Common features in Aliens and Terminator:

-The concept. People forced to face something bigger than themselfes.

-Women. A female has the main part.

-James Cameron. The greatest film director of all time is responsible for the first two terminator movies as well as 1986 year's Aliens.

-The tagline. In Aliens, don't be gone long. In terminator - I'll be back. "This time it's war" also goes for both.

-Michael Biehn. The hero from 1984's The Terminator appears in Aliens again as the action hero.

-The effects team. Stan Winston is all over the place.

-Nightmares of majestic horror.

-The harsh, cold industrial environments. In Aliens, the nuclear powered colonization plant on the barren planet. In Terminator post-apocalyptic rubble of a world after the nuclear war. In Aliens cryo freezers and space. In Terminator 2 an iron foundry.

-Jenette Goldstein. Mean marine Vasquez from Aliens plays the role as the very mature foster parent in Terminator 2, that is very far from the slightly younger and much fitter Pvt Vasquez.

-The indian-style handshake. In Aliens between Drake and Vasquez - in Terminator 2 director's cut between Sarah Connor and Enrique Salceda.

Common lines:

-"And the answer is always don't ask" of Aliens Extended Ed. is repeated twice in Terminator 2 in slightly different shapes - both times by Dyson. All of the times it refers to the big evil company.