who reaches at Ethan as he's dangling from the crumbling dam and begs him to take his hand. Ethan rejects what he considers his "last order" and apparently choose suicide.
* TakingAThirdOption: When Froud and Ethan pulls an HostageSituation on PK and asks for Jana, rather than giving her in or trying to have her, who's currently under PowerLimiter, Paperinik cuts the knot by having Uno using his technology to temporarly transfer Jana's powers to him, so that he can use the powers to defeat Ethan.
* VillainousBreakdown: A rage-induced one for Ethan when Froud tries to use Jana as an hostage to stop PK. With a bit of TheDogBitesBack thrown in.
-->'''Ethan''': "You know what? I'm fed up with you! Fed up with Factory, fed up with everything!!"
-->'''Froud''': "Calm down Ethan, you don't even know what you can cause if you lose control..."
-->'''Ethan''': " 'Calm down Ethan', 'relax Ethan', '[[ArcWords take a good breath Ethan]]', [[RageBreakingPoint ENOUGH!]]"
-->'''Froud''': "[[OhCrap W-wait! I just want to help you, I..]]"
-->'''Ethan''': "I don't want your help! All I want is that you stay back! Did you hear me? (Blasts Froud down) BACK!"
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Ethan has a wild long mane of white hair, but deep down is a psychotic, rageaholic madman with a god complex.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Possibly to tie in with her unusual powers, Jana has magenta hair.
