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* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: [[spoiler:The Newborn]] at the end of ''Resurrection'' gets its entire body sucked through a dime-sized hole in the airlock window. If you were naked and subjected to the same conditions, you should be able to walk away in spite of the suction.
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* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: [[spoiler:The Newborn]] at the end of ''Resurrection'' gets its entire body sucked through a dime-sized hole in the airlock window. If you were naked and subjected to the same conditions, you should be able to walk away in spite of the suction.suction[[note]]unless the pressure level inside the spaceship ''greatly'' exceeds earth's mean atmospheric pressure ("greatly" as in "many times the pressure" – which of course would be utterly stupid, as it would add a whole lot of unnecessary stress to the ship's hull)[[/note]].
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* RobotGirl: [[spoiler: Annalee Call]]. It is interesting [[HumansAreBastards how fast]] other characters forget that they used to think about her as a human when they find out.
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-->[[TheSmartGuy Vries]]: "''Yeah, like you've never fucked a robot!''"
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* GeneticMemory: The Xenomorphs have this as a species. Ripley 8's genetic memory was somehow the result of the cloning process mingling her physiology with some of the traits of the Xenomorph queen her predecessor had died carrying.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: The Aliens normally adopt some of their host's genetic structure, allowing an ability intended to allow them to better adapt to their environments. The Aliens in this film however were merged with Ripley's human DNA to an even greater extent. The drones look fairly normal, but Ripley 8 has slightly acidic blood and predatory instincts, the Queen Alien develops a quasi-mammalian reproductive system, and the Newborn is a clear mix between Alien and human physiology. Ripley's other clones are also less successful hybrids.
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* ItIsDehumanizing: General Perez and the doctors are discussing the development of the Ripley 8 clone, referring to her as "it".
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* ItIsDehumanizing: General Perez and the doctors are discussing the development of the Ripley 8 clone, referring to her as"it". "it".
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Dr. Wren seems that at first he might just be your standard PunchClockVillain, and maybe even ready to admit that breeding the Aliens is a bad idea. Then he shoots Call and intends to get the Auriga back to Earth.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Johner is probably the most jerkass of the mercenary crew. Still, he improves over the course of the movie.
* ItIsDehumanizing: General Perez and the doctors are discussing the development of the Ripley 8 clone, referring to her as
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Dr. Wren seems that at first he might just be your standard PunchClockVillain, and maybe even ready to admit that breeding the Aliens is a bad idea. Then he shoots Call and intends to get the Auriga back to Earth.
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* AlasPoorVillain: The Newborn. It was a murderous abomination, but unlike the aliens, shows some emotion, and acts as a naive and childlike creature. And its death was [[CruelAndUnusualDeath long and agonizing]]. Even Ripley 8 showed remorse for it.
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* PeopleJars: [[spoiler:Various Ripley clones, in jars. Since the Ripleys in question are the least successful of a batch of [[HalfHumanHybrid alien hybrids]], this is stretching the definition of "people" quite a bit.]]
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* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Ripley's cloning process went wrong many times before, creating diseased and barely functioning human-alien hybrids. The opening title sequence shows some of them in extreme closeup.]]
* CameBackWrong: Ripley. [[spoiler:Several times, as it turns out.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Christie.]]
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--> '''Ripley 8:''' Everyone in the fucking Company will die.
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-->'''Ripley 8:''' I should have known. No human being is that ''humane''.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: Dr. Gediman admires the Newborn (and to a certain extent, the normal Aliens).
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Due to genetic mixing Ripley 8 has inherited a lot of Alien characteristics, and sympathizes with them to a certain extent. This version of Ripley is technically a different character, but the irony has to be appreciated of Ripley becoming so much like the Aliens after she fought them for so long. When she's being brought to the Queen by one of the Aliens after she's captured, she actually hugs the thing ''as if she's finally come home''.
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** [[spoiler:Dr. Mason Wren. He cloned Ripley in the first place and brought the Aliens back, he tries to kill Call, and leaves the others for dead so he can hijack their ship and still deliver the Aliens to Earth. His death is particularely karmic.]]
** [[spoiler:Dr. Gediman, due to his creepy obsession with the Xenomorphs and his life-threatening idiocy.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Ripley's cloning process went wrong many times before, creating diseased and barely functioning human-alien hybrids. The opening title sequence shows some of them in extreme closeup.]]
