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Alien³

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Alien³	label	Alien³
Alien³	page	Alien3
Alien³	comment	Alien³ (1992) is the third film in the Alien film series. It was the first film directed by David Fincher.Following on from the events of Aliens, hypersleep goes on the fritz again and Ripley's ship crash lands on a prison planet, killing all occupants except her. Another facehugger slips into the colony and infects a dog (or an Ox, depending on which cut you're watching), which quickly gives birth to a quadrupedal alien. Arf arf.This film introduced the concept of Xenomorphs having different shapes depending on their host bodies.The film is most known for having an infamously Troubled Production as the project went through several producers, writers, and directors before finally settling on David Fincher's rewrite with predictable results. Fincher has since disowned the movie due to the Executive Meddling he had to endure during production; however, due to the special edition of the film, the Assembly Cut, which greatly expands upon many scenes and characters, the film has undergone something of a reevaluation.
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Alien³ / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Alien³ / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: The survivors of the previous film, after fighting through all of Aliens and surviving, all die right in the beginning, except for Ripley. The prisoners are all killed one by one, with a lot of them completely unexpected. Clemens, Ripley's love interest, is one of the first among them. Ripley herself even dies at the end.
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Alien³ / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Alien³ / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: This is by far the darkest film in the entire Alien franchise. Its predecessor, Aliens, was a fairly standard action film with an overall happy ending (and that isn't a bad thing). Its sequel, however, has an air of hopelessness that just pervades the entire thing. Two major characters are killed right at the start and another one is damaged beyond repair, the film is set on a grimy prison planet populated by murderers and rapists, there is almost nothing to fight the alien off with so more characters, even likeable ones, die left and right (often with no build-up), and even Ripley is killed off at the end through Heroic Suicide because it's the only way she could stop the Weyland-Yutani Corporation from bringing the Xenomorph gestating inside of her back with them.
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Alien³ / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Alien³ / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Ripley holding the newly-born Xenomorph Queen to her chest to prevent it from escaping is not unlike a mother cradling her newborn in love.
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Alien³ / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Alien³ / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The company man at the end named Michael Bishop, the man who created the Bishop line of robots, is not named in any part of the film's dialogue, even in the Assembly Cut. The credits referred to him as "Bishop II", which only fueled the misconception brought on by shoddy editing that he's some sort of special robot with red blood. Some other details such as Fury's 10 day year are in hard-to-find material or the Blu-Ray. The Asian scientist at the end of the film is never given a name, but one draft reveals it to be Matshuita. Similarly, some prisoners aren't named in the film and go unlisted in the credits, but are named in the script. They are: Lawrence, Christopher, Martin, Janni, Ed, and the mysterious Vincent (who is named in the special edition of the film, but his actor is unknown).
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Alien³ / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Alien³ / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: The men suffering from supermale syndrome - with doubled Y chromosome, as Fiorina's convicts are stated to be - are somewhat slow learners and are on average taller than their single Y counterparts, but there is no link between a supermale syndrome and excessive propensity to violence. Such a hypothesis was already on thin ice when the movie was made, and has since been disproven by science.
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Alien³ / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Alien³ / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The film's very first trailer, promising, "On Earth, everyone will hear you scream!" suggested that the film would take place on Earth. The film went through eight or more screenplays during its early development stages (some of them, incidentally, were written by people who seem to have never watched the previous films). The trailer in question was made before the final script was even selected. Strangely enough, of the multiple scripts that have surfaced online, not one of them takes place on Earth, so one must really wonder what was up with that trailer.
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Alien³ / int_1ad42ecd	type	The Glasses Come Off
Alien³ / int_1ad42ecd	comment	The Glasses Come Off: Dillon slowly removes his horn-rimmed glasses as he and the alien stare each other down.
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Alien³ / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Alien³ / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Ripley never tells Clemens about the alien menace, even when he clearly notices that something is wrong and tells Ripley to trust him and tell him what she knows or what she thinks is going on. If she had done it maybe he wouldn't have died.
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Alien³ / int_1d9ec554	type	Scannable Man
Alien³ / int_1d9ec554	comment	Scannable Man: The prison convicts have bar codes on the back of their necks. Clemens has one too, leading Ripley to think that he is one of the inmates. As he later tells her, he was one previously.
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Alien³ / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Alien³ / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Both Junior and Gregor and to a lesser degree David.
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Alien³ / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
Alien³ / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: "85" attacking Bishop II does nothing but get him machine-gunned down, and he wanted to go home.
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Alien³ / int_1e020735	type	Heroic Suicide
Alien³ / int_1e020735	comment	Heroic Suicide: Ellen Ripley, which was enforced by Weaver so she wouldn't have to reprise the character again. Sigourney Weaver does return in the next film, however, but as a clone of Ellen Ripley. Dillon also does this to keep the Xenomorph Runner trapped within the lead mold.
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Alien³ / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Alien³ / int_1e1aa82a	comment	The most notorious one in the series is where exactly the egg that sets the plot in motion came from. The opening of the film shows an alien egg aboard the Sulaco, appearing to be in a room that the Queen did not and indeed could not possibly enter. Over the years there have been variousfan theories to try and explain it: Theory #1: The Queen did it. Perhaps the Queen keeps an extra egg stored within some other part of her body for emergencies, or perhaps eggs just mature in her ovipositor and she still had the ability to lay a "premature" egg without it. Another associated theory is that the space we see the egg in is actually within the dropship frame, not outside aboard the Sulaco. Theory #2: Bishop did it. People have also argued that after dropping Ripley in the Atmospheric Processor, Bishop had time to fly to the Derelict, obtain an egg and return. This theory is relatively unpopular, since it's not clear if Bishop does have time, not to mention it turns fan-favourite Bishop into a villain, or relies on him unconsciously working for Weyland-Yutani. Earlier versions of the script actually did use this version, albeit without making Bishop personally responsible - the Gibson script had Bishop's innards infected with material that grew into an egg while he was in stasis. Theory #3: Newt did it. The comic adaptation claims that the original host was Newt, having been impregnated at the end of the previous film. In this version, when Newt began to drown, the Royal Chestburster emerged from her mouth and moved over into Ripley's body to continue gestating. This version was apparently planned for the film at one point but never shot. It also raises some more awkward continuity questions, because the timeline is more compressed than any other time this happens. Implantation is otherwise shown to take hours, even a day. A facehugger would have to attack Newt, die, fall off and its body somehow vanish in the space of a few minutes. It also contradicts the fact that we saw Ripley torches the facehugger meant for Newt in Aliens.
