Æon Flux
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| format = animated science fiction
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| runtime = >5 minutes (6 episodes)
30 min (10 Episodes)
| creator = Peter Chung
| executive_producer = Japhet Asher
Abby Terkuhle
| starring = Denise Poirier
John Rafter Lee
Julia Fletcher
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| country = USA
| network = MTV (Locomotion in Latin America)
| first_aired = 1991
| last_aired = 10 October 1995
| num_episodes = 16
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| imdb_id = 0111873
| tv_com_id = 9717
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Æon Flux is an avant garde American science fiction animated television series that aired on MTV. It premiered in 1991 on MTV's Liquid Television experimental animation show as a six-part serial of short films, followed in 1992 by five individual short episodes. In 1995 a season of ten half-hour episodes aired as a stand-alone series.
Æon Flux was created by Korean American animator Peter Chung. A live action motion picture loosely based upon the series and starring Charlize Theron was released in late 2005.
To avoid the "Æ" ligature, the title is often spelled Aeon Flux.
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Background
Æon Flux is set in a surreal, futuristic universe of mutant creatures, clones, and robots. The title character is a tall, scantly-clad secret agent from the society of Monica, skilled in assassination and acrobatics. She is also a model for a foot fetish magazine called Foozwak. Her mission is to infiltrate the strongholds of the neighboring country of Bregna, which is led by her sworn enemy, and sometimes lover, Trevor Goodchild. Monica represents a dynamic anarchist society while Bregna embodies a centralized scientific planned state. The names of their respective characters reflect this: Flux as the self-directed agent from Monica and Goodchild as the technocratic leader of Bregna.
The term Æon comes from the Gnostic notion of Æons as emanations of the God, who come in male/female pairs (here Flux and Goodchild). This juxtaposition also maps accordingly to the characterizations of Eris and Greyface in the Discordian mythos.
Many of these motifs are shared with the science-fiction novel The World of Null-A (1945).
The visual style of Æon Flux was deeply influenced by the figurative paintings and drawings of the Austrian artist Egon Schiele. Other key influences on Æon Flux can be found in Japanese anime (especially grittier fare like Akira), and European comic works such as the work of Moebius (particularly in lineforms, color palettes, and figure characterizations); Æon Flux is often erroneously classified as an anime series. Graphic violence and sexuality, including fetishism and domination, are frequently depicted. In the featurette Investigation: The History of Æon Flux (included on the 2005 DVD release), Peter Chung says the visual style also was influenced by the children's animated series, Rugrats, which he worked on prior to Æon Flux and found highly frustrating in the limitations of what the characters could do.
With the exceptions of the exclamation "No!" in the pilot and the single spoken word "Plop" in the episode "Leisure", all of the short episodes are completely devoid of (intelligible) dialogue and consist primarily of sound effects and non-morphemic utterences (laughter, grunts, sighs, etc). (unintelligible dialogue, particularly in season one, was voiced by the series music composer).
One peculiarity of the early shorts is the violent death of Æon Flux, which occurs in each of the installments (by contrast, she only "dies" once in the half-hour series). Often her death is caused by fate; sometimes she dies due to her own incompetence. One of the half-hour episodes, "A Last Time For Everything", ends with the original Æon being killed and replaced by an identical clone. Although continuity is non-existent in the series -- and Chung made some adjustments for the DVD release to improve this -- the only unchanging elements in the episodes are the two main characters of Trevor and Æon. There is intentionally no continuity between the shorts. Peter Chung has said that this plot ambiguity and disregard for continuity are meant as a satire of mainstream action films, and his stories often emphasize the futility of violence and the ambiguity of personal morality.
A fourth season of half-hour episodes was considered, but never materialized. As of 2005, Chung has announced plans to work on another Æon Flux project; in an online interview conducted after the release of the film, Chung indicated that it is to be a made-for-DVD animated feature. [1]
The World of Æon Flux
The worlds of Æon Flux vary between the original MTV series and the film adaption.
Television Series
Television versions of Æon Flux depict the two separate countries of Bregna and Monica, adjacent to each other and separated by a wall (although very small). Citizens of Bregna are not permitted to cross through the wall, which is protected by a range of cruel traps. Trevor Goodchild is not the original ruler of Bregna, instead taking control in "Utopia or Deuteranopia". According to The Herodotus File graphic novel, Bregna and Monica were originally a single nation called Berognica. When the separation occurred, memories of Berognica were erased among the Breen citizens. However, the graphic novel suggests, Monican citizens launched the Relical, an airship containing artifacts proving the existence of Berognica. It should be noted the TV series makes no reference to any of this, and it is not known if The Herodotus File is considered canon.
