The cat is the only character out of the first two movies who faced off with a Xenomorph and got a chance to die of old age. Jonesy shows up in the beginning of Aliens, too, but Ripley doesn’t take her on the trip back to LV-426.
Spoiler
Although anything after the second movie didn’t happen in my head canon anyway, so Ripley, Newt, Hicks and Bishop haven’t died yet, either.
The cat is the only character out of the first two movies who faced off with a Xenomorph and got a chance to die of old age. Jonesy shows up in the beginning of Aliens, too, but Ripley doesn’t take her on the trip back to LV-426.
Spoiler
Although anything after the second movie didn’t happen in my head canon anyway, so Ripley, Newt, Hicks and Bishop haven’t died yet, either.
Yes.
“And you, you little shit-head… you’re staying here.”
…but was the cat covered somehow or already in the hibernation pod? How did it survive in the shuttle when Ripley blew out the xenomorph.
I think she gets it inside the hibernation pod… But I might be misremembering.