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* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Guy starts as a sinister character, but then warms up to Bronte. Even for those who suspect that Guy is a Screamer (probably everyone) the events of the first movie appear to be playing out, but this time he murders the protagonist after the RoboticReveal, rather than overcoming his programming as Jessica did.]]
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* CoitusEnsues: There's little chemistry between the leads and no apparent reason why Bronte would have sex with a stranger she's recently met, [[spoiler:other than it's required for the CruelTwistEnding.]] Compare the Jessica/Henrickson relationship which managed to have both UST and a LoveConfession without sex.
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* TheBlackGuyDiesFirst: Not quite; Romulo is actually the ''second'' member of the team to die.
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* KillAndReplace: Though not used as infiltration units [[TheWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot as you'd expect]]. The characters barely have time to say NoOneCouldSurviveThat before the Screamer concerned is chewing on their face.
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!!As well as those mentioned above, the sequel also has the following tropes:
* AbandonedArea: The former iron ore mine at Bell Island Museum is used for the tunnels the survivors are holed up in.
* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: Hannah prefers a knife or bow & arrow. How she kills Screamers with these is a mystery, given that they're difficult enough to kill with bullets.
* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Averted; when Bronte points out that she killed a Screamer, Guy says that different Varieties of Screamer are killing each other every day. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Unfortunately the audience is denied]] a full-on RobotWar with humans caught in the middle.
* ArmorIsUseless: Averted; on realising they have to go back to make contact with the people who fired on them, the team wear helmets and body armor.
* AsYouKnow: Said verbatim by Commander Sexton during his MissionBriefing. There's {{Info Dump}}s on the war and the Screamers for those who didn't see the previous movie. The former should be familiar history to those being briefed, even 13 years later. Information on the meteor storm is handwaved by saying they didn't have that data two months ago (it's implied the information was deliberately withheld).
* BareYourMidriff: Bronte shows off her abs but otherwise provides little {{fanservice}}. [[spoiler:It's foreshadowing for the later RevealShot that she's pregnant.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: Madden and Schwartz.
* BigElectricSwitch: Used to power up the distress beacon in the ActionPrologue, but not used by Orsow despite him being a MadScientist.
* BodyHorror: When the human Screamers are morphing into {{Killer Robot}}s.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: The FiveSecondForeshadowing that a human is a Screamer, before [[RoboticReveal sharp instruments come bursting out of their bodies]].
* TheBlackGuyDiesFirst: Not quite; Romulo is actually the ''second'' member of the team to die.
* BloodierAndGorier: The deaths are a [[{{gorn}} lot messier]] than the previous movie.
* CassandraTruth:
** Apparently Colonel Hendrickson did send a final transmission, but this is dismissed as "the delusional ravings of a shell-shocked soldier".
** The survivors fire on the rescue party and refuse to believe they're from Earth. Apparently they have no knowledge of the DistressSignal sent in the ActionPrologue.
** The protagonists are warned about the human-looking Screamers, and that it's a really bad idea for anyone to get back to Earth for this reason. They don't listen.
** [[spoiler:Hanna tells Bronte that Guy [[TheSleepless doesn't appear to sleep]]. When she wakes from hibernation at the end of the movie, she finds the capsule next to her empty. She senses something is wrong, but it's already too late.]]
* {{Catchphrase}}: Hannah keeps saying "Unreal". [[spoiler:They're her FamousLastWords too.]]
* ChairReveal: [[spoiler:Bronte and Guy make it back to the Medusa only to find Hybrid Madden waiting in the pilot's seat.]]
* ChekhovsGun: A vial of acid taken as a sample is used to shut down the electromagnetic field.
* CoitusEnsues: There's little chemistry between the leads and no apparent reason why Bronte would have sex with a stranger she's recently met, [[spoiler:other than it's required for the CruelTwistEnding.]] Compare the Jessica/Henrickson relationship which managed to have both UST and a LoveConfession without sex.
* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: Orsow doing his BigDamnHeroes.
* CreditsGag
-->The characters, screamers and events depicted in this motion picture [[ThisIsAWorkOfFiction are fictitious]]. Any similarity to actual persons or screamers, living or dead is purely coincidental and not intended. [[NoAnimalsWereHarmed No screamers were harmed]] in the making of this motion picture.
* {{Cyborg}}: The Hybrid Screamers.
* DeadlyHug: [[spoiler:Danielli's death from the woman he's just rescued. She puts her fist through his chest and out the other side. Later Hybrid Danielli kills Madden in a similar fashion.]]
* DeathByMaterialism: Commander Sexton slips out while the others are asleep and activates a Screamer to download all the information from its AI, which is worth a fortune back on Earth. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero This causes the automated factory to reactivate.]] [[spoiler:As Sexton is dying he passes on the data chip to Bronte, but she just crushes it underfoot.]]
* DramaticSlip: Done with [[TwistedAnkle both female characters]], no less. Bronte falls and Schwartz goes to help her up, leaving them vulnerable to an approaching Screamer. Fortunately Madden shoots it.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: While in hypersleep Bronte has a CatapultNightmare of future events.
* DueToTheDead: Soderquist is cremated [[VikingFuneral like his ancestors]]. Given that the Screamers salvage any bodies, it's actually the best thing that can be done. [[spoiler:Unfortunately Schwartz [[NeverSplitTheParty stays back to take care of Hannah's body and gets killed]].]]
