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  Ellen Ripley - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Ellen Ripley aka Sigourney Weaver (the names are interchangeable) is the only person known to have survived numerous xenomorph attacks.
Ellen claims to have been cloned and now part of her DNA is Xenomorph DNA.
Ripley was conscripted and sent with her new squad to a routine Bug-Hunt on a Shake and Bake Colony in the Rim.
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  Ellen Ripley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ellen Ripley is a fictional character, the protagonist in the Alien movie series.
Ellen Ripley was born January 7, 2092 on Earth.
Ripley subsequently found herself marooned on Fiorina "Fury" 161, an outer veil mineral ore refinery and correctional facility, where she died sometime in 2179 while trying to prevent Weyland-Yutani from getting its hands on the alien queen embryo that was inside of her.
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 Lt. Ellen Ripley
Ellen Ripley is the main character of the Alien saga.
Ellen Ripley was married to whatwhathisnameagainillfinditoutjustwait and they had a 12 year old daughter, idontremeberhernameeither.
Ripley is now worn down by bad sleep, a shitty job and the fact that she has lost everyone she cared for.
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 Alien Legend - Aliens -- Main Characters
Ripley is found by a deep salvage team 57 years after the events on the Nostromo occurred.
Ripley proves to be a wise and courageous leader, and she risks her life to save her comrades.
When Ripley falls apart after Newt is captured by the Aliens, he gets her out of there, but he is wounded by an Xenomorph's acidic blood in the process.
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 Visions Of Terror - Aliens A to Z   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Ripley found out that a Queen embryo had been placed inside her while she was in hypersleep, but still managed to kill an alien running amok in the prison.
The fifth clone of Ellen Ripley grown on the Auriga.
The sixth clone of Ellen Ripley grown on the Auriga.
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 Ripley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Ellen Ripley, is a fictional character in the Alien movie series.
Thomas Ripley, is a fictional character in several books by Patricia Highsmith (the "Ripliad"), as well as in several film adaptations of them.
The Ripley are fictional parasitic alien macro viruses in the Stephen King novel and film Dreamcatcher.
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 Alien (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ripley — as the sole survivor of the Nostromo — initiates the ship's self-destruct sequence, escapes in a shuttle craft with a cage carrying Jones, the ship's cat, and finally destroys the alien by blowing it out of the airlock into open space.
Arriving at LV-426, Ripley and her companions soon discover that aliens have overrun the colony and that all settlers have died, except for a young girl nicknamed Newt.
The cover of Ripley's hypersleep chamber cut the facehugger, and the release of its acidic blood caused a fire onboard, which led to the Sulaco jettisoning an escape shuttle towards a penal colony planet, Fiorina 161, inhabited only by a small number of extremely violent and dangerous offenders.
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 Martin's Aliens Page.
Ripley's spaceship crash lands into a maximum security work correctional facility, this monastic community is host to some of the most violent criminals in the univers, but she didn't come alone.
When we first meet Lt. Ellen Ripley, she is 3rd in command of the Starship 'Nostromo' which is carrying tons of mineral ore form a off-Earth colony in a different star system to Earth.
Ripley escaped from the Starship in a lifepod, unaware the the alien was actually in the lifepod with her.
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 Phoenix - Michael Biehn Archive: Can I dream? by James C   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The year was 2035, And Ellen Ripley was fast asleep in the Sulaco for her the nightmare was over.
Ripley shushed him and then brushed some of his hair that was in the way of his eyes.
Ripley looked at the bodies and felt tears come from her eyes but Clemens hand was there and held it tight.
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 Sarah Connor vs. Ellen Ripley @ WWWF Grudge Match
Ripley on the other hand, after each film thinks her problems are over, spends a few years in suspended animation, and then spends her time feeling sorry for herself.
Ellen has got to be at least 6 inches taller and with a correpondingly longer reach, she can stand back and poke Sarah in the face all day.
Ripley, on the other hand, formulates plans on a whim because she realizes ahead of time that there's a job to be done and she's the one who has to do it.
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 Ellen Ripley
Ellen Ripley is the heroine of the Alien movies and was created by Ronald Shusett and Dan O'Bannon.
Ripley was he sole survivor as she escaped on a shuttle after setting the Nostromo to self-destruct.
Ripley again survived along with Corporal Hicks, Newt the daughter of a colonist, and the badly damaged android Bishop.
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 Alien Resurrection
Two centuries after her Nestea plunge into molten metal in Alien 3, Ripley is resurrected when scientists clone DNA from her blood; the military extracts the alien Queen inside her, hoping to study and train it.
Ripley, it turns out, still has a bit of alien DNA in her.
If Ripley is a human with a touch of alien, this thing is an alien with a touch of humanity, and the climax -- an inspired quote from the end of Alien -- is both tense and saddening.
www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/alien.html   (526 words)

