Referenced By / Alien

In space, no one can hear … Troy and Abed in the morning!

Works referencing Alien and the sequels. See also Xenomorph Xerox for creatures based on the Alien itself.

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Anime & Manga

• Crayon Shin-chan have a story arc in which Shin-Chan's mother, Misae is currently pregnant with Himawari, and constantly having bouts of morning sickness. Shin-Chan suggests to his mother that she watch something nice on television to relax a little, and turns on the movie channel... which happens to be playing the first Alien movie, specifically that chestburster scene. Cue Misae comically throwing up.
• The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: In Chapter 56, an alien similar to a Xenomorph appears in the dream Rentarou has while using Kusuri's lap as a pillow.
• In Dragon Ball Z, Frieza's third form bears more than a passing resemblance to the Xenomorph (same goes for his alternate universe counterpart Frost). Additionally, some of Imperfect Cell's habits are very similar to the way the Xenomorph kills people. (like attacking people from behind with his stinger tail)
• Episode 07 of Excel♡Saga sees the team fight a creature that looks suspiciously like a Xenomorph Queen. Said episode also features the Pulse Rifle.
• Great Teacher Onizuka: When Mayu's in the hospital, he uses a puppet Chest Burster like the one from Alien to prank everyone.
• In Kill la Kill, Mako turns into a Xenomorph in one of her Hallelujah moments.
• Chapter 43 of Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary is a parody of several slasher films. On the last page, students who look like Hellraiser, Freddy Krueger, and a humanoid xenomorph appear.
• Sailor Moon: In one episode, Shingo plays a video game with a xenomorph as an enemy.

Comic Books

• The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis: The second delivery the Simpsons do with the Planet Express crew result in them having to deal with a xenomorph and facehuggers.

Comic Strips

• In the Dykes to Watch Out For installment that coined The Bechdel Test, Alien is mentioned as an example of a film that passes the test.
• Naturally MAD Magazine did a parody of all films in the franchise over the years, except for Alien 3. More info here: [1]
• One Gotlib gag has Pépé le Pevert playing the part of the astronaut investigating the strange planet, then having a facehugger alien jump unto his face. However, the creature is so disgusted by it, then he soon lets himself drop and throws up.
• A political cartoon about the Elian Gonzalez controversy parodied the original film's poster with Gonzalez in a tiny raft against an enormous moon, with the tagline "In politics, no one can hear you scream."
• One installment of The Far Side titled "Alien Family Dinners" has juvenile xenomorphs at the kids' table, with one playing with the turkey - or in this, in the turkey.

Fan Works

• * A Game of Cat and Cat: "Halloween Special Again": An unnamed character dressed up as Ellen Ripley.
• In the Parody Fic Farce Contact, the crew of the Enterprise are watching Alien for Movie Night, "a classic example of pre-Contact humanity's xenophobic fear of the unknown."
  The crew watched with bated breath as the flamethrower-toting heroine stalked the slime-dripping monster through the dank depths of her spaceship. Suddenly from the darkness emerged a row of gleaming teeth fixed in a permanent grin.
  "AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHH!" screamed the audience in mortal terror.
  "Why are you yelling at me?" asked Mayweather.
• Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space
  • Robotrucks carry "...giant seed pods from Santa Mira and alien eggs imported from LV-426."
  • Proton lists "facehugging vaginas with acid for blood" among the many aliens he's encountered. Buster wants to know what they use for tampons.
  • In response to the Job-Stealing Robot trope, a CEO says; "We tried using illegal aliens instead, but they kept bursting out of people's chests."
  • "I only need to know one thing," said a female soldier. "Where they aren't."
• Rocketship Voyager. Voyager picks up an Escape Pod resembling a large leathery egg, from which emerges an alien who hides on the hanger deck, forcing the crew to search for it. One of the Space Marines even says, "Here kitty... Here kitty-kitty..." while doing so. The alien then leaps out at the space marine and clasps onto his face, but he's protected by his helmet and the alien turns out to be an angry but harmless Nee'Lix.
• In Starship Hooters 3: Undresser while "channeling serious Sigourney Weaver", Lola shouts, "Let go of her, you bug!"
• In What Your Least Favourite Cure Says About You, the list claims that those who were frightened by Alien are most likely to pick Cure Milky as their least favourite Cure, since she is an alien.

