Alien Durability preference?

[Corporal Hicks]

That said, the acid is something I'd like to see have a more prominent impact within some stories. I often go on about wanting something in the video games where harming the Alien can affect the environment or the level design. I'd love to see more acid damage effecting the locations and plans in the various movies and novels and etc too.

[426Buddy]

Budget based in Aliens case.

We see the environment smoke every time an Alien is shot in Aliens, they just didn't have the budget to destroy the set each time.

Every time a character is close to an Alien and shoots it, acid damage occurs - Drake, Hudson, Vasquez

Hicks too, accompanied by a nice shot of the armor being eaten.

[SiL]

Christ, how could I forget. It's literally the reason he doesn't help at the end.

Acid was a nightmare in that movie.

[BlueMarsalis79]

Wasn't it originally supposed to kill him there?

[Corporal Hicks]

I think he dies while he and Ripley are trying to rescue Newt in the treatment. I don't remember it being clear as to where it comes from but I think it's acid damage from attacking the Queen's eggsac.

[SiL]

In the treatment they drug themselves so they can be taken into the hive, as that's where the colony's escape vehicles are located.

By the time they wake up Hicks has been impregnated already, so he blows himself up to give the others time. I'm pretty sure that's how they escape the Queen.

[BlueMarsalis79]

Huh, mental...

[Corporal Hicks]

In the treatment they drug themselves so they can be taken into the hive, as that's where the colony's escape vehicles are located.

That's it. I'd forgot that little trick. Need to have a re-read of that one.

[SiL]

It's really interesting. Lydecker is the name of a marine, there's no Burke, Bishop abandons Ripley and Co in the colony (due to safety programming, not evil Android), the characters talk to some of the marines cocooned in the hive, etc

[judge death]

Is it possible to read that script somehwere?

[Corporal Hicks]

Yeah, it's in our downloads section. It's not a script though, it's a treatment.

https://www.avpgalaxy.net/files/scripts/alien-II-treatment-1983-9-21.pdf

[SiL]

In script format, which is unusual but something Cameron likes doing.

[Corporal Hicks]

He calls them scriptments if I remember rightly.

[Stitch]

He calls them scriptments if I remember rightly.

Yep. His Spider-Man one is... Interesting.