S.S. Doomtrooper
Encyclopedia
S.S. Doomtrooper is a 2006 made-for-TV science fiction movie starring Corin Nemec
, in which a mutated Nazi supersoldier
(which is blue, has glowing veins, can generate electrical radiation
as a weapon, and has greatly enhanced strength and size) fights against Allied troops during World War II
.
The character of Private Parker Lewis is an homage of the main character of the Fox
comedy series Parker Lewis Can't Lose
; Corin Nemec played the part of Parker Lewis in the sitcom.
), whom he relieves of command based on orders from Berlin. He finds a cage with three dogs inside it, but the dogs are horribly mutated; they have extremely exaggerated muscle mass and light glowing from inside their bodies. Ullman reveals that this is his latest experiment and requests one of Reinhardt's men for a demonstration.
One of the German soldiers is strapped into a capsule in Ullman's lab and injected with some sort of chemical, then exposed to a great amount of an unknown type of radiation. Moments later, he falls out of the capsule, and in front of the scientists and Reinhardt, begins a horrifying transformation: his skin turns blue, his arms gain massive amounts of muscle and grow claws, and soon, the rest of his body changes in a similar fashion.
In the United States, a veteran of the war, Captain Malloy (Corin Nemec
), is commissioned for a mission to locate and destroy the Citadel. He forms a team of English and American prisoners who are offered their freedom in exchange for participation with the help of his friend, Sergeant Digger. They prematurely parachute into German territory while under heavy fire from a German air attack. Two soldiers (Johnson and Papadakis) are separated from the team and continue on to the meeting point.
Reinhardt, upon learning this, gives Dr. Ullman permission to use the creature (the Doomtrooper) to fight Malloy's team; it is sent to a nearby French village.
Johnson and Papadakis encounter the Doomtrooper in the village. They attempt to kill it but the Doomtrooper just shrugs off their bullets. Johnson runs toward a ladder in panic and is shot by the machine gun attached to the creature's arm. Papadakis prepares to fight the Doomtrooper but the rest of the team arrives in time to fire at the Doomtrooper and they repel it long enough for Papadakis to get up the ladder and escape. The group throw grenades at the Doomtrooper and assume it is dead. Papadakis rejoins them afterward.
When Reinhardt is informed that the Doomtrooper has engaged the Allied soldiers in combat, he is pleased with the experiment and orders a team out to recover the Doomtrooper. Ullman simply remarks to his assistant that the soldiers will be killed by it; this prediction comes true when the Doomtrooper opens fire on the German team and slaughters them. It also demonstrates a previously unknown ability by grabbing the team leader and electrocuting him.
The Allied soldiers try to find a place to hide for the night. They attempt to secure an empty building but they stumble upon a French Resistance hideout, led by a woman, Mariette Martinet. The soldiers and French Resistance decide to team up to kill the monster and the Germans. The Allied team's wiring expert, Private Parker Lewis, strikes an immediate adversarial relationship with Jean-Claude, a soldier of the Resistance.
The allied unit teams up with the French Resistance
, and plan to take munitions from an ammunition dump, and use it to destroy the Citadel. During the night, the Doomtrooper ambushes the hideout and kills most of the French Resistance in a brutal firefight. One Allied soldier, Potter, is able to briefly disable the Doomtrooper with a grenade launcher, but upon seeing the Doomtrooper recover, he walks up to it and punches it in the face. This surprisingly harms the Doomtrooper, but it quickly recovers, picks up Potter, and shoots him three times, cutting his body in half. Private Lewis twists his ankle as he flees the building and is nearly killed, but the Doomtrooper's gun runs out of ammunition, and he escapes. The Doomtrooper discards the gun but fails to notice the soldiers hiding from it, and walks off.
Back at the Citadel, Reinhardt angrily terminates Ullman's position and orders him to return to Berlin after ending the Doomtrooper project. Enraged, Ullman shoots Reinhardt and his assistant, then takes command of the Citadel and orders his assistant to gather more men so he can grow new Doomtroopers.
On their way to the ammo dump, the team spots a German panzer, which was ordered to destroy the Doomtrooper. The team's sniper Papadakis kills the tank commander and they steal the tank. Just as they commandeer the tank, the Doomtrooper appears and engages them, having been attracted by their gunshots. They fire a round from the tank into the Doomtrooper's chest at point blank range, but it is only stunned.
