This is a list of characters that appear in the movie Virus. Remember, spoilers are off so proceed with caution.
Kelly "Kit" Foster
- Played by Jamie Lee Curtis
- Action Girl: She's a tough, no-nonsense woman of action, in a similar manner as Ellen Ripley.
- Final Girl: One of only two survivors.
- Tomboyish Nickname: Her real name is Kelly, but she prefers to be called Kit, a derivative of "Christopher".
Steve Baker
- Played by William Baldwin
Captain Robert Everton
- Played by Donald Sutherland
- The Cynic: He definitely comes across this way. He has a photo of himself as a younger man (who was full of hope and ambition) in his office, and he tells his younger self he's sorry for letting him down when his cargo sank. This may partially be the reason for his Sanity Slippage.
- Driven to Suicide: He contemplates suicide just before finding the Russian ship.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: At one point, he calls whoever's responsible for the cyborgs "Doctor Igor fuckin' Frankenstein." The Mad Scientist's first name was Victor; Igor was his creepy lab assistant.
- The Quisling: Betrays the crew to the Virus because he wants salvage rights to the ship.
Nadia Vinogradova
- Played by Joanna Pacuła
- Action Girl: She definitely has her moments. There's also the fact that she had survived for a whole week in the ship fighting against the machines.
Richie Mason
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the original comic, his head is used as part of a booby trap. In the movie, he's impaled on a peice of scrap metal when the Goliath robot rips part of the ceiling down on top of him.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Terrified by the Virus' intentions, he shoots his way out of the communications room (he used a Grenade Launcher) and begins setting up a rocket sled to escape with. And a high-explosive parting gift as well. He's perfectly content to let his colleagues die as long as he escapes alive.
- Token Minority: The only black guy on the crew.
Hiko
- Played by Cliff Curtis
- Flawless Token: A brave Maōri man, cool, calm (except for a flash of anger when he threatens Richie to make him stop messing with one of the cyberzombies), and has a noble goal of using his share of three million dollars to set up a school in New Zealand.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Dies from being washed overboard while rescuing Foster.
The Virus
An energy creature utterly horrified by humanity, seeing them as a virus. Ironically, the entity behaves like a computer virus.
- Artificial Zombie: Its cyborg minions are reminiscent of Combat Servitors or Strogg mooks.
- Body Horror: It's cyborg minions are roughly half of a person welded, bolted, or nailed to various mechanical parts. It's implied that they're still alive and aware.
- Cannibal Larder:
- Machine Shop 14 is where it combines man and machine.
- It uses the fuel tanks of the ship as a crude method of preserving the dead bodies it hasn't gotten around to assimilating yet.
- Computer Virus: Behaves like one, and in the comic book, it was literally an alien cyber-attack virus. It forcibly "downloads" itself onto the ship's mainframe, and its driving motivation is to upload itself to the internet so it can infect every computer in the world.
- Energy Beings: It's a life-form based on electrical rather than biochemical energy.
- Evil Smells Bad: Its cyborgs are said to "smell like dog shit."
- Flesh Golem: It's biggest construct is a hulking quadrupedal robot with a roughly equal integration of flesh and metal.
- From a Certain Point of View: It considers mankind a "virus" in the sense of "A particular pathogen," according to the dictionary program it assimilated.
- Human Resources: When asked "What do you want from us?" it responds with a list of various body parts. We get to see how it utilizes those parts later.
- It Won't Turn Off: Capable of invoking this. Richie hits the power breaker on one of its factories, and it responds by shorting it out to make the machine shop come back online.
- No Name Given: Nadia calls it "it" or "something;" it referrs to itself as "the whole." The novelization calls it "The Intellegence." We call it "the virus" since it behaves like a computer virus
- Unnecessarily Creepy Robot: All of its constructs incorporate human tissue when possible. Its "gatherers" are reminiscent of spiders or moths (with non-functional wings made of skin stretched over wire), the basic combat drones are Artificial Zombies, and the more advanced combat forms are Flesh Golems.
- Unwilling Roboticization: Its plan for humanity.
