The Dark Crystal: Difference between revisions

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*** In the novelization, Kira explains to Jen that long ago, female Gelflings were able to fly properly rather than just flutter to the ground.

* [[A Boy and His X]]: Though, Fizgig, an alien something like a cross between a terrier and a Pirahna, belongs to the girl, the trope is played straight in the prequel manga.

* [[Cast of Snowflakes]]: The Skeksis all have complex personalities, hobbies, and goals, mostly given in novelizations, and each has his own elaborate and unique style of clothing. However, as far as the movie is concerned, only the General, Chamberlain, and Scientist have roles that are important to the plot.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: This is a [[Jim Henson]] film, the guy who did ''[[The Muppets]]'' and ''[[Sesame Street]]'', although the main concept designer was actually more in the mystical and deep material that makes up the strange creatures. Storywise, it involves mass genocide, gruesome deaths, [[Fate Worse Than Death]] and [[Everything Is Trying to Kill You]] thrown into the mix.

* [[Deadly Decadent Court]]: The Skeksis

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* [[Empty Shell]]: The Podling slaves and the Garthim.

* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: Or the beginning. Same thing.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Hilariously addressed when the Garthim bring Aughra to the banquet hall; for all their faults, the Skeksis aren't too fond of cussing, the Ritual Master telling her to "watch your tongue!"

* [[Everything Fades]]: The Mystics fade when they die.

* [[Eye Scream]]: Aughra can remove her own eyeball at will and use it like a remote camera. While it doesn't hurt her, it certainly is weird...

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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|1=Many of the cute little fuzzballs that force SkekTek into the bottomless shaft go down with him. Fizzgig too, though he ends up catching hold of something and gets rescued by Aughra. And the Landstriders, who throw themselves at the much-stronger Garthim to protect Jen and Kira. And of course, Kira herself.}}

* [[Hobbits]]: This is more or less what gelflings and/or Podlings are supposed to be. They're much smaller than all the other people in the setting, and the podlings are definitely merry.

* [[Immortality Seeker]]: The Skeksis' goal; given how the Emperor dies of old age at the beginning and the rest of them seem pretty old themselves, they aren't making much progress towards it.

* [[Ironic Name]]: The Skesis scientist's laboratory, where he keeps all those jailed critters and drains Podlings and Gelflings from their vital essence? Its official name is "the Chamber of Life".

** Conversely, it's a [[Meaningful Name]] for the Skesis themselves, as {{spoiler|they extract a life-prolonging potion from the Pod People and Gelflings in there}}.

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* [[No Ontological Inertia]]: If a Skeksis dies, a corresponding mystic dies, and vice versa.

** Also, {{spoiler|in the final scene, the Garthim collapse into empty shells, due to whatever magic used to create them now gone.}}

* [[Not Quite Flight]]: Kira's wings let her glide and slows her fall - even when holding Jen - but she can't use them to gain lift. The novelization claims female gelfling could ''actually'' fly many ages ago, presumably evolution has caused their wings to atrophy.

* [[Novelization]]:

* [[Obviously Evil]]: Uhm, the Skeksis. Big, ugly, buzzard-like creatures. Clearly evil.

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* [[Prophecies Rhyme All the Time]]: Yep, this one too.

* [[Psychic Link]]: The Gelflings exchange their backstories through a touch-enabled mindlink that Kira calls Dreamfasting.

* [[Puppy Love]]: Jen and Kira; seriously, it cannot be more obvious.

* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Fizzgig

* [[Rule of Three]]: The Great Conjunction of the three suns, the recurring visual motif of triangles.

* [[Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!]]: Describes Aughra's personality pretty well.

* [[Sissy Villain]]: SkekEkt is the most flamboyant of the Skeksis, but they as whole are rather fragile due to their old age.

* [[Smug Snake]]: The Chamberlain, who is constantly grinning and often humming as he plots.

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* [[Staff of Authority]] - The Skesis emperor carries a scepter which designates his office. In the death scene of the first emperor, Chamberlain indicates his eagerness to take over by reaching for the scepter.

* [[Starring Special Effects]]

* [[Stupid Good]]: Jen's adoptive father even admits he shouldn't have waited until he was on his deathbed to explain what to Jen what his quest is, and this lack of foresight requires Jen to [[Figure It Out Yourself|figure the whole thing out himself]], something he clearly ''could not'' have done without Kira's help.

* [[Stupid Good]]: Jen's adoptive father even admits he shouldn't have waited until he was on his deathbed to explain what to Jen what his quest is, and this lack of foresight requires Jen to [[Figure It Out Yourself|figure the whole thing out himself]], something he clearly ''could not'' have done without Kira's help. He also apparently never saw reason to teach Jen how to read, a skill which would have been ''very'' useful in said quest, something which, again, was helped by Kira having more sensible guardians.

* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]s: The novelization claims the UrSkeks are this.

* [[Synchronization]]: Between the urRu and the Skeksis