nature's revenge theme
Nature somehow runs amok and takes vengeance on its abusers.
Examples
Nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific stirred up a prehistoric dinosaur-like monster that make a B-line for Tokyo in "Godzilla" (1954), A green brain arises from nature's resistance to human efforts eradicate all insect life on Earth in "The Green Brain" (1966). An unspecified cosmic event results in ant colonies evolving collective intelligence and challenging humans for dominion over the Earth in "Phase IV" (1974).
17 total · 2 choice · 10 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Godzilla vs Mothra (1992) | choice | Godzilla ravaging Yokohama was the Earth's way of making humans pay for having wrought havoc on the environment. |
| movie: The Birds (1963) | choice | Although nothing was made clear inside the story, there are suggestions that the birds are taking vengeance on humanity. "Hitchcock stated in an interview that the birds in the film rise up against the humans to punish them for taking nature for granted" cf. Wikipedia. |
| movie: Gargantua (1998) | major | Prolonged exposure to illegally dumped pollutants causes a family of ocean ridge dwelling amphibians to mutate to gigantic proportions and subsequently run amok on the island of Malau. |
| movie: Godzilla (1954) | major | Nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific stirred up a prehistoric dinosaur-like monster that make a B-line for Tokyo. |
| movie: Godzilla (2014) | major | Humanity's discovery and widespread use of nuclear power awoke long dormant monsters (i.e. Godzilla and the MUTOs) which subsequently rampaged across various cities around the world. This was spelled in the story when Dr. Serizawa advanced the view that Nature had brought Godzilla to return a balance to the world. |
| movie: Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971) | major | The microscopic alien life-form Hedorah feeds on Earth's pollution and grows into a poisonous, acid-secreting sea monster. |
| movie: Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) | major | According to Dr. Emma Russell, the Earth had released the Titans as a sort of "fever" to fight the "infection" that was humanity. From this perspective, the film is a story about Mother Nature unleashing a hoard of giant monsters to exterminate humanity in order to heal the Earth from the damages that humans had caused. |
| movie: Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) | major | Spiders adjusted their eating habits to the use of DDT in the environment and started cooperatively hunting people and large animals. |
| movie: Monstroid (1980) | major | A killer sea serpent was roused as a result of a concrete manufacturing plant dumping its raw waste directly into a lake. |
| movie: Phase IV (1974) | major | An unspecified cosmic event results in ant colonies evolving collective intelligence and challenging humans for dominion over the Earth. |