History Film / AlienResurrection

* NeverMyFault: A meta example. Joss Wheddon's public comments about the movie take this tone, saying the director and executives ruined his script. Thing is, if you read his screenplay, they ''did'' stick to it. Even if the direction wasn't what he had in mind, the scenes and dialogue play out as he wrote them.

* PregnantReptile: It's unclear exactly what taxonomy the [[StarfishAliens Xenomorphs]] would belong to, but they're *clearly* not mammals since they reproduce through eggs and do not rear their young. However, because of retaining some of Ripley's DNA after gestating inside her, the new Queen ends up birthing a life newborn.

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''{{Series/Firefly}}'', as pointed out by Michael Marano in the essay ''River Tam and the Weaponized Women of the Whedonverse''. That work and ''Resurrection'' share many character archetypes and plot elements (notably the "Weaponized Woman", in the form of Clone!Ripley and River Tam.) It's evident that Joss Whedon had his work on this film in the back of his mind while he was working on ''Firefly''.

* WhoAreYou along with WhatTheHellAreYou: Ripley gets asked this a lot. The answer?

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen:
-->'''Ripley 8:''' Everyone in the fucking Company will die.\\
'''Gediman:''' Company?\\
'''Wren:''' Weyland Yutani. Ripley's former employers. Bought out by [[EpicFail Walmart.]]
** There's just something ironic about General Perez being an American-Mexican - one who uses the phrase 'Mi casa es su casa' no less. Generals aren't promoted arbitrarily - the best person for the job in the American army was, yes, Perez.

* AllThereInTheManual:
** The novelization explains that the reason why it took so long for Purvis' chestburster to emerge was because he suffered from thyroid deficiency, which slowed down the chestburster's development.
** Kawlang is mentioned as a NoodleIncident in the film. The novel actually gives a flashback to what happened: The ''Betty'''s crew had all been mercenaries during a conflict there and it was where Johner got his scar and how Vriess ended up in a wheelchair.

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Purvis has an absolutely crazy death. Fresh from getting shot in the chest by Wren, he charges across the room, taking a ton of bullets. He grabs Wren, beats the overloving crud out of him and then positions himself behind Wren so his chestburster emerges straight through thhe villain's head.

** There's just something ironic about General Perez being an American-Mexican - one who uses the phrase 'Mi casa es su casa' no less. Generals aren't promoted arbitarily - the best person for the job in the American army was, yes, Perez.

* PregnantReptile: It's unclear exactly what taxonomy the Xenomorphs would belong to, but they're *clearly* not mammals since they reproduce through eggs and do not rear their young. However, because of retaining some of Ripley's DNA after gestating inside her, the new Queen ends up birthing a life newborn.

* PregnantReptile: It's unclear exactly what taxonomy the Xenomorphs would belong to, but they're *clearly* not mammals. However, because of retaining some of Ripley's DNA after gestating inside her, the new Queen ends up birthing a life newborn.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Dr. Gediman bizarrely declares that the human reproductive system conferred on the Alien Queen thanks to the experiments has -- somehow -- made the creature ''better,'' when in fact, it appears to drastically reduce the effectiveness of the Xenomorphs; Instead of producing batches of eggs and developing larger numbers of drones, she instead produces one child at a time in a prolonged and clearly painful parallel to human pregnancy; The only discernible advantage is that it now skips the infestation stage that requires other lifeforms. Then again, this may be justified since Gediman is pretty obviously insane.

-->'''Johner:''' I can get you off. Maybe not the ship...

* AllThereInTheManual: The novelization explains that the reason why it took so long for Purvis' chestburster to emerge was because he suffered from thyroid deficiency, which slowed down the chestburster's development.

* BodyHorror: Ripley 1-7, the prototype Ripleys, are horrific abominations as hybrids, most of which died in their tubes. 7 is alive, but in a constant agony, and begs * to kill her.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: ''Holy shit'', the [[spoiler: human alien hybrid]]. Ripley 8 throws some of her acid blood onto a window, disolving a hole and causing ExplosiveDecompression which sucks the creature towards it. Unfortunately, it is much to big to fit through and [[FoldSpindleMutliation gets sucked through piece by piece]]: first it's guts get sucked out, then its torso and limbs sort of implode and get pulled through, then finally its skull shatters and is sucked out, with the creature screaming in agony the whole time.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: ''Holy shit'', the [[spoiler: human alien hybrid]]. Ripley 8 throws some of her acid blood onto a window, disolving a hole and causing ExplosiveDecompression which sucks the creature towards it. Unfortunately, it is much to big to fit through and [[SpindleFoldMutilation gets sucked through piece by piece]]: first it's guts get sucked out, then its torso and limbs sort of implode and get pulled through, then finally its skull shatters and is sucked out, with the creature screaming in agony the whole time.

* HypocrisyNod: [[spoiler:Call, a robot]] not wanting Ripley to help the team, because she's not human.

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The guard with his metal detector glove is clearly intimidated by the SpacePirates and does a half-assed job of searching them, enabling them to smuggle in some rather bulky weaponry.

* ImpaledPalm: When Call offers to kill Ripley 8 to spare her pain, Ripley calmly pushes her hand onto Call's knife. She later uses the acidic blood to CutThePower and escape her cell.