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''The Fly'' can refer to various works:
* [[Literature/TheFly A short story by George Langelaan]].
* [[Film/TheFly1958 A 1958 Vincent Price horror movie based on the above story]].
* [[Film/TheFly1986 The 1986 David Cronenberg remake of that film]].
* [[Film/TheFlyII The 1989 sequel to Cronenberg's film]].
* Oh, and Music/HowardShore turned it into an {{opera}}.
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!! These films provide examples of the following:
* BodyHorror: Across all incarnations it's the story of a man who becomes a fly, or something like it.
* MergingMachine: All involve a scientist getting merged with a fly - half and half in the original (though the 1958 has both the head and left arm of the scientist and fly get reversed - the sequel ''Curse of the Fly'' has the iconic "man with fly head and vice-versa"), wholesome in 1986.
* ScienceIsBad
* TragicMonster: Most of the humanflies.
!!''Return of the Fly'' (1959)
!!''Curse of the Fly'' (1965)
* RevengeOfTheSequel
* TouchOfTheMonster
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* [[Literature/TheFly A short story by George Langelaan]].
* [[Film/TheFly1958 A 1958 Vincent Price horror movie based on the above story]].
* [[Film/TheFly1986 The 1986 David Cronenberg remake of that film]].
* [[Film/TheFlyII The 1989 sequel to Cronenberg's film]].
* Oh, and Music/HowardShore turned it into an {{opera}}.
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!! These films provide examples of the following:
* BodyHorror: Across all incarnations it's the story of a man who becomes a fly, or something like it.
* MergingMachine: All involve a scientist getting merged with a fly - half and half in the original (though the 1958 has both the head and left arm of the scientist and fly get reversed - the sequel ''Curse of the Fly'' has the iconic "man with fly head and vice-versa"), wholesome in 1986.
* ScienceIsBad
* TragicMonster: Most of the humanflies.
!!''Return of the Fly'' (1959)
!!''Curse of the Fly'' (1965)
* RevengeOfTheSequel
* TouchOfTheMonster
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to:
* [[Literature/TheFly A short story by George Langelaan]].
* [[Film/TheFly1958 A 1958 Vincent Price horror movie based on the above story]].
* [[Film/TheFly1986 The 1986 David Cronenberg remake of that film]].
* [[Film/TheFlyII The 1989 sequel to Cronenberg's film]].
* Oh, and Music/HowardShore turned it into an {{opera}}.
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!! These films provide examples of the following:
* BodyHorror: Across all incarnations it's the story of a man who becomes a fly, or something like it.
* MergingMachine: All involve a scientist getting merged with a fly - half and half in the original (though the 1958 has both the head and left arm of the scientist and fly get reversed - the sequel ''Curse of the Fly'' has the iconic "man with fly head and vice-versa"), wholesome in 1986.
* ScienceIsBad
* TragicMonster: Most of the humanflies.
!!''Return of the Fly'' (1959)
!!''Curse of the Fly'' (1965)
* RevengeOfTheSequel
* TouchOfTheMonster
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-->''"HEEEELP MEEEE! HEEEEEEEEELP MEEEEEEEEE!"''
'''1. [[Literature/TheFly A short story by George Langelaan.]]'''
'''2. A 1958 Creator/VincentPrice horror movie''', which is based on the above story. Has since become a CultClassic.
A scientist invents [[TeleportersAndTransporters a teleportation device]]. Unfortunately, when he tests it, a fly is in the chamber with him. The two switch heads and a hand, much to the chagrin of the scientist's wife. Now the family must find the fly that has his head and hand so he can properly switch them back before it's too late. ''Return of the Fly'' (1959) and ''Curse of the Fly'' (1965) are sequels.
'''3. Creator/DavidCronenberg's re-interpretation of that film in 1986.''' The premise is similar, but advances in special effects and direction by David Cronenberg make things even stranger. This time, mild-mannered but brilliant quantum physicist Seth Brundle (played by Creator/JeffGoldblum) is on the cusp of perfecting his matter transporter after meeting reporter Veronica Quaife (Geena Davis), the love of his life. The happiness is too good to last, as he is accidentally fused with a common housefly on a molecular-genetic level in a seemingly successful transportation experiment. Rather than creating an immediate monster, Veronica now must cope with the pain of watching her lover literally fall apart on a physical and emotional level, and the awful uncertainty of whether the child inside her was conceived before or after the fateful transportation...
Cronenberg's movie was itself followed by another sequel, ''Film/TheFlyII''.
Be sure to have antidepressants next to your box of tissues before you press play on your {{DVD}} player: you'll ''[[TearJerker need]]'' '''[[TearJerker both]]''' when the credits roll. And probably a [[NauseaFuel barf]] [[BodyHorror bag]] for before, but that doesn't matter.
Both films have sequels, [[{{Sequelitis}} such as they are]]. Oh, and Howard Shore turned it into an {{opera}}.
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Be afraid. Be very afraid."'']]
-->''"HEEEELP MEEEE! HEEEEEEEEELP MEEEEEEEEE!"''
'''1. [[Literature/TheFly A short story by George Langelaan.]]'''
'''2. A 1958 Creator/VincentPrice horror movie''', which is based on the above story. Has since become a CultClassic.
A scientist invents [[TeleportersAndTransporters a teleportation device]]. Unfortunately, when he tests it, a fly is in the chamber with him. The two switch heads and a hand, much to the chagrin of the scientist's wife. Now the family must find the fly that has his head and hand so he can properly switch them back before it's too late. ''Return of the Fly'' (1959) and ''Curse of the Fly'' (1965) are sequels.