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Alien³ / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Alien³ / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Both Hicks and Newt get this during the EEV's crash landing, Newt for being trapped unconscious in her tube and drowning, Hicks for having his head completely pulped by a support beam that came down on him. Murphy getting acid spat right into his face, and then getting diced by the fan when he falls blindly into it. This third entry's Xenomorph Runner is also particularly cruel. Instead of using its nested mouth for the traditional One-Hit Kill, he deliberately mauls his victims to death like a wild animal, giving them plenty of time to suffer before he finally finishes them off.
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Alien³ / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Alien³ / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Mr. Andrews. When Ripley tells him about the Alien he won't help her and confines her to sickbay, because he finds her story very implausible and he has a much simpler explanation for the recent deaths.
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Alien³ / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
Alien³ / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: The first two films aren't exactly clean, but the violence and gore was usually brief and not excessive for the most part. However, this film amps it up with an extremely detailed shot of spewing guts during the chestburster birth and Hicks having his body absolutely mangled in the crash for starters.
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Alien³ / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Alien³ / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Fury (Fiorina) 161. Even if you could ignore the Xenomorph and the local population of foul-mouthed convicts, this planet is anything but a vacation spot.
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Alien³ / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
Alien³ / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: Ripley discovers that she's the only one of the Sulaco crew still alive after their EEV crashed. Morse is the only survivor of the Fury 161 colony — he takes one last look around the place before being escorted out.
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Alien³ / int_2497e5b8	type	Atomic F-Bomb
Alien³ / int_2497e5b8	comment	Atomic F-Bomb: After Mr. Andrews is suddenly killed by the Alien, Morse blurts out the appropriate response.
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Alien³ / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Alien³ / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Newt dies in the opening, and so does a dog not much later.
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Alien³ / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Alien³ / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Alien3, when viewed together with Aliens.
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Alien³ / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
Alien³ / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: Invoked in-universe, when Ripley uses the the fact that the Dragon will not attack her because she's carrying a Queen to lure it into the leadworks during the finale of the film. She has Dillon pretend to take her hostage and threaten to kill her to draw the creature's attention.
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Alien³ / int_2acd6c79	type	Extra Y, Extra Violent
Alien³ / int_2acd6c79	comment	Extra Y, Extra Violent: The violent inmates of Fury 161 are all "double Y", and Dillon even snarks to Ripley that "you want help from us Y-chromo boys." Interestingly, the prisoners have chosen to stay after the Company tried to shut the prison down, and are trying to better themselves.
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Alien³ / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Alien³ / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Golic. Even though he didn't kill the two inmates that the others suspect him of having murdered, he is still a homicidal nutcase. When he's contained in the infirmary in a straight jacket, he turns to Ripley and suddenly reminisces about a few women he knew back home. Then he looks her in the eye and says that she's gonna die too. It's really no wonder his fellow prisoners openly dislike him, and Murphy, the dog owner, was apparently the only one who usually nice to him. His Ax-Craziness even becomes a big plot point in the Assembly Cut, when he starts regarding the Xenomorph as a god-like being and lets it go after Ripley and the prisoners capture it, purposefully sacrificing himself in the process. To a lesser degree Junior, whos crimes that got him locked up for life included aggravated sexual assault, assault with a deadly weapon, rape and murder. He leads the Attempted Rape of Ripley while putting on his goggles and doing a warriors yell to the sky before doing the heinous deed out of jealousy for Dillon accepting to Ripley sit at their table. Thankfully Dillon arrives just in time to stop Junior and kick his ass.
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Alien³ / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Alien³ / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Aaron is called "85" by the inmates since it refers to his IQ score, which they found out when they took a look at his personnel files.
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Alien³ / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Alien³ / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Dillon may be a convicted murderer and rapist, but since he has found religion he won't stand for it anymore. He unleashes a monumental beating on the other inmates when they try to rape Ripley.
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Alien³ / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Alien³ / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Just about all the inmates liberally sprinkle the word into their dialog, to the point you could make a drinking game out of it. Before the release of the South Park movie, you could be forgiven for thinking this movie held the record for most uses of the word "fuck" (you'd still be wrong though.)
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Alien³ / int_3929e0db	type	You Need to Get Laid
Alien³ / int_3929e0db	comment	You Need to Get Laid: Inverted in that Ripley admits she's gone a very long time without sex, but it's strongly implied, however, that she needs companionship, period, since almost everyone she knows is gone.
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Alien³ / int_39ff7ffb	type	Change the Uncomfortable Subject
Alien³ / int_39ff7ffb	comment	Change the Uncomfortable Subject: Ripley and Clemens both do this. Clemens asks Ripley several times why she is inspecting Newt's corpse (for Xenomorph embryos) and her reasons for wanting to cremate both Newt and Hicks, and her need to retrieve Bishop to check the flight data. Ripley continually deflects the question (one time by sleeping with Clemens) because he probably won't believe her. Ripley asks Clemens several times how he came to Fury 161, but he deflects the question repeatedly. Eventually he does tell her – he was previously an inmate.
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Alien³ / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
Alien³ / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: During the climax, Dillon stalls the Xenomorph runner by remaining down in the leadworks and begging it to solely attack him as Morse and Ripley (unsuccessfully) attempt to drown the beast in molten lead.
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Alien³ / int_3babae20	type	Degraded Boss
Alien³ / int_3babae20	comment	Degraded Boss: In a rather unusual manner, the newly-introduced Xenomorph Runner caste can easily count as an inversion of this trope due to the fact that had any number of them been present during the events of the previous film, they would've easily been gunned down by the Colonial Marines along with their standard Drone cousins, but the "Dragon" here in this film easily gets to be considered a "boss" enemy for Ripley and the inmates much like "Big Chap" aka "Kane's Son" from the first film due to the fact that he's facing off against them when they have absolutely no manmade weapons with which to properly fight back against him this time around.
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Alien³ / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Alien³ / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Clemons realizes Ripley knows more than she's telling him when she asks to check Newt's body for cholera, which hadn't had a case in 200 years.
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Alien³ / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Alien³ / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Ripley dies to prevent the Company from bringing back an alien specimen, and all but one of the inmates are dead (Morse survived).
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Alien³ / int_41a894d2	type	Voodoo Shark
Alien³ / int_41a894d2	comment	Theory #3: Newt did it. The comic adaptation claims that the original host was Newt, having been impregnated at the end of the previous film. In this version, when Newt began to drown, the Royal Chestburster emerged from her mouth and moved over into Ripley's body to continue gestating. This version was apparently planned for the film at one point but never shot. It also raises some more awkward continuity questions, because the timeline is more compressed than any other time this happens. Implantation is otherwise shown to take hours, even a day. A facehugger would have to attack Newt, die, fall off and its body somehow vanish in the space of a few minutes. It also contradicts the fact that we saw Ripley torches the facehugger meant for Newt in Aliens.