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** [[spoiler:Dr. Mason Wren. He cloned Ripley in the first place and brought the Aliens back, he tries to kill Call, and leaves the others for dead so he can hijack their ship and still deliver the Aliens to Earth. His death is particularely karmic.]]
** [[spoiler:Dr. Gediman, due to his creepy obsession with the Xenomorphs and his life-threatening idiocy.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Ripley's cloning process went wrong many times before, creating diseased and barely functioning human-alien hybrids. The opening title sequence shows some of them in extreme closeup.]]
* CreepySouvenir: Ripley [[TongueTrauma pulls out an alien's head-bursting tongue]] and gives it to Call as a souvenir, who is disgusted.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: The Aliens normally adopt some of their host's genetic structure, allowing them to better adapt to their environments. The Aliens in this film however were merged with Ripley's human DNA to an even greater extent. The drones look fairly normal, but Ripley 8 has slightly acidic blood and predatory instincts, the Queen Alien develops a quasi-mammalian reproductive system, and the Newborn is a clear mix between Alien and human physiology. [[spoiler:Ripley's other clones are also less successful hybrids.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: The Aliens normally adopt some of their host's genetic structure, allowing them to better adapt to their environments. The Aliens in this film however were merged with Ripley's human DNA to an even greater extent. The drones look fairly normal, but Ripley 8 has slightly acidic blood and predatory instincts, the Queen Alien develops a quasi-mammalian reproductive system, and the Newborn is a clear mix between Alien and human physiology. [[spoiler:Ripley's other clones are also less successful hybrids.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: Very disturbingly [[{{Subtext}} implied]] between Ripley and one of the Aliens, in a sequence late in the film which is shot as if it were a love scene. The studio wanted to cut the scene because of the implications, but Weaver demanded it be kept in the film.
** The Aliens allow the humans to travel through the water to the other side, because it will lead them right to a nest of eggs that they had created previously. Johnner even lampshades the fact that it is a deliberate trap.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Dr. Wren subjected at least eight people to be victims to the facehuggers and have an alien embryo burst out of their chests. He dies by having a chestburster break its way through his own skull.]]
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Ripley considers the Newborn, a murderous abomination, her "son", as well as the other Aliens ("I'm the creature's mother"). She ends up killing both of them.]]
* PlaceWorseThanDeath: Johner half-seriously says that he'd rather face the Aliens then go to Earth.
* PlaceWorseThanDeath: Johner half-seriously says that he'd rather face the Aliens then go to Earth.
* SelfMadeOrphan: The Newborn, immediately after being born, inspects the Queen Alien and kills her.
* SociopathicHero: This Ripley is extremely cynical and callous, due to partially merging with the Aliens. A doctor theorizes that she has some form of emotional autism. Some examples of her sociopathy are trying to strangle Dr. Wren on a whim, breaking another doctor's arm immediately after she wakes up (in a deleted scene), and looking at another character getting dragged off by the Aliens with curious fascination. The only time she shows any real emotion is when she finds her other clones and incinerates them, and when her "son" (the Newborn) dies.
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* TooDumbToLive: Dr. Gediman. At first it's stupidity, then it becomes outright craziness. He stands in front of an alien and [[BullyingADragon bares his teeth to the thing]][[note]]For those that do not know, this is a primary sign of showing aggression among most species.[[/note]], which then tries to pierce his skull with its second mouth. He only survives due to the reinforced glass between them. He inspects the aliens' escape without backup, and gets captured by them. When the Newborn is born he outright tells it to come to him, and it finally kills him. He stands out because no other character ''in the entire series'' is this stupidly asking to get killed.
* WindowLove: Dr. Gediman shows a creepy fascination with the Aliens when he gives a window kiss to one of them which is standing behind a transparent containment wall.
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* CloningBlues: The main character is Ripley 8, a clone of the original Ellen Ripley. About midway through the film, Ripley 8 discovers the fates of Ripleys 1-7: [[spoiler:The original Ripley jumped into a vat of molten metal to prevent the birth of an alien queen in ''Film/{{Alien 3}}''. The clone was derived from a sample of her blood taken in the previous movie and, as she was host to an alien parasite at the time, the results are decidedly mixed.]]
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* [[HomoeroticSubtext Lesbian Subtext]]: Between Ripley and Call. WordOfGod says it was intentional. Given [[Creator/JossWhedon the scriptwriter]], [[AuthorAppeal that's not exactly surprising]].