'''3. Creator/DavidCronenberg's re-interpretation of that film in 1986.''' The premise is similar, but advances in special effects and direction by David Cronenberg make things even stranger. This time, mild-mannered but brilliant quantum physicist Seth Brundle (played by Creator/JeffGoldblum) is on the cusp of perfecting his matter transporter after meeting reporter Veronica Quaife (Geena Davis), the love of his life. The happiness is too good to last, as he is accidentally fused with a common housefly on a molecular-genetic level in a seemingly successful transportation experiment. Rather than creating an immediate monster, Veronica now must cope with the pain of watching her lover literally fall apart on a physical and emotional level, and the awful uncertainty of whether the child inside her was conceived before or after the fateful transportation...
Cronenberg's movie was itself followed by another sequel, ''Film/TheFlyII''.
Be sure to have antidepressants next to your box of tissues before you press play on your {{DVD}} player: you'll ''[[TearJerker need]]'' '''[[TearJerker both]]''' when the credits roll. And probably a [[NauseaFuel barf]] [[BodyHorror bag]] for before, but that doesn't matter.
Both films have sequels, [[{{Sequelitis}} such as they are]]. Oh, and Howard Shore turned it into an {{opera}}.
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-->''"HEEEELP MEEEE! HEEEEEEEEELP MEEEEEEEEE!"''
'''1.
* [[Literature/TheFly A short story by George
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* [[Film/TheFly1958 A 1958
A scientist invents [[TeleportersAndTransporters a teleportation device]]. Unfortunately, when he tests it, a fly is in the chamber with him.
* [[Film/TheFly1986 The
'''3. Creator/DavidCronenberg's re-interpretation of that film in 1986.''' The premise is similar, but advances in special effects and direction by
* [[Film/TheFlyII The
Be sure to have antidepressants next to your box of tissues before you press play on your {{DVD}} player: you'll ''[[TearJerker need]]'' '''[[TearJerker both]]''' when the credits roll. And probably a [[NauseaFuel barf]] [[BodyHorror bag]] for before, but that doesn't matter.
Both films have sequels, [[{{Sequelitis}} such as they are]].
* Oh, and
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* EyeScream:
** ''The Fly'' (1986): When Brundlefly face is peeled off to reveal his hideous form, his human eyes ooze away like pus.
** ''The Fly II'': At one point, during his transformation, [[spoiler:Martin ''pulls out his right eye to reveal an insect eye behind it.'']]
** ''The Fly'' (1986): When Brundlefly face is peeled off to reveal his hideous form, his human eyes ooze away like pus.
** ''The Fly II'': At one point, during his transformation, [[spoiler:Martin ''pulls out his right eye to reveal an insect eye behind it.'']]
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* MixAndMatchCritters: In addition to the obvious, there's also the monkey-cat in a deleted scene. Averted in the sequel, as Martinfly is far less mashed up than his father.
** Justified, as Martinfly is at least 75% human.
** Justified, as Martinfly is at least 75% human.
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* TeleporterAccident: The test animals (and even a steak) came out the worse for wear.
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* BizarreAlienSenses: During TheReveal in which his wife pulls off his hood, Andre's P-O-V is briefly shown, and he sees dozens of simultaneous images of her screaming face through his fly-head's compound eyes.
* BillingDisplacement: Price does not play the mad scientist, though most people think he does.
* DownerEnding / BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Andre the scientist is forced to commit suicide because his fly components are degrading his human mind and they can't find the fly with human components. At the climax of the movie, the inspector gives a MercyKill to the fly-human just as it is about to be devoured by the spider. However, this convinces him that the scientist's wife is not a murderer and, with Francois the brother-in-law, he is able to concoct a plea-bargain that lets her avoid being hanged or condemned to the insane asylum. At the very end of the movie, the mother and son are moving on from the traumatic loss of the scientist, and it is implied that she is falling in love with Francois, who had always loved her from afar.]]
* EvilHand: The fly's appendage that replaces the scientist's hand becomes increasingly rebellious as his intellect frays.
* TheReveal: Andre hides his fly-head from everyone (the audience included) under a hood, until his frustrated wife pulls it off during an argument.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Andre's wife Helene commits suicide in the original short story, while in the film, she gets better from her guilt.]]
* TheSpeechless: After his botched teleportation, the scientist is unable to speak through his fly head. He communicates by typing, writing on a chalkboard, and knocking on tables.
* ThatPoorCat: The first test is unsuccessful.
** In the original short story ([[AdaptationDisplacement bet you didn't know there ]]''[[AdaptationDisplacement was ]]''[[AdaptationDisplacement an original short story!]]), when the scientist, at his wife's urging, goes through the machine a second time in a futile attempt to unscramble things, bits of the cat get mixed in too (though a fly head with a cat nose and ears would've probably seemed more ludicrous than horrible).
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[[folder:''Return of the Fly'' (1959)\\
''Curse of the Fly'' (1965)]]
[[folder: ''The Fly'' (1958)]]
* BizarreAlienSenses: During TheReveal in which his wife pulls off his hood, Andre's P-O-V is briefly shown, and he sees dozens of simultaneous images of her screaming face through his fly-head's compound eyes.
* BillingDisplacement: Price does not play the mad scientist, though most people think he does.
* DownerEnding / BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Andre the scientist is forced to commit suicide because his fly components are degrading his human mind and they can't find the fly with human components. At the climax of the movie, the inspector gives a MercyKill to the fly-human just as it is about to be devoured by the spider. However, this convinces him that the scientist's wife is not a murderer and, with Francois the brother-in-law, he is able to concoct a plea-bargain that lets her avoid being hanged or condemned to the insane asylum. At the very end of the movie, the mother and son are moving on from the traumatic loss of the scientist, and it is implied that she is falling in love with Francois, who had always loved her from afar.]]
* EvilHand: The fly's appendage that replaces the scientist's hand becomes increasingly rebellious as his intellect frays.
* TheReveal: Andre hides his fly-head from everyone (the audience included) under a hood, until his frustrated wife pulls it off during an argument.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Andre's wife Helene commits suicide in the original short story, while in the film, she gets better from her guilt.]]
