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Screamers

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Screamers	comment	Screamers is a 1995 Sci-Fi Horror film based off of the Philip K. Dick story "Second Variety".The film is set on the planet Sirius 6B in the year 2078. Sirius 6B was the source of Berynium, a mineral that solved the energy crisis on Earth, but which produced radioactive waste as a byproduct, contaminating the planet and leading to a war between the New Economic Block, and their former employees The Alliance. While on Earth there was a tense peace between the NEB and Alliance, on Sirius 6B, the war went nuclear. Eventually, the Alliance introduced "screamers", a series of subterranean killing machines, which replicate themselves ad infinitum in an automated factory. The war eventually ruined the planet, leaving only a handful of Alliance and NEB strongholds intact. As it turns out, Earth had long since abandoned Sirius 6B, with the soldiers fighting for control of a ruined planet.As Colonel Hendricksson (Peter Weller), the Alliance's leader on Sirius 6B, heads out to discuss a peace treaty with the NEB General, it is revealed that the screamers have changed; building newer models. They can pass for human, and soon, no one is safe.A direct-to-video sequel, Screamers: The Hunting, was released in 2009.Not to be confused with the obnoxious Jump Scare Shock Sites you see floating around the internet as Schmuck Bait.
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Screamers / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
Screamers / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: Becker quotes from Shakespeare a lot. He quotes from Henry VI while crushing Joe to death. Chuck does the same while trying to kill Hendricksen. Ross, who is only slightly less visibly loopy than Becker, keeps telling people again and again to "get off my back". Becker kills him while accusing him of being one of the humanoid Screamers because of this repetition.
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Screamers / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Screamers / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: The Screamers were made to kill humans. And they're just getting better and better at it.
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Screamers / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
Screamers / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: The protagonists receive a VR communique from Secretary Green back on Earth, who advises them not to accept the peace offering from the NEB forces because it might jeopardize peace negotiations on Earth. Then Ace, the Sole Survivor of a disguised troop transport sending forces to Triton, reveals that Secretary Green was arrested and executed by the Alliance two years ago. Chuck has been killed and his face transplanted onto a Type V Screamer. Given that he mocks Hendricksson with things he said at the start of the movie, this apparently happened a while back. He also brags of killing the NEB general who sent the peace treaty offer, so for all we know the whole thing may have been a ruse to get Hendricksson out of the bunker so Screamer Chuck could subvert the defenses.
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Screamers / int_1ba09c9d	type	Human Resources
Screamers / int_1ba09c9d	comment	Human Resources: The Screamers drag bodies underground to their factories (and presumably to study them for the later human models).
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Screamers / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
Screamers / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: The New Economic Block's response to the workers refusing to mine berynium.
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Screamers / int_1c512c6c	type	The Swarm
Screamers / int_1c512c6c	comment	The Swarm: The NEB soldier in the opening scene destroys the first two Screamers, but others show up en masse and quickly take him down. Once a David unit has infiltrated a bunker, others soon follow to finish off everyone there.
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Screamers / int_1ce428b5	type	Cold Equation
Screamers / int_1ce428b5	comment	Cold Equation: There's an escape rocket for the Alliance commander, but only seating and life support for one. Hendricksson insists that Jessica must go, but she refuses. Then a second Jessica appears and he realises why she's refusing.
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Screamers / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Screamers / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: Mostly everyone dies. And the teddy bear is a screamer. Though if one is familiar with the short story in the scene where "David" screamers pour out of the bunker, the teddy bears moved by themselves but got blown to bits before they could get to the main protagonists, the twist does not come as a surprise. And the ending of the short story is even darker.
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Screamers / int_1e5c343a	type	Anti-Radiation Drug
Screamers / int_1e5c343a	comment	Anti-Radiation Drug: Administered via cigarette, hence, why Everybody Smokes.
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Screamers / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Screamers / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: a lot more scenes and characters are added.
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Screamers / int_2ab79021	type	Emerging from the Shadows
Screamers / int_2ab79021	comment	Emerging from the Shadows: Just as he's about to use the escape rocket to get off the planet, Colonel Hendricksson is knocked down and his weapon taken by one of the human Screamers, who then steps out of the dark to reveal he's Hendricksson's Number Two, who should have been killed by the Screamers when they swarmed the Alliance base. Turns out the real Number Two was killed and replaced by the Screamer before the events of the movie even started.
