Æon Flux: Difference between revisions

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Extensively used to set up the small events that screw up Aeon's missions.

* [[Cloning Blues]]: Averted hard by the clone of {{spoiler|Aeon made by Trevor. Aware of being a clone, she is perfectly OK with her existence and her role in the original Aeon's [[Batman Gambit]]}}.

** The ending of "Chronophasia" where Aeon {{spoiler|is seen in a contemporary setting driving a young boy to a little league game}}.

* [[Combat Stilettos]]: Averted in most episodes. Aeon's many outfits run the full gamut of practical to highly impractical fetish wear, but she wears regular flat-heeled boots more often than she does high heels (this is even important in the pilot episode, where she steps on a nail).

* [[Le Parkour]]: Aeon's most important skill, even though the series began before the word ''parkour'' [[Unbuilt Trope|entered into common use.]] (Her movements are jerkier than parkour usually prefers, however.)

* [[Lost in Transmission]]: A rare example that doesn't involve actual transmitting equipment. At the beginning of "The Demiurge", Trevor is speaking with an underling when he suddenly recalls a vital piece of information. What he says is "Wait, I remember!" -- and what he says next is drowned out by the sound of an explosion behind him. It ''is'' possible to make out what he's saying if you listen extremely carefully, but the line appears to have been lifted at random from a later speech in the same episode and the animators made no attempt to match the lip flaps.

* [[Mind Screw]]: And how! The DVD commentary for the episode "Chronophasia" explicitly apologizes that ''they'' don't even really have any good, objective answers as to what it's all about. Peter Chung has explicitly said that [[Death of the Author|he'd rather the viewers work it out for themselves]] than rely on [[Word of God]].

* [[Mundane Dogmatic]]: Aside from most of the episodes directed by Howard Baker. And the aliens. See above.

''I take no sides.''

'''You're skating the edge.'''

'''What you truly want, only I can give.'''|''You can't give it, can't even buy it, and you just don't get it.''}}

* [[Our Hero Is Dead]]: Literally in [[Once an Episode|every single episode]] during the silent shorts. During the half-hour episodes, however, Aeon tends to survive, some partial exceptions being: One episode where {{spoiler|a copy of her kills the original (which was planned all along)}}, another where she's trapped {{spoiler|in a sea of paralytic fluid at the end (although the fluid could be neutralized)}}, and another where she seems to die multiple times, but nobody knows [[Mind Screw|what the hell was literal in that episode anyway]]. {{spoiler|Explained somewhat in the video game.}}

* [[Playing with Syringes]]: Trevor.

* [[Based on a Great Big Lie]]: The pandemic

* [[Cain and Abel]]

* [[Cloning Blues]]: done much straighter and more simplistically than in the show

* [[Cool Airship]]

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