Funny / Paperinik New Adventures

• There are a lot of gags here and there, but mostly the short stories (especially the ones with Angus) are hilarious, and most of PKNA #15.
  • Also, the short stories dedicated to the Evronians.
    • One was dedicated to Evronian sayings, corredated with pictures. Among them there were Running Gags about the Gophos and its horrendously stinking breath (first of all: "Don't look a gift Gopho in the mouth... 'Cause its breath stinks!". The picture shows an Evronian puking after accidentally looking in the mouth of a gift Gopho) and about sayings involving the Emperor, only to have the picture disprove them while the Emperor commented "Popular sayings... Tsk!".
    • Then the Emperor's running gag was broken by having sayings that praised the Emperor (which the Emperor approved)... And then it was revealed their source: Ministry of Propaganda workers trying to get a promotion.
    • The short story about historical Evronian figures features the original Evron and an encounter with his favorite sons, the first generation of two-headed Evronians:
      Evron: Say something nice to daddy.
      Evron's sons:*pull guns on him* You're dethroned, dad!
  • A short story from the Ultimate reboot has PK believing that Uno has decided to use the Wax On, Wax Off method of training. He didn't (PK accidentally knocked some water off, and Uno made him clean that). Uno passes the former half of the story going "What the..?" as PK does chores by himself, and the latter half exploiting this to make PK clean everything. And then he starts the actual training...
    Uno: By the way... try not to make a mess.
  • That one story where Everett's master hermit places him in a Secret Test of Character to see if he can keep his destructive nature in check. "If a dragon refuses the challenge, he might just be lazy. But if he ignores the fly, he really is asleep". After passing unharmed through a few accidents, building a crane contraption without somehow turning it into a weapon of mass destruction, and repelling a "bandit assault" without harming them, the response is... "We don't know [if you passed the test]. You still have to undergo the challenge". Cue psychotic breakdown. And then...
    Everett (Brother Sleeping Dragon): May I now know just WHAT is this challenge?!?
    Prior: Isn't it obvious, Brother Short-tempered Dragon? This was the challenge.
    Everett: (with a gloomy face) Groan. Better meditate some more.
  • Xadhoom's short stories usually aren't. Then in one we learn of an Evronian cyborg Super-Soldier who mutinied and was defeated due having a remote-controlled off switch... And is still sore about it, considering he reveals it at the end of bragging about how he could just break out of the jail he is if the guards didn't have his remote.
  • The extra story of the first PK issue features Everett Ducklair trying to finish Uno as quickly as possible before he has to leave Earth. In the first tests, he discovered that Uno's verbosity can bore even him, so he tones it down. This is the result:
    Uno: (inexplicably wearing a party hat) Hello, Supergenius! Without burning out your brain too much, could you explain to me why my head is in a fishbowl?
    Everett: (FML expression)
  • Billy Paganino, Angus' friend and neighbour back in New Zealand. He's introduced as the only gangster who actually keeps a violin in his violin case... But he's so bad at it Angus demands he replaces it with a submachine gun because it's less deadly.
  • In one of the ministories about Trip, the Raider's son, the Raider gets home and finds that he has dismantled the robot maid to get parts to try and improve his toy chronosail, limited to fifteen minutes jumps. Trip tells him the truth, and when he's punished he brings up the tale of George Washington chopping down a small cherry tree and being forgiven after admitting the truth as a reason for why he should have not been punished, a tale his teacher told him earlier that day... So the Raider goes back in time to stop George Washington from chopping down the tree, so that argument won't be used against him. They arrive back in time, the Raider finds Washington with the hatchet and intimidates him, then asks where's the tree hoping he hasn't chopped it down already... And Trip notices that they landed on it and wrecked the plant. Cue Washington telling his father he had chopped it down because the truth would have been far more unbelievable and the Raider reluctantly not punishing Trip as long as he doesn't ever bring the incident up.
• Every time Evronian low casters are left to their own devices. Turns out, being as stupid as they are when they don't have any order mean they're uptight, bureaucratic goons that constantly get into ridiculous hijinks when outside of combat without someone from at least the Middle Caste.

  • Case in point, in "Phase Two" a "Follower" (lower than even low caste) has to deliver some components to a technician for a certain special ship, and they quickly start bickering on the fact the Follower needs a signature for the delivery and the other, being a simple technician, doesn't know how to write his own name (if he knew he'd be higher-ranked). The Follower solves the situation by signing for the other guy... That is, he blasts a hole through the delivery form using a miniature laser.