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Screamers / int_2c77fae3	type	Darkness Equals Death
Screamers / int_2c77fae3	comment	Darkness Equals Death: After Romo blows up a reptile Screamer in the command center, the lights suddenly go out and...
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Screamers / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Screamers / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: At the start of the story, civilization on Sirius 6B has been reduced to irradiated ruins infested with Killer Robots, with the only thing left being the two opposing bases of the NEB and the Alliance. And on Earth, the leadership of both factions have written off Sirius 6B to fight over a new planet.
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Screamers / int_368c1306	type	The Men First
Screamers / int_368c1306	comment	The Men First: When the lights go out, Hendricksson orders the others out of the command centre, leaving himself vulnerable when he stays behind to examine the database on the Screamers. He likely only survives because Jessica and Ace went back for him. Later when he offers to cut himself to prove to Jessica that he's not a Screamer, she stops him saying she really doesn't need proof. Later when he sees the escape rocket has only room for one, he insists that Jessica go instead of himself.
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Screamers / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Screamers / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: As the sniper scans the two approaching soldiers and David, all three show as ARMED even though David is not carrying a weapon. Also counts as foreshadowing — not only is David a weapon, he's carrying his teddy bear which is also a weapon. A wounded Becker cries "Help me, help me!" just like the Type II he discussed earlier. Joe realises what's going to happen a moment before Becker crushes the life out of him.
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Screamers / int_3c689563	type	Interesting Situation Duel
Screamers / int_3c689563	comment	Interesting Situation Duel: Hendricksson fights a human Screamer on a claw-crane suspended over a launch pit protected by lethal laser grid.
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Screamers / int_3c728b77	type	Flare Gun
Screamers / int_3c728b77	comment	Having lost his weapon, Hendricksson retrieves a Flare Gun from the escape rocket's cockpit and shoots the killer robot in the chest, but to little effect. Fortunately at that moment the rocket fires up its pre-launch burn, which provides a much more effective means to Kill It with Fire.
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Screamers / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Screamers / int_40cc0c7e	comment	In "Second Variety", it's a Bittersweet Ending; the "claws", having evolved enough that They Look Like Us Now, manage to smuggle one of their number onto a space transport so they can wipe out what's left of humanity - the catch is that part of what made them convincing was that they were capable of killing other claws, which leaves the protagonist grimly satisfied; humanity is finished, but the "claws" will kill themselves off in the same manner, as they are no different. This is subverted in the sequel: the survivors on the Moon figure out what's happening and are able to detect and eliminate the infiltrators, then resettle Earth once the "claws" have wiped themselves out.
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Screamers / int_413e6726	type	Deliberately Cute Child
Screamers / int_413e6726	comment	Deliberately Cute Child: The Type III is designed to play on a soldier's sympathy, so he'll take it into a sealed bunker.
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Screamers / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Screamers / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The Screamers were designed to kill humans in the first place, but they weren't supposed to attack Alliance troops, or to develop new forms that resembled humans.
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Screamers / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Screamers / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Jessica is a screamer, but she defends Hendricksson from another Jessica, to allow him to escape to Earth.
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Screamers / int_45398e01	type	Psycho Knife Nut
Screamers / int_45398e01	comment	Psycho Knife Nut: Becker, who also uses it as a throwing weapon to kill a suspected Screamer.
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Screamers / int_4830326a	type	Give Me a Sword
Screamers / int_4830326a	comment	Give Me a Sword: Or in this case, a nuclear-tipped rifle grenade.
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Screamers / int_4e34d653	type	See You in Hell
Screamers / int_4e34d653	comment	See You in Hell: Via Shakespeare quote. "Down, down to hell; and say I sent you."
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Screamers / int_53b22e1f	type	Tattoo as Character Type
Screamers / int_53b22e1f	comment	Tattoo as Character Type: Becker has the teardrop tattoo.
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Screamers / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Screamers / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: The Type II Screamer pretends to be a wounded soldier.
