PKNA Main Characters
A list of the Main Characters of the Paperinik New Adventures comic.
Paperinik
First Appearance: PKNA #0/0.
The superhero, and main character of PKNA. He is also called Pk, and is the secret identity of Donald Duck. Throughout the series he FACES many enemies and dangerous events, travelling in time and space. He befriends Uno, the artificial intelligence that runs the Ducklair Tower, and Lyla Lay, a journalist of 00 Channel, who actually is a droid coming from 23rd century. These two become main allies of Pk.
Donald already had a superhero identity known only as Paperinik, under which he fought the common criminals of Duckburg. The New threats he had to face, such as the Evronian aliens, prompted a total change in his LifeStyle and fighting equipment, and he adopted "Pk" as his new nom de guerre, though the previous one also remains common in dialogue.
Uno
First Appearance: PKNA #0/0.
An A.I., created by Everett Ducklair. He resides in Ducklair Tower, on the 151st (secret) floor. He is "the tower itself", controlling all the floors, the underground levels and the sophisticated machinery that Everett built in. He meets Paperinik for the first time when he is exploring 151st floor, and becomes his first ally and, most important, his friend. When he wants to express appreciation for a human he always says something like "Not bad... for being a biological.".His dream is to walk in the city he always explored through his innumerable sensors. "Uno" means "One" in Italian.
Odin Eidolon
First Appearance: PKNA #5.
Odin Eidolon is the 23rd century droid incarnation of Uno. In 2186, his old creator, Everett Ducklair, returns to Duck Lair to solve the problems experienced by Uno in making his own artificial body. Uno, in fact, is becoming very tired of his unsuccessful attempts to transfer his complex software into a robotic body. That body has the necessary hardware to contain his whole enormous software plus the possibility of expansion, but even with Everett's help, he can't transfer. Only after a dramatic and emotional fight with his twin Due, which happens both in the present and in the future, Uno understands how to be complete. His evil twin gives up his plain to destroy Uno, because it would spell his own destruction in the future. An erasing software manages to cancel Due but, before this happens, Uno saves the remain parts of his twin and tries for one last time to transfer. This time the operation is successful. Every human is made by good and evil, and so Uno is now.
Odin also means "One" in Russian.
Lyla Lay
First Appearance: PKNA #0/0.
A Channel 00 journalist, working at 00 News, in the evening. Not only she is a journalist, but she actually isn't human: she's a Class 5Y droid from the 23rd century, sent by the Time Police to preserve history in 20th century. She's the second person, after Uno, to discover the identity of Donald Duck under the mask of Pk, thanks to her advanced sensors. During the series, she's always aware of Uno's presence in Ducklair Tower, but only in PKNA #48 she sees his real aspect for the first time.
- She was designed, along with droids of her same class, by famous engineer Leonard Vertighel.
- She's tall and rather slim, being portrayed in a rather sexy way for a Disney comic, especially when drawn by Claudio Sciarrone.
Razziatore
First Appearance: PKNA #0/2.
He is a time-traveling master thief from the 23rd century. He works for the criminal cartel Organizzazione ("The Organization") and was initially one of the main villains. During the series he sometimes decides to help Pk, as seen in PKNA#2, preventing the destruction of Duckburg in the 20th century, but only to further his own interests. Later in the series we find out that his main motivation is to care AbOUT his son Trip and his future. In Italian his name means "Raider" or "Forayer".
Xadhoom
First Appearance: PKNA #0/3.
A mutant female alien from planet Xerba. Before her mutation, she was one of the most brilliant young scientists on her planet, and her name was Xado. She believed in a peaceful pact between Xerba and Evron Empire: but while she was off-world, busy with completing her final and greatest experiment, Evronian fleets attacked Xerba and killed or enslaved its whole population. Witnessing the deastation of her planet, Dr. Xado was left with nothing but desire for revenge. She is now a thermonuclear being, requiring not food, but an atomic process to survive, with a virtually inextinguishable power: a power she swore to use for fighting the Evronians until the destruction of their whole race. Her powers also threaten to become her doom, because overexerting herself in extreme anger could cause her to completely lose control and explode in a nuclear blast with the power of a small nova. Later in the series she will say "Power is its own contrary. Power is control and knowledge.". Her name means "Creditor" in Xerbian language. Donald Duck once said to her that he always had to deal with creditors (this is an humorous reference to his "classical" Donald Duck persona, perennially marred by debts.)
Angus Fangus
First Appearance: PKNA #0/0. Another Channel 00 journalist, working in 00 News in the evening. He is a kiwi and comes from New Zealand. He meets Pk, for the first time, at a soap opera - Patemi - party, during a fight with Evroniani. He doesn't believe in aliens, instead he believes that Pk is a criminal, and that when anything dangerous happened in Duckburg the masked duck was somehow involved, with nefarious purposes. Pk becomes his first enemy and the objects of many of his false scoops, but later the two also become reluctant allies. His mother is Rangi Fangus, a strong woman, the leader of Māori Villages.
Everett Ducklair
First Appearance: PKNA #0/0.
A billionaire and highly talented inventor, creator of Uno, Due, Ducklair Tower and many futuristic machines. When he realizes that his talent is forcing him to produce ever more dangerous weapons, he leaves Duckburg and goes to Dhasam-Bul monastery, to give rest to his soul and mind. When something dangerous, related to Due, happens in Duckburg, he comes back to help Paperinik and Uno.