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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
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Set in 1889 and extremely loosely based on Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and many other of his works, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (����海�ナディア Fushigi no Umi no Nadia, lit. "Nadia of the Mysterious Seas") tells the story of Nadia, a girl who's trying to find out about her past, Jean, a boy who wants to build a flying machine, and the Blue Water, a mysterious gem of Nadia's with strange powers. Their world is home to two shadowy groups in conflict: Neo-Atlantis, who want to rule the world, and the crew of the submarine Nautilus, who have sworn to oppose Neo-Atlantis. These two plots are not unconnected...This series, jointly produced by Studio Gainax, Group TAC and South Korean studio Sei Young from a concept of Hayao Miyazaki, originally aired starting in 1990 on NHK – Japanese public broadcasting (their equivalent of BBC). Carl Macek's Streamline Pictures released a VHS of the first eight episodes. Years later, ADV translated, dubbed, and released the entire 39-episode TV series (as well as the maligned, mostly forgotten movie sequel) on DVD. A series of humorous bonus featurettes were also released in LaserDisc as Nadia's Omake Theater during the original broadcast of the anime in Japan, along with the audio drama Bye Bye Blue Water in two volumes.(Entry originally written by Rob Kelk for The Anime Primer, and used with permission of the author.)Just for the record, this series was the one that gave Hideaki Anno his first Animage Grand Prix before he penned out his biggest masterpiece, Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was even originally conceived as a Stealth Sequel to Nadia... and it's possibly the reason why NGE is such a Mind Screw. It has been purported that the stress of working on a tight schedule for a series over which he had almost no creative control was a key factor in precipitating Anno into a four-year-long bout of depression from which he emerged just before (some say while) doing Eva. Video Game adaptationsSince Gainax had no way to earn money with the series, they were incentivized to make as many spin-offs and derivative products as needed to break even. None of them were ever released outside Japan. Among these games were: Fushigi no Umi no Nadia, released on 1991 on MegaDrive, is an RPG roughly following the canon story, although it diverges at the end. Interestingly, it was released before the end of the series and appears to be based on older concepts for the series. There's a Twitter thread where a specialist precisely describes the intrigue of the game, pointing out the main features and how it diverges. An English-language fan patch has been made. Fushigi no Umi no Nadia (1991, NES), which is a PvP battle game on 50 maps. ''Fushigi no Umi no Nadia (1992), published by Gainax, follow the Nautilus travelling to Fiji to seek Jean's father's lost ship. Fushigi no Umi no Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1993, TurboGrafx CD) follow Nadia, Jean, Marie and the Grandis Gang in the Islanc arc, where they explore the place and discover a civilization. Fushigi no Umi no Nadia: Inherit the Blue Water, released in 2005 on PlayStation 2, is a Visual Novel divided in 10 chapters in which the player controls Jean. Two new characters are introduced: Sofia Rockfeld, heir of a wealthy American family and who owns a Blue Water too, and her maid Lazu. It is also a Dating Sim: depending of his choices, Jean can end up with Nadia but also with Grandis, Marie, Electra or Sofia. In the Windows version, he can also end up with Lazu or Icolina.Books have also been made from the series. | |
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Abusive Precursors: The ancient Atlanteans. They genetically tinkered with Earth's native life forms, engineered humanity to serve as a servant class, and fought one another for control of the planet (killing countless people in addition to causing untold damage). | |
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Applied Phlebotinum | |
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Applied Phlebotinum: The Nautilus runs on a recycled star drive, and the Blue Water fires up whenever the plot starts to drag. | |
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Man of Wealth and Taste | |
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Man of Wealth and Taste: Gargoyle's suit is immaculate red and worthy of the dinner party he invites sponsors to. The only flaw is his mask and KKK style hat. Ayerton repeatedly states that he is a Count and he is a British aristocrat. Everyone takes this with a grain of salt because the guy is just too exasperating; turns out he wasn't lying. In a gender reversal example, Grandis is a former Italian aristocrat. She justifies most of her rudeness and laziness on this fact; in spite of this, she is an excellent cook. (In the dub, she's simply an upper-class aristocrat because it was difficult for voice actress Sarah Richardson to develop an Italian accent without sounding like she was working in a pizza parlor.) | |
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Crucified Hero Shot | |
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Crucified Hero Shot: While Gargoyle's prisoners, Nadia finds herself tied to a cross (Marie and King dangle below her on a rod). Later happens to the Grandis Gang when they are captured by Gargoyle. In the Africa arc, Grandis' ex-fiance ties King to a cross and threatens to nail him to it unless a ransom is paid. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: While Jean is, at heart, a very optimistic and cheerful character, there are at least two moments where he becomes completely depressed: first, in Episode 15, when he traumatically overhears a sailor he befriended gassed to death (he is surprisingly melancholic after that), and then, in episode 16, when he learns that Gargoyle killed his father. This latter revelation crushes Jean so much that he considers giving up inventing until Nadia, who doesn't like seeing him so gloomy, tries to cheer him up and succeeds by suggesting he build another aircraft so that they can go on another flight. He also has one off-camera when he is under the impression that Nadia succeeded in committing suicide; according to Sanson, Jean was horrified. | |
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Blind Without 'Em | |
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Blind Without 'Em: Jean, with the obligatory Dropped Glasses scene. To the point that without the glasses, his eyes are drawn much smaller than the usual "anime" size. | |
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Multinational Team | |
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Multinational Team: Nemo's crew is assembled from people who hate Gargoyle for various reasons. It seems Gargoyle is unpopular the world over... | |
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Rescue Romance | |
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Rescue Romance: The series kicks off with Jean successfully rescuing Nadia from the bad guys and they grow closer over the course of the series, eventually getting married and having a child together. | |
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Where It All Began | |
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Where It All Began: See Bookends. | |
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Relatively Flimsy Excuse | |
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Relatively Flimsy Excuse: In the pilot, Grandis passes herself as Nadia's long lost sister even though they have vasty different phenotypes. Of course, the huge bag of Counterfeit Cash certainly eased things with the ringmaster... | |
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Badass Adorable | |
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Badass Adorable: Jean bravely puts his life at risk to save Nadia, especially during the Tower of Babel arc. Nadia gets away from the Grandis gang on the Eiffel Tower by stomping on Sanson and Hanson's heads! Marie and King have their share of moments. | |
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Relationship Upgrade | |
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Relationship Upgrade: All the couples in the series who successfully end up together. | |
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Prochronic Product | |
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Prochronic Product: Set in 1889 and 1890, Jean build a plane (invented on 1903), an escalator (invented on 1892), and a helicopter (first working model in 1936) among others. | |
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Meat-O-Vision | |
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Meat-O-Vision: Jean saw Marie as a plate of turkey after eating some mushrooms. | |
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Terrible Trio | |
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Terrible Trio: Grandis and crew are an Expy of the Time Bokan gang, with the twist that this time the fat guy is the genius engineer and the skinny guy is the strongman. | |
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Genre Shift | |
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Genre Shift: Nadia begins as an Action-Adventure show mixing Historical Fiction and Steampunk. While it keeps the Action-Adventure tone for the entirety of its run, Nadia also begins gradually shifting more and more into Sci-Fi with the introduction of the Nautilus and Neo-Atlantis. By the time of the final five episodes, the Steampunk gets completely ditched and Nadia gleefully goes full-on Space Opera for its climax. The shift into full-on Sci-Fi and Space Opera is at least is justified in-story because of the Ancient Astronauts clues beginning from Episode 7. As soon as the Slave Stars were introduced, really, a space-based climax became inevitable. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: According to promotional materials, Jean' and Nadia' son is named Jean Jr. | |
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Unreliable Narrator: The entire story consists of Marie recounting events from when she was four years old, even events where she wasn't present or must have heard secondhand. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: The giant mollusk fought in "Nautilus vs. Nautilus", aside from being absolutely gigantic by Nature's standards, has weird nested tentacles that make it resemble more a sea anemone or polyp. | |
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Daddy's Girl | |
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Daddy's Girl: Invoked. Electra angrily speculates that Nemo is reluctant to destroy Neo Atlantis just because of his daughter Nadia's presence, deeming him a hypocrite and a coward; while this is partially true, Nadia's presence actually flared Nemo's protectiveness towards Electra herself. | |
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Underestimating Badassery | |
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Underestimating Badassery: The Grandis Gang. Just because they’re Large Hams driving around in a funny steampunk tank doesn’t mean they aren’t dangerous or resourceful. Jean and Nadia learn this fairly quickly, as do the crew of the Nautilus. Gargoyle and the Neo-Atlanteans don’t and it ends up biting them in the ass hard during Episodes 21 and Episodes 38. | |
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The Cynic | |
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The Cynic: Nadia tends to suspect everyone she meets, especially if the subject is an adult. | |
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Forgotten Phlebotinum | |
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Forgotten Phlebotinum: Jean builds a functional, air-worthy and reliable gyrocopter that he never once considers using again and it effectively disappears from the plot. | |
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The High Queen | |
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The High Queen: The Queen of Tartessos was apparently a tremendously significant person with a unique position of power in the Kingdom. It's her assassination that destabilizes the La Arwall rule; the importance is further implied by the fact that Nadia is given greater focus regarding the future of Tartessos and Atlantis and what she's meant to do about it rather than what either Nemo or Neo would do. This means, the key and the decider is Nadia, well above her father and brother. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Nadia's mother is mentioned numerous times in the story: Nemo surrendered the control of Tartessos to Gargoyle after she is assassinated and she is apparently the leader of the souls that reside in Nadia's Blue Water; she feeds glimpses of information to Nadia about her past and makes her aware that she has a brother. It's implied that it's her actions through the Blue Water that save Nadia from the destruction of Tartessos and her suicide attempt; she ultimately gives the OK to sacrifice herself and the souls to revive Jean. | |
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Green-Eyed Monster | |
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In episode 20 she becomes extremely jealous of Jean's friendship with Electra, irrationally believing that the latter is going to take Jean away from her (when, in fact, nothing romantic is happening between Jean OR Electra). Her inability to express her concern with losing Jean nearly ruins her own relationship with him. (All that Jean is doing is just trying to learn more from Electra so that he can help mankind and Nadia herself; despite being stuck in the books at times, he is obviously very dedicated to helping her, to the point where you feel sorry for the boy every time Nadia takes out her anger on him.) As a matter of fact Nadia even lays into Jean when he offers her manmade flowers (that Ensign Fait generously gives the boy) or attempts to compliment her in the abovementioned episode (as Electra advised him to). Naturally, this only succeeds in confusing poor Jean—to the point where he is surprised when she finally plucks up the courage to ask him directly for a compliment for a dress (awkwardly fashioned out of canvas) in episode 26. (Fourteen episodes earlier, she doesn't succeed in getting a compliment from Jean about a dress she's wearing since the latter is busy reading a book, but in that case she was sort of expecting him to read her mind and not knowing how else to act.) In that same episode, Nadia furiously declares to Nemo that she hates him and the ''Nautilus'' crew; he slaps her for saying that, adding in a stern tone, "Please don't say sad things like that" ("You have made me very sad." in the dub). | |
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Bedlah Babe | |
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Bedlah Babe: Nadia's outfits resemble a bedlah, to go with her Arab appearance. She even says that she feels constrained in baggier clothes, ripping a Nautilus crew uniform to a crop-top and shorts. | |
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Failsafe Failure | |
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Failsafe Failure: The Tower of Babel at Cape Verde would have eventually blown up even without sabotage, as the Orihalcon that powered it began cracking after the first shot; admittedly, without the sabotage that overheated the plant, they could have squeezed more shots out of it. | |
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Artifact of Attraction | |
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Artifact of Attraction: The Blue Water, though it can be only used by exactly three people in the whole planet, not including the main villain, who is the one that most covets it. | |
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Good Costume Switch | |
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Good Costume Switch: Grandis is the first villain of the series and wears a military uniform. When she announces her Heel–Face Turn she's wearing a dress and it becomes her standard outfit (unless she's going into battle). | |
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Ambiguous Situation | |
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Ambiguous Situation: Were there any actual surviving Atlanteans in the ranks of Neo Atlantis before Nemo exterminated everyone? At the very least we know that there are no humans inside the Blue Waters, but what about the other way around? How did Nadia survive Tartessos? Who stormed her out of the country unbeknownst to Nemo and Gargoyle? And who sold Nadia, a princess and none other than the heiress to the throne of humanity to the circus? Do the Atlanteans inside the Blue Water repeatedly save Nadia for her life's sake or just because they want to return to the realm of the living again? It's not explicitly stated whether or not the entire Neo-Atlantis organization was aboard Red Noah went it's destroyed in the series finale. For better and worse, The Secret of Fuzzy uses this ambiguity as its catalyst for Geiger and his faction of surviving Neo-Atlanteans. | |
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Faceless Goons | |
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Faceless Goons: The base soldiers of Neo Atlantis. Unlike other goons, they are considerably dangerous and unwaivingly loyal; dangerous especially to an unarmed, non-violent couple of tweens and a 4-year-old. | |
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Ambiguously Brown | |
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Ambiguously Brown: Invoked and discussed within the story itself. Nadia's brown skin, straight hair, teal eyes, and "stateless" anime heroine looks are all in marked contrast to the rest of the crew who all have recognizably ethnic features. Most characters only have a vague idea she might be African... or Indian... (turns out she's Atlantean) | |
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One | |
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It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: Nadia rises up from being a slave girl to be the potential destroyer of the world; small wonder she tries to kill herself. | |
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Nom de Guerre | |
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Nom de Guerre: Various. "Nemo" is the pseudonym of King Eleusis La Arwall of Tartessos, which he began using once he destroyed his country; "Gargoyle" is the pseudonym of Prime Minister Nemesis La Algol of Tartessos, which he began using when he rebelled against the monarchy. "Neo" or "Neo Icon Epiphanes" is the pseudonym of Prince Venusis (or Benusis) La Arwall of Tartessos, which he began using once the King capitulated and he became Emperor Neo of Neo Atlantis. "Electra" is the pseudonym of Medina La Lugensius Electra, a human citizen of Tartessos and a survivor of its destruction. She began using her pseudonym when she boarded the Nautilus. | |
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Non-Mammal Mammaries | |
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Non-Mammal Mammaries: The balls on the pair of robo-Kings. | |
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Fire-Forged Friends | |
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Fire-Forged Friends: An especially well-executed instance. Jean, Nadia, and the Grandis Gang begin the series as enemies. But after the events of Episodes 5-8 and once onboard the Nautilus, they bury the hatchet and slowly become close friends over the course of the series. While Jean bonds with Hanson fairly early given their mutual engineering interests, the Minefield crisis during Episode 10 is what really locks in his friendships with Hanson and Sanson. | |
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Line in the Sand | |
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Line in the Sand: Nemo does this before departing for the final battle. It's easier to list the people who don't cross the line and join him: the seriously wounded, one nurse to tend to them, Ayerton, Marie, and King. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Most of the non-Atlantean technology seems more appropriate to 1910 or even 1920 than 1889. Conversely, the small arms utilised by Neo-Atlantean soldiers are outdated technology compared to the more advanced military technologies at their disposal. Some women in the series wore trousers despite women's trousers being exceptionally rare in the later 1800s. Trousers being part of naval uniforms in the Nautilus makes it a justified trope in respect of the submarine's female crew-members, especially given that the crew of the Nautilus originate from a civilisation that are culturally different from most Victorian-Era European civilisations. On the other hand, it is not known if the Neo-Atlanteans also permit women's trousers within their organisations. Jean's prototype aeroplane is at least 50 years ahead of the technology of the time. Grandis's transforming tank is beyond even modern, 21st century tech. | |
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Not in This for Your Revolution | |
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Not in This for Your Revolution: Initially played straight with the Grandis Gang when they first come aboard the Nautilus in Episode 9. While having their own grudge against Gargoyle for the events of Episodes 5-8, the Gang (Sanson in particular) intends to patch up the Gratan and then get the hell out of the line of fire. The Gang only ends up remaining aboard because Grandis falls for Nemo and Hanson and Sanson go where she goes out of loyalty. However, the Trope’s then gradually subverted and then ultimately averted as the Gang ends up bonding with Jean, Nadia, Marie and the Nautilus crew. They slowly become more and more involved in the larger fight and begin to understand just what's at stake. This culminates in Episodes 37-38 with the Gang volunteering for the final assault on Red Noah and risking their lives (and sacrificing their beloved Gratan in a successful bid to knock out the Atlantean battleship’s critical systems. | |
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Principles Zealot | |
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Principles Zealot: Electra thinks that Nemo will spare no expense or lives (including her and the crew) in order to bring down Neo Atlantis and she's not entirely wrong in assuming so, considering that he already did it once by destroying Tartessos to foil Gargoyle. She threatens to kill him when he fails to deliver, but he reveals that Electra is the whole reason he won't do it and that he's saving Nadia to spare her from their world. | |
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Orichalcum | |
