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* MissingStepsPlan: Helena attempts to TakeOverTheWorld by using her scanning ability during a countrywide broadcast. Since the signal's effects depend on a non-stop, continuous broadcast, this would inevitably fail. Of course, by this point she's also clearly insane by repeatedly dosing herself with Ephemerol-3, so she probably didn't put much thought into it.
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* MissingStepsPlan: Helena attempts to TakeOverTheWorld by using her scanning ability during a countrywide broadcast. Since the signal's effects depend on a non-stop, continuous broadcast, this would inevitably fail.fail, as Helena would need to sleep or eat at ''some'' point. Of course, by this point she's also clearly insane by repeatedly dosing herself with Ephemerol-3, so she probably didn't put much thought into it.
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* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler:Helena kills her father by having him drown himself in a hot tub. She also directs a corporate enemy of hers to jump of his pool's diving board. It's empty.]]
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* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler:Helena kills her father by having him drown himself in a hot tub. She also directs a corporate enemy of hers to jump of off his pool's diving board. It's empty.board into an empty pool.]]
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* MissingStepsPlan: Helena attempts to TakeOverTheWorld by using her scanning ability during a countrywide broadcast. Since the signal's effects depend on a non-stop, continuous broadcast, this would inevitably fail. Of course, by this point she's also clearly insane, insane by repeatedly dosing herself with Ephemerol-3, so she probably didn't put much thought into it.
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* MissingStepsPlan: Helena attempts to TakeOverTheWorld by using her scanning ability during a countrywide broadcast. Since the signal's effects depend on a non-stop, continuous broadcast, this would inevitably fail. Of course, by this point she's also clearly insane, so she probably didn't put much thought into it.
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''Scanners III: The Takeover'' is the second sequel to ''Film/{{Scanners}}'', released in 1992 and also directed by Christian Duguay.
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''Scanners III: The Takeover'' is the second sequel to ''Film/{{Scanners}}'', released in 1992 and also directed by Christian Duguay.
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* AssholeVictim: Helena murders the creepy director of an institute who routinely abused his psychic patients by gruesomely blowing his head up.
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* SleepingWithTheBoss: After Helena takes over her father's company, she schedules an "appointment" with one of her younger execs at her house. It's at this point that she happens to realize that her psychic abilities also work through television signals, and uses him as a guinea pig for this purpose.
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Neither character qualifies. Joyce for instance also becomes plot relevant because of her friendship with Helena.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Joyce to Alex in the third. Alice also seems like this to David in the second, but that one at least establishes [[PreciousPuppies why she wants to become a vet]].
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* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: Alex temporarily shuts down his heart to fake death in the hospital to avoid a SickbedSlaying. He later wakes up at the morgue. There's an initial BaitAndSwitch where it seems like the coroner is about to saw open his chest, but it turns out he was working on another body.
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* MasterOfYourDomain: Alex learns how to control his heartrate from a Buddhist monk. He later uses it to stop his heart to avoid being killed in a hospital bed by one of his sister's assassins before WakingUpAtTheMorgue.
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* SickbedSlaying: One of Helena's assassins, disguised as a [[HospitalHottie hot nurse]], tries to kill Alex through lethal injection before she's interrupted by a doctor.
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* CigaretteBurns: Helena tests her recently discovered ability to transmit her mind control powers through a camera signal by recording a tape to force her lover to put out a cigar on his hand. When Alex (another "scanner") later sees the tape, he almost does the same thing.
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* CigaretteBurns: Helena tests her recently discovered ability to transmit her mind control powers through a camera signal by recording a tape to force her lover to put out a cigar on his hand. When Alex (another (Helena's brother and another "scanner") later sees the tape, he almost does the same thing.
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* MassHypnosis: After Helena discovers that her psychic powers works over a television broadcast signal as well, she plots to use it to mind control everyone in the world.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: When Helena takes over her father's pharmaceutical firm (after murdering him in cold blood), she takes the company in ethically dubious directions he would have objected to, uses her psychic powers to kill her professional rivals, and
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* FantasticDrug: The third movie uses another version of Ephemerol [[AppliedPhlebotinum to explain]] how Helena turned evil. Since it is an experimental drug, it is untested on scanners and turns them insane.
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* FantasticDrug: The third movie uses another Another version of Ephemerol appears [[AppliedPhlebotinum to explain]] how Helena turned evil. Since it is an experimental drug, it is untested on scanners and turns them insane.
