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Pal is a character from the 2025 animated film Eiga Doraemon: Nobita no Esekai Monogatari, which takes Nobita and his friends on an adventure inside the world of paintings. Pal is introduced as a young art dealer active in the small medieval European principality of Arturia, where much of the story unfolds. In his public role, he buys and sells paintings and is one of the few people who sincerely appreciates the work of Milo, the son of the court painter, frequently purchasing Milo's paintings and visiting the royal castle. This makes him a familiar and seemingly harmless figure within the court's circles. His true identity, revealed partway through the film, is that of an undercover member of the Time Patrol, an organization responsible for protecting the proper flow of history.
Pal comes across as calm, observant, and cultured, with a polite manner that lets him move easily between different social settings. When he learns that the missing princess Claire has returned, he greets her with a comparison to Alice in Wonderland, a casual remark that later becomes a key clue, since that story belongs to the nineteenth century, far in the future relative to Arturia's thirteenth-century setting, and Doraemon realizes that only a time traveler could know it. Pal's motivation throughout the film is rooted in his duty as a Time Patrol officer. His mission is to apprehend the painting thief Sodoro, a criminal from the future who fled into a space-time vortex and caused a painting to be torn in half during his escape, with one portion eventually falling into Nobita's bedroom in the present day.
Pal's role in the story develops gradually. He first appears when the group is on its way to meet Arturia's king and queen, and he helps arrange hospitality for them as a gesture of gratitude. Later, however, he seems suspicious because he is seen watching the group from the shadows of the castle gallery, and Doraemon and Nobita come to believe he is a hostile time traveler. They track down his house and use a gadget to subdue him, only to discover that he is actually a member of the Time Patrol who was already investigating the same criminal. From that point, Pal becomes an important ally. He explains how the painting came to be split and how it reached Nobita's home, and he joins Doraemon and Nobita in the pursuit of Sodoro in an effort to rescue the king and Claire. During the final confrontation with the unleashed demon Esael, Pal is caught by the creature's light wave and loses his color, turning to stone along with the king, before order is eventually restored.
Pal's key relationships are tied closely to the plot. With Milo, he has a professional bond built on genuine appreciation of the young painter's art. With Sodoro, he has an adversarial relationship as the criminal he was sent to catch. With Doraemon and Nobita, he moves from being a figure of suspicion to a trusted partner in the chase. With Claire, his connection is one of duty and compassion, since it is Pal who ultimately saves her. At the film's end, after the Claire who traveled with the group fades away, Pal returns with the real, older Claire, whom he had located and rescued from a space-time hole, reuniting her with her grieving parents and bringing the story to a hopeful close.
Pal's notable abilities come from his training and equipment as a Time Patrol agent. He has practical combat skills, demonstrated in the action scene when he is briefly subdued by Doraemon's gadget and later during the struggle with Sodoro. He also possesses advanced knowledge of time travel, temporal disturbances, and the workings of space-time portals, which helps the group understand how the torn painting arrived in the modern world. His most distinctive achievement is his resourcefulness in finding and retrieving Claire from the hazardous space-time hole, an act that requires both knowledge of temporal phenomena and personal courage. Overall, Pal is a figure who appears mysterious and possibly dangerous at first, but is revealed to be a competent, well-intentioned officer whose quiet observations and dedication to his mission are essential to resolving the conflict.
Pal comes across as calm, observant, and cultured, with a polite manner that lets him move easily between different social settings. When he learns that the missing princess Claire has returned, he greets her with a comparison to Alice in Wonderland, a casual remark that later becomes a key clue, since that story belongs to the nineteenth century, far in the future relative to Arturia's thirteenth-century setting, and Doraemon realizes that only a time traveler could know it. Pal's motivation throughout the film is rooted in his duty as a Time Patrol officer. His mission is to apprehend the painting thief Sodoro, a criminal from the future who fled into a space-time vortex and caused a painting to be torn in half during his escape, with one portion eventually falling into Nobita's bedroom in the present day.
Pal's role in the story develops gradually. He first appears when the group is on its way to meet Arturia's king and queen, and he helps arrange hospitality for them as a gesture of gratitude. Later, however, he seems suspicious because he is seen watching the group from the shadows of the castle gallery, and Doraemon and Nobita come to believe he is a hostile time traveler. They track down his house and use a gadget to subdue him, only to discover that he is actually a member of the Time Patrol who was already investigating the same criminal. From that point, Pal becomes an important ally. He explains how the painting came to be split and how it reached Nobita's home, and he joins Doraemon and Nobita in the pursuit of Sodoro in an effort to rescue the king and Claire. During the final confrontation with the unleashed demon Esael, Pal is caught by the creature's light wave and loses his color, turning to stone along with the king, before order is eventually restored.
Pal's key relationships are tied closely to the plot. With Milo, he has a professional bond built on genuine appreciation of the young painter's art. With Sodoro, he has an adversarial relationship as the criminal he was sent to catch. With Doraemon and Nobita, he moves from being a figure of suspicion to a trusted partner in the chase. With Claire, his connection is one of duty and compassion, since it is Pal who ultimately saves her. At the film's end, after the Claire who traveled with the group fades away, Pal returns with the real, older Claire, whom he had located and rescued from a space-time hole, reuniting her with her grieving parents and bringing the story to a hopeful close.
Pal's notable abilities come from his training and equipment as a Time Patrol agent. He has practical combat skills, demonstrated in the action scene when he is briefly subdued by Doraemon's gadget and later during the struggle with Sodoro. He also possesses advanced knowledge of time travel, temporal disturbances, and the workings of space-time portals, which helps the group understand how the torn painting arrived in the modern world. His most distinctive achievement is his resourcefulness in finding and retrieving Claire from the hazardous space-time hole, an act that requires both knowledge of temporal phenomena and personal courage. Overall, Pal is a figure who appears mysterious and possibly dangerous at first, but is revealed to be a competent, well-intentioned officer whose quiet observations and dedication to his mission are essential to resolving the conflict.