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Alien³ / int_4389e368	type	Actionized Sequel
Alien³ / int_4389e368	comment	Actionized Sequel/Sequel Escalation: Averted when compared to the first film and also inverted when compared to the second film. This third instalment returns to the formula of the first film — a single adult nigh-unkillable Xenomorph and a human cast without access to proper weapons — and is more of a claustrophobic horror than Aliens. Though ironically, since roughly thirty people (depending on the cut) are killed onscreen, it has a higher onscreen death toll than the previous two films (six and fifteen respectively) combined.
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Alien³ / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Alien³ / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Newt, Hicks and Bishop are all unceremoniously dumped.note Aliens: Colonial Marines retcons Hicks's death by showing he was retrieved and replaced with another soldier. There's only a brief scene with Bishop in which he asks to be turned off because he'll never be top of the line again.
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Alien³ / int_48309ad4	type	Screaming Woman
Alien³ / int_48309ad4	comment	Screaming Woman: Ripley screams when the gang of inmates attempt to rape her, but is more defiant and pissed off than anything.
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Alien³ / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Alien³ / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: The blood hitting the vent. Newt's autopsy.
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Alien³ / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Alien³ / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: At the beginning of the film, the USS Sulaco launches an escape pod which lands on a planet. Newt and Hicks are both killed in gruesome ways (the gory aftermath is shown), while Bishop has one scene in which he asks to be turned off. Note that this differs from the comic continuity (which was ongoing at the time of the film's release), which saw Hicks and Newt survive, and was later changed to separate both characters (renamed Wilks and Billie) to differentiate the different timelines.
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Alien³ / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Alien³ / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "You've got one of them in you."
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Alien³ / int_4f828b45	type	Post-Climax Confrontation
Alien³ / int_4f828b45	comment	Post-Climax Confrontation: After killing off the "Dragon", Ripley is confronted by a mysterious man who claims to be the creator of the Bishop Android, even looking like him, as well as the Weyland-Yutani soldiers and Aaron, but Ripley kills herself off within the furnace in order to avoid letting the Weyland-Yutani Corporation get their hands on the Xenomorph inside of her.
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Alien³ / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Alien³ / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The film ends with a recording of Ripley's last spoken sentences in the first movie.
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Alien³ / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
Alien³ / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: Remember the ending of Aliens, when Ripley successfully rescued her surrogate daughter Newt and seemed poised to start an Xenomorph-busting family unit with Hicks and Bishop? All three of those characters are unceremoniously killed off in this movie, the former two in the first five minutes, leaving Ripley to face the Xenomorph threat on her own.
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Alien³ / int_540cdedc	type	Robotic Undead
Alien³ / int_540cdedc	comment	Robotic Undead: Bishop's remains are discovered and reactivated, looking a lot like a zombie android with his lower body and most of his face missing, and his internal wiring spilling out like human intestines.
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Alien³ / int_585da3f0	type	Ambiguous Robots
Alien³ / int_585da3f0	comment	Ambiguous Robots: Depending on the interview, Lance Henriksen can't decide if his character Michael Bishop is a human or a robot.
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Alien³ / int_59103508	type	Deadly Environment Prison
Alien³ / int_59103508	comment	Deadly Environment Prison: Incarceration on the penal planet of Fury 161 is entirely voluntary. There's a minimal staff with no weapons, as there's no place for anyone to escape to without a functioning spacecraft, and the supply ship that drops by every so often is guarded. However, the facility used to house several thousand prisoners, so presumably security was more expansive when the site was fully operational.
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Alien³ / int_5c613245	type	Thrown Out the Airlock
Alien³ / int_5c613245	comment	Thrown Out the Airlock: Averted this time around as the Runner Xenomorph instead dies off as a result of being doused with a combination of hot molten lead and high-pressure freezing water.
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Alien³ / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Alien³ / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Coping and redeeming oneself even amidst death and other tragic circumstances, and accepting one's own inescapable mortality.
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Alien³ / int_5e032315	type	One-Book Author
Alien³ / int_5e032315	comment	One-Book Author: A minor (acting) example - this is the only film that Danielle Edmund (the girl who took over the "role" of Newt) ever starred in. She appears in a Freeze-Frame Bonus during the opening sequence, and an equally short time during the autopsy. Kind of appropriate, as Carrie Henn, who originated the role, also has only that one credit (though she obviously had a much larger part in her film than Edmund did).
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Alien³ / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Alien³ / int_6116ca8d	comment	Hellhole Prison: This movie gets in on the act with Fiorina-161, a/k/a 'Fury', a maximum-security prison world with no weapons of any kind because without a functioning starship escape is impossible anyway. The wardens as a result are nearly powerless against the apocalyptic cult that has gained control over the population, to say nothing of the Xenomorph that hitchhiked aboard the escape pod from the USS Sulaco. Interestingly it actually was a better prison in the past when it was properly staffed before Weyland-Yutani abandoned it; a facility built for 5,000 inmates has been reduced to housing 25 inmates with a 3-man staff. Averted to some degree because the prisoners have settled in and actually prefer living there. The Warden's main power is that without him, no one gets supplies.
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Alien³ / int_614a4e11	type	Do You Want to Copulate?
Alien³ / int_614a4e11	comment	Do You Want to Copulate?: Ripley makes a rather blunt suggestion to deflect one of Clemens's questions.
