Line #92 ComicBook/DoubleDuck


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3	A parking ticket leads WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck to realise he's [[ManchurianAgent actually a former sleeper agent]] for CloakAndDagger GovernmentAgencyOfFiction, The Agency. However, one of their agents has become a DoubleAgent and taken a MacGuffin; the world isn't going to save itself, so [[MandatoryUnretirement he's back on the job]] as [[Film/JamesBond Agent Double Duck]]!
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5	Created in Italy, the storyline was introduced in April, 2008; it was written by Marco Bosco and Fausto Vitaliano. It has proven popular enough to become [[AlternateUniverse its own separate canon]]... Until a 2016 crossover story confirmed several ties to ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' universe.
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7	Not to be confused with "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E34DoubleODuck Double-O-Duck]]", the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode featuring Launchpad [=McQuack=] in a spy pastiche.
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10	!!''Double Duck'' contains examples of:
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12	* ActionGirl: Kay K.
13	* AdaptationalIntelligence: If [[ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures Papernik]] is the most badass adaptation of Donald, Double Duck is surely the smartest. Indeed, [[spoiler: the Agency used his brain to create the AI (who is the Agency's Big Boss) because of his "lateral thinking"]].
14	* AdventureDuo: Donald and Kay K are this, except technically Donald is TheHero and Kay K TheLancer.
15	* AgentsDating: In the story "Hong Island", while in Bangkok, Thailand, Donald and Kay K, before going to search for their GadgeteerGenius, Gizmo, have dinner. At the end of the dinner, they get the restaurant check, which includes an envelope with two plane tickets for Krabi, in the southern part of Thailand.
16	* AlliterativeName:
17	** '''Everyone''' in The Agency has one. [[AvertedTrope Well]], except for [[PluckyOfficeGirl the secretary]] Liz Zago, [[PunnyName Gizmo]], The Agency's resident GadgeteerGenius, and [[BruceLeeClone Bruce Wong]], the hand-to-hand combat instructor.
18	** Two agents also have them with their real names: Double Duck (alias Donald Duck) and Kay K (whose first and middle name are [[EmbarrassingFirstName Arianna]] [[EmbarrassingMiddleName Adelaide]]).
19	* BadassBiker: Kay K often rides a motorcycle.
20	* BenevolentAI: [[spoiler: The Agency's big boss. He is an AI based on Donald's mind.]]
21	* BettyAndVeronica: Daisy is the Betty (in spite of her {{Tsundere}} tendencies) and Kay K/[[spoiler:Red Primerose]] the Veronica for Donald Duck.
22	* BruceLeeClone: The Agency's hand-to-hand combat instructor Bruce Wong. Like the original, he's a CombatPragmatist, and will teach his victims-er, ''apprentices'', the same mindset - the first time we see him, he announces Donald he'll fake hitting him with a punch and then ''kicks'' him [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom across the gym]]. He then gives him the first lesson: never trust an enemy.
23	* ClingyJealousGirl: Daisy, every time she catches Donald with Kay K.
24	* ConsummateLiar: Every good spy, but especially Donald.
25	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Marlo Burke, who even in his public guise is considered a "notorious financier". Turns out his private life is even worse, as he likes to indulge himself in a spot of theft in order to get access to secret organisations, so he can {{blackmail}} his way to get ''even more'' access to other secret organisations.
26	** [[spoiler:John Rockerduck]] reprises his role from the PIA stories.
27	* ContinuityCameo: Kind of:
28	** The PBI ("Paperal Bureau of Investigation"), which is also in ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures''.
29	** Another ''huge'' PK cameo is in the "Code Olympus" story arc, featuring the Republic of Belgravia (a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny), complete with mentions of the characters Nestor Grimka (the former president) and his son Grigorji (the current one. He didn't get better from his appearance in PK), and Paperinik's Extransformer shield in Gizmo's lab. [[LampshadeHanging When Belgravia is mentioned, Donald remarks he's familiar with them]].
