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* JustThinkOfThePotential: The main interest the Company and government have in the Aliens. A Company report on how they obtained their Alien sample shows the facehugger has the ability to put a human into a kind of stasis to survive on a ship with basically no life support, and it's noted "That alone is worth a fortune if we can figure out how the hell it did it." It's heavily implied throughout the series that the simple idea of leashing the Aliens and pointing them at your enemies is absolutely the ''least'' profitable thing that could be done with them.
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* ImpluasibleDeniability: The CMA (Cover-My-Ass) Code, though the way it's described is a little strange. It's stated to be a part of a normal log entry early in the mission, but stilted in such a way that it doesn't quite fit. Then, if something unexpected comes up later that you really should have been aware of, you can refer back to that odd part of a log entry and claim you ''were'' on top of it, but entering it in your log in code to protect it from prying eyes. The example given states outright that the hypothetical officer is aware of the unexpected going-on and stated so bluntly in his log. It's noted to be a trick that wouldn't fool anyone who's been in the Marines for more than five minutes, but one bad officers still use.
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* ImpluasibleDeniability: ImplausibleDeniability: The CMA (Cover-My-Ass) Code, though the way it's described is a little strange. It's stated to be a part of a normal log entry early in the mission, but stilted in such a way that it doesn't quite fit. Then, if something unexpected comes up later that you really should have been aware of, you can refer back to that odd part of a log entry and claim you ''were'' on top of it, but entering it in your log in code to protect it from prying eyes. The example given states outright that the hypothetical officer is aware of the unexpected going-on and stated so bluntly in his log. It's noted to be a trick that wouldn't fool anyone who's been in the Marines for more than five minutes, but one bad officers still use.
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A trilogy of novels adapting the Creator/DarkHorseComics [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Aliens]] comics ''Book One'', ''Book Two'', and ''Earthwar''. The novels greatly expand on the events from those comics, as well as performing a minor {{Retcon}}. The original comics had followed Hicks, Newt, and eventually Ripley in a new Alien-related adventure, but had the misfortune to be published between ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and ''Film/Alien3''. The novels change the comics characters to SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitutes Wilks (Hicks), Billie (Newt), and a highly-sophisticated android who only ''thinks'' she's Ellen Ripley. The novels involve both the Company and government attempting to secure Alien specimens for their own uses, these efforts [[GoneHorriblyRight going horribly right]], a mission to the Aliens' home planet (not really), an Alien-occupied Earth, a visit to a military outpost with an insane general breeding the Aliens as his personal footsoldiers, and finally a visit to the Aliens' ''real'' homeworld in a last-ditch effort to save Earth. And lots of dead humans, Aliens, and androids along the way.
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A trilogy of novels adapting the Creator/DarkHorseComics [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Aliens]] comics ''Book One'', One'' (or ''Outbreak''), ''Book Two'', Two'' (or ''Nightmare Asylum''), and ''Earthwar''.''Earthwar'' (or ''The Female War''). The novels greatly expand on the events from those comics, as well as performing a minor {{Retcon}}. The original comics had followed Hicks, Newt, and eventually Ripley in a new Alien-related adventure, but had the misfortune to be published between ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and ''Film/Alien3''. The novels change the comics characters to SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitutes Wilks (Hicks), Billie (Newt), and a highly-sophisticated android who only ''thinks'' she's Ellen Ripley. The novels involve both the Company and government attempting to secure Alien specimens for their own uses, these efforts [[GoneHorriblyRight going horribly right]], a mission to the Aliens' home planet (not really), an Alien-occupied Earth, a visit to a military outpost with an insane general breeding the Aliens as his personal footsoldiers, and finally a visit to the Aliens' ''real'' homeworld in a last-ditch effort to save Earth. And lots of dead humans, Aliens, and androids along the way.
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* DeathSeeker: Wilks, after a fashion. Near the end of ''Nightmare Asylum'', he recalls a psychiatrist telling him about Doc Holliday, and how he survived against deadlier gunslingers despite subpar skills because, with his tuberculosis diagnosis, he honestly didn't care if he lived or died in any given moment. Wilks embraces "Doc Holliday Syndrome," believing he's been living on borrowed time ever since Rim. Nothing the Aliens can do to him frightens him, since it '''should''' have happened to him a decade ago, just like the rest of his platoon.
