History Film / WEIRDWorld1995

** Bryan Mayhew is left so terrified that he can't even speak through most of his final confrontation with Abby, and when he realizes just how thoroughly he's been outplayed, he can only whimper and cry in despair, before nodding helplessly along with Abby's demands for good behavior. [[spoiler: This is because he's been regressed to childhood.]]

** Dr Monochian introduces W.E.I.R.D. Labs via a tour for the youngest prospective researcher, an elementary-school-age prodigy by the name of Susie. She's apparently a student ''and'' researcher at Harvard, specializing in a variety of fields including quantum physics and genetics, and though she's never seen during the film - and the series never took off, so her character never got any further - Dr Monochian has her parents investigated just to make sure that it's safe to recruit her without killing them first.'

* ContraceptionDeception: Bryan Mayhew's horribly exploitative relationship with Abby O'Reardon has remained intact solely due to him promising to give Abby a child. As such, Abby is ''enraged'' to discover that Mayhew secretly got a vasectomy and has been stringing her along for years, presumably for the sake of using her for credit theft. [[spoiler: As such, Abby's revenge features her dosing him with her youth serum and not giving him the antidote until he's a toddler, making Mayhew into the child she always wanted.]]

* PretendingToBeOnesOwnRelative: Enforced; [[spoiler: when a newly-regressed Bryan Mayhew is brought back from the lab, Abby pretends that he's her son, even covering up her blurted remark of "Bryan" by claiming that he's "Bryan Jr."]]

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Dr Monochian is more than a little bit on the sinister side, featuring a CreepyMonotone and SinisterShades, ordering his assistant to have a ChildProdigy's parents disposed of if they don't check out, being so blase at the deaths around the labs that he remarks that he'll need a scorecard, and subtly threatening to have Bledsoe killed if he takes his work elsewhere. However, Monochian is never seen doing anything overtly villainous and serves as a neutral administrator throughout the pilot, to the point that it's left ambiguous as to whether he believes the official information on Bledsoe and Mayhew's fates or whether he's knowingly covering up the truth. Since the series never came to be, it was never made clear if Monochian would have turned out to be truly villainous or just an extremely creepy BigGood.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Abby snarkily remarks that Mayhew should go through with their plans to have a child, as having a baby would make him feel young again. [[spoiler: It's the first indication that she's secretly planning to give him a shot of youth serum.]]

* OutGambitted: Thanks to a little help from a drunken secretary, Dr Mayhew thinks he's uncovered Abby's secret project, undoing all her plans to gain a little bit of scientific credit and forcing her to give him a very pivotal role in the project. Unfortunately for him, [[spoiler: the pivotal role is as a test subject for a youth serum.]] And in the finale, it's that the secretary was working with Abby all along, revealing Mayhew's entire comeuppance was engineered by the two of them from the very beginning.

* ProphecyTwist: Patty Provost's time travel experiments uncover a newspaper article revealing that a Dr Provost will be killed in a hit-and-run the next day. Believing that this guarantees his victory, Bob Provost kidnaps her that night and steals her time machine; once he's finished using it to travel back twenty minutes so he can avoid tripping W.E.I.R.D. Labs' security systems, he takes Patty outside, fully intending to run her over with his car. [[spoiler: However, a crash forces him to continue the chase on foot, and after a struggle over the time machine in which Bob mistakenly grabs Patty's ID instead of the device, he blunders into the road... and is [[TemporalSuicide accidentally run over by his past self]] en route to the lab. Thanks to the ID card on the body, Bob is mistakenly identified as "Doctor" Provost until - as Patty reveals in the after-action report - the newspaper sheepishly prints a retraction a couple of days later.]]

* ChildProdigy: Dr Monochian introduces W.E.I.R.D. Labs via a tour for the youngest prospective researcher, an elementary-school-age prodigy by the name of Susie. She's apparently a student ''and'' researcher at Harvard, specializing in a variety of fields including quantum physics and genetics, and though she's never seen during the film - and the series never took off, so her character never got any further - Dr Monochian has her parents investigated just to make sure that it's safe to recruit her without killing them first.

