What about her middle name, though? Most fans hadn't even bothered to think of it, but for the truly obsessive out there, it might please you to know that her middle name is "Louise. Weyland-Yutani's official dossier on Ripley reveals her height as 5'7", with a weight of lbs. That's a far cry from actress Sigourney Weaver's real-life height of 5'9". Still, it does little to detract from Ripley's on-screen presence, allowing her to stand toe-to-toe with the tallest of the bunch, and usually emerge at the top.
Many believe that Ripley is a homegrown human, but she was actually born on an outer world colony funded by the United Americas. The name of the colony was known as Olympia, which was constructed on Luna, otherwise commonly known as Earth's moon. This may help explain her comment at the end of Alien: Resurrection when the cloned Ripley says "I'm a stranger here, myself.
Weyland-Yutani's official dossier on Ripley reveals that she wasn't just an excellent flight officer - she was also a gifted student. She received a Masters degree in Engineering from the New York Aeronautics University, which helped jump-start her career. Ironically, a real Brea-Olinda school actually exists in California, with 1, students avg. In December, Waterston was on hand at a special Fox event to show off an early look at the film, and she minced no words when it came to talking about the role that Ripley and Scott have played in delivering exciting female characters to the blockbuster space.
It just seems obvious. There are a lot of cool, complicated women out there. Need to get a job done? Send Ripley.
When Ripley awoke, she discovered to her horror that the two live Facehugger specimens from the colony's lab had been set loose in the room. With her weapon gone and the door locked, Ripley set off the fire alarm in the room to attract the attention of the Marines, but was attacked by one of the Facehuggers before they arrived.
Although she managed to stop the creature from latching onto her face, it began strangling her with its tail, and she was on the verge of being rendered unconscious when Hicks and the others arrived and saved her, killing both of the creatures. Ripley informed them immediately that Burke had been responsible.
The Marines confronted Burke over his actions, Ripley hypothesising that he had intended to smuggle Xenomorph embryos back to Earth by having her and Newt impregnated. She also theorised that he would likely have sabotaged the Marines' cryotubes on the return journey to prevent them informing anyone of the Chestbursters inside the two females — after jettisoning their bodies into space he would be free to make up any story he liked regarding their demise.
Hicks, having had enough, prepared to execute Burke for his treachery, but Ripley stopped him, explaining that Burke needs to be brought back to Earth to face justice for his actions.
Suddenly, the power to the colony failed, shutting off the lights. The Xenomorphs had cut the power, and they attacked en masse from above, having slipped into the complex undetected above the false ceilings.
In the ensuing chaos, Hudson was captured by the Aliens while Burke left, sealing the survivors in Operations behind him, trapping them with the swarming Xenomorphs. Newt led Ripley and the other survivors to safety through the colony's ventilation ducts, although Vasquez and the revived Gorman were cornered by the pursuing Xenomorphs and chose to commit suicide with a Pulse Rifle grenade rather than be captured alive.
The explosion also knocked Newt into a vertical access shaft, separating her from Ripley and Hicks. Fortunately, Ripley had passed on the tracer bracelet given to her by Hicks, and the two quickly located Newt in the colony's sub-levels.
However, she was trapped in the colony's sewers, beneath the flooring, and by the time Hicks could cut through a Drone had captured her. Ripley refused to abandon the little girl, but, realizing the jeopardy they were in, Hicks dragged her away.
As they attempted to escape in an elevator, another Xenomorph attacked and Hicks was wounded by its acid blood. Ripley carried him back to the recently arrived dropship, telling Bishop that they were not yet ready to leave. Ripley ordered Bishop to fly her to the Atmosphere Processor where she knew Newt would be taken.
Despite Bishop's pleas that the Processor's reactor was due to go critical in less than twenty minutes, Ripley would not leave Newt behind, asking Hicks to ensure Bishop did not leave until she returned with the girl.
She and Hicks shared their first names for the first time, before Ripley descended into the Hive to save Newt. Ripley found her about to be impregnated by a Facehugger. She killed the creature and pulled Newt from the cocoon in which she had been entombed, but as the two fled they found themselves standing before the Queen in her Egg chamber.
Ripley attempted to secure safe passage by "negotiating" with the Queen, threatening her Eggs, a process that appeared to work when the Queen instructed her Drones to back off. However, when one of the Eggs began to hatch, Ripley incinerated the entire chamber, opening fire on anything that moved and firing several grenades into the Queen's ovipositor , destroying it.