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Alien³ / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
Alien³ / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: The most notorious one in the series is where exactly the egg that sets the plot in motion came from. The opening of the film shows an alien egg aboard the Sulaco, appearing to be in a room that the Queen did not and indeed could not possibly enter. Over the years there have been variousfan theories to try and explain it: Theory #1: The Queen did it. Perhaps the Queen keeps an extra egg stored within some other part of her body for emergencies, or perhaps eggs just mature in her ovipositor and she still had the ability to lay a "premature" egg without it. Another associated theory is that the space we see the egg in is actually within the dropship frame, not outside aboard the Sulaco. Theory #2: Bishop did it. People have also argued that after dropping Ripley in the Atmospheric Processor, Bishop had time to fly to the Derelict, obtain an egg and return. This theory is relatively unpopular, since it's not clear if Bishop does have time, not to mention it turns fan-favourite Bishop into a villain, or relies on him unconsciously working for Weyland-Yutani. Earlier versions of the script actually did use this version, albeit without making Bishop personally responsible - the Gibson script had Bishop's innards infected with material that grew into an egg while he was in stasis. Theory #3: Newt did it. The comic adaptation claims that the original host was Newt, having been impregnated at the end of the previous film. In this version, when Newt began to drown, the Royal Chestburster emerged from her mouth and moved over into Ripley's body to continue gestating. This version was apparently planned for the film at one point but never shot. It also raises some more awkward continuity questions, because the timeline is more compressed than any other time this happens. Implantation is otherwise shown to take hours, even a day. A facehugger would have to attack Newt, die, fall off and its body somehow vanish in the space of a few minutes. It also contradicts the fact that we saw Ripley torches the facehugger meant for Newt in Aliens. The follow-up to that (at least for the Theatrical cut) is where the other facehugger came from. The opening sequence shows one ovomorph, which is presumably the one that infects Ripley. But since the facehuggers die after implantation, it must be dead before Ripley was ever ejected from the Sulaco. Therefore there's no indication at all where the second facehugger, the one that reaches the surface of Fury 161 in the EEV, infects the dog and births the Runner, came from. (Aliens: Colonial Marines goes to great lengths to explain how Hicks survived, and even shows the facehugger attacking Ripley, but oddly still forgot to reveal how it got there in the first place.) The Assembly Cut restores the bigger "Royal Facehugger" and implies it infected Babe the ox as well, which goes some way towards filling this plot hole, at the expense of hand-waving it by introducing a creature that can implant multiple types of Xenomorphs into multiple different victims. The previous film strongly suggested the Xenomorph acquisition project was dead, and that Burke acted alone based entirely on Ripley's story to further his career. Otherwise, why would the Weyland-Yutani Corporation have settlers on LV-426 for 22 years without ever making them scour it for the most precious lifeform in the universe? In this film, however, they act more like a Xenomorph-worshipping cult, able to send a Conestoga-class starship with a complement of mercenaries, scientists, and a high-ranking executive to Fury 161 at a moment's notice, completely ignoring the ICC quarantine plot point from the previous film. However, this is more debatable, as Aliens never made it explicit that the project had been shelved, and it is possible that it was top secret and known only by an elite few, who didn't know what planet the Nostromo had landed on. A rather strange example of this is the mysterious character of Vincent. In all versions of the film, the bait and chase sequence begins when Kevin hears a prisoner screaming and then finds the alien mauling his dead body, but in the Assembly Cut, David identifies the dead body as "Vincent". This is odd because everyone who was at the meeting in the furnace is still alive at this point and Vincent was nowhere to be seen during that scene.
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Alien³ / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Alien³ / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Ripley states that Weyland-Yutani may murder the inmates simply because they know of the xenomorph's existence. It appears she was wrong; the film's epilogue reveals that Morse was sent to another correctional facility and sworn to secrecy. However, in Alien: Resurrection we learn that he published his account of what happened on Fury 161.
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Alien³ / int_66181568	type	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
Alien³ / int_66181568	comment	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: Averted. Christianity is still a thriving religion in the 23rd century, even if it's only prominently seen amongst a band of prison convicts.
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Alien³ / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
Alien³ / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: On the other hand, Ripley and Dillon both get fantastic death scenes.
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Alien³ / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
Alien³ / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: "What are we going to use for bait?... FUCK!"
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Alien³ / int_6a397a86	type	One-Product Planet
Alien³ / int_6a397a86	comment	One-Product Planet: Acheron only had a closed down prison on it.
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Alien³ / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Alien³ / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Mr. Andrews (the nominal Warden of the prison) is a pretty big Jerkass, but he has legitimate grounds for not wanting Ripley to walk around the prison freely. He has to keep a population of convicted murderers and rapists in check, who are still very dangerous even if they have found religion (his point is proven when a group of inmates attempt to rape her). Also, Ripley's story about a lethal 8 foot tall alien with acid blood (which has never been seen on any other planet than LV-426) would seem implausible to someone who has never encountered it, especially as she has no evidence. From his perspective the more likely scenario is that Murphy's death was just an accident, and that Golic was simply an insane murderer who killed two other inmates. Even this uptick in incidents coinciding with Ripley's arrival is understandable. . . none of the inmates have even seen a woman in years, Ripley's presence is going to be disruptive on multiple levels. He's proven right when said prisoners attempt a gang rape of Ripley — only Dillon's interference saved her from a brutal end.
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Alien³ / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
Alien³ / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: The ceremony where Hicks and Newt's bodies are cremated occurs at the same time that the "Runner" Xenomorph erupts from Murphy's dog/the ox. Lampshaded By Dillon's eulogy.
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Alien³ / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Alien³ / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: This is how Clemens got to Fury 161. He was previously a doctor, but he got addicted to morphine in medical school. When an industrial accident caused the deaths of a lot of workers, he was called in. Eleven people died not because of their wounds, but because he was so out of the world that he prescribed the wrong dosage of painkillers. He was jailed for seven years on Fiorina, and his medical license was reduced to a Class 3C. When the facility was due to be closed down, he elected to stay on as the medical officer when the inmates didn't want to leave (partly because he'd bonded with them on some level, but mostly because nobody else was about to hire him as a medical officer).
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Alien³ / int_7282d48a	type	Cranial Processing Unit
Alien³ / int_7282d48a	comment	Cranial Processing Unit: Ripley does this with Bishop to access the EEV's flight recorder.
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Alien³ / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Alien³ / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: It never seems to dawn on Ripley that the Warden and Clemens may in fact have her best interests at heart when they tell her not to go out on her own due to the fact that she is surrounded by convicted rapists who haven't seen a woman in years. Worse, she goes out of her way to get into the faces of several of the inmates and even seems to be enjoying their strained reactions to her. The inevitable eventually happens and would have succeeded if it wasn't for a timely intervention by Dillon. Whilst this does fit beautifully if you subscribe to the Death Seeker interpretation of her character, it makes her look stupid if you don't.
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Alien³ / int_72c07237	type	Swiss-Cheese Security
Alien³ / int_72c07237	comment	Swiss-Cheese Security: Fiorina, a maximum security prison, has three unarmed staff members to police the inmates, all violent murderers and rapists. The guards have no access to firearms of any kind for emergencies and the CCTV doesn't work. When Ripley asks what prevents the inmates killing them, Andrews responds that there'd be no point, as there's no way of escaping from the place anyway and that they're "on the honor system" on top of that. The special edition (along with the novelization) expands this scene by a single line: if Aaron and Andrews were killed by the inmates, the Company would simply stop sending supply ships and let the inmates starve.
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Alien³ / int_7308fa71	type	A Molten Date with Death
Alien³ / int_7308fa71	comment	A Molten Date with Death: This is how Ripley kills off both herself and the Xenomorph Queen embryo/Royal Chestburster — by diving right on down into the prison foundry's furnace, which had previously been used to heat lead to its melting point to kill off the Runner Xenomorph running loose throughout the prison.
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Alien³ / int_76d6c3df	type	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place
Alien³ / int_76d6c3df	comment	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: Seriously, the planet is called "Fury". What are you expecting?
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Alien³ / int_7bb844ec	type	Villain Decay
Alien³ / int_7bb844ec	comment	Villain Decay: If anything, this installment actually inverts this trope in that it finally proves to us once and for all that you can't kill off Xenomorphs with fire, and plus, the lone Xenomorph Runner seen in this film racks up one of the highest kill counts of any single Xenomorph specimen seen throughout the whole entire franchise, period, even including the countless different Expanded Universe materials for it.
