A complete list of everything that is canon

Thank God AVP isn't canon

No.Even S.M. doesn't think they are.Alien Isolation is,so is The Fire and Stone series.

Are the books Out of the Shadows, Sea of Sorrow and River of Pain canon? I think I heard on here they are and read that they are also, are those the only books that are canon?

Oh wait the Fire and Stone ones are, @ninXeno426 said that on this post.

Those books are canon.Fire and Stone are comics

Cool, need to read some of these books

Alien

Aliens

Alien 3

Alien Resurrection

Prometheus

Covenant

Out of the Shadows

Sea of Sorrows

River of Pain

Rage War Trilogy

Fire & Stone

Life & Death

Defiance

Isolation

Dead Orbit (forthcoming)

Weyland Yutani Report

EDIT - added Isolation

Isolation? If not, why?

I noticed.It is isn't it?

Also can i get an exact time line.And what about the upcoming bug hunt?

 Also The Alien Isolation comic.

Isolation is canon

SM also left out the novelizations.

You mean the movie novelizations?

yup, the movie novelizations.  I've been saying for months there is a lot more info in the books then you see in the movies.

example, they tried to space the alien in the alien novel and it got its arm cut off by the door and it grew back like the hammerpede head

"Isolation? If not, why?"

Sorry.  Missed that one.

Movie novelisations go without saying - as far as they don't contradict the film.

LOL, you have to say on the novelizations or people over look them.  Hence the slight over looking of them in a post previous mentioned here.

This one 

Nah. Novelizations, comic books, video games, happy meals etc. are not canon (at least in my humble opinion) purely because this is a film franchise and therefore only films can be considered canonical. But by the same token, a comic book franchise will not consider a film based on it as canonical.

Man i would have been severely disappointed if isolation was not canon, that game blew me away, the look of it, walking around inside the torrens felt like i stepped onto nostromo and the engineering section of sevastopol was like the nostromo engineering deck, sega and create assembly did an awsome job.

"'Nah. Novelizations, comic books, video games, happy meals etc. are not canon (at least in my humble opinion) purely because this is a film franchise and therefore only films can be considered canonical. But by the same token, a comic book franchise will not consider a film based on it as canonical."

Depends on the franchise.

There better be Covenant Happy Meals in May.

My basic search defined canon thustly in order of precedence but admitted that it is not limited to this:

1. Theatrical films
2. Video games
3. Books
4. Comics
5. Toys/other merchandise

Covenant happy meal toys?Hell I'll buy one lol

lol thats ok S.M, each to their own, man i remember when empire strikes back opened back in 80'(scraping the grey matter data banks! lol) i bought every cup in the meal range. 

I still have Empire Strikes Back towels.

Forget Happy Meals- How about a Covenant Burger by a Chicago place that does metal band burgers like the Ghost Unholy Communion burger?

I'm a big heavy metal fan!I think i know what that place is!!!

Now I'm hungry lol

Uma's in Chicago. Never been but surely forum members could come up with some interesting.....time for a new thread!

"Are the books Out of the Shadows, Sea of Sorrow and River of Pain canon?"

I would agree that they are Dr. Curt Connors.

There are obvious inconsistencies when comparing the novels to the films (Alien, Alien: Covenant novels) but there are concepts in Sea of Sorrows that tend toward connecting with what we have seen in the films. Titan Books and 20th Century Fox were involved in the novels too and that helps toward canon in my opinion. 

"I still have Empire Strikes Back towels."

Are they baby blue S.M? I had the curtains and bed set and they were baby blue.