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Thus the Xenomorph is hunted
down, with prisoners running
around as bait, until they
can pour molten lead over
it. The Xenomorph, being
the awesome being that it
is, survives that, but Ripley
turns on the sprinklers and it
explodes from thermal shock.
Boo! At that moment, the
Company arrives and tries to
persuade Ripley to stay alive
and give them the Queen
embryo inside of her. Oddly
enough, Ripley doesn’t think
that’s a great idea, and she
jumps into the molten lead
instead. The Chestburster
emerges then, wanting to save
itself, but cruel Ripley holds
onto it, killing it along with
herself.
Two hundred years later
(five of our human years),
we enter movie four, which
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is adequately called ‘Alien:
Resurrection’. This, because
they cloned Ripley. And not only
did they clone her, they cloned
her pregnant and all. And with
‘they’, I mean Weyland. They
extract the Queen-embryo
from her and use the Queen,
once grown, to breed more
Xenomorphs, after implying that
Ripley effectively killed off all
the Xenomorphs in the previous
movies (Lies! But that’s only
shown in the comics...). For
whatever reason, they keep the
Ripley-clone as well.
A bunch of people arrive at
the military station with new
hosts for more aliens, though
they aren’t too happy with what
cargo they’re transferring. One
of them is a girl called Call (I’m
not too impressed with whoever
came up with the names of
the side-characters in these
movies), who recognizes Ripley
and tries to kill her, only then
finding out that the Alien Queen
has long since been removed
from Ripley’s womb.
In the mean time, we learn that
Xenomorphs are smart critters
that learn - wh