• Two stories from the 1998 Special. The fight with Lord Walrus, which rips off at least Spider-Man and the Penguin, and Scrooge losing sleep at the thought of the Ducklair Tower having a possible secret floor (and losing the chance to rent it). By the end, PK would prefer to just smash his head with his shield and get over with it.
  • Lord Walrus returned in another special, this time with crab-themed powers. He unveils his special weapon, an horde of hypnotized fish... that is promptly dispatched by an horde of cats.
• PKNA #35: PK's cape gets stuck in a spaceship's automatic door. While boosting to get in the spaceship. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Becomes way much funnier when you realize they used the Scenery Censor trope.
  • And just a few panels later, PK finds a map of the ship...
  Paperinik: If only I could read this...
  Evronian Soldier: You are here. Wrong place, wrong time.
  Paperinik: (Uses the paralizing ray on him) Thanks for the information! Who said Evronians aren't gentle?
• PKNA #36: Paperinik travels aboard an Evronian spaceship. Said ship is piloted by an A.I. with maternal istincts, who treats him like a 1950's housewife would treat her husband. And keeps on calling him "Deeear".
  • Also: Evronian slippers.
• PKNA #37: Paperinik has arrived on the Evronian mobile homeworld, and is sneaking around masked as a Coolflame to save Xari, when one of the prison guards, who Paperinik had beaten up in the past, pointed at him saying that Paperinik looked just like that coolflame.
  Paperinik *thinking* I must act dumb
  Paperinik: Thank you, master.
  Guard who hadn't been on Earth: What?! Since when can Coolflames talk?!
  Paperinik *while knocking out the guard* Since now! And they hurt too!
  Guard who had been on Earth: It's impossible... It can't be true...
• Xadhoom's appearance in the 1997 Special, Missing, has a group of Evronians dress up as Xerbians to fool her into wearing a power-locking helmet. Xadhoom immediately proposes a Xarghon, and when they don't know what it is she sees through the ruse... And has the Evronians try and guess what a Xarghon is to keep the cover. When they finally catch on, one of the Evronians asks what a Xarghon is. Xadhoom explains that it's the traditional Xerbian welcoming dance, that every Xerbian learns as a child... And then blows up their cruiser.
  • Gets a Call-Back in PKNA #37, where a column has a few characters speaking of their past encounters with Xadhoom. Among them there's the only survivor of the ship destroyed in Missing, and he's still wondering what the hell is a Xarghon.
  • Another short story on Missing has two Evronian soldiers try and track PK on Earth. In order, this is what happens: they crash on arrival, wrecking their flying disks; they try and rob two delinquents of their clothes, but get beaten up; they try and steal the clothes of an old lady, but find out their weapons are broken and one of them is bitten by her dogs; they nearly get an heart attack when they encounter Urk (at least he doesn't beat them up); as they run away from Urk they stumble on the same two delinquents and the rest of their gang and get beaten up for trespassing; they finally find PK and try and catch him, only to discover it's an advertisement sign and get electrocuted in the process; they stop resting but accidentally trigger a car alarm, and have already wrecked the car to make it stop when they discover it's the car of the same two delinquents from earlier, who force them to beat each other up (their teeth had already scratched the studs on the bracelet of one of them, and he didn't want to scratch even his new chain); they decide to bail out and assemble a vehicle in a scrap depot, and the guard opens fire on them; finally they reach the ship they came from... Or better, what remains of it: it was the same ship that had tried to trap Xadhoom in, and she's still there.
• The interaction between Xadhoom (who has been temporarily Brought Down to Normal) and Angus in PKNA #28.
  • When they meet Angus, he is suspicious of how she's dressed and takes off the Cool Shades she was using to mask her Prophet Eyes. At which point he sees her pre-mutation gorgeous green eyes, cries "Blow me down!", and Xadhoom slugs him for this. This also worked as Meet Cute for him: he asked her on a date for the local Pulitzer prize counterpart, and she accepted.
  • Angus decided to give her a floral homage, and bought her a cactus. Donald has just finished pointing out it's not what you should give a girl on the first date that Xadhoom shows up, mistakes the cactus for a snack and eats it.
  Donald: "I-I told you so." *that Xadhoom was not an ordinary girl*
  Angus: "G-Good thing I didn't buy that baobab tree..."
