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Aliens

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Aliens	comment	Aliens (1986) is the second film in the Alien film series, starring Sigourney Weaver. It was directed by James Cameron, and shifted the theme of the series from horror to action, something Cameron would later apply to the sequel to one of his earlier films.Ripley wakes up from hypersleep half a century after the destruction of the Nostromo. Her former employers, the Weyland-Yutani company, disbelieve her claims about the alien and revoke all of her licenses. The company starts taking her seriously, however, when it loses contact with a colony it established on the world where the Nostromo crew encountered the alien. The company sends a unit of Space Marines to investigate, and Ripley, although reluctant to go back, accompanies the unit as a scientific advisor.When the unit arrives, they find the colony in ruins. The only survivor of what appears to be another alien attack is a little girl who goes by the name Newt. The Marines explore further into the colonyâ€¦ and discover an entire nest of aliens.Aliens is widely regarded as one of the greatest sci-fi, horror, and action movies of all time. It's chock full of awesome moments and iconic scenes, and it gave birth to a fair number of the tropes which have since influenced modern media to a near-absurd degree — and it did all this without the aid of digital editing. It's also one of the few film sequels to be regarded as on par with the original, if not better, and also permanently redefined what female characters could do in science fiction/fantasy.In 2015, director Neill Blomkamp announced plans for a new Alien film to directly follow this film's events, with Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn attached to return as Ripley and Hicks. However, Fox scrapped the film in favor of doing Alien: Covenant instead.
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Aliens / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
Aliens / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety: The Marines use guns in a combat setting fairly professionally, but one example of horrendous gun safety stands out: when Vasquez and Ripley are helping Bishop into a conduit, Vasquez cocks a pistol and hands it to Bishop, who immediately puts his finger on the trigger. He then hands it to Ripley, finger still on the trigger and pointed straight at her. Ripley accepts it and sets it aside, thumb grazing the trigger while it's pointing at Vasquez. Bishop may be an android and thus incapable of unintentional twitches, but casually handing a loaded firearm to an untrained civilian is something a military android should be programmed to avoidnote That this model of pistol is incredibly difficult to fire unintentionally is irrelevant to the fact that at least two characters in this scene should know better..
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Aliens / int_118a41d5	type	Daydream Surprise
Aliens / int_118a41d5	comment	Daydream Surprise: The opening scene of Ripley being killed by a chestburster. It's a proper nightmare and not a daydream, but you don't find that out until she wakes up.
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Aliens / int_119f77c0	type	Snowy Screen of Death
Aliens / int_119f77c0	comment	Snowy Screen of Death: Each crew member's helmet camera and vital signs are hooked to a screen and any time somebody dies, their screen goes static.
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Aliens / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Aliens / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: You can count the survivors of this mission on a single hand. With fingers left over.
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Aliens / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Aliens / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: James Cameron's is the voice that speaks when the salvage crew finds Ripley at the start of the film.
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Aliens / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Aliens / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Gorman, and at the worst time possible. Newt, for a while, was so shell-shocked she couldn't speak.
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Aliens / int_1592e954	type	Man Bites Man
Aliens / int_1592e954	comment	Man Bites Man: When the Space Marines find out the sole survivor of the LV-426 colonists, Newt, Corporal Hicks tries to reach for her in her hiding place. However, the little girl is too scared and bites his hand before slipping away.
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Aliens / int_159ce749	type	Ensign Newbie
Aliens / int_159ce749	comment	After being alerted to the risk of damaging the reactor coolant equipment with gunfire, Gorman orders the Marines to unload their weapons and give all of their ammo to one guy to carry, leaving them with flamethrowers only. Not being told why they were doing this, and having rather little faith in their commander's abilities, most of the Marines (notably the machine gunners) keep some ammo on them and end up shooting up the coolant equipment anyway as soon as the fighting starts. (In the novelization, Hicks explicitly states that his old shotgun "probably won't penetrate far enough to set off any mushrooms", indicating that there is understanding of why the order is being given.)
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Aliens / int_16178c64	type	Gratuitous Spanish
Aliens / int_16178c64	comment	Gratuitous Spanish: Vasquez and to a lesser extent Burke tend to mix some proper Spanish terms every now and then.
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Aliens / int_16fdd774	type	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle
Aliens / int_16fdd774	comment	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: The Xenomorph Queen tries to pull Ripley into space with her by grabbing onto her leg after the airlock is opened. Ripley shakes it free by slipping loose from her boot.
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Aliens / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Aliens / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The script and other supportive material specify that the Sulaco travels faster in space and took three weeks to reach LV-426, avoiding headscratchers about how long Newt had to survive alone when the first movie established that the Nostromo would've taken about ten months to reach the Earth from there (then again, the line about expecting a rescue after 17 days kind of implies faster space-travel). While the Extended Cut shows damage on the Space Jockey's Derelict ship that wasn't there before in the first film, the novelization explains clearly that a volcanic activity damaged the ship interrupting the Distress Call beacon the Nostromo crew was sent to investigate, explaining why Weyland-Yutani couldn't just follow it and try again. Later Alien: Isolation would canonically establish how the alien beacon got shut down.
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Aliens / int_18262b13	type	Break the Badass
Aliens / int_18262b13	comment	Break the Badass: Hudson gives a long Badass Boast to Ripley about how well-equipped and badass he and the rest of the Colonial Marines are. After the catastrophic first encounter with the aliens, Hudson is reduced to a shell-shocked wreck.
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Aliens / int_19944e8f	type	Terraform
Aliens / int_19944e8f	comment	Terraform: The purpose of the Hadley's Hope colony, using massive fusion-powered atmospheric converters to do the job.
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Aliens / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Aliens / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: The colonists are told to investigate the grid reference where Ripley reported the alien spaceship, but aren't warned about the potentially hostile aliens that are inside. This is purely because Burke didn't want to make a fool of himself if there was nothing there, or have the government barging in on Company's exploitation rights if there was. In all fairness, Ripley makes a terrible attempt at describing the Xenomorphs to the Marines, though it's likely justified since some of her recollections might have been affected by post-traumatic stress. After being alerted to the risk of damaging the reactor coolant equipment with gunfire, Gorman orders the Marines to unload their weapons and give all of their ammo to one guy to carry, leaving them with flamethrowers only. Not being told why they were doing this, and having rather little faith in their commander's abilities, most of the Marines (notably the machine gunners) keep some ammo on them and end up shooting up the coolant equipment anyway as soon as the fighting starts. (In the novelization, Hicks explicitly states that his old shotgun "probably won't penetrate far enough to set off any mushrooms", indicating that there is understanding of why the order is being given.)
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Aliens / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Aliens / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: Sure, Ferro and Spunkmeyer being derelict beyond the point of reason for leaving their dropship unsecured is part of the theme of the military being cocky and unprepared, but then Ferro isn't attacked until the dropship is well up in the air, and then things get really bad when not only does the dropship crash, it crashes directly into the APC like Diablo himself was aiming for the vehicle with pinpoint accuracy.
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Aliens / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Aliens / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: The eggs hatching in the Queen's throne room. Did the Queen deliberately have them hatch, breaking her unspoken deal with Ripley? Or did the eggs hatch by themselves, which Ripley interpreted as the Queen breaking her end of the deal?
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Aliens / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Aliens / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: The Board of Inquiry of the Weyland-Yutani Company interrogate Ripley for hours on end about the Nostromo incident but refuse to believe her story about the alien creature (because no such lifeform has ever been encountered on any other planet) or the inside orders that came from the company. This is used to mislead the audience, as the only member who expresses sympathy towards Ripley is Carter Burke, hiding his role as the villain.
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Aliens / int_1fe36347	type	Take My Hand!
Aliens / int_1fe36347	comment	Take My Hand!: Bishop grabbing Newt before she could get sucked out the airlock.
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Aliens / int_20598ec4	type	Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain
Aliens / int_20598ec4	comment	Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain: The climate on LV-426 is barely hospitable, thanks to the atmosphere processor. It's always dark and rainy. The oppressive, fastidious effects don't stop even indoors, thanks to leaky ceilings and a subterraneous waterway.
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Aliens / int_20e20e99	type	Not the Intended Use
Aliens / int_20e20e99	comment	Not the Intended Use: The Caterpillar P-5000 Powered Work Loader is a futuristic forklift built as a Mini-Mecha, not a machine for rasslin' giant aliens in. Doesn't stop Ripley from using it as such.
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Aliens / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Aliens / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: One of the Marines is looking almost directly at an alien nested in the wall, but fails to see it amidst the mass of pipes and conduits on the walls and ceilings. The xenomorphs cannot impregnate the android Bishop. That doesn't stop them from trying, though, as in deleted scenes they tried to pursue him in the shaft he was crawling through. Happens again when the survivors find out too late that they neglected to secure the space above the false ceilings, giving the xenomorphs a way in. The Marines fail to notice Ripley and Newt trying to get their attention on the camera monitor after a facehugger gets loose in Medical. Or Burke quietly turning off the monitor so they'll continue to be oblivious.
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Aliens / int_223a7e7	type	Instant Cooldown
Aliens / int_223a7e7	comment	Instant Cooldown: Averted. By the time they notice emergency venting from the atmospheric processing station it has already reached a point where it's too late to stop it from exploding even if the cooling systems are fixed.
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Aliens / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Aliens / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The tracking device that Hicks gives to Ripley and she passes on to Newt. Ripley later uses to track down and save Newt. In the beginning, Ripley is seen smoking. Her cigarette lighter is later used to set off the sprinklers in the Medbay. A very literal one in Hick's shotgun. He likes to keep it for "close encounters." The two live facehuggers in glass jars. Burke later releases them in an attempt to infect Ripley and Newt. Averted with the two flamethrowers, one half-full and one malfunctioning, that survived the APC's destruction but never get used and Ripley getting a new flamethrower from the second dropship instead. Justified, as using a flamethrower while in close quarters as they are would have been devastating. It just goes to show how truly fucked they really are.
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Aliens / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
Aliens / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: Only Ripley, Newt, and a badly-injured Hicks survive (Bishop is still technically "operational", but he's a mess and is missing half his body).
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Aliens / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
Aliens / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: Bishop's sole interest in the facehugger is to study it. He has no interest in taking one home.
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Aliens / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Aliens / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Burke dismisses Hicks as a grunt incapable of making a major decision, but quickly adds, "No offense." Later, after Burke's treachery is revealed and the Marines intend to "waste him", Hicks coolly adds, "No offense."
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Aliens / int_241c2cd6	type	Go-to-Sleep Ending
Aliens / int_241c2cd6	comment	Go-to-Sleep Ending: The film ends with Ripley again preparing to go into hibernation after escaping from the alien-infested planet with the other survivors.
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Aliens / int_24f4c80a	type	Semper Fi
Aliens / int_24f4c80a	comment	Semper FI: The United States Colonial Marine Corps is the successor to the USMC. A proud and self-described "ultimate squad of state-of-the-art badasses". In line with the parallels to the Vietnam War evoked by Cameron, their superior technology is not enough against a hidden foe with a home turf advantage.
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Aliens / int_2612a967	type	It Has Been an Honor
Aliens / int_2612a967	comment	It Has Been an Honor: Vasquez gives Gorman the "power grip", her ritual for greeting and departure she only shared with the chosen few like Drake, before they detonate a grenade to avert being captured/killed by swarms of xenomorphs.
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Aliens / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Aliens / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Newt's brother is outright stated to be dead, other children are shown in an early (albeit deleted) scene at the colony, and it's confirmed that families live on the planet — telling us that other children died during the attack, too. Thankfully, none of the kids die onscreen.
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Aliens / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Aliens / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Hudson wants ya to know that it's man, man!!
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Aliens / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Aliens / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: While one Company exec is skeptically dissecting Ripley's account of the Nostromo's fate, another seated behind her is slumped back in his chair, sleeping. The sharp-eyed viewer can also see another exec doing crosswords under the table while he pretends to take notes.
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Aliens / int_2760ce0	type	Mech vs. Beast
Aliens / int_2760ce0	comment	Mech vs. Beast: Ripley uses the power loader to go toe-to-toe with the Queen.
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Aliens / int_277aace4	type	Chainsaw-Grip BFG
Aliens / int_277aace4	comment	Chain Saw Grip BFG: A pretty well justified example: The M56 is mounted on a large harness with a Heads-Up Display and several automated targeting systems. The rounds themselves are fairly low-mass, limiting recoil, and most of the bulk of the weapon system is harness. We even see Drake and Vasquez going through the motions with the harness, making sure it, the swivel arm, and the gun itself are all moving properly with each other.
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Aliens / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Aliens / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Vasquez wrote on her armor "Â¡El riesgo siempre vive!", which means "The risk always survives!".note This may be a reference to a motto of a number of world-famous special-operations military units, which boils down to deviations of the SAS's motto "Who dares, wins".
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Aliens / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Aliens / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: The Colonial Marines' "pulse rifles" clearly aren't, at least not as Cameron earlier depicted them — the name "pulse rifle" implies that they're some kind of high-tech laser gun, when they're just shooting regular bullets. The "pulse" comes from the action of the gun. The ammo has a resistor that flash-heats to the detonation point of the propellant when the weapon discharges a "pulse" of electricity into it, rather than a percussion cap like a contemporary firearm.
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Aliens / int_2af7961	type	Faster-Than-Light Travel
Aliens / int_2af7961	comment	Faster-Than-Light Travel: Implied as a deleted scene has Ripley say she promised to get home before her daughter's birthday, implying the Nostromo mission was supposed to last a few months at most and Hicks says a rescue ship would take 17 days to reach them. According to his profile, seen on the viewscreen at Ripley's debriefing, Parker (the engineer on the Nostromo) had training with FTL systems, confirming the existence of such.
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Aliens / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Aliens / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: The film is largely premised on the Colonial Marines attempting to bring heavy military firepower to bear on the Xenomorphs. Due to various circumstances including incompetence, overconfident leadership, and deliberate sabotage, they fail to deliver the full extent of this promise. The best examples that get displayed in the film are the smartguns and the automated sentry guns.
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Aliens / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
Aliens / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Near the beginning, Ripley has a nightmare of having a Chest Burster rip out of her chest and wakes up in terror. This doubles as an expository Flashback of when she first woke up in the hospital, but isn't quite a Flashback Nightmare or Daydream Surprise. Later on, after Burke informs her that contact with the LV-426 colony has been lost, she wakes and sits up in fear again. She presumably had another nightmare similar to the first one, but the audience is not shown it.
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Aliens / int_2d92c43c	type	Little "No"
Aliens / int_2d92c43c	comment	Little "No": Uttered when Ripley thinks Bishop has abandoned them.
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Aliens / int_316e9da2	type	Memetic Mutation
Aliens / int_316e9da2	comment	And, of course her peculiar, now legendary pronunciation of "mostly."
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Aliens / int_31f7c194	type	Super Window Jump
Aliens / int_31f7c194	comment	Super Window Jump: After Hudson puts some holes into the pane to soften it up, Hicks jumps through a glass window, dives into the room where Newt and Ripley are trapped and then starts wrestling with a facehugger. A very badass moment.
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Aliens / int_334b7f3a	type	Cryptic Background Reference
Aliens / int_334b7f3a	comment	Cryptic Background Reference: Thrown out a couple of times in true James Cameron fashion. Hudson asks if the mission is going to be "another bug hunt", implying that this isn't the first time the Marines have encountered non-sapient aliens (though, as becomes clear later, not the titular creatures), and there's Frost and Spunkmeyer's discussion about "Arcturian poontang."
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Aliens / int_339c7d93	type	Stay Frosty
Aliens / int_339c7d93	comment	Stay Frosty: Hicks says this to Hudson and Vasquez. Ironically Private Frost (who's referred to as "Frosty" at one point) has already been killed, so this could be Tempting Fate.
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Aliens / int_33fa230b	type	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
Aliens / int_33fa230b	comment	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: Ripley and Newt's Tracking Device. Ripley rescues Newt from the Xenomorph Hive, they escape the planet along with Hicks and Bishop just before the fusion reactor explodes, and all seems well. Then it turns out that the Queen Xenomorph hitched a ride.
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Aliens / int_3510766b	type	Alarm SOS
Aliens / int_3510766b	comment	Alarm SOS: When Ripley realizes that she and Newt are locked in the facility's medical bay with live facehuggers, she first tries to break the windows with a chair. When that fails, she uses her cigarette lighter to trip the fire suppression system. The Colonial Marines don't know what's actually happening, but they see the alarm notification on the computer and come to her and Newt's rescue.
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Aliens / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Aliens / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Nobody, but nobody, drops these like Hudson. Removing the F-bombs from his lines would leave him literally speechless at several points.
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Aliens / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Aliens / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Carrie Henn was living in the UK at the time of filming (one of her parents was British, the other American), and apparently picked up some of the accent. Near the end when the protagonists are escaping through the airducts, she suddenly slips into an English accent on this line: And, of course her peculiar, now legendary pronunciation of "mostly."
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Aliens / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Aliens / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: Apone's "look into my eye◊" to Hudson; Vasquez gives Hudson the finger and a Precision F-Strike after his joke about illegal aliens.
