Paperinik (Donald Duck)
Friends and Allies (Xadhoom)
Villains (Evronian Empire | The Organization | Other Villains)
Other Characters
Friends and Allies (Xadhoom)
Villains (Evronian Empire | The Organization | Other Villains)
Other Characters
The most powerful criminal organization of the 23rd century, consisting of unauthorized chrononauts traveling in time to steal items of historical value.
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The Organization
"We are the true masters of this world. We are the Organization!"
First appearance: Paperinik New Adventures #14 "Carpe Diem"
- Agent Peacock: All the Raiders we've seen so far dress up like flamboyant supervillains while everyone else in the Organization (and the 23rd Century in general) is garbed rather conservatively.
- Evil Versus Oblivion: In their introduction, the Organization do what they can to stop an expanding bubble of nothing from annihilating absolutely everything in all of time.
- The Group: The Organization itself is nameless; its member do not consider it to have a name, and "The Organization" is just how they refer to it. As the tall member of the triumvirate says:Tall triumvirate member: Names are needed to distinguish things, Paperinik. We have no need of them. We are unique!
- Ultimately Subverted, as the crossover with Double Duck reveals they were named after the 20th Century Organization, that had inspired one of their founders to do his Face–Heel Turn.
- Make Wrong What Once Went Right: Implied to be the ones who sent the Raider to try this in "The Winds of Time". They had him assemble a device to change the timeline to the preferred one without altering any event. They later succeed by accident in "Nothing Personal" thanks to the Gryphon, but that alternate future disappears at the end of the issue.
- No Name Given: The three leaders of the Organization are never identified with specific names.
- Pragmatic Villainy: They don't usually try and change the timeline because it's too dangerous, and prevented the end of time because their own skins were on the line. Also, when the microcontraption blocked all time travel they were on the forefront in trying to restore it, mostly for their own gain.
- The Reveal: At the end of crossover with Double Duck it is revealed that Axel (an ex-superspy and a villain) and T32 (a Rogue Time Cop) have created the organization.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: How they solved the problem with the bubble of nothingness: sending the Raider and Paperinik to prevent it from forming.
- The Syndicate: A well structured organization bent down on changing history and becoming richer.
- Time Travel: Even better than that of the Time Police, as they can travel into the future.
The Bosses
The Organization Bosses
The three, nameless leaders who are in charge of the Organization, they consist in a tall, imposing member cloaked in a mantle, a sarcastic scrawny cyborg and a woman in purple.
First appearance: Paperinik New Adventures #14 "Carpe Diem"
- Cyborg: The scrawny one seems to be almost entirely mechanical, safe for most of his face and his long blond hair. In The Banks of Time, both male members are half-machine.
- Deadpan Snarker: Even the scrawny one's Establishing Character Moment has him snarking at the uncoming time destruction which is inesorably destroying the past.Scrawny Org. Boss: "Oh boy, how I hate monday morning..."
- Graceful Loser: in #43, when the Time Police finally manages to capture them all, only the Large Boss looks shocked, the woman even chuckles when she puts two and two together and realize that it was the Raider's fault and even the scrawny guy takes it in stride.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: In the timeline of #37, the series of events caused by the Gryphon leads to a brainwashed Odin and Deugemio (Due in a body) to overthrow them, but is undone by the end of the volume. In #43, using Vostok as a mole and the Raider to recover the device to stop the microcontraptions ends up with their arrest.
- Large and in Charge: The big leader towers over nearly everyone else, otherwise averted for the other two members.
- The Man Behind the Man: They're revealed to be this to the Raider. The woman is revealed to be the one who sent the Lyla-impersonating Droid after the Dol Arador Raider in #18.
- No Name Given: Not once they're given names. Their lookalikes in Pikappa do, however.
- Not So Stoic: When first introduced they look serious and stern, but they reveal a comical side of themselves in later stories. The woman in particular seems to be the most emotive of the three.