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* ActionGirl: Billie. Wilks gave her some rudimentary weapons training while rescuing her from her ill-fated colony, and she get more practical experience through the course of the books. Best shown near the end of ''Nightmare Asylum'', when she grabs a pulse rifle and starts loading up, the other Marines in the room consider stopping her before figuring A) she's with Wilks and he's not objecting and B) it looks like she knows what she's doing.
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* ActionGirl: Billie. Wilks gave her some rudimentary weapons training while rescuing her from her ill-fated colony, the colony on Rim, and she get gets more practical experience through the course of the books. Best shown near the end of ''Nightmare Asylum'', when she grabs a pulse rifle and starts loading up, the up. The other Marines in the room consider stopping her before figuring A) she's with Wilks and he's not objecting and B) it looks like she knows what she's doing.
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* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Said word-for-word, and the source of much of the novels' subplots. Billie and Bueller angst a fair amount about it, as Bueller is advanced enough to actually carry on a romantic and sexual relationship with a human, but inherent differences (and the fact he didn't tell her he was an android initially) contribute to their drama. Later, Ripley has some severe misgivings about herself being an android, since she actually has some good reasons to mistrust them on principle. While [[Film/{{Aliens}} Bishop]] did a good job undoing some of her prejudices, the shadow of [[Film/{{Alien}} Ash]] still lingers.
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* AdaptationNameChange: While Wilks and Billie are givens ([[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute they're need characters who just happen to strongly resemble Hicks and Newt), Mitch's last name changing from Butler to Bueller is unexplained.
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* AdaptationNameChange: While Wilks and Billie are givens ([[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute they're need characters who just happen to strongly resemble Hicks and Newt), Newt]]), Mitch's last name changing from Butler to Bueller is unexplained.
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* AdaptationNameChange: While Wilks and Billie are givens ([[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute they're need characters who just happen to strongly resemble Hicks and Newt), Mitch's last name changing from Butler to Bueller is unexplained.
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* InformedAttractiveness: [[InvertedTrope More like "Informed Unattractiveness.]] Billie's description is not particularly flattering, and she notes she's "not ugly, but not worth crossing the room to get a better look." This doesn't prevent her from attracting a few admirers and pulling off a successful DistractedByTheSexy ploy.
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* InformedAttractiveness: [[InvertedTrope More like "Informed Unattractiveness.]] "]] Billie's description is not particularly flattering, and she notes she's "not ugly, but not worth crossing the room to get a better look." This doesn't prevent her from attracting a few admirers and pulling off a successful DistractedByTheSexy ploy.
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* InformedAttractiveness: Inverted. Billie's description is not particularly flattering, and she notes she's "not ugly, but not worth crossing the room to get a better look." This doesn't prevent her from attracting a few admirers and pulling off a successful DistractedByTheSexy ploy.
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* InformedAttractiveness: Inverted. [[InvertedTrope More like "Informed Unattractiveness.]] Billie's description is not particularly flattering, and she notes she's "not ugly, but not worth crossing the room to get a better look." This doesn't prevent her from attracting a few admirers and pulling off a successful DistractedByTheSexy ploy.
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* VillainDecay: The novels outright state the average Alien drone is only about as smart as a dog, a far cry from the implacable mudere machine aboard the ''Nostromo''. The Queens have near-human level intelligence, however.
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* VillainDecay: The novels outright state the average Alien drone is only about as smart as a dog, a far cry from the implacable mudere murder machine aboard the ''Nostromo''. The Queens have near-human level intelligence, however.
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Mitch gets torn in two by an Alien. Being an android, he survives, and spends the end of the first book and the start of the second with no lower half, until Spears' people make him some mechanical replacement legs.
** Non-Queen Aliens are "drones."
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* ThreeLawsCompliant: Wilks cites that synthetics are programmed with "Asimov's Modified Laws." Exactly what the modifications are is unknown, the only one discussed replaces "harm" in the First Law with "kill," since a otherwise a synthetic surgeon would be unable harm a human with surgery, even to save them from greater harm or death. It's also noted that, while the synthetic Marines can put bullets into a target on the range anywhere they want, [[JustAFleshWound actually trying to shoot a human nonfatally]] [[AvertedTrope is far to risky.]]
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* ThreeLawsCompliant: Wilks cites that synthetics are programmed with "Asimov's Modified Laws." Exactly what the modifications are is unknown, the only one discussed replaces "harm" in the First Law with "kill," since a otherwise a synthetic surgeon would be unable harm a human with surgery, even to save them from greater harm or death. It's also noted that, while the synthetic Marines can put bullets into a target on the range anywhere they want, [[JustAFleshWound actually trying to shoot a human nonfatally]] [[AvertedTrope is far to risky.]]]]
