History WesternAnimation / DeadSpaceDownfall

* ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon: The spaceships and some backgrounds.

* ConspicuousCG: The spaceships and some backgrounds.

* OffModel: The health bars on everyone's [=RIGs=] are almost never consistent, let alone move down. Mathius' is a notable aversion to this, since we see his health meter quickly drop.

* DarknessEqualsDeath: After Barrow suggests a LetsSplitUpGang, the lights flick off for a moment. When they come on, his partner has vanished.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: This happens to Jennifer, Colin Barrow's wife.

%%* ClusterFBomb

** One of the Aegis VII colonists is in her underwear while walking across broken glass, complete with a close-up on the shards digging into her bare feet. And that's not counting the bloody lacerations across her arms, legs, and torso. Or the way that she claws at her own flesh. Or her DissonantSerenity the ''whole damn time''. [[DrivenToSuicide Oh, and then she slashes her own throat with a laser pick]].

** Colin Barrow's attempt to get his wife to safety aboard the ship only ensures the infection spreads there. To be fair, it's heavily implied he'd been driven insane by grief.

* OffModel: The health bars on everyone's [=RIGs=] are almost never consistent, let alone move down. Mathius' is a notable aversion to this, since we see his health meter quickly drop after the event listed under EyeScream.

-->'''Barrow:''' This is deep space. Weird shit happens.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Once Colin Barrow and another miner return to the colony they find it trashed, with blood covering the walls and screams echoing in the darkness. Barrow's response is to shrug it off and head home. It takes his wife committing suicide right in front of him for him to realize something's not quite right.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Shen's hair is cyan, probably thanks to dye.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Irons. As the Necromorphs advance on him, with his plasma chainsaw no longer functional and his strength depleted, he simply takes his Unitologist pendant and recites a prayer before being hacked to death.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: Colin Barrow's wife.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: Jen's wife.

'''''Dead Space: Downfall''''' is a Direct-to-Video {{Prequel}} to ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' set in the ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' universe. It goes into detail about what happend onboard the ''USG Ishimura'' and the state it is in when Isaac Clarke and the player reach it at the beginning of ''VideoGame/DeadSpace''.

* AccidentalMurder: Dr. Kyne's attempt to sedate Captain Mathius goes ''horribly'' wrong, ending with the Captain dying. The crew members (who had been restraining Mathius after agreeing with Kyne's assertion he was unfit for duty) wonder aloud whether or not it really was an accident; Kyne flees the bridge before he can be detained.

** Captain Mathius also gets a pretty decent amount of screen time before his death.

* BigDamnHeroes: Irons in the mess hall.

* ChainsawGood: Irons uses a plasma chainsaw in a big damn heroes moment. As it's far more effective than their pistols, the security team trades up in kind.

* ContinuitySnarl: The movie timeline runs much faster than is implied to have happened in the game; the game's audio logs suggest the SanitySlippage took days to manifest alongside the Necromorphs. Other differences include the Marker being much larger and the Necromorphs being unable to approach it. [[spoiler: Though that may be because it has use for Vincent.]]

** A young woman wearing only a towel is seen being stabbed and killed [[NippleAndDimed without the towel so much as coming undone]] (though we do get a brief PantyShot). What we do get to see is a fat man's fully uncensored penis.
** One of the Aegis VII colonists is in her underwear. [[{{Squick}} While walking across broken glass, complete with a close-up on the shards digging into her bare feet]]. And that's not counting the bloody lacerations across her arms, legs, and torso. Or the way that she claws at her own flesh. Or her DissonantSerenity the ''whole damn time''. [[DrivenToSuicide Oh, and then she slashes her own throat with a laser pick.]]

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Samuel Irons. As the Necromorphs advance on him, with his plasma chainsaw no longer functional and his strength depleted, he simply takes his Unitologist pendant and recites a prayer before being hacked to death.

* GunsAreUseless: The security team's sidearms do precisely jack against the Necromorphs. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]; the games establish that you need to cut limbs off to kill Necromorphs, which the security team doesn't know. Even then, their standard issue sidearms are woefully underpowered compared to the weapons you carry around as Isaac.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Poor Shen gets bisected -- lengthwise -- courtesy of Hanson.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: Both Irons and Ramirez know they're going crazy, so they go out fighting instead. Vincent gets sucked into space when she opens the docking bay so she can launch the emergency beacon on the shuttle.

* HopeSpot: When the necromorph infestation hits the ship's showers, a young woman flees and it looks like she'll escape, only to impaled and pulled back inside.