30	* {{Crossover}}: The story ''Pk vs Double Duck: Time Crime'', with ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures''.
31	* DolledUpInstallment: Double Duck and Kay K are saved by Wilson, an agent of [[WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck SHUSH]]. But in the original Italian version states he's working for "PBI", an acronym for "Paperal Bureau of Investigation" - where "Paperal" is a pun on "Papero", Italian for "Duck" [[{{Woolseyism}} (which would be "Duck Bureau of Investigation" in English)]]. [[spoiler: However, the twist remains the same.]]
32	* [[BatmanGrabsAGun Donald Grabs a Gun]]: Sometimes, but he generally prefer use Gizmo gadgets. Also in the first cover.
33	* DoubleAgent:
34	** Agent B-Berry is this [[spoiler:until it turns out he's a FakeDefector, as well as Agent B-Black, who were trying to flush out [[TheMole the real mole]]... [[BigBadFriend Kay K]]. Turns out she'd been StealingFromTheTill, as well as being ClassyCatBurglar Red Primerose on the side.]]
35	** Jay J also turns out to be this in a later story. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that he too is a FakeDefector.]]
36	* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent:
37	** This is Kay K's explanation for her actions when she shows up to save Donald in ''Souvenir de Paris''. And to stay true to the trope, she proceeds to trick Donald instantly afterwards (see FaceHeelRevolvingDoor below), so he can't be fully certain whose side she is on at the end of the story. Her next appearance establishes her as a very loyal Agency agent, but it is never fully explained whether she truly was this or simply a BoxedCrook pressed into service by the Big Boss. Although, ''Reboot'' seems to lean towards the latter.
38	** In more general terms, the Big Boss is pretty enamored with this trope. Apart from Kay K, Jay J, Gizmo, and — in one famous occasion — ''Donald himself'' get to try their hand at being one on his orders.
39	* DoubleStandard: Sure, Daisy can throw Donald over and go to a fancy event with Gladstone Gander, but if she spots him spending time with another woman, then that's just '''''wrong!'''''. And Donald's remark about this?
40	-->'''Donald:''' "Hey, I'm not the only one who has something to explain! You dumped me and ran off with Gladstone!"
41	-->'''Daisy:''' [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique "Don't change the subject!"]]
42	-->'''Donald:''' [[LampshadeHanging "Sometimes there's no point in questioning feminine logic."]]
43	* {{Expy}}:
44	** Marlo Burke. Just ''look'' at him and ''try'' not shouting "It's [[ComicBook/SpiderMan the Kingpin!]]"
45	** Likewise, Jana Smirnov from "Total Reset Button". With her Russian-sounding name, red hair and SpyCatsuit, she's a dead ringer for Natasha Romanov, a.k.a. ComicBook/BlackWidow. Considering that the same creators are behind PKNA, it's no big wonder they're fond of Marvel.
46	* FaceHeelRevolvingDoor:
47	** Kay K rides a few rounds on this in the early stories. [[spoiler: In the very first story, she appears to be an allied agent, but turns out to be the mastermind of the entire plot against the Agency. In her next appearance, however, she saves Donald's life and explains that she was only pretending to be bad, on the orders of the Big Boss, in order to infiltrate the Organization. Instantly after this, she tricks Donald into helping her steal a few million euros from the Organization's HQ, seemingly without the Agency's knowledge. Then she comes back to Donald and warns him that he has a price on his head...]] After all this, she is firmly established on the side of the Agency in her next appearance (at least until ''Reboot'', that is), meaning she was either GoodAllAlong or rather EasilyForgiven.
48	** On a country level with Belgravia. They first debuted in ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' as a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny bent on world conquest, then in their last story president Nestor Grimka announces they'll get out of the spreading chaos business and he's going to retire, and when Belgravia reappears in "Double Duck" [[HereditaryRepublic with Grimka's son in charge]] they're back at their tricks.
49	* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. As typical of Italian Disney stories, characters casually wields and use realistic firearms.