Hollywood Adaptation
In the Æon Flux film, Monica is not a separate country. Instead, Monicans are a group of political rebels who live in secret among the citizens of Bregna. Whereas the television series saw Trevor Goodchild seize command of Bregna from a previous ruler, the Bregna of the Hollywood film is established by the Goodchild family, after they cured the industrial virus. Instead of a barren, desolate landscape (although some vegetation is featured in the TV series) Bregna is constricted by an aggressive, regenerating jungle. The walls of Bregna frequently spray a chemical acid to keep the jungle from moving in and destroying the city. Additionally, the Relical is also featured, however it was created by the rulers of Bregna and for an entirely different purpose.
VHS and DVD release
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The entire series was issued as three VHS tapes between 1996 and 1998 (volumes dubbed Æon Flux, Mission Infinite and Operative Terminus) and later collected in a box set, while some of the shorts also appeared on a Best of Liquid Television compilation around the same time. The first VHS volume (which contained four of the half hour shows, and all of the shorts sans "Night") was later released on a now out-of-print DVD.
With the 2005 release of the live-action movie, the complete series (shorts and half-hour episodes) was compiled into a DVD box set which was released on November 22, 2005. Dubbed a "director's edition", the set features altered versions of several episodes, with improved special effects, and in a few cases, new scenes were written by Peter Chung and recorded by the original voice actors in order to improve character continuity between episodes (according to a note by Chung included with the DVD set). Among the numerous changes to the dialogue in the DVD release the voice of the character "Clavius" in the episode "Utopia or Deuteranopia", originally recorded by voice actor Joseph Drelich, was re-recorded by series executive producer Japhet Asher for the 2005 release.
The first disc of the DVD set opens with a CGI short created to promote the above mentioned video game, with Flux taking on the likeness of Charlize Theron's rendition. The short, which runs about the same length as one of the Liquid Television shorts, sees Flux conducting an ambiguous mission, killing many Breen soldiers while pursuing some small, insect-like robots. In a throwback to the ongoing theme of the original shorts, the character is ultimately killed due to human error.
The music for the original television series was composed by Drew Neumann and later compiled on an album titled "Eye Spy, Ears Only Confidential". The initials AF were used on song titles and in the credits to replace the words 'Æon Flux' due to the lack of licensing permissions from MTV. The album includes two discs worth of material from the series and also from the defunct original (1995) PC and Playstation 1 videogame project. A more recent soundtrack is available for the 2005 live-action film, composed by Graeme Revell.
Series cast
- Denise Poirier - Æon Flux (voice)
- John Rafter Lee - Trevor Goodchild (voice)
Series episodes
Season 1 (1991)
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Serial, six parts of two to three minutes each, shown on Liquid Television. The DVD and VHS releases combine the parts into one short film.
Pilot
Æon breaks into a Breen complex in order to assassinate a powerful member of the Breen Government during a battle between Breen Soldiers and at least one other Monican terror agent. She kills many soldiers in the process, many of which were already dying from a disease spread by a small blue arthropod that causes swelling of veins prior to death. The film switches focus several times to show the point of view of several Breen soldiers and their hallucinatory experiences as they lie dying either from the virus or from Æon's bullets.
Æon makes her way up to the top of the building after killing the other Monican, briefly sighting Trevor Goodchild and his lover in a fully furnished elevator. When Trevor reaches the top of the building, it is seen that the man Æon came to kill is already dead, possibly of the disease. Trevor's lover watches a wall-sized television playing a programme on the disease. She refuses his advances, noting that he in fact has been bitten by the insect. He shows her an injection mark, signifying that he has taken an anti-virus of his own creation, which apparently involves ingesting a liquid made from the insect-like creature extracted from one of his fingers.
