History Film / Screamers

** In the BackStory, Sirius 6B has become a DeathWorld thanks to the NEB trying to [[NoKillLikeOverkill bomb the workers into submission with nuclear weaponry]], though apparently there's still a ColdWar going on back on Earth. When [[NoBloodForPhlebotinum resources are discovered on another planet]], a crashed spacecraft disguised as a civilian freighter is revealed to be shipping a nuclear weapons factory there.

* EvilOverlooker: the cover of ''The Hunting''.

* AdaptationDistillation: The original short story takes place on a [[ApocalypseHow post-apocalyptic earth]] with an [[WorldWarIII escalated cold war]] being the backstory. The movie replaces this with a colony world run by {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s. The story itself is largely unchanged. Even the endings have similarities;

* KleptomaniacHero: Jefferson shows so much glee at finding the nuclear mini-missile that Hendricksson guesses correctly on the climactic battle that he took it with him even after being ordered not to.
--->'''Hendricksson (after ordering Jefferson to hand it over)''': I know you took it, you little thief!

* KillAndReplace: Hendricksson finds himself fighting [[spoiler:his friend Chuck, actually a Screamer who killed the original and removed his face. He did the same to Marshall Cooper and says he's going to do the same to Hendricksson. 'Chuck' repeats a conversation they had earlier, so apparently we never saw the real one.]]
* KillerRabbit: The child screamer. [[spoiler:And possibly the teddy bear.]]
* KillerRobot: The screamers were designed to be the perfect soldier. They proved to be [[GoneHorriblyRight a little]] ''[[GoneHorriblyRight too]]'' [[GoneHorriblyRight perfect]].
* KillerTeddyBear: Killer robots looking like little boys, carrying killer robot teddy bears.

* KillMeNowOrForeverStayYourHand: [[spoiler:After Becker kills Ross, Jessica suggests he might be a Screamer. Becker urges her to fire and be on the safe side. Jessica doesn't fire.]]

As Colonel Hendricksson, the Alliance's leader on Sirius [=6B=], heads out to discuss a peace treaty with the NEB General, it is revealed that the screamers have changed; building newer models. They can pass for human, and soon, no one is safe.

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!!''Screamers: The Hunting'' 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 [[WarfareRegression 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]].
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: 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 Hendricksson 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:It's 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.
* 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.
* TheEndOfTheBeginning: Instead of TheEnd there's a title card which says [[HereWeGoAgain The Beginning...]] [[spoiler:as the Screamers will now start doing on 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 in the audience 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 choked 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. Combined with TakingYouWithMe as Romulo blows himself up with a grenade.
** Colonel Hendricksson from the previous movie self-destructed his escape rocket to stop the Screamer getting back to Earth.
* HollywoodAcid: After walking into a mining tunnel dripping with water, Sutton gets scorched when a drop falls on his hand. Turns out it's 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: Bronte empties her pistol into [[spoiler:Hybrid Madden's chest to no avail, 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 Hendricksson'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 [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot as you'd expect]]. The characters barely have time to say ThisCannotBe as 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 working power cells. 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, killed a crewman 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 Hendricksson 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]] [[spoiler:but turns out to be the MysteriousWatcher. 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. [[spoiler:Sexton discovers that he has the power cells they need running his defenses, despite claiming otherwise. Sexton kills Orsow and steals the cells [[ItsAllAboutMe regardless of the fact]] that it will let all the Screamers inside.]]
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The search team has six days to look for survivors before the planet is hit by a [[ColonyDrop massive meteor shower 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, killing each other and the few remaining survivors, and Sexton inadvertently activates a factory to create more of them.
* 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: Despite being a CombatMedic, Schwartz screams and {{Security Cling}}s to Madden after seeing the shredded remains of Soderquist.
* StockFootage from the previous movie is used for the data module's {{exposition}} {{montage}}.
* TokenRomance: 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/Hendricksson relationship which managed to have both {{UST}} and a LoveConfession without sex.
* {{Transhuman}}: [[spoiler:Hybrid Madden claims that the real Madden is still inside him -- 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 [[KnifeNut with a knife]] when she sleeping, but she wakes just in time.

A direct-to-video sequel, ''Screamers: The Hunting'', released in 2009 features a group of Alliance Marines sent from Earth to Sirius [=6B=] to investigate a distress signal. It has been over a decade since last contact from the planet and the screamers are thought to be dormant. What could possibly go wrong?

A direct-to-video sequel, ''Screamers: The Hunting'', released in 2009 features a group of Alliance Marines sent from Earth to Sirius [=6B=] to investigate a distress signal. It had been over a decade since last contact from the planet, and hey, the screamers thought to be dormant. What could possibly go wrong?

* CatchPhrase: Type III's repeat a single phrase because "they can't think of anything better to say."

** Having lost his weapon, Hendricksson 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 more effective means to KillItWithFire.]]

* 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.

* EmergingFromTheShadows: Just as he's about to use the escape rocket to get off the planet, Colonel Hendricksson is knocked down and his weapon taken by one of the [[TheyLookLikeUsNow human Screamers]], who then steps out of a dark to reveal [[spoiler:he's Hendricksson's NumberTwo, who should have been killed by the Screamers when they swarmed the Alliance base. Turns out the real NumberTwo was [[KillAndReplace killed and replaced]] by the Screamer before the events of the movie even started.]]

* 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/Hendricksson relationship which managed to have both {{UST}} and a LoveConfession without sex.

