Alien 3 story
Set right after the events of Aliens (1986), Ripley and an Alien organism are the only survivors of the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco's escape pod's crash on a planet housing a penal colony populated by violent male inmates. It is the third installment of the Alien franchise.
17 total · 4 choice · 6 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| extraterrestrial being | choice | Ripley and some penal colonists were terrorized by a dangerous alien creature with acid for blood. |
| facing a ferocious beast | choice | A vicious alien creature was stalking Ripley and some penal colonists. |
| human vs. beast | choice | A vicious alien creature was stalking Ripley and some penal colonists. |
| parasitic being | choice | The alien creature used human surrogates to complete its development from a juvenile to adult. |
| invasive life form from outer space | major | Ripley jumped into vat of molten led to stop the Alien Queen gestating inside her from being taken back to Earth. If it did ever reach Earth, it's offspring was bound to paracitize everyone on the planet. |
| off-world prison colony | major | The film was set in an all-male space penal colony. |
| organized religion | major | The penal colonists self-organized a little religious community for themselves. |
| sacrificing one's self to stop a contagion | major | Ripley threw herself into molten lead to prevent the Weyland-Yutani corporation executives from getting their avaricious hands the dangerous alien queen that was paraticizing her. |
| treatment of prisoners | major | We saw an isolated space prison where the inmates were pretty much left to fend for themselves. They made for themselves a little religious community. |
| unethical business practices | major | The Weyland-Yutani corporation plotted to capture the alien creature and turn it into biological weapons. This was at great risk to society, apart from the biological weapons, because there was a good chance it would get loose on Earth and paracitize everyone. |