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* The treatment of the baby Ohmu gets this devout insect-lover wibbling like crazy. The humans capture it, spear it all over, and drag it through the air, squealing pathetically and bleeding, as bait to draw out the parents, because HumansAreBastards. Sure, everything turns out okay in the end, but the moment is definitely there.
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* The treatment of the baby Ohmu gets this would get any devout insect-lover wibbling like crazy. The humans capture it, spear it all over, and drag it through the air, squealing pathetically and bleeding, as bait to draw out the parents, because HumansAreBastards. Sure, everything turns out okay in the end, but the moment is definitely there.
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* The treatment of the baby Ohmu gets this devout insect-lover wibbling like crazy. [[spoiler: The humans capture it, spear it all over, and drag it through the air, squealing pathetically and bleeding, as bait to draw out the parents, because HumansAreBastards.]] Sure, everything turns out okay in the end, but the moment is definitely there.
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* The treatment of the baby Ohmu gets this devout insect-lover wibbling like crazy. [[spoiler: The humans capture it, spear it all over, and drag it through the air, squealing pathetically and bleeding, as bait to draw out the parents, because HumansAreBastards.]] HumansAreBastards. Sure, everything turns out okay in the end, but the moment is definitely there.
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* Later when Nausicaä meets Asbel after they find themselves beneath the Forest; [[spoiler:Asbel reveals that Lastelle was his twin sister and regrets not being there in her last moments.]]
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* [[spoiler:Nausicaa's death in the film. She is ultimately revived by the Ohmu who are profoundly moved by her effort to return them their child, but the dead silence followed by the mass of grieving that comes when everybody realizes she was indeed dead is still overwhelming. Even more so as the baby Ohmu and Teto both mourn over her body with the now calm herd.]]
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* [[spoiler:Nausicaa's Nausicaa's death in the film. She is ultimately revived by the Ohmu who are profoundly moved by her effort to return them their child, but the dead silence followed by the mass of grieving that comes when everybody realizes she was indeed dead is still overwhelming. Even more so as the baby Ohmu and Teto both mourn over her body with the now calm herd.]]
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* As the Fourth Daikaisho gets underway, Nausicaä has had enough trauma for one lifetime. She finds the dead Ohmu scout and climbs atop it, declaring that she will become Forest with them. [[spoiler:She would have died right then and there if the Ohmu weren't determined to keep her alive.]]
* When Nausicaä takes a spiritual journey to the birthplace of the Sea of Corruption [[spoiler:and learns that the area has been purified and restored to its pre-human state, she realizes that (1) the air is ''so'' pure that it may as well be poison to modern people, and (2) mankind is not worthy of experiencing it]].
* In-universe example. Late in the manga, we are introduced to Tepa, a little girl who was Nausicaä's protegé. On the day Tepa becomes a windrider – normally a cause for celebration – everyone in the castle is morose (and not just because of a Dorok ship landing nearby). Obaba sums it up: [[spoiler:"I know what you're thinking; you think that the birth of a new windrider means the old one will never return to the Valley."]]
* [[spoiler:Teto's]] death and burial.
* Lord Yupa [[spoiler:sacrificing himself to protect Kushana. He smothers a grenade in his cloak, and even though he doesn't flinch when it blows his arm off, at that moment you realize [[AnyoneCanDie he's a goner]]. Sure enough, he dies shortly thereafter, but he makes sure to go out in spectacular badass fashion – protecting Kushana from a melee attack.]]
* [[spoiler:Ohma]]'s death in the manga. [[spoiler:"I'm unsure, mother. Have I become a good person?"]]
* The final page of the manga where it's heavily implied that [[spoiler:Nausicaä never returned to the Valley. Or if she did, it wasn't for years, and it wasn't for long.]]
* When Nausicaä takes a spiritual journey to the birthplace of the Sea of Corruption [[spoiler:and learns that the area has been purified and restored to its pre-human state, she realizes that (1) the air is ''so'' pure that it may as well be poison to modern people, and (2) mankind is not worthy of experiencing it]].
* In-universe example. Late in the manga, we are introduced to Tepa, a little girl who was Nausicaä's protegé. On the day Tepa becomes a windrider – normally a cause for celebration – everyone in the castle is morose (and not just because of a Dorok ship landing nearby). Obaba sums it up: [[spoiler:"I know what you're thinking; you think that the birth of a new windrider means the old one will never return to the Valley."]]
