History Film / Screamers

* SuperScream: [[spoiler:Hendricksson is about to shoot evil Jessica when she emits an ear-piercing scream, forcing him to drop his weapon to cover his ears. Fortunately she's roasted by the pre-launch burn.]]

* AnArmAndALeg: The enemy soldier sent to deliver the truce gets his hand severed, still holding the canister with the peace offering. The next Screamer slices his foot off, leaving him on the ground and vulnerable to the rest. Even the hardened soldiers watching from the bunker are squicked out.

* {{Super-Scream}}: [[spoiler:Hendricksson is about to shoot evil Jessica when she emits an ear-piercing scream, forcing him to drop his weapon to cover his ears. Fortunately she's roasted by the pre-launch burn.]]

* MakeMeWannaShout: [[spoiler:Hendricksson is about to shoot evil Jessica when she emits an ear-piercing scream, forcing him to drop his weapon to cover his ears. Fortunately she's roasted by the pre-launch burn.]]

* DudeNotFunny: Hendricksson's reaction to Ace saying, "Can I come with you?"

* InvisibilityCloak: The "tabs" alliance members wear makes them invisible to screamers. Until the screamers start updating themselves...
* KillAllHumans: In fairness the Screamers are programmed to do this, with no discrimination between either side. Those tags the Alliance soldiers wear just obscure their heartbeat so the Screamer can't detect them. [[ItCanThink If they were to become clever enough to see past the tag...]]

* {{Robosexual}}: Hendricksson realizes that [[spoiler:Jessica is also a KillerRobot when an identical Jessica shows up. Earlier he'd tested Jessica by cutting her hand and the copy appears to know this, taunting Hendricksson by saying: "We can smile, we can cry, we can bleed, we can fuck."]]

* MadnessMantra: [[PsychoKnifeNut Becker]] quotes from Shakespeare a lot. [[spoiler:He quotes from ''Theatre/HenryVI'' while crushing Joe to death. Chuck does the same while trying to kill Hendricksen.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Jefferson has his own WhatAnIdiot reaction when he discovers there are automated factories churning out the Screamers, and no-one up top knows anything that goes on down there since (as Hendricksson put it) the last man to do so flicked the switch and ran like hell.

* SmokingIsCool: The film made smoking a plot point: the [[FantasticRadiationShielding drug that helped counter the radiation of the planet]] was administered via cigarette, presumably so the actors didn't have to go around in HazmatSuit and [[InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace breathing masks]].

** In "Second Variety", [[spoiler: it's a BittersweetEnding; the "claws", having [[MechanicalEvolution evolved]] enough that TheyLookLikeUsNow, manage to smuggle one of their number onto a space transport so they can wipe out what's left of humanity - the catch is that part of what made them convincing was that they were capable of [[ApeShallNeverKillApe killing other claws]], which leaves the protagonist grimly satisfied; humanity is finished, but the screamers will kill themselves off in the same manner, as they are no different.]]

** [[spoiler:Becker accuses Ross of being a Type II -- he repeats things implying a limited vocabulary like the Davids, he doesn't drink from the Scotch bottle, and his twitchy behavior is UncannyValley. The two men draw on each other, but Becker's thrown knife is faster. Then Hendricksson removes the knife and finds it covered in blood. Oops!]]

* KnifeNut: Becker, who also uses it as a throwing weapon to kill a suspected Screamer.
-->'''Ross:''' [[SinisterScrapingSound Ain't it sharp enough]] ''yet?!!''
-->'''Becker:''' ''(LickingTheBlade)'' It's never sharp enough.

* MadnessMantra: [[KnifeNut Becker]] quotes from Shakespeare a lot. [[spoiler:He quotes from ''Theatre/HenryVI'' while crushing Joe to death. Chuck does the same while trying to kill Hendricksen.]]

** In "Second Variety", [[spoiler: it's a BittersweetEnding; the "claws", having [[MechanicalEvolution evolved]] enough that TheyLookLikeUsNow, manage to smuggle one of their number onto a space transport so they can wipe out what's left of humanity - the catch is that part of what made them convincing was that they were capable of [[ApeShallNeverKillApe killing other claws]], which leaves the protagonist grimly satisfied; humanity is finished, but the screamers will kill themselves off in the same manner, as they are NotSoDifferent.]]

** WhatTheHellHero: Jefferson has his own WhatAnIdiot reaction when he discovers there are automated factories churning out the Screamers, and no-one up top knows anything that goes on down there since (as Hendricksson put it) the last man to do so flicked the switch and ran like hell.

** Which at least makes ''some'' sense for inhaled radioactive particles. Not so much for the same radioactive particles ingested with your food or covering your skin. And it wouldn’t do dick against gamma rays.
* SpotTheImposter: [[spoiler:Becker accuses Ross of being a Type II -- he repeats things implying a limited vocabulary like the Davids, he doesn't drink from the Scotch bottle, and his twitchy behavior is UncannyValley. The two men draw on each other, but Becker's thrown knife is faster. Then Hendricksson removes the knife and finds it covered in blood. Oops!]]
** SomethingTheyWouldNeverSay: When Hendricksson returns to base, he calls Chuck and tells him to come outside. A voice claiming to be Chuck refuses, telling Hendricksson to [[SchmuckBait come inside]]. Hendricksson then asks to speak to Theatre/DonGiovanni (the opera music he was playing earlier). When the same voice claiming to be "Don Giovanni" answers, everyone runs like hell.