Space Amoeba story
The film tells the story of extraterrestrial amoeba-like aliens that hijack a probe and, after crash landing on a small South Pacific atoll, create gigantic monsters from native lifeforms (an octopus, crab, and turtle) with plans of conquering the Earth.
8 total · 5 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| attack from outer space by a powerful conquering enemy | major | The Space Amoeba hitched a ride to Earth on the Helios 7 probe and tried to conquer the planet. |
| cryptid | major | The giant octopus Gezora. There was also a giant crab monster and a giant jungle turtle. Note that these creatures were no cryptids, since they Space Amoebeans created them, but that fact was not revealed until late into the film. |
| giant monster | major | There was a giant octopus, a giant crab and a giant turtle. |
| human vs. monster | major | The visitors to the island versus Gezora and the giant crab. |
| microbe-like being | major | The Space Amoebeans. |
| fear | minor | Dr. Kyouichi Miya confessed that he felt afraid, not of Gezora, but of the real monster on the island. |
| sacrifice for one's people | minor | Obata hurled himself into a volcano in order to kill the last Space Amoebean, who was inhabiting his body. |
| spaceborne being | minor | The Space Amoebeans lived as nomads of outer space. |