Barb Wire story
Set in the year 2017, a foxy nightclub owner with an independent streak who moonlights as a mercenary get drawn into a movement that is resisting a fascist government that had taken hold across much of the United States.
17 total · 6 major · 11 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| biological weapons | major | The resistors were trying to prevent the fascist-like Congressional Council from using a new bioweapon called Red Ribbon to end the ongoing Second American Civil War. |
| civil war | major | The year is 2017 and the story set during the middle of the Second American Civil War. |
| fascism | major | The Congressional Council, with their Nazi-like uniforms and anti-democratic ways, ruled much of the United States. |
| female independence | major | Barb's catchphrase "don't call me babe" sums up the air of female independence that she exuded throughout the film. |
| resistance movement | major | Barb was helping a group of spirited resistance members against the now-fascist United States government in their effort to get a defector scientist across the border to Canada. |
| speculative future event | major | The year is 2017 and the story set during the middle of the Second American Civil War. |
| alcohol abuse | minor | Charlie had turned to the bottle after being blinded while fighting in the civil war. |
| black markets | minor | The junkyard gang leader Big Fatso plotted to sell a pair of contraband pair of contact lenses on the black market. |
| blindness | minor | Charlie was blind. |
| brother and sister | minor | Barb and her alcoholic, blind, civil war veteran younger brother, Charlie. |