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Screamers / int_596f675a	type	Smoking Is Cool
Screamers / int_596f675a	comment	Smoking Is Cool: The film made smoking a plot point: the drug that helped counter the radiation of the planet was administered via cigarette, presumably so the actors didn't have to go around in Hazmat Suit and breathing masks.
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Screamers / int_5a36f8bc	type	Not His Sled
Screamers / int_5a36f8bc	comment	Not His Sled: The film, which was based on "Second Variety" by Dick, retains the original surprise ending that the woman the hero met and bonded with is one of the robot decoys, but changes it so she has broken her programming and isn't out to kill humans. It further departs from the original ending by having her "dying" and putting the hero safely on the shuttle to Earth in a happy Hollywood ending...until it reveals that the teddy bear the hero kept as a souvenir is another deadly robot decoy. The direct-to-video sequel briefly mentions the first film's protagonist choosing to destroy his ship rather than allow the teddy bear to get to Earth, although it's difficult to imagine a single killer robot being able to wipe out the human race without the means to make more of itself.
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Screamers / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Screamers / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The original short story takes place on a post-apocalyptic earth with an escalated cold war being the backstory. The movie replaces this with a colony world run by Corrupt Corporate Executives in a fight with a militant union. The story itself is largely unchanged. Even the endings have similarities; In "Second Variety", it's a Bittersweet Ending; the "claws", having evolved enough that They Look Like Us Now, manage to smuggle one of their number onto a space transport so they can wipe out what's left of humanity - the catch is that part of what made them convincing was that they were capable of killing other claws, which leaves the protagonist grimly satisfied; humanity is finished, but the "claws" will kill themselves off in the same manner, as they are no different. This is subverted in the sequel: the survivors on the Moon figure out what's happening and are able to detect and eliminate the infiltrators, then resettle Earth once the "claws" have wiped themselves out. In Screamers, it's Zig-Zagged. The Type V screamers have evolved so that they can "smile, cry, bleed, fuck" - which enables the a Type V-Jessica to come within moments of hijacking the space transport to Earth. However, Jessica has become human enough to not want to kill humans anymore, and sacrifices herself to save Hendrickson from one of her duplicates. Averted in that it turns out the teddy bears carried by Type III's are also screamers, and Hendricksson not only brought one onto the transport but took his Tab off...
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Screamers / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Screamers / int_5c1d5030	comment	Grew Beyond Their Programming: Not the Screamers in general, as they are programmed to Kill All Humans; they just got smart enough to see past the Tags and get into the bunkers. Judging from the Shakespeare he quotes, Becker accepts he was created as a killer and thinks there's little meaning in anything else. Jessica with her Black Market stash and attractive looks is just a more advanced means of getting into a bunker like the Davids. She does in fact get into a restricted area (the escape rocket that only the Alliance commander can access) but refuses to go to Earth for fear her original programming will reassert itself.
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Screamers / int_5d4359fe	type	No Blood for Phlebotinum
Screamers / int_5d4359fe	comment	No Blood for Phlebotinum: The original story took place in World War III. The film's Back Story adapts the capitalist/communist conflict by having a Mega-Corp called N.E.B fighting a worker/scientist Alliance over berynium, which has solved the energy crisis back on Earth but produces large amounts of radiation when mined. The idea of an industrial dispute writ large is at least original, though it bears little relevance to anything that happens in the movie.
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Screamers / int_5dcaeeb7	type	SomethingTheyWouldNeverSay
Screamers / int_5dcaeeb7	comment	Something They Would Never Say: When Hendricksson returns to base, he calls Chuck and tells him to come outside. A voice claiming to be Chuck refuses, telling Hendricksson to come inside. Hendricksson then asks to speak to Don Giovanni (the opera music he was playing earlier). When the same voice claiming to be "Don Giovanni" answers, everyone runs like hell.
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Screamers / int_5e7c0ab7	type	Kleptomaniac Hero
Screamers / int_5e7c0ab7	comment	Kleptomaniac Hero: Jefferson shows so much glee at finding the nuclear mini-missile that Hendricksson guesses correctly on the climactic battle that he took it with him even after being ordered not to.
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Screamers / int_5fc516bf	type	Mechanical Lifeforms
Screamers / int_5fc516bf	comment	Mechanical Lifeforms: During their journey to the NEB base, the protagonists are attacked despite their tags by a more advanced Screamer, a reptile-like creature with legs and a tail.
