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The Relic

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The Relic	comment	The Relic (or Relic) is a 1997 film adaptation of a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, directed by Peter Hyams, starring Tom Sizemore, Penelope Ann Miller, and Linda Hunt.A string of gruesome murders plagues the Chicago Museum of Natural History in the days leading up to a massive gala to open a new exhibit. The strange mutilations of the bodies suggests the killer may not even be human. But with so much at stake, the museum officials decide to push through the opening despite the dangers.
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The Relic / int_1397e10d	type	Rage Against the Reflection
The Relic / int_1397e10d	comment	Rage Against the Reflection: The Kothoga breaks every mirror it comes across because it doesn't like being reminded that it isn't human anymore.
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The Relic / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
The Relic / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: During DNA analysis of the giant beetle she kills, Margo findsHemidactylus turcicus genes mixed in with the beetle's genes. Hemidactylus turcicus is the Mediterranean house gecko; as its name implies it's from the Mediterranean, and, although it's also invasive in many countries, it's not known from South America, so there's no reason why the Amazonian fungus should have its DNA spliced in. Later, Margo analyzes the DNA of the Kothoga and finds it has Lophosaurus boydii (Boyd's forest dragon), Panthera tigris braziliae (the Brazilian tiger), and Lucanus cervus (European stag beetle) DNA, along with the aforementioned gecko. None of these animals are found anywhere near South America; the "Brazilian" tiger doesn't even exist.
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The Relic / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Relic / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: Early in the movie, when Margo is telling D'Agosta about the museum's maceration tanks, the specimen being processed today is stated to be Rhinoceros megarhinus. R. megarhinus (now considered Dihoplus megarhinus) has been extinct for millions of years; it would only exist as fossils, which of course do not need maceration. Margo's devices are able to decipher the DNA of specimens in only a few minutes. In reality, DNA is so large it takes a minimum of several hours or days to read through it, often several weeks for non-human animals, never mind a creature that's a mix of multiple different animals. One of the DNA components of the Kothoga is identified as Panthera tigris braziliae, presumably meaning Brazilian tiger. There is no such thing as a Brazilian tiger; tigers are known only from Asia. Margo suspects that since the Kothoga is part reptilian, that probably means it's ectothermic. This is of course ignoring the fact it's never seen gaining heat from anything like a cold-blooded animal should, and that it's nearly forty-percent mammalian, even having the body shape of a tiger. Downplayed a bit because the liquid nitrogen she tries to use to kill the Kothoga doesn't have much effect, suggesting she was wrong.
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The Relic / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
The Relic / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Officers Bailey and McNally, with their partnership and banter, to the point where they're reluctant to split up during the climax.
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The Relic / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Relic / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: The Kothoga’s method of killing is a VERY horrible and nasty way to go...
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The Relic / int_1eed8e76	type	The Juggernaut
The Relic / int_1eed8e76	comment	The Juggernaut: The Kothoga is so strong, powerful, and durable meaningfully slowing it down is a task onto itself. Best highlighted late into the film when its chasing Margo and plows through doors and walls without even slowing down. Even setting the dang thing on fire with chemicals isn't enough to kill it and it takes actually being blown to bits to finally put it down.
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The Relic / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Relic / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Tom Parkinson, due to being a loud-mouth who ignores the warnings of D'Agosta of the case not being closed.
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The Relic / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
The Relic / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Frock states that the Kothoga's mythological basis was that it was created as the son of Satan from a pact made with the Zenzera tribe. How a long-lost remote Amazonian tribe knew about Satan is up for debate, although it's possible Frock is just equivocating their "evil god" figure with a more well-known figure of Christianity.
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The Relic / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
The Relic / int_20860a0e	comment	Tom Parkinson's book equivalent Ippolito was working to cover up the Mbwun, but only because it was his job, and was more out of his depth than anything. Parkinson, however, is doing it against Cuthbert's orders and is a total Jerkass.
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The Relic / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
The Relic / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: The investigation on the Brazilian ghost ship drifting in Lake Michigan apparently didn't find any bodies until D'Agosta shows up. That only seems to be because nobody looked that hard despite the repulsive odour emanating from within because the ship's bilge is filled with dozens of ripped-apart, rotting corpses.
