2019, After the Fall of New York story
Set in 2019, after a nuclear apocalypse, a mercenary sets out to rescue the last fertile woman on Earth.
16 total · 5 major · 11 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| hope | major | Some people kept up hope that a fertile would would be discovered, and the human race perpetuated. |
| mass infertility | major | Radiation had rendered humans sterile and the Eurac rulers of New York were scouring Manhattan for subjects to use in genetic experiments. |
| nuclear holocaust | major | A nuclear war between the Pan-American Confederacy and the Eurac Monarchy in 1999 left the world of 2019 "a garbage strewn, radioactive desert, inhabited by humans devoid of all hope for a future". |
| nuclear weapons | major | A nuclear war between the Pan-American Confederacy and the Eurac Monarchy in 1999 left the world of 2019 "a garbage strewn, radioactive desert, inhabited by humans devoid of all hope for a future". |
| post-apocalyptic dystopia | major | A nuclear war between the Pan-American Confederacy and the Eurac Monarchy in 1999 left the world of 2019 "a garbage strewn, radioactive desert, inhabited by humans devoid of all hope for a future". |
| artificial body part | minor | Ratchet had a metal claw-like gizmo for a right hand. [hand] |
| colonization of Alpha Centauri | minor | The film concluded with the last hope for humanity blasting off from Alaska with the intention of starting over on a fresh planet int he Alpha Centauri system. |
| coping with being tortured | minor | Ratchet was restrained on some sort of computerized rack. |
| coping with the death of someone | minor | The dwarf Shorty wept upon finding The Professor sitting dead in his arm chair. |
| cyborg | minor | It turned out that Ratchet was actually a cyborg. |