![]() ![]() One peculiarity of the early shorts is the violent death of Æon Flux, which occurs in each installment. Æon Flux is therefore notable as one of the very few American adult animated series to be a drama rather than a comedy, as well as one of the only such series to air for more than one season. Chung intended the cartoon to be a reaction to heroic Hollywood action films, not as a spoof, but rather as a way to make the audience wonder about the wider context of these action heroes and evoke thought. Peter Chung, the creator, says the main character's name "started out just being the name of the cartoon and then eventually it stuck, so that's her name." The character Æon Flux was not meant to be part of the series, but MTV pushed to keep her in it, despite Æon dying at the end of the first batch of shorts. Some authors consider the title a reference to the Gnostic notion of an Æon, seeing the influence in the use of a demiurge in one episode, and that the relationship between the main characters parallels the Valentinian notion of a syzygy. Further mythic parallels can be drawn in likening Goodchild to Apollo and Flux to Artemis. This juxtaposition also maps accordingly to the characterizations of Eris and Greyface in the Discordian mythos. The term Æon comes from the Gnostic notion of Æons as emanations of the God, who come in male/female pairs (here Flux and Goodchild). The names of their respective characters reflect this: Flux as the self-directed agent from Monica and Goodchild as the self-appointed leader of Bregna. The two cities engage in a futile never ending war for ideological supremacy while Monica represents a dynamic nihilistic anarchist society where rules do not exist, Bregna embodies a centralized scientific planned Orwellian police state. Her mission is to infiltrate and destroy the strongholds of the city of Bregna, which is led by her sworn enemy, and sometimes lover, Trevor Goodchild, the technocratic dictator of Bregna. The title character is a tall, sexy, dominatrix scantily-clad secret agent from the city of Monica, skilled in espionage, assassination and acrobatics. ![]() ![]() The setting comprises a bizarre post-apocalyptic dystopian world surrounded by endless barren wasteland, mutant creatures, clones, and robots within the last two separated border wall cities of Monica and Bregna similar to the Berlin Wall, located somewhere in former Eastern Europe after an environmental catastrophe that wiped out 99 percent of the global population. Æon Flux is set in a surreal German Expressionist style futuristic universe in the year 7698 AD. Unrelated storyline points interact with each other by the end of the episode and random chance plays a large part in the character's decisions. An overriding theme of the series is the nature of reality and chaos. ![]()
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