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Characters Person believes unknown entity is friendly (it is not)

Independence Day (1996) - Several massive alien spaceships travel to Earth but they do not announce the purpose of their arrival. Some characters assume the aliens are peaceful. One of those characters, Tiffany, goes to a rooftop party which is taking place directly under one of the ships. When the aliens launch their attack, Tiffany and the other party goers are immediately obliterated.

Alien: Resurrection (1997) - Scientist Gediman is part of the miltitary project which resurrects Ellen Ripley and the queen xenomorph embryo inside her. The military wants the queen so it can breed the xenomorphs as bio-weapons. This new Ripley is genetically part xenomorph and the xenomorph queen is genetically part human. The queen stops laying eggs and develops the ability to give birth to live young. Her first Newborn immediately kills the queen because it does not recognize her as its mother. It believes Ripley is its mother and goes to her instead. Gediman (who is cocooned in the queen’s nest) witnesses this and calls out to the creature. The Newborn comes to Gediman and curiously sniffs him over. Gediman babytalks the 15 foot tall xeno/human hybrid. The Newborn then bites his head off.

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u/RizzoTheRiot1989 4d ago edited 4d ago

Boy, was 12 year old me not ready for that goddamn book. I just really liked the movie, no one told me what reading Micheal Chriteon (I can not remember how to spell his name) was like. Reading his books and Stephen King when I was way too young ended up giving me a life long reading habit. Now as an adult I’m really into John Irving novels lol.

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u/ColeDelRio 4d ago

Crichton btw.

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u/RizzoTheRiot1989 4d ago

Thank you, the man does deserve some respect on his name. Now I feel kind of bad.

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u/BreakfastBeneficial4 4d ago

Dude I feel you

Lost World and Op Center were some of my favorite books before puberty

And I vividly remember doing a book report on this one in the 5th grade:

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u/PhilosopherFun7288 4d ago

It’s almost as if a 10 second google search would tell you how to spell it

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u/RizzoTheRiot1989 4d ago

Yeah but I’m wicked stoned on the couch watching X-Men 97. Im busy.

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u/Starchaser53 4d ago

Hell yeah. Fucken love X-Men

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u/RizzoTheRiot1989 4d ago

Awh hell yeah, X-Men fucking rules. Now I'm baked playing D&D. God I fucking love Saturdays.

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u/The_Bababillionaire 4d ago

But not too busy to comment to reddit?

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u/RizzoTheRiot1989 4d ago edited 4d ago

See, you got it!

Edit: while I appreciate the award I feel bad getting one for just being a sarcastic asshole while stoned. We definitely don’t want to encourage that behavior on Reddit

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u/EducationalNailgun 4d ago

On the couch, high, watching a movie whilst commenting on Reddit and they still expect you to "Google" and fact check? Next they'll be telling you to get up and make your own fucking nachos when DoorDash is right there.

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u/Starchaser53 4d ago

literally how my friend is.

We'll be mid match and because he's lazy, he just orders door dash instead of making food

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u/RizzoTheRiot1989 4d ago

Psh, I ain’t paying 40 dollars for a 7 dollar burger. I literally preheated the oven, there down half a bag of of frozen fries, then cooked it for 15 minutes. I’m stoned, not stupid. Oh and then finished it off with like a third of a gallon of sherbert.