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The Relic / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Relic / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The maceration tank and the storage area Margo walks D'Agosta through, as well as the flesh-eating beetles the museum uses to clean their animal bones, and the old coal tunnels that connect the city's harbour to the museum.
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The Relic / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
The Relic / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: Past the opening prologue in Brazil, the rest of the movie takes place over about three days. What's especially silly is how quickly the story seems to think police investigations take, with the characters apparently thinking it'll all be done with in less than a day, when usually they take months or even years.
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The Relic / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
The Relic / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: The museum security guards are all killed easily by the creature but get faint characterization. CPD officer Evans and Bradley the K-9 cop, who both get some prominence accompanying D'Agosta and his partner into the tunnels, getting some characterization and useful moments in the process. Evans survives the movie despite having not really appeared beforehand, or having much to do afterwards. Bradley is less lucky.
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The Relic / int_2e338ce4	type	The Cavalry Arrives Late
The Relic / int_2e338ce4	comment	The Cavalry Arrives Late: By the time police finally manage to bust through the steel doors locking down the museum and rush in with a large, heavily-armed squad, all of the remaining guests have managed to escape through the sewer lines and Margo has already killed the Kothoga. Way to be useful guys.
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The Relic / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Relic / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Pendergast was cut from the film, though some of his characteristics were merged with D'Agosta. Smithback isn't as lucky to even afford that (somewhat fitting in a meta sense, considering his character) and his role is completely absent.
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The Relic / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
The Relic / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: Dr. Ian Cuthbert from the original novel becomes Ann Cuthbert.
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The Relic / int_354c4dc0	type	Bioweapon Beast
The Relic / int_354c4dc0	comment	Bioweapon Beast: The Kothoga is actually this: the tribe uses the plants to mutate someone into the Kothoga, then cut them off the plant it needs to survive so it will have to kill their enemies to get the hormones from their brains.
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The Relic / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
The Relic / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: One of the museum's security guards is horribly killed and ripped apart in one of the washrooms, the killer is at large, possibly still within the building, and the first thing the museum's curator asks the police is if it will negatively affect the new exhibition gala opening tomorrow night. Talk about a lack of empathy...
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The Relic / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Relic / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: In the novel, Cuthbert was an arrogant Obstructive Bureaucrat. The film's version of the character is more of a Reasonable Authority Figure. In the novel, Gregory Kawakita does a Face–Heel Turn at the end and started selling the Mbwun reovirus as a drug, here Greg Lee never did such a heinous thing like that, even he is still a Smug Snake whose only worst action was locking two of his colleagues in the offices.
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The Relic / int_40b98588	type	Adaptational Location Change
The Relic / int_40b98588	comment	Adaptational Location Change: In the novel, the museum where the story is set in the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The film changes it to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, because the AMNH staff didn't like that the story portrayed their administrates as incompetent and thought the story might make kids scared to go to the museum.
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The Relic / int_4230e681	type	Vader Breath
The Relic / int_4230e681	comment	Vader Breath: The Kothoga makes a distinctive wheezing noise when it breathes. The implication seems to be that it is in excruciating pain as a result of its transformation and that consuming hormones is the only way to alleviate it.
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The Relic / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Relic / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Lee/Kawakita and Frock.
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The Relic / int_4d737932	type	Lockdown
The Relic / int_4d737932	comment	Lockdown: The damaged security system effectively locks everyone in the museum with the monster, with this being triggered by the mad dash of people trying to get out, many of them too slowly, breaking things and setting off alarms.
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The Relic / int_4f247a69	type	Adaptational Ugliness
The Relic / int_4f247a69	comment	Adaptational Ugliness: The Kothoga, to an extent. In the novel, it resembles a cross between an ape (primarily the upper half) and a dinosaur (primarily the lower half). The film gave it a drastic redesign, making it look like a cross between a lizard, a tiger, a beetle, and the Predator. This does help to obscure The Reveal that it used to be human, however.
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The Relic / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Relic / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Discussed. One of the CSI guys makes a joke about the fact security guard Frederick Ford had been smoking a joint when he was killed, and D'Agosta points out that smoking marijuana is only a misdemeanor, and that "decapitation is a little over the line," saying Ford didn't deserve to die for smoking one lousy joint.
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The Relic / int_54d5ad9a	type	Asian Rudeness
The Relic / int_54d5ad9a	comment	Asian Rudeness: Dr. Lee, who is Chinese-American and a Smug Snake Slimeball.
