8 Mind-Bending Mysteries Of Xenomorph Anatomy Unraveled - Reproduction To Origin Everything Explored
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
- Xenomorphs are dreadfully scary creatures that are based on H R Geiger’s painting Necronom IV. These epic aliens have become one of the most famous pop culture icons of science fiction horror films! After we made a video on Yautjas in which we cleared the air around the various secrets and mysteries about their anatomy, we received quite a few requests to make another such video on Xenomorphs, and Marvelous Videos doesn’t like to disappoint its loyal fans. So here we are with a video curated explicitly for the purpose of understanding the anatomy, culture, origin, gender, and reproductive cycle of the often slimy and always deadly extra-terrestrials called Xenomorphs.
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This is the most concise and fact filled video I've ever seen on the xenomorph thanks dude you've answered every question I've wanted to ask.
@@kevinkerwin4118 Those anniversary short-films are great. Also, I found the Colonial Marines Technical Manual has some very good theories by a pair of scientists discussing the Xenomorph in one of its end sections.
Can you release a sequel that can involve other universe cross-specie changes? A great example would be Dark Horse xenomorph with other comics like DC comics? Likewise, what could potentially create a truly best of best type of Xenomorph? My combination would be Queen Mother facehugger if a DC comic scientist arch villain, with the use of Lex Luthor. In a truly horror movie result. If he captured Superman using kryptomite and put a Queen Mother egg beside Superman. Imagine if a yellow star was near? Giving all the powers of Superman? The might seem to be the worst of all, but I can exceed that. Instead of needing Kryptonite or a Superman. Drop a Queen Mother egg, beside Doomsday while he was still contained and restrained. Doomsday has all the abilities Superman has, but doesn’t need a yellow star, and like Doomsday, has the unique ability to where anything that “kills” him, he evolves and develops a complete immunity to what killed him before. Anyone have any idea of something that could ever be worse?
U should check out the channel Alien Theory here on youtube. It's an amazing channel too and it's creator is the most passionate and knowledgeable alien fan I've ever heard discussing the subject. It's literally one of the best lil hidden gems here on youtube no BS.
It's wrong CONSTANTLY.
Keep asking.
My dad has(had?) A theory that the "predators" hunted the "engineers", so the engineers made them an offer.
They'd create the ultimate prey (Aliens/Xenomorphs), then seed worlds that the predators could use to hatch Aliens whenever they wanted.
The engineers then took up a life of peace, like this video said, using the predators own rules of not fighting unarmed opponents.
Which is why at the start of Prometheus, the one engineer is being made into a sacrifice.
Obviously this is just a random theory my dad came up with, but I liked it personally.
That could make a fun movie series outside of canon, like another variation of the cinematic universe
This does make sense specially since predators dont really have proper preys to hunt
You can tell your dad that I like his theory
My theory is that the tail of the xenomorph is considered a delicacy for some species.
How Predators could hunt Engineers if they getting their ass kicked by them. In Fire and Stone comics Engineer survived Predator self destruction. Engineers are like Forerunners, Predators like Covenant, Aliens -The Flood and welp humans are humans.
the xenomorph life cycle sure does waste alot of biomass...
Speculating...within an established hive there may be a lot of reclamation of biomass, breaking down bodies and used eggs into other products or fertilizing middens. The books describe some fungus being cultivated that protects the hives from infections on their homeworld.
As an invasive mechanism the expenditure could be taken as an investment, if the advantages are worth it. These various forms always seem to afford the aliens their adaptability, like they'll diverge at these points depending on the circumstances. If the prey population is numerous then waste becomes less of a disadvantage until the hive can establish and drones can reduce waste.
Aliens always seem to live beyond their means, there's no backup plan to sustain their population once the prey is gone except to die back and wait. To me, it's this ferocity that screams 'weapon', this unwillingness to compromise with its prey or allow for balance that makes it a scary and fascinating concept.