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Aliens / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Aliens / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: The airlock scene at the end. Anyone in Ripley's situation would have closed the inner door, then opened the outer door, then closed the outer door, then opened the inner door. But that wouldn't have been nearly as climactic.
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Aliens / int_37556e5e	type	Death by Transceiver
Aliens / int_37556e5e	comment	Death by Transceiver: Done again with the Colonial Marines' video cameras. The crew left behind see and hear the last moments of several Marines before the screens turn to static.
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Aliens / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Aliens / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Jenette Goldstein (who played Private Vasquez) originally thought Aliens was going to be a drama about immigration and showed up to audition wearing short skirt and high heels. This incident was directly referred to in a crack Hudson makes about Vasquez during the briefing. This is the second James Cameron film where Michael Biehn is badly injured in the third act and the film's heroine has to help him walk as part of her Adrenaline Makeover. He also gets bitten on the hand in both those movies and his third Cameron collaboration — The Abyss. All the Marines (with the exception of Hicks and Gorman) have the same first initial as the actors who portray them.
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Aliens / int_3ac2a3e3	type	Deadly Gas
Aliens / int_3ac2a3e3	comment	Deadly Gas: Discussed. CN-20, a futuristic nerve gas, is part of the Colonial Marines' arsenal. After they escape the disastrous engagement at the Atmosphere Processing Facility, Vasquez proposes going back in and hitting the nest with their CN-20 canisters. However, Hicks quickly vetoes the proposal. While he concedes it's worth a try, Hicks also (rightly) points out that they have no guarantees CN-20 will have any effect on Xenomorph physiology.
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Aliens / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
Aliens / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: Vasquez and Gorman in the Air Vent Passage Way.
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Aliens / int_3babae20	type	Degraded Boss
Aliens / int_3babae20	comment	Degraded Boss: A notable non-video-game example where in which the Xenomorph Drones all get this treatment due to them now facing off against vastly more powerful and therefore deadlier weaponry than "Big Chap" a.k.a. "Kane's Son" ever faced off against during the events of the first film. However, the Alien Queen still easily serves as the one big Final Boss for Ellen Ripley during the film's extremely famous Post-Climax Confrontation aboard the USS Sulaco between the two of them.
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Aliens / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Aliens / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: The Arcturians that the Marines talk about. The suggestive "another bug hunt" ad-libbed line establishes that the Colonial Marines are no strangers to fights against non-human races. Sgt. Apone wants a nice clean dispersal "this time." Lt. Gorman mentioned this was his second combat drop. Wonder how many of his troops survived that first one.
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Aliens / int_3c9267d2	type	Flatline
Aliens / int_3c9267d2	comment	Flatline: Several Marines have their vital signs monitors flatline when they're killed by xenomorphs.
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Aliens / int_3d29fed	type	NoKillLikeOverKill
Aliens / int_3d29fed	comment	No Kill like Overkill: Hudson's marksmanship is built around this belief. Just watch how many bullets he pours into a single facehugger.
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Aliens / int_3d59c9a0	type	Powered Armor
Aliens / int_3d59c9a0	comment	Powered Armor: The Power-Loader Ripley uses is an interesting example of one without the "armor" part of the trope, being mostly an open frame used for loading cargo like a wearable forklift. Outside film material implies that Colonial Marines sometimes used an actual armed and armored version of the same technology for special situations, though the Marines in the film do not seem to have one in their armory. The Power Loader is designed almost exactly like a traditional forklift, just with legs instead of wheels. It actually looks like it is very well designed to protect its operator when it's being used in situations it's designed for (loading cargo, where a typical accident will be a bunch of heavy stuff falling). This particular model is definitely not designed for any type of military/combat use, though.
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Aliens / int_3d897748	type	Do Not Go Gentle
Aliens / int_3d897748	comment	Do Not Go Gentle: Hudson, Gorman, and Vasquez fight to the death against the aliens.
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Aliens / int_3d944c84	type	Impressed by the Civilian
Aliens / int_3d944c84	comment	Impressed by the Civilian: As noted by Ripley, Newt survived for a considerable amount of time in a Xenomorph infested area without weapons or training.
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Aliens / int_3ea462d7	type	Take That, Audience!
Aliens / int_3ea462d7	comment	Take That, Audience!: The boardroom scene takes a potshot at viewers of the first Alien movie who assumed that the Derelict and the Xenomorph were native to the lifeless LV-426 rather than piecing together the intended implication, when the boardroom confirm amongst themselves that it's impossible for LV-426 to host any indigenous life, prompting an irritated Ripley to spell out that the Xenomorph and the Derelict clearly did not originate on the planetoid but rather they crashed there after coming from somewhere else. Ripley even snarks at the boardroom over the matter, "Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?"
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Aliens / int_3eb8ba12	type	Description Porn
Aliens / int_3eb8ba12	comment	Description Porn: Hudson presenting the squad's "state of the badass art" credentials:
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Aliens / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Aliens / int_3eed59a8	comment	Explosive Overclocking: Essentially what the Weyland-Yutani Corporation does with atmosphere processors. Everything's fine so long as their cooling systems work. Compromise those however, and you're screwed. Whatever remains will work its guts out until it overloads, the entire station will go up in a cloud of vapour soon after that.
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Aliens / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Aliens / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Part of what makes the film so touching is Ripley's "adoption" of Newt. Ripley, being frozen for 50+ years, lost her daughter, and Newt's family were killed by the xenomorphs, so the two fill the empty spaces in each other's lives. Newt actually calls Ripley "Mommy" by the end of the film.
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Aliens / int_3f4561f2	type	Five-Finger Fillet
Aliens / int_3f4561f2	comment	Bishop's Five-Finger Fillet looks like a reference to Dark Star, where one of the astronauts tries this but ends up (harmlessly) stabbing himself.
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Aliens / int_400b9d22	type	Sunglasses at Night
Aliens / int_400b9d22	comment	Sunglasses at Night: Ferro's, for no apparent reason, Rule of Cool notwithstanding.
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Aliens / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Aliens / int_40cc0c7e	comment	While Alien didn't exactly have a "happy ending", the opening of Aliens salts the wounds a bit harder for Ripley by revealing that she was stuck in cryosleep for decades and she was (initially) unable to convince anyone of her ordeal, costing her her job. Even worse, the Special Edition reveals that her young daughter grew up and died never knowing what had happened to her mothernote which was slightly mitigated by Alien: Isolation and other media. It would have been even worse in Cameron's initial treatment, where Amanda was elderly but still alive and told her mother she hated her.
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Aliens / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
Aliens / int_41a3e267	comment	One of the Marines is looking almost directly at an alien nested in the wall, but fails to see it amidst the mass of pipes and conduits on the walls and ceilings.
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Aliens / int_430ae566	type	Ankle Drag
Aliens / int_430ae566	comment	Ankle Drag: Happens to Ripley at the end, when the xenomorph queen latches on to her leg, but she manages to get free at the last moment.
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Aliens / int_4389e368	type	Actionized Sequel
Aliens / int_4389e368	comment	Actionized Sequel: Alien was a horror/suspense movie. Cameron thought Alien was so well done that he decided to carry on the story in a completely different way — by adding a few Marines, some BFGs, and a hell of a lot more Xenomorphs.
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Aliens / int_43c77dd9	type	Hellish Copter
Aliens / int_43c77dd9	comment	Hellish Copter: Poor Corporal Ferro.
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Aliens / int_44bd31e2	type	Trope Codifier
Aliens / int_44bd31e2	comment	Another one with a couple of different levels to it, and definitely a Trope Codifier. After the first skirmish with the Xenomorphs inside the reactor, and whilst discussing what to do next, Ripley flatly states they should "take off and nuke the entire the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." When Burke tries to claim that he can't authorize that, Ripley retorts that since this is a military operation and Hicks, as a corporal, is the highest ranking soldier still alive/conscious, he is the one with authority, to which Hicks begrudgingly concurs. Ultimately, despite Burke's insistence that it's not a decision he's equipped to make, Hicks calls for the dropship and drily repeats Ripley's sentiment, whilst making eye contact with her. Not only does this establish a strong rapport between the two as the two people with their priorities straight; it also mirrors the situation from the previous film where Ripley asserts that as Warrant Officer, she was the one who had authority to decide whether Dallas, Lambert, and Kane could be let back onboard the USCSS Nostromo after Kane was incapacitated by the facehugger, but Ash, as Science Officer (and a secret Company mole) undermined her authority and doomed the crew by letting them onboard.
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Aliens / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Aliens / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: When Ellen Ripley makes a promise, crosses her heart and hopes to die, you can bet your cocooned hide that no hive of monsters, snarling Alien Queen, or imminent thermo-nuclear explosion will stop her from saving your life.
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Aliens / int_454bda24	type	Ancestral Weapon
Aliens / int_454bda24	comment	Ancestral Weapon: Hicks' shotgun. According to the novelisation, it's been in his family since the Vietnam War.
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Aliens / int_466f304e	type	Fear-Induced Idiocy
Aliens / int_466f304e	comment	Fear-Induced Idiocy: When the Xenomorphs invade the main characters' hiding place, Burke makes a run for the nearest door and locks it behind him, shutting out the others in favor of saving his own skin (not just from the Xenos, but from the irate marines who've just decided he needs to pay for trying to get Ripley and Newt implanted with facehugger embryos). Not long after, he is ambushed by a lone Xenomorph, his solitude making him easy prey.
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Aliens / int_4691c64f	type	Mission Briefing
Aliens / int_4691c64f	comment	Mission Briefing: The Colonial Marines get one before descending onto the planet.
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Aliens / int_471bde4	type	All Webbed Up
Aliens / int_471bde4	comment	All Webbed Up: It briefly happens to Newt, before Ripley frees her, and the fate of the captured colonists in the reactor. There was originally supposed to be a xenomorph specifically bred for cocooning in Aliens, but it never made it past the concept art stage.
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Aliens / int_476302df	type	You Are a Credit to Your Race
Aliens / int_476302df	comment	You Are a Credit to Your Race: Bishop uses a fantastic non-malicious version after Ripley disposes of the Alien Queen.
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Aliens / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Aliens / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: At the end of the credits, the sound of the facehugger scuttling around is heard.
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Aliens / int_48309ad4	type	Screaming Woman
Aliens / int_48309ad4	comment	Screaming Woman: Ripley screams as she falls into the gravity well with the Queen, and just before the Queen loses its hold on her during the airlock sequence. And Newt — excusable though as she is just a little girl facing very real monsters. It also saves her life when she's cocooned awaiting the facehugger. Ripley has found her Tracking Device lying on the floor and breaks down in tears, thinking she's dead. Suddenly Ripley hears Newt scream and thus knows exactly which direction to go.
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Aliens / int_4910eb39	type	Distant Sequel
Aliens / int_4910eb39	comment	Distant Sequel: This film is set 57 years after Alien.
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Aliens / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
Aliens / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: The countdown for the Explosive Overclocking of the atmosphere processor.
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Aliens / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Aliens / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Ferro's blood spraying on the dropship window.
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Aliens / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Aliens / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Leaving Jonesy behind was Cameron's way of saying there would be no Cat Scares like the previous film.
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Aliens / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Aliens / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Ripley accuses Burke of this.
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Aliens / int_4c733c0c	type	You Leave Him Alone!
Aliens / int_4c733c0c	comment	You Leave Him Alone!: Again, "Get away from her, you bitch!" There's a lot of tropes in that one line.
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Aliens / int_4cb90f31	type	Three Laws-Compliant
Aliens / int_4cb90f31	comment	Three Laws-Compliant: Bishop paraphrases the First Law as to why he would never kill people like Ash did in the first film. It's also noticeable that he covers Hudson's hand with his own during the Five-Finger Fillet scene, because he can't let a human be harmed.
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Aliens / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
Aliens / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: Smack-talking badass Space Marines packing a shitload of badass weaponry to hunt down badass aliens... hell, even the adorable little girl is badass.
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Aliens / int_4dcfdb68	type	It's the Only Way to Be Sure
Aliens / int_4dcfdb68	comment	It's the Only Way to Be Sure: This film is the Trope Namer.
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Aliens / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Aliens / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Ripley doesn't want any part of Burke's hopes to profit off the xenomorphs.
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Aliens / int_4f4dd4b8	type	Tastes Like Disdain
Aliens / int_4f4dd4b8	comment	Tastes Like Disdain: After Bishop's Five-Finger Fillet stunt with Hudson in Sulaco's mess hall, he notices that he nicked one of his fingers and is "bleeding" internal fluid. When Ripley sees this, she snaps at Burke for not telling her that an android was on the ship. Bishop expresses shock when Burke gives him an abbreviated explanation of why she's upset, and tries to assure Ripley that she has nothing to fear from him due to his programming, offering her a plate of food. However, Ripley smacks the plate out of his hand and tells him to stay away from her, and he quickly leaves.
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Aliens / int_4f828b45	type	Post-Climax Confrontation
Aliens / int_4f828b45	comment	Post-Climax Confrontation: Much like in the first film, Ellen Ripley seemingly escapes any and all further danger following a massive explosion, only for the Queen to brutally stab her dangerously barbed tail right on through the Bishop Android's torso and also even split him right in half and also for Ellen Ripley to have to throw the Queen right on out of the USS Sulaco's main floor airlock using the power-loader.
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Aliens / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Aliens / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Carter Burke is the slimiest corporate bastard ever.
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Aliens / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Aliens / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The Xenomorph lifecycle features one of the most infamous examples in film history. Drake himself is horrifyingly scarred after being covered in Xenomorph blood. Hicks gets some nasty burns from the Xenomorphs' blood too, though not as bad as Drake.
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Aliens / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
Aliens / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Hicks, the only surviving Marine, flirts with Ripley while teaching her to use a pulse rifle (Ripley even strokes the grenade launcher pump rather suggestively). There's also an earlier scene where Hicks gives Ripley one of the colonist's tracking devices, telling her it'll help him find her if they get separated and awkwardly trying to put it on her wrist. He defuses the situation by remarking that it doesn't mean they're engaged now, and Ripley puts it on herself. When Ripley leaves an injured Hicks on the dropship to go get Newt, they exchange first names.
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Aliens / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Aliens / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The film starts and ends with a spaceship silently drifting into space as its crew rests in artificial sleep — the same as the first film, in fact.
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Aliens / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
Aliens / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: The "positive" ending (James Cameron intended Ripley, Newt, and Hicks to go back to Earth and live as a family) is overridden by the following film, which has both of them die (offscreen) and Ripley later learning that You Can't Fight Fate. Subverted with the canonical interquel video game, Aliens: Colonial Marines, in that Hicks is shown to have actually survived, and the body in his capsule was not his. It's still a downer because he witnesses Ripley's death while trying to rescue her. While Alien didn't exactly have a "happy ending", the opening of Aliens salts the wounds a bit harder for Ripley by revealing that she was stuck in cryosleep for decades and she was (initially) unable to convince anyone of her ordeal, costing her her job. Even worse, the Special Edition reveals that her young daughter grew up and died never knowing what had happened to her mothernote which was slightly mitigated by Alien: Isolation and other media. It would have been even worse in Cameron's initial treatment, where Amanda was elderly but still alive and told her mother she hated her.
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Aliens / int_54a74b43	type	Who Needs Their Whole Body?
Aliens / int_54a74b43	comment	Who Needs Their Whole Body?: Bishop is able to operate after he is cut in half. Even in the next movie.
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Aliens / int_54cbd0cb	type	This Is Unforgivable!
Aliens / int_54cbd0cb	comment	This Is Unforgivable!: The Marines interrogate Burke's actions for trying to impregnate Ripley and Newt with chest-bursters. Hudson is disgusted, and wants to waste the scumbag. Hicks tries to hear out both accounts and cross-examine them before doing anything drastic. When Ripley reveals Burke's true motives, right down to how he planned to be the sole-survivor of this disaster he created, so no one else would be alive to contradict him, Hicks finally snaps.
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Aliens / int_588d6b3e	type	Vasquez Always Dies
Aliens / int_588d6b3e	comment	Vasquez Always Dies: This film is the Trope Namer. The chinup-pulling, smartgun-wielding Colonial Marine Vasquez dies, while the maternal, civilian Ripley lives. Several other female Marines also die, but are given less characterization and attention. James Cameron likes his Action Girls, but they apparently need to be acting on maternal instincts.
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Aliens / int_5969d512	type	Computer Voice
Aliens / int_5969d512	comment	Computer Voice: Female voice on LV-426.
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Aliens / int_598ad6e2	type	Even the Guys Want Him
Aliens / int_598ad6e2	comment	Even the Guys Want Him: Applies to an entire species (depending on your interpretation of the term "Arcturian"), according to some dialogue:
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Aliens / int_5a8f3057	type	Hand Signals
Aliens / int_5a8f3057	comment	Hand Signals: Both Lieutenant Gorman and Sergeant Apone use these multiple times.
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Aliens / int_5b1953fb	type	Air-Vent Passageway
Aliens / int_5b1953fb	comment	When Vasquez and Gorman are trapped in the Air Vent Passage Way, their suicide via hand grenade takes out several Xenomorphs.
