Despite criticizing much of Isolation, Ryan McCaffrey from IGN stated that Amanda has a "clearly defined tough-as-nails personality befitting of her mother." Danielle Riendeau of Polygon praised Amanda from a feminist perspective as a worthy successor to, as well as the best female protagonist since, Ellen Ripley. The character's critical reception was mixed. Ripley was cremated and interred at Westlake Repository, Little Chute, Wisconsin. Believing that it will provide her closure, Ripley accepts a place on the recovery team, travelling on the W-Y ship Torrens.Īccording to Aliens, Amanda at some point married, taking on the surname McClaren, but had no children - that fact may, however, be a lie as Ellen had no other children and Alan Decker is said to be a descendant of hers and the only place he could come from is Amanda - and died on Decem.
Ripley was approached by W-Y synthetic Christopher Samuels, who informed her that the flight recorder of the Nostromo had been discovered by a salvage ship, the Anesidora, and taken to Sevastopol Station, a supply depot in orbit around the gas giant KG348. In Alien: Isolation, Amanda Ripley is an engineer for Weyland-Yutani (W-Y). Ripley had promised Amanda that she would be home for her 11th birthday. According to the canonical novel Alien: Out of the Shadows, Amanda's father walked out on her and Ellen when Amanda was three years old. She was ten years old when Ellen Ripley disappeared aboard the Nostromo. Though this contravened Weyland-Yutani policy, her mother was not disciplined and the pregnancy was allowed to come to term. Fictional biographyĪmanda was conceived during a layover between haulage trips. Isolation utilised performance-capture acting in an attempt to bring believability to its characters. Examples given of how she mirrored Ellen Ripley included her determination, while also initially being colder than Ellen. The developers wanted Amanda to echo some of her mother's traits, while being her own distinct character. įor the video game Alien: Isolation, most early development was done with a female test dummy, with it being "almost just an assumption" that the lead would be a female character. When her mother contacted her from the Gateway Station, Amanda blames her for her absence. In James Cameron's 1983 Alien II treatment for what would become Aliens, Amanda (then unnamed) was alive, but old and crippled. Weaver was furious at the removal, considering it to be crucial to Ellen Ripley's character development in the film, taking on a protective mother role to the young character Rebecca "Newt" Jorden. The scene was cut from the film due to 20th Century Fox's concerns about length. The picture is actually Weaver's real-life mother, Elizabeth Inglis.
A picture of Amanda as an elderly adult is shown to Ripley. She was ten years old during the events of Alien, but grew up, married (taking on the surname McClaren) and died during her mother's 57-year stasis between the events of the first two films. A deleted scene from the film Aliens, which was later included on DVD releases, reveals that Ellen Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver) has a daughter, Amanda.