Blackheart is brought to an Institution laboratory, where the Director reveals their occult experiments to develop weapons. He initially refused however, after losing the joust, he activated the lance in desperation. The Director offered him the position of champion, on the condition that he win the joust against Blackheart and giving him an explosive lance to ensure his victory. The two talk and Goldenloin admits that the jousting incident was not an accident. Goldenloin guards him, having been demoted from champion. He sneaks into a hospital to treat poison victims, but is captured. They argue, and Nimona leaves Blackheart.īlackheart learns that his poison has caused deaths. Blackheart questions her powers, and she lets slip that her earlier story – that a witch cast a spell on her as a child – was made up. Her head is sliced off during the fight, but she lives and they escape. He is captured by Goldenloin and used as a trap to lure Nimona. At a public event, the two spread more poison and while people panic about its effects, Blackheart speaks and convinces people to rebel against the Institution. He agrees to kill Nimona and capture Blackheart. Goldenloin continues to refuse orders to kill him it is hinted that Blackheart and Goldenloin were more than just friends. When Nimona is near the device she cannot transform. Meredith Blitzmeyer, who has made a device powered by "anomalous energy". The Institute's Director orders Goldenloin to kill Nimona instead, he meets Blackheart in a tavern, begging him to send Nimona away instead.īlackheart meets Dr. Blackheart has Nimona impersonate a TV news anchor to publicize this, and plant poisonous, but non-fatal, apples in markets to spread fear. They discover the Institution is using jaderoot, a poisonous plant used for dark magic. Nimona pushes to make his plans more violent and often kills people. Blackheart seeks to destroy the Institution, but operates under his own code of ethics. Blackheart was once a knight for the Institution, but lost an arm in a joust with Ambrosius Goldenloin – now the Institution's champion – so he was kicked out. She insists on being the sidekick to Ballister Blackheart. Nimona is a shapeshifter, usually a human girl, but able to grow and shrink and take any human or animal form. The film was released on Netflix on Jto critical acclaim. Production on the film at Blue Sky Studios was initially canceled after the studio's closure by The Walt Disney Company, before it was revived by Annapurna Pictures, who brought in DNEG Animation as animation partner. Reviews and academic analyses have highlighted themes of queerness and fluidity of identity, and how they oppose and subvert traditional controlling institutions and exclusionary systems.Īn animated film of the same name was first announced in 2015 by 20th Century Animation. Nimona 's accolades include an Eisner Award, a Cybils Award, and a Cartoonist Studio Prize. It has been translated into at least 16 other languages and adapted into an audiobook. After an agent reached out to Stevenson, HarperCollins released Nimona in print form in 2015. The finished work ultimately doubled as his senior thesis. Stevenson published Nimona as a webcomic from 2012 through 2014, initially through Tumblr, developing the story and the art style as time progressed. Stevenson began working on Nimona while attending the Maryland Institute College of Art, revisiting a character he had created in high school. Blackheart's intent to operate under his code of ethics contrasts him with the impulsive Nimona. The story follows the title character, a shapeshifter who joins the disgraced knight Ballister Blackheart in his plans to destroy the over-controlling Institute. Nimona is a science fantasy graphic novel by American cartoonist ND Stevenson.
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