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Aliens / int_5b64e6d4	type	Red Herring Mole
Aliens / int_5b64e6d4	comment	Red Herring Mole: Ripley meets the android Bishop, of whom she's intensely distrustful due to her experience with Ash in the first film, and is later seen examining some dead facehuggers. It looks as though Bishop will betray our heroes in the interests of acquiring a Xenomorph embryo for the company, just like Ash, but it turns out that Burke is the one who really wants to bring in a Xenomorph specimen. Bishop was only following his initial orders.
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Aliens / int_5c613245	type	Thrown Out the Airlock
Aliens / int_5c613245	comment	Thrown Out the Airlock: The Alien Queen is disposed of by ejecting her right out into space.
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Aliens / int_5dc04c4e	type	Brownface
Aliens / int_5dc04c4e	comment	Brownface: Jewish actress Jeanette Goldstein bronzes up to play Mexican soldier Vasquez.
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Aliens / int_5e032315	type	One-Book Author
Aliens / int_5e032315	comment	One-Book Author: Carrie Henn, who played Newt, never made another movie. Her parents very wisely invested the money she made from Aliens, and she decided that she didn't want to be an actor and became a teacher. Carrie does make the occasional appearance at conventions though, and she and Sigourney Weaver still keep in contact.
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Aliens / int_5eca52dc	type	Distress Call
Aliens / int_5eca52dc	comment	Distress Call: There's a cessation of communications with LV426. Ripley later reveals that she checked the colony logs, and Burke was responsible for sending the colonists out to look for the alien ship from the first movie.
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Aliens / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
Aliens / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: Ripley survives the first movie.
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Aliens / int_5fc3ab7f	type	Implied Love Interest
Aliens / int_5fc3ab7f	comment	Implied Love Interest: There are lots of little moments with Ripley and Hicks — he asks her if she's alright right before they go into the colony, he calms her down when she's driving out of the alien nest, she reminds him he's next in command, and a few other tender lines between them. The only outright Ship Tease moments are him saying "this doesn't mean we're engaged" when he gives her a tracking device, and the Given Name Reveal towards the climax (which appears only in the special edition). Very subtly implied with Vasquez and Drake, her fellow smart gun operator. She is noticeably distraught at his death and reacts more to that than any other death among the Marines.
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Aliens / int_6004e99c	type	Activation Sequence
Aliens / int_6004e99c	comment	Activation Sequence: When the team is trapped on the surface of the planet, Bishop remotely activates the other Drop Ship aboard the Sulaco and prepares it to come pick them up.
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Aliens / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
Aliens / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: Practically the whole entire squad of Space Marines, even though the Xenomorphs are obviously up against far more serious opposition this time around when compared to "Big Chap" a.k.a. "Kane's Son" some 57 years before them. Ripley tries to reassure Newt by telling her that she is now protected by Space Marines, but just as Newt initially predicts, it doesn't make any difference for any of them at all.
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Aliens / int_61a84258	type	Deleted Scene
Aliens / int_61a84258	comment	Ripley doesn't recognize the Xenomorph engineering inside the atmosphere processor, and this is because she never went into the Derelict. The novelization has her recognizing something familiar about it, because the novelization of Alien included the Deleted Scene where she finds Dallas and Brett imprisoned within new Ovomorphs.
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Aliens / int_62b4f327	type	RealRobot
Aliens / int_62b4f327	comment	Real Robot: The Power Loader is a good example. In fact, it is such a good example, people started to call companies selling construction and loading equipment to find out where they could get one.
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Aliens / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Aliens / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Lambert's file reveals that she was male-to-female transgender.
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Aliens / int_638b65bc	type	Armor Is Useless
Aliens / int_638b65bc	comment	Armor Is Useless: Averted. A splash of alien blood does burn through Hicks' armor quickly (badly injuring him), but it's obvious the armor is the only reason he lived. Played straight the rest of the time, as a flamethrower explosion slays one Marine and another is too close to the xenomorph and gets acid sprayed all over his face.
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Aliens / int_64070096	type	Cowardly Lion
Aliens / int_64070096	comment	Cowardly Lion Ripley really doesn't want to return to LV426 and is noticeably twitchy inside the deserted colony, but dives without hesitation into a narrow air shaft to grab Newt, then later drives an APC into a nest of Xenomorphs to rescue the Marines. Hudson may be inclined to panic when faced with being stranded on a hostile world with little ammunition, but when the cards are down, he's not one to die without a hell of a fight. When the aliens first attack, Gorman panics even though he's safe in the APC. Later, he bravely goes back to try and save Vasquez, dying alongside her in the attempt.
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Aliens / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Aliens / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Gorman and Vasquez doing a Taking You with Me / You Shall Not Pass!.
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Aliens / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Aliens / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Hicks briefly when they realize the rest of the Marines are lost to the Xenomorphs. With Hudson, it's more like Inelegant Blubbering.
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Aliens / int_67f3ff98	type	Brake Angrily
Aliens / int_67f3ff98	comment	Brake Angrily: Ripley does this when a Xenomorph Drone attacks her from the roof of the APC, throwing the Xenomorph Drone off in front of the APC so she can run it over.
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Aliens / int_68148dc	type	Militaries Are Useless
Aliens / int_68148dc	comment	Militaries Are Useless: Newt predicts that the presence of the Colonial Marines "won't make any difference." When the aliens show up, the Marines get overpowered very quickly and become a Dwindling Party. This leaves Ripley — a civilian — doing most of the heavy lifting and calling the shots, together with Corporal Hicks.
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Aliens / int_69a54df1	type	Chest Burster
Aliens / int_69a54df1	comment	After the Colonial Marines learn that some of the ones left behind in the escape are still alive, Vasquez says "Then we go back in there and get them. We don't leave our people behind." Averted, since they don't in fact go back in after them after Ripley points out that anyone left alive is now being used to incubate a Chest Burster.
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Aliens / int_6abfb041	type	Mercy Kill Arrangement
Aliens / int_6abfb041	comment	Mercy Kill Arrangement: Ripley asks Corporal Hicks to kill her if she gets impregnated by alien facehuggers, and he agrees emphatically.
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Aliens / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Aliens / int_6b2b3b59	comment	Subverted. Burke is the only authority figure to sympathize with Ripley and comes across as a fair and reasonable person... until The Reveal.
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Aliens / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Aliens / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Ripley barbecuing the eggs and then pretty much emptying her pulse rifle into the Queen's chamber (bullets and grenades) qualifies as this. After Ripley burns the Alien Queen's eggs, she breaks off of her ovipositor and goes after Ripley personally.
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Aliens / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Aliens / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Newt mimics the Marines saying "affirmative" a few times. In the end as Ripley is about to put her into the hypersleep -â€“ specifically saying "sweet dreams" â€“- Newt responds "affirmative." Another one with a couple of different levels to it, and definitely a Trope Codifier. After the first skirmish with the Xenomorphs inside the reactor, and whilst discussing what to do next, Ripley flatly states they should "take off and nuke the entire the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." When Burke tries to claim that he can't authorize that, Ripley retorts that since this is a military operation and Hicks, as a corporal, is the highest ranking soldier still alive/conscious, he is the one with authority, to which Hicks begrudgingly concurs. Ultimately, despite Burke's insistence that it's not a decision he's equipped to make, Hicks calls for the dropship and drily repeats Ripley's sentiment, whilst making eye contact with her. Not only does this establish a strong rapport between the two as the two people with their priorities straight; it also mirrors the situation from the previous film where Ripley asserts that as Warrant Officer, she was the one who had authority to decide whether Dallas, Lambert, and Kane could be let back onboard the USCSS Nostromo after Kane was incapacitated by the facehugger, but Ash, as Science Officer (and a secret Company mole) undermined her authority and doomed the crew by letting them onboard.
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Aliens / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Aliens / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The noble, nonviolent, and self-sacrificing android is called "Bishop". His name beginning with the letter B also implies he is an advancement over Ash in the first film; certainly true from a moral standpoint. Whereas "Burke" is pronounced "Berk", i.e. "Berkeley hunt", rhyming slang for the c-word. No character is more deserving of that title.
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Aliens / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
Aliens / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: The Marines make a number of mistakes that actual Marines are trained to avoid, like not going over the layout of the place ahead of time (and learning about the atmosphere processors), Lt. Gorman not relying on his NCO, heavy machine guns and flamethowers in an AO with civilians, leaving the pilot alone on the ship with no security, etc. Also, a Lieutenant like Gorman (especially one so green) has no business commanding a rescue mission on this scale as opposed to a captain or major. One theory is that they were considered expendable, so they didn't send the best team in, and/or Gorman was picked as someone pliable who would defer to Burke when making the big decisions, only for the plan to be derailed when Ripley ended up taking over. Also, Gorman seems to be WAY too old to be just a Lieutenant, especially with no experience. Most officers would have been promoted to Captain by his age, or washed out of the military. Possibly justified if he joined the military later in life, possibly after a failed first career or if he had been enlisted prior (which his level of inexperience does not suggest). Hicks remarks that Lieutenant Gorman is "too good to eat with the rest of us grunts" as a means of establishing Gorman is out of touch with and stands apart from his men. Officers don't mess with enlisted men. At least, Gorman is not doing anything an actual Marine would consider out of the ordinary.note It's not uncommon for a newly commissioned officer to do things like eat with their troops in an attempt to build camaraderie, but it is frowned upon. In fact, most enlisted personnel would be suspicious of an officer that did try to join them in the chow hall (outside of a special occasion like a birthday or holiday where the unit as a whole is together) for fear that the officer is trying to get them into trouble for something. Some of the Marines' haircuts and uniforms don't meet the standards an audience would expect from real life armed forces. Of course these Marines are in a futuristic, fictional force so Artistic Licence is justified.note In a commentary, Cameron did say that he based the look and feel of the USCMC more on Vietnam-era Army draftees, and was later impressed by the professionalism of actual Marines. He then apologized to Marines the world over for his misrepresentation.
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Aliens / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Aliens / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Lance Henriksen as the synthetic Bishop is a nod to the fact that he was supposed to play the titular cyborg villain of The Terminator until Arnold Schwarzenegger was cast.
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Aliens / int_6fb5cb83	type	I Gave My Word
Aliens / int_6fb5cb83	comment	I Gave My Word: Played straight. Ripley promised that she would not leave Newt behind, imminent thermonuclear holocaust or not. Subverted with Burke: see the Opening Quote above, a ruse to trick Ripley into helping him.
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Aliens / int_7040b6bc	type	Understatement
Aliens / int_7040b6bc	comment	Understatement: Burke tries to explain why he didn't warn the colonists what they were looking for: "I made a decision, and it was... wrong. It was a bad call, Ripley. It was a bad call." Ripley immediately calls him out on this.
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Aliens / int_70af5e15	type	Anthropic Principle
Aliens / int_70af5e15	comment	Anthropic Principle: Had the atmosphere processor not started to overload, necessitating the survivors instead escape LV-426 within several hours, they would have tried to wait 17 days for a rescue, consequently getting wiped out by the now-enraged hive (an irate Hudson pointed this much out to Ripley: they would never survive that long).
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Aliens / int_70b840b6	type	Giving Them the Strip
Aliens / int_70b840b6	comment	Giving Them the Strip: Ripley tries to haul Newt up by the sleeve of her leather jacket, but since it was Ripley's jacket it's way too big and Newt unintentionally slips right out of it. Hicks must quickly shed his acid-blood-spattered body armor before the corrosive stuff can penetrate to his skin.
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Aliens / int_713d994b	type	Token Romance
Aliens / int_713d994b	comment	Token Romance: Between Ripley and Hicks.
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Aliens / int_713e479	type	Sensor Suspense
Aliens / int_713e479	comment	Sensor Suspense: Several scenes with the motion trackers, especially the "They're crawling through ceiling!" scene. And in the deleted sentry scene right before that, seeing the ammo count from the sentry guns decline rapidly. It's used quite differently and effectively early in the film, with the Marines searching the colony compound visually and with trackers, and finding, quoth Hicks, "Nothing. Not a goddamn thing." The fact that nothing happens, nothing shows up on the motion sensors (except some hamsters), but there's clear and omnipresent signs that something did happen, quite effectively ratchets up the suspense several notches, well before any aliens at all appear.
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Aliens / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
Aliens / int_7241785e	comment	The "positive" ending (James Cameron intended Ripley, Newt, and Hicks to go back to Earth and live as a family) is overridden by the following film, which has both of them die (offscreen) and Ripley later learning that You Can't Fight Fate.
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Aliens / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Aliens / int_72856b70	comment	In the novelisation, Ripley duct-taping an assault rifle/grenade launcher to a flamethrower is assumed to be this, but she's past caring by that point.
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Aliens / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Aliens / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: The ending confrontation could be completely averted if only Ripley killed the immobilized Queen instead of shooting her visibly not vital hatching organ — or at least not wasted her ammo on xenomorph eggs (which would be evaporated along with the colony anyway), so she could kill her in the corridor chase later. Even if she expected the Queen not to be able to chase her and Newt, she had no guarantee that more xenomorphs wouldn't ambush them during escape. She left herself basically without any weapon to defend herself.
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Aliens / int_75678e1	type	Species Title
Aliens / int_75678e1	comment	Species Title: A sequel of Alien with Ellen Ripley and her crew investigating the moon and finding that it wasn't just a lone creature this time around but instead a member of a whole species making the Antagonist Title.
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Aliens / int_763ac306	type	Mandatory Unretirement
Aliens / int_763ac306	comment	Mandatory Unretirement: Ripley is called back to join the mission for her expertise after being suspended from work.
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Aliens / int_765a1683	type	Enemy Rising Behind
Aliens / int_765a1683	comment	Enemy Rising Behind: The abduction of Newt. The xenomorph rising up behind Burke in Medical.
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Aliens / int_77315f4f	type	You Have to Believe Me!
Aliens / int_77315f4f	comment	You Have to Believe Me!: The committee of Obstructive Bureaucrats investigating the loss of the Nostromo refuse to believe Ripley's story because there's no evidence to back it up, the colonists on the planet haven't reported anything unusual, and (it's implied) because if Ripley's story is true, it would uncover some nasty skeletons in the Company's closet.
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Aliens / int_773b0523	type	Impaled Palm
Aliens / int_773b0523	comment	Impaled Palm: Averted with Bishop's Five-Finger Fillet with Hudson. Bishop nicks a finger, revealing he's an android.
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Aliens / int_77538ed4	type	Admiring the Abomination
Aliens / int_77538ed4	comment	Admiring the Abomination: Bishop displays this sort of behavior when studying a facehugger carcass. By drawing parallels to how Ash (the first film's synthetic) reacted to the same creature, the film implies Bishop will turn evil as well, but it's ultimately a Red Herring. Well, at least until the very next film...
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Aliens / int_776c2ba4	type	Send in the Search Team
Aliens / int_776c2ba4	comment	Send in the Search Team: The salvage team that finds Ripley's shuttle. The Colonial Marines sent to find out what happened to the colony on LV-426 that has gone silent.
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Aliens / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
Aliens / int_7969f21e	comment	The second dropship barely escaping the nuclear detonation on LV-426. They actually have plenty of time to escape (twenty six minutes), but Ripley refuses to leave without Newt.
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Aliens / int_7b71edf4	type	Going Critical
Aliens / int_7b71edf4	comment	The atmosphere processor is fully automated, the colonists were just there for occasional maintenance. Problem is, if the critical cooling systems are damaged it doesn't automatically shut down by itself without human intervention. The whole station tries to delay the inevitable overload via emergency venting, but it's already passed the point of no return.
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Aliens / int_7bb63bc	type	Motile Vehicular Components
Aliens / int_7bb63bc	comment	Motile Vehicular Components: The APC has its guns mounted on a turret that can be rotated flush with the hull for storage and carrying on aÂ Drop Ship. The tie-in tech manual states that it's reccommended the turret be locked in-place as soon as possible after deployment to avoid fouling the rails. The dropship itself has a pair of missile racks mounted on foldaway sections. When not in use, they rotate into the fuselage.
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Aliens / int_7cb9e33	type	Dying Declaration of Hate
Aliens / int_7cb9e33	comment	Dying Declaration of Hate: "You always were an asshole, Gorman!" Although it's said with an It Has Been an Honor tone, as she joins him in gripping the grenade. This is most likely because Gorman came back to try and rescue Vasquez when she was wounded, and is about to lose his life for doing so.
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Aliens / int_7efd2e30	type	Expository Hairstyle Change
Aliens / int_7efd2e30	comment	Expository Hairstyle Change: Hudson's spiked-up hair reflects his confidence. After the team is decimated and Hudson completely freaks out, his hair is flat. The front part of it goes up a bit when Ripley tells him to get a hold of himself. When he starts to regain his composure, his hair is more up but still wet and flat in places. When he's fully regained his confidence, it's spiked up again. Ripley's hair changes between her hearing and a few months later when she's now working in the cargo bay. It's much shorter and also seems to represent her upcoming Adrenaline Makeover.
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Aliens / int_7f0f2e2	type	Recycled Title
Aliens / int_7f0f2e2	comment	Recycled Title: Alien, and then Aliens. It makes sense. First there's one Xenomorph and now there's many Xenomorphs.
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Aliens / int_7f11d137	type	Still the Leader
Aliens / int_7f11d137	comment	Still the Leader: Gorman does get one last opportunity to let his higher rank shine; during their desperate escape attempt in the vents, Vasquez gets injured, and Gorman — who even before this was finally starting to show some competence — firmly orders Hicks on while he goes back to help Vasquez. Hicks obeys without hesitation.
