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Species

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Species	type	TVTItem
Species	label	Species
Species	page	Species
Species	comment	Species is a 1995 Sci-Fi Horror film directed by Roger Donaldson, and starring Natasha Henstridge, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Forest Whitaker, Alfred Molina and Marg Helgenberger.For thirty years, SETI has been scanning outer space, looking for signs of alien intelligence. In 1974, scientists sent out a message containing human DNA and the location of our planet. In return, they received two messages: one contains a catalyst for methane that allows the creation of cheap and efficient fuel, and the other contains a sample of alien DNA and instructions for how to combine it with human DNA. It is not long at all before scientists follow the instructions, creating the female human/alien hybrid Sil. She matures quickly, resembling an 11-year-old-girl after only a few weeks. She is intelligent, strong and agile - but the head of the research team thinks she might be dangerous to humanity and tries to terminate the experiment. Big mistake. Sil breaks out of her little habitat and escapes into Los Angeles, where she matures fully with two things in mind: survival at any cost, and reproduction with a human male.It was followed by three sequels: Species II (1998), the only one theatrically released, bringing back Henstridge, Madsen and Helgenberger; Species III (2004), released direct-to-DVD and featuring a cameo by Henstridge; and Species - The Awakening (2007), which actually debuted on the Sci-Fi Channel one month before its home video release.
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Species	processingComment	Dropped link to shapeshifter: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
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Species / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
Species / int_1161fb48	comment	Bizarre Alien Biology: When their true nature is not manifesting, the alien beings still display such traits as the ability to regenerate body parts (including heads) within seconds. Losing and regrowing a head does not affect their memory. Despite apparently conceiving their children in their pubic region (Sil gets Arden to feel their child growing, in her belly, just before she kills him), the aliens birth their children through a concealed orifice on their chest cavity. No doubt a callback to H. R. Giger's previous iconic creation. It turns out that showing a vaginal birth would have been an immediate X-rating for the movie, and they had to change it to a chest orifice against H. R. Giger's protests (he, quite rightly, thought that was just ripping off Alien). Breasts seem to be solely for our enjoyment (thank you, oh mighty alien overlord Xenu!), or more specifically, to make the aliens more attractive to human mates, as their offspring move immediately on to a solid-food diet (not requiring breastmilk), and in alien-form the nipples are tentacle weapons, not glands. Though, given the length of the tentacles, the breasts could just be there to hold the spooled tentacles when they're not in use. Once the professor "harvests" Sara's egg cells, she is rendered infertile. This means that just like human women, her stockpile of reproductive cells is created exclusively in gestation (as opposed to men, who generate new supplies of sperm every time they get lucky). This is unusual, considering the aliens can "grow back" most other body parts as needed (like fingers), which we can't. note Which was the widely held belief at the time; we now know that human women can regenerate egg cells, albeit at a very slow rate that peters out over time.
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Species / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
Species / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: Abbott believes the trope is in full effect with Dean towards Sara, but he's shown to care for her in a non-sexual manner.
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Species / int_146e133b	type	Tamer and Chaster
Species / int_146e133b	comment	Tamer and Chaster: The film was obviously shot with the intention of airing on the Sci-Fi channel first. There is nudity in the film, but it's sparse, shot in quick cuts, awkward angles, or deep shadows that make the film very easy to edit for content.
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Species / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Species / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The 12-year-old Sil devouring a lot of food and store a lot of calories just before her painful metamorphosis into a 20-something woman is very similar to a young girl experiencing the difficulties of puberty and getting her first period.
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Species / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Species / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: The hybrids are a major example, particularly in the sequels (also see the below entry). The first film could handwave it as ignorance of the aliens' nature.
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Species / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
Species / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: Sara ends up fighting Amelia with no more covering than her alien form scales.
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Species / int_1b4ead2d	type	Soft Glass
Species / int_1b4ead2d	comment	Soft Glass: Young Sil breaks the thick glass wall of her Glassy Prison at the lab with her bare fist.
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Species / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Species / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Sara barely emotes through the film, causing some humor when an older, female UFO expert believes she's a college student with a nasty recent breakup.
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Species / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Species / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Both as a child and as a young woman, Sara talks little and only when needed.
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Species / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Species / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Sil kills a train operator with a strangling arm out of her cocoon, a woman in a club by ripping her spine, and her first prospect by making her prehensile tongue go through his head (though the latter only happens when she changes her mind about him but he won't take no for an answer). And then there's the fate of the poor woman Sil kidnaps and uses as a death decoy....
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Species / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Species / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: The scene where Sil cuts her own thumb off (it regenerates) before moving onto to her female captive's hand.
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Species / int_1fb440a6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
Species / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting: Possibly, it's hard to tell if switching from human-form to xeno-form is anything more than an instinctive reaction to threats.
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Species / int_214d3bf2	type	Dye or Die
Species / int_214d3bf2	comment	Dye or Die: Sil colors her hair black and cuts it short late in the movie after faking her death to hide from the researchers hunting her. Only Dan had some idea to see through that, after he somehow watched the same hair dye commercial on the TV that Sil watched.
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Species / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
Species / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: The hair dye commercial that gives Sil the idea to change her hair colour after faking her death comes on TV again when Dan is watching and helps him realise she is still alive.