I mean they gotta eat something, they probably eat the corpses of those that carried at chest burster
I could have sworn they eat the deceased face hugger. I know they eat the host body. Deleted scenes from aliens show that I believe
So they're like cockroach then? Cockroach eat their deads too.
@@ericburton3963 yeah I always figured that they eat anything that isn't directly built on the hives. Like any type of bio waste or dead bodies/host. I know they don't kill for food but I'm 100% sure xeno's eat a substantial amount, the neomorph had a voracious appetite. The hive actually seems organized in aliens, other than the egg pods and organic structure, there aren't any bones or carcases strewn across the hive. Plus we often see them taking bodies off screen.
Man, hearing all this takes me back to my ps2 days, playing "Alien Extinction". One of my favourite games. Has everything you need to know about Aliens/Predators. Wish they remade this RTS classic...
I wish it was made for PC. Its was so limited because of being solo for the ps2. The potential it had beyond what we got would of give it a chance at being a series.
Still one of my favourite ps2 games ever though and my favourite alien and predator game next to concrete jungle.
@@RickyT15 concrete jungle was really good too. I played both of these games, only a couple of years ago on my PC, through emulation. Thank goodness for emulation! Hehe. 👍🏽
I loved that game. The Xenos were easily the strongest faction.
@@RickyT15 I had it on Xbox
@@minecraftslover i thought it was ps2 exclusive but either way still console exclusive as was never designed or released for pc, which for an RTS game is heavily limiting.
It’s stupid to say David created the xenomorph when in the temple it shows a queen xenomorph on the wall way before David begin his Experiments
Yeah, if anything he reintroduced an extinct species using existing biological templates
I wouldn’t say extinct species more like off brand xeno caused by his god complex
@@moriawalker1712 So in some way it is a parody of a higher species that inheritantly scares our species because they were an alpha predator of the cosmos. David created a bug parasite to wipe out his creators, thier creators, and so on?
That was a deacon it appears.
What if engineers evolved from xenomorphs? They are their missing link and their Jesus.
David didn't created the Xenomorphs, I think he just "replicated" it, the alien ship in the first movie had been on the planet long enough that the engineer on the cockpit sit was fossilized, it had been there probably for thousands of years. So unless he has a time machine, he didn't create them. I'm inclined to believe, the "black goo" is actually some type of Royal jelly the engineers extracted from the original natural Xenomorphs.
I think something similar. The black goo was possibly an early version of the xenomorph bio-weapon. Or perhaps the xenomorph is an alternate version of the weapon meant to be used in different circumstances. There very well could've been records of both weapons aboard the ship and David was just reverse-engineering/recreating the more evolved version of the weapon from the incomplete records on the ship.
Agreed. They took original aliens and made them weapons. Same as humans raised animals and made them weapons, we took dogs and cross breed them to make them better for our needs. Im sure they made them more durable like making a virus more infectious to other species so they could breed easily using their bodies.
@@conqc20 Prometheus is the " Wuhan lab" of aliens. That makes alot of sense
Fossilization requires minerals to replace body material. It's the process of becoming stone, so either Engineers have weird biology, something in his suit was supposed to make him an unsuitable host, the Xenomorph made an egg from his biomass, or it was normal dessication.
Black goo may convert human biomass into Xenomorphs in the long run, maybe the other Xenomorphs are results of Engineers' other failed perfect human creation experiments. If they can create humans on Earth they may have done that on other planets too and when they failed converted them to weapons (Xenomorphs)
The Xenomorph Queen gets the dna traits of its host, like the predalien Queen who has traits of yautja and xenos
Absolutely! That's how Ripley was able to come back and Resurrection.
Hint’s in the name: xenomorph.
@Amaraa Tsogoo Did you even see the 🎥? I bet you didn't watch the movie lol your troll and that's it.