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Aliens / int_7f34a9e0	type	Climactic Elevator Ride
Aliens / int_7f34a9e0	comment	Climactic Elevator Ride: Ripley rides down an elevator deep into the soon-to-be-exploding atmosphere processor to rescue a little girl. She takes this time to ready all her weapons.
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Aliens / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Aliens / int_7f390ebc	comment	Developing Doomed Characters: The second act of the movie shows the great rapport and/or banter of the Marines. It makes the horror that befalls them all the more palpable.
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Aliens / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Aliens / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Ripley pointing out that the Marines were under the cooling vents for the atmospheric processor, leading to Gorman ordering Apone to remove all (needed) ammunition. Vasquez and Gorman blowing themselves up was a good idea. It was unfortunate that they hadn't the extra 30 seconds to let Newt get up the ladder first. The Queen was suspended high and above the ground by a strange apparatus to allow her to use her ovipositor; however, it rendered her immovable. Throwing the bandolier of grenades into the fire not only didn't hurt her but it also destroyed the apparatus, allowing her to move freely once she tore free of her now shredded ovipositor. When Ripley ran over the Xenomorph Drone with the APC during the escape sequence, it bled acid that splashed on the undercarriage of the vehicle. Seconds later, they're stranded in the middle of nowhere with a broken transaxle. Oops. Ripley goes on a rampage against the Ovomorphs, and she wastes nearly all of her ammo while doing so, and this leaves her almost nothing to defend herself and Newt with against the now very angry Queen once she tears loose from her oviposter, and the Ovomorphs would have all been destroyed in the impending explosion anyway.
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Aliens / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Aliens / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Burke condescendingly referring to Ripley as "kiddo" even as he explains that she's technically half a century older than him, stating that he works for the Company, "but don't let that fool you, I'm really an okay guy." Seemingly a little too keen to be thought of as okay... The moment she gets out of cryo, Vasquez is at the bar doing chin-ups while her fellow Marines are mostly still groggy, and demolishes Hudson the moment he tries to make a sexist insult about her looks. Bishop's first scene reveals him as a robot. It also serves double for Hudson by highlighting his tendency to freak out when things go poorly. When debriefing the Colonial Marines under his command to ensure they're prepared, Lieutenant Gorman confuses Hudson for Hicks and clearly does not command the soldiers' respect the way Sgt. Apone does. This, along with his obvious discomfort during the drop down to LV-426, establishes Gorman's inexperience. After it's established that Gorman is unsettled during the drop ship's rocky descent to the planet due to his lack of experience in actual combat missions, Hicks is shown sleeping right through the turbulence, simultaneously establishing this sort of thing as old hat for him, and professional enough to always try to catch up on sleep (as you don't know when things will suddenly go sideways and you have to stay awake a lot longer than you counted on). After they land, he doubles back to check on a visibly unsettled Ripley, making it clear he's also a Nice Guy.
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Aliens / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Aliens / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: When Hudson teases Vasquez by asking if she's ever been mistaken for a man and she retorts "No. Have you?", Drake quickly compliments her badassness... and we briefly see that even Hudson can't resist smiling.
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Aliens / int_82d9561a	type	Remote Vitals Monitoring
Aliens / int_82d9561a	comment	Remote Vitals Monitoring: The APC features a station where all of the Marines' camera feeds are kept up with as well as some of their vitals, with Gorman acting as Mission Control. When the xenomorphs attack in the base of the atmospheric processor, Crowe and Frost are the first two deaths, with the camera lingering on their vital sign monitors as the readings flatline. Later, after the Marines are rescued, Hudson looks at the station and sees that Apone and Dietrich's vitals are still active but weak, but Ripley says it's because they're being cocooned like the colonists, and they can't be saved.
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Aliens / int_82f5ced1	type	Conservation of Ninjutsu
Aliens / int_82f5ced1	comment	Conservation of Ninjutsu: Countless different adult Xenomorph Drones along with the Alien Queen appear throughout the film's runtime this time around, only for them to get brutally slaughtered right and left by the Colonial Marines' highly advanced and likewise also very deadly futuristic weaponry systems. The number of human deaths seen throughout the film is also higher due to the USS Sulaco crew's initially significantly superior numbers when compared to the USCSS Nostromo crew's initial numbers 57 years before them.
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Aliens / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Aliens / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: The M56 Smart Gun, a large machine gun connected to a specialized backpack-like harness via a gimbal arm. Ripley's duct-taped pulse rifle/Grenade Launcher/flamethrower. From the extended cut, the sentry guns.
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Aliens / int_845429bb	type	WeWillWearArmourInTheFuture
Aliens / int_845429bb	comment	We Will Wear Armour In The Future: The Colonial Marines have fairly realistic armour. It even saves Hicks' life (though not any of the other Marines).
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Aliens / int_8494bcb3	type	Disposable Pilot
Aliens / int_8494bcb3	comment	Disposable Pilot: Corporal Ferro.
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Aliens / int_84f4a870	type	Puzzle Boss
Aliens / int_84f4a870	comment	Puzzle Boss: The Queen can be seen as a downplayed example of this trope since her final defeat still involves her getting thrown out of the ''USS Sulaco's'' main floor airlock during the film's famous Post-Climax Confrontation as already mentioned above, but unlike with "Big Chap" a.k.a. "Kane's Son" some fifty-seven years before her, the presence of the P-5000-Powered-Work-Loader still allows Ellen Ripley to directly physically engage her massive opponent before then.
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Aliens / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Aliens / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Did no one save those poor, innocent hamsters from nuclear vaporization at the end of the movie? The last we see of Ripley's cat is when Ripley tells him she decided to take the mission. In the novelization, she left him on Earth (commenting that only she needed to go back into danger). Given what happens in the next movie, Jones the cat may have the happiest ending of any of the characters in this movie. Maybe even the entire series. She makes it clear in the film that she's leaving him on Earth too.
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Aliens / int_864aa9	type	Hellevator
Aliens / int_864aa9	comment	Hellevator: "We're on an express elevator to Hell — going down!" By the way: they're headed for level 7.
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Aliens / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Aliens / int_86b21114	comment	The Director's Cut has a Badass Boast speech from Hudson which mentions "phased plasma rifles." Presumably they're in the 40-watt range.
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Aliens / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Aliens / int_87504252	comment	The Big Board: The Marines use one to view the colony complex and plan out their defensive measures to hold out against the Alien horde.
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Aliens / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Aliens / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: At the start of the movie, Burke is the only one who appears sympathetic to Ripley. Bishop is presented as a creepy potential Ash. Bishop turns out to be absolutely loyal, while Burke is revealed to be an amoral schemer only out for his own advancement.
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Aliens / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
Aliens / int_8879db82	comment	Badass Crew: The Colonial Marines certainly fit the bill. Too bad they don't last long, since the aliens are way more dangerous and numerous.
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Aliens / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
Aliens / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: Referenced in a discussion between Ripley and Bishop that indicates there's something worse down in the colony than the aliens they've seen so far... the Alien Queen.
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Aliens / int_89012c43	type	Excessive Steam Syndrome
Aliens / int_89012c43	comment	Excessive Steam Syndrome: During the scenes in the Xenomorphs' lair.
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Aliens / int_89499ccf	type	Dolled-Up Installment
Aliens / int_89499ccf	comment	Dolled-Up Installment: The commentary track reveals that this trope was in play. When asked to do an Alien sequel, James Cameron wrote an outline for his thoughts on a film, which was actually based on something he wrote a few months earlier with the Alien characters dropped in.
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Aliens / int_8ace85ef	type	Audience Surrogate
Aliens / int_8ace85ef	comment	Audience Surrogate: Hudson, according to Word of God from Cameron.
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Aliens / int_8b2f45df	type	Cryo Sickness
Aliens / int_8b2f45df	comment	Cryo Sickness: Ripley spends a week in the hospital for her 57-year-long hypersleep. The novelization notes that she just squeaked by on an outright Cryonics Failure, as after 60 years, she would have died.
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Aliens / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Aliens / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The Marines and Ripley decide to nuke LV-426 to make sure they wipe out all of the Xenomorphs. Averted because not only do the Xenomorphs kill off the pilot of the Drop Ship, but the huge reactor blows up in a thermonuclear explosion — making nuking the planet redundant. When Hudson shoots the facehugger going for Newt, he uses rather more bullets than he really needed to.
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Aliens / int_8c00901a	type	Creepy Good
Aliens / int_8c00901a	comment	Creepy Good: Bishop is one of the most iconic examples of this in film, as he's very unemotional, creeps Ripley out, and gets several shots of him staring intently at the facehuggers in a jar, but he actually turns out to be one of the most valuable allies on the team. It's ''Burke'' who's the real traitor.
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Aliens / int_8c49c29e	type	Zig-Zagging Trope
Aliens / int_8c49c29e	comment	Averted. The pulse rifles can hold 99 rounds, but after the Dropship crash and APC destruction, they only have about fifty rounds each for four of them. 99 rounds seems like a lot, but as Ripley proves in her assault on the hive, it's not quite enough. Hicks also reminds the surviving Marines to use "short, controlled bursts" when the aliens finally come for them, to make their remaining ammo last as long as possible (although during the second firefight, the Marines seem to fire more than fifty rounds each, especially Hudson, who probably shot more than 50 rounds at the facehugger attacking Ripley and Newt alone before the scene even started).
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Aliens / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Aliens / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: How exactly was Burke planning on sabotaging every other sleep pod to make himself the lone survivor? As a civilian on a military ship, he would probably have been one of the first to be put to sleep. Justified in that his back is against the wall in an already stressful situation, so he's not in the best frame of mind to be scheming. This is the fatal mistake that allows the Xenomorphs to penetrate Hadleyâ€™s Hope late in the film. Ripley and the surviving Marines identified all potential entrances into the main compound and sealed them off. While this held off attacks in the short run, they realize too late there was 'â€™anotherâ€™â€™ entrance into the compound they should have considered and missed: the crawlspace above the false ceilings.
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Aliens / int_8d407165	type	Human Architecture Horror
Aliens / int_8d407165	comment	Human Architecture Horror: The platoon of Colonial Marines sent to rescue any surviving colonists captured by the aliens find to their horror that they're little more than shattered corpses, ribcages erupting from within, plastered with the resin of the nursery that incubated the monsters' young with their bodies. The Medical Officer lifts the head of a seemingly unbroken body, only for the eyes to suddenly snap open, and its owner begins to beg for a quick and painless death as a jet of blood suddenly shoots forth from her chest with a sickening crunch...
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Aliens / int_8d463bfd	type	Parenthetical Swearing
Aliens / int_8d463bfd	comment	Parenthetical Swearing: According to supplemental material, Colonial Marine Drill Sergeants are not allowed by regulation to swear at recruits... so they take Gosh Darn It to Heck! and make it sound as filthy and nasty as possible.
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Aliens / int_8e0bedfe	type	Kid Sidekick
Aliens / int_8e0bedfe	comment	While a handful of films released around this time were beginning to embrace the Kid Sidekick and Tagalong Kid tropes (most notably Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom two years earlier), Aliens was actively subverting it via the Newt character. While most kid characters simply existed to be rescued or provide witty comebacks, Newt is the only one of the group who fully understands the danger on LV-426. She listens to commands and follows them, has a wry sense of humor at times, and at one point, Ripley and the others defer to her judgement (in the maintenance ducts after fleeing from the attack on Medical). All this for a kid who's no more than 10 years old.
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Aliens / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Aliens / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Nobody cried when a xenomorph mauled Burke, because he was the one who tricked the colonists into investigating the alien starship. As a result, all of them were killed except for Newt. Paul Reiser said in an interview that he knew he had played a complete asshole when at the movie's premiere his own parents enthusiastically agreed that his character deserved the violent death he received.
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Aliens / int_8fdb09ce	type	Stairs Are Faster
Aliens / int_8fdb09ce	comment	Stairs Are Faster: Nearly occurs when Ripley is escaping with Newt from the complex in the climax. Ripley took so long to go for them when the elevator was not prompt because they were actually much slower, being a ladder she'd have to climb with Newt and her double weapon up several stories, and she abandons the ladder as the Queen closes in, knowing she won't get far enough before the Queen can attack. Fortunately, the first elevator Ripley called finally arrives. Unfortunately, so does the second, giving the Queen a way to follow.
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Aliens / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Aliens / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: The traitorous Company executive, Burke, abandons everyone to the aliens — presumably assuming that they really will kill him once they escape — only to run directly into a bloodthirsty xenomorph himself. In a deleted scene (and in the novelization), Burke becomes the host for a chestburster, the original fate he had planned for Newt and Ripley.
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Aliens / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Aliens / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Carter Burke gets his.
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Aliens / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
Aliens / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: Bishop gets torn in half by the Alien Queen near the end. In a rare example of this trope, he lives. This also happens to Ferro, the dropship pilot, although she doesn't fare as well as Bishop did.
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Aliens / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Aliens / int_916c72b3	comment	This also applies to Ripley, thanks to Hicks' low-key command style. The Marines defer to Ripley because of her greater experience with the aliens and her more forceful personality compared to the inept Lt. Gorman. Hicks plays along because her orders make sense, quietly providing his own expertise and authority when needed. It's likely not a coincidence that Ripley's (civilian) rank was raised from Warrant Officer to Lieutenant First Class for this movie — more than one reviewer assumes that Hicks regards Ripley as his superior officer. Even the failure to resolve their UST plays into this.
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Aliens / int_91c651a1	type	Guilt-Free Extermination War
Aliens / int_91c651a1	comment	Guilt-Free Extermination War: After the first engagement with the xenomorphs leaves most of the Colonial Marines dead, Ripley convinces the remainder to exterminate the alien monsters by firing a nuclear missile at them from orbit. The xenos are an omnicidal species adhering to a Blue-and-Orange Morality, a species that is heavily implied to be a genetically engineered bioweapon that is supposed to completely supplant any sentient lifeform in the area it infects. The only person to object to this is a Corrupt Corporate Executive with a stake in weaponizing them.
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Aliens / int_92a61707	type	The Speechless
Aliens / int_92a61707	comment	The Speechless: Newt is this until Ripley takes the time to get her some hot chocolate and clean her up.
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Aliens / int_93350bf1	type	Continuous Decompression
Aliens / int_93350bf1	comment	Inside the Sulaco's loading bay, there's no interlock that prevents both the inner and outer doors of the maintenance airlock from being open simultaneously, hence potentially exposing the entire ship to the vacuum of space via Continuous Decompression.
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Aliens	hasFeature	Aliens / int_93350bf1
Aliens / int_93387c2e	type	Monster Delay
Aliens / int_93387c2e	comment	Monster Delay: Somewhat exaggerated in this film in that the eggs, the adult Xenomorph Drones, and the Queen all take awfully long periods of time to finally show up on-screen for the first time, especially so in the latter-most specimen's case, but the Face Huggers, however, actually show up on-screen far earlier in this film than the one that impregnated Kane during the first film ever did.
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Aliens	hasFeature	Aliens / int_93387c2e
Aliens / int_94cc2c28	type	Exact Time to Failure
Aliens / int_94cc2c28	comment	Exact Time to Failure: Largely subverted. The atmosphere processor's computer systems continually announcing exactly how much time is left to reach minimum safe distance before meltdown. However, with one overloading machine destroying another, it ceases to function after t-minus two minutes. Though at this point, the entire superstructure is a fiery inferno anyway. The thermonuclear explosion then occurs 31 seconds afterward. However, not entirely subverted because both Bishop and the computer give multiple exact times without any qualifiers such as "roughly". Considering the processor is on fire with random explosions and lightning bolts, it's amazing how accurate the times given were.
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Aliens / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Aliens / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Ripley outlived her daughter due to her 57 years in hypersleep.
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Aliens / int_96475bb6	type	Awesome Personnel Carrier
Aliens / int_96475bb6	comment	Awesome Personnel Carrier: The Marine APC.
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Aliens / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Aliens / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: "Fuck you! Fuck you! AND FUCK YOU TOO!!!!" Exit Hudson.
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Aliens / int_967809be	type	Small Girl, Big Gun
Aliens / int_967809be	comment	Small Girl, Big Gun: Private Vasquez is played by a 5'3" actress and wields a 40-pound machine gun.
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Aliens / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Aliens / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: The first half of the movie mostly consists of Ripley struggling with Weyland-Yutani executives and Burke's attempts to get her to go, as well as the Marines clowning around. We later get Ripley putting Newt to bed and the aftermath of the dropship crashing.
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Aliens / int_96ecc67e	type	Shotguns Are Just Better
Aliens / int_96ecc67e	comment	Shotguns Are Just Better: Hicks likes to keep one handy. For close encounters. Played With in that the shotgun doesn't really seem to do much: Hicks fires it twice at an offscreen alien, and there's a screech, but no indication if he killed it or even really hurt it. Later, Hudson grabs the gun, shoves it in an alien's mouth, and pulls the trigger, which does a handy job of disposing of the alien but also splashes Hudson's arm with some acid blood (and presumably destroys the shotgun as well, since it's never seen again in the film).
