History Film / DeathMachine

* AlasPoorVillain: Even after all the atrocities committed by Dante, he is, at his core, a profoundly lonely person struggling to come to terms with his abandonment as a child. He’s lived his entire life in a box, valued only for his intellect, and the weapons it could produce. He wants nothing more than an actual connection with another person, but due to his dangerous and bizarre behavior, he is completely unable to achieve that. And after all of his bluster is spent, and the doors lock on the containment chamber, he spends the last moments on screen (and presumably alive) asking for his mom.

A 1994 low budget SciFiHorror film by the director of ''Film/{{Blade}}'' and ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', Stephen Norrington, who also worked on special effects for ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and ''Film/SplitSecond1992''.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Jack Dante is one of the most horrifying man-children ever put on screen, but he's so good at creating the kind of weapons CHAANK wants that the more amoral executives try to tolerate him. The deconstruction lies in that by the point the movie starts he's screwed up a bit too much for them to consider his projects practical but he's creeped them out to the point that they can't bring themselves to fire him, so Cale (the OnlySaneEmployee) decides that there's no advantage in having such a psycho around no matter what.

* CharacterDevelopment: Hayden Cale, but only in the UK DVD cut.

* ExtendedDisarming: Dante wears a black leather trench coat, that conceals 8 handguns, a few knifes, brass knuckles, nunchaku, throwing stars... and a rubber chicken for good measure.

* TheDogBitesBack: When Dante is trapped in the containment vault with an active bomb, the Warbeast he’s been terrorizing his coworkers with the whole movie, and [[TheKidWithTheRemoteControl no warbeast remote]] it is [[AloneWithThePsycho implied he died]].

* AttemptedRape: Dante wishes nothing more than get in Cale's panties by any means necessary. Cale fights him off repeatedly, including nailing his hand to a shelf with his own knife.

* {{Determinator}}: Yutani. Getting impaled through the leg and shot in the shoulder hardly slows him down though he is clearly in pain.

* TheDogBitesBack: When Dante is left alone with the containment vault with a bomb, the Warbeast, and [[TheKidWithTheRemoteControl no warbeast remote]] it is [[AloneWithThePsycho implied he died]].

* DeadlyClosingCredits: Jack Dante is enclosed in an inescapable vault to be either torn to pieces by his Warbeast or blown up by the bomb he impulsively activated the moment the movie cuts to credits.

* MurderersAreRapists: Jack Dante has been committed sexual assault at least once by the events of the movie. His behavior towards Cale shows just how much of a sex-and-violence-junkie he is.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[AccidentalChildKlerBackstory There is more to Cale than meets the eye]], which Dante uses to try to convince her to give into his demands. Similarly, his drive to pursue Cale in the first place is shaped by his own upbringing as an orphan.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Cale's drive to fire Dante (and subsequent CharacterDevelopment in the extended version) stems from her inability to condone the horrors CHAANK has been diving into, even though she was previously an obedient corporate drone.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[AccidentalChildKler There is more to Cale than meets the eye]], which Dante uses to try to convince her to give into his demands. Similarly, his drive to pursue Cale in the first place is shaped by his own upbringing as an orphan.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: There is more to Cale than meets the eye, which Dante uses to try to convince her to give into his demands. Similarly, his drive to pursue Cale in the first place is shaped by his own upbringing as an orphan.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: There is more to Cale than meets the eye, which Dante uses to try to convince her to give into his demands.

* ExtendedDisarming: Dante wears a black leather trench coat, that conceals at least 5 handguns, a few knifes, brass knuckles, nunchaku, throwing stars... and a rubber chicken for good measure.

* StalkerWithACrush: Jack Dante crushes on Cale, which manifests in his doing a deep dive into whatever pieces of her life history he can find. She ''starts'' grossed out and becomes much more horrified as she learns just how far he’s willing to invade her personal information.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: In attempt to slow down the impending doom protagonists decide to trigger the fire alarm and close the blast doors all over the building. Anybody got a light? "Not me... But I do have a thermic detonator".
* TooKinkyToTorture: When Hayden Cale points a gun at Jack Dante, not only isn't he afraid, but he's actually aroused and says so.