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The Relic / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
The Relic / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Averted in the novel, as the first museum victims are two young boys who wander off in a closed area. The movie turns and plays it straight though, changing the boys to the discoverers of the body and the victim becomes the old black security guard. The Kothoga encounters a dog, but ignores it because it doesn't have a suitable hypothalamus to consume. This is in contrast to the novel, where one of the monster's earliest museum killings is a dog (since the monster still has to eat food along with hormones).
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The Relic / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
The Relic / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: In the original novel D'Agosta was in his late 50's and very out of shape and overweight (although in later books in the Pendergast series he does get back into shape and slim down a little). In the film, he's a lot slimmer and in his mid 30's.
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The Relic / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
The Relic / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: The Kothoga is a monstrous, vaguely reptilian, cat-like thing with tiger DNA making up 40% of its genome. It's also a vicious killing machine with a special taste for human hypothalmus.
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The Relic / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Relic / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The SWAT team sent in are immediately picked off one by one by the Kothoga. None of them even attempt to shoot it and apparently sending them in one at a time is not a good idea. Averted with D'Agosta, Hollingsworth, Bailey, McNally, Evans, and Bradley, who are all more diligent in investigating the museum and/or evacuating the guests.
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The Relic / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
The Relic / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: The museum's security system suddenly and randomly starts going totally haywire just as everyone starts stampeding out of the gala. The security control room workers think someone must be messing with the computers, but this never leads to any explanation, other than for a cheap and easy way for the characters to be stuck inside the museum with the Kothoga.
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The Relic / int_5b057eae	type	Animalistic Abomination
The Relic / int_5b057eae	comment	Animalistic Abomination: The Kothoga, which resembles a cross between a huge tiger and a monitor lizard with massive mandibles similar to a stag beetle. It is heavily armored, highly intelligent and very difficult to kill.
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The Relic / int_5f6c6cc1	type	Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
The Relic / int_5f6c6cc1	comment	Can't Get Away with Nuthin': The museum security guard decides to take a smoke break in one of the washrooms with a joint... and ends up ripped to shreds as the monster's first victim. D'Agosta thinks getting decapitated and flayed apart is a little overkill for just smoking pot though.
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The Relic / int_6136e02f	type	Brain Food
The Relic / int_6136e02f	comment	Brain Food: The Kothoga. Human brains aren't its first choice, though; it prefers to eat the plants from the Amazon used as packing material in some specimen crates, which have much higher concentrations of the hormones and such it needs. The events of the novel happen because the crates are moved to a more secure area of the basement after a curator notices they've been broken into, forcing it to search for alternatives (read: brains).
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The Relic / int_61eac2cb	type	Perpetual-Motion Monster
The Relic / int_61eac2cb	comment	Perpetual-Motion Monster: One noticeable change from the novel is the fact the monster only seems to need to eat hormones to survive, unlike the version in the book where it still needs to eat food like any other animal, and it keeps a larder of its victims in the sewers under the museum.
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The Relic / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
The Relic / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: The movie places the first murder and the break-in for the crates on the same night. If the Kothoga had gotten to the crates, why did it need to kill?
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The Relic / int_69906c41	type	Menacing Museum
The Relic / int_69906c41	comment	Menacing Museum: A giant mutated beast called the Kothoga is on the loose in the Chicago Museum of Natural History, chomping up people and leaving their much-bitten bodies lying around it in the run up to the gala.
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The Relic / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Relic / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: The police officer in charge of the police dogs. When he sees one of his dogs has been brutally killed by something unseen right in front of them, gets hysterical and runs blindly into the darkness alone after the other dog. Unsurprisingly, he's almost immediately killed by the Kothoga. Then his decapitated corpse falls into the gala and sparks a panic.
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The Relic / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
The Relic / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: The Kothoga is considerably larger than in the book, where it is described as being roughly the size of a grizzly bear, while in the film is about as big as a small elephant.
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The Relic / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Relic / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Although Cuthbert didn't die in the original book, he was Driven to Madness by the end. The version here fares a lot better. In the novel, the monster's first victims were a pair of little boys who wandered into the museum. The film changes them into the ones who find the body of the first victim (who's an adult) instead. The tribe that fed Dr. Whitney the hormones that turned him into the Kothoga. In the novel, it's mentioned that their village and the only known source of the hormones ended up being illegally deforested, so wiping out all natural traces of the monster's origins. The film omits these details, likely for brevity.
