What slogan appears on the poster for James Cameron’s Aliens?

The slogan on the poster for James Cameron’s Aliens is “This time it’s war.” The line distinguishes the sequel from Ridley Scott’s Alien, whose marketing emphasized suspense and horror in an isolated spacecraft.

Aliens expands the scale of the story by sending Ellen Ripley back to LV-426 with a unit of Colonial Marines. Instead of confronting one creature in a confined environment, the characters face a colony-wide infestation and a coordinated military response.

The slogan became one of the film’s best-known promotional lines because it captures the sequel’s change in tone. Cameron retained the original film’s science-fiction horror foundation but added combat, large action set pieces, and a stronger focus on teamwork and parenthood.

The wording is sometimes quoted with different capitalization or punctuation, but the canonical phrase is “This time it’s war.” It is a tagline, not dialogue spoken by a character during the film.