* VillainDecay: The novels outright state the average Alien drone is only about as smart as a dog, a far cry from the implacable mudere machine aboard the ''Nostromo''. The Queens have near-human level intelligence, however.
* VillainDecay: The novels outright state the average Alien drone is only about as smart as a dog, a far cry from the implacable mudere machine aboard the ''Nostromo''. The Queens have near-human level intelligence, however.
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* InformedAttractiveness: Inverted. Billie's description is not particularly flattering, and she notes she's "not ugly, but not worth crossing the room to get a better look." This doesn't prevent her from attracting a few admirers and pulling off a successful DistractedByTheSexy ploy.
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* ThreeLawsCompliant: Wilks cites that synthetics are programmed with "Asimov's Modified Laws." Exactly what the modifications are is unknown, the only one discussed replaces "harm" in the First Law with "kill," since a otherwise a synthetic surgeon would be unable harm a human with surgery, even to save them from greater harm or death. It's also noted that, while the synthetic Marines can put bullets into a target on the range anywhere they want, actually trying to shoot a human nonfatally is too dicey a proposition.
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* ThreeLawsCompliant: Wilks cites that synthetics are programmed with "Asimov's Modified Laws." Exactly what the modifications are is unknown, the only one discussed replaces "harm" in the First Law with "kill," since a otherwise a synthetic surgeon would be unable harm a human with surgery, even to save them from greater harm or death. It's also noted that, while the synthetic Marines can put bullets into a target on the range anywhere they want, [[JustAFleshWound actually trying to shoot a human nonfatally nonfatally]] [[AvertedTrope is too dicey a proposition.far to risky.]]
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Two Company executives create the bulk of the plot in the first book, attempting to secure (and then later, hold) an Alien specimen. They are never named in the book, instead identified by their suits. . . one red, one green.
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* ThreeLawsCompliant: Wilks cites that synthetics are programmed with "Asimov's Modified Laws." Exactly what the modifications are is unknown, the only one discussed replaces "harm" in the First Law with "kill," since a otherwise a synthetic surgeon would be unable harm a human with surgery, even to save them from greater harm or death. It's also noted that, while the synthetic Marines can put bullets into a target on the range anywhere they want, actually trying to shoot a human nonfatally is too dicey a proposition.
* ThreeLawsCompliant: Wilks cites that synthetics are programmed with "Asimov's Modified Laws." Exactly what the modifications are is unknown, the only one discussed replaces "harm" in the First Law with "kill," since a otherwise a synthetic surgeon would be unable harm a human with surgery, even to save them from greater harm or death. It's also noted that, while the synthetic Marines can put bullets into a target on the range anywhere they want, actually trying to shoot a human nonfatally is too dicey a proposition.
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* MechaMooks: Come in two varieties in the first book. The Colonial Marines deploy a platoon of synthetic troops to the Alien homeworld, and they're fully ThreeLawsCompliant. Company PsychoForHire Massey is given his own combat synthetics to stop that mission, and they are '''not''' Compliant (as well as being designed to wear out in short order).
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* RoboticReveal: The Marines in the first book are all synthetics. This is foreshadowed, but not fully revealed until an Alien rips Billie's LoveInterest Mitch in half, and white circulating fluid instead of red blood sprays through the air.
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* {{Robosexual}}: Billie enters a romantic and sexual relationship with synthetic Marine Mitch Bueller. She didn't know he was a synthetic at the start, and her figuring this out places a great deal of strain on their relationship.
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* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: Wilks thinks so. For the mission to (what is believed to be) the Aliens' homeworld, he requisitions plasma rifles and chargers. His CO overrules him, citing that Wilks' own testimony states standard pulse rifles chop up Aliens just fine, and the whole point of the mission is to retrieve viable samples, not "splatter them across the landscape with weaponry designed to stop tanks."
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* ActionGirl: Billie. Wilks gave her some rudimentary weapons training while rescuing her from chef ill-fated colony, and she get more practical experience through the course of the books. Best shown near the end of ''Nightmare Asylum'', when she grabs a pulse rifle and starts loading up, the other Marines in the room consider stopping her before figuring A) she's with Wilks and he's not objecting and B) it looks like she knows what she's doing.