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Orichalcum: (Or "Orihalcon" as it's called in Nadia) Is the material that the Blue Water is composed of and is also used to create an artificial Blue Water monolith that Gargoyle uses for the Cape Verde Tower of Babel. The latter lasts one shot before it begins cracking and the power failure caused by Grandis' sabotage causes it to blow up once they try to shoot it again. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Tartessos, the Ancient Greek equivalent of the El Dorado legends, also gets tied into the show's take on the Atlantis myth. Using Tartessos also doubles as a Mythology Gag, since it’s been speculated the semi-mythical city may have been Plato’s inspiration for Atlantis, Atlantis itself by another name, or a satellite city of Atlantis. | |
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Kill Sat | |
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Kill Sat: Neo-Atlantis' "Tower of Babel", a ground-based Wave-Motion Gun bounced off a satellite to rain death from above. | |
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Underboobs | |
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Underboobs: Nadia inadvertently reveals hers while adjusting her top. Naturally, poor Jean can't help but look. It doesn't help that it's a tiny, tiny tube top to begin with. | |
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Trap Door | |
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Trap Door: Basically one of Gargoyle's trademarks. | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen: Nadia is gradually transformed from a cold, aloof, churlishly temperamental pessimist to a caring, trusting young woman as a result of her relationship with Jean. | |
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Non-Indicative Name | |
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Non-Indicative Name: Neo Atlantis implies that its members are of Atlantis origins; they are Tartesian, but that doesn't mean that they are Atlanteans per se. This comes into collation when the Blue Water is being destroyed to revive Jean. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Many of the characters are orphans or otherwise deprived of their parents, from Nadia up to Gargoyle, the Big Bad. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: For King's non-animal behaviors. | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Limited Wardrobe: See Fanservice above... | |
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Deathly Unmasking | |
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Deathly Unmasking: The Big Bad is never seen without a mask over his face until the last episode. In his final moments his mask burns away to ash and peels off his head, revealing a split-second glimpse of his face. | |
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Face Fault | |
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Face Fault: Mostly in the Filler. | |
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I Know You Know I Know | |
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I Know You Know I Know: The first thing Nemo tells Electra when she shoots him is that he is aware that she knows that he destroyed Tartessos and that she was making little effort to hide it by the time the shooting happens. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: Grandis might be foulmouthed and cynical, but she's a very good cook and is not afraid to be hands-on; Ayerton can give sage advice, considering he's a drunk and a liar; Sanson is a very snooty dandy, but he is a staunchly loyal friend that oozes enthusiasm. Electra is surprisingly professional for a person that is head over heels for her Captain, especially when she collides with Grandis and shows that she is Not So Above It All. | |
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False Flag Operation | |
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Episode 15: Gargoyle has one of his Garfish lure the Nautilus into a trap wherein new depth charges outfitted with an electromagnetic disruptor cripple the submarine. If the Garfish can destroy Nemo and company, great. If by chance they fail, Gargoyle still wins... because the Nautilus will have to surface to make repairs and will find an American Naval flotilla waiting for them (having suckered the Americans into being unwitting pawns in a False Flag Operation). The plan only fails because the Americans weren't able to finish the job before the Nautilus dove (and Nemo was forced to sacrifice several crewman to ensure they could remain hidden). | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Cute? | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Nadia is generally very fond of animals and once even claimed that starving would be better than eating fish. But in a filler episode, she has no qualms about batting mosquitoes. | |
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Accidental Pervert | |
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Accidental Pervert: As a teenage boy, Jean is constantly fighting his hormones to avoid looking at Nadia's... ahem... blossoming figure, particularly when she ends up showing more than usual. She starts paying no mind to it with time. | |
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Supervillain Lair | |
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Supervillain Lair: Neo Atlantis' Tower of Babel complex at the Cape Verde islands was meant to be this. They mostly kept it secret by killing and enslaving most of the inhabitants. | |
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Uplifted Animal | |
| Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water / int_3130e2c6 | comment |
Uplifted Animal: Humanity’s origins are revealed to be this in Episode 37. When the ancient Atlanteans crash-landed on Earth 2 million years ago, they sought to engineer a servant race to offset their low population numbers. Whales were the initial test run, but were ultimately deemed unsatisfactory. The Atlanteans then moved on to primates with more successful results. The Atlantean genetic engineers also tweaked it so that the modified humans would more closely resemble their creators. Electra even explicitly states that Atlantean genetic engineering is the in-story explanation for the evolutionary missing link between primates and humans. This revelation’s also revealed to be one of the cornerstones of Gargoyle’s bigotry and Atlantean supremacy ideology. As Atlanteans are for all intents humanity’s creators, Gargoyle feels we’re nothing more than intelligent animals who will run amok unless a firm hand bring them into line. | |
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Previously on… | |
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Previously on…: Most episodes, with a montage. | |
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Critical Staffing Shortage | |
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Critical Staffing Shortage: A plot point in Episode 11. The Nautilus crew is made up of both the survivors from the destruction of Old Tartressos 13 years ago and rescued survivors from Gargoyle's campaign (like Eiko the Sonar Oficer). Since they're fighting a secret war against Neo-Atlantis, the Nautilus can't exactly dock at the nearest port and interview potential applicants to replace lost crewmen. By the time Jean, Nadia, and the Grandis Gang end up onboard, the ship's not fully crewed. This ends up being a factor in the majority of the Senior Staff overruling Electra's objections to make them apprentice crewmen. Of course, it doesn't hurt that having Nadia onboard will also allow Nemo to keep her Blue Water away from Gargoyle. | |
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Evolving Credits | |
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Evolving Credits: The shots of the Nautilus are removed from the opening credits in the last four episodes and replaced with its replacement. | |
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Magic from Technology | |
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Magic from Technology: Atlantean tech is all in Clarke's third law territory. | |
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Dastardly Whiplash | |
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Dastardly Whiplash: Grandis' ex-fiance in the infamous Africa arc. Or rather, his portrayal as one, which is enough to make one wonder why Grandis fell for him in the first place - or even falls for him again after the latter destroyed her life! | |
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Distant Finale | |
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Distant Finale: A grown-up Marie lists what everyone is doing years after the story is complete. | |
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle! | |
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle! | |
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The World Is Not Ready | |
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The World Is Not Ready: This is part of Nemo's motivation for keeping the fight against Gargoyle a Secret War instead of seeking out human governments and allies. Nemo knows it's inevitible that hummanity will eventually develop technology on par with the ancient Atlanteans within the next few centuries. But he does not want 19th Century hummanity gaining access to it and fears such technology would only be used for death and destruction. Considering the show takes place during the height of the New Imperialism period, his concerns aren't unwarranted. | |
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Lured into a Trap | |
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Lured into a Trap: Nemo and the Nautilus, by Gargoyle, repeatedly. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: The Neo-Atlanteans have very little qualms with shooting at children. Nadia allows herself to be captured by Gargoyle in exchange of him sparing her friends. Once he has Nadia, he is only willing to give them a minute head-start before he starts raining bombs and laser beams on them. Marie begins getting a little too rough with King when they are stranded on the island after a while. She even admits it remorsefully. Gargoyle bends Neo and Nadia to his will in order to make them shoot their father Nemo; he later dares Jean to shoot Nadia and mocks him when he proves to be incapable. | |
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The Fellowship Has Ended | |
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The Fellowship Has Ended: By the time of the epilogue, the surviving Nautilus crew and their allies have all gone their separate ways in the aftermath of Gargoyle's defeat (though obviously everybody's still in touch as Marie's narration demonstrates). The Grandis Gang has also formally disbanded with Hanson, Sanson, and Grandis scattered to Europe and the United States. | |
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Lethal Chef | |
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Lethal Chef: Nadia grew up without a maternal figure or a female role model (or any, for what matters), so she is utterly lost at the kitchen. (In the filler, it's also implied that she doesn't know how to cook properly.) This becomes a Brick Joke in the series finale's epilogue, where it's revealed Nadia has finally mastered Grandis' culinary lessons...and Jean and their son are still looking at the food in trepidation. Gleefully subverted with Grandis in Episode 11. | |
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Official Couple | |
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Official Couple: Obviously Jean and Nadia. This also applies to Nemo and Electra, as well as Sanson and Marie. | |
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Searching for the Lost Relative | |
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Searching for the Lost Relative: Both Nadia and Jean of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water are searching for their lost parents, the former for both and the latter for his father, who disappeared at sea (his mother having died years ago). Both will soon discover the fates of their lost parents were related by a common factor... | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: Gargoyle lures Nemo into a trap using himself as bait. He knows Nemo will do anything to follow him and so leads The Captain to a cavern which he blocks off with mines - a Xanatos Gambit: If Nemo tries to remove the mines with conventional means they will detonate, but if he does nothing the shifting tides will eventually drive them into the Nautilus anyway. Even if Nemo somehow survives the mines and escapes, Gargoyle can observe how his experimental mines will work in the field and save the data for later. | |
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Artifact of Doom | |
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Artifact of Doom: The Blue Water, if used incorrectly. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: One of the many, many problems of The Secret of Fuzzy. Since it’s set during the 12-year gap between the ending of Episode 39 and its Distant Epilogue, it robs the film of any real dramatic tension. The audience knows going in that Jean, Nadia, and the Grandis Gang will all survive, that Geiger’s faction of Neo-Atlanteans won’t triumph, and that Jean won’t end up with Fuzzy because he and Nadia will canonically marry 4 years later. | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: One of the more infamous examples is an '80s-looking telephone on board the Nautilus (in 1889), which is supposed to be thousands of years old. | |
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Fully Automatic Clip Show | |
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Fully Automatic Clip Show: A good twenty minutes straight of the movie. | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: Other than the usual You Have Failed Me, Gargoyle will shoot his own mook to convince Nadia that he would shoot Marie. On one occasion, however, he casually tells a mook who slipped up not to worry about punishment. | |
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Impressed by the Civilian | |
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Impressed by the Civilian: Before their Heel–Face Turn, the Grandis Gang are very impressed by the skills of Nadia and Jean to escape them. | |
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The Pollyanna | |
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The Pollyanna: Jean is a shoo-in for a inventors' competition which he ditches to save Nadia, and not only does his plane crash but he is perpetually on the run and in constant danger. Through it all, he is cheerful and even enthusiastic about the technology from both sides in general. (The only exceptions are when he and Nadia are exploring Gargoyle's base, and when he reacts in horror to two deaths—one of an escaped fugitive, and another of a crew member.) | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Episode 20: Gargoyle's briefing at the beginning of the episode reveals one of the purposes of disrupting Atlantic shipping: To allow Neo-Atlantis to seize control of key global industries and divert their profits into the organization's budget. The Neo-Atlanteans may be a global secret society, but even they need cash to pay the bills. This was also previously acknowledged in Episode 7 when Gargoyle invited financial backers to witness the first test firing of the artifical Tower of Babel. Episode 21: Even with all their technological advances, the Nautilus is still only one single vessel waging a secret war against a global secret society with significant resources. It’s inevitable that sooner or later, Gargoyle would be able to corner them and deploy enough resources to take out the submarine. Episode 36: The Gratan trying to escape Gargoyle's bomardment of Old Tartessos. Their getaway speed is hampered by the cumulative damage the Tank's sustained since the aerial battle durign Episode 21. Hanson's patched it up as best as he can (during the Island Arc), but even he could only do so much without access to a garage. The Gratan is only fully repaired with access to the N-Nautilus repair bays in the next episode. The Secret of Fuzzy: Given the global reach and membership of Neo-Atlantis, blowing up Red Noah in Episode 39 would not automatically destroy the entire organization. It is completley realistic that there would be survivors who’d go underground either to protect themselves from Nemo's surviving allies and hummanity, or who would carry on Gargoyle’s goals (or hijack them for their own ends). | |
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Parental Substitute | |
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Parental Substitute: A few examples through the series: Nemo became one for Electra after she joined his crew. To an extent Grandis and her henchmen become this to Nadia and Jean after their Heel–Face Turn, offering support, encouragement and advice with... variable success. Nadia and Jean essentially become Marie’s primary caretakers after she is orphaned. | |
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Morton's Fork | |
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Morton's Fork: Several: The Blue Water has caused the deaths of thousands if not millions of people through war only; if used incorrectly, it could cause the deaths of billions. Nemo levels his own kingdom and kills everyone in it in order to save humanity; the problem is that he did not succeed and the danger is still looming. In the finale, Jean has to choose between shooting a brainwashed Nadia to stop Red Noah or allow her to keep shooting at Nemo. Nadia has to choose between allowing the Atlanteans to come back and enslave humanity or surrender to Gargoyle and Neo Atlantis to exterminate humanity; she opts to take a third option and tries to kill herself unsuccessfully, so she surrenders to Neo Atlantis. She later has to choose between saving Jean's life or respawn the Atlanteans from the Blue Water; she chooses the former, sacrificing thousands of souls including her mother's. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: By the end of the series, Gargoyle’s dead, the Neo-Atlantis organization has been destroyed, and the world’s saved. Jean and Nadia (now free of the burden of carrying the Blue Water) earn their happy ending, marry, and start a family. But countless people are still dead, including Jean’s father and Marie’s parents. Neo and Nemo also sacrifice themselves to save Nadia while the souls of Nadia’s mother and the Atlanteans inside the Blue Waters give up their combined life forces to resurrect Jean. And if Nadia’s 20th Century’s similar enough to ours, then the First World War’s a decade away (if not sooner because of Gargoyle’s actions). | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
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Damsel in Distress: Nadia is particularly susceptible to this, even when she is very fit as a trained acrobat. However, when it's revealed that she has the power to destroy the world, she begins doing this willingly just to save her friends. | |
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Hidden in Plain Sight | |
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Remember the Captain's hologram? That guy at the left of Nemo, holding his shoulder, is none other than Gargoyle. When Nemo blew up Tartessos, it's said that the people that "died" are actually contained in the Blue Waters that he and Nadia carry, and that these people's souls are Atlanteans; by mere arithmetic, all the people that didn't end up in the Blue Waters were certainly Tartessians, but not Atlanteans; that is, plain humans. These survivors were the men that composed the ranks of Neo Atlantis, who merely think that they are Atlanteans by inertia. In hindsight, not even Nemo was aware of who was Atlantean or who wasn't; as a result, it's not clear how far Gargoyle would have been able to carry his plans indeed if unimpeded, seeing that he ended up being human and powerless when it came to handling the Blue Water. Nemo certainly proceeds with his actions throughout the series under the assumption that Gargoyle and Neo Atlantis are of Atlantean race and capable of manipulating the Blue Water. | |
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Spoiler Title | |
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Spoiler Title: The initial mystery of what the sea monsters are is given away in the episode title "Nautilus, the Fantastic Submarine". | |
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Brainwashed | |
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Brainwashed: Nadia in episode 38. | |
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Submarine Pirates | |
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Submarine Pirates: Captain Nemo and his crew live aboard the Nautilus. So it serves as their home as well as their base of operations. | |
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Becoming the Mask | |
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Becoming the Mask: Kinda when Grandis decides to stay aboard the Nautilus after the Cape Verde incident. Nadia thinks she's just going to try and steal the Blue Water again. However, Grandis adopts a more formal, nicer persona and apologizes to Nadia, treating her and Jean more kindly and sweetly (which amusingly unnerves the kids at first). She is doing this to help make her attractive to Nemo, but also arguably because since she now knows Gargoyle put out the bounty on the Blue Water and there's no point trying to collect on it (or to antagonize Nadia any further). However, it quickly becomes clear that Grandis isn't that bad at the end of the day. While she never loses her fiery temper and persona, she's a better person for the remainder of the series and even becomes close with both Nadia and Jean. | |
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Beach Episode | |
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Beach Episode: Repeatedly. Most of Grandis' backstory can only be explained when she is in a hot tub or on a beach. | |
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Long-Lost Relative | |
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Long-Lost Relative: Emperor Neo is Nadia's older brother. | |
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You Have Failed Me | |
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You Have Failed Me: Gargoyle's way of dealing with some subordinates that have failed to meet expectations. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: Nemo effectively killed his own son when he blew up the Tower of Babel at Atlantis (his body was eventually reconstructed by Gargoyle). | |
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Stock Footage | |
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Stock Footage In the sequel movie, about 30 minutes (one third of the entire running time) was taken up by a long flashback sequence (made from footage from the TV series, re-cut without regard for chronological order). When Jean has an extensive dream sequence in which he is unveiling invention after invention before an adoring Nadia and Marie, the pictures of Nadia who's praising his genius are used over and over again. | |
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Unwilling Roboticisation | |
