History YMMV / TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea

* DracoInLeatherPants: [[TheCaptain Captain Nemo]] is a truly, WickedCultured, AffablyEvil NiceGuy who constantly crosses the MoralEventHorizon and hardly even notices when he [[KickTheDog Kicks the Dog]]. AnAesop of the novel is to show that no matter how good or charismatic are you, TechnologyIsEvil and to have a WeaponOfMassDestruction means that WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity as Nemo’s VillainousBreakdown [[DeathSeeker takes him and his entire crew to the Maelstrom]]. However, MisaimedFandom always forget the Aesop because Nemo is the poster boy (Out and InUniverse) for AffablyEvil, CryForTheDevil, DarkAndTroubledPast, TroubledButCute, WellIntentionedExtremist and even WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds.

** Ned Land's song becomes funnier when you know that Disney did introduce a [[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/126452702010697411/ Mermaid Minnie]] at one of their parks.

* WriterInducedFanon: Nemo's ethnicity as an Indian, a Sikh Prince to be exact, was made explicit in the novel's sequel, ''Literature/TheMysteriousIsland'' but was left ambiguous by Verne in the first novel. There are many in-text hints such as when Captain Nemo rescues an Indian sailor and admits that he sees him as belonging to the country of the oppressed and considers him a countryman but it's still quite cryptic. Most adaptations made Nemo an European. Verne ''did'' intend him to be Polish originally but on advice by the publisher changed it, but it was Verne's own idea to make him a non-European.

* ItWasHisSled: There's no sea monster. It's a submarine.

** The most common image of the ''Nautilus'' has her equipped with a huge saw-like raking blade, and this is often said to be Verne's original idea. In fact, this was designed by Harper Goff for the Disney movie. Verne's ''Nautilus'' was said to be cigar-shaped and have a ramming prow.

** The ''Nautilus'' crew didn't have an epic showdown with a giant squid, they had a prolonged battle with an entire school of giant squid. The Disney film contributes a lot to this misconception, since (presumably) the studio only had enough money in the budget for one giant animatronic squid.

** Also due to Disneyfication and [[Creator/JamesMason James Mason's]] memorable portrayal, many people's image of Captain Nemo is as a dark-haired/bearbed Caucasian man of presumable East European heritage rather than the AmbiguouslyBrown character in Verne's novel. Understandably, this leaves viewers/readers of TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen scratching their heads, since both the film and the comic series stay true(r) to Nemo's literary depiction.

* HilariousInHindsight: The dishes which thoroughly revolted Ned Land and Conseil (and also 1954 American audiences) at dinner, are routinely found today in most Japanese and other East Asian restaurants everywhere; i.e. ''sea snake'' is eel, ''unborn octopus'' is either baby octopus or fish eggs, and ''sea cucumber'' is still called sea cucumber (but still no whale milk, anywhere so far).

** Since the beginning of his career as a writer, Verne was being accused by critics of being ''[[ScifiGhetto only]]'' a HardScienceFiction writer that paid little heed to the social ramifications of technology. But with ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea'' Verne wrote in 1869 about Captain Nemo, a man from an oppressed country who [[MajoredInWesternHypocrisy had training in the west,]] and has [[{{Fiction500}} enough money to pay a country’s national debt,]] who decides to create an [[NGOSuperpower organization strong enough]] to [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters fight]] an [[TheEmpire entire Western country]] [[MoralEventHorizon through terrible acts of violence]], [[TheWarOnTerror and therefore is chased as a menace by all established countries in the West.]] After UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden, 9/11 and TheWarOnTerror, we must admit that Verne really knew much more than anyone ever suspected about how the world will turn in the next 130 years!

* AdaptedOut: This is often the fate of Conseil in adaptations after the 1954 Disney version. Even in that one, he isn't very much like his book counterpart. In more recent adaptations, Conseil is often replaced with an original character who may be a TokenMinority (often with PoliticallyCorrectHistory thrown in). Sometimes, the replacement character is Conseil InNameOnly. Whatever the case, this replacement character is typically not just a servant to Arronax, but rather his (or sometimes her) own person. This may have to do with ValuesDissonance. [[note]]To be fair to the original, Conseil is like a student apprentice to Arronax which justified his servitude. Modern day STEM graduate students may find a parallell [[/note]] or simply the fact that Conseil in the book was given little characterization other than his encyclopedic knowledge of zoology and his devotion to his master Arronax.

* DracoInLeatherPants: TheCaptain Nemo is a truly, WickedCultured, AffablyEvil NiceGuy who constantly crosses the MoralEventHorizon and hardly even notices when he [[KickTheDog Kicks the Dog]]. AnAesop of the novel is to show that no matter how good or charismatic are you, TechnologyIsEvil and to have a WeaponOfMassDestruction means that WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity as Nemo’s VillainousBreakdown [[DeathSeeker takes him and his entire crew to the Maelstrom]]. However, MisaimedFandom always forget the Aesop because Nemo is the poster boy (Out and InUniverse) for AffablyEvil, CryForTheDevil, DarkAndTroubledPast, TroubledButCute, WellIntentionedExtremist and even WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds.
** He has something of a MisaimedFandom purely because of his [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys wonderful toys]]-- you read ocean explorers like Robert Ballard and Jacques Cousteau saying that as children, they read the book over and over and "wanted to be Captain Nemo", meaning they wanted his awesome submarine and diving gear, not that they wanted to be supervillains, and two later real-life submarines were named "Nautilus" in homage.

