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''[=Æ=]on Flux'' is a 2005 live-action film directed by Creator/KarynKusama and based loosely on the iconic [[WesternAnimation/AeonFlux animated series of the same name]] by Peter Chung. It starred Creator/CharlizeTheron as the assassin [=Æ=]on Flux, but otherwise was so far divorced from the original material that Peter Chung was [[DisownedAdaptation embarrassed to have it associated with him]].

In the year 2011, a devastating virus wiped out 99% of the world's population. The remaining survivors live in the idyllic city of Bregna, but like all post-apocalyptic utopias, everything is not as it seems. [=Æ=]on Flux is a member of a rebel group known as the Monicans who seek to undermine the government (or something), but when her sister Una is taken on suspicion of also being a Monican (she's not) and [=Æ=]on is sent to kill the government's leader, Trevor Goodchild, she ends up uncovering secrets about Bregna that pretty much throw her ideas about herself and her world down the stairs.

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!!This film contains examples of:

* AdaptationalModesty: [=Æ=]on's costume is much more modest than it was in the cartoon, both because of general decency standards and simply because the cartoon costume probably would never [[WardrobeMalfunction stay in position]], even if adhesives were used.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Trevor is blond in the cartoon, while he has black hair in the movie. His brother Orin is the blond one.
* AncientKeeper: The genebank zeppelin, the DNA archive floating above the city, is guarded by the Keeper, an incredibly old man who explains the plot at the end.
* BigBad: [[EvilChancellor Vice Chairman]] [[CanonForeigner Orin Goodchild]] is given the role and acts as a much more traditional villain than Trevor did in the original work, scheming to keep the remnants of humanity under his iron-fisted control.
* CainAndAbel: Trevor is actually mostly good in this continuity, and his brother Orin is doing all the bad stuff and plotting to depose him.
* CanonForeigner: Trevor's brother Orin, who didn't exist in the cartoon.
* CityInABottle: In the film, [=Æ=]on is a ''[[Franchise/TheMatrix Matrix]]''-style opposition guerrilla out to bring down her closed city which is straight out of ''Literature/LogansRun'', her lover is a [[EmperorScientist totalitarian]] ReluctantMadScientist trying to keep secret [[spoiler:the human race's sterility while he solves it, and the actual villain of the piece is the RMS' ''brother'', an entirely new character who believes that [[TotalitarianUtilitarian their current existence is perfect]] and that a cure would be just as bad as revolution.]]
* CoolAirship: The huge zeppelin circling the city, which proves to be a gene bank.
* DecompositeCharacter: The AntiHero[=/=]AntiVillain Trevor Goodchild becomes two characters: the heroic Trevor and his blond villain brother Orin.
* EliteMooks: The common Bregnan soldiers wears black uniforms with red markings that leaves their eyes exposed, but at one point Aeon and Trevor are hunted by a squad of Special Operatives clad in grey, wearing face-plates and wields heavy, automatic weaponry and ''knows'' how to use them, putting up quite a fight and even managing to inflict near-mortal wounds on Trevor. Even Aeon has difficulties trying to take down these mooks.
* EnemyMine: Trevor and [=Æ=]on are forced to team up when the depth of Orin's nastiness becomes obvious.
* {{Expy}}: Orin basically has some of Trevor's evil traits from the cartoon.
* EyeScream: [=Æ=]on must authenticate herself by being dosed with an anesthetic before a needle is inserted in her eye to test her DNA.
* FacelessGoons: The Bregnan soldiers are all masked.
* GardenOfEvil: The defenses of the "government zone" are biotechnologically engineered plants with poison and ballistic weaponry.
* GatlingGood: Freya's weapon is a multi-barreled rotating handgun.
* GeneticMemory: Somehow, due to [[spoiler:being clones]] people can recall memories of their genetic predecessors. This causes mental illness in the population as flashes of them bleed through. It also serves as kind of biological [[spoiler:{{past life memories}}]] with Aeon. In the Goodchilds' case though they simply passed them down.
* HandyFeet: Sithandra, who had a second set of hands grafted onto her ankles--a procedure which she highly recommends to [=Æ=]on.
* HeelFaceTurn: Trevor ends up turning heroic when he discovers all of the evil his brother has been getting up to.
* LastBastion: Bregna is claimed to be the last inhabited human city.
* LighterAndSofter: The original animated series had much more graphic violence and some disturbing sexual content. The film is tamed enough in both aspects to be rated PG-13.
* MythologyGag:
** At the start of the film, [=Æ=]on grabs a fly with her eyelashes, as in the intro of the cartoon.
** Trevor died an unknown number of times. Because they were clones. (Although actually Trevor only dies twice at most in the cartoon series, in "Tide" and possibly in one timeline of "Chronophasia," it's [=Æ=]on who keeps dying. The movie has [=Æ=]on die only once.)
* NeckSnap: Aeon kills more than one enemy by snapping their necks with her legs, including a mook trying to sneak upon her in the prologue.
* NothingLeftToDoButDie: The Keeper gives up and dies of old age after [=Æ=]on and Trevor enter the airship and learn its secrets.
* LaResistance: The Monicans. who are struggling to bring down the Goodchild regime.
* ReincarnationRomance: [=Æ=]on turns out to be a clone of the wife of the original Trevor, and they fall in love inevitably as a result.
* ScopeSnipe: One of the Monicans backing up Aeon in the final shootout was killed when a mook shoots her through the scope, with a first-person shot of the lens breaking.
* SoundOnlyDeath: Claudius is taken away and shot off-screen, with the gunshot audible.
* SpyCatsuit: Not as {{stripperiffic}} as in the animated series (in equal parts to keep the censors happy and to obey the laws of physics), but the Monicans do love their spandex.
* TheStarscream: Orin acts as the Vice Chairman to his older brother but quickly puts into fruition his plan to seize Trevor's position for himself.
* TownWithADarkSecret: The plague that struck in 2011 [[spoiler:sterilized the survivors. The Goodchilds have been keeping humanity going through secret cloning while Trevor and his clone descendants look for a cure, but the memories of the clones' past lives were starting to bleed through, slowly driving the population mad.]] Secret within the secret: [[spoiler:not only did he find a cure, but women were starting to conceive naturally. But Orin had the test subjects and the pregnant women murdered to keep this a secret and keep them in control. He even went so far as to attempt a coup in order to keep his secret.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Or What Happened to the EliteMooks. The Special Forces sent after Aeon and Trevor lose most of their men in the subsequent shootout, but at least two were still around shooting as Aeon and Trevor escapes into a train. Somehow they don't show up for the rest of the film, and in the climax the opposing forces consist entirely of regular Bregnan troops.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Despite pontificating about the value of the individual, [=Æ=]on and Trevor slaughter huge numbers of FacelessGoons with no problem whatsoever. It's particularly glaring given the deconstruction of this trope in several episodes of the cartoon series.
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