Aeon Flux is a series which originally aired on MTV's Liquid Television, back before MTV started sucking and only playing reality tv shows and the occasional pop video. It follows the misadventures of a spindly, out of proportion woman named Aeon Flux who is generally found engaging in some combination of espionage, spying, sneaking, and sex. Her scanty clothes are reminiscent of S&M gear. The series also features another main character, Aeon's love interest/mortal enemy, Trevor Goodchild, who has seemingly infinite resources at his disposal, and would be the ruler of the world.
The usual settings revolve around two cities, Bregna and Monica, and their opposing factions. A wall seperates the two. Any attempt to cross between them without using the proper channels ends... messily more often than not.
Aeon Flux is a violent cartoon, sometimes pointlessly so (see the short episodes). It's confusing to say the very least, with plots that are generally nonsensical and abstract, if they exist at all. The episodes can prettymuch be seen independent of the others without losing any continuity, for there generally is none between them. Regardless of this, Peter Chung manages to captivate the audience and drag them (kicking and screaming) into his bizzare, futuristic, fetishist world. It's entertaining, confusing, and dizzying all at once, much like a rollercoaster ride. Everyone would benefit from seeing an Aeon Flux episode sometime in their lives, in my opinion. It's a pretty good mindfuck.
Series Episode Guide
Short Episodes (Aeon Dies)
Pilot (Dies by falling)
Aeon breaks into a Breen installation and kills a HUGE number of infected soldiers. She then learns that Trevor has killed a senior politician before she falls to her death.
Gravity (Dies by falling)
Aeon's cat-like instincts and inquisitiveness count for nothing as she watches the goings on below her while falling to her death.
Leisure (Dies by being eaten)
Aeon discovers a new type of creature in Trevor's Laboratory. She steals some eggs and attempts to escape before one of the creatures finds and kills her.
Tide (Dies with a blow to the head)
The strange tale of a key to a plunger that will save a large building from sinking. Aeon is accompanied by a doomed prisoner (Trevor) and a treacherous accomplice.
War (Dies by a bullet to the brain)
A gory and magical episode about the futility and inevitability of war. We see Bregna and Monica battle it out with no apparent regard for the loss of life, all to save one person.
Long Episodes (Aeon lives)
Episode 1: Utopia or Deuteronopia
Trevor attempts to create a pocket of space within a comatose ambassador's body, where he fantasizes a private existence with Aeon. Aeon teams up with a breen named Gildemere who brings down Trevor's Aeon-obsessed plan.
Episode 2: Isthmus Crypticus
Trevor has captured two beautiful angel-like winged humanoid creatures (a male and a female), known as the Seraf-trev. Their ability to give humans sexual ecstasy is legendary. Ilbren, a jealous Breen, wants the female for his own pleasure. He hires Aeon to help him capture her. Aeon decides on her own to set them free, and recruits the help of a Monican student, Una, to help her translate breen codes to enter the Seraf-trev's prison. Everyone wants the Seraf-trev, but some things are never meant to be...
Episode 3: Thanatophobia
Sybil and Onan are two Breen lovers whose only wish is to cross the border from Bregna into Monica. During a border run attempt, Onan makes it across while Sybil is shot in her spinal column. she awakes with a maneuverable, mechanical waist. Trevor uses her for sexual pleasure while vehemently discouraging her desires to flee Bregna. Aeon, who is now sleeping with Sybil's former lover Onan, sympathetically tries to aid Sybil's cause. In the end, it is Sybil's tragic fate as she finds out the new state of the Bregna/Monica border.
Episode 4: A Last Time For Everything
Aeon teams up with Scafandra, a double agent with hands for feet, to make a border run into Bregna. Inside Trevor's lab, Aeon discovers Trevor's new fascination with cloning humans. Aeon allows herself to be replicated by Trevor. Plotting a twisted mind game, Aeon takes the place of her perfect double to fool Trevor into believing she has fallen in love with him. The master plan includes the death of the real Aeon in order to destroy Trevor's psyche. In the course of this sordid game, the real Aeon faces a dilemma unlike any she has ever encountered.
Episode 5: The Demiurge
Trevor has acquired a demigod, a creature of awesome power and peaceful intentions. While he intends to use it to change the face of the world, Aeon wants to see it destroyed. The great head of the demigod is launched into space, but not before it immaculately conceives itself in the body of young Nadir. Now a new demiurge is born, and Aeon and Trevor race to discover some disturbing truths...
Episode 6: Reraizure
The Narghile is a creature that produces a pellet that erases human memories. Rorty and Muriel, two Breen lovers, had their memories erased by the pellet and have vowed to rid the world of the creatures by launching them into the sun. Aeon, while trying to recover some compromising photos of her and Trevor, encounters Muriel who attacks Aeon and gets herself killed. Aeon tries to make up for this accident by helping Rorty with his cause. Trevor extols the significance of memories in this tale of trust and betrayal.
Aeon is caught in a time loop. There is a mysterious virus that causes permanent insanity. Trevor and Aeon battle again through this paradox filled episode...
Episode 8: Ether Drift Theory
Trevor has devised the perfect symbiotic habitat. A controlled environment where all things exist in balance with each other. Perfect as it may seem, the price it's inhabitants pay is their freedom. The entire habitat is surrounded by a vast gelatin barrier that renders helpless anyone who comes in contact with it. Conscious beings float throughout it like wasps in ancient amber. All at once, Aeon and an ally pierce the gelatin and enter the habitat, Trevor plots a counter-move with a four-armed warrior/cyborg, and a young scientist discovers a way to neutralize the gelatin... The habitat is changed forever.
Episode 9 : The Purge
Artificial behavior control is Trevor's scheme in this episode, where skeletal twig-like robots called "Custodians" are implanted in the navels of everyone at his behest. A conscience for those that have none.
Trevor has decided to use the "Aldus B" ray to speed evolution by forcing the inhabitants of earth to adapt or die. Aeon steals his remote in an attempt to stop him, and encounters an unusual creature from a distant world. Trevor and the creature travel to the creature's home world, while Aeon sleeps in a hibernation chamber, and the ages march past. What she awakens to is beyond belief.