Æon watches this from the window and is about to take action when she steps on a tack and falls to her death. It is at this point the only intelligible English quasi-dialogue in the Pilot is heard (the single word, "No!" that Æon screams as the tack punctures her foot). The Monicans destroy her body by remote control and burn her apartment, and the audience briefly sees her bed and her camera. Later, Trevor is lauded for the creation of the anti-virus while his lover holds a baby. The press takes photographs of them. The statue of the Breen leader Æon had to kill is demolished. Meanwhile Æon finds herself in the afterlife, where her feet are licked for eternity. The episode ends with a young Breen man buying a foot fetish magazine with Æon on the cover, posing on her bed. The bills he uses to pay his purchase have Trevor's effigy on them.
Season 2 (1992)
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Three to five minutes each, shown on Liquid Television
1. "War"
Æon is involved in a large battle between Bregna and Monica. After killing many soldiers, Æon is attacked from behind by a Breen fighter who was previously playing dead. With a gun aimed at her head Æon notices an approaching Monican soldier and tries to buy some time by distracting the soldier by licking her lips suggestively. The soldier is too quick however and kills both Æon and the approaching Monican. He then removes his helmet, and facing down a large hill, fires at an approaching army of Monican soldiers, almost all of which are killed. Later the soldier moves towards the entrance of an underground Monican base, off-screen violently engaging the guards. We see a bloody tooth landing directly into an empty glass drink bottle, signifying that violence has taken place nearby, emphasizing the random nature of life (and their downstream consequences). This theme of random, cascading events and their effect on people is perpetuated throughout the Æon Flux universe. Incidentally, Æon has a fake tooth, as we see in the next episode "Gravity".
Inside the base the Breen soldier is confronted and eventually killed by a Monican swordsman soldier, who then comforts his daughter and sends her to her living quarters after an alarm goes off. Meanwhile another Monican soldier's painting is interrupted by the alarm and he leaves to join the Monican forces. While the swordsman opens a gate to leave the base, grease drips into a pool on the floor. Outside he kills oncoming Breen fighters who drop down from an air ship. Inside the ship, his death is suggested by the appearance of a pool of blood on the floor. Then comes a female Breen soldier, who enters the Monican base using the painter Monican's body as a doorstop. She then frees her captive lover and they run from gunfire, unknowingly towards the dripping pool of grease. It seems their deaths are inevitable.
This episode was created to play with the emotions of the viewer, showing the stereotypical way that people view a hero of a Hollywood action film as invincible. This episode crushes those assumptions and keeps the viewer truly on their toes feeling a sense of shock and loss every time the new "hero" is killed.
2. "Gravity"
While Æon and Trevor kiss, Trevor uses his tongue to open up Æon's fake tooth and place a rolled up picture inside. We find Trevor is in a train and Æon on an airplane flying alongside the train. The two are kissing through the windows. Æon spies an industrial vehicle driving past at the same moment. A passenger from the train enters the plane and it flies off. Æon then retrieves the picture from her tooth to find it is a photo of the passenger who just entered the plane, and a suitcase. She climbs out the window of the passenger area and moves along the side of the plane to spy on the man, who is reading documents from the same suitcase. Æon must jump mid-air to the back of the plane to get inside, but she misses and falls.
Realising her impending death Æon points her gun to her head, but before pulling the trigger notices the industrial vehicle from earlier stopping at the side of a cliff. Men get out and throw ropes over the side of the cliff to salvage something. They pull at the ropes to bring it to the surface while an intrigued Æon struggles to keep her binoculars at her eyes from the air resistance. She notices a bridge near the point at which she will land, and shoots a rope at it to save herself. At the same time Trevor's train is passing over the bridge and inside he is kissing his Breen lover. While she swings from the rope Æon is distracted by the men salvaging the object which is obscured from view by the cliff, but is glowing brightly. Æon's distraction leads the rope to loop around her neck. A moment before she can clearly see what the object is, the rope tightens and she is killed.
3. "Leisure"
Æon enters her living quarters to find some one had disturbed a container of eggs she was keeping in her fridge. In a kitchen cupboard, she finds a deformed Trevor (or a clone of Trevor) chained up, licking an egg. Æon leaves her apartment, but before venturing outside the Monican base, she witnesses another agent fall and fail to successfully complete jumping through a row of training grids. Æon steps up to practice jumping through, just as the other female agent walks away, and flawlessly executes the acrobatic and complex jumps through the training grids. Later, she enters an alien spaceship and collects some of the same eggs seen earlier in her apartment. She's agonising while trying to resist breaking one of the eggs. Her desire to play with the embryo is stronger than her good sense to get out of the ship quickly before the parent alien comes. She analyses the broken contents under a portable microscope and finds it to be an aggressive infant form of an alien.
