History WesternAnimation / DeadSpaceAftermath

* TheUnreveal: It isn't reveal what the interrogation chair showed Cho.

''Dead Space: Aftermath'' is a {{direct to video}} {{sequel}} to ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' set in the ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' universe. The movie is told mostly in flashback by the remaining crew of the ''USG O'Bannon'', explaining to the crew of the ''USG Abraxis'' what happened to the rest of the ship.

Following the events of ''[=Dead Space=]'', the crew of the ''O'Bannon'' are sent to Aegis VII to collect any remaining traces of the Red Marker destroyed by Isaac Clarke. A member of the survey team, Nickolas Kuttner, stumbles upon one such shard and is driven mad in short order. Seeing visions of his deceased daughter, Vivian, he accidentally disables one the planetary stabilizers in a misguided attempt to save her. The resulting chain reaction destroys the planet and cripples the ''O'Bannon''. The survey team barely makes it back.

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Cho is given one from the Overseer, who gives her the chance of joining the Earth government conspiracy surrounding the Markers with the obvious implication being she'll be killed otherwise. [[spoiler:She unwisely tries to refuse, which goes about as well as you'd expect.]]
* ArtificialLimbs: Borges has a cybernetic arm.

* TheBadGuyWins: Cho is [[spoiler:lobotomized and used as a scapegoat for the Aegis VII disaster after she refused to work for the Overseer]], and Stross is [[spoiler:imprisoned for study on the Marker's affects on the human mind.]]

* BuriedAlive: Stross' fear.

* DownerEnding: Given this is a prequel to ''Dead Space 2'', it can only go south for the survivors. Worst of all was [[spoiler: Cho, who gets the honor of getting a drill through the head after turning down their offer and is then posthumously pinned for the "Terrorist Attack" on Aegis VII.]]
* DrivenToMadness: Touching the Marker fragment causes this, though smarter people are able to cope ''slightly'' better than those with average intelligence. [[spoiler:Stross is one of those smarter people, but he still brutally murdered his wife and child, believing them to be monsters-a Slasher and a Lurker, respectively.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: The Overseer and leader interrogator are polite to their victims, which only adds to the creepiness of their schtick of torturing the truth out of the ''O'Bannon'' survivors. The Overseer even offers Cho a job, [[spoiler:right before having her lobotomized while fully conscious.]]

* {{Gorn}}: This is ''Dead Space''.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Captain Campbell closes a door to save the others from a hull breach and detonates a grenade when the necromorphs ZergRush him.]]

** A variant of this is used to destroy the [[spoiler: Marker shards. The protagonists drop them in the O'Bannon's fusion reactor.]]
* LoweredMonsterDifficulty: The Necromorphs are a lot more fragile than they're supposed to be, even accounting for the protagonists' unusually lucky shots. Subverted with the bigger ones; when the Brute shows up, all they can manage is to stun it briefly.
* ManOnFire: Kuttner's fear.

* RashomonStyle: Main story is told through flashbacks each following the other characters perspective allowing the viewer to see the delusions and reality of many scenes. Also helps that each one has its own art style to reflect that character's viewpoint.

* SanitySlippage: Poor Kuttner.

** Borges' cousin is seen playing ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'' at a couple moments of downtime.
** And a less overt one appears when Captain Campbell is seen drinking [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Kirkwall]] whiskey.
** The name of the ship, O'Bannon, a shout out to ''Alien'' writer Dan O'Bannon.

* TheUnreveal: We never learn what the interrogation chair showed Cho.

** [[spoiler:Borges]] is unceremoniously executed once they determine he has had no contact with the Marker, and thus is of no further use. [[spoiler:Cho]], on the other hand, gets the unfortunate honor of being useful after that fact is determined, since there were no other potential subjects to examine.

* BoomHeadshot

* IgnoredExpert: Borgas warns Captain Campbell that twelve gravity tethers is no near the amount necessary to hold the planet together and that it's just a matter of time until the planet just straight up explodes. Campbell ignores him and predictably Aegis VII suffers an EarthShatteringKaboom when the twelve tethers prove insufficient for the task.

