History Film / DeadSpaceAftermath

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'''''Dead Space: Aftermath''''' is a direct-to-video {{sequel}} to ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' set in the ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' universe. The movie is told mostly in flashback by the remaining crew of the ''USG O'Bannon'', explaining to the crew of the ''USG Abraxis'' what happened to the rest of the ship.

Following the events of ''[=Dead Space=]'', the crew of the ''O'Bannon'' are sent to Aegis VII to collect [[spoiler:any remaining traces of the Red Marker destroyed by Isaac Clarke]]. A member of the survey team, Nickolas Kuttner, stumbles upon one such shard and is driven mad in short order. Seeing visions of his deceased daughter Vivian, he accidentally disables one the planetary stabilizers in a misguided attempt to save her. The resulting chain reaction destroys the planet and cripples the ''O'Bannon''. The survey team barely makes it back.

Scientist Nolan Stross experiments on the recovered shard, and he too begins seeing visions. Alien symbols fill his vision, which he believes to be the key to the alien language. He exposes the shard to a corpse, thinking that it will revive the body. It does, but not like he expects. The corpse is turned into a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Necromorph]] and quickly escapes. It slaughters the crew, [[TheVirus turning them into more Necromorphs]]. Stross kills his wife and son, believing they were more Necromorphs, before being found by his mistress Isabel Cho.

Cho, Stross, Kuttner, and engineer Alejandro Borges make their way to the ship's engines. They throw the shard into the engine, destroying it [[NoOntologicalInertia and the Necromorphs]]. The survivors are picked up by the Abraxis, where the story begins.

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!!''Dead Space: Aftermath'' contains examples of:

* AdultFear: Poor Kuttner. Honestly, if you came into contact with something that [[spoiler:made you see visions of your own dead daughter would YOU behave any more rationally? Even if you knew there was no way she was really there?]]
* ArtificialLimbs: Alejandro Borges has a cybernetic arm.
* ArtShift: The present story is told in CGI, while the flashbacks are done in a {{Anime}} design. In addition, each flashback has its own distinct style.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: No one ever figures out that the limbs on Necromorphs gotta go, but they have an uncanny knack for hitting them anyway.
* TheBadGuyWins: Isabel Cho is [[spoiler:lobotomized and used as a scapegoat for the Aegis VII disaster after refusing to work for the Overseer]], and Nolan Stross is [[spoiler:imprisoned for study on the Marker's affects on the human mind.]]
* [[spoiler:BlackDudeDiesFirst]]: Averted and played straight. [[spoiler:Kuttner is the first main character to die on screen, but as the flashbacks show he wasn't the first main character to be killed in the storyline.]]
* BoomHeadshot: Kuttner deals out a lot of these.
** Poor, poor [[spoiler:[[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Borges]]]].
* BuriedAlive: Stross' fear.
* ContinuousDecompression: When the hull is breached, the air takes way longer to vent than it should. Notably, the games are actually a lot better about this.
* DrivenToMadness: Touching the Marker fragment causes this, though smarter people are able to cope ''slightly'' better than those with average intelligence. [[spoiler:Stross is one of those smarter people, but he still brutally murdered his wife and child, believing them to be monsters-a Slasher and a Lurker, respectively.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Nickolas Kuttner blows himself and an entire squad of soldiers out an airlock, since he believes his daughter is on the other side.]]
* FromASingleCell: A variant. The Marker can't actually regenerate, but every piece of it is as potent as the whole, no matter how small.
* {{Gorn}}: This is ''Dead Space''.
* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler:Kuttner takes two shots center mass, but still manages to summon the effort to reach his daughter.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Captain Campbell closes a door to save the others from a hull breach and detonates a grenade when the necromorphs ZergRush him.]]
* HeyItsThatVoice: [[StargateSG1 Christopher Judge]] as Kuttner.
** [[{{Infamous}} Graham]] [[{{Uncharted}} Mactavish]] as Captain Campbell.
* KillEmAll: Just like the [[Film/DeadSpaceDownfall movie]] that came before it [[spoiler:only one of the main characters is left to make it into the next game: Nolan Stross.]]
* KillItWithFire: Borges rigs up some flamethrowers and incendiary grenades to deal with the Necromorphs.
** A variant of this is used to destroy the [[spoiler: Marker shards. The protagonists drop them in the O'Bannon's fusion reactor.]]
* LoweredMonsterDifficulty: The Necromorphs are a lot more fragile than they're supposed to be, even accounting for the protagonists' unusually lucky shots. Subverted with the bigger ones; when the Brute shows up, all they can manage is to stun it briefly.
* ManOnFire: Kuttner's fear.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Without the Marker signal, the Necromorphs instantly liquify.
* {{Retirony}}: Campbell, [[spoiler:just before sacrificing himself]], mentions that he should have heeded his wife's advice to retire instead before taking on this mission.
* {{Room 101}}: The thing that coerces the four survivors into telling their stories.
* SanitySlippage: Poor Kuttner...
* ShootTheHostage: The military does not mess around when it comes to subduing an unruly prisoner.
* ShoutOut: Borges' cousin is seen playing ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'' at a couple moments of downtime.
** And a less overt one appears when Captain Campbell is seen drinking [[DragonAgeII Kirkwall]] whiskey.
* SmokingHotSex: Stross in Cho's flashback.
* TakingYouWithMe. [[spoiler:Campbell]] uses an incendiary grenade to take down a bunch of Necromorphs after manually sealing a door so the others can escape.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Stross and Kuttner both see visions of things that aren't there or aren't as they seem. Though Kuttner's hallucinations are pretty clearly a product of his mind, you'd be forgiven for mistaking some of Stross' hallucinations for reality.
* TheUnreveal: We never learn what the interrogation chair showed Cho.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: The interrogation chair is able to create hallucinations of the subject's worst fear.
** More specifically, Borges is afraid of spiders.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Borges]] is unceremoniously executed once they determine he has had no contact with the Marker, and thus is of no further use. [[spoiler:Cho]], on the other hand, gets the unfortunate honor of being useful after that fact is determined, since there were no other potential subjects to examine.
* YourCheatingHeart: Alexis, Stross' wife, already had strong suspicions that he was having an affair with Isabel.
* ZergRush: The 100+ crew goes down to a half-dozen within ten minutes or so, resulting in this trope when the corpses get back up.
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* ShoutOut: At one point early in the movie one of the characters can be seen playing what looks like a 2D version of ''VideoGame/DantesInferno''.

