Aliens story
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
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |