History Franchise / Alien

** ''Alien: Specimen''[[/index]]
* ''Alien: Romulus'' (working title) (2024)

* ''The Rage War'' (2015-2016)

* ''Aliens: Phalanx'' (2020)

* ''Alien Covenant In Utero'' (2017)
* ''Alien Covenant'' (2017)

* ''Alien'' (Atari) (1982)

* ''Alien 3 (Game Boy)'' (1993)
* ''Alien 3 (NES)'' (1993)
* ''Alien 3 (SNES)'' (1993)

* Literature/AliensStevePerryTrilogy (1992-1993) - Novelization of the ''Aliens: Book One'' and ''Aliens: Book Two'' comic books.

** ''ComicBook/Jonesy2018''

* ''Alien: The Cold Forge'' (2018)

* UsedFuture: The first film in particular is a notable early example: the cold, underlit grungy ship ''looks'' like a run-down refinery ship. It's a big break from the sparkly white corridors and spandex jumpsuits.

The series revolves around the "Xenomorphs", alien monsters with [[AlienBlood acid blood]] that spawn by [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong bursting out of other organisms' chests]] and try to [[AlwaysChaoticEvil kill or...bring to the hive about anything that isn't them]]. Most works involve humans encountering the creatures, [[{{Horror}} with horrific results]]. The monsters' designs were the work of Creator/HRGiger.

** The titular Aliens aren't sapient and are basically intelligent animals and ''Film/AlienCovenant'' reveals that they were actually created by a human-built android.

** The Engineers are a race of {{Precursors}} who created humanity but are wiped out in a flashback in ''Covenant''. Though Creator/RidleyScott said if he got to do a sequel six Engineers [[ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts weren't on the planet at the time]] would have shown up.
** The Colonial Marines in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' mention dealing with "Arcturians" but Creator/JamesCameron refused to give much information about what they are.

* ArtificialHuman: Ash, Bishop and Call (a bit of franchise-wide ThemeNaming which ''Prometheus'' appears to have continued with David). Ash from the first movie [[spoiler:is a particularly sinister example, since he secretly protects the Alien via assignment and betrays the other crew members]].

* BabyPlanet: The tiny moon that came to be known as LV-426 was just another dime-a-dozen planetoid barely 1,200 meters in ''diameter'', so small that it's gravity is only 0.86 that of Earth's; another insignificant rock with a primordial and unbreathable atmosphere destined to be forgotten in the vastness of space... were it not for the ghost-ship of an unknown Film/{{Alien}} civilization broadcasting a mysterious warning to ''not'' explore its cavernous innards... a warning unfortunately ignored by both the crew of the Weyland Yutani towing vehicle ''Nostromo'', [[Film/{{Aliens}} and the colonists of Hadley's Hope 57 years after the former mysteriously dissapeared...]]

* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Newt AKA Billie]] is one in the Dark Horse comic series.

** The Dark Horse comics totally ignore ''3'' and ''Resurrection'' because they were written before ''Alien 3'' came along and killed everyone. In the novelizations, Newt and Hicks were replaced by [[{{Expy}} Billie and Wilks]] and Ripley was [[spoiler:revealed to be a artificial person with implanted memories]].

** The Colonial Marines in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' mention dealing with "Arcturians" but Creator/James Cameron refused to give much information about what they are.
** While there have been two crossover movies with the ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' franchise, Ridley Scott considers them non-canon and deliberately contradicted them when writing the backstory for ''Film/Prometheus''.

* AmbiguousRobots: This series has a whole spectrum of them. Tending toward the organic end, we have the Xenomorphs and on the probably-robotic end, we have the artificial persons. Right square in the middle is the Space Jockey (and by extension, his ship) from the first movie.

* AbsentAliens: While intelligent alien species did exist in the past (the Engineers or 'Space Jockies'), the franchise is generally unclear as to whether or not humanity has made contact with other species. Some background dialogue between Marines in ''Aliens'' sort of implies trade relations with other species, but this could easily be a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness or the characters may have been joking around. ''TabletopGame/AlienTheRoleplayingGame'' expands on this in the ''Colonial Marine Operations Manual'', introducing the Arcturians, who are all but stated to be another Engineer creation.

* AlternateTimeline: Andrew Gaska's [[CanonWelding welded]] universe takes place in a world in which the Cold War never ended, the UK regained its superpower status and the United States expanded to include the entire western hemisphere.

** ''Alien: The Illustrated Story'' (1979)

** ''Film/AlienVsPredatorRequiem'' (2007)

* BabyPlanet: The tiny moon that came to be known as LV-426 was just another dime-a-dozen planetoid barely 1,200 meters in ''diameter'', so small that it's gravity is only 0.86 that of Earth's; another insignificant rock with a primordial and unbreathable atmosphere destined to be forgotten in the vastness of space... were it not for the ghost-ship of an unknown Film/{{Alien}} civilization broadcasting a mysterious warning to ''not'' explore its cavernous innards... a warning unfortunately ignored by both the crew of the Weyland Yutani towing vehicle ''Nostromo'', [[Film/{{Aliens}} and the colonists of Hadley's hope 57 years after the former mysteriously dissapeared...]]

* BabyPlanet: The tiny moon that came to be known as LV-426 was just another dime-a-dozen planetoid barely 1,200 meters in ''diameter'', so small that it's gravity is only 0.86 that of Earth's; another insignificant rock with a primordial and unbreathable atmosphere destined to be forgotten in the vastness of space... were it not for the ghost-ship of an unknown Film/{{Alien}} civilization broadcasting a mysterious warning to ''not'' explore its cavernous innards... a warning unfrotunately ignored by both the crew of the Weyland Yutani towing vehicle ''Nostromo'', [[Film/{{Aliens}} and the colonists of Hadley's hope 57 years after the former mysteriously dissapeared...]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}} Battle Royale'' (2017) - Ellen Ripley and Xenomorph skins and items were added in the 2021 In Space... is a Set.

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' (2015) - A Xenomorph born from the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' series's Tarkatan race is a DLC GuestFighter

* ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'' (2023) - Crossover DLC

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