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The Relic / int_756dbd0b	type	Hard on Soft Science
The Relic / int_756dbd0b	comment	Hard on Soft Science: Margo doesn't see any worth in Dr. Whitney's anthropological expeditions.
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The Relic / int_77538ed4	type	Admiring the Abomination
The Relic / int_77538ed4	comment	Admiring the Abomination: Right before he's killed, Frock stares at the Kothoga with a big grin, knowing that its existence proves his theory to be true.
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The Relic / int_776c2ba4	type	Send in the Search Team
The Relic / int_776c2ba4	comment	Send in the Search Team: The SWAT team sent into the museum to rescue those trapped and kill the Kothoga. The first few to enter are swiftly killed by the Kothoga, forcing the rest to hang back.
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The Relic / int_7b3ebb57	type	Buxom Beauty Standard
The Relic / int_7b3ebb57	comment	Buxom Beauty Standard: The Mayor proudly boasts that his wife's cleavage won him the last election.
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The Relic / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
The Relic / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: The Kothoga's mandibles make it able to easily chop heads off from its victims, which is its preferred killing method.
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The Relic / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Relic / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Bailey and McNally are fairly competent, likeable guys, but by finding a homeless guy with a record for violent crimes (who Bailey shoots when the man charges at them) they convince the mayor and museum officials that there is no more threat to worry about, causing the gala to go forward.
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The Relic / int_826f71ed	type	Obscured Special Effects
The Relic / int_826f71ed	comment	Obscured Special Effects: Any time the Kothoga is onscreen, it's always shrouded in near complete darkness to hide most of its appearance.
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The Relic / int_853b7948	type	Ambiguously Evil
The Relic / int_853b7948	comment	Ambiguously Evil: The Amazonian natives at the start of the film drug John Whitney with the Kothoga fungus, knowing full well that it will transform him into a monster. Why exactly they decide to do this is not clear.
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The Relic / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Relic / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The police searching for the killer end up filling a homeless man living in the basement full of lead. While he's not responsible for the murders they're investigating, he's still a serial rapist and an actual murderer who had it coming. Lee and Tom Parkinson.
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The Relic / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
The Relic / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: It’s essentially “Jaws meets Alien; in a Museum”, particularly in its subplot of the police detective clashing over bureaucrats wanting to keep the museum open, despite the danger.
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The Relic / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Relic / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Dr. Lee is Margo's coworker, who continuously snubs her for no apparent reason other than personal pettiness. Guess what? He ends up becoming one of the Kothoga's victims, while Margo is the one to kill the monster in the end.
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The Relic / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
The Relic / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: The Kothoga rips a member of the SWAT team in half as his squad mates try to pull him to safety.
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The Relic / int_93387c2e	type	Monster Delay
The Relic / int_93387c2e	comment	Monster Delay: It isn't until around thirty-nine minutes in that we get the first glimpse of the monster, and even then just a faint outline in the shadows. And then it's another half an hour before there's another appearance and, again, it's just a glimpse of its outline for just a second. It takes an hour and twenty minutes into the film until the audience gets their first decent look at the Kothoga. And even then, it's still shown only in very brief shots and almost always in shadow. Only in the last ten minutes is the Kothoga shown relatively clearly in extended shots.
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The Relic / int_93dc4e37	type	Villain of Another Story
The Relic / int_93dc4e37	comment	Villain of Another Story: The homeless man who was killed by the cops was a serial rapist and an actual murderer.
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The Relic / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
The Relic / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: The black security guard Frederick Ford (played by the same actor who is the raptors' appetizer in Jurassic Park) is the first to get it.
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The Relic / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
The Relic / int_9ae85487	comment	Dr. Jerk: Dr. Lee throws his hat in against Margo for a grant he doesn't even need (and she will have to close down without) and then to up his odds of getting said grant, he has her "accidentally" locked into the labs during the party so he can brown nose the benefactors in peace.
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The Relic / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The Relic / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The natives who knowingly tricked Dr. Whitney into ingesting a serum that would turn him into a horrible man-eating beast. Why did they did isn't made clear, since by all accounts John was respectful towards them.