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The characters have an OhCrap reaction when they see just how ''big'' the automated Screamer factory is.
* EmergencyRefuelling: After a member of their team dies when they're fired on by the people they've come to rescue, Sexton decides ScrewThisImOuttaHere and orders them to return to the Medusa. They find a Screamer has gotten on board and drained their power cells, so they have to go and [[McGuffin find new ones]] before the meteor storm hits.
* TheEnd: Averted with a title card which says [[HereWeGoAgain The Beginning...]], [[spoiler:as the Screamers will now start doing to Earth what they did on Sirius 6B.]]
* EnemyRisingBehind: Or lowering from the ceiling behind [[spoiler:when Schwartz is attacked by a horseshoe crab-like Screamer.]]
* EverybodySmokes: Averted; there's a throw-away comment that radiation levels are within survivability limits and no-one is seen smoking their Reds, even the survivors.
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Guy starts as a sinister character, but then warms up to Bronte. Even for those who suspect that Guy is a Screamer (probably everyone) the events of the first movie appear to be playing out, but this time he murders the protagonist after the RoboticReveal, rather than overcoming his programming as Jessica did.]]
* FalseInnocenceTrick: The team is sceptical when told the more advanced Screamers [[TheyLookLikeUsNow can take human form]]. The survivors are a bit vague as to where they get food to survive, so when the team find a bloody dissection table and several people imprisoned behind SomeKindOfForcefield, they naturally assume they're [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty being used as food]]. Once freed however, the 'victims' quickly sprout cybernetic killing blades and [[KillAllHumans attack their rescuers]]. The irony is the Screamers probably [[ScavengerWorld were being used as food and spare parts]].
* [[spoiler:FetusTerrible: The final shot is the fetus in Bronte's womb sprouting a cutting blade.]]
* GadgeteerGenius: Orsow invented the original Screamers, and has developed a LightningGun and an improved Tag.
* GetItOverWith: [[spoiler:Schwartz is being chocked to death by a snake-like Screamer and gasps, "Please...just make it fast..." The Screamer obliges, releasing its grip only to ram its tail through her chest.]]
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Averted; one of the Hybrids gives a MotiveRant that they've evolved into a superior being, but their basic incentive is still to KillAllHumans, so it's doubtful that they've really changed at all.
* HeroicSacrifice
** Sgt. Romulo hands his tag to Danielli when the latter loses his. Moments later he's crippled by Screamers and stays behind while the others escape. Also combined with TakingYouWithMe when Romulo blows himself up with a grenade.
** Colonel Hendrickson from the previous movie self-destructed his vessel to stop the Screamer getting back to Earth.
* HollywoodAcid: RA-6, a radioactive acid by-product of the mining.
* HumanityIsInsane: And being TheSpock can make you an object of suspicion.
-->'''Hannah:''' Humans are irrational! But him...he never does anything without a reason.
* HumanPopsicle: The spaceship crew is required to hybernate for two months when traveling between Earth and Sirius 6B.
* ImmuneToBullets: [[spoiler:Bronte empties her pistol into Hybrid Madden's chest to little effect, and even the LightningGun has little effect until Guy gives Hybrid Madden the full blast and disintegrates him.]]
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: When Bronte finds that her commander has downloaded data on the Screamers to take back to Earth, she puts a gun to his head, but doesn't pull the trigger despite his expectations.
* ItsPersonal: Bronte turned down her own command to go on the mission. Turns out she's Hendrickson's daughter, looking for answers as to why her father supposedly killed himself.
* JustThinkOfThePotential: The cybernetic technology developed by the Screamers is worth a fortune on Earth, but the Alliance has banned import for fear it would lead to more Screamers being created.
* KillAndReplace: Though not used as infiltration units [[TheWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot as you'd expect]]. The characters barely have time to say NoOneCouldSurviveThat before the Screamer concerned is chewing on their face.
* KnifeStruggle: [[spoiler:Hannah puts her knife to Guys' throat and insists he's a Screamer. She ends up being stabbed when Sexton tries to grab it off her.]]
* LeaveNoManBehind: Averted with Commander Sexton. He's prepared to abandon the mission after his sergeant gets killed, [[spoiler:and is later revealed to be ready to abandon the others ("They're not my friends.") once he gets a working power cell. Bronte ironically goes back for him (she is [[GenerationXerox her father's daughter]], after all) but Sexton is already fatally injured.]]
* LickingTheBlade: Guy cuts Bronte's hand and tastes her blood. Apparently the artificial blood of a Screamer [[SpotTheImposter tastes different]], but as the rescue team haven't seen a human Screamer, this only convinces them that he's a villain after they find the survivors have been eating people.
* LightningGun: Invented by Orsow to knock out Screamers.
* LovesMeNot: The {{Yandere}} is doing this as a MadnessMantra while the object of her infatuation is loading bullets into a magazine and [[SinisterScrapingSound she's sharpening her knife]]. Later she sees him talking to Bronte and finishes, "He loves me not..."
* MadeOfPlasticine: A female Screamer [[SuperStrength punches her fist through bodies and even skulls]]. The Hybrids have a drill tongue that does the job more efficiently.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Sexton is noticeably shaken when he sees the Screamer he reactivated has gotten onto the Medusa and drained their power cells, preventing their escape.
