History Film / Mimic

* AmbiguousDisorder: Chuy is almost certainly autistic with odd habits, attention to very specific details, avoidance of eye contact, and little to no fear or emotional response to what should be very scary or shocking situations.

''Mimic'' (1997) is an American SciFiHorror film by Creator/GuillermoDelToro and starring Creator/MiraSorvino, Jeremy Northam, Creator/JoshBrolin, Creator/GiancarloGiannini, Creator/CharlesSDutton, and Creator/FMurrayAbraham in a minor role, inspired by a short story of the same name by Donald A. Wollheim.

** Dr. Susan states that if they kill the Judas Breed king, the whole species will die out because the single fertile male will be gone. However, this completely ignores population dynamics, operating on the baseless assumption there's only one colony of Judas Breed in the whole city when there should've been many colonies already (which ''could'' explain how there are sequels).

* MsFanservice: Dr. Tyler is a hot blond and boy does the film show it, especially the bath tub scene.

-->'''Susan:'' That's not an answer, Walter.\\

* RecycledInSpace: ''Mimic 3'' is ''Film/RearWindow'' [-WITH GIANT GENETICALLY ENGINEERED HUMAN-MIMICKING BUGS!-]
%% * RearWindowHomage: ''Mimic 3''.

** In the story, it's implied that the Man In the Black Coat is part of a species of insect that has naturally evolved a type of mimicry to be able to live in plain sight among humans.

* WritersCannotDoMath: Apparently the Judas Breed evolved into gigantic man-eaters that can impersonate human beings from fairly normal looking (if genetically engineered) insects within ''three years'' [[{{Handwave}} because they had an accelerated breeding cycle]], said to maybe add up to "tens of hundreds of thousands of generations" within this timespan. Even if this is the lowest-ball two-hundred thousand generations, that would mean they grew and reproduced at an average rate of nearly ''two-hundred generations'' '''''per day''''', meaning that each generation had to go from egg to nymph to reproductive adult in less than ''ten minutes''.

Although del Toro was unhappy with the film as released, it includes several examples of his most characteristic hallmarks. "I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things," said del Toro, and this is evident in Mimic, where at times all are combined in long, brooding shots of dark, cluttered, muddy chaotic spaces. According to Alfonso Cuaron, del Toro's friend and colleague, "with Guillermo the shots are almost mathematical; everything is planned." That feature is evident too in Mimic, in the photography, most notably in the brooding shots described above and especially in the set design.

** Insects cannot grow as large as humans, their body structure just doesn't work at that size. Though they apparently [[HandWave evolved lungs]], it doesn't get around the molting problems or lack of an efficient vascular system in a bug that size.

%%* TheCanKickedHim: The first death occurs on the toilet.

* BlackGuyDiesFirst:

* RecycledINSPACE: ''Mimic 3'' is ''Film/RearWindow'' [-WITH GIANT GENETICALLY ENGINEERED HUMAN-MIMICKING BUGS!-]

* NoisyNature: The Judas Breed constantly make chittering, hissing, chirping noises wherever they go, even though real insects are virtually silence (with the exception of those like grasshoppers or cicadas that make noise to attract mates). The clicking sounds used by the Judas are even an important plot point, because Chuy is able to communicate with them by imitating their sounds by clacking spoons together.

* WalkingBackwards:
** One of the RedShirts has this reaction upon seeing a cache of giant mutant bug eggs under New York City. He backs right into a giant mutant bug.
** Because they look more like people when seen from behind, the bugs themselves sometimes invoke this trope to get closer to their victims.

%%** And of course the whole concept of Mimic 2 is completely absurd. Insects and mammals have completely different chromosome and reproductive methods. The Judas Breed resembling humans wouldn't change that.

* TheCanKickedHim: The first death occurs on the toilet.

** n the first movie, a bug takes [[MoreDakka a full magazine from a pistol]] ''after'' being '''[[WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody sliced in half by a sliding door]]''' and '''''still''''' manages to scurry out of sight after maiming the shooter.

* LawOfInverseFertility: Susan and Peter want kids but she's been failing to get pregnant and it puts a bit of a strain on their marriage despite Peter's continued encouragement.

* SwarmOfRats: Averted in the first movie. Leonard notes he and Peter are far enough below ground that they should be seeing lots of rats, but he doesn't see a single one and finds that curious. The audience, of course, can guess the rats either got eaten by the giant bugs or fled.

* TooDumbToLive: The two kids wandering through the underground subways of Manhattan at night looking for bugs to give to Dr. Susan. Even if there weren't giant man-eating insects infesting the subways, that's a ''really'' stupid thing for kids to be doing.

** And of course the whole concept of Mimic 2 is completely absurd. Insects and mammals have completely different chromosome and reproductive methods. The Judas Breed resembling humans wouldn't change that.

* BioweaponBeast: The Judas breed was initially engineered to deal with cockroaches. This went awry right after they dealt with the roaches.

** In the 2nd movie, the female protagonist Remi is implied to be the female prtagonist's sidekick from the first half of the movie, but she looks completely different, is now a redhead instead of a blonde, and is apparently a teacher at a run-down school in the South Bronx.

** Two kids are horribly slaughtered by warrior bugs when they find and try to mess around with an egg case.

%% * SinisterSubway