6. "Get Away From Her You B****!" (Aliens)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbaENZP-5a0 This is a scene that has been set-up quietly throughout the entire film; due to Ripley having been in stasis for so long, her own daughter has died, and so when she discovers terrified young Newt, her maternal instincts take over and she protects her like she would her own daughter. Then, at the film's finale, when the Alien Queen prepares to make short work of Newt, Ripley suits up into a giant cargo loader contraption, and shouts the iconic line, "Get away from her you bitch!", before the ultimate catfight to end all catfights kicks off. We're not saying to replicate this scene entirely, because that would seem more than a little cheap and lazy, but it'd be pretty cool if we could spend some time in the cargo loader at a point in the game, perhaps using it to solve a puzzle, and half-way through, some xenomorphs show up, so we have to beat them down with the massive mits of the loader. It needn't be a long passage of the game, but it would be a welcome nod all the same.
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