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The Relic / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Relic / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Margo takes out the Kothoga by setting a lab on fire. Played With, as the fire itself only results in her being chased by a flaming Kothoga, and it takes the following explosion to finally kill it.
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The Relic / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Relic / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: D'Agosta jokes that the storage area would be a bad place to light a match. At the beginning of the film, Dr. Whitney is desperate to find the crates he's shipping from the Amazon to the Field Museum on the tanker. At first, it seems to be because he knows there's a monster or something inside and is trying to find it before it gets loose, but in hindsight it's more likely because his Horror Hunger for hormones is starting. Also the fact that his crates were never on the ship to begin with; they were accidentally left behind and ended up being delivered to the museum by air. This again foreshadows the reveal that Whitney is the monster rather than some animal that was accidentally carried onboard. Detective Hollingsworth initially thinks the ship massacre in the beginning of the movie was a "drug hit" and whoever did it found what they came for. Later in the film, it's shown he's technically correct in a roundabout way, because the monster needs certain hormones to survive and it killed all the ship's crew to eat their brains for the hormones.
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The Relic / int_a7136054	type	Monstrous Mandibles
The Relic / int_a7136054	comment	Monstrous Mandibles: The Kothoga has a huge pair of mandibles due to possessing stag beetle DNA, which are very useful killing tools for decapitating its prey and then removing the brain.
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The Relic / int_a91078ea	type	Adaptational Jerkass
The Relic / int_a91078ea	comment	Adaptational Jerkass: In the novel, Gregory Kawakita was an intellectual loner; in the film, Greg Lee was an underhanded Smug Snake. Tom Parkinson's book equivalent Ippolito was working to cover up the Mbwun, but only because it was his job, and was more out of his depth than anything. Parkinson, however, is doing it against Cuthbert's orders and is a total Jerkass.
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The Relic / int_ad982e04	type	Super-Persistent Predator
The Relic / int_ad982e04	comment	Super-Persistent Predator: At one point, the Kothoga sees several characters down the hallway and charges at them, only for a heavy metal door to be shut in its way just before it reaches them. The monster nevertheless tries ramming the door down, striking it with so much force it partly knocks the door off its hinges, leaves craters in the steel, and injuries itself so badly that its blood starts to pool under the door. Only at that point does it give up. However, at the end of the film, the Kothoga continues pursuing Margo even after its body is set completely ablaze and prioritizes trying to get her over escaping the explosion that's rapidly engulfing the room.
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The Relic / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Relic / int_af3ea0e3	comment	In the novel, Gregory Kawakita does a Face–Heel Turn at the end and started selling the Mbwun reovirus as a drug, here Greg Lee never did such a heinous thing like that, even he is still a Smug Snake whose only worst action was locking two of his colleagues in the offices.
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The Relic / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Relic / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Parkinson, Lee and the wealthy married guests who stay behind in the exhibition area while everyone else including the Mayor evacuates through the sewers. You would think after seeing the body of a headless Police Officer fall from the ceiling and along with being ordered by a extremely competent and experienced Detective to get out through the sewers that they would listen and get the hell out of dodge to safety right? No, they choose to stay and wait for the rescue team to break through the doors despite the fact they know a violent murderer is loose somewhere in the building. Any guesses what happens to them all next?
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The Relic / int_bf1a54d9	type	Indy Hat Roll
The Relic / int_bf1a54d9	comment	Indy Hat Roll: Panicked party guests try to flee the museum as the security doors are activated. Some don't make it and are caught and crushed by the steel doors. Seeing as what the rest were trapped with, they were probably the lucky ones.
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The Relic / int_bf26c02e	type	Viral Transformation
The Relic / int_bf26c02e	comment	Viral Transformation: The retrovirus creates monsters out of anything that ingests it by inserting saurian and reptilian DNA into host cells; but the victim needs a steady supply of specialized hormones to retain its new form, the victim-turned-monster; in order to acquire these hormones, the victim must go right to the richest source available and eat the hypothalamus of its victims or go mad from the pain of being unable to sustain its new form.
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The Relic / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
The Relic / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball: Featuring the slowest moving explosion of all time.
