History Characters / StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:His death. Being Kirk's son doesn't count for aught in a fight, especially when he's a scientist with no fighting experience against a ''Klingon''. He's quickly overpowered, stabbed and dies instantly.]]

* ArmiesAreEvil: Very ambivalent about working with Starfleet due to concerns with how they would use his research.

->'''Played by:''' Creator/KirstieAlley (Creator/RobinCurtis in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' and ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'')
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Sylvie Feit

->'''Played by:''' Creator/IkeEisenmann
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' François Leccia

->'''Played by:''' Creator/MerrittButrick
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Creator/JeanPierreLeroux (Star Trek II), Creator/WilliamCoryn (Star Trek III)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/BibiBesch

->'''Played by:''' Creator/JudsonScott
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Creator/RichardDarbois

->'''Played by:''' Creator/PaulWinfield
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Marc de Georgi

* TheApprentice: Spock's protege.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She's never seen again after her first appearance despite the Genesis Project going on the have a key role in the next film. When Kruge watches the report on the Genesis Device in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', Carol Marcus's lines were re-recorded with Kirk, with the HandWave of Kirk giving a report on the project to Starfleet, and the film acts if David was the sole creator of the project. WordOfGod indicates the character was dropped due to a combination of budget cutbacks and an inability to properly integrate her into the plot (along with the implication that she was complicit with David adding protomatter into the Genesis mixture). ExecutiveMeddling nixed proposed returns in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''[[note]]She did make it into the novelization, albeit unconscious in a hospital bed following a Klingon attack.[[/note]] and ''Film/StarTrekGenerations''. Carol would not appear onscreen again in the franchise until the inclusion of her younger alternate self in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''...who would be subjected to this ''[[HistoryRepeats again]]'' [[HistoryRepeats in the sequel.]]

* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler: His death hammers in how seriously Kirk screwed up in his first showdown against Khan.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: He tries to stop Saavik from being executed by a Klingon.]]

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She's never seen again after her first appearance despite the Genesis Project going on the have a key role in the next film. When Kruge watches the report on the Genesis Device in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', Carol Marcus's lines were re-recorded with Kirk, with the HandWave of Kirk giving a report on the project to Starfleet, and the film acts if David was the sole creator of the project. WordOfGod indicates the character was dropped due to a combination of budget cutbacks and an inability to properly integrate her into the plot (along with the implication that she was complicit with David adding protomatter into the Genesis mixture). ExecutiveMeddling nixed proposed returns in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' and ''Film/StarTrekGenerations''. Carol would not appear again in the franchise until the inclusion of her younger alternate self in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''...who would be subjected to this [[HistoryRepeats ''again'' in the sequel.]]

* HeroicSuicide: [[spoiler: He kills himself rather than taking Khan's orders to kill Kirk.]]

* ProperlyParanoid: Doesn't like working with Starfleet because of how the Genesis research could be abused as a weapon. Sure enough, the Genesis project staff are largely murdered and the device stolen to be used as a weapon by Khan, which wouldn't have happened if the USS ''Reliant'' didn't stumble across his LostColony while doing scout work for the Genesis Project.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:His death. Being Kirk's son doesn't count for naught in a fight, especially when he's a scientist with no fighting experience against a ''Klingon''. He's quickly overpowered, stabbed and dies instantly.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Saavik verbally kicks his ass when she finds out that he cut corners to solve a few logistical problems with Genesis and pointedly blamed him for the deaths of the crew of the Grissom. Poor David spends the rest of his life in a HeroicBSOD.

-->'''Dr. Marcus:''' Were we together? Were we going to be? You had your world, and I wanted [David] in mine.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She's never seen again after her first appearance despite the Genesis Project going on the have a key role in the next film. When Kruge watches the report on the Genesis Device in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', Carol Marcus's lines were re-recorded with Kirk, with the HandWave of Kirk giving a report on the project to Starfleet, and the film acts if David was the sole creator of the project. WordOfGod indicates the character was dropped due to a combination of budget cutbacks and an inability to properly integrate her into the plot. ExecutiveMeddling nixed a proposed return in ''Film/StarTrekGenerations.'' Carol would not appear again in the franchise until the inclusion of her younger alternate self in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''...who would be subjected to this [[HistoryRepeats ''again'' in the sequel.]]

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She's never seen again after her first appearance despite the Genesis Project going on the have a key role in the next film. When Kruge watches the report on the Genesis Device in ''Film/StarTrekTheSearch for Spock'', Carol Marcus's lines were re-recorded with Kirk, with the HandWave of Kirk giving a report on the project to Starfleet, and the film acts if David was the sole creator of the project. WordOfGod indicates the character was dropped due to a combination of budget cutbacks and an inability to properly integrate her into the plot. ExecutiveMeddling nixed a proposed return in ''Film/StarTrekGenerations.'' Carol would not appear again in the franchise until the inclusion of her younger alternate self in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''...who would be subjected to this ''again'' in the sequel.

* SchroedingersCanon: A retroactive example with her family history shown in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', which identifies her father as a Starfleet Admiral named Alexander Marcus and her mother's last name as Wallace.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She's never seen again after her first appearance despite the Genesis Project going on the have a key role in the next film. When Kruge watches the report on the Genesis Device in ''Search for Spock'', Carol Marcus's lines were re-recorded with Kirk, with the HandWave of Kirk giving a report on the project to Starfleet and the film acts if David was the sole creator of the project. WordOfGod indicates the character was dropped due to a combination of budget cutbacks and an inability to properly integrate her into the plot. Carol would not appear again in the franchise until the inclusion of her younger alternate self in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''

* NaiveNewcomer