Dronehive, Yautja, 10 years ago

Canon is anything true to the OFFICIAL universe. AVP is not canon. Only the movies and CM are canon

Deathdrop, Yautja, 10 years ago

^ Some people would squabble with CM being considered canon.

krio, Yautja, 10 years ago

sure... the game sucked alot,but it is still cannon. It is a official sequel.

skull_ripper, Yautja, 10 years ago

How is it considered canon? did Ridley Scott say it was canon, or is it just a game thet fans say is canon? Who said it was an official sequel? Is there actually something that makes it canon? Not being an ass-hat, just wondering.

daveberg, Yautja, 10 years ago

Developers on the game said several times in interviews that after acquiring the licensing for the game that it would be considered an official sequel (in game form) to Aliens.

The same was said about Ghostbusters the video game. (Which was also awesome)

-Bloo-, Yautja, 10 years ago

There was also the fact that they were given access to Prometheus concepts, among other things. I don't think the film developers would give two shits about whether or not they portrayed Engineers/the Derelict correctly if ACM wasn't canon.

skull_ripper, Yautja, 10 years ago

Ok, I just kept hearing people saying it was canon while not stating a source, so thanks.
Also i think AVP should be consider canon, just in an alternate universe.

-Bloo-, Yautja, 10 years ago

I think that works out. The way I've always seen it is this:

Alien Universe:

All standalone Alien films + Colonial Marines


Predator Universe:

All standalone Predator films
Concrete Jungle game (debatable)
All standalone Alien films (and ACM) minus Prometheus


AVP Universe:

All films minus Prometheus
All AVP games/comics (debatable)

skull_ripper, Yautja, 10 years ago

Yup, sounds right to me.

Deathdrop, Yautja, 10 years ago

Dude, how could you forget the "Operation: Aliens!" universe?

shockwave, Yautja, 10 years ago

I just put proof for you guys just to make sure

DeathWraith, Yautja, 6 years ago

Alright, I don't know what the sentence above means, but based on what we've learned from the new movie about how the xenomorphs procreate, I would like to say that CH what the fuck were you thinking

concretehunter, Yautja, 6 years ago

I have no idea, to be honest.