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* {{Muppet}}s: The 1982 film and ''Age of Resistance'' were almost entirely made using animatronic puppets and have no human character whatsoever. The franchise is the brainchild of the man behind the TropeMaker and TropeNamer, after all.

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* {{Muppet}}s: The 1982 film and ''Age of Resistance'' were almost entirely made using animatronic puppets and have no human character characters whatsoever. The franchise is the brainchild of the man behind the TropeMaker and TropeNamer, after all.
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* ArtisticLicenseSpace: It's very difficult for a planet to find a stable orbit around a trinary star system. Even so, if we accept the premise, poor Thra would be roasted by the combined luminosity and proximity of the three Suns, and life would not be able to survive.

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* ArtisticLicenseSpace: It's very difficult for a planet to find a stable orbit around a trinary star system. Even so, if we accept the premise, poor Thra would be roasted by the combined luminosity and proximity of the three Suns, and life would not be able to survive. Given that it's said all life on the planet came to be because of the Crystal which is magical in nature, it's likely the only reason why Thra has a livable atmosphere (and according to some sources, actually a fairly temperate climate despite orbiting ''three'' suns).

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* MoralityKitchenSink: The Skeksis are purely evil and the Mystics are purely good, but between the two is a wide spectrum of characters with different assortments of virtues and vices (and what is a virtue and a vice often depend on the situation as much as anything). Complicating the matter further is that the Mystics are almost entirely ineffectual exactly ''because'' they completely lack the darker drives and appetites that the Skeksis embody, meaning that being entirely virtuous has its own problems.

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* MoralityKitchenSink: The Skeksis are technically purely evil and the Mystics are purely good, but between the two is a wide spectrum of characters with different assortments of virtues and vices (and what is a virtue and a vice often depend on the situation as much as anything). Complicating the matter further is that the Mystics are almost entirely ineffectual exactly ''because'' they completely lack the darker drives and appetites that the Skeksis embody, meaning that being entirely virtuous has its own problems.problems.
** Even more is that expanded material shows that the Skeksis were not necessarily evil but their impulses led them to the darker depths they sank to in their hedonism as the years went by and they were consumed by it with one called [=SkekGra=] even turning good, while no evil Mystics exist not all of them were entirely good with the larger collective shunning those who tried to take direct action to reunify their kind and others being uncooperative or apathetic to the fate of Thra.
** Meanwhile the other sapient races of Thra have clear-cut shades of white, black and grey morality as the Arathim and Podlings are generally good, while the Gelflings have been majorly good like Jen, Kira, Deet and Rian but have individuals who are at the least corrupt like All-Maudra Mayrin and Seladon, who abused their power, or even outright villainous like Tolyn, who sold out other Gelflings to the Skeksis for the sake of power and to save his own skin; and the Crystalline Eminence, the latter who turned into a corrupt despot following the departure of the [=UrSkeks=] and conqueror wannabe not too different from the worst of the Skeksis.

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