History Franchise / AlienVsPredator

*** Except during the final battle, where you gain infinite ammo for it, putting the thing into the territory of AwesomeYetPractical.
* AwesomeButPractical: The Smartgun and minigun in ''AVP 2''.
** ''[=AVP=] 2010'' In multiplayer the default Marine weapon: the Pulse Rifle. Accurate, high rate of fire kills in one or two seconds and has a grenade launcher.

* DownerEnding: In ''AVP: Three World War'', Machiko is able to defeat the rogue evil Predators, but [[spoiler:her refusal to die fighting causes another Predator to burn her "status symbol" forehead mark with more xenomorph blood. She's no longer able to work with the Predators, and humans in general are back on the hunting menu.]]

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: In the 2010 game Weyland comments that the Aliens are a "true meritocracy." Given what Aliens ''do'', this trope applies to the entire species.

A Board-and-Miniature Boardgame of the franchise is in the process of being funded on Kickstarter [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/513277403/alien-vs-predator-the-miniatures-game?ref=category Chek it out!!]]

** All the Alien special kills apply as well.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: While the leaders of that big corporation are a bunch of greedy assholes, most of the employees are just people doing their work or innocent victims who haven't done anything bad. The marines are usually well-meaning if slighty hardballed with their work. The Xenomorphs are obviously nasty bastards but in the video games, it's their territories that are being invaded and their queen violated, so in all rights they're fighting an war of self-defence against the humans and the yautjas, thought with rules that aren't exactly what the Geneva Conventions would allow. The Yautjas no doubt starts wars and deaths for no actual good reason but they do have standards on which things the hunters are allowed to kill; women, children, sick and old are forbidden to hunt but for the rest, it's a free game with whatever nasty and violent way they want to use.

* ArmCannon: The Predator topknot in ''[=AvP=]: War'' is shown with a wrist-mounted plasma caster.

* AnticlimaxBoss: Most of the bosses from the second PC game. The Exosuit is heavily armed and armored, but has an atrocious lack of armor over where the operator's head is, allowing you to bring it down with just a few headshots, or even ''a single bonegun round to the head''; the Predator's pistol also ''paralyses'' the stupid thing with every shot. Even the Alien Queen goes down after a few bursts of minigun fire or some brief circle-strafing and whacking with the combi-stick. Predators are pretty nasty, though, especially when you fight them as the unarmed, unarmored Alien.
** In the 2010 game, the queen isn't even ''mobile'', in fact, it's less of a boss, and more of a piece of scenery you have to kill while fending off facehuggers.
*** ''The final enemy of the Alien campaign in ''[=AvP2=]'' is [[spoiler:Dr. Eisenberg]], who really seems anticlimatic after two in-tandem Predators, seeing as you can just run up to him and eat his freaking head off.

* MadScientist: Not so much in the films, but since the games, books, and comics take place in a similar setting to ''Aliens'', there's all sorts of crazy doctors experimenting with the critters. In the upcoming game, the player Alien (Specimen 6) was [[GoneHorriblyWrong apparently bred in captivity, because that]] ''[[GoneHorriblyWrong always]]'' [[GoneHorriblyWrong works out so well...]]

** An obscure one; in the 2010 game, Tequila refers to their present mission as shaping up "worse than Acheron". Acheron is the alternate name for LV426, the planet where the Aliens were first discovered and where a company of Marines were wiped out in ''Aliens''.

* GrayAndGreyMorality: For the most parts. While the leaders of that big corporation are a bunch of greedy assholes, most of the employees are just people doing their work or innocent victims who haven't done anything bad. The marines are usually well-meaning if slighty hardballed with their work. The Xenomorphs are obviously nasty bastards but in the video games, it's ''their'' territories that are being invaded and their queen violated, so in all rights they're fighting an war of self-defence against the humans and the yautjas, thought with rules that aren't exactly what the Geneva Conventions would allow. The Yautjas no doubt starts wars and deaths for no actual good reason but they do have standards on which things the hunters are allowed to kill; women, children, sick and old are forbidden to hunt but for the rest, it's a free game with whatever nasty and violent way they want to use.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The parasitic nightmare-beasts and killing machines who rip people apart for fun tend to be treated almost ''sympathetically'' in comparison to the human villains. For example, 6, the Drone PC in [=AVP=] 2010 starts off getting a number branded into her forehead, and by the time the game starts, is so broken she can only sullenly obey the scientist giving orders. Also, the Marine player character is the only one who ever ends up facing enemies of his own species...

** An obsucre one; in the 2010 game, Tequila refers to their present mission as shaping up "worse than Acheron". Acheron is the alternate name for LV426, the planet where the Aliens were first discovered and were a company of Marines were wiped out in ''Aliens''.

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What would happen if the Franchise/{{Predator}}, interstellar alien hunter extraordinaire, took it upon himself to go after the [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong face-raping]] [[Film/{{Alien}} Aliens?]] Oddly enough, lots of humans dying.

** Karl Bishop Wayland is protected by a personal cadre of advanced Combat Androids with distinct black uniforms and helmets, who are found in the last level of the Marine and Predator campaign. They're got cloaking devices and can take more than twice as much damage as a regular Combat Android, making them about as tough as a Predator Youngblood.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: the Iron Bears from the second PC game.

''[[Franchise/AlienVsPredator Alien vs. Predator]]'' is the [[CrossOver combination of Fox's two hit alien monster movies]], and the stories of the innocent humans caught in the middle. The series started with a comic by Creator/DarkHorseComics, featuring colony administrator Machiko Noguchi, who finds her newly-settled world has just become a hunting ground for the Predators as they seed it with Xenomorph eggs. Dark Horse would follow on this with other comics, such as ''Deadliest of the Species'' and ''War'', as well as crossovers with Franchise/{{Superman}}, Franchise/{{Batman}}, and even ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''. Riding the popularity wave of ''Film/{{Predators}}'', the Machiko story was picked up again in the mini-series ''Aliens vs. Predator: Three World War'', in which the humans and Predators team up against a second race of Predators (similar to the "black" ones from the film) and their Alien pets.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: It varies as to whether the series title is "Alien Versus Predator," "Alien Vs Predator," "Aliens Versus Predator" or "Aliens Vs Predator." You are likely to get GannonBanned for talking about the wrong one.