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Deadpan Snarker: Has a tendency towards this when her life isn't in mortal peril.note She does freak out when she finds the nest initially, and then is clearly doing her best to keep quiet throughout the entire sequence, but the fact that she does it at all is impressive. By the time she marches through a hive by herself in order to overload the reactor cores, fighting other Xenos and Facehuggers along the way, she does so without comment or major reaction.

To note, the first time she sees the Xenomorph, she has a massive freak-out. Badass Normal: Survives several close encounters with the Alien and can melee humans and androids alike.

Isolation (and subsequent works in the Expanded Universe) not only give her greater prominence, but tie in a storyarc of her searching for her mother and running into contact with xenomorphs. Ascended Extra: Initially appeared as a Posthumous Character in Aliens, where it is established that she died at the age of 66 and never got to see her mother as an adult.Adaptation Dye-Job: The novelization repeatedly refers to her as blonde.

As such, she developed a deeply misanthropic outlook. Throughout her life, she was continuously swindled, conned, betrayed, and lied to by pretty much everyone she trusted. Despite having prodigious mechanical skills, she couldn't afford to attend a trade school and was forced to take menial jobs far below her aptitude level. Such was Amanda's luck that he became her sole parent once her mother disappeared. Her stepfather, Paul Carter, was an alcoholic who spent most of his life passed out drunk. Her mother, for all her many virtues, had terrible instincts about men: her father, Alex, was a wastrel who disappeared from her life while Amanda was still a toddler.

Adaptational Expansion: In the novelization of the game, we learn considerably more about Amanda's life prior to her arrival on Sevastopol, and it's.

Here she's a capable and resourceful action hero to easily rival (or even outstrip) her mother - her trauma is far more sustained.

Adaptational Badass: In the films, she is only known to the audience as an innocent 11-year-old girl and an elderly 66-year-old woman who dies of natural causes.

Later on, she has to deal with Facehuggers and yet more xenomorphs. She progresses into Action Girl territory once she gets some better weapons, allowing her to fearlessly confront Working Joes, armed survivors, and even the Alien itself.

Action Survivor: What starts off as a simple mission to retrieve the Nostromo's flight recorder takes a turn for the worse for Amanda when she becomes separated from her fellow crew members and is forced to use her wits to survive and evade dangerous threats.

She is approached by Samuels, a representative from Weyland-Yutani, who claims that the flight recorder from her mother's ship, the Nostromo, has been recovered and is being stored at Sevastopol, a space station orbiting the gas giant KG348. Amanda became a mechanical engineer and began taking jobs in the same sector of space her mother disappeared in. The bad-ass daughter of the bad-ass herself, Ellen Ripley, and the main protagonist. Played By: Kezia Burrows (likeness), Andrea Deck (voice), Elizabeth Inglis (photo)