22nd century

The 22nd century is a one-hundred year period of time that spans the years 2100 to 2199. As this is a century that has yet to come to pass, any information relating to it is entirely fictional and speculative. Media that takes place in or includes the 22nd century tend to be of the science fiction genre, though it may also include material from the fantasy genre or superhero fantasy genre.

2138
The character of Leonard Dillon, who appeared in the 1992 science fiction/horror film, Alien³ was born in the 2138.

2179
The events of the movie Aliens take place during this year. In the film, Ellen Ripley is awakened in this time after a fifty-year hyper-sleep. She becomes a consultant for a military detachment of Colonial Marines to go the planet LV-246 to re-establish communication with a "shake and bake" colony there. They quickly discover that the colonists have all been either killed or harvested as incubation material for a species of alien xenomorphs. Ripley finds a lone survivor - a young girl named Rebecca "Newt" Jordan. Along with a marine named Dwayne Hicks and an android called Bishop, Ripley manages to destroy the infested colony and escape from LV-426.