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, also a main character, is a morally-ambiguous totalitarian ruler attempting to be a sort of 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. As a whole, the show was a thorough Deconstruction of action hero tropes and cliches. The early shorts had no spoken words to speak of, unless you count a single "plop". 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, wherein the eye's iris rolls in to stare at it. The art style is a strange combination of Expressionism, Cyberpunk, and Gnosticism. Probably the best way to describe Æon Flux is that if you had ever seen it before, you would be able to recognize it immediately. Starting out with a series of shorts on Liquid Television, Æon would later spin off into her own series. ![]() Æon Flux is probably the third-best known example of these series (after Beavis and Butthead and Daria). ![]() Back when MTV produced animated programming (yes, this was a long, long time ago.), they fronted some experimental animation.
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