On her way out Æon is confronted by an adult, four-footed, and extremely tall alien, but holds up one of the eggs and threatens to break it if the alien attacks her. She runs away, and the alien triggers a grid barrier similar to the one at the Monican training base. Æon jumps through it with ease, until the alien catches up to her and attacks her from behind, killing Æon.
Æon is shown in this episode to be a game addict in a cruel sport. Her leisure consists of stealing the eggs of a sentient alien, then torturing and killing the embryos for amusement. Being unable to resist playing her game despite the danger of being caught in the alien ship brings about her end.
This episode contains the only English dialogue heard in the first season: the single word, "Plop." Given the title of the episode and subsequent themes of the third season, the alien eggs may be a recreational drug, and the mission to retreive more eggs may be more optional or recreational for Æon, rather than politically or financially motivated.
4. "Mirror" (originally aired as "Night")
Æon is on an assassination mission and infiltrates her target's home. On her entry she falls over, and notices she is spied on by a security camera. While walking down a hallway she notices a room where the security camera recorder is being kept, and enters. She goes to destroy the tape but at the last minute decides to review the footage. The picture is faulty because of a loose video jack dangling in front of a running air conditioner. Æon goes to fix the connection but in the process spills coffee on herself. While she is in a nearby bathroom cleaning her arm, footage of another intruder previously entering the building plays on the monitor, unnoticed by Æon. Æon accidentally sprays water on herself in the bathroom's shower.
Æon hears gunshots, and evacuates the area to find her target killed, shot twice in the stomach. She rushes out of the bedroom, but is then also shot by the assassin. While Æon lies on the floor dying, she looks at the figure in the security monitor, but the image is still distorted. Æon shoots a nearby temperature control knob; with the air conditioning system disabled, the loose video cable stops shaking, and the security camera picture clears up. The moment before her death she finds out it was Trevor Goodchild. This is the only known point in the Æon Flux universe where Trevor personally kills Æon.
5. "Tide"
Æon and a red-suited partner are on an offshore facility. Æon is trying to prevent a plug from being removed by a rope key draped from a hovering helicopter by shooting at it, while her partner holds Trevor Goodchild captive in a nearby elevator. As Æon returns to the elevator Trevor has overpowered the partner, and attempts to leave, pressing all of the elevator's level buttons. Æon stops him and attempts to obtain the numbered key he possesses, but he throws it behind a sink. When retrieving it, Æon accidentally rips off the attached numbered label, so it is unknown on which level the key will be useful.
Æon attempts to use the key in a storage locker on level six, while avoiding gunfire from a Breen soldier and again shooting at the hanging plug key, which has stopped swaying enough for another attempt to pull the plug. Upon returning to the elevator, Æon handcuffs Trevor to a handrail and attempts to retrieve the numbered label, but it is just out of her reach. Æon repeats the leave elevator-shoot at soldiers-try key-shoot plug key-return to elevator cycle for subsequent floors, while her traitorous partner kisses Trevor while Æon is away. By level two, the now-injured Æon realises what's going on, and the partner tries to stop her from killing Trevor, during the struggle she get Æon's empty gun and throws it at her, Æon falls back and is killed (although it is not explicitly indicated in the episode that she is dead, the DVD commentary indicates that she is). The partner takes the key and runs to the level two storage locker. A Breen soldier enters the elevator and shoots Trevor, and on his way out shoots the hanging key to buy him some time to get out of the facility.
The partner opens the storage locker with the key and retrieves a storage barrel that is latched shut, taking it back to the elevator. Inside she finds a giant, ribbed rubber washer (noted to obviously be a double entendre). Unsatisfied with what seems like such a measly prize, she runs out leaving the washer behind and not bothering to check the storage locker on level one. As she reaches the concrete cylinder holding the plug, the helicopter has successfully inserted the key, and starts to pull up and away with the key and the Breen soldier that presumably last shot at the key. We see that the helicopter also has pulled out, with the key, an identical rubber washer, causing presumably seawater to spout out of the newly vacant hole. The facility and gangway to the plug behind her sinks into the ocean, leaving her stranded alone standing on the empty plug.
Peter Chung states on the DVD commentary that he planned this episode like a piece of music. The entire segment is composed of twenty backgrounds shown for two seconds each in the same order and same angle for seven cycles.