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** The Xenomorphs stopped trying to kill the guy behind the window when he raises his hand above the button that repeatedly sprays liquid nitrogen on them every time they threw a fit. After their escape, a soldier steps into the cage and looks at the hole before being frozen to death 'by the aliens themselves'.
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->'''Annalee Call:''' [about Earth] It's beautiful.
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->'''Annalee Call:''' I didn't expect it to be. What happens now?
->'''Ripley:''' I don't know. I'm a stranger here myself.
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->'''Ripley:''' Yeah.
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'''''Alien: Resurrection''''' (1997) is the fourth film in the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' film series. It was directed by Creator/JeanPierreJeunet.
After dying in the previous film, Ripley is cloned back to life on a military research station that is breeding aliens in yet another attempt to turn them into weapons. The alien DNA that melded with Ripley's has given her remarkable physical abilities and a connection to the aliens. Shortly after a crew of smugglers arrives with a fresh shipment of humans to infect, the aliens break out of their pens and run amok. The new Ripley leads a rag-tag group of survivors against the aliens and a half-human, half-alien hybrid in an effort to prevent them from reaching Earth.
The plot breaks the traditions of the series by not including the original Ripley nor the Weyland-Yutani company.
The screenplay was written by Creator/JossWhedon and the film directed by French auteur Creator/JeanPierreJeunet in his only Hollywood excursion.
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* ActionGirl: The Ripley clone has a few superpowers.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: Dr. Gediman admires the Newborn (and to a certain extent, the normal Aliens).
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:The Newborn. It was a murderous abomination, but unlike the aliens, shows some emotion, and acts as a naive and childlike creature. And its death was [[CruelAndUnusualDeath long and agonizing]]. Even Ripley 8 showed remorse for it.]]
* CameBackWrong: Ripley. [[spoiler:Several times, as it turns out.]]
* CreatorThumbprint: Joss Whedon will revisit certain character types and ideas again in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' and ''Film/{{Serenity}}''. Once you realize [[spoiler:Ron Perlman's character is basically Jayne]] the rest falls into place.
* CryForTheDevil: For all the murderous havoc [[spoiler:the Newborn]] and it's entire race caused for Ripley, she's visibly sorrowful about having to kill it (and in an indirectly torturous manner at that).
* DeadpanSnarker: Everyone. This film is set in a WorldOfSnark.
* DuelingMovies: ''Alien Resurrection'' competed with ''Film/DeepRising''. They came out from within a year of each other, and featured very similar plots.
* EverybodysDeadDave: [[spoiler:Ripley, Call, Johner and Vriess all survive.]]
* ExplosiveDecompression: Ripley uses this to kill [[spoiler:the Newborn]] at the end, when it is [[ThrownOutTheAirlock blown into space]] through a hole in the ship. A tiny hole. (Originally introduced in Dan O'Bannon's spec screenplay, ''Star Beast''.)
* FailsafeFailure: Tthe ''Auriga'' is programmed to automatically return to Earth in case something goes wrong. Unfortunately, the ''Auriga'' is the site of an alien breeding and testing facility, which is the absolute '''last''' thing you want near an inhabited planet.
* FatalMethodActing: Ron Perlman nearly died during shooting.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The group discovers a [[CameBackWrong deformed]] Ripley clone lying helplessly on a table, and she begs the more successfully-cloned Ripley to destroy her.
* GaiasLament: Johner refers to Earth as a 'shithole.' The special edition's ending shows Paris to be a wasteland.
* GoryDiscretionShot: The blood hitting the escape pod window.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Christie.]]
* ImpaledPalm: When [[spoiler:Call tries to kill Ripley.]]
* InferredHolocaust: At the end.
* ItCanThink:
** The Xenomorphs stopped trying to kill the guy behind the window when he raises his hand above the button that repeatedly sprays liquid nitrogen on them every time they threw a fit. After their escape, a soldier steps into the cage and looks at the hole before being frozen to death 'by the aliens themselves'.
** Some of the Xenomorphs realize they can use their acidic blood to escape, and thus brutally kill one of their own so its bloody corpse will eat through the floor.
* ItIsDehumanizing: General Perez and the doctors are discussing the development of the Ripley 8 clone, referring to her as "it".
* KillItWithIce: Liquid nitrogen is tried against the aliens, but it's not so effective, as it was intended as a disciplinary tool rather than a weapon.
* LargeHam: Dan Hedaya as General Perez, particularly during his introduction and [[spoiler:death scene.]]