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* MsFanservice: Helena and Joyce in the third film.
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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Helena is apparently meant to be Canadian, but the actress's thick Polish accent comes through a lot.
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* VirtualGhost: [[spoiler:After the villainess is defeated, there's an (unresolved) SequelHook where her mind leaves her body for a digital form, whereupon she appears on a camerascreen and [[EvilLaugh laughs maniacally]].]]
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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Helena transforming into some sort of energy creature at the end of the third film (taking a note from ''Gremlins2TheNewBatch'', perhaps?), but it's forgotten in favor of ''Scanner Cop'']].
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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Helena transforming transforms into some sort of energy creature at the end of the third film (taking a note from ''Gremlins2TheNewBatch'', perhaps?), film, but it's forgotten in favor of ''Scanner Cop'']].no sequel was made that continued this plotline.]]
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* GroinAttack: At the beginning of the movie, Helena and Joyce are making their way down an alleyway when the two of them are confronted by a trio of muggers. As Joyce tells them that they don't want any trouble, the lead mugger tells them that they should be worried for their own safety and upon seeing that things are getting worse, Joyce decides to kick the lead mugger in the groin in an attempt to help Helena and herself escape from the imminent danger.
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* GroinAttack: At the beginning of the movie, Helena and Joyce are making their way down an alleyway when the two of them are confronted by a trio of muggers. thugs. As Joyce tells them that they don't want any trouble, the lead mugger thug tells them that they should be worried for their own safety and upon seeing that things are getting worse, Joyce decides to kick the lead mugger thug in the groin in an attempt to help Helena and herself and Helena escape from the imminent danger.
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* GroinAttack: At the beginning of the movie, Helena and Yoyce are making their way down an alleyway when the two of them are confronted by a trio of muggers. As Yoyce tells them that they don't want any trouble, the lead mugger tells them that they should be worried for their own safety and upon seeing that things are getting worse, Yoyce decides to kick the lead mugger in the groin in an attempt to help Helena and herself escape from the imminent danger.
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* GroinAttack: At the beginning of the movie, Helena and Yoyce Joyce are making their way down an alleyway when the two of them are confronted by a trio of muggers. As Yoyce Joyce tells them that they don't want any trouble, the lead mugger tells them that they should be worried for their own safety and upon seeing that things are getting worse, Yoyce Joyce decides to kick the lead mugger in the groin in an attempt to help Helena and herself escape from the imminent danger.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Yoyce to Alex in the third. Alice also seems like this to David in the second, but that one at least establishes [[PreciousPuppies why she wants to become a vet]].
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''Scanners III: The Takeover'' is the second sequel to ''Film/{{Scanners}}'', released in 1992 and also directed by Christian Duguay.
At a Christmas party in a high rise apartment, scanner Alex Monet shows off his psychic abilities with his best friend. Due to a mishap he accidentally pushes his friend off the balcony with his telekinesis, and goes into self-imposed exile in a Buddhist monastery on the other side of the world.
Back home and months later, his sister Helena is breaking down from the pressure of hearing everyone's thoughts all the time. Alex and Helena's father, a millionaire pharmaceutical businessman and scientist who adopted the two when they were kids, has developed a drug that might help them, Eph 3. The drug is however experimental and possibly dangerous. After a mental episode Helena steals the drug and tests it on herself with success, but the side effects degrade her empathy and turn her into a sociopath bent on domination. After Helena takes control of the company Alex must come back to stop her.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* BadassInANiceSuit: Helena's henchmen.
* BigBad: Helena Monet.
* CainAndAbel: The main hero and villain in ''Scanners 3'' are each other's brother and sister, respectively.
* DullSurprise: Alex.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:When the Ephemerol 3 no longer affects her psyche and she's confronted with her actions, Helena kills herself by electrocution.]]
* FantasticDrug: The third movie uses another version of Ephemerol [[AppliedPhlebotinum to explain]] how Helena turned evil. Since it is an experimental drug, it is untested on scanners and turns them insane.
* EvilLaugh: Helena at different points.
* HospitalHottie: One of the villainous scanners in part three. {{Invoked}}, since she's only posing as one.
* IncestSubtext: There is a bit present between Helena and Dr. Monet, her adoptive father. After she goes insane, he confronts her while she's nude in a hot tub. She accuses him of adopting her because he just wanted a girl all to himself, and then [[spoiler:uses her psychic powers to drown him.]]
