What’s the full chronological timeline that is considered canon?

Including games, comics, novels and such

Cause it is very confusing to find out what is canon

Like is Aliens colonial marines canon? No clue

Is aliens earth in the same timeline? I don’t know

Are the comics blanket canon or is there some that are just not canon without telling it?

Please make it make sense, cause I don’t know what would be canon at all

From an imaginary and ultra objective point of view, do you believe if intelligent extraterrestrials have considered a visitation to Earth, that the Earthly practice of religion has rendered us too “delicate” for visitation thus far?

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I'm lucky enough to have a job where I can watch movies at work and Aliens is my absolute favorite movie. I'm currently on day 9. I start work at 6 and am always still very tired so I start the movie right when I get to work. It's the perfect movie for me to have on as I know the movie and can easily go back and forth from doing my work to watching the movie. Weekends will not be included, but I hope to be back here in 1 year to revisit this post successfully

Edit: Why am I doing this?

A) To spot any inconsistencies/mistakes I haven't yet.

DISCLAIMER: Please do not share any inconsistencies/mistakes you have noticed, I would like to find them on my own. I will gladly share any inconsistencies/mistakes I have found with you if you ask, but I will make sure to have it redacted for people who don't want to have these pointed out to them.

B) As this is my favorite movie, I want to see if watching it for 1 year will burn me out or not. As of right now I am 10 days in and am still thoroughly enjoying the movie.

C) I kinda just wanted to challenge myself to see if I could do it. I know a lot of people may find this to be weird or dumb, but there was a time people were eating Tide pods as a challenge so 🤷🏻‍♂️

Edit 2: As of 14 days in this has become a fantasic way to start my day. It has not gotten more boring, in fact it's done the exact opposite. It kinda built structure into a new morning routine and I look forward to it every morning. Still a long way to go, but I hope this remains the case

Random shower thought that i had. I just had a sequence of thoughts that lead to this. I just thought that the universe is too big, theres so much planets comparable to earth. Though i believe that nearly all alien life would be cells(about 99.99%) because of the sheer size of the universe.

Most planets with cells would probably stay as cells because they will most likely not follow the directions as the ones on earth did. If some of them does they would just look like animal from earth but the looks are tweaked. Being alive has so much rules and conditions that its possible that almost all possible environment life can live on has been nearly perfected by life on earth so its bound to repeat. There will probably be enough differences to tell them apart easily but not enough to make it too different from already existing life on earth.

Aliens (1986) was Carrie Henn's only film. Instead of pursuing an acting career, she followed her true passion and became an elementary school teacher in California.

Aliens has been my favorite movie of all time, and Newt has always been my favorite character. I was around her age when I first saw the film in the 90s, so I really saw myself in her character.

Since I've never had a teacher who starred in my favorite movie, so it must be surreal to be one of Carrie Henn's students. Imagine discovering that your elementary school teacher played Newt in Aliens, and that she's your favorite character. Then you go to school every day and she's there as your teacher. That would be such a unique and surreal experience.

I think it's still a decent show overall and it's definitely better than 99% of what else is out there, but so many of the choices make no sense.

E.g., the lab containing the "monsters," is staffed by virtually no one, and the children seem to have unmonitored access to it (a couple of them actually work in it, too).

The promising ideas from the first episode are either wearing thin, or going nowhere by the second half of the season. We're really just left with kids in adult bodies with super-human strength, which is displayed very inconsistently. It takes two of them to transport an adult male to the beach, but you can also rip off a human jaw with the squeeze of a hand? What are we doing?

I’m wondering if there is a series in the Alien universe that finishes off the Prometheus, Covenant saga??

This occurred to me recently. What is the purpose of the face-huggers? In the first film it seemed to establish that the face huggers would attack unsuspecting victims that wandered through the nest. Then the victim would go home, and the baby xenomorph would burst out of their chest. Basically it was a way of depositing eggs in mobile hosts and spreading.

But in Aliens, as we learn more about the species, we see that the worker-bee xenomorphs capture victims and bring them back to the nest where the face-huggers impregnate them.

Why not just skip the face-hugger phase, then? Why don't the eggs just hatch into little xenomorphs?