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* ActionGirl: Billie. Wilks gave her some rudimentary weapons training while rescuing her from chef her ill-fated colony, and she get more practical experience through the course of the books. Best shown near the end of ''Nightmare Asylum'', when she grabs a pulse rifle and starts loading up, the other Marines in the room consider stopping her before figuring A) she's with Wilks and he's not objecting and B) it looks like she knows what she's doing.
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* ActionGirl: Billie. Wilks gave her some rudimentary weapons training while rescuing her from chef ill-fated colony, and she get more practical experience through the course of the books. Best shown near the end of ''Nightmare Asylum'', when she grabs a pulse rifle and starts loading up, the other Marines in the room consider stopping her before figuring A) she's with Wilks and he's not objecting and B) it looks like she knows what she's doing.
-->With four hundred rounds, she could theoretically kill a whole lot of things.
-->With four hundred rounds, she could theoretically kill a whole lot of things.
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* MayDecemberRomance: By the end of the third books, Wilks and Billie are on the verge of a full RelationshipUpgrade. Whether this is sweet or [[{{Squick}} squicky]] depends on how you feel about both the age difference and the ParentalSubstitute vibes.
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* ShaggyDogStory: Basically the entire second book. Wilks, Billie, and Mitch left Alien-infested Earth by stowing away on a ship in a military armada, only to wake up with the rest of the fleet nowhere in sight. They arrive at General Spears' base, after killing the Aliens the ship had been delivering to him. They find out about his Alien project (he's not keeping it secret on the base) and the insane lengths he's going to in order to forward his plan to have his Aliens fight off the Aliens on Earth. They help lead a mutiny against Spears, Spears takes off with his Alien soldiers leaving all the rest of his troops to die, Billie and Wilks escape on one of Spears' transports but have to leave Mitch behind. They make it back to Earth, escape Spears and arrive on Gateway station. Spears attempted first battle against the Aliens goes terribly for him, with "his" Aliens ignoring his orders to free their Queen, who promptly kills Spears and leads her Aliens into the wilderness of Earth to found another new hive.
* SlaveToPR: Spears doesn't just want to save Earth, he wants to look good doing it. He carefully selects the site of the first battle, a historical example of superior weaponry and superior training overcoming superior numbers, and goes to lead his Alien army in full dress uniform, including a sword. He's promptly killed as his "loyal" Aliens turn on him.
* SlaveToPR: Spears doesn't just want to save Earth, he wants to look good doing it. He carefully selects the site of the first battle, a historical example of superior weaponry and superior training overcoming superior numbers, and goes to lead his Alien army in full dress uniform, including a sword. He's promptly killed as his "loyal" Aliens turn on him.
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The novels, in order, are
* ''Aliens: Earth Hive''
* ''Aliens: Nightmare Asylum''
* ''Aliens: Female War''
* ''Aliens: Earth Hive''
* ''Aliens: Nightmare Asylum''
* ''Aliens: Female War''
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* InsistentTerminology: Steve Perry has choice words for several things in his books, some of which don't make a whole lot of sense.
** Incubating an Alien chestburster is being "infected."
** Pulse rifles (slightly newer model than in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', but same basic gun) are "carbines," and never referred to as anything else.
** A dropship is an "APC." This one is especially confusing, as ''Aliens'' made it clear the dropship and APC are two completely separate vehicles.
** Incubating an Alien chestburster is being "infected."
** Pulse rifles (slightly newer model than in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', but same basic gun) are "carbines," and never referred to as anything else.
** A dropship is an "APC." This one is especially confusing, as ''Aliens'' made it clear the dropship and APC are two completely separate vehicles.
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* TheSociopath: Two figure prominently in the first two books.
** ''Earth Hive'' has Massey, a Company hire who is sent to stop the Marines from obtaining an Alien specimen, since the Company already has one and doesn't want the competition. When he gets his orders, they accidentally come to his home, where his son reads them, and his wife is a bit confused about what her husband actually does for a living. Massey calmly breaks both their necks, commenting only that he got used to life with them, he'll get used to life without them.
