History Fridge / Aliens

** Which actually makes sense, as the comics point out an Alien Queen is smart, if not smarter, than most humans. One comic states that they rate above figures like Einstein and Hawking in processing ability, and possess latent telepathic powers. Yes, [[PsychicPowers they can read your mind, and influence your ''dreams.'']]

** Which actually makes sense, as the comics point out an Alien Queen is smart, if not smarter, than most humans. One comic states that they rate above figures like Einstein and Hawking in processing ability, and possess latent telepathic powers. Yes, [[AndIMustScream they can read your mind.]]

** Also, would the Colonial Marines bother spending money and time training a medic in psychology, especially for children?

* Only one death in the film is the direct result of a Xenomorph attack: Ferro, and even then it's only [[GoryDiscretionShot strongly implied]]. Combine this with the first movie, which also has only a single unprovoked Xeno kill (Lambert), and a picture emerges of a species not nearly as relentlessly malevolent as its legend projects. This is isn't to say all the ones abducted wouldn't eventually have been killed-via-chestburster, but it's more accurate to say that it simply makes them subject to an alien lifeform's [[BlueAndOrangeMorality unique reproductive needs]]. Though it's certainly no less horrifying for it.

* During the APC escape sequence, an Alien attacks the [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier APC]] and Ripley ends up [[CarFu running over it]], crushing it's skull under the tires and splashing [[HollywoodAcid acid]] [[AlienBlood blood]] underneath the vehicle. This probably had something to do with the transaxle breaking shortly afterwards...

* Near the end of the first movie, Ripley is trying to flee the ''Nostromo'' and an automated self destruct countdown voice can be omnipresently heard. This time, she's *running back in* during an automated self destruct countdown voice, and might very well be noticing that when she's in the elevator on the way back down.

** In the novelization, her and the other kids play Hide and Seek in them, which she's champion at since she's small enough to fit in places no-one else can.

* Remember the scene where Newt is about to be made into a host for a face-hugger? Remember all those kids in the beginning of the film? They weren't so lucky.

* Why Hicks was out of commission even though he was only burned by the acid? Because he breathed in some of the fumes of the burning. His lungs were being burned on the inside.

* Though she's certainly the one most human audiences would root for, Ripley is not the only MamaBear in the film, since the Alien Queen holds back when Ripley is only threatening the eggs, then pursues after Ripley decides to torch them (as the eggs start to open, meaning she and Newt were dangerously close to getting facehugged by them; if not for that, it almost seems like the two might've gotten away with less incident). Ripley also causes her ovipositor to be ripped off, which even aside from the physical pain is a very, very personal kind of injury (assuming of course that the xenomorphs value that kind of thing the way most intelligent creatures would)- is it even possible for that part to grow back? For that matter, Ripley herself was only lost for so long (and thus separated from her own daughter for the rest of her life) due to the first incident with the xenomorph onboard the ''Nostromo'', so there's sort of a revenge cycle to the whole thing too. So although the alien queen is responsible for the slaughter and consumption of quite a lot of humans, it could still be said there's some tragedy on both sides of the situation- as Ripley herself put it (albeit directly mainly at Burke's cruel behavior), "I'm not sure which species is worse".

* Though she's certainly the one most human audiences would root for, Ripley is not the only MamaBear in the film, since the Alien Queen holds back when Ripley is only threatening the eggs, then pursues after Ripley decides to torch them (as the eggs start to open, meaning she and Newt were dangerously close to getting facehugged by them; if not for that, it almost seems like the two might've gotten away with less incident). Ripley also causes her ovipositor to be ripped off, which even aside from the physical pain is a very, very personal kind of injury (assuming of course that the xenomorphs value that kind of thing the way most intelligent creatures would)- is it even possible for that part to grow back? For that matter, Ripley herself was only lost for so long (and thus separated from her own daughter for the rest of her life) due to the first incident with the xenomorphs, so there's sort of a revenge cycle to the whole thing too. So although the alien queen is responsible for the slaughter and consumption of quite a lot of humans, it could still be said there's some tragedy on both sides of the situation- as Ripley herself put it (albeit directly mainly at Burke's cruel behavior), "I'm not sure which species is worse".

* Why Hicks was out of commission even though he was only burned by the acid? Because he breathed in some of the fumes of the burning. His lungs were being burned on the inside.
* Though she's certainly the one most human audiences would root for, Ripley is not the only MamaBear in the film, since the Alien Queen holds back when Ripley is only threatening the eggs, then pursues after Ripley decides to torch them (as the eggs start to open). Ripley also causes her ovipositor to be ripped off, which even aside from the physical pain is a very, very personal kind of injury (assuming of course that the xenomorphs value that kind of thing the way most intelligent creatures would)- is it even possible for that part to grow back? For that matter, Ripley herself was only lost for so long (and thus separated from her own daughter for the rest of her life) due to the first incident with the xenomorphs, so there's sort of a revenge cycle to the whole thing too. So although the alien queen is responsible for the slaughter and consumption of quite a lot of humans, it could be said there's some tragedy on both sides of the situation.

* Why Hicks was out of commission even though he was only burned by the acid? Because he breathed in some of the fumes of the burning. His lungs were being burned on the inside.

** In the novelization, her and the other kids play Hide and Seek in them, which she's champion at since she's small enough to fit in places no-one else can.

* Newt's knowledge of the air vents and where they lead to make a lot more sense with the additional scene with her family. She says "all the kids play there" which implies it's a regular thing. She's also likely had a lot of extra practice travelling through them since the aliens started attacking.

** Whether Ripley was found or not the Aliens would still be there and the company was still terraforming the planet. The longer the ship went undiscovered the larger the civillian population would be and the larger the casualties would be when it was finally found. The really horrifying thing is that the movie is one of the better scenarios for how things could have gone down.

*** The point is that Burke wouldn't have sent the team to investigate the crashed Alien ship if Ripley hadn't been found.

* In ''{{Aliens}}'', it's considered a strange fluke of luck that Ripley's shuttle was actually discovered, and it might have gone flying through the universe forever, with Ripley still asleep. However, it is *because* the shuttle is discovered that every character in the movie (and possibly the next two) that dies meets their fate. After all, it's not explicitly spoken but strongly implied that Burke is responsible for the colonists exploring the alien wreck because he wanted them to be impregnated so that he could somehow... make a profit from the R&D? Burke also knows of the alien wreckage only because Ripley told him the story. So, the colonists had lived on the planet for 20 or so years without a problem until Ripley's shuttle is discovered and she told the suits about the alien presence on the planet. It might have been better for all involved for her to have never been rescued...

** Although I doubt Weyland-Yutani failed to notice that the team they sent to investigate a crashed Alien ship vanished without a trace...

** Although I doubt Weyland-Yutani failed to notice that the team they sent to investigate a crashed Alien ship vaniahed without a trace...