Princess Mononoke: Difference between revisions

* [[An Aesop]]: War, greed, and hatred only escalate, corrupting everyone in the process.

** [[Green Aesop]]: [[Reconstructed Trope]] - see the entry below.

** [[Fantastic Aesop]]: Don't shoot nature spirits if you don't want them to turn into [[Blob Monster|Blob Monsters]].

* [[An Arm and A Leg]]: The aforementioned "MY AAAAARRRRRRRM!" in addition to {{spoiler|Lady Eboshi getting her arm bitten off.}}

* [[Foreshadowing]]: When Lady Eboshi says "Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite" , she unknowingly spells out her own fate

* [[Full Boar Action]]: Cranked [[Up to Eleven]].

* [[Gambit Pileup]]: The human world is filled with these.

* [[Ghibli Hills]]: Well, it's by that studio... and the whole movie seems to be set there.

* [[Grey and Grey Morality]]: Everyone has their own reasons for fighting, and [[Audience Surrogate]] Ashitaka finds it hard to blame anyone completely.

** Heck, San hates all humans...but she can't bring it in herself to kill anyone but Lady Eboshi, who has hurt her. Lady Eboshi meanwhile indeed sets out to kill gods and animals who get in her way, but at the same time, the lepers say she's the only one who looked at them as human and she regularly buys women from brothels to give them a home and work.

* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Inverted. The enigmatic Lady Eboshi. She's actually "saving" her people from the gods, though, not viceversa...

* [[Happily Married]]: Toki and Kohroku, although she does give him a bit of a hard time.

* [[Milky White Eyes]]: Okkoto has these, being old and blind.

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Arguably Ashitaka, the one young, attractive male in the cast who frequently performs feats of great [[Badass|badassery]] and/or takes his shirt off.

* [[Multishot]]

* [[Nature Hero]]: Despite the Princess in the English title, San is much closer to being this than a [[Jungle Princess]].

* [[Smug Snake]]: Jigo.

* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Ashitaka steadily loses more and more of his clothes throughout the movie, until he is running around in just his pants and his... sleeves?

** Hardly a shout out- Miyazaki knowingly reuses a lot of Nausicaa in Mononoke, as well he might. Overall, it can be treated as a more mature revisiting of the earlier movie, with the environmental message presented a little less black-and-white and the somewhat internally inconsistent character of Nausicaa divided into two characters: the idealistic Ashitaka and the bestial San. Also, Lady Eboshi, Gonza, and the Boars should be very familiar to anyone who's seen Nausicaa...

* [[So What Do We Do Now?]]