With the whole room ablaze, Ripley fled with Newt to the elevators. As they waited for them to arrive, Ripley discovered the Queen was still alive and, freed from her ruined ovipositor, was now in pursuit. The elevator arrived as the Queen approached and Ripley and Newt just barely escaped, ascending to the landing pad. Upon reaching the platform, Ripley discovered that the dropship was gone. Meanwhile, all around them the Atmosphere Processor was disintegrating, rocked by explosions as its systems overloaded.
The situation deteriorated further when a second elevator arrived, and from it emerged the Queen. Out of ammunition, Ripley discarded her weapons and prepared to face her fate.
Luckily, Bishop returned in the dropship at that very moment, extracting them both and flying to safety mere moments before the Processor's reactor detonated in a thermonuclear explosion, killing all of the remaining Xenomorphs at Hadley's Hope.
Back aboard the Sulaco , Bishop apologised for temporarily abandoning Ripley, stating the landing pad had become too unstable for the dropship to remain there.
Ripley commended him for his bravery, making it clear she had overcome her initial mistrust of him. At that moment, Bishop was suddenly impaled by the Queen's tail, the creature having stowed away in the dropship's undercarriage just before it departed the Atmosphere Processor. After ripping Bishop in two, the Queen chased after Ripley, who distracted the Queen long enough for Newt to escape under the hangar's floor grates.
Ripley made it into a nearby storage bay, sealing the door, and so the Queen returned her attention to Newt. She was moments from killing the girl when Ripley reappeared, now strapped into a Power Loader and prepared for a fight to the death. The pair clashed, Ripley eventually gaining the upper hand and throwing the Queen into an airlock in the hangar's floor; at the last moment, the Queen grabbed onto the Power Loader's frame and dragged the machine in after her.
Ripley quickly scrambled out of the airlock, the Queen trapped beneath the Power Loader. However, before she could reach the Sulaco' s deck the Queen grabbed her ankle, attempting to drag her back down and kill her. A desperate Ripley opened the airlock, despite still being inside, and clung to the ladder as the decompression began to vent the Sulaco' s atmosphere into space, the Queen still clinging to her leg.
She shouted for the others to 'hold on' as the ship depressurised. Finally her sneaker came loose, and with it the Queen's grip, hurling the Xenomorph to her death somewhere in space. Ripley escaped the airlock and sealed the doors, collapsing exhausted on the floor of the Sulaco' s hangar. After recovering and treating Hicks' wounds, Ripley, Newt, Hicks and the damaged Bishop entered hypersleep for the return journey to Earth.
Shortly after the Sulaco , a Facehugger had infiltrated the EEV and attached to Ripley in her cryotube, causing hers to eject from the ship, alongside Newt, the remains of Bishop and Hicks. Newt and Hicks were killed on impact while Bishop was heavily damaged, but Ripley alone survived and was recovered by the inhabitants of the Fiorina Class C Work Correctional Unit. Upon coming to, Ripley was informed by the prison's medical officer, Clemens , that Newt and Hicks — for whom Turk had been mistaken — had perished in the crash.
Devastated by this news, Ripley was immediately suspicious that a Xenomorph may have been involved in her ejection from the Sulaco and arrival on the planet, and she had Clemens show her the wreckage of the EEV. Discovering what looked like an acid burn mark on Newt's cryotube, she insisted an autopsy be performed on the girl's body, believing her to be impregnated with a Chestburster but claiming to Clemens she was potentially carrying a highly infectious strain of cholera.
Though he was highly skeptical, Clemens carried out the procedure and found nothing unusual in Newt's body. Even so, Ripley insisted the bodies be cremated. Ripley's actions incurred the ire of Superintendent Andrews , yet the warden allowed the use of the furnace at the lead works alongside the prison for the purpose of burning the corpses.
Following the service, Ripley was forced to shave her head due to the colony's chronic lice problem, and subsequently began brazenly mixing with the double-Y chromosome inmate population, further damaging her relationship with Andrews. Ripley thanked Dillon for a moving eulogy he had given at the funeral, despite his own insistence that he was a "murderer and rapist of women".
As she was awaiting a rescue ship, Ripley became close to Clemens, and the two eventually ended up sleeping together.
However, the death of prisoner Murphy once again ignited Ripley's fears that a Xenomorph may have come with her to the prison, despite the incident officially being ruled an accident. She recovered the Sulaco' s flight recorder from the EEV wreckage but learned from Clemens that she would require Bishop to read the data; in the process of recovering the android's remains from the prison's scrap heap, inmates Junior , Gregor , William and Martin [26] attempted to rape her.