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Species / int_251bce7c	type	Cardboard Prison
Species / int_251bce7c	comment	Cardboard Prison: The containment facility holding Sil has a security level that barely beats a pinfold, as it seems that everything she has to do in order to escape is running her way through a fragile glass pod, a guardless building, some unwary soldiers, and a fence.
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Species / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
Species / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Abbott's superior Dr. Turner is initially polite enough not to stare at a naked Sara, but after becoming delighted by her reproductive advances on him, he tries to rape her when she changes her mind at sensing he hasn't the right DNA.
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Species / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Species / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Sara through the film, though very subtly, and ultimately by saving Dean from Amelia.
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Species / int_2dd4e28a	type	Clothesline Stealing
Species / int_2dd4e28a	comment	Clothesline Stealing: How Sara finds her first outfit. It doesn't explain how she gets her shoes, though.
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Species / int_2fb61faa	type	Statuesque Stunner
Species / int_2fb61faa	comment	Statuesque Stunner: Part of why Natasha Henstridge was cast involved her 5' 9½" (1,77 m) frame making her more alien-esque. Sunny Mabrey and Helena Mattsson, both 5' 8" (1,73 m), also fit.
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Species / int_3283f169	type	Coming and Going
Species / int_3283f169	comment	Coming and Going: As Laura and Press strip down and have sex, the scenes intercut show that Dr. Arden is doomed as he is seduced and then killed by Sil.
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Species / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Species / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Sil cutting off the thumb of her captive and using her as an appropriately fresh burned corpse in her attempt to fake her death. The woman hadn't done anything to Sil, and Sil even got close to her by preying on the woman's pity, but Sil still tied her up and held her captive, cut off her thumb to ensure the correct amount would be found in the wreck, then took her on a dangerous car chase with gasoline splashing all over before finally arranging for the car to crash and burst into flames, burning the poor woman alive. Sil killing a man who showed her kindness by paying for her medical bill and spending time with her. He freaked out over her blunt request to get pregnant and someone (the agents) was at the door, but she killed him pretty much for convenience.
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Species / int_34e15b76	type	Kindhearted Cat Lover
Species / int_34e15b76	comment	Kindhearted Cat Lover: Preston is introduced thanking a next-door neighbour for minding his cat while he's out of town.
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Species / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Species / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Fitch, considering he was the one who created a deadly living alien weapon and then act like some sort of Dr. Jerk throughout most of the movie.
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Species / int_373e2b9f	type	Murder the Hypotenuse
Species / int_373e2b9f	comment	Murder the Hypotenuse: Sil does this to any female competitor whom she sees as sexual competition to any male suitors she desires to reproduce with. It's particularly notable because she kills a woman for getting in her way, only to leave with an entirely different man.
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Species / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Species / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Preston finds Sil showing up at the club and then dying in a car crash too convenient, and Dan likewise senses something is amiss. Sil's ruse still works, though.
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Species / int_3d1f2cae	type	Barrier-Busting Blow
Species / int_3d1f2cae	comment	Barrier-Busting Blow: Sil punches through a bathroom stall to rip out a woman's spine. She also manages to break through an entire fire door when Preston and Laura attempt to track her below the hotel.
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Species / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Species / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: Invoked by Sil when she fills a car with several containers of gasoline and drives it into an electrical junction box to make sure it goes up in a nice fireball.
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Species / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Species / int_3eee0728	comment	Everyone on the team is supposedly intelligent, yet most of their lines are shouting out the obvious. Dan's line "something bad happened here" and Preston's line "she must have come through here" were both said after finding a dead body.
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Species / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Species / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Abbot is fond of Sara as a surrogate daughter, or so he tells her in her child stage, although he also has the interest to use her cells to win a Nobel Prize.
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Species / int_40c908c2	type	Hybrids Are a Crapshoot
Species / int_40c908c2	comment	Hybrids Are a Crapshoot: Sil is the product of genetic combination of human and alien DNA. She is a Half-Human Hybrid Shapeshifter, and the transition between the parts is full of Body Horror. She is compelled to mate with human males (and then kill them) in order to reproduce.
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Species / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Species / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The world is finally free from the hybrid menace and Sara has a partner to live with in the wild. As he's sterile, they will be the last of their species. However, Dean states they will eventually find out, implying they might return to kill him in revenge. Not to mention that, in keeping with the species' habit of exceeding their creators' expectations, it is not unlikely that Sara will somehow be able to naturally heal her own sterility.
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Species / int_40f032ae	type	Raised in a Lab
Species / int_40f032ae	comment	Raised in a Lab: Sil was raised in a lab until she was biologically about twelve years old (chronologically, much shorter) and escapes when the scientists try and euthanize her because she's perceived as too dangerous. Once out in the world, she becomes a bona fide psychopath, with no morals or inhibitions against doing whatever she has to do to survive and fulfill her goals.
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Species / int_41379078	type	Instant Seduction
Species / int_41379078	comment	Instant Seduction: After stealing some keys and hiding in what turned out to be Dr. Arden's hotel room, Sil manages to seduce him easily in under a minute with a few words and some stripping.