* TheSpeechless: After his botched teleportation, the scientist is unable to speak through his fly head. He communicates by typing, writing on a chalkboard, and knocking on tables.
* ThatPoorCat: The first test is unsuccessful.
** In the original short story ([[AdaptationDisplacement bet you didn't know there ]]''[[AdaptationDisplacement was ]]''[[AdaptationDisplacement an original short story!]]), when the scientist, at his wife's urging, goes through the machine a second time in a futile attempt to unscramble things, bits of the cat get mixed in too (though a fly head with a cat nose and ears would've probably seemed more ludicrous than horrible).
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[[folder:''Return of the Fly'' (1959)\\
''Curse of the Fly'' (1965)]]
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[[folder: ''The Fly'' (1958)]]
* BizarreAlienSenses: During TheReveal in which his wife pulls off his hood, Andre's P-O-V is briefly shown, and he sees dozens of simultaneous images of her screaming face through his fly-head's compound eyes.
* BillingDisplacement: Price does not play the mad scientist, though most people think he does.
* DownerEnding / BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Andre the scientist is forced to commit suicide because his fly components are degrading his human mind and they can't find the fly with human components. At the climax of the movie, the inspector gives a MercyKill to the fly-human just as it is about to be devoured by the spider. However, this convinces him that the scientist's wife is not a murderer and, with Francois the brother-in-law, he is able to concoct a plea-bargain that lets her avoid being hanged or condemned to the insane asylum. At the very end of the movie, the mother and son are moving on from the traumatic loss of the scientist, and it is implied that she is falling in love with Francois, who had always loved her from afar.]]
* EvilHand: The fly's appendage that replaces the scientist's hand becomes increasingly rebellious as his intellect frays.
* TheReveal: Andre hides his fly-head from everyone (the audience included) under a hood, until his frustrated wife pulls it off during an argument.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Andre's wife Helene commits suicide in the original short story, while in the film, she gets better from her guilt.]]
* TheSpeechless: After his botched teleportation, the scientist is unable to speak through his fly head. He communicates by typing, writing on a chalkboard, and knocking on tables.
* ThatPoorCat: The first test is unsuccessful.
** In the original short story ([[AdaptationDisplacement bet you didn't know there ]]''[[AdaptationDisplacement was ]]''[[AdaptationDisplacement an original short story!]]), when the scientist, at his wife's urging, goes through the machine a second time in a futile attempt to unscramble things, bits of the cat get mixed in too (though a fly head with a cat nose and ears would've probably seemed more ludicrous than horrible).
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!!''Return of the Fly''
''Curse
!!''Curse of the Fly''
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* {{Adorkable}}: Seth.
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Brundle's decision to test the teleporter using himself comes after he's had more than few drinks.
* ArtMajorBiology:
** Brundle's mishap results from the computer's confusion at the presence of an extra genetic pattern, and its attempt to rectify the situation by fusing them. This conveniently ignores all the genetic material belonging to the bacteria and other microorganisms that make up a sizable proportion of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_the_human_body#External_Genetic_Contribution human body]]. Probably ArtisticLicense, as otherwise there is no movie. (Though, it could be argued that the fly's genetic structure was sufficiently complex to confuse the computer, while nascent organisms were considered a part of the human body.)
** Seth's body weight would not allow him to WallCrawl, even if his bones were hollow at the time.
* BeastAndBeauty: Sort of. Brundlefly and Veronica, although she feels more like compassion, than love, for him.
* BloodierAndGorier: Flies eat by vomiting acid. David "[[Film/{{Scanners}} head]] [[YourHeadASplode explodey]]" Cronenberg is behind a giant fly movie. Do the math, genius.
* BodyHorror: Just about all of the pain and horror that Seth has to endure through his slow and humiliating metamorphosis.
** Also anyone unfortunate enough to be spat upon by Brundlefly.
* BreakTheCutie: Seth.
* CrazyConsumption
* CursedWithAwesome: Even though the transformation makes Seth a diseased mutant, he gains several abilities, such as [[spoiler: wallcrawling, corrosive vomit, and superhuman strength.]] It's unclear what the end result of Seth's changes would have been. The state he ultimately reaches [[spoiler:(where he wordlessly begs for death by placing the muzzle of a shotgun to his own head) has at least as much to do with being caught partially outside the teleport pod when it activates as with having genetic problems.]]
* DoomedProtagonist: One of the most agonizing examples.
* DownerEnding
* DrunkWithPower / SanitySlippage: Seth suffers this. At first.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: For all this film's darkness and horror, it ''does'' have a scene of Jeff Goldblum hugging a baboon.
** And the baboon has a constant erection in the film. Just listen to the film commentary.
* {{Expositron 9000}}: Brundle's computer.
* FanDisservice: The rough and animalistic sex scenes after Seth combines with the fly.
* FanService: Brundle appears shirtless. A lot.
* FetusTerrible: The three foot long, blood and amniotic fluid covered maggot Veronica sees in her nightmare.
* FocusGroupEnding: [[spoiler:The focus groups hated all of the possible endings, which included Veronica ending up with Stathis and the "Butterfly Baby." The cast wasn't real crazy about the various endings either; even Jon Getz, the actor who played Stathis, didn't want Veronica to end up with Stathis. Instead, the film closed on a weeping Veronica, which was really the proper ending to the film.]]
* FromBadToWorse
* GoneHorriblyWrong: The premise of the entire film.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Almost averted. Veronica goes into panicked hysterics after seeing Seth's disgusting metamorphosis and Stathis immediately rushes her to an abortion clinic. At the end of the movie, it's implied that she probably will, but if we're going to consider the sequel canon, then she clearly didn't, because the sequel is about their son.
