Electra Heart is a quirky girl who once gets her heart broken, but she swore to never let another girl to go through the same thing she did. So, she reinvented herself, and now she’s living her dream as a heroine who breaks other people's hearts. From that moment on, she was never alone.
Meanwhile, in a distant planet, where a race of colorful, canine looking aliens, the sonaga, live; Lady Blue, a calm and disciplined soldier, is told that one of her mates has disappeared. Reports say that she claims to call herself Armour Love, and that she’s a Guardian of Love. She is now on her way to bring her back to their planet, and possibly rescuing an old love who’s stranded someplace in the galaxy.
Cut to Earth, where an unhappy suburban housewife, and a carefree biker who gets it on with everyone, are abducted by extraterrestrial beings.
As development advanced, it has been expanded into other works, also based on Diamandis’ discography:
- Hollow Heart, AKA The Electra Heart Cut, is a prequel, that retells some of the first story, from Electra’s perspective, and gives a conclusion to the first book.
- HEARTC♡RE, is a brand new story, taking place in The '50s, featuring the "original" Archetypes, and their love misadventures. Serves as Electra's Origins Arc, so it's the least closer to the science fiction genre.
- WilDie Life, is based on The Family Jewels. Wallis is a girl left stranded in middle of the jungle, along with five other children. But suddenly, she has to choose between the forsaken road of fame and finesse, and the freedom of nature.
- Planet FROOT, which is based in, uh, FROOT, takes us to an Amazing Technicolor World. Ecithya is a girl looking for her older sister, who was separated from her in her childhood, who also searches for that "dolce vita" she’s been dreaming for all of her life.
Tropes found in Electra Heart:
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General
- Bizarre Alien Sexes: Sonaga are said to have three genders, and their Tertiary Sexual Characteristics don't help much.
- Doomed by Canon: Efigenio/Ètoile and Wallis/Stella
- Fish People:
- Froot's inhabitants have finned hands, arms, face and legs, with some scales in their faces.
- Admiral Halsey, has a wrinkly face, big, fish-like eyes, and is half the height of an average human, but uses arm and leg extensions that seem to be filled with water.
- Four-Girl Ensemble: The reincarnations of the Archetypes.
- The sweet-naive Housewife: Grace and Anya.
- The butchy Homewrecker: Diane and Suzanne.
- The glamorous Primadonna: Armour and Barbara.
- The brooding Teen Idle:Lady and Virginia
- The Four Loves: A common theme.
- Glamour: Electra and the Lovers have this power.
- Horrible Hollywood: Some characters will end up here at some point or another.
- Jukebox Musical: Of course,with music from Marina Diamandis,but also includes tracks from The Beatles,Metric,and many others.
- Saved by Canon: Double Subverted for Virginia/Electra, Ecithya/Rose and starchildren Mario/Starling and Brayuth/Astrid. They’ve had to die, only to live again as cosmic beings, and in the case of Electra, die again.
- Womanchild: The not yet appearing Bebe Lacrimosa.
Electra Heart
- Bodysurf: Electra does this with the Archetypes, with a dose of Brainwashing so they don't rebel against her. Lady manages not to be brainwashed, though.
- Burial in Space: A variation. Eleanor's body is left at a space station.
- Cool Starship: Why, the Yellow Submarine, of course!
- Early-Bird Cameo:
- Miss Y protects Lady from the Lovers for a while.
- Astrid and Starling in the last episodes.
- The Hyena: Admiral Halsey has her laughing fits at times.
- Lonely Doll Girl: Grace owns a doll collection, predominantly of the Barbie kind.
- Married at Sea: Grace and Diane "marry" in a spaceship near the finale. They agree to remarry properly on Earth afterwards.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Grace Kelly, although totally a coincidence.
- Satire and Switch: It starts with the titular character as a Magical Girl Parody Sue, but the real story is a Jukebox Musical Space Opera.
- Shout-Out: A huge one in "Moping Mechanisms" Parts 1 and 2 to The Beatles, specially to the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour albums.
- Stripperiffic: The Lovers, both boys and girls.
- Succubi and Incubi: The Lovers are described as either these or some kind of "love vampires".
- Supporting Protagonist: Electra Heart. The story focuses on her Archetypes.
- Unusual Ears: A sona has deer looking ears, with flower-like stamens sprouting from them.
Hollow Heart
- Animal Motifs: Mario has birds, especially starlings. His appearance after ascending resembles one.
- Cyborg: Astrid is this because of her wish of staying alive: Ètoile’s main gave her half of her body this way.
- Energy Beings: Starchildren, although they take on a humanoid appearance once their gain consciousness. This is because they’re organic matter mixed with stardust.
- Flower Motifs: Properly, Hustle Rose, Goddess of Love, has a red rose motif.
- Physical God: Cosmic beings, like gods and starchildren are this, with varying degrees.
- Stellar Name: The starchildren, of course.
- Title Drop: "You hollow heart."
- Unlimited Wardrobe: Miss Y is never seen with the same outfit and hairdo twice.
- Wham Line: Rose to Astrid: "It's nice seeing you again... sister".
Makes sense after Planet FROOT.
Heartcore
- The '50s: When the series takes place.
- Lucky Charms Title: The "O" is replaced by a heart.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: Virginia, who can be very racist towards black people.
WilDie Life
- The Cover Changes the Meaning: ”Seventeen” is explored as Efigenio tries to get Wallis to spit her Dark and Troubled Past: her days when she had to recur to cannibalism after being abandoned in the jungle, before meeting the Bad Kidz.
- Kids' Wilderness Epic: The first act.
- Messy Hair: Wallis, initially.
- Nature Hero:T he Bad Kidz, mainly Wallis.
- Ruritania: The unnamed kingdom located between Portugal and Spain.
- Team Mom: Wallis to the Bad Kidz.
- True Companions: The Bad Kidz: Wallis, Socrates, Prairie, Jules, Cassio and Karma.
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: "Bad Kidz".
Planet FROOT
- Amazing Technicolor World: Froot.
- The Hedonist:
- Ecithya.
- And Aubergine, who, unlike Ecithya, gets her just desserts.