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Unwilling Roboticisation: Emperor Neo is implied to have been brainwashed by Gargoyle into ousting Nemo out of the throne and he is later somehow stormed out of the destruction of Tartessos, but he is nowhere near unscathed. Gargoyle reconstructs most if not all of his body with an artificial frame and continues using him for his agenda, later confirming that he has been brainwashed from the beginning; curiously, Neo doesn't quite mind that much about being roboticised, but is rather preoccupied with saving Nadia's life. | |
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Lonely Together | |
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Lonely Together: Jean depends on his aunt and uncle to get by, but he mostly hangs alone in his father's house out of convenience and because his father paid his aunt to maintain him in his absence; he does not seem to have any close friends. Nadia doesn't have any friends other than the animals at the circus and mostly stays because she relishes on entertaining people as an acrobat; she is very aloof and confrontational to people that approach her. In a subtle way, this "loneliness" draws both together. | |
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Convenient Enemy Base | |
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Convenient Enemy Base: Twice! | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: Episode 04: "Bon Voyage, dear Princess." The closing line reveals that Electra knows, or at least realized, who Nadia was when she and Jean were brought aboard. It's also the first hint that the show's seeming two Myth Arcs are actually two sides of the same coin.. Episode 38: Gargyole and Nemo's first face-to-face reunion in 13 years, which reveals their true names: Eleusis La Arwall and Nemesis La Algol respectively. The reveal that Gargoyle was the Prime Minister of Old Tartessos also instantly and finally clarifies details about his history with Nemo and how he was able to stage the coup against Nemo, and how he knew all the great secrets of Atlantis. Episode 39: "There are only two Atlanteans in this world. Nemesis la Algol, you are in truth human." | |
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Always Second Best | |
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Always Second Best: Grandis at the end. The Atlantean's first choice for a servant race was not the humans; they had chosen whales first until they found it not too practical. | |
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We Used to Be Friends | |
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We Used to Be Friends: Nemo and Gargoyle keep repeating it as if the other would forget. Gargoyle even throws the most spiteful funeral service for Nemo once he destroys the Nautilus; he even gives Nemo a last chance to surrender in the finale, even considering that he's holding all the cards. They used to be so close that Gargoyle shows up on Nemo's family portrait. | |
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Bamboo Technology | |
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Bamboo Technology: Armed with a bit of salvage, Jean builds a camp worthy of the Professor from Gilligan's Island. | |
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Motive Decay | |
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Motive Decay: Jean begins shifting his scientific pursuits from satisfying his personal whims to the entire purpose of making Nadia happy (especially when she informs that she wishes to go to Africa.) Though he repeatedly promises to take her to her birthplace, it's not him who accomplishes this, falling somewhat short of his promise; however, it's his perseverance and his love for Nadia that saves the day, not his inventions as he intended. | |
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Bookends | |
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Bookends: Nadia opens in Paris and the series climax likewise kicks off in the City of Lights beginning in Episode 37. Even the basic scenario is the same: Jean having to rescue a kidnapped Nadia from a technologically superior foe in the skies above Paris. The Grandis Gang's first mission as allies of the Nautilus in Episode 10 and participation in the final battle come Episode 38. In both episodes, the Gang pilots a now-modified Gratan on a risky operation to save the ship and its crew from Gargoyle. | |
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Flashback | |
| Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water / int_53bb70b2 | comment |
Flash Back: Most main characters get some exposition in this way. Over twenty minutes straight of The Movie is made up of flashbacks. | |
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Granola Girl | |
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And she kills mosquitos in an earlier episode. | |
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Innocent Fanservice Girl | |
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Innocent Fanservice Girl: Played with. Nadia shows a lot of skin for a woman in the late 1800's Europe, though she is very conscientious of showing a little too much. The landmarks signaling her acceptance of her feelings towards Jean are marked by her gradual willingness to be seen naked by him (that is, if you don't count the filler in the Island and in Africa). | |
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Sheltered Aristocrat | |
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Sheltered Aristocrat: Ayerton is a purported British count with wealth and status. He is one of the only characters in the story that is completely out of his element and it shows; turns out, he is an aristocrat indeed. Grandis is a former Italian aristocrat who was cast out of her family for unwittingly marrying a swindler. She argues that she was sheltered, but that her being brought to dirt forced her to become more pragmatic and wise. Subverted with Nadia, who is the heiress to Tartessos and one of the last Atlanteans. She was raised in slavery, has great problems with socializing and has very low self-esteem. Turns out, she's one of the most important people in the world. | |
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Let's Get Dangerous! | |
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Let's Get Dangerous!: When the Grandis Gang stops screwing around and are on top of their game, they’re nigh-unstoppable. | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: Too many to count, as the series is an Anachronism Stew: Italians, Americans, Frenchmen and Spaniards are plentiful in the series, but Portuguese and Germans seem to have no presence, despite the cast visits two territories that were their colonies at the time (the Cape Verde islands and the Congo Free State, respectively). As stated in Teen Genius, Jean beats the Wright brothers by two decades in the development of the first glider with sustained flight. As such, this comes as a vague nod to the French aeronautics pioneering engineer Alphonse Pénaud, the main inspiration for the Wright brothers' enterprise; he also beat the Breguet-Richet design of a manned helicopter by almost two decades. Similarly, Hanson beats the invention of the tank by at least 25 years; the invention of the tank, being a collaborative effort mainly promoted by Winston Churchill. | |
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Green Aesop | |
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Green Aesop: One of the underlying themes of Nadia consists in the discussion encompassing the sanctity of life, mankind's relationship with nature and the role that both war and technology play in this respect. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
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Fantastic Racism: Gargoyle, an Atlantean, is very derogatory towards the human race. It comes to bite him in the ass when it's revealed that he's human after all; the revelation costs him his life. | |
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Sand Bridge at Low Tide | |
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Sand Bridge at Low Tide: The only way to access their escape pod during the unfortunate island arc. (Get the picture yet? Again, SKIP THE ISLAND AND AFRICA ARCS!) | |
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Body Motifs | |
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Body Motifs: Eyes. Eyes, everywhere. The Neo Atlanteans are particularly fond of them, having huge, eye-shaped symbols wherever they can put them, even built into their ships, and on their creepy masks. | |
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Snot Bubble | |
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Snot Bubble: Especially when it comes to King. | |
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Puppet King | |
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Puppet King: Emperor Neo. Quite literally. | |
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Malingering Romance Ploy | |
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Malingering Romance Ploy: Nurse Ikoli of the Nautilus is so pretty she has even a fan club. Of course, Sanson managed to voluntarily wound himself to see her more often. | |
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The Un-Reveal | |
| Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water / int_5a3b8032 | comment |
The Unreveal: If you expected some huge revelation regarding Gargoyle's face, you'll be disappointed. Besides some suspicious resemblance to Fuyutsuki, his face is completely unremarkable. He does appear as a younger man in Nemo's hologram. Likewise, we never get an explanation for why he chose the nom de guerre Gargoyle after abandoning Tartessos and his original name, or what (if any) significance the new name has in Atlantean culture. It's never made clear how Nadia survived the destruction of Tartessos other than by the grace of the Blue Water or who sold her to the circus in the first place. It's not revealed how Gargoyle managed to keep Neo alive after their country literally blew up. It's passed off as "science" without giving any major detail. It's never made clear why Nemo was so tardy in meeting the arms race against Gargoyle when he apparently had the Red Noah, the Blue Noah and Excelion at his disposition, though it's implied that it has to do with his fall from grace; he is either reluctant in using the Blue Water or simply lacks the authority to wield it that Nadia apparently has. It's shown that the souls in his Blue Water reside in agony and anger towards him, while in Nadia's they're accepting and caring of her. | |
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My Way or the Highway | |
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My Way or the Highway: It's revealed that Jean's inventions fail not because he's a bad inventor (he's excellent otherwise, as it's impressive what he has accomplished on his own), but because he's sometimes staunchly against receiving feedback from people that can help him. He eventually realizes that this will get him nowhere and accepts Hanson's input. | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Nadia does not want the power because she's convinced she cannot handle the responsibility and tries to kill herself. | |
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Kangaroo Court | |
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Kangaroo Court: Gargoyle throws a show trial for Nemo during the final two episodes. While he intends to render a guilty verdict to punish Nemo, he does at least offer a token chance for Nemo to come back and see the light (which, as he expects, Nemo refuses). | |
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Wife Husbandry | |
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Wife Husbandry: Not played entirely straight with Electra and Nemo. Nemo thought of her as a daughter for thirteen years before they get together, and apparently never thought of her as anything else until after the destruction of the ''Nautilus''. Played more straight, however, with Marie (age 4 in the main story) and Sanson (age 27). | |
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One-Book Author | |
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One-Book Author: The ADV English dub was Margaret Cassidy's only major anime role as the voice of Marie. | |
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Drunk on the Dark Side | |
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Drunk on the Dark Side: While Gargoyle's certainly taking generous sips from the chalice, as it were, throughout the series, it doesn't really kick into full-on inebriation until the closing episodes when he acquired both Blue Waters and gains control of Red Noah. Since he's essentially won, it's justified that he descends even further megalomania and delusions of grandeur. | |
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Single-Target Sexuality | |
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Single-Target Sexuality: Jean has eyes for no one else but Nadia. Despite his apparent fascination with Electra, his relationship with the latter is more brother-sister based (Nadia gets wrongfully jealous about it.) Similarly, Electra has this for Captain Nemo; he initially raised her as his daughter, though she was able to make him see what she wanted from him. | |
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Royal Blood | |
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Royal Blood: One of the main plot points. Nemo used to be the King of Tartessos and he is one of the last Atlanteans alive; he and his offspring are capable of bringing the Atlanteans back to life and reign over humanity by subjugating it. Gargoyle tries to take advantage of this to rule behind the curtains, only that Nemo isn't having any of it. | |
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Spanner in the Works | |
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Spanner in the Works: Gargoyle and Nemo would have fared way better had Nadia stayed dead just like she was considered to be. Nemo became more nurturing once Nadia showed up while Gargoyle became more greedy; this shifted priorities and spelled doom for two adversaries who up to that point were engaged in total war against each other. | |
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Parental Incest | |
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Parental Incest: Nemo initially viewed and treated Electra as a surrogate daughter to replace his own children whom he believed were both dead. However, she had already fallen in love with him upon reaching puberty, but decided to continue to keep it a secret as she felt it would just be unrequited after accidentally overhearing how he felt about her. They eventually get together after she snaps and confesses her feelings. When his real daughter, Nadia, turns up she realizes that he no longer has any need of her as a surrogate daughter. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Gargoyle — and not just his Atlantean name either, as his true identity's Nemesis La Algol. | |
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Lost Technology | |
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Lost Technology: A key plot point of the Myth Arc. With ancient Atlantis and Old Tartessos long gone, there are few intact pieces of Atlantean technology left on Earth. Neo-Atlantis has recreated what they can using surviving knowledge and late 19th Century technologies, but they’re technically inferior copies (as demonstrated when Gargoyle’s Tower of Babel in Episodes 7-8 fails after only one successful test firing). This is why Gargoyle needs Nadia and Nemo’s Blue Waters: To locate and access the long-missing Red Noah and its cache of intact and powerful Atlantean technology and weaponry.. | |
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Dream Sequence | |
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Dream Sequence: Episode 26 features Jean dreaming to impress Nadia and Marie with his genius and then making everyone leave the island. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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To an extent Grandis and her henchmen become this to Nadia and Jean after their Heel–Face Turn, offering support, encouragement and advice with... variable success. | |
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Sequel Hook | |
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Sequel Hook: Blink and you'll miss it. Upon exploding, the Red Noah releases sixteen light spheres that spread around the world, which according to Gainax were meant to be giant Adams like the one Gargoyle shows to Nadia. This would be the basis of the plot for in a sequel series that eventually turned into Neon Genesis Evangelion when Gainax couldn't recover the rights for Nadia. | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper: Grandis, mostly for comical effect. Nadia also has this, which poses serious problems for her relationships. It takes her a long time to learn to control it. | |
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Replacement Goldfish | |
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Replacement Goldfish: One of the reasons Nemo took Electra under his wing is to compensate for him losing his daughter Nadia; turns out being a "daughter" isn't what Electra was looking for in their relationship. She tolerated this aspect because it kept her close to Captain Nemo, but that didn't mean that she was particularly flattered by it; it gets even worse when Nadia shows up alive and kicking and Nemo gets all fatherly, since Electra (accurately) thinks that Nemo doesn't acknowledge her in the way she wants to and now the little brat comes to kick Electra off the only angle in which she was able to get close to him; this makes her angry enough to gun him down. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Kinda happens in Episode 38, if you’re counting the Gratan as an unofficial character. The Grandis Gang sacrifices their tank in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to knock out Red Noah’s Tower of Babel. Hanson’s heartbreak at destroying his beloved tank is a Tearjerker, but the sacrifice isn’t in vain as it turns the tide of the space battle in the favor of the N-Nautilus. Played straight in the following episode. Nemo then sacrifices himself and the N-Nautilus to allow Nadia and the others to escape Red Noah and to ensure it and its surviving Neo-Atlantean crew don’t survive orbital reentry. The sacrifice is also justified because it Nemo’s mortally injured and the Blue Water’s gone. If he’s gonna go out, he’s doing so on his own terms. | |
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday | |
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday: The Grandis Gang pay very little mind to being imprisoned, meaning that they have been in custody before and have successfully escaped as well. There is very little wonder from the protagonists and the crew of the Nautilus at the fact that they just fought and survived a gigantic battle in space. | |
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That's No Moon | |
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That's No Moon: An island that the gang had been situated on turns out to be the Atlantean battleship Red Noah. | |
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Homing Lasers | |
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Homing Lasers: One of the Nautilus' primary weapons. Seems like Hideaki Anno loves these! | |
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Oracular Urchin | |
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Oracular Urchin: Nadia, but only in places where Atlantean technology empowers the Blue Water to serve as an Unusual User Interface. | |
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Seeker Archetype | |
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Seeker Archetype: Jean and Nadia's intention is to be able to return her to her homeland, only that this "homeland" is not exactly on the maps. They have no idea the can of worms they open when they set themselves to the task | |
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The Power of Love | |
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The Power of Love: Jean defeats Gargoyle not because of anything he does, but because of what he is, namely, someone Nadia values more than she does the Blue Water. Because Gargoyle's plans depend on the use of the Blue Water, Nadia destroying it to save Jean dooms his plans. | |
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Only the Chosen May Wield | |
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Only the Chosen May Wield: Only Atlanteans can wield the Blue Water. When Gargoyle tries, he disintegrates into salt. | |
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Hidden Eyes | |
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Hidden Eyes: Happens any time Nadia gets mad. Sometimes it also happens for moments of Nadia in contemplation, like in Episode 21 after she figures that she is the cause for the Nautilus being in danger. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: Gargoyle points out that Nemo has no business opposing him on the basis of having the higher moral ground, especially after Nemo destroyed his own kingdom, killing almost the entire population in the space of a week; to be fair, Nemo is trying to prevent Gargoyle from either decimating or enslaving mankind. | |
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Techno Babble | |
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Techno Babble: Whenever someone explains how all this tech works. Jean even brings this up when he argues that the more he reads about it in Electra's books, the less he understands. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Electra, as in Electra Complex, which basically sums up her relationship with Nemo. She's also close to Electra of mythology. Her main motivation is revenge against the people who killed her parents. At one point, she even threatens to take it out on her adoptive father. Sanson is a very strong, vain, and bullheaded man. Like the Biblical Samson. Meanwhile, Hanson's name may be a pun on "Handsome", which he, uh, isn't. It could also be a play on the phrase "Hands-on" as a reference to his engineering skills. Nemo's name means "No one" or "Nobody" in Latin, as they helpfully point out. And "Nobody" in Spanish is Nadie. On a minor note, Nadia is also similar to "Nadar", the Spanish word meaning "to swim". Neo Atlantis is given its name for two reasons: as a way of saying "New Atlantis" and because they are under the "rule" of Emperor Neo. Eleusis is a close homonym to Ulysses, a king estranged from his land, an errant sailor and an intelligent and affluent man who faces fantastic adversaries and adventures at sea. Captain Melville of the US Navy is a reference to the great American writer Herman Melville of Moby-Dick fame. His attitude towards the "sea monsters" is a nod to Captain Ahab from said novel. | |
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Secret War | |