She wasn't an Buick that was remade. She was cloned. And if she was a human normal clone they even say in the movie she would have been a vegetable. She would have been a newborn. They say in the movie The xenomorph DNA carries her memories. Xenomorph racial genetic memory.. no you didn't watch the movie you just came on here to be an a******.. 😂 totally busted you either have the attention span of a 4-year-old or you just never saw it.
Some straight nerd speak right here.
Rev. Jonathan Wint cloning IS remaking…
Ive heard the novel of Covenant says that Davids was trying to recreate work already done by the engineers. This makes sense within the canon of the universe e.g the original engineer ship being ancient and fossilized.
I like to think that the Xenomorphs were created by some civilization as the “perfect biological weapon”, which then got out of control.
Some of the Dark Horse comics heavily suggested the Yautja created the Xenos. Prometheus and Covenant would have been better if set in the Alien universe but not dealing with Xeno in any way.
@Jacko Sargs Yes, in AVP Universe. Yautja would captured Queen Xenomorph, and used her eggs as 'hunting seeders' by using human host who respect them.
Super Predators were also captured Queen Xenomorph, as seen on AVP Evolution Game. However, unlike traditional honorable yautja who killed adult alien, these bad blood super predators using them as slaves.
@Jacko Sargs Well, they would have to evolve in a really harsh environment, because the development of such creatures would be dependent on immense evolutionary pressure, selective pressure... Predators can never be much stronger than the prey because if that would be the case all prey would be eaten and the predators would die. For example, the creature in the excellent sci-fi film "Life", that allegedly lived on Mars when there was life there... One of the characters said that such a creature (probably the species of that creature) would dominate the planet for hundreds of million years...That would be nonsensical, that creature was virtually indestructible and was growing with every feeding. Such a thing can't evolve by natural means but can be made, I guess in the future that would be possible.
@Jacko Sargs Well, I was surprised and to some level disappointed after the "Prometheus" when in the next film we found that David was the creator of Xenomorphs. I thought like you that they are either from some planet with intense evolution, there is so much that can be done with that idea and crazy films to be spawned, or that they were created by the Engineers as a biological weapon. All that story with that black goo in those containers confused me...
@Jacko Sargs I never had a chance to see the comics, but with enough imagination and people, biologists who would take care about the plausibility, it would be a very interesting, very hostile world, something like a much darker version of "Avatar". As you said, some creatures that could compete with xenomorphs, animals that serve as food and for growing new xenomorphs, plants...there are so many things that can be visually very interesting and with today's technology, it is doable.
Facehugger terrified me as a kid 😂😂😂😂
Still terrifying to me as an adult
that is normal. they play into fear of rape.
@@kciN1221 You know, in space, no one can hear YOU scream, except for those other scared bastards running in front & back of you. Take comfort in the fact that you'll never live long enough to be a part of a future space program where astronauts travel to a distant planet & encounter aliens that shred you on sight. You're safe.
Still does at 33 lol. I blame them my mild arachnophobia.
We're you surprised to find out that woman share something in common with them? 😂
I think it's far more likely the engineers found the Aliens and used their DNA adaptation trait to create the Black Goo. That would account for the Space Jockey in the Derelict in Alien having clearly died from a facehugger far earlier than David's existence, long enough ago for it's body to fossilise.
It's also shown in Aliens: River of Pain that the Derelict had more dead Engineers and a dead Queen on board, so those eggs were likely laid after the crew were killed and in preparation for someone to one day stumble across them.
Yeah we also know that David didn't create them as we see a xenomorph mural on the walls of the enginner temple in Prometheus
This is probably closest even if there is no clear lore. The engineers definitely found xenomorphs and took the black goo to make their own bioweapons. Since aliens are perfect the goo would just evolve back into a xenomorph.
I feel like their origin should stay a mystery, i appreciated what Ridley Scott tried to do in Prometheus and to a lesser extent in Alien Covenant by expanding the world/universe
You should look into the idea that the liquid isn't a bioweapon. The whole idea that they were planning on killing us makes no sense. David used it as a bioweapon and the spaceship wasn't originally headed towards earth on the navigation until David chose earth.
