Æon Flux is the titular main protagonist of the TV series and film of the same name. She is a tall, leather-clad secret agent from the nation of Monica, skilled in assassination and acrobatics. Her mission is to infiltrate the strongholds of the neighboring country of Bregna, which is led by her sometimes-nemesis and sometimes-lover Trevor Goodchild.
Biography[]
Æon Flux is a tall, sexy, dominatrix scantily-clad secret agent from the city of Monica, skilled in espionage, assassination and acrobatics. Her mission is to infiltrate and destroy the strongholds of the city of Bregna, which is led by her sworn enemy, and sometimes lover, Trevor Goodchild, the technocratic dictator of Bregna. In her life as a skilled warrior, named Æon Flux, is a member of the Monicans, an underground rebel organization who communicate through telepathy-enabling technology and are led by the Handler. After a mission to destroy a surveillance station, Æon comes home to find her sister Una has been mistaken for a Monican and killed. When Æon is sent on a mission to kill the government's leader, Trevor Goodchild, she discovers that both she and the Monicans are being manipulated by council members in a secret coup.
Æon questions the origins of everyone in Bregna, and in particular, her personal connection to Trevor. Everyone in Bregna is revealed to be a clone, grown from recycled DNA. With the dead constantly being reborn as new individuals and bearing partial memories of their previous lives, their troubling dreams have increased. Cloning was required because the antidote to the virus made humans infertile. Trevor's ongoing experiments were attempts to reverse the infertility. His ancestors had also worked on this problem. Æon learns that she is a clone of the original Trevor's wife Katherine, and is the first "Katherine" clone in over 400 years.
One of Trevor's experiments, Una, was successful: she had become pregnant. However, in order to stay in power, Trevor's brother, Oren Goodchild, had her killed along with the other members of the experimental group. He ordered all of Trevor's research to be destroyed. In a confrontation with Trevor and Æon, Oren reveals that nature has corrected the infertility problem and that some women are becoming pregnant. Oren has had them all killed to maintain the Goodchild reign. Æon then goes against both her former allies, who want to kill Trevor, and Oren.
She convinces the other Monicans to ignore the Handler and to help her kill Oren and his men. Æon goes to destroy the Relical, the dirigible that stores the DNA for cloning. There she meets Keeper, the old man who monitors everything. She discovers that he preserved Katherine's DNA for years, although Oren had ordered it to be destroyed so "Katherine" could not influence Trevor in any way. The dirigible crashes into the city wall, breaking it down to reveal the surrounding land for the first time in centuries. It is lush and fertile, not a wasteland as they were taught.
Personality[]
Æon is at heart an idealist. She wanted a “true” life, no matter how hard, instead of the safe, rigged and overprotective life in Bregna. She also was proud that she was a woman brashly confronting the problems and putting her own life into the line rather than conveniently ignoring them like everyone else did. This made her feel superior. However, in a typical Bregnan fashion, she comes across as oddly stiff, unemotional and aloof. When her sister Una died she just stood there shocked, trying to cry yet unable to shed a single tear. Æon could express cold hatred, though. As she discovered the truth and gained memories back from her previous life, she became increasingly able to react as a person instead of a highly disciplined and aloof killing machine. The emotions and sensitivity she kept gaining led her to the decision to destroy the Relical so the terrible, flashbacks-ridden life of the Bregnans could end once and for all.
Behind the scenes[]
- The Creator Peter Chung thinks the title character needs more groundbreaking superhero ideas even if it flops.
- Variety reported in February 2004 that Charlize Theron was being paid $10 million to star in the Aeon Flux feature. Theron followed in the bootsteps of Angelina Jolie, who played animated heroine Lara Croft in two Tomb Raider films, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.
- This female character is Best known as the Sexy animated assassin from MTV's Liquid Television.
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