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'''''Time Masters''''' (''Les maîtres du temps'') is a 1982 Franco-Hungarian animated film by Rene Laloux and Creator/{{Moebius}}, based on Stephan Wul's novel "L'orphelin de Perdide".
Piel and his father are on a distant planet, Perdide, frantically fleeing giant hornets before crashing. Piel's father gives him a small communicator before dying, telling the small boy that its name is Mike and that he needs to listen to everything it says. On the other end is Jaffar, a space captain. On his ship is Bella and her fiance, an exiled prince named Matton and a technical wizard named Silbad. They take on [[FireForgedFriends each other]] and the perils of space's bizarre alien worlds while searching for Piel, and when they find him, the story goes from wacky {{nightmare fuel}}eriffic space escapades to a TearJerker. Be warned.
The film encompasses a great number of themes Laloux is fond of: MindScrew, SceneryPorn, and NightmareFuel.
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!!Tropes related to the movie:
* AdaptationNameChange: Laloux changed the name of the child from the book. In ''L'Orphelin du Perdide'', the child is Claude Junior. Laloux decided this would be confusing and renamed him Piel.
* AngelicAliens: The people of Gamma 10 are faceless [[WingedHumanoid Winged Humanoids]].
* AssimilationPlot: Gamma 10 is inhabited by faceless male angels who worship one amorphous, all-controlling being. They capture the heroes and plan to change them into more angels to power their God, which would make lose all sense of their individuality as the faceless angels did— they were once scruffy spacemen.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: The faceless angels of Gamma 10 also lack nipples and genitals.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: Matton insists to fight the faceless angels instead of being absorbed, even though they won't get away with it. Jaffar convinces him that the angels are innocent pawns to the true enemy, their master. Matton accepts this and leaps into the monster, [[TakingYouWithMe killing them both in the process]]. ]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Igor the space explorer suddently stumbles upon Perdide [[spoiler: when the planet appeared in front of him, thanks to the Masters of Time. He arrives just in time to save Piel from the giants hornets.]]
* {{Bowdlerize}}: In the original French version, Silbad sings Piel the song of the Astro Guzzlers, which somewhat raunchily describes the joy of drinking (followed by Jaffar chiding him for "singing those kinds of songs to a child"), and Piel asks what a "guzzler" is, to which Silbad awkwardly explains it means "people who like to drink just a little bit". In the English dub, Silbad's song has been changed to a somewhat more generic song about himself and his travels, though describing himself as an Astro Guzzler, presumably to maintain the continuity of Piel asking him what it means.
* BurialInSpace: [[spoiler:Silbad/Piel]] gets one overlooked by one of the Masters Of Time.
* ChildrenAreInnocent
* CompanionCube: "Mike" to Piel.
* ConstantlyCurious: Piel, understandably since he has no idea what's going on and is only a poor curious child stuck on a fascinating yet horrifying planet.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Promotional poster (seen at the top of this page) shows Silbad holding Piel's hand. [[spoiler: They never meet face to face in the movie; they are the same person at different points in time--Piel is rescued by a space explorer and taken away before Jaffar and others reach Perdide, and due to the entire planet being flung into the past, he grows up to become a man named Silbad.]]
* DerangedAnimation
* DiabolusExMachina: Most common complaint about the ending.
* EldritchAbomination: The "God" of the faceless angels. Doubles as a BlobMonster.
* EvilIsHammy: The speech delivered by the leader of the angels who live on Gamma 10 [[http://youtu.be/XmPDP4mtYLU?t=4m48s (at least in the french version)]]
--> '''The leader''': "They will become '''US'''! We will become '''THEM'''! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis '''EVERYTHING WILL BE! UNITY!''']]."
* TheFaceless: The bizarre angels of Gamma 10.
* [[FallenPrincess Fallen Prince]]: Prince Matton. He's on the run from the world he was prince of, with most of its treasury.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Many times. It's a film dealing with time travel.