There is even a written scrip of dialogue when the alien speaks and the android translates it to the astronauts.
I think it's film theory or someone who has a video on it. It shows how the movie was really a lot more open and not about what it appears to be. The creator kinda backed out of it in the second due to being afraid of basically changing what everyone thought and instead went with what everyone accepted it to be.
Everything after the first Alien transformed the scary and unknown being, which was incomprehensible and lovecraftian in nature and whose intentions and physiology wasn´t ambiguous for the most parts, into a giant spacebug and took all the horror from this franchise. Not saying Aliens is no good movie, but it is just no good Alien sequel and every consequent entry became worse and worse. Nowadays Scott himself doesn´t understand what made Alien 1 brilliant as well as scary, which culminated in his atrocious decision to intecrate in humans into the origin of Alien which detroyed the unknown origin of their existence and ultimately took the core of Aliens horror.
I like to watch Aliens - Prometheus now and then but the quintessential and canonical Alien movie will forever be Alien 1 to me. It´s original concepts were even better in which Ripley was supposed to die and the creature would imitate the voice of Dallas to send a stress signal into space.
This video is proof, what destroyed the concept of Alien: After the first movie such a video wouldn´t have been possible. That is exactly what made Alien scary: An organism we don´t know anything about it. Fear of the unknown. As soon as we can analyse somthing, it takes the scaryness away.
Not only that, but it makes the whole universe of the franchise seem smaller as a result.
The comics explained shit better with an actual homeworld.
Ridley's version was an IP grab back. The dude from Oats Studios expressed interest in making a better franchise out of a sequel and Ridley got VERY scared.
This was so well done. I'm gonna watch it through again.
Imagine being an Engineer and discovering the Predator's code of honor loop hole.
Then presenting that idea, "So hear me out, we nerf ourselves so that we become boring as hell."
(Evolution doing a double take) "Get David"
In the original Alien film you can make out a “human” skull just under the head plate in one scene. I do believe they have the ability to see, but also rely on others senses. I’m sure they have advanced senses owing to their large skulls.
A head plate? What scene exactly i I never noticed before
It's canon that they have eyes. They head plate hides them, they can see through it.
one piece of supporting proof is the scene in Alien Covenant where we see the Praetomorph's POV
@@OdinSmilesRavensLaugh72051 Most of them have "facial features" like the Newborn, albeit much smaller and hidden behind their semi-transparent skull.
I always see their "skull" as a "helmet" or "visor" that protects their skinless face from attacks and other hazards.
i think i read in an old aliens comic the tendrils on the egg act as motion sensors that tell the egg to activate the facehuger that is inactive until this point. also i don't count the Prometheus/Covenant crap:D
Do you remember the layer of fog with the laser effect on it over the eggs in Alien? There's also a scene where the skin on the egg seems to crawl and drip and become translucent.
In one of the novels it says that tendrils (as well as being anchors) grow between eggs and produce gases that allow the eggs to be chemosensitive and photosensitive to anything nearby. The eggs share their status with each other through them too, it's like a net. The skin of the egg itself becomes more clear to allow the facehuggers own motion sense to aid in the final decision.
@@Silverfirefly1 nice! the old material on the xenomorphs is still the best:D
In Prometheus/Covenant David attempted to recreate the Xenomorph. Instead he made an aggressive strain with lower intelligence. In the Prometheus original script the engineers worshipped the ancient strain. The black goo was ancient strain xenomorph blood
It's actually incredibly jarring to see the difference between these two comments in the chain. One is a detailed and interesting description about how an alien organism has adapted to sense prey, the other is all over the place and I'm not sure how to pick up the pieces or just how I should take it.
