![]() ![]() Cool Airship: The huge zeppelin circling the city, which proves to be a gene bank.Cloning Blues: Done much straighter and more simplistically than in the show.City in a Bottle: In the film, Æon is a Matrix-style opposition guerrilla out to bring down her closed city which is straight out of Logan's Run, her lover is a totalitarian Reluctant Mad Scientist trying to keep secret the human race's sterility while he solves it, and the actual villain of the piece is the RMS' brother, an entirely new character who believes that their current existence is perfect and that a cure would be just as bad as revolution.Canon Foreigner: Trevor's brother Orin, who didn't exist in the cartoon.Cain and Abel: Trevor is actually mostly good in this continuity, and his brother Orin is doing all the bad stuff and plotting to depose him.Big Bad: Vice Chairman Orin Goodchild is given the role and acts as a much more traditional villain than Trevor did in the original work, scheming to keep the remnants of humanity under his iron-fisted control.Ancient Keeper: The genebank zeppelin, the DNA archive floating above the city, is guarded by the Keeper, an incredibly old man who explains the plot at the end. ![]() Adaptation Dye-Job: Trevor is blond in the cartoon, while he has black hair in the movie.Adaptational Modesty: Æon's costume is much more modest than it was in the cartoon, both because of general decency standards and simply because the cartoon costume probably would never stay in position, even if adhesives were used.Æon Flux is a member of a rebel group known as the Monicans who seek to undermine the government (or something), but when her sister Una is taken on suspicion of also being a Monican (she's not) and Æon is sent to kill the government's leader, Trevor Goodchild, she ends up uncovering secrets about Bregna that pretty much throw her ideas about herself and her world down the stairs. The remaining survivors live in the idyllic city of Bregna, but like all post-apocalyptic utopias, everything is not as it seems. In the year 2011, a devastating virus wiped out 99% of the world's population. It starred Charlize Theron as the assassin Æon Flux, but otherwise was so far divorced from the original material that Peter Chung was embarrassed to have it associated with him. Æon Flux is a 2005 live-action film directed by Karyn Kusama and based loosely on the iconic animated series of the same name by Peter Chung.
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