History Film / Virus

* EvilSmellsBad: The cyborgs are said to smell "like dog shit".

%%* HumansAreBastards:

* KillAllHumans: Humans are "destructive, invasive, noxious, harmful to the body of [[HiveMind the whole]]". To the alien entity, we are a virus.

* ActorAllusion: This isn't Donald Sutherland's first time [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers encountering an assimilating alien]] [[spoiler: or being assimilated by one]].

->''"Who are you?"''
->''I AM AWARE''
->''"We mean you no harm."''
->''LIFE-FORM ANALYSIS COMPLETE. SPECIES IS DESTRUCTIVE, INVASIVE, NOXIOUS, HARMFUL TO THE BODY OF THE WHOLE.''
->''"What species?"''
->''MAN''
->''YOU ARE VIRUS''

The film revolves around the crew of a tugboat, the Sea Star. After barely entering the eye of a hurricane, they see another ship on the radar - the ''Academik Vladislav Volkov'', a Russian missile and satellite tracking ship. With their boat taking on water faster than they can pump it out, the crew boards the Volkov, where they find that the electronics have been powered down and the crew has abandoned ship. Once they power up the ship, [[SealedEvilInACan bad things happen]].

* ArtificialZombie: The virus creates several of these, from Alexi, [[spoiler: Squeaky, Woods, and Everton.]]
* TheAssimilator: Even though the aliens claim mankind is the virus, there's a reason we call them that.

* BetterThanNew
--> ''"[[spoiler: Squeaky]]? What's wrong with you?"''
--> ''"Nothing, now."''
%%* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted.

%%* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:Richie]].

* FaceRevealingTurn: [[spoiler: Cyborg!Squeaky]].

* HellIsThatNoise: the piggish, electronic screech the cyborgs make.

* NightmareFace: "Alexi" (the first cyborg the crew encounters) has four metal limbs pop out of it's mouth, which leaves a bloody skull with a cluster of SpiderLimbs flailing around it.
* NotQuiteDead: The crew manages to kill one of the cyborgs, and drags it to the bridge to look at. Cue crew learning that [[RasputinianDeath cyborgs are hard to kill.]]

* SelfConstructedBeing: The monster builds itself a body out of machine and... [[HumanResources human parts]].
%%* SentientCosmicForce
* TakingYouWithMe: Partially averted by Richie's plan. The nice man planned on taking the OTHERS with the virus, not himself. But to be fair, he'd [[AxCrazy lost it]] by then.
* TechnoBabble: Richie asks the virus what it wants with them. The virus responds with a lengthy list, starting with "viscous neurological transmitters, oxygenated tissues, Aponeurus Superiorus Papelbrai." These are all actual things - that last one is part of an optic nerve - but the list was... unusually specific.
** Thankfully, Richie simplifies it for us.
--> ''"[[BodyHorror Spare parts]]. [[GoMadFromTheRevelation It wants us for spare parts]]."''

* UnwillingRoboticisation: All the people killed and/or captured by the machines has this happening to them. Except for [[spoiler:Everton]].
** Interestingly, in the novel adaptation, [[spoiler:he was not willing. He entered the machine shop just as he did in the movie and the whole scene plays out the same, but it's extended a few moments. After the scene in the movie plays out, Everton slowly realizes what the virus wants to do with him. He realizes that 'he had made a mistake', the door of the machine shop closes gently, and he starts to scream.]]

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:Everton]] tries to sell out the others -- and the whole human race by extension -- to the virus in order to save his own hide. The virus responds by converting him. In the novelization, at least, this was not voluntary.

* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: Alien Computer Virus.

* JumanResources: The virus rejiggers the machine shops into cyborg factories.

%%* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever

''Virus'' is a 1999 science fiction-horror film directed by visual effects artist John Bruno and starring Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/WilliamBaldwin and Creator/DonaldSutherland. The film is based on a Dark Horse comic book of the same name by Chuck Pfarrer. The film was a major box-office flop.

* ActionGirl: Nadya definitely has her moments.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Everton]].
* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted.

* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:Richie]].

