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** 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]]:

''"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.'' }}

** 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:

* [[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 ]] an [[The Empire|entire Western country]] [[Moral Event Horizon|through terrible acts of violence]], [[The War on Terror|and therefore is chased as a menace by all established countries in the West.]] After [[Osama Bin Laden]], 9/11 and [[The War on Terror]], we must admit that Verne really knew much more than anyone ever suspected about how the world will turn in the next 130 years!

** 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.