* TheGrotesque: Seth slowly becomes this.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Brundlefly.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A subtle one, as Seth is merged with his own telepod at the very end. Not only karmic as he was trying to use the pods to merge himself with Veronica and the unborn child, but also sort of GaiasVengeance from the start.
* HollywoodNerd: At the beginning of the movie, Mr. Brundle is quite muscular for a scientist who doesn't get out much. Not that any of the female viewers are complaining, or anything.
* HotAndCold: Veronica Quaife
* HotterAndSexier: Thanks to TheEighties.
* IAmAMonster: Seth basically warns Veronica of this in his "insect politics" speech.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: [[spoiler: Seeing the pathetic creature that was once Seth Brundle crawl out of the Telepod, fused with pieces of machinery and in horrifying agony is probably sadder than watching the end of Old Yeller. This can obviously end only one way, and, in one final display of humanity, Brundlefly [[MercyKill silently begs a shotgun-armed Veronica to end its life]], and after some painful hesitation, she does.]]
* IdiotBall: Which ever way you slice it, going after a deranged half human hybrid that vomits acid and has double the strength of a normal man ''by yourself'' is a pretty stupid move. [[spoiler:All Stathis Borans needed to do was phone 911 and tell them that a deranged ex-boyfriend abducted his girlfriend from the abortion clinic in a blind rage - the gaping hole in the surgery wall should be fairly adequate proof]]. Though, Stathis didn't go unarmed, bringing a shotgun with him.
* InNameOnly: There's a scientist who gets turned into a fly monster in a teleportation experiment. Other than that, it really has nothing to do with the Vincent Price film and even less to do with Langelaan's story. This is not necessarily a bad thing.
* {{Jerkass}}: Stathis Borans, Veronica's ex-boyfriend and boss ''appears'' to be one at first, but is actually a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
** He transitions to being a straight Jerkass in the sequel.
* LabPet: Dr. Brundle is much too attached to his baboons. This leaves him quite distraught when he turns one inside out.
* LegoGenetics: Averted, as the change in DNA affects him slowly as his cells replicate, and his final form isn't anything resembling a properly functioning body. (Though being fused with a telepod isn't exactly natural.)
* LimitedWardrobe: Seth has five identical sets of clothing.
* LoveTriangle: The base emotional plot of Veronica choosing either Seth or Stathis as her lover, intensified when [[spoiler: she feels the need to comfort the diseased Seth and finding Stathis' emotional side emerging from the conflict.]] That's probably why they made it an opera.
* {{Metamorphosis}}: Essentially how Seth goes through his transformation.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Arguably implied by Brundle gradually losing his mind as he turns into a fly.
* NauseaFuel: For the first time since ''Film/TheExorcist'', this movie had people literally leaving the theater before it was over and retching. [[invoked]]
* NerdsAreSexy: Seth Brundle.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Brundlefly tries to be this, although he kind of loses it at the movie's climax.
** Though this wasn't true in the original screenplay, which had him vomiting on a homeless woman and preparing to eat her before he realized [[WhatHaveIDone what he was doing]].
* NoodleIncident: Seth discovers he can't eat solid food "the hard and painful way". We're never told ''exactly'' what happened.
* OneSidedArmWrestling: Seth tears open a man's arm doing this.
* OneWingedAngel: A truly terrifying example in the films climax; [[spoiler: when Veronica rips off the jaw of Brundle's already heavily-deteriorating body, it promptly triggers the final phase of his metamorphosis, in which he sheds all of his human skin, including on his head, revealing the fully formed Brundlefly underneath.]]
** [[spoiler: ClippedWingAngel: When the Brundlefly ends up getting fused with part of the telepod, leaving it helpless and in terrible, dying pain, although its clear that it was already a physically and mentally unstable creature before that.]]
* PainfulTransformation: A rare, slow and ''gradual'' example. Two, if you count the sequel.
** Seth's metamorphosis into Brundlefly is an extended, humiliating process where he degenerates from a healthy and muscular man into a diseased monstrosity, rotting his flesh to the point that his extremities fall off (including his teeth, his fingernails, ''[[{{Fingore}} his fingers]]'', his [[{{Squick}} penis...]]), until his whole formerly-human skin sheds completely and he is ultimately reduced to a [[AndIMustScream voiceless insectoid beast]].
* {{Phlegmings}}: Brundlefly excretes a sticky white liquid constantly, which he uses to dissolve and digest his food.
* SexGod: Brundlefly becomes a sexual athlete. Subverted in that Veronica can't keep up and it becomes an unpleasant experience.
* SexyDiscretionShot: Several of these with Seth and Veronica. One with Seth and Tawny.
* ShirtlessScene
* ShoutOut: "Please! Help me!"
* ShowSomeLeg: When Seth asks for an item he can use to demonstrate how the telepods work, and Veronica removes one of her stockings. [[FanService He watches intently (if a bit awkwardly) as she does so]]. It's probably the Goldblumiest he has ever been.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: To avoid giving people [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids the wrong idea]], executive producer Mel Brooks (yes, ''that'' Creator/MelBrooks) tried to keep his name away from the film. When this failed, he attended the premiere and handed out toy antennae.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: Seth's mind also gradually changed into that of a brutal insect. Near the final stages of his transformation, Seth goes so far as to warn Veronica that it is starting to affect his mind, and he fears he will hurt her if she stays.
* StagesOfMonsterGrief: Seth goes through all of them in his one-month transformation.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: While DrunkWithPower, Seth utters some bizarre dialog. The utterances about the "power of flesh" is [[AuthorAppeal pure Cronenberg]].
-->'''Seth:''' You're afraid to dive into the plasma pool, aren't you? You're afraid to be destroyed and recreated, aren't you? I'll bet you think that you woke me up about the flesh, don't you? But you only know society's straight line about the flesh. You can't penetrate beyond society's sick, gray, fear of the flesh. Drink deep, or taste not, the plasma spring! Y'see what I'm saying? And I'm not just talking about sex and penetration. I'm talking about penetration beyond the veil of the flesh! A deep penetrating dive into the plasma pool!