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Screamers / int_63557923	type	Death World
Screamers / int_63557923	comment	Death World: The colony world Sirius 6B has become a wasteland due to an apocalyptic war between two different factions who've worn each other down to a few isolated and undersupplied forces holed up in bunkers. Near the end they release armies of self-evolving killer robots which kill indiscriminately, making the entire planet pretty much uninhabitable. Even venturing outside the few remaining bunkers is viewed as a Suicide Mission.
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Screamers / int_646a37e0	type	FlarePistol
Screamers / int_646a37e0	comment	Averted when the two Jessica's are fighting each other. Hendricksson loads a Flare Pistol, but can't tell who's who. The evil Jessica than fatally injures the good one and turns on Hendricksson.
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Screamers / int_66f69cd4	type	Invisibility Cloak
Screamers / int_66f69cd4	comment	Invisibility Cloak: The "tabs" Alliance members wear makes them invisible to screamers. Until the screamers start updating themselves...
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Screamers / int_6ea3206	type	Numbered Homeworld
Screamers / int_6ea3206	comment	Numbered Homeworld: The film is set on a planet called Sirius 6B. There's mention of Triton IV.
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Screamers / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
Screamers / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: Anti-radiation medication is delivered via red-colored cigarettes. Thus, lots of people smoke.
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Screamers / int_725a80b2	type	Mistaken for an Imposter
Screamers / int_725a80b2	comment	Mistaken for an Imposter: One character argues that another one is a screamer, and then tosses a knife through his chest. It then turns out Becker was the real imposter, invoking this trope.
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Screamers / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Screamers / int_72856b70	comment	Ace is overjoyed to find a plutonium mini-missile, but Hendricksson orders him to leave it behind. When they're being swarmed by David units, Hendricksson orders him to use it, knowing full well Ace had brought it with him anyway.
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Screamers / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Screamers / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Private Jefferson doesn't hear his Tag warning of an approaching Screamer because he's watching a virtual reality music video projected into his sunglasses and headphones. This is put down to a dumbass New Meat mistake, but we saw Jefferson earlier walking along with Hendricksson with the headphones playing music; why didn't Hendricksson take them off him then and there, if he's walking through a war zone?
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Screamers / int_74828aea	type	Killer Rabbit
Screamers / int_74828aea	comment	Killer Rabbit: The child screamer. And possibly the teddy bear.
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Screamers / int_79574c48	type	CrackingUp
Screamers / int_79574c48	comment	Cracking Up: Becker cracks his neck. Later when Chuck is revealed as a robot too, he does the same neck crack.
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Screamers / int_7d32da92	type	Lost in Transmission
Screamers / int_7d32da92	comment	Lost in Transmission: Played straight.
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Screamers / int_7eccbb3d	type	Shower Scene
Screamers / int_7eccbb3d	comment	Shower Scene: Downplayed when Jessica strips off her top to wash from a hand basin. Given that everyone's rugged up in combat gear, it's more than enough; Hendricksson just gives a quiet, "Good lord, you're beautiful" at the sight.
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Screamers / int_8134db87	type	Mechanical Evolution
Screamers / int_8134db87	comment	Mechanical Evolution: Just as in the original Second Variety. The Screamers were designed as self-evolving killer robots, and newer generations even take on human appearance. Eventually the Type V generation (Jessica) has both a mostly human biology and experiences human emotions, and saves Hendricksen from one of her evil counterparts.
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Screamers / int_85bfd195	type	They Look Like Us Now
Screamers / int_85bfd195	comment	They Look Like Us Now: In the original, there were Type IIs and IVs, which pretended to be wounded soldiers, and Type IIIs, which mimicked orphaned children. And Jessica. The sequel adds even more variety.
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Screamers / int_8b1a664	type	Kill All Humans
Screamers / int_8b1a664	comment	Once a David unit has infiltrated a bunker, others soon follow to finish off everyone there.
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Screamers / int_8b7e2c1a	type	BBC Quarry
Screamers / int_8b7e2c1a	comment	BBC Quarry: Albeit in Canada. There's also the requisite Abandoned Warehouses and refineries you find in any low budget sci-fi production.