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Species / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Species / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: During the finale, Laura falls into the tar pitch and has to be rescued by the other characters.
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Species / int_430ae566	type	Ankle Drag
Species / int_430ae566	comment	Ankle Drag: Perhaps as an homage to Aliens, Sil grabs Dan's ankle at the end before being tossed back into the fire pit.
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Species / int_437820dc	type	Villainous Crush
Species / int_437820dc	comment	Villainous Crush: Due to Sil and Eve's natural instinct to mate, they seem to develop a minor attraction to Preston. However Preston sees them both as monsters that have to be destroyed.
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Species / int_44471313	type	Male-to-Female Universal Adaptor
Species / int_44471313	comment	Male-to-Female Universal Adaptor: The alien beings are Half-Human Hybrid shapeshifters. We don't know what their "equipment" really looks like, although they do seem to have a prominent tentacle motif going...
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Species / int_47060811	type	Screaming Birth
Species / int_47060811	comment	Screaming Birth: At the end, Sil screams giving birth to her son (it's almost a Chest Burster, though coming out of the stomach). Apparently, even alien anatomy is not suited for painless childbirth.
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Species / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Species / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: In the first film. When child Sil is ordered to be terminated via deadly gas fumes filling her containment cell, though the doctor administering the termination can't help but shed a single tear and mouth to Sil that he's sorry as he watches her die. Then she escapes.
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Species / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
Species / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: Fitch sets a 2 min countdown for the decontamination of the lab when the experiment on the second embryo gets out of hand with Preston and Laura Trapped in Containment.
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Species / int_4c455537	type	Plot-Driven Breakdown
Species / int_4c455537	comment	Plot-Driven Breakdown: When they try to breed the second embryo, the camera at the lab breaks down precisely when the needle pierces it. The repair leads to an action scene.
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Species / int_5020cc4a	type	Blank Slate
Species / int_5020cc4a	comment	Blank Slate: Sil was raised in a lab, so she starts with little concept of money and no moral compunction against killing. However, she is intelligent and cunning, so she's able to adapt pretty quickly. The killing thing stays, though.
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Species / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Species / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Bodily transformation sequences are depicted very graphically, like when Young Sil starts to transform into an alien monster in the first film.
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Species / int_506bf16a	type	Sex Signals Death
Species / int_506bf16a	comment	Sex Signals Death: Stephen Arden gets killed after having sexual intercourse with Sil.
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Species / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Species / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Preston at the end: "Let go, you motherfucker." Cue an M203-launched grenade into Sil's face.
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Species / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Species / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Abbott has a lab equipped with hydrochloric gas, just in case he has to trap and kill a dangerous alien.
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Species / int_54321e11	type	Innocent Fanservice Girl
Species / int_54321e11	comment	Innocent Fanservice Girl: Sara is initially ignorant about the human considerations towards nudity, which leads her to show herself naked in front of Dr. Turner, which in turn leads to the old bastard's death.
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Species / int_556a3059	type	The Empath
Species / int_556a3059	comment	The Empath: Dan Smithson is an empath, although he's played up as more of a Captain Obvious.
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Species / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Species / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Sil is able to avoid capture and ultimately fake her own death by approaching a woman fully nude and pretending to be a rape victim.
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Species / int_5b9925f7	type	Curiosity Killed the Cast
Species / int_5b9925f7	comment	Curiosity Killed the Cast: The female train conductor who approaches the odd-looking alien life-forms with not a trace of fear on her face.
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Species / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
Species / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: Young Sil has at least two, involving fully grown versions of herself and a male equivalent, and herself pursued by a "ghost train".
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Species / int_5d25f366	type	You Can Leave Your Hat On
Species / int_5d25f366	comment	You Can Leave Your Hat On: Shortly after killing a drunken female competitor, Sil strips off her pink sweater and tosses it to the former male suitor to keep before moving on to the next potential suitor.
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Species / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Species / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: As a child, Sil devours a lot of whatever food she could find on the train ride. Could be that her big appetite is a result of her body storing a bunch of calories in its preparation for her metamorphosis transformation via cocoon later that night.
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Species	hasFeature	Species / int_5fcedca
Species / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Species / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: The first movie ends with a rat eating Sil's remains, and using a tongue similar to hers. The following one somehow ignored it.
Species / int_6293c185	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_6293c185	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_6293c185
Species / int_6507a7e0	type	ModestOrgasm
Species / int_6507a7e0	comment	Modest Orgasm: Things are rather quiet when Sil and Dr. Arden finish having sex.
Species / int_6507a7e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_6507a7e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_6507a7e0
Species / int_659235a4	type	Train Escape
Species / int_659235a4	comment	Train Escape: Young Sil escapes her pursuers by jumping on a passing train.
Species / int_659235a4	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_659235a4	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_659235a4
Species / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Species / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Why Sill murders most of her victims. After failing to successfully mate with a man who was nice to her, Sil kills him and runs away before the police show up. After faking being a victim of rape and showing the kidnapped woman her extraterrestrial powers, Sil kills her to keep her from talking to the police. After having sex with Dr. Stephen Arden and he discovers too late who she really is, Sil kills him and escapes the hotel.
