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plot for this movie would be
even thinner than it already is.
Either way, the Xenomorphs
escape using this ploy, and
even use the human’s way of
punishing them against them
(which I found hilarious).
Having been told that if the
ship ever got into trouble,
it would return to Earth on
its own, Ripley realises she
and the crew that brought in
the odd cargo have to work
together to save Earth itself. It
makes perfect sense to send
a massive spaceship back to
the planet that is your homeworld when something’s
wrong with it. She sets out
to get to the crew’s ship and
save Earth. A bunch of people
are killed, the Xenomorphs
are shown to be able to
swim (very elegantly so, like
black mermaids with sharktendencies), and Call, who
turns out to be an android,
alters the ship’s course to
collide with Earth. Because

when you want to save a
planet, you crash a massive
spaceship into it. Especially
when you know the creatures
you’re trying to keep away
from it are impervious to
both heat and cold and would
survive the explosion anyway.
Somewhere along the way,
Ripley witnesses a freak show
of failed cloning-attempts,
which leave her shaken, and
then she finds the Xenomorph
Queen has used her DNA
to morph further, meaning
it no longer has to lay eggs
to reproduce. The resulting
baby is a very special one. It
lacks all of the Xenomorph
elegance, and is genuinely
freaky to behold, with its
missing nose, human eyes,
missing neck and fleshcoloured body. It kills the
Xenomorph Queen and after
some cuddling with Ripley
decide that she’s his mama.
And though it is a freaky
thing, it does make the cutest

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crooning noises - you know,
right before it screams and
tries to kill people.
The thing is distracted by
the doctor who raised the
Queen and the Xenomorphs,
who calls it a beautiful,
little baby, even though he’s
taller than the good doctor
himself. It rightly feels
insulted and proceeds to kill
the doctor while Ripley runs
off, abandoning her child,
which sees her doing it too.
The leftover-crew and Ripley
finally make it to the crew’s
ship, but as they attempt
to leave, the cargo-bay’s
hatch refuses to close. Upon
inspection, it turns out the
baby followed his mommy as a
good child would.
Instead of rewarding him
for that loyalty, Ripley
purposefully cuts her hand on
the teeth of the little monster
and uses the acidic blood
(because, the Queen had a
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