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Aliens / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
Aliens / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender: Averted. Two females and two males survive the expedition (that is, if you count Bishop as male.) The Marine party has at least three women, and all of them die, in addition to the colonist woman we see get chestbursted. The only non-civilian to survive is Hicks (a man).
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Aliens / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
Aliens / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Played completely straight, as Private Frost gets a flamethrower to the face as soon as the squad gets ambushed and Sergeant Apone gets grabbed by Xenomorph Drones in the same scene (though his death is somewhat delayed).
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Aliens / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
Aliens / int_98576799	comment	Throw the Dog a Bone: An aversion, as Ripley expresses gratitude and is simultaneously forced to admit she was wrong about Bishop all along, but their conversation is literally cut short as the Queen Xenomorph impales and rips the android in two.
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Aliens / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Aliens / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Hicks promises Ripley that he will "do us both" if they were hopelessly cornered by the Xenomorphs, but it actually doesn't ever come to that, and they live through the entire film. When they're trapped by Xenomorphs, Vasquez and Gorman take out several aliens via grenade in the Hadley's Hope air ducts rather than be captured and impregnated. In a deleted scene, while searching for Newt in the alien nest, Ripley comes across Burke, who has been cocooned and impregnated. She hands him a grenade so he can take this option.
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Aliens / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Aliens / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Ripley starts out the film as a simple commercial freighter officer and ends up kicking ass. Hudson loses his credentials after the first rout with the aliens and is a nervous wreck for most of the movie, but eventually goes out with a bang. Gorman's inexperience as a commander gets a lot of his team killed; then he goes back for Vasquez armed with only a pistol, knowing it was almost certain death.
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Aliens / int_9d0730f8	type	Badass and Child Duo
Aliens / int_9d0730f8	comment	Badass and Child Duo: Ripley and Newt, as shown on the poster image.
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Aliens / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Aliens / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Ripley confronts Burke about not even mentioning Bishop's presence as an android aboard the Sulaco despite having heard her version of the events that transpired aboard the Nostromo. Burke sincerely admits he just didn't think to mention it. It's an early sign of his lack of consideration for other people, in particular their pain and suffering, as well as his general untrustworthiness. In the Special Edition, the "bees and ants" conversation foreshadows the appearance of the Queen. Newt reckons the scenario will turn ugly again for the humans, despite the presence of the Space Marines. Ripley promises that she won't leave Newt, "cross my heart and hope to die". She gets a chance to prove that she means it when the xenomorphs capture Newt with only minutes before a nuclear detonation will occur. Ripley suggests nuking the site from orbit and Hicks agrees. The site ends up nuking itself when the damaged power plant explodes. Also in the Special Edition, when Commander Simpson is discussing claim rights for colony surveyors. In reference to Newt's dad, "if he finds anything, it's his". Well, he certainly brings something back to Hadley's Hope with him — and that particular "piece of salvage" does not stay his, but becomes a major problem for the entire colony very fast. Also, Newt's dad was only concerned about his claim not being honored "because you sent them to that particular middle of nowhere on Company orders," indicating someone took Ripley's story seriously enough to have it investigated, kicking off the entire plot. The pilot Ferro is literally ripped in half by the xenomorph that surprises her. Gory Discretion Shot with red blood ensues, but we later see the same thing happen to Bishop who, as we know by now is an android, survives and is able to save Newt in the process. While searching the colony, they find vats of facehuggers, two of which are still alive, and as one is alerted by Burke, Hicks comments "Looks like love at first sight to me." Later, we learn that the "love" went both ways, with Burke wanting to bring in a xenomorph himself, and when Ripley refuses to cooperate, he sics the two living facehuggers on her and Newt. After the dropship rescues Ripley and Newt, a blast sends it hurling sideways into the wall before Bishop regains control. As he retracts the landing legs, some of the wreckage is pulled in with them. The Queen Alien apparently used the opportunity to jump into the landing leg as well.
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Aliens / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Aliens / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Ripley's leg must be stronger than the power loader's, considering how the Queen grabs hold of her ankle while the airlock is open and somehow Ripley's leg isn't torn off.
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Aliens / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Aliens / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: As the salvage team is cutting into the Narcissus at the beginning of the movie, the harpoon gun that Ripley shot the Xenomorph Drone from the first film with can still be seen jammed right up against the bottom of the hatch. A subtle one (since it's a blink-and-you-miss it in the first film), there was also corn bread for breakfast on the Nostromo. One of the colonist hosts says "Kill me...", referencing a deleted scene in the first film in which Ripley encounters Dallas and Brett being made into more Ovomorphs.
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Aliens / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
Aliens / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: After the credits there is silence and a dark screen. Then the organic squelch of an egg opening can be heard...
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Aliens / int_9f74002a	type	Feminist Fantasy
Aliens / int_9f74002a	comment	Feminist Fantasy: It's subtle but apparent — the female Marines are treated exactly the same as the men, the women in the cast are not there to provide eye candy, and even the people who give Ripley shit do so because she's a civilian and not because of her gender. The one time a character makes a sexist comment, it is A) obviously intended as a joke, and B) immediately shut down by the female character, to the amusement of everyone present, including the character that makes the joke in the first place. It's doubtful that you will ever find a more hardcore balls-to-the-wall action movie that ends in a struggle between two supremely badass mother-figures over the life of a female child.
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Aliens / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Aliens / int_a0db7803	comment	After Ripley burns the Alien Queen's eggs, she breaks off of her ovipositor and goes after Ripley personally.
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Aliens / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Aliens / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: The film has several homages to the book Starship Troopers, such as asking if the mission was a "bug hunt", referring to "combat drops," and the female dropship pilot. Additionally, all the actors playing the Marines were required to read the book before filming.
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Aliens / int_a3597c29	type	Magic Countdown
Aliens / int_a3597c29	comment	Magic Countdown: Notably averted. When the computer announces how much time there is until the place goes up, that's exactly how much in-movie time it takes for the place to blow up.
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Aliens / int_a3f6fcb0	type	Action Mom
Aliens / int_a3f6fcb0	comment	Action Mom: Ripley essentially adopts Newt and goes to enormous lengths to protect her. This is set up earlier in a deleted scene (included in the novelisation and the Special Edition) which reveals Ripley's daughter Amanda died of cancer at an old age while Ripley was lost in hypersleep; Newt is the same age as Ripley's daughter at the last time Ripley saw her.
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Aliens / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Aliens / int_a6cda066	comment	Before going down to the planet, the Marines have one of them lock and loading the dropship, then their personal weapons, then their weapons onto the APC, then the APC into the dropship.
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Aliens / int_a77e19fc	type	YouKnowTooMuch
Aliens / int_a77e19fc	comment	You Know Too Much: Though he also has other motives, Burke sets up Ripley to be infected by a facehugger after she uncovers his role in the colony's destruction, and makes it clear that she will expose him.
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Aliens / int_a7ae597a	type	No New Fashions in the Future
Aliens / int_a7ae597a	comment	No New Fashions in the Future: Ripley and Burke's outfits scream '80s, with Sigourney Weaver's curly hair and Paul Reiser's bad perm getting special notice. Conversely, the business suits all have turned-up collars.
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Aliens / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
Aliens / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Despite being torn in two by the Alien Queen, Bishop manages to not only stop himself from being pulled into the vacuum of space, but saves Newt from being blown out the airlock as well.
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Aliens / int_a7d31bf0	type	Auto-Kitchen
Aliens / int_a7d31bf0	comment	Auto-Kitchen: After the Colonial Marines wake up aboard the starship Sulaco, they eat a meal in a mess hall. They take their food from slots in a machine on the wall. The food is presumably stored and prepared by the machine.
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Aliens / int_a7e47a11	type	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame
Aliens / int_a7e47a11	comment	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Inverted.
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Aliens / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Aliens / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: The nightmarish ordeal endured by the 157 colonists after the attack. See Nightmare Fuel in the YMMV entry for more details, if you dare...
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Aliens / int_a96b8b63	type	Space Marine
Aliens / int_a96b8b63	comment	The film is credited with kick-starting the gritty, grizzled Space Marine trope that's permeated science fiction and popular culture for decades afterwards. It's easy to forget then that the Colonial Marines in Aliens are portrayed as arrogant, trigger-happy jarheads who, despite their overwhelming confidence, had never faced anything even remotely like the Xenomorphs, and suffered for it. It's not a display of badassery so much as it is a sci-fi version of 'Nam. Furthermore, the only Marine who survived the ordeal was the one who followed the orders of Ellen Ripley, who is not only a civilian but also a woman and the main character, something rare even today in similar genres. The only other survivor is Bishop, who's probably one of the nicest people in the entire series. The final confrontation is between two Mama Bears, Ripley and the Queen, completely counter to the hyper-masculine narratives permeating the versions that followed.
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Aliens / int_a9de8105	type	Dangerously Loaded Cargo
Aliens / int_a9de8105	comment	Dangerously Loaded Cargo: Lt. Gorman, the commanding officer of the Marines for the mission, gets knocked out by some falling cargo aboard the APC while Ripley is driving it recklessly to rescue the surviving Marines after their first foray into the hive. With Sgt. Apone falling in the hive, Cpl. Hicks is left in charge. He gladly defers to Ripley, thanks to her prior experience with the title creatures. She orders the site to be nuked from orbit, much to Burke's dismay, setting off the second act plot of Burke attempting to smuggle aliens back inside of Ripley and Newt. Quite the chain of events thanks to one unsecured container.
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Aliens / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
Aliens / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: The dialogue of the Marines is strewn with 1960's Vietnam War slang, despite taking place in the future.
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Aliens / int_aaf19fae	type	Doesn't Like Guns
Aliens / int_aaf19fae	comment	Doesn't Like Guns: Bishop hands back the pistol he's given without comment and proceeds on his solo mission unarmed. This implies he thinks one handgun would be useless against the xenomorphs, or he really is Three Laws-Compliant as he claims (taking a weapon would deprive the human survivors of needed defense).
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Aliens / int_ab729e43	type	Disappointed in You
Aliens / int_ab729e43	comment	Disappointed in You: Burke, when Ripley is set to wipe out the xenomorphs.
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Aliens / int_abf19ef6	type	Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!
Aliens / int_abf19ef6	comment	Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!: The loading bot Mini-Mecha is used in the final battle against the Alien Queen.
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Aliens / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Aliens / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: Easy way to determine Red Shirts: Are they named Ripley? No? They're boned. Frost, Crowe, Dietrich, Wierzbowski, Apone, Drake, Spunkmeyer, Ferro, in that order.
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Aliens / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
Aliens / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em: This option is suggested by the characters to deal with the Xenomorphs ("It's the only way to be sure"), but the plot does it a different way, as the colony's atmosphere processor counts down to a thermonuclear overload all on its own.
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Aliens / int_ac5364fe	type	Chekhov's Hobby
Aliens / int_ac5364fe	comment	Chekhov's Hobby: In the scenes with Newt and her family, she and her brother are being told off for playing in the air vents all the time. Newt is then able to guide the rest of the team to the landing bay when the aliens attack.
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Aliens / int_ac560dc4	type	Save the Villain
Aliens / int_ac560dc4	comment	Save the Villain: Ripley stops Hicks from killing Burke on the spot once his betrayal is exposed, saying "No, we need to take him back!" Presumably she hopes a public trial will expose the Company's role in the deaths of her crewmates on the Nostromo.
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Aliens / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Aliens / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: It is established through dialogue in the apartment scene with Burke and Gorman that Ripley has a license to operate heavy vehicles at the docks. It comes in handy when she uses the APC to rescue the Marines fleeing the hive under the atmosphere processor. Ripley shows that she knows how to use a Powerloader early on, and the scene is played for "Getting to know you" laughs. She later uses that same powerloader to fight the Alien Queen. The lessons Ripley got from Hicks on how to use the Marines' weapons, which she uses to great effect during her Mama Bear rampage.
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Aliens / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Aliens / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Ripley discovers that not only are there colonists on LV-426, they have their families with them, too. Ripley wakes up and sees the containers holding the Facehugger specimens have been opened. Burke when turning around and noticing the Xenomorph Drone behind him. Hudson gets a lot of these moments. Hudson's face while Bishop does his high-speed version of Five-Finger Fillet. "Game over, man. Game over!" "This is a big fucking signal... ten meters... eight..." "That can't be, that's inside the room." ba-beep-beep "It's reading right, man!" "Then you're not reading it right!" BA-BEEP BEEP "Three meters... what the HELL?!?" eyes go upwards to the drop ceiling It's subtle, but the Alien Queen seems to be having one when Ripley confronts her using the power loader. She doesn't attack right away and keeps her distance because as a Xenomorph Queen, she's never been in a fight (that's what her Drones are for) and Ripley's found a way to even the playing field. Notice that when she finally charges Ripley, she doesn't do it head-on, but instead keeps her head and upper torso angled away from the power loader as if she knows she's about to get hit and hard at that.
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Aliens / int_ad4c74ed	type	Final Girl
Aliens / int_ad4c74ed	comment	Final Girl: Actually subverted, which could be expected with the genre shift as Ripley makes it, of course, but Newt, Hicks, and Bishop also manage to make it to the end alive, and in fact, Ripley actually seems somewhat relieved she isn't the only one to survive like last time.
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Aliens / int_ad7a381d	type	P.O.V. Cam
Aliens / int_ad7a381d	comment	P.O.V. Cam: Used with the Marines' helmet cams, linked with the APC to give the CO there a better situational awareness. It doesn't really help.
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Aliens / int_ae3a3b36	type	Take a Moment to Catch Your Death
Aliens / int_ae3a3b36	comment	Take a Moment to Catch Your Death: When Ripley, Newt and Bishop step off the dropship after escaping LV-426, Ripley takes a moment to thank the android for saving her and the young girl. Bishop replies that he did do good... and then he gets ripped in half by the Queen, who hitched a ride up with them.
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Aliens / int_aeec99a9	type	Immediate Sequel
Aliens / int_aeec99a9	comment	Immediate Sequel: Subverted. Ripley's rescue during the opening sequence makes this film seem like one, but subsequent dialogue reveals otherwise:
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Aliens / int_af35d39	type	Plot-Demanded Manual Mode
Aliens / int_af35d39	comment	Plot-Demanded Manual Mode: The wires for the colony communicator to summon the shuttle have been cut, and Bishop has to crawl down the tunnel to align it manually.
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Aliens / int_af5edbff	type	Myopic Architecture
Aliens / int_af5edbff	comment	Myopic Architecture: The Marines make barricades by welding critical doors and air ducts shut. Unfortunately, the Xenomorphs don't use the humans' corridors for movement and instead crawl inside the space above the false ceilings, an approach missed by the defenders.
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Aliens / int_b0e81c37	type	A Simple Plan
Aliens / int_b0e81c37	comment	A Simple Plan: The Mission Briefing makes everyone believe this is a standard operation. See Epic Fail for what follows.
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Aliens / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Aliens / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: This is apparently the fate of Apone and Dietrich, if the explosion of the atmospheric processing station didn't kill them first. In the novelization, Ripley found Burke in the queen's nest, and left him with a primed grenade when he said that he could feel the chestburster moving inside him. The scene was restored for the Alien Anthology Blu-Ray release.
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Aliens / int_b1c2112	type	Tracking Device
Aliens / int_b1c2112	comment	Ripley and Newt's Tracking Device.
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Aliens / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Aliens / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Averted. An entire scene is dedicated averting this trope; the Marines count down how many rounds are left in their sentry guns, while Hicks makes a point of teaching Ripley how to reload a pulse rifle. When Ripley goes Berserker Rage on the eggs, a close-up is shown of the digital ammunition readout counting down to zero. Averted. The pulse rifles can hold 99 rounds, but after the Dropship crash and APC destruction, they only have about fifty rounds each for four of them. 99 rounds seems like a lot, but as Ripley proves in her assault on the hive, it's not quite enough. Hicks also reminds the surviving Marines to use "short, controlled bursts" when the aliens finally come for them, to make their remaining ammo last as long as possible (although during the second firefight, the Marines seem to fire more than fifty rounds each, especially Hudson, who probably shot more than 50 rounds at the facehugger attacking Ripley and Newt alone before the scene even started). The biggest aversion would be the scene whether the Xenomorph Drones are charging the sentry guns. The Marines look in horror as the Xenomorphs run down the ammo count and three of the guns go empty, and the last one has only ten rounds left before the Xenomorphs give up and try something else. Played straight by the Xenomorphs themselves. There were 157 colonists. At least one died before being cocooned (the one they tried to get a facehugger off of), one wasn't caught at all (Newt), and one didn't produce a chestburster until the Marines were watching. That makes 154 xenomorphs at absolute maximum, including the Queen — and that's assuming both that every other colonist was captured alive and cocooned, and that it was done without killing off a single Xenomorph.note The huge acid-melted hole through several floors of the colony implies someone bagged one of Ripley's bad guys. How many got killed by the Marines? Plenty, in fights we see. The sentry guns alone must have plowed down dozens if not more. But they never stop coming. It is later mostly averted when you realize during the penultimate showdown that there was only token resistance when Ripley entered the hive to save Newt as most of them had been already been killed, no more than 7 Xenomorphs not including the Queen try to attack Ripley during the rescue. The one exception to this is when Ripley and Hicks are attempting to escape, and there appear to be something like 30-50 aliens following themnote though this might actually explain things; all the remaining aliens are in the "Operations" building to come after the humans, while the nest is in the reactor plant (remember that Ripley, looking at the building schematics, notes that the aliens are using a service tunnel to move between buildings). The majority of them were out taking part in the attack, but haven't returned to the nest yet, and are still looking for Hicks and Ripley, not understanding that they have escaped by air. Apart from pacing/tension issues, it's possible that one reason the sentry gun plotline was cut from the theatrical version is to not get into the numbers like these.
