Æon Flux 

Leather-bound and lethal, Aeon Flux – secret agent, saboteur – engages in a never-ending battle of wills with her nemesis/love, Trevor Goodchild.

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:

sex scene | organ transplant | cult tv | superhero | girls with guns | 

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Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-MA

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

Spun-off from Liquid Television (1991)

User Reviews

Explorative Animation! Fantastic!

Having first seen Aeon Flux as MTV shorts I was instantly captivated, breaking free from the constraints of the "standard" method of story telling, so much is left in the mysterious and unknown, with very imaginative and surreal atmosphere, in some cases one feels like they have just been dropped in the middle of a story with no real explanation of what is going on, its not needed it adds to effect. An interesting format that the heroine is killed off only to be reincarnated in the next short, almost like a video game in some contexts.

This format was eventually abandoned and a more story like series followed, which might lead one to believe that the initial shorts might of been proof of concept or tests? These episodes are very similar in the same surreal atmosphere but with a little more story line and plot driven in to make them more durable.

A highly imaginative animation series that is worth inclusion in anyones collection especially those seeking something a little off the beaten path.

Details

Country:

USA South Korea Japan

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 June 1991 (USA)

Also Known As:

Æon Flux

Company Credits

Production Co:

Colossal Pictures, MTV Animation, MTV Networks

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color