** Vincent, too, who holds onto the hope that the crew can be saved long after it's obvious Kyne's got the right idea.
* IDontPayYouToThink: This is the response to one character pointing out that the Marker was obviously dumped on an otherwise worthless rock intentionally.

* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Ramirez to Vincent.

* ObligatorySwearing: The characters in the movie are a lot more swear-happy than the characters in the video game.

* OnlySaneMan: Kyne (for a given definition of "sane"), and to a lesser extent Vincent. Both are the only two characters to remain completely rational throughout the film. Vincent gets a lower rank because she's a bit too GenreBlind for her own good or that of others. She only comes to her senses after having sabotaged Kyne's first attempt, and by then it's too late.

* ScyllaAndCharybdis: On one side, you have the Necromorphs. On the other, you have the MindRape caused by the Marker and it's [[AxeCrazy resultant products.]]
* ShamingTheMob: Samuel Irons breaks up an angry protest by the Unitologists on the ''Ishimura'' who're clamoring to see the Red Marker. One reasonable speech later, he's convinced them to improve the public perception of Unitology by not rebelling against the captain's orders and leave the Marker alone until they get permission to view it.
* SpaceMadness: Coupled with ItsProbablyNothing; naturally it's [[ImplausibleDeniability not the Marker that's causing the sudden spike in insanity and homicides]].

* GenreSavvy: When Kyne and the other crew realise what is happening on the ship is connected with the Red Marker, they strongly suggest abandoning the mission to bring it to Earth, and to just get rid of the Marker entirely. [[SanitySlippage Matthius]] [[TheFundamentalist doesn't]] [[AxCrazy agree.]]

The colonists ship crashes into the ''Ishimura'' and the Necromorph escapes, eventually making its way down to the morgue and inficting all the bodies down there. A team of crew members, led by chief of security Alissa Vincent, try to fight their way from the morgue to the top of the ship.

* FanDisservice: A young woman wearing only a towel is seen being stabbed and killed [[NippleAndDimed without the towel so much as coming undone]] (though we do get a brief PantyShot). What we do get to see is a fat man's fully uncensored penis.
** And before that, we get to see one of the Aegis VII colonists in her underwear. [[{{Squick}} While walking across broken glass, complete with a close-up on the shards digging into her bare feet]]. And that's not counting the bloody lacerations across her arms, legs, and torso. Or the way that she claws at her own flesh. Or her DissonantSerenity the ''whole damn time''. [[DrivenToSuicide Oh, and then she slashes her own throat with a laser pick.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Pretty much everyone who tries to fix the situation on the colony or the ''Ishimura'' inevitably makes it worse.

* SanitySlippage: Affects some ''[[AxCrazy waaay]]'' more than others.

* TemptingFate: Lampshaded when Vincent remarks on Hydroponics seeming to be clear.
-->'''Ramirez:''' FamousLastWords.

** It's not quite that bad; it's the [[ItsQuietTooQuiet deserted docking pad]] and icky alien stuff lining the walls that he ignores. When Barrow hears the screams and growling and sees the blood, he runs for Jen's room to see if she's all right.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted. Pendleton may be black, and he may have gotten killed relatively quickly, but he's still not the first person of the FiveManBand to bite it. Hell, he's not even the first person in the ''movie'' to die on-screen.

* ClusterFBomb

* CruelAndUnsualDeath: Suffered by anyone who gets nabbed by a Necromorph.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler: Half the]] ''[[spoiler:woman,]]'' [[spoiler:technically. With a plasma chainsaw. Lengthways. Poor Shen...]]

* OnlySaneMan: Kyne (for a given definition of "sane"), and to a lesser extent Vincent. Both are the only two characters to remain completely rational throughout the film. Vincent gets a lower rank because she's a bit too GenreBlind for her own good (or that of others). She only comes to her senses after having sabotaged Kyne's first attempt, and by then it's too late.

* GunsAreUseless: The security team's sidearms do precisely jack against the Necromorphs. [[JustifiedTrope Justified,]] since it's an established fact from the games that tactical dismemberment does a better job than conventional shooting.

* OffModel: The health bars on everyone's RIGs are almost never consistent, let alone move down. Mathius' is a notable aversion to this, since we see his health meter quickly drop after the event listed under EyeScream

** And before that, we get to see one of the Aegis VII colonists in her underwear. {{Squick While walking across broken glass, complete with a close-up on the shards digging into her bare feet.}} And that's not counting the bloody lacerations across her arms, legs, and torso. Or the way that she claws at her own flesh. Or her DissonantSerenity the ''whole damn time.'' [[DrivenToSuicide Oh, and then she slashes her own throat with a laser pick.]]