ALIEN Timeline Explained

With Alien: Romulus upon us, of course it was time for an Alien timeline! This video covers the entire primary Alien canon, including the movies, short films, and the game Alien: Isolation.

Note: I used the director’s cuts/special editions for the original four films. They aren’t different enough to declare one version as canon over the other, but I thought these versions would be more fun to use since they include more detail (and at least in Alien 3’s case, make for a superior movie).

0:00 Intro

– Ancient Past –
2:22 Life is Seeded on Earth

– 21st Century –
3:03 Sir Peter Weyland’s Legendary TED Talk
4:00 David is Created
4:14 Shaw and Holloway Find an Invitation
5:38 PROMETHEUS
14:37 Shaw Rebuilds David
14:58 David’s Final Gift

– 22nd Century –
17:07 ALIEN: COVENANT
24:56 ALIEN
33:25 ALIEN: ISOLATION
46:06 ALIENS
57:49 ALIEN 3

– 24th Century –
1:04:09 ALIEN: RESURRECTION

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[saschaberger]

Even Isolation. Finally a definitive timeline. Well done

[Mike-vzxg]

The scariest thing about this franchise is David! He’s still out there experimenting!!!

[chavlaz]

"42 million dollar space ship"

wildest part of this video, that low low low price tag

[timw]

These films have taught me never answer a strange signal. Just ignore it and carry on as normal 😂

[rakhuramai]

Man the trauma for Ripley just never stops. Even after she dies, she's somehow resurrected as a half alien of all things and made to go through shit again lol

[zachenderson]

I can see now why Ripley is one of most badass female main characters of fiction 😊

[krisblaxter]

I don't think the planet they visited is the Engineers' homeworld. I would assume it's a similar creation of the Engineers', like humans on Earth. After Covenant, there was supposed to be Alien: Awakening, which would have presented us with their actual homeworld. But Disney stepped in and shut it down... So now, I guess we will never know for certain because there's a 99% chance they will never go back to the David story, even Ridley confirmed this. It's really sad because I was so invested in this story.

[tonymorales]

Just because the planet has a breathable atmosphere doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use PPE.

[dekillafied]

Prometheus is SUCH an interesting movie lore'wise. I wish they continued to expand upon that idea and kept in the whole 'Jesus was an engineer' plotline

[ericmcmanus]

Shaw wants to know why the engineers changed their minds...and so did we. But we never got that answer. Thabks a lot Ridley.

[tonymorales]

It was pretty dumb of Shaw to go out and seek the engineers. Considering the fact that the engineers were on the way to earth to wipeout humanity, what made her think that she could either persuade or force anyone of those creatures to give her an answer? She should’ve gone back to earth explained that the engineers are hostile in order to give her a chance to develop counter measures against a possible future invasion

[Reese_eseeR]

I saw the Alien: Romulus trailer in the cinema yesterday, was planning on refreshing my knowledge on the series. Guess the algorithm just wanted me to fast-track it. Thank you for the thorough summaries, watched it from start to finish in one sitting! 🎉

[Animei]

Fun fact, if Blade Runner is in the same universe, then so is Soldier. That seems like it could turn into quite a rabbit hole

[ericmcmanus]

If David turned out to be the one who created the xenomorph. Than there is no explination for why the engineers would have statues and murals of the same xenomorph in Prometheus. That doesn't make sense.

[zhljeck]

I dunno why sci-fi movies give such early dates for crazy advancements 10 years from the release date. It’s 2024 and Wayland has not given a ted talks.

[KawaiiNancy]

Bill Paxton is the only person to be killed by an Alien, Predator and Terminator. 😅

[JGreez]

I just rewatched Prometheus. I still find it funny that when Millburn encounters the snake like creature with the cobra-esq hood on it, he decides it’s a good idea to get near it and interact with it like it’s a puppy.

[LeedleLee]

My introduction to the Xenomorphs was in Alien vs Predator. The first film I saw them in, they were getting slaughtered left and right by the Predators. So I had no idea that even just one Xenomorph was such a big threat in their movies lol

[thomasmartinez]

I hope we get to see Winona Ryder as a human in one of the next films to see from whom her synthetic is based

[edwin]

My issue with prequels that come out after the original(s) is that they often feature more futuristic equipment. It's like during the original Alien movies, technology somehow went backwards and then forwards. I wish they had stuck with the technology from the original Alien series because it breaks the immersion. Yes, I'm aware that in Star Wars, they did everything they could to maintain the same technological consistency in the prequels, both before and during Disney's ownership. You guys get where I'm coming from.