* [[spoiler:Teto's]] death and burial.
* Lord Yupa [[spoiler:sacrificing himself to protect Kushana. He smothers a grenade in his cloak, and even though he doesn't flinch when it blows his arm off, at that moment you realize [[AnyoneCanDie he's a goner]]. Sure enough, he dies shortly thereafter, but he makes sure to go out in spectacular badass fashion – protecting Kushana from a melee attack.]]
* [[spoiler:Ohma]]'s death in the manga. [[spoiler:"I'm unsure, mother. Have I become a good person?"]]
* The final page of the manga where it's heavily implied that [[spoiler:Nausicaä never returned to the Valley. Or if she did, it wasn't for years, and it wasn't for long.]]
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* As the Fourth Daikaisho gets underway, Nausicaä has had enough trauma for one lifetime. She finds the dead Ohmu scout and climbs atop it, declaring that she will become Forest with them. [[spoiler:She She would have died right then and there if the Ohmu weren't determined to keep her alive.]]
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* When Nausicaä takes a spiritual journey to the birthplace of the Sea of Corruption[[spoiler:and and learns that the area has been purified and restored to its pre-human state, she realizes that (1) the air is ''so'' pure that it may as well be poison to modern people, and (2) mankind is not worthy of experiencing it]].
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* In-universe example. Late in the manga, we are introduced to Tepa, a little girl who was Nausicaä's protegé. On the day Tepa becomes a windrider – normally a cause for celebration – everyone in the castle is morose (and not just because of a Dorok ship landing nearby). Obaba sums it up:[[spoiler:"I "I know what you're thinking; you think that the birth of a new windrider means the old one will never return to the Valley."]]
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* Later when Nausicaä meets Asbel after they find themselves beneath the jungle; [[spoiler:Asbel reveals that Lastelle was his sister and regrets not being there in her last moments.]]
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* If the 1984 dub did anything right, the voice actress of Queen Selana, Linda Gary, managed to convey her pain and Captain Ahab tendencies regarding the Ohmu. She was in the wrong, but Gary made her sympathetic enough to understand her point of view.
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* If the 1984 ''Warriors'' dub did anything right, the voice actress of Queen Selana, Linda Gary, managed to convey her pain and Captain Ahab tendencies regarding the Ohmu. She was in the wrong, but Gary made her sympathetic enough to understand her point of view.
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* In the oasis where Nausicaä meets Chikuku, she communes with the last surviving monk – whose philosophy is noticeably more nihilistic than the Mani tribe's Holy One – and enjoys the peaceful bliss of the area… when all of a sudden the place begins to be overwhelmed by miasma. She runs to the temple to warn the monk, only to find he has died (and might have actually been dead for a long time).
* As the third Daikaisho gets underway, Nausicaä has had enough trauma for one lifetime. She finds the dead Ohmu scout and climbs atop it, declaring that she will become Forest with them. [[spoiler:She would have died right then and there if the Ohmu weren't determined to keep her alive.]]
* When Nausicaä takes a spiritual journey to the birthplace of the Sea of Corruption [[spoiler:to discover that that area has been purified and restored to its pre-human state, and she realizes that (1) the air is ''so'' pure that it may as well be poison to modern people, and (2) mankind is not worthy of experiencing it.]]
* As the third Daikaisho gets underway, Nausicaä has had enough trauma for one lifetime. She finds the dead Ohmu scout and climbs atop it, declaring that she will become Forest with them. [[spoiler:She would have died right then and there if the Ohmu weren't determined to keep her alive.]]
* When Nausicaä takes a spiritual journey to the birthplace of the Sea of Corruption [[spoiler:to discover that that area has been purified and restored to its pre-human state, and she realizes that (1) the air is ''so'' pure that it may as well be poison to modern people, and (2) mankind is not worthy of experiencing it.]]
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* Nausicaä and Kushana's entourage arrive at a Dorok village to find it deserted. While searching around, Nausicaä discovers a Dorok temple that had been locked and sealed airtight from the inside. She kicks open a skylight to find hundreds of people dead from suffocation because, out of fear, they left an oil fire burning in an airtight room. It takes all of Nausicaä's willpower (plus the discovery of two living babies) to keep her from cracking.