* MysteriousWatcher: As soon as they set out, the team is observed through RoboCam by a humanoid figure in GasMaskLongcoat. [[spoiler:He's not a cyborg but GadgeteerGenius Orsow.]]
* NeverSplitTheParty: Played for the usual horror movie IdiotBall. One character even asks, "Why?" when told to stay behind for no logical reason.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Sexton turns on a Screamer to download the information from its AI. In doing so he activates the automated Screamer factory.
** It's suggested that Colonel Henrickson self-destructed his own spaceship to stop the Screamers from getting back to Earth. [[spoiler:His daughter manages to bring back a highly-advanced Screamer model.]]
* NightmareFace: The Hybrids have four mandibles that unfold out of their mouths, and a drill on their tongues.
* NotHelpingYourCase: [[spoiler:Hannah tries to warn Bronte there's something UncannyValley about Guy, but it doesn't help that she's openly jealous and waving a knife about while ranting crazily.]]
* NotQuiteDead: The inventor of the Screamers, an engineer called Orsow, was supposedly [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters killed by his own creation]], but turns out to be the MysteriousWatcher. [[spoiler:Played straight with Danielli who staggers in after an apparently fatal injury earlier in the movie, only to quickly reveal himself as a Hybrid Screamer.]]
* OffWithHisHead: In the ActionPrologue TheSquadette catches a Screamer full in the face, decapitating her in one stroke. Later a sentry gets his head chopped in half by a Type V.
* PlotHole: How did the Screamer get into the ship to drain the power cells? No-one left a hatch open, and if they can burrow through or infiltrate the hull, [[ScavengerWorld why isn't the spaceship in pieces]] by the time they get back to it?
* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: Orsow would rather let everyone die (including himself) rather than take the risk of Screamers getting to Earth.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The search team has six days to look for survivors before the planet is hit by a [[ColonyDrop massive meteor strike that will kill everyone on the planet]].
* SealedEvilInACan: The Screamers are assumed to have shut down once they killed everyone on Sirius 6B. Turns out some of them are still active, and Sexton inadvertently activates all the others.
* SelfDestructMechanism: One activates automatically (with requisite countdown) when the power shuts down allowing TheSwarm of approaching Screamers inside Orsow's base.
* SendInTheSearchTeam in response to a DistressCall. The Screamers were assumed to have killed everyone on the planet, so no-one has been to check before now.
* SexyDiscretionShot: The sex scene is a shirtless Guy kissing Bronte's bare midriff.
* ScavengerWorld: Both Screamers and humans are using each other as HumanResources.
* ScreamingWoman: Schwartz on seeing the shredded remains of Soderquist (despite being a CombatMedic) screams and {{Security Cling}}s to Madden.
* StockFootage from the previous movie is used for the data module's {{exposition}} montage.
* {{Transhuman}}: [[spoiler:Hybrid Madden claims that the real Madden is still in him, and he's just been upgraded to a superior being. [[WeCanRuleTogether He even offers Bronte a chance to join him.]] Guy however kills Madden, [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou saying he just wants her as a pilot]] to get him to Earth. As it turns out, that's exactly what Guy wants her for; that and a human incubator for the next Variety of Hybrid Screamer. "He's our first...and there won't be anyone like him. Ever."]]
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Bronte and Schwartz in the rescue team.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** There is no mention of the N.E.B. and conversation in general gives the impression that Alliance is the governing body of Earth. Particularly puzzling since the first film established that the N.E.B. (who were in a state of UsefulNotes/ColdWar with the Alliance) was not stymied by the loss of Sirius 6B and moved on to a new planet where they found Berynium deposits.
** The identity and fate of the group that sent the distress signal is also left unexplained. Two of them get killed and one of them manages to barricade himself in the communication array and send the distress signal. However, the rescue team never makes it there. All we can determine is that they were not affiliated with the survivors at the refinery (who were unfamiliar with a distress call and disbelieved the rescue team when they mentioned it) or Orsow (who stated that he does not wish anyone leaving the planet for fear of spreading the Screamers).
* WormSign: The orb-shaped Screamers move so fast they send dirt flying into the air as they burrow through the ground beneath.
* {{Yandere}}: After seeing Guy is interested in Bronte, Hannah sneaks up on her with a knife when she sleeping, but she wakes just in time.
* AbandonedArea: The former iron ore mine at Bell Island Museum is used for the tunnels the survivors are holed up in.
* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: Hannah prefers a knife or bow & arrow. How she kills Screamers with these is a mystery, given that they're difficult enough to kill with bullets.
* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Averted; when Bronte points out that she killed a Screamer, Guy says that different Varieties of Screamer are killing each other every day. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Unfortunately the audience is denied]] a full-on RobotWar with humans caught in the middle.
* ArmorIsUseless: Averted; on realising they have to go back to make contact with the people who fired on them, the team wear helmets and body armor.
* AsYouKnow: Said verbatim by Commander Sexton during his MissionBriefing. There's {{Info Dump}}s on the war and the Screamers for those who didn't see the previous movie. The former should be familiar history to those being briefed, even 13 years later. Information on the meteor storm is handwaved by saying they didn't have that data two months ago (it's implied the information was deliberately withheld).
* BareYourMidriff: Bronte shows off her abs but otherwise provides little {{fanservice}}. [[spoiler:It's foreshadowing for the later RevealShot that she's pregnant.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: Madden and Schwartz.
