Philadelphia Experiment II story
A secret government experiment gone wrong results in an alternate reality where Nazi Germany won the Second World War. The film is the sequel to The Philadelphia Experiment (1984).
12 total · 4 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| father and son | major | David and his young, baseball playing son Benny. Dr. William Mailer went back in time to explain the fate of the Phoenix his Nazi scientist father Dr. Friedrich Mahler in his broken German, but the father claimed he had no son, and shot Mailer dead on the spot. |
| military secrecy | major | There was a secret military project to make a technology that would enable nuclear armed airplanes to be teleported directly into enemy territory and back. |
| time travel | major | A nuclear armed stealth bomber was inadvertently sent 50 years back in time to 1943 Nazi Germany. David went back in time to make sure the Nazis didn't use it to change the outcome of the war. |
| what if the Nazis had won | major | David suddenly found himself in a grim alternate timeline where Nazi Germany had conquered much of the United States and enslaved its population. |
| facing financial ruin | minor | David was living under financial hardship because his business was slowly failing. |
| nuclear weapons | minor | It was explained that 15 million people died when the Nazis nuked Washington, D.C., in 1943. |
| psychological stress | minor | According to Professor Longstreet, David's recurring hallucinations were stress induced. |
| resistance movement | minor | Jess led a Nazi resistance movement. |
| single fatherhood | minor | David was living alone with his young son Benny and was facing financial hardship. |
| teleportation device | minor | The government engineer William Mailer successfully "beamed" (i.e. teleported) a model aircraft from one end of the room to another. |