Aliens
Movie • 1986 • Action
ReportWhen Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story—all contact is lost with the planet and colonists. They enlist Ripley and the colonial marines to return and search for answers.
This movie contains 59 potentially triggering events.
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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againbyyui
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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Is an animal abandoned?
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interstellarfan
Ripley leaves her cat back on the space station, but she doesn’t really abandon it
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Abuse
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Is someone stalked?
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Movieeeeee
The xenomorphs stalk all the characters through the movie
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone gaslighted?
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gtovis
Birks 100% tries to gaslight Ripley.
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Jezebel
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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Addiction
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Serenity17
Several people smoke at various points
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Is there addiction?
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LJConrad
Just smoking. Comments based on the special edition.
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Animal
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Harlbior
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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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?
181 supporters
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JesusIsMyZoloft
There is a cat at the beginning of the film, but it is left safely on Earth.
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Does a dragon die?
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LJConrad
No but plenty of aliens do. Comments based on the special edition.
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Are there spiders?
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Jezebel
Some of the aliens look similar to large, particularly evil spiders.
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Are there snakes?
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sarahcastic
The tails of the xenomorphs could seem a bit like snakes
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Are there bugs?
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ajzeg01
The Xenomorphs are like giant bugs, with a hive and a Queen.
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone held under water?
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ThumbsAreHandy
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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Jezebel
Trigger warning: the characters do occasionally refer to one of the awful things the aliens can do as forceful impregnation.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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interstellarfan
By aliens
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
32 supporters
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sarahcastic
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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Are any hands damaged?
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EReynolds
Android nicks his hand doing a knife trick.
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Are there dislocations?
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kingofthefemboys
Plenty of the typical gore but no bone displacement is graphically shown
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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FionaB
Someone is choked by an alien, but survives.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Alien gets crushed to death
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Is someone choked?
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gonzogm
Yes by one of the aliens, they kind of strangle you
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Is someone burned alive?
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Anonymous
A character is accidentally shot with a flamethrower.
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Is there amputation?
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gtovis
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 a head get squashed?
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DCZimmer
Alien gets head crushed by vehicle, very satisfying and close up
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Harlbior
Not human, but the alien queen's eggsac is blown apart with grenades by Ripley.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Droolphobia
The reaction to a chestburster surfacing can first look like a seizure
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Anonymous
Bishop plays Five Finger Fillet with Hidson.
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Is someone tortured?
90 supporters
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gtovis
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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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Movieeeeee
A man falls through the middle of a high up staircase when they originally go exploring the colony
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Is there eye mutilation?
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sarahcastic
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 someone stabbed?
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kingofthefemboys
The mother Xenomorph punctures someone through the abdomen with her tail from behind.
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Is there excessive gore?
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LJConrad
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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Children
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Does a kid die?
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daredpanda10
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 someone sacrifice themselves?
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Animatronic sacrifices themselves to save child and woman
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Does a non-human character die?
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Literally every Xenomorph that we see onscreen.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Serenity17
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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Does a parent die?
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WillowFox
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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CharlieCharlie
You see the toy abandoned by the child when they are kidnapped.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Jezebel
The aliens kidnap several characters
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Fear
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Are there jump scares?
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Serenity17
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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interstellarfan
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?
110 supporters
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Kenneth Holmes
TIMESTAMP: 2h 23m in, fluid spews from Bishop's mouth.
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Does someone spit?
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Dragofelid
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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passerby
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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Are needles/syringes used?
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Jezebel
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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Is there a hospital scene?
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mountainfrog
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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Does someone have cancer?
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Anonymous
Ellen's daughter passes away from cancer before the movie's start.
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Mental Health
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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Movieeeeee
Two people blow themselves up to kill the xenomorphs in an air vent because they were going to die anyway
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Movieeeeee
The movie starts with Ripleys nightmare where she has a xenomorph in her chest which wasn’t real
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Droolphobia
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 say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Harlbior
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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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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KEdRuss
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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LanceBishop
Two characters blow themselves up to prevent the aliens getting to the others
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
35 supporters
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LJConrad
The main character does and also a child.Comments based on the special edition.
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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kingofthefemboys
Newt does end up in water at some point but the camera is not submerged
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Anonymous
Extensive stobing and flashing lights throughout the last half hour or so.
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Does someone miscarry?
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ajzeg01
The alien Chestburster is possibly triggering.
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Is there childbirth?
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sarahcastic
You could consider it a sort of birth when aliens burst from a host’s chest
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Are there abortions?
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passerby
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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sarahcastic
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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Anonymous
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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huviks
Vasquez is super butch, but like every other character, her sexuality isn't discussed and isn't particularly relevant to the business of shooting aliens
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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jdpamv
Latina played in brownface
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Does the black guy die first?
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LJConrad
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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vlixxord
Hudson also makes an illegal alien joke about Vasquez.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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BlueJ
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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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Movieeeeee
No, but there’s scenes where characters are in just their underwear
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
64 supporters
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ThumbsAreHandy
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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Sexism
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
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Movieeeeee
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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interstellarfan
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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ThumbsAreHandy
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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LJConrad
In one scene an armoured car careens around, hitting walls, wheels squealing. Comments based on the special edition.
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Does a car crash?
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Serenity17
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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Does a plane crash?
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Anonymous
A space shuttle crashes.
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Is someone hit by a car?
21 supporters
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DCZimmer
An alien
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Violence
Does someone drown?
25 supporters
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Jezebel
Someone is trapped in a room with water up to their chest, but they do not drown.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
9 supporters
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Anonymous
The Atmospheric Processor loses fusion containment, dousing the colony in superhot plasma.
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Is there gun violence?
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mountainfrog
Only aliens are shot by guns, and one human character is killed by the accidental blast of a flamethrower.
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