Ellen Ripley
Ellen Ripley is a female film character that features in the Alien universe.
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Biography
Ellen Louise Ripley was a female human who was born on January 7, 2092 at Olympia, Luna, that was part of the United Americas.
At some point, she came to be an employee of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation where she was noted to had entered into a brief relationship that led to her having a daughter named Amanda Ripley. She later came to serve as a warrant officer on-board the Nostromo under the command of Captain Arthur Dallas.
Ripley and with the rest of the crew awoke from their Hypersleep Chambers thinking they were done with their cargo haul duty, but found out they were awoken to investigate an unknown signal coming from the moon LV-426. The atmosphere of the moon damaged the ship, and so the crew had to stay on the moon until repairs were complete. An away team consisting of Captain Dallas, Executive Officer Kane, and Navigator Lambert left the ship to investigate the signal. They found a derelict ship broadcasting the signal. Ripley stayed on the shuttle to oversee the repairs. Ash served as the observer for the ground team's status. The three entered the derelict spacecraft, but their radio signal was cut off and the others had no idea what happened to them inside. During this interval, Ripley told Ash that Mother had partially decoded the alien transmission, and it appeared to be a warning of some kind. Later, Dallas and Lambert hurried the unconscious Kane back to the Nostromo. Ripley refused to allow them to enter the ship, citing quarantine protocol. Despite this, Ash opened the entrance and let the three of them as well as the facehugger onto the ship. Ripley was later attacked by Lambert for leaving them outside. The crew tried to remove the facehugger, but it was too firmly attached to Kane. Ash advised that they could seriously injure or kill Kane if they cut it off, and they also feared that its acid blood could compromise the ship's hull, so Kane was left in the infirmary with the creature still attached. Eventually the facehugger fell off and crawled away. Ripley, Dallas and Ash searched for it in the infirmary and Ripley stumbled upon it, but by now it was dead. Ash kept its corpse for investigation, despite Ripley's doubts. Kane awoke soon after the facehugger detached itself and he appeared unharmed. The crew had a final dinner before re-entering hypersleep, however, Kane started to convulse violently, and a creature emerged from his chest and scurried off into the depths of the ship.
Despite her death, her genetic records remained and 200 years later she came to be cloned by scientists of the United Systems Military. This was because her records contained the genetic material of the Alien Queen embryo with the cloning resurrecting the creature in the process. Numerous clones were produced but most of these were failures until Ripley 8 was created who was he only success. From her, the Alien Queen embryo was extracted through surgery and the United Systems Military looked to study and breed the creatures on-board their mobile research ship the USM Auriga. It was discovered that as a result of the cloning that Alien DNA came to be blended with the Ripley clone and similarly her human genetics were inadvertently combined with the Alien Queen making both of them hybrids.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
By her own account, Ripley was not a soldier but circumstances saw her arming herself with makeshift weapons that she used to survive.
Notes
- Ellen Ripley was created by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett where she was portrayed by actor Sigourney Weaver and featured in the setting of the Alien universe.
In other media
Video games
- In Aliens vs. Predator, Ellen Ripley was briefly mentioned in dialogue by Karl Bishop Weyland in the setting of the 2010 video game.
- In Alien: Isolation, Ellen Ripley briefly appeared in the setting of the 2014 video game where she was voiced once again by actress Sigourney Weaver.
Novels
Appearances
- Alien: (1979)
- Aliens:
- Alien 3:
- Alien: Resurrection:
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