* TheEndOfTheBeginning: Instead of TheEnd there's a title card which says [[HereWeGoAgain The Beginning...]], [[spoiler:as the Screamers will now start doing to Earth what they did on Sirius 6B.]]

* 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.]]

The film is set on the planet Sirius [=6B=] in the year 2078. Sirius 6B was the source of Berynium, a mineral that solved the energy crisis on Earth, but which produced radioactive waste as a byproduct, contaminating the planet and leading to a war between the New Economic Block, and their former employees The Alliance. While on Earth there was a tense peace between the NEB and Alliance, on Sirius 6B, the war went nuclear. Eventually, the Alliance introduced "screamers", a series of subterranean killing machines, which replicate themselves ad infinitum in an automated factory. The war eventually ruined the planet, leaving only a handful of Alliance and NEB strongholds intact. As it turns out, Earth had long since abandoned Sirius 6B, with the soldiers fighting for control of a ruined planet.

* CreepyChild: The "Can I come with you?" boy (called Daniel) who turns out to be a KillerRobot, after this fact is revealed.

As Hendrickson, the Alliance's leader on Sirius [=6B=], heads out to discuss a peace treaty with the NEB General, it is revealed that the screamers have changed; building newer models. They can pass for human, and soon, no one is safe.

** In ''Screamers'', [[spoiler:it's ZigZagged. The Type V screamers have evolved so that they can "smile, cry, bleed, fuck" - which enables the a Type V-Jessica to come within moments of hijacking the space transport to Earth. However, Jessica has become human enough to not want to kill humans anymore, and sacrifices herself to save Hendrickson from one of her duplicates. Averted in that it turns out the ''teddy bears'' carried by Type III's are ''also'' screamers, and Hendrickson not only brought one onto the transport but ''took his Tab off...'']]

* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: Jessica is a screamer, but she defends Hendrickson from ''another'' Jessica, to allow him to escape to Earth]].

* CatScare: There's speculation that the message cylinder is a bomb, so Chuck jumps when the cylinder shoots out the NEB truce offering. Hendrickson finds that funny, only to get a nasty shock later on when he picks up a rock and it turns out to be an insect. Then later a rat drops on his shoulder while he's fleeing the David units in the darkened command centre.
* ColdEquation: There's an escape rocket for the Alliance commander, but only seating and life support for one. [[spoiler:Hendrickson insists that Jessica must go, but she refuses. Then a second Jessica appears and he realises why she's refusing.]]

* DangerTakesABackseat: [[spoiler:The film ends with a shot of a teddy bear in the back of the one-man spacecraft used by the protagonist to escape the planet. The teddy bear is the type previously seen carried by the CreepyChild KillerRobot. Just before the movie ends we see Hendrickson rip off his Tab in disgust and fling it away, landing next to the teddy bear, which starts to move of its own accord.]]

** [[spoiler:Chuck has been killed and his face transplanted onto a Type V Screamer. Given that he mocks Hendrickson with things he said at the start of the movie, this apparently happened a while back. He also brags of killing the NEB general who sent the peace treaty offer, so for all we know the whole thing may have been a ruse to get Hendrickson out of the bunker so Screamer Chuck could subvert the defenses.]]

* DudeNotFunny: Hendrickson's reaction to Ace saying, "Can I come with you?"
* EmergingFromTheShadows: Just as he's about to use the escape rocket to get off the planet, Colonel Hendrickson is knocked down and his weapon taken by one of the [[TheyLookLikeUsNow human Screamers]], who then steps out of a dark to reveal [[spoiler:he's Hendrickson's NumberTwo, who should have been killed by the Screamers when they swarmed the Alliance base. Turns out the real NumberTwo was [[KillAndReplace killed and replaced]] by the Screamer before the events of the movie even started.]]

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Becker, after getting shot by Hendrickson.]]

-->'''Hendrickson:''' They're scavengers and they learn; they use everything. Rotting meat gives off methane gas, gas is fuel; hell I don't know. Maybe the eyeball jelly makes handy blade wax.

* ImpostorExposingTest: Hendrickson cuts Jessica to ensure she's not one of the increasingly advanced killer robots. [[spoiler:Turns out the latest models can bleed too.]]
* InterestingSituationDuel: Hendrickson fights a human Screamer on a claw-crane suspended over a launch pit [[LaserHallway protected by lethal laser grid]].

* 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!

** 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 more effective means to KillItWithFire.]]

* KillAndReplace: Hendrickson finds himself fighting [[spoiler:his friend Chuck, actually a Screamer who killed the original and removed his face. He did the same to Marshall Cooper and says he's going to do the same to Hendrickson. 'Chuck' repeats a conversation they had earlier, so apparently we never saw the real one.]]

** Ace is overjoyed to find a 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.

* 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 Hendrickson removes the knife and finds it covered in blood. Oops!]]

** Apparently Colonel Hendrickson did send a final transmission, but this is dismissed as "the delusional ravings of a shell-shocked soldier".

* 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.

** Colonel Hendrickson from the previous movie self-destructed his escape rocket to stop the Screamer getting back to Earth.

* 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.

** 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.]]

* 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.

* {{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.

* 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.]]

* KillAndReplace: Though not used as infiltration units [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot as you'd expect]]. The characters barely have time to say NoOneCouldSurviveThat before the Screamer concerned is chewing on their face.

* 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.]]

* 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.

* 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]].

* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: Orsow would rather let everyone die (including himself) rather than take the risk of Screamers getting to Earth.

** 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.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Hannah keeps saying "Unreal". [[spoiler:They're her FamousLastWords too.]]

* 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."]]

* 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.]]

* 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.]]