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Species / int_65acf9db	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_65acf9db
Species / int_68d326ff	type	Express Delivery
Species / int_68d326ff	comment	Express Delivery: It is natural for alien hybrids to mature inhumanly fast. In the second film, they do it so quickly, they quite literally go out with a bang.
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Species / int_68d326ff	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_68d326ff
Species / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Species / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: In the sewer chase, although he was being a complete Jerkass about it, Fitch was correct that Dan was just guessing due to pressure and therefore leading everyone in the wrong direction.
Species / int_6b05b601	featureApplicability	1.0
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Species	hasFeature	Species / int_6b05b601
Species / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Species / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The previously unnamed military project that created Sil is now named Project Athena. Just like Athena, Sara is adept at both learning and fighting.
Species / int_6bda9a30	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_6bda9a30	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_6bda9a30
Species / int_6bf93fc7	type	FanService
Species / int_6bf93fc7	comment	Fanservice: Laura and Press's sex scenes. Sil seducing Dr. Arden into sex. Sil stripping in the club before meeting her next potential male suitor. Sil seducing a man into a two-person pool party.
Species / int_6bf93fc7	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_6bf93fc7	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_6bf93fc7
Species / int_6f619fab	type	Let's Split Up, Gang!
Species / int_6f619fab	comment	Let's Split Up, Gang!: Fitch orders the group to split up when they are down at the Absurdly-Spacious Sewer.
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Species / int_6f619fab	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_6f619fab
Species / int_6f8b835d	type	One Size Fits All
Species / int_6f8b835d	comment	One Size Fits All: Sil steals clothes from a female train conductor to blend in, yet somehow the overweight, middle-aged woman's clothes fit perfectly on Natasha Henstridge's model body.
Species / int_6f8b835d	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_6f8b835d	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_6f8b835d
Species / int_704d7e91	type	No Ontological Inertia
Species / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: The aliens tend to turn back to human from their true form when they die. Doesn't happen in the first film, but does in the sequels.
Species / int_704d7e91	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_704d7e91	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_704d7e91
Species / int_70535937	type	Flexibility Equals Sex Ability
Species / int_70535937	comment	Flexibility Equals Sex Ability: Fervently wanting to conceive a child, Sil manages to seduce Doctor Arden while the team hunting her are meeting in a hotel. She gets him undressed and erect in a flash, then pumps the spunk out of him in about a minute. Ten seconds later, she can feel her baby quickening due to her Bizarre Alien Biology. Sil then kills Arden because he has outlived his usefulness to her.
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Species / int_70535937	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_70535937
Species / int_71384f0e	type	Two-Person Pool Party
Species / int_71384f0e	comment	Two-Person Pool Party: Sil ends up in a hot tub with the guy who she was falling for. Unfortunately, the strike force arrives before anything can happen and Sil is reluctantly forced to kill the guy.
Species / int_71384f0e	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_71384f0e	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_71384f0e
Species / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Species / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Sil goes home with a man, then detects he has a medical condition (it's later said to be diabetes) and she changes her mind about having sex. He gets angry, trying to force her into this. She acts like she'll accede, then easily kills him with a tentacle into his brain.
Species / int_7276d0de	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_7276d0de	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_7276d0de
Species / int_72c07237	type	Swiss-Cheese Security
Species / int_72c07237	comment	Swiss-Cheese Security: For a top-secret genetic hybrid, the containment procedures for Sil are shockingly lax. After breaking free of her cell, she escapes the building through two unlocked doors and scales a barbed wire fence to freedom, reaching the train tracks in no time.
Species / int_72c07237	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_72c07237	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_72c07237
Species / int_75678e1	type	Species Title
Species / int_75678e1	comment	Species Title: The series is about Half-Human Hybrids with aliens.
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Species / int_75678e1	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_75678e1
Species / int_77666408	type	Combat Tentacles
Species / int_77666408	comment	Combat Tentacles: Which seem to be prehensible, to boot. The female aliens have two of those in their nipples, and their tongues serve as another.
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Species / int_77666408	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_77666408
Species / int_79e07b47	type	Lecture as Exposition
Species / int_79e07b47	comment	Lecture as Exposition: Fitch gives a lengthy exposition of the SETI project and the failed DNA experiment to the summoned group in his boardroom.
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Species / int_79e07b47	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_79e07b47
Species / int_7ed96790	type	Trapped in Containment
Species / int_7ed96790	comment	Trapped in Containment: They're tooling around with the alien DNA when a camera breaks down in the sealed experiment chamber. Dr. Laura Baker and Preston volunteer to go in and try to replace the camera. Of course, an accident happens and they are on their own to fight off the fast-growing alien while the other team members are forced to watch from behind safety glass.
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Species / int_7ed96790	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_7ed96790
Species / int_7ef9fa03	type	Expanded Universe
Species / int_7ef9fa03	comment	Expanded Universe: Dark Horse Comics had a four-issue comic miniseries entitled Species: Human Race while Avatar Press had the one-shot Species Special. The novelizations also give a lot of backstory. There's a Species sourcebook for West End Games's Masterbook system. It takes numerous liberties with the original film, including giving hybrids "animal forms" to morph into and an array of abilities, fleshing out some possibilities for the ones who sent the message, as well as expanding the scope of psychic powers available to non-hybrid player characters.
