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'''Ash:''' You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? [[Ultimate Lifeform|A perfect organism]]. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.|'''''Alien'''''}}
''If you were redirected and wanted other, typically nicer kinds of aliens, see [[Alien Tropes]]''.▼
A multimedia franchise and the first to successfully combine science fiction with [[Body Horror]] and actually make it scary, instead of cheesy. The franchise spans several comic books, video games and foremost a tetralogy of films, each with a different visionary director and all starring [[Sigourney Weaver]].
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Lastly, there have been several tie-in novels from the [[Alan Dean Foster]] novelizations of the movie to adaptations of the comic books.
A prequel to ''Alien'' directed by Ridley Scott, ''[[Prometheus]]'', was released in 2012. It is Scott's first foray back into the ''Alien'' franchise in particular and science-fiction in general since the release of ''Blade Runner''. Scott would continue the story with 2017's ''[[Alien: Covenant]]''.
▲''If you were redirected and wanted other, typically nicer kinds of aliens, see [[Alien Tropes]]''.
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== A-G ==
* [[Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene]]: In ''Aliens'', Ripley putting Newt to bed. Among others.
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* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: This is evidently humanity's [[Planet of Hats|hat]] in the ''Alien'' universe.
{{quote|'''Ripley:''' You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.}}
* [[Cosmic Horror Story]]: The series has elements of this. The first movie especially and even when more is revealed about the universe.
** In the first movie, the protagonists are a crew of blue collar workers. They pick up an unknown signal and follow it to LV426. There they find an ancient alien ship that is incomprehensible along with eggs that appear to be cargo. The Space Jockey is nothing resembling human and the ship itself appears to be organic technology. The Xenomorph that attacks the crew has the same look as the ship and it's heavily implied that the creature is a weapon created by the species the Space Jockey belongs to. The film ends with more questions than answers like what where the ancient aliens and where are they now? Are there other alien creatures out there? Does humanity even have a chance in the face of other life forms so powerful and capable of such extreme hostility?
** Even in later movies when more is explained there is still so much about the Engineers that goes unexplained. They can create other lifeforms and are extremely powerful but beyond that nothing is really known about them.
* [[Cranial Processing Unit]]:
** After {{spoiler|Ash}} gets his head knocked off, the other crewmembers of the ''Nostromo'' plug his head into the proper equipment and are able to speak with him.
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* [[Kill It with Fire]]: Want to survive fighting the Aliens in close quarters? Flamethrowers are the only way to avoid being hit with their acidic blood at close range.
* [[Kill It with Ice]]: Liquid nitrogen is tried in ''Alien Resurrection'', but is not so effective, as it was intended as a disciplinary tool rather than a weapon.
* [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better]]: The M41A Pulse Rifle says hi. Ditto the [[Big
* [[The Ladette]]: Vasquez.
* [[Large Ham]]: Dan Hedaya in ''Alien Resurrection'', particularly during his introduction and {{spoiler|death scene}}.
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* [[Traitor Shot]]: Bishop gets one that looks like this when he talks with Spunkmeyer about the Facehugger specimens kept in the medical wing. He later proves to be a capable support character who rescues Ripley and Newt at a pivotal moment.
* [[Troll]]: Bishop, while he's a nice guy and is programmed to never harm a human being, it doesn't stop him from scaring the crap out of Hudson with the knife trick.
* [[Trope Codifier]]: ''Aliens'' pretty much single
* [[True Love Is Boring]]: Pretty much stated by [[Word of God]] as the reason Hicks, Newt and Bishop were killed off between ''Aliens'' and ''Alien 3''.
* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]: In the first movie, it's implied that the Aliens were bred to be living weapons but killed their creators, the ancient "Pilot creatures".
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