  
 THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- ALIEN RESURRECTION
Through genetic manipulation, scientists are able to clone a fully-grown Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), along with the alien queen embryo that was inside of her at the time of her death.
Anyway, Ellen Ripley is no longer the woman she once was; the cloning process has fused her genetic makeup with that of the alien species.
While the Ellen Ripley clone may be of interest to the scientists who created her, the military consider her a meat byproduct of their efforts to get their hands on the ultimate biological weapon- the alien species itself.
www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_reviews/alien-resurrection-dvd.htm   (917 words)

  
 Reconstruction 5.4 (Fall 2005)
Ellen Ripley of the Alien series of films, Sarah Connor of the Terminator series, and Lindsey Brigman of The Abyss are examples of a special category of female role in Hollywood – the female action hero.
Finally away from the danger, Ripley prepares for hypersleep on the escape shuttle by slowly undressing, with the camera lingering on areas of Ripley's body that clearly mark her as female.
Like Ripley, Connor is fighting for her survival, and, ultimately, for the survival of the earth, but it is clear that Connor would not be a hero if it were not for the son she will bear.
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 Ripley's World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Ripley's former employers, The Weyland-Yutani Company has dissolved and now the United Systems Military has assumed the task of breeding and harnessing the deadly aliens.
Ripley convinces Call to set the Auriga to crash instead, meaning the survivors must escape from the Auriga in the Betty.
Ripley soon feels that the Queen alien is in pain and she goes to see her.
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 Ellen Ripley, Ripley, Ripley Alien, Rippley Aliens, Ripley Strong Woman, Ripley Hero, Ripley Newt, Xbox Live Girls
The character of Ripley was not intended for a woman, it was written with a man in mind, but Ridley Scott had other ideas and he created an iconic female hero that Ripley is known as today.
Ripley, although never wanting to return to the horror eventually decides to go, given she is living a nightmare full of memories brought on from her experiences there.
Ellen Ripley is a brilliant, strong, female character in ALIEN and ALIENS and that is why we celebrate her for the Month of October 2005.
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 Fred Whiteside's DVD Collection - Alien Resurrection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
As the world around her begins to fall apart and the terror begins again, Ripley realises that the scientists who cloned her may not have fully removed the Alien from her, at the same time that she is, once again, perhaps the only one who can stop the horrific infestation from reaching Earth...
Ripley, along with a crew of smugglers that unknowingly helped in delivering hosts to breed the alien species, must now escape the perilous ship.
Ellen Ripley sacrificed her life to destroy the Company's desires to use the alien as a weapon.
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 Believe It or Not, This Academic Study of Ripley Will Excite Fans
Decked out in a space aged version of a suit of shining armor, she is the perfect female warrior.
In their introductory material, the two point out that before Ripley, women in science fiction were primarily plot devices, typically undermined if they exercised any power whatsoever or showed themselves to be more than window dressing.
For example, we are made privy to the little known secret that Ripley was originally written as a male role, and that President of 20th Century Fox, Alan Ladd, Jr., argued that changing the lead to a female would serve better to engage the audience.
www.lsu.edu /necrofile/alienwoman16.htm   (686 words)

