natural pandemic theme

A naturally occurring biological agent or pathogen wipes out civilization on a world.

20 total · 1 choice · 14 major · 5 minor

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ent1x13 choice The Valakian were desperate to find a cure for a pandemic caused by their genetics, and that Phlox estimated would render them extinct within two centuries.
bbf2x18 major Markab civilization had been all but wiped out by a contagious disease with a 100% lethality rate.
movie: Adrenalin: Fear the Rush (1996) major The premise of the story is that a 100% lethal virus of mysterious origins had proliferated around much of the world and was on the verge of spreading across the United States.
movie: APEX (1994) major A time travel accident in 1973 resulted in a deadly virus decimating humanity in an alternate timeline.
movie: Breach (2020) major A main premise of the film is that 300,000 survivors of an extinction level event plague, which was running wild on Earth, are selected to be taken to a distant habitable planet called New Earth.
movie: City Limits (1985) major A premise of the story is that a mysterious plague had, a couple of generations ago, wiped out most of the adult population, leaving behind a world of orphaned children.
movie: Cyborg (1989) major A small group of scientists were working to cure an apocalyptic plague, known as the living death, that had crippled civilization.
movie: Mutiny in Outer Space (1965) major Animal and plant life on Earth being imperiled by a pathogenic Moon fungus is a key component of the plot.
movie: Not of This Earth (1957) major The aliens of the planet Davanna were dying of a devastating blood disease and sought to secure a supply of human blood in a desperate attempt to cure themselves.
movie: Not of This Earth (1995) major The alien race to which Mr. Johnson belonged was doomed unless he found a cure to a fatal blood disease that was afflicting all its members.