Trancers 4: Jack of Swords story
A time travel mishap results in Jack being sent to a kingdom of the technological level of medieval Europe in a another dimension. It is the fifth film in the Trancers series.
14 total · 6 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| father and son | major | Prospero rebelled against his father Lord Caliban and his life force stealing ways. |
| life force | major | The trancers who took over the realm of Orpheus nourished themselves by the draining life of force from indigenous Orpheans. |
| life force transfer | major | The trancers who took over the realm of Orpheus nourished themselves by the draining life of force from indigenous Orpheans. |
| life in medieval Europe | major | The story is set largely in a kingdom in another dimension that is patterned after a stereotypical medieval European realm. |
| social oppression | major | The story is about a band of nobles that are ruthlessly oppressing their peasants. |
| what if I found myself in an alternate reality | major | A TCL chamber mishap resulted in Jack being sent to a kingdom of the technological level of medieval Europe in a another dimension. |
| destiny | minor | A seer assured Jack that it was Jack's destiny to run to the top of a cliff and get struck by lightning. And sure enough the events transpired as the seer foretold. |
| precognition | minor | A seer foresaw Jack's coming to the realm of Orpheus and penciled some very detailed sketches of Jack prior to his arrival. |
| science as magic to the primitive | minor | The Orphean people and their trancer overlords were baffled by the advanced technology, such as a futuristic gun, that Jack was carrying. |
| speculative device | minor | Jack had a wristwatch that slowed down time |