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Alien³ / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
Alien³ / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: When Ripley sits down at the dinner table with Dillion and his inner circle in both the theatrical and extended cut, Gregor is the one who consistently glares at her with barley restrained predatory intentions. It wouldn’t be a surprise if Gregor was the one who convinced Junior into attempting the gang-rape of Ripley.
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Alien³ / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Alien³ / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Ripley gives one to the inmates to convince them that killing off the Xenomorph Runner is their only option.
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Alien³ / int_7eccbb3d	type	Shower Scene
Alien³ / int_7eccbb3d	comment	Shower Scene: Ripley has a shower scene shortly after cutting off her hair.
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Alien³ / int_8252652c	type	All Planets Are Earth-Like
Alien³ / int_8252652c	comment	All Planets Are Earthlike: Fiorina has breathable air but Aliens implied that inhabitable planets were rare due to the effort they went to terraform Acheron. Therefore you'd think Fiorina would have a proper colony on it. Well, we do hear that it will be "forty below" in a few moments, and that's in the early morning. Just because the air is breathable doesn't mean you'd want to live there. But that does raise the question as to why the temperature plummets after dawn.
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Alien³ / int_82f5ced1	type	Conservation of Ninjutsu
Alien³ / int_82f5ced1	comment	Conservation of Ninjutsu: Much like in the first film, only one adult Xenomorph specimen ever appears throughout the whole entire runtime, only for him to soon prove to be nearly unkillable, in fact, even more so than "Big Chap" aka "Kane's Son" some 57 years before him due to him going up against absolutely unarmed prey this time around, and also, the number of human deaths seen throughout the film is also higher than that of the first two films COMBINED due to this third installment in fact featuring the highest initial number of human characters seen throughout the whole entire franchise so far.
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Alien³ / int_84f4a870	type	Puzzle Boss
Alien³ / int_84f4a870	comment	Puzzle Boss: The total absence of any manmade weapons on Fury-161 causes this trope to be taken to ridiculous extremes with the "Dragon". Ripley and the prisoners instead have to bait the Dragon into the leadworks, pour tons of molten lead over it, and finally douse it with freezing sprinkler water, to use the thermal shock to literally shatter the creature.
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Alien³ / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Alien³ / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The USS Sulaco is last seen drifting on through space after ejecting the escape pods with the LV-426 survivors onboard — it was originally planned to be shown partially exploding in the film, and even had a scene written for it and models allegedly built, but the sequence was scrapped before filming.note Aliens: Colonial Marines later stated that the ship was recovered and used by Weyland-Yutani as a staging area for a hive until the events of the game, where it is destroyed by the USS Sephora as both ships fire on each other. The theatrical version removed the subplot in which Golic escapes and releases the "Dragon" only to be killed off by him, and so he seems to just disappear after Dr. Clemens is killed off as well.
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Alien³ / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Alien³ / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The inmates plot to kill off the Xenomorph Runner by pouring several tons of molten lead right on down onto him, but he survives the lead, but not being doused with water immediately after, which pops him like a balloon.
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Alien³ / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
Alien³ / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License – Medicine: When Clemens is performing an autopsy on Newt's body, somehow there's a lot of blood flowing when he cuts up her corpse. Which is completely impossible in the real world. The reason you bleed when cut in the first place is that your organism keeps pumping the blood throughout the cardiovascular system in order to transport nutrients, oxygen and other stuff essential for your continued survival — thus, if there's some sort of gap in your skin on the way, a bit of blood will seep though it. However, once you're dead, the entire system just stops. No blood flowing, let alone seeping through any gashes. Anyone who's been witnessing a real-world autopsy (or even saw a recording of one) will tell you that there's a round zero drops of blood during the whole thing.
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Alien³ / int_8e6a882b	type	Prison Episode
Alien³ / int_8e6a882b	comment	Prison Episode: The entirety of the film takes place in Fiorina "Fury" 161's "Class C Correctional Work Unit", a rundown prison facility that only houses 22 prisoners and 3 staff members at the time of the lone Xenomorph runner incident's beginning.
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Alien³ / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Alien³ / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Most of the characters in the film are convicted murderers and rapists. Some even try to rape Ripley at one point, and Golic is straight-up Ax-Crazy. It therefore becomes hard to sympathize with them when the Alien starts hunting them down. However, this does play into the film's themes of death and redemption, and is better handled in the Assembly Cut, which spends a good amount of time exploring the prisoners' religious beliefs and how several of them come to terms with their past sins and eventual demise.
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Alien³ / int_8fd82768	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Alien³ / int_8fd82768	comment	Sir Swears Alot: All of the inmates swear quite frequently. It's justified, considering what a Crapsack World Hellhole Prison they live in.
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Alien³ / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Alien³ / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: An Inverted Trope - this one is "Alien but ON A PRISON PLANET!". It only features one nigh-unkillable Xenomorph, versus a Dwindling Party equipped with nothing but improvised weapons and their wits.
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Alien³ / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
Alien³ / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: The human Bishop at the end is remarkably unconcerned about getting hit in the head so hard his ear is almost torn off. This probably helped fuel the speculation he's another android. In the Assembly Cut, however, he's obviously in pain afterwards, and it takes him a moment to regain composure.
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Alien³ / int_93387c2e	type	Monster Delay
Alien³ / int_93387c2e	comment	Monster Delay: Downplayed when compared to the previous two films since both the Ovomorphs and the FaceHuggers show up straight away this time around along with both the Chest Burster form and the adult form of the lone Xenomorph Runner nicknamed the "Dragon" also fully showing up on-screen not too much later than that.
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Alien³ / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Alien³ / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: If you pay attention, you realize that the "Dragon" is having one after his lead bath as he no longer cares the Ripley is carrying a Royal Chestburster. He wants her dead.
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Alien³ / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Alien³ / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: Dillon during his Heroic Sacrifice simply stares down the alien and tells it "Now, fuck you!" When it charges him, he is still heard screaming for the thing to "come on!" even when the alien is tearing him apart.
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Alien³ / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Alien³ / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: There are several understated ones, including: Clemens' reveal that Ripley was the sole survivor of the crash, and his later verbal history of Fury-161. Ripley's first conversation with Dillon where he explains his philosophy. The scene in the EEV where Aaron helps Ripley with the mediscanner.
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Alien³ / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Alien³ / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The lone Xenomorph Runner specimen nicknamed the "Dragon" who continuously stalks and kills off the countless inmates throughout the prison and also even attempts to ensure the survival of a Royal Chestburster incubating inside of Ellen Ripley herself.
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Alien³ / int_98f5de00	type	Let Me Get This Straight...