* BigElectricSwitch: Used to power up the distress beacon in the ActionPrologue, but not used by Orsow despite him being a MadScientist.
* BodyHorror: When the human Screamers are morphing into {{Killer Robot}}s.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: The FiveSecondForeshadowing that a human is a Screamer, before [[RoboticReveal sharp instruments come bursting out of their bodies]].
* TheBlackGuyDiesFirst: Not quite; Romulo is actually the ''second'' member of the team to die.
* BloodierAndGorier: The deaths are a [[{{gorn}} lot messier]] than the previous movie.
* CassandraTruth:
** Apparently Colonel Hendrickson did send a final transmission, but this is dismissed as "the delusional ravings of a shell-shocked soldier".
** The survivors fire on the rescue party and refuse to believe they're from Earth. Apparently they have no knowledge of the DistressSignal sent in the ActionPrologue.
** The protagonists are warned about the human-looking Screamers, and that it's a really bad idea for anyone to get back to Earth for this reason. They don't listen.
** [[spoiler:Hanna tells Bronte that Guy [[TheSleepless doesn't appear to sleep]]. When she wakes from hibernation at the end of the movie, she finds the capsule next to her empty. She senses something is wrong, but it's already too late.]]
* {{Catchphrase}}: Hannah keeps saying "Unreal". [[spoiler:They're her FamousLastWords too.]]
* ChairReveal: [[spoiler:Bronte and Guy make it back to the Medusa only to find Hybrid Madden waiting in the pilot's seat.]]
* ChekhovsGun: A vial of acid taken as a sample is used to shut down the electromagnetic field.
* CoitusEnsues: There's little chemistry between the leads and no apparent reason why Bronte would have sex with a stranger she's recently met, [[spoiler:other than it's required for the CruelTwistEnding.]] Compare the Jessica/Henrickson relationship which managed to have both UST and a LoveConfession without sex.
* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: Orsow doing his BigDamnHeroes.
* CreditsGag
-->The characters, screamers and events depicted in this motion picture [[ThisIsAWorkOfFiction are fictitious]]. Any similarity to actual persons or screamers, living or dead is purely coincidental and not intended. [[NoAnimalsWereHarmed No screamers were harmed]] in the making of this motion picture.
* {{Cyborg}}: The Hybrid Screamers.
* DeadlyHug: [[spoiler:Danielli's death from the woman he's just rescued. She puts her fist through his chest and out the other side. Later Hybrid Danielli kills Madden in a similar fashion.]]
* DeathByMaterialism: Commander Sexton slips out while the others are asleep and activates a Screamer to download all the information from its AI, which is worth a fortune back on Earth. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero This causes the automated factory to reactivate.]] [[spoiler:As Sexton is dying he passes on the data chip to Bronte, but she just crushes it underfoot.]]
* DramaticSlip: Done with [[TwistedAnkle both female characters]], no less. Bronte falls and Schwartz goes to help her up, leaving them vulnerable to an approaching Screamer. Fortunately Madden shoots it.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: While in hypersleep Bronte has a CatapultNightmare of future events.
* DueToTheDead: Soderquist is cremated [[VikingFuneral like his ancestors]]. Given that the Screamers salvage any bodies, it's actually the best thing that can be done. [[spoiler:Unfortunately Schwartz [[NeverSplitTheParty stays back to take care of Hannah's body and gets killed]].]]
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The characters have an OhCrap reaction when they see just how ''big'' the automated Screamer factory is.
* EmergencyRefuelling: After a member of their team dies when they're fired on by the people they've come to rescue, Sexton decides ScrewThisImOuttaHere and orders them to return to the Medusa. They find a Screamer has gotten on board and drained their power cells, so they have to go and [[McGuffin find new ones]] before the meteor storm hits.
* TheEnd: Averted with a title card which says [[HereWeGoAgain The Beginning...]], [[spoiler:as the Screamers will now start doing to Earth what they did on Sirius 6B.]]
* EnemyRisingBehind: Or lowering from the ceiling behind [[spoiler:when Schwartz is attacked by a horseshoe crab-like Screamer.]]
* EverybodySmokes: Averted; there's a throw-away comment that radiation levels are within survivability limits and no-one is seen smoking their Reds, even the survivors.
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Guy starts as a sinister character, but then warms up to Bronte. Even for those who suspect that Guy is a Screamer (probably everyone) the events of the first movie appear to be playing out, but this time he murders the protagonist after the RoboticReveal, rather than overcoming his programming as Jessica did.]]
* FalseInnocenceTrick: The team is sceptical when told the more advanced Screamers [[TheyLookLikeUsNow can take human form]]. The survivors are a bit vague as to where they get food to survive, so when the team find a bloody dissection table and several people imprisoned behind SomeKindOfForcefield, they naturally assume they're [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty being used as food]]. Once freed however, the 'victims' quickly sprout cybernetic killing blades and [[KillAllHumans attack their rescuers]]. The irony is the Screamers probably [[ScavengerWorld were being used as food and spare parts]].
* [[spoiler:FetusTerrible: The final shot is the fetus in Bronte's womb sprouting a cutting blade.]]
* GadgeteerGenius: Orsow invented the original Screamers, and has developed a LightningGun and an improved Tag.
