History ComicBook / Persepolis

* AllMenArePerverts: Used verbatim in the first book by Marjane's mother, after several fundamentalist men [[StayInTheKitchen make sexist comments toward her]]. The fundamentalist Islamist government tended to believe it, using it to justify making women wear the veil to "protect" them. There is quite some hypocrisy in this thought, though, as pointed out in MaleGaze below.

* PrisonRape[=/=]MaritalRapeLicense: {{Discussed}}. When a virgin is arrested, a member of the SecretPolice marries and deflowers her before she's executed. Because executing virgins is illegal and virgins can't go to hell. So that's one way around that issue. Then, to hammer it in, a pittance of a dowry is sent to the woman's family so they know exactly what happened. Understandably, Marjane's parents freak out over it.

* ShownTheirWork: About that period of Iranian history.

* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: A major theme of the book is that after having spent her teenage years in Vienna, she now feels like an outsider in Iran, as the culture of Iran has changed due to the Islamic Revolution and war, and she herself has changed as a result of her experiences in the west.

* StylisticSuck: The [[HollywoodToneDeaf infamous]] "Eye Of The Tiger Scene."

** Several years later, her mother Taji tells Marjane that she can't keep speaking out at school, or she might end up like Niloufar who was arrested for the crime of being Communist. Niloufar like many virgins was married off to a prison guard, raped, and shot because it's against the law to kill virgins. Marjane is shocked but suggests that maybe the regime made it up to scare people and they just executed Niloufar. Her father shuts her down with five words: "No, your mother is right." He knows because Niloufar's family reported they received a pittance of a dowry from her "husband".

* WoundedGazelleGambit: See WhatTheHellHero above.

''Persepolis'' is an autobiographical comic by UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}ian[=-=]UsefulNotes/{{Fr|ance}}ench author Creator/MarjaneSatrapi, originally published in multiple volumes from 2000–2004, and adapted into an animated film (directed by Satrapi as well) in 2007. It begins with her childhood in UsefulNotes/{{Tehran}} during TheSeventies to TheNineties, as her middle-class family works to bring down the Shah. Soon, the fundamentalists are swept into power, and a new wave of repression begins. Marjane rebels in small ways, such as by buying smuggled rock tapes and denim jackets, drawing the attention of her school and compelling her parents to send her to Europe. She kicks around UsefulNotes/{{Vienna}} for a few years, alienated by the people there, before returning to a Tehran changed by years of fundamentalist rule.

* {{Autobiograhpy}}: Satrapi tells her own history from her childhood during the fall of the Shah to her exile away from the Islamic Republic of Iran.

''Persepolis'' is an autobiographical comic by UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}ian[=-=]UsefulNotes/{{Fr|ance}}ench author Marjane Satrapi, originally published in multiple volumes from 2000–2004, and adapted into an animated film (directed by Satrapi as well) in 2007. It begins with her childhood in UsefulNotes/{{Tehran}} during TheSeventies to TheNineties, as her middle-class family works to bring down the Shah. Soon, the fundamentalists are swept into power, and a new wave of repression begins. Marjane rebels in small ways, such as by buying smuggled rock tapes and denim jackets, drawing the attention of her school and compelling her parents to send her to Europe. She kicks around UsefulNotes/{{Vienna}} for a few years, alienated by the people there, before returning to a Tehran changed by years of fundamentalist rule.

* ArcSymbol: Jasmine flowers.

* BluffingTheAuthorities: The police suspect that Marjane's family has been to a party and are following them home to check for stashed wine. When they arrive, Marjane's grandma asks to enter the house first, claiming she has diabetes and needs to get her medicine urgently (this works because [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas one of the cops' own grandmothers is also diabetic]]). Once inside she and Marjane [[FlushTheEvidence flush all the wine down the toilet]], but later find they needn't have bothered: Marjane's father merely bribed the police officer to get him to leave. And the stress of dealing with the cop makes her father say INeedAFreakingDrink.

* BluffingTheAuthorities: The police suspect that Marjane's family has been to a party and are following them home to check for stashed wine. When they arrive, Marjane's grandma asks to enter the house first, claiming she has diabetes and needs to get her medicine urgently. Once inside she and Marjane [[FlushTheEvidence flush all the wine down the toilet]], but later find they needn't have bothered: Marjane's father merely bribed the police officer to get him to leave. And the stress of dealing with the cop makes her father say INeedAFreakingDrink.

* BlackMarket: Where people can buy stuff like "Jichael Mackson" tapes.

Both the graphic novel and the film were well received by critics upon their release. The film was nominated for the Best Animated Picture Oscar but lost to ''{{WesternAnimation/Ratatouille}}''. The Iranian government issued protests against it being shown at various film festivals worldwide, but it allowed a limited screening in Tehran. The film was {{banned|InChina}} for a short period of time in Lebanon, as well.

''Persepolis'' is an autobiographical comic by UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}ian-UsefulNotes/{{Fr|ance}}ench author Marjane Satrapi, originally published in multiple volumes from 2000–2004, and adapted into an animated film (directed by Satrapi as well) in 2007. It begins with her childhood in UsefulNotes/{{Tehran}} during TheSeventies to TheNineties, as her middle-class family works to bring down the Shah. Soon, the fundamentalists are swept into power, and a new wave of repression begins. Marjane rebels in small ways, such as by buying smuggled rock tapes and denim jackets, drawing the attention of her school and compelling her parents to send her to Europe. She kicks around UsefulNotes/{{Vienna}} for a few years, alienated by the people there, before returning to a Tehran changed by years of fundamentalist rule.

''Persepolis'' is an autobiographical comic by Marjane Satrapi, originally published in multiple volumes from 2000–2004, and adapted into an animated film (directed by Satrapi as well) in 2007. It begins with her childhood in UsefulNotes/{{Tehran}} during TheSeventies to TheNineties, as her middle-class family works to bring down the Shah. Soon, the fundamentalists are swept into power, and a new wave of repression begins. Marjane rebels in small ways, such as by buying smuggled rock tapes and denim jackets, drawing the attention of her school and compelling her parents to send her to Europe. She kicks around UsefulNotes/{{Vienna}} for a few years, alienated by the people there, before returning to a Tehran changed by years of fundamentalist rule.