Starship Troopers 3: Marauder story
The United Citizen Federation continues its war on alien bugs. It is the third installment of the Starship Troopers film series.
31 total · 11 major · 20 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| authoritarianism | major | The Federation was using its judicial and military authority to suppress peace protesters and religious fanatics. Also they made blatant use Nazi inspired iconography. |
| Christianity | major | Holly intoning the Our Father prayer; Holly said a prayer before eating |
| extraterrestrial being | major | United Citizen Federation forces were battling bug aliens, known as Arachnids. |
| finding religion | major | The film pointedly concluded with scoffer-of-religion Captain Lola Beck becoming a true believer. Everyone was surprised that the Federation icon Omar Anoke had underwent a sudden religious awakening. |
| human characters in contrast | major | The unbeliever Captain Lola Beck was pointedly contrasted with her pious Christian subordinate Holly Little. And in the end, Lola came around to Holly's way of thinking after prayer got them through a time of crisis. |
| insectoid being | major | Federation forces were battling bug aliens, known as Arachnids. |
| 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 Colonel Johnny Rico and other soldiers doing what soldiers stereotypically do in wartime. |
| religious fervor | major | The Federation icon Omar Anoke became a religious fanatic and started worshiping the bug god, Behemecoytal, whom he considered to be the one true God. The film concluded with the devout Christian Holly Little preaching to a crowd of bug hating Federation citizens. |
| religious point of view | major | The viewer is show how the religious zealot Omar Anoke had a twisted view (as compared to the orthodox Federation view) of how bugs and humans might live in harmony. Captain Lola Beck was disgusted by how her pious Christian subordinate Holly Little looked to the Lord for protection from the bug aliens. |