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Secret War: The war between Nemo and Neo Atlantis is largely kept away from the public eye and both parties make an effort to keep it secret. Nemo does not want humanity digging into some very dangerous technology, while Gargoyle doesn't want to tip off his enemies, humanity itself. Neo Atlantis sinks various ships in the effort to keep their scheming secret including Jean's father's ship, which bring some light into the public eye, though it's apparent that they think that the submarines are just sea monsters. Then again, all goes to hell when Neo Atlantis attacks Paris using the Red Noah. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Nadia reaches this point after learning the truth about herself and the Blue Water, on top of coming to the conclusion that she's a horrible person; which leads her to believe the world would be better off without her. The attempt is foiled, but not without repercussions. Electra does the same when she finally learns that Nemo does care about her, and tries to shoot herself. Nemo talks her out of such behavior. | |
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Villainous BSoD | |
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Villainous BSoD: Gargoyle's death in Episode 39 as the culmination of his Villanious Breakdown. The ruination of his dreams and hopes for a restored Atlantean Empire is crushing enough, but the revelation that he was ‘’never’’ actually an Atlantean and was a human – the very lower lifeform he’s despised — all along completely breaks him in his final moments. | |
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Babies Ever After | |
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Babies Ever After: The title character (Nadia, married to Jean), the narrator (Sanson of the Terrible Trio, married to a much younger lady, the now grown-up Marie), and the most "complex" character (Electra). Grandis (the boss of the trio), notably is still single, and having yet to find a new love. Hanson, oddly, is shown to be single, even though he talks about getting married someday. King is also shown having cubs. | |
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Missed Him by That Much | |
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Missed Him by That Much: To get into the fortress where Nadia is being imprisoned, both Jean (who's become separated from her) and the Grandis Gang (who are after the Blue Water) conceal themselves in the same caravan of mining cars that will take them there. As soon as the cars they're in start moving, they pass by Nadia coming from the other direction. The New Nautilus arrives at Tartessos mere minutes too late to prevent Nadia's capture. | |
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UngratefulBitch | |
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After Nemo shoots a Neo-Atlantean to save Nadia from being killed, Nadia shows no gratitude, but instead calls Nemo a murderer, ignoring all arguments that said soldier was aiming at her. | |
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My Greatest Failure | |
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My Greatest Failure: Nemo already leveled his kingdom to prevent Neo Atlantis from destroying everything else, so he is highly reluctant to doing it again, much to Electra's chagrin. Nadia is filled with remorse at not being kinder to Captain Nemo once she learns that he's her dad. | |
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Disney Death | |
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Disney Death: Jean, before being revived. | |
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Cannot Spit It Out | |
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Cannot Spit It Out: Nadia is unable to talk about her problems in an appropriate manner other than resorting to hateful rages and vicious insults. She's also unable to admit that she genuinely does love Jean. Again, due to being not great dealing with people. (Jean is much more open and demonstrative.) Nemo is altogether incapable of telling Nadia that he's her father for fear that she will never forgive him for what he did to their family and to Tartessos. It doesn't help that she is openly hostile towards him from the get-go. | |
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Adaptation Title Change | |
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Adaptation Title Change: Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water is extremely loosely based on Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. | |
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You Can't Fight Fate | |
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You Can't Fight Fate: For good or ill, Nadia is destined to use the Blue Water to change the world and there's no escaping it; it contains the souls of every Atlantean who died in Tartessos, and only communicates with other Atlanteans - and she, along with her father Nemo and her brother Neo, are the only surviving Atlanteans. The Blue Water refuses to respond to Nemo's will as he is responsible for the destruction of Tartessos and Neo is dead in every way that matters, so it is up to her to determine the final fate of the souls within the Blue Water; to be resurrected to rule the Earth, or for their power to be expended in some world-shattering manner. This power cannot be contained forever, and eventually she will have to make a choice. Though she goes to extremes to fight it. The Blue Water wouldn't let her. Ironically, once she gives in, the Blue Water permits her to destroy it - in order to resurrect Jean. | |
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Because You Were Nice to Me | |
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Because You Were Nice to Me: Jean might be the first person that ever showed love and affection to Nadia in her whole life up to that point. Though she doesn't quite know how to handle it, she sticks with him because she does reciprocate his feelings for her (although she is the last one to admit it). That said, Nadia completely loses this aspect of her character during the filler arc. Then again, Anno discredits these episodes from the continuity of the show. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: The opening narration. | |
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Hell on Earth | |
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Hell on Earth: The week in which Tartessos was destroyed was described as this by Electra. | |
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Bond Villain Stupidity | |
| Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water / int_7570a10c | comment |
Bond Villain Stupidity: Zigzagged with Gargoyle throughout the show. He’s an intelligent, Genre Savvy Magnificent Bastard, yet he’s also a spiteful, arrogant bigot – especially when Nemo is involved, and with good reason given all that transpired between them 13 years earlier in Old Tartessos.. So Gargoyle underestimates the heroes of the Nautilus almost as often as he manages to stick it to them. However, the Trope then gets played straight and justified in the closing arc. With the presumed deaths of Nemo and his crew at Old Tartessos in Episode 36 and possession of the Blue Waters and Red Noah, Gargoyle has effectively won. Since there’s no way the humanity of 1890 can mount even a token resistance against Red Noah, he’s quite justified in declaring victory. So Gargoyle quickly becomes Drunk on the Dark Side and starts making sloppy mistakes he wouldn’t have made in earlier episodes — mistakes which ultimately help cost him and Neo-Atlantis their victory and their lives. Ignoring the Grandis Gang during their incursion into Red Noah in Episode 38's perhaps the most egrious instance of this. By this point in the show, the Gang's more than proven they can be a legitimate threat and shouldn’t be underestimated. But Gargoyle not only ignores them, he doesn’t even dispatch security forces to halt their advance inside Red Noah — at least not until after they take out the main reactor. Hell, Hanson even lampshades the lack of a counterattack (with Sanson bitterly pointing out that the Gargoyle and his men justifiably don’t fear a tiny mecha like the Gratan. | |
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Furo Scene | |
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Furo Scene: Two with Nadia. The first one is shared with Electra and Marie and the second one (on a western bathtub) is with Grandis. | |
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All Myths Are True | |
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All Myths Are True: Atlantis, obviously with the show doing its own spin on the 'Atlanteans were Aliens trope. But it’s also gradually revealed most, if not all, Biblical legends were actually inspired by ancient Atlantean technology and culture. Particular emphasis is placed on: Adam: The first artificial human created by ancient Atlantean genetic engineering. Being a prototype, Adam was the size of a giant — which indirectly implies he and other early humans were also the basis for the stories of the Nephilim). The Tower of Babel: An ancient communications relay that unintentionally served as a focused, multi-directional energy weapon). Soddom and Gommorah: The cities were actually destroyed by the original Tower of Babel. At the end of the series, Gargoyle is also turned into salt by the light of the Blue Water; the implication is that something similar killed Lot's wife. Jericho: The Walls of Jericho are revealed to have been destroyed by an Atlantean atomic vibration device. This same technology is used to cripple the Nautilus in Episode 21. Noah's Ark: Noah was not actually a person, but in reality the flagship of the Atlantean refugee vessels (Red Noah). These vessels also carried Atlantean wildlife and culture with them, thus serving as the basis for the Biblical Ark and its mission purpose. Tartessos, the Ancient Greek equivalent of the El Dorado legends, also gets tied into the show's take on the Atlantis myth. Using Tartessos also doubles as a Mythology Gag, since it’s been speculated the semi-mythical city may have been Plato’s inspiration for Atlantis, Atlantis itself by another name, or a satellite city of Atlantis. | |
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Remember the New Guy? | |
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Remember the New Guy?: Ensign Fait in Episode 15. He's never seen amongst the existing Nautilus crew in the preceding episodes and his purpose is pretty much to just be the first on-screen Nautilus Red Shirt — and to break Jean's idealistic view of science. | |
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Why Did You Make Me Hit You? | |
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Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: Gargoyle always claims his atrocities are the fault of the victims for not cooperating and not because of his own sadism. | |
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Get It Over With | |
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Get It Over With: At one point Electra tells Nemo that as long as the children are aboard the Nautilus, they will not succeed in defeating Neo Atlantis. Later, she attempts to shoot Nemo out of frustration after the Nautilus is all but destroyed by Gargoyle's dangerously powerful super-weapon, blaming his actions on his supposed love for his daughter. Then she decides to shoot herself after Nemo informs her that he refused to destroy the Nautilus as she suggested on account of saving her. | |
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Circling Birdies | |
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Circling Birdies: Seen a few times, both the stars and birdies variants. In the episode where Jean gets into a Mushroom Samba after eating mushrooms, Marie knocks him out with his own encyclopedia, and he keeps the Circling Birdies for a long time afterward, even commenting on seeing them. | |
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"Save the World" Climax | |
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"Save the World" Climax: When the series opens, it focuses on two teenagers being pursued by jewel thieves. By the closing episodes, these two are the center of a battle for the entire planet. | |
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Impoverished Patrician | |
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Impoverished Patrician: Grandis is a former aristocrat from Italy, while Ayerton is supposedly a British Count, though he is notoriously off his rocker. Turns out Ayerton is actually a wealthy aristocrat all along. | |
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Not Quite the Right Thing | |
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Not Quite the Right Thing: Nadia's way of angrily reacting impulsively is due in part to the way she was brought up by the circus ringmaster, who was verbally abusive at her; for most of her life, he was the only male influence she had available. Slowly, Nadia is able to shed his influence away. The other influence that the situation brought on her is the need to draw an audience for the show; she is particularly preachy and confrontational, and she makes a point to do it against a group of people. she even brings an "audience" when she tries to kill herself, much to her friends' scorn. | |
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The Faceless | |
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The Faceless: Except for his death scene, the villain is always masked. He is shown as a younger man in Captain Nemo's hologram, standing at his side. | |
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No Can Opener | |
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No Can Opener: During the island arc, the kids discover a wreck and manage to salvage some canned goods. Deciding to "live with nature", Nadia abandons Jean and Marie and sets off into the jungle, but not before taking some food with her —only to realize too late that her "even the simplest technology is bad" mentality is far from conductive to getting any of it out of the cans. She keeps smashing them flat with big rocks. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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Sums up everyone's reaction after Nadia's suicide attempt; especially Grandis and Sanson. The former wallops her for it, the latter chews her out for being selfish and scaring them all. ("Quit playing this tragic little game of yours!") Jean calls them off, and forgives Nadia. | |
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds | |
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Nadia and Neo are brainwashed by Gargoyle into becoming WMDs to reduce everything to rubble and seize power for himself. Neo has to be essentially blown up to lift off the brainwashing and sacrifices his own life to lift Nadia's on his father's wishes. This is very poignant, given that it was his father Nemo the one that destroyed Neo's body in the first place; to put into perspective, Nemo committed a genocide that took Neo and he still heeds to Nemo's wishes to save Nadia. That guy really loved his dad. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: Grandis and Ayerton are very fond of booze, though Ayerton is more prone to go off the rails when drunk. | |
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Tsundere | |
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Tsundere (Type A-1): Nadia (she gradually gets better, however, if you don't count her actions in the filler arc and especially in Africa.) | |
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Explosive Instrumentation | |
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Explosive Instrumentation | |
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Impossibly Cool Clothes | |
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Impossibly Cool Clothes: Most anything Nadia wears. She could probably rock out a diving suit if such were the case. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Jean is indirectly responsible for the events of Episodes 20-22 and the destruction of the original Nautilus. His rocketry experiments accidentally alert a Garfish submarine the Nautilis is covertly surveilling. They're unable to destroy the sub before it can signal Gargoyle (who already had suspicions that Nemo had survived the False Flag Operation in Episode 15). Now knowing their relative position, Gargoyle is able to deploy his forces in a successful bid to cripple Nemo's ship. Grandis in Episode 38 when the Gratan infiltrates Red Noah. Grandis decides to take a shortcut to the rather than following the route outlined in the schematics. This gets them lost inside fast and the delay nearly allows Gargoyle to destroy the N-Nautilus with Red Noah's Tower of Babel. Using the Gratan's new weapons upgrade to carve out a shortcut also depletes their arsenal once they reach the main reactor. The Gang is forced to destroy the Gratan to disable the critical systems, which leaves them defenseless when Neo-Atlantean security forces eventually arrive off screen. | |
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Actually Pretty Funny | |
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Actually Pretty Funny: Episode 10: After Jean, Hanson, and Sanson barely survive the Neo-Atlantean minefield, an exhausted Hanson sarcastically asks Jean what he learned from this experience. Jean’s innocent, outraged response (“That I really hate mines!�) sends Sanson and Hanson into paroxysms of laughter. Even Jean cracks up too once they get going. Earlier in the episode when Sanson and Hanson launch the Gratan's underwater operation, Nemo asks Sanson what happened to Granidis. Upon hearing that Gang 'forgot' to bring her along, and despite the seriousness of the situation, even Nemo can't help cracking a small smile. | |
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Dramatic Wind | |
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Dramatic Wind: Whenever Nemo looks off into the distance and broods. | |
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Vestigial Empire | |
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Vestigial Empire: Tartessos in the series backstory. With the destruction of ancient Atlantis, Tartessos became the last surviving Atlantean city by the Present Day. This is also revealed in Episode 38 to be one of the reasons Nemo rejected Gargoyle's Atlantean supremacy idealogy and sided with humanity. Unlike Gargoyle, Nemo understands and accepts that Atlantis's time has come and gone and that the Earth now belongs to humanity. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: The entire Grandis Gang. It’s practically an unofficial job requirement. Amusingly, you’d think Grandis, as the team’s leader and namesake, would be the hammiest member. But if anything, the Ham Among Hams as it were is Sanson. | |
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Made a Slave | |
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Made a Slave: Nadia is sold twice in her life: the first time, she was sold to the circus by an unknown party to become a performer and was forced to work in order to eat; the second time, she was sold to Grandis by using counterfeit money. | |
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Interspecies Romance | |
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Interspecies Romance: Between the two lead characters: Jean, who's a human boy, and Nadia, who's an Atlantean. It also doubles as an interracial relationship. Happily Married: Seen at the series' conclusion, which shows an older Jean and Nadia living happily together at his uncle's home. | |
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Free-Range Children | |
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Free-Range Children: Played with in the case of Nadia, Jean and Marie. Jean is shown to be given great freedom by his uncle even before he meets Nadia. When Nadia and Jean first show up at the Nautilus, they are scampered away by Electra as soon as possible until they unwittingly run into more trouble and get into the Nautilus again. Nemo then starts to enact orders to keep his daughter Nadia as close to him as possible once he finds out that she's alive, much to the displeasure of Electra. Electra later complains to Nemo on the presence of the children on board and calls him out on being a hypocrite and a traitor to their cause once he starts giving more and more importance to Nadia's life than to destroying Neo Atlantis. | |
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Alien Non-Interference Clause | |
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Alien Non-Interference Clause: Averted in the series backstory when the ancient Atlantean refugees made their emergency landing on Earth. They had no compunctions whatsoever about interfering in the evolutionary development of Earth’s native species or enslaving them to rebuild their great civilization. | |
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Narrator All Along | |
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Narrator All Along: Later revealed as a slightly older Marie. | |
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CaptainAhabSyndrome | |
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Captain Ahab Syndrome: As noted in Meaningful Name, Captain Melville of the US Navy has a personal and passionate grudge against the "sea monsters" that sunk his first ship, regardless of whether they are the good guys (the Nautilus) or the bad guys (the Neo Atlantis Garfish fleet). However, it's shown that he is somewhat aware that they are not deep-sea creatures, but rather submarines. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The main characters. An antisocial circus acrobat girl of unknown origins, a hopelessly optimistic and cheerful young French inventor, a orphaned little French girl living in the Cape Verde Islands, a white lion cub, a former aristocrat turned jewel thief, and the latter's driver and mechanic... all coming together to save humanity! Yup. | |
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Macross Missile Massacre | |
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Macross Missile Massacre: The primary form of Sub-to-Sub combat. | |
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Third-Person Person | |
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Third-Person Person: Marie will almost unequivocally talk about herself in the third person; justified in that she is 4 years old. | |
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Mr. Exposition | |
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Mr. Exposition: Various characters at different times. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: Episode 21: The Grandis Gang’s counterattack against Gargoyle's flying fortress. The Gang’s so focused on deploying the Gratan and saving the day that it doesn’t occur to them that with the ship’s power disabled, the Nautilus landing bay doors won’t open. Grandis quickly realizes the only pragmatic choice is to just blow the damm hatch. | |
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Ancient Conspiracy | |
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Ancient Conspiracy: Behind the separation of the Blue Water. | |
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Arrow Cam | |