Films — Animation

• The Lion King (1994): According to the screenplay, the scene where Scar attempts to eat Zazu and his beak pops out of the lion's mouth to commend Mufasa's timely arrival is a reference to the xenomorph's Nested Mouths.
• Shrek 2: During the fight with Puss in Boots, the cat goes inside Shrek's clothing and bursts through his shirt, much like the chest-burster scene.
• In Planet 51, one of the aliens has a pet Xenomorph that acts like a dog. In another scene Chuck Baker playfully quotes the tagline "in space no one can hear you scream!"
• The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: One of Rex Dangervest's raptors, most of whom are named after action film protagonists, is named Ripley.

Films — Live-Action

• Poltergeist: A poster of the film can be seen hanging in Rob's room.
• The chest burster scene in Spaceballs has John Hurt reprising his role, shouting "Oh no, not again!" in the process. The little alien then hops out and does a little song-and-dance routine, parodying Michigan J. Frog in One Froggy Evening.
• In Analyze This, Ben's introduction at the mafia meeting includes the line "You got to go in deep and pull out the thing, like that movie where the thing came out of the stomach and ate the people on the fucking spaceship."
• Ted: When Ted is bifurcated in the film's climax, he declares "Jesus, I look like the robot from Aliens." In an earlier scene, during a drunken party, Ted's attempts to do Bishop's knife game ending up injuring the participant's hand.
• In Avengers: Infinity War, Iron Man and Spider-Man blast a hole in Ebony Maw's ship and he's hurled into space, a deliberate Shout-Out to Aliens, Maw even floats away from the Q-ship and then past the camera in a nearly shot-for-shot recreation of the Xenomorph Queen drifting away from the Sulaco. Later during the scuffle on Titan, when Spider-Man encounters Mantis, he freaks out because he thinks she's going to lay eggs in him à la facehugger.
• In The World's End, when it's Andy's turn to show a scar to prove that he's human instead of a new and "flawless" Blank copy, Gary tells him to show the scar he left him in '86 after they attempted to "reenact the knife game from Aliens", but Andy goes on a furious tangent bringing up instead his injuries after he attempted to drive a heavily intoxicated Gary home in '97 but then crashed and got arrested after being hospitalized while Gary 'miraculously' woke up and just ran off into the night. Gary nonchalantly responds that either would do and Andy furiously shows his middle finger scarred by the botched knife game.
• In Deadpool (2016), when Deadpool meets Negasonic Teenage Warhead, he compares her look to Ripley in Alien³.
• The Descent: The scene where the team climbs the rockface into the feeding chamber is an almost shot-for-shot replication of the scene in the first film where Lambert and Kane climb up to meet the Space Jockey.
• In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ferris uses the chestburster scene as an exaggeration to describe how sick he is.

Literature

• The titular creatures from the Goosebumps story, Egg Monsters from Mars, is pretty much a G-rated homage to the Xenomorphs. They're an alien life-form of unknown origin born from eggs, can adapt to any environment in a short time after birth, are studied by human villains as potential weapons, and reproduces by impregnating humans.
• Nemesis Saga: In Project Hyperion, one of the enemy Kaiju bears a distinct resemblance to a Xenomorph and is named Giger as a result.
• In the first book of the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy, Only You Can Save Mankind, Johnny is surprised when the Screewee Captain admits that she is unable to navigate her own ship through its ventilation, citing Alien.
  [p. 133/133] "'I saw a film where there was an alien crawling around inside a spaceship's air ducts and it could come out wherever it liked,' said Johnny reproachfully. 'Doubtless it had a map,' said the Captain."
• Skin Game: Harry's cue to Grey is a quote from Private Hudson in Aliens.
  Game over, man. Game over.

