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Scanners III: The Takeover
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Scanners III: The Takeover is the second sequel to Scanners, released in 1992 and also directed by Christian Duguay.At a Christmas party in a high rise apartment, scanner Alex Monet shows off his psychic abilities with his best friend. Due to a mishap he accidentally pushes his friend off the balcony with his telekinesis, and goes into self-imposed exile in a Buddhist monastery on the other side of the world.Back home and months later, his sister Helena is breaking down from the pressure of hearing everyone's thoughts all the time. Alex and Helena's father, a millionaire pharmaceutical businessman and scientist who adopted the two when they were kids, has developed a drug that might help them, Eph 3. The drug is however experimental and possibly dangerous. After a mental episode Helena steals the drug and tests it on herself with success, but the side effects degrade her empathy and turn her into a sociopath bent on domination. After Helena takes control of the company Alex must come back to stop her.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Cigarette Burns: Helena tests her recently discovered ability to transmit her mind control powers through a camera signal by recording a tape to force her lover to put out a cigar on his hand. When Alex (Helena's brother and another "scanner") later sees the tape, he almost does the same thing. | |
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Asshole Victim: Helena murders the creepy director of an institute who routinely abused his psychic patients by gruesomely blowing his head up. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: When Helena takes over her father's pharmaceutical firm (after murdering him in cold blood), she takes the company in ethically dubious directions he would have objected to, uses her psychic powers to kill her professional rivals, and eventually tries to brainwash the world. | |
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Cain and Abel: Alex has to fight his sister Helen after she becomes insane | |
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