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"An image that comes to my mind is looking through the portal at the blue-white globe...beautiful...so fragile, so small... And I thought to myself how easy it would be to destroy all that God has created. I think as we look to the future, our greatest mission might be right here at home."

-Patrick Ross

Patrick Ross
Patrick Ross
Biographical information
Gender Male
Species Human → The Species
Age Unknown
Status Deceased
Cause of Death Killed by a pitchfork coated with human DNA
Killed by *Dennis Gamble
Family *Judson Ross † (father)
Abilities *Transforms into two types of alien forms
  • Can split his head in two in the quadruped alien
  • Tongue-tentacle
  • Rapid regeneration
  • Communication telepathically with the same species members
Played by Justin Lazard
Appearances Species II

Patrick Ross is the main antagonist of Species II. He was an astronaut who was infected with alien DNA from collected soil samples taken from Mars. He had various half-breed sons and daughters with various women, and a pure-bred half-breed daughter, Sara with Eve.

History (film)[]

In the beginning of the film, Patrick Ross and two members of his three-person space crew arrive on Mars within six months. Patrick Ross lands on Mars to collect soil samples, during which he unknowingly finds dormant alien DNA. Patrick also places the flag of the United States of America to symbolize that the human race has crossed the vast ocean of stars from Earth to Mars. Unfortunately, one of the containers with soil samples leaks and breaks open, and a seven-minute time gap occurs at NASA as the alien DNA infects the astronauts. Patrick informs the base that there's no problem at all, looking forward to returning home to Earth, unaware that he and his fellow astronauts have been exposed to the alien DNA contained within the soil samples.

After returning to Earth, he and his crew are subjected to a quarantine whereby they cannot engage in sexual activity for ten days. However, Patrick begins to disregard the quarantine. During the night of a fundraiser, Patrick is seen making out with Marcy in a lounge room. When he is called to give a speech, the Debutante invites him to her hotel suite upstairs when he's done.

After the fundraiser, he goes up to the hotel suite to find the Debutante accompanied by her sister. Patrick starts having unprotected sex with Marcy and then her sister, which results in both women undergoing accelerated pregnancies and their stomachs tear open with Patrick's first sons being born and killing the two women in the process.

The next day, after he takes his sons to his family's barn to hide them, he tries to consult with his father, unable to remember what happened after the fundraiser, but Judson ignores his problems, believing his son will one day be the President of the United States, advising him to keep his priorities straight.

On the night of the final day of the quarantine, he is with his fiancée, Melissa, and she tries to have sex with him, but he doesn't feel up to it. She tells him to relax, that she will do all the work, and the next day, he awakes to find her dead and another son born to him through her. He decides to commit suicide and dresses in his military uniform, takes a rifle, and blows his head off, just as his friend, Dennis Gamble, discovers him about to take his own life.

Seconds later, his head regenerates and the alien side of him takes control, with the drive to mate with as many women as possible and produce as much offspring as possible. The mothers of his children are mostly prostitutes and strippers he either leaves behind or buries them after they give birth to his children.

Patrick later attempts to mate with Darlene, a fan of his he meets at a supermarket. Patrick discovers that he is being watched through a telepathic link by Eve, who was bombarded with radiation to awaken her dormant alien genes to initiate telepathic contact with him. He releases Darlene and makes an attempt to get away, but is apprehended by Press and Dennis, who were looking for him.

When Patrick arrives at the facility Eve is kept in, he senses her presence while she's in heat, and breaks free and finds her. Eve and Patrick stare at each other with their hands on the glass door that separates them, and they have dreams of themselves in their alien forms mating with each other. Patrick tells Laura to open the door, but she refuses, and even tried to help Patrick with what he's going through. Instead, Patrick attacks Laura and gets sprayed and escapes from the facility.

Patrick heads back to the family's barn, where he finds his father, who had been informed of his son's infection. Judson tries to help him, but Patrick kills him. Later, he helps his children transition into the cocoon stage in order to become adults and his sons would mate with the strongest women while his daughters would mate with the strongest men in order to wipe out the human race.

Back at the facility, Press and Laura learn that Gamble wasn't infected by the alien DNA, because he is a carrier of Sickle Cell Anemia, and since the aliens aren't immune to human genetic flaws, they decide to use his blood to infect them.

Later, Eve escapes from her confinement, and arrives at Patrick's barn. They take their clothes off and start to mate and transform into their alien forms. However, they are interrupted by the arrival of Lennox, Baker and Gamble, who infect the cocooned children with Gamble's blood to kill them, whereupon Patrick becomes a massive, quadruped alien form and attacks the three, but then attacks Eve after she turns on him. Patrick is eventually struck with a pitchfork by Lennox, coated with Gamble's blood, and Patrick begins to melt away into pulp, putting an end to his reign of terror against mankind.

However, in Species III, Patrick's legacy lives on in the form Sara, his daughter with Eve, and his three other children that managed to escape from the barn, but while Sara was the result of two hybrids and was the purest of the species so far, his three other children had weak immune systems that couldn't cope with common illnesses or even pollen or dust particles, resulting in skin rashes, sore throats, and death.

