Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Ripley's cry at the Alien Queen, as the monster closes on Newt aboard the Sulaco, is the moment the sequel has been building toward: a surrogate mother facing the real thing. Ripley has spent the film refusing to leave Newt behind, so the blunt, furious insult lands harder than any one-liner. It is the film's most quoted line, and the cry fans reach for whenever someone threatens a person they love.
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In context
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Safe aboard the Sulaco at last, or so they think, the survivors are ambushed by the alien queen, which stowed away in the dropship's landing gear. She rips Bishop in half and advances on Newt, and Ripley confronts her with this, strapped into a powered cargo loader. In the brawl that follows Ripley forces the queen into the airlock and blows her out into space.
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- Wikipedia: Aliens (film)Plot sectionReference checked
- Xenopedia: Queen (Acheron)Power Loader vs the QueenReference checked
- Wikiquote: Aliens (film)Ellen Ripley sectionReference checked
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