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Screamers / int_8bb79fdf	comment	Designated Girl Fight: Between two of the same woman no less.
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Screamers / int_90e8aa77	type	War Was Beginning
Screamers / int_90e8aa77	comment	War Was Beginning: With Opening Scroll (or rather War Has Been Going On For Ten Years).
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Screamers / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
Screamers / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: Becker, after getting shot by Hendricksson.
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Screamers / int_986dad9a	type	Killer Robot
Screamers / int_986dad9a	comment	Killer Robot: The screamers were designed to be the perfect soldier. They proved to be a little too perfect.
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Screamers / int_98e87f7	type	Sinister Silhouettes
Screamers / int_98e87f7	comment	Sinister Silhouettes: When the Davids are stalking Hendricksson through the darkened command post.
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Screamers / int_997392ec	type	Killer Teddy Bear
Screamers / int_997392ec	comment	Killer Teddy Bear: Killer robots looking like little boys, carrying killer robot teddy bears.
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Screamers / int_99a12edd	type	Cyborg
Screamers / int_99a12edd	comment	Cyborg: Type V's. Jessica turns out to be one of the last models, designed to have both biological and mechanical components. It's to the point that she's as empathetic as a human being and saves the hero from another copy of her line.
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Screamers / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Screamers / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire When being swarmed by the David Screamers, the protagonists use flamethrowers. Even that's not enough and they have to Nuke 'em. Having lost his weapon, Hendricksson retrieves a Flare Gun from the escape rocket's cockpit and shoots the killer robot in the chest, but to little effect. Fortunately at that moment the rocket fires up its pre-launch burn, which provides a much more effective means to Kill It with Fire.
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Screamers / int_9c6da41b	type	Spot the Imposter
Screamers / int_9c6da41b	comment	Spot the Imposter: Becker accuses Ross of being a Type II — he repeats things implying a limited vocabulary like the Davids, he doesn't drink from the Scotch bottle, and his twitchy behavior is creepy. The two men draw on each other, but Becker's thrown knife is faster. Then Hendricksson removes the knife and finds it covered in blood. Oops! Averted when the two Jessica's are fighting each other. Hendricksson loads a Flare Pistol, but can't tell who's who. The evil Jessica than fatally injures the good one and turns on Hendricksson.
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Screamers / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Screamers / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
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Screamers / int_9e74f33	type	Flock of Wolves
Screamers / int_9e74f33	comment	Flock of Wolves: It turns out the N.E.B. camp has been infiltrated by Ridiculously Human Robots. How bad is it? There are only three soldiers left: a female captain and two male privates. Only one of the privates is an actual human, both the captain and the other private are robots. Ironically, he's the first to get killed under suspicion of being an "infiltrator"—after being accused of such by one of the actual robots!.
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Screamers / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
Screamers / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: The last survivor escapes the planet after a number of horrifying revelations (and gruesome deaths), yanks off his Tab and falls asleep, safe at last... turns out, the teddy bear he kept as a souvenir is also a Screamer.
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Screamers / int_a08b0736	type	Nuclear Option
Screamers / int_a08b0736	comment	Nuclear Option In the Back Story, Sirius 6B has become a Death World thanks to the NEB trying to bomb the workers into submission with nuclear weaponry, though apparently there's still a Space Cold War going on back on Earth. When resources are discovered on another planet, a crashed spacecraft disguised as a civilian freighter is revealed to be shipping a nuclear weapons factory there. Ace is overjoyed to find a plutonium mini-missile, but Hendricksson orders him to leave it behind. When they're being swarmed by David units, Hendricksson orders him to use it, knowing full well Ace had brought it with him anyway.
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Screamers / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Screamers / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: Averted when the Davids swarm out of the Alliance bunker; the protagonists retreat with one group firing and the others retreating, then vice versa.
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Screamers / int_a6c02661	type	Toxic Phlebotinum
Screamers / int_a6c02661	comment	Toxic Phlebotinum: The process of mining 'Berynium' releases hazardous radiation, which is the root of the conflict between the Alliance and N.E.B. This has no plot significance beyond the movie's prologue and general setting.