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Karmic Death | |
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Karmic Death: Gargoyle spends the whole series crapping on humankind, only to find out that he has been human all along when drawing his last breath and crumbling to dust. Gargoyle makes sure that Nemo dies a death like this by brainwashing Nemo's son and daughter into shooting him dead, that is, the son and daughter that Nemo had attempted to kill when he blew up Tartessos. Nemo lives to see his son die a second time after the brainwashing goes away and he attempts to save Nadia, while Nemo is able to sacrifice himself to save Nadia once and for all. | |
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Art Shift | |
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Art Shift: In Electra's flashback during episode 22. Also done very effectively in Episode 35, where merely 3/4 of the exploration of the ruins of Tartessos are entirely in black and white, with the blue light from Nadia's Blue Water being the sole source of color. During all twelve episodes of the Island/Africa arc, the animation both takes a dive in quality and resembles a cut rate Looney Tunes cartoon. These episodes were produced by other studios in Japan and Korea. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
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Rule of Symbolism: The destruction of the Eiffel Tower during the aerial battle between Red Noah and the N-Nautilius in Episode 38. It’s where Jean (and the Grandis Gang) first met Nadia in the Pilot and where Jean pledged to help Nadia travel the world to uncover her origins. Now, 37 episodes later, the Tower’s destruction symbolizes how that quest has opened a can of worms Jean never could’ve imaigined a year earlier. And now those dremas are crashing and burning as Gargoyle lays waste to the City of Lights. | |
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Precursors | |
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Precursors: The Atlanteans. Nadia claims the Noah myth is an allegory for the collapse of Atlantean civilization. | |
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White Mask of Doom | |
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White Mask of Doom: Gargoyle and all who follow him wear variants of his creepy white mask that appears to be crying while smiling sadistically. | |
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Last Day of Normalcy | |
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Last Day of Normalcy: Both Nadia and Jean in experience this in the first episode: Jean came to the 1890 Paris World's Fair to see his uncle's planes and Nadia worked as circus acrobat. Both will meet Grandis and her henchmen wanting her blue stone and have to flee her, thereby starting the whole story. | |
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Leeroy Jenkins | |
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Leeroy Jenkins: Grandis does this Episode 38 when the Gratan infiltrates Red Noah. Rather than stick to the planned route to getting to the main reactor, she impulsively decides to take a shortcut instead. Hanson and Sanson, caught up in the heat of battle, follow her lead...and the Gang promptly gets lost fast. Their delay sets off a chain of events that nearly gets the N-Nautilius destroyed and forces the Gang to sacrifice their mecha to complete their objective. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: Gargoyle in Episode 39. It arguably subtly begins during late Episode 38 after the N-Nautilus boards Red Noah, then really kicks into gear after Neo regains his sentience and everything starts going wrong for Gargoyle. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: Gargoyle | |
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Orphan's Plot Trinket | |
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Orphan's Plot Trinket: The Blue Water, which was given to Nadia by her father, Nemo. | |
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Not So Above It All | |
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Not So Above It All: Gargoyle is as much interested in subjugating humanity as he is in spiting and humiliating Nemo. Nemo shows that he has not forgotten that he is a dad underneath all the callouses... though a fed-up Electra almost kills him because of this. As a matter of fact, Electra scampers Nadia and Jean out of the Nautilus the first time with the sole purpose of avoiding this; turns out they end up boarding again and Electra even callously calls Nemo to kick them out of the damn ship and do what he's supposed to do. To be fair, Electra never takes it out on neither Jean or Nadia, as it's not their fault. Electra is courteous and kind to everyone she meets until Nemo starts thinking that he's a "dad" and not her Captain as she always wanted him to be. Out of all the people that witnessed Nadia's suicide attempt, it's Grandis and Sanson who take it the hardest; not only are they sad, they are livid at her. Nadia gets a big one during episode 35. She tries to kill herself in front of her friends. The Blue Water stops her from doing so. Then she discovers that it's her birthday and her friends sing to her for the first time in her life. And she kills mosquitos in an earlier episode. Nemo is elated at being shown affection by Marie just after being scorned by Nadia. This is a man that is shown to betray very little emotion to say the least. | |
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Big Bad | |
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The Big Bad Atlantean-supremacist Gargoyle didn't know he was a human that was adopted by Atlanteans. | |
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Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: Played for black comedy in Episode 38 when Grandis has the Gratan take a shortcut inside Red Noah instead of sticking to the route on the schematics...and they get lost fast. Grandis naturally refuses to take any responsibility, but that doesn't mean Sanson and Hanson are blameless either. They're also at fault, because they only put up a token resistance to deviating from the plan...and they instead try to pin all the blame on Grandis. | |
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Rewatch Bonus | |
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Rewatch Bonus: Every one of Gargoyle’s scenes with him propagandizing about Atlantean supremacy and humanity’s savagery and failings all take on wonderful dramatic irony after the reveal in the finale that he’s actually human and won’t realize it until it’s too late.. | |
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PragmaticVillain | |
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Pragmatic Villain: Gargoyle will not hesitate in killing his minions, but he is not above giving them several opportunities of giving what's expected of them before doing so. The guy has a limit to his patience, but when it runs out, he is brutal. | |
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Implied Trope | |
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Implied Trope: While it's not shown how Nadia survived the destruction of Tartessos (much to Nemo's and Gargoyle's surprise), it's implied by the powers shown by the Blue Water (preventing her from taking her own life) that Nadia was saved by the Blue Water back then as well. There are three Atlantean ships that landed on the earth more than 2 million years before, but only two are mentioned: the Red Noah (formerly housed at Atlantis), and the Blue Noah (housed at Tartessos); judging by the complexity of the Antarctic base and the creatures stored there in the ice museum, it might be the third ship itself or it used to be housed there. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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"Not So Different" Remark: When Jean and Hanson stop fighting over the Blue Water, they realize they're both mecha geeks and simultaneously Squee over the Nautilus. | |
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Boyfriend-Blocking Dad | |
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Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: The first thing that Nemo does once he realizes that his daughter Nadia is alive is to segregate her from Jean. Nadia thinks that it's Jean's fault, so she lashes at him (but later apologizes). It takes Jean saving the Nautilus with Hanson and Sanson to make Nemo realize what the boy is willing to do for Nadia and how much they care for each other, so he leaves them be. | |
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Indignant Slap | |
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Indignant Slap: The titular character is on both sides of this trope, slapping Jean when he looks too closely at her breasts. She also receives three slaps during the adventure, one from Grandis for calling Nemo a murderer for letting Enseign Fait die, another from Nemo for shouting she hated him and the Nautilus crew and finally, after she survives her suicide attempt, a third one from Grandis. | |
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Evil Counterpart | |
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Evil Counterpart: Nemo and Gargoyle are always going on about their vague but important pasts. | |
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Death by Irony | |
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Death by Irony: Electra is electrocuted (although she did not die). Jean, the boy that loves to fly, falls (he gets better). Nemo is riddled with bullets by the son and daughter he thought he had killed at Tartessos. Finally, the Atlantean-supremacist Gargoyle dies while discovering his true nature — he is a human adopted by the real Atlanteans, and he never found out before entering an energy field that turns non-Atlanteans to a pillar of salt. Oops. | |
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Blush Sticker | |
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Blush Sticker: Jean. Justified with him being a redhead. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Episode 04: How is it that Electra knows who Nadia is? A brownish kid called Nadia shows up at the Nautilus while wearing a Blue Water; Who else could she be but the Princess of Tartessos, her Royal Princess and the daughter of Nemo, the former King of Tartessos and captain of the Nautilus? Episode 09: When Nemo first sees Nadia aboard the Nautilus, he looks at her as if he were seeing a ghost; it's not as much him being surprised and glad that his daughter is alive, but he rather seems flabbergasted and afraid as if wondering how she survived the destruction of Tartessos in the first place (which is fair, considering it killed everyone else). Episode 10: Nadia tells Marie that she doesn't have to say goodbye to her dead parents when they leave the Cape Verde islands, as they are actually watching over her from heaven. Marie answers that Nadia's parents must be watching over her too. Turns out, Nadia's dad is right there captaining the Nautilus, while her mom resides in the Blue Water that she wears. Episode 11: During the debate about whether to make Jean, Nadia, and the Grandis Gang part of the crew, it's mentioned that no one aboard the Nautilus fully comprehends its super science. They've learned how to use it, but they'd never be able to duplicate it on their own. This sets up the reveal later on that Nemo's crew didn't actually build the Nautilus. It's actually an Atlantean craft they broke out of mothballs and refitted for ocenaic use against the Neo-Atlanteans. As Tarteoss refugees, Nemo and company have learned how to use the advanced technology, but duplicating it is well beyond 19th Century capabilities. Episode 15: Nadia is able to translate the unknown language of the plaque of the Nautilus without difficulty and seemingly out of nowhere. She is reading Atlantean and for all intents and purposes this is a knowledge that is inherent in her even when she was stormed out of Tartessos when she was barely a toddler, meaning that she is not an ordinary human being. Episode 18: The Nautilus landing party learns that the Garfish attacks on ships in international waters stopped after the False Flag Operation in Episode 15. It makes sense that the Neo-Atlanteans have ceased their attacks to help sell the ruse. But the Nautilus Senior Staff is worried this means their enemy's shifting priorities. Episode 20 subsequently confirms the attacks accomplished the Neo-Atlantean goal of seizing control of various global industries and trade. Gargoyle's also shifted priorities and resources to the deployment of aerial fortresses. Episode 37: Gargyole and Electra's Info Dumps regarding humanity's true origin. The ancient Atlantean refugees were too few in number to rebuild their civilization on Earth on their own. So, genetic engineering was employed to remake humanity into a viable servant race and remade in their creator’s images. This sets up the reveal in Episode 39 that between those already-low population numbers and the subsequent millennia of in-fighting, the only remaining biological Atlanteans left on Earth in the Present Day were the Tartessos Royal Family. Gargoyle (and by extension his followers) is actually a human who was raised believing he was Atlantean and he didn't know the truth because of how the two races are now visually indistinguishable from another. Marie argues that she somewhat mistrusts Electra and that she finds her to be rather creepy, but that she likes Captain Nemo, stone face and all. Guess what Electra does immediately after Nemo says his goodbyes? She shoots him and threatens to kill him. Electra begins to get increasingly sassy with Captain Nemo, slowly hinting that she's not very happy with him. Much to her surprise, he picks this up almost immediately. When the levees break, Electra almost kills the guy, alphabetizing every little thing that he's done wrong. Gargoyle shows himself extremely resentful of Nemo from the beginning and he tends to underestimate him at every encounter they have; this is because Gargoyle had already defeated him categorically when he forced him to abdicate his throne, as Nemo had lost complete control of Tartessos before he decided to destroy the country rather than letting Gargoyle grow rampant. | |
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Barbie Doll Anatomy | |
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Barbie Doll Anatomy: Back and forth with Nadia. An early scene of Sanson and Jean peeping on Grandis and Nadia changing includes a quick peek of the latter's nipples, but the episodes where Red Noah explains Nadia's origins has her gone full Barbie-doll (though some some shots when the control system is activated do show a couple lines that apparently represent her areolas). Played straight in the movie. Unusually, King the lion cub has a rather prominent scrotum, but no visible sheath. Showing feline scrotum is not as big a deal in Japan as it is in the West. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Ayerton becomes tremendously unhinged when he falls off a ship from the American Navy. He washes up at an unusual island, has several encounters with the Grandis gang there, and his altered state makes him think that they are demons who are harassing him; also, the artificial island where they are constantly defies the laws of physics, making him tremendously paranoid. The gang eventually reveals that they buried him in the beach in the first place because he drank all of their booze, is a pathological liar, and was a huge Jerkass to begin with. | |
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Filler | |
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Filler: There is a long arc from episode 23 to 34 of the way through the series that involves the kids not doing much on an island then escaping and not doing much in Africa while the rest of the cast has adventures off screen. The sort of exception are episodes 30 and 31, which introduce a vital plot point for the end of the series. | |
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Dramatically Missing the Point | |
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Dramatically Missing the Point: Electra, numerous times: She thinks that Nemo has turned to jelly just because Nadia is alive and present; it's actually because of her; If anything, Nadia brings out the shame in Nemo for what he's done and currently doing to Electra. Nemo tells her that he did everything to save her life and the first thing she does is point the gun at herself in disgrace. Small wonder Nemo slaps her to get it together. | |
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First Kiss | |
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First Kiss: Named an episode after it, even if one of them is high on mushrooms when it happens. A more traditional one happens later. Unfortunately it is treated as a cruel tease, because the writers quickly press reset on the leads' relationship immediately after. The spin-off Japanese-only Mega Drive game by Namco (which is a loose retelling of the show) handles this much better. There, it's treated as a genuine turning point in Jean and Nadia's friendship and there are no mushrooms involved. (Nadia also admits her love for Jean, which is something that never really happens in the show.) The PS2 spin-off game also handles this scene as a natural progression. | |
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Pacifism Breaking Point | |
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Pacifism Breaking Point: Nadia starts the series as a staunch pacifist to the point of chewing Nemo for killing a Neo Atlantis soldier who was shooting at her. However, her meeting Gargoyle and Emperor Neo and her hearing their anti-human speeches made her say she wanted to kill Neo. | |
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It's Personal | |
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It's Personal: Gargoyle's grudge and attitude towards Nemo shows that he was deeply hurt by Nemo's betrayal. At the finale he even gives Nemo a last chance to turn to his side. Captain Melville is not too happy at losing hundreds, if not thousands of men when his first ship is sunk by a Garfish. This is the main reason he attacks and "sinks" the Nautilus later in the story. In the same vein, Ayerton supports the attack because he is intent on avenging Nadia and Jean, who he thinks were killed in the first sinking. | |
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Rock–Paper–Scissors | |
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Rock–Paper–Scissors: Sanson has bad luck at this game. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Nadia has this kind of look on her face in Episode 20 after she learns from Electra in the bath scene that Nautilus is merely fighting to destroy Gargoyle and that she is not in danger of losing Jean to Electra as Grandis had suggested. Earlier, she was stubbornly determined to believe Nemo and the Nautilus were both evil and was quite nasty to Jean (in a fit of jealousy) when he attempted to compliment her (as advised by Electra). She looks quite remorseful for making such bad calls of judgment. The same is true in Episode 23 when she reflects on how she had mistreated Nemo. Also doubles as Jerkass Realization. | |
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Half-Human Hybrid | |
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Half-Human Hybrid. Nemo is a full Atlantean from an unbroken line of descent alongside his deceased wife and queen, while Nadia is their daughter; as such, Nadia's son with Jean and Nemo's son with Electra are half-Atlantean, half-human. | |
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Cute Machines | |
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Cute Machines: The Gratan might be the cutest, badass tank in fiction. | |
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Evil Chancellor | |
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Evil Chancellor: Gargoyle used to be this, before pulling off a (mostly) successful coup and moving on to better things. | |
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It's Not You, It's My Enemies | |
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It's Not You, It's My Enemies: Nemo keeps Nadia ignorant of their past together because she holds the key to bring out the apocalypse that Gargoyle wants and to keep her from learning about the monstrosity he had to commit to prevent this from happening. The problem is that Gargoyle finds out on his own that Nadia is alive. The fact that Nadia shows nothing but scorn at Nemo and reject his last effort to show her affection on their (then) last goodbye tears him apart inside. | |
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Bowdlerization | |
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Bowdlerization: When the show aired in Italy and Spain, it was released with many cuts for scenes that were considered innapropiatenote Which was typical considering that it was aired on the Italian television network Mediaset. These changes were also carried over to the French dub by AB. | |
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Jerkass Realization | |
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Also doubles as Jerkass Realization. | |
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And There Was Much Rejoicing | |
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And There Was Much Rejoicing: Gargoyle throws the most venomous and spiteful funeral in honor of Nemo, calling for all Neo Atlantis to commemorate the day that they "destroyed" their foil. | |
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Due to the Dead | |
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Due to the Dead: Nemo takes every man that has fallen under his command to be buried at the ruins of Old Atlantis. | |
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MacGuffin | |
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It's never made clear how Nadia survived the destruction of Tartessos other than by the grace of the Blue Water or who sold her to the circus in the first place. | |
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Status Quo Is God | |
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Status Quo Is God: Invoked in a literal sense. Gargoyle intends to lay waste of the world and replace everything with genetically engineered life that doesn't wither or perish, impervious to the passage of time. | |
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The Friend Nobody Likes | |
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The Friend Nobody Likes: Ayerton once he hooks up with the characters during the Island Arc and into the closing episodes. Sanson outright admits in Episode 37 that he doesn't like Ayerton at all. | |
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Love at First Sight | |
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Love at First Sight: About the sole reason Jean is following Nadia from the beginning. He caught a single glimpse of Nadia and wanted nothing more than to be with her, not even his prized flying competition (which was the entire reason he went to Paris to begin with). Hanson becomes infatuated with Electra, though she only has eyes for Captain Nemo. Grandis falls head over heels at her first glimpse of Nemo; understandably, Electra is none too happy with this. | |