** Silbad explains that the giant hornets on Perdide attacked him long ago. [[spoiler: It was when Piel was rescued by the space trucker near the end.]]
** He also seem to recognize the "Mike" as an instant communicator. [[spoiler: He used it alot when he was Piel.]]
** Yual and Jab are telepathic and can detect that the prince gets worse and worse. They can also feel something terrible on Gamma 10 before entering the planet, and [[EldritchAbomination terrible it was]].
* HakunaMatata: Silbad sings [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWgLqlHGyKE one song]] about the joy of drinking to Piel.
--> '''Jaffar''': "Shouldn't you feel ashamed? To sing this kind of song to a child?"
* HelpYourselfInTheFuture: [[spoiler:Silbad]] provides valuable advice to Piel, having had experience with Perdide. [[spoiler:That's because he is Piel, from where Perdide is thrust sixty years into the past]].
* HeroicSacrifice: Jaffar plans to let the faceless turn him into one of them to buy the others time to escape, even though Yula and Jad tell him that won't work. But[[spoiler: instead Matton stuns him and jumps into the pit while hating himself, thus killing the hive mind but dying in the process.]]
* InsectoidAliens: The giant hornets inhabiting Perdide, as well as the giant mosquitoes.
* KnightTemplar: The "god" of the faceless angles can't stand individuality and forcefully assimiates any visitor to Gamma 10 to its HiveMind.
* LightIsNotGood: The faceless angels on Gamma 10. While they are't evil by themselves, they're controlled by a totalitarian EldritchAbomination.
* ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway: doesn't mention Earth but some real life stars are lluded to like a planet called Aldebaran and a race of aliens called Centaurians. Also Silbad sings about ''Literature/PeterPan'' and ''Franchise/{{Superman}}''.
* LossOfIdentity: The result of being transformed into a faceless angel.
* MassTeleportation: The Time Masters send planets back in time when they colonise them.
* MeaningfulName: The Planet Perdide. ''Perdide'' is the French for "lost," and Piel's lost somewhere on it.
* MindScrew: Wait, what? We went on a trip to a planet to save some kid but he's [[spoiler: been sent back in time and he was actually the old dude we had with us all along?]]
* MissingMom: We find out that the hornets killed little Piel's mom shortly before the start.
* {{My Future Self and Me}}: [[spoiler:Piel and Silbad]], played for tragedy.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The governmental patrol that boards Jaffar's vessel after Gamma 10. They even do the [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything salute]], as if their [[DarkIsEvil black, SS-esque uniforms]] and [[ObviouslyEvil oppressive behaviour]] didn't convince you enough.
* {{Objectshifting}}: Onyx introduces himself and his abilities by transforming into a vase of flowers; as it happens, his part in the plan to gain access to the Reform cruiser is to impersonate a stockpile of treasure.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: These angels are actually a HiveMind created forcibly by an amorphous blob out of people it {{mind control}}led into coming into contact with it.
* OrphansPlotTrinket: The egg-shaped radio fits well enough.
* PlanetSpaceship: They end up in a planet sized SpaceStation divided into two hemispheres.
* PointyEars: Some of the government crew that board Jaffar's ship have them.
* PrinceCharmless: It's hard to consider Matton a decent guy when he ''tries to drown a child''.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Matton. Probably even that wasn't enough.]]
* ReusedCharacterDesign: Jaffar has the face of Lieutenant ''Comicbook/{{Blueberry}}''.
* SceneryPorn: Combining both Laloux and Creator/{{Moebius}} was bound to impress.
* ShapeshifterShowoffSession: Onyx reveals his powers at the mission briefing by transforming [[{{Objectshifting}} into a vase of flowers]], then (at the prompting of the audience) into a miniature replica of Silbad, before finally transforming himself into a pile of treasure that the heroes will use to gain access to the Reform cruiser.
* ShapeShifting: Onyx uses his powers to impersonate treasure.
* SinisterGeometry: In the end, the planet by the Masters of Time -- two half-spheres and a large glowing cube.
* SpacePirates: The true nature of the male angels.