** This is acknowledged in the finale volume of ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', where a descendant of Nemo is a transparent NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Bin Laden.

*** However, also Ned Land, Conseil, and Aronnax treat them as savages. Maybe could be said that it was FairForItsDay? Captain Nemo lampshades that ''"savages"'' can be found at any part of the world, and even when the Papuans wandered on the electrified staircase, it's stated it was only capable of repelling them and not killing them. Nemo said:

* AdaptedOut: This is often the fate of Conseil in adaptations after the 1954 Disney version. Even in that one, he isn't very much like his book counterpart. In more recent adaptations, Conseil is often replaced with an original character who may be a TokenMinority (often with PoliticallyCorrectHistory thrown in). Sometimes, the replacement character is Conseil InNameOnly. Whatever the case, this replacement character is typically not just a servant to Arronax, but rather his (or sometimes her) own person. This may have to do with ValuesDissonance. [[note]]To be fair to the original, Conseil is like a student apprentice to Arronax which justified his servitude. Modern day STEM graduate students may find a parallell.[[/note]]

* AdaptedOut: This is often the fate of Conseil in adaptations after the 1954 Disney version. Even in that one, he isn't very much like his book counterpart. In more recent adaptations, Conseil is often replaced with an original character who may be a TokenMinority (often with PoliticallyCorrectHistory thrown in). Whatever the case, this replacement character is typically not just a servant to Arronax. This may have to do with ValuesDissonance. [[note]]To be fair to the original, Conseil is like a student apprentice to Arronax which justified his servitude. Modern day STEM graduate students may find a parallell.[[/note]]

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoment: Ned drinking alcohol from a specimen bottle and accidentally swallowing the specimen.

* HarsherInHindsight: Since the beginning of his career as a writer, Verne was being accused by critics of being ''[[ScifiGhetto only]]'' a HardScienceFiction writer that paid little heed to the social ramifications of technology. But with ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea'' Verne wrote in 1869 about Captain Nemo, a man from an oppressed country who [[MajoredInWesternHypocrisy had training in the west,]] and has [[{{Fiction500}} enough money to pay a country’s national debt,]] who decides to create an [[NGOSuperpower organization strong enough]] to [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters fight]] an [[TheEmpire entire Western country]] [[MoralEventHorizon through terrible acts of violence]], [[TheWarOnTerror and therefore is chased as a menace by all established countries in the West.]] After UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden, 9/11 and TheWarOnTerror, we must admit that Verne really knew much more than anyone ever suspected about how the world will turn in the next 130 years!

** The title refers to the distance that the ''Nautilus'' travels while under the sea, not the depth that it dives to (20,000 leagues is actually about twice the circumference of the Earth). There was actually a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch where Creator/KelseyGrammar as Nemo vainly tries to get the others to comprehend that they're not that deep.

** The title refers to the distance that the ''Nautilus'' travels while under the sea, not the depth that it dives to (20,000 leagues is actually about twice the circumference of the Earth).

** A lot of the descriptions of whaling and fishing and the beauty of the sea becomes this due to modern pollution problems, rampant overfishing, and climate change. Worst of all, some species described in the book (the greater Auk, for example) are outright extinct. [[TwoDecadesBehind (Granted, the Auk was extinct then, too.)]]

* DracoInLeatherPants: TheCaptain Nemo is a truly, WickedCultured, AffablyEvil NiceGuy who constantly crosses the MoralEventHorizon and hardly even notices when he KickTheDog. AnAesop of the novel is to show that no matter how good or charismatic are you, TechnologyIsEvil and to have a WeaponOfMassDestruction means that WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity as Nemo’s VillainousBreakdown [[DeathSeeker takes him and his entire crew to the Maelstrom]]. However, MisaimedFandom always forget the Aesop because Nemo is the poster boy (Out and InUniverse) for AffablyEvil, CryForTheDevil, DarkAndTroubledPast, TroubledButCute, WellIntentionedExtremist and even WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds.
** Don't forget that he has something of a MisaimedFandom purely because of his [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys wonderful toys]]-- you read ocean explorers like Robert Ballard and Jacques Cousteau saying that as children, they read the book over and over and "wanted to be Captain Nemo", meaning they wanted his awesome submarine and diving gear, not that they wanted to be supervillains, and two later real-life submarines were named "Nautilus" in homage.
** Well, not really. Nemo desire is just to "severe all ties with mainlands". The two ships damaged at the begining of the book are so by accident, as Nemo claims. Then is implied that he sinks several warships that were chasing him, but only on self-defense. He even funds freedom movements all over the globe. Yes, he is a misanthrope, and yes, he is "not civilized" as he puts it; that doesn´t make him a villain. He only crosses the MoralEventHorizon once, at the end of the novel, and for at least understandable reasons, if not fair reasons. He wants just to be left alone in the fathoms of the ocean.