Live-Action TV

• Mystery Science Theater 3000:
  • During the review of Gamera vs. Zigra Dr. Forrester asks: "Is it true what they say about space?", to which Dr. Erhardt responds: "No one can hear you laugh!"
  • During The Space Children Mike says: "It's laying eggs in my chest. Is that normal?"
  • The host segments of I Was a Teenage Werewolf were a Whole-Plot Reference to Alien.
• Doctor Who
  • In the Christmas Special "Last Christmas", one of the characters refers to the film directly in reference to the Face Hugger Monster of the Week. The Twelfth Doctor regards this as Fantastic Racism. "There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive! No wonder everyone keeps invading you." Turns out the connection is not a coincidence.
  • "Dragonfire" contains several references; for example, the Xenomorph-like appearance of the so-called "dragon", which is hunted through corridors by soldiers with large guns and motion detectors before it ambushes them. Unfortunately the bright lighting of the Graham Williams era doesn't help deliver the creepiness that made the Xenomorphs a classic movie monster.
• In the Shadowhunters episode "The Mortal Cup", when discussing Jocelyn's overprotectiveness towards Clary, Simon compares the situation to the scene from Aliens where the alien queen was defending her eggs from Ripley.
• The Blossom episode "Student Films" had Joey make a Fan Sequel to the films as his class project. He a bit of a mistake in the process when Bishop (played by his father) claims he hosted an alien in the first film. (Bishop wasn't in the first film and his counterpart Ash never hosted an alien.)
• The Community episode "Epidemiology" had Troy and Abed attend a Halloween party as Ripley in the power loader and a Xenomorph respectively. Troy later has to use the power loader costume to protect himself when he reenters the library to cure a group of zombie partygoers.
• The first film was a big influence on Red Dwarf, mainly in its depiction of life working on a spaceship and the interior design.
  • In "Waiting for God", Rimmer warns Lister about going into a chamber, for fear of getting something stuck to his face.
  • "Polymorph" was a Whole-Plot Reference to the film.
  • The scene in "Pete Part II where Kryten's penis Archie wriggles up Cat's top and then bursts out is a parody of the chestburster scene.
• Stranger Things:
  • The Demogorgon's whole shtick of being an unstoppable alien hunter, its lifecycle, and its grotesque eyeless face all recall the titular xenomorph.
  • The end of 2x06, "The Spy", contains a nearly direct lift from a scene in Aliens where the Colonial Marines venture into the atmosphere processing facility, with multiple red dots converging on their position as seen through a radar scanner like in the movie. Except it goes even less well for the soldiers in question. To boot, both scenes feature Paul Reiser watching them over a body-mounted camera.
  • Also, the scene where the Hawkins scientists are interrogating Will. Reiser taps on the monitor and turns it off, like his character Burke doing the same in Aliens.
  • Owens is an inversion of Burke, one of Paul Reiser's most famous characters. Burke seems like an "okay guy" at first, but turns out to be a monster. Owens seems like a villain, but is revealed to be a good man willing to sacrifice himself to help others. Both have the same slightly-smarmy charm that Paul Reiser does so well, making you want to like and trust them while simultaneously waiting for the other shoe to drop, making the inversion that much more effective.
  • Eleven's short, curly hairstyle throughout much of season two seems to deliberately recall that of Ellen Ripley in the first two Alien films. For bonus points, both Ripley (in Alien³) and Eleven (in season one and four) have also sported shaved heads.
  • The scene in Season 3's "E Pluribus Unum" where Nancy is faced with one of the Mind Flayer's tentacles which stops right in front of her face is framed in the same way as the famous scene in Alien³ where a Xenomorph corners Ripley, hisses in her face and then suddenly flees.
  • The Kamatcha prison in Season 4 has a room full of demogorgons in tanks. Joyce is seen walking past them in a homage of a similar scene in Alien: Resurrection, which Winona Ryder was also in.
• An episode of Ultraman: Towards the Future has Jean caught in a stasis tank that resembles the ones from the Nostromo. It appears to be a case of Prop Recycling.
• Weird Science did some references now and then, usually by way of Chett (likely as a nod to how the movie version was played by Bill Paxton (Hudson)).
  • "Earth Boys Are Easy": Chett and his new girlfriend Rose watch Aliens for a date. Being military-minded bruisers, they consider it a romantic movie and discuss Vasquez and Gorman's sacrifice in particular. Later, a female alien cocoons Wyatt, Gary, and Lisa to the wall so that she can feed on Chett without interference. Lisa manages to call Rose for help. Not only does Rose automatically believe the alien story, but she rushes over with a flamethrower as if she were Ripley.
    Rose: [bursting through a door] Get away from him, you bitch!
    Wyatt: Uh, they're in Chett's room.
  • "Demon Lisa": After possessing Lisa, the Cyber-Demon turns Wyatt's room into a Xenomorph-like hive and begins sticking victims to the wall in order to drain their brains as part of its plot. Upon seeing this horrifying sight for himself, Chett screams, "Holy Aliens!"
• Joan of Arcadia: In the first season episode "Bringeth it On", Luke worries about being attracted to Grace because his classmate Friedman calls her a lesbian, so he asks Kevin (his older brother) about it. Kevin, in turn, asks Luke who he thinks about when he's in the shower, and Luke says Sigourney Weaver in Alien (along with Batgirl and Christina Ricci).

