The Alien is a science-fiction horror/action media franchise centered on the film series which depicts Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and her battles with an extraterrestrial lifeform. The series has led to numerous novels, comics, video games and a (yet-to-come) television series developed by Ridley Scott for FX on Hulu, with Noah Hawley. It has inspired a number of spin-offs – most notably the Alien vs. Predator series, which combines the continuities of the Alien franchise with the Predator franchise.
The Alien franchise depicts a series of deadly encounters between humanity and the Aliens. The Aliens are a hostile, endoparasitoid, extraterrestrial species. The series fictionalizes the origin of the human race.