50	* FemmeFataleSpy: Kay K; in her first appearance she has no qualms about using her beauty to manipulate male characters like Donald. [[spoiler:She was the criminal Red Primerose, who introduced herself in the Agency by secretly replacing the director Jay J. After all, [[{{Foreshadowing}} she did say that all good spies lie]] and that [[{{SuspiciouslySpecificDenial}} Red Primerose wasn't necessarily a man...]]]]
51	* GadgeteerGenius: Gizmo, who provides all the gadgets to the Agency.
52	* GentlemanThief: Abel Konnery, [[spoiler: Kay-K's father.]]
53	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After being arrested by Donald, Kay K eventually joins The Agency for real and becomes their best agent, working often with Donald.]]
54	* ImportedAlienPhlebotinum: [[spoiler:Turns out that the Agency's technology was partially reverse-engineered from a time-displaced [[ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures Extransformer shield]], which is Coronian technology]].
55	%%Dead link* IncrediblyObviousTail: Played very literally indeed: turns out following somebody in [[http://pan.fotovista.com/dev/2/0/01357402/g_01357402.jpg this car]] isn't such a great idea...
56	* {{Jerkass}}: Gladstone yet again. He never misses an opportunity to brag about his luck and mock his cousin and is pissed when Donald totally ignores him in a story.
57	* LargeAndInCharge: Both Jay J and Marlo Burke qualify. [[spoiler:Jay J eventually steps down.]]
58	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Standard procedure for anyone wishing to retire from The Agency.
59	** Happen also to Daisy at the end of "Agent Zero". After learning of Donald's secret double-life, she gets her memory of the entire adventure wiped.
60	* LatexPerfection: Done by [[spoiler:Donald in one story, by assuming the identity of Axel Alpha, Agent Zero, a former member of the Agency and ex-boyfriend of Kay K.]]
61	* LivingADoubleLife: Donald has to deal with his super-spy missions and his dates with Daisy. Compared to this, his work as Duck Avenger seems easy... Or would be if he didn't have to juggle ''that'' too.
62	* MacGuffin: Quite a few of these, some of them playing with the trope itself; Donald's first on-page mission involves obtaining a briefcase which contains Kay K's tuna sandwich (in all fairness, it was a test). Later on, Marlo Burke is after [[spoiler:what he thinks is the registry containing all the names of The Agency's operatives. It's actually the file which would allow him to bypass the encryption of the registry, which is in the basement of The Agency. His own PlayfulHacker assumes it's all nonsense, so he calls the whole thing off.]]
63	* MasterOfDisguise:
64	** Kay K as seen in "Souvenir de Paris", where in a second she disguise herself as one of Organization's men.
65	** Also, the former Agency member Agent Zero is said to be one, and actually proves it when he shows up. [[spoiler:Except it was actually ''Donald'' disguised as Agent Zero disguised as Donald]].
66	* MistakenForCheating: Every time Daisy sees Donald with Kay K. And this naturally is followed by use of ICanExplain and BlatantLies.
67	* TheMole: [[spoiler:After her HeelFaceTurn, Kay K works for the Agency and becomes the mole into the Organization]].
68	* MsFanservice: Kay K is a really attractive woman with an ImpossibleHourglassFigure. Many of her outfits show off her cleavage. In a few issues she also appears in bikini.
69	* MusicCanDoAnything: In "Before the Premiere" the Organization want to use the orchestra crescendo's power (combined with their tecnology) to hack an Agency's satellite and sabotage elections in a country.
70	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The evil syndicate that debuted in "Reboot" is named Actinia, after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinide these radioactive metals]].
71	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Like many other Italian stories, there some duck versions of RealLife vips. For example the ''Pole Position'' story has, among its characters, Paperonso, the duck version of F1 driver Fernando Alonso.
72	* NonMammalMammaries:
73	** Kay K is pretty... forthright for a character in a Creator/{{Disney}} comic. Then again, it seems Disney Italy [[ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures has a record for that sort of thing...]]