Tabletop Games

• The Adventure Board Game Life Form is a Whole-Plot Reference to Alien, complete with Dwindling Party, Fire-Breathing Weapon, and Sensor Suspense due to the Alien player moving both the Alien itself, and a sensor ghost. It's also a Timed Mission, limited to 20 rounds due to a countdown timer.
• The Task Force Games game Intruder is clearly based on Alien, but occurs on a space station instead of a ship (interestingly, the space station is named Prometheus). It includes engineers who can build items (like Parker) and science officers who initially try to protect the alien (like Ash). The crew must either capture or kill the alien, and if they fail, they can set the space station's self-destruct system and flee in a shuttle.

Video Games

• Apocalypse: The game's protagonist (appropriately enough, played by 80s action-icon Bruce Willis) will sometimes quote Private Hudson when shooting at enemies.
  "Oh you want some? You want some too?"
• Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M. have you battling giant insectoid monsters, each of them led by a Hive Queen, not unlike Xenomorphs. The battle against the Lava Queen even has your commander telling you to "dethrone the bitch!" a reference to Ripley's famous line before she battles the Alien Queen.
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: The first real level, "Crew Expendable", contains multiple references and quotes, beginning with the title.
• Civilization: Beyond Earth: Getting a One-Hit Kill awards you with the "Game over, man!" achievement.
• Conker's Bad Fur Day: A Xenomorph called Heinrich appears as the final boss, in a spoof of Aliens. Conker even says, "Get away from her, you bitch!" before he battles him.
• Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex: On the game's cover art and in the levels "Droid Void" and "Crate Balls of Fire", Crash pilots a yellow mech suit strongly resembling the power loader from Aliens.
• Daikaiju Daikessen Versus: Ascha'Vovina is a Draconic Abomination with a Gigeresque black exoskeleton and segmented tail, giving it a notable resemblance to a Xenomorph, and its backstory involves it being created as a civilization-destroying Bioweapon Beast.
• Doom began life as an Aliens adaptation. While the finished game removed any explicit references, the general "techbase" aesthetic is strongly reminiscent of the first two films.
• Dreamkiller has a stage set in a theater, and one of the posters parodies the iconic Alien Egg poster of the 1979 film (with a glowing green toilet instead of the egg).
• Enemy Zero could be considered a wholesale Video Game Remake of Alien with a couple changes. For starters, the aliens are invisible in addition to being incredibly lethal, and your Enemy-Detecting Radar uses sound cues instead of visual tracking. Second, the protagonist, Laura, is an android.
• Everybody Edits Flash: The Flavor Text for the Laika was "In space, nobody can hear you bark," a reference to the Tag Line of Alien.
• Gene Troopers has an Our Hero Is Dead moment when you sacrifice yourself by leaping off a ledge into a vat of molten steel, like Ripley's fate at the end of Alien³. The Crucified Hero Shot, background music, and camera angles even looks similar to the film's, and like Ripley, the player comes back alive.
• Halo:
  • The Flood are a race of parasitic, vaguely humanoid creatures that attack in huge swarms, are particularly unpleasant to fight up close, and cocoon people in Meat Moss for future infection. Gee, where does this sound familiar from?
  • The UNSC Marines are pretty much modeled after the Colonial Marines.
• The "Mechanical Heart" chapter of Live A Live takes much of its plot from Alien, with a starship transporting a xenomorph of some sort to Earth. And just like Alien, the crew is completely expendable in this venture.
• Metroid is heavily influenced by Alien, and its creators are very open and honest about this fact. The titular Metroids are Face Huggers with a metamorphic life cycle (with the Zeta Metroid in particular being a Xenomorph Xerox) and a monstrous Insect Queen that makes her debut in the first sequel. The protagonist Samus Aran is a woman, with this (then-surprising) twist paralleling the (then-surprising) twist where Ellen Ripley becomes the sole survivor of the Nostromo crew. The Chozo Statues bear more than a passing resemblance to the enigmatic Space Jockey. There are plenty of other Giger-esque designs, such as the recurring villain Ridley (who resembles a Xenomorph with the head and wings of a dragon). The game book Metroid: Zebes Shin'nyuu Shirei has a possible plot scenario which is nearly identical to the climax of the first Alien movie. This is all just the tip of the iceberg; if we counted every similarity between Metroid and Alien, we'd be here all day.
• Chapter 4 of Mortal Kombat 1 has Kung Lao, Kenshi and Johnny Cage try to stop Shang Tsung from infecting Mileena with Tarkat. Kenshi yells "Get away from her!" which Johnny follows up with "You bitch!" directed at a nearby Tanya. This culminates in Johnny being on the receiving end of a What the Hell, Hero? as he tries to explain Alien to them.
  Johnny Cage: You know, the movie: tiny girl, ginormous alien. (Imitating Newt) Ripley!
• Paranormal HK has a stage which recreates the Facehugger scene from Aliens. You're pursued by a mannequin spider (a flesh-colored monster who can face-rape you to death) and must hide under tables in a dimly-lit room, not unlike the predicament Ripley and Newt found themselves in. Get spotted and the mannequin spider suddenly pops down from above a table, just like what the facehuggers did in the film.
• Smite:
  • Serqet's "Dread Queen" skin is modeled after the Xenomorph Queen, possessing a black biomechanical exoskeleton and jagged head crest.
  • Tiamat's "Extraterrestrial" skin takes cues from the Xenomorph, possessing a skeletal black appearance with corrosive green ooze.
• SAR: Search and Rescue is basically a Whole-Plot Reference to the second movie, Aliens, with your Space Marine character uncovering a wrecked colonial ship on a deserted planet and fighting off assorted alien monsters infesting its interiors, including numerous Xenomorph Xerox enemies (whose methods of reproduction by incubating in human bodies is lifted from the films).
• Soldiers Inc (2015): A Xenomorph appears as a playable character.
• The Zerg from StarCraft take many design aesthetics from the Alien series. The demo (StarCraft: Loomings) even called them "Xenomorphs."

