History Film / Cube2Hypercube

* {{Gorn}}: Averted. The only one who dies a bloody death is Jerry, and even his is sort of... [[AlienGeometries abstract]].

* ObfuscatingInsanity: Simon begins to suspect Mrs. Paley of faking her senility. [[spoiler:He tries her up and threatens to kill her if she doesn't confess, but she's killed by another BoobyTrap instead and we're shown no evidence that she really is faking it.]]

* SuicideMission: It's strongly implied that this was [[spoiler:Kate]]'s mission from the get go. [[spoiler:She finds Alex Trusk and retrieves her data device, then escapes the hypercube against all odds. Her superior thanks her for her service and then has her shot to make sure she won't talk. Kate doesn't even protest her execution and simply closes her eyes when she hears the man behind her pull out his gun.]]

* DaylightHorror: EVERY chamber is practically a WhiteVoidRoom.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Julia, who is barefoot for nearly all the movie. Justified, as wearing dress sandals in her situation is not practical.

* GenderMisdirection: Many people are looking for "Alex Trusk", who is only known by name, as a hacker. [[spoiler:It turns out that "Alex" is Sasha, who has been in the hypercube with them the whole time. Also doubles as a BilingualBonus since "Sasha" is a common diminutive for people named Alexander/Alexandra in Slavic countries]]

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: Julia and Max, after getting lost in the hypercube while escaping Simon, they come to terms with the fact [[DespairEventHorizon that they are truly trapped]], and suddenly begins having sex as that room's trap kills them, using time dialation to rapidly age them until they eventually succumb to hunger and thirst.]]

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Kate does this to Jerry when he starts to ramble too much while he's explaining the physics of the hypercube.

* GenreShift: The first movie was at least ''somewhat'' grounded in reality, with the cube structure obviously futuristic, but still employing normal and believable machinery. The second replaces this with some sort of [[AlienGeometries physically impossible mega-structure]] consisting of millions of rooms that freely employs TimeTravel, intersecting [[AlternateUniverse parallel universes]], and many more "[[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hardcore sci-fi]]" contraptions.

* YearInsideHourOutside: The main characters' stay in the hypercube appear to take place around several days. One character is hinted to have subjectively spent ''years'' wandering the place. [[spoiler:When Kate emerges on the outside, the Hypercube collapsed in 6 hours, 6 minutes, 59 seconds in real world time.]] In an alternate extended ending, [[spoiler:Kate asks how long she was inside and is told it was 6 minutes, 59 seconds.]] To complicate things, time is relative in the place and some are stuck for what literally appears to be years.

* YearInsideHourOutside: The main characters' stay in the hypercube appear to take place around several days. [[spoiler:When Kate emerges on the outside, the Hypercube collapsed in 6 hours, 6 minutes, 59 seconds in real world time.]] In an alternate extended ending, [[spoiler:Kate asks how long she was inside and is told it was 6 minutes, 59 seconds.]] To complicate things, time is relative in the place and some are stuck for what literally appears to be years.

* TryAndFollow: [[spoiler:Alex Trusk fled into the Hypercube because it was the one place Izon wouldn't follow. Ironically she's wrong about that, as Kate turns out to be working for them.]]

* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: Either subverted, or they were expecting that ViewersAreGeniuses. It will probably come off as this trope to laymen, but a "hypercube" is a real geometric object. "Hypercube" refers to a cube-like object that has more than 3 dimensions, for example "tesseract" refers to a hypercube that has exactly 4 dimensions. All tesseracts are hypercubes. Not all hypercubes are tesseracts, as hypercubes can have more than 4 dimensions as well.

* [[spoiler:Simon pretends to hold Kate hostage with a knife at her throat, then holds Sasha hostage for real at the end.]]

* DeadlyHug: [[spoiler:There's a HopeSpot when Alex encounters the woman he's been hired to find, and it looks like he's been returned to sanity, but then he stabs her in the back while he's giving her a hug. Turns out he's hunting down both the Jerry's and the Becky's.]]

* [[spoiler:Alex pretends to hold Kate hostage with a knife at her throat, then holds Sasha hostage for real at the end.]]

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: Julia and Max, after getting lost in the hypercube while escaping Simon, they come to terms with the fact [[DespairEventHorizon that they are truly trapped]], and suddenly begins having sex as that room's trap kills them, using time dialation to rapidly age them until they eventually of hunger and thirst.]]

* AxCrazy: Simon, the detective with a knife, becomes increasingly unhinged until he just starts hunting down people across alternate universes so he can [[ImAHumanitarian eat their flesh and drink their blood]] to survive.

* ZeroGSpot: Two characters, feeling that their deaths are inevitable, [[PreClimaxClimax have sex in the center of one of the cube rooms]] that has zero gravity (and possibly accelerated time) until they apparently die of dehydration and eventually desiccate.

* UnnaturallyLoopingLocation: Jerry mentions that after waking up, he started exploring the interconnected cubical rooms of the hypercube and marking them, but no matter what direction he took, for several hours he always ended up in the same three rooms. Later this is weaponised when [[spoiler:Kate is fleeing Simon through one door, yet is simultaneously able to ambush him from behind.]]

* UnnaturallyLoopingLocation: Jerry mentions that after waking up, he started exploring the interconnected cubical rooms of the hypercube and marking them, but no matter what direction he took, for several hours he always ended up in the same three rooms.

* CallBack: Colonel Maguire is shown ranting that "The other one had numbers!" The hypercube is said to be Phase 2, implying that the first cube was Phase 1.

* BigBrotherIsEmployingYou: As in the first movie, people who helped design the hypercube have [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness ended up being used as {{Unwitting Test Subject}}s.

* RoomFullOfCrazy: Downplayed; a dead physicist has written equations on the walls, but it turns out he's worked out an important clue.