Alien³ / int_98f5de00	comment	Let Me Get This Straight...: The film features an outrageously straight version of this trope. "All right. Let me get this straight. You want to burn it down and out of the pipes, force it in here, slam the door — and trap its ass? And you want help from us Y-chromo boys?" One can only wonder how Ripley managed to explain the plan in a way convoluted enough that Dillon had to get it straight, though from his tone of voice, he understood perfectly, and was just sneering at the idea that Ripley needed their help. More humorously: "Let me see if I have this correct, Lieutenant - it's an 8-foot creature of some kind with acid for blood, and it arrived on your spaceship. It kills on sight, and is generally unpleasant."
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Alien³ / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Alien³ / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Ripley tells Dillon to kill her. He agrees, "quick and painless"... but he doesn't go through with it. Then later he has his own Heroic Sacrifice.
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Alien³ / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Alien³ / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: A bucket burnt by an explosion and then doused by cold water from sprinklers cracks open. Ripley dies in the same fashion that Newt and Hicks's bodies are disposed of, with the same music. The Xenomorph on the movie poster looks remarkably similar to a Royal Chestburster. Ripley later learns she has one inside of her. Golic to Ripley: "You're gonna die, too."
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Alien³ / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Alien³ / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Alien 3 proves once and for all that fire is useless in combating an adult Xenomorph, as even being drowned under thousands of tons of molten-fucking-lead is only enough to get the "Dragon" furiously angry and otherwise completely unharmed.
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Alien³ / int_9fdcad7f	type	Bald Head of Toughness
Alien³ / int_9fdcad7f	comment	Bald Head of Toughness: Downplayed. Ellen Ripley was already an Action Girl and Final Girl after being the sole survivor of her crew in Alien and going against and killing Xenomorphs in both preceding films. In this movie, her going bald is incidental: a lice break out on the ship forces everyone to shave their heads completely bald to stop the spread. That said, it's in this film she becomes a survivor of attempted rape and musters up the willpower to kill herself in order to kill the Xenomorph Queen embryo gestating inside of her.
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Alien³ / int_a414c3f0	type	One-Hit Kill
Alien³ / int_a414c3f0	comment	This third entry's Xenomorph Runner is also particularly cruel. Instead of using its nested mouth for the traditional One-Hit Kill, he deliberately mauls his victims to death like a wild animal, giving them plenty of time to suffer before he finally finishes them off.
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Alien³ / int_a49f4fb2	type	How Did You Know? I Didn't
Alien³ / int_a49f4fb2	comment	How Did You Know? I Didn't: Before the climax, Dillon off-handedly asks about Ripley having slept with Dr. Clemens in a way that implies he already knew. When she replies that he's obviously been a peeping tom, he says that he wasn't, but her response did confirm his suspicions.
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Alien³ / int_a5f0752f	type	Rule of Drama
Alien³ / int_a5f0752f	comment	Rule of Drama: In the first film Alien, Kane dies a short while after waking up from the facehugger. Ripley seems to go on for hours on end before finally biting it at the end of the movie. The longer gestation might be because Ripley is carrying a Xenomorph Queen.
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Alien³ / int_a6d0b83	type	Despite the Plan
Alien³ / int_a6d0b83	comment	Despite the Plan: Ripley and the inmates plan out an elaborate ploy to get the xenomorph leave the safety of the ventilation tunnels and trap it inside a toxic waste storage facility, a sealed bunker with thick blast doors and no way to escape. It simply fails in the cinematic cut due to "Dragon" attacking out of the blue and killing one of the inmates, who drops a flare and sets the whole thing ablaze prematurely, ending up just wounding a bunch of people. However, in the Assembly Cut, the resulting fire does force the xenomorph to emerge in the open just as planned and Junior successfully lures it into the bunker, where it is sealed tight.
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Alien³ / int_a8c1433e	type	Dead Star Walking
Alien³ / int_a8c1433e	comment	Dead Star Walking: Dr. Clemens is set up to be the main male character, but gets killed about an hour in, and Dillon takes over the role for the rest of the film.
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Alien³ / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
Alien³ / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: Morse, one of the Fury 161 prisoners, is the only person to make it off the planet alive when the Weyland-Yutani crew leaves.
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Alien³ / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Alien³ / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Dillon rallies the surviving prisoners to kill the xenomorph instead of hiding in the hopes that the Weyland-Yutani forces on their way to Fury 161 will rescue them:
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Alien³ / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
Alien³ / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: It does make Bishop II's reminder that she can still have children if she trusts him all the more powerful and tempting, especially if you've seen the previous movie's Special Edition, which had Ripley learning of her actual daughter's death from cancer.
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Alien³ / int_ad7a381d	type	P.O.V. Cam
Alien³ / int_ad7a381d	comment	P.O.V. Cam: The fishbowl view of the Xenomorph Runner's "eyesight".
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Alien³ / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Alien³ / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: The first five minutes render the events of Aliens completely moot as Hicks and Newt, who after battling all the way through the last movie, are abruptly killed off-screen and Ripley is essentially sent right on back to where she was at the end of the first Alien film.
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Alien³ / int_aeec99a9	type	Immediate Sequel
Alien³ / int_aeec99a9	comment	Immediate Sequel: This film is set immediately after Aliens.
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Alien³ / int_b0a91b69	type	Convection, Schmonvection
Alien³ / int_b0a91b69	comment	Convection, Schmonvection: Downplayed since Ripley and Morse are both hurt by the hot steam coming from the molten lead, but at that short of a distance from it, they still should have suffered third degree burns from it at the very least.
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Alien³ / int_b1f4c5bb	type	Enhance Button
Alien³ / int_b1f4c5bb	comment	Enhance Button: Aaron helps Ripley scan herself in the EEV. He can't make out the picture, so she tells him "Enhance". Result: a confusing, blurry, picture becomes a confusing, clear, picture.
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Alien³ / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
Alien³ / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: Halfway through the film Ripley discovers that she's carrying the embryo of a Xenomorph Queen. One way or another, she knows that she's going to die when it rips out of her and at one point even begs Dillon to kill her.
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Alien³ / int_b55698cd	type	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond
Alien³ / int_b55698cd	comment	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: The lone Xenomorph Runner seen throughout the film is a horrifyingly deadly entity from the perspective of his absolutely unarmed prey, but at the very same time, however, he's still the lowest-level adult Xenomorph enemy that humanity could ever possibly have to face off against due to his relatively small body size and likewise also comparatively inferior physical strength.
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Alien³ / int_b6064061	type	Power of Trust
Alien³ / int_b6064061	comment	Power of Trust: After Clemons gives his long story of ruining his medical career, he asks her, "Now... do you trust me with a needle?" Ripley's response: bare her arm, but the warm moment is shattered by the Xenomorph Runner suddenly killing him off.