Species / int_7ef9fa03	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_7ef9fa03	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_7ef9fa03
Species / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
Species / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: Sil's son. Despite being theoretically only 1/4 alien, his alien form is significantly more monstrous than Sil's, featuring hinged legs, a crown-like head, an exposed abdomen, an asymmetric pair of arms, and a noticeably malformed mouth.
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Species / int_851dda8f	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_851dda8f
Species / int_853b7948	type	Ambiguously Evil
Species / int_853b7948	comment	Ambiguously Evil: It's left unclear if Sil's killing ways are a consequence of being brought up in a laboratory without knowledge of morals or a built-in trait of her genome. The alien civilization that enabled her creation in Earth also counts as ambiguous in their intentions (see Neglectful Precursors below).
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Species / int_853b7948	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_853b7948
Species / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Species / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: A more literal example than usual, the infected rat from The Stinger is an unused Sequel Hook.
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Species / int_863fa679	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_863fa679
Species / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
Species / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: Both Sara and Amelia, something that had only been hinted at in previous installments.
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Species / int_874176be	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_874176be
Species / int_875f008a	type	Psychometry
Species / int_875f008a	comment	Psychometry: Sara learns all the contents of a chess manual by merely touching it.
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Species / int_875f008a	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_875f008a
Species / int_87e661e8	type	Absurdly Spacious Sewer
Species / int_87e661e8	comment	Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: Inexplicably linked are a ritzy hotel, an elaborate scaffolded sewer network, and some kind of... oil well catacomb.
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Species / int_87e661e8	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_87e661e8
Species / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Species / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Everything that occurs is because of Fitch's messing around with alien DNA, to say nothing of his incredible jerkass attitude, which almost gets Preston and Laura killed.
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Species / int_898ff050	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_898ff050
Species / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Species / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Sil kills a man who tried to have his way with her when she rejected him, due to Sil sensing he was "unclean".
Species / int_8ed5c6e4	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_8ed5c6e4	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_8ed5c6e4
Species / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
Species / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: Sara is a 'purer' hybrid than the previous hybrids and thus her reproductive drive simply doesn't view pure humans, or even her 'flawed' hybrid siblings, as worth being interested in. As such, she is generally harmless as not only does she have no desire to mate with humans, but she lacks her predecessors' habit of violently killing 'unworthy' potential mates. She's also the only benevolent hybrid in the film. She even comes to genuinely like Dean and saves him.
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Species / int_8f612013	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_8f612013
Species / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Species / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled IN SPACE!: If the succubus and incubus were aliens instead of demons.
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Species / int_905438eb	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_905438eb
Species / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Species / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Fitch, given how he had instigated the events to start with.
Species / int_90d44f44	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_90d44f44	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_90d44f44
Species / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Species / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Why the train conductor cuts Sil a break. She doesn't even ask her name or where she's going to. Doubles as The Guards Must Be Crazy.
Species / int_91672d3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_91672d3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_91672d3e
Species / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Species / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After Arden has sex with Sil to accomplish her goal of getting impregnated, Sil offs him when he starts to realize who she really is and what he has done.
Species / int_928ca2cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_928ca2cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_928ca2cc
Species / int_969bc7d9	type	Drool Hello
Species / int_969bc7d9	comment	Drool Hello: Because the franchise hadn't borrowed enough from Alien, one of the hybrids announces her presence in this way.
Species / int_969bc7d9	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_969bc7d9	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_969bc7d9
Species / int_96c49e7	type	Reading Lips
Species / int_96c49e7	comment	Reading Lips: In the scene where Fitch says "Tomorrow night, we'll go back to the club", Sil is in a car down the street lip-reading him. She'd learned to do that in her Glassy Prison at his lab.
Species / int_96c49e7	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_96c49e7	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_96c49e7
Species / int_98bb5d19	type	Mistaken from Behind
Species / int_98bb5d19	comment	Mistaken from Behind: Preston believes he spotted Sil at a bar, but when he approaches the blonde girl and she turns around, it is somebody else completely.
Species / int_98bb5d19	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_98bb5d19	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_98bb5d19
Species / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Species / int_9ae85487	comment	Dr. Jerk: Fitch. Particularly halfway through the lab scene citing quarantine protocol (like Ripley, but unsuccessful) and the sewer confrontation towards Dan.
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Species / int_9ae85487	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_9ae85487
Species / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Species / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: How Sil's son dies. Sil almost goes the same.
Species / int_9c1f758a	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_9c1f758a	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_9c1f758a
Species / int_9c8691bc	type	Conceive and Kill
Species / int_9c8691bc	comment	Conceive and Kill: Naturally, this is the standard MO of the aliens.
Species / int_9c8691bc	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_9c8691bc	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_9c8691bc
Species / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Species / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The motel manager mentions to Sil that she doesn't want her credit card (which she took, along with the clothes, from the train conductor) to fall into wrong hands. The next scene has Fitch telling on the phone that they found her via tracing her credit card.
