The cat is the only character out of the first two movies who faced off with a Xenomorph and got a chance to die of old age. Jonesy shows up in the beginning of Aliens, too, but Ripley doesn't take her on the trip back to LV-426.
::: spoiler Spoiler
Although anything after the second movie didn't happen in my head canon anyway, so Ripley, Newt, Hicks and Bishop haven't died yet, either.
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Yes.
"And you, you little shit-head... you're staying here."
...but was the cat covered somehow or already in the hibernation pod? How did it survive in the shuttle when Ripley blew out the xenomorph.
I think she gets it inside the hibernation pod.... But I might be misremembering.
The cat is the only character out of the first two movies who faced off with a Xenomorph and got a chance to die of old age. Jonesy shows up in the beginning of Aliens, too, but Ripley doesn't take her on the trip back to LV-426.
::: spoiler Spoiler Although anything after the second movie didn't happen in my head canon anyway, so Ripley, Newt, Hicks and Bishop haven't died yet, either. :::
Yes.
"And you, you little shit-head... you're staying here."
...but was the cat covered somehow or already in the hibernation pod? How did it survive in the shuttle when Ripley blew out the xenomorph.
I think she gets it inside the hibernation pod.... But I might be misremembering.