** Dr Dylan Bledsoe coldly watches one of his work colleagues dying from the virus they were studying and throws him a quarter for winning a bet over the transmission vector, then goes on to sidestep all blame by putting all responsibility on the victim and Dr Noah. For good measure, he follows up by fatally infecting his lover Catherine.

** Abby O'Reardon and Bryan Mayhew observe the argument with some amusement, before Bryan tells Abby to finish the lab work before his meeting with Monochian, treating her more like an assistant than a partner.

* UnroboticReveal: After Bledsoe is finished seducing Noah's assistant Diane, she accidentally cuts her arm to reveal circuitry and machine parts, prompting Bledlsoe to assume that she's another one of Noah's creations and reject her in disgust. Not long afterwards, Noah reveals that the arm was just a prosthetic he built for Diane after she lost her arm in an accident.

As such, the film is divided into three sub-plots, each one focusing on different members of the research team: ambitious psychopath Dr Dylan Bledsloe is hard at work on weaponizing a deadly virus, while also trying to seduce the pretty young assistant of his rival, robotics expert Dr Noah Lane - who suspects Bledsloe of murdering his ex-girlfriend. Dr Patty Provost has successfully developed time travel, oblivious to the fact that her envy-plagued brother Bob (the security chief) has betrayed W.E.I.R.D. labs and is planning to sell her discovery to a rival organization. Finally, the long-suffering Dr Abby O'Reardon is rapidly getting sick of her colleague and boyfriend Dr Bryan Mayhew stealing all the credit for her hard work and hopes to make him live up to his promise to provide her with a child - and her newest discovery might be the perfect means of doing so.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Dr Monochian is more than a little bit on the sinister side, featuring a CreepyMonotone and SinisterShades, ordering his assistant to have a ChildProdigy's parents disposed of if they don't check out, being so blase at the deaths around the labs that he remarks that he'll need a scorecard, and subtly threatening to have Bledsloe killed if he takes his work elsewhere. However, Monochian is never seen doing anything overtly villainous and serves as a neutral administrator throughout the pilot, to the point that it's left ambiguous as to whether he believes the official information on Bledsloe and Mayhew's fates or whether he's knowingly covering up the truth. Since the series never came to be, it was never made clear if Monochian would have turned out to be truly villainous or just an extremely creepy BigGood.

* TheDogBitesBack: After being seduced by Blesloe, Noah's assistant Diane is subjected to a heartless mocking when it looks as if she's actually a robot - and left doubly heartbroken when it turns out that Bledsloe was just using her to get to Noah. As such, [[spoiler: when Noah turns the tables on Bledsloe, Diane just leaves her ex-lover to suffer without so much as a guilty twinge.]]

** Dr Dylan Bledsloe coldly watches one of his work colleagues dying from the virus they were studying and throws him a quarter for winning a bet over the transmission vector, then goes on to sidestep all blame by putting all responsibility on the victim and Dr Noah. For good measure, he follows up by fatally infecting his lover Catherine.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: During the final confrontation between Noah and Bledsloe, Noah's voice begins to sound suspiciously electronic. [[spoiler: Seconds later, he rips his face off to reveal that he's a cyborg.]]

* FullConversionCyborg: In the finale, [[spoiler: Noah reveals that after Bledsloe seduced his lover Catherine, he was so overwhelmed with despair that he remade himself as a cyborg so completely that nothing remains of his organic self - a fact that he reveals by literally tearing off his face during the final confrontation. On the upside, this makes him effectively immune to the virus when Bledsloe tries to use it on him.]]

** Dr Dylan Bledsloe exposed Catherine to a deadly virus so he could use her corpse to smuggle it into W.E.I.R.D. labs, attempts to steal Dr Noah's robots to handle the stuff more effectively, then tries to expose Noah to the virus when the murder is discovered. [[spoiler: However, Noah is a FullConversionCyborg and therefore immune to the virus, so the struggle ends with Bledsloe getting his HAZMAT suit ripped open, leaving him to slowly expire from his own bioweapon. For good measure, Noah makes sure he can't infect anyone else by having one of his robots restrain him in the lab until he's finally expired.]]