Species / int_9d12bbc1	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_9d12bbc1	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_9d12bbc1
Species / int_a0d22bfe	type	Inescapable Horror
Species / int_a0d22bfe	comment	Inescapable Horror: At the very end, after Sil is destroyed we see a rat chewing on a piece of her body. The rat mutates, indicating that it will become another Sil. Interestingly, also a case of a Sequel Hook that went entirely unused (this particular rat is never mentioned in any of the following films).
Species / int_a0d22bfe	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_a0d22bfe	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_a0d22bfe
Species / int_a0f3c6a0	type	Succubi and Incubi
Species / int_a0f3c6a0	comment	Succubi and Incubi: The mating alien antagonists are basically the science fiction alien take on the succubus and incubus legends.
Species / int_a0f3c6a0	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_a0f3c6a0	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_a0f3c6a0
Species / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Species / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Stephen Arden's look on his face and what he's thinking when he realized he has just been used as an Unwitting Pawn for Sil to get her impregnated.
Species / int_a1b141f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_a1b141f4	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_a1b141f4
Species / int_a27da813	type	Stern Chase
Species / int_a27da813	comment	Stern Chase: After having escaped from the lab, Sil remains in constant pursuit by Fitch and his group.
Species / int_a27da813	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_a27da813	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_a27da813
Species / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Species / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: A doctor gets Miranda's tongue through the back of her head and out the eye.
Species / int_a2b38d3b	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_a2b38d3b	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_a2b38d3b
Species / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
Species / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: The various alien menaces.
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Species / int_a2cbad1	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_a2cbad1
Species / int_a2ff4e6f	type	Single Tear
Species / int_a2ff4e6f	comment	Single Tear: Fitch sheds a single tear in the beginning while overlooking the gassing of Sil.
Species / int_a2ff4e6f	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_a2ff4e6f	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_a2ff4e6f
Species / int_a3458bf2	type	More Deadly Than the Male
Species / int_a3458bf2	comment	More Deadly Than the Male: Played straight throughout most of the series in that the alien-human hybrids are female, but averted in Species II with the Patrick Ross alien being bigger(Second alien form), meaner, more capable of quickly creating a large number of alien offspring, and fatally curb-stomping Eve at the climax.
Species / int_a3458bf2	featureApplicability	-1.0
Species / int_a3458bf2	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_a3458bf2
Species / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
Species / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: At the hospital Sil's back injuries from the car accident heal in seconds, leaving the onlooking doctor speechless.
Species / int_a5fb0d24	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_a5fb0d24	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_a5fb0d24
Species / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Species / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The driver that hits Sil and nearly does the same to the distracted skateboarder drives away before anyone notices and is never seen again.
Species / int_a70223	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_a70223	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_a70223
Species / int_ab160fbe	type	South of the Border
Species / int_ab160fbe	comment	South of the Border: For most of the film.
Species / int_ab160fbe	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_ab160fbe	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_ab160fbe
Species / int_ac344349	type	Three-Month-Old Newborn
Species / int_ac344349	comment	Three-Month-Old Newborn: Justified. Just seconds after having sex with Dr. Arden, Sil is pregnant and gives birth by the time she escapes to the caves. Due to his sped-up growth rate, Sil's son is already past baby age shortly after emerging from her womb.
Species / int_ac344349	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_ac344349	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_ac344349
Species / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Species / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Stephen Arden says something along the lines of this when he found out he was having sex with Sil. Right before she claws him to death.
Species / int_ad1db87c	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_ad1db87c	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_ad1db87c
Species / int_afb7ca2f	type	Super-Strong Child
Species / int_afb7ca2f	comment	Super-Strong Child: Young Sil displays her super-human strength when breaking the glass of her lab prison and later when she breaks the drawer at the train's dining car with ease.
Species / int_afb7ca2f	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_afb7ca2f	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_afb7ca2f
Species / int_b03634f8	type	Right Through His Pants
Species / int_b03634f8	comment	Right Through His Pants: Defied. When the group discovers Sil's first male victim as an adult, Fitch has an Oh, Crap! moment as he believes she's successfully mated. Preston is quick to point out "Doesn't look like a successful mating to me. He's still got his pants on."
Species / int_b03634f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_b03634f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_b03634f8
Species / int_b0a91b69	type	Convection, Schmonvection
Species / int_b0a91b69	comment	Convection, Schmonvection: In the finale when the tar-filled pit catches fire, the temperature in the cavern should have been unbearable. However, the characters don't respond to this fact.
Species / int_b0a91b69	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_b0a91b69	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_b0a91b69
Species / int_b1f4c5bb	type	Enhance Button
Species / int_b1f4c5bb	comment	Enhance Button: They get a blurry still from a video camera and manage to enhance the image, if only slightly.
Species / int_b1f4c5bb	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_b1f4c5bb	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_b1f4c5bb
Species / int_b983a56b	type	Came Back Wrong
Species / int_b983a56b	comment	Came Back Wrong: With Miranda dying, her creator Tom tries to save her and seemingly succeeds in rejuvenating her, though at the cost of another human life. It soon becomes apparent that the once sweet Miranda is now almost completely gone, her once dormant and contained alien side having taken over.