* In the oasis where Nausicaä meets Chikuku, she communes with the last surviving monk – whose philosophy is noticeably more nihilistic than the Mani tribe's Holy One – and enjoys the peaceful bliss of the area… when all of a sudden a giant bug crashes in theplace begins to be overwhelmed by miasma. pond. She runs to the temple to warn the monk, monk that miasma is coming, only to find he has died (and might have actually been dead for a long time).
* As thethird Fourth Daikaisho gets underway, Nausicaä has had enough trauma for one lifetime. She finds the dead Ohmu scout and climbs atop it, declaring that she will become Forest with them. [[spoiler:She would have died right then and there if the Ohmu weren't determined to keep her alive.]]
* When Nausicaä takes a spiritual journey to the birthplace of the Sea of Corruption[[spoiler:to discover [[spoiler:and learns that that the area has been purified and restored to its pre-human state, and she realizes that (1) the air is ''so'' pure that it may as well be poison to modern people, and (2) mankind is not worthy of experiencing it.]]it]].
* In the oasis where Nausicaä meets Chikuku, she communes with the last surviving monk – whose philosophy is noticeably more nihilistic than the Mani tribe's Holy One – and enjoys the peaceful bliss of the area… when all of a sudden a giant bug crashes in the
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* When Nausicaä is explaining her science experiments to Yupa, she says that she was looking for a way to cure his sickness (brought on by decades of too much time around the Toxic Jungle), but as he was assassinated by the Tolmekians, all of her efforts had been in vain.
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* When Nausicaä is explaining her science experiments to Yupa, she says that she was looking for a way to cure his her father's sickness (brought on by decades of too much time around the Toxic Jungle), but as he was assassinated by the Tolmekians, all of her efforts had been in vain.
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* In the oasis where Nausicaä meets Chikuku, she communes with the last surviving monk – whose philosophy is noticeably more nihilistic than the Mani tribe's Holy One – and enjoys the peaceful bliss of the area… when all of a sudden the area place begins to be overwhelmed by miasma. She runs to the temple to warn the monk, only to find he has died (and might have actually been dead for a long time).
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* Lord Yupa [[spoiler:sacrificing himself to protect Kushana. He smothers a grenade in his cloak, and even though he doesn't flinch when it blows his arm off, at that moment you realize [[AnyoneCanDie he's a goner]]. Sure enough, he dies shortly thereafter, but he makes sure to go out in spectacular {{badass}} fashion – protecting Kushana from a melee attack.]]
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* Lord Yupa [[spoiler:sacrificing himself to protect Kushana. He smothers a grenade in his cloak, and even though he doesn't flinch when it blows his arm off, at that moment you realize [[AnyoneCanDie he's a goner]]. Sure enough, he dies shortly thereafter, but he makes sure to go out in spectacular {{badass}} badass fashion – protecting Kushana from a melee attack.]]
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'''''Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind''''' is a story about life (but mostly death) in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It's only natural that things get very sad very quickly.
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** When Nausicaa tries to keep the baby Ohm from moving and her foot hits the acid lake ... lets just say that it is hard to forget her heroic pleading screams. Pass the tissue please.
** Another thing to remember is that Nausicaa's foot was ''injured'', because she'd been shot. So some of the acid got ''inside'' the wound...
* [[spoiler: Teto's]] death and burial in the manga.
* Also in the manga, Lord Yupa [[spoiler: sacrificing himself to protect Kushana. He smothers a grenade in his cloak, and even though he doesn't flinch when it blows his arm off, at that moment you realize [[AnyoneCanDie he's a goner.]]]]
* Nausicaä talking to Lord Yupa in her plant chamber about how she discovered that it isn't the plants of the Fukai that are poisonous, it's the soil they grow from. She then goes on to say that she was experimenting on ways to nurse her father back to health, but [[spoiler: due to him getting assassinated]] it's all been in vain, and seeing as there is no point in continuing her experiments, she has shut off the water supply. She explains all of this very calmly, but then breaks down in Yupa's arms.
* Lastelle's death at the beginning. Nausicaa does everything in her power to save this girl she barely knows, but once she catches sight of the wound in Lastelle's chest, she knows there's nothing to do but let her die in peace.
* Later when Nausicaa meets Asbel after they find themselves beneath the jungle; [[spoiler:Asbel reveals that Lastelle was his sister and regrets not being there in her last moments.]]