* SubspaceAnsible: "Mike" seems to work as one, as all communication with Piel is always instant, or fast enough to allow two-way communication.
* TechnologyPorn
* ThoseTwoGuys: Yula and Jad, who also serve as team pets.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: If the victim [[spoiler:hates himself strongly enough]], the hive mind that tries to absorb him will kill itself. [[spoiler:Apparently Matton had a lot of self-loathing. It didn't save him, though.]]
* TwistEnding: Although Jaffar and his crew make it to Perdide, they run into a TimeyWimeyBall in space just as they reach it. Turns out Perdide has been selected for colonization by the Masters of Time and they do this by [[spoiler: sending planets back in time a set amount of years for reasons best known to themselves. In Perdide's case, it's 60 years and this puts Piel in exactly the right place to be rescued by a passing space trucker and become Silbad.]]
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Alien gnomes Yula and Jad at the end say that they felt thousands of emotions, "even though there are only twelve" when [[spoiler:Piel/Silbad]] dies, and the other says they must have really loved him. [[TinMan It's not supposed to be possible for their species.]]
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Matton, the nearest thing to a human villain the film has.
* WouldHurtAChild: Matton, considering Piel's rescue a waste of time, tries to drown him by using "Mike" to trick him into a lake. The others stop him and talk Piel back to safety.
** Not exactly "a waste of time", more like "an unacceptable delay." He has to rendezvous at a given time with the pirates/mercenaries he wants to hire to reconquer his planet.
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'''''Time Masters''''' (''Les maîtres du temps'') is a 1982 Franco-Hungarian animated film by Rene Laloux and Creator/{{Moebius}}, based on Stephan Wul's novel "L'orphelin de Perdide".
Piel and his father are on a distant planet, Perdide, frantically fleeing giant hornets before crashing. Piel's father gives him a small communicator before dying, telling the small boy that its name is Mike and that he needs to listen to everything it says. On the other end is Jaffar, a space captain. On his ship is Bella and her fiance, an exiled prince named Matton and a technical wizard named Silbad. They take on [[FireForgedFriends each other]] and the perils of space's bizarre alien worlds while searching for Piel, and when they find him, the story goes from wacky {{nightmare fuel}}eriffic space escapades to a TearJerker. Be warned.
The film encompasses a great number of themes Laloux is fond of: MindScrew, SceneryPorn, and NightmareFuel.
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!!Tropes related to the movie:
* AdaptationNameChange: Laloux changed the name of the child from the book. In ''L'Orphelin du Perdide'', the child is Claude Junior. Laloux decided this would be confusing and renamed him Piel.
* AngelicAliens: The people of Gamma 10 are faceless [[WingedHumanoid Winged Humanoids]].
* AssimilationPlot: Gamma 10 is inhabited by faceless male angels who worship one amorphous, all-controlling being. They capture the heroes and plan to change them into more angels to power their God, which would make lose all sense of their individuality as the faceless angels did— they were once scruffy spacemen.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: The faceless angels of Gamma 10 also lack nipples and genitals.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: Matton insists to fight the faceless angels instead of being absorbed, even though they won't get away with it. Jaffar convinces him that the angels are innocent pawns to the true enemy, their master. Matton accepts this and leaps into the monster, [[TakingYouWithMe killing them both in the process]]. ]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Igor the space explorer suddently stumbles upon Perdide [[spoiler: when the planet appeared in front of him, thanks to the Masters of Time. He arrives just in time to save Piel from the giants hornets.]]
* {{Bowdlerize}}: In the original French version, Silbad sings Piel the song of the Astro Guzzlers, which somewhat raunchily describes the joy of drinking (followed by Jaffar chiding him for "singing those kinds of songs to a child"), and Piel asks what a "guzzler" is, to which Silbad awkwardly explains it means "people who like to drink just a little bit". In the English dub, Silbad's song has been changed to a somewhat more generic song about himself and his travels, though describing himself as an Astro Guzzler, presumably to maintain the continuity of Piel asking him what it means.