- Pragmatic Villainy: As seen in #14 and #43, they're willing to work with "heroes" if the current crysis is a threat even to their own business or existance.
- Two Guys and a Girl: A huge man, a cyborg and a woman, to be precise.
- You Are Number 6: While they're not given official names, each have a code attached, namely 9001010 (the large one), 9001011 (the woman) and 9001012 (the cyborg).
- You Don't Look Like You:
- Kronin's Raiders in Pikappa are based on them with notable differences: the blond one has shorter hair and is no longer a cyborg, the large one is a bearded dog-nosed person with sizeshifting powers and the woman has a different haircut and wears her cape open, showing Adaptational Curves.
- The three Organization leaders that appear in The Banks of Time only have a superficial similarity to their old design. Most notably, the woman is no longer a dog-nosed person but a duck.
The Raider
The Raider / Duck Avenger II
"I don't have time for this."
"Raider" is a title used by the greatest time pirate of the Organization, and he is the current one in Paperinik New Adventures. A time traveling thief who steals valuables from the past, and sometimes attempts to change history. Over the course of time he becomes more of an ally to Paperinik.
First appearance: Paperinik New Adventures #0/2 "The Winds of Time"
- Ambiguously Brown: In the same way the two Flaggstar siblings are.
- Badass Cape: And he sews it himself! Also, according to the inserts, it's a chronosail.
- Big Eater: Should be apparent when he's able to eat at least 20 pizzas in a row and asks for more.
- Book Dumb: He apparently didn't know that the Time Police employs droids to survey the space-time continuum, even if it's a public domain fact. The only reason he understands the theory of relativity is because they made a musical out of it at one point.
- Combat Pragmatist: His reaction at being caught red-handed by PK? Use time travel to attack him from behind. His reaction at PK kicking his ass in their second encounter? Go back in time and have Angus and the police catch PK breaking and entering, and wait until PK has escaped to commit his heist.
- Crazy-Prepared: Most time travelers have only one chronosail. He has three: two standard bracelets and the cape. Likely explaining how he escaped after being arrested the first time: the Time Police removed the bracelets but left him the cape.
- Cyborg: Word of God states he is 30% mechanic.
- Deflector Shields: With his tech, he can generate protective fields.
- Doppelgänger: The Raider of the PK Universe continuity has one, coming from another Alternate Universe where he stole a functioning Othership. He can be distinguished because his left eye is bionic and not the right one.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: in his first appearance, he displays no knowledge of PK. Odd, when later on, we learn PK's Famed In-Story.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He cares deeply for his son, Trip. In fact, providing for Trip is his primary motivation.
- Evil Overlord: Inverted. At some point in life, the Raider traveled to another dimension and ended up taking over the lands. However, he established peace and became a fair and just ruler.
- Evil Parents Want Good Kids: In a way. He'd like for Trip to grow up to be an honest crook like himself, but that doesn't mean he's fine with him being lazy, undereducated, reckless, or outright evil.
- Eyepatch of Power: Has a futuristic cybernetic eye.
- Fashion-Victim Villain: Just look at him! The Raider's outfit is one of the few examples of the 90s showing.
- Fiery Redhead: Would usually qualify for Evil Redhead but he is too much of an Anti-Villain for that.
- Friendly Enemy: He rarely ever gets into direct conflict with Donald. In fact, he's more like a criminal that Donald has to ally himself with from time to time than an outright enemy.
- Hand Blast: Generated from the bracelets on his wrists.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Sacrifices himself to save everyone on Time Ø, and he had been on his way to die for some time — though this event gets undone via Time Travel.
- Hidden Depths: He's apparently a fan of musicals.
- Hurricane of Puns: Time-related puns. And he gets very annoyed when PK steals his lines.
- Informed Flaw: Lyla and his bio declare him not too smart, yet he's very competent in what he does. Either it's due him being more Book Dumb than he appears (explaining his Early-Installment Weirdness), or he pulled off some stupid thing that he'll never live down.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: The main reason he's nearly impossible to arrest: whenever you have half a chance to arrest him, he'll fight only long enough to run. On the other hand, those rare times there are too many people to fight and you block his escape he'll surrender, only asking how did you do it out of genuine curiosity.
