Invasion of the Body Snatchers story
An extraterrestrial invasion that begins in the fictional California town of Santa Mira. Alien plant spores have fallen from space and grown into large seed pods, each one capable of reproducing a duplicate replacement copy of each human. As each pod reaches full development, it assimilates the physical characteristics, memories, and personalities of each sleeping person placed near it; these duplicates, however, are devoid of all human emotion. Little by little, a local doctor uncovers this "quiet" invasion and attempts to stop it.
8 total · 2 choice · 4 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| spacefaring plants | choice | Spacefaring pod plants fell on Santa Mira and began to replace the townspeople with replicas. |
| subversive life form from outer space | choice | Alien plant spores have fallen from space grown into large seed pods, each one capable of reproducing a duplicate replacement copy of each human. |
| duplicate of a person | major | Spacefaring pod planet replaced the people of a town with replicas. |
| romantic love | major | Miles Bennell and Becky Driscoll. |
| what if I told the truth and nobody would believe me | major | The doctors in Santa Mira were reluctant to belive people who were certain their family members were somehow different. People were reluctant to believe Miles Bennel's incredible story of aliens infiltrating a small Californai town. |
| what if people around me started behaving strangely one by one | major | Miles Bennell and Becky Driscoll notice the people of Santa Mira turning strange one by one. |
| father and daughter | minor | Stanley Driscoll and Becky Driscoll |
| mass hysteria | minor | Dr. Dan Kauffman explained away people in Santa Mira asserting their family members impostors as mass hysteria. |