It's fascinating because it exemplifies exactly how I feel about the new lore
@@widen698 what Tom said is accurate the promethus/covenant aliens are genetically altered by weylan yutani. They aren't the same xeno's the movies aren't hard to follow if you pay attention.
I hate the idea that David, man indirectly created the unknown beings that are xenomorphs. I hate hate this idea. Makes everything to small. Loses its mystery
Having the queen mother being God knows how old and intelligent make me question how deep do they go. We're left with some director making an android the creator of xenos and I hate it.
@@wi4305 of the creator what's David to be the creator, he will be the creator.
Weren't Xenomorphs created by the engineer?
Well since we see aliens in a relief in Prometheus then he obviously didn't create them and only stole the biotech and monkeyed with it.
He created a strain of them not the original version.
According to their growth rate, they should reach the end of their growth rate in less than a week.
Give them a year & they'll beat out India & China ! No easy feat. The only reason insects don't rule this planet is because they can't grow to our size. Imagine if they could. BUG WORLD EARTH !
@@levitaggart5943 If they could, either humans wouldn’t have been able to evolve to the point they are currently/died off, or they’d be farming them somehow lol
@@OddsShroom Yes, yes, & they damn sure would try, buy failure would be acquired. Xenos. don't play nice with others, they're not likely to be caged for long, training them would be costly & result in untimely deaths, human ones, & have you seen Aliens & Alien 4 ? Uhhh, yeah, bad, bad endings for those who thought that they could handle THE BUGS !
@@levitaggart5943 O shoot I thought you just meant the buggos we have now, just a lot bigger. Like giant beetles and spiders, huge dragonflies and mosquitos-my bad lol, you’re right. Xenos would cause too many deaths and far too difficult to train efficiently, and humans would likely try to exterminate all Xenos for their own survival, or die trying. They’d have to, otherwise the Xenos would just kill them off later.
@@OddsShroom Now you're on the right track. Xenomorph growth is disturbingly fast & their " I HATE EVERYBODY, WITH A PASSION ! " motto is something they truly live by. So, if you happen upon a derelict alien vessel in your travels, be sure to keep on truckin' instead of letting your curiosity get the better of you. Alien, the movie, should serve as a " what NOT to do when encountering an alien vessel in your travels " lesson for all curious travelers. Be safe & not xeno prey. Just a little friendly advice.
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“A Metallic Exterior….” You mean biomechanical appearance like the rest of the wiki says referencing your quote Their body heat matches the ambient temperature of the environment in which they are found
I really be looking to these videos daily
I thought xenomorphs “saw” using electromagnetic interference, sort of like echolocation but using radio waves, which are projected and picked up by an organ in their enlongated heads both facilitating their telepathy and their ability to sense their environment.
I saw something like that in the Covenant movie I think
21:22 In the first ever made alien film, if you are focused enough, you can see a skull with pitch-black eyes under the White cover on the xeno's skull. This means that they may be able to see, but poorly
David and Doctor Wu from Jurassic Park should meet up and share ideas sometime over coffee
I've always wondered why Ripley acted the way she did in the end of Aliens. Ripley pointed her weapon at the eggs and the queen silently communicated to the remaining xenomorphs to back off. She already had Newt and to me it seemed that she established a silent agreement between mothers that she wouldnt harm the eggs if she were allowed to leave with her. Then she goes bananas and shoots the eggs anyway, infuriating the queen and setting up the climax of the film. She already knew that the reactor was going to blow, something the queen had no way of knowing, she could have just left. I understand that its a movie and there had to be a big showdown, but her behavior seemed reckless and entirely out of character in that single moment. Especially when you consider that she was holding a child.
She wanted payback for the pain she experienced.
Let’s ponder how an audience would have reacted to that.
I feel like she was just terrified of the species in general and knew what would happen if they got off world and didn't want anyone else to experience what she went through, so she had to take action.