Web Comics

• Questionable Content: In #1007, Pintsize alters the tagline from Alien ("In space, no one can hear you scream") to "In space, no one can hear you groan" (because pun).
• In Schlock Mercenary, more than one well-equipped lab has had a xenomorph in a tube in the background.

Web Videos

• Channel Awesome: In To Boldly Flee, Obscurus Lupa shouts to the possessed alien Lindsay Ellis: Get away from her, you bitch!, a shout-out to a similar catchphrase from Aliens.

Western Animation

• Adventure Time
  • The tagline for the movie "Heat Signature" is "Under the ocean, no one can hear you die". This is a reference to the tagline for the movie Alien (1979): "In space, no one can hear you scream."
  • The episode "No One Can Hear You", references Alien when the candy people are shown to be stuck to the walls of the sewer with a goo, like the Xenomorphs do the their victims. Even the title is borrowed from the tagline of the movie: "In space, no one can hear you scream." Finn and Jake are screaming in the title card.
  • In "Lady & Peebles" PB's Heart Signal Tracker is reminiscent of the Motion Tracker from Aliens
• Amphibia features an episode about evil rampaging vegetable momsters. One of them resembles a Xenomorph, with an eggplant for a head.
• Inside Job (2021): In "Buzzkill", Reagan says a play on the film's tagline: "In space, no one can hear their dad talk about boning their mom."
• The Simpsons:
  • In the Itchy and Scratchy cartoon from "Deep Space Homer" Itchy bursts out of Scratchy's chest during his space travel.
  • In "Treehouse of Horror XI", an X-ray machine reveals that an alien is gestating inside Professor Frink's stomach.
  • Maggie bursts out of the chest of Bart's astronaut costume in "Treehouse of Horror XII".
  • In "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song", Groundskeeper Willie chases Santa's Little Helper through the school's air ducts, just as the crew does in Alien.
  • A Xenomorph is seen in the opening sequence of "Treehouse of Horror XIV".
  • In "Days of Future Future", Jenda dates a Xenomorph.
  • In "The Lastest Gun in the West", Snake and his cronies hold off the police with guns that resemble the pulse rifles from Aliens.
  • In "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)", a tomacco-addicted goat attacks some tobacco executives onboard their plane, causing it to crash and kill everyone like the astronauts in their drop ship. The goat even looks frighteningly like a Xenomorph when viewed from the front.
  • In "Stealing First Base", Bart getting a "kiss" (actually CPR) from Nikki causes him to imagine a montage of famous movie kisses... including some that never even happened, like Ripley making out with the Xenomorph's tongue.
• South Park: A xenomorph can be seen in the TV movie "Imaginationland", among the evil fictional characters, where he kills off the mayor of Imaginationland.
• Animaniacs:
  • The episode "Space Probed".
  • In another episode where the Warners crash a celebrity party, they meet Sigourney Weaver and a xenomorph. Dot introduces it to one of her "pet" monsters inside her box, this time the Director with a talking tongue.
    Tongue: Oh monster!
• In one episode of Pinky and the Brain, as part of the Freeze-Frame Bonus, a Hollywood restaurant has Sigourney Weaver sharing a table with a xenomorph.
• American Dad!: In "Great Space Roaster" the way the Smiths wake up in the pods, and Stan's panties and tank top outfit are the same as Sigourney Weaver's at the end of Alien. The way Roger acts while hunting down the family on the spaceship is exactly like Alien.
