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• Angst? What Angst?: Asbel took the news of his twin sister's death a little too well.
• Anvilicious: Of the Green Aesop variety, mostly for the film though. It gets a bit more complicated, if not somewhat subverted towards the end of the manga. Specifically, the question of whether or not the Master Computer's plan to artificially restore Earth's old ecology is just as bad as the callous environmental destruction the preceeded it, since it would mean the deaths of the countless biotechnological creatures (including "Humans") who have made a life for themselves in the new world.
• Alternate Character Interpretation: The movie and manga versions of Kushana and Kurotowa are drastically different. Kurotowa in particular gets the short end of the stick in the movie, but at least Kushana remains sympathetic (if more than a little extreme.)
• Broken Base: Despite being uncut and more accurate, Disney's dub of Nausicaa still has its share of harsh detractors, with some declaring that it still fails to do justice to the original Japanese. You'll have to decide for yourself if you like it or not.
• Creepy Awesome: The Ohmu, who are absolutely massive insects that can crush you whole, but you've got to admit, they are absolutely intriguing to look at.
  • The same can be said about nearly all other insects in the film.
  • In the manga, Ohma, who can kill you in many different ways, like radiation, or a focused energy beam fired from its mouth, but this unique combination between deadly, newborn infant, and size makes them absolutely fascinating. They thinking that Nausicaä is their mum makes this even more interesting.
• Faux Symbolism: There's some religious allusion in both the film and manga, namely Nausicaa walking through a golden field being the blue-clouded one, similar to religious stories of Jesus. The Crypt of Shuwa and God Warriors from the manga gives off a very similar vibe. Of course, being "faux" doesn't stop the symbols from feeling cool and unique.
• High Octane Nightmare Fuel:
  • When the God Warrior melts.
  • The Emperor's flashbacks to his father's death by plastic surgery. As if it wasn't enough to see his father's skin tear open and his organs spill everywhere, he was a child at the time.
  • Nearly everything involving the Holy Crypt of Shuwa. The dark, organic imagery and the Heart of the Crypt itself are utterly wrong and alien...
• Jerkass Woobie: possibly a number of characters, but perhaps most notably Kushana. Introduced in the film version as a seemingly steriotypical evil queen ("Nice valley. Think I'll keep it."), her status as an apparent Card-Carrying Villain is quickly subverted. This apparently was deliberate on the part of the writers: Miyazaki describes Nausicaa and Kushana as "two sides of the same coin", largely differing in that Kushana has "deep, physical wounds".
• Macekre: Warriors of the Wind again. The incident is why all Studio Ghibli licenses contractually stipulate that not a frame of animation is to be changed or cut unless the credits are being translated.
• Nightmare Fuel: The God Warriors.
• Squick: When Kushana takes off her glove to show that she no longer has an arm and then says "Whatever lucky man becomes my husband shall see far worse than that." Ew.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Ohma's death in the manga. "I'm unsure, mother. Have I become a good person?"
  • Teto's death and burial in the manga as well.
  • Master Yupa's Heroic Sacrifice.