@@jakobnunez4964 Perhaps. But if her goal was to save Newt she did the exact worst thing she could have in that moment. The only thing I can think of that makes sense is that Ripley didnt trust the Queen to honor their silent agreement. Which, to be fair, she probably wasnt going to. But that would have made for an even better end to them film. Ripley attempts to leave with Newt and the Queen uses the opportunity to sic the nest guardians on her anyway which prompts Ripley to grenade the eggs causing the Queen to chase her.
@@Pancreaticdefect it would have been way worse if Ripley had to face a queen mother.
This is an unbelievably detailed and complex video. I now know more than I ever thought would be possible I had no idea there was this much info out there. Thanks for the video
David: I need a human to test out this new reproductive system
Humans: hey, here we are golable as ever :)
One should consider that the xeno morphs would be a great weapon to use against a population of... “the thing.” The acidic blood would mean the thing couldn’t take one over, and the xenos ability to become queens and fast procreation would mean they could quickly build up an overwhelming army using non infected creatures on a world being infected by the thing.
Yes, but you forgot the part where the Thing would first copy the outside cells upon contact, and the copied cells could then interact with the acidic blood cells inside and copy that, too.
That is unless the acidity comes from a secreted chemical rather than the cells being acidic themselves. I don't know though, I am just glad that isn't reality.
@@Nervii_Champion wouldnt predator be a better solution ? With their tech they could easily find out who is the host of The Thing on the spot and just blast him with his tech weapon i doubt it would even leave a speck of cells. I was never into The thing lore that much. But preds are much smarter if it some how got infected by the thing he would blow himself up. On other hand if the thing some how infected a xeno welp that would be a problem
@@filds1 Predators would wipe the floor with both the Engineer class and the non-genetically modified Engineers, The Thing, and all Xenomorphs EASILY if they all worked together as an army. Predators are more of a warrior culture than the Spartans and the Nervii combined but that is mainly because of their technology.
And if you don't know who the Nervii are, Julius Caesar will tell you.
Great idea tbh, id rather deal with the aftermath of a xeno infestation than deal with the thing... dunno why but i always outa all the sci fi monsters found the thing the most terrifying thing i ever seen.. hell yeah UNLEASH THE XENOMORPHS
@@Nervii_Champion I need to start thinking these things through lol i agreed that as long as the thing couldnt replicate the acid blood then xenos would be the ideal weapon but ahhhh the predators can spot em through their vision modes... problem solved... CALL IN THE PREDS 😂
19:10 alien vs. Predator is non-canon.
It is considered canon to Predator timelines.
You should make a video discussing all the forms of necromorphs from Dead Space also awesome video I love anything alien lol
David didn't create or discover the xenomorph, he just got the opportunity to play with the big boys' fun juice and succeeded in back-engineering something close to the original natural creature that the juice was derived from. He did so by throwing a biosphere at it.
I can paint a picture of a lemon in lemon juice but it still won't be a lemon. I don't get to claim that I invented the lemon, especially when the people that I stole the lemon juice from have pictures of lemon trees everywhere.
Ok, soooo wait, you picked a lemon & painted it ? No, no, you ate a lemon in lemon juice ? Wait a minute, wait a minute, YOU DIDN'T MAKE LEMON TREES BUT YOU KNOW WHO DID ? ! ! ! Alright, I think I got it now. Cool. Continue.
if life gives you lemons... paint them
David sorta pulled a jurassic park and "recreated" xenomorphs, but instead of dinos and frog dna, it's original xenos and human dna
7:15 wasn't it supposed to be that the chestburster would take control of the host mayor organs to support it's development until it's eventual birth?
Aliens is one of my favorite movies to fall asleep to. So relaxing.
Great video Marvelous Videos, I really enjoyed it!! Please make a video of the Top 10 best Mobile Suit Gundam Series of all time!!
