speculative genetic engineering theme
An organism genes are manipulated in a way or to an extent that is presently beyond what humans can do.
93 total · 38 major · 55 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ldr2019e2x02 | major | The ice planet colonists had, by and large, been genetically engineered to have superhuman abilities. |
| movie: Appleseed (2004) | major | The bioroids were a race of human clones that'd been genetically engineered to not feel such human emotions as jealousy and anger and also to not be able to reproduce. |
| movie: Carnosaur (1993) | major | The brilliant but troubled scientist Dr. Jane Tiptree genetically engineered dinosaurs from chickens. |
| movie: Carnosaur 2 (1995) | major | A biotech firm had been working with fossilized DNA and genetic experiments found a way to recreate dinosaurs. |
| movie: Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018) | major | The pharmaceutical billionaire Carl Durant used DNA altering drugs to genetically modify the brains of five bull sharks to make them smarter. |
| movie: Doom (2005) | major | The monsters infesting the Mars research facility were the result of experiments combining human and Martian DNA going terribly wrong. |
| movie: Forbidden World (1982) | major | Some scientists genetically engineered an experimental organism with a view to using it to solve the galaxy's food shortage problem, but it got out of control and started killing everyone. |
| movie: Gattaca (1997) | major | The modification of people's DNA was at the heart of the film. |
| movie: Godzilla vs Biollante (1989) | major | Dr. Shiragami inadvertently created the giant plant monster Biollante by using genetic engineering techniques to Godzilla cells with those of a plant and also cells from his recently departed daughter. An anti-nuclear energy bacteria was engineered from Godzilla cells. |
| movie: Humanoids from the Deep (1996) | major | United States Army scientists injected five Death Row inmates with a "genetic code" taken from different species of fish that resulted in them mutating into man-fish hybrids. |