- Legacy Character:
- While he is the first Raider who appears in the comic, issue #33 reveals the existence of Kronin, his predecessor as the Raider.
- In the Days of Evron-timeline, he avoids the timeline alteration by being in Ø-time, and when he returns, he takes up the Duck Avenger title.
- Living on Borrowed Time: Has a thingamajig connected to his armor which he needs in order to survive.
- Make Wrong What Once Went Right: In his first appearance he's trying to change the future for what is implied to be the Organization. As he's not stupid enough to change some event in particular and risk the future to change the wrong way, he's assembling a device that alters the timeline the desired way.
- Master of Disguise: The Raider can use his tech to change his appearance, and even using more primitive means of disguise, is a convincing actor.
- Only in It for the Money: And he has no problems stating it.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: "Raider" is just the title given to the best agent of the Organization.
- Papa Wolf: He might have some disagreement with his son Trip, but in the Raider's list of important things the safety of the boy comes before EVERYTHING.
- Punch-Clock Villain: The Raider is consistently portrayed as a sympathetic, honourable Anti-Villain, who works for The Organization only because he has a son to feed. Near the end of the series, when Time Travel stops working, he betrays The Organization in exchange for a hefty sum of money because, in his own words, "With Time Travel gone, it's time to think about retirement."
- Pungeon Master: He delights in making time-related puns, and gets annoyed when PK steals them.
- Purple Is Powerful: His purple cape is pretty bad-ass.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Literally and figuratively; he wears a pink outfit and a purple cape, and is a fan of musicals.
- Reset Button: As a time traveler, he often uses his devices to rewind the time and change events. He could theorically change history, but, being wary of the Butterfly Effect, he limits himself to Save Scumming, with two exceptions: when the Organization sent him to prevent an event that would have started the destruction of time itself, and when he accidentally resetted his own death!
- Save Scumming: He's hellishly difficult to defeat for two reasons: he's a badass in his own right, and if you actually have a good chance to defeat him he'll travel back in time and prevent you from showing up at your fight.
- Scarily Competent Tracker: He once tracked down Trip into an alternate past. Doesn't get much more competent...
- Secret-Keeper: In the relaunch he learned that Pk is Donald, but didn't tell the rest of the Organization.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: In "Carpe Diem" and "Nothing Personal": in the first he and Pk are sent by the Organization to prevent the formation of a bubble of nothingness that will erase everything in all of time, and in the second he prevents his own death and the creation of the Bad Future of that issue, and hires Pk a lawyer to save him from some trouble with the Time Police happened in the previous issue.
- Time Machine: Of course a timecriminal has one.
- Teleportation: He can use his chronosail for this purpose. It would be a lousy time traveling device if it couldn't.
- Villain Respect: Has an enormous respect for Paperinik. It only increases in "Might and Power", as Odin told him his secret identity and the Raider, being a single father himself, can relate to Donald raising his three nephews, and working honestly to get the money for it to boot, openly admitting his admiration for this feat.
- Weaponized Teleportation: In New Era, on Pk's suggestion, he transported a gigantic planet-moving engine inside an Evronian space station, destroying both.
- Why Did It Have to Be Eidolon?: He's terrified of Odin.
Kronin
Kronin
The former Raider in Paperinik New Adventures, and the one and only in Pikappa.
First appearance: Paperinik New Adventures #33 "The Day that Will Come"
- Artificial Limbs: His right arm is mechanical.
- Badass Cape: That he stole from the Raider.
- Composite Character: In Pikappa, Kronin and Raider were combined to create a new character called Kronin.
- Dark Is Evil: While the Raider has brown feathers, Kronin's are black, and he's far more malicious.