** ''Nightmare Asylum'' has General Thomas Spears. As he gets his own Alien breeding program up and running, the standard punishment for all infractions of regulations becomes being host to a new Alien, and his soldiers become convinced he's making up the regs as he goes along. Once the atmosphere processor that supplies his base is functional, the civilian colonists who maintain it are redundant. Goodbye, colonists, hello, new Alien hive. Finally, when leaving his base and all his soldiers behind, taking with him only the cream of his Alien crop and the Queen, he gets a panicked transmission that the Aliens have gone berserk. Spears finds it interesting the Aliens can apparently sense the Queen is missing. . . but his much more interested in his celebratory cigar.
** ''Earth Hive'' has Massey, a Company hire who is sent to stop the Marines from obtaining an Alien specimen, since the Company already has one and doesn't want the competition. When he gets his orders, they accidentally come to his home, where his son reads them, and his wife is a bit confused about what her husband actually does for a living. Massey calmly breaks both their necks, commenting only that he got used to life with them, he'll get used to life without them.
** ''Nightmare Asylum'' has General Thomas Spears. As he gets his own Alien breeding program up and running, the standard punishment for all infractions of regulations becomes being host to a new Alien, and his soldiers become convinced he's making up the regs as he goes along. Once the atmosphere processor that supplies his base is functional, the civilian colonists who maintain it are redundant. Goodbye, colonists, hello, new Alien hive. Finally, when leaving his base and all his soldiers behind, taking with him only the cream of his Alien crop and the Queen, he gets a panicked transmission that the Aliens have gone berserk. Spears finds it interesting the Aliens can apparently sense the Queen is missing. . . but his much more interested in his celebratory cigar.
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* PsychicPowers: The novels postulate that the Aliens communicate telepathically, and that some humans are sufficiently sensitive to pick up on their "transmissions." Billie is, hence her extreme derangement when it comes to the Aliens. The Aliens can even deliberately communicate with humans, turning them into tools to advance the Aliens' own agenda (which is simply to expand as much as possible and kill anything that gets in their way).
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* TheQuisling: The Aliens psychic influence turns some humans into tools to advance their agenda. In the first book, they form a cult who storm the Company compound where the Alien Queen is being held, get themselves infected ''on purpose'', then have comrades drag them off to hatch their chestbursters elsewhere, spreading the Aliens around the globe. Once Earth has well and truly fallen under the Aliens' sway, "Bug Feeders" start roaming the wasteland, locating and capturing survivors to bring them to the hives.
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* ApocalypseHow: Earth suffers Planetary Societal Collapse as the Aliens spread. Military officers above a certain rank are allowed to legally shoot to kill anyone suspected of being infected, and the rank required drops steadily as the crisis wears on. Anyone who can flee the planet does so despite the attempts at quarantine, and eventually Earth is left in a state not unlike ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', except with Xenomorphs instead of zombies. All this is leading to Planetary Total Extinction, leaving the Aliens the only thing left alive on Earth. Stopping it before it gets that far is the plot of the third book.
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* HistoryRepeats: In the climax of the third book, Billie, having seen transmissions from Earth of a young girl named Amy, seeks her out to rescue her, and must charge into an Alien hive and save her just before she's due to be facehugged. [[Film/{{Aliens}} Where have we seen that before?]]
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* FantasticDrug: [[ThoseTwoGuys The two Company execs]] at one point order, from a dispensary in their office, two variations of these. One gets a small bowl of Devil Dust (which is taken by pressing your eye against the mound of red powder), the other gets an "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin orgy inhaler]]," and the two proceed to discuss business while under the effects of these narcotics. [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy Which explains a lot about why the Company behaves the way it does in the Aliens EU, actually.]]
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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Even the most transparent of half-baked plans will get you past a Colonial Marine guard in these books. Wilks lampshades this by ruminating about them being DumbMuscle, and Billie can't believe they fell for the old "WeNeedADistraction, [[DistractedByTheSexy pretty girl, get naked]]" routine.
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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Even the most transparent of half-baked plans will get you past a Colonial Marine guard in these books. Wilks lampshades this by ruminating about them being DumbMuscle, and Billie can't believe they fell for the old "WeNeedADistraction, [[DistractedByTheSexy pretty girl, get naked]]" routine.routine.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Two Company executives create the bulk of the plot in the first book, attempting to secure (and then later, hold) an Alien specimen. They are never named in the book, instead identified by their suits. . . one red, one green.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Two Company executives create the bulk of the plot in the first book, attempting to secure (and then later, hold) an Alien specimen. They are never named in the book, instead identified by their suits. . . one red, one green.