* MindOverMatter: Alex in particular shows off some impressive telekinetic powers.
* MsFanservice: Helena and Yoyce in the third film.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When the drug wears off momentarily, Helena realizes what she's done and is distraught, but takes the drug again. [[spoiler:She's also like this just before she commits suicide at the end.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Alex [[AccidentalMurder accidentally kills his best friend]] at the start, and goes into self-imposed isolation for many years in a Buddhist monastery in Asia.
* PermaStubble: Alex when he returns home.
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler:Helena kills her father by having him drown himself in a hot tub. She also directs a corporate enemy of hers to jump of his pool's diving board. It's empty.]]
* PsychoSerum: Ephemerol 3 is an untested new version of the drug. After she takes it, Helena turns evil.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Yoyce to Alex in the third. Alice also seems like this to David in the second, but that one at least establishes [[PreciousPuppies why she wants to become a vet]].
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Helena kills her father to take over his pharmaceutical company.]]
* SensualSlavs: Helena is apparently meant to be Canadian, but the actress's thick Polish accent comes through a lot.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Helena transforming into some sort of energy creature at the end of the third film (taking a note from ''Gremlins2TheNewBatch'', perhaps?), but it's forgotten in favor of ''Scanner Cop'']].
* {{Technopath}}: Helena mind controls people straight through cameras and television sets.
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At a Christmas party in a high rise apartment, scanner Alex Monet shows off his psychic abilities with his best friend. Due to a mishap he accidentally pushes his friend off the balcony with his telekinesis, and goes into self-imposed exile in a Buddhist monastery on the other side of the world.
Back home and months later, his sister Helena is breaking down from the pressure of hearing everyone's thoughts all the time. Alex and Helena's father, a millionaire pharmaceutical businessman and scientist who adopted the two when they were kids, has developed a drug that might help them, Eph 3. The drug is however experimental and possibly dangerous. After a mental episode Helena steals the drug and tests it on herself with success, but the side effects degrade her empathy and turn her into a sociopath bent on domination. After Helena takes control of the company Alex must come back to stop her.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* BadassInANiceSuit: Helena's henchmen.
* BigBad: Helena Monet.
* CainAndAbel: The main hero and villain in ''Scanners 3'' are each other's brother and sister, respectively.
* DullSurprise: Alex.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:When the Ephemerol 3 no longer affects her psyche and she's confronted with her actions, Helena kills herself by electrocution.]]
* FantasticDrug: The third movie uses another version of Ephemerol [[AppliedPhlebotinum to explain]] how Helena turned evil. Since it is an experimental drug, it is untested on scanners and turns them insane.
* EvilLaugh: Helena at different points.
* HospitalHottie: One of the villainous scanners in part three. {{Invoked}}, since she's only posing as one.
* IncestSubtext: There is a bit present between Helena and Dr. Monet, her adoptive father. After she goes insane, he confronts her while she's nude in a hot tub. She accuses him of adopting her because he just wanted a girl all to himself, and then [[spoiler:uses her psychic powers to drown him.]]
* MindOverMatter: Alex in particular shows off some impressive telekinetic powers.
* MsFanservice: Helena and Yoyce in the third film.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When the drug wears off momentarily, Helena realizes what she's done and is distraught, but takes the drug again. [[spoiler:She's also like this just before she commits suicide at the end.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Alex [[AccidentalMurder accidentally kills his best friend]] at the start, and goes into self-imposed isolation for many years in a Buddhist monastery in Asia.
* PermaStubble: Alex when he returns home.
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler:Helena kills her father by having him drown himself in a hot tub. She also directs a corporate enemy of hers to jump of his pool's diving board. It's empty.]]
* PsychoSerum: Ephemerol 3 is an untested new version of the drug. After she takes it, Helena turns evil.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Yoyce to Alex in the third. Alice also seems like this to David in the second, but that one at least establishes [[PreciousPuppies why she wants to become a vet]].
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Helena kills her father to take over his pharmaceutical company.]]
* SensualSlavs: Helena is apparently meant to be Canadian, but the actress's thick Polish accent comes through a lot.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Helena transforming into some sort of energy creature at the end of the third film (taking a note from ''Gremlins2TheNewBatch'', perhaps?), but it's forgotten in favor of ''Scanner Cop'']].
* {{Technopath}}: Helena mind controls people straight through cameras and television sets.
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