Jones, the team's disguise specialist, dresses up as the tank commander and they proceed to the German ammo dump. Jones distracts the Germans while the rest of the team takes control of a guard post with a turret. When Jones can not buy anymore time for the Allied team, they open fire and all the Germans are killed. The Allied team decides to detonate the munitions at the dump to destroy the Doomtrooper.
Captain Malloy and Mariette lure the Doomtrooper into the main ammunition bunker inside the mountain by using a flamethrower. Captain Malloy and Mariette escape using an elevator while the rest of the team hide outside and close the bunker door to trap the Doomtrooper inside. Forgetting to lock the door, Jean-Claude - who has just befriended Private Lewis - attempts to bar it to prevent the Doomtrooper from escaping, but the Doomtrooper electrocutes him through the iron door. Nevertheless, the team rendezvous at a safe distance, and detonate the entire ammunition dump.
The team then makes their way to the Citadel, but the Germans already know of their presence and plan to stop the Allied team. On the way, they encounter an enemy sniper. The team orders Jones to distract the sniper so that Papadakis can take him out. Papadakis is about to fire, but is shot in his eye through his scope. Enraged because he was too afraid to distract the German sniper, Jones runs through an open field, and ends up getting shot; although, it buys Captain Malloy time to finally kill the German sniper. They decide that they must leave Jones behind because he will slow them down. Once they leave, Jones discovers that his royal family medallion has blocked the bullet and saved his life.
Meanwhile, the team steals a German Kubelwagen full of wine and get into the German castle by disguising themselves. Their cover is almost blown, but the German soldiers are distracted when Jones returns to the castle and fires at the Germans with a rocket launcher and leads the bulk of the German guards deep into the forest, where he is eventually killed. Taking advantage of the distraction, the Allied team kills most the remaining garrison, but the rest of the German unit returns. During the fight, Digger blows himself up with explosives to destroy most of the remaining Germans. The team goes into the Citadel and are captured by Professor Ullman's assistant, who takes them into his lab. While the doctor is explaining his plans, the remaining Allied team (Captain Malloy, Mariette and Private Lewis), break free. Malloy and Mariette grab the guns from the German guards and attempt to hold Ullman and his assistant hostage while they examine the lab, in the process killing the German soldier in the capsule about to be transformed into a Doomtrooper.
Lewis realizes he can short circuit the lab's power by hotwiring the controls of the Doomtrooper capsule. However, Ullman strikes Mariette down and wounds Lewis with a revolver before being fatally wounded by Malloy. Ullman's assistant tries to escape but finds herself facing the original Doomtrooper, who survived the ammo dump explosion and killed all the guards. Ullman orders it to kill everyone in the room, and it begins with his assistant.
In order to buy Lewis time to hotwire the system, Malloy engages the Doomtrooper in hand-to-hand combat, cutting its hand off with a knife, despite the fact that the Doomtrooper had previously absorbed gun shots and missile explosions without being damaged, a knife suddenly cuts right through him. Meanwhile, Lewis short circuits the power but is electrocuted and killed. After being thrown by the Doomtrooper, Malloy picks up two cables flowing with electricity and jams them under the creature's helmet, killing it by overexposing it to the radiation it was created with. Malloy escapes with Mariette, but while escaping, surviving German soldiers almost kill them; however, the Germans are killed by Digger, who survived the explosion. Together, they exit the crumbling castle, and stumble on the body of Jones, and realize that he was the one who distracted the Germans.
Back in America, Captain Malloy tells General Carmichael what happened and when the general asks if they saw any experiment records or data (obviously trying to recreate the Doomtrooper), Malloy says that it only killed his friends and should never be recreated again. Outside, Malloy says that the General wouldn't mind if they borrow his car. He rigs the car and Malloy, Digger and Mariette drive away happily laughing.
effects, is a Nazi soldier that was mutated into a monstrous, vaguely Hulk
-like creature seconds after being exposed to an unknown type of radiation
. Transformed by a mad scientist
(played by Ben Cross
), it is sent to battle the invading Allied troops but quickly turns on its creators and goes on a rampage. Later, however, it is shown that the Doomtrooper is loyal to Ullman and will obey his commands, even showing rudimentary signs of sadness when it finds him dying. It is equipped with an auto-cannon attached to its right arm and is able to produce an electrical shock capable of electrocuting anyone in its grasp. The creature also possesses limited self-regenerative powers and near indestructibility to projectile weapons as well as high explosives, although it is fazed by fisticuffs and can have his arm cut off by a knife. The Doomtrooper wears a type of metal mask which hides its face and allows it to roar and growl in an electronically distorted-sounding voice. After killing nearly everybody that gets in its path, the Doomtrooper is finally killed by being injected with an overdose of the blue radiation used to create it. The Doomtrooper has a very similar appearance to the "Ubersoldat" or Supersoldier from the video-game Return to Castle Wolfenstein
, a game made before the movie. The Ubersoldat from the game also has the ability to produce an electrical shock, albeit from an electricity gun mounted in one of its arms, and wears a helmet that completely covers its head.
