Tetsuo II: Body Hammer story
A Japanese salary man finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.
14 total · 2 choice · 5 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| the desire for vengeance | choice | Tomoo was determined to make the thugs who ran off with his son pay for their crime. |
| what if I underwent a physical metamorphosis | choice | The story follows Tomoo's gradual transformation into a rage consumed, walking metal weapon. |
| anger | major | Much was made of Tomoo's inner rage fueling his metamorphosis into a gruesome metal weapon of some sort. |
| brother and brother | major | It a surprise turn of events, it turned out that Tomoo's antagonist Yatsu was actually his brother. |
| childhood trauma | major | Tomoo inner rage was bound up with his having repressed the memory of having witnessed, when he was still a young boy, his father blow his own mother's brains out in a bizarre sex ritual. |
| human vs. captivity | major | Tomoo's wife Kana was kidnapped and held hostage by a gang of thugs. |
| husband and wife | major | Tomoo and his wife Kana were at the heart of the story. |
| child abduction | minor | A couple of thugs ran off with Tomoo and Kana's young son. |
| father and son | minor | Tomoo's young son was whisked away by a couple of thugs before his very eyes. There was a flashback scene to Tomoo as a boy spending time with his deranged father. |
| mad scientist stereotype | minor | The overweight man in a lab coat who was experimenting on Tomoo was literally named Mad Scientist. |