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** Somewhat ironic because Verne was far more pro-British than most of his countrymen (through that might not have been saying much, with the [[Napoleonic Wars]] in living memory at the time). And before them, it was the Russians.
*** Verne wanted it to be the Russians, but his publisher balked at the idea, since France was on good terms with them, at the time.
**** Not only that, [[Money, Dear Boy|but the sales as well]]. Russia [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|always was a huge market for Verne's books]], at one point being the ''largest'' of them all, and Hetzel didn't want to lose all that money by offending and alienating the readers. He managed to persuade Verne to change Nemo's nation, and he, ever the pragmatic,<ref>Perhaps surprisingly, but he was. In his youth, when his father withdrew his financial support after learning that his son is dabbling with literature instead of studying the law, Verne had to earn his living by being a stock broker. He hated it with passion, but was quite successful, becoming financially independent even before breaking out in the writing field.</ref>
* [[An Aesop]]:
** [[Technology Is Evil]] because [[Humans Are
** A [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]] is an [[Artifact of Doom]]. [[No Man Should Have This Power]] and if he does, he becomes an [[Ubermensch]].
** No matter what a wholesome [[Nice Guy]] you genuinely are, if you become an [[Ubermensch]] because you have a [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]], for a time you will be [[The Anti-Nihilist]], but slowly but surely you will become a [[Nietzsche Wannabe]].
* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: After Ned Land and Conseil tried to give [[The Professor]] Aronax some precious oxygen, they converse [[More Expendable Than You]]:
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''"No, Ned," I replied, "[[The Messiah|it isn't worth more. Nobody could be better than a kind and generous man like yourself!]]"''<br />
''"All right, all right!" the Canadian repeated in embarrassment.'' }}
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** The crew also treat Papuan natives who attack the ''Nautilus'' like savages instead of people; they don't even stop one from wandering onto the (electrified) staircase of the ship.
*** However, also Ned Land, Counseil and Aronnax treat them as savages. Maybe could be said that it was [[Fair for Its Day]]? Captain Nemo lampshades that ''"savages"'' can be found at any part of the world, and even when the papuans wandered on the electrified staircase, it's implied it was only capable of repelling them and not kill them. Nemo said:
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* [[Harsher in Hindsight]] / [[Not So Crazy Anymore]]: Since the beginning of his career as a writer, Verne has being accused by critics of being [[Sci Fi Ghetto|''only'' a HardScifi writer that paid little heed to the social ramifications of technology]]. But with [[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]] Verne wrote in 1869 about Captain Nemo, a man from an oppressed country who [[Majored in Western Hypocrisy|had training in the west,]] and has [[Fiction 500|enough money to pay a country’s national debt,]] whom decides to create an [[NGO Superpower|organization strong enough]] to [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters|fight
** A lot of the descriptions of whaling and fishing and the beauty of the sea becomes this due to modern pollution problems, rampant overfishing, and climate change. Not to mention some species described in the book are outright extinct.
* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]: [[The Captain]] Nemo is a truly, [[Wicked Cultured]], [[Affably Evil]] [[Nice Guy]] who constantly crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]] and hardly even notices when he [[Kick the Dog]]. [[An Aesop]] of the novel is to show that no matter how good or charismatic are you, [[Technology Is Evil]] and to have a [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]] means that [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]] as Nemo’s [[Villainous Breakdown]] [[Death Seeker|takes him and his entire crew to the Maelstrom]]. However, [[Misaimed Fandom]] always forget the Aesop because Nemo is the poster boy (Out and [[In
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