Theme: Super Soldiers

Super Soldiers refer to efforts to artificially create a superior form of soldier – one that usually has superior strength, fighting skills, agility, ability to sustain damage, or is Cyborg enhanced. A common trope in these is of the human whose emotions is suppressed to make them a more efficient killer and their rediscovering feelings throughout the course of the story.

Genre works are full of these. Frequently, Superheroes emerge from experiments to create super-soldiers – the most famous example being Captain America, while others appear in franchise like Universal Soldier, Hitman and Halo. Judge Dredd and RoboCop are attempts to do so for law enforcement.

An equal number of Super-Villains come from such programs – a frequent plot is of the super-soldier that is revived and proceeds to go amok. A regular plot in genre cinema is of Nazi or Soviet super-soldiers that are unearthed and revived.