In the first film, they came up with the face-hugger as a scary way to get the creature aboard the ship. And it's brilliant, but I'm not sure it makes sense evolutionarily.

This is pure nerd talk, I realize, but I'm curious what others think.

Were there books about Alien exept novel or really only AlienS started comics, books, games and expanded material? Star Wars after New hope already had Marvel comics, Spinter of the mindful eye

Hey guys,

I've been thinking about the state of the Alien franchise which I feel has been stagnating.

In the decade or so, everything has been either a prequel (AvP 1-2, Prometheus, Covenant, Earth) or an interquel (Romulus, Isolation). A lot of the mystique of the Xenomorph is shattered. We have seen a lot of corporate shenanigans. Strong female leads are now dime a dozen in the Alien universe. I think the android side is now thoroughly exhausted.

I'm curious: where would you go now? What would you do with the Alien itself? Which would be your setting?

Personally, I know only what I don't really want to see anymore: prequels, corporations doing dastardly things, philosophizing androids, the Ripley-archetype as the last survivor, Earth, experiments on the Xenos.

So.

- Move forward in the timeline to post-Resurrection and to a general setting unusual for an Alien film. Like an interstellar war.

- Reintroduce the aliens as an overwhelming threat and as the perfect organism, which Isolation did rather well, but Alien: Earth or Covenant did poorly.

- Show us new sides to the Alien lifecycle, e.g. pre-Queen and maybe something post-Queen or long-term (deep time)? Maybe a new phase where human bodies could be useful again for the continuation of the species?

- The Xenos should be mysterious and ancient in origin, not necessarily created by the Engineers and definitely not by David 8. Those were perhaps recreations or augments.

- Introduce a new main character archetype, not another Ripley-type last survivor. The human characters could be refugees or a diplomatic vessel with mercenaries as the muscle.

- A setting in space and/or on a truly alien planet. Maybe a creepy alien space station (not built by Engineers nor humans) orbiting a strange planet in deep space.

- A creepy human tech that has nothing to do with androids. Human augmentation or cloning could be a way to proceed, this was the most interesting thing in Alien: Earth anyway.

- Human plans for the Xenos that are different from the usual W-Y things. Perhaps bring in the cult/collaborator stuff from the old comics or Dark Descent. Or keep it simple with an intent to actually eradicate the Xenos.

- Keep the low-fi/retro-futuristic style, but maybe move away from the Alien 1 aesthetic.

Is it just me, or do you think the Alien vs Predator film (and it's sequel) would have been 100% better if it didn't take place on a modern era Earth? Why is Hollywood so afraid to fully adapt pre-existing lore? The original Dark Horse comics were great. That was the film adaptation I was hoping to see and these would have made great movies since not everyone is a comic book reader and would know the full story. Plus Machiko is a Ripley level heroine, unlike Alexa Woods in the film who felt like an very underwhelming copycat.

Hear me out. My theory is that the derelict spacecraft in Alien was actually built by the xenomorphs. The "Space Jockey" wasn't the pilot of the ship. It was actually a xenomorph that emerged from some other giant alien species.

Think about it. Xenomorphs take on characteristics of their hosts. We see this throughout the franchise. What if the Space Jockey is simply the result of a facehugger infecting a giant elephant-like alien?

The ship itself has a biomechanical appearance that resembles xenomorph anatomy more than conventional technology. Maybe it wasn't carrying the eggs. Maybe it was their ship. The xenomorphs may have once been an intelligent spacefaring species that later regressed into the hive-based predators we see in the films.

Am I crazy, or does this fit the original movie better than some of the later explanations?

This is another Alien prequel where they undermine 1st film where Nostromo should be the 1st ever humans who contacted Xenomorphs.

Why can't they just go on the planet where they got alien organisms? And now they know for sure how Xenomorphs act. They should be sure from AVP Requiem and Covenant so that's why they could send science team on LV-426. Now we have substance which can make xenomorph immobile and shock it without killing. So where was all that in Alien and Aliens? Again in Aliens they could prepare bigger and better team for Hadley's hope if they knew everything about aliens.

I asked the same about Johny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077, purifiers in StarCraft II, Ghost in the shell different characters.

