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Her reprisal of the Ripley character is culturally significant; although mothers in films were respected before ''Aliens'', after Ripley's courageous rescue of Newt from the taloned grasp of the Alien Queen in 1986 [[Mama Bear|filmmakers began taking mothers SERIOUSLY as warriors]]. Weaver also holds a Black-Belt in Goju-Ryu karate, so she is ''not'' a [[Mama Bear]] with whom you'd want to fuck with in [[Real Life]] either.
Poster ''lady'' of awesome, yet occasionally terrifying, [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!|grace and beauty]] (you know, the kind who can still be put in a [[Fan Service]] shot ''[[Avatar (film)|when she's 60]]''). Got to be a [https://web.archive.org/web/20131203205122/http://www.digitalmonkeybox.com/galaxy_quest.htm really hot] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131029155834/http://www.imdb.com/media/rm704813056/ch0008365 babe] in ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'' and ''Heartbreakers'' (where, at age 51, she gave co-star [[Jennifer Love Hewitt]] a run for her money).
Also played Dana Barrett in ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' and its sequel, anthropologist Dian Fossey in the film adaptation of Fossey's book ''[[Gorillas in The Mist]]'' (for which she got another Best Actress nomination; she also got a Best Supporting Actress nomination the same year for ''Working Girl''), and Grace Augustine in ''[[Avatar]]''. {{spoiler|And the Director in ''[[The Cabin in the Woods]]''.}}
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