Species / int_b983a56b	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_b983a56b	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_b983a56b
Species / int_be6f7ae7	type	Brief Accent Imitation
Species / int_be6f7ae7	comment	Brief Accent Imitation: Laura asks Press to dance. He replies, in typical Michael Madsen tough-guy accent, "Who, me?" Laura does a pretty good impression of him as she answers "Yeah, you."
Species / int_be6f7ae7	featureApplicability	1.0
Species / int_be6f7ae7	featureConfidence	1.0
Species	hasFeature	Species / int_be6f7ae7
Species / int_c1469acd	type	Glassy Prison
Species / int_c1469acd	comment	Glassy Prison: The young Sil is held inside a confinement area with glass walls. When the project director decides to kill her with poison gas, she breaks through the glass and escapes the laboratory.
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Species / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
Species / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: Yvonne Navarro co-wrote a novelization based on the original screenplay with Dennis Feldman. The book gives several in-depth details about the characters not seen in the film, such as Sil's ability to visualize odors and determine harmful substances from edible items by color. Gas appears black, food appears pink, and an unhealthy potential mate appears to give off green fumes. Other character details include Preston's background in tracking down AWOL soldiers as well as the process of decoding the alien signal. Although no clues are given as to its origin, it is mentioned that the message was somehow routed through several black holes to mask its point of origin.
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Species / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Species / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: A young pre-teen Sil painfully morphing into a woman, with worm-like appendages crawling out of her face and hands. A grown-up Sil falling out of her cocoon naked and all bloodied after a murder. Sil impaling a man through the back of the head with her tongue after being threatened with rape. A naked Sil washing the blood off her body in a shower. Sil morphing into her alien form and violently drowning a man in his own pool. Sil starting to morph into alien form and killing Dr. Arden not long after sex. Sil in alien form screaming through a painful and disgusting childbirth.
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Species / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Species / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Sil evading capture at L.A. train station by disguising as a train conductor is lifted from a scene in North By Northwest. See comparison here.
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Species / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Species / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The aliens have plenty of prehensile parts to impale their victims.
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Species / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Species / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Everyone on the team is supposedly intelligent, yet most of their lines are shouting out the obvious. Dan's line "something bad happened here" and Preston's line "she must have come through here" were both said after finding a dead body. Stephen Arden is supposedly an uber-smart person, yet after a horny, attractive female alien in human form 'dies' in questionable circumstances, he doesn't think twice about sleeping with a horny attractive woman that suddenly appears before him. To be fair, he probably didn't know she had the ability to regrow her thumb, and perhaps some blood left his head and went elsewhere. Preston Lennox is supposedly a talented and sought-after mercenary, yet for most of the film, he just stands around looking tough or wielding a gun. Dan's empathic powers are limited by the needs of the script. At one point his sensing of Sil is foiled by a wooden fence behind which Sil hides. Also, he fails to sense those two bums behind the dumpster who give him a Cat Scare. Xavier Fitch is the top dog, yet his only skill seems to be being a Jerkass, a fact Preston lampshades when questioning his contributions at one point.
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Species / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
Species / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: The titular extraterrestrials in the film series.
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Species / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Species / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Sil is a surprisingly sympathetic antagonist. She clearly has human-like emotions, including to some extent a desire to be loved ("she liked him"), and if you look at things from her perspective she's basically a young child completely alone on a world full of hostile Starfish Aliens. She's a genetic freak tormented by dreams of a world and people she doesn't know, and over the course of the film seems to realise that she will never fit in anywhere. Yes, she's a killer, but she seems to be acting more out of instinct than conscious malice, from her point of view she's just defending herself or preserving her Masquerade which she absolutely has to maintain among the hostile Starfish Aliens that surround her. She experiences something of an existential crisis; being the only one of her kind on the planet, she has no guide for what she is, why she's here, what she's supposed to be and do, what her purpose is. And her goals of having children and propagating her own species are hardly in and of themselves evil. Plus, if she had anything like the feelings toward her offspring that a human mother would, you can't help cringing a little imagining her witnessing the heroes incinerating her infant son with a flamethrower at the end. You can see how she's a threat to people that needs to be contained or neutralized, but at the same time, you can sympathize with her.
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Species / int_d0a3f4f7	type	Pupating Peril
Species / int_d0a3f4f7	comment	Pupating Peril: Sil's pupal stage and emergence from her cocoon marks the point where she becomes seriously dangerous.
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Species / int_d5eec459	type	Xeno Nucleic Acid
Species / int_d5eec459	comment	Xeno Nucleic Acid: Since the Arecibo message contained info on DNA, the aliens respond with their genetic basis and how it could be combined with the human one. The results are those sexy yet lethal hybrids.
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Species / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Species / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: A young Sil bursts through her glass cage and escapes after learning that she is to be terminated with cyanide.
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Species / int_d9e946ae	type	Cute Monster Girl
Species / int_d9e946ae	comment	Cute Monster Girl: While the human forms of the hybrids are overall pretty hot, but even their alien forms are fairly appealing, with recognizable secondary sexual characteristics that are designed to appeal to potential human mates. The designers specifically wanted Sil to be beautiful even as an alien. Doubtless why the director of the first film brought HR Giger on board to design Sil; he specializes in creations that are equal parts disturbing and captivating.
