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| “ | Richie: Who are you? The Intelligence: I AM AWARE. Richie: We mean you no harm. The Intelligence: LIFE-FORM ANALYSIS COMPLETE. SPECIES IS DESTRUCTIVE, INVASIVE, NOXIOUS, HARMFUL TO THE BODY OF THE WHOLE. Richie: What species? The Intelligence: MAN. YOU ARE VIRUS. |
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| ~ Richie asking what the Virus is and its response. |
The Virus (known in the novelization as the Intelligence) is the titular main antagonist of the 1999 science-fiction horror film Virus, based on the Dark Horse comic book of the same name.
Just like its original counterpart, it's a malevolent alien entity that travels to Earth to destroy humanity and purge the "virus" they spread, while also using their bodies as "spare parts" to expand itself and build an army of cyborgs.
Biography[]
A large electrical energy source flies by the Earth, infecting the space station Mir. The source infects the station with a powerful electric blast, killing the cosmonauts, before using one of the antennae to beam itself down to Earth at the Russian research vessel Akademik Vladislav Volkov, which was communicating with the Mir. An electrical surge takes over the ship and attacks the crew.
A week passes when another vessel, the tugboat Sea Star, locates the Volkov following her silence. The crew, consisting of captain Robert Everton, navigator Kelly Foster, engineer Steve Baker, first mate J.W. Woods Jr., deckhand Hiko, and crewmen Squeaky and Richie Mason, climb aboard the ship to salvage any cargo. On the Volkov, most of the electronics have been destroyed and her crew is missing. Steve and Squeaky restore the power, but notice all machines still active on the ship immediately activate and function independently without human input. The security cameras also silently watch them. The anchor suddenly drops on its own and sinks the Sea Star, leaving the crew isolated on the lifeless Volkov.
Steve leaves Squeaky to guard the engine room while he goes and finds the others. Squeaky spots a spider-like robot crawl down a vent, which drags him down as well when his neck gets caught in loose wires. As the others tend to Hiko's wounds, having been injured when the anchor crushed the Sea Star, they are attacked by the sole survivor of the Volkov, Nadia Vinogradova, who has gone hysterical over "it" needing power to travel and implores the group to shut down the generators. Steve, Woods, and Richie search for the engine room, coming across one of the forty-two labs of the ship on the way, building more of the robotic spiders.
The three are attacked by the robots and a gun-wielding Russian, revealed to be a cyborg who the three bring down and take his seemingly dead body to the bridge. It breaks free to reveal an endoskeleton made of the skull and spine, but is shot by Richie. Nadia explains that the energy that beamed down scanned the ship's computers for information on killing people, then used the workshops to convert the crew into hostile cyborgs. The crew decide to head for the computer room, coming across Squeaky, only to discover that he has been converted by the Virus. A second robot, the Goliath Machine, shows up and kills Woods, causing the survivors to barricade themselves in the communication room. Richie uses the computers to ask the Virus what it is; it tells him that it is aware and sees mankind as a "virus" which it plans to use as "spare parts". This drives Richie paranoid, gunning down Squeaky when he breaks in and runs off, leading the others to chase after him.
Meanwhile, Everton, who was stripped from his command after destroying the radio since he was unwilling to abort his salvage, announces himself as the "dominant lifeform" to the Virus, offering to help the entity navigate to its destination in exchange for disposing of his crew. Discovering the ship is moving, the crew return to the bridge from outside, losing Hiko to the typhoon. Foster identifies Lord Howe Island as the ship's destination, with Nadia assuming that the Virus plans to seize a British military station located on the island and take control of the world's military forces. The Goliath Machine ambushes them but they manage to escape it. As they plan a way to sink the Volkov, a converted Everton attacks them, which they defeat by planting a grenade in-between his wired body. As the group find Richie and spill flammable fluid in the ship's bilge, the Goliath Machine, now twice in size from before, shows up again and attacks them, knocking out Foster.
Foster is tortured by the Goliath Machine for the whereabouts of the crew's detonator, though the others are able to save her. Richie is killed, while Nadia and Foster are separated from Steve. As they are cornered in front of a sealed door, the Goliath Machine obtains the crew's detonator and crushes it, sarcastically declaring checkmate. It grabs Nadia and demands if there are any more detonators on the ship, but Nadia responds that there was just one and shoots a flare gun at nearby gas tanks to destroy the robot. However, her sacrifice was in vain as the Goliath Machine withstood the blast. Steve and Foster manage to avoid the Goliath Machine and escape from the Volkov by using Richie's ejection seat. The mechanism also activates a group of grenades, triggering an explosion that sinks the Volkov. The energy substance disperses in the seawater, ending the Virus for good.
Personality[]
| “ | Kelly: What happened? Nadia: Eight days ago, during a transmission from the MIR space station, something came onto the ship. We thought our transmitters and receivers were malfunctioning, so we shut them down. It took control of computers, scanned all information. Language, encyclopedias, medical data. It was learning. Kelly: Learning what? Nadia: How to kill us. |
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| ~ Kelly and Nadia on the Intelligence. |
| “ | I KNOW YOU DO. THERE'S A WHOLE WORLD WAITING OUT THERE. | „ |
| ~ The Intelligence's response to Foster knowing its objective. |
While the personality of the Virus back in its electric form is uncertain, it is sapient enough to locate the Earth and hijack a space station to beam itself down. It despises humans for it thinks them to be incomprehensible to its hive-mind.
Through scanning the Volkov computers, the Virus becomes intelligent enough to learn about humanity and seeks to kill them so it can use their parts to expand both its hive mind and knowledge. When the crew become aware of its motive, the Virus becomes overly paranoid and uses the Goliath Machine, its strongest form of power, to stop them in any way possible. It even manipulates Everton to know their weakness before converting him into a cyborg under its control.
Trivia[]
- When the Virus refers the humans as viruses, it is actually referring to the entire ship as its body, viewing the crew as parasitic invaders.
- Much like the comic, the entity is never named, with the closest thing given to it as a name being "the Virus", although the novelization refers to it as "the Intelligence".