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Trevor Goodchild is a fictional character featured in the 1990s animated television series, Æon Flux, the 2005 Æon Flux live-action film, and the 2005 Æon Flux video game.
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Investigate this subjectTrevor Goodchild is a fictional character featured in the 1990s animated television series, Æon Flux, the 2005 Æon Flux live-action film, and the 2005 Æon Flux video game.
Trevor Goodchild is a fictional character featured in the 1990s animated television series, Æon Flux, the 2005 Æon Flux live-action film, and the 2005 Æon Flux video game.
Chairman Trevor Goodchild is usually seen as the villain of the series, although creator Peter Chung has occasionally said in interviews that the character is meant to be morally ambiguous.
He is the self-appointed leader of the nation of Bregna; it is suggested he rose to power in a coup over his insane predecessor. Though his title is Chairman, it is not clear what exactly this means. His predecessor was referred to as the President, and in one episode an upper house of parliament is mentioned. In another episode, he refers to the government as a republic.
He is usually depicted as a charismatic, narcissistic, perverted, cold hearted demagogue politician, sometime he's a hypocritical philosophical ruler or a calculating mad scientist of the technocratic authoritarian Bregna and as an opposite to the amoral "terrorist" anarchist Æon Flux of the free-spirited Monican people. Goodchild's motives are left ambiguous; on many occasions he seems genuinely interested in improving the human condition, but at others he is only concerned with retaining or increasing his power.
His own people seem to have dramatically changing opinions of him. In the first episode, he is referred to as "Our most beloved public official," and the people cheer at seeing him defeat an assassin. Others, however, seem completely disgusted by him and attempt to kill him or escape from his control. In general, the Breen soldiers he commands seem loyal, if often very confused by him.
As is typical of the Æon Flux series' style of storytelling, there is much ambiguity and inconsistency as to the nature of his position. While he is usually depicted as a complete autocrat, the episode "Thanatophobia" suggests that there are other individuals in the Breen government that Trevor must answer to, or at least give the impression of being accountable to. Though his official title seems to be Chairman, Goodchild often takes a much more hands-on approach to his work than a typical administrator. He is shown at the forefront of armed operations on at least two occasions, as well as conducting other tasks such as performing medical checkups on patients wounded by his own fiendish security systems (a house call, no less). However, he is far from brave, as he has an array of escape devices to get him out of danger. The most likely explanation for his curious penchant for field work is his desire to get close to Æon Flux.
Trevor also has a tendency to delve into deep, Orwellian rants, which often serve as narration for the episodes. These musings appear to be in the form of soliloquies, but in the episode "The Purge," they are shown to be out loud. In an early draft of "The Demiurge" and in the end of the episode "Reraizure" these comments are implied to be recordings into his neck microphone. His musings tend to be confusing, often running the full length without actually saying anything, and lend to the series' own ambiguous nature.
Æon and Trevor have a love–hate relationship, in which he consistently tries to protect her despite violently thwarting most of her operations. This relationship is less developed in the original Liquid Television shorts, in which he occasionally attempts to kill her. Trevor is often frustrated by Æon's apparent lack of understanding of his own occasionally nebulous motives; he will be invariably heard to say "You just don't get it, do you?" Æon is generally not impressed with his grand plans, going so far as to call him a deranged individual in one episode.
In one of the Liquid Television shorts, Æon actually appears to be working for or with Trevor. In the episode "Thanatophobia," Trevor mentions that he lets Æon sneak across the border and bomb a factory, thus allowing him to implant ever stricter security measures. This implies that, though Æon may not work directly for him, it seems as though he uses her actions to his advantage. The pair's relationship reaches its apex in the series finale, "End Sinister", in which Æon pursues Trevor on a one-way trip 1,000 years into the future. It could be said that Trevor and Æon are attracted to each other but are separated by their goals, as evidenced in "The Demiurge", where they fight over the Demiurge's fate but have a brief but intimate encounter in the midst of a conflict.
The episodes "Pilot" through "War" are standalone episodes broadcast as short films on the series Liquid Television. There is intentionally no continuity between the episodes (which all include the death of the Æon Flux character). Beginning with "Utopia or Deutoronopia" episodes are a half-hour in length and maintain a loose continuity.
An insect is spreading a fatal disease. After Æon fails to stop him, Trevor cures the disease. Thereafter, Trevor's visage appears on the country's currency (which is when his name is revealed for the first time).
While French kissing Æon, Trevor uses his tongue in order to insert a tiny picture into a hidden compartment in one of Æon's teeth. The picture, of a man and a briefcase, is apparently Æon's 'target.'
Trevor enters an assassination target's mansion one minute before Æon does. Trevor completes the assassination, and then shoots Æon in the neck. Before she dies, Æon sees on the security camera that it was Trevor. This is the only time Trevor himself intentionally kills Æon (this would not happen in the half-hour series given their relationship's development).
What appears to be Trevor is seen chained in Æon's cupboard ravenously eating the eggs of an alien creature.
From an elevator that is on the 7th floor, Trevor presses buttons 1–6. He also throws a key for a door that is on level 2 behind some pipes. Æon handcuffs him in the elevator while she attempts to find the door. (She checks on every floor.) On the 2nd floor, after another woman has killed Æon, a guard enters and shoot
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