psi ops the mindgate conspiracy tv tropes

Season three of 24 has this happen on a larger scale involving some gas and a hotel full of people.Naturally he is less pleased when the contamination starts eating through the windows and his room is the next to be sealed and sacrificed.

In the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still, a government agent does this to a scientist who is contaminated while investigating a caged alien artifact.When the Nautilus is sinking, Nemo orders that the engine room be sealed off so the water doesn't flood the rest of the ship, condemning the crew trapped in it to death by drowning. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.The Andromeda Strain example below also occurs in the 1971 movie version.In the third Resident Evil movie the bad guy locks two assistant scientists in with a zombie when it breaks free of its restraints.It was from the fire control sprinklers.Later, when the Red Queen seals the room several researchers are trapped inside as the room fills with water for some reason. A Villain deliberately breaks a container and releases the T-Virus. Happens in the beginning of Resident Evil.

Examples: when the rig is flooding in The Abyss.

This also plays into many submarine movies, with a compartment flooding, and characters having to make one of two choices: Do we close the watertight doors, saving the ship but killing the men in that compartment? or do we stay and try to stop the flooding, knowing that they're going to close the watertight doors and if we don't succeed we'll drown or do we get out without trying to stop the water?.

The dissection scene from Independence Day almost counts: The onlookers arrive after the damage is already done, and the threat from the contained entity is psychic, not biological.

In Species, they're tooling around with the alien DNA about halfway through the movie.

This trope is the reason Spock makes a Heroic Sacrifice in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

In XXX, the Vin Diesel movie, the Big Bad seals the scientists who created the stuff in the room, then watches on as it kills them all.

Whether or not he cares is a different issue.

James Bond accidentally (or not) causes this to happen to a couple of scientists working for the Big Bad in Moonraker.

The opening scene from The Rock involves a Mook being trapped as some VX nerve gas does some funky stuff to him that definitely doesn't happen in real life.

Psi ops the mindgate conspiracy tv tropes