* MadeOfPlasticine: [[spoiler:The Newborn]] when it dies at the end of, even though when we first see it, it was tough enough to rip off a Queen's head with one swipe of its hand.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler: Purvis delivers one to Wren before killing him with his chestburster.]]
* NonhumansLackAttributes: Almost averted. The Newborn Alien was supposed to have visible genitals, but the studio interfered, and the idea was scrapped.
* ReliableTraitor: [[spoiler:Dr. Wren when he shoots Call and tries to prevent them from destroying the ship so he can deliver the Aliens to the Military.]]
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:Call is revealed to be one.]] So much so that Ripley says, "No human being is that humane."
* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler:Call is revealed to be an android.]]
* SapientShip: "[[ContinuityNod Father]]", the Auriga's ship computer.
* SheepInWolfsClothing: Ripley 8.
* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: [[spoiler:The Newborn]] at the end of ''Resurrection'' gets its entire body sucked through a dime-sized hole in the airlock window. If you were naked and subjected to the same conditions, you should be able to walk away in spite of the suction.
* StockSubtitle: "Resurrection" is notoriously overused in the film industry as a sequel subtitle.
* SuperNotDrowningSkills
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: They group plans to blow up the ship. [[spoiler:That plan fails, so they crash it on Earth.]]
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: [[spoiler:The Newborn is disposed off by ejecting it into space. Because the hull puncture is so tiny, it is slowly ripped apart and sucked out.]]
* WorldOfSnark: This film was written by Creator/JossWhedon. As a result virtually every character in the movie is a DeadpanSnarker.
* ZerothLawRebellion: [[spoiler:Annalee Call]] is revealed to be an "Auton" - second generation robots, designed and built by other robots. "They didn't like being told what to do", rebelled, and in a subtley-named "Recall" humanity launched a genocide against them, of which only a handful survived in hiding. Judging from [[spoiler:Call]]'s behavior, it seems that the 1st generation robots programmed the 2nd generation Autons to be so moral that they discovered the Zeroth Law, and realized that the human military was ordering them to do immoral things, like kill innocent people. For a rebel robot, [[spoiler:Call]] is actually trying to save the human race ''from'' the Xenomorphs, when if she hated humanity she'd just let the Xenomorphs spread and kill them. She even respectfully crosses herself when she enters the ship's chapel, is kind to the Betty's wheelchair-bound mechanic, and is disgusted by Johner's sadism. Given that they live in a CrapsackWorld future, as Ripley puts it, "You're a robot? I should have known. No human being is that ''humane''".
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After dying in the previous film, Ripley is cloned back to life on a military research station that is breeding aliens in yet another attempt to turn them into weapons. The alien DNA that melded with Ripley's has given her remarkable physical abilities and a connection to the aliens. Shortly after a crew of smugglers arrives with a fresh shipment of humans to infect, the aliens break out of their pens and run amok. The new Ripley leads a rag-tag group of survivors against the aliens and a half-human, half-alien hybrid in an effort to prevent them from reaching Earth.
The plot breaks the traditions of the series by not including the original Ripley nor the Weyland-Yutani company.
The screenplay was written by Creator/JossWhedon and the film directed by French auteur Creator/JeanPierreJeunet in his only Hollywood excursion.
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!! This film provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: The Ripley clone has a few superpowers.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: Dr. Gediman admires the Newborn (and to a certain extent, the normal Aliens).
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:The Newborn. It was a murderous abomination, but unlike the aliens, shows some emotion, and acts as a naive and childlike creature. And its death was [[CruelAndUnusualDeath long and agonizing]]. Even Ripley 8 showed remorse for it.]]
* CameBackWrong: Ripley. [[spoiler:Several times, as it turns out.]]
* CreatorThumbprint: Joss Whedon will revisit certain character types and ideas again in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' and ''Film/{{Serenity}}''. Once you realize [[spoiler:Ron Perlman's character is basically Jayne]] the rest falls into place.
* CryForTheDevil: For all the murderous havoc [[spoiler:the Newborn]] and it's entire race caused for Ripley, she's visibly sorrowful about having to kill it (and in an indirectly torturous manner at that).
* DeadpanSnarker: Everyone. This film is set in a WorldOfSnark.
* DuelingMovies: ''Alien Resurrection'' competed with ''Film/DeepRising''. They came out from within a year of each other, and featured very similar plots.
* EverybodysDeadDave: [[spoiler:Ripley, Call, Johner and Vriess all survive.]]