• Transformers: Rescue Bots, the episode "The Alien Invasion of Griffin Rock", Blade makes a reference to the facehuggers they talking about the possibility of an alien invasion.
• Codename: Kids Next Door: In "Operation: L.I.C.E.", the scene where the lice bursts through Numbah Five's hat references the chest-burster scene.
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: One episode has the protagonists watching a movie similar to Alien, with the xenomorph's inner mouth having itself an inner mouth, and this one having one too... Up to the tiniest mouth, which then bites Ripley in the nose.
• In the Rick and Morty episode "Auto-Erotic Assimilation", Rick tells his grandkids not to shy away from any eggs they find on a seemingly abandoned spaceship because "Those facehuggers are worth more than this ship."
• Robot Chicken:
  • In the sketch, "Who's Killing The Muppets?" from the episode, "Schindler's Bucket List", when Scooter attempts to kill Kermit and Miss Piggy as revenge for killing his twin sister, Skeeter, when they were kids, Camilla clucks, "Get away from her, you bitch!" before she kills Scooter as revenge for killing Gonzo at the beginning of the sketch.
  • The sketch "Aliens Meet The Jetsons" from the episode "Robot Fight Accident" is a Whole-Plot Reference to the film.
• One episode of The Mask has the title character appear dressed as Ripley riding a Power Loader, while doing a sendoff of the "Get away from her, you bitch!" line.
• My Life as a Teenage Robot: In the season two premiere, the titular teenage robot removes her weapon systems to slim down her figure (because high school allegory), but when she proves too weak and defenseless to defeat marauding fish aliens, a supporting character reassembles her discarded weapons systems into a power loader and enters with the quip, "Get away from her, you fish."
• Bob's Burgers: In the episode "Mom, Lies and Videotape", the kids are describing their Mother's Day shows to Linda. Tina's is a mix of Aliens and Freaky Friday with Tina as Ripley and Jocelyn as the Mother Alien wishing they could swap lives... and they do.
• Code Lyoko: In the episode "End of Take", a film is being shot with an animatronic alien that resembles a Xenomorph. Said puppet is naturally possessed by XANA, leading to a chase in the disaffected factory evoking plenty tropes of the franchise, including *Drool* Hello. It's closer to a full-on homage than a mere shout-out.
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • In a Halloween Episode, the kids must contend with evil self-duplicating platypuses made of grape juice and dark magic. Isabella suggests, "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit! It's the only way to be sure."
  • "Get away from him, MITCH!"
• American Dragon: Jake Long: A girl at a kissing booth who Brad flirts with transforms into a monster with a telescopic Xenomorph-like inner jaw. He's not put off in the least.
• The Legion of Super Heroes (2006) episode "Fear Factory" opens with Superman, Brainiac 5, Cosmic Boy, Bouncing Boy, and Saturn Girl watching a Fictional Counterpart version of the original Alien, complete with expies of Ripley, Jonesy, and the Big Chap. Bouncing Boy ends up in a recreation of it later on.
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: In "Bug Off", while trying to deal with Verminous Skumm's swarm of mutated weevils, a researcher reveals some parasitic wasps that lay eggs in weevils, then the offspring eat them from the inside and burst out. Wheeler goes, "Cool! Just like in Alien!"

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