History Film / TheFlyII

** [[spoiler: Dr. Shephard,]] who didn't have the sense to go somewhere besides the basement where [[spoiler: Martinfly]] is.

** A security guard who doesn't have the good sense to wait for backup or simply look up.
** [[spoiler: Scorby's]] Jerkass tendencies and poor trigger discipline leads to a [[spoiler: scientist's]] death while trying to kill [[spoiler: Martinfly]].

* TooDumbToLive: From poor trigger discipline to just not looking up, Bartok's security team has got you covered.

* DeliberateInjuryGambit: [[spoiler:Granted, it's likely that it did legitimate damage, but Bartok was done in by Martinfly after the latter feigned fatal damage from Bartok's gunshot, letting Bartok get close enough in that he could grab and drag him into the telepod]].

** Another example, a not so literal one, is Martinfly sparing Beth Logan, his love interest, when he encounters her at one point.

** Even though he [[TookALevelInJerkass transitions to being a straight]] {{Jerkass}} (though understandably a [[JerkassWoobie pitiful]] one) Stathis still have some JerkWithAHeartOfGold qualities left inside him carried from the original film such as his last words of encouragement towards Martin and Beth to find a cure after he makes it clear the Telepods are his only chance for one and offering his jeep to them to prevent them being easily tracked down by Bartok.

* HappyEndingOverride: Not that the first film ended happily by any means, but it gets even worse for Veronica and Stathis in this one: [[spoiler: Veronica dies in childbirth and Stathis turns into a drunken {{Jerkass}} due to the pain of losing her.]]

* LighterAndSofter: In comparison to the first one at least. It still features a ton of grotesque imagery including seeing a dog get mutilated by a telepod experiment, and a guy peeling his face off after getting it covered in [=MartinFly's=] digestive juice.

* PainfulTransformation: Averted in the sequel, Martin's transformation is more natural as a deliberate counterpoint to Seth's. [[FridgeBrilliance His body literally undergoes the life cycle of an insect]] -- his [[YoungerThanTheyLook rapidly growing human form]] is functionally a larvae, his [[BodyHorror deforming body]] the instar, he develops a cocoon / pupa, and he emerges a powerful Insect/Man hybrid. The Martinfly creature is [[SuperStrength very strong,]] [[LightningBruiser very fast,]] and [[PoisonIsCorrosive very deadly...]] The opposite of his father.

''The Fly II'' is the 1989 sequel to Creator/DavidCronenberg's remake ''Film/TheFly1986''.

!!This film provides examples of:

* ActionizedSequel: Features more gun-related action scenes then the first and the fact Martinfly is more formidable then his sickly Brundlefly father from the first film.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Bartok's karmic end has him reduced to a hideously deformed mutant crawling around in a pit, pitifully squirming around and barely able to even feed himself.]]

* BigNo: Bartok [[spoiler:when Martinfly drags him into the telepod with him.]]
* BodyHorror: The dog, though averted with Martin's transformation, as most of it took place in a cocoon. [[spoiler:Bartok wasn't so lucky...]]
* CursedWithAwesome: Doubly so for Martin compared to his father, since his Martinfly form, while inhuman, turns out to be a coherent, seemingly healthy lifeform instead of a diseased, deformed mishmash of genetic goo (possibly due to being born with the fly genes instead of having them abruptly inserted into him as an adult). He's much more of a werefly[=/=]alien lifeform than the diseased corpse-like wreck Seth ended up turning into in the first film.
* DeathByChildbirth[=/=]SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Veronica at the beginning.

* EyeScream: At one point, during his transformation, [[spoiler:Martin ''pulls out his right eye to reveal an insect eye behind it.'']]

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Anton Bartok, the BigBad, who let Martin undergo his transformation and finish the teleporter for his own greedy ends, is ultimately fused with Martin's insect genes through the teleporter, turning him to a hideously deformed mutant.]] It becomes even more karmic [[spoiler:when the epilogue reveals that he's been placed in the same pit the mutated dog was earlier in the movie.]] It would have been even more so had the original scripted ending been shot: [[spoiler:Mutant!Bartok would have begged the now completely human Martin to kill him, only for Martin to shake his head, say "Sorry, dad" and feed him the slop he eats in the last scene.]]

* MixAndMatchCritters: Averted, as Martinfly is far less mashed up than his father. Also [[JustifiedTrope justified]], as Martinfly is at least 75% human.
* PainfulTransformation: Averted in the sequel, Martin's transformation is more natural as a deliberate counterpoint to Seth's. [[FridgeBrilliance His body literally undergoes the life cycle of an insect]] - his [[YoungerThanTheyLook rapidly growing human form]] is functionally a larvae, his [[BodyHorror deforming body]] the instar, he develops a cocoon/Pupa, and he emerges a powerful Insect/Man hybrid. The Martinfly creature is [[SuperStrength very strong,]] [[LightningBruiser very fast,]] and [[PoisonIsCorrosive very deadly]]... the opposite of his father.

* ResearchInc: Bartok Industries

* VomitIndiscretionShot: Martinfly vomits on a security guard, and his face melts off. [[spoiler:The guard barely survives by tearing off his own face before the vomit can kill him.]]
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Martin Brundle in ''The Fly II'', who ages to MrFanservice level in about six years.

* TheWoobie: [[TheGrotesque The]] [[BodyHorror Mutant]]-[[MadwomanInTheAttic Dog]].

''The Fly II'' is the 1989 sequel to Creator/DavidCronenberg's 1986 remake of ''Film/TheFly''.

* LighterAndSofter

** Another example, not a literal one, is Martinfly sparing his love interest when he encounters her at one point.

* [[KarmicDeath Karmic]] FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Anton Bartok, the BigBad, who let Martin undergo his transformation and finish the teleporter for his own greedy ends, is ultimately fused with Martin's insect genes through the teleporter, turning him to a hideously deformed mutant.]] It becomes even more karmic [[spoiler:when the epilogue reveals that he's been placed in the same pit the mutated dog was earlier in the movie.]] It would have been even more so had the original scripted ending been shot: [[spoiler:Mutant!Bartok would have begged the now completely human Martin to kill him, only for Martin to shake his head, say "Sorry, dad" and feed him the slop he eats in the last scene.]]
** RedShirt security guard Mackenzie has his face and eyes melted by acid and survives by ripping off the affected portions before it can completely eat through his head. However, given he can't see or speak, he would've been better off dying.
*** He didn't even do it on purpose, he was just reflexively clutching at the source of the pain. No only does the flesh come off in his hands, the flesh comes off his hands, too. And he's still ''conscious'' afterwards, with his face and hands stripped to bloody bone.