  • Angus mentions that Morrighan, a colleague of his, is trying to use an old story about alien invaders (having been caught into an Evronian raid, and mailed the footage to himself to prevent the authorities from confiscating it. They replaced it with a cartoon), and boasts that if it was true he wouldn't miss it... Before PK and Xadhoom!
  • Angus ended up in hospital due the Evronians beating him up when they crashed the party. When he wakes up Morrighan gives him Xadhoom's get-well present... A cactus. Then he tells him he won the prize for saving the worst journalist of the year, that is, Angus... Who makes him eat the cactus! Unlike Xadhoom, Morrighan got hurt.
  • From the same issue, Donald is trying to explain to Xadhoom how you use a fork, but she gets enraged. Donald leaves while explaining that he wasn't even sure they had forks on Xerba, and then attempts to guess what Xerbian forks are called. Xadhoom's reaction gives us this pearl.
  Uno: "So? Have you found what Xerbian forks are called?"
  Donald: "Yes! Darts!"
  • Later, as a Funny Background Event, you can see Xadhoom trying to figure out how to eat spaghetti without a fork, before resorting to grabbing them in the middle and eat them whole.
• The end of PKNA #17, Shooting Star. During the whole story, Xadhoom has been acting crazy due the aftereffects of being hit by the biggest energy-absorber ever built by Evron, and Paperinik had to contain her while he tried and cured her condition. At the end Xadhoom decides to thank him with a kiss on the lips... After forgetting her body temperature is the same of a star! Three guesses on what happened to our poor hero.
• The Negated Moment of Awesome of battle cruiser Centurian: the old Evronian spaceship enters the frame and utterly curbstomps both the entire military of Stahlburg and the rebels against Evron that were keeping them at bay, Paperinik's attack barely scratches the paint job... And all of a sudden the defective antimatter alternator breakes down, crippling the ship and exposing to the universe her true nature as The Alleged Ship. Doubles as Brick Joke, as the introduction of the battle cruiser showed that the antimatter alternator had a tendency to make an annoying noise (that started again just before the alternator broke down in battle) until a technician punched it (he tried it again after it broke down mid-battle, but failed).
  Kurg: "They're attacking with smoke?!"
  Yak: "You never know what to expect from the Evronians..."
  • And the technician refers to the punch as "standard procedure".
  • From the same issue, the page pointing out that Evronians and Ergonians (a very similar-looking species from a world in the same system as Evron) only look similar and suggests to never trust appearances showed two examples of why you shouldn't trust appearances: the inhabitants of Lycon XI looks like nice puppies but have the nasty habit of shooting down every visitor for the hell of it, while the Orgonians look like monsters and are some of the best romantic poets and singers in the whole universe.
  • Still in the same issue,Krug is given a bazooka to fight an army of mechas attacking them. He can only thinks of using it to impale an opponent.
  Yak:"By the way, may I suggest that you use the trigger next time?"
  Krug:"Naa...too little and light. It wouldn't have the same effect!"

• Issue 23. Angus prepares to reveal the cause of various accidents in town, all while passing off as a hero.
  Angus: You all recognize him, right? (an image appears in the studio's background)
  [Smash Cut to a family watching TV]
  Son: Baldo, the Happy Beaver?
  Mom: Who would have thought...!
  Dad: He seemed like such a nice guy.
  Angus: (from the TV) But... What the... DIRECTIOOON!
  • Every time Baldo shows up. One of the short stories even had Angus becoming the inspiration for the original creator of the character, and another had Angus trying to expose some cops as members of his fan club (including parties with fuzzy animal costumes), only for said cops forcing him to take part to one such party and getting pictures.
  • And in the Universo PK miniseries Paperinik is facing an horde of Evronians, tries pressing some button at random on the commands of his car... And the radio starts playing the theme song of Baldo's cartoon, annoying our hero and confusing the Evronians, who try, and fail, to make sense of it. Given Xadhoom showed up soon after, there's a chance they'll believe it summoned her.
• Half of the antics between Trip and his father, the Raider. The cake comes at the end of PKNA #34, when they are reunited, we have a bedtime chat... and then Trip says he wants to be like PK when he grows up. Loud argument, Death Glare between the two, and a punishment ensues.
  Raider: "I will never be a superhero. Write that a hundred times before going to sleep.
  Trip: ...What are you trying to ACCOMPLISH? [...] "I will never be a superhero" - AH! YOU WILL NEED A LOT MORE THAN THIS TO MAKE ME CHANGE MY MIND!