I have a few notes about your conclusive statements regarding the relationship between the Yautja, Engineers, and Xenomorphs. As well as a few gap fillers about Xenomorph creation:
It is theorized that the Engineers are responsible for all life in the universe. Given that they had a hand in populated the Earth with life by ingesting the black mutagen (referred to as "Pathogen" in Aliens: Fireteam Elite), it can be hypothesized that they did this on many, if not all life sustaining planets as a sort of large scale science experiment or even just out of a god complex at having mastered biological engineering as a species. Hell, the Engineer buildings, ships and other structures aren't made of raw material, they're made out of genetically modified cells. They literally grow everything they need using their acute control over cell and DNA manipulation. That's why everything down to their own space suits appears organic in nature, despite being as hard or dense as steel. Back to my main point, if Engineers ingested this mutagen, it would break them down on a molecular level and restructure in various and often times random forms. This break down and restructuring of genetic material would result in any planet's first single and multicell organisms, leaving evolution to play out and create new and diverse life on any inhabitable world. Anything from fish, plants, and bacteria all spawned from a single Engineer's seemingly ritual suicide.
If that is truly the case, then not only are they responsible for the eventual emergence of Humans, they also played a part in the creation of the Yautja and the Xenomorphs.
Now, the Yautja, also known as the Hish-qu Ten, were a quadrupedal species on Yautja prime before becoming sentient. Another advanced race, known as the Amengi (origins unknown) had come across the planet and set up civilization upon said planet and, being close to what Humans would refer to as dickbag capitalists, took a liking to the ferocious nature of the beasts that the Yautja were and decided that pitting them against one another for sport would be both hilarous, and a source of income. You see the Amengi were a bug-like race of money grubbing assholes (who's design is actually based on the preliminary Predator look before we got the look we know today). Gambling on a planetary scale soon took place as Amengi would take, raise, and breed Yautja to be used in the fighting areas against one another. Like any form of entertainment, they felt the need to spice things up eventually. The vicious quadrupeds were then biologically engineered, as the Amengi sought favorable traits to increase the brutality of their sport. After generations of alterations, the large humanoid creatures we've known as Predators became the dominant combatant in the ring. The entire species was altered to become killing machines, capable of using gladiatorial esque weaponry on one another for the amusement of their insectoid masters. Until one day, one Yautja, known as Kaail, fought back against his oppressors and lead a revolution/slaughter against the alien species. Kaail then became known as the Alpha Predator. Before long, the Yautja had co-opted the Amengi technology and successfully drove them off of Yautja Prime. The fate of said race remains unknown (my money is on the Predators hunting them to extinction). Now with the genetic desire to hunt, and armed with advance technology, the budding species maintained their tribal like nature and sought out to fulfill their bloodlust, seeking trophies for status throughout the galaxy.
The Engineers had run ins with the Predators on numerous occasions. The Engineers disliked the primitive nature of the species for they had attained sentience and space travel but not through evolution. The creatures were cunning, but not smart. Strong, but without tact. Seeking violence in such a boorish manner that the Engineers could not recognize them as higher life forms like themselves. Someone had bastardized their creation and now both species were in frequent confrontation.