* SuperStrength: Brundle merging with the fly gives him a mild form of this, enough to tear open a man's arm in an arm-wrestling contest.
* SuperWindowJump: [[spoiler:At the abortion clinic, once Veronica is left alone in an operating room, Brundlefly does this before abducting her.]]
* SweetTooth: Flies love sugar.
-->'''Veronica''': Do you normally take coffee with your sugar?
* TeleFrag: What Seth considered to be his life's work turned out to be his demise.
* [[ThatPoorCat That Poor Monkeycat]]: Apparently the scene was so disturbing it had to be removed from the film's final cut.
** The first baboon doesn't fare too [[BodyHorror well]], either.
* TorturedMonster: The monster [[spoiler: (Seth Brundle post - TeleFrag)]] is confronted by a shotgun-wielding [[spoiler: Veronica Quaife]], and [[spoiler: grabs the business end of the shotgun and places it against its head.]] TearJerker moment, indeed.
* TragicMonster: Alas, poor Seth. Probably one of the most profound examples of this trope ever.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Used a lot, especially in the final scenes. Although we never get to see the externally digested food getting ''reabsorbed''. Instead we get to see [[TakeOurWordForIt Stathis looking horrified]]. An unfilmed scene had Seth eating a bag lady, starting by melting her face.
* WallCrawl: Eventually, Seth can do this.
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[[folder: ''The Fly'' (1986)]]
* {{Adorkable}}: Seth.
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Brundle's decision to test the teleporter using himself comes after he's had more than few drinks.
* ArtMajorBiology:
** Brundle's mishap results from the computer's confusion at the presence of an extra genetic pattern, and its attempt to rectify the situation by fusing them. This conveniently ignores all the genetic material belonging to the bacteria and other microorganisms that make up a sizable proportion of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_the_human_body#External_Genetic_Contribution human body]]. Probably ArtisticLicense, as otherwise there is no movie. (Though, it could be argued that the fly's genetic structure was sufficiently complex to confuse the computer, while nascent organisms were considered a part of the human body.)
** Seth's body weight would not allow him to WallCrawl, even if his bones were hollow at the time.
* BeastAndBeauty: Sort of. Brundlefly and Veronica, although she feels more like compassion, than love, for him.
* BloodierAndGorier: Flies eat by vomiting acid. David "[[Film/{{Scanners}} head]] [[YourHeadASplode explodey]]" Cronenberg is behind a giant fly movie. Do the math, genius.
* BodyHorror: Just about all of the pain and horror that Seth has to endure through his slow and humiliating metamorphosis.
** Also anyone unfortunate enough to be spat upon by Brundlefly.
* BreakTheCutie: Seth.
* CrazyConsumption
* CursedWithAwesome: Even though the transformation makes Seth a diseased mutant, he gains several abilities, such as [[spoiler: wallcrawling, corrosive vomit, and superhuman strength.]] It's unclear what the end result of Seth's changes would have been. The state he ultimately reaches [[spoiler:(where he wordlessly begs for death by placing the muzzle of a shotgun to his own head) has at least as much to do with being caught partially outside the teleport pod when it activates as with having genetic problems.]]
* DoomedProtagonist: One of the most agonizing examples.
* DownerEnding
* DrunkWithPower / SanitySlippage: Seth suffers this. At first.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: For all this film's darkness and horror, it ''does'' have a scene of Jeff Goldblum hugging a baboon.
** And the baboon has a constant erection in the film. Just listen to the film commentary.
* {{Expositron 9000}}: Brundle's computer.
* FanDisservice: The rough and animalistic sex scenes after Seth combines with the fly.
* FanService: Brundle appears shirtless. A lot.
* FetusTerrible: The three foot long, blood and amniotic fluid covered maggot Veronica sees in her nightmare.
* FocusGroupEnding: [[spoiler:The focus groups hated all of the possible endings, which included Veronica ending up with Stathis and the "Butterfly Baby." The cast wasn't real crazy about the various endings either; even Jon Getz, the actor who played Stathis, didn't want Veronica to end up with Stathis. Instead, the film closed on a weeping Veronica, which was really the proper ending to the film.]]
* FromBadToWorse
* GoneHorriblyWrong: The premise of the entire film.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Almost averted. Veronica goes into panicked hysterics after seeing Seth's disgusting metamorphosis and Stathis immediately rushes her to an abortion clinic. At the end of the movie, it's implied that she probably will, but if we're going to consider the sequel canon, then she clearly didn't, because the sequel is about their son.
* TheGrotesque: Seth slowly becomes this.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Brundlefly.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A subtle one, as Seth is merged with his own telepod at the very end. Not only karmic as he was trying to use the pods to merge himself with Veronica and the unborn child, but also sort of GaiasVengeance from the start.
* HollywoodNerd: At the beginning of the movie, Mr. Brundle is quite muscular for a scientist who doesn't get out much. Not that any of the female viewers are complaining, or anything.
* HotAndCold: Veronica Quaife
* HotterAndSexier: Thanks to TheEighties.
* IAmAMonster: Seth basically warns Veronica of this in his "insect politics" speech.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: [[spoiler: Seeing the pathetic creature that was once Seth Brundle crawl out of the Telepod, fused with pieces of machinery and in horrifying agony is probably sadder than watching the end of Old Yeller. This can obviously end only one way, and, in one final display of humanity, Brundlefly [[MercyKill silently begs a shotgun-armed Veronica to end its life]], and after some painful hesitation, she does.]]
* IdiotBall: Which ever way you slice it, going after a deranged half human hybrid that vomits acid and has double the strength of a normal man ''by yourself'' is a pretty stupid move. [[spoiler:All Stathis Borans needed to do was phone 911 and tell them that a deranged ex-boyfriend abducted his girlfriend from the abortion clinic in a blind rage - the gaping hole in the surgery wall should be fairly adequate proof]]. Though, Stathis didn't go unarmed, bringing a shotgun with him.