74	** In the first story-arc, when she's wearing a classy opera dress, even the flat chested Daisy gets ''cleavage''. Yes. ''' Daisy'''. However this is more a case of DependingOnTheArtist.
75	* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The Direction is ''a whole intelligence organization of them'', not out of malice but out of sheer, mind-boggling incompetence and refusal to at least try and act as spies. Sadly, [[spoiler:they have replaced the Agency]]...
76	* PragmaticVillain: [[spoiler:John Rockerduck]] takes over [[spoiler:funding the Agency]] because there's a need for someone to keep organizations such as The Organization, The Division, and Actinia at bay before they can take over or destroy the world-but he's also the one who ''created Actinia'' as a tool for corporate warfare before losing control of them.
77	* [[PunnyName Punny Title]]:
78	** A story concerning TheOlympics is titled ''Olimpici Code'', an obvious ShoutOut to ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode''. Sadly, it doesn't quite work in English.
79	** Another story features Donald going after a valuable egg in Rio de Janeiro. The original Italian title of the story is ''L'uovo di Rio'' ("Egg from Rio"), referring to a film called ''L'uomo di Rio'', known as ''Film/ThatManFromRio'' in English.
80	* TheResenter: B-Black to Donald at first, because in the past he caught Donald looking through his desk drawer locker.
81	* ResignationsNotAccepted: Subverted, in that Jay J was okay with Double Duck resigning, but things got too hot for The Agency to handle without him, so it had to turn into a MandatoryUnretirement.
82	* SarcasticConfession: Twice.
83	** The first time, tired of lying to her, he admits to Daisy he's a spy. Daisy, who previously fell for Donald's ''immense'' bullshit, believes it's a joke.
84	** In the "Agent Zero" storyline Donald confesses to being Paperinik (Duck Avenger) to Daisy, also with Kay K present. Doesn't count for Daisy, who gets her memory wiped immediately after, but for Kay K and the Agency...
85	* SecretTestOfCharacter: The entire plot of [[spoiler: ''Hunters and Prey'']] turns out to be a complicated simulation created by the Big Boss to test his agents, especially Donald.
86	* ShipTease: Kay K often seems very affectionate to Donald and sometimes flirts with him. Especially after her [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn, which makes her become one of the heroes working often with Donald, her official "partner"]]. Naturally she claims to Daisy that they are JustFriends, but then again, she is a good liar.
87	* ShoutOut:
88	** The series has quite a few shout-outs to ''Film/JamesBond'' films:
89	*** In the first story, Donald needs a password to enter a bar. The password (which he tricks out of the bouncer) is ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
90	*** The ''Hong Island'' scene features an underwater lair/laboratory that is located under a volcano, which might remind you of Blofeld's lair in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''.
91	*** In one ''Hong Island'' panel Kay K stands on a beach in a bikini, with a knife strapped on her hip and holding a bag of seashells, in an obvious homage to Honey Ryder's introductory scene from ''Film/DrNo''.
92	*** Donald's first mission with the Agency (recounted in a prolonged flashback) involved him taking part in a high-stakes casino game in order to find out who is sponsoring a rival player — a setup that rather obviously mirrors ''[[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 Casino Royale]]''.
93	*** At the end of the story mentioned above, an unconscious (and partly-amnesiac) Donald is found floating in the sea by the crew of a fishing boat — not unlike [[Film/TheBourneIdentity a certain other secret agent with the initials "JB"]].
94	*** And, of course, one of the stories (and the prologue to one of the story arcs) features an in-universe spy film whose main character's Italian name is James ''Tond''. ("James Pond" in the English translation.) [[spoiler:The actor once got replaced by an actual enemy spy]].
95	** There's also a lot of shoutouts to ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'', which makes sense considering the team making ''Double Duck'' is mostly composed by people who previously worked on that.
96	*** The most blatant one is the country of Belgravia, which first appeared in PKNA (with a map to show it's location), then returned in ''Double Duck'' (with an identical map), with mentions of president Nestor Grimka (who appeared in the final PKNA Belgravia story, admitting he was about to retire) and his not-so-smart son Grigorji (who here has succeeded him). All the PKNA and ''Double Duck'' stories featuring Belgravia were created by writer Francesco Artibani.