'''''Dead Space: Aftermath''''' is a direct-to-video {{Sequel}} to ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' set in the ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' universe. The movie is told mostly in flashback by the remaining crew of the ''USG O'Bannon'', explaining to the crew of the ''USG Abraxis'' what happened to the rest of the ship.

* TheUnreveal: We never do learn what the interrogation chair showed Cho.

Following the events ''[=Dead Space=]'', the crew of the ''O'Bannon'' are sent to Aegis VII to collect [[spoiler:any remaining traces of the Red Marker destroyed by Isaac Clarke]]. A member of the survey team, Nickolas Kuttner, stumbles upon one such shard and is driven mad in short order. Seeing visions of his deceased daughter Vivian, he accidentally disables one the planetary stabilizers in a misguided attempt to save her. The resulting chain reaction destroys the planet and cripples the ''O'Bannon''. The survey team barely makes it back.

* ShoutOut: At one point early in the movie one of the characters can be seen playing what looks like a 2D version of DantesInferno.

* KillEmAll: Just like the [[DeadSpaceDownfall movie]] that came before it [[spoiler:only one of the main characters is left to make it into the next game: Nolan Stross.]]

* DrivenToMadness: Touching the Marker fragment causes this, though smarter people are able to cope ''slightly'' better than those with average intelligence. [[spoiler:Stross is one of those smarter people, but he still brutally murdered his wife and child, believing them to be monsters-a Lurker and a Slasher, respectively.]]

* DrivenToMadness: Touching the Marker fragment causes this, though smarter people are able to cope ''slightly'' better than those with average intelligence. [[spoiler:Stross is one of those smarter people, but he still brutally murdered his wife and child, believing them to be monsters.]]

'''''Dead Space: Aftermath''''' is a direct-to-video {{Sequel}} to ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' set in the ''DeadSpace'' universe. The movie is told mostly in flashback by the remaining crew of the ''USG O'Bannon'', explaining to the crew of the ''USG Abraxis'' what happened to the rest of the ship.

''Dead Space: Aftermath'' is a direct-to-video {{Sequel}} to ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' set in the ''DeadSpace'' universe. The movie is told mostly in flashback by the remaining crew of the ''USG O'Bannon'', explaining to the crew of the ''USG Abraxis'' what happened to the rest of the ship.

