

Nemo avoids dry land, except when it’s uninhabited, as with Antarctica and desert islands. He is also wracked by remorse over the deaths of his crew members and even by the deaths of enemy sailors. Nemo tries to project a stern, controlled confidence, but he is driven by a thirst for vengeance and a hatred of imperialism focused on the British Empire. Remaining somewhat of a mysterious figure, he is the son of an Indian Raja and a scientific genius who roams the depths of the sea in his submarine, the Nautilus.

For the overall character design for this version of 20,000 Leagues under The Sea I pursued a very comic book/Supermarionation look of the old “Thunderbirds” puppets, simply because I thought they were always cool and lend that aesthetic well to this novel.Ĭaptain Nemo-also known as Prince Dakkar, is one of the best known antiheroes in fiction.