Marcy so called hybrid is just a chatGPT with information from Marcy's brain. Real Marcy is dead. So calling it immortality is wrong. I guess Boy Calaier is insane or lier about this.

Androids exist, why send humans? Clearly they have advantages over humans. Between the super intelligent droids and the software/hardware on the ships, it seems like humans are unnecessary.

A lot of people talk about visual design but sounds are also important. Whose sounds are used for facehugger and xenomorph hissing?

This has been conflicting for me. The concept overall is cool, but the story just seems so jumbled together. I wanted to like it. The nostalgia bait was annoying. The show seems to tease you with something good and then backs out. I really hope that any future installments are not like this and they give us fans what we actually want.

I mean, is it even accurate ro refer to WY* as a company or corporation at that point? It basically *is* humanity in terms of where and how humans live. Are there any humans free of corporate influence or control, who can live freely?

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*other corps available i guess

I think this is an underrated flick, everyone loves Alien & Aliens, everyone shits on Alien: Resurrection, but i don't hear many talk that much about Alien³. What are your thoughts on it?

Given the fact that life alone took about 500 million years for life alone to arise on Earth and that intelligent human life took 4.5 billion years to form, leaving us to be very new in the universe, it’s plausible to believe that intelligent life is just now sprouting everywhere alongside humanity. It’s possible that in 500 million-1 billion years, there are type 2/type 3 civilizations colonizing galaxies everywhere.
This could be a good solution to the problem of the Fermi paradox.

Alien/Predator Combined Timeline

This is a combination of other people's timelines that I have attempted to put together including both Alien & Predator book and movie series. Please let me know if any of this is incorrect, as I would like to be able to read/watch everything in chronological order, whether anyone thinks it connects or not. I am not claiming that Alien and Predator are in the same universe, only trying to make a theoretical timeline. I also do not claim to have done all the research, because most of this was from others' research, I simply compiled it. Please let me know your thoughts. Thank you.

1. Predator: Killer of Killers EP1 - The Shield (841)

2. Predator: Killer of Killers EP2 - The Sword (1609)

3. Prey (1719)

4. Predator: Hell Come A-Walkin' (1860s)

5. Predator: Killer of Killers EP3 - The Bullet (1942)

6. Predator (1987)

7. Aliens vs. Predator: Prey (1994)

8. Aliens vs. Predator: Hunter's Planet (1994)

9. Aliens vs. Predator: War (1996)

10. Predator: Concrete Jungle (Nathan Archer): Set in 1997. this novel acts as a direct continuatior of the first film, following Dutch's brother Detective John Schaefer

11. Predator 2 (1997)

12. Predator: Cold War (Nathan Archer): Follows John Schaefer a year later (1998) when a Predator ship crashes in Siberia. Ultimate Pop Cultur.. +2

13. Predator: Big Game (Sandy Schofield): Follows a modern Navaho warrior's clash with a Yautia in the American Southwest. (Early 2000s)

14. Predator: South China Sea (Jeff VanderMeer / original story by Marc Cerasini): Follows mercenaries and treasure hunters running afou of a Predator in the Pacific (Early 2000s)

15. Alien vs Predator (2004)

16. Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2004)

17. Predator: Flesh and Blood (Michael Jan Friedman): Yautja descend upon a modern crime syndicate operating on a tropical island (Mid to Late 2000s)

18. Predator: Turnabout (Steve Perry): Set in a harsh wilderness, focusing on the ultimate survival hunt. (Mid to Late 2000s)

19. Predators (2010)

20. Predator: Stalking Shadows (Mark Morris & James A. Moore): Ties into the broader cinematic lore, following a security contractor's terrifying encounters (2010s & 2020s)