Corin Nemec
Corin "Corky" Nemec is an American actor. Nemec is known for playing the title character on Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Jonas Quinn on Stargate SG-1, and Harold Lauder in the ABC miniseries The Stand.-Personal life:Nemec's mother was a graphic artist as well as a painter, writer and poet...
, in which a mutated Nazi supersoldier
Supersoldier
Supersoldier is a term often used to describe a soldier that operates beyond normal human limits or abilities. Supersoldiers are common in science fiction literature, films, TV programs, computer, conspiracy theories, and video games, but have also made appearances in other related genres, such as...
(which is blue, has glowing veins, can generate electrical radiation
Radiation
In physics, radiation is a process in which energetic particles or energetic waves travel through a medium or space. There are two distinct types of radiation; ionizing and non-ionizing...
as a weapon, and has greatly enhanced strength and size) fights against Allied troops during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
.
The character of Private Parker Lewis is an homage of the main character of the Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
comedy series Parker Lewis Can't Lose
Parker Lewis Can't Lose
Parker Lewis Can't Lose is an American teen sitcom that originally aired on FOX from September 1990 to June 1993. During the last season, the series sported the simpler title Parker Lewis. The series was produced by Columbia Pictures Television and was strongly influenced by the feature film Ferris...
; Corin Nemec played the part of Parker Lewis in the sitcom.
Plot
Set during World War Two, SS Doomtrooper opens with an SS officer, Lieutenant Reinhardt, arriving at the Citadel, a castle in the French countryside being used as a German laboratory. He meets Dr. Ullman (Ben CrossBen Cross
Ben Cross is a British actor of the stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the British Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.-Early life:...
), whom he relieves of command based on orders from Berlin. He finds a cage with three dogs inside it, but the dogs are horribly mutated; they have extremely exaggerated muscle mass and light glowing from inside their bodies. Ullman reveals that this is his latest experiment and requests one of Reinhardt's men for a demonstration.
One of the German soldiers is strapped into a capsule in Ullman's lab and injected with some sort of chemical, then exposed to a great amount of an unknown type of radiation. Moments later, he falls out of the capsule, and in front of the scientists and Reinhardt, begins a horrifying transformation: his skin turns blue, his arms gain massive amounts of muscle and grow claws, and soon, the rest of his body changes in a similar fashion.
In the United States, a veteran of the war, Captain Malloy (Corin Nemec
Corin Nemec
Corin "Corky" Nemec is an American actor. Nemec is known for playing the title character on Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Jonas Quinn on Stargate SG-1, and Harold Lauder in the ABC miniseries The Stand.-Personal life:Nemec's mother was a graphic artist as well as a painter, writer and poet...
), is commissioned for a mission to locate and destroy the Citadel. He forms a team of English and American prisoners who are offered their freedom in exchange for participation with the help of his friend, Sergeant Digger. They prematurely parachute into German territory while under heavy fire from a German air attack. Two soldiers (Johnson and Papadakis) are separated from the team and continue on to the meeting point.
Reinhardt, upon learning this, gives Dr. Ullman permission to use the creature (the Doomtrooper) to fight Malloy's team; it is sent to a nearby French village.
Johnson and Papadakis encounter the Doomtrooper in the village. They attempt to kill it but the Doomtrooper just shrugs off their bullets. Johnson runs toward a ladder in panic and is shot by the machine gun attached to the creature's arm. Papadakis prepares to fight the Doomtrooper but the rest of the team arrives in time to fire at the Doomtrooper and they repel it long enough for Papadakis to get up the ladder and escape. The group throw grenades at the Doomtrooper and assume it is dead. Papadakis rejoins them afterward.
When Reinhardt is informed that the Doomtrooper has engaged the Allied soldiers in combat, he is pleased with the experiment and orders a team out to recover the Doomtrooper. Ullman simply remarks to his assistant that the soldiers will be killed by it; this prediction comes true when the Doomtrooper opens fire on the German team and slaughters them. It also demonstrates a previously unknown ability by grabbing the team leader and electrocuting him.
