History Film / AliensVsPredatorRequiem

* FromBadToWorse: It starts off bad, with a small group of Xenomorphs establishing a nest in the sewers beneath Gunnison. Then they manage to escape into the town above and things go progressively downhill from there. [[spoiler: Over the course of a single night, the town is plunged into darkness after the power station explodes, police dispatch stops responding as they are implied to be overrun and the national guard response units that were called are massacred the moment they arrive in town. By the time the military decides to nuke the area to stop the infestation, there are only a handful of survivors left.]]
* GenreBlind: "The government wouldn't lie to us!". Anyone who has seen any ''Alien'' or ''Predator'' thing ever can tell you how wrong that is.
* GoryDiscretionShot:
** Generally averted. All the {{gorn}} is put on full display, such as when we see an Alien impregnate a pregnant woman and the "babies" eat their way out later.
** The one time the film plays it straight is when Ricky narrowly escapes from the school's pool room, diving out the window just as a xenomorph kills one of the JerkJock's friends and causes a spray of blood to hit the window above.

* JustFollowingOrders: This is how the soldiers react when called out on [[spoiler:destroying the town with a nuclear bomb]].
* LargeAndInCharge: The Predalien towers over the human-spawned Xenomorphs given that its host was the already large Predator. The creators reveal that that the Predalien is a young Queen (given her depositing alien embryos in any pregnant human she can get her hands on) who would ultimately have grown even larger than a human-spawned one.

* MilitariesAreUseless: The National Guard fares even worse than [[Film/{{Aliens}} the Colonial Marines]] and end up totally wiped out. [[spoiler:The army eventually opts to just nuking the whole town to keep the Xenomorphs from spreading.]]
* MonsterIsAMommy: The Predalien develops into a young Queen capable of orally implanting Chestbursters.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: Ricky has pined for Jesse for a long time. After she breaks up with her JerkJock boyfriend, she starts a romance with him. [[spoiler:In the climax, she panics and gets killed by one of Wolf's blades being launched, bisecting her]].

* DoubleTap: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]]. The alien who kills the JerkJock's friends is seen "stabbing" the dead body of the friend in the head over and over again, likely because it was feeding. It could be considered TemptingFate[=/=]KarmicDeath, since Wolf impales him exactly the same way while he is doing it.
* DownerEnding: By the end the of the film, [[spoiler: every character except for Dallas, Kelly, Ricky and Molly are dead, the Xenomorph infestation has resulted in an entire town being nuked off the map with only the aforementioned four surviving (out of a town of over ''5,000'' people,) and the ultimate fates of said four aren't looking too good considering what the military just did. Also, Wolf's plasma weapon ends up in the hands of the US Government.]]

Taking place shortly after the last movie, the Chestburster that emerged from Scar has now grown into an adult Predalien and causes the Predator ship to crash down by Gunnison, Colorado. Releasing a swarm of Facehuggers upon the town, the simple lives of the citizens are disrupted by the increasing spread of the Xenomorphs. Things don't get any easier when both a lone Predator and the National Guard are sent to contain the outbreak before it spreads to rest of the planet.

* AnyoneCanDie: Nobody is safe, there's a lot of innocent victims, the unrated version of AVP 2 can easily be described as a mix of hardcore gory horror and nonstop bloody action. [[spoiler:With the exception of the four main characters, the entire town of Gunnison, Colorado (including several supporting characters, the Predalien and Wolf) are wiped out with a nuclear bomb. The ending also leaves the fate of the four survivors ambiguous]].

* ContinuityNod: The movie ends with the army handing over the Predator weapon they confiscated to [[spoiler:Miss Yutani, presumably the one calling the shots after Weyland's demise.]]
* CurbstompBattle: The National Guard are destroyed in minutes after fighting the Xenomorphs.

* HybridMonster: The Predalien, though it's not truly a hybrid since aliens always take traits from their hosts.

* ImperiledInPregnancy: The Predalien is completely indiscriminate in its victims, invading a maternity ward in the town's hospital and implanting pregnant women with its own xenomorph embryos.
* InstantSedation:
** Facehuggers seem to be able to knock someone out within six or seven seconds in this film. People have speculated that they use their tails to knock someone out, but that would require a precise chokehold (a blood choke specifically). The speed of the knock out suggests they sedate their host through some unknown means; the best examples being the two homeless men.

