====== CANON LISTS ====== ===== TIER I CANON ===== * Prometheus * Prometheus Short Films: * TED Conference, 2023 * Happy Birthday, David * Quiet Eye: Elizabeth Shaw * Project Prometheus: Mission * Weyland Industries Testimonial * Prometheus Transmission * Alien: Covenant * Covenant Short Films: * The Crossing * Meet Walter * Phobos * Five Crew Messages * The Last Supper * Advent * David’s Lab: Last Signs of Life * Alien * Mike Tanaka Alien Isolation Twitter account * Alien Isolation video game * Aliens * Alien 3 * Alien Resurrection ===== TIER II CANON ===== * Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report * Alien: The Blueprints * Alien: David’s Drawings * Alien Role Playing Game by Free League Publishing * Alien RPG: Starter Set * Alien RPG: Core rulebook * Alien: Chariot of the Gods * Alien: Destroyer of Worlds * Alien: Heart of Darkness * Alien: Map of the Middle Heavens * Alien: Colonial Marines Operations Manual * All upcoming Alien: RPG products * The following Dark Horse comic series: * Aliens: Dead Orbit * Aliens: Dust to Dust * Aliens: Defiance * Aliens: Resistance * Aliens: Rescue * Titan and Imprint Novel Series * Alien: Covenant – Origins * Alien: The Cold Forge * Alien: Into Charybdis * Alien: Infiltrator * Aliens: Phalanx * Alien: Prototype * Alien: Isolation novelization * Alien: Echo * Alien: Colony War with RPG Bonus Fallout * Alien: Inferno’s Fall with RPG Bonus EVAC * The 40th Anniversary Short Films * Alien: Harvest * Alien: Containment * Alien: Specimen * Alien: Night Shift * Alien: Ore * Alien: Alone * Aliens: Fireteam Elite Video Game * Alien: Blackout Mobile Video Game * Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual ===== TIER III CANON ===== * Weyland Industries Viral Website (some distances are exaggerated) * Aliens: Colonial Marines Video Game (Creatures and Technology are canon, the story is not) * Movie novelizations (accurate except when contradicted by screen evidence) * Prometheus (Japanese language only) * Alien: Covenant * Alien * Aliens * Alien 3 * Alien: Resurrection * Alien Novels: * Alien: Out of the Shadows * Alien: Sea of Sorrows * Alien: River of Pain ===== MYTHS AND LEGENDS ===== * Alien Survival Manual (was intended as canon but has glaring errors) * William Gibson’s Alien III in all incarnations: * William Gibson’s Alien III: Comic Adaptation * William Gibson’s Alien III: Audio Drama Adaptation * William Gibson’s Alien III: Novelization * William Gibson’s Alien III:Screenplay Draft I * William Gibson’s Alien III:Screenplay Draft II * Unused Screenplays including: * Star Beast * Eric Red’s Alien III * David Twohy’s Alien III * Vincent Ward’s Alien III * Alien: The Original Screenplay (all formats and editions) * Alien: Engineers * Alien: Paradise Lost * The Bantam Books and DH Press Aliens novels: * Novels in the Complete Aliens Omnibus Volumes 1-7 including: * Aliens: Earth Hive * Aliens: Nightmare Asylum * Aliens: Female War * Aliens: Genocide * Aliens: Harvest * Aliens: Rogue * Aliens: Labyrinth * Aliens: Music of the Spears * Aliens: Berserker * Aliens: Original Sin * Aliens: DNA War * Aliens: Cauldron * Aliens: Steel Egg * Aliens: Criminal Enterprise * Aliens: No Exit * Concept art (includes all art books) * Aliens: Adventure Game by Leading Edge * Alien: Covenant Short Films: * x Audi lunar quattro * She Won’t Go Quietly * Aliens: Colonial Marines Video Game (Storyline) * Aliens: Bughunt (Labeled as such in the book) * The following Dark Horse comic series: * Aliens: Field Report * Aliens: Fire and Stone 2 3 4 * Aliens: Life and Death 2 3 4 * Comics from Dark Horse and Marvel Comics: * Aliens: Dark Horse Omnibus Volume 1-6 * Aliens: Marvel Comics Omnibus Volume 1 * Aliens: Outbreak * Aliens: Nightmare Asylum * Aliens: The Female War * Aliens: Theory of Alien Propagation * Aliens: The Alien * Aliens: Tribes * Aliens: Space Marines [Kenner Comics] * Aliens: Hive * Aliens: Newt’s Tale * Alien 3 Comic Adaptation * Aliens: Genocide * Aliens: Harvest * Aliens: Colonial Marines * Aliens: Rogue * Aliens: Sacrifice * Aliens: Labyrinth * Aliens: Advent/Terminus * Aliens: Reapers * Aliens: Horror Show * Aliens: Music of the Spears * Aliens: Stronghold * Aliens: Frenzy * Aliens: Taste * Aliens: Mondo Pest * Aliens: Mondo Heat * Aliens: Alchemy * Aliens: Kidnapped * Aliens: Cargo * Aliens: Survival * Aliens: Alien * Aliens: Earth Angel * Aliens: Incubation * Aliens: Havoc * Aliens: Lovesick * Aliens: Lucky * Aliens: Apocalypse – The Destroying Angels * Aliens: Once in a Lifetime * Aliens: Headhunters * Aliens: Tourist Season * Aliens: 45 Seconds * Aliens: Elder Gods * Aliens: Purge * Aliens: Glass Corridor * Aliens: Stalker * Aliens: Wraith * Aliens: Dark Horse Presents * Aliens: Dark Horse Insider * Arcade, computer, and console video games * Aliens: Armageddon * Aliens: Infestation * Aliens: Extermination * Aliens: Thanatos Encounter * Aliens: Online * Aliens: Trilogy * Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure * Alien 3: The Gun * Aliens: Alien 2 * Kenner Aliens Toyline * Alien War (“Total Reality” Experience) ==== ADDITIONAL COMICS TO MERGE ==== * Alien: The Illustrated Story * Alien: Isolation * Aliens (1988) * Aliens (1988) Book One * Aliens (1989) Book Two * Aliens (2009) * Alien 3: Terminal Addiction * Alien Resurrection * Aliens 30th Anniversary: The Original Comics Series * Aliens: Backsplash * Aliens: Border Lines * Aliens: Colonial Marines: No Man Left Behind (2012) * Aliens: Countdown * Aliens: Crusade * Aliens: Defiance - Extravehicular (FCBD) * Aliens: Desert Storm * Aliens: Earth War * Aliens: Fast Track to Heaven * Aliens (FCBD) (2009) * Aliens: Field Report * Aliens: Fire and Stone * Aliens: Fireball * Aliens: Hive War * Aliens: Ice Storm * Aliens: Incubation * Aliens: Inhuman Condition * Aliens: Jungle Attack * Aliens: Lucky * Aliens: Matrix * Aliens: Meltdown * Aliens: Music of the Spears * Aliens: Night Strike * Aliens: Operation: Rescue * Aliens: Pig * Aliens: Renegade * Aliens: Salvation * Aliens: Showdown * Aliens: Special * Aliens: Stampede * Aliens: Swarm * Aliens: Terrordome * Aliens: The Alien * Aliens: Tribes * Aliens: Xenogenesis * Illegal Aliens * Operation: Aliens * The Compleat Aliens ===== SHOE-HORN CANON ===== * Blade Runner * Soldier * Blade Runner 2049 * Outland ===== NON-CANON ===== * Predator, its sequels, comics, novels, and games 3 * AVP, its sequels, comics, novels, and games 4 * Avatar (2009) * Firefly (2002) * Alien vs. any and everything 5 * Alien 2: On Earth (1980) * John Carpenter’s the Thing (1981) * The Thing (2011) * Raised by Wolves (2020) * LIFE (2017) * Sunshine (2007) * Pitch Black (2000) * Riddick (2013) * Virus (1999) * Underwater (2020) * Prospect (2018) * Saturn 3 (1980) * Pandorum (2009) * Supernova (2000) * The Rig (2010) * Leviathan (1998) * Deep Star Six (1989) * Event Horizon (1997) * Planet of the Vampires (1965) * Ex Machina (2014) * Annihilation (2018) * Species, its sequels, comics, and novels * Terminator, its sequels, series, comics, novels, and games * Screamers (1995) 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