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    1 month ago

    They take her victory away in the sequels. Twice. Three times if you count cloning Ripley with xeno DNA in Resurrection as a lose. Cat lady perpetually be fighting against that shit.

    • osaerisxero
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      541 month ago

      And everybody else dies.

      I’m hoping we can find a different analogy.

      • IninewCrow
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        301 month ago

        . . and a few of us get impregnated, violently give birth to new monsters that live off of us hosts and leave us for dead.

  • @[email protected]
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    691 month ago

    Ripley canonically had a daughter named Amanda who died while Ripley was in stasis between Alien and Aliens. Amanda Ripley is the player character in Alien: Isolation.

    • @[email protected]
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      161 month ago

      Amanda canonically gets back to earth to die of cancer as an older woman, so she does manage to return from the “floating in space” ending of Isolation, too.

      Creative Assembly have confirmed Isolation 2, as well. Hype!

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        Carter Burke is bought and paid for by Weyland Yutani, WY lies for their own ends, and that included sending Ripley to back to LV426 for the Hadley’s Hope of getting their very own pet Xenomorph. Amanda Ripley could be anywhere

      • @ClockworkOtter
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        41 month ago

        She does, and it’s one of the key character points at the start of Aliens.

  • @MehBlah
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    311 month ago

    Ripley had a daughter.

    • @essell
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      101 month ago

      “Had”

  • @So_zetta_slowpoke
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    201 month ago

    Aliens, at its core, is a movie about motherhood. Newt is the surrogate for Ripley’s daughter that she lost. When Newt’s in danger, it’s not the badass space marines who save her. It’s the mother who will move heaven and earth to protect her child.

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      31 month ago

      very sweet take. Aliens is actually about corporate greed is “game over man”, and we need to nuke it from orbit. Forced pregnancy and AI are still just distractions for the corporate greed.

      • @So_zetta_slowpoke
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        91 month ago

        I mean, you aren’t wrong. The other main theme in my opinion is how the military industrial complex sucks and doesn’t value human life as much as profit.

    • @shalafi
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      61 month ago

      In Prometheus she does.

  • @FreakinSteve
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    61 month ago

    It’s cool when people try to make humorous analogies without knowing the source material

    • @[email protected]
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      1 month ago

      Did Ripley have a kid in the movies, or was the character invented for Isolation?

      Otherwise the meme is facts.

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        1 month ago

        Just came here to drop the info: Her reacting to the news of her daughter dying of old age while she was in the Stasis Pod was a deleted scene in the Aliens Director’s Cut.

        • Ixoid
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          31 month ago

          Love the director’s cut of Aliens - so much extra character building. I know why Cameron cut it, but it’s good to know it’s an option if I choose.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 month ago

    Ripley had two daughters and one son. One daughter that she gave birth to, one daughter that she became a surrogate to (Newt), and the hybrid alien/human thing was her son.

    I also think that when she was cloned and had alien DNA, that she was a “Queen”.

    She was like an example of a strong, single mother figure to her actual children and various surrogates (the inmates on the prison planet, etc).

  • @portuga
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    01 month ago

    While all that is technically true, I still watched each and every alien franchise movie. The best one has been the best, and it went downhill from there. Last one is meh to be polite, so I might not be bothered again. Oh who am I kidding, I’ll watch that too

    • @[email protected]
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      141 month ago

      Yeah I agree the best one is definitely the best. I thought the worst one was the worst.

      • @portuga
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        31 month ago

        The second best is also the best, except for the best one. But the last one seems like they only had CGI budget for one alien. Venom’s last one is also disappointing, these people have run out of new ideas for a long time. Just milking the respective franchises