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Species / int_dae0cfd5	type	Something Else Also Rises
Species / int_dae0cfd5	comment	Stephen Arden is supposedly an uber-smart person, yet after a horny, attractive female alien in human form 'dies' in questionable circumstances, he doesn't think twice about sleeping with a horny attractive woman that suddenly appears before him. To be fair, he probably didn't know she had the ability to regrow her thumb, and perhaps some blood left his head and went elsewhere.
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Species / int_dc67d9ba	type	Kiss of Death
Species / int_dc67d9ba	comment	Kiss of Death: Sil kills someone while kissing him by sticking her tongue out through the back of his head.
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Species / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Species / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Fitch was mostly a Mad Scientist Dr. Jerk Villain Protagonist played by the highly regarded Ben Kingsley who strings along the audience as he pursues his rogue creation, then he gets offed while separated in sewers before Press, who is the true protagonist, manages to kill the creature.
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Species / int_df582b0b	type	Continuity Snarl
Species / int_df582b0b	comment	Continuity Snarl: Abbott explains the infected astronaut's half-human children had defective immune systems due to being hybrids, and they are also implied to be sterile (the female one certainly seemed to be). This means the premise of the original movie, that Sil's offspring would end up replacing humanity, was never possible in the first place. Although, then again, the way the scientists in the lab produced their embryos and the natural conception by Ross may be the devil in the details here. It may also be relevant that Sil provided the egg in her breeding, whereas the half-breeds in Species II & III all came from alien sperm. In crossbreeding species, eggs tend to have a greater influence over which traits the offspring will inherit, meaning Sil's half-breed children would've been naturally more inclined to possess the aliens' strength than Patrick's half-breeds. Patrick was also far less 'picky' than Sil, who explicitly required a suitable mate and rejected someone she deemed genetically deficient.
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Species / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
Species / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: The first attempt to catch Sil fails because they didn't expect her to jump from pre-teen to adult in the span of a single night, allowing her to walk right by the agents who are still looking for a child.
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Species / int_e33dc974	comment	Uneven Hybrid: Sil and her ilk are the result of mixing the DNA of a non-terrestrial lifeform with humans, making them Half Human Hybrids. They are driven to procreate with humans in an attempt to outbreed them, but this actually creates quarter-alien offspring who are sterile.
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Species / int_e35bc0f7	comment	Tragic Monster: Sil. For the most part, she doesn't seem to be acting out of deliberate malice, rather self-preservation and natural instinct. That said, her natural instincts lead her to brutally murder a "rival" female.
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Species / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: ...and blood.
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Species / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Species / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Do not get between the hybrids and their desired booty. They will kill you.
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Species / int_e8dda3a2	type	Neglectful Precursors
Species / int_e8dda3a2	comment	Neglectful Precursors: It's not clear what the aliens wanted humans to do with their DNA, but either way giving it (and instructions on how to combine it with ours) was at best poorly thought out, if not downright malicious. The film seems to indicate that it was actually a malicious plan (one of the characters speculates that Sil is an ideal biological weapon if some alien race decided that humanity was a weed in need of plucking), while the role-playing game supplement suggests the aliens thought it was really interesting (and more than a little amusing) watching humans blunder around with biotech beyond their understanding and seeing how we responded to it.
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Species / int_eb28ab57	type	Bound and Gagged
Species / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: The woman Sil kidnaps is shown in this predicament twice.
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Species / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Species / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Xavier Fitch is the top dog, yet his only skill seems to be being a Jerkass, a fact Preston lampshades when questioning his contributions at one point.
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Species / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Species / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The guy who helped Sil after the car accident and covered the hospital bill ends up being killed by her.
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Species / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
Species / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: The malevolent half-breeds are all Sara's half-siblings.
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Species / int_f03efcdb	type	Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong
Species / int_f03efcdb	comment	Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong: The infected astronaut in the second film plays it straight, but the original is actually an inverted example, as the alien wants a face full of human wing-wong. The second film double-subverts it, with an alien who wants it from the other alien.
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Species / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Species / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: An near-fatal example in which a male bicyclist sees Sil walking down the street and whistles at her, not seeing in his direction that a car is coming right at him and is nearly hit. Sil, however, gets struck by the hit-and-run driver and then rushed to the hospital by the horrified pedestrians watching. What leads to Dr. Arden's death.
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Species / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Species / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Little Sara rejects coldly Abbott's attempts to educate her in human customs, though we get a look of her softer side when she goes to bed and asks him uncertainly if she's really an unique being.
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Species / int_f56aeb67	type	Alien Invasion
Species / int_f56aeb67	comment	Alien Invasion: Via reproduction with humans. The method of gestation in the second movie is particularly violent.
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Species / int_f5c3983a	type	Camping a Crapper
Species / int_f5c3983a	comment	Camping a Crapper: Sil kills the woman in the club by busting through the back wall of the toilet stall and ripping out her spine.
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Species / int_f6c2f4c6	type	Overly-Long Tongue
Species / int_f6c2f4c6	comment	Overly-Long Tongue: The hybrids have one of these, culminating in a gory example of In One Ear, Out The Other in The Awakening.
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Species / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Species / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Sil pulls off a complex one. With a car, lots of gasoline, and a live victim.
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