Ellen Ripley

Ellen Ripley was a human who fought Xenomorphs. By some accounts she was fictional.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ellen Ripley (PROSE: Untitled ^[+]Loading...["Untitled (DWM 189 short story)"]) was one of the crew of a star-ship. (PROSE: Death and Diplomacy ^[+]Loading...{"name":"\"death\"","chaptnum":"3","1":"Death and Diplomacy (novel)"}) At one point she met the Seventh Doctor; he told her he could "beat any kind" of insectoid monster, citing the Macra, Zarbi, Maggots, Wirrn, and asked her to show him her enemy. Prompting her to identify herself, she shouldered her blaster and introduced herself. (PROSE: Untitled ^[+]Loading...["Untitled (DWM 189 short story)"])

These creatures, the Xenomorphs (PROSE: So Vile a Sin ^[+]Loading...["So Vile a Sin (novel)"], etc.) brutally killed the crew of this star-ship, the population of an exploratory colony and the inmates of a prison complex in under an "hour and a half" before chasing "any last survivor" across the galaxy before they killed themselves with their own flamethrower to release themselves from their misery and to "avoid the subsequent complications of the child-access rights". (PROSE: Death and Diplomacy ^[+]Loading...{"name":"\"death\"","chaptnum":"3","1":"Death and Diplomacy (novel)"})

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Captain Jennifer Alistoun was a member of the human crew of the vessel Narcissus, which was preyed upon by Enemy life-spores during the War in Heaven; the life-spores infested the ship by chance by infecting James Watt. Jennifer was the sole survivor.

Yet soon the "logic" of their presence distorted the Spiral Politic so that the asteroid bloated from its original existence as a "desolate lump of rock" into a whole world that drew a human colony and Jennifer was drawn to the planet. She survived again and when she next met the life-spores twice-over they had changed again each time. As the life-spores' history retroactively grew outside of these encounters, they went back along world line to Earth in the mid-20th century.

Despite their attacks in the 20th century, they could not make the "jump in perception" that they needed to continuing infecting history; they needed to first "tap into a huge pool of psychic energy, of belief, or hope", and so they inserted themselves into the meta-flow during the latter 20th century, an era "flooded with iconic energies"; (PROSE: The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A ^[+]Loading...["The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A (short story)"]) this seemingly resulted in the creation of the series of Alien films. (COMIC: Fire and Brimstone ^[+]Loading...["Fire and Brimstone (comic story)"], etc.)

Ripley (AUDIO: Hosts of the Wirrn ^[+]Loading...["Hosts of the Wirrn (audio story)"]) was a character in the Alien series. (COMIC: Fire and Brimstone ^[+]Loading...["Fire and Brimstone (comic story)"], etc.)

Shana Siddiqui jokingly asked Osgood to call her "Ripley" whilst she was using mechanical arms. (AUDIO: Hosts of the Wirrn ^[+]Loading...["Hosts of the Wirrn (audio story)"])

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Ellen Ripley is a character from the Alien franchise.
• According to The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia, Lt. Ripley, a character in The Crash of the Elysium ^[+]Loading...["The Crash of the Elysium (stage play)"], was named after Ellen Ripley.
• She was portrayed in the franchise by Sigourney Weaver, although no DWU source makes this connection.

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Ellen Ripley at Xenopedia