6. Ripley 8 – Alien Resurrection
Ripley 8 was the first successful clone of Ellen Ripley, after the original died. She was created by the United States Military (USM) as a project to resurrect the Xenomorph XX121 species, though the scientist in charge chose to keep her alive. The Xenomorph inside of her upon creation made her a hybrid alien-human.
In trying to clone Ripley – and therefore the Xenomorph sample inside of her – the USM were hoping to gain access to the Xenomorph Queen gestating inside of her. Of course, this would backfire. Though viewers were treated with another beautiful Ripley after the human version’s sacrificial suicide, Ripley 8 has a decidedly different personality – a spunky, sarcastic, unfazed alien-human hybrid – than the original Ellen Ripley.
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