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Aliens / int_b2ceabcd	type	Nice Day, Deadly Night
Aliens / int_b2ceabcd	comment	Nice Day, Deadly Night: After the dropship is destroyed and the protagonists are trapped on the surface of the planet LV-426, Newt warns Ripley about the deadly threat that the Xenomorphs will pose to the Colonial Marine force once night falls.
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Aliens / int_b30dd522	type	Quizzical Tilt
Aliens / int_b30dd522	comment	Quizzical Tilt: Both Ripley and the Alien Queen do versions of this at different points. Ripley when she seems to have bartered safe passage from the Queen only for an Ovomorph to open up nearby, hers stating "Really? Okay, if that's the way you want to play it... (cue More Dakka)." The Queen's comes after Ripley has escaped her on an elevator, the second elevator arrives and opens, and the Queen ponders it, as if to say "Hm, I wonder if..."
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Aliens / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Aliens / int_b434558	comment	Video Phone: Burke leaves My Card in case Ripley changes her mind about going on the mission to find out what happened to the colony on LV426. After her next Catapult Nightmare, Ripley sticks the card in her videophone where it automatically connects her to a sleepy Burke.
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Aliens / int_b475abfb	type	Gut Feeling
Aliens / int_b475abfb	comment	Gut Feeling: Ripley feels there is something off about Bishop due to her prior experience with Ash in the first film. She's wrong.
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Aliens / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
Aliens / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: The building complex on LV-426 does have handrails, but they are only thigh-high, and result in at least one Colonial Marine falling over and plummeting through the floors of an atmosphere processor. There is a huge unshielded rotor at the end of the Air Vent Passage Way that swallows Newt. In the novelisation, Ripley duct-taping an assault rifle/grenade launcher to a flamethrower is assumed to be this, but she's past caring by that point. The atmosphere processor is fully automated, the colonists were just there for occasional maintenance. Problem is, if the critical cooling systems are damaged it doesn't automatically shut down by itself without human intervention. The whole station tries to delay the inevitable overload via emergency venting, but it's already passed the point of no return. Inside the Sulaco's loading bay, there's no interlock that prevents both the inner and outer doors of the maintenance airlock from being open simultaneously, hence potentially exposing the entire ship to the vacuum of space via Continuous Decompression.
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Aliens / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Aliens / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: The Colonial Marines enter the atmosphere processor without realizing that the central cooling units can be pierced by conventional weaponry — which they only realize after they're knee-deep in the hive and Ripley points it out to them. Then, without giving a reasonable explanation why, Gorman orders the Marines to give up all their ammo (except for flame throwers) to one man, and said Marine happens to be the first casualty when the xenomorphs attack, because the aliens are hiding in the walls and don't show up on infrared. The only reason anyone escaped is because several of the soldiers contravened their orders and/or carried backup weapons. However in using their weapons they end up rupturing the cooling units just like Gorman feared, causing the atmosphere processor to overheat and eventually melt down.
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Aliens / int_b618409c	type	Sentry Gun
Aliens / int_b618409c	comment	Sentry Gun: A mini-plotline in the director's cut features the Marines barricading a main hallway and setting up four auto turrets at key locations in two pairs. The first pair fails to hold back the incoming waves of Xenomorph Drones, but the second pair finally convinces them to look for another means to reach the humans within... after being drained to ten rounds in one gun.
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Aliens / int_b6e1d40b	type	Acceptable Breaks from Reality
Aliens / int_b6e1d40b	comment	Acceptable Breaks from Reality: The colonists have been terraforming LV-426. This avoids the necessity for the actors to run about in cumbersome spacesuits, which were needed just to walk on the surface in the previous movie.
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Aliens / int_b731fa6e	type	I Cannot Self-Terminate
Aliens / int_b731fa6e	comment	I Cannot Self-Terminate: Ripley comes across a cocooned Burke in the atmosphere processor begging for help. She gives him a grenade, though he whines as he obviously knows what this means for him. Though considering the fate of the other 157 colonists he damned (not including Newt), he got off easy.
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Aliens / int_b7475a74	type	Bothering by the Book
Aliens / int_b7475a74	comment	Bothering by the Book: After Ripley has convinced the surviving Marines to just leave and nuke the aliens from the Sulaco, Burke protests that the terraforming installation cost a fortune and he can't authorise them destroying it. Ripley points out that the operation is a military one and his say doesn't matter; the look on his face is priceless.
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Aliens / int_b7cedf9c	type	Smart Gun
Aliens / int_b7cedf9c	comment	Smart Gun: The M56 Smart Gun comes with a lot of nifty features, most prominent being the servo-harness which makes it easier to carry, operate, and links to a targeting processor.
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Aliens / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
Aliens / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: In this case, android "blood". When Bishop gets the Queen's tail spike through the chest, a Vomit Indiscretion Shot worth of blood spews out.
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Aliens / int_b9f472b	type	Storming the Castle
Aliens / int_b9f472b	comment	Storming the Castle: Ripley loading up for a one-man raid on the Xenomorphs' hive to rescue Newt.
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Aliens / int_b9fc31d3	type	Victoria's Secret Compartment
Aliens / int_b9fc31d3	comment	Victoria's Secret Compartment: After Gorman has the squad disarm in the reactor, Vasquez produces a couple of replacement batteries from her tanktop for Drake's and her smartguns.
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Aliens / int_ba014235	type	Cryonics Failure
Aliens / int_ba014235	comment	Cryonics Failure: Discussed at length as part of Burke's plan to smuggle the xenomorph specimens back through quarantine.
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Aliens / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
Aliens / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Ripley tries to explain the events of the original movie and the xenomorph to the Marines, but is constantly interrupted with sarcastic questions, macho posturing, and ignoring the civvie. Once they actually encounter them, they're no longer laughing.
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Aliens / int_bb30b9e9	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
Aliens / int_bb30b9e9	comment	Danger Takes a Backseat: That's not Spunkmeyer coming up behind you, Ferro.
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Aliens / int_bba30aeb	type	Late to the Tragedy
Aliens / int_bba30aeb	comment	Late to the Tragedy: Ripley and the Colonial Marines. The settlement on LV-426 has already been wiped out when they get there.
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Aliens / int_bba5445	type	Ammunition Conservation
Aliens / int_bba5445	comment	Ammunition Conservation: As mentioned under "Bottomless Magazines," the Marines end up with about one half-mag each.
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Aliens / int_be1e5f7e	type	Surprise Vehicle
Aliens / int_be1e5f7e	comment	Surprise Vehicle: The dropship rising up behind Ripley and Newt during the escape sequence. It takes Newt looking at it and screaming it to Ripley to make her realize it's behind her. In fairness, the place is blowing up around her ears. Lampshaded by Bishop: "That platform was just becoming too unstable. I had to circle and hope that things didn't get too rough to take you off."
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Aliens / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Aliens / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: Lt. Gorman, who is unit commander In Name Only. Sergeant Apone is the real commander of the unit, and when he dies, Gorman completely freezes up. He gets better (helping put out the fire on the APC, helping rescue Newt and Ripley from the med bay, taking part in the final gunfight... but it's unfortunately just before his demise.
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Aliens / int_bebf0356	type	Mission Control
Aliens / int_bebf0356	comment	Mission Control: Lieutenant Gorman, from inside the Marine APC. He's hopeless at it, though.
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Aliens / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Aliens / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: James Horner's masterful use of the screeching violin Scare Chord is demonstrated in the following nerve-shattering moments: In the grisly "nursery" of the atmosphere processor, walls plastered by shattered corpses with their faces frozen in final agony, Dietrich the medical officer lifts the head of a seemingly unbroken body... only for the eyes to suddenly snap open for its death-pale owner to desperately plead for a merciful death... After all surviving Marines get aboard the APC, Hicks prepares to close the door. Then suddenly one of aliens grabs them from the outside and forces them open. Ripley and Newt awake from their well-earned nap in the med-lab, to find that Burke has taken away the former's rifle in her sleep and released two facehuggers in the room with them... Ripley cautiously peeks out from under the bed only to have one of the little beasts leap out for her head. Corporal Hicks slowly lifts the grate on the roof of the barricaded Command Center... only to find that a swarm of aliens has crawled within breathing distance of him among the maze of pipes and electric conduits.
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Aliens / int_c099ca1a	type	Real Women Don't Wear Dresses
Aliens / int_c099ca1a	comment	Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: Ellen Ripley is an outstanding aversion. She doesn't wear a literal dress, but her feminine qualities are precisely what make her so badass: She becomes a Team Mom of sorts, using Tough Love to give some much-needed emotional support to the demoralized surviving Marines, and goes full-on Mama Bear to mount a solo rescue mission when the Xenomorph Drones capture Newt.
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Aliens / int_c0f6b6c4	type	Adrenaline Makeover
Aliens / int_c0f6b6c4	comment	Ripley's hair changes between her hearing and a few months later when she's now working in the cargo bay. It's much shorter and also seems to represent her upcoming Adrenaline Makeover.
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Aliens / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
Aliens / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball: Everyone running out of the way of the crashing dropship, which explodes into flame and rolls right between them. The second dropship barely escaping the nuclear detonation on LV-426. They actually have plenty of time to escape (twenty six minutes), but Ripley refuses to leave without Newt.
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Aliens / int_c1d58ab0	type	Drop Ship
Aliens / int_c1d58ab0	comment	The Marines and Ripley decide to nuke LV-426 to make sure they wipe out all of the Xenomorphs. Averted because not only do the Xenomorphs kill off the pilot of the Drop Ship, but the huge reactor blows up in a thermonuclear explosion — making nuking the planet redundant.
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Aliens / int_c2b4b3e2	type	Suit with Vested Interests
Aliens / int_c2b4b3e2	comment	Suit with Vested Interests: To recoup his losses (the destruction of the LV-426 colony), Burke puts a higher value on getting a sample of the creature than he does on the crew. As does Weyland-Yutani as a whole.
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Aliens / int_c2c80ef	type	Neck Lift
Aliens / int_c2c80ef	comment	Neck Lift: Ripley does this to the Queen during their fight using the mechanical arm of the cargo loader she's strapped into.
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Aliens / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Aliens / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Ripley does this early on when she dreams that she has been impregnated. Vasquez gives one when Drake gets immolated. Ripley, after Newt gets taken in the sewers.
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Aliens / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
Aliens / int_c2d978fe	comment	When Ripley ran over the Xenomorph Drone with the APC during the escape sequence, it bled acid that splashed on the undercarriage of the vehicle. Seconds later, they're stranded in the middle of nowhere with a broken transaxle. Oops.
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Aliens / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Aliens / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: The M41A Pulse rifles are said to fire 10x24mm caseless ammunition, but when they fire, they can be clearly seen ejecting empty shell casings.
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Aliens / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
Aliens / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: The Aliens Special Edition was made for the Aliens: Special Collector's Edition Laser Disc in 1991. With 17 minutes of Delete Scenes put back in under the supervision of James Cameron.
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Aliens / int_c446f93c	type	Artistic License â€“ Nuclear Physics
Aliens / int_c446f93c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Nuclear Physics: The fusion reactor's malfunction would only cause a lot of superheated plasma that would quickly disperse, not a nuclear explosion — fusion reactions are devilishly hard to create and sustain, and once the conditions are compromised, the reaction goes "phut!" and dies. It'd cause a conventional explosion that you probably wouldn't want to be in the vicinity of, but it probably wouldn't even bring down the atmosphere processor, let alone level everything within 30km note Then again, we've never gotten nuclear fusion to work properly, so. There are also very few details given about what kind of reactor it is or how it works, plus the company is known for being cheap and considering people expendable, so it's unlikely that any expense was put into safety.
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Aliens / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Aliens / int_c5249b29	comment	After it's established that Gorman is unsettled during the drop ship's rocky descent to the planet due to his lack of experience in actual combat missions, Hicks is shown sleeping right through the turbulence, simultaneously establishing this sort of thing as old hat for him, and professional enough to always try to catch up on sleep (as you don't know when things will suddenly go sideways and you have to stay awake a lot longer than you counted on). After they land, he doubles back to check on a visibly unsettled Ripley, making it clear he's also a Nice Guy.
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Aliens / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
Aliens / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: The film was novelised by Alan Dean Foster. More details here.
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Aliens / int_c5629372	type	Pipe Maze
Aliens / int_c5629372	comment	Pipe Maze: The interior of the atmosphere processor. Without the Tracking Device, Ripley would never locate Newt.
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Aliens / int_c6bc89f7	type	Curb-Stomp Cushion
Aliens / int_c6bc89f7	comment	However, it should be noted that after initial chaos, they did manage to reorganize, regroup, and fight back, killing quite a lot of aliens in the process. When Ripley pulled out her Big Damn Heroes moment, they were in the middle of organized retreat, with Hicks helping out Hudson, while Vasquez and Drake covered their backs, killing any alien that tried to come close.
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Aliens / int_c6c86cd	type	Collapsing Lair
Aliens / int_c6c86cd	comment	Collapsing Lair: After Ripley sets the Xenomorph Queen on fire, the atmosphere processor starts to collapse due to Explosive Overclocking and finally blows up in a nuclear detonation.
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Aliens / int_c72af5a8	type	Mini-Mecha
Aliens / int_c72af5a8	comment	Mini-Mecha: The powerloader, complete with welding torch, hydraulic pincers, and docking bay controls.
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Aliens / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Aliens / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Bishop tries to assure Ripley that he isn't dangerous by explaining that his programming won't allow it. His explanation is a near-verbatim reading of Isaac Asimov's famous first law of robotics: "A robot cannot harm a human, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm." At Gorman's briefing, Hudson asks "Is this going to be a stand-up fight, or another bug hunt?" This is a direct reference to the novel Starship Troopers, that the actors were required to read, just like real Marines, and was ad-libbed by the actor. Hicks' aforementioned line about keeping a shotgun "for close encounters." There are two references to Stanley Kubrick films. The movie opens with slow, desolate shots of Alien's lifeboat drifting through space, accompanied by music from Aram Khachaturian's Gayane ballet suite; the same adagio is used for the lonely establishing shots of the Discovery in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Later, in the director's cut, there is a scene of people working on the colony on LV-426. In this scene, there is a low angle shot of a child riding on a Big Wheel tricycle. This is a reference to The Shining. This same tricycle was seen in The Terminator, and again in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The Director's Cut has a Badass Boast speech from Hudson which mentions "phased plasma rifles." Presumably they're in the 40-watt range. In another Joseph Conrad reference, the Marines' transport vessel Sulaco is named for the town where the novel Nostromo is set. Ash from the first film is being referenced as a "Hyperdyne Systems" model, which is only two letters away from "Cyberdyne Systems". As mentioned above under Hellevator, the "express elevator to Hell" is going to Level 7. Bishop's Five-Finger Fillet looks like a reference to Dark Star, where one of the astronauts tries this but ends up (harmlessly) stabbing himself. The Marines mention having sex with things called "Arcturians" with Frost mentioning that even if the one he slept with was male, it wouldn't matter because it's Arcturian. This is a shout out to the highly influential comic story The Long Tomorrow by Dan O'Bannon and Moebius (who would both be vital crew on the first Alien film) where Arcturians are Starfish Aliens that double as a Voluntary Shapeshifter. One tells the hero he could take any form that pleases the hero, even the hero himself if that's what he's into. In a few shots, the pulse rifle ammunition counters show 42 rounds in the magazine.
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Aliens / int_c7f294da	type	Large and in Charge
Aliens / int_c7f294da	comment	Large and in Charge: The Queen who appears near the end of the film, has total dominion over her countless Drone subjects, and is also in fact even larger and stronger than a Tyrannosaurus rex.
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Aliens / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
Aliens / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: The movie reveals that Ripley's biggest fear is being cocooned and impregnated like Kane was in the first movie; she's shown to have nightmares, a colonist's death by chestburster triggers a mini-breakdown for Ripley, and she even implores Hicks to kill her if need be, rather than let her suffer the same fate as the colonists. It all comes to a head during her rescue of Newt at the end; they end up in the Queen's nest, surrounded by facehugger eggs. One opens up a few feet from Ripley, and she snaps. Cue her More Dakka moment.
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Aliens / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
Aliens / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Ripley lays one on an increasingly despairing Hudson, in the presence of his CO no less.
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Aliens / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
Aliens / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: When the survivors are trapped on the planet's surface with little hope of rescue, Hudson wails that he has "four more weeks and out, now I'm gonna buy it on this rock". He's right.
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Aliens / int_c914e68d	type	Cigar Chomper
Aliens / int_c914e68d	comment	Cigar Chomper: Sergeant Apone, to the point that he sticks one in his mouth before he's even out of his cryosleep pod.
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Aliens / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Aliens / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Bishop at the end. He gets impaled from behind by the Alien Queen who hid on the dropship.