* TongueTrauma: In their final confrontation, Wolf rips out the Predalien's inner mouth.

** Buddy shoots an alien point blank and gets acid on his arm. Rather than take off his jacket off, he just stands there letting the acid burn his arm off.
** The homeless men who were staring into the bubbling water in the sewers, which is doubly glaring since their dog found pieces of a corpse in the sewers.

* VasquezAlwaysDies: Averted. The Vasquez-like character in ''Requiem'' (a female war veteran who's just returned home) survives the film along with her daughter, and has several moments where she mows down xenomorphs by herself.

* RedshirtArmy: The National Guard unit sent to Gunnison only gets about ''a minute'' of screentime before they're all killed during an Xenomorph ambush.

* NeverFoundTheBody: To hide the existence of the Aliens, Wolf uses a highly corrosive acid to dissolve any bodies he found, both Alien and humans alike.

* OneRiotOneRanger: The xenomorphs are loose on a planet with billions of people that can potentially spawn just as many xenomorphs...and only Wolf responds to deal with the problem.

** Somewhat justified in the Unrated edition as the scenes are changed so that no information is given with the initial distress signal and it's not until Wolf arrives on Earth and watches a recording on one of the dead Predator's mask that he realises what's going on. The film may also suggest that Wolf was unaware that Chet could impregnate victims until late in the film so he may have assumed he was dealing with a finite number of Aliens.
* RedshirtArmy: The National Guard unit sent to Gunnison only gets about ''a minute'' of screentime before they're all killed in an alien ambush.

* TongueTrauma: [[spoiler:In their final confrontation, Wolf rips out the Predalien's inner mouth]].

* CaptainObvious: Darcy walks into a pitch black Diner looking for her friend after the power gas gone out. The first thing she calls out? "The Powers out!"

* FromBadToWorse: It starts off bad, with a small group of Xenomorphs establishing a nest in the sewers beneath Gunnison. Then they manage to escape into the town above and things go progressively downhill from there. Over the course of a single night, the town is plunged into darkness after the power station explodes, police dispatch stops responding as they are implied to be overrun and the national guard response units that were called are massacred the moment they arrive in town. By the time the military decides to nuke the area to stop the infestation, there are only a handful of survivors left.

* DownerEnding: By the end the of the film, [[spoiler: every character except for Dallas, Kelly, Ricky and Molly are dead, the Xenomorph infestation has resulted in an entire town being nuked off the map with only the aforementioned four surviving (out of a town of ''6,300'',) and the ultimate fates of said four aren't looking too good considering what the military just did. Also, Wolf's plasma weapon ends up in the hands of the US Government.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Wolf kills several humans that get in his way throughout the course of the film, but his ultimate objective is to prevent the Xenomorph infestation from spreading beyond the town and eventually overwhelming the entire planet. Whether this is for any noble reason or simply because one of the Yautja's favored hunting ground is under threat is never made clear.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Wolf kills several humans that get in his way throughout the course of the film, but his ultimate objective is to prevent the Xenomorph infestation from spreading beyond the town and eventually overwhelming the entire planet. Whether this is for any noble reason or simply because one of the Yautja's favoured hunting ground is under threat is never made clear.

** Colonel Stevens doesn't even bother trying to evacuate anyone. Instead, he lies and tells the survivors to head to the center of town for a nonexistent airlift, possibly to lure as many Xenomorphs there as possible, and then drops a tactical nuke on their heads that wipes out everyone and everything in the area. Sure, this may seem like a dick move, but his overall intention is to ensure that the infestation is contained and that no aliens manage to survive the bombing. His attitude immediately before the nuke is dropped shows that he certainly isn't happy about what he's been forced to do.

* WellIntentionedExtremist:

** The scene shows Kelly reaching for the homeless man's weapon and Wolf roves his laser sight over the weapon as a warning.

* VillainousRescue: A deleted scene shows Kelly and her daughter trying to find refuge at a cemetery, where they find a crazed homeless man wielding a revolver. When the daughter begins to whimper and cry, the man tells Kelly to shut her up, under threat of killing them. Seeing this from a distance, Wolf unintentionally saves them by shooting the homeless man in the head and allowing both women to flee.

