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'''''The Relic''''' (or ''Relic'') is a film adaptation of a novel by [[Agent Pendergast
▲''The Relic'' (or ''Relic'') is a film adaptation of a novel by [[Agent Pendergast (Literature)|Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child]] starring Tom Sizemore released in 1997.
A string of gruesome murders plagues the Chicago Museum of Natural History in the days leading up to a massive gala to open a new exhibit. The strange mutilations of the bodies suggests the killer may not even be human. But with so much at stake, the museum officials decide to push through the opening despite the dangers.
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* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: The black security guard is the first to get it.
* [[Brain Food]]: The Kothoga. Human brains aren't its first choice, though, it prefers to eat the plants from the Amazon used as packing material in some specimen crates (which have much higher concentrations of the hormones and such it needs). The events of the novel happen because the crates are moved to a more secure area of the basement after a curator notices they've been broken into, forcing it to search for alternatives (read: brains).
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* [[Foreshadowing]]: D'Agosta jokes that the storage area would be a bad place to light a match.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Margo calls Greg a gerbil.
* [[Hard
* [[Horror Hunger]]: For human hypothalamus.
* [[Hot Scientist]]: Margo is especially [[Fan Service|fanservicey]] when she's changing into her dress for the gala.
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* [[It Can Think]]: Kothoga is able to recognize traps, hide bodies, and do what it can to stay out of sight from humans, [[Justified Trope|justified]] by the fact that it {{spoiler|used to be human itself}}.
* [[Jerkass]]: Dr. Lee throws his hat in against Margo for a grant he doesn't even need (and she will have to close down without) and then to up his odds of getting said grant, he has her "accidentally" locked into the labs during the party so he can brown nose the benefactors in peace.
* [[Kill It
* [[National Geographic Nudity]]: In the opening, Dr. Whitney is in the company of South American natives who wear little to no clothes.
* [[Lockdown]]: The damaged security system effectively locks everyone in the museum with the monster.
* [[Plot Hole]]: The movie places the first murder and the break-in for the crates on the same night. If the Kothoga had gotten to the crates, why did it need to kill?
* [[Send in
* [[Tragic Monster]]: Kothoga, once its full origin is revealed.
* [[Viewers
** And if you didn't get it five minutes ago when we told you he's afraid of black cats, we'll remind you now that D'Agosta is superstitious by having him refuse to pick up a penny wrong-side-down, and five minutes from now when we tell you about his lucky bullet.
* [[Viral Transformation]]: {{spoiler|The reovirus creates monsters out of anything that ingests it}} by inserting saurian and reptilian DNA into host cells; but the victim needs a steady supply of specialized hormones to {{spoiler|retain its new form, the victim-turned-monster}}; in order to acquire these hormones, the victim must go right to the richest source available and ''[[Horror Hunger|eat the hypothalamus]]'' of its victims or go mad from the pain of being unable to sustain {{spoiler|its new form}}.
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