* [[spoiler:Ohma]]'s death in the manga. [[spoiler:"I'm unsure, mother. Have I become a good person?"]]
** Another thing to remember is that Nausicaa's foot was ''injured'', because she'd been shot. So some of the acid got ''inside'' the wound...
* [[spoiler: Teto's]] death and burial in the manga.
* Also in the manga, Lord Yupa [[spoiler: sacrificing himself to protect Kushana. He smothers a grenade in his cloak, and even though he doesn't flinch when it blows his arm off, at that moment you realize [[AnyoneCanDie he's a goner.]]]]
* Nausicaä talking to Lord Yupa in her plant chamber about how she discovered that it isn't the plants of the Fukai that are poisonous, it's the soil they grow from. She then goes on to say that she was experimenting on ways to nurse her father back to health, but [[spoiler: due to him getting assassinated]] it's all been in vain, and seeing as there is no point in continuing her experiments, she has shut off the water supply. She explains all of this very calmly, but then breaks down in Yupa's arms.
* Lastelle's death at the beginning. Nausicaa does everything in her power to save this girl she barely knows, but once she catches sight of the wound in Lastelle's chest, she knows there's nothing to do but let her die in peace.
* Later when Nausicaa meets Asbel after they find themselves beneath the jungle; [[spoiler:Asbel reveals that Lastelle was his sister and regrets not being there in her last moments.]]
* [[spoiler:Ohma]]'s death in the manga. [[spoiler:"I'm unsure, mother. Have I become a good person?"]]
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** When Nausicaa Nausicaä tries to keep the baby Ohm from moving and her foot hits the acid lake ... lets lake… let's just say that it is hard to forget her heroic pleading screams. Pass the tissue please.
** Another thing to remember is that Nausicaa's foot was ''injured'', because she'd been shot. So some of the acid got ''inside'' the wound...
* [[spoiler: Teto's]] death and burial in the manga.
* Also in the manga, Lord Yupa [[spoiler: sacrificing himself to protect Kushana. He smothers a grenade in his cloak, and even though he doesn't flinch when it blows his arm off, at that moment you realize [[AnyoneCanDie he's a goner.]]]]
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* Nausicaä talking to Lord Yupa in her plant chamber about how she discovered that it isn't the plants of theFukai Sea Of Corruption that are poisonous, poisonous; it's the soil they grow from. in. She then goes on to say that she was experimenting on ways to nurse her father back to health, but [[spoiler: due to him getting assassinated]] it's all been in vain, and seeing as there is no point in continuing her experiments, she has shut off the water supply. She explains all of this very calmly, but then breaks down in Yupa's arms.
* Lastelle's death at the beginning.Nausicaa Nausicaä does everything in her power to save this girl she barely knows, but once she catches sight of the wound in Lastelle's chest, she knows there's nothing to do but hear her final words and let her die in peace.
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* That scene of Nausicaä and the baby Ohmu at the acid lake mentioned above has an additional bit of heartbreak in themanga. [[spoiler:"I'm unsure, mother. Have I become a good person?"]]movie – Nausicaä had already been shot in the foot. That means some of the acid got ''inside'' her wound…
** Another thing to remember is that Nausicaa's foot was ''injured'', because she'd been shot. So some of the acid got ''inside'' the wound...
* [[spoiler: Teto's]] death and burial in the manga.
* Also in the manga, Lord Yupa [[spoiler: sacrificing himself to protect Kushana. He smothers a grenade in his cloak, and even though he doesn't flinch when it blows his arm off, at that moment you realize [[AnyoneCanDie he's a goner.]]]]
* Nausicaä talking to Lord Yupa in her plant chamber about how she discovered that it isn't the plants of the
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* Nausicaä admitting to Yupa that she does not want to go to war and only agreed out of a sense of duty to her ailing father.
* The death of the Holy Priest of the Mani Tribe. Sure, he goes out with his proverbial middle finger extended to his former superiors and protects Nausicaä from evil (all badass as hell), but this is a guy who has led his people since before most of them were even alive. His final words were telepathically screaming to Nausicaä, "You must not come [to help me]!!"
** Poor Ketcha seemed particularly close to him, and suffers something of a HeroicBSOD once he's gone – to be fair, she ''was'' standing right next to him when he ripped off his gas-mask in the middle of the rotwood and got stabbed by over a dozen bayonets.