  Raider: (re-enters the room) Almost forgot. Vowels in red, consonants in blue.
• Issue #9: One and Xadhoom are pooling together their scientific knowledge in order to calculate where the third Evron spore camp is located. PK just pulls out an atlas, draws a line connecting the location of the two already discovered camps, and finds the middle point. He is absolutely right, and both One and Xadhoom are throughly enbarassed.
• Issue #13 The Longest Christmas had Morrighan caught in an Evronian raid, and mailing the footage to himself before the US Army confiscated it. When the footage arrives he decides to show it to his fellow journalists... And that's when he discovers the US Army intercepted the footage and replaced it with a children's cartoon about the love life of a daphnia. Even Lyla couldn't resist the temptation to mock him for it...
  • Becomes a Brick Joke in issue #28, when Angus says that Morrighan is trying to use that old story to win the local counterpart of the Pulitzer and promptly dismisses it before Paperinik and Xadhoom. By the way, Morrighan won the prize when Evronian super soldiers raided the place, confirming his story in the process.
  • Two civilians say the Evronian raid reminds them of a Bar Brawl they got involved with in their youth. Specifically, when Scrooge McDuck raided the Blackjack Saloon to recover the gold Glittering Goldie (mentioned as "The Star of the North") had stolen from him-and they liked it.
• Issue #14 "Carpe Diem" has PK lampshade the plot:
  PK: Oscillations! Time travels! Parallel dimensions! How can you stand this?
  Raider: (takes a small container full of pills) Cachet.
  • The way Newton and Vostok bicker with each other is hilarious.
  • When the leaders of the Organization give Newton the task to contact Paperinik, this exchange occurs.
  Vostok:"Even the biggest of idiots would be a better choice than him!"
  The three look at each other, grinning evily.
  Gilligan Cut to Newton and Vostok apparing in the 20th century.
  Newton:"Happy now?"
  Vostok:"Shut up!"
  • After hiring Paperinik and filling him in on the mission to release the Raider, PK and Newton receive Time Police uniforms to sneak in but complains that they don't fit them until Vostok kindly suggest that they could, y'know... swap them and see if they fit. Cut to the three leaders looking more doubtful than before:
  Big Org. Boss:" Gentlemen, are we sure we made the right choice?"
  Female Org. Boss:" Well he was the best around..."
  Scrawny Org. Boss:" I don't want to know about the others, then..."
• Issue 20 "Mekkano". The titular robot assimilating Gorthan? Not funny. Gorthan ordering a few Evronian soldiers to be taken out of Mekkano, while said soldiers are giving their higher-ups a report of their mission and are completely ignoring Gorthan's angry ranting? Funny.
  • Also the fact that Gorthan's favorite pieces of human literature to quote are Shakespeare... and The Little Prince, a children's book.
• In issue 43 "Time to Time" Paperinik and Lyla must work together with some of the best droids in the history of the Time Police. Lyla's reaction is funny enough, but the best part is when another droid joins them...
  Odin Eidolon:: "Lieutant Cobrain of the Special Corps will travel with you!"
  Lyla:: "Indeed, he has nice bodywork!"
  Paperinik:: "LYLA!"
  Lyla:: "I was just complimenting his design!"
  • The Raider argues with his employers.
    Raider: Open up your ears, you flea bag! If I find even only one of your men in my way, I'll come personally and bend your beak! Am I clear?
    Big Org. Boss: B-but won't YOU tell him anything?!
    Scrawny Org. Boss: Why? It's your beak.
    • And immediately before, the Organization bosses demanding that Newton takes off his beloved tie so that he doesn't ruin his stealth camouflage. Meanwhile...
      Raider: Nice tie, mister Newton.
    • And immediately after, he decides to check the hour...
      Raider: "You have to be kidding me! My watch stopped! My watch!"
  • Everything related to a couple of guys of The Organization:
    • First Newton berates them for shooting to the heroes while they still have the MacGuffin.
    • Then he berates them for not shooting fast enough.
    • Then, after he orders them to not shoot, they can only watch the game of Keep Away:
  First Guy:"What are they doing? Some kind of antidiluvian game?"
  Second Guy:"Do you think it would be inappropriate to cheer?"
• Everything,everything about the 2000 summer special. It was divided (as usual) into several short stories and all of them are gut-bursting funny:
  • In one Donald must find the various parts of his costume during a black-out,while avoiding troubles with the Ducklair tower's occupants.