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Alien³ / int_ba014235	type	Cryonics Failure
Alien³ / int_ba014235	comment	Cryonics Failure: The cryopods fail for real. This indirectly causes Hicks to get impaled by a support beam and Newt to drown in her own pod. Ripley's pod also gets a hole smashed in it (due to the facehugger on the Sulaco), and she's seen moving around in discomfort as the pods get loaded into the EEV. Also, Ripley's pod was heavily damaged in the crash and by the facehugger, so her body didn't get the benefit of whatever technology is supposed to ease you out of hypersleep. Clemens tells her that "half your body still thinks it's in cryosleep," and Ripley has some symptoms showing she's a bit ill from the process. Or from the Xenomorph Queen gestating inside of her.
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Alien³ / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Alien³ / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: While the inmates obviously swear like sailors, one instance still stands out. After Mr. Andrews gets mauled to death in front of all of the inmates and "85", there is a long, terrified pause, with the only sound being Andrews' rubber ball bouncing off the floor. And then Morse finally speaks up.
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Alien³ / int_bc1a0bb1	type	The Last Dance
Alien³ / int_bc1a0bb1	comment	The Last Dance: Ripley. "You've been in my life so long, I can't remember anything else." The convicts qualify as well, as profoundly stated by Dillon.
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Alien³ / int_bda474d2	type	Last Note Nightmare
Alien³ / int_bda474d2	comment	Last Note Nightmare: Elliot Goldenthal's arrangement of the 20th Century Fox Fanfare freezes on the penultimate note and degenerates into a frightening wail; damn, even the opening logo fanfare is Darker and Edgier!
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Alien³ / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Alien³ / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Bishop II's prolonged "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" when Ripley kills herself.
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Alien³ / int_c2f7db18	type	Alien Blood
Alien³ / int_c2f7db18	comment	More humorously: "Let me see if I have this correct, Lieutenant - it's an 8-foot creature of some kind with acid for blood, and it arrived on your spaceship. It kills on sight, and is generally unpleasant."
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Alien³ / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Alien³ / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Aaron survived the Xenomorph Runner attack, so he survives right? Wrong, he attacks Michael Bishop after realizing Ripley was right about the company and is shot by one of the Weyland-Yutani commandos accompanying Bishop. In the Assembly Cut, Ripley and the inmates manage to trap the alien in the leadworks, only for Golic to release it again.
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Alien³ / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
Alien³ / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: The film was novelised by Alan Dean Foster. More details here.
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Alien³ / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Alien³ / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Ripley was conceived as playing a Joan of Arc-esque role in this film; accordingly, Sigourney Weaver visually resembles Maria Falconetti as Joan in The Passion of Joan of Arc.
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Alien³ / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
Alien³ / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: The Runner spends the entire movie refusing to harm Ripley, on the account of being able to smell the Queen, the future of its race, gestating inside her body; not even being goaded and beaten on the head by her with lead pipes and burning flares was enough to make it raise a single clawed-finger against her. However, the sheer agonizing pain of being drowned in molten hot lead was enough to make it spectacularly snap, leap out of said metallic deluge, break inprogrammed-instinct and charge Ripley in a blind rage with every intent of tearing both her and the Queen inside of her to pieces to avenge this painful insult.
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Alien³ / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Alien³ / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: In the previous film, the USS Sulaco sports a dark blue hue, its name written in black on its starboard side, and cryogenic stasis pods that look quite different from the ones aboard the USCSS Nostromo. In this film, the USS Sulaco sports a bright brown hue, its name written in white on its port side, and cryogenic stasis pods that look identical to the ones aboard the USCSS Nostromo.
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Alien³ / int_d0cd306e	type	Sheep in Wolf's Clothing
Alien³ / int_d0cd306e	comment	Sheep in Wolf's Clothing: Ripley survives a Xenomorph attack thanks to being infected, and later uses this to her advantage when confronting it later.
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Alien³ / int_d32a5fec	type	True Love Is Boring
Alien³ / int_d32a5fec	comment	True Love Is Boring: Pretty much stated by Vincent Ward as the reason why he (and the producers) chose to kill off Hicks, Newt, and Bishop at the start:
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Alien³ / int_d3bb3162	type	Lethal Negligence
Alien³ / int_d3bb3162	comment	Lethal Negligence: "Dr." Clemens was stripped off his medical license because he was called in to administer aid after a large industrial accident but caused several more deaths because he prescribed the wrong doses of painkillers while he was high on morphine. Fiorina is the only company planet that will still accept him since Weyland-Yutani isn't interested in giving the remaining prisoners there anything more than the absolute minimum of medical care.
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Alien³ / int_d51158ee	type	Revised Ending
Alien³ / int_d51158ee	comment	Revised Ending: When David Fincher was shooting the film, his intended ending did not involve the Xenomorph bursting out of Ripley's chest. After Bishop II implores her to let them surgically remove the alien, she remains in thought for over thirty dialogue-free seconds—an eternity in film time—before denouncing them and flinging herself into the furnace (a trimmed-down version of this wherein the queen does not burst from her chest is retained in the Assembly Cut). However, during the extensive reshoots, the studio—fearing that the scene was too similar to the ending of Terminator 2—mandated that the queen erupt from her chest, forcing her to grab it and take it with her into the fire as she's dying from the wound, turning a quasi-religious moment of temptation and self-sacrifice into a mere formality to keep it out of Weyland-Yutani's hands.
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Alien³ / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Alien³ / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: Subverted. Weyland-Yutani has sent a rescue expedition to Fury 161 which arrives by the end of the film, but they don't care at all about saving the prisoners or Ripley; they just want to retrieve the Alien.
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Alien³ / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
Alien³ / int_dbb414ed	comment	The Assembly Cut restores the bigger "Royal Facehugger" and implies it infected Babe the ox as well, which goes some way towards filling this plot hole, at the expense of hand-waving it by introducing a creature that can implant multiple types of Xenomorphs into multiple different victims.
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Alien³ / int_dbd2c15e	type	Everyone Can See It
Alien³ / int_dbd2c15e	comment	Everyone Can See It: Dillon casually asks Ripley if she enjoyed sex with Clemens. She bemusedly asks what keyholes he'd been looking through. Dillon shrugs and replies he was guessing, since it was obvious she was getting along with the good doctor.
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Alien³ / int_dd46397e	type	Just Desserts
Alien³ / int_dd46397e	comment	Just Desserts: Mr. Andrews was an obstructive jerk who disregarded Ripley's story and tried to have her confined - partially to protect her from the prisoners and partially to maintain his control over them. He's eaten alive by the Xenomorph Runner while in the middle of shouting down her warnings and telling the guards to have her taken away and sedated.