* Pretty much everything that happens to Kushana.
** Her own half-brothers sold her out to the Doroks because they feared her charismatic power, so she got to watch as her own men were slaughtered. Twice.
** We learn in a flashback that when she was a child, her step-father the Vai Emperor tried to assassinate her via poisoned wine. Her mother took the drink in her place… and the poison literally rotted her brain. Shortly before leaving for the front, Kushana tried to speak to her one last time, only to find she'd replaced her in her mind with a baby doll.
* In the oasis where Nausicaä meets Chikuku, she communes with the last surviving monk – whose philosophy is noticeably more nihilistic than the Mani tribe's Holy One – and enjoys the peaceful bliss of the area… when all of a sudden the area begins to be overwhelmed by miasma. She runs to the temple to warn the monk, only to find he has died (and might have been dead for a long time).
* As the third Daikaisho gets underway, Nausicaä has had enough trauma for one lifetime. She finds the dead Ohmu scout and climbs atop it, declaring that she will become Forest with them. [[spoiler:She would have died right then and there if the Ohmu weren't determined to keep her alive.]]
* When Nausicaä takes a spiritual journey to the birthplace of the forest [[spoiler:to find that that area has been purified and restored to its pre-human state and she realizes that (1) the air is ''so'' pure that it may as well be poison to modern people, and (2) mankind is not worthy of experiencing it.]]
* In-universe example. Late in the manga, we are introduced to Tepa, a little girl who was Nausicaä's protegé. On the day Tepa becomes a windrider – normally a cause for celebration – everyone in the castle is morose (and not just because of a Dorok ship landing nearby). Obaba sums it up: [[spoiler:"I know what you're thinking; you think that the birth of a new windrider means the old one will never return to the Valley."]]
* [[spoiler:Teto's]] death and burial.
* Lord Yupa [[spoiler:sacrificing himself to protect Kushana. He smothers a grenade in his cloak, and even though he doesn't flinch when it blows his arm off, at that moment you realize [[AnyoneCanDie he's a goner]]. Sure enough, he dies shortly thereafter, but he makes sure to go out in spectacular {{badass}} fashion – protecting Kushana from a melee attack.]]
* [[spoiler:Ohma]]'s death in the manga. [[spoiler:"I'm unsure, mother. Have I become a good person?"]]
* The final page of the manga where it's heavily implied that [[spoiler:Nausicaä never returned to the Valley. Or if she did, it wasn't for long.]]
* Nausicaä admitting to Yupa that she does not want to go to war and only agreed out of a sense of duty to her ailing father.
* The death of the Holy Priest of the Mani Tribe. Sure, he goes out with his proverbial middle finger extended to his former superiors and protects Nausicaä from evil (all badass as hell), but this is a guy who has led his people since before most of them were even alive. His final words were telepathically screaming to Nausicaä, "You must not come [to help me]!!"
** Poor Ketcha seemed particularly close to him, and suffers something of a HeroicBSOD once he's gone – to be fair, she ''was'' standing right next to him when he ripped off his gas-mask in the middle of the rotwood and got stabbed by over a dozen bayonets.
* Pretty much everything that happens to Kushana.
** Her own half-brothers sold her out to the Doroks because they feared her charismatic power, so she got to watch as her own men were slaughtered. Twice.
** We learn in a flashback that when she was a child, her step-father the Vai Emperor tried to assassinate her via poisoned wine. Her mother took the drink in her place… and the poison literally rotted her brain. Shortly before leaving for the front, Kushana tried to speak to her one last time, only to find she'd replaced her in her mind with a baby doll.
* In the oasis where Nausicaä meets Chikuku, she communes with the last surviving monk – whose philosophy is noticeably more nihilistic than the Mani tribe's Holy One – and enjoys the peaceful bliss of the area… when all of a sudden the area begins to be overwhelmed by miasma. She runs to the temple to warn the monk, only to find he has died (and might have been dead for a long time).
* As the third Daikaisho gets underway, Nausicaä has had enough trauma for one lifetime. She finds the dead Ohmu scout and climbs atop it, declaring that she will become Forest with them. [[spoiler:She would have died right then and there if the Ohmu weren't determined to keep her alive.]]