* NeverMyFault: Dr Bledsloe, in keeping with his characterization as a heartless psychopath, denies all blame for any of his actions, even claiming that the death of his colleague Eddie was due to Dr Noah not providing them with robots to safely handle the virus.

* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler: In the finale, after discovering Bledsloe's crimes, Noah reveals that he's a FullConversionCyborg by literally ripping his face off to reveal the mechanical skull beneath it.]]

* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Monochian drops a very subtle threat to Bledsloe when he threatens to leave.

** Dr Dylan Bledsloe is legendarily arrogant in his assumptions that he can do anything, seduce anyone, and kill anyone who gets in the way.

* TranquilFury: Dr Monochian never loses his temper with anyone on camera, but without raising his voice or even saying anything overtly aggressive, he makes it abundantly clear that Bledloe is getting on his last nerve. For good measure, Bledsloe's threat to leave W.E.I.R.D. Labs actually makes him crack an extremely sinister smile as he replies with a threat of his own.

* UnroboticReveal: After Bledsloe is finished seducing Noah's assistant Diane, she accidentally cuts her arm to reveal circuitry and machine parts, prompting Bledlsoe to assume that she's another one of Noah's creations and reject her in disgust. Not long afterwards, Noah reveals that the arm was just a prosthetic he built for Diane after she lost her arm in an accident.

** Dr Bryan Mayhew might just have the words "smug bastard" tattooed on his softly balding forehead, endlessly schmoozing and unceasingly confident that it's going to be his name on the Noble Prize, especially when it looks as if he's managed to uncover the youth serum that Abby's been keeping hidden from him [[spoiler: even though he only managed it thanks to a gambit on Abby's part]]. He's even smugger when it looks as if [[spoiler: her attempt to test the serum on him didn't work... only to be humiliatingly disabused of this notion a few hours later.]]

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Dr Monochian is more than a little bit on the sinister side, featuring a CreepyMonotone and SinisterShades, ordering his assistant to have a ChildProdigy's parents disposed of if they don't check out, being so blase at the deaths around the labs that he remarks that he'll need a scorecard, and subtly threatening to have Bledsloe killed if he takes his work elsewhere. However, Monochian is never seen doing anything overtly villainous and serves as a neutral administrator throughout the pilot; as the series never came to be, it was never made clear if Monochian would have turned out to be truly villainous or just an extremely creepy BigGood.

* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Monochians drops a very subtle threat to Bledsloe when he threatens to leave.

* {{Slimeball}}: Bryan Mayhew is a politician first and a scientist second, spending most of his time oozing up to superiors and guests instead of actually doing research, to the point that he barely seems to understand the experiments going on. He doesn't even tone down the schmoozing when dealing with Abby, his lover and partner in name only, treating her in the same oily, insincere fashion as he does with everyone else.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Dr Abby snarkily remarks that Mayhew should go through with their plans to have a child, as having a baby would make him feel younger.

As such, the film is divided into three sub-plots, each one focusing on different members of the research team: ambitious psychopath Dr Dylan Bledsloe is hard at work on weaponizing a deadly virus, while also trying to seduce the pretty young assistant of his rival, robotics expert Dr Noah Lane - who suspects Bledsloe of murdering his previous assistant. Dr Patty Provost has successfully developed time travel, oblivious to the fact that her envy-plagued brother Bob (the security chief) has betrayed W.E.I.R.D. labs and is planning to sell her discovery to a rival organization. Finally, the long-suffering Dr Abby O'Reardon is rapidly getting sick of her colleague and boyfriend Dr Bryan Mayhew stealing all the credit for her hard work and hopes to make him live up to his promise to provide her with a child - and her newest discovery might be the perfect means of doing so.