- Karmic Death: After the creation of the Black Hole in Time Zero he tries to leave everybody to their fate with his ship... only for the power to run out when he's still in range of the Hole's attraction. Undone by the next volume though.
- Only One Name: Like all the criminals we see in PKNA #33.
- Punny Name: "Crono", as in "time-related", and "Ronin", as in a Samurai without a master.
- Purple Is Powerful: Wears the Raider's purple cape.
- Time Machine: As an agent of The Organization, he has one.
- Villain of the Week: In Paperinik New Adventures, he only truly appeared in the story of #33. His second appearance in the first series was only in a What If? version of said issue.
Newton
Newton
A droid who works for the Organization.
First appearance: Paperinik New Adventures #14 "Carpe Diem"
- The Ahnold: While we can't hear him speak, his appearance, mannerisms, and status as a Ridiculously Human Robot from the future makes him a clear take on Schwarzenegger in the role of the T-800.
- Arm Cannon: And he loves to use it. It's normally concealed inside his normal-looking arm, though.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Disregarding the tie, he looks quite snazzy.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: To emphasize the Schwarzenegger parody.
- Enemy Mine: Actually worked together with Paperinik in his first appearance. Not that the hero had much of a choice...
- Evil Redhead: As a droid working for a criminal association.
- My Favorite Shirt: His hideous tie. Says that Paperinik's gonna pay when it gets ruined.
- Only One Name: Then again, he is a droid.
- Ridiculously Human Robot: As a standard for XXIII century droids.
- Shout-Out: To the T-800 from the Terminator film.
- Sinister Shades: He keeps on breaking them, but he always has more.
- Time Machine: Again, nothing special given his job.
The Gryphon (Unmarked Spoilers)
The Gryphon
The evil future version of Trip, the Raider's son. Following the death of the Raider, the Organization adopts Trip and convinces him that Paperinik is responsible for his father's death. Becomes the greatest time pirate the Organization has ever had.
First appearance: Paperinik New Adventures #34 "Nothing Personal"
- Ambiguously Brown: Like father, like son.
- Cyborg: Indicated by how he speaks with the same robotic speech bubble pattern as his cybernetic father.
- Evil Feels Good: Paperinik confronts him with this, asking why he never used his time powers to save his father, then concluding that the Gryphon likes the life of a criminal and wouldn't give it up for anything in the world.
- Failure-to-Save Murder: An interesting variation, as the Gryphon could just use his time powers to save the Raider whenever he wanted to. IF he truly wanted to. His younger self isn't happy about hearing this, screaming out how he hates him for this.
- Hand Blast: From the same technology as his dad.
- Make Wrong What Once Went Right: He succeeded (for a while). See the Meaningless Villain Victory for more.
- Master of Disguise: Like the Raider, he can change appearance using his tech.
- Meaningless Villain Victory: The Gryphon had actually already won before you start reading the first page of PKNA #34, having managed to utterly destroy Donald's life. The rest of the issue is about him trying to maintain that victory by assuring that his younger self will grow up to be him. However, everything was rendered moot when Odin Eidolon's actions caused the Raider to stay alive, thus Trip would never become the Gryphon and the whole timeline was changed.
- Motive Decay: Convinced that PK caused the death of his father, he was raised and trained by the Organization for revenge. However, when he got the ability to travel through time, he had grown so content with his criminal lifestyle that he'd rather maintain it - even if it meant to not save his father. His younger and still innocent self is disgusted.
- Not So Above It All: Even when preparing himself to destroy PK, he ounded amazed when he discovered that Newton's necktie glows in the dark.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: "Gryphon" has been rendered his only name at this point.
- Time Machine: Obviously, as a time agent. Presumably kept in his bracelets.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Ok, Trip isn't exactly sweet, but you wouldn't expect him to become such a sadist as an adult.
- Villain of the Week: Of issue #34, being wiped from the timestream after that, but damn was he dangerous.
- Walking Spoiler: Due to the reason this villainous persona came into existence.
- You Killed My Father: Blames Paperinik for the death of the Raider.