  
 Alien Resurrection
With a small amount of Ripley's blood, a top secret interstellar government research vessel is able to successfully use the DNA to clone Ripley as well as the alien queen inside her, for the purpose of growing the queen for top secret things.
She is way beyond the Ripley of old, physically and no longer morally obligated to this universe.
But this Ripley is different, she is part alien and isn't so attached to her human comrades, except for a little waif who appears with a group of smugglers, Annalee Call (played by Winona Ryder).
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 Alien Resurrection
Aboard the medical research vessel USM Auriga, a team of scientists clones Ripley from her extracted DNA and removes the alien Queen embryo which was growing inside her at the time of her death.
En route back to The Betty, they find the first seven unsuccessful, horrifying clones of Ellen Ripley and she sets them on fire before continuing on.
Ripley convinces Call to set the Auriga to crash instead, heightening the need for the survivors to escape the Auriga.
www.alien-movies.com /html/alien4   (281 words)

  
 Ripley's World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Ellen Ripley is the only survivor when the EEV crash lands on Fiorina 161, a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's maximum security prison.
Ripley soon discovers that she is carrying the embryo of an alien Queen, which impels the lurking alien to protect her at all costs.
The company learns of the alien Queen Ripley is carrying, and in order to prevent them from acquiring the Queen, Ripley dives into the bubbling, molten lead killing not only the alien inside of her, but herself as well.
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 Gallardo and Smith's AlienWoman
Ellen Ripley introduced viewers to their first self-reliant and successful female hero.
They explain that Lt. Ripley may not be feminist because she does not actively fight for women's rights, but her role is certainly reflective of feminist ideology.
They also claim Ripley's confrontation and final destruction of the Alien becomes the major theme of the film and thereby gives voice to the contemporary feminist goal of saving humanity from the destructive impulses of patriarchy.
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 CBUB Fights: Cpt. Catherine Janeway vs. Lt. Ellen Ripley
Ripley is tough and all, but so is Janeway and she's got the brains to pull it through.
Also, Ripley is a little less sane (wouldn't you be if those alien things kept coming after you?), so she'd go after Zorak like he said her mother was a porcupine.
Ripley and Janeway are inside the compound, and they seem to have hit on a plan.
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 Aliens (1986)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Near the end of the movie the terminal appears to be only in a rather short distance from the complex - Ripley and the heavily injured Hicks reach it right after they left the building.
Ripley is the template for the modern action heroine.
Even in Alien 3 and 4, Ripley was still powerful, despite the 3ed rate quality of the movies.
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 Alien Resurrection
Scientists use genetic material to clone Lt. Ellen Ripley in order to obtain the alien Queen embryo that was gestating inside her while she was on Fiorina 161.
However, the clone of Ripley also contains alien DNA mixed with her own and carries traits from both species.
Ripley must figure out who she is, what her purpose is on the Auriga and where her allegiances lie.
www.alien-movies.com /html/alien4/characters/4cha_ripley.html   (75 words)

  
 Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley - tribe.net
Subsequent writers and directors in the 1980s and 1990s, left to grapple with this strong female protagonist, re-envision Ripley to fit differing social, political, and cultural imperatives for women.
Sure it IS about Ripley and the first ever kick ass FEMALE action hero and the politics surrounding that.
I'm too young to remeber what it was like before Ripley came along so to me it was fun to read about the impact the character / films had.
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 Alien Movies - Alien3
Third and most important, the story shows us the real tragedy of Ellen Ripley's life, how everyone around her, everyone she cares for are taken away from her by the Alien.
Next, there is a scene where 85 and Ripley are sending a transmission to the company about the trapped xenomorph and Ripley, testing the company's intentions, requests permission to terminate the alien.
the scene of Ripley being rescued at the beginning is completely different as she is seen by Clements (Charles Dance) lying next to the spaceship and then taken into the prison covered in mud.
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