Locusts: The 8th Plague: Difference between revisions

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The story involves a company trying to genetically engineer carnivorous locusts that would eat other insects instead of crops. But of course (given the genre) they create bugs that eat everything with flesh instead, and of course they accidentally escape and begin attacking people.

* [[Hollywood Nerd]]

* [[Infant Immortality]]: Applied in a horrible way: a kid survives the swarm inside a car, but gets to watch his parents get eaten alive. It leaves him catatonic.

* [[Police Are Useless]]: Both applied and subverted: The authorities are actually competent and well-equipped, it's just that the bugs turned out to be much tougher than expected. More importantly, the agent in charge actually ''listens'' to the heroes.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: One of the executives responsible for the experiment (who also happens to be the father of the veterinarian) dies killing the swarm (with a bomb.)

* [[Strictly Formula]]: Like in most monster movies: the menace is created by human greed and carelessness; only a few people are killed at first and then a full carnage begins; normal weapons don't work against them; the Hollywood Nerds are the only ones who can stop it; the people responsible are killed by their own creation; and of course the ending suggests the bugs might have survived. Somewhat less usual but still part of the genre: see [[False Ending]] and [[Redemption Equals Death]]. The only real subversion is with [[Police Are Useless]].

* [[Tempting Fate]]: The local religious fanatic who kept warning about The Apocalypse and how he would be spared because of his faith? Yeah he dies.

 

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