Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation story
A squad of soldiers find themselves pinned down and surrounded by bug alien forces. It is a sequel to Starship Troopers (1997) and the second installment of the Starship Troopers film series.
14 total · 7 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| heroism | major | The viewer is asked to ponder whether Captain V.J. Dax was a hero to the Federation or a disgrace. An army recruitment commercial ran the slogan "But we need heroes! We need you". |
| insectoid being | major | The human forces were battling bug aliens. |
| interstellar war | major | The story is set in a future where humans are mired in a multiple star systems spanning war with a race of hostile bug aliens, known as the Arachnids. |
| military related work | major | The story follows a squad of behind-enemy-lines soldiers as they fight for their lives against their sworn bug alien enemy. |
| parasitic being | major | Mind-controlling bug aliens were taking over the soldiers one by one. |
| subversive life form from outer space | major | It was revealed that the bug aliens planned to use General Shepherd to as a vector to infect the High Command officials with mind-controlling bug aliens, allowing the bugs to wipe out the human race. |
| what if people around me started behaving strangely one by one | major | Private Sahara looked on as her besieged fellow soldiers began getting compromised by parasitic bug aliens, one by one. |
| artificial body part | minor | There was an army recruiter with a bionic right arm up to the elbow. [arm] |
| mind reading ability | minor | Private Sahara read from Captain V.J. Dax's mind that he'd killed his commanding officer. She later read the mind of the bug alien that had attempted to control Sergeant Rake's mind. |
| personal life and death dilemma | minor | A trooper strangled a mortally wounded fellow trooper to put him out of his misery. |