* BurialInSpace: [[spoiler:Silbad/Piel]] gets one overlooked by one of the Masters Of Time.
* ChildrenAreInnocent
* CompanionCube: "Mike" to Piel.
* ConstantlyCurious: Piel, understandably since he has no idea what's going on and is only a poor curious child stuck on a fascinating yet horrifying planet.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Promotional poster (seen at the top of this page) shows Silbad holding Piel's hand. [[spoiler: They never meet face to face in the movie; they are the same person at different points in time--Piel is rescued by a space explorer and taken away before Jaffar and others reach Perdide, and due to the entire planet being flung into the past, he grows up to become a man named Silbad.]]
* DerangedAnimation
* DiabolusExMachina: Most common complaint about the ending.
* EldritchAbomination: The "God" of the faceless angels. Doubles as a BlobMonster.
* EvilIsHammy: The speech delivered by the leader of the angels who live on Gamma 10 [[http://youtu.be/XmPDP4mtYLU?t=4m48s (at least in the french version)]]
--> '''The leader''': "They will become '''US'''! We will become '''THEM'''! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis '''EVERYTHING WILL BE! UNITY!''']]."
* TheFaceless: The bizarre angels of Gamma 10.
* [[FallenPrincess Fallen Prince]]: Prince Matton. He's on the run from the world he was prince of, with most of its treasury.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Many times. It's a film dealing with time travel.
** Silbad explains that the giant hornets on Perdide attacked him long ago. [[spoiler: It was when Piel was rescued by the space trucker near the end.]]
** He also seem to recognize the "Mike" as an instant communicator. [[spoiler: He used it alot when he was Piel.]]
** Yual and Jab are telepathic and can detect that the prince gets worse and worse. They can also feel something terrible on Gamma 10 before entering the planet, and [[EldritchAbomination terrible it was]].
* HakunaMatata: Silbad sings [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWgLqlHGyKE one song]] about the joy of drinking to Piel.
--> '''Jaffar''': "Shouldn't you feel ashamed? To sing this kind of song to a child?"
* HelpYourselfInTheFuture: [[spoiler:Silbad]] provides valuable advice to Piel, having had experience with Perdide. [[spoiler:That's because he is Piel, from where Perdide is thrust sixty years into the past]].
* HeroicSacrifice: Jaffar plans to let the faceless turn him into one of them to buy the others time to escape, even though Yula and Jad tell him that won't work. But[[spoiler: instead Matton stuns him and jumps into the pit while hating himself, thus killing the hive mind but dying in the process.]]
* InsectoidAliens: The giant hornets inhabiting Perdide, as well as the giant mosquitoes.
* KnightTemplar: The "god" of the faceless angles can't stand individuality and forcefully assimiates any visitor to Gamma 10 to its HiveMind.
* LightIsNotGood: The faceless angels on Gamma 10. While they are't evil by themselves, they're controlled by a totalitarian EldritchAbomination.
* ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway: doesn't mention Earth but some real life stars are lluded to like a planet called Aldebaran and a race of aliens called Centaurians. Also Silbad sings about ''Literature/PeterPan'' and ''Franchise/{{Superman}}''.
* LossOfIdentity: The result of being transformed into a faceless angel.
* MassTeleportation: The Time Masters send planets back in time when they colonise them.
* MeaningfulName: The Planet Perdide. ''Perdide'' is the French for "lost," and Piel's lost somewhere on it.
* MindScrew: Wait, what? We went on a trip to a planet to save some kid but he's [[spoiler: been sent back in time and he was actually the old dude we had with us all along?]]
* MissingMom: We find out that the hornets killed little Piel's mom shortly before the start.
* {{My Future Self and Me}}: [[spoiler:Piel and Silbad]], played for tragedy.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The governmental patrol that boards Jaffar's vessel after Gamma 10. They even do the [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything salute]], as if their [[DarkIsEvil black, SS-esque uniforms]] and [[ObviouslyEvil oppressive behaviour]] didn't convince you enough.