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Screamers / int_a8a9d045	type	Super-Scream
Screamers / int_a8a9d045	comment	Super-Scream: Hendricksson is about to shoot evil Jessica when she emits an ear-piercing scream, forcing him to drop his weapon to cover his ears. Fortunately she's roasted by the pre-launch burn.
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Screamers / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
Screamers / int_aa30e350	comment	The protagonists receive a VR communique from Secretary Green back on Earth, who advises them not to accept the peace offering from the NEB forces because it might jeopardize peace negotiations on Earth. Then Ace, the Sole Survivor of a disguised troop transport sending forces to Triton, reveals that Secretary Green was arrested and executed by the Alliance two years ago.
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Screamers / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Screamers / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Type III's repeat a single phrase because "they can't think of anything better to say." This gets one character killed — he repeatedly asks people to "get off my back", apparently as a Madness Mantra, and Becker (one of the true Screamer infiltrators) kills him alleging (well, up until the poor guy is fully dead and bleeding all over, thus proving he's human, which gets Becker the riot act) that this repetition is proof that he's actually a robot.
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Screamers / int_bb30b9e9	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
Screamers / int_bb30b9e9	comment	Danger Takes a Backseat: The film ends with a shot of a teddy bear in the back of the one-man spacecraft used by the protagonist to escape the planet. The teddy bear is the type previously seen carried by the Creepy Child Killer Robot. Just before the movie ends we see Hendricksson rip off his Tab in disgust and fling it away, landing next to the teddy bear, which starts to move of its own accord.
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Screamers / int_bb44f503	type	Robot War
Screamers / int_bb44f503	comment	Robot War: For years the war between the New Economic Block and the Alliance has been fought by self-evolving robotic soldiers. The few survivors are holed up in their bunkers because the entire planet has become a death zone.
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Screamers / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
Screamers / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: "Ace" Jefferson hits all the points — blindly idealistic, skilled with weapons in training but Too Dumb to Live in practice, and knows nothing about the local situation (in fairness he was going to another planet) so has to have everything explained to him and therefore the audience.
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Screamers / int_c0d6d1a	type	Loud of War
Screamers / int_c0d6d1a	comment	Loud of War: The Screamers are called this because of the ear-splitting scream they emit while attacking. You can either cover your ears or fire your weapon at them, but it's difficult to do both.
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Screamers / int_c3db1619	type	ZigZagged
Screamers / int_c3db1619	comment	In Screamers, it's Zig-Zagged. The Type V screamers have evolved so that they can "smile, cry, bleed, fuck" - which enables the a Type V-Jessica to come within moments of hijacking the space transport to Earth. However, Jessica has become human enough to not want to kill humans anymore, and sacrifices herself to save Hendrickson from one of her duplicates. Averted in that it turns out the teddy bears carried by Type III's are also screamers, and Hendricksson not only brought one onto the transport but took his Tab off...
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Screamers / int_c446f93c	type	Artistic License â€“ Nuclear Physics
Screamers / int_c446f93c	comment	Artistic License – Nuclear Physics: This little gem - "Cubic tons of radiation."
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Screamers / int_c5a1fb94	type	Hologram Projection Imperfection
Screamers / int_c5a1fb94	comment	Hologram Projection Imperfection: The protagonists have to report a cease fire proposed by the enemy forces. A pair of doors slide open and their superior walks through and starts talking to them — all appears normal until he suddenly starts to fizz and sputter and the protagonists complain about the unreliability of holographic projection from Earth. The scene hints at The Reveal that the Projected Man is actually dead.
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Screamers / int_c76ab3f5	type	Cow Tools
Screamers / int_c76ab3f5	comment	Cow Tools: The NEB command centre has the requisite thing with lights that go back and forth. Until the Big Blackout, that is.
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Screamers / int_ccab244d	type	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
Screamers / int_ccab244d	comment	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: The Alliance use the typical post-Aliens rifle/flamethrower combination. The N.E.B. soldiers prefer a multi-shot Grenade Launcher to deal with the Screamers.
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Screamers / int_ccffaa84	type	Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand
Screamers / int_ccffaa84	comment	Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand: After Becker kills Ross, Jessica suggests he might be a Screamer. Becker urges her to fire and be on the safe side. Jessica doesn't fire.
