History Manga / NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind

* BadassPreacher: The Dorok priest Chiruka leads most of the Dorokian campaign in the manga. Might also qualify as HighPriest, since we was partial to the Council of Monks that ruled just below the Emperor.

* FantasticNuke: The Giant Warrior.

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The film version's Princess Kushana. Manga Kushana is best described as AFatherToHisMen, above.

* {{Immortality}}: The [[spoiler:Holy Emperor]] is immortal inasmuch as his head can be cut off and he's still as jolly a fellow as ever. [[spoiler:See also DisneyVillianDeath above]].

* KillItWithFire: How the people of the Valley deal with the spores. The difference is that they only do this when their own trees have been infested, whereas the Torumekians want to burn down ''the entire forest''.

* RuleOfSymbolism: The Holy Temple of Shuwa uses crosses and Eyes of God as its primary icons.

* UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway: Kushana's attempt to use the Giant before it's complete.

* AdiposeRex: The king of Torumekia and both of his sons.

* AnachronismStew: A sword-swinging calvary charge is usually backed up with machine gun fire from levitating bell jars. Not to mention that the Torumekian gunship pilot uniform consists of full medieval-style plate armour complete with a spiked visor helmet.

*** It's not the airships and the machine guns that are LostTechnology but the engines that power them. There is a scene in the manga where the characters make a point to salvage a gunship's engine with the character remarking that the whole plane could be reconstructed around the salvaged engines. In addition most armor and swords are stated to be ceramic, containing futuristic metallic composite, or made from Ohmu shell (which is supposedly the hardest substance available and acts like a bullet proof ferro-ceramic composite making the plate and scale armors of the comic a sensible retro-modern adaptation). There is even a mine centered around a downed star ship that harvests the metal of the star ship for armor and blades.

* ArmiesAreEvil: At least the Tolmekians are [[spoiler: and the Pejite]].

* BadassPacifist: Nausicaa. Most of the time she prefers to solve her problems nonviolently, and the one time she used a weapon to kill ([[RoaringRampageOfRevenge after her father died]]) she was overcome with guilt. She does use a gun to ''[[TechnicalPacifist threaten]]'' the Pejite, though.

** Later on in the film, the people of the Valley use them against the Tolmekians and capture a [[TankGoodness tank]].

* CrucifiedHeroShot: When Nausicaa risks her life to stop the Pejite from destroying the Valley, she flies at them on her glider with her arms outstretched [[spoiler: and gets shot twice. She gets better though]].

* DaddysGirl: Nausicaa appears to take after her father quite a bit, which is why she flies into such a rage when he's [[spoiler: murdered by the Kolmekians]].

* DepravedBisexual: The Holy Emperor.

* FacelessGoons: The Tolmekian soldiers.

* AFatherToHisMen: Kushana to the Third Army.

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Princess Kushana.

* HeroicSacrifice: More so in the manga.

* HeroicRRoD: [[spoiler:Ohma's constant use of his power erodes his body by the second]].

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Kurotowa in the manga]], after being severely injured and thrown around like a rag doll, is rescued by [[spoiler:Kushana]]. Then [[UnexplainedRecovery he recovered unexpectedly soon]].
* {{Immortality}}: The [[spoiler:Holy Emperor]] is immortal inasmuch as his head can be cut off and he's still as jolly a fellow as ever.

** And yet, Nausicaa assures him that [[spoiler:though he believes humanity is doomed to destruction, life may just find a way without the [[AncientConspiracy interference of the Cult.]]]] In fact, her own experiments about the Sea of Corruption, as well as the Dream of the Ohmu, point to [[spoiler:a world where the current humanity can indeed exist in a world already purified by the forest]]. It is only the [[spoiler:Crypt of Shuwa which calls her on destroying (the old) humanity's chances, but the Heart of the Crypt isn't exactly the best judge of character nor does it care for (or desire) the current humanity's survival.]]

* KillItWithFire: How the people of the Valley deal with the spores. The difference is that they only do this when their own trees have been infested, whereas the Tolmekians want to burn down ''the entire forest''.

* NotSoDifferent: Nausicaa outright tells the Pejite they aren't any better than the Tolmekians [[spoiler: when they reveal their plan to destroy the Valley]], which they don't take kindly to hearing.

* UnstoppableRage: Nausicaa, after [[YouKilledMyFather her father is murdered]] by the Tolmekians. She kills nearly everyone in the room before Master Yupa intervenes.

** Which [[FridgeBrilliance also]] makes you wonder about {{Spiritual Successor}}s like DonPachi and {{Mushihimesama}} and [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman why those two]] are ''always about bees''.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The Disney dub. [[StarTrek Jean-Luc Picard]], [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The Joker]], [[KillBill The Bride]], [[BattlestarGalactica Admiral Adama]], [[TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Jack Skellington]], [[MickeyMouseWorks Daisy Duck]] (or [[{{Futurama}} Mom]], if you prefer), [[TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone]], [[{{Pokemon}} Cynthia]], JohnnyBravo, [[TheLittleMermaid Princess Ariel]], [[{{Holes}} Stanley "Caveman" Yelnats]] and everyone on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Welker#Television_animation this list]].