** Dr Dylan Bledsloe exposed his own lab assistant to a deadly virus so he could use her corpse to smuggle it into W.E.I.R.D. labs, attempts to steal Dr Noah's robots to handle the stuff more effectively, then tries to expose Noah to the virus when the murder is discovered. [[spoiler: However, Noah is a FullConversionCyborg and therefore immune to the virus, so the struggle ends with Bledsloe getting his HAZMAT suit ripped open, leaving him to slowly expire from his own bioweapon. For good measure, Noah makes sure he can't infect anyone else by having one of his robots restrain him in the lab until he's finally expired.]]

* {{Slimeball}}: Bryan Mayhew is a politician first and a scientist second, spending most of his time oozing up to superiors and guests instead of actually doing research, to the point that he barely seems to understand the experiments going on. He doesn't even tone down the schmoozing when dealing with Abby, his lover and partner in name only, treating her in the same oily, insincere fashion as he does with everyone else.

* {{Slimeball}}: Bryan Mayhew is a politician first and a scientist second, spending most of his time oozing up to superiors and guests instead of actually doing research - and claiming all the credit. He doesn't even tone down the schmoozing when dealing with Abby, his lover and partner in name only, treating her in the same oily, insincere fashion as he always does.

* FountainOfYouth: Dr Abby O'Reardon has successfully developed a youth serum [[spoiler: which she eventually tests on Mayhew. Finding himself restored to his twenties, he's initially overjoyed... only to find himself hurtling backwards through his teenage years soon after. Before long, he's so young that he's stopped by the cops for underage driving and escorted back to the lab - by which time he's a child and getting steadily younger [[TransformationDiscretionShot between cuts]], much to Abby's amusement. We don't see how young he actually gets before the antidote takes effect, but in the finale, Dr Monochian announces that [[RaiseHimRightThisTime Abby has adopted a baby]], indicating that she deliberately took her time.]]

* FullConversionCyborg: In the finale, [[spoiler: Noah reveals that after Bledsloe seduced his lover Catherine, he was so overwhelmed with despair that he remade himself as a cyborg so completely that nothing remains of his organic self - a fact that he reveals by literally tearing off his face during the final confrontation. On the upside

* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler: In the finale, after discovering Bledsloe's crimes, Noah reveals that he's a FullConversionCyborg by literally ripping his face off to reveal the mechanical skull beneath it.]]

** Dr Dylan Bledsloe exposed his own lab assistant to a deadly virus so he could use her corpse to smuggle it into W.E.I.R.D. labs, then tries to expose his rival Dr Noah Lane to the virus when the murder is discovered. [[spoiler: However, Noah is a FullConversionCyborg and therefore immune to the virus, so the struggle ends with Bledsloe getting his HAZMAT suit ripped open, leaving him to slowly expire from his own bioweapon.]]

-->A former colleague of yours - you remember Sandoval - she didn't like working for us either, went to work for... ''some'' people. One day, she walked into her new laboratory at her new place of employment and reached in to open her desk drawer, and boom. [[NotEnoughToBury They had to bury what was left in a shoe box behind the reactor]]. A ''small'' shoebox.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Dr Monochian is more than a little bit on the sinister side, featuring a CreepyMonotone and SinisterShades, ordering his assistant to have a ChildProdigy's parents disposed of if they don't check out, and subtly threatening to have Bledsloe killed if he takes his work elsewhere. However, Monochian is never seen doing anything overtly villainous and serves as a neutral administrator throughout the pilot; as the series never came to be, it was never made clear if Monochian would have turned out to be truly villainous or just an extremely creepy BigGood.

''W.E.I.R.D. World'' was a 1995 feature-length {{pilot}} episode for a planned series of the same name. Directed by William Malone and produced by Joel Silver, apparently as a spin-off of ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'', it was inspired by Creator/ECComics' sci-fi output, and would have featured similar stories in the same vein had it taken off as a series. Due to a TroubledProduction and lack of audience interest, it never made it that far, and now exists only in its pilot form as a MadeForTVMovie.