Eliminators story
The film centers around a "Mandroid" constructed by an evil scientist from the body of a downed pilot, who teams up with the scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.
15 total · 6 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| cyborg | major | The mad scientist Abbott Reeves transformed a crashed pilot into the powerful cyborg known as the Mandroid. |
| mad scientist stereotype | major | The evil scientist Abbott Reeves lived in an isolated jungle lair, was horribly disfigured, and had created and experimental cyborg out of a crashed pilot. |
| the desire for vengeance | major | The Mandroid, Nora, and Kuji (ninja son of Doctor Takada) all had a score to settle with the evil scientist Abbott Reeves. |
| the lust for power | major | The mad scientist Abbott Reeves was motivated by a desire to go back in time and rule Ancient Rome as a god-king. |
| time machine | major | There was a steel chamber that was used to send the Mandroid back to Ancient Roman times, and later Abbott Reeves back over 400 million years in time. |
| time travel | major | The film culminated with the heroes foiling Abbott Reeves's plot to send himself back to Ancient Rome to rule as a god-king. Instead, he was sent back over 400 million years where he would rule over nothing. The film opened with the Mandroid returning from a scouting mission to Ancient Roman times. |
| artificial body part | minor | Abbott Reeves gave himself a mechanical arm that shot electricity. [arm] |
| brains vs. brawn | minor | Riverboat captain Harry Fontana secured a contract to take Nora and the Mandroid up the river by outsmarting the other riverboat captains who were participating in a winner take all bar brawl for the contract right. Fontana laid low while everyone else duked it out and then hit the presumptive winner over the head with a bottle to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. |
| coping with being disfigured | minor | Abbott Reeves complained of how nobody had even shown him compassion in a manner that suggested it was on account of his horribly disfigured face. |
| pleasure in the misfortune of another | minor | The Mandroid, Nora, and Kuji shared a laugh once it became apparent that the power hungry Abbot Reeves had not succeeded in sending himself back in time to rule over ancient Rome as a god-king, but rather had ended up being sent back over 400 million years into Earth's past, where he would rule over nothing. |