Season 3 (1995)
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Thirty minutes each with commercials (this is the original order the episodes were aired).
1. "Utopia or Deuteranopia?" (August 8, 1995)
- Æon searches for Clavius, the deposed ruler of Bregna, held captive by Trevor.
- Trevor says he has decided he must monitor all activity in Bregna to achieve justice so he sets up a pervasive surveillance system, which has the effect of rendering speech unreliable to the audience (in the rest of the episode dialogue is used to cloak as much as to reveal actual intent.) Trevor has a dirty little secret: he is the one keeping Clavius, the former leader of Bregna, prisoner. Even more secret is the bedroom hidden inside the vibrating body in which he wishes to keep Æon. He is proven right that a loyal Breen like Gildemere, who is searching for Clavius, would not violate the portal built into Clavius, so for him, hiding the chamber thus is the ultimate safeguard against discovery. Trevor lets Æon go about her plotting with Gildemere. He waits for the right moment to capture her and charge her with the kidnapping of Clavius. Her partnership with Gildemere intrigues him enough that he lets it go to see what they're up to. She uses her seduction of Gildemere in the meantime to torment Trevor as well as to eventually manipulate Gildemere into killing Clavius himself, which he does. Æon had planned everything to work as it did-- we see her setting up her escape route at the beginning: placing the bomb in the wall, dropping the ladder in the manhole. The part she wasn't prepared for was the hidden love-nest in Clavius' body.
- Clavius, it turns out, is dangerously insane. Trevor has taken power by staging the kidnapping, then using the disappearance to promote fear and anxiety, against which he offers himself as the people's protector. Meanwhile, Æon runs an illicit B&D chamber secretly frequented by a clientele of Breens. She lures and captures Trevor, forcing him to watch as she cavorts with his own officers, making a mockery of his attempt to enforce compliance by suggesting they are under his gaze. If he wants to see their secrets, she's only too willing to oblige.
- Æon ultimately wished to eliminate Trevor's Clavius problem by forcing a Breen loyalist to take the fall. In the process, she gets rid of the anti-Trevor agent Gildemere, revealing the threat to Trevor himself. It is not only for Trevor's benefit, but indirectly for hers. She'd rather square off against Trevor than anyone else, plus she thinks (perhaps in a way that Trevor doesn't) that no punishment could be worse for him than being leader of Bregna.
2. "Isthmus Crypticus" (August 15, 1995)
- Trevor becomes obsessed with and imprisons an anthropomorphic bird-like creature, while Æon tries to rescue the creature's mate.
3. "Thanatophobia" (August 22, 1995)
- After Trevor installs a vicious border-control system, two lovers try to escape to Monica.
4. "A Last Time For Everything" (August 29, 1995)
- After Trevor clones Æon, the real Æon conspires with her doppleganger and switches places with her, but finds her loyalty to Monica challenged; meanwhile, the cloned Æon prepares to kill the original.
5. "The Demiurge" (September 5, 1995)
- Trevor and Æon battle over the fate of a God-like being.
6. "Reraizure" (September 12, 1995)
- After a mission to prevent the distribution of an amnesia-inducing pill goes wrong, Æon falls in love with the boyfriend of a woman she accidentally killed during the mission.
7. "Chronophasia" (September 19, 1995)
- Æon's sense of reality is shattered when she finds herself trapped in an underground facility with an ancient, and possibly evil force.
8. "Ether Drift Theory" (September 26, 1995)
- Trevor creates The Habitat, a place where experimental life forms are kept, and Æon and her friend infiltrate it.
9. "The Purge" (October 3, 1995)
- Æon teams up with an all-woman insurgency and tries to stop Trevor's plan to give everyone an artificial conscience.
10. "End Sinister" (October 10, 1995)
- The arrival of an alien spacecraft begins a battle of wills between Æon and Trevor that lasts for centuries.
Running order
The Æon Flux 2005 DVD release proposes a different order of episodes according to directors:
Episodes Directed by Peter Chung (Disc 1):
- 1. Utopia or Deuteranopia?
- 2. Thanatophobia.
- 3. A Last Time for Everything.
- 4. Ether Drift Theory.
- 5. The Purge.
Episodes directed by Howard Baker (Disc 2):
- 6. The Demiurge.
- 7. Isthmus Crypticus.
- 8. Reraizure.
- 9. Chronophasia.
- 10. End Sinister.
