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Despite their humanoid body plan, Laputan Robots are only primarily bipedal, and are capable of moving as well on all four limbs as on two. Their arms are considerable longer than their legs, though, and are both asymmetrical and flexible. Steampunk: A very influential work on the subgenre, what with its massive dirigible airships being full of soldiers boasting bolt-action rifles and soaring over a landscape of rural mining towns straight out of the late Industrial Revolution. Wham Line: "Who are you, Muska?" when Sheeta finally understands the depths of his obsession with Laputa. Externally, the robots are constructed out of an extremely strong, dark armor. This is shown to be able to withstand large cannonballs, gunshots, and fiery temperatures.
As a descendant of Laputa's royal line, Colonel Muska believes that he is entitled to rule Laputa and use it as a powerful weapon to bring the Earth under his control. Unlike Dola and her gang, Muska is uninterested in the treasures of Laputa; he wants to find the island for the power it will give him. Neglectful Precursors: The advanced Laputians left the pendant, essentially the key, to a terrible super-weapon lying around, instead of destroying it outright. Then again, the people were once even worse than this trope, having personally wiped human cities off the map that the stories of Sodom and Gomorrah were based on. The floating island lies in a cloudscape, which is also known as the dragon's cave (Japanese 龍 の 巣, ryuu no su ). The cloud masses draw nearby flying machines towards them. If the machine is close enough to the vortex, lightning bolts in the form of kites flash around the machine and then form columns to show the way to the landing platform. [6] Even the Subtitler Is Stumped: During Sheeta's dream where she remembers her grandmother teaching her spells, the subtitles suddenly go silent when the spell is spoken. Justified, as the spell is muttered in the forgotten Laputa language.Reclaimed by Nature: The people of Laputa abandoned their floating castles and continents a long time ago, so the magic technology the characters find upon visiting the titular castle in the sky is overrun with nature.
Asshole Victim: Muska dropping all the soldiers who came with him to the floating city thousands of feet to their deaths is a ruthless betrayal, but it's hard to feel sorry for all those assholes.Scenery Porn: Another Ghibli staple; it seems like every time you blink, there's another establishing shot or sweeping pan of the landscape, the clouds with the sun or Laputa itself. Holding Hands: Pazu and Sheeta do this often, either for emotional support or so they're less likely to be separated.
Armies Are Evil: The army is a ruthless antagonist in the movie. Although still not as bad as Muska.
I Was Quite a Looker: Dola has a portrait of herself as a young lady in her bedroom. She was very pretty. Inspired by one chapter of Gulliver's Travels, Laputa: Castle in the Sky is a 1986 fantasy action-adventure tale and the first by now-legendary anime studio Studio Ghibli, which was created to independently produce the film. This was Hayao Miyazaki's third film; much of the staff consists of alums from Miyazaki's previous work, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Break His Heart to Save Him: Sheeta makes a deal with Muska to free Pazu. It involves telling Pazu to return to his home town and forget about her, which he reluctantly does. Dola discusses this later. Establishing Character Moment: We first see Sheeta trapped in a room on an airship surrounded by military folks, looking an awful lot like a Damsel in Distress. Until the part where they stop watching her, and she crashes a bottle over the only guard left in her room and escapes through the window of the moving blimp. The dub also gives "z" letter in Pazu's name a German-ish "ts" pronunciation, saying it like "Pa-tzu".
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