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10. Ripley Experienced Everything Over Just A Few Months - Alien 3

The original Alien trilogy absolutely put heroine Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) through the wringer, and though the events of the three films technically take place over the course of 57 years, it's worth remembering that Ripley was in hypersleep for the overwhelming majority of that time.

Let's break it down. The events of the original Alien take place over two days at most, before Ripley is woken from hypersleep 57 years later at the start of sequel Aliens.

Aliens likely transpires over a couple of months given that Ripley effectively re-enters society with a job, while Alien 3 occurs mere days later and lasts for around a week.

So to put this into context, in the span of around two or three months from Ripley's perspective, she watches her colleagues die, finds out her daughter passed away while she was in hypersleep, then finds out her surrogate daughter Newt (Carrie Henn) died in stasis mere days later along with her friend Hicks (Michael Biehn), and later that week sacrifices herself to kill the Alien Queen embryo growing inside her.

Basically, Ripley had one hell of a trauma-filled quarter-year, even if from a temporal perspective the events happened over more than a half-century.