* {{Objectshifting}}: Onyx introduces himself and his abilities by transforming into a vase of flowers; as it happens, his part in the plan to gain access to the Reform cruiser is to impersonate a stockpile of treasure.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: These angels are actually a HiveMind created forcibly by an amorphous blob out of people it {{mind control}}led into coming into contact with it.
* OrphansPlotTrinket: The egg-shaped radio fits well enough.
* PlanetSpaceship: They end up in a planet sized SpaceStation divided into two hemispheres.
* PointyEars: Some of the government crew that board Jaffar's ship have them.
* PrinceCharmless: It's hard to consider Matton a decent guy when he ''tries to drown a child''.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Matton. Probably even that wasn't enough.]]
* ReusedCharacterDesign: Jaffar has the face of Lieutenant ''Comicbook/{{Blueberry}}''.
* SceneryPorn: Combining both Laloux and Creator/{{Moebius}} was bound to impress.
* ShapeshifterShowoffSession: Onyx reveals his powers at the mission briefing by transforming [[{{Objectshifting}} into a vase of flowers]], then (at the prompting of the audience) into a miniature replica of Silbad, before finally transforming himself into a pile of treasure that the heroes will use to gain access to the Reform cruiser.
* ShapeShifting: Onyx uses his powers to impersonate treasure.
* SinisterGeometry: In the end, the planet by the Masters of Time -- two half-spheres and a large glowing cube.
* SpacePirates: The true nature of the male angels.
* SubspaceAnsible: "Mike" seems to work as one, as all communication with Piel is always instant, or fast enough to allow two-way communication.
* TechnologyPorn
* ThoseTwoGuys: Yula and Jad, who also serve as team pets.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: If the victim [[spoiler:hates himself strongly enough]], the hive mind that tries to absorb him will kill itself. [[spoiler:Apparently Matton had a lot of self-loathing. It didn't save him, though.]]
* TwistEnding: Although Jaffar and his crew make it to Perdide, they run into a TimeyWimeyBall in space just as they reach it. Turns out Perdide has been selected for colonization by the Masters of Time and they do this by [[spoiler: sending planets back in time a set amount of years for reasons best known to themselves. In Perdide's case, it's 60 years and this puts Piel in exactly the right place to be rescued by a passing space trucker and become Silbad.]]
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Alien gnomes Yula and Jad at the end say that they felt thousands of emotions, "even though there are only twelve" when [[spoiler:Piel/Silbad]] dies, and the other says they must have really loved him. [[TinMan It's not supposed to be possible for their species.]]
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Matton, the nearest thing to a human villain the film has.
* WouldHurtAChild: Matton, considering Piel's rescue a waste of time, tries to drown him by using "Mike" to trick him into a lake. The others stop him and talk Piel back to safety.
** Not exactly "a waste of time", more like "an unacceptable delay." He has to rendezvous at a given time with the pirates/mercenaries he wants to hire to reconquer his planet.
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to:
'''''Time Masters''''' (''Les maîtres du temps'') is a 1982 Franco-Hungarian animated film by Rene Laloux and Creator/{{Moebius}}, based on Stephan Wul's novel "L'orphelin de Perdide".
Piel and his father are on a distant planet, Perdide, frantically fleeing giant hornets before crashing. Piel's father gives him a small communicator before dying, telling the small boy that its name is Mike and that he needs to listen to everything it says. On the other end is Jaffar, a space captain. On his ship is Bella and her fiance, an exiled prince named Matton and a technical wizard named Silbad. They take on [[FireForgedFriends each other]] and the perils of space's bizarre alien worlds while searching for Piel, and when they find him, the story goes from wacky {{nightmare fuel}}eriffic space escapades to a TearJerker. Be warned.
The film encompasses a great number of themes Laloux is fond of: MindScrew, SceneryPorn, and NightmareFuel.
----
!!Tropes related to the movie:
* AdaptationNameChange: Laloux changed the name of the child from the book. In ''L'Orphelin du Perdide'', the child is Claude Junior. Laloux decided this would be confusing and renamed him Piel.