Despite her resistance, Ripley was overpowered, but saved at the last minute by Dillon, who viciously beat the offenders.
Plugging Bishop into the flight data unit in the prison's infirmary, Ripley learned that there was indeed a Xenomorph on Fiorina , and that Weyland-Yutani had since been informed of this fact. Having done his part to assist her, Bishop asked Ripley to deactivate him, and she solemnly complied.
At that moment, inmate Golic , restrained in a straitjacket, was brought in by Andrews, Aaron , Clemens and Dillon, having been accused of murdering Boggs and Rains , the latter two having gone missing. His claims that a " Dragon " had been responsible were dismissed by Andrews, but Ripley saw the truth in his words. Despite meeting with Andrews and trying to convince him of the truth, she was rebuffed and the Superintendent confined her to the infirmary.
Ripley, now somewhat resigned to the situation, did as ordered, until the Dragon attacked and killed Clemens right in front of her. The creature initially prepared to kill her, but suddenly left her miraculously unharmed. Ripley ran to Andrews to attempt to warn him again of the danger, and at that moment the disbelieving Superintendent was dragged into the vents by the creature in full view of the remaining prisoners, finally revealing the Xenomorph to the prison's inhabitants.
Learning that Ripley had previously dealt with the creatures, the inmates immediately turned to her for leadership. Ripley and Aaron soon came up with a plan to flush the Dragon from the air vents by burning it out with quinitricetyline , so that it may be trapped in an unused nuclear waste containment tank.
The prisoners got to work preparing, but when the Dragon attacked the fire was accidentally triggered prematurely and numerous inmates were killed, while the creature itself escaped. As the physical ailments that had plagued Ripley since crashing on Fiorina continued to worsen, she had Aaron run a medical scan on her in the EEV, concerned that she may have been suffering from internal bleeding or a skull fracture.
However, the truth turned out to be even worse — she was carrying a Xenomorph embryo inside her, that of a Queen. Knowing that her death was now only a matter of time, Ripley attempted to have the Dragon euthanise her, hoping this would mean a faster, less painful end, and went alone to find it in the lower levels of the prison.
When the creature would not, instinctively knowing of the embryo maturing within her, Ripley instead begged Dillon to end her life, unable to commit suicide herself. Dillon angrily refused, knowing that Ripley was the best chance the surviving inmates had of killing the Xenomorph.
At her continued insistence, he agreed to fulfill her wish, but only after the Dragon had been destroyed. With little option, Ripley and Dillon convinced the survivors to use themselves as live bait in an attempt to lure the Dragon into the mold at the lead works, where it could be buried in molten lead.
After being encouraged by Ripley and Dillon, only Aaron refused to take part, and the remaining prisoners put the plan into action. As Ripley tried to find the other crew members, Ash kept shutting the doors. He then attacked her, eventually pinning her down to shove a magazine down her throat.
However, Parker and Lambert arrived at a critical moment to save her. Despite Ash's unnatural strength, Parker knocked Ash's head off with a fire extinguisher, revealing him to be an android. Lambert then stabbed Ash with the cattle prod, causing him to short-circuit.
Ripley reactivated Ash temporarily to ask him his special order. He told them that they were doomed, but that they had his sympathy. Ripley then knocked the head over, deactivating him once again. With the number of crew members being reduced to three, the Narcissus would be able to support them.
Ripley, Parker, and Lambert decided to escape in the Narcissus after activating the Nostromo's self destruct device. While waiting for Parker and Lambert to collect the necessary supplies, Ripley heard Jones over the intercom meowing, and left to retrieve the cat. The Alien then attacked Parker and Lambert. Ripley rushed to save them, but it kills them and leaves behind their bodies with one of Parker's arms being torn off and hanging.
She activates the self-destruct and rushes to the escape shuttle. Ripley then had a short face-off with the creature in front of the shuttle, and with it blocking her way, she rushed to reactivate the cooling unit. Ripley rushed back to the shuttle and found the Alien gone. She enters the shuttle and narrowly escapes as the Nostromo explodes.
Ripley, having thought that the Alien died in the explosion, prepared for Hypersleep. However she was shocked when the creature revealed itself hiding in one of the walls. Ripley panicked and scrambled to the spacesuit closet. Catching her breath and composure, she realized the creature hadn't discovered her yet. Unarmed, she quickly made a plan to get rid of the creature once and for all, quietly slipping on a spacesuit and slowly making her way to a control console.