* When Nausicaä takes a spiritual journey to the birthplace of the forest [[spoiler:to find that that area has been purified and restored to its pre-human state and she realizes that (1) the air is ''so'' pure that it may as well be poison to modern people, and (2) mankind is not worthy of experiencing it.]]
* In-universe example. Late in the manga, we are introduced to Tepa, a little girl who was Nausicaä's protegé. On the day Tepa becomes a windrider – normally a cause for celebration – everyone in the castle is morose (and not just because of a Dorok ship landing nearby). Obaba sums it up: [[spoiler:"I know what you're thinking; you think that the birth of a new windrider means the old one will never return to the Valley."]]
* [[spoiler:Teto's]] death and burial.
* Lord Yupa [[spoiler:sacrificing himself to protect Kushana. He smothers a grenade in his cloak, and even though he doesn't flinch when it blows his arm off, at that moment you realize [[AnyoneCanDie he's a goner]]. Sure enough, he dies shortly thereafter, but he makes sure to go out in spectacular {{badass}} fashion – protecting Kushana from a melee attack.]]
* [[spoiler:Ohma]]'s death in the manga. [[spoiler:"I'm unsure, mother. Have I become a good person?"]]
* The final page of the manga where it's heavily implied that [[spoiler:Nausicaä never returned to the Valley. Or if she did, it wasn't for long.]]
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* If the 1984 dub did anything right, the voice actress of Queen Selana, Linda Gary, managed to convey her pain and Captain Ahab tendencies regarding the Ohmu. She was in the wrong, but Gary made her sympathetic enough to understand her point of view.
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* Later when Nausicaa meets Asbel after they find themselves beneath the jungle; [[spoiler:Asbel reveals that Lastelle was his sister and regrets not being there in her last moments.]]
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* [[spoiler:Nausicaa's death in the film. She is ultimately revived by the Ohmu who are profoundly moved by her effort to return them their child, but the dead silence followed by the mass of grieving that comes when everybody realizes she was indeed dead is still overwhelming. Even more so as the baby Ohmu and Teto both mourn over her body with the now calm herd.]]
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* The treatment of the baby Ohmu in ''{{Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind}}'' gets this devout insect-lover wibbling like crazy. [[spoiler: The humans capture it, spear it all over, and drag it through the air, squealing pathetically and bleeding, as bait to draw out the parents, because HumansAreBastards.]] Sure, everything turns out okay in the end, but the moment is definitely there.
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* The treatment of the baby Ohmu in ''{{Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind}}'' gets this devout insect-lover wibbling like crazy. [[spoiler: The humans capture it, spear it all over, and drag it through the air, squealing pathetically and bleeding, as bait to draw out the parents, because HumansAreBastards.]] Sure, everything turns out okay in the end, but the moment is definitely there.
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* [[spoiler:Ohma]]'s death in the manga. [[spoiler:"I'm unsure, mother. Have I become a good person?"]]
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* [[spoiler:Ohma]]'s death in the manga. [[spoiler:"I'm unsure, mother. Have I become a good person?"]]person?"]]
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* [[spoiler: Teto's]] death in the manga.
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* [[spoiler: Teto's]] death and burial in the manga.
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* Lastelle's death at the beginning. Nausicaa does everything in her power to save this girl she barely knows, but once she catches sight of the wound in Lastelle's chest, she knows there's nothing to do but let her die in peace.
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* Lastelle's death at the beginning. Nausicaa does everything in her power to save this girl she barely knows, but once she catches sight of the wound in Lastelle's chest, she knows there's nothing to do but let her die in peace.peace.
* [[spoiler:Ohma]]'s death in the manga. [[spoiler:"I'm unsure, mother. Have I become a good person?"]]
* [[spoiler:Ohma]]'s death in the manga. [[spoiler:"I'm unsure, mother. Have I become a good person?"]]
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** When Nausicaa tries to keep the baby Ohm from moving and her foot its the acid lake ... lets just say that it is hard to forget her heroic pleading screams. Pass the tissue please.
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** When Nausicaa tries to keep the baby Ohm from moving and her foot its hits the acid lake ... lets just say that it is hard to forget her heroic pleading screams. Pass the tissue please.
** Another thing to remember is that Nausicaa's foot was ''injured'', because she'd been shot. So some of the acid got ''inside'' the wound...
