![]() 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'. ![]()
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