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* DumbMuscle: Wilks reflects that most Colonial Marines are this; if you're smart enough to find your way to the recruitment center and spell your name, they'll probably take you. This is direct contrast to the ''Colonial Marines Technical Manual'', which states that the technical education most Marines require to do their jobs is higher than most civilian graduate degrees.
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A trilogy of novels adapting the Creator/DarkHorseComics [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Aliens]] comics ''Book One'', ''Book Two'', and ''Earthwar''. The novels greatly expand on the events from those comics, as well as performing a minor {{Retcon}}. The original comics had followed Hicks, Newt, and eventually Ripley in a new Alien-related adventure, but had the misfortune to be published between ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and ''Film/Alien3''. The novels change the comics characters to SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitutes Wilks (Hicks), Billie (Newt), and a highly-sophisticated android who only ''thinks'' she's Ellen Ripley. The novels involve both the Company and government attempting to secure Alien specimens for their own uses, these efforts [[GoneHorriblyRight going horribly right]], a mission to the Aliens' home planet (not really), an Alien-occupied Earth, a visit to a military outpost with an insane general breeding the Aliens as his personal footsoldiers, and finally a visit to the Aliens' ''real'' homeworld in a last-ditch effort to save Earth. And lots of dead humans, Aliens, and androids along the way.
!!Tropes featured in the novels:
* AlwaysABiggerFish: After the Company's attempt to hold an alien specimen on Earth goes spectacularly pear-shaped, the government is not pleased with them. Turns out, no matter how rich and powerful Weyland-Yutani is, there's still an actual authority that can stomp on them when (actually, after) it becomes necessary. Dr. Orona, heading the government's own interest in the Aliens, spells out that, before the Aliens effectively end humanity, the public will be out for blood.
-->'''Orona''': ''(to the two Company execs)'' They'll want someone's head. I'll give them yours. Then the government will give them mine.
* BigDamnHeroes: Near the end of the first book, the main characters' dropship is being swarmed by Aliens' banging to get in, when suddenly everything goes silent. Checking it out, they find the Aliens dead and melted outside, and a Space Jockey (before ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' revealed the Engineers' true nature) nearby, having killed them all and giving Billie a psychic communication. Subverted when she realizes the Space Jockey didn't save them because it liked humans, but because it can't stand the Aliens. Extra-subverted when the Space Jockey follows them to Earth, learns that it's infested with Aliens, and sends Billie another psychic message, basically gloating that once the Aliens have killed all the humans, his kind can walk in and take the planet for themselves.
* DesignerBabies: General Thomas A.W. Spears. The "A.W." stands for "artificial womb," and he was part of a government project to engineer better soldiers. They certainly succeeded on that count, Spears is a very formidable foe. Mostly because he's utterly paranoid and a total sociopath.
* DistractedByTheSexy: To get through some Marine guards, [[WeNeedADistraction Billie strips naked and beckons them behind some crates]], where they are promptly MuggedForDisguise. Billie [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy can't believe they fell for it.]]
-->How could men be so stupid? she wondered. Did they really believe that a woman who'd never even ''met'' them would be so overcome with lust at the sight of them she'd strip to the skin and beckon to them, all wet and ready?\\
Apparently so.
* DumbMuscle: Wilks reflects that most Colonial Marines are this; if you're smart enough to find your way to the recruitment center and spell your name, they'll probably take you. This is direct contrast to the ''Colonial Marines Technical Manual'', which states that the technical education most Marines require to do their jobs is higher than most civilian graduate degrees.
* HotterAndSexier: Mostly from Billie, but there are several parts in all three novels where things get a bit racy. Less so in the third, perhaps because Steve Perry was writing it with his daughter.
** The first novel includes Alien-worshipper Salvaje visting a pregnant prostitute, and becoming aroused at the thought of carrying a life (specifically, a ChestBurster) within him. There's also Mitch and Billie hooking up, though that's mostly in a fade-to-black.
** The second includes Spears getting aroused as he pets an Alien egg, and flashing back to his first time. Also Billie having a dream where Wilks basically tries to rape her before a fully-grown Alien rips out of him, cluing her in to Aliens aboard the ship. Finally, Billie strips naked to [[WeNeedADistraction distract some Marines so the group can escape Spears' base.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Out of necessity, the novels turned the main characters into these:
** Wilks is Hicks, being the SoleSurvivor of a Marine platoon who investigated a colony that went dark because it got overrun by Aliens. He's even got acid scars similar to the wounds Hicks ends ''Aliens'' with. He also takes some elements of Ripley, since she was not present for Wilks' encounter with the Aliens, so Wilks is the one who rescued. . .