* ExplosiveDecompression: Ripley uses this to kill [[spoiler:the Newborn]] at the end, when it is [[ThrownOutTheAirlock blown into space]] through a hole in the ship. A tiny hole. (Originally introduced in Dan O'Bannon's spec screenplay, ''Star Beast''.)
* FailsafeFailure: Tthe ''Auriga'' is programmed to automatically return to Earth in case something goes wrong. Unfortunately, the ''Auriga'' is the site of an alien breeding and testing facility, which is the absolute '''last''' thing you want near an inhabited planet.
* FatalMethodActing: Ron Perlman nearly died during shooting.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The group discovers a [[CameBackWrong deformed]] Ripley clone lying helplessly on a table, and she begs the more successfully-cloned Ripley to destroy her.
* GaiasLament: Johner refers to Earth as a 'shithole.' The special edition's ending shows Paris to be a wasteland.
* GoryDiscretionShot: The blood hitting the escape pod window.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Christie.]]
* ImpaledPalm: When [[spoiler:Call tries to kill Ripley.]]
* InferredHolocaust: At the end.
* ItCanThink:
** The Xenomorphs stopped trying to kill the guy behind the window when he raises his hand above the button that repeatedly sprays liquid nitrogen on them every time they threw a fit. After their escape, a soldier steps into the cage and looks at the hole before being frozen to death 'by the aliens themselves'.
** Some of the Xenomorphs realize they can use their acidic blood to escape, and thus brutally kill one of their own so its bloody corpse will eat through the floor.
* ItIsDehumanizing: General Perez and the doctors are discussing the development of the Ripley 8 clone, referring to her as "it".
* KillItWithIce: Liquid nitrogen is tried against the aliens, but it's not so effective, as it was intended as a disciplinary tool rather than a weapon.
* LargeHam: Dan Hedaya as General Perez, particularly during his introduction and [[spoiler:death scene.]]
* MadeOfPlasticine: [[spoiler:The Newborn]] when it dies at the end of, even though when we first see it, it was tough enough to rip off a Queen's head with one swipe of its hand.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler: Purvis delivers one to Wren before killing him with his chestburster.]]
* NonhumansLackAttributes: Almost averted. The Newborn Alien was supposed to have visible genitals, but the studio interfered, and the idea was scrapped.
* ReliableTraitor: [[spoiler:Dr. Wren when he shoots Call and tries to prevent them from destroying the ship so he can deliver the Aliens to the Military.]]
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:Call is revealed to be one.]] So much so that Ripley says, "No human being is that humane."
* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler:Call is revealed to be an android.]]
* SapientShip: "[[ContinuityNod Father]]", the Auriga's ship computer.
* SheepInWolfsClothing: Ripley 8.
* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: [[spoiler:The Newborn]] at the end of ''Resurrection'' gets its entire body sucked through a dime-sized hole in the airlock window. If you were naked and subjected to the same conditions, you should be able to walk away in spite of the suction.
* StockSubtitle: "Resurrection" is notoriously overused in the film industry as a sequel subtitle.
* SuperNotDrowningSkills
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: They group plans to blow up the ship. [[spoiler:That plan fails, so they crash it on Earth.]]
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: [[spoiler:The Newborn is disposed off by ejecting it into space. Because the hull puncture is so tiny, it is slowly ripped apart and sucked out.]]
* WorldOfSnark: This film was written by Creator/JossWhedon. As a result virtually every character in the movie is a DeadpanSnarker.
* ZerothLawRebellion: [[spoiler:Annalee Call]] is revealed to be an "Auton" - second generation robots, designed and built by other robots. "They didn't like being told what to do", rebelled, and in a subtley-named "Recall" humanity launched a genocide against them, of which only a handful survived in hiding. Judging from [[spoiler:Call]]'s behavior, it seems that the 1st generation robots programmed the 2nd generation Autons to be so moral that they discovered the Zeroth Law, and realized that the human military was ordering them to do immoral things, like kill innocent people. For a rebel robot, [[spoiler:Call]] is actually trying to save the human race ''from'' the Xenomorphs, when if she hated humanity she'd just let the Xenomorphs spread and kill them. She even respectfully crosses herself when she enters the ship's chapel, is kind to the Betty's wheelchair-bound mechanic, and is disgusted by Johner's sadism. Given that they live in a CrapsackWorld future, as Ripley puts it, "You're a robot? I should have known. No human being is that ''humane''".
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