History (novelization)[]

Much of the history is identical to the film, though in one scene, he finds one of the women he attempts to procreate with is a man, he gets angry and leaves. He also realizes that something is wrong with him but can't understand what and why. In the novelization of the film, after his death, Patrick is given a funeral to remember the human that he was, and not the alien hybrid that he became after going to Mars.

Quotes[]

  • "Oh, God!"
  • "Yes, it is!"
  • "One more second!" (Not subtitled in the film version.)
  • "What the fuck you laughing at, bitch?"
  • "Eve."
  • "Open the door. Open the goddamn door. Open it!"
  • "An image that comes to my mind is looking through the portal at the blue-white globe... beautiful... so fragile, so small... And I thought to myself how easy it would be to destroy all that God has created. I think as we look to the future our greatest mission might be right here at home."
  • "Dad. Help Me"
  • "I think Space Flakes taste like shit."
  • "Last night, after the fund-raiser...something happened. I try to think about it, I draw a total blank."
  • "Stop thinking about the master plan and help me, all right? I'm scared."
  • "Eight years of training and I'm a Martian ditch digger"

Appearance[]

Patrick has two types of alien forms: Bipedal and quadrupedal.

The bipedal form is a male version of Sil and Eve's alien form. This form is only seen during the mating scene with Eve. However, in a deleted/extended scene from the film, this form is seen over the Debutante's Sister during the sexual encounter.

The quadrupedal form is for combat and is more massive and brutish, like the Xenomorphs of the Alien films. In this form, he demonstrated the ability to split his head in two, thus forming a dual-headed form.

This difference in appearance may be due to Patrick being a former human infected with alien DNA and not a true hybrid.

Relationships[]

His Father[]

Patrick has a cold relationship with his father. Judson is more concerned with keeping the family status, ignoring his son's problems. By the end of the movie fearing that Patrick will be killed, Judson talks with his son showing him that he has always loved him. Both father and son embrace each other but Patrick kills his father. Though this could've been accidental, Patrick doesn't seem to be much affected. This also could be due to the fact that Patrick, in a brief moment of fear, manages to regain control of his human side before the alien DNA reasserts itself and kills Judson to prevent itself from being destroyed.

The Debutante and Debutante's Son[]

The Debutante is unique for being the first human woman to bear hybrid offspring. She had sex with Patrick Ross, and she just wanted to enjoy a one-night stand with him. She didn't really love him, and she was impregnated by Patrick, gave birth to his son and died.

The Debutante's Sister and Debutante's Sister's Son[]

She is the second woman to give birth to one of Patrick's children. While they were having sex, Patrick's alien genes manifested. She realized this while they were making love and she saw she was holding a small tentacle behind him and begged him to stop, but he didn't listen. Like her sister, she didn't love him, and she was impregnated by Patrick, gave birth to his son and died.

Melissa and Melissa's Son[]

Melissa was Patrick's fiancée and the person he loved most. Her death hurt him so much that he tried to commit suicide. After he failed at killing himself, his alien side took over and he continued to have sex with more women and have more children and hide them in his family's barn.

Eve and Sara[]

Being the only hybrid female on Earth, Eve and Patrick were attracted to each other instantly. Eve escaped the facility with the purpose of mating with him. Later, Patrick didn't hesitate to attack Eve when she chose to help Laura, Gamble and Lennox. He doesn't have a relationship with their daughter, Sara since she was born after his death.

His Other Children[]

Like with his first three sons, Patrick sired his sons and daughters with human mothers, killing them in the process, took them to his family's barn and kept them safe until they were mature enough to cocoon and re-emerge as adults.

Trivia[]