* {{Intimate Healing}}: In the manga, Nausicaä saves a Torumekian soldier who was poisoned by the miasma by taking the poisoned blood from his lungs into her mouth via his mouth.
* InferredHolocaust: The defeat of [[spoiler: the Crypt of Shuwa ]] marks a subtle endgame scenario. Selm tells Nausicaa that the center of the forest, [[spoiler: where the toxins have been cleansed, is uninhabitable by the present humans, plants, and animals. Everything was modified to survive along side the forest, and cannot survive in the cleansed world.]] The forest will survive, but [[spoiler: all mankind will perish.]] The final confrontation reveals [[spoiler: the Crypt's]] plans to restore the world to it's pre-Days of Fire state using its [[spoiler: "eggs", preserved animals and humans]], which are destroyed by Ohma. Without the advanced engineering [[spoiler: the Crypt]] possesses, humanity is doomed to slow extinction. This fulfills Nausicaa's role as [[spoiler: the Blue-Clad One: the prophecy is revealed in the fourth book to not be of a messianic savior, but an angel of death and release, harbinger of the ultimate end.]]
** And yet, IIRC, Nausicaa even tells him that [[spoiler:though he believes humanity is doomed to destruction, life may just find a way without the [[AncientConspiracy interference of the Cult.]]]]

* ButSirItsNotReady: Kushana's attempt to use the Giant before it's complete.

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* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:The Heart of Shuwa]], who dispenses ancient knowledge to its subjects (and {{Unwitting Pawn}}s) to keep its plans moving according to schedule.

** Who do you think taught her?

* PathOfInspiration: The religion founded around the [[spoiler:Crypt of Shuwa]]. All "holiness" that radiates from it is actually [[XanatosGambit a plot]] [[spoiler:by the Heart of the Crypt to cleanse the world and bring the old mankind back]].

* XanatosGambit: And it was several ''millennia'' in the making.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Nausicaa, sort of. She's kind, gentle and forgiving like the typical Yamato Nadeshiko (and voiced by SumiShimamoto), but much more [[ActionGirl physically inclined]] as well.

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Kurotowa in the manga]], after being severely injured and thrown around like a rag doll, is rescued by [[spoiler:Kushana]]. Then HeGotBetter unexpectedly soon.

Visually inventive and quite gripping, the heroine -- the eponymous Nausicaa -- eventually learns a GreenAesop about how Gaia/Mother Nature knows best.

''Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind'' (''Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä'') is a post-apocalypic [[ScienceFictionVersusFantasy fantasy/sci-fi]] manga and anime movie by HayaoMiyazaki. {{In a world}} dominated by a caustic jungle full of huge (horse-sized to town-hall-sized!) and dangerous insects, one of the few places left habitable is the Valley of the Wind -- a place where toxic spores produced by the jungle are kept from settling by the incessant breeze. The crash of a gigantic airplane into the valley leads to an invasion by [[TheEmpire Torumekia]] and the revelation of a secret that could destroy what's left of humanity, if not the world...

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Nausicaa is also the name of a character in ''TheOdyssey''.

Two video game adaptations of Nausicaa were released; [[AdaptationDecay both were generic top-down shooters]], which greatly offended Miyazaki, since the games openly subverted the message of his film. He has never allowed video games to be made from his films since.

* AlwaysSaveTheVillain: Nausicaa saves Princess Kushana when their ship is going down. This becomes important later on.

*** It's not the airships and the machine guns that are lost technology but the engines that power them. There is a scene in the manga where the characters make a point to salvage a gunship's engine with the character remarking that the whole plane could be reconstructed around the salvaged engines. In addition most armor and swords are stated to be ceramic, containing futuristic metallic composite, or made from Ohmu shell (which is supposedly the hardest substance available and acts like a bullet proof ferro-ceramic composite making the plate and scale armors of the comic a sensible retro-modern adaptation). There is even a mine centered around a downed star ship that harvests the metal of the star ship for armor and blades.
**** Said starship is supposed to be the Yamato from UchuuSenkanYamato

* CoolShip: Nausicaa's Mehve/Möwe. The Valley's Gunship gets its own share of the spotlight, too.

* CreativeClosingCredits: the film details life in the Valley returning to normal as the invaders peacefully leave. The final shot [[spoiler:is of Nausicaa's cap lying next to a tree sprout, implying that the world is healing.]]

* GhibliHills: The titular valley.

* MartialPacifist

* MoreDakka: In the anime, at least, there is no shortage in either the forms nor quantities of dakka.

* NudeColoredClothes: In the film, her tights are tan-colored.

* ProphecyTwist: "''And that one shall come to you garbed in raiment of blue and descending upon a field of gold...''" But the prophecy didn't foresee that the "raiment of blue" would only be so because it was [[spoiler:drenched in Ohmu blood]], and the "field of gold" consisted of [[spoiler:the shining, golden feelers of the innumerable Ohmu gathered below and around Nausicaa]]. Even the tapestry depicting the prophecy tries to subvert the audience's expectations by displaying TheMessiah as a ''male'' figure of Middle Eastern appearance with some sort of brown pheasant perched on his shoulder.

* TakeThat: Miyazaki's dim view of militaristic themes in anime probably had something to do with the fact that a city built around the pathetic, rusted-out shell of the SpaceBattleshipYamato features prominantly in the manga.

* {{Wave Motion Gun}}: Primary weapon of the god warrior.

*** It's not the airships and the machine guns that are lost technology but the engines that power them. There is a scene in the manga where the characters make a point to salvage a gunship's engine with the character remaking that the whole plane could be reconstructed around the salvaged engines. In addition most armor and swords are stated to be ceramic, containing futuristic metallic composite, or made from Ohmu shell (which is supposedly the hardest substance available and acts like a bullet proof ferro-ceramic composite making the plate and scale armors of the comic a sensible retro-modern adaptation). There is even a mine centered around a downed star ship that harvests the metal of the star ship for armor and blades.