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Alien³ / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Alien³ / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Clemens quickly becomes Ripley's ally at the prison and even ends up sleeping with her. He's set up to be a major part of the story, then he gets slaughtered by the Xenomorph Runner and Captain Dallased less than halfway through the film.
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Alien³ / int_e11027bb	type	Sex for Solace
Alien³ / int_e11027bb	comment	Sex for Solace: Ripley and Clemens make love for this reason. Ripley has lost two people who meant a lot to her, and Clemens has spent a large part of his life on a bleak prison planet to atone for his past mistakes. Ripley also does it to deflect a question that Clemens asked her, but why she chose this way to deflect it is this trope ("I've been out here a long time", she says).
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Alien³ / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Alien³ / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Ripley was conceived as playing a Joan of Arc-esque role in this film, and Sigourney Weaver visually resembles Maria Falconetti as Joan in The Passion of Joan of Arc.
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Alien³ / int_e9de9c18	type	Enhanced on DVD
Alien³ / int_e9de9c18	comment	Enhanced on DVD: One of the sequences restored in the Assembly Cut involved the Chest Burster being born from an ox and scurrying away. This sequence never had its effects completed and utilizes a hybrid of combining footage of the creature’s birth between the two cuts, along with a digital creature for the unfinished shot of it scurrying away. The Assembly Cut was originally released without ADR for restored scenes, but the Blu-Ray release brought back the actors to restore the audio.
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Alien³ / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Alien³ / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Dillon when he saves Ripley from getting raped by some of the other inmates.
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Alien³ / int_ed2bbf8a	type	You Are in Command Now
Alien³ / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: After the death of Mr. Andrews, somebody has to take charge of the remaining prisoners. Aaron steps up to the task, but most of the inmates balk at this idea. Dillon is offered the job, but he refuses because he doesn't consider himself the "officer type". Ripley then nominally leads the group in taking out the Alien.
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Alien³ / int_ed98f038	type	Wall Crawl
Alien³ / int_ed98f038	comment	Wall Crawl: The Runner Xenomorph crawls across the ceiling at various points. We are shown this when we see the POV of the Xenomorph as it's pursuing one of the convicts, and the screen suddenly takes a 180 degree turn as it climbs up a wall and onto the ceiling.
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Alien³ / int_f12c6fb1	type	Surprisingly Sudden Death
Alien³ / int_f12c6fb1	comment	Surprisingly Sudden Death: Dr. Clemens is built up as a main character, but then he suddenly gets grabbed by the Xenomorph Runner and killed off. Superintendent Andrews is killed while yelling at Ripley, in a room full of other people no less!
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Alien³ / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Alien³ / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Junior in the special edition. He leads the gang trying to rape Ripley, but when she tries to distract the Xenomorph Runner from him in the attempt to trap it in the bunker, he instead runs inside, taking it with him. It rips him apart of course, but the mission succeeds because of him. Seems to be a major theme of the film, as pretty much all of the prisoners and Ripley die at the end of the film to prevent Weyland-Yutani from getting their hands on the Xenomorph Runner, and this also even seems to be the main reason why the writers opted to kill off Hicks, Newt, and Bishop at the beginning (see: True Love Is Boring below).
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Alien³ / int_f226207f	type	Conveniently Close Planet
Alien³ / int_f226207f	comment	Conveniently Close Planet: Fiorina "Fury" 161 serves as this for the Type 337 Emergency Escape Vehicle at the very beginning of the film, even though the whole crash-landing part of the sequence easily results in the deaths of Hicks and Newt with Ellen Ripley also being the one and only survivor afterwards as the Bishop Android is also even hopelessly smashed up beyond all possible repair during said crash-landing sequence.
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Alien³ / int_f2d29e14	comment	Evil Brit: Most of the Fiorina inmates are portrayed by British actors.
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Alien³ / int_f4f01ac	type	Deadly Rotary Fan
Alien³ / int_f4f01ac	comment	Deadly Rotary Fan: One of the prisoners, that being Murphy more specifically, is killed off once he falls down into a ventilation fan just after the Xenomorph Runner spits acid onto his face. You too in the Game Boy game if you don't find and set the switches to make them turn in directions that won't pull you in when kicking around in the ducts. You'll be doing this a lot.
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Alien³ / int_f566c6dc	type	Why Isn't It Attacking?
Alien³ / int_f566c6dc	comment	Why Isn't It Attacking?: The creature gets to Ripley, who is helpless, and... hisses, and leaves. Of course, it's because Ripley is hosting a Royal Chestburster.
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Alien³ / int_f7d66b6f	type	No-Gear Level
Alien³ / int_f7d66b6f	comment	No-Gear Level: A justified non-video game example. In most Alien franchise media, the humans have some form of weaponry that allows them to fight back against the Xenomorphs to varying degrees. In this film, however, most of the humans are prisoners, leaving them with no access to any weapons whatsoever, so the task of killing the lone Xenomorph runner soon proves to be one of humanity's hardest and deadliest challenges ever.
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Alien³ / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
Alien³ / int_f85354eb	comment	To a lesser degree Junior, whos crimes that got him locked up for life included aggravated sexual assault, assault with a deadly weapon, rape and murder. He leads the Attempted Rape of Ripley while putting on his goggles and doing a warriors yell to the sky before doing the heinous deed out of jealousy for Dillon accepting to Ripley sit at their table. Thankfully Dillon arrives just in time to stop Junior and kick his ass.
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Alien³ / int_fa5c1847	type	Up Close with the Monster
Alien³ / int_fa5c1847	comment	Up Close with the Monster: Ripley is attacked by a Xenomorph in the Infirmary, which then proceeds to inspect her closely, inner mouth on display, before scattering without explanation as it detected that she was carrying another one of its kind.
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Alien³ / int_fdbdc112	type	Practical Effects
Alien³ / int_fdbdc112	comment	Practical Effects: The "man in a rubber Xenomorph suit" concept returns once again, and despite popular belief, most of the Xenomorph runner's shots feature a rod puppet photochemically composited onto live-action footage. The only CGI effects in the entire film are flying debris and the Xenomorph runner's head cracking up due to sprinkler-water-induced thermal shock.
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Alien³ / int_fea42091	type	Badass Preacher
Alien³ / int_fea42091	comment	Badass Preacher: Dillon wasn't a preacher before, but he is now, even spouting scripture while "re-educatin' some of the brothers".
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Alien³ / int_ff6ae1f6	type	Evil-Detecting Dog
Alien³ / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: A dog belonging to one of the inmates barks incessantly at the alien.
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Alien³ / int_ffb79066	type	Chromosome Casting
Alien³ / int_ffb79066	comment	Chromosome Casting: Every character except Ripley is male. Justified, as it's set in a prison.
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Alien³ / int_fff371b4	type	Death Seeker
Alien³ / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: Ripley sums up her attitude towards the Xenomorphs as;
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