* RashomonStyle: Main story is told through flashbacks each following the other characters perspective allowing the viewer to see the delusions and reality of many scenes. Also helps that each one has it's own art style to reflect that character's viewpoint.

* ShoutOut

* BlackDudeDiesFirst:
** [[spoiler:Kuttner is the first main character to die onscreen, but as the flashbacks show, he wasn't the first main character to be killed in the storyline.]]
** Subverted for (very extremely) darkly humorous effect. [[spoiler: At the very end of the film, the interrogator is executed by the overseer in the exact same way Borges was under his hand, complete with an unspoken, casual order given to a nearby security officer.]]

* AndIMustScream: Stross ends the movie locked in a stasis pod and waiting to be turned into a medical test subject for the [=EarthGov=] marker program. However, this stasis pod appears to keep its victim conscious while they're encased, which makes it all the worse for Stross who's claustrophobic.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Cho is given one from the Overseer, who gives her the chance of joining the Earth government conspiracy surrounding the Markers with the obvious implication being she'll be killed otherwise. She unwisely tries to refuse, which goes about as well as you'd expect.

** Also subverted for (very, very, extremely) darkly humorous effect. [[spoiler: At the very end of the film, the interrogator is executed by the overseer in the exact same way Borges was under his hand, complete with an unspoken, casual order given to a nearby security officer.]]

** No one is bothered by the lack of air either.

* KillItWithFire

** Let's not forget the name of the ship, O'Bannon, a call-out to ''Alien'' writer Dan O'Bannon.

* GenreBlind: Despite everything she's witnessed about her interrogators, Cho doesn't realize she's in both a horror story ''and'' conspiracy thriller until it's too late.

* AndIMustScream: Stross ends the movie locked in a stasis pod and waiting to be turned into a medical test subject for the [=EarthGov=] marker program. However, this stasis pod appears to keep its victim conscious while their encased, which makes it all the worse for Stross who's claustrophobic.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Borges]] is unceremoniously executed once they determine he has had no contact with the Marker, and thus is of no further use. [[spoiler:Cho]], on the other hand, gets the unfortunate honor of being useful after that fact is determined, since there were no other potential subjects to examine.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted and played straight. [[spoiler:Kuttner is the first main character to die onscreen, but as the flashbacks show, he wasn't the first main character to be killed in the storyline.]]

'''''Dead Space: Aftermath''''' is a {{direct to video}} {{sequel}} to ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' set in the ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' universe. The movie is told mostly in flashback by the remaining crew of the ''USG O'Bannon'', explaining to the crew of the ''USG Abraxis'' what happened to the rest of the ship.

Following the events of ''[=Dead Space=]'', the crew of the ''O'Bannon'' are sent to Aegis VII to collect [[spoiler:any remaining traces of the Red Marker destroyed by Isaac Clarke]]. A member of the survey team, Nickolas Kuttner, stumbles upon one such shard and is driven mad in short order. Seeing visions of his deceased daughter, Vivian, he accidentally disables one the planetary stabilizers in a misguided attempt to save her. The resulting chain reaction destroys the planet and cripples the ''O'Bannon''. The survey team barely makes it back.

* [[spoiler:BlackDudeDiesFirst]]: Averted and played straight. [[spoiler:Kuttner is the first main character to die onscreen, but as the flashbacks show, he wasn't the first main character to be killed in the storyline.]]

** Let's not forget the name of the ship, O'Bannon, a call-out to 'Alien' writer Dan O'Bannon.

'''''Dead Space: Aftermath''''' is a direct-to-video {{sequel}} to ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' set in the ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' universe. The movie is told mostly in flashback by the remaining crew of the ''USG O'Bannon'', explaining to the crew of the ''USG Abraxis'' what happened to the rest of the ship.

Following the events of ''[=Dead Space=]'', the crew of the ''O'Bannon'' are sent to Aegis VII to collect [[spoiler:any remaining traces of the Red Marker destroyed by Isaac Clarke]]. A member of the survey team, Nickolas Kuttner, stumbles upon one such shard and is driven mad in short order. Seeing visions of his deceased daughter Vivian, he accidentally disables one the planetary stabilizers in a misguided attempt to save her. The resulting chain reaction destroys the planet and cripples the ''O'Bannon''. The survey team barely makes it back.

