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.