species uplifting theme
Someone intervenes in the evolution of a lower lifeform (typically an animal species) to bring it to a higher level of intelligence.
Examples
The mad scientist Dr. Moreau creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection in H. G. Wells' classic science fiction novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau" (1896).
15 total · 7 choice · 5 major · 3 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Deep Blue Sea (1999) | choice | A main novelty of the film concerns a scientist who inadvertently creates intelligent mako sharks in the process of genetically engineering their brains. The genetically engineered sharks made a complex plan to escape to the open ocean from the facility that was their prison. In particular, the sharks manipulated people into flooding the ocean facility, so they (the sharks) could escape to through some weak mesh fences at the surface, bypassing the lower titanium walls. |
| movie: Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018) | choice | A main novelty of the film is a pharmaceutical billionaire's use of DNA altering drugs to create a number of highly intelligent bull sharks. |
| movie: Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020) | choice | A main novelty of the film is that bull sharks had been made intelligent by means of genetic engineering. The sharks were smart enough to want to kill the people who'd killed their mother, cut a satellite cable to prevent the people on the island from calling for help, and flee upon recognizing a weapon on a ship. |
| movie: The Island of Dr Moreau (1996) | choice | The primary novelty of the film concerns Dr. Moreau's creation of a wide variety of human-animal hybrids via the introduced human DNA into animals. |
| movie: Watchers (1988) | choice | A golden retriever was genetically enhanced to have human level intelligence. |
| movie: Watchers II (1990) | choice | The concerns a golden retrieved, named Einstein, that has been genetically engineered to have human level intelligence. |
| novel: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) | choice | Dr. Moreau created a wide variety of human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. We learned that he had been on the island for eleven years and had been striving to make a complete transformation of an animal to a human. |
| movie: Dr. Renault's Secret (1942) | major | Dr. Robert Renault transformed a gorilla into the Human-like being and named it Noel. |
| movie: Island of Lost Souls (1932) | major | Dr. Moreau became obsessed with transforming animals into humans. |
| movie: The Island of Dr Moreau (1977) | major | Dr. Moreau was obsessed with transforming animals into humans. He later did the reverse by transforming Andrew Braddock from a human into an animal. |