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Screamers / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
Screamers / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: Hendricksson's reaction to Ace saying, "Can I come with you?" Given that the two of them have been battling killer robot children who always say "Can I come with you?", Ace's joke borders on Too Dumb to Live.
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Screamers / int_cf48c17	type	Nightmare Face
Screamers / int_cf48c17	comment	Nightmare Face: Before attacking, the Type IIIs, which resemble young boys, open their mouths to reveal several nested rows of mechanical razor-sharp teeth.
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Screamers / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Screamers / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: The enemy soldier sent to deliver the truce gets his hand severed, still holding the canister with the peace offering. The next Screamer slices his foot off, leaving him on the ground and vulnerable to the rest. Even the hardened soldiers watching from the bunker are squicked out.
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Screamers / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Screamers / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Jefferson has his own shocked reaction when he discovers there are automated factories churning out the Screamers, and no-one up top knows anything that goes on down there since (as Hendricksson put it) the last man to do so flicked the switch and ran like hell.
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Screamers / int_dda12cb3	type	Cat Scare
Screamers / int_dda12cb3	comment	Cat Scare: There's speculation that the message cylinder is a bomb, so Chuck jumps when the cylinder shoots out the NEB truce offering. Hendricksson finds that funny, only to get a nasty shock later on when he picks up a rock and it turns out to be an insect. Then later a rat drops on his shoulder while he's fleeing the David units in the darkened command centre.
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Screamers / int_ddcc22c3	type	Archaic Weapon for an Advanced Age
Screamers / int_ddcc22c3	comment	Archaic Weapon for an Advanced Age: The Autonomous Mobile Sword (aka Screamer) kills with an automated buzzsaw rather than guns or explosives. Even the human models seem to prefer hand-to-hand methods for killing.
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Screamers / int_dddc0035	type	Wormsign
Screamers / int_dddc0035	comment	Wormsign: The first model of Screamers are a type of subterranean killing machines.
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Screamers / int_e3613529	type	Protective Charm
Screamers / int_e3613529	comment	Protective Charm: The "tabs" worn by Alliance soldiers. Notably, as they operate by cancelling out the sound of the wearer's heartbeat, they only work on the basic and Type-I screamers; the humanoid screamers can identify a human target just fine, tab or no. Hendricksson is implied to doom himself in the end by yanking off his tab in disgust once he leaves the planet; without it, the teddy bear screamer in the shuttle with him identifies him as a target and starts moving...
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Screamers / int_e460b44e	type	The Radio Dies First
Screamers / int_e460b44e	comment	The Radio Dies First: The further Hendricksson gets from his base, the worse the communications get, so he's unable to pass on the warning about the human-looking screamers. Then he finds a working communication terminal at the NEB command post and tries to send a message back, only for Ross to blow it up while shooting a Screamer. Ironically the man he's trying to warn is a Screamer himself.
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Screamers / int_e4900915	type	Ridiculously Human Robots
Screamers / int_e4900915	comment	Ridiculously Human Robots: The latest model of "Swords". One of them falls in love with the hero and fights so that he can escape the planet.
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Screamers / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Screamers / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: There's a very large amount of blood and gore in The Hunting.
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Screamers / int_e7117c09	type	Backstory
Screamers / int_e7117c09	comment	In the Back Story, Sirius 6B has become a Death World thanks to the NEB trying to bomb the workers into submission with nuclear weaponry, though apparently there's still a Space Cold War going on back on Earth. When resources are discovered on another planet, a crashed spacecraft disguised as a civilian freighter is revealed to be shipping a nuclear weapons factory there.
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Screamers / int_e73f6217	type	Feet-First Introduction
Screamers / int_e73f6217	comment	Feet-First Introduction: The NEB soldier approaching the Alliance base. He doesn't keep his feet for long.
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Screamers / int_e7b93a46	type	Interrupted Declaration of Love
Screamers / int_e7b93a46	comment	Interrupted Declaration of Love:Jessica's Dying Confession Of Love to Hendricksson.
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Screamers / int_e7fe3ece	type	Ominous Walk
Screamers / int_e7fe3ece	comment	Ominous Walk: The Davids do this en masse. Becker after the Robotic Reveal, though it's uncertain as the extent to which he's genuinely damaged; it gives Hendricksson enough time to grab a gun anyway.