* InNameOnly: There's a scientist who gets turned into a fly monster in a teleportation experiment. Other than that, it really has nothing to do with the Vincent Price film and even less to do with Langelaan's story. This is not necessarily a bad thing.
* {{Jerkass}}: Stathis Borans, Veronica's ex-boyfriend and boss ''appears'' to be one at first, but is actually a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
** He transitions to being a straight Jerkass in the sequel.
* LabPet: Dr. Brundle is much too attached to his baboons. This leaves him quite distraught when he turns one inside out.
* LegoGenetics: Averted, as the change in DNA affects him slowly as his cells replicate, and his final form isn't anything resembling a properly functioning body. (Though being fused with a telepod isn't exactly natural.)
* LimitedWardrobe: Seth has five identical sets of clothing.
* LoveTriangle: The base emotional plot of Veronica choosing either Seth or Stathis as her lover, intensified when [[spoiler: she feels the need to comfort the diseased Seth and finding Stathis' emotional side emerging from the conflict.]] That's probably why they made it an opera.
* {{Metamorphosis}}: Essentially how Seth goes through his transformation.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Arguably implied by Brundle gradually losing his mind as he turns into a fly.
* NauseaFuel: For the first time since ''Film/TheExorcist'', this movie had people literally leaving the theater before it was over and retching. [[invoked]]
* NerdsAreSexy: Seth Brundle.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Brundlefly tries to be this, although he kind of loses it at the movie's climax.
** Though this wasn't true in the original screenplay, which had him vomiting on a homeless woman and preparing to eat her before he realized [[WhatHaveIDone what he was doing]].
* NoodleIncident: Seth discovers he can't eat solid food "the hard and painful way". We're never told ''exactly'' what happened.
* OneSidedArmWrestling: Seth tears open a man's arm doing this.
* OneWingedAngel: A truly terrifying example in the films climax; [[spoiler: when Veronica rips off the jaw of Brundle's already heavily-deteriorating body, it promptly triggers the final phase of his metamorphosis, in which he sheds all of his human skin, including on his head, revealing the fully formed Brundlefly underneath.]]
** [[spoiler: ClippedWingAngel: When the Brundlefly ends up getting fused with part of the telepod, leaving it helpless and in terrible, dying pain, although its clear that it was already a physically and mentally unstable creature before that.]]
* PainfulTransformation: A rare, slow and ''gradual'' example. Two, if you count the sequel.
** Seth's metamorphosis into Brundlefly is an extended, humiliating process where he degenerates from a healthy and muscular man into a diseased monstrosity, rotting his flesh to the point that his extremities fall off (including his teeth, his fingernails, ''[[{{Fingore}} his fingers]]'', his [[{{Squick}} penis...]]), until his whole formerly-human skin sheds completely and he is ultimately reduced to a [[AndIMustScream voiceless insectoid beast]].
* {{Phlegmings}}: Brundlefly excretes a sticky white liquid constantly, which he uses to dissolve and digest his food.
* SexGod: Brundlefly becomes a sexual athlete. Subverted in that Veronica can't keep up and it becomes an unpleasant experience.
* SexyDiscretionShot: Several of these with Seth and Veronica. One with Seth and Tawny.
* ShirtlessScene
* ShoutOut: "Please! Help me!"
* ShowSomeLeg: When Seth asks for an item he can use to demonstrate how the telepods work, and Veronica removes one of her stockings. [[FanService He watches intently (if a bit awkwardly) as she does so]]. It's probably the Goldblumiest he has ever been.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: To avoid giving people [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids the wrong idea]], executive producer Mel Brooks (yes, ''that'' Creator/MelBrooks) tried to keep his name away from the film. When this failed, he attended the premiere and handed out toy antennae.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: Seth's mind also gradually changed into that of a brutal insect. Near the final stages of his transformation, Seth goes so far as to warn Veronica that it is starting to affect his mind, and he fears he will hurt her if she stays.
* StagesOfMonsterGrief: Seth goes through all of them in his one-month transformation.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: While DrunkWithPower, Seth utters some bizarre dialog. The utterances about the "power of flesh" is [[AuthorAppeal pure Cronenberg]].
-->'''Seth:''' You're afraid to dive into the plasma pool, aren't you? You're afraid to be destroyed and recreated, aren't you? I'll bet you think that you woke me up about the flesh, don't you? But you only know society's straight line about the flesh. You can't penetrate beyond society's sick, gray, fear of the flesh. Drink deep, or taste not, the plasma spring! Y'see what I'm saying? And I'm not just talking about sex and penetration. I'm talking about penetration beyond the veil of the flesh! A deep penetrating dive into the plasma pool!
* SuperStrength: Brundle merging with the fly gives him a mild form of this, enough to tear open a man's arm in an arm-wrestling contest.
* SuperWindowJump: [[spoiler:At the abortion clinic, once Veronica is left alone in an operating room, Brundlefly does this before abducting her.]]
* SweetTooth: Flies love sugar.
-->'''Veronica''': Do you normally take coffee with your sugar?
* TeleFrag: What Seth considered to be his life's work turned out to be his demise.
* [[ThatPoorCat That Poor Monkeycat]]: Apparently the scene was so disturbing it had to be removed from the film's final cut.
** The first baboon doesn't fare too [[BodyHorror well]], either.
* TorturedMonster: The monster [[spoiler: (Seth Brundle post - TeleFrag)]] is confronted by a shotgun-wielding [[spoiler: Veronica Quaife]], and [[spoiler: grabs the business end of the shotgun and places it against its head.]] TearJerker moment, indeed.