  • The return of Lord Walrus, who somehow menages to convince both himself and the people of Duckburg that, since Paperinik is a superhero and his job is to make people happy, he should let Walrus win.
  • Paperinik is attacked by new supervillains from all over the world. Why? Because now that he Took a Level in Badass, everybody wants to prove to be the best by defeating him.
    • He gets rid of all of them but one with a trick: as he's the best, his foe will have to prove he is the best supervillain by defeating all the others in a tournament.
  • But the most knee-slapping ones are the three short stories where he breaks the fourth wall and explains (and parodies) Secret Identity, Talking Is a Free Action and The Good Guys Always Win.
• The new ally in the 2014 relaunch is quite caustic and not prone to humour, but has his moments. "I'm programmed to express one hundred and two different forms of sarcasm."
• When PK meets Grrodon and Fairfax, the latter would like to illustrate his plan as every "good" mad scientist does, but Grrodon interrupts him:
  "(Illustrate your invention) to whom? I know it perfectly, my soldiers don't care about it, and PK will soon be too absent to appreciate your genius!"
• Every episode of Might and Power is followed by two extra pages that, in a way similar to some backup stories of PKNA, give a humorous insight into the Evronian civilization. In one, it is told that Evronians have observed humans for centuries and sometimes were even disguised among us during some historical events. An Evronian who was among the Japanese at Iwo Jima in 1945, when told they should do harakiri, replies "I'm already doing a Sudoku..."
• Everything about Charlie Delta's family. His father, his mother, his brother and his sister all have military/para-military/security backgrounds. Everyone is spying on everyone, all the time. Hence, when Charlie, his brother and his friend Fransisco de Gamma plan to investigate a factory, several black ops organisations turn up at once trying to claim superiority over the operation - each group lead by a Delta family member! (His parents named their kids after the NATO signaling alphabet — that tells you something of their mentality!)
  • In one occasion, Duke (the father) reminds Charlie that he isn't authorized to say a super-secret service's name without the proper authorization. Then Duke pulls out a gun and threathens to shoot Charlie if he says one more word.
• In The Event Horizon, the Raider accidentally brings a crocodile from ancient Egypt to Donald's house after a failed robbery. Donald says he prefers simpler souvenirs like a snow globe.
  • Throughout the story, Donald's number one priority is the crocodile in his bathroom. In the end, Donald and One bring the crocodile to the Ducklair Tower's secret floor and One says he'll deal with it the next day.
  • When Everett starts explaining what the event horizon is in a black hole, The Raider says that he already knows... because in the XXIII century they made a musical about it.
• During a phone call, Rangi Fangus holds a certain childhood mishap against her son, and his reply is priceless:
  They could have written on them that it was dynamite... Well, bigger!
• On one occasion, Angus was attacked in his home by a killer robot made by a toy factory because he had been given the evidence about their plans to Take Over the World... And he hadn't even believed it when he had been given it.
  • To recover it, the robot ruins Angus' trenchcoat. Angus immediately wrecks the robot with a baseball bat.
• Issue #39 "Timewreck" is quite funny on its own... But gets even better if one knows it's a Whole-Plot Reference to the first time Donald met the Time Police. Who in the other story were called the Guardians of Time and had spaceships with a time machine function but otherwise acted exactly the same. Then again, they could be the same organization: the Guardians were from the 22nd century, the Time Police from the 23rd, and some time travelers (such as Professor Symorian, the stranded time traveler in "Timewreck") still use the old type...
  • The reason why the Time Police can't track Professor Symorian to his exact location right after he got stranded (as the Guardians of Time were able to) but have only an approximate location and timespan: Paperinik changing the timeline in "The Day of the Cold Sun".

Others:

• Evronian Empire: The Rise And Fall is a video that parodies the opening scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Watch it here.
• Meta: In the third PKNE story "The Black Beam" Paperinik replies to Moldrock indirectly calling him the greatest of Earth's hero by jokingly saying it's actually Super Goof. The fandom reacted with crazy ideas about PK vs Super Goof◊.
  • Eventually it became an Ascended Meme, when the Italian "Mickey Mouse" magazine (where the PKNE stories are being published) showed a challenge between them... At a tv quiz show. Also adding a Take That! to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Paperinik states that smart superheroes prefer an intellectual confrontation, and Super Goof adds they can still preserve the suspence...