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Aliens / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
Aliens / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: "What do you mean THEY cut the power? How can they cut the power, man — they're animals!" The Alien Queen shows that she knows full well what Ripley means when she points the business end of a flamethrower at her eggs, and her tearing herself away from her ovipositor and coming after Ripley is strongly implied to be out of rage for Ripley killing the eggs. The novelization has Ripley and Bishop discuss the implications of intelligence in the Queen making her nest below the base's main reactor; as Bishop observes, this could indicate a feral animal choosing the warmest location for comfort, or an intelligent being choosing the only place in the whole facility that their enemies couldn't destroy without destroying the entire colony in the process. In the director's cut, the survivors watch as the sentry guns burn through almost all their ammo before the xenomorphs finally "fall back" to look for another way in. Hudson lampshades this by saying "Maybe they're demoralized..."
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Aliens / int_ca720408	type	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich
Aliens / int_ca720408	comment	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich: Burke and Gorman paid Ripley a visit early on, and as Ripley made coffee for both men Burke tries convincing Ripley to come along for the colony inspection. When Ripley insists on a "no" (initially, anyway) Burke left behind his plastic ID card for her to call him with in case she changes her mind, and both men left without finishing their coffee.
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Aliens / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Aliens / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: When Vasquez and Gorman are trapped in the Air Vent Passage Way, their suicide via hand grenade takes out several Xenomorphs. The Queen tries doing this to Ripley after she uses the Power Loader to have it Thrown Out the Airlock, being the defining point their face-off stops being a Curbstomp Battle.
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Aliens / int_cb12aacf	type	Deus ex Nukina
Aliens / int_cb12aacf	comment	Deus ex Nukina: The film kicks it up a notch. It was the only way to be sure.
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Aliens / int_cbe3a70d	type	Beware My Stinger Tail
Aliens / int_cbe3a70d	comment	Beware My Stinger Tail: In the novelization the Xenomorphs have these, which are used to paralyze victims to be taken back to the hive for facehugger bait. Gorman gets stung during the escape in the APC after the hive raid goes pear-shaped. The scene was too expensive to film, so he gets knocked out by a container falling on his head instead.
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Aliens / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Aliens / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Despite being more focused on action, the film gets in on this. The Xenomorphs aren't even seen until over an hour into the film; before that the Marines are exploring the deserted colony, waiting to encounter them at any moment.
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Aliens / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Aliens / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Ripley is considerably less vulnerable here, the aliens are no longer presented as invincible juggernauts, and the lighting isn't as dingy as in the original, either. The movie ends on a personal triumph for Ripley as she rescues Newt and defeats the Alien Queen, in contrast to the solemnity of the first and third films.
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Aliens / int_cec8b87a	type	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
Aliens / int_cec8b87a	comment	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Averted. The famous quote of Ripley telling the Queen Alien to stay away from Newt qualifies "bitch" as an insult, not merely a gratuitous punctuation.
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Aliens / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
Aliens / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Ripley at the beginning of the movie. Newt is in obvious shellshock as well, at first.
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Aliens / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
Aliens / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: Ripley gets her listeners mildly squicked when she accuses Burke of intending to "impregnate" her. With an alien, of course. (Which is bad! But at least it's not Paul Reiser.)
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Aliens / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Aliens / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: When Ripley accuses Burke of intending to use her and Newt as hosts for the xenomorphs, the only defense he offers is to point out how crazy-sounding the plan is.
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Aliens / int_d46f812	type	Tastes Like Friendship
Aliens / int_d46f812	comment	Tastes Like Friendship: Ripley gets Newt to talk by giving her a glass of hot chocolate.
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Aliens / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
Aliens / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: The colony and atmosphere processor seems absurdly huge given that there are only ~140 colonists on the planet. The marines have to travel to several different parts of the facility by flying there from their dropship. In a later scene, when Ripley is gearing up to go save Newt, an exterior shot shows Bishop flying the dropship a great distance from one part of the colony to another. Apparently, the alien who nabbed Newt sprinted for tens of miles in just a few minutes.
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Aliens / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
Aliens / int_d54f84cb	comment	Dream Within a Dream: Ripley has a false awakening in the opening scene.
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Aliens / int_d60c5472	type	No Help Is Coming
Aliens / int_d60c5472	comment	No Help Is Coming: After the Colonial Marines have their first battle with the Xenomorph Drones, the hope of rescue is raised and immediately dashed.
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Aliens / int_d8f636b8	type	Salvage Pirates
Aliens / int_d8f636b8	comment	Salvage Pirates: In the opening, Ripley's escape shuttle from the first movie is found by a deep-space salvage crew, who express disappointment at finding her alive, as "there goes our salvage, boys". Averted in that they don't consider killing her and salvaging the shuttle anyways.
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Aliens / int_d934b1c7	type	Small, Secluded World
Aliens / int_d934b1c7	comment	Small, Secluded World: What the movie becomes once the protagonists are at LV-426, as the sole living people on the planet consist of the Marine squad, Ripley, Burke, Bishop, Newt and Mary, the cocooned colonist who is killed only moments later. The characters are completely cut off from the rest of humanity, and they can't expect a rescue for 17 days.
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Aliens / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Aliens / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: During the intense and turbulent drop through the atmosphere, Hicks is revealed to have fallen asleep. It's a hint that despite his low rank, he's a very experienced and competent Marine, as opposed to Gorman, who is in command, but is only making his second drop ever, and will freeze up when things start going to hell.
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Aliens / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Aliens / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: Subverted. The Marines are supposed to be the cavalry, but it doesn't go as planned.
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Aliens / int_d9ffec82	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Aliens / int_d9ffec82	comment	Curbstomp Battle: The first confrontation with the aliens goes horribly awry for the Colonial Marines as they prove rather useless against a completely unfamiliar creature that is tailored by evolution to stealthy movement and surprise attacks. However, it should be noted that after initial chaos, they did manage to reorganize, regroup, and fight back, killing quite a lot of aliens in the process. When Ripley pulled out her Big Damn Heroes moment, they were in the middle of organized retreat, with Hicks helping out Hudson, while Vasquez and Drake covered their backs, killing any alien that tried to come close. Reconstructed with the mech-armoured Ripley vs the Alien Queen. Though Ripley is visibly terrified and struggling to control the Power Loader, the Queen can do nothing to penetrate the armour or get to Ripley, at least until it decides it's Taking You with Me.
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Aliens / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Aliens / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Ellen Ripley graduates to one. Although she doesn't possess any particular combat skills, she still has the guts and determination to survive. Vasquez, one of the Marines who nearly makes it to the end. Also known for being more rough-and-tumble than the other Marines.
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Aliens / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Aliens / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Subverted. Burke is the only authority figure to sympathize with Ripley and comes across as a fair and reasonable person... until The Reveal. Seargant Apone, Corporal Hicks, and even Lt Gorman qualify as very reasonable figures, fulfilling this.
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Aliens / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Aliens / int_dcb9c541	comment	There are lots of little moments with Ripley and Hicks — he asks her if she's alright right before they go into the colony, he calms her down when she's driving out of the alien nest, she reminds him he's next in command, and a few other tender lines between them. The only outright Ship Tease moments are him saying "this doesn't mean we're engaged" when he gives her a tracking device, and the Given Name Reveal towards the climax (which appears only in the special edition).
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Aliens / int_dd22df26	type	Hands-On Approach
Aliens / int_dd22df26	comment	Hands-On Approach: As Ripley learns how to use the pulse rifle from Hicks.
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Aliens / int_dda12cb3	type	Cat Scare
Aliens / int_dda12cb3	comment	Cat Scare: Newt's first appearance, to the extent that Hicks has to knock Drake's smartgun off target so as not to kill her. The novel also uses this scene, but with Vasquez instead of Drake. Before that Hudson's motion tracker is set off, but it turns out to be some pet mice running around a tube maze that looks remarkably like the ducts the humans will be scrabbling through later. Later when Newt is first detected, Gorman knocks over a piece of equipment as they're moving through the medlab.
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Aliens / int_def7c6ec	type	Artificial Outdoors Display
Aliens / int_def7c6ec	comment	Artificial Outdoors Display: We see Ripley looking out at a forest of twittering birds, when the Corrupt Corporate Executive comes in, turning the scenery back into a hospital wall.
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Aliens / int_df35b851	type	Danger Deadpan
Aliens / int_df35b851	comment	Danger Deadpan: The Drop Ship pilot, Ferro. Delivered while wearing mirrored aviator shades, too.
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Aliens / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
Aliens / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: Nobody, not Newt, not the audience, and certainly not the Alien Queen expected Ripley to even the odds by getting the power loader.
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Aliens / int_e061d153	type	Sergeant Rock
Aliens / int_e061d153	comment	Sergeant Rock: Sergeant Apone is one of the most famous examples of this trope.
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Aliens / int_e0c3f8bf	type	Punch-Clock Hero
Aliens / int_e0c3f8bf	comment	The film also subverted the Punch-Clock Hero trope long before it became commonplace in television and film. When Ripley is court-martialed and drummed out for destroying the Nostromo in the previous film, she simply picks up work at Gateway Station's docks and doesn't make any waves for a fair stretch of time. Even when Burke and Gorman come to recruit her for the mission, she refuses on the grounds that it's not in her job description and the mission sounds uneventful. It takes another bad dream to convince her to go, and even then, she acts largely as a civilian advisor (who doesn't like the soldiers she's traveling with) until two-thirds of the way through the film.
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Aliens / int_e0ecc959	type	Changed My Mind, Kid
Aliens / int_e0ecc959	comment	Changed My Mind, Kid: Variation regarding Bishop's piloting of the dropship. Ripley rescues Newt and comes out to the platform only to find that he seemingly has run off. He turns up moments later in a heroic Enemy Rising Behind just as the queen arrives, later explaining that the platform was unstable.
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Aliens / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Aliens / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: The last half-hour deals with Ripley defending Newt from the Xenomorphs and the Queen defending her eggs from Ripley.
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Aliens / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Aliens / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Ripley, from the xenomorph's point-of-view.
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Aliens / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Aliens / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Through most of the film. In the Special Edition, Ripley and Hicks eventually progress to First-Name Basis near the end, just before Ripley assaults the alien hive to rescue Newt.
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Aliens / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Aliens / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: Intentional or not, the film has many of the same story beats as Them!. The characters wandering through the aftermath of an offscreen monster attack and find a little girl who's the traumatized Sole Survivor, skepticism involving the existence of the monsters, a eusocial insectoid creature which can attack with acid as the monsters, and a climax involving a fight with the giant Hive Queen within her Ovomorph chamber, involving flamethrowers.
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Aliens / int_e3d06d0c	type	Bash Brothers
Aliens / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: Drake and Vasquez, the two M56 Smart Gun users.
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Aliens / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Aliens / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: The Queen, who did not die in the nuclear detonation but found her way onto the dropship, leading into the Take a Moment to Catch Your Death scene.
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Aliens / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Aliens / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Carter Burke, a man so bad that the actor's own mother said she was glad he died.
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Aliens / int_e6291d05	type	Percussive Maintenance
Aliens / int_e6291d05	comment	Percussive Maintenance: Drake's camera bash.
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Aliens / int_e6692d26	type	Breakfast in Bed
Aliens / int_e6692d26	comment	Breakfast in Bed: Sarcastically invoked by Sergeant Apone when he rallies his troops as they wake up in their cryosleep pods.
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Aliens / int_e7c671f3	type	Mildly Military
Aliens / int_e7c671f3	comment	Mildly Military: James Cameron has admitted that the Colonial Marines came off as a lot less disciplined than actual Marines; rather, they were more a reflection of Vietnam-era Army conscripts. Some specific examples: The Marines embark on a mission that may likely involve contact with unidentified, hostile forces, commanded by an unsupervised, inexperienced officer. Instead of leaving someone onboard the Sulaco who could pilot the backup Drop Ship down to rescue them if needed, they take everyone along on the mission. After locating the colonists, the entire force goes out to recon an unexplored area. Vasquez and Drake disobey direct orders from their commanding officer (Lieutenant Gorman) and 2nd in command (Sergeant Apone) and re-arm their smart guns. During their first encounter with the Xenomorph Drones, the Marines panic like a bunch of schoolchildren. After it's become clear that something is seriously wrong at the colony and that hostile xenomorphs may be responsible, Spunkmeyer exits the drop ship, leaving the door wide open for any xenomorph that might want to get inside. Naturally, one does. It kills both Spunkmeyer and Ferro, thus crashing the drop ship and marooning the rest of the team on the planet. Their uniforms and some of their weapons are decidedly non-uniform, with personal touches and decorations no actual military would allow. Though this was enforced by Cameron, to give subtle hints to each Marine's character.
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Aliens / int_e8147834	comment	Elevator Escape: Happens twice. When Ripley and Hicks are trying to escape, they make it to an elevator. Hicks repeatedly pushes the button, and the door starts to close... too late to stop a xenomorph from nearly getting to the heroes (and dousing Hicks with acid). Towards the end when the Queen Alien is pursuing them — Ripley barely gets into the service elevator in time, driving the Queen back with her flamethrower just as it's running out of fuel. The Queen is snarling in fury when a second elevator arrives, summoned by Ripley's frantic button pushing.
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Aliens / int_ea337348	comment	Stealthy Colossus: The Alien Queen deserves some credit for sneaking in a not too big dropship and remaining undetected for the entire flight back to the Sulaco. However this is because she's hiding in the bay used for retracting the undercarriage.
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Aliens / int_ea8de006	comment	Traitor Shot: Bishop gets one that looks like this when he talks with Spunkmeyer about the facehugger specimens kept in the medical wing. He later proves to be a capable support character who rescues Ripley and Newt at a pivotal moment.
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Aliens / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Aliens / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: The moment when Ripley drives the Armored Personnel Carrier through the wall of the Xenomorph hive to save the remaining Marines trying to escape is the biggest example of this in the main series. It happens again at the end of the film, when Ripley and Newt are stranded on the atmosphere processor, out of ammo to protect themselves and out of time before the processor explodes, not to mention the fact that they have a furious Xenomorph Queen chasing after them. Just when all hope seems lost, Bishop suddenly appears with the second drop-ship and rescues them with only moments to spare.
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Aliens / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: Corporal Hicks becomes able to authorize a nuclear attack thanks to alien-caused attrition in the higher ranks, though the company lieutenant was only incapacitated, not killed, in an incident precipitated by his own ineptitude. When he's up and around again, Lt. Gorman seems to acknowledge his failure of command, allowing Hicks to continue calling the shots. This also applies to Ripley, thanks to Hicks' low-key command style. The Marines defer to Ripley because of her greater experience with the aliens and her more forceful personality compared to the inept Lt. Gorman. Hicks plays along because her orders make sense, quietly providing his own expertise and authority when needed. It's likely not a coincidence that Ripley's (civilian) rank was raised from Warrant Officer to Lieutenant First Class for this movie — more than one reviewer assumes that Hicks regards Ripley as his superior officer. Even the failure to resolve their UST plays into this.
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Aliens / int_ed3e90f3	type	Duct Tape for Everything
Aliens / int_ed3e90f3	comment	Ripley's duct-taped pulse rifle/Grenade Launcher/flamethrower.
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Aliens / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
Aliens / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: The Marines: Dietrich: Grabbed by a xenomorph from behind. Frost: Set on fire when Dietrich is grabbed, which causes her to trigger her flamethrower, and falls to his death. Crowe: Blown into a wall when the ammunition bag Frost was carrying and set on fire by Dietrich explodes, breaking his neck. Wierzbowski: Killed offscreen by a xenomorph. Apone: Grabbed by a xenomorph during the initial exchange. Drake: Covered in acidic xenomorph blood when Vasquez shoots an alien next to him. Ferro and Spunkmeyer: Killed by a xenomorph on the dropship, it's unclear who was killed first. Hudson: Pulled through the floor by a xenomorph. Vasquez and Gorman: Blow themselves up in the air shafts when trapped by the xenomorphs, cutting off the xenomorphs from the rest of the survivors.
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Aliens / int_ee29a942	comment	Supernaturally Young Parent: Ellen Ripley is supposed to be in her 30s, but when she wakes up after an extended 57 year-long cryo-sleep, she receives news that her daughter Amanda has died a few years prior at the age of 66 (they used a photo of Sigourney Weaver's real-life mother to portray the elder Amanda).
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Aliens / int_ef988291	type	Weld the Lock
Aliens / int_ef988291	comment	Weld the Lock: The team welds the doors leading to Operations shut to keep out the aliens. They come in through the ceiling instead.
