Starchaser: The Legend of Orin story
A young man named Orin goes on a quest to free his people from working as slaves in the mines of Trinia.
19 total · 8 major · 11 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| AI risk to civilization | major | The android Lord Zygon saw robots as the next step in the evolutionary progression of things and plotted to exterminate humankind. |
| brother and brother | major | Orin promised his blind, kid brother Kallie that he's return to the mines to free him, and recurringly dwelt on Kallie's plight. |
| good vs. evil | major | The virtuous Orin versus the evil Lord Zygon and his human enslaving robot minions. |
| humanoid robot | major | The film featured humanoid robots aplenty: energy whip equipped robots oppressed humans in the mines, the fembot Silica joined Orin on his quest, and Aviana had a helper manbot. |
| indoctrination in society | major | In the future on a planet named Trinia, human slaves have lived underground for millennia mining crystals for a fake god named Zygon. It turned out that the god was just another one of the robots and this was all a performance designed to instill obedience among the miners. |
| magic object | major | Orin found a supposedly mythical golden sword hilt with an apparently invisible blade that sliced up anything evil. but had no effect on things good. While it turned out that the power was inside Orin all along or some such things, the viewer doesn't learn that until the very so, so the sword hilt as a magic object is relevant here. |
| social oppression | major | Lord Zygon and his robot minions forced they human slaves to mine valuable crystals. |
| speculative spaceship | major | Much ado was made of Dagg's futuristic spaceship, equipped with a sentient computer, called the Starchaser. We saw numerous other spaceship characteristic of space soap operas. |
| android | minor | In a plot twist, it was revealed that Lord Zygon was actually a humanoid robot. |
| blindness | minor | Orn's kid brother Kallie was blind. |