** [[spoiler: Nadya]].
** Averted when [[spoiler: Foster forbids Steve from doing it]].
* HumansAreBastards:
* {{Hypocrite}}: In a conversation early in the movie, Squeaky tells Steve that he "would have decked that son of a bitch", referring to Everton after he pulled a gun on Steve earlier. No more than a minute later, the two criticize Foster for being tossed out of the navy for striking a superior officer. Neither of them acknowledge this, though the novel adaptation has Steve realizing the hypocrisy of the criticism.

* KillAllHumans: Humans are destructive, invasive, noxious, harmful to the body of [[HiveMind the whole]]. We are virus.
* KillAndReplace: "...you don't recognize me?"

* LastWords / LastRequest: "Steve... [[PrecisionFStrike kill that fucking thing]]."
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 11 missions.

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler: Everton]] tries to sell out the others -- and the whole human race by extension -- to the virus in order to save his own hide. The virus responds by converting him. In the novelization, at least, this was not voluntary.

* SentientCosmicForce
* TakingYouWithMe: Partially averted by Richie's plan. The nice man planned on taking the OTHERS with the virus, not himself.
** Well, to be fair, he'd [[AxCrazy lost it]] by then.

* UnwillingRoboticisation: Except for [[spoiler:Everton]].
** Interestingly, in the novel adaptation, [[spoiler:Everton was not willing. He entered the machine shop just as he did in the movie and the whole scene plays out the same, but it's extended a few moments. After the scene in the movie plays out, Everton slowly realizes what the virus wants to do with him. He realizes that 'he had made a mistake', the door of the machine shop closes gently, and he starts to scream.]]
* TheVirus: And it's from space.
* TitleDrop: YOU ARE VIRUS.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Anyone the virus kills.

* BodyHorror

* ComputerVirus: Actually an electricity-based EnergyBeing inhabiting the research vessel. It behaves a lot like a self-aware computer virus, though, attempting to upload itself to the internet and TakeOverTheWorld.

* TheVirus: And it's from [[RecycledINSPACE SPAAAACE]].

* NotQuiteDead -The crew manages to kill one of the cyborgs, and drags it to the bridge to look at. Cue crew learning that [[RasputinianDeath cyborgs are hard to kill.]]

* HumansAreCthulhu- The alien HiveMind considers the unnetworked primitive creatures who run entirely on wetware and enslave non-sentient machines to be both disgusting and incomprehensibly strange. After subduing the abominations it found itself surrounded by upon arrival, its "body" (the ship) has once again been invaded by more of the creatures, which are all trying to kill it. Hence, it sees [[KillAllHumans its actions]] as an attempt to save the universe from an [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal]] plague of intelligent {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s.

[[caption-width-right:300:Nothing depicted on this poster actually happened.]]

* HumansAreBastards: Hence, we must [[KillAllHumans die]].

* IncrediblyObviousBomb: One has a beeping timer with red numbers, the other is a huge pile of explosive materials strapped together with [=RPGs=] and primed with grenades that have their pins tied to a long ripcord. It sits out in the middle of the room like a sore thumb, but Goliath didn't seem to notice it until it was too late.

* [[RecycledINSPACE Recycled ON A BOAT]]: All that's missing is an "[[TheTerminator I'll be back]]".

* RuleOfScary: The crew manages to kill one of the cyborgs, and drags it to the bridge to look at. Suddenly, [[spoiler:the skull of the former Russian is ripped out by its metallic spinal column. It sticks up above the abdomen of the cyborg and just squeals, wagging tiny little metal spider legs that frame the skull.]] ...what the hell was the point of that? It had no weapons, it otherwise did nothing to the crew, it served no purpose.
** Apparently, the virus is a JerkAss.

''Virus'' is a 1999 science fiction-horror film directed by visual effects artist John Bruno and starring JamieLeeCurtis, William Baldwin and DonaldSutherland. The film is based on a Dark Horse comic book of the same name by Chuck Pfarrer. The film was a major box-office flop.

* ComputerVirus: Actually an electricity-based EnergyBeing inhabiting the Research vessel.

* ComputerVirus: Actually an EnergyBeing inhabiting the Research vessel.

''Virus'' is a 1999 science fiction-horror film directed by visual effects artist John Bruno and starring JamieLeeCurtis, William Baldwin and Donald Sutherland. The film is based on a Dark Horse comic book of the same name by Chuck Pfarrer. The film was a major box-office flop.