*** However, also Ned Land, Counseil and Aronnax treat them as savages. Maybe could be said that it was FairForItsDay? Captain Nemo lampshades that ''"savages"'' can be found at any part of the world, and even when the papuans wandered on the electrified staircase, it's stated it was only capable of repelling them and not killing them. Nemo said:

* WriterInducedFanon: Nemo's ethnicity as an Indian, a Sikh Prince to be exact, was made explicit in the novel's sequel, ''Literature/TheMysteriousIsland'' but was left ambiguous by Verne in the first novel. There are many in-text hints such as when Captain Nemo rescues an Indian sailor and admits that he sees him as belonging to the country of the oppressed and considers him a countryman but it's still quite cryptic. Most adaptations made Nemo an European. Verne ''did'' intend him to be Polish originally but on advice by the publisher changed it, but it was Verne's own idea to make him a Non-European.

* EarWorm:
-->''Got a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP3_sOEo8gg whale of a tale]] to tell ye, lads\\
A whale of a tale or two\\
'Bout the flappin' fish and the girls I've loved\\
On nights like this with the moon above\\
Whale of a tale and it's all true\\
I swear by my tattoo!''

* CommonKnowledge: A few instances of this, considering [[MainstreamObscurity how many more people know about the story than have actually read it]]:
** The title refers to the distance that the ''Nautilus'' travels while under the sea, not the depth that it dives to (20,000 leagues is actually about twice the circumference of the Earth).
** Captain Nemo is the antagonist of the novel, not the protagonist. Though he's certainly the most famous character in the novel, he's an Antihero at best, and a full-on villain at worst. This misperception is probably because [[StockholmSyndrome Aronnax]] is the UnreliableNarrator who idolizes Nemo before he fully understands what's happening.

** The most common image of the ''Nautilus'' has her equipped with a huge saw-like raking blade, and this is often said to be Verne's original idea. In fact, this was designed by Harper Goff for the Disney live-action movie: Verne's ''Nautilus'' was said to be cigar-shaped and have a ramming prow.

* DesignatedVillain: Nemo comes cross as this at first- until you see his true colors. [[spoiler: Ned seems more than a little justified in mistrusting him after he sinks a ship full of innocent sailors.]] This can, in large part, be blamed on Creator/JamesMason's charismatic performance.

* HarsherInHindsight: Since the beginning of his career as a writer, Verne was being accused by critics of being ''[[ScifiGhetto only]]'' a HardScienceFiction writer that paid little heed to the social ramifications of technology. But with ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea'' Verne wrote in 1869 about Captain Nemo, a man from an oppressed country who [[MajoredInWesternHypocrisy had training in the west,]] and has [[{{Fiction500}} enough money to pay a country’s national debt,]] who decides to create an [[NGOSuperpower organization strong enough]] to [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters fight]] an [[TheEmpire entire Western country]] [[MoralEventHorizon through terrible acts of violence]], [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror and therefore is chased as a menace by all established countries in the West.]] After UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden, 9/11 and UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, we must admit that Verne really knew much more than anyone ever suspected about how the world will turn in the next 130 years!

** The most common image of the ''Nautilus'' has her equipped with a huge saw-like raking blade, and this is often said to be Verne's original idea. In fact, this was designed by Harper Goff for the Disney live-action movie: Verne's ''Nautilus'' was said to be cigar-shaped and have a ramming prow.\

** Well, not really. Nemo desire is just to "severe all ties with mainlands". The two ships damaged at the begining of the book are so by accident, as Nemo claims. Then is implied that he sinks several warships that were chasing him, but only on self-defense. He even funds freedom movements all over the globe. Yes, he is a misanthrope, and yes, he is "not civilized" as he puts it; that doesn´t make him a villain. He only crosses the MoralEventHorizon once, at the end of the novel, and for at least understable reasons, if not fair reasons. He wants just to be left alone in the fathoms of the ocean.

** The most common image of the ''Nautilus'' has her equipped with a huge saw-like raking blade, and this is often said to be Verne's original idea. In fact, this was designed by Harper Goff for the Disney live-action movie: Verne's ''Nautilus'' was said to be cigar-shaped and have a ramming prow.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Conseil hopes Ned Land will get some red meat soon, "lest sir wake up one morning and find only chunks of me to serve him".
* CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming: After Ned Land and Conseil tried to give TheProfessor Aronax some precious oxygen, they converse MoreExpendableThanYou:
--> ''"Good lord, Professor," Ned Land answered me, "[[ThinkNothingOfIt don't mention it! What did we do that's so praiseworthy? Not a thing.]] [[MoreExpendableThanYou It was a question of simple arithmetic. Your life is worth more than ours. So we had to save it.]]"''
--> ''"No, Ned," I replied, "it isn't worth more. Nobody could be better than a kind and generous man like yourself!"''
--> ''"All right, all right!" the Canadian repeated in embarrassment.''

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The squid battle.