* TragicMonster: Alas, poor Seth. Probably one of the most profound examples of this trope ever.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Used a lot, especially in the final scenes. Although we never get to see the externally digested food getting ''reabsorbed''. Instead we get to see [[TakeOurWordForIt Stathis looking horrified]]. An unfilmed scene had Seth eating a bag lady, starting by melting her face.
* WallCrawl: Eventually, Seth can do this.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Seth.
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Brundle's decision to test the teleporter using himself comes after he's had more than few drinks.
* ArtMajorBiology:
** Brundle's mishap results from the computer's confusion at the presence of an extra genetic pattern, and its attempt to rectify the situation by fusing them. This conveniently ignores all the genetic material belonging to the bacteria and other microorganisms that make up a sizable proportion of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_the_human_body#External_Genetic_Contribution human body]]. Probably ArtisticLicense, as otherwise there is no movie. (Though, it could be argued that the fly's genetic structure was sufficiently complex to confuse the computer, while nascent organisms were considered a part of the human body.)
** Seth's body weight would not allow him to WallCrawl, even if his bones were hollow at the time.
* BeastAndBeauty: Sort of. Brundlefly and Veronica, although she feels more like compassion, than love, for him.
* BloodierAndGorier: Flies eat by vomiting acid. David "[[Film/{{Scanners}} head]] [[YourHeadASplode explodey]]" Cronenberg is behind a giant fly movie. Do the math, genius.
* BodyHorror: Just about all of the pain and horror that Seth has to endure through his slow and humiliating metamorphosis.
** Also anyone unfortunate enough to be spat upon by Brundlefly.
* BreakTheCutie: Seth.
* CrazyConsumption
* CursedWithAwesome: Even though the transformation makes Seth a diseased mutant, he gains several abilities, such as [[spoiler: wallcrawling, corrosive vomit, and superhuman strength.]] It's unclear what the end result of Seth's changes would have been. The state he ultimately reaches [[spoiler:(where he wordlessly begs for death by placing the muzzle of a shotgun to his own head) has at least as much to do with being caught partially outside the teleport pod when it activates as with having genetic problems.]]
* DoomedProtagonist: One of the most agonizing examples.
* DownerEnding
* DrunkWithPower / SanitySlippage: Seth suffers this. At first.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: For all this film's darkness and horror, it ''does'' have a scene of Jeff Goldblum hugging a baboon.
** And the baboon has a constant erection in the film. Just listen to the film commentary.
* {{Expositron 9000}}: Brundle's computer.
* FanDisservice: The rough and animalistic sex scenes after Seth combines with the fly.
* FanService: Brundle appears shirtless. A lot.
* FetusTerrible: The three foot long, blood and amniotic fluid covered maggot Veronica sees in her nightmare.
* FocusGroupEnding: [[spoiler:The focus groups hated all of the possible endings, which included Veronica ending up with Stathis and the "Butterfly Baby." The cast wasn't real crazy about the various endings either; even Jon Getz, the actor who played Stathis, didn't want Veronica to end up with Stathis. Instead, the film closed on a weeping Veronica, which was really the proper ending to the film.]]
* FromBadToWorse
* GoneHorriblyWrong: The premise of the entire film.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Almost averted. Veronica goes into panicked hysterics after seeing Seth's disgusting metamorphosis and Stathis immediately rushes her to an abortion clinic. At the end of the movie, it's implied that she probably will, but if we're going to consider the sequel canon, then she clearly didn't, because the sequel is about their son.
* TheGrotesque: Seth slowly becomes this.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Brundlefly.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A subtle one, as Seth is merged with his own telepod at the very end. Not only karmic as he was trying to use the pods to merge himself with Veronica and the unborn child, but also sort of GaiasVengeance from the start.
* HollywoodNerd: At the beginning of the movie, Mr. Brundle is quite muscular for a scientist who doesn't get out much. Not that any of the female viewers are complaining, or anything.
* HotAndCold: Veronica Quaife
* HotterAndSexier: Thanks to TheEighties.
* IAmAMonster: Seth basically warns Veronica of this in his "insect politics" speech.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: [[spoiler: Seeing the pathetic creature that was once Seth Brundle crawl out of the Telepod, fused with pieces of machinery and in horrifying agony is probably sadder than watching the end of Old Yeller. This can obviously end only one way, and, in one final display of humanity, Brundlefly [[MercyKill silently begs a shotgun-armed Veronica to end its life]], and after some painful hesitation, she does.]]
* IdiotBall: Which ever way you slice it, going after a deranged half human hybrid that vomits acid and has double the strength of a normal man ''by yourself'' is a pretty stupid move. [[spoiler:All Stathis Borans needed to do was phone 911 and tell them that a deranged ex-boyfriend abducted his girlfriend from the abortion clinic in a blind rage - the gaping hole in the surgery wall should be fairly adequate proof]]. Though, Stathis didn't go unarmed, bringing a shotgun with him.
* InNameOnly: There's a scientist who gets turned into a fly monster in a teleportation experiment. Other than that, it really has nothing to do with the Vincent Price film and even less to do with Langelaan's story. This is not necessarily a bad thing.
* {{Jerkass}}: Stathis Borans, Veronica's ex-boyfriend and boss ''appears'' to be one at first, but is actually a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
** He transitions to being a straight Jerkass in the sequel.
* LabPet: Dr. Brundle is much too attached to his baboons. This leaves him quite distraught when he turns one inside out.
* LegoGenetics: Averted, as the change in DNA affects him slowly as his cells replicate, and his final form isn't anything resembling a properly functioning body. (Though being fused with a telepod isn't exactly natural.)
* LimitedWardrobe: Seth has five identical sets of clothing.
* LoveTriangle: The base emotional plot of Veronica choosing either Seth or Stathis as her lover, intensified when [[spoiler: she feels the need to comfort the diseased Seth and finding Stathis' emotional side emerging from the conflict.]] That's probably why they made it an opera.