  • Patrick's hybrid forms appearance, both bipedal and quadrupedal, differs from the dream male, Kal, and Yosef. This leaves room for a possibility that the alien DNA that infected Patrick and his crew, and eradicated life on Mars, belongs to a different species. However, it could be that Species II simply retconned the alien look, as did Species III and The Awakening. Furthermore, H.R. Giger mentioned that he designed Patrick's bipedal form as the male version of Sil.
  • Chronologically, Patrick is the second male hybrid and male subject of tracking in the franchise, after Kal. He is the third male adult to appear, after Kal and the Sil's dream male.
  • Patrick is the only known hybrid who has two types of alien form: bipedal and quadrupedal. This difference in appearance may be due to Patrick being a former human infected with alien DNA and not a true hybrid.
    • According to Giger, although Patrick had transformed into a bipedal alien form, a little humanity was left within him. But he lost it and changed into a quadrupedal alien monster form.
  • During his second time having sex, Patrick seemed to pick speed and ferocity with a change in his skin as it became more of a reddish/pinkish tone in the process; this may indicate that the alien species has rough sex with their partners.
  • In an unedited/deleted/extended scene, Patrick is seen in his alien form over the Debutante's sister.
  • Patrick is the only known human to murder a member of his family after becoming a hybrid, though whether this was intentional or not is up to discussion.
  • In the novelization, after he is killed, Patrick is given a funeral to be remembered for the human that he was and not the alien hybrid that he became at the end of his life.
  • Patrick is also the only known hybrid to have children that survive beyond one film.
  • Patrick , Anne and Sil are also the only three aliens to successfully reproduce and make alien offspring. Sara attempted to mate in order to do so but never did. Also, Miranda did achieve becoming pregnant but sadly died before she could give birth to her offspring making her a special case.
  • Patrick is the only known, male hybrid to produce hybrid offspring with multiple partners in any of the films.
  • However, apart from Sara and her mate; all of Patrick's other offspring did die just like Anne's child as well as Sil's child did too.
  • Also, in the novelization of the film, before he closes the door to the hotel suite, he puts a "Do Not Disturb" sign on the front knob.
    • In addition, he locks the door after putting out the “Do Not Disturb” sign.
  • In the alternate version of the DVD release of the Species II includes some deleted scenes. Three of them are just longer, alternate takes of scenes in the film: Patrick's sexual encounter with the debutante and her sister; a longer dance scene in the strip club; a longer version of Patrick's attempt to slide his 'tongue' into Dr. Laura Baker's mouth. The fourth scene shows Patrick going into the apartment of a girl he picked up at a club and when he discovers that the girl is actually a transvestite, he kills her by breaking her neck in bed as soon as they began to make out.
  • In the film, Patrick's alien transformation was shown to render him nigh-invulnerable. It allowed Patrick to regenerate from blowing his own head off with a shotgun, he survived, apparently completely unharmed, Eve driving her spikes through him at close range and was seemingly unharmed by the gas sprayed right in his face by Laura. Only direct contact with Dennis Gamble's blood through a pitchfork thrown into his back caused harm and killed him.
    • But it is a matter of difference between species. Considering the difference of characteristics of species between human and the Species, that's an extremely natural result. We must know that Patrick already had physically become the Species, although he didn't realize it yet, at the night of a fundraiser. Patrick successfully transformed into a bipedal form during the sex with Marcy's sister, and his transformed form was a perfect male alien of the Species. In addition, you should consider the possibility, after transforming into the quadrupedal form, that he had lost all of his human DNA and had become an alien genetically unrelated to human beings.
    • It is also worth noting that he became an alien hybrid over six months, the same time it took for him to return to Earth from Mars.
  • Excluding Sil, whose body fell into the fire just after being shot in the head, Patrick is the only known hybrid who hasn't returned to human form after death.
    • Considering H.R. Giger said Patrick's humanity was destroyed after he turned into the quadrupedal form, that's maybe because he lost all of his human DNA after transforming into the quadrupedal form.
  • Actor Justin Lazard has a background in modeling, like Natasha Henstridge.
  • If Kal from comics is not included, he is the first and only male main alien villain of the whole film series as the other main alien villains have all been women (i.e. Sil, Amelia and Azura).
  • Like Anne Sampas and Dennis Gamble, Patrick's occupation was being a astronaut.
  • Although Patrick's mother has been confirmed to be deceased, Her cause of death has never been disclosed.
  • Before becoming a astronaut, Patrick was a football player at Yale which was reported by Bill Boggs during a news report on Television.
  • Patrick is one of the known alien male characters as there is only a handful, The others on the list include Kal, Sil's dream alien male mate, Rinaldo, Calderon and some of his own offspring such as Yosef and Portus.
  • Like all villains in the franchise (main and minor) he ultimately died at the climax of the film.
  • Unlike The other villains of the film series, Patrick is a special case for a few reasons:
    • He is the first male villain (not including Kal from the comics) who debuted in one of the films in the franchise.
    • Although he was the main villain, it was through no fault of his own as he was infected by the alien species and their genetic material (i.e. goo). As a result, He lost complete control of his body, emotions and sexual drive.
    • He was naturally born human and only became an alien hybrid after he was infected by the alien species along with his fellow astronauts (minus Dennis Gamble)
    • He was the son of a senator, no other villain had any political ties or connections to people who are in politics
    • He wasn't married but engaged to a woman.
    • He was (jokingly) engaged to Dennis Gamble (in the Novelization of the film).
    • Along with his astronaut crew, he was one of the first few people to travel to Mars and land on the planet (for a mission to collect and gather soil samples of the planet's surface).
    • He is the only character to have a threesome during sex.
    • He had the most amount of sexual intercourse compared to all of the other characters across the franchise
    • He was also the first human male to be infected by the alien species (Dennis Gamble was not infected due to his sickle cell disease which is why he is a special case).
    • Also, he is the only character to have affairs since he was engaged to Melissa.
    • Despite the countless women he slept with, Melissa is the one he only truly loved and cared about. after her death, he tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun.

Gallery[]

Human Form[]

Alien Forms[]

Bipedal Form[]

Quadrupedal Form[]

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