Skylines story
Skylines (also known as Skyline 3 and stylized as SKYLIN3S) is a 2020 American science fiction action film. It is a sequel to "Beyond Skyline" (2017) and the final entry in the Skyline trilogy. Synopsis: A team of elite soldiers embark on a mission to a far off planet to exterminate the aliens there before those very aliens exterminate humanity.
18 total · 6 major · 12 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| attack from outer space by a genocidal enemy | major | A remnant of the human race launched a mission to the Harvester alien home world to kill them all before those same aliens returned to Earth to finish the job of "harvesting" all humans. From the Harvester aliens point of view, they humans had come to their home world to exterminate them. |
| brother and sister | major | Central to the story was the relationship between Rose and her adoptive brother Trent. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | The humans were battling aliens known as the Harvesters. |
| genocide | major | A grand revelation of the film is that General Radford had deliberately released the virus in an effort to exterminate the Harvester aliens and peacefully euthanize the Pilot human-alien hybrids in one fell swoop. This was explicitly characterized as an act of genocide in the film. |
| human-alien hybrid | major | The heroine of the story Rose a human infused with Harvester alien DNA. |
| human-made pandemic | major | In a surprise twist, it was revealed that General Radford was responsible for having released the virus that was decimating Earth's Pilot human-alien hybrid population. |
| biological weapons | minor | It was revealed that General Radford had dropped a virus releasing bomb on the Harvester home world. |
| coping with the death of a family member | minor | Owens grieved for his sister who'd perished fighting the Harvester aliens. Rose grieved for her adoptive brother Trent who'd sacrificed himself to save her life. |
| father and daughter | minor | In the end, Rose set out to rescue her imprisoned adoptive father, Mark. |
| freezing up in a critical moment | minor | Rose froze before she could fire and one of her ships was destroyed as a result. |