∇
troperville

∇
tools

∇
toys

SubpagesMain
WesternAnimation

main index

Narrative

Genre

Media

Topical Tropes

Other Categories

new edits	workshops	reviews	YKTTW	tweets	random
to do	pm	add watch	drop watch	watchlist	profile

Subpages:

Western Animation: The Twins Of Destiny

The Twins of Destiny (Les Jumeaux du Bout du Monde) is a French animated series.

Two children, a Caucasian girl and a Chinese boy, are both born in Peking at the same moment on the same day in 1895, and are prophesied to be the downfall of the tyrannical Dowager Empress. To protect them from the Empress, they are smuggled out of China by the first mate of a French sailing ship, and adopted and raised by the ship's captain. When they are twelve years old, the prophecy catches up with them, and they must travel to China and fulfil their destiny.

This series provides examples of:

Brother-Sister Team
Death by Childbirth: Both of the twins' mothers.
Eunuchs Are Evil: A lot of the Dowager Empress's mooks are eunuchs.
God Save Us from the Queen!: The Dowager Empress
Historical Domain Character: The Dowager Empress, technically, in as much as China was indeed ruled by a Dowager Empress at that point in history. She probably wasn't a tyrannical sorceress, though.
Historical Fantasy
Theme Twin Naming: Jules and Julie
Magicians Are Wizards: The Great Sebatier
Taken for Granite: Both of the twins' fathers are turned to stone by the Dowager Empress.
Wonder Twin Powers