10 Ridiculous Movie Plots That Sound Like Fan Fiction (But Are Real)

10. Alien: Resurrection

Anytime a film starts hundreds of years after the last movie it’s getting into fan fiction territory. Alien: Resurrection is one of those films.

The iconic Signorey Weaver returns to her role as Ellen Ripley for this film, except there’s a catch. Ripley is actually a clone known as Ripley 8. Yes, for some reason, a company decides to recreate a woman with severe xenomorph trauma. On top of that, they use her DNA and splice it with a xenomorph Queen.

This whole set up is real. The clone Ripley is used to create a half-alien, half-human hybrid creature. The wild part is it was written by Joss Whedon. Yes, that Joss Whedon, the one who did The Avengers. Whedon definitely pulled out all the weird fan service plot ideas for this film. He creates an entire movie based on the idea of Ripley being a clone in the future and not knowing much about the xenomorphs. It's like a fan wanted to keep her character around but couldn't answer for her being involved in so many alien attacks. Only they would think up this scenario.