9. Aliens - Ripley Being Oblivious To The Fact That The Company Are Using Her Again
Poor Ellen Ripley: she's had more than her fair share of misfortune. From escaping the grasp of the Alien aboard the Nostromo, to escaping a horde of said extraterrestrials in Aliens and then sacrificing her life to destroy the last one inside her chest in Aliens 3 and then being resurrected hundreds of years later to fight them all over again - Ripley deserves a good rest. Sadly, the Lieutenant could have easily avoided her centuries-long battle with the Aliens if she had just said no to The Company in Aliens. Of course, Ripley does just that when she's initially asked to travel with a group of hired soldiers to LV-426 to find out what happened to the station's inhabitants there, but eventually agrees to travel there and put an end to the Alien menace for the good of mankind. Ripely must have either forgotten what The Company did to her in Alien (she was asleep for 57 years prior to Aliens, so it's plausible), or she just had a big change of heart and decided that The Company couldn't be all bad. Whatever the reasons were, Ripley doesn't anticipate that The Company is screwing her over a second time until it's almost too late. All they care about is retrieving a living specimen of the Xenomorphs by any means necessary - even if it has to be an embryo lodged between someones rib cage. Of course, if Ripley had told The Company to shove it, we wouldn't have a quadrilogy of Alien films today, but we doubt many people would complain about that; the latter two Alien films weren't exactly hailed as being marvelous entries in the series.
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