Following the events ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'', the crew of the ''O'Bannon'' are sent to Aegis VII to collect [[spoiler:any remaining traces of the Red Marker destroyed by Isaac Clarke]]. A member of the survey team, Nickolas Kuttner, stumbles upon one such shard and is driven mad in short order. Seeing visions of his deceased daughter, he accidentally disables one the planetary stabilizers in a misguided attempt to save her. The resulting chain reaction destroys the planet and cripples the ''O'Bannon''. The survey team barely makes it back.

* TheBadGuyWins: Isabel Cho is [[spoiler:lobotomized and used as a scapegoat for the Aegis VII disaster]], and Nolan Stross is [[spoiler:imprisoned for study on the Marker's affects on the human mind.]]

* {{Gorn}}: This is ''Dead Space''...

* TheUnreveal: We never do learn what the chair showed Cho.

* OneLastJob: Captain Caleb Campbell was going to retire before taking the mission.
* {{Retirony}}: Campbell, [[spoiler:just before sacrificing himself]], mentions that he should have heeded his wife's advice to retire instead [[OneLastJob before taking on this mission]].

''Dead Space: Aftermath'' is a direct-to-video {{Sequel}} to ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' set in the ''DeadSpace'' universe. The movie is told mostly in flashback by the remaining crew of the USG O'Bannon, explaining to the crew of the USG Abraxis what happened to the rest of the ship.

Following the events ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'', the crew of the O'Bannon are sent down to find a shard of [[spoiler: the Red Marker Isaac Clarke blew up]]. Upon finding the shard the leader of the expedition, Nickolas Kuttner, attacks and kills some of the crew and is restrained.

The shard is brought back on the O'Bannon, where scientist Nolan Stross expirements on it. He starts to hallucinate too, and exposes the shard to a corpse, thinking that it will revive the body. Instead the body turns into a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Necromorph]], escapes, and slaughters the crew, [[TheVirus turning them into more Necromorphs]]. Stross kills his wife and son, beleiving they were more Necromorphs, before being found by his mistress Isabel Cho.

Cho, Stross, Kuttner, and another crew member Alejandro Borges make their way to the ship's engines. They throw the shard into the engine, destroying it [[NoOntologicalInertia and the Necromorphs]]. The survivors are picked up by the Abraxis, where the story begins.

The shard is brought back on the O'Bannon, where scientist Nolan Stross expirements on it. He starts to hallucinate too, and exposes the shard to corpse, thinking that it will improve the body, but not realizing it will turn into a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Necromorph]]. The Necromorph escapes and slaughters the crew, [[TheVirus turning them into more Necromorphs]]. Stross kills his wife and son, beleiving they were more Necromorphs, before being found by his mistress Isabel Cho.

Cho, Stross, Kuttner, and another crew member Alejandro Borges, make their way to the ship's engines, and throw the shard into the engine, destroying it [[NoOntologicalInertia and the Necromorphs]]. They are thenpicked up by the Abraxis, where the story begins.

!!''Dead Space: Aftermath'' containes examples of:

* ArtShift: The present story is told in CGI, while the flashbacks are done in a {{Anime}} design.

''Dead Space: Aftermath'' is a direct-to-video {{Sequel}} to ''VideoGame/DeadSpace''. The movie is told mostly in flashback by the remaining crew of the USG O'Bannon, explaining to the crew of the USG Abraxis what happened to the rest of the ship.

!!''Dead Space: Aftermath containes examples of:

''Dead Space: Aftermath'' is a direct-to-video {{Sequel}} to ''VideoGame/DeadSpace''. The movie is told mostly in flashback by the remaining crew of the USG O'Bannon, explaining to the crew of the USG ABraxis what happened to the rest of the ship.

Following the events ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'', the crew of the O'Bannon are sent down to find a shard of [[spoiler: the Red Marker Isaac Clarke blew up]]. Upon finding the shard the leader of the expedition, Nickolas Kuttner, attacks and kills some of the crew and is restrained. The shard is brought back on the O'Bannon, where scientist Nolan Stross expirements on it. He starts to hallucinate too, and exposes the shard to corpse, thinking that it will improve the body, but not realizing it will turn into a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Necromorph]]. The Necromorph escapes and slaughters the crew, [[TheVirus turning them into more Necromorphs]]. Stross kills his wife and son, beleiving they were more Necromorphs, before being found by his mistress Isabel Cho. Cho, Stross, Kuttner, and another crew member Alejandro Borges, make their way to the ship's engines, and throw the shard into the engine, destroying it [[NoOntologicalInertia and the Necromorphs]]. They are thenpicked up by the Abraxis, where the story begins.