According to the 2005 DVD release, "The Demiurge" was originally intended to be the first episode, but MTV felt that, although promising, it was too radical an introduction to the world of Æon Flux. The episode was therefore moved to later in the production order, and "Utopia or Deuteranopia" was written to replace it.
Broadcasters
MTV was the exclusive broadcaster of the series in the United States. In Canada, the show aired a year or so later on the youth-oriented network YTV in a late-night timeslot during a period when the network was trying to appeal to an older audience.
In Australia during the early-mid nineties the Liquid TV shorts and the first series were shown on the program Eat Carpet on SBS television.
In South East Asia the third season was broadcast in 1996 via the MTV South East Asia channel (originating from Singapore), which at the time was free to anyone with a satellite dish.
In the UK, MTV first showed the shorts and the 30 minute episodes but in the mid '90s the BBC showed the Liquid Television shorts which included all of the Aeon Flux shorts.
Recent Broadcasts
In the lead up to the 2006 international release of Æon Flux on DVD and the live action movie, MTV United Kingdom replayed the third season of Æon Flux from October to November in 2005. The episodes were played at 2.00am weeknights.
MTV Australia followed with replays of the third season beginning in December 2005, scheduled at 1.00am weeknights. The episodes were titled "Æon Flux Animation" and were not played in the original order from 1995.
Locomotion channel played the third session over and over again from 1998/99 to 2002/03 in spanish and portuguese for Latin America, along with several adult animated-series like The Critic, South Park and some japanese animated series.
Æon Flux in Other Media
Film
Image:03 1280x1024.jpg Template:Main An Æon Flux Hollywood adaptation, which was released in the United States on December 2, 2005, provoked controversy among Æon Flux fans over initial reports that the film adaptation seemed to bear little resemblance to the original full-length animated series or the Liquid TV shorts, as no one involved with the original television series had a role in the making of the film. While it does take a number of major liberties with the character and concept of the series, the film nonetheless incorporates numerous characters, themes, and even gadgets featured in the TV version. By and large, the movie was considered both a critical and box office disappointment.
The creator of Æon Flux, Peter Chung, recently gave an interview to the "Monican Spies" community at www.livejournal.com[2]. He was asked many questions about Æon Flux and her universe, including how he really felt about the movie: "(...) [seeing it] made me feel helpless, humiliated and sad.", Peter Chung said.
Books
A graphic novel called Æon Flux: the Herodotus File was published in 1995, which vaguely explained some of the show's setting and backstory. One tidbit suggested in the series and confirmed in the graphic novel is the character's foot fetish; it is suggested she augments her income posing for magazines devoted to the fetish. The graphic novel fell out of print in the years following the show's conclusion, but was reissued in 2005 to tie-in with the movie.
Also released in 2005 to tie-in with the movie was a Dark Horse Comics-published four-issue miniseries based upon the film versions of the characters. Although the characters and situations were based on the newer movie versions, the penciling technique deliberately emulated Peter Chung's unique style from the the TV series.
Pepsi Commercial
Though not directly connected to the series, a live-action/animated Pepsi commercial titled "Something Wrong?" was directed by Peter Chung and starred Malcolm McDowell as a Trevor Goodchild-like character and Cindy Crawford as an Æon Flux-like character. It was made for Super Bowl XXX in 1996, but was pulled and later aired for broadcast exclusive to MTV.
Video games
Image:Aeon005.jpg Template:Main A PlayStation game by Cryo Interactive based upon the series was advertised in the mid 1990s but never released. It was later adapted into the title Pax Corpus after being stripped of all copywrited association with Æon Flux. However the resulting game does retain many obvious similarities to the original show. Specifically in plot to "The Demiurge" (which it had been intended to be based on) and also in many design details that bear striking resemblance to examples found in the show. For instance, the female protagonist of the game wears a purple and black themed outfit that resembles Æon's.
An unused opening sequence by Peter Chung for the original game can be viewed today in the complete series DVD box set, while the VHS version of the self titled release contained a rough animated trailer (not by chung) geared towards the PC version of the game.
There was a second failed attempt to develop a game from the property a few years later by GT Interactive and The Collective.
Finally, to coincide with the release of the 2005 movie, Majesco Games and developer Terminal Reality have released a videogame adaptation on Xbox and PlayStation 2 including elements from both the movie and the television series. Charlize Theron provides the voice and likeness of Æon Flux.