Aliens
Movie • 1986 • Action
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Abandonment
Is an animal abandoned?
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Ripley leaves her cat back on the space station, but she doesn’t really abandon it
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Ripley returns to earth to find that she had outlived her daughter; it was unintentional, as she was lost in space in cryo. A child is found alone in the destroyed colony, but her parents were killed by the xenomorphs.
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Abuse
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Not by the adults, though some of the adults do occasionally snap at the child, but a huge part of the movie is that a child has been in a terrible situation for a while and is still in grave danger. Child also has pretty intense PTSD, though no physical harm.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Birks 100% tries to gaslight Ripley.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone stalked?
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The xenomorphs stalk all the characters through the movie
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Just smoking. Comments based on the special edition.
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Several people smoke at various points
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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Jones the orange tabby cat stays home for this mission. A couple of hisses during an early dream sequence, but he’s not hurt or in danger.
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Does a cat die?
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There is a cat at the beginning of the film, but it is left safely on Earth.
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Are there spiders?
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Some of the aliens look similar to large, particularly evil spiders.
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Are there bugs?
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The Xenomorphs are like giant bugs, with a hive and a Queen.
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Are there snakes?
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The tails of the xenomorphs could seem a bit like snakes
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Does a dragon die?
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No but plenty of aliens do. Comments based on the special edition.
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There's a scene in the Special Edition (possibly other extended cuts) where the Marines find a lab with live hamsters in cages. These are never rescued and thus die (offscreen) when the colony is destroyed.
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Does a pet die?
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There are a couple of pet hamsters seen alive in the remains of the space colony. We don't see them die, but it's very unlikely that they survived the explosion at the end of the movie.
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Assault
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Is someone held under water?
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It's not shown but it's presumed that the young girl (Newt) is taken and held underwater towards the end of the movie.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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By aliens
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The aliens’ reproductive cycle can be considered rape (a parasite attaches to a victim’s face and implants eggs in their throat). In the special edition, a man is shown with a facehugger attached to him.
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Trigger warning: the characters do occasionally refer to one of the awful things the aliens can do as forceful impregnation.
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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We don’t see it, but a crewmember’s eyes are covered by a bandage suggesting he got acid in his eyes.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Only really three brief very gory scenes, obviously signposted so can easily look away (I did). Comments based on the special edition.
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Is someone tortured?
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There is a scene where we see people trapped in the alien's nest where they are alive and suffering. One of them begs to be put out of their misery.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Not human, but the alien queen's eggsac is blown apart with grenades by Ripley.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Bishop plays Five Finger Fillet with Hidson.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Alien gets head crushed by vehicle, very satisfying and close up
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Is someone burned alive?
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A character is accidentally shot with a flamethrower.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Alien gets crushed to death
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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In the form of a game in which a character quickly stabs himself between his fingers with a knife - and accidentally cuts himself a little
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Is there amputation?
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The android has his entire lower half ripped off, but his blood is white and it is not as off putting.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Someone is choked by an alien, but survives.
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Is someone choked?
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Yes by one of the aliens, they kind of strangle you
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Are any hands damaged?
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Android nicks his hand doing a knife trick.
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Is someone stabbed?
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The mother Xenomorph punctures someone through the abdomen with her tail from behind.
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Are there dislocations?
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Plenty of the typical gore but no bone displacement is graphically shown
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Does someone have a seizure?
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The reaction to a chestburster surfacing can first look like a seizure
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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A man falls through the middle of a high up staircase when they originally go exploring the colony
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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in the director's cut it is revealed that newt's brother dies and ripley's daughter, amanda is revealed to have died of cancer
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does a non-human character die?
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Literally every Xenomorph that we see onscreen.
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Two characters blow themselves up rather than be taken by the aliens.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a parent die?
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In the special edition Newt's parents deaths are both shown
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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You see the toy abandoned by the child when they are kidnapped.
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Does a family member die?
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In the special edition, it’s revealed that Ripley’s daughter died while she was in hypersleep. Newt also mentions that the rest of her family is dead.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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The aliens kidnap several characters
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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In the hive scene, the marines are examining a woman when she suddenly moves.
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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The aliens’ nest could be seen as this to some extent, though it didn’t trigger my trypophobia personally
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Are there mannequins?
