Feminism has driven the creation of a considerable body of action-oriented science fiction with female protagonists: Wonder Woman ( actually originally created in 1941 ) and The Bionic Woman during the time of the organized women's movement in the 1970s ; Terminator 2 and the Alien tetralogy in the 1980s ; and Xena, Warrior Princess, comic book character Red Sonja and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

William Gibson ( who wrote an early script for Alien 3 ) seems particularly fascinated: a minor character in Virtual Light, Lowell, is described as having New York XXIV tattooed across his back, and in Idoru a secondary character, Yamazaki, describes the buildings of nanotech Japan as Giger-esque.

Ty Burr of The Boston Globe states, " One of the real pleasures of " Alien " is to watch the emergence of both Ellen Ripley as a character and Sigourney Weaver as a star.

* Fictional character Ellen Ripley from the Alien franchise is born this year.

Danson's image, along with that of Scott Bakula, was used as a selectable character in Alien Breed II: The Horror Continues, a science fiction shoot ' em up released for the Amiga home computer system in 1993.

The title character is Gordon Shumway, a friendly extraterrestrial nicknamed ALF ( an acronym for Alien Life Form ), who crash lands in the garage of the suburban middle-class Tanner family.

* Bishop, a fictional character from the Alien series of films, played by Lance Henriksen

* Charles Bishop Weyland, a fictional character from the Alien vs.

The character of Sara Pezzini was also featured in crossovers with characters from other franchises, including Lara Croft, Vampirella, the Justice League, the titular creatures from the Alien and Predator film series, the Magdalena and the cast of Battle of the Planets.

When Nightcrawler was first submitted as a character, it was for DC's Legion of Super-Heroes, but DC turned him down believing his look was too " Alien ".

* Brainstorm an alien that the main character Ben Tennyson can turn into in the Cartoon Network series Ben 10: Alien Force and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien.

He is a main character in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series, as well as four of its successive incarnations Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo, Power Rangers Turbo, and Power Rangers Dino Thunder ( where he returns as a legendary Power Ranger veteran ).

He was also infrequently portrayed by actor Michael R. Gotto in instances where the story required depicting the character during childhood, such as Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers.

He is a main character in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series, as well as three of its successive incarnations Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo, and Power Rangers Turbo.

Her daughters were named after the character Ellen Ripley in the Alien films and the singer Nico.

In an early draft of Alien 3 written by William Gibson, Biehn's character Hicks ( who had survived the events of Aliens ) was to become the main protagonist, replacing Ellen Ripley ( Sigourney Weaver ).

Bergman voiced the Scooby Doo character Daphne Blake in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island ( 1998 ), Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost ( 1999 ) and Scooby-Doo And The Alien Invaders ( 2000 ), this last one being a posthumous release, dedicated to her.

In the film Alien Resurrection ( 1997 ) the character Annalee Call, when revealed as being a robot, is noted by another character to be " an Auton, a robot designed by other robots.

He also set about working on creating a character known as Alien Brain, and in July 1972 performed the World Premiere of The Alien Brain at Hull Arts Centre, a multi-media happening that involved the audience and which had received funding from the Yorkshire Arts Association.

" alien form "— from Greek xeno-or " strange " and-morph, shape ) was used by the character Lieutenant Gorman in Aliens and by Ellen Ripley in a deleted scene from Alien 3.

Ellen Ripley is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Alien film series played by American actress Sigourney Weaver.

* The fictional secret anti-alien invasion force the player commands in the fanmade UFO: Alien Invasion game, an open-source project in the X-COM tradition.

In the single-player game, the player assumes the role of a Marine named Bitterman taking part in " Operation Alien Overlord ", a desperate attempt to protect Earth from an alien invasion by launching a counter-attack on the home planet of the hostile cybernetic Strogg civilization.

The plot of the game involves the player ( Peterson ) taking part in a STAAR ( Strategic Tactical Advanced Alien Response ) military incursion to prevent aliens, known as the Kronn, and alien-created zombies from taking over the Area 51 military facility.

The player takes control of an alien ( who bears a striking resemblance to the race of aliens from the Alien series of films ) aboard a huge spacecraft filled with many extraterrestrial creatures.

* While the copy protection in Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders was not hidden as such, the repercussions of missing the codes was unusual: the player would end up in jail ( permanently ), and the police officer would give a lengthy and condescending speech about software copying.

As well as two player simultaneous gameplay, Alien Syndrome features pick-ups which assist the player including better weapons and maps of the current level.

Alien Breed consists of the player or players having to find the lift down to the next level, occasionally setting the self destruct sequence to blow up the level above them.

By the third game ( Alien Breed: Tower Assault ), the player characters were named John and Nash.

* Alien Support – The Alien Support vote grants a player a bonus to his “ destiny ” total.

Like the Alien Support vote, winning subsequent Peacekeepers votes gives the player control of an increasing number of Peacekeeper cruisers.

An ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter: Four players ride inside a rescue vehicle to save astronauts: one player drives, the other three shoot enemy aliens.

The game features self-adjusting difficulty, where player performances influences the Alien zeal to expand and infest.

In the game, the player takes control of a robot, Alien 8, whose job is to ensure that all of the cryogenically frozen passengers on a spaceship remain viable during the ship's voyage.

Taking on the role of the " cybot " Alien 8, the player must explore a large starship in order to ensure that the cryogenic life support system preserving the biological crew is kept activated.

Revolution X was released as upright two player and deluxe three player arcade units and as a conversion kit for existing Terminator 2: The Arcade Game and Alien 3: The Gun units.

Like its predecessor, Aliens versus Predator 2 allows the player to choose one of three characters: an Alien, Predator or human Colonial Marine.

As an Alien the player can explore most of the game's environments freely, even climbing across walls and ceilings.

The Alien can drop from any height without injury and is the fastest of the three player characters.

In the process the player causes a security breach which allows the Alien character access to the Forward Observation Pods, becomes temporarily imprisoned, unwittingly releases the Predator character from its cell, and battles an Alien / Predator hybrid creature.

The player must then retrieve a data disk containing records of all the illegal activities taking place on the planet, regroup with his squad, battle the Alien queen, and escape the planet.