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Ancient Astronauts | |
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The shift into full-on Sci-Fi and Space Opera is at least is justified in-story because of the Ancient Astronauts clues beginning from Episode 7. As soon as the Slave Stars were introduced, really, a space-based climax became inevitable. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: Jean's aunt makes very snide and racist remarks about Nadia, to which Jean has to chase down Nadia and offer her shelter at his own house at Le Havre. Considering this is the late 1800's, there was still very poignant colonialism practices in Europe, so her reaction towards Nadia is not as surprising. | |
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Off-Model | |
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During all twelve episodes of the Island/Africa arc, the animation both takes a dive in quality and resembles a cut rate Looney Tunes cartoon. These episodes were produced by other studios in Japan and Korea. | |
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Myth Arc | |
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Myth Arc: As detailed in the opening summary, initially it seems that there are two Myth Arcs running through the show: The hunt for Nadia's homeland and the secret war between Nemo and the Neo-Atlanteans. It becomes clear as early as the end of Episode 4, however, that they're not unconnected... | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If Gargoyle hadn't murdered Jean, Nadia wouldn't have needed to destroy the Blue Water to bring him back, depriving him of an irreplaceable MacGuffin. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: An awful lot of examples: When Gargoyle realizes that he's human and not Atlantean. When Electra as a child sees from a distance the explosion that killed the Queen of Tartessos. When a surviving Electra finds her "unconscious" brother by the lake shore and tries to pick him up... only to see his arm fall off the socket. When Nemo realizes that Nadia is alive; even worse, when Electra fails to keep this information from him. In context, Nemo has thought for the last decade and a half that he killed his own children when he blew up the Tower of Babel at Tartessos. When Nemo has just saved Nadia from the sinking of the Nautilus only to get shot by Electra. In the same moment when Electra is told by Nemo that he did not want her to be hurt by his actions. It's so bad that she tries to kill herself in shame. When the American captain gets his top-of-the-line battleship sunken down by the "sea monster". When Marie wanders off in a resting island only to find herself facing the barrel of a gun from a Neo Atlantis soldier. In episode 24, when Marie lashes at Nadia lividly for being ungrateful at the fact that they just saved her. When Nadia and Jean are at the Cape Verde Neo Atlantis base and they realize that they are in a conveyor that leads to a furnace. When the crew of the Nautilus realizes that they are trapped in a cave due to Neo Atlantis' floating mines. When the Gratan begins taking water and losing its hydraulics while clearing the mines. When Gargoyle deploys what amounts to a nuclear bomb on top of the ruins of Tartessos. When Grandis realizes that Electra is pregnant with Nemo's baby. When Jean is told by Villan that his father indeed went down with his ship. In a rather tragic example from the group, when Nadia tries to kill herself. | |
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Blue with Shock | |
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Blue with Shock | |
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Public Domain Artifact | |
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Public Domain Artifact: Just about everything in Jules Verne's closet that wasn't nailed down. Plus the "Blue Water" from Beau Geste, of all places. | |
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Pyrrhic Victory | |
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Pyrrhic Victory: Grandis is ecstatic at meeting her beloved Nemo again after the inconceivable toils she has gone through until she realizes that he and Electra have already consummated their relationship and that Electra is expecting Nemo's child, meaning she lost the battle for his heart by being absent. She resigns to this twist of fate, but she is left in a puddle of her own tears. Even 12 years later Grandis is unable to find another man to love, though she does have numerous options. Nemo is able to stop Gargoyle from using the Tower of Babel at Tartessos as a weapon of mass destruction by leveling the country, wiping out the entirety of his own civilization to save humanity; this is one of the reasons Gargoyle is so mad at Nemo. Nadia is able to bring Jean back to life by sacrificing the souls of thousands if not millions of the dead Atlanteans stored in the Blue Water; this includes her own mother, who gives the OK. Nadia is able to live through the sacrifice of her father, her mother and her brother in a conflict that has claimed thousands of lives from the bad guys' side; this, considering that she is a staunch pacifist and a nature lover. That had to sting an awful lot. | |
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All for Nothing | |
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All for Nothing: Everything Gargoyle does in the backstory and across the course of the series (betraying his King, orchestrating a coup, killing countless people) was all done to achieve his dream of restoring Atlanean supremacy over Earth and humanity. And in the end, not only does Gargoyle fail to achieve this goal, but his actions ironically complete the final destruction of the Atlantean legacy. Then just to rub salt in the wound, Gargoyle also learns in his final moments that he was never actually an Atlantean and was in fact a human – the very being he despised, looked down and thus he could never have been part of the Atlantean world. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Nadia is Ambiguously Brown, spends the majority of her screen time in a Stripperiffic circus costume (which includes a loincloth), takes frequent baths, and is quite nubile for a fourteen-year-old girl. Plus, she's an agile acrobat. | |
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Well-Intentioned Replacement | |
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Well-Intentioned Replacement: Grandis makes a point about the fickleness of receiving undesirable gifts by mentioning a family ring given to her by her mother. She then reveals that it's fake and her mother knew it, but she kept it because Grandis' dad gave it to her. | |
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Sand Necktie | |
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Sand Necktie: Ayerton gets this treatment from the Grandis Gang. Not to let him die, though, but just to teach him a lesson, as his madness was making him quite annoying. | |
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Bread and Circuses | |
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Bread and Circuses: Apparently, no one came in kicking doors and asking names when a UFO attacks and destroys part of Paris. Jean reveals in the Nadia Omake Theater featurettes that the Eiffel Tower was rebuilt on 1895, but nothing else raised any concern in the public. | |
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Weapon of Mass Destruction | |
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Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Tower of Babel, located in several places in the show: Gargoyle's base, Tartessos, and, ultimately, Red Noah. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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Fate Worse than Death: The Atlantean souls trapped in Nemo's Blue Water are not very happy with him. They chastise him and wail at him for killing them. Nemo's glimpses at the stone are a reminder of what he did to his people to save humanity. | |
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Sapient Ship | |
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Sapient Ship: The errant Red Noah has an automated robot pilot that slowly seeks the heirs to Tartessos to restart the Atlantean civilization. It used to be housed at Atlantis until the latter was decimated by war; it camouflaged itself as an island and ebbed for thousands of years until it stumbled upon Nadia, who was a castaway in another island nearby. | |
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Just Between You and Me | |
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Just Between You and Me: Gargoyle is addicted to this sort of exposition. | |
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So What Do We Do Now? | |
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So What Do We Do Now?: Electra is about to shoot Captain Nemo for his reluctance when it comes to destroying Gargoyle in a suicide charge using the Nautilus just because of Nadia's presence. Nemo is prompt to tell Electra that he doesn't want her to be hurt, which is why he didn't kill himself and take her and the crew with him. For that reason, Electra then tries to shoot herself in front of Nemo. | |
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Heir Club for Men | |
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Heir Club for Men: Played with. Nadia is part of the 117th generation of the Tartessian Monarchy alongside her brother Neo. Neo is given the helm of Tartessos by Gargoyle, while Nemo does the same for Nadia (as he is unaware that Neo is alive); as such, it's not clear who between Neo or Nadia is the heir apparent to Tartessos and Atlantis or whether there were rules for primogeniture. | |
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Shadow Archetype | |
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Shadow Archetype: Most of the characters in Nadia have considerable problems with expressing their true feelings and thoughts because of shame and regret (Nemo), anger (Electra), or simply because they don't know how to do it (Nadia). (Jean sometimes has feelings of doubt, but otherwise he's the most honest about expressing his emotions.) | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The last five minutes of the final episode recaps the fates of the main characters, after a 12-year-Time Skip (narrated by a teenaged Marie): Jean and Nadia are Happily Married with a son, while their pet King had a litter of cubs; the Grandis gang has since disbanded with Grandis herself still single, Electra will raise Nemo's child as a single mother, Hanson owns an automobile company but is still single, whilst Marie ends up with Sanson, and is currently pregnant with his first child. | |
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Meat Versus Veggies | |
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Meat Versus Veggies: This is the source of Nadia's Berserk Button, as explained above. She tries to impose her views on her friends while turning a deaf ear to Jean's reasoning that they only eat meat for food, not to do murder. Nadia eventually abandons this aggressive attitude, though, when she finally confesses her tragic past to Jean and Marie. | |
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Evil Overlord | |
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Evil Overlord: Subverted. While Neo ( Nadia's brother, Venusis) is the emperor of Neo Atlantis, he is just a puppet re-animated by Gargoyle. | |
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Market-Based Title | |
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Market-Based Title: The Japanese title, Fushigi no Umi no Nadia ("Nadia of the Mysterious Seas"), was basically used by Gainax to forestall Executive Meddling, by ensuring their title followed the same pattern as Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Amusingly, Hideaki Anno was a lead animator on that film. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
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Aerith and Bob: The survivors of the Atlantean Royal Family of Tartessos: Eleusis note -Nemo- and his kids Venusis note -Neo- and Nadia. | |
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Sadistic Choice | |
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Sadistic Choice: Nemo's: Is it acceptable to kill thousands of people (including your family), or even millions, to save billions? Nadia's: Is it acceptable to sacrifice the souls on wait of your ancestral race to save the love of your life? | |
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Cool Ship | |
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Cool Ship: Several. | |
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You Are What You Hate | |
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You Are What You Hate: The Big Bad Atlantean-supremacist Gargoyle didn't know he was a human that was adopted by Atlanteans. Nadia is a staunch pacifist and hates the prospect of watching anyone being killed; turns out that she's the ultimate warbringer and a living, walking weapon of mass destruction... little wonder she tries to kill herself once she finds out. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Nadia easily loses her temper over trivial matters, particularly when anybody eats meat. (Mostly, though, it's shouts of frustration related to her inability to convey what she wants from Jean.) She eventually changes that behavior, and of course, Jean constantly forgives her. Played with regarding Grandis. She is a lot more patient, kind and sensitive than she lets on, but this is largely overshadowed by her being a Large Ham. She is not a fan of criticism to her cooking skills in particular. In the previous point's respect, Grandis is the only person that can get inside Electra's skin and both are the only two allies that definitely do not like each other. Electra is particularly irked at the fact that Grandis pays her no respect whatsoever where everyone else does, and by her advances at Captain Nemo. | |
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Putting on the Reich | |
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Putting on the Reich: The Neo-Atlanteans. They greet each other with a reversed version of the Nazi salute (right arm extended, then placed to chest). In addition, they also wear black uniforms reminiscent of the Nazi Schutzstaffel, and black Ku Klux Klan-like hoods (officers in charge wear orange). This is made especially explicit in their Omake Theater feature. | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Similarly to Bond Villain Stupidity, this gets zigzagged with Gargoyle throughout the show. There are multiple instances where he can kill Nemo and blow up the Nautilus and doesn't (or at least not at first). But it’s justified in-story because of his history with Nemo. Gargoyle’s still pissed at his former best friend and monarch’s ‘betrayal’ and how his sabotage of the Old Tartessos Tower of Babel set Neo-Atlantis's grand plan back over a decade. He has to stick it to Nemo, to show he was wrong, and that Gargoyle was right all along. | |
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No Social Skills | |
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No Social Skills: Nadia. Having spent fourteen years of her life in a circus with a cruel, unloving ringmaster, she dislikes grownups with a vengeance. As such, she does not know how to interact with people. Nemo is also like this when it comes to children, although he does gradually warm up to them. | |
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Sparing Them the Dirty Work | |
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Sparing Them the Dirty Work: Captain Nemo forbids Jean to fully join the Nautilus crew because he believe Nemo and his men should fight Neo Atlantis so that the younger generation wouldn't. | |
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Undignified Death | |
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Undignified Death: Gargoyle drops Jean from at least 40 feet like swatting an ant off the table. | |
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Happily Married | |
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Happily Married: Seen at the series' conclusion, which shows an older Jean and Nadia living happily together at his uncle's home. | |
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Non-Human Sidekick | |
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Non-Human Sidekick: King | |
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Humanity on Trial | |
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Humanity on Trial: Sort of in the last two episodes. Gargoyle’s technically running a Kangaroo Court against Nemo for betraying the Atlanean legacy and siding with humans. But humanity’s also for all intents on trial with Jean serving as Earth’s de facto advocate alongside Nemo. His failure to shoot the brainwashed Nadia is cited by as clear proof of humanity’s failings by Gargoyle (and conversely its strenghts and compassion by Nemo). | |
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Canon | |
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On the flipside, she does apologize to Jean numerous times for her misdirected anger, even going out of her way to bring him something to eat, go on walks with him, or anything else conciliatory (in the canonical episodes), but she never gets to do so to Nemo, even though she realizes too late that she could have been nicer. | |
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True Companions | |
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True Companions: There are three overlapping main groups that end up working for the same goals: The crew of the Nautilus; The Grandis Gang; Nadia, Jean and Marie. | |
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Xanatos Gambit | |
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Xanatos Gambit: Episode 10: See Batman Gambit. Episode 15: Gargoyle has one of his Garfish lure the Nautilus into a trap wherein new depth charges outfitted with an electromagnetic disruptor cripple the submarine. If the Garfish can destroy Nemo and company, great. If by chance they fail, Gargoyle still wins... because the Nautilus will have to surface to make repairs and will find an American Naval flotilla waiting for them (having suckered the Americans into being unwitting pawns in a False Flag Operation). The plan only fails because the Americans weren't able to finish the job before the Nautilus dove (and Nemo was forced to sacrifice several crewman to ensure they could remain hidden). | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Grandis and Electra cannot stand each other, but they are allies nonetheless. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: The second half of Episode 39. With Neo dead, Gargoyle has lost his puppet king and Red Noah is on a course to burn up on atmospheric re-entry. Nadia also now has control over the Blue Waters and Gargoyle has no leverage over her. The heroes are now holding all the cards and victory is immiment. Unfortunately, while Gargoyle no longer has the Blue Waters, he does still have control over Red Noah's other systems and refuses to go down without a fight... | |
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Cracks in the Icy Façade | |
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Cracks in the Icy Façade: Nadia was very abrasive towards Jean and mistrusting him due to the shell she had to built for herself during her abusive childhood in a circus. In the course of the series (barring parts of the Filler), she became more and more open to the others due to experimenting friendship, affection and love, even renouncing her Atlantean heritage if it means dropping them; even though, due to her Hair-Trigger Temper, she often disputes with Jean, she often apologises, by words or deeds, for harmful things she said to him. In the epilogue, she married Jean and presumaely kept contact with the rest of the protagonists. | |
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Nice Guy | |
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Nice Guy: Jean. He's also the most sociable and caring of the group. | |
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Natural Disaster Cascade | |
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Natural Disaster Cascade: The apocalyptic week that wiped the people of Tartessos off the planet began with the destruction of the Tower of Babel, which rained lightning over the country, followed by fire storms and an all-encompassing flood that didn't even leave evidence of a country ever being there. It's surprising that anyone was able to survive a catastrophe of such an enormous proportion. | |
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Premature Eulogy | |
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Premature Eulogy: Gargoyle really should have made sure that he killed Nemo before he went all funeral on his "death". | |
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Self-Destruct Mechanism | |
| Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water / int_c69ae9b2 | comment |
Self-Destruct Mechanism: Jean installs one in the cockpit of the plane he builds. | |
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Cliffhanger | |
| Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water / int_c6b8d37a | comment |
Cliffhanger: Nearly every episode ends on one. Including the filler arc. | |
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Collapsing Lair | |