The Allied soldiers try to find a place to hide for the night. They attempt to secure an empty building but they stumble upon a French Resistance hideout, led by a woman, Mariette Martinet. The soldiers and French Resistance decide to team up to kill the monster and the Germans. The Allied team's wiring expert, Private Parker Lewis, strikes an immediate adversarial relationship with Jean-Claude, a soldier of the Resistance.
The allied unit teams up with the French Resistance
French Resistance
The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...
, and plan to take munitions from an ammunition dump, and use it to destroy the Citadel. During the night, the Doomtrooper ambushes the hideout and kills most of the French Resistance in a brutal firefight. One Allied soldier, Potter, is able to briefly disable the Doomtrooper with a grenade launcher, but upon seeing the Doomtrooper recover, he walks up to it and punches it in the face. This surprisingly harms the Doomtrooper, but it quickly recovers, picks up Potter, and shoots him three times, cutting his body in half. Private Lewis twists his ankle as he flees the building and is nearly killed, but the Doomtrooper's gun runs out of ammunition, and he escapes. The Doomtrooper discards the gun but fails to notice the soldiers hiding from it, and walks off.
Back at the Citadel, Reinhardt angrily terminates Ullman's position and orders him to return to Berlin after ending the Doomtrooper project. Enraged, Ullman shoots Reinhardt and his assistant, then takes command of the Citadel and orders his assistant to gather more men so he can grow new Doomtroopers.
On their way to the ammo dump, the team spots a German panzer, which was ordered to destroy the Doomtrooper. The team's sniper Papadakis kills the tank commander and they steal the tank. Just as they commandeer the tank, the Doomtrooper appears and engages them, having been attracted by their gunshots. They fire a round from the tank into the Doomtrooper's chest at point blank range, but it is only stunned.
Jones, the team's disguise specialist, dresses up as the tank commander and they proceed to the German ammo dump. Jones distracts the Germans while the rest of the team takes control of a guard post with a turret. When Jones can not buy anymore time for the Allied team, they open fire and all the Germans are killed. The Allied team decides to detonate the munitions at the dump to destroy the Doomtrooper.
Captain Malloy and Mariette lure the Doomtrooper into the main ammunition bunker inside the mountain by using a flamethrower. Captain Malloy and Mariette escape using an elevator while the rest of the team hide outside and close the bunker door to trap the Doomtrooper inside. Forgetting to lock the door, Jean-Claude - who has just befriended Private Lewis - attempts to bar it to prevent the Doomtrooper from escaping, but the Doomtrooper electrocutes him through the iron door. Nevertheless, the team rendezvous at a safe distance, and detonate the entire ammunition dump.
The team then makes their way to the Citadel, but the Germans already know of their presence and plan to stop the Allied team. On the way, they encounter an enemy sniper. The team orders Jones to distract the sniper so that Papadakis can take him out. Papadakis is about to fire, but is shot in his eye through his scope. Enraged because he was too afraid to distract the German sniper, Jones runs through an open field, and ends up getting shot; although, it buys Captain Malloy time to finally kill the German sniper. They decide that they must leave Jones behind because he will slow them down. Once they leave, Jones discovers that his royal family medallion has blocked the bullet and saved his life.
Meanwhile, the team steals a German Kubelwagen full of wine and get into the German castle by disguising themselves. Their cover is almost blown, but the German soldiers are distracted when Jones returns to the castle and fires at the Germans with a rocket launcher and leads the bulk of the German guards deep into the forest, where he is eventually killed. Taking advantage of the distraction, the Allied team kills most the remaining garrison, but the rest of the German unit returns. During the fight, Digger blows himself up with explosives to destroy most of the remaining Germans. The team goes into the Citadel and are captured by Professor Ullman's assistant, who takes them into his lab. While the doctor is explaining his plans, the remaining Allied team (Captain Malloy, Mariette and Private Lewis), break free. Malloy and Mariette grab the guns from the German guards and attempt to hold Ullman and his assistant hostage while they examine the lab, in the process killing the German soldier in the capsule about to be transformed into a Doomtrooper.
Lewis realizes he can short circuit the lab's power by hotwiring the controls of the Doomtrooper capsule. However, Ullman strikes Mariette down and wounds Lewis with a revolver before being fatally wounded by Malloy. Ullman's assistant tries to escape but finds herself facing the original Doomtrooper, who survived the ammo dump explosion and killed all the guards. Ullman orders it to kill everyone in the room, and it begins with his assistant.
