Character Relationship Map: Bad Taste

Characters

• Ozzy / 3rd Class Alien (played by Terry Potter) — protagonist

  An investigative agent who infiltrates the aliens' house, helps rescue the hostage, fights the aliens, and uses a rocket launcher. He is later shot in the leg by the alien leader.

• Barry / 3rd Class Alien (played by Pete O'Herne) — protagonist

  An investigative agent who kills one of the disguised aliens before being attacked by others.

• Giles / 3rd Class Alien (played by Craig Smith) — supporting

  A charity collector who enters the abandoned town, escapes an attack, is captured, and is held as food by the aliens until the agents rescue him.

• Frank / 3rd Class Alien (played by Mike Minett) — supporting

  An investigative agent who infiltrates the aliens' meeting in disguise, discovers their plan to harvest victims for food, helps rescue the hostage, and fights the alien leader.

• Derek / Robert (played by Peter Jackson) — supporting

  An agent who tortures a captured alien, survives a fall with severe head damage, replaces missing brain tissue with alien brain matter, and ultimately kills the alien leader before heading toward the...

• Alien Leader (played by Peter Vere-Jones) — supporting

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Derek / Robert → Giles / 3rd Class Alien (Social Fellow Survivor) — Derek and Giles occupy the same survivor struggle, although the plot gives them little direct interaction.

  Derek joins the battle against the aliens while Giles is being escorted away by the surviving group.

• Giles / 3rd Class Alien → Alien Leader (Conflict Hostile Captor) — Giles is a targeted survivor of the alien leader's operation.

  The Alien Leader's followers pursue Giles and the other survivors after Giles is rescued from captivity and the group leaves the house.

• Barry / 3rd Class Alien → Alien Leader (Conflict Enemy) — Barry belongs to the human defensive side opposing the leader's group.

  Barry fights with the investigation team against the aliens who follow the Alien Leader after their escape from the house.

• Ozzy / 3rd Class Alien → Alien Leader (Conflict Enemy) — Ozzy is an active combatant against the alien leader and is wounded by him.

  Ozzy hunts the Alien Leader with Frank, and the leader later shoots Ozzy in the leg during their escape attempt.

• Frank / 3rd Class Alien → Alien Leader (Conflict Enemy) — Frank directly opposes the alien command figure during the final pursuit.

  Frank hunts for the Alien Leader with Ozzy, fires a rocket launcher at him, and continues fighting after the attack fails.

• Derek / Robert → Alien Leader (Conflict Enemy) — Derek and the Alien Leader become the film's final opposing forces.

  The Alien Leader knocks Derek unconscious before the alien house transforms and launches into space. Derek later ambushes and kills the leader with a...

• Barry / 3rd Class Alien → Giles / 3rd Class Alien (Alliance Rescuer) — Barry contributes to the group's effort to recover Giles.

  Barry is part of the group that saves Giles after the aliens capture him and prepare to eat him.

• Ozzy / 3rd Class Alien → Giles / 3rd Class Alien (Alliance Rescuer) — Ozzy participates directly in Giles's rescue.

  After Frank reveals the hostage situation, Ozzy joins the group in rescuing Giles from the sleeping aliens.

• Frank / 3rd Class Alien → Giles / 3rd Class Alien (Alliance Rescuer) — Frank helps identify Giles's danger and leads the rescue effort.

  Frank learns that Giles is being held as a hostage and tells the others about the plan. The group then saves Giles while the aliens sleep.

• Derek / Robert → Barry / 3rd Class Alien (Alliance Teammate) — Derek and Barry are assigned to the same investigative unit.

  Derek and Barry are part of the four-agent team sent to Kaihoro. Their mission begins as a shared investigation.

• Derek / Robert → Frank / 3rd Class Alien (Alliance Teammate) — Derek and Frank begin as field teammates, although their later behavior diverges sharply.

  Derek is dispatched with Frank to investigate the town, and later joins Frank during the gunfight against the aliens.

• Derek / Robert → Ozzy / 3rd Class Alien (Alliance Teammate) — Derek initially functions as Ozzy's fellow investigator before becoming an unstable combatant.

  Derek is initially sent with Ozzy, Frank, and Barry to investigate Kaihoro. Later, Derek emerges and joins the fight while Ozzy is still engaged with...

• Frank / 3rd Class Alien → Barry / 3rd Class Alien (Alliance Teammate) — Frank and Barry share operational duties within the team.

  Frank and Barry are deployed together in the Kaihoro investigation and participate in the defense against the aliens.

• Ozzy / 3rd Class Alien → Barry / 3rd Class Alien (Alliance Teammate) — Ozzy and Barry are members of the same investigation team.

  Ozzy and Barry are both sent with Derek and Frank to investigate the vanished population. They later fight the aliens together.

• Ozzy / 3rd Class Alien → Frank / 3rd Class Alien (Alliance Teammate) — Ozzy and Frank operate as field partners throughout the investigation.

  The Astro Investigation and Defence Service sends Ozzy and Frank to investigate Kaihoro. They later infiltrate the alien house and fight together.

Story Analysis

A grotesque investigation becomes an escalating war between surviving agents and aliens harvesting humans for food.

Plot Progression

1. The Empty Town — Kaihoro is discovered empty, and the investigation team enters the town. Their first encounters reveal that the apparent residents are dangerous aliens.
2. Survivors and Captives — Giles becomes trapped in an alien house while Derek survives his fall in grotesque fashion. The team begins to understand the danger surrounding the missing population.
3. The Cannibal Secret — Frank, Ozzy, and Barry infiltrate the alien house and discover evidence of harvested victims. Frank's disguise exposes the food operation and Giles's hostage status.
4. The Town Erupts — The group rescues Giles but is attacked at sunrise. Derek returns to the battle as the aliens reveal their true forms and pursue the survivors.
5. War Beyond Earth — The survivors battle through the alien house and are separated when it launches into space. Derek kills the Alien Leader, declares war, and leaves the remaining survivors to escape Earth.