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Collapsing Lair: The destruction of Neo Atlantis' Tower of Babel at the Cape Verde islands begins collapsing after the Orihalcon that powers it cracks after the first shot and later blows up after they try to shoot it a second time. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: To Indiana Jones, Gamera, Tarzan, Uchuu Senkan Yamato, 2001: A Space Odyssey and others. The Nautilus's design is an homage to the Alpha from Latitude Zero, while the N-Nautilus is a mix between the Moonlight SY-3 from Destroy All Monsters (itself based on the Thunderbird 1) and the Andromeda from Space Battleship Yamato (with a revolver-like ship launcher based on G�ten from The War In Space). Both ships share their paint job with the titular vehicle from Mighty Jack, and are said to be made from space titanium. Atlantis' ancient technology was created by aliens from Nebula M78, and the Blue Water flashes red in times of crisis like Ultraman's Warning Light. In an earlier storyboard, the Red Noah was developed by aliens from "The Third Planet of the Black Hole". Captain Nemo's design is based on Captain Gloval from Super Dimension Fortress Macross. Anno worked on Macross and reused the design as a Shout-Out. The Grandis gang was inspired by the Doronbo Gang of Yatterman: a villainous mecha-using trio with a female leader, a strongman, and a technical genius. The extremely strong and hair-obssessed Sanson is a reference to the superhumanly strong Samson from the Book of Judges in The Bible. The dream sequence in the Island Arc also contains an extremely obvious reference to Thunderbirds, specifically, Thunderbird 2, for which it replicates the entire launch sequence down to the most obsessive-compulsive levels of detail. Even the aircraft looks suspiciously similar to T2. H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness gets a reference with the South Pole base, where it lies the remnants of a pre-human civilization and some of its living bio-engineered beasts (and penguins!). Lovecraft's Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family is also referenced in the ancient civilization hidden in the African jungle. The picture just above Emperor Neo's throne is a modified version of Saturn devouring his son by Francisco de Goya, with the titular Saturn having Neo Atlantis' sigil eye stamped on his face. A rather interesting little blink-and-you-miss-it gem can be found in the German dub (and maybe others) in episode 36. The three Airships Nemo blows up at Tartessos with the new Nautilus are called ''Deus'', ''Ex'' and ''Machina''. In Gonzalez' vehicle, there's Hakushon's bottle. The Atlanteans using crystals as technology is a reference to the Edgar Cayce, a fortune teller/theosophist who wrote about Atlantis and describes similar technology. | |
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Rags to Riches | |
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Rags to Riches: The Distant Epilogue reveals Hanson founds a very successful automobile company after Gargoyle’s defeat. It’s not explicitly stated, but it's not hard to imagine that the success owes itself to technical inspiration Hanson took away from his exposure to the Nautilus and Atlantean technology. | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father: Captain Nemo is Nadia's father. | |
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Charles Atlas Superpower | |
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Charles Atlas Super Power: Sanson breaks out of prison by bending the bars. Later he stops the punch from a mecha twice his size. Both were bare handed. In the much maligned Island arc, Nadia is shown lifting a rather hefty boulder well over her shoulders in order to crush open cans of food. This strength, alongside her athleticism and acrobatics are not given major development in the story even to her advantage, as Nadia is staunchly against the use of violence. | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
| Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water / int_c858264c | comment |
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Magic Pants | |
| Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water / int_c949edd4 | comment |
Magic Pants: A variation. When Nadia is phased into the Red Noah's wall in episode 30, her clothings are rejected by the barrier, as it is apparently designed to only let in Nadia's biological body and the Blue Water, leaving her nude inside. However, only her makeshift white dress is left behind in the wall: her ballet shoes, pendants and hair decorations downright disappear, yet they later appear again when Jean gives her back her clothes. | |
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Charles Atlas Superpower | |
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The extremely strong and hair-obssessed Sanson is a reference to the superhumanly strong Samson from the Book of Judges in The Bible. | |
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Evil Knockoff | |
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Evil Knockoff: The Orihalcon that runs the Tower of Babel at the Cape Verde islands is an over-sized version of the Blue Water. True to its knock-off nature, it begins cracking after the first shot. | |
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Other Stock Phrases | |
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Other Stock Phrases | |
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Word of God | |
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That said, Nadia completely loses this aspect of her character during the filler arc. Then again, Anno discredits these episodes from the continuity of the show. | |
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Iris Out | |
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Iris Out: With pause for comment. | |
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Redshirt Army | |
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Red Shirt Army: Gargoyles Neo Atlantis' army is composed of masked no-ones that die by the thousands just to show the prowess of the Nautilus compared to the Garfish fleet. That's not counting the ones that died at Mahar island and their decimation when Nemo blows up the Red Noah. | |
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Tank Goodness | |
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Tank Goodness: The "Grandis Tank" '''GraTan''' (AKA "Catherine") is a multi-purpose vehicle created by Hanson and bona-fide marvel of engineering even when compared to the Nautilus and the industry displayed by Neo Atlantis. Compared to Jean's inventions, it's incredibly reliable even with its limitations. It might just well be a character on its own and it's destroyed in order to bring down the Red Noah. | |
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Spoiler Opening | |
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Spoiler Opening: The original opening reveals both the existence of Marie as an ally and the fact the Grandis Gang will eventually join the main characters. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: This is what Electra signs up for when she begins following Captain Nemo. She's even willing to forgive him for blowing up their country because it saved the rest of the world, but he seemingly wimps out because of the fact that his daughter Nadia is alive and present. Nemo argues that he saved Nadia because she has nothing to do with their private war, but that he became reluctant in the first place because of his love of Electra and how much more she could be hurt by his reckless actions. | |
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Steampunk | |
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Steampunk: In terms of time frame, the technology shown on Nadia is off by a couple of decades, and most of it is unrelated to humanity's technological advancements in the first place; for instance, the Atlantean technology itself predates humanity by a considerable margin. Other than that, in the literal sense, there are only sparse references to the use of hydraulics in Nadia, and these are specific to the Gra Tan. | |
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Badass Longcoat | |
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Badass Longcoat: Nemo trades in his Sea Captain’s Jacket for one by the time Jean and the Grandis Gang reunite with the Nautilus crew in Episode 36. | |
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Sigil Spam | |
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Sigil Spam: See Body Motifs. So many eyes. | |
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Broken Bird | |
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Broken Bird: Nadia, due to her personal experiences with adults; particularly her circus ringmaster at the beginning of the series. This causes her to distrust adults and people in general, believing they either want to use her or simply want the Blue Water she possesses. Thankfully, she gets better with help from Jean, Grandis, and the Nautilus crew. Electra and Captain Nemo also qualify, albeit for entirely different reasons. | |
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Animals Not to Scale | |
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Animals Not to Scale: The whale Irion is gigantic even by whale standards. It's likely due to the genetic engineering employed by the ancient Atlanteans during their experiments to find a suitable servant race. The nautilus at Antarctica is exactly the same size as the Nautilus submarine. King is very small and lanky for a lion cub; he later does grow to a regular-sized adult lion. | |
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Lightning Glare | |
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Lightning Glare: Grandis' stock in trade, Nadia gets a few too. | |
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"Eureka!" Moment | |
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"Eureka!" Moment: Episode 38: The Grandis Gang has less than a minute until the Red Noah's reactor destroys the N-Nautilus with its Tower of Babel. But the Gang also depleted their armaments getting to the heart of the ship and they're out of ideas and time. It's Hanson, studying the reactor, who realizes their solution: They can't destroy the Reactor, but they can block the main connection bolt. Doing that will prevent the Neo-Atlantean command crew from transferring the necessary power for the Tower of Babel's discharge. Sanson picks up the thread of thought from Hanson and realizes how they can do this: Use the Gratan itself to physically block the connection. | |
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Teen Genius | |
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Teen Genius: Jean. The kid beat the Wright Brothers by twenty-four years! He also invented a helicopter. And a rocket. And a music recorder. Which, if you take it at face value, means he invented the speaker, the microphone, the amplifier, and vinyl records. Which means he may well have invented the vacuum tube. And plastic. He also seems to have invented the Ukulele. | |
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Inappropriate Pride | |
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Inappropriate Pride: Marie brags to Nadia that Sanson taught her to cheat and lie; Nadia is less than pleased. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
| Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero? Sums up everyone's reaction after Nadia's suicide attempt; especially Grandis and Sanson. The former wallops her for it, the latter chews her out for being selfish and scaring them all. ("Quit playing this tragic little game of yours!") Jean calls them off, and forgives Nadia. Marie when she witnesses Nadia lay into Jean (unfairly and undeservedly) in episode 10. (Nadia eventually apologizes to him for that.) When Nemo shoots a Neo-Atlantean to save her from being shot, Nadia accuses him of "murdering in cold blood". From that point on, she stubbornly determines to despise him... despite Jean's attempts to reason with her that she would have died if Nemo hadn't acted. This goes to show how little and how badly she thinks of herself. Nemo blew up his own country and killed his own children by doing so note or so he thinks . Seriously... and he's the hero. Nemo starts casting aside Electra when he finds that Nadia is alive; Electra, being the girl he raised as a daughter and the person that loves him the most. | |
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You Are Not Alone | |
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You Are Not Alone: Nadia has a tendency of forgetting she has friends and people that love her: Nadia has been wearing the Blue Water for most of her life, oblivious to the fact that it contains her mother's soul and her entire civilization and race in it, and they're probably the reason why she made it out alive from the apocalypse at Tartessos in the first place and why she survived her suicide attempt. Played with when Nadia tries to kill herself and she's admonished at the fact that she didn't consider her surrounding friends when she did it. | |
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Philosopher's Stone | |
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Philosopher's Stone: The multiple Blue Waters are said to be keys that contain the souls of the Atlanteans, who are waiting to be revived in order to rise again as a kingdom; Nemo argues that the Blue Waters are the real-life basis for the legend of the Philosopher's Stone. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: Gargoyle denounces Nemo as a traitor for turning his back on the Atlantean legacy and siding with humanity over his own kind 13 years ago. And yet, Gargoyle’s the one who committed treason first by orchestrating the coup against the Tartessos monarchy, killing the Queen, and forcing Nemo’s abdication – all of which ironically helped push Nemo into siding with humanity in the first place. | |
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Mess on a Plate | |
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Mess on a Plate: Grandis' cuisine just looks terrible, but she is actually praised for the flavor she gives it; granted, it's not easy to make an anglerfish look pretty. | |
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The Chessmaster | |
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The Chessmaster: Gargoyle. He was originally the Prime Minister for the Atlantean Royal Family at Tartessos and he entrusted himself into their family circle; he organized a coup d'etat to dethrone Nemo and place Neo at the helm, brainwashing the child into activating the Tower of Babel in order to use it as a WMD; Nemo sabotages the test, blowing up the Tower and destroying Tartessos. Gargoyle takes the remnant of his revolutionary army and creates Neo Atlantis with Neo as a puppet emperor of his new world order; Nemo uses Atlantean technology to combat Gargoyle henceforth. Though he initially doesn't need Nadia, Gargoyle mainly uses her to get back at Nemo for constantly foiling him and later uses her and Neo together against their father, successfully wounding him mortally. Things only spiral out of control for Gargoyle when Neo is relieved of the villain's shackles. | |
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Dress Hits Floor | |
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Dress Hits Floor: Most of the female cast at one point or another. This is a Studio Gainax production! | |
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Mysterious Antarctica | |
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Mysterious Antarctica: Nemo's base is here. Also the World Tree. | |
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Love Redeems | |
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Love Redeems: Nadia gradually abandons her stubborn views and sociopathic temper as she grows closer to Jean. (It helps that the latter loves her unconditionally and constantly forgives her for her mistakes.) | |
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The Captain | |
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The Captain: How much bigger a Captain do you need than Captain Nemo? | |
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Cross-Popping Veins | |
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Cross-Popping Veins | |
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Malevolent Masked Men | |
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Malevolent Masked Men: Neo Atlantis. Literally all of them wear creepily-smiling masks with freaky yellow eye symbols painted on the foreheads. | |
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Aloof Dark-Haired Girl | |
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Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Nadia at the beginning of the series; she won't even give Jean the time of day. (She changes her mind when he rescues her from Grandis.) | |
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Pillar of Light | |
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Pillar of Light: Whenever the Tower of Babel fires up. | |
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Inelegant Blubbering | |
| Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water / int_dc031fde | comment |
Inelegant Blubbering: Happens on several occasions in the show: Played heartbreakingly straight in episode 5, where Marie breaks down over her parents' deaths. Played for laughs in episode 7 when the Grandis gang bawl in front of Gargoyle's soldiers as they're in prison. In Episode 15, Nadia breaks into tears after Grandis slaps her. Later, Jean does the same after Fait tragically dies. In episode 20, Marie amusingly pretends to do this to get Nadia to admit that she wants to visit Jean. (She does so again in episode 21 in response to the attack. And it's NOT played for laughs.) At the end of episode 22 where Electra finally breaks down in tears. Episode 39 when Nadia breaks down over Jean's dead figure (until Nemo gives her his Blue Water so that she can resurrect the boy.) | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
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Contrived Coincidence: On the same day, Nadia realizes that she has the potential to destroy the world, then tries to kill herself... then finds out that it's her birthday. | |
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In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves | |
| Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water / int_e06d3a98 | comment |
In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves: One of Gargoyle’s favorite talking points for restoring Atlantean control of the planet. He argues that humanity is inherently unruly and that it will destroy itself unless Atlanteans take the wheel again and provide enlightened leadership. In Episode 37, Nadia correctly counter-argues that the ancient Atlanteans themselves fell victim to this trope. They destroyed themselves and their great city throughout infighting, whereas humanity’s managed to outlive and thrive without the Atlanteans. Garogyle naturally ignores the hypocrisy and dismisses her counterargument. Ironically, he ends up proving her point in the finale, as his obsession with the Blue Water ends up getting himself and all his followers killed. | |
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Translation Convention | |
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Translation Convention: There are no contemporary language barriers in the world of Nadia, as people from France, Italy, and English speakers from the United States and the UK can understand each other without difficulty. Of course, in each dubbed track, everyone speaks the respective language, but in context the main characters should be speaking French (as Jean and Marie are French based; Nadia's more debatable). The only language barrier is through inscriptions written in Atlantean found in Tartessos and in the plaque of the Nautilus. The language itself is never spoken and it's for all purposes practically a dead language, but Nadia is able to translate it. | |
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Mouth Flaps | |
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Mouth Flaps: In an interview, Gargoyle's English voice actor, David Jones, mentions being incredibly lucky to voice a character who always wears a mask; that way, matching the flaps isn't a concern. | |
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Nature vs. Technology | |
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Nature vs. Technology: Jean thinks technology is a wonderful thing for mankind. His friend Nadia holds the diametrically opposed opinion, inspired by her ability to Speaks Fluent Animal and her abusive upbringing in the circus where she grew. Ironically, Nadia comes from a race of Ancient Astronauts. | |
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Musical Episode | |
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Musical Episode: Episode 34, at the end of the Filler arc, using Image Songs strung around a plot of Jean trying to express his feelings for Nadia through song. (It eventually devolves into one where Jean calls the latter out for her bad attitude and moodiness.) The English dub cast sang their own versions of the songs in this episode. (So did the German voice cast.) | |
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Friend to All Living Things | |
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Friend to All Living Things: Nadia, though she's suspicious of most adults. | |
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Mile-Long Ship | |
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Mile-Long Ship: Blue and Red Noah are gigantic and they have hundreds of smaller vessels in stock that are the same type as the Nautilus. Jusitifed, as both ships were arks meant to ferry the Atlantean survivors to a new world. In a lesser degree, the Neo Atlantis Space Battleships are the largest vessels shown in Nadia up to that point and they dwarf the Nautilus in comparison. The Excelion-type Battleship New Nautilus is the largest war vessel shown in the series. It's so large that it battles the Red Noah one-to-one, even when it's smaller. | |
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Last of His Kind | |
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Last of His Kind: Emperor Neo, Nemo and Nadia turn out to be the last pure Atlanteans. At the end of the series, only Nadia remains. Subverted with the Tartessians. It's unknown how many survive the destruction of Tartessos in the first place, how many survive in the ranks of Neo Atlantis or how many survive the fall of the Red Noah. | |
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The Coup | |
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The Coup: Gargoyle starts a rebel movement at Tartessos and they take control of the country by assassinating the Queen, ousting the King, renaming the country as Neo Atlantis and naming the king's son as the Emperor. | |
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Dub Name Change | |
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Dub Name Change: In the Spanish and Italian dubs, Gargoyle becomes Argo (nobody knows why, although it is a nice Meaningful Name given all the eye designs in Neo-Atlantis). The Spanish dub changes more names: Jean becomes Juan (the same name in Spanish), Grandis Granba becomes Rebeca Grandis, Sanson becomes Bruno, and Hanson becomes Sansón (for this, there's the speculation that somebody in the adaptation team got the duo's names mixed). | |
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Composite Character | |
| Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water / int_e4965307 | comment |