* GetItOverWith: [[spoiler:Schwartz is being chocked to death by a snake-like Screamer and gasps, "Please...just make it fast..." The Screamer obliges, releasing its grip only to ram its tail through her chest.]]
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Averted; one of the Hybrids gives a MotiveRant that they've evolved into a superior being, but their basic incentive is still to KillAllHumans, so it's doubtful that they've really changed at all.
* HeroicSacrifice
** Sgt. Romulo hands his tag to Danielli when the latter loses his. Moments later he's crippled by Screamers and stays behind while the others escape. Also combined with TakingYouWithMe when Romulo blows himself up with a grenade.
** Colonel Hendrickson from the previous movie self-destructed his vessel to stop the Screamer getting back to Earth.
* HollywoodAcid: RA-6, a radioactive acid by-product of the mining.
* HumanityIsInsane: And being TheSpock can make you an object of suspicion.
-->'''Hannah:''' Humans are irrational! But him...he never does anything without a reason.
* HumanPopsicle: The spaceship crew is required to hybernate for two months when traveling between Earth and Sirius 6B.
* ImmuneToBullets: [[spoiler:Bronte empties her pistol into Hybrid Madden's chest to little effect, and even the LightningGun has little effect until Guy gives Hybrid Madden the full blast and disintegrates him.]]
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: When Bronte finds that her commander has downloaded data on the Screamers to take back to Earth, she puts a gun to his head, but doesn't pull the trigger despite his expectations.
* ItsPersonal: Bronte turned down her own command to go on the mission. Turns out she's Hendrickson's daughter, looking for answers as to why her father supposedly killed himself.
* JustThinkOfThePotential: The cybernetic technology developed by the Screamers is worth a fortune on Earth, but the Alliance has banned import for fear it would lead to more Screamers being created.
* KillAndReplace: Though not used as infiltration units [[TheWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot as you'd expect]]. The characters barely have time to say NoOneCouldSurviveThat before the Screamer concerned is chewing on their face.
* KnifeStruggle: [[spoiler:Hannah puts her knife to Guys' throat and insists he's a Screamer. She ends up being stabbed when Sexton tries to grab it off her.]]
* LeaveNoManBehind: Averted with Commander Sexton. He's prepared to abandon the mission after his sergeant gets killed, [[spoiler:and is later revealed to be ready to abandon the others ("They're not my friends.") once he gets a working power cell. Bronte ironically goes back for him (she is [[GenerationXerox her father's daughter]], after all) but Sexton is already fatally injured.]]
* LickingTheBlade: Guy cuts Bronte's hand and tastes her blood. Apparently the artificial blood of a Screamer [[SpotTheImposter tastes different]], but as the rescue team haven't seen a human Screamer, this only convinces them that he's a villain after they find the survivors have been eating people.
* LightningGun: Invented by Orsow to knock out Screamers.
* LovesMeNot: The {{Yandere}} is doing this as a MadnessMantra while the object of her infatuation is loading bullets into a magazine and [[SinisterScrapingSound she's sharpening her knife]]. Later she sees him talking to Bronte and finishes, "He loves me not..."
* MadeOfPlasticine: A female Screamer [[SuperStrength punches her fist through bodies and even skulls]]. The Hybrids have a drill tongue that does the job more efficiently.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Sexton is noticeably shaken when he sees the Screamer he reactivated has gotten onto the Medusa and drained their power cells, preventing their escape.
* MysteriousWatcher: As soon as they set out, the team is observed through RoboCam by a humanoid figure in GasMaskLongcoat. [[spoiler:He's not a cyborg but GadgeteerGenius Orsow.]]
* NeverSplitTheParty: Played for the usual horror movie IdiotBall. One character even asks, "Why?" when told to stay behind for no logical reason.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Sexton turns on a Screamer to download the information from its AI. In doing so he activates the automated Screamer factory.
** It's suggested that Colonel Henrickson self-destructed his own spaceship to stop the Screamers from getting back to Earth. [[spoiler:His daughter manages to bring back a highly-advanced Screamer model.]]
* NightmareFace: The Hybrids have four mandibles that unfold out of their mouths, and a drill on their tongues.
* NotHelpingYourCase: [[spoiler:Hannah tries to warn Bronte there's something UncannyValley about Guy, but it doesn't help that she's openly jealous and waving a knife about while ranting crazily.]]
* NotQuiteDead: The inventor of the Screamers, an engineer called Orsow, was supposedly [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters killed by his own creation]], but turns out to be the MysteriousWatcher. [[spoiler:Played straight with Danielli who staggers in after an apparently fatal injury earlier in the movie, only to quickly reveal himself as a Hybrid Screamer.]]
* OffWithHisHead: In the ActionPrologue TheSquadette catches a Screamer full in the face, decapitating her in one stroke. Later a sentry gets his head chopped in half by a Type V.
* PlotHole: How did the Screamer get into the ship to drain the power cells? No-one left a hatch open, and if they can burrow through or infiltrate the hull, [[ScavengerWorld why isn't the spaceship in pieces]] by the time they get back to it?
* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: Orsow would rather let everyone die (including himself) rather than take the risk of Screamers getting to Earth.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The search team has six days to look for survivors before the planet is hit by a [[ColonyDrop massive meteor strike that will kill everyone on the planet]].
* SealedEvilInACan: The Screamers are assumed to have shut down once they killed everyone on Sirius 6B. Turns out some of them are still active, and Sexton inadvertently activates all the others.
