Alien Corporation

  

Categories: Incorporation

Remember the company in the Alien movies that was founded by old Guy Pearce and employed multiple Michael Fassbender robots, and one of them went crazy and started doing genetic experiments on violent, predatory aliens, and then later one of them (an alien, not Michael Fassbender) attacked Sigourney Weaver and her crew, and then the company had smarmy Paul Reiser try to get Sigourney and a young Bill Paxton to bring the alien back for military purposes or something, but one of the alien queens ended up gestating in Sigourney's stomach and then a bunch of other stuff happened in another movie with Winona Ryder that no one saw?

Well, none of that has anything to do with the term "Alien Corporation." And in space...they really can hear you scream if you scream loud enough.

An alien corporation is simply one formed outside the U.S. That's it. No face implants or chest explosions or space jockeys. Just a slightly aggressive name for foreign companies. It was simply incorporated in France. Or in Germany. Or in China. Or on Mars.

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