Cho, Stross, Kuttner, and engineer Alejandro Borges make their way to the ship's engines. They throw the shard into the engine, destroying it [[NoOntologicalInertia and the Necromorphs]]. The survivors are picked up by the Abraxis, where the story begins.

* AdultFear: Poor Kuttner. Honestly, if you came into contact with something that [[spoiler:made you see visions of your own dead daughter would ''you'' behave any more rationally? Even if you knew there was no way she was really there?]]
* ArtificialLimbs: Alejandro Borges has a cybernetic arm.

* TheBadGuyWins: Isabel Cho is [[spoiler:lobotomized and used as a scapegoat for the Aegis VII disaster after refusing to work for the Overseer]], and Nolan Stross is [[spoiler:imprisoned for study on the Marker's affects on the human mind.]]
* [[spoiler:BlackDudeDiesFirst]]: Averted and played straight. [[spoiler:Kuttner is the first main character to die on screen, but as the flashbacks show, he wasn't the first main character to be killed in the storyline.]]

** Poor, poor [[spoiler:[[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Borges]]]].

* DownerEnding: Given this is a prequel to Dead Space 2 it can only go south for the survivors. Worst of all was [[spoiler: Cho, who gets the honor of getting a drill through the head after turning down their offer and is then posthumously pinned for the "Terrorist Attack" on Aegis VII.]]

* ExplosiveInstrumentation: In Borges' flashback, the shockwave from the destruction of Aegis VII hits the ''O'Brian,'' causing a number of explosive equipment failures--including a control console on the bridge going up right in an unfortunate technician's face.

* SanitySlippage: Poor Kuttner...

* AdultFear: Poor Kuttner. Honestly, if you came into contact with something that [[spoiler:made you see visions of your own dead daughter would YOU behave any more rationally? Even if you knew there was no way she was really there?]]

* ArtShift: The present story is told in CGI, while the flashbacks are done in a {{Anime}} design. In addition, each flashback has its own distinct style.

* [[spoiler:BlackDudeDiesFirst]]: Averted and played straight. [[spoiler:Kuttner is the first main character to die on screen, but as the flashbacks show he wasn't the first main character to be killed in the storyline.]]

* CoitusEnsues: Even if Isabel and Stross are having an affair, her randomly jumping his bones in the middle of studying the shard still seems a bit forced.

** No-one is bothered by the lack of air either.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Nickolas Kuttner blows himself and an entire squad of soldiers out an airlock, since he believes his daughter is on the other side.]]
* {{Expy}}: Captain Campbell looks quite a bit like the ''Ishimura'''s Captain Mathius from the previous film, ''Downfall''. [[spoiler: Their behavior is radically different however. Campbell recognizes the Marker is affecting his judgment and orders Stross to take it away from him, while Mathius suffered significant SanitySlippage. Campbell is legitimately heroic and dies to save others, while Mathius is obstructive at best, and is accidentally killed when Kyne tries to relieve him of his post]].

* KillEmAll: Just like the [[WesternAnimation/DeadSpaceDownfall movie]] that came before it [[spoiler:only one of the main characters is left to make it into the next game: Nolan Stross.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: Alexis, Stross' wife, already had strong suspicions that he was having an affair with Isabel.

** And a less overt one appears when Captain Campbell is seen drinking [[DragonAgeII Kirkwall]] whiskey.

* {{Expy}}: Captain Campbell looks quite a bit like the ''Ishimura'''s Captain Mathius from the previous film, ''Downfall''. [[spoiler: Their behavior is radically different however. Mathius recognizes the Marker is affecting his judgment and orders Stross to take it away from him, while Mathius suffered significant SanitySlippage. Campbell is legitimately heroic and dies to save others, while Mathius is obstructive at best, and is accidentally killed when Kyne tries to relieve him of his post]].

* KillEmAll: Just like the [[Film/DeadSpaceDownfall movie]] that came before it [[spoiler:only one of the main characters is left to make it into the next game: Nolan Stross.]]