* SelfDestructMechanism: One activates automatically (with requisite countdown) when the power shuts down allowing TheSwarm of approaching Screamers inside Orsow's base.
* SendInTheSearchTeam in response to a DistressCall. The Screamers were assumed to have killed everyone on the planet, so no-one has been to check before now.
* SexyDiscretionShot: The sex scene is a shirtless Guy kissing Bronte's bare midriff.
* ScavengerWorld: Both Screamers and humans are using each other as HumanResources.
* ScreamingWoman: Schwartz on seeing the shredded remains of Soderquist (despite being a CombatMedic) screams and {{Security Cling}}s to Madden.
* StockFootage from the previous movie is used for the data module's {{exposition}} montage.
* {{Transhuman}}: [[spoiler:Hybrid Madden claims that the real Madden is still in him, and he's just been upgraded to a superior being. [[WeCanRuleTogether He even offers Bronte a chance to join him.]] Guy however kills Madden, [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou saying he just wants her as a pilot]] to get him to Earth. As it turns out, that's exactly what Guy wants her for; that and a human incubator for the next Variety of Hybrid Screamer. "He's our first...and there won't be anyone like him. Ever."]]
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Bronte and Schwartz in the rescue team.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** There is no mention of the N.E.B. and conversation in general gives the impression that Alliance is the governing body of Earth. Particularly puzzling since the first film established that the N.E.B. (who were in a state of UsefulNotes/ColdWar with the Alliance) was not stymied by the loss of Sirius 6B and moved on to a new planet where they found Berynium deposits.
** The identity and fate of the group that sent the distress signal is also left unexplained. Two of them get killed and one of them manages to barricade himself in the communication array and send the distress signal. However, the rescue team never makes it there. All we can determine is that they were not affiliated with the survivors at the refinery (who were unfamiliar with a distress call and disbelieved the rescue team when they mentioned it) or Orsow (who stated that he does not wish anyone leaving the planet for fear of spreading the Screamers).
* WormSign: The orb-shaped Screamers move so fast they send dirt flying into the air as they burrow through the ground beneath.
* {{Yandere}}: After seeing Guy is interested in Bronte, Hannah sneaks up on her with a knife when she sleeping, but she wakes just in time.
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* LightningGun: In the sequel.
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* 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 the sequel Schwartz (also a KnifeNut, as well as a CrazyJealousGirl) gives the LovesMeNot trope.
** [[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 the sequel Schwartz (also a KnifeNut, as well as a CrazyJealousGirl) gives the LovesMeNot trope.
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* MadnessMantra:
**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 the sequel Schwartz (also a KnifeNut, as well as a CrazyJealousGirl) gives the LovesMeNot trope.]]
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* NightmareFace:
** Before attacking, the Type [=IIIs=], which resemble young boys, open their mouths to reveal [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily several nested rows of mechanical razor-sharp teeth]].
** The type V's in the sequel have four mandibles that unfold out of their mouths, and a drill on their tongues.
** Before attacking, the Type [=IIIs=], which resemble young boys, open their mouths to reveal [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily several nested rows of mechanical razor-sharp teeth]].
** The type V's in the sequel have four mandibles that unfold out of their mouths, and a drill on their tongues.
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* NightmareFace:
**NightmareFace: Before attacking, the Type [=IIIs=], which resemble young boys, open their mouths to reveal [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily several nested rows of mechanical razor-sharp teeth]].
** The type V's in the sequel have four mandibles that unfold out of their mouths, and a drill on their tongues.teeth]].
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** The type V's in the sequel have four mandibles that unfold out of their mouths, and a drill on their tongues.
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* ShaggyDogStory: The sequel has [[spoiler:an offscreen mention of the protagonist of the original dying to prevent the screamer from reaching Earth.]].
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* ShaggyDogStory: The sequel has [[spoiler:an offscreen mention of the protagonist of the original dying to prevent the screamer from reaching Earth.]].]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The sequel provides couple instances.
** There is no mention of the N.E.B. and conversation in general gives the impression that Alliance is the governing body of Earth. Particularly puzzling since the first film established that the N.E.B. (who were in a state of UsefulNotes/ColdWar with the Alliance) was not stymied by the loss of Sirius 6B and moved on to a new planet where they found Berynium deposits.
** The identity and fate of the group that sent the distress signal is also left unexplained. Two of them get killed and one of them manages to barricade himself in the communication array and send the distress signal. However, the rescue team never makes it there. All we can determine is that they were not affiliated with the survivors at the refinery (who were unfamiliar with a distress call and disbelieved the rescue team when they mentioned it) or Orsow (who stated that he does not wish anyone leaving the planet for fear of spreading the Screamers).
** There is no mention of the N.E.B. and conversation in general gives the impression that Alliance is the governing body of Earth. Particularly puzzling since the first film established that the N.E.B. (who were in a state of UsefulNotes/ColdWar with the Alliance) was not stymied by the loss of Sirius 6B and moved on to a new planet where they found Berynium deposits.
** The identity and fate of the group that sent the distress signal is also left unexplained. Two of them get killed and one of them manages to barricade himself in the communication array and send the distress signal. However, the rescue team never makes it there. All we can determine is that they were not affiliated with the survivors at the refinery (who were unfamiliar with a distress call and disbelieved the rescue team when they mentioned it) or Orsow (who stated that he does not wish anyone leaving the planet for fear of spreading the Screamers).
