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''[[The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello]]'' is a series of [[Australian Movies|Australian]] animated short films directed by Anthony Lucas, notable for their unique CGI cut-out animation style which shows almost everything in silhouette. The first film, ''[[Character Name and the Noun Phrase|Jasper Morello And The Lost Airship]]'', was released in 2005 and nominated for an Academy Award, while several more are planned. 

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* [[Affably Evil]]: Dr. Claude Belgon. He's the nicest of the crew towards Jasper, and gets on well with him. Right up until the good doctor {{spoiler|starts letting the creature feed on the crew}}.
* [[Apocalyptic Log]]
* [[The Atoner]]: Jasper, for accidentally knocking a man off the ship on his last voyage with a navigational error.
* [[BFG]]: Kovacks wields one while out on the island. It appears to be steam-powered, and is fired to save Jasper from the carnivorous vegisectoid creature.
* [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]]: The creatures on the island are mixture of this and man-eating plants. The first of them transforms one of its tendrils into a tropical bird, and even sings with it to draw in prey!
* {{spoiler|[[Bittersweet Ending]]: Or just a [[Downer Ending]], depending on how you interpret it.}}
* [[Body Horror]]: The Sickness, which starts out with flu-like symptoms, then goes into horrific glowing orange boils and growths.
* [[Character Title]]
* [[Cool Airship]]: The ''Resolution'' and the ''Hieronymous''.
* [[Death World]] / [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: According to the Gothia Gazette, it seems that everything can and will malfunction, maul you, poison you, kill you or drive you insane.
* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: The film uses B&W with [[Silent Film]]-influenced [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|tinting]]: the island is green, the stormier areas of uncharted air are dark blue, the mountain peaks are pale blue, and everything else is sepia or grey.
* [[The Fantastic Trope of Wonderous Titles]]
* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: Gothia is essentially a gothic/[[Steampunk]] version of [[Victorian London|Victorian England]].
* [[Floating Continent]]
* [[Flying Seafood Special]]
* [[For Science!]]: Dr. Belgon seems to be a positive example of this at first, what with his kooky, harmless experiments and fascination with insects. Then he gets obsessed with the creature from the island...
* [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]: The vegisectoid predator on the uncharted isle. Also, Jasper's nightmare of a plague-stricken Amelia.
* [[Ill Girl]]: Jasper's wife, Amelia.
* [[Jerkass]]: Captain Griswald.
* [[Machine Worship]]: [[Word of God]] says that The Ebeneezer, who is continually referred to, is a living computer.
* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: Dr. Claude Belgon. Looking at his character profile, he appears to have plenty of motive to be desperate for a find, no matter the cost.
* [[Man-Eating Plant]]: Mobile and intelligent, too!
* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]: The "porcfish", a flying fish/porcupine hybrid.
* [[Nothing but Skulls]]: The crew of the ''Resolution'' find a pile of these with skeletons in the cargo hold of the ''Hieronymous''.
* [[Ominous Fog]]: All of the airships have to navigate through it. And like the sea, many dangers can be concealed within.
* [[Ominous Pipe Organ]]: Used when {{spoiler|1=LeBrun is eaten by the creature.}}
* [[The Plague]]: The Sickness, which ravages Gothia.
* [[Retraux]]
* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Dr. Claude Belgon.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Every single frame.
* [[Shadow Discretion Shot]]: Inverted - everything else is monochrome and shown in silhouette, but blood and gore are red and very visible.
* [[The Sky Is an Ocean]]
* [[Sky Pirates]]: [[The Captain|Captain Griswald]] suspects that the ship may have been attacked by these. Unfortunately, something far worse was responsible...
* [[Soylent Green]]: The only cure for the plague that's killing the people of Gothia is a creature {{spoiler|that feeds on human blood. And tissue, when it can get it.}}
* [[Steampunk]]
* [[Those Magnificent Flying Machines]]
* [[World in the Sky]]

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