* AngelicAliens: The people of Gamma 10 are faceless [[WingedHumanoid Winged Humanoids]].
* AssimilationPlot: Gamma 10 is inhabited by faceless male angels who worship one amorphous, all-controlling being. They capture the heroes and plan to change them into more angels to power their God, which would make lose all sense of their individuality as the faceless angels did— they were once scruffy spacemen.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: The faceless angels of Gamma 10 also lack nipples and genitals.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: Matton insists to fight the faceless angels instead of being absorbed, even though they won't get away with it. Jaffar convinces him that the angels are innocent pawns to the true enemy, their master. Matton accepts this and leaps into the monster, [[TakingYouWithMe killing them both in the process]]. ]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Igor the space explorer suddently stumbles upon Perdide [[spoiler: when the planet appeared in front of him, thanks to the Masters of Time. He arrives just in time to save Piel from the giants hornets.]]
* {{Bowdlerize}}: In the original French version, Silbad sings Piel the song of the Astro Guzzlers, which somewhat raunchily describes the joy of drinking (followed by Jaffar chiding him for "singing those kinds of songs to a child"), and Piel asks what a "guzzler" is, to which Silbad awkwardly explains it means "people who like to drink just a little bit". In the English dub, Silbad's song has been changed to a somewhat more generic song about himself and his travels, though describing himself as an Astro Guzzler, presumably to maintain the continuity of Piel asking him what it means.
* BurialInSpace: [[spoiler:Silbad/Piel]] gets one overlooked by one of the Masters Of Time.
* ChildrenAreInnocent
* CompanionCube: "Mike" to Piel.
* ConstantlyCurious: Piel, understandably since he has no idea what's going on and is only a poor curious child stuck on a fascinating yet horrifying planet.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Promotional poster (seen at the top of this page) shows Silbad holding Piel's hand. [[spoiler: They never meet face to face in the movie; they are the same person at different points in time--Piel is rescued by a space explorer and taken away before Jaffar and others reach Perdide, and due to the entire planet being flung into the past, he grows up to become a man named Silbad.]]
* DerangedAnimation
* DiabolusExMachina: Most common complaint about the ending.
* EldritchAbomination: The "God" of the faceless angels. Doubles as a BlobMonster.
* EvilIsHammy: The speech delivered by the leader of the angels who live on Gamma 10 [[http://youtu.be/XmPDP4mtYLU?t=4m48s (at least in the french version)]]
--> '''The leader''': "They will become '''US'''! We will become '''THEM'''! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis '''EVERYTHING WILL BE! UNITY!''']]."
* TheFaceless: The bizarre angels of Gamma 10.
* [[FallenPrincess Fallen Prince]]: Prince Matton. He's on the run from the world he was prince of, with most of its treasury.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Many times. It's a film dealing with time travel.
** Silbad explains that the giant hornets on Perdide attacked him long ago. [[spoiler: It was when Piel was rescued by the space trucker near the end.]]
** He also seem to recognize the "Mike" as an instant communicator. [[spoiler: He used it alot when he was Piel.]]
** Yual and Jab are telepathic and can detect that the prince gets worse and worse. They can also feel something terrible on Gamma 10 before entering the planet, and [[EldritchAbomination terrible it was]].
* HakunaMatata: Silbad sings [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWgLqlHGyKE one song]] about the joy of drinking to Piel.
--> '''Jaffar''': "Shouldn't you feel ashamed? To sing this kind of song to a child?"
* HelpYourselfInTheFuture: [[spoiler:Silbad]] provides valuable advice to Piel, having had experience with Perdide. [[spoiler:That's because he is Piel, from where Perdide is thrust sixty years into the past]].
* HeroicSacrifice: Jaffar plans to let the faceless turn him into one of them to buy the others time to escape, even though Yula and Jad tell him that won't work. But[[spoiler: instead Matton stuns him and jumps into the pit while hating himself, thus killing the hive mind but dying in the process.]]
