![]() The original series is often erroneously categorized as anime. ![]() The episodes tend to be fairly disconnected from each other, and center on the two main characters' (Æon and Trevor) interactions, political and personal, and the themes surrounding them. Her arch-nemesis and lover, Trevor Goodchild, is also a main character a morally-ambiguous totalitarian ruler attempting to be a benevolent dictator. The actual content proves even stranger than the art - our lead character is a highly self-motivated secret agent doing spywork (or possibly just sabotage in the name of anarchy), and is Stripperific to pretty much the greatest conceivable extent. The early shorts had no spoken words to speak of, unless you count a single "plop." As a whole, the show was a thorough deconstruction of action hero tropes and cliches. The episodes would attempt to use the art style to further the viewer's interest as opposed to wordiness. One of the most enduring images of the series is that of a human eye staring at a fly that is trapped in its eyelashes. The art style is a strange combination of Expressionism, Cyberpunk, and Gnosticism. Possibly the best way to describe Æon Flux is that if you had ever seen it before, you would be able to recognize it immediately. Æon Flux (1991-1995) is probably the fourth-best known example of this type of series (after Beavis and Butt-Head, Daria, and Celebrity Deathmatch). Throughout the 1990s, MTV regularly produced animated programming and fronted some experimental animation. ![]()
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