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Aliens / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
Aliens / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: The film is credited with kick-starting the gritty, grizzled Space Marine trope that's permeated science fiction and popular culture for decades afterwards. It's easy to forget then that the Colonial Marines in Aliens are portrayed as arrogant, trigger-happy jarheads who, despite their overwhelming confidence, had never faced anything even remotely like the Xenomorphs, and suffered for it. It's not a display of badassery so much as it is a sci-fi version of 'Nam. Furthermore, the only Marine who survived the ordeal was the one who followed the orders of Ellen Ripley, who is not only a civilian but also a woman and the main character, something rare even today in similar genres. The only other survivor is Bishop, who's probably one of the nicest people in the entire series. The final confrontation is between two Mama Bears, Ripley and the Queen, completely counter to the hyper-masculine narratives permeating the versions that followed. The film also subverted the Punch-Clock Hero trope long before it became commonplace in television and film. When Ripley is court-martialed and drummed out for destroying the Nostromo in the previous film, she simply picks up work at Gateway Station's docks and doesn't make any waves for a fair stretch of time. Even when Burke and Gorman come to recruit her for the mission, she refuses on the grounds that it's not in her job description and the mission sounds uneventful. It takes another bad dream to convince her to go, and even then, she acts largely as a civilian advisor (who doesn't like the soldiers she's traveling with) until two-thirds of the way through the film. While a handful of films released around this time were beginning to embrace the Kid Sidekick and Tagalong Kid tropes (most notably Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom two years earlier), Aliens was actively subverting it via the Newt character. While most kid characters simply existed to be rescued or provide witty comebacks, Newt is the only one of the group who fully understands the danger on LV-426. She listens to commands and follows them, has a wry sense of humor at times, and at one point, Ripley and the others defer to her judgement (in the maintenance ducts after fleeing from the attack on Medical). All this for a kid who's no more than 10 years old. This film codified Vasquez Always Dies where the tougher less-feminine warrior is killed off in contrast to a more feminine survivor. But here Ripley isn't exactly there to provide glamorous Fanservice or serve as the love interest; she's only more feminine in the fact that she's a civilian. What's more is that there are two other (significantly less butch) female Marines who also die; Vasquez just happens to have more screen time and development. Not to mention that Vasquez is one of the last characters in the movie to die, and in contrast to the anticlimactic end that the trope frequently implies, she gets a badass last stand alongside Gorman.
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Aliens / int_f12c6fb1	comment	Surprisingly Sudden Death: Subverted. The Queen hides on the dropship and suddenly impales Bishop with her tail. Though the dismemberment doesn't kill him, since he's an android, he's no longer a threat to the stowaway Queen.
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Aliens / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Aliens / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Early in the film, Lt. Gorman displays incompetent and indecisive leadership while in command of his Marines, to the point where a civilian (Ripley) essentially takes command for a short time. He then spends most of the rest of the movie incapacitated with a head injury. However, near the end of the film he apologizes to Ripley for his incompetence, seems content to leave Hicks in charge (being concussed, he probably wasn't fit to resume command anyway), fights hard against the incoming Xenomorph Drones and dies a hero's death while trying to save Vasquez after she is wounded in the air ducts.
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Aliens / int_f360fc33	type	Dumbass Has a Point
Aliens / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point: Vasquez, about Hudson's belief that the aliens are inside the perimeter. In the extended cut, Hudson is the one who first theorizes the possible existence of a Xenomorph Queen. He also, during a freakout, says they won't last 17 hours. Even with their precautions, the xenomorphs breach their defenses in less than that. Had they not figured out that they had limited time to escape before the processor exploded, and thus conceived and executed another plan, it's doubtful anyone would have gotten away.
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Aliens / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Aliens / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Newt starts as one due to the psychological effects of her traumatic experience. Her eerie delivery of the line, "They mostly come at night. Mostly," is often quoted.note Henn says that her friends tease her about that line to this day.
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Aliens / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Aliens / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: The Power Loaders are apparently manufactured by Caterpillar, but unfortunately they're not a real product. (Though both Caterpillar and the people who saw the movie and then called Caterpillar trying to buy one probably would've liked them to be real.) Ripley is also seen wearing Reeboks.
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Aliens / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: It takes a lot of blood, sweat, and pain, and all but one of the Marines are killed, but Ripley, Hicks, Bishop, and Newt escape the colony (vaporizing the xenomorphs there), kill their Queen, and enjoy a long-overdue and thoroughly deserved good night's hypersleep on the way to Earth.
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Aliens / int_f67171cc	type	Empathy Doll Shot
Aliens / int_f67171cc	comment	Empathy Doll Shot: Casey (Newt's disembodied doll head) floating in the water after she's taken by a xenomorph.
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Aliens / int_f6db5b1e	comment	Ridiculously Human Robot: Bishop may be synthetic, but he's not stupid.
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Aliens / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire:
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Aliens / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: Discussed and shown in the tie-in comic Aliens: Newt's Tale. The Hadley's Hope colonists hole up in a wing of the facility to try and make a last stand against the xenomorphs. It ends... badly, with Newt being the only survivor shown.
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Aliens / int_f91d1d4f	type	Darkest Hour
Aliens / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: Ripley and Newt briefly embrace this, believing Bishop has abandoned them. Both are on the brink of a Despair Event Horizon while the atmosphere processor around them is on the verge of total destruction. The raging Alien Queen is also upon them. They're out of ammo and out of time. All hope is lost, until Bishop arrives in the second drop-ship.
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Aliens / int_fbc1a522	type	Woken Up at an Ungodly Hour
Aliens / int_fbc1a522	comment	Woken Up at an Ungodly Hour: One of Ripley's earlier scenes after her rescue from the Nostromo have her waking up from a Catapult Nightmare because of the previous film's events. Realizing she'll need to face her past eventually, she then calls her liaison, Burke, waking him right in the middle of the night (leading to the conversation that forms the quote at the top of the main page).
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Aliens / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Aliens / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: When Hudson is suggesting that the aliens have a Queen laying their eggs — comparing them to ants — Vasquez keeps correcting him saying "these things ain't ants."
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Aliens / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License – Physics
Aliens / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: Although the drop ship scene is dramatic and neat looking, it could never happen in real life and is an example of Gravity Sucks. In real life, since the Sulaco is in orbit, when the drop ship was released, it would just continue to float there under the Sulaco, in the same orbit, unless the ship then used its own engines to slow down enough to make its orbit intersect the atmosphere. Reentry as depicted could never happen either, since they apparently went right into the atmosphere from orbital velocity, the ship would either burn up in the atmosphere, or undergo deceleration strong enough to turn the people inside into paste. For reference, compare to the SpaceX Dragon capsule. When it departs the ISS (orbiting just like the Sulaco), it has to use its engines to get clear of the station, and then do a 15-minute reentry burn for its orbit to intersect the atmosphere. The (very tame compared to how the drop ship is depicted) reentry subjects the astronauts to forces of around 3G, which while certainly tolerable to pilots and astronauts that have had high G training, would cause an average person to black out.
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Aliens / int_fdaf37f0	type	Captain's Log
Aliens / int_fdaf37f0	comment	Also in the novelization, the Captain's Log Ripley is dictating at the end of the first movie has been erased, and at one point, Ripley accuses Burke of having done it to cover up the Weyland-Yutani Coorporation's involvement.
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Aliens / int_fdbdc112	type	Practical Effects
Aliens / int_fdbdc112	comment	Practical Effects: The power loader, the Queen (and her gigantic ovipositor), the ChestBursters, Bishop's severed torso, all done without the aid of CGI. And it is glorious. It really is. The special effects in this movie stand up with the best CGI of today. It's rather amazing how well it's aged.
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Aliens / int_fe1b2e75	comment	Bigger on the Inside: The set of the Armored Personnel Carrier is bigger than the exterior. Characters who can stand up straight inside it are shown to be taller than it when they're outside.
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Aliens / int_fe1d3a6b	type	Kill the Lights
Aliens / int_fe1d3a6b	comment	Kill the Lights: When the xenomorphs are preparing to attack, they cut the building's power supply.
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Aliens / int_fe98b14e	type	Stupid Future People
Aliens / int_fe98b14e	comment	Stupid Future People: Ripley mockingly suggests this to explain why no one is listening to her story about the Xenomorph after she woke from a 57 year hypersleep.
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Aliens / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: Cat, actually. In the opening dream sequence, Jonesy senses the Chest Burster inside Ripley and starts to hiss.
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Aliens / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: In the midst of a serious situation, and trying to figure out how to survive, Hicks takes the time to lift Newt up onto the table so she can see the display that they are making defense plans with. Although possibly unintentional, this was a very wise thing to do, given her demonstrated expertise. Burke not only helps Ripley rescue the Marines and prepare the defences, he goes to help Hudson after he's been wounded.
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Aliens	hasFeature	"Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Chess Motifs / int_7a7a1a66
Aliens	hasFeature	Cigar Chomper / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Collapsing Lair / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Completely Different Title / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Construction Vehicle Rampage / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Coordinated Clothes / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Creepy Good / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Creepy Red Herring / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Cryo Sickness / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Cryonics Failure / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Cub Cues Protective Parent / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Cute Mute / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Danger Takes a Backseat / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Dangerously Loaded Cargo / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Dark Is Evil / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Dashing Hispanic / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Dead Hat Shot / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Deadly Droplets / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Death by Transceiver / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Description Porn / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Designated Point Man / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Desolation Shot / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Deus ex Nukina / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Development Gag / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu? / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Discredited Meme / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Disposable Pilot / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Distress Call / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Do Not Call Me "Paul" / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Doesn't Like Guns / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Doesn't Trust Those Guys / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Don't Touch It, You Idiot! / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Doomed Defeatist / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Draw Aggro / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Dream Within a Dream / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Driving a Desk / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Drop Ship / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Duct Tape for Everything / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Dueling Dubs / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Dumbass Has a Point / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Dungeon Bypass / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Dwindling Party / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Dying Declaration of Hate / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Elevator Action Sequence / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Elevator Buttons Mash / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Elevator Escape / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Empathy Doll Shot / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Enemy-Detecting Radar / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Enemy Rising Behind / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Ensign Newbie / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Ethical Slut / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Everybody's Dead, Dave / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Evil All Along / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Evolutionary Retcon / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Exact Time to Failure / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Excessive Steam Syndrome / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Eyelid Pull Taunt / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Fan-Preferred Cut Content / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Fandom Heresy / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Fear-Induced Idiocy / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Finish Dialogue in Unison / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Five-Finger Fillet / int_7a7a1a86
FourWardProductions	seeAlso	Aliens
Aliens	hasFeature	Frictionless Reentry / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Future Copter / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Gender Is No Object / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Gendered Insult / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Genre Roulette / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Giant Spider / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Giant Spinning Duct Fan / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Girl-Show Ghetto / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Giving Them the Strip / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Go-to-Sleep Ending / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	God Save Us from the Queen! / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Godzilla Threshold / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Gonna Need More X / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Good Hair, Evil Hair / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Gratuitous Spanish / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Guilt-Free Extermination War / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Gun Accessories / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Gun Porn / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Hand Signals / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Hands-On Approach / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Hate at First Sight / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	He Was Right There All Along / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Heartwarming in Hindsight / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Hellish Copter / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Hellish Pupils / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Heroic Second Wind / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Hidden in Plain Sight / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Highly-Conspicuous Uniform / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Hive Queen / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Hostile Weather / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Humans Kill Wantonly / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	I Call It "Vera" / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	I Cannot Self-Terminate / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	I Don't Think That's Such a Good Idea / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	I Gave My Word / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Impressed by the Civilian / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Improperly Placed Firearms / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Improved by the Re-Cut / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Infrared X-Ray Camera / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha! / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Instant Cooldown / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Internal Homage / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Ironic Name / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	It Can Think / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	It Has Been an Honor / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	It's a Costume Party, I Swear! / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	It's the Only Way / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	It's the Only Way to Be Sure / int_7a7a1a86
JamesHorner	seeAlso	Aliens
Aliens	hasFeature	Kill the Lights / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Killed Offscreen / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Late to the Tragedy / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Latino Is Brown / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Leave Behind a Pistol / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Let's Dance / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Let's Get Out of Here / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Life-or-Limb Decision / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Live-Action Escort Mission / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Magic Countdown / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Man Bites Man / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Man on Fire / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Mandatory Unretirement / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Market-Based Title / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Match Cut / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Meat Moss / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Mech vs. Beast / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Mercy Kill Arrangement / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Meta Mecha / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Method Acting / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Mildly Military / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Miles Gloriosus / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Militaries Are Useless / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Military Moonshiner / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Mini-Mecha / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Miniature Effects / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Mirror Character / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Missing Steps Plan / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Mission Briefing / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Moment Killer / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Monster Delay / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Monster Is a Mommy / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	More Dakka / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	More Senior Subordinate / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Motile Vehicular Components / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Motion-Capture Mecha / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	My Card / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	My Greatest Second Chance / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	My Parents Are Dead / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Named in the Sequel / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Neck Lift / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Nerves of Steel / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Nice Day, Deadly Night / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	No Help Is Coming / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	No Mere Windmill / int_7a7a1a66
Aliens	hasFeature	No New Fashions in the Future / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	No Range Like Point-Blank Range / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Noisy Robots / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Non-Uniform Uniform / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Nose Art / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Not Bad / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Not Now, Kiddo / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Nothing Can Save Us Now / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Nuclear Option / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Numbered Homeworld / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Off-the-Shelf FX / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Official Couple / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	1-Dimensional Thinking / int_7a7a1a86
100 Scariest Movie Moments	seeAlso	Aliens
Aliens	hasFeature	One-Liner, Name... One-Liner / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Orbital Bombardment / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Orchestral Bombing / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Orphaned Reference / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Our Weapons Will Be Boxy in the Future / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Outrun the Fireball / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Paused Interrupt / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Percussive Maintenance / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Pick Your Human Half / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Plays Great Ethnics / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Plot-Demanded Manual Mode / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Post-Climax Confrontation / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Posthumous Character / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Power Harness / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Powered Armor / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Practical Effects / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Pre-Battle Banter / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Prefers Rocks to Pillows / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Quit Your Whining / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Quizzical Tilt / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Race Against the Clock / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Real Robot Genre / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Recycled Soundtrack / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Red Filter of Doom / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Red Herring Mole / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Red Shirt / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Redshirt Army / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Remote Vitals Monitoring / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Retirony / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Revealing Injury / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Roaring Rampage of Rescue / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Robot and A.I. Works / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Salvage Pirates / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Scare Chord / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Sci-Fi Horror / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Screaming Woman / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Screw the Money, I Have Rules! / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Second Love / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Secondary Fire / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Send in the Search Team / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Sensor Suspense / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Sentry Gun / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Sequel Reset / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Sergeant Rock / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Series Continuity Error / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Settling the Frontier / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Shotguns Are Just Better / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Sighted Guns Are Low-Tech / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Significant Reference Date / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Silence Is Golden / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Silicon Snarker / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Skeptic No Longer / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Sleeper Starship / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Plot Versus Characters / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Slimeball / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Small Girl, Big Gun / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Smart Gun / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Smoking Is Cool / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Snowy Screen of Death / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Sole Survivor / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Sound-Only Death / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Space Clothes / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Space Friction / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Space Marine / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Space Plane / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Species Title / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Spicy Latina / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Stairs Are Faster / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Standard Human Spaceship / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Standard Sci-Fi Army / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Standard Sci-Fi Setting / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Stay Frosty / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	SteadiCam / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Stealthy Colossus / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Still the Leader / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Stock Star Systems / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Stock Trailer Music / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Storming the Castle / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Stupid Future People / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Stupid Question Bait / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Subspace Ansible / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Suicide Pact / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Suit with Vested Interests / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Super Window Jump / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Supernaturally Young Parent / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Suppressed Mammaries / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Surprise Vehicle / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Surprisingly Sudden Death / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Swiss-Army Weapon / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Take a Moment to Catch Your Death / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Take That, Audience! / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Tastes Like Disdain / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Tastes Like Friendship / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Team Killer / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Telepathic Sprinklers / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Terraform / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	That's an Order! / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	The Big Guy / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	The Board Game / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	The Danza / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	The End... Or Is It? / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	The Engineer / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	The Future Is Noir / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	The Kids Are American / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	The Lad-ette / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	The Lady's Favour / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	The Neidermeyer / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	The Patriarch / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	The Peter Principle / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	The Rest Shall Pass / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	The Role-Playing Game / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	The Squadette / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	The Team Benefactor / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	This Is Unforgivable! / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Three Laws-Compliant / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Throw-Away Country / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Token Robot / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Too Cool to Live / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Tracking Device / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Trading Bars for Stripes / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Trail of Bread Crumbs / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Traitor Shot / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Troubled Child / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Two Girls to a Team / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Undercrank / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Understatement / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	United Space of America / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Vasquez Always Dies / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	[Verb] This! / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Vertical Kidnapping / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Wall Crawl / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	We Just Need to Wait for Rescue / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	We Will Wear Armor in the Future / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Welcome to Hell / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Weld the Lock / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Well-Trained, but Inexperienced / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Who Needs Their Whole Body? / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Whoosh in Front of the Camera / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Woken Up at an Ungodly Hour / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Workplace-Acquired Abilities / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Wormsign / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Xenomorph Xerox / int_7a7a1a66
Aliens	hasFeature	Xenomorph Xerox / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	You Are a Credit to Your Race / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	You Are in Command Now / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	You Don't Look Like You / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	You Have Researched Breathing / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	You Just Ruined the Shot / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Your Princess Is in Another Castle! / int_7a7a1a86
Aliens	hasFeature	Yuppie / int_7a7a1a86
Live A Live (Video Game)	seeAlso	Aliens
TheBabylonProject	seeAlso	Aliens
Denpa Teki The Abridged Movie (Web Video)	seeAlso	Aliens

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