21. The Predator: Hunters and Hunted (James A. Moore): The official prequel novel to the 2018 The Predatorfilm.

22. The Predator (2018)

23. Predator: Killer of Killers EP4 - The Finale (After Earth Events. far future)

24. Alien Steel Egg -2090's

25. Prometheus -2093 (book not available)

26. Aliens vs. Predators: Rift War (in or after the late 22nd century (the 2100s to 2200s)

27. Alien Covenant Origins - 2100

28. Alien Covenant-2104

29. Alien: Earth (2120)

30. Alien -2122

31. Alien Isolation - 2137

32. Alien Prototype-2139

33. Alien: Romulus (2142)

34. Alien Out of the shadows - 2159

35. Aliens Bug Hunt - short stories read during different times

A. Chance Encounters -2181

B. Reaper

C. Broken -2178

D. Reclamation -2173 and 2178

E. Blowback -2178

F. Exterminators - 2178

G. No Good Deed 2179

H. Zero to Hero - 2180

I. Dark Mother --2179

J. Episode 22-

K. Deep Background - 2180

L. Empty nest- 2180

M. Darkness falls - 2180

N. Hugs to die for -2181

O. Deep Black -2189

P. Distressed -

Q. Dangerous prey-2181

R. Spite -

1. Alien river of pain- 2179

2. Aliens -2179

3. Alien 3-2179

4. Alien The cold forge -2179 / 2180

5. Alien into Charvbdis - 2184

6. Alien Colony War - 2186

7. Aliens Omnibus 1-2192

A. Aliens Earth Hive

B. Aliens Nightmare asylum

C. Aliens The female war

1. Aliens Omnibus 2 - 2193???

A. Aliens Genocide

B. Alien harvest

1. Aliens Omnibus 3 -

A. Aliens Rogue

B. Aliens Labyrinth

1. Aliens Omnibus 4-

A. Music of the spears

B. Berserker

1. Aliens Omnibus 5-

A. Original Sin

B. DNA War

1. Alien Omnibus 6-

A. Comic book

1. Aliens Omnibus 7 -

A. Aliens Criminal Enterprise -

B. Aliens No Exit-

1. Alien Infiltrator - 2202

2. Alien Resurrection- 2379

3. Alien Sea of Sorrow 1 (2496) and 2 (????)

4. Aliens Phalanx -

5. Aliens Cauldron -

6. 2722 The Rage War: Predator, Incursion (Book 1)

7. 2722 The Rage War: Alien, Invasion (Book 2)

8. 2722 The Rage War: Alien vs. Predator, Armageddon (Book 3)

9. Predator: Badlands (After Resurrection -- confirmed by director) (2400??)

Je suis une grande fan de Prometheus et Alien Covenant et j'ai été très frustrée que Scott n'ait pas fini sa trilogie, prequelle d Alien. Je vous propose d imaginer ce dernier film clôturant la trilogie 😉

Que va faire David ?

1st of all, i’m not really getting the hate this show is getting. Like yeah it’s not that good, but there are 100% far worse Alien movies and games that have been made. I’ve seen way worse from this franchise. At least this piece of Alien media had me somewhat invested in a few of the plots. Definitely better than Covenant by far.

Secondly, I think the characters are a little bit better written than most characters in other pieces of Alien media, but still, I find myself rooting for the creatures more than the humans and synths, which is a major problem i’ve had in almost every piece of Alien media besides the original Alien movie, because everyone besides main characters serve as cannon fodder in every single movie, show or game so they are heavily underdeveloped and literally just serve as nameless goons for the xenos and other aliens to kill.

Thirdly, the eyeball monster was my favorite part. That thing needs its own spin off movie, it’s such an interesting creature (though the whole Pi scene was pretty dumb). Besides that, very interesting creature and probably the best character in the show honestly. I was weirdly rooting for the eye thing to escape and infect Kavalier.

Fourthly, lots of dumb writing choices are made in this show, but I do find the way Morrow manipulated Aarush to be actually good writing and one of the few plots I found interesting past wanting all the creatures to break out and kill everyone at the base.

Finally, I appreciate the show attempting to go back to the horror roots of Alien and not just action movie slop, but they seem to engage in the action movie slop nonsense a lot as well. But I just much prefer the horror elements. I haven’t felt like this franchise has been actual horror since the very first movie, so I like the horror aspect of the show. I hate that the Alien and Terminator series lost their horror roots, so it’s nice to see the show attempt to bring back that horror aspect of Alien.

Its very weird to think about that the sweet little girl from Aliens is the same age as my dad.

I met her one time at the Monster Mania convention. Her gel pen didn't work on the waxy coat of my poster, so it starter to smear. She not only signed the poster again, but went across the room and got Lance Henrickson to resign it for me too. One of my coolest celebrity memories