What happens to Ripley and the Xenomorph

Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror masterpiece Foreigner spawned a huge film franchise, and its final battle between Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and the xenomorph still captures the imagination forty years later. From its brilliantly dark take on the sci-fi genre to its timeless practical effects, Foreigner It has easily established itself as one of the best films of all time. The franchise it spawned is also one of the biggest in cinema history, and the ending of the original Foreigner it is so important to everything that came after that it is still worth examining today.

In the final moments of Foreignerthe xenomorph begins killing the entire crew of the Nostromo except Ripley. After discovering that Ash (Ian Holm) was a synthetic, the crew decided to activate the ship's self-destruct feature and escape via the space shuttle. After Parker (Yaphet Kotto) and Lambert (Veronica Cartwright) were killed by the xenomorph, Ripley tried to disengage the self-destruct, but ended up escaping on the ship while the Nostromo exploded. When she discovered the xenomorph was on board with her, she threw it out of the airlock and went into cryosleep, waiting to be rescued.

What happens to Ripley after launching the escape bus?

Ripley is eventually recovered and sent on a dangerous alien mission.

At the end of ForeignerAfter Ripley defeated the xenomorph, she continued into the vastness of space in NostromoIt's the space shuttle. She created a brief voice log explaining that the ship and its crew had been destroyed, and she went into cryosleep, hoping to be found by a passing ship after reaching the “border”. The sequence Aliens revealed that Ripley ended up being found by the Weyland-Yutani corporation, but only 57 years after the destruction of the Nostromo. At that point in the Foreigner In the timeline, Weyland-Yutani established a colony on LV-426.

LV-426, however, was invaded by xenomorphs while Ripley was in cryostasis, and Weyland-Yutani planned to send a team of Space Marines to investigate the colony. After his disastrous mission in AliensRipley and some of her crew were thrown into a maximum security prison in Alien 3. In that film, Ripley sacrificed her life to destroy a xenomorph queen, but her genetic material was harvested so she could be cloned for Alien: Resurrection200 years later. Essentially, after she escaped the NostromoEllen Ripley's life was consumed fighting xenomorphs.

Why did Ash attack Ripley and the Nostromo crew?

Ash had orders to deliver the Xenomorph to Earth and would not let Ripley compromise that mission.

After the xenomorph killed Captain Dallas (Tom Skerritt) and Ripley accessed the Mother, Ash began attacking her. As scientific director, he was given command by the Weyland-Yutani corporation to bring the xenomorph back to Earth under any circumstances. All of his other priorities were rescinded, including the one ensuring he would protect the ship's crew. Nostromo. How Ripley was trying to tell Parker and Lambert about Ash's orders and why he no longer needed to keep the crew alive Ash decided that the best way to ensure the xenomorph reached Earth would be to kill Ripley before she could reveal the truth..

Ash had also been acting directly against the interests of the Nostromo since the beginning of Foreigner. It was because of his interference that Dallas, Lambert and Kane (John Hurt) were able to re-enter the ship against Ripley's quarantine. Ash also protected the xenomorph several times throughout the film, such as when he convinced Dallas not to attempt to sever Kane's facehugger until he was pregnant. Essentially, Ash attacked Ripley because she was trying to destroy the xenomorph, and Weyland-Yutani specifically tasked him with protecting it..

Explanation of what Weyland-Yutani really wanted the Xenomorph

Weyland-Yutani wanted to use xenomorphs as biological weapons

One of the many questions Foreigner didn't answer directly was why the Weyland-Yutani corporation wanted the xenomorph in the first place. Although it was an extraterrestrial life form that represented a major scientific discovery, the xenomorph was also a killing machine that threatened to destroy everything and everyone it came into contact with. Having such a destructive organism on Earth could only have led to disaster, but it turns out that Ripley herself correctly deduced why Weyland-Yutani decided it was a risk worth taking. Weyland-Yutani wanted the xenomorph so he could use it as a biological weapon.

In AliensRipley discovered that the Marines she worked with were sent to LV-426 not to protect the colonists there, but to protect the xenomorph eggs so that Weyland-Yutani could reverse engineer them. Later entries in Foreigner franchise, especially Romulorevealed that Weyland-Yutani actually succeeded in reverse engineering the xenomorphs. However, they were never able to control the aliens enough to use them as effective weapons.