In order to buy Lewis time to hotwire the system, Malloy engages the Doomtrooper in hand-to-hand combat, cutting its hand off with a knife, despite the fact that the Doomtrooper had previously absorbed gun shots and missile explosions without being damaged, a knife suddenly cuts right through him. Meanwhile, Lewis short circuits the power but is electrocuted and killed. After being thrown by the Doomtrooper, Malloy picks up two cables flowing with electricity and jams them under the creature's helmet, killing it by overexposing it to the radiation it was created with. Malloy escapes with Mariette, but while escaping, surviving German soldiers almost kill them; however, the Germans are killed by Digger, who survived the explosion. Together, they exit the crumbling castle, and stumble on the body of Jones, and realize that he was the one who distracted the Germans.
Back in America, Captain Malloy tells General Carmichael what happened and when the general asks if they saw any experiment records or data (obviously trying to recreate the Doomtrooper), Malloy says that it only killed his friends and should never be recreated again. Outside, Malloy says that the General wouldn't mind if they borrow his car. He rigs the car and Malloy, Digger and Mariette drive away happily laughing.
Super-soldier
The super-soldier, produced by CGIComputer-generated imagery
Computer-generated imagery is the application of the field of computer graphics or, more specifically, 3D computer graphics to special effects in art, video games, films, television programs, commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media...
effects, is a Nazi soldier that was mutated into a monstrous, vaguely Hulk
Hulk (comics)
The Hulk is a fictional character, a superhero in the . Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #1 ....
-like creature seconds after being exposed to an unknown type of radiation
Radiation
In physics, radiation is a process in which energetic particles or energetic waves travel through a medium or space. There are two distinct types of radiation; ionizing and non-ionizing...
. Transformed by a mad scientist
Mad scientist
A mad scientist is a stock character of popular fiction, specifically science fiction. The mad scientist may be villainous or antagonistic, benign or neutral, and whether insane, eccentric, or simply bumbling, mad scientists often work with fictional technology in order to forward their schemes, if...
(played by Ben Cross
Ben Cross
Ben Cross is a British actor of the stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the British Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.-Early life:...
), it is sent to battle the invading Allied troops but quickly turns on its creators and goes on a rampage. Later, however, it is shown that the Doomtrooper is loyal to Ullman and will obey his commands, even showing rudimentary signs of sadness when it finds him dying. It is equipped with an auto-cannon attached to its right arm and is able to produce an electrical shock capable of electrocuting anyone in its grasp. The creature also possesses limited self-regenerative powers and near indestructibility to projectile weapons as well as high explosives, although it is fazed by fisticuffs and can have his arm cut off by a knife. The Doomtrooper wears a type of metal mask which hides its face and allows it to roar and growl in an electronically distorted-sounding voice. After killing nearly everybody that gets in its path, the Doomtrooper is finally killed by being injected with an overdose of the blue radiation used to create it. The Doomtrooper has a very similar appearance to the "Ubersoldat" or Supersoldier from the video-game Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a first person shooter video game published by Activision and originally released on November 19, 2001 for Microsoft Windows. It was made available on Steam on August 3, 2007. The single player game was developed by Gray Matter Interactive and Nerve Software...
, a game made before the movie. The Ubersoldat from the game also has the ability to produce an electrical shock, albeit from an electricity gun mounted in one of its arms, and wears a helmet that completely covers its head.
Cast
- Corin NemecCorin NemecCorin "Corky" Nemec is an American actor. Nemec is known for playing the title character on Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Jonas Quinn on Stargate SG-1, and Harold Lauder in the ABC miniseries The Stand.-Personal life:Nemec's mother was a graphic artist as well as a painter, writer and poet...
.... Captain Malloy - Ben CrossBen CrossBen Cross is a British actor of the stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the British Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.-Early life:...
.... Professor Ullman - James Pomichter.... Private Parker Lewis
- Harry Van Gorkum.... Sergeant Digger
- Raicho Vasilev.... Corporal Potter
- Marianne Filali.... Mariette Martinet
- Asen Blatechki.... Private Andy Papadakis
- Kirk B.R. Woller.... Lieutenant Reinhardt
- John NewtonJohn Haymes NewtonJohn Newton is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his regular roles on the television programs Superboy as Clark Kent in the show's first season and as Ryan McBride on the original Melrose Place.-Career:...
.... Jones - Boris Pankin.... General Carmichael