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The Relic / int_c181a846	type	Dies Differently in Adaptation
The Relic / int_c181a846	comment	Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the original book, the monster was killed due to Margo shining a light on a weak point of it, giving Pendergast an opening to shoot it dead. In the film, she lights it on fire and then has it blown up, because that's far more cinematic than just shot.
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The Relic / int_c26ebed4	type	Finagle's Law
The Relic / int_c26ebed4	comment	Finagle's Law: Right as the detectives find the murderer really hasn't been caught, a new body falls right into the middle of the big gala, causing a stampede of guests as everyone tries to leave. Randomly, at the exact same time, the museum's security system goes completely crazy with no way to override it and locks everyone inside the building, then the power suddenly goes out, and then the sprinklers suddenly turn on. And then the Kothoga starts hunting...
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The Relic / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
The Relic / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Mcnally is seemingly killed when the monster throws him through a glass display case, as he's seen lying still with a piece of glass sticking through his neck. It’s not the best way to die but given how the Kothoga performs his kills? he was very lucky to go out that way.
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The Relic / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
The Relic / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: Kothoga is able to recognize traps, hide bodies, and do what it can to stay out of sight from humans, justified by the fact that it used to be human itself.
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The Relic / int_ca81eae7	type	Hollywood Darkness
The Relic / int_ca81eae7	comment	Hollywood Darkness: Deliberately averted, almost to an unwatchable degree as it's very difficult to see much for the second half of the movie. Long story short, blame the home video producers. Thankfully, the Blu-Ray release is far better and more accurate to the theatrical cut.
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The Relic / int_cb3adcb7	type	Kill It with Ice
The Relic / int_cb3adcb7	comment	Kill It with Ice: Margo attempts to utilize cold against the Kothoga. While not enough to kill it, it's one of the only things that can affect it at all.
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The Relic / int_cce399	type	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman
The Relic / int_cce399	comment	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Margo's profession as an evolutionary biologist turns out to be vitally important for determining the monster's origin, possible weaknesses, and motives.
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The Relic / int_cf7b362	type	Horror Hunger
The Relic / int_cf7b362	comment	Horror Hunger: For human hypothalamus.
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The Relic / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
The Relic / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Margo calls Greg a gerbil.
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The Relic / int_d323d090	type	Incendiary Exponent
The Relic / int_d323d090	comment	Incendiary Exponent: Margo manages to light the Kothoga on fire with chemicals. This only results in it continuing to chase her while completely on fire and it only dies when caught in a huge explosion that blows it to bits.
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The Relic / int_d42fb539	type	Our Monsters Are Weird
The Relic / int_d42fb539	comment	Our Monsters Are Weird: The Kothoga, more so than the book: Mbwun was recognizably human once, with saurian legs and tail, a gorilla-like head and apelike facial features. Kothoga still has the saurian legs and tail, but the head looks like a Lovecraftian cross between a lizard, a tiger, an insect, a Xenomorph, a Yautja, and deep-sea fish. It also definitely had a lizard-like tongue.
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The Relic / int_d5dfb30a	type	Professional Butt-Kisser
The Relic / int_d5dfb30a	comment	Professional Butt-Kisser: Lee, who seemingly stays behind as the other guests are evacuating just to try and schmooze a pair of important museum sponsors, and earlier locked a colleague in her office in order to have more opportunities to do the same.
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The Relic / int_d6b5863	type	Driven to Madness
The Relic / int_d6b5863	comment	Although Cuthbert didn't die in the original book, he was Driven to Madness by the end. The version here fares a lot better.
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The Relic / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
The Relic / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Gregory Kawakita becomes Gregory Lee. Also, doubles as a Race Lift with Greg being Chinese-American in contrast to his novel's counterpart being Japanese-British.
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The Relic / int_db6230b7	type	Lightning Bruiser
The Relic / int_db6230b7	comment	Lightning Bruiser: The Kothoga is incredibly strong, fast, and can tank bullets with next to no damage.
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The Relic / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
The Relic / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: The monster in the film is called the Kothoga, possibly because actually saying "Mbwun" out loud is a lot harder than reading it. In the novel, the Kothoga was the name of the tribe of which the monster is the legend of, and the tribe is called the Zenzara instead. Dr. Julian Whittlesey, the monster's human identity, becomes Dr. John Whitney in the movie. Gregory Kawakita becomes Gregory Lee. Also, doubles as a Race Lift with Greg being Chinese-American in contrast to his novel's counterpart being Japanese-British.