* BattleInTheRain: The climax of the movie.

* DueToTheDead: When he first arrives at the crashed Predator ship, Wolf places his hand on a dead brethren and bow his head.

* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: This movie somehow does an even worst job than its predecessor.

* FateWorseThanDeath: It's implied that the mother impregnated (in the hospital) by the Predalien can ''feel the multiple bursters breaking into her womb and eating her children''.

* CleanupCrew: Throughout the film, Wolf kills as many witnesses as he does Xenomorphs, making it clear what his purpose is in the movie.

** It's worth noting that Wolf is almost ''astonishingly'' incompetent at his job in this regard. He dissolves the bodies of Buddy and his son as well as the facehuggers that attacked them...but then skins the local deputy and hangs his corpse up in a tree, putting the whole town on edge. While the aliens spread throughout the town, he chases a few of them around the power plant, but since he can't seem to hit anything, even with targeting assistance, all he manages to do is shoot up the plant itself, knocking out Gunnison's power. Even with chaos in the streets, he still keeps trying to get rid of evidence wherever he happens to be at the moment. By the time the Army decides to solve the problem by nuking the entire town, containment and coverup have completely failed, which might not have happened if the Predators had sent more than ''one guy''.

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:With the exception of the four main characters, the entire town of Gunnison, Colorado (including several supporting characters, the Predalien and Wolf) are wiped out with a nuclear bomb. The ending also leaves the fate of the four survivors ambiguous]].

* ActionizedSequel: There's even more brutal fight scenes between the title characters.
* AnyoneCanDie: Nobody is safe, there's a lot of innocent victims, the unrated version of AVP 2 can easily be described as a mix of hardcore gory horror and nonstop bloody action.

* SeriesContinuityError: In its cameo at the end of ''Alien vs. Predator'', the Predalien chestburster was shown with an inner jaw. In ''Requiem'' it lacks an inner jaw to facilitate its oral impregnation method.

* DarkerAndEdgier: As noted under BloodierAndGorier, the body count and visible violence is very much cranked up. The film also abandons one of the usual concepts of most ''Aliens versus Predator'' ventures (including the first movie): humans and Predators forced to team up to take out a bigger threat. Wolf is instead [[WordOfGod meant to be]] like a "force of nature" that's as much or more of a risk to the human characters as the Xenomorphs, and is an antagonist all the way through. He never even shows the grudging respect for human characters that has also been a trait of ''Predator'' films and the ''[=AvP=]'' properties (very much likely due to his role as a [[OneManArmy one-man]] CleanupCrew). It's also implied that even the few survivors at the end might be "silenced" by the government. Overall, the tone is a lot more bleak than the other entries in the ''Predator'' franchise.

* DeathOfAChild: Gleefully applied by the filmmakers, as the Predalien and xenomorphs kill kids and [[BlackComedy even eat babies]]. However, [[GoryDiscretionShot most of it actually happens offscreen]], with only one child falling victim to a facehugger and dying on-screen; [[{{Squick}} though the babies' deaths were onscreen, they were in their mother's womb at the time]].

* LargeAndInCharge: The Predalien towers over the human-spawned Xenomorphs given that its host was the already large Predator. WordOfGod reveals that that the Predalien is a young Queen (given her depositing alien embryos in any pregnant human she can get her hands on) who would ultimately have grown even larger than a human-spawned one.

* {{Tagline}}: [[ChristmasRushed "This Christmas, there will be no peace on Earth."]]

* VillainousRescue: A DeletedScene shows Kelly and her daughter trying to find refuge at a cemetery, where they find a crazed homeless man wielding a revolver. When the daughter begins to whimper and cry, the man tells Kelly to shut her up, under threat of killing them. Seeing this from a distance, Wolf unintentionally saves them by shooting the homeless man in the head and allowing both women to flee.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Several characters are practically just walking CanonFodder.

* BloodierAndGorier: The first film isn't exactly blood-free, but ''Requiem'' really cranks up the {{Gorn}}. even more so in the uncut version

* DeathBySex: Subverted. Jesse strips down to almost nothing in the pool scene before making out with Ricky. [[spoiler:While she doesn't die to the xenomorphs in the following attack scene, she is inadvertently bisected by Wolf a short while later at the hospital]].