History Film / AliensVsPredatorRequiem

* KillEmAll: [[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.

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

[[caption-width-right:214:"This Christmas, there will be no peace on Earth."]]

[[caption-width-right:214:"This Christmas There Will Be No Peace On Earth."]]

* DeathBySex: Subverted. Ricky's love interest strips down to almost nothing in the pool scene. [[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]].

** 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.

** This was discussed in dialogue in the original ''Film/Aliens'' as Bishop dissected a facehugger, he mentions they secrete an anesthetic to keep their victims in a coma-like state.

* 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 action.

* AnachronismStew[=/=]ArtisticLicenseMilitary: The events of the film take place a short while after the original (which was released in 2004). Despite this, the U.S. National Guard troops in Gunnison wear ACU uniforms, which weren't issued until 2006.

* Actionized Sequel: there's even more brutal fight scenes between the title characters.
* Anyone Can Die: 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 action.

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

* Anyone Can Die: nobody is safe, there's a lot of innocent victims, the uncut version of AVP 2 can easily be described as a mix of hardcore gory horror and nonstop action.

* AnachronismStew[=/=]ArtisticLicenseMilitary: The events of the film take place a short while before the original (which was released in 2004). Despite this, the U.S. National Guard troops in Gunnison wear ACU uniforms, which weren't issued until 2006.

* DeathBySex: Subverted. Ricky's love interest strips down to almost nothing in the pool scene. [[spoiler:While she doesn't die to the xenomorphs in the following attack scene, she is inadvertantly bisected by Wolf a short while later at the hospital]].
* 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.

** 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.

* 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!"

* AnachronismStew[=/=]ArtisticLicenseMilitary: The AVP wiki stated that AVP-R took place a few days after the original; the U.S. National Guard troops wear ACU uniforms, which weren't issued until 2006.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: This film is set in Gunnison, Colorado. However, the terrain in the movie is a lot less mountainous than in the real Gunnison, Colorado. Additionally, when the National Guard is summoned from Colorado Springs they arrive almost instantly. In real life, Colorado Springs is 3 hours away from Gunnison.

* AbandonedHospital: The climax of ''Requiem''.
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: ''Requiem'' So big the Aliens were setting up a hive down there before the Predator showed up and drove them out.

* BigBad: The Predalien takes center stage throughout the movie as the biggest and scariest alien around. It indirectly destroys the Predator ship, creates a Xenomorph army to invade the rest of Earth, harvests a whole town. It forces the predators to send [[CleanUpCrew Wolf]] after it, as the only one who could take it down.

* BullyingTheDragon: Whenever the human characters fuck with the Predator instead of just leaving it the hell alone, it's definitely this. The main character seems to catch the hint during the finale; he chooses to simply leave the Predator alone and sure enough the Predator ignores him.
* BurgerFool: The lead in ''Requiem'' works as a pizza delivery boy. All the other characters go out of their way to tell him how humiliating this is.

* CanonImmigrant: The [=PredAlien=] goes from a enemy in the PC game to an official Xenomorph variation in the second movie. There's also the different vision modes the Predator uses to spot aliens instead of humans in the first movie.
** That in turn was an explanation of the vision modes used in ''Predator 2'', where it found the heat-cloaked humans by switching settings.
* CleanupCrew: Throughout the film, Wolf has been killing as many witnesses as he has Xenomorphs, making it clear what his purpose is in the movie.
* DarkerAndEdgier: As noted under BloodierAndGorier, the body count and visible violence is very much cranked up. But 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.
* DeathBySex: One of the girls strips down to almost nothing in the pool scene. She does not make it to the end of the movie.
* DeathOfAChild: Gleefully applied in the second film, which has the aliens killing kids and [[BlackComedy even eating babies]]. However, [[GoryDiscretionShot none of it actually happens onscreen]], except for one kid falling victim to a facehugger.

* DoubleTap: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]]. The alien who kills the above mentioned JerkJock's friends stabs the dead body of the friend in the head over and over again, way more than needed. Could be considered TemptingFate''/''KarmicDeath since Wolf impales him exactly the same way while he is doing it
** Subverted in that the Alien was obviously feeding and not merely randomly stabbing a body.
* DownerEnding: In a WhatCouldHaveBeen example, during the [[WordOfGod Brothers Strause]] DVDCommentary they mention that they thought of an ending where, after being handed the Predator weapon, the "rescuers" lifted up their weapons and the screen would cut to black with the sound of the rifles firing full-auto. Ouch.
* 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''.

** As can anyone who has been exposed to...well any form of media.
* GoryDiscretionShot: 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.

* ImmediateSequel: The two films could be spliced together into one pretty easily.

* 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.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Dale's idea to leave town without guns. He calls out the plan to break into a gun store as stupid, but is ordered by Dallas to shut up. In all honesty, they really could just leave town. The chances of the Aliens following them are slim, and even on the gridlocked roads, they could get pretty far before that Tactical Nuke came down.

* KillEmAll: The movie has only four survivors, which is actually worse than the first film given that the movie takes place in a large town and not in the middle of a frozen wasteland.

* MarketBasedTitle: ''Requiem'' is known in some countries as ''Aliens VS Predator 2'', conveniently [[FridgeBrilliance combining the names of the second Alien movie and second Predator movie into the second AvP movie.]]
* TheMountainsOfIllinois: In ''Requiem'', the shot of "Gunnison" clearly is not. The mountains are far too small and the town is far too big.
* NeckLift: Wolf does this simultaneously to two aliens who attempt ambush him
* NoOSHACompliance: The power goes out in ''AVP Requiem'' and it seems that not a single building in the town has emergency lighting, and even the hospital's emergency generator mostly just makes the fluorescent lights flicker.
* 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.

* SchrodingersCanon: The films are half this, half FanonDiscontinuity, and pretty well into CanonDiscontinuity with the release of Prometheus.

* SlasherMovie: Some fans complained that AVP-R turned both franchises into mere Teen Slasher monsters, screaming blond and all.

** 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 Predators in the ship who carry Scar's body do not scan him for any Xenomorph infestation. Even if that is counted out as overlooked due to Scar's death, it does not explain the stupidity of one Predator opening fire on the Predalien and causing the ship to crash.
** The father and son who should've taken off immediately stop for some time when the boy falls down, and are taken out by the facehuggers.
** The homeless men who were staring into the bubbling water, doubly glaring since their dog found pieces of a corpse in the sewers.
** One alien who attacks and disables one of Wolf's plasma cannons, hisses at him and ''slowly'' moves towards him. The results are predictable
* VasquezAlwaysDies: Averted, the lead actually take the Vasquez role.

* WhipSword: Wolf's bladed whip can slice up an enemy by wrapping around him and pulling in. It's also made from a Xenomorph's tail.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Dale's idea to leave town without guns. He calls out the plan to break into a gun store as stupid, but is ordered by Dallas to shut up. In all honesty, they really could just leave town. The chances of the Aliens following them are slim, and even on likely gridlocked roads, they could get pretty far.

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