** Another thing to remember is that Nausicaa's foot was ''injured'', because she'd been shot. So some of the acid got ''inside'' the wound...
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* Nausicaä talking to Lord Yupa in her plant chamber about how she discovered that it isn't the plants of the Fukai that are poisonous, it's the soil they grow from. She then goes on to say that she was experimenting on ways to nurse her father back to health but due to him [[spoiler: getting assassinated]] it's all been in vain and, seeing as there is no point in continuing her experiments, has shut off the water supply before breaking down in Yupa's arms.
* Lastelle's death at the beginning. Nausicaa opens her dress to make her breathe better, and as she sees that she's fatally wounded closes it up and let her die peacefully.
* Lastelle's death at the beginning. Nausicaa opens her dress to make her breathe better, and as she sees that she's fatally wounded closes it up and let her die peacefully.
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* Nausicaä talking to Lord Yupa in her plant chamber about how she discovered that it isn't the plants of the Fukai that are poisonous, it's the soil they grow from. She then goes on to say that she was experimenting on ways to nurse her father back to health health, but [[spoiler: due to him [[spoiler: getting assassinated]] it's all been in vain and, vain, and seeing as there is no point in continuing her experiments, she has shut off the water supply before breaking supply. She explains all of this very calmly, but then breaks down in Yupa's arms.
* Lastelle's death at the beginning. Nausicaaopens does everything in her dress power to make her breathe better, and as save this girl she sees that she's fatally wounded closes it up and barely knows, but once she catches sight of the wound in Lastelle's chest, she knows there's nothing to do but let her die peacefully.in peace.
* Lastelle's death at the beginning. Nausicaa
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* Nausicaä talking to Lord Yupa in her plant chamber about how she discovered that it isn't the plants of the Fukai that are poisonous, it's the soil they grow from. She then goes on to say that she was experimenting on ways to nurse her father back to health but due to him [[spoiler: getting assassinated]] it's all been in vain and, seeing as there is no point in continuing her experiments, has shut off the water supply before breaking down in Yupa's arms.arms.
* Lastelle's death at the beginning. Nausicaa opens her dress to make her breathe better, and as she sees that she's fatally wounded closes it up and let her die peacefully.
* Lastelle's death at the beginning. Nausicaa opens her dress to make her breathe better, and as she sees that she's fatally wounded closes it up and let her die peacefully.
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* Also in the manga, Lord Yupa [[spoiler: sacrificing himself to protect Kushana. He smothers a grenade in his cloak, and even though he doesn't flinch when it blows his arm off, at that moment you realize [[AnyoneCanDie he's a goner.]]]]
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* Also in the manga, Lord Yupa [[spoiler: sacrificing himself to protect Kushana. He smothers a grenade in his cloak, and even though he doesn't flinch when it blows his arm off, at that moment you realize [[AnyoneCanDie he's a goner.]]]]]]]]
* Nausicaä talking to Lord Yupa in her plant chamber about how she discovered that it isn't the plants of the Fukai that are poisonous, it's the soil they grow from. She then goes on to say that she was experimenting on ways to nurse her father back to health but due to him [[spoiler: getting assassinated]] it's all been in vain and, seeing as there is no point in continuing her experiments, has shut off the water supply before breaking down in Yupa's arms.
* Nausicaä talking to Lord Yupa in her plant chamber about how she discovered that it isn't the plants of the Fukai that are poisonous, it's the soil they grow from. She then goes on to say that she was experimenting on ways to nurse her father back to health but due to him [[spoiler: getting assassinated]] it's all been in vain and, seeing as there is no point in continuing her experiments, has shut off the water supply before breaking down in Yupa's arms.
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* [[spoiler: Teto's]] death in the manga.
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* [[spoiler: Teto's]] death in the manga.manga.
* Also in the manga, Lord Yupa [[spoiler: sacrificing himself to protect Kushana. He smothers a grenade in his cloak, and even though he doesn't flinch when it blows his arm off, at that moment you realize [[AnyoneCanDie he's a goner.]]]]
* Also in the manga, Lord Yupa [[spoiler: sacrificing himself to protect Kushana. He smothers a grenade in his cloak, and even though he doesn't flinch when it blows his arm off, at that moment you realize [[AnyoneCanDie he's a goner.]]]]
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* [[spoiler: Teto's]] death in the manga.