97	*** A less blatant one is Bruce Wong's training - It's similar to a scene from ''[[ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures PK2]]'', but it differs in that Lyla Lay gets thrown by her instructor (rather than kicked), who then tells her to never trust anyone (essentially the same message, but phrased differently).
98	** One of the exclusive covers for the [[Creator/BoomStudios Boom]] edition (on ''Donald Duck and Friends 250'') is a reference to the first cover of ''ComicBook/{{Incorruptible}}'', published by the same editor.
99	* SpyCatsuit: Kay K wears a purple spy catsuit in some stories.
100	* StealthHiBye: Kay K is very good at these.
101	* SweetTooth: It turns out B-Black is one. [[spoiler:Donald takes advantage of this by giving him a bugged licorice dispenser as a gift.]]
102	* ThenLetMeBeEvil: How [[spoiler:Kay]] reacted to the Direction [[spoiler:holding her criminal past against her and forcing her out of the counter-espionage business: by returning to her past life of crime]].
103	* TheTroubleWithTickets: Donald finds his 313 car has been given a ticket and he's pretty ticked off - after all, he's never even been to that part of town before! Turns out he ''was'' there, retiring from The Agency. Throughout the first story arc, he tries to get out of paying it, but the VastBureaucracy stumps him and he finally pays the fine.
104	* WhamEpisode: Three of them:
105	** The "Timecrime" crossover establishes that the series is set in the same continuity as ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' and the PIA series (a series of stories where Donald and Fethry worked as secret agents to protect Scrooge's economic empire). It also shows that [[spoiler:PKNA's Organization was created by Axel Alpha and a traitorous Time Cop, and named after its ''Double Duck'' counterpart]].
106	** "Reboot" may not be a ''literal'' reboot of the series, but changes everything: [[spoiler:the Agency has been officially disbanded, with some of their members, including Donald and led by Liz Zago, continuing their activity illegally anyway; the Direction, the criminally incompetent replacement of the Agency, is not only completely ineffective, but has revealed to the public the identities of the Agency's spies except Double Duck before forcing them into being glorified security guards and has driven Kay back to crime; Head-H has faked undergoing the [[LaserGuidedAmnesia Total Reset Button]] and betrayed the Agency's loyalists to the Direction, before the remnants of the Agency hits him with the real TRB; Donald arrests Kay; the Organization is apparently taken down for good, or at least made harmless, [[EvilVersusEvil partly thanks to the help of the new spionistic organization Actinia]], that has also recruited Kay; the Agency remnants are now fully independent from the government and rely on an anonymous backer for funding]].
107	** "Enemies as Usual" gets rid of Actinia-and reveals that [[spoiler:the anonymous backer is none else than Rockerduck, who also created Actinia to begin with]].
108	* WhamLine: During a talk with Daisy in "Agent Zero", Donald drops one that establishes [[DependingOnTheWriter what parts of Disney's continuity are part of this series]]:
109	-->"I am Paperinik too."
110	* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Very much subverted: when GadgeteerGenius Gizmo equips Donald for his first mission back with The Agency, he takes Donald on a quick tour of his lab, showing him all the recent developments, including "laser pens, radar pencils and sonar markers" (Donald asks [[ComicallyMissingThePoint if they can write]]), but as Donald's taking minimal equipment with him on this mission he gets... a cell phone. It doesn't even get great reception...
111	* TheWorfEffect: A villain example in the crossover ''Timecrime''. [[spoiler: Alex Alpha, thanks to help of T-32 and his device, takes down the leaders of the "Organization" and "Division" and delivers them to the Agency to show off his power.]]
112	* XanatosSpeedChess: Both Donald and the Agency's big boss are this, the former due his experience with Scrooge, creditors and the unexpected, and the latter [[spoiler:because he's an AI based on Donald]].

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