Æon Flux 

Æon Flux is a mysterious and amoral secret agent from the country of Monica. Her motives or background are left unexplained, as are those of her antagonist/love, Trevor Goodchild. On her ... See full summary »

Creator:

Peter Chung

Stars:

Denise Poirier, John Rafter Lee, Julia Fletcher

Cast

Series cast summary:
Denise Poirier	...	Æon Flux 10 episodes, 1995
John Rafter Lee	...	Trevor Goodchild 10 episodes, 1995

Storyline

Æon Flux is a mysterious and amoral secret agent from the country of Monica. Her motives or background are left unexplained, as are those of her antagonist/love, Trevor Goodchild. On her missions, she deals swift, bloody "justice" to all that oppose her. The second season episodes of this series were unique in that Aeon died at the end of every single episode.

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Plot Keywords:

agent | secret agent | 2d animation | future | surrealism | 

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Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Country:

USA South Korea Japan

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 June 1991 (USA)

Also Known As:

Aeon Flux

Company Credits

Production Co:

Colossal Pictures, MTV Animation, MTV Networks

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

It has been considered that the cartoon may have been a possible influence behind South Park (1997). In that cartoon, the character Kenny McCormick is killed off in each episode, but at the beginning of the following episode, Kenny is alive, only to die again.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Trevor Goodchild: The unobserved state is a fog of probabilities, a window of and for error. The watcher observes, the fog collapses, an event resolves. A theory becomes a fact... What is the truth? Tell me, if you know. And I will not believe you. Things are never what they seem. Clean gloves hide dirty hands - and mine are dirtier than most... Without truth, there can be no justice. Justice will be done!

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Alternate Versions

2005 DVD release features modified versions of several episodes, with improved special effects and coloring, and alternate versions of some scenes substituted for the original televised versions. In addition, newly written and produced scenes were added to some episodes in order to improve continuity. All dialogue by the character Clavius was re-recorded by another actor for the DVD release.

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Connections

Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Most Violent Cartoons (2016)

User Reviews

Animation pushed passed all boundaries.

Peter Chung is definitely one of the most creative minds in animation today. This is his groundbreaking work he is best known for.

Originally a recurring short for MTV's Liquid Television, Aeon Flux combined the flash of the sexy heroine and action movie violence with extremely surreal and bizarre scenarios. MTV later commissioned 10 half-hour episodes. Obviously the more high profile placement of a scheduled program lead to more network restrictions. Not quite the same surreal vision as the original shorts but definitely interesting in themselves.

A lot of people saw it as some kind of anime rip off. It's nothing of the sort. While without a doubt drawing influence from Japanese animation the more apparent influences are European fantasy illustrators like moebius.

I bought the TV episodes and shorts on a VHS several years ago. I'm not sure if it has made it to DVD. There's a live action movie based on the characters of the animation series coming out this winter. It's extremely doubtful they'll be able to pull off any of the weird stuff. It will probably be just another boringly ordinary Hollywood sci-fi/action movie. One of Peter Chung's ideas with his animation is to create something you can't do in live action.