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There are animatronic that is human like and amputated in half. (White liquid instead of blood)
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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TIMESTAMP: 2h 23m in, fluid spews from Bishop's mouth.
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Does someone spit?
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when in the base, [around 50 minutes into the movie] they spot a bunch of holes in the floor and roof formed by the acid from the aliens blood.
one man looks over and spits into a hole on the floor
one man looks over and spits into a hole on the floor
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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a very dramatic and self-righteous military presence are the good guys
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
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Medical
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Ripley is shown in the hospital after she had been found in the sleep pod. No medical procedures are really shown other than the fact that she was restrained.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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There is an autopsy of a small alien that shows some very pointy medical tools, but there are no needles or syringes.
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Does someone have cancer?
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Ellen's daughter passes away from cancer before the movie's start.
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Mental Health
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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The main character does and also a child.Comments based on the special edition.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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The movie starts with Ripleys nightmare where she has a xenomorph in her chest which wasn’t real
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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A character volunteers to enter and crawl through a long stretch of piping to help save his comrades. This is even a brief shot that shows the same character pushing along the extremely tight tubing that is sure to make some people's skin crawl.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Not exactly but riply showcases PTSD symptoms like having night terrors. She wakes up in a panicked cold sweat which is similar to a panic attack
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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ripley has PTSD and is shown dealing with it throughout the movie. i think it's portrayed convincingly. while other characters aren't always sensitive to what she's going through, the narrative frames it as real and important.
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Two people blow themselves up to kill the xenomorphs in an air vent because they were going to die anyway
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Two characters blow themselves up to prevent the aliens getting to the others
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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There's a conversation between Ripley and Hicks where she asks him to kill her rather than let her be taken by the aliens. He tells her "if it comes to that, I'll do us both".
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Noxious
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Extensive stobing and flashing lights throughout the last half hour or so.
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Are there underwater scenes?
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Newt does end up in water at some point but the camera is not submerged
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
Is there childbirth?
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You could consider it a sort of birth when aliens burst from a host’s chest
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Does someone miscarry?
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The alien Chestburster is possibly triggering.
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Are there abortions?
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in a nightmare, ripley begs to be killed to also kill the alien she believes is about to be “born”out of her. not sure if this counts but it’s certainly terminating a metaphorical pregnancy
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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A male character asks a butch female character: “Did someone ever mistake you for a man?” She is not labelled sexually, but reads pretty queer.
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Hudson asks Vasquez if she's ever been mistaken for a man. She claps back with "No. Have you?"
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Does an LGBT person die?
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I don't remember them stating sexuality of any of the characters.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Latina played in brownface
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Does the black guy die first?
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Although an entire colony has already been killed off screen, of the marines/main characters the first to be killed is a Black character (killed by a colleague who has just been grabbed by an alien). A whole bunch of characters also immediately die in this scene. Comments based on the special edition.
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Is there hate speech?
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Hudson also makes an illegal alien joke about Vasquez.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Private Vasquez, a Latina character, is played by a white woman.
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Relationships
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Religious
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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There are lot of inappropriate, misogynistic sexual comments made by some members of the military in the beginning of the movie before they land on the planet.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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No, but there’s scenes where characters are in just their underwear
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Is someone terminally ill?
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I believe in the extended version it’s revealed that newts brother died of cancer
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
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Newt sort of is at the beginning, she’s living in the vents
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Spoiler
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Are there end credit scenes?
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In the last few seconds, after all the credits, there is a noise described by captions as "scurrying" which is likely intended to signify there is at least 1 alien survivor.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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In one scene an armoured car careens around, hitting walls, wheels squealing. Comments based on the special edition.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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An alien
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Does a plane crash?
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A space shuttle crashes.
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Does a car crash?
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It doesn’t crash, but is driven through a wall (intentionally) and later explodes when a shuttle crashes on top of it.
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Violence
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Does someone drown?
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Someone is trapped in a room with water up to their chest, but they do not drown.
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Is there gun violence?
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Only aliens are shot by guns, and one human character is killed by the accidental blast of a flamethrower.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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The Atmospheric Processor loses fusion containment, dousing the colony in superhot plasma.
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