Trevor Goodchild
fictional character
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.
Character overview
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.
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