After the shard causes a hallucination, tricking him into letting the first Necromorph free and starting the outbreak, he hallucinates his wife and son as Necromorphs and slays them too. Despite this, he was having an affair with Cho. He was hellbent on his work, preventing him from having any sort of relationship with his wife and son.

In addition, each flashback has its own distinct style.

Art Shift: The present story is told in CGI, while the flashbacks are done in an anime design.As the camera shifts, there are others all trapped like Stross, one of them being Isaac Clarke. However, this stasis pod appears to keep its victim conscious while they're encased, which makes it all the worse for Stross who's claustrophobic. And I Must Scream: Stross ends the movie locked in a stasis pod and waiting to be turned into a medical test subject for the EarthGov marker program.The survivors are picked up by the Abraxis, where the story begins.ĭead Space: Aftermath provides examples of the following tropes: They throw the shard into the engine, destroying it and the Necromorphs. Stross kills his wife and son, believing they were more Necromorphs, before being found by his mistress Isabel Cho.Ĭho, Stross, Kuttner, and engineer Alejandro Borges make their way to the ship's engines. It slaughters the crew, turning them into more Necromorphs. The corpse is turned into a Necromorph and quickly escapes. He exposes the shard to a corpse, thinking that it will revive the body. Alien symbols fill his vision, which he believes to be the key to the alien language. Scientist Nolan Stross experiments on the recovered shard, and he too begins seeing visions. The resulting chain reaction destroys the planet and cripples the O'Bannon.

Seeing visions of his deceased daughter, Vivian, he accidentally disables one the planetary stabilizers in a misguided attempt to save her. A member of the survey team, Nickolas Kuttner, stumbles upon one such shard and is driven mad in short order. The movie is told mostly in flashback by the remaining crew of the USG O'Bannon, explaining to the crew of the USG Abraxis what happened to the rest of the ship.įollowing the events of Dead Space, the crew of the O'Bannon are sent to Aegis VII to collect any remaining traces of the Red Marker destroyed by Isaac Clarke. Dead Space: Aftermath is a Direct to Video animated movie set in the Dead Space universe.

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