Is this character from somewhere specific?

[Orora]

So, there is this Italian story, Donald and the Scifi Experiment.

The plot is about Donald who visits a futuristic house full of simulated traps and aliens, that is meant to test astronauts. Donald only gets there by mistake (expecting a regular job/house), and isn't aware of what he is facing, seeing the "aliens" only as minor annoyances that he disposes off easily.

The scientists who run the house are proud of the aliens created by their tech guy, but in the end, it is revealed that their tech guy is on vacation, so it is implied that at least some of those aliens are real.

The first panel shows a human woman on a space bike, and she only reappears in the last panel, in the sewers next to the aliens that were implied to be real.



I don't know... her design looks too specific for her to just be a one-off character.

If she was supposed to be an alien herself like the others, I think she'd look more alien and more threatening. 

I have the feeling the authors were referencing a celebrity, another comic or even a special event at the time.

Would anybody have any idea? Thanks.

[sim]

She kind of looks like Johnny Bravo's mama.

[farmspirit]

I guess it is implied to a "futuristic fairy", since the italian name for science-fiction is fantascienza, the fanta- particle meaning fantastic/fantasy. I can't really bring any proof thought, other than the two sticks holding the flag in the opening panel resembling a magic wand. But the moment I saw it I made this connection. If not this story, it must have been another story with a similar opening.

What do you mean "implied to be real"? Those are real, like all the other monsters, it is just that instead of being created by their team like the others, those beans are of unknown origin.

Sept 9, 2022 18:28:34 GMT sim said:

She kind of looks like Johnny Bravo's mama.

She doesn't seem really similar to me. Obviously they are both older women, and maybe the glasses shape, but it ends there imo. The hair, which generally most defines a character since those give the basic silhouette, are totally different.

[crazycatlord]

Sept 9, 2022 16:02:42 GMT Orora said:

The scientists who run the house are proud of the aliens created by their tech guy, but in the end, it is revealed that their tech guy is on vacation, so it is implied that at least some of those aliens are real.

At least in the Portuguese translation, the problem was not the "aliens" (giant humanoid beans) being real, is that there was nobody to capture (deactivate?) them after they escaped from the house.