organ theft theme

The forcible removal of a person's organs to be used as transplants and sold on the black market is featured as a crime.

Examples

Spock's brain was harvested by aliens who wanted it as a computer in tos3x06 "Spock's Brain".

7 total · 1 choice · 2 major · 4 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
tos3x06 choice The Eymorg women harvested Spock's brain to use to run their subterranean complex.
movie: Alita: Battle Angel (2019) major The cyborgs of Iron City were sometimes attacked at time by criminals who were stealing their mechanical parts and appendages.
movie: Night of the Comet (1984) major The members of a think tank were gathering up all the survivors and using them as cows for their blood in an effort to create a serum that would prevent other people from turning into dust.
futurama6x21 minor We heard that orphans could have their organs harvested.
futurama7x24 minor Bender stole Fry's kidney.
movie: Nirvana (1997) minor A group of cyber-punks were going around killing people and harvesting their organs to sell to an unnamed multinational corporation.
tftc1989e7x12 minor The final dialogue suggested that Malcolm and Kate were testing out implanted animal organs on innocent people and then killing those people in order to steal the implanted organs, if the procedure was otherwise successful.