Alien
WhileWeyland - Yutaniis established as the nifty overarching evil that has plagued theAlienuniverse since the franchise ’s very first episode , it seems as though there is a ship’s company with even more force and influence — Walmart .
Weyland - Yutani is a fictitious company withinAliencanon that is behind almost every atrocity that has occurred in the series peculiarly when it comes to the Xenomorphs . In the firstAlienfilm , the company sends a cloak-and-dagger synthetic substance with a fare crew across the galaxy to retrieve an unnamed alien lifespan form that Weyland - Yutani hoped to utilize for their own personal gain , whether that be in weapons , pharmaceuticals , or anything else that could make the company money . While that seems ingenuous enough , the company rank the mechanical man to bring back the specimen even at the expense of the bunch , which immediately show how ruthless Weyland - Yutani really is . In the subsequence moving-picture show , Aliens , there is a similar situation in whichWeyland - Yutani is hit the books Xenomorphsunderneath the off - macrocosm settlement of Hadley ’s Hope , happily putting hundreds of civilians in risk . With just these two examples , it is open how amoral and esurient this company really is , but the legacy of Weyland - Yutani proves that with all the concealment and bloodletting in pursuit of a prize it would never attain , the company would amount to nothing more than being yet another asset under arguably the most successful superstore chain of mountains on Planet Earth , Walmart .
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InAlien Resurrection#1 by Jim Vance and Eduardo Risso , reader are given the story of the film bring to the page with most - perfect truth that also highlights certain aspect that could have been well neglect while watch the film . One scene involved Ripley 8 having a conversation with the scientist responsible for give her life . During the conversation , Ripley say that the Queen Xenomorph the scientist helped make will cover , and the resultingXenomorphs will down everyone in ' the company'(aka Weyland - Yutani ) , Ripley ’s former employer and the entity she mistakenly believe is responsible for her situation . One of the scientists then corrects Ripley 8 by telling her that they are with the United Systems Military and not Weyland - Yutani , say , “ Your former employer were bought out decade ago , by Walmart . ”
The idea that a store like Walmart — one that is basically a giant superstore grocery market design to undercut practically all other retailers and make up for that loss with the cobwebby routine of stores across the globe — had its hand ina society like Weyland - Yutaniis absolutely hilarious . for certain , Walmart may have been passively creditworthy for ‘ mom - and - pop ’ stores have to shut down up store because they could n’t vie with the prices , but there have n’t been any composition of Walmart sending rogue androids to far - off populace to collect the most ugly creature conceivable for pecuniary gain , all the while being o.k. with killing its own employee and their families in the process . However , in theAlienuniverse , that is exactly the kind of company Walmart associates itself with after buying the villainous Weyland - Yutani .
One thing to keep in judgment about this comic and the moving-picture show it is based on is that the account is specify two hundred twelvemonth afterthe events ofAlien 3 , which was the last sighting of a Weyland - Yutani representative . At that time , Walmart was not its parent caller . It was within that two hundred yr stretchability of time when Walmart bought Weyland - Yutani — and with a stroke of a pen and an exchange of up-to-dateness — the assumed fellowship ’s bequest turn into a joke . Going from the most herculean company in the galaxy responsible for for researching and examining aliens before anyone else , to being nothing more than an asset of a superstore chain is humiliating ( and totally deserved ) asWeyland - Yutaniwas the most malevolent corporation in theAlienuniverse before Walmart learn it .
