![]() ![]() The Beastmaster: Kira can call out to just about any animal out there and coax it into helping her.Ballroom Blitz: The Podling villagers are enjoying a rowdy celebration when the Garthim bust through the walls and start capturing everyone they can grab.Balance Between Good and Evil: Literally, since the Mystics and Skeksis are actually two halves of one being - if one of them is injured or killed, the same thing happens to their counterpart.Ax-Crazy: SkekZok, the Ritual-Master, is the first to suggest killing Kira when she is captured and is the one who stabs her to death.Either that, or they just return to their homeworld. Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: The urSkeks do this at the end of the film.Their Mystic counterparts have wooden limbs in the same places. Artificial Limbs: The Skeksis Slave Master has a hook for a hand while the Scientist has a mechanical arm and leg.Animal Eye Spy: The Skeksis' crystal bats, which they sent all over Thra in search of Jen.Jen specifically refers to Aughra as "he" while in the Netflix series, the princess refers to "Mother Aughra". Aughra too is meant to be a combination of male and female genders, being a large, burly, mustachioed humanoid with the voice of a bossy old lady and a feminine-sounding name. ![]() Word Of God states that while there are no specifically female Skeksis (they're all meant to be an uncomfortable combination of both genders), skekEkt is the most effeminate. Always Lawful Good: The Mystics are all calm, kind and slow, in contrast to their animated and selfish halves, the Skeksis.Always Chaotic Evil: The Skeksis were once very easy to get along with by the time of the film, they slip into this trope.Although that's usually because the male either isn't as important to the species' propagation as the female (as in the case of fig wasps), or the male gets something else to compensate, such as a stinger. Aluminum Christmas Trees: The idea of only female Gelflings having wings isn't as bizarre as it sounds, as there are some real life insects (such as the fig wasp) where only the females have wings.Even though the name of the planet this story takes place on is never mentioned, it's referred to in the novelization as 'Thra'.Pretty much all the names of the Skeksis and Mystics are featured in the novelization and "Art of" book.Alien Sky: The planet Thra has three suns a small purple sun, a medium-sized red sun, and a large bright yellow sun.They could reverse their decay by drinking the vital essence of other living creatures, but the effect was always temporary. Then as they aged for a thousand years, their true nature slowly manifested itself as a rotting from the inside out. Age Without Youth: Applies to both the Mystics and Skeksis (though they're not technically immortal), but the Skeksis suffer a bit more from it, especially when you learn that they weren't outwardly evil in their early days, but rather represented the passionate hedonistic side of the urSkeks, and were rather pleasant to party with.Adam and Eve Plot: Never directly addressed, but since Jen and Kira are the Last Of Their Kind, it's pretty obvious.Even the narrator states that the urRu live in a hazy, half-dream state. Word Of God says even if they wanted to commit suicide to stop the Skeksis, the urRu have no will to act, because all the strength and drive of the urSkeks is embodied in the Skeksis themselves. Justified in that the urRu could not act against their evil counterparts without destroying themselves in the process. Actual Pacifist: The urRu/Mystics are kind, gentle creatures, but they do nothing to stop the Skeksis from destroying the land, enslaving the Podlings and committing genocide against the Gelflings. ![]()
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