What happened to the Xenomorph after the end of Alien

Weyland-Yutani recovered the Xenomorph and cloned it in Alien: Romulus

The reason Weyland-Yutani wanted the xenomorphs also helps explain what happened to the xenomorph that attacked the Nostromo. At the end of ForeignerRipley ejected the xenomorph into the vacuum of space, depressurizing the escape ship. After a bit of a struggle and being surprised by the shuttle's propulsion engines, the xenomorph was launched into the void of space. It would not stay there, however, as Alien: Romulus revealed that Weyland-Yutani recovered the xenomorph's carcass before they even found Ripley.

After Weyland-Yutani found the xenomorph carcass, it was brought to the Renaissancea station that could be divided into two sections: Romulo and Rowing. While you are in RenaissanceWeyland-Yutani scientists used the xenomorph's body to reverse-engineer the facehuggers, which then wiped out nearly the entire ship's crew.. Rain (Cailee Spaeny) and her friends later found the Renaissance and freed the facehuggers that tormented them everywhere Alien: Romulus.

How Alien's Ending Connects to the Rest of the Franchise and Romulus

Every film in the Alien franchise uses Alien as a base

The ending of the original Foreigner was a long way from the end of the franchise as a whole, and each Foreigner The film that followed is somehow tied to the 1979 original. Aliens, Alien 3and Alien: Resurrection are the most direct sequences of Foreigneras they continue Ripley's (and her clone's) fight against the xenomorphs. Alien: Romulus works as a less direct continuation of ForeignerRipley's story, as it does not feature Ripley, but is based on the direct consequences of her time in Nostromo.

THE Foreigner prequels, Prometheus and Alien: Alliancehave the most precarious connection to the original film. The end of Prometheus and Covenant should explain the origins of the Weyland-Yutani corporation, the xenomorphs, and their creators, the Engineers. However, Ridley Scott's prequel trilogy was cut short, and it's not entirely clear how David's (Michael Fassbender) experimentation with xenomorphs ties into LV-426 or the original Foreigner. Ridley Scott's next film Foreigner film, however, could provide a more concrete connection to Foreigneris ending.

The true meaning of the end of Alien explained

Alien is about the fear surrounding the unknown, corporations, AI and pregnancy

Every horror film explores some deep, deep fear. Foreigner is no different. At the surface level, Foreigner is a film about humanity's inherent fear of the unknown. All of its scares and thrilling moments are built around the idea that humanity doesn't know what could be out there in the darkest corners of space, and that these hidden creatures could be designed specifically to kill us. The fact that the xenomorph was a stranger, that the crew of the Nostromo I had never found anything like it before, it is the basis of Foreignerthe ability to scare the audience.

Beyond the unknown, Foreigner also makes a strong case for humans to fear both artificial intelligence and the apathetic exploitation of corporations. Ash and Weyland-Yutani are the secondary antagonists of Foreigner for a reason. Both very directly support and enable the xenomorph's rage, and if it weren't for their shared lack of humanity, the crew of the Nostromo would never have died. It was only after Ash died and Ripley abandoned Weyland-Yutani's directives that she was able to escape the xenomorph.

There is also much evidence to support the interpretation that Foreigner is a film about rape, unplanned pregnancy and abortion (John L. Cobbs via Labouseur). The facehugger literally impregnates Kane against his will, which could easily be seen as a form of rape. He then “gives birth” to a child he never wanted, costing him his life. There is also symbolism related to childhood and birth sprinkled throughout the film, from the diapers the team wears in the opening moments to the scene of Ripley stripping down to her underwear before killing the xenomorph.

In direct contrast to its title, Foreigner It's mostly about humanity. Ash and Weyland-Yutani represent the evil that is possible in machines and entities that have lost control of their humanity. Ripley, on the other hand, illustrates the importance of human emotions, such as compassion and empathy. Throughout the film, Ripley was the most caring member of the Nostromofrom his insistence on following quarantine procedures to returning to get Jonesy the cat. It was probably because of her empathy that Ripley survived the end of Foreigner.