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==Behind the Scenes==
 
==Behind the Scenes==
Originally, during the Gateway Station park scene in the Special Edition of {{A2}}, Jones was to stalk a fake bird hopping among fallen leaves and then jump at it, hitting the wall. Ripley was to then call Jones "Dumbshit" and Jones was to step back from the wall confused.<ref>http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Aliens.html - EXT. PARK 4 Sunlight streams in shafts through a stand of poplars, beyond which a verdant meadow is VISIBLE. EXTREME F.G. Jones stalks toward a bird hopping among fallen leaves. He leaps. And smack into A WALL. RIPLEY: (voice over) Dumbshit. WIDER ANGLE as Jones steps back confused from the HIGH-RESOLUTION ENVIRONMENTAL WALL SCREEN, a sort of cinerama video-loop.</ref> This scene may have been cut due to the crew being unable to make the cat jump at the wall.
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Originally, during the Gateway Station park scene in the Special Edition of {{A2}}, Jones was to stalk a fake bird hopping among fallen leaves and then jump at it, hitting the wall. Ripley was to then call Jones "Dumbshit" and Jones was to step back from the wall confused.<ref>http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Aliens.html - EXT. PARK 4 Sunlight streams in shafts through a stand of poplars, beyond which a verdant meadow is VISIBLE. EXTREME F.G. Jones stalks toward a bird hopping among fallen leaves. He leaps. And smack into A WALL. RIPLEY: (voice over) Dumbshit. WIDER ANGLE as Jones steps back confused from the HIGH-RESOLUTION ENVIRONMENTAL WALL SCREEN, a sort of cinerama video-loop.</ref> This scene may have been cut due to the crew being unable to make the cat jump at de poo dat the alien made in de moo moo dat why poo poo really nice and alien is poo poo head!
   
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==

Revision as of 23:09, 21 December 2013

"Here, kitty kitty! Here, Jonesy!"
Brett, beckoning Jones (from Alien)

Jones (nicknamed Jonesy by the crew) was a cat, more specifically a Ginger Tom, kept aboard the USCSS Nostromo. While the cat's official purpose was to control rodents aboard the ship,[3] it also served as a source of relaxation and entertainment for the crew.[4]

Jones and Ellen Ripley were the only ones who survived the Nostromo's encounter with a Xenomorph and the ship's subsequent destruction.

Biography

Aboard the Nostromo

Owing to Jones' small size and mass, he comfortably shared a hypersleep capsule with one of the crew members during the Nostromo's long journeys.[5] When the Alien began stalking the ship's occupants, Jones was apparently of little interest to the creature and he survived the incident unscathed. However, he was indirectly responsible for the death of Brett; when the latter pursued Jones through the ship's cargo hold, seeking to catch him so that he would not be accidentally picked up on the motion trackers being used by the crew to hunt the Alien, the cat inadvertently lured him into a room where the Alien was hiding. Jones saw the Alien drag Brett's body into the air shafts.

Ripley later found Jones and put him in a carry case. At one point, Ripley was forced to abandon Jones to the Alien, but, while the Xenomorph was notably distracted by the cat, it did not attack it. Jones was later recovered and put in hypersleep aboard the Narcissus after escaping with Ripley.

and alien did de poo poo in de moo moo AHAHAHEHHGFAEGHAEH

Behind the Scenes

Originally, during the Gateway Station park scene in the Special Edition of Aliens, Jones was to stalk a fake bird hopping among fallen leaves and then jump at it, hitting the wall. Ripley was to then call Jones "Dumbshit" and Jones was to step back from the wall confused.[6] This scene may have been cut due to the crew being unable to make the cat jump at de poo dat the alien made in de moo moo dat why poo poo really nice and alien is poo poo head!

Trivia

  • Jones is likely a reference to the old tradition of a "ship's cat", whereby the animals are brought aboard sea-going vessels to hunt rodents and other undesirable vermin aboard the ship.
  • In the novelisation of Alien, several short passages are actually written from Jones' perspective.[4]
  • Jones reappears in the video game Aliens: Colonial Marines, as an Easter Egg in the "Nostromo" multiplayer Survivor map (released as part of the Movie map Pack DLC). When playing on this map, vigilant players may catch a glimpse of the cat darting between the ship's ventilation ducts. Jones can also be tracked on the Motion Tracker (although only when you can see Jones with your eyes running from one duct to another) and will appear as a red dot, which usually indicates an enemy. However Jones' appearance in Aliens: Colonial Marines is non-canon due to it being in a multiplayer map.
  • Jones has been referenced several times in the Halo franchise; Halo developer Bungie has admitted to taking inspiration for their games from the Alien franchise, and Aliens in particular.
  • Jones has been referenced in World of Warcraft and can be found in Dalaran in the The Legerdemain Inn resting comfortably on a ledge as you go up the stairs to the second floor. The various Marines from Aliens are also scattered throughout the game.
  • A cat similar to Jones appears in Aliens: Infestation, jumping out of a vent aboard the USS Sulaco.
  • Film critic Anne Billson published a free eBook titled "My Day by Jones: A Cat's-Eye View of Alien".
  • Jones is the only cat to appear on screen in the Alien films. 

Appearances

Non-canon

Gallery

References

  1. Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett (writers) and Ridley Scott (director). Alien (1986), 20th Century Fox [DVD].
  2. Alan Dean Foster. Alien3 novelization, p. 124 (1992), Warner Books, Inc..
  3. Lee Brimmicombe-Wood. 'Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual', p. 136 (1996), HarperPrism.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Alan Dean Foster. Alien novelization, p. 109 (1979), Warner Books, Inc..
  5. Alan Dean Foster. Alien novelization, p. 8 (1979), Warner Books, Inc..
  6. http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Aliens.html - EXT. PARK 4 Sunlight streams in shafts through a stand of poplars, beyond which a verdant meadow is VISIBLE. EXTREME F.G. Jones stalks toward a bird hopping among fallen leaves. He leaps. And smack into A WALL. RIPLEY: (voice over) Dumbshit. WIDER ANGLE as Jones steps back confused from the HIGH-RESOLUTION ENVIRONMENTAL WALL SCREEN, a sort of cinerama video-loop.