* {{Metamorphosis}}: Essentially how Seth goes through his transformation.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Arguably implied by Brundle gradually losing his mind as he turns into a fly.
* NauseaFuel: For the first time since ''Film/TheExorcist'', this movie had people literally leaving the theater before it was over and retching. [[invoked]]
* NerdsAreSexy: Seth Brundle.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Brundlefly tries to be this, although he kind of loses it at the movie's climax.
** Though this wasn't true in the original screenplay, which had him vomiting on a homeless woman and preparing to eat her before he realized [[WhatHaveIDone what he was doing]].
* NoodleIncident: Seth discovers he can't eat solid food "the hard and painful way". We're never told ''exactly'' what happened.
* OneSidedArmWrestling: Seth tears open a man's arm doing this.
* OneWingedAngel: A truly terrifying example in the films climax; [[spoiler: when Veronica rips off the jaw of Brundle's already heavily-deteriorating body, it promptly triggers the final phase of his metamorphosis, in which he sheds all of his human skin, including on his head, revealing the fully formed Brundlefly underneath.]]
** [[spoiler: ClippedWingAngel: When the Brundlefly ends up getting fused with part of the telepod, leaving it helpless and in terrible, dying pain, although its clear that it was already a physically and mentally unstable creature before that.]]
* PainfulTransformation: A rare, slow and ''gradual'' example. Two, if you count the sequel.
** Seth's metamorphosis into Brundlefly is an extended, humiliating process where he degenerates from a healthy and muscular man into a diseased monstrosity, rotting his flesh to the point that his extremities fall off (including his teeth, his fingernails, ''[[{{Fingore}} his fingers]]'', his [[{{Squick}} penis...]]), until his whole formerly-human skin sheds completely and he is ultimately reduced to a [[AndIMustScream voiceless insectoid beast]].
* {{Phlegmings}}: Brundlefly excretes a sticky white liquid constantly, which he uses to dissolve and digest his food.
* SexGod: Brundlefly becomes a sexual athlete. Subverted in that Veronica can't keep up and it becomes an unpleasant experience.
* SexyDiscretionShot: Several of these with Seth and Veronica. One with Seth and Tawny.
* ShirtlessScene
* ShoutOut: "Please! Help me!"
* ShowSomeLeg: When Seth asks for an item he can use to demonstrate how the telepods work, and Veronica removes one of her stockings. [[FanService He watches intently (if a bit awkwardly) as she does so]]. It's probably the Goldblumiest he has ever been.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: To avoid giving people [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids the wrong idea]], executive producer Mel Brooks (yes, ''that'' Creator/MelBrooks) tried to keep his name away from the film. When this failed, he attended the premiere and handed out toy antennae.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: Seth's mind also gradually changed into that of a brutal insect. Near the final stages of his transformation, Seth goes so far as to warn Veronica that it is starting to affect his mind, and he fears he will hurt her if she stays.
* StagesOfMonsterGrief: Seth goes through all of them in his one-month transformation.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: While DrunkWithPower, Seth utters some bizarre dialog. The utterances about the "power of flesh" is [[AuthorAppeal pure Cronenberg]].
-->'''Seth:''' You're afraid to dive into the plasma pool, aren't you? You're afraid to be destroyed and recreated, aren't you? I'll bet you think that you woke me up about the flesh, don't you? But you only know society's straight line about the flesh. You can't penetrate beyond society's sick, gray, fear of the flesh. Drink deep, or taste not, the plasma spring! Y'see what I'm saying? And I'm not just talking about sex and penetration. I'm talking about penetration beyond the veil of the flesh! A deep penetrating dive into the plasma pool!
* SuperStrength: Brundle merging with the fly gives him a mild form of this, enough to tear open a man's arm in an arm-wrestling contest.
* SuperWindowJump: [[spoiler:At the abortion clinic, once Veronica is left alone in an operating room, Brundlefly does this before abducting her.]]
* SweetTooth: Flies love sugar.
-->'''Veronica''': Do you normally take coffee with your sugar?
* TeleFrag: What Seth considered to be his life's work turned out to be his demise.
* [[ThatPoorCat That Poor Monkeycat]]: Apparently the scene was so disturbing it had to be removed from the film's final cut.
** The first baboon doesn't fare too [[BodyHorror well]], either.
* TorturedMonster: The monster [[spoiler: (Seth Brundle post - TeleFrag)]] is confronted by a shotgun-wielding [[spoiler: Veronica Quaife]], and [[spoiler: grabs the business end of the shotgun and places it against its head.]] TearJerker moment, indeed.
* TragicMonster: Alas, poor Seth. Probably one of the most profound examples of this trope ever.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Used a lot, especially in the final scenes. Although we never get to see the externally digested food getting ''reabsorbed''. Instead we get to see [[TakeOurWordForIt Stathis looking horrified]]. An unfilmed scene had Seth eating a bag lady, starting by melting her face.
* WallCrawl: Eventually, Seth can do this.
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** Seth's metamorphosis into Brundlefly is a extended, humiliating process where he degenerates from a healthy and muscular man into a diseased monstrosity, rotting his flesh to the point that his extremities fall off (including his teeth, his fingernails, ''[[{{Fingore}} his fingers]]'', his [[{{Squick}} penis...]]), until his whole formerly-human skin sheds completely and he is ultimately reduced to a [[AndIMustScream voiceless insectoid beast]].
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** Seth's metamorphosis into Brundlefly is a an extended, humiliating process where he degenerates from a healthy and muscular man into a diseased monstrosity, rotting his flesh to the point that his extremities fall off (including his teeth, his fingernails, ''[[{{Fingore}} his fingers]]'', his [[{{Squick}} penis...]]), until his whole formerly-human skin sheds completely and he is ultimately reduced to a [[AndIMustScream voiceless insectoid beast]].