* InsectoidAliens: The giant hornets inhabiting Perdide, as well as the giant mosquitoes.
* KnightTemplar: The "god" of the faceless angles can't stand individuality and forcefully assimiates any visitor to Gamma 10 to its HiveMind.
* LightIsNotGood: The faceless angels on Gamma 10. While they are't evil by themselves, they're controlled by a totalitarian EldritchAbomination.
* ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway: doesn't mention Earth but some real life stars are lluded to like a planet called Aldebaran and a race of aliens called Centaurians. Also Silbad sings about ''Literature/PeterPan'' and ''Franchise/{{Superman}}''.
* LossOfIdentity: The result of being transformed into a faceless angel.
* MassTeleportation: The Time Masters send planets back in time when they colonise them.
* MeaningfulName: The Planet Perdide. ''Perdide'' is the French for "lost," and Piel's lost somewhere on it.
* MindScrew: Wait, what? We went on a trip to a planet to save some kid but he's [[spoiler: been sent back in time and he was actually the old dude we had with us all along?]]
* MissingMom: We find out that the hornets killed little Piel's mom shortly before the start.
* {{My Future Self and Me}}: [[spoiler:Piel and Silbad]], played for tragedy.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The governmental patrol that boards Jaffar's vessel after Gamma 10. They even do the [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything salute]], as if their [[DarkIsEvil black, SS-esque uniforms]] and [[ObviouslyEvil oppressive behaviour]] didn't convince you enough.
* {{Objectshifting}}: Onyx introduces himself and his abilities by transforming into a vase of flowers; as it happens, his part in the plan to gain access to the Reform cruiser is to impersonate a stockpile of treasure.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: These angels are actually a HiveMind created forcibly by an amorphous blob out of people it {{mind control}}led into coming into contact with it.
* OrphansPlotTrinket: The egg-shaped radio fits well enough.
* PlanetSpaceship: They end up in a planet sized SpaceStation divided into two hemispheres.
* PointyEars: Some of the government crew that board Jaffar's ship have them.
* PrinceCharmless: It's hard to consider Matton a decent guy when he ''tries to drown a child''.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Matton. Probably even that wasn't enough.]]
* ReusedCharacterDesign: Jaffar has the face of Lieutenant ''Comicbook/{{Blueberry}}''.
* SceneryPorn: Combining both Laloux and Creator/{{Moebius}} was bound to impress.
* ShapeshifterShowoffSession: Onyx reveals his powers at the mission briefing by transforming [[{{Objectshifting}} into a vase of flowers]], then (at the prompting of the audience) into a miniature replica of Silbad, before finally transforming himself into a pile of treasure that the heroes will use to gain access to the Reform cruiser.
* ShapeShifting: Onyx uses his powers to impersonate treasure.
* SinisterGeometry: In the end, the planet by the Masters of Time -- two half-spheres and a large glowing cube.
* SpacePirates: The true nature of the male angels.
* SubspaceAnsible: "Mike" seems to work as one, as all communication with Piel is always instant, or fast enough to allow two-way communication.
* TechnologyPorn
* ThoseTwoGuys: Yula and Jad, who also serve as team pets.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: If the victim [[spoiler:hates himself strongly enough]], the hive mind that tries to absorb him will kill itself. [[spoiler:Apparently Matton had a lot of self-loathing. It didn't save him, though.]]
* TwistEnding: Although Jaffar and his crew make it to Perdide, they run into a TimeyWimeyBall in space just as they reach it. Turns out Perdide has been selected for colonization by the Masters of Time and they do this by [[spoiler: sending planets back in time a set amount of years for reasons best known to themselves. In Perdide's case, it's 60 years and this puts Piel in exactly the right place to be rescued by a passing space trucker and become Silbad.]]
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Alien gnomes Yula and Jad at the end say that they felt thousands of emotions, "even though there are only twelve" when [[spoiler:Piel/Silbad]] dies, and the other says they must have really loved him. [[TinMan It's not supposed to be possible for their species.]]