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* 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.]]
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* MadnessMantra: KnifeNut Becker 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 the sequel Schwartz (also a KnifeNut, as well as a CrazyJealousGirl) gives the LovesMeNot trope.
** [[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 the sequel Schwartz (also a KnifeNut, as well as a CrazyJealousGirl) gives the LovesMeNot trope.
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* TheMenFirst: When the lights go out, Hendricksson orders the others out of the command centre, leaving himself vulnerable when he stays behind to examine the database on the Screamers. He likely only survives because Jessica and Ace went back for him. Later when he offers to cut himself to prove to Jessica that he's not a Screamer, she stops him saying [[AFatherToHisMen she really doesn't need proof]].
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* TheMenFirst: When the lights go out, Hendricksson orders the others out of the command centre, leaving himself vulnerable when he stays behind to examine the database on the Screamers. He likely only survives because Jessica and Ace went back for him. Later when he offers to cut himself to prove to Jessica that he's not a Screamer, she stops him saying [[AFatherToHisMen she really doesn't need proof]]. Later when he sees the escape rocket has only room for one, he insists that [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl Jessica go instead of himself.]]
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* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Not the Screamers in general, as they are programmed to KillAllHumans; they just got smart enough to see past the Tags and get into the bunkers. [[spoiler:Judging from the Shakespeare he quotes, Becker accepts he was created as a killer and thinks there's little meaning in anything else. Jessica with her BlackMarket stash and attractive looks is just a more advanced means of getting into a bunker like the Davids. She does in fact get into a restricted area (the escape rocket that only the Alliance commander can access) but refuses to go to Earth for fear her original programming will reassert itself.]]
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* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Not the Screamers in general, as they are programmed to KillAllHumans; they just got smart enough to see past the Tags and get into the bunkers. [[spoiler:Judging from the Shakespeare he quotes, Becker accepts he was created as a killer and thinks there's little meaning in anything else. Jessica with her BlackMarket stash and [[HoneyTrap attractive looks looks]] is just a more advanced means of getting into a bunker like the Davids. She does in fact get into a restricted area (the escape rocket that only the Alliance commander can access) but refuses to go to Earth for fear her original programming will reassert itself.]]
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: As the sniper scans the two approaching soldiers and David, all three show as ARMED even though David is not carrying a weapon. [[spoiler:Also counts as foreshadowing -- not only is David a weapon, he's carrying his teddy bear which is also a weapon.]]
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: FiveSecondForeshadowing:
** As the sniper scans the two approaching soldiers and David, all three show as ARMED even though David is not carrying a weapon. [[spoiler:Also counts as foreshadowing -- not only is David a weapon, he's carrying his teddy bear which is also a weapon.]]
** As the sniper scans the two approaching soldiers and David, all three show as ARMED even though David is not carrying a weapon. [[spoiler:Also counts as foreshadowing -- not only is David a weapon, he's carrying his teddy bear which is also a weapon.]]
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* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: The Alliance use the typical post-''Film/{{Aliens}}'' rifle/flamethrower combination. The N.E.B. soldiers prefer a multi-shot GrenadeLauncher to deal with the Screamers.
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* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: The Alliance use the typical post-''Film/{{Aliens}}'' [[OurWeaponsWillBeBoxyInTheFuture rifle/flamethrower combination.combination]]. The N.E.B. soldiers prefer a multi-shot GrenadeLauncher to deal with the Screamers.
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* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Not the Screamers in general, as they are programmed to KillAllHumans; they just got smart enough to see past the Tags and get into the bunkers. [[spoiler:Judging from the Shakespeare he quotes, Becker accepts he was created as a killer and thinks there's little meaning in anything else. Jessica with her BlackMarket stash and attractive looks is just a more advanced means of getting into a bunker. She does in fact get into a restricted area (the escape rocket that only the Alliance commander can access) but rejects her programming when she has a chance to exploit it.]]
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* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Not the Screamers in general, as they are programmed to KillAllHumans; they just got smart enough to see past the Tags and get into the bunkers. [[spoiler:Judging from the Shakespeare he quotes, Becker accepts he was created as a killer and thinks there's little meaning in anything else. Jessica with her BlackMarket stash and attractive looks is just a more advanced means of getting into a bunker. bunker like the Davids. She does in fact get into a restricted area (the escape rocket that only the Alliance commander can access) but rejects refuses to go to Earth for fear her original programming when she has a chance to exploit it.will reassert itself.]]
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* OminousWalk: [[spoiler:Becker after the RoboticReveal, though it's uncertain as the extent to which he's genuinely damaged. It gives Hendricksson enough time to grab a gun anyway.]]
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* OminousWalk: [[spoiler:Becker [[spoiler:The Davids do this ''en masse''. Becker after the RoboticReveal, though it's uncertain as the extent to which he's genuinely damaged. It damaged; it gives Hendricksson enough time to grab a gun anyway.]]
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** Having lost his weapon, Hendrickson retrieves a FlareGun from the escape rocket's cockpit and shoots the killer robot in the chest, [[ImmuneToBullets but to little effect]]. [[spoiler:Fortunately at that moment the rocket fires up its pre-launch burn, which provides a much for effective means to KillItWithFire.]]