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The Relic / int_dda12cb3	type	Cat Scare
The Relic / int_dda12cb3	comment	Cat Scare: A cat is aboard the cargo ship. It serves to make the audience jump and to once again point out that D'Agosta is superstitious. Margo is wandering through the museum's not-yet open "Superstition" gallery after closing when she hears something moving nearby. She rushes to hide in the washroom, with the sound getting closer and closer... but it turns out it was just the janitor. A pair of police officers sweeping the museum hear something ahead of them, one gets nervous and pulls his gun. When something appears in front of them, he unloads his entire magazine without a second thought, killing a random homeless man. Thank goodness that homeless man turned out to have been an ax-wielding serial rapist or else that would've been a tremendously horrible mistake.
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The Relic / int_de0df7a0	type	Stock Scream
The Relic / int_de0df7a0	comment	Stock Scream: Greg lets out a Howie Scream as he's being killed by the Kothoga.
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The Relic / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
The Relic / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: The Kothoga's first victim is the black museum security guard who sneaks into the washroom for a marijuana smoke (in the novel, its first victims are a pair of little boys). So let that be a warning to the audience: if you do drugs, you'll have your brain eaten by a mutant reptilian beast.
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The Relic / int_e099f0de	type	I Will Only Slow You Down
The Relic / int_e099f0de	comment	I Will Only Slow You Down: Dr. Frock refuses to let D'Agosta and Margo take him everywhere due to the urgency of the matter and how much his wheelchair is slowing them down, in spite of how aware he is of the dangers of remaining alone.
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The Relic / int_e35bc0f7	type	Tragic Monster
The Relic / int_e35bc0f7	comment	Tragic Monster: Kothoga, once its full origin is revealed.
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The Relic / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Relic / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: The film version of D'Agosta contains characteristics of both his novel counterpart as well as the novel-exclusive Aloysius X.L. Pendergast.
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The Relic / int_eaaf461f	type	National Geographic Nudity
The Relic / int_eaaf461f	comment	National Geographic Nudity: In the opening, Dr. Whitney is in the company of South American natives who wear little to no clothes.
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The Relic / int_eb4086e3	type	Big Creepy-Crawlies
The Relic / int_eb4086e3	comment	Big Creepy-Crawlies: A beetle consumes some of the Kothoga fungus and promptly grows to the size of a football, our first hint at the mutagenic properties of the stuff.
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The Relic / int_eb4ee9eb	type	Guns Are Worthless
The Relic / int_eb4ee9eb	comment	Guns Are Worthless: In this case it's because any time someone that has a gun is faced with the monster, the gun will either be jammed or the character will completely forget they have a gun and either fire blindly at nothing or drop their gun and run away. In the novel, the monster was simply so tough it was effectively bullet-proof (except for its eyes).
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The Relic / int_ed98f038	type	Wall Crawl
The Relic / int_ed98f038	comment	Wall Crawl: The Kothoga has the ability to do this, even walking upside-down on the ceiling momentarily, implied to be because it has gecko DNA.
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The Relic / int_efc49c38	type	Trapped-with-Monster Plot
The Relic / int_efc49c38	comment	Trapped-with-Monster Plot: The museum's security system ends up malfunctioning, resulting in everyone getting trapped inside with a horrible, brain-eating, reptilian beast. A common comparison for the latter half of the film is that the story is Alien, but set in a museum!
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The Relic / int_f0508c08	type	Decomposite Character
The Relic / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: D'Agosta's part in the last act of the book is largely taken over by Hollingsworth in the film, with D'Agosta filling Pendergast's role.
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The Relic / int_f5eda11	type	Mix-and-Match Critters
The Relic / int_f5eda11	comment	Mix-and-Match Critters: The Kothoga is a chimera created by a mutagenic fungus mashing up the genetic structures of reptiles, insects, tiger, and humans. How exactly the fungus does this or even why it does this isn't properly explained.
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The Relic / int_f6c2f4c6	type	Overly-Long Tongue
The Relic / int_f6c2f4c6	comment	Overly-Long Tongue: The Kothoga has one, as shown when it uses it to taste Margo (including her breasts...) when it has her cornered and is sampling her before trying to eat her.
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