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Matton, the nearest thing to a human villain the film has.
* WouldHurtAChild: Matton, considering Piel's rescue a waste of time, tries to drown him by using "Mike" to trick him into a lake. The others stop him and talk Piel back to safety.
** Not exactly "a waste of time", more like "an unacceptable delay." He has to rendezvous at a given time with the pirates/mercenaries he wants to hire to reconquer his planet.
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* {{Bowdlerize}}: In the original French version, Silbad sings Piel the song of the Astro Guzzlers, which somewhat raunchily describes the joy of drinking, and Piel asks what a "guzzler" is, to which Silbad awkwardly explains it means "people who like to drink just a little bit". In the English dub, Silbad's song has been changed to a somewhat more generic song about himself and his travels, though describing himself as an Astro Guzzler, presumably to maintain the continuity of Piel asking him what it means.
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* {{Bowdlerize}}: In the original French version, Silbad sings Piel the song of the Astro Guzzlers, which somewhat raunchily describes the joy of drinking, drinking (followed by Jaffar chiding him for "singing those kinds of songs to a child"), and Piel asks what a "guzzler" is, to which Silbad awkwardly explains it means "people who like to drink just a little bit". In the English dub, Silbad's song has been changed to a somewhat more generic song about himself and his travels, though describing himself as an Astro Guzzler, presumably to maintain the continuity of Piel asking him what it means.
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* {{Bowdlerize}}: In the original French version, Silbad sings Piel the song of the Astro Guzzlers, which somewhat raunchily describes the joy of drinking, and Piel asks what a "guzzler" is, to which Silbad awkwardly explains it means "people who like to drink just a little bit". In the English dub, Silbad's song has been changed to a somewhat more generic song about himself and his travels, though describing himself as an Astro Guzzler, presumably to maintain the continuity of Piel asking him what it means.
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* ShapeshifterShowoffSession: Onyx reveals his powers at the mission briefing by transforming [[{{Objectshifting}} into a vase of flowers]], then (at the prompting of the audience) into a miniature replica of Silbad, before finally transforming himself into a pile of treasure that the heroes will use to gain access to the Reform cruiser.
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* {{Objectshifting}}: Onyx introduces himself and his abilities by transforming into a vase of flowers; as it happens, his part in the plan to gain access to the Reform cruiser is to impersonate a stockpile of treasure.
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** Not exactly "a waste of time", more like "an unacceptable delay." He has to rendezvous at a given time with the pirates/mercenaries he wants to hire to reconquer his planet.
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* OneSceneWonder: The titular Time Masters; their only shown member appears at the very end [[spoiler:attending Silbad's funeral.]]
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Promotional poster (seen at the top of this page) shows Silbad holding Piel's hand. [[spoiler: They never meet face to face in the movie; they are the same person at different points in time-Piel is rescued by a space explorer and taken away before Jaffar and others reach Perdide, and due to the entire planet being flung into the past, he grows up to become a man named Silbad.]]
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Promotional poster (seen at the top of this page) shows Silbad holding Piel's hand. [[spoiler: They never meet face to face in the movie; they are the same person at different points in time-Piel time--Piel is rescued by a space explorer and taken away before Jaffar and others reach Perdide, and due to the entire planet being flung into the past, he grows up to become a man named Silbad.]]
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* AngelicAliens: The people of Gamma 10 are faceless WingedHumanoids.
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* PlanetSpaceship: They end up in a planet sized SpaceStation divided into two hemispheres.
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* ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarWay: doesn't mention Earth but some real life stars are lluded to like a planet called Aldebaran and a race of aliens called Centaurians. Also Silbad sings about ''Literature/PeterPan'' and ''Franchise/{{Superman}}''.
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* ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarWay: ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway: doesn't mention Earth but some real life stars are lluded to like a planet called Aldebaran and a race of aliens called Centaurians. Also Silbad sings about ''Literature/PeterPan'' and ''Franchise/{{Superman}}''.
