What's the saying? Give a man a fish and he can feed himself for a day. But hand a woman a flamethrower and she'll go to war with an entire alien race in the deepest corner of space. OK, so it might not have been exactly like that but the point still stands in this case. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver as if you didn't know) is the toughest man or woman to ever pick up a flamethrower, and it's doubtful that cinema will ever see a more iconic flamethrower moment than the conclusion of James Cameron's killer sequel to Alien. Hell, Ripley wipes out generations of future killers with just one press of her trigger. It's mass genocide for the sake of saving one small child and potentially a planet full of people somewhere down the line. One website described Ripley as carrying out "abortion by fire", and when you think about it they're spot on. Had she not set the eggs on fire at the end of Aliens who knows what the devilish buggers would have done next. Maybe they'd have made it to Earth. It doesn't even pay to imagine the untold horrors that would have caused. What we should actually be more concerned about is just how deadly the female species can be when it's handed a deadly device that shoots fire. If you've wronged your woman this Valentines Day fellas, then now would be the time to think about grovelling. You have been warned.