Composite Character: Several characters are stand-ins for those in the original Jules Verne canon, some more than one at the same time (see Expy below). | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: A big part of the cast is composed of expies, mixes and retools of characters from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ​and other works by Verne, including but not limited to In Search of the Castaways and The Mysterious Island. Ayerton Grenavan is a reference to Tom Ayrton from In Search of the Castaways and The Mysterious Island, also taking his surname from Lord Glenarvan from the latter work. He's also a marine biologist, referencing Pierre Aronnax from 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, although in this case being a loose parody of him, as he boasts to be an expert but is instead viewed as an unhinged charlatan. The spoiled noblewoman Grandis could also pass as a parody of Lady Glenarvan from In Search of the Castaways, who also lends her vehicle and crew to the heroes. In personalities and talents, Sanson and Hanson strongly resemble Ned Land and Conseil from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Both Sanson and Ned are boisterous men prone to show off their physical prowess and they are both noted for their accuracy and aim when handling weapons; they are also big eaters who get sick of eating fish every day and at one point they show their hunting skills, they both have a marked claustrophobic, and are very anxious at leaving the Nautilus where everyone else sees a garden of flowers. Hanson is a much mellower, brainy manservant like Conseil is, although he also echoes Cyrus Smith from The Mysterious Island, by being a mechanical engineer. Jean and Nadia, being children seeking their origins and/or parents in this adventure, play roles similar to Robert and Mary Grant from In Search of the Castaways. However, Jean also has elements of Aronnax, as they both share an idealism and interest on the Nautilus, and both enter the submarine with wide-eyed enthusiasm and climb out hardened by the realities of their adventures. He also conflates Cyrus Smith (for being an engineer genius) and Harber Brown (for his young age and being son to a seaman) from The Mysterious Island. For her part, Nadia is a dark-skinned African like Neb from the same work. Interestingly, Nadia also has elements of Aouda from Around the World in Eighty Days, being an exotic, dark-skinned young woman who acts as a love interest to the main character after the latter saves her life. The same novel is also loosely reflected on the cast going rather literally around the world. King is a mix of the cast's pets in The Mysterious Island, the dog Top and the orangutan Jup, being cuadrupedal like the former and as smart as the second. Gargoyle is very ostensibly based on Robur the Conqueror, the leader of an organization equipped with advanced technology and airships who plans on conquering the world. The same novel even features a contest of flying machines like the one that opens the anime. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: Gargoyle keeps referring to himself as Atlantean; turns out, he is all human. | |
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Offscreen Villain Dark Matter | |
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Off Screen Villain Dark Matter: Averted by Gargoyle's mooks reporting how his dark matter, I.E. commerce in wool and banking, is proceeding and how it is paying for things like his submarine and the Tower of Babel. | |
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Clothing Damage | |
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Clothing Damage: Electra's bodysuit gets torn to shreds during the final confrontation with Gargoyle. When she gets back to the Nautilus, she is immediately shown wearing an intact one, despite the situation being desperate enough that she wouldn't have had time to stop in her quarters to change into a new one. | |
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Artistic License – Space | |
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Artistic License – Space: Gargoyle shoots the Tower of Babel by aiming at targets with two giant satellites that reflect the beam; for some reason, these satellites have never been observed by humanity or any astronomer that knows how to point a telescope upwards. | |
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The Reliable One | |
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The Reliable One: Sanson, wherever there's need of a crack shot or ass kicking. | |
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Creepy Monotone | |
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Creepy Monotone: Neo talks in this manner, bordering Robo Speak; considering he is a sentient automaton, it would be understandable. However, he actually talks like that because of Gargoyle's brainwashing. | |
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Artistic License – Geography | |
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Artistic License – Geography: The semi-mythical settlement of Tartessos was said to be beyond the Pillars of Hercules, that is, the Gibraltar Strait, and has been identified with the pre-Turdetanian civilization in southern Iberian Peninsula in what is now Andalusia. In Nadia, the statement about the Pillars of Hercules is taken as a much, much longer distance, as it now places Tartessos in the Belgian Congo. Tartessos does have some connections with Atlantis in real life, though, as it has been long theorized that its contact with the Greeks might have been the inspiration behind the legend of Atlantis. The Tower of Babel and Marie's residence are located in the island of Mahar in the Cape Verde archipelago, which doesn't exist in reality. | |
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Princess Protagonist | |
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Princess Protagonist: The title heroine is a circus acrobat who performs under the stage name of "Princess Nadia", unaware that her Orphan's Plot Trinket identifies her as a genuine princess from a lost civilization. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: Often with the Nautilus, pulling the gang to safety in the nick of time. Subverted later, where help arrives just a minute too late in Tartessos. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Nadia comes across like this several times in the show when she takes her rage out on Jean and Nemo, saying rather undeservedly cruel things to both. (She gets even worse in both the Island and Africa arcs.) In episode 20 she becomes extremely jealous of Jean's friendship with Electra, irrationally believing that the latter is going to take Jean away from her (when, in fact, nothing romantic is happening between Jean OR Electra). Her inability to express her concern with losing Jean nearly ruins her own relationship with him. (All that Jean is doing is just trying to learn more from Electra so that he can help mankind and Nadia herself; despite being stuck in the books at times, he is obviously very dedicated to helping her, to the point where you feel sorry for the boy every time Nadia takes out her anger on him.) As a matter of fact Nadia even lays into Jean when he offers her manmade flowers (that Ensign Fait generously gives the boy) or attempts to compliment her in the abovementioned episode (as Electra advised him to). Naturally, this only succeeds in confusing poor Jean—to the point where he is surprised when she finally plucks up the courage to ask him directly for a compliment for a dress (awkwardly fashioned out of canvas) in episode 26. (Fourteen episodes earlier, she doesn't succeed in getting a compliment from Jean about a dress she's wearing since the latter is busy reading a book, but in that case she was sort of expecting him to read her mind and not knowing how else to act.) In that same episode, Nadia furiously declares to Nemo that she hates him and the ''Nautilus'' crew; he slaps her for saying that, adding in a stern tone, "Please don't say sad things like that" ("You have made me very sad." in the dub). On the flipside, she does apologize to Jean numerous times for her misdirected anger, even going out of her way to bring him something to eat, go on walks with him, or anything else conciliatory (in the canonical episodes), but she never gets to do so to Nemo, even though she realizes too late that she could have been nicer. | |
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Love Martyr | |
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Love Martyr: Electra who resigns herself to just continue being Nemo's surrogate daughter despite her own feelings for him, at least until his real daughter Nadia shows up again. | |
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Worthless Treasure Twist | |
| Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water / int_edf841f6 | comment |
Worthless Treasure Twist: Played with. While it shown that Nemo keeps his Blue Water mostly as a memento, he holds some power over it, though he's nowhere as good at it as Nadia is shown to be; this is because he is either reluctant to use it, he might have given his authority away to Neo when he was forced to abdicate, or he's hindered by the Atlanteans inside it, who are livid at him for the destruction of Tartessos. | |
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Heroic Self-Deprecation | |
| Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water / int_efbc288f | comment |
When Nemo shoots a Neo-Atlantean to save her from being shot, Nadia accuses him of "murdering in cold blood". From that point on, she stubbornly determines to despise him... despite Jean's attempts to reason with her that she would have died if Nemo hadn't acted. This goes to show how little and how badly she thinks of herself. | |
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Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like | |
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Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: After Nemo shoots a Neo-Atlantean to save Nadia from being killed, Nadia shows no gratitude, but instead calls Nemo a murderer, ignoring all arguments that said soldier was aiming at her. Later in the Island arc, she almost drowns while clinging to Nemo's cabin, and shows no gratitude to Jean and Marie for saving her life (she wanted to be rescued instead by her "real friends", the animals and the fish in the sea and doesn't like that they've caught fish.) Marie, of all people, calls Nadia out on both her surly attitude and stubbornness, yelling, "What do you expect us to do?! Do you want us to starve to death instead of catching some fish?! I think those fish understand that more than you!" Nadia is obviously embarrassed and stunned by this response; up until now she has never seen Marie so angry at her. | |
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Locked Out of the Loop | |
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Locked Out of the Loop: When Jean and Nadia end up on the Nautilus in Episode 04, they're intentionally locked out by Electra for security reasons to protect the Nautilus. It happens again initially when they and the Gang wind up on the submarine in Episode 09 as their stay is meant to be temporary. However, once the decision is made to integrate the characters into the crew, they're slowly and gradually brought in on the larger details of the fight against Gargoyle. However, even then, the characters still don't learn everything (such as Tartessos, the Nautilus actually beeing a covnerted spaceship, etc.) until the closing episodes when keeping any further screts is pointless. Similarly, Electra does not tell Nemo that his daughter is still alive and that she was onboard the submarine during Episode 04. Nemo is not happy when he learns this during Episodes 09-10. | |
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Speaks Fluent Animal | |
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Speaks Fluent Animal: Invoked and later confirmed. Nadia claims that she can talk to animals and offers King as proof of this. This is taken with a grain of salt until Nadia speaks with the whale Irion; she then is even able to understand penguins. | |
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Undying Loyalty | |
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The crew of the Nautilus towards Captain Nemo and his mission, though Electra is noteworthy among them, though she calls him out in ire due to him straying from said mission just because of Nadia; he actually shows Undying Loyalty to her by refusing to scuttle the Nautilus because Electra is on board and he could not bear hurting her. | |
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Spider-Sense | |
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Spider-Sense: The Blue Water flashes red when Nadia's about to be in danger. | |
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Sneezing | |
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Sneezing: Whenever someone mentions a particular character, this character inevitably sneezes. | |
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Evil Plan | |
| Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water / int_f2d8e3c2 | comment |
Evil Plan: Gargoyle wants to Take Over the World by reviving ancient Atlantean technology. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
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Nadia easily loses her temper over trivial matters, particularly when anybody eats meat. (Mostly, though, it's shouts of frustration related to her inability to convey what she wants from Jean.) She eventually changes that behavior, and of course, Jean constantly forgives her. | |
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Humans Need Aliens | |
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Humans Need Aliens: During the time he holds Nadia captive, Gargoyle lauds this as the Neo Atlanteans' "right" to rule humanity. | |
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Human Aliens | |
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Human Aliens: So much so that they appear to intermarry and reproduce just fine. Apparently, humans were designed by the aliens to this aim. In the end of the anime, it's revealed that Nemo and Nadia are the only "true" aliens left; all enemies including the Big Bad were, unknown to even themselves, in fact humans. | |
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Anger Born of Worry | |
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Anger Born of Worry: Grandis is livid at Hanson and Sanson for coming awfully close to dying in the Gratan while attempting to clear a path for the Nautilus to squeeze out of a mine trap set by Gargoyle. They save the ship indeed, but the two are greeted with sound slaps across the face for worrying her. (Offscreen.) Nadia, on the other hand, is shown to be remorseful from the start (she had previously yelled at Jean unfairly earlier when they were forced to separate rooms) and is only mentioned to just breaking down. The reactions of everyone in Episode 35 when Nadia tries to commit suicide by throwing herself off the Tartessos Tower of Babel. Grandis and Sanson in particular are enraged (with Grandis outright slapping Nadia and Sanson tearing into her for putting Jean through an Heroic BSoD). But they're also angry because they've all come to care about Nadia over the course of the show and they were terrified they'd lost her. | |
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Did You Just Romance Cthulhu? | |
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Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: Invoked. Electra argues that she was willing to forgive Nemo for the monstrous act of destroying their country and exterminating their civilization even if it meant the salvation of the human race; why? Because she loves him. Setting her aside? That's where she draws the line! In that context they're both Cthulhu; the two of them are pretty messed up people. Granted, the sacrifice of thousands or even millions of people can make you crazy lonely. | |
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Dropped Glasses | |
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Dropped Glasses: Minor subversion: the glasses are repaired almost immediately to demonstrate the technological capabilities of the Nautilus. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: Jean goes through a LOT of trouble just to win Nadia's heart. He sacrifices inventions, puts his life on the line, suffers unjust abuse, and even suffers heartbreak at points. But his patience and persistence pays off as Nadia gradually falls for him. | |
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Gold Digger | |
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Gold Digger: Gonzalez, the villain of the rather forgettable Africa arc, who had run off with Grandis' family fortune in the backstory. | |
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Big-Lipped Alligator Moment | |
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Could also qualify as a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, although the island/Africa arc has plenty of such pointless scenes, hence the reason why it is criticized so harshly. Even the spinoff video games and merchandise books don't reference this Africa adventure. | |
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Insult Backfire | |
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Insult Backfire: If you tell Gargoyle that he's not human, he'll take it as a compliment. That's the whole point of what he's been doing for most of his life. | |
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Costume Inertia | |
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Costume Inertia: All the Neo-Atlanteans wear the same damn masks regardless of what they're doing or what their position is. There are even scientists in lab coats wearing their masks over their coats, which would be terrible for aseptic technique. | |
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Mushroom Samba | |
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Mushroom Samba: Involving actual mushrooms! | |
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Cool Big Sis | |
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Cool Big Sis: Electra and Grandis appear to take turns filling this spot for Jean and Nadia. | |
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Consolation Prize | |
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Consolation Prize: Jean does end up winning an award for his glider at the beginning of the story, but he was kicked out of the official competition roster because he cut in line to rescue Nadia. He didn't even win any prize money. This despite his design not only being the only one that flew further than nine yards, but flew clear across the city! | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns: Grandis, Sanson, and Hanson are separated from the Nautilus just in time for the incredibly dramatic and revealing episode 22. In Episode 37, the non-combat personnel like Marie, King, and Ayerton are all left behind as the N-Nautilius prepares to take the fight to Red Noah. It's also delibertley averted with the Grandis Gang this time around, as they eaglerly volunteer for the final assault — or at least up until they the tide of battle in Episode 38. Once they take out Red Noah's Tower of Babel, their role/comic relief in the climax is then basically over and all focus shifts to the final dramatic confrontration between Nemo and Gargoyle. | |
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The Remnant | |
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The Remnant: Geiger and his faction of surviving Neo-Atlanteans in The Secret of Fuzzy. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Various. When Jean asks Hanson and Sanson for romantic advice, the three of them are all usually washing their teeth or doing calisthenics while facing the horizon. Do we need to stitch up the hot-air balloon? The 4-year-old should do it!; Grandis giving a grand meal to Captain Nemo and everyone else potatoes (err, pureed white fish meat) or soup; Marie complaining at everyone's table manners; Sanson wakes up to take action or shoot his gun; Grandis and Electra's petty fat/old jabs at each other; Everyone having one-sided conversations with Hanson; Marie: ''"Luckyyyy!!!!"' (the dub rewords these remarks somewhat subtly to "my luck has changed" or "we win again", etc.); This line of conversation happens way too many times: | |
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Romantic False Lead | |
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Romantic False Lead: A villager from the Africa arc who recognizes the Blue Water turns out to be engaged all along to a surprisingly larger, bulky warrior woman who happens to know WHERE Tartessos is -- but how is never made clear. This arc is both out of step with the rest of the show and frankly, doesn't make sense — neither does it work, since Nadia admitted that Jean was important to her in the previous episode. The motivations behind her subsequent betrayal of Jean and behavior in Africa is not at all clear. (Everyone else is quite disappointed with Nadia's actions here, too — and rightly so.) Unsurprisingly, Episode 35 promptly disregards this two-episode side story. We don't even find out much about Nadia's birthplace except a vague reference to a silver city which is never mentioned again. Could also qualify as a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, although the island/Africa arc has plenty of such pointless scenes, hence the reason why it is criticized so harshly. Even the spinoff video games and merchandise books don't reference this Africa adventure. | |
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Gadgeteer Genius | |
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Gadgeteer Genius: Two of them — Jean, the main character, and Hanson, a member of the Grandis gang. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: This is the main reason Nadia distrusts Electra initially, as she sees her getting a little too close to Jean for comfort (she later learns the hard way that Electra poses no threat to her relationship with Jean). Electra ends up venting on Captain Nemo and shooting him. If you trust Ayerton too much with his flattery, he'll steal all your booze. Gargoyle is one of the most refined and polite people in Nadia, even considering he is a genocidal maniac. | |
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Evil Is Petty | |
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Evil Is Petty: Simultaneously one of Gargoyle's defining character traits and flaws. His vindictiveness, arguably more than anything else, is what leads to his downfall and death in Episode 39. In particular, killing Jean is probably Gargoyle's defining instance of this Trope and the worst mistake he makes over the course of the series. You can see the moment of hesitation where Nadia calls his bluff. Gargoyle knows that if he drops Jean to his death, he’s lost his last piece of leverage over Nadia and regaining control of the Blue Waters before Red Noah is destroyed. But he’s so enraged that this teenage girl is defying him and threatening to ruin his grand, glorious dreams that Gargoyle just can’t help himself. | |
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Attack! Attack! Attack! | |
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Attack! Attack! Attack!: The main strategy of Captain Melville of the US Navy when facing the "sea monsters" | |
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Bragging Theme Tune | |
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Bragging Theme Tune: The German opening begins with describing Nadia as "mysterious and beautiful" and Jean as "a genius, who can almost evertyhing," followed by calling them fearless. | |
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