Species II story
The astronaut son of a senator is infected by an extraterrestrial organism during a mission to Mars and causes the deaths of many women upon his return. To stop him, the scientists who created the human-extraterrestrial hybrid Sil in the original Species try using a more docile clone of hers, Eve. The film is a sequel to Species (1995) and the second installment in the Species series.
15 total · 1 choice · 2 major · 12 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| human-alien hybrid | choice | The main novelty of the story was Patrick becoming a hyper-sexual, human-alien amalgam after getting exposed to alien DNA. Eve was also half-human and half-alien. |
| father and son | major | Senator Ross was initially proud of his son, Patrick, for having led an historic manned mission to Mars, but became ever more concerned by his son's abnormal behavior after his return to Earth. In the end, Patrick killed his father in cold blood. |
| invasive life form from outer space | major | Dr. Cromwell theorized that an extraterrestrial organism had attacked and destroyed Mars in ancient times, and that alien DNA might remain on Mars to infect anyone who visited the planet in the future. His fears were realized when Commander Patrick Ross returned from an historic mission to Mars infected with just such DNA of alien origin. The rest of the film follows the efforts of a number of people to stop the alien DNA from proliferation over the Earth, killing everyone in the process. |
| boyfriend and girlfriend | minor | Patrick was horrified when a half-alien child exploded from his girlfriends abdomen shortly after the couple had sex. |
| genetics | minor | It was explained that sickle-cell disease is genetically inherited. |
| incest in society | minor | Patrick disregarded orders to refrain from sexual activity for ten days and had a threesome with two sisters Marcy and Lucy following a fundraiser. |
| interplanetary space travel | minor | Commander Patrick Ross led an historic manned mission to Mars. |
| patricide | minor | An infused with alien DNA Patrick killed his father, Senator Judson Ross, in cold blood. |
| self-healing ability | minor | Physical damage to Eve's body healed almost instantly. The same was true of Patrick after the alien DNa integrated into his body. |
| sexual assault | minor | Patrick attempted to rape Darlene. |