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** Having lost his weapon, Hendrickson retrieves a FlareGun from the escape rocket's cockpit and shoots the killer robot in the chest, [[ImmuneToBullets but to little effect]]. [[spoiler:Fortunately at that moment the rocket fires up its pre-launch burn, which provides a much for more effective means to KillItWithFire.]]
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* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Not the Screamers in general, as they are programmed to KillAllHumans; they just got smart enough to see past the Tags and gets into the bunkers. [[spoiler:Becker (taking from the Shakespearean quotes he's using) implying that he accepts he was created as a killer
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* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Not the Screamers in general, as they are programmed to KillAllHumans; they just got smart enough to see past the Tags and gets get into the bunkers. [[spoiler:Becker (taking [[spoiler:Judging from the Shakespearean quotes he's using) implying that Shakespeare he quotes, Becker accepts he was created as a killer and thinks there's little meaning in anything else. Jessica with her BlackMarket stash and attractive looks is just a more advanced means of getting into a bunker. She does in fact get into a restricted area (the escape rocket that only the Alliance commander can access) but rejects her programming when she has a chance to exploit it.]]
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler: Becker, after getting shot by Hendrickson.]]
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* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Not the Screamers in general, as they are programmed to KillAllHumans; they just got smart enough to see past the Tags and gets into the bunkers. [[spoiler:Becker (taking from the Shakespearean quotes he's using) implying that he accepts he was created as a killer
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe:[[spoiler: Becker, [[spoiler:Becker, after getting shot by Hendrickson.]]
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe:
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* KleptomaniacHero: Jefferson shows so much glee at finding the nuclear mini-missile that Hendrickson guesses correctly on the climactic battle that he took it with him even after being ordered not to.
--->'''Hendrickson (after ordering Jefferson to hand it over)''': I know you took it, you little thief!
--->'''Hendrickson (after ordering Jefferson to hand it over)''': I know you took it, you little thief!
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* NewMeat: "Ace" Jefferson hits all the points -- blindly idealistic, skilled with weapons in training but TooDumbToLive in practice, and knows nothing about the local situation (in fairness he was going to another planet) so has to have everything explained to him and therefore the audience.
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* NewMeat: "Ace" Jefferson hits all the points -- [[NaiveNewcomer blindly idealistic, idealistic]], skilled with weapons in training but TooDumbToLive in practice, and knows nothing about the local situation (in fairness he was going to another planet) so has to have everything explained to him and [[TheWatson therefore the audience.audience]].
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* InterruptedDeclarationOfLove / DyingConfessionOfLove: [[spoiler:Jessica to Hendricksson.]]
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* InterruptedDeclarationOfLove / DyingConfessionOfLove: [[spoiler:Jessica InterruptedDeclarationOfLove:[[spoiler:Jessica's DyingConfessionOfLove to Hendricksson.]]
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* GladHesOnOurSide: In reference to the first generation of [[KillerRobot Screamers]], which hunt targets by burrowing through the ground: "I'm glad those things are on our side."
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* GladHesOnOurSide: In reference to the first generation of [[KillerRobot Screamers]], Screamers, which hunt targets by burrowing through under the ground: "I'm ground until near their target, then bursting out to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath slice them up with high-speed cutting blades]].
-->'''Soldier 1:''' I'm glad those things are on ourside." side.
-->'''Soldier 2:''' And our side's the good side -- right?
-->'''Soldier 1:''' I'm glad those things are on our
-->'''Soldier 2:''' And our side's the good side -- right?
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* DarknessEqualsDeath: After Romo [[SoMuchForStealth blows up a reptile Screamer]] in the command center, the lights suddenly go out and...
-->''"Can I come with you?"''
-->''"Can I come with you?"''
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* DeathFromAbove: The New Economic Block's [[NoKillLikeOverkill response to the workers refusing to mine berynium.]]
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** Ace is overjoyed to find a mini-plutonium missile, but Hendrickson orders him to leave it behind. When they're being swarmed by David units, [[GodzillaThreshold Hendrickson orders him to use it]], knowing full well Ace had brought it with him anyway.
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** Ace is overjoyed to find a mini-plutonium missile, plutonium mini-missile, but Hendrickson orders him to leave it behind. When they're being swarmed by David units, [[GodzillaThreshold Hendrickson orders him to use it]], knowing full well Ace had brought it with him anyway.
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* FeetFirstIntroduction: The NEB soldier approaching the Alliance base. [[AnArmAndALeg He doesn't keep his feet for long.]]
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* InterruptedDeclarationOfLove / DyingConfessionOfLove: [[spoiler:Jessica to Hendricksson.]]
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* GiveMeASword: Or in this case, a nuclear-tipped rifle grenade.
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* ThrowMeASword: Or in this case, a nuclear-tipped rifle grenade.
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* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: The Autonomous Mobile Sword (aka Screamer) kills with an automated buzzsaw rather than guns or explosives. Even the human models seem to prefer hand-to-hand methods for killing.
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* 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.]]
''Theatre/HenryVI'' while crushing Joe to death. Chuck does the same while trying to kill Hendricksen.]]
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* MadnessMantra: KnifeNut Becker quotes from Shakespeare a lot. [[spoiler:He quotes from
from ''Theatre/HenryVI'' while crushing Joe to death. Chuck does the same while trying to kill Hendricksen.]]
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* 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...]]
