The COMPLETE Alien Cinematic Timeline

It’s time to get out of your hypersleep chambers, Alien fans! Resident Xenomorph enthusiast and last surviving member of the Nerdistromo, Adam Murray is signing on to break down the long and gooey history of the sci-fi horror franchise on today’s video!


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[Nerdist]

Saw your Alien comments and questions. And replied to some:

[SeanSidious]

I always think of Ripleys perspective. From the first meeting with a xenomorph, to her death, her whole life is consumed by xenomorphs. The only reprieve is her hyper sleep, but every time she wakes, she’s back in at the deep end every time, loved ones dead and fighting once again.

[manospondylus]

The easiest way to resolve Covenant with the rest of the franchise is to assume that David did not create the xenomorphs but that the Engineers already created them long before and David just reverse-engineered them with his research on the Engineer-planet

[TheJeruvian]

Ripley finding out her daughter Amanda is dead "doesn't add anything"? Are you serious? It adds everything to the central relationship in the movie, that of Ripley and Newt!

[lordpickle]

The scene where the hybrid gets sucked out through the window literally scarred me mentally for a while. As it was screaming you could hear it say "help me". That scene haunted me for quite a while afterward, I remember going to school the next day and it was all I could think about, lol. Just a truly horrific scene.

[gregoryvn]

Jones the Cat: still the smartest character in the entire Alien universes

[MightyMurloc]

I think the Alien franchise has really lucked out, in, their monster is SO cool, that the series can be a mess of retcons and changing directors, but it will always have a spark of appeal because the Xenomorph is just that cool. You're braver than I for trying to untangle this mess of Christmas Lights.

[mattduncil]

There is the theory that cyberdine used Dutch as the model for the T800 because of how good he was at defeating the Predator

[tekkingi]

I love the idea of a shared universe between Aliens and Bladerunner

[BeefyBacardi]

Weyland-Yutani: "Crew Expendable"
Walmart: Our business plans are so similar, we'd like to make an offer...

[isaiahramirez]

In the original script of prometheus, the engineer tells david that they took a child from their mother on earth and brought them back to their home to teach them how to lead their world on the right path, but humans punished him instead. It lines up with the timeline of the engineer being in stasis for about 2000 years before they woke him up.

[terranncegilmore]

Aliens is my favorite movie of all time. My older brother introduced it to me when I was too young. I cannot hear the motion tracker beeps without getting anxious.

Hudson is literally an all-timer.

[manospondylus]

Predators actually has more references to the Alien franchise. In the Predator hunting camp you can see another Xenomorph skull hanging from a pole and the main bad Predator is canonically wearing the lower jaw of one around its helmet, so the movie is meant to take place within the AVP timeline.

[andrewbversfeld]

The multiple cuts of Alien 3 answer so many questions for me. I could have sworn that ripley grabs the alien as it bursts out of her chest at the end of alien 3. But then when I saw the film, that scene was missing. For years, I just figured it was the mandela effect... until watching your video.

[TheDavehirt]

I like your coffee on the couch narration style, dad jokes, and old school scene intro effects.

[shannondeville]

Taken over by Walmart is nearly as good as Taco Bell surviving the franchise wars in Demolition Man. XD

[desknee]

Ripley is one of the best written female protagonist

[heldercruz]

Great video, my one minor nitpick is this: I'm not sure the alien world that David destroyed was the actual engineer homeworld. Seems to me that this was another Engineer-seeded planet as the humanoids don't look exactly like Engineers, plus their civilization and technology came across as rather under developed. I took that scene as David embarking on a "scorched earth" attack on their "legacies", he's attacking any and all Engineer-seeded planets while on the way to their homeworld. Just my opinion.

[onieyoh]

"Bought out by Walmart" is the best line in the entire franchise.

[orinanime]

Dude the writing and delivery of this timeline summary is top-notch. Entertaining and hilarious. Well done