Æon Flux (film)

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Æon Flux is a 2005 American science fiction action film based on the animated science fiction action television series of the same name created by Peter Chung, which aired on MTV from 1991–1995. It starred Charlize Theron in the title role.

In the year 2415, four hundred years after a deadly pathogen killed 99% of the Earth's population, the survivors' descendants inhabit Bregna, a walled futuristic city-state, which is ruled by a congress of scientists. Although Bregna is largely an idyllic place in the destroyed Earth, people routinely disappear and the population has nightmares.

A skilled warrior named Æon Flux, a member of the Monicans, an underground rebel organization who communicate through telepathy-enabling technology and are led by the Handler, is given a mission to destroy a surveillance station. After the mission, Æon comes home to find her sister Una has been mistaken for a Monican and killed. When Æon is sent on a mission to kill the government's leader, Trevor Goodchild, she discovers that both she and the Monicans are being manipulated by council members in a secret coup d'état.

Æon questions the origins of everyone in Bregna, and in particular, her personal connection to Trevor. Everyone in Bregna is revealed to be a clone, grown from recycled DNA. With the dead constantly being reborn as new individuals and bearing partial memories of their previous lives, their troubling dreams have increased. Cloning was required because the antidote to the original virus made humans infertile. Trevor's ongoing experiments were attempts to reverse the infertility. His ancestors had also worked on this problem. Æon learns that she is a clone of the original Trevor's wife Katherine, and is the first "Katherine" clone in over 400 years.

One of Trevor's experiments, Una, was successful: she had become pregnant. However, in order to stay in power, Trevor's brother, Oren Goodchild, had her killed along with the other members of the experimental group. He ordered all of Trevor's research to be destroyed. In a confrontation with Trevor and Æon, Oren reveals that nature has corrected the infertility problem and that some women are becoming pregnant. This discovery leads her into direct conflict with the Goodchilde "dynasty" and her own allies...

Tropes used in Æon Flux (film) include:

• Ancient Keeper: the Keeper
• Based on a Great Big Lie: The pandemic
• Cain and Abel
• City in a Bottle: Æon is a Matrix-style opposition guerrilla out to bring down her closed city which is straight out of Logan's Run, and her lover is a totalitarian Engineer Exploited For Evil trying to maintain the illusion of a global pandemic in order to perfect humanity.
• Cloning Blues: Done much straighter and more simplistically than in the show
• Cool Airship
• Dead Little Sister
• Dragon-in-Chief: Orin
• Enemy Mine
• Faceless Goons: the Breen soldiers
• Garden of Evil: the defences of the "government zone"
• Gatling Good: Freya's weapon
• Heel Face Turn: Trevor
• Last Bastion
• Mythology Gag: At the start of the film, Æon grabs a fly with her eyelashes.
  • Trevor died an unknown number of times. Because they were clones.
    • With that being the case, Æon died at least once.
• New Eden: The supposed wasteland outside Bregna is revealed at the end of the film to be lush and fertile land.
• Nothing Left to Do But Die: the Keeper
• Reincarnation Romance: Æon and Trevor
• Sound-Only Death: Claudius