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Screamers / int_ec590d4	type	Recursive Creators
Screamers / int_ec590d4	comment	Recursive Creators: The Screamers started building new generations of models themselves after they were originally created by human soldiers.
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Screamers / int_ece27800	type	Kill and Replace
Screamers / int_ece27800	comment	Kill and Replace: Hendricksson finds himself fighting his friend Chuck, actually a Screamer who killed the original and removed his face. He did the same to Marshall Cooper and says he's going to do the same to Hendricksson. 'Chuck' repeats a conversation they had earlier, so apparently we never saw the real one.
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Screamers / int_f0001923	type	Fire-Breathing Weapon
Screamers / int_f0001923	comment	When being swarmed by the David Screamers, the protagonists use flamethrowers. Even that's not enough and they have to Nuke 'em.
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Screamers / int_f2667f5f	type	Impostor-Exposing Test
Screamers / int_f2667f5f	comment	Impostor-Exposing Test: Hendricksson cuts Jessica to ensure she's not one of the increasingly advanced killer robots. Turns out the latest models can bleed too.
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Screamers / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Screamers / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: The "Can I come with you?" boy (called David) who turns out to be a Killer Robot, after this fact is revealed.
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Screamers / int_f844f993	type	Détournement
Screamers / int_f844f993	comment	Détournement: On entering the NEB command bunker, there's a giant travel poster urging tourists to Rediscover Paradise on Sirius 6B, long after it's become a Crapsack World.
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Screamers / int_fa1e53b	type	Glad He's On Our Side
Screamers / int_fa1e53b	comment	Glad He's On Our Side: In reference to the first generation of Screamers, which hunt targets by burrowing under the ground until near their target, then bursting out to slice them up with high-speed cutting blades.
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Screamers / int_fbb54ba6	type	Forever War
Screamers / int_fbb54ba6	comment	Forever War: The war has been going on for ten years. When the N.E.B forces on Sirius 6B send a peace offering, the Alliance soldiers are told by Secretary Green not to acknowledge it as this could upset crucial peace negotiations with the N.E.B on Earth, as a safe form of berynium has just been discovered on Triton IV. Then it turns out the message from Secretary Green was faked and a new battlefront is being opened up on Triton IV as well. The Alliance is keeping them supplied because it can't just abandon Sirius 6B for propaganda reasons, but can't allow the troops to return home either.
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Screamers / int_fcf6bca9	type	Robosexual
Screamers / int_fcf6bca9	comment	Robosexual: Hendricksson realizes that Jessica is also a Killer Robot when an identical Jessica shows up. Earlier he'd tested Jessica by cutting her hand and the copy appears to know this, taunting Hendricksson by saying: "We can smile, we can cry, we can bleed, we can fuck." This was also shown in the original story where her counterpart was a Camp Follower for the Soviet army.
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Screamers	hasFeature	Empathy Doll Shot / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Everybody Smokes / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Fantastic Radiation Shielding / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Feet-First Introduction / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Films of 1995â€“1999 / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Flare Gun / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Flock of Wolves / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Forever War / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Forged Message / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Get Out! / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Give Me a Sword / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Glad He's On Our Side / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Heads or Tails? / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Hologram Projection Imperfection / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Human Resources / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	I'll Kill You! / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Impostor-Exposing Test / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Kill and Replace / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Killer Teddy Bear / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Laser Hallway / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Licking the Blade / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Lost in Transmission / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Loud of War / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Mechanical Evolution / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Not His Sled / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Numbered Homeworld / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Out-of-Character Alert / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Peek-a-Boo Corpse / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Reduced to Ratburgers / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Robosexual / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Robot and A.I. Works / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Robot War / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Sci-Fi Horror / int_68997cdd
Screamers	seeAlso	Screamers
Screamers	hasFeature	Shoulders-Up Nudity / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Shower Scene / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	"Shut Up!" Gunshot / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Slow Doors / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Smoking Is Cool / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Surveillance Station Slacker / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Teeth Flying / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	They Look Like Us Now / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Toplessness from the Back / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Weaponized Exhaust / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Wetware Body / int_68997cdd
Screamers	hasFeature	Wormsign / int_68997cdd

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