** Billie is Newt, the SoleSurvivor of a colony overrun by Aliens, a little girl who survived by hiding from them and was eventually rescued by Colonial Marines, who were slaughtered in the process.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Even the most transparent of half-baked plans will get you past a Colonial Marine guard in these books. Wilks lampshades this by ruminating about them being DumbMuscle, and Billie can't believe they fell for the old "WeNeedADistraction, [[DistractedByTheSexy pretty girl, get naked]]" routine.
!!Tropes featured in the novels:
* AlwaysABiggerFish: After the Company's attempt to hold an alien specimen on Earth goes spectacularly pear-shaped, the government is not pleased with them. Turns out, no matter how rich and powerful Weyland-Yutani is, there's still an actual authority that can stomp on them when (actually, after) it becomes necessary. Dr. Orona, heading the government's own interest in the Aliens, spells out that, before the Aliens effectively end humanity, the public will be out for blood.
-->'''Orona''': ''(to the two Company execs)'' They'll want someone's head. I'll give them yours. Then the government will give them mine.
* BigDamnHeroes: Near the end of the first book, the main characters' dropship is being swarmed by Aliens' banging to get in, when suddenly everything goes silent. Checking it out, they find the Aliens dead and melted outside, and a Space Jockey (before ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' revealed the Engineers' true nature) nearby, having killed them all and giving Billie a psychic communication. Subverted when she realizes the Space Jockey didn't save them because it liked humans, but because it can't stand the Aliens. Extra-subverted when the Space Jockey follows them to Earth, learns that it's infested with Aliens, and sends Billie another psychic message, basically gloating that once the Aliens have killed all the humans, his kind can walk in and take the planet for themselves.
* DesignerBabies: General Thomas A.W. Spears. The "A.W." stands for "artificial womb," and he was part of a government project to engineer better soldiers. They certainly succeeded on that count, Spears is a very formidable foe. Mostly because he's utterly paranoid and a total sociopath.
* DistractedByTheSexy: To get through some Marine guards, [[WeNeedADistraction Billie strips naked and beckons them behind some crates]], where they are promptly MuggedForDisguise. Billie [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy can't believe they fell for it.]]
-->How could men be so stupid? she wondered. Did they really believe that a woman who'd never even ''met'' them would be so overcome with lust at the sight of them she'd strip to the skin and beckon to them, all wet and ready?\\
Apparently so.
* DumbMuscle: Wilks reflects that most Colonial Marines are this; if you're smart enough to find your way to the recruitment center and spell your name, they'll probably take you. This is direct contrast to the ''Colonial Marines Technical Manual'', which states that the technical education most Marines require to do their jobs is higher than most civilian graduate degrees.
* HotterAndSexier: Mostly from Billie, but there are several parts in all three novels where things get a bit racy. Less so in the third, perhaps because Steve Perry was writing it with his daughter.
** The first novel includes Alien-worshipper Salvaje visting a pregnant prostitute, and becoming aroused at the thought of carrying a life (specifically, a ChestBurster) within him. There's also Mitch and Billie hooking up, though that's mostly in a fade-to-black.
** The second includes Spears getting aroused as he pets an Alien egg, and flashing back to his first time. Also Billie having a dream where Wilks basically tries to rape her before a fully-grown Alien rips out of him, cluing her in to Aliens aboard the ship. Finally, Billie strips naked to [[WeNeedADistraction distract some Marines so the group can escape Spears' base.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Out of necessity, the novels turned the main characters into these:
** Wilks is Hicks, being the SoleSurvivor of a Marine platoon who investigated a colony that went dark because it got overrun by Aliens. He's even got acid scars similar to the wounds Hicks ends ''Aliens'' with. He also takes some elements of Ripley, since she was not present for Wilks' encounter with the Aliens, so Wilks is the one who rescued. . .
** Billie is Newt, the SoleSurvivor of a colony overrun by Aliens, a little girl who survived by hiding from them and was eventually rescued by Colonial Marines, who were slaughtered in the process.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Even the most transparent of half-baked plans will get you past a Colonial Marine guard in these books. Wilks lampshades this by ruminating about them being DumbMuscle, and Billie can't believe they fell for the old "WeNeedADistraction, [[DistractedByTheSexy pretty girl, get naked]]" routine.