She then started the process to open the hatch and flush the creature out; unfortunately, the process gave off steam and the creature became agitated. Ripley quickly lost her courage, but by the time the creature was in striking distance of her she opened the hatch to the vacuum of space. All loose objects and the creature were sucked out. It held onto the entrance, until Ripley shot it with a harpoon.
However, the hatch closed on it, tethering the creature to the shuttle. The Alien then tried to get back in via the engine, but Ripley hit the ignition and the creature was blown into space. After she gave her final report on the status of the ship, cargo, and crew Ripley signed off and entered hypersleep. She is visibly traumatized by her experience and has recurring nightmares about being impregnated with a chestburster.
She is introduced to a representative of Weyland-Yutani, Carter J. Burke , who tells her she is going to be brought before an inquiry for the destruction of the Nostromo and possibly the deaths of the crew, as the company does not seem to know about the Alien. Before her debriefing, Burke showed Ripley a photograph of her adult daughter and informed her that she married without children and died two years before Ripley was awakened, causing her to break into tears.
Ripley was then brought before a court of Weyland-Yutani, as well as other interstellar company officials. She tried to convince them of the existence of the Alien, but they denied that Weyland-Yutani's "special order" existed and also denied the existence of the Xenomorph , or any similar species.
Ripley asked them to check out LV to find out for themselves, but she learned that a terraforming colony has been living there peacefully for years. They finally decided that she has acted "with questionable judgement" and put her on a six-month period of psychometric observation and revoke her flight license, although they do not file any criminal charges.
Ripley settles down on Gateway working as a power loader operator, but she misses working on a starship and still has nightmares about the Alien. Ripley was one of two civilian advisers to the mission, the other being Burke for the interests of the company. Ripley gave a debriefing on her prior experiences with the creatures.
Although, a few Marines joked about the "bug hunt"; Sgt. Apone quickly put them in their places. Ripley would also use her skills with a power-loader to help the Marines on moving supplies. During one of the meals, she discovered that the executive officer Bishop was an android. After her near death experience with Ash, Ripley was left wary of synthetics and went on the offensive at Bishop, ordering him to stay away from her. Burke told Bishop that Ash "malfunctioned and there were a few deaths", and Bishop tried to reassure Ripley by telling her that malfunctions were only common in older models.
Later, the investigation team prepped and supplied before heading planet-side. After the APC was dropped, the Marines went on patrol through the medical and operations buildings within the colony and found it to be deserted. However, there were signs of battle, barricading and large acid burns to the structure of the complex. After the building was secured, Ripley, Burke and Lt.
Gorman entered. Exploring the complex, a startling discovery was made: two living facehuggers were kept in stasis tanks in the med lab, showing the colonists had already discovered the derelict craft. While they were exploring, a signal was picked up on a motion tracker. The marines were surprised to find that it was a young girl. Corporal Dwayne Hicks reached for her only to get bit in the hand and lose her down a ventilation shaft. Ripley then chased after the girl into the vents and managed to corner her and talk the girl in coming back with her to the marines.
Bishop began an examination of one of the dead facehuggers. As Dietrich , the marines' medic, treated the girl, Ripley asked her questions regarding the other colonists, her parents and her brother. The girl replied that they were all dead, which Ripley understood all too well. She introduced herself as "Newt", with her real name Rebecca Jorden.
Ripley grew fond of Newt, remembering her own deceased daughter. The Marines found the colonists using the computer and discovered they are all grouped around the main cooling tower in the atmospheric processing center , a large reactor which made breathable air on LV They took the APC to the entrance and the Marines investigated.
Inside the processing station, the Marines kept in contact with Ripley, Burke and Gorman via radio and a camera which showed what they were seeing. Eventually, the team discovered the alien nest , where all the colonists are being kept. However, the signal from their cameras and radios became fainter at the point due to the structure of the processing station. Ripley realized that the Marines were right under the cooling tower and she informed Gorman, who was confused.
Burke explained that the processor "is like a big nuclear reactor": and that using assault rifles and grenades could rupture it and cause a thermonuclear explosion. Gorman agreed and had the Marines hand their grenades and ammo over to Frost.
Ripley watches as the Marines found the cocooned colonists and some open eggs with dead facehuggers. She witnesses on the camera feedback as Dietrich discovers one of the cocooned colonists is still alive.
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