Aliens story

movie: Aliens (1986) · 1986-06-18

Ellen Ripley returns to the moon where her crew encountered the hostile Alien creature, this time accompanied by a unit of space marines. It is the second installment of the Alien franchise.

23 total · 4 choice · 5 major · 14 minor

ThemeLevelMotivation
extraterrestrial being choice Ripley accompanied a crew of Marines to exterminate some dangerous alien creatures.
facing a ferocious beast choice The alien creatures versus Ripley and the Marines.
human vs. beast choice The alien creatures versus Ripley and the Marines.
parasitic being choice The aliens used human surrogates to complete its development from a juvenile to adult.
android major Ripley mistrusted her android crew-member Bishop from the start, but in the end he proved loyal to her and his crew.
coping with post-traumatic stress major Little Rebbecca (a.k.a. Newt) had to deal with the trauma of witnessing the aliens parasitize and kill her entire family. Ripley also showed signs, such as recurring nightmares, of having been traumatized by her past experience fighting the Alien creature aboard the Nostromo.
heroism major Ripley put herself at great risk to keep young Rebbecca save from the alien creatures and also in fighting them generally.
military related work major The story follows Ripley as she accompanied a unit of Marines to the exomoon LV-426 to battle aliens.
unethical business practices major The Weyland-Yutani Corporation higher ups knowingly risked the colonists and Marine rescue crew's lives in an effort to obtain dangerous alien parasites for the purpose of using them to design profitable new bio-weapons.
childhood trauma minor Ripley found little Rebbecca in a nearly catatonic state after she survived her entire family getting parasitized my the aliens.