But the Xenomorphs? Their planet went through hell and as such the evolution triggered by the Engineers millennia ago produced such a violent and organized species that the entire planet, known as Xenomorph Prime or the Hiveworld, was laid waste and left barren by the large black bugs. Like any ecosystem besieged by a conventional invasive species, the planet grew quiet once all life upon it had been used as a host or was covered in hive material. The multitude of Xenomorph variation contained on the planet, rendered inert and in stasis, awaiting any new creatures that dared arrive. These creatures developed sentience, but not language. Intelligence, but no drive. Possessing a shared hive mind meant one thing and one thing only: The Queenmother made the rules. Each individual capable of adapting to new situations and thinking, but held at bay from advancing from anything more than a parasitic organism with an anthill societal structure. Fascinated by this world wide stagnation, the Engineers would dip down to the dark world and collect some samples to study, knowing that the species had imposed an evolutionary dead end upon itself, and looking to rectify similar issues with their future experiments. Seeing the variance in the organisms' structures they concluded that only the Queenmother and the other royal casts were pure in their DNA sequence. Each individual however contained trace amounts of various other lifeforms, now extinct. The hypothesized that this genome that allowed for single generation biological evolutionary changes was key to the stagnation of the species. Where the Engineers were the ultimate life givers due to their manufactured genetic mastery, the Xenomorphs represented the exact opposite end of the spectrum, a species that existed with the sole purpose of ending all other lives in both the physical sense as well as the evolutionary. Its unknown which came first, the Yautja or the Xenomorphs. But the engineers looked upon the Xenos as the antithesis of their hard work. And not in a bad way. They used Xenos as their "what not to look for" guide. And as such they incorporated their likeness into their architecture, a mosaic of the trials and tribulations of their scientific advancement. But the Engineers viewed the Yautja as a critical error, a life form who's only claim to sentience is due to the interference of another advanced races. Now, between the Engineers and the Yautja, mistakes were obviously made. The Xenos were brought out of their isolation for study or for sport. Soon the Yautja would grow their own Queens and seed planets, so that they may hunt and kill entire hives of the most dangerous game for societal standing.
Much like carcinization, the belief that all Earth organisms will eventually evolve into crabs (no seriously, look into it), it appears that the black mutagen forces those exposed and all life derived from it will eventually end in Xenomorphs. Or at least similar insectoid creatures (possibly explaining the origins of the Amegni). So while Xenos predate mankind and Yautja by millions of years, the effect that the mutagen had on the several species present in Prometheus, caused evolution to skip uncharacteristically fast toward the end of the timeline, where-in the trilobite and the resultant deacon were the first signs of skipping the steps in the evolutionary chain. Even the worms in that movie grew to resemble proto-facehuggers. Skipping ahead to Covenant, David dropping the mutagen on the Engineer planet (not necessarily the homeworld though) lead to drastic changes in the planet's ecosystem. Beyond super mutating the Engineers below to a rapid and violent death, the mutagen also appears to have killed off any other native lifeforms on the planet, if there were any. Besides plant life, nothing could survive such a large mutagenic metamorphosis. Everything would die and decay, enriching the soil and thusly the plants, whos alterations would be slower given the rate of "ingestion". In the 10 years David lived on the planet, the plants grew black fungal sacs that could release a new form of the mutagen, once more mirroring the 2 stage life cycle of the Xenos. The Necromorph would spawn from infected humans similar as much larger and more visceral manifestations of the Xenomorphs. Some will claim however, that David went on to create the first facehuggers and ovamorphs using Elizabeth Shaw's biomaterial. While his actions resulted in said creations, he was using his heightened intellect to try and play god with the materials he had on hand. Using the human scraps from Shaw along with the black mutagen, he devised the most efficient way to make a new lifeform. Which coincidentally, resulted in a similar being to the original design we all know and love, the Protomorph. It all comes back to the mutagen. If the mutagen can take Engineers cells and eventually come up with Xenomorphs, then an AI like David, doing his own little experiment, using the mutagen in tandem with human cells (descendent from Engineers cells) was like taking a second shot before you felt the effects of the first one. The double dosage of evolutionarily kickstarter shot the speices David sought to create almost right to the end of the chain. So David didn't really INVENT the Xenomorphs, throwing decades of lore out the window, he merely came across a more rapid way to force the evolutionary progression instilled by the Engineers into overdrive, resulting in a creature CLOSE to xenomorphs.
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Everytime i scrolled down i was happy there was more to read!
Great stuff and i swear longest youtube comment i read and see in my life
I replaced all my memories of Alien 3 with this comment and now I have stronger, longer lasting erections, and more stamina in the bedroom.
Ripley_ "They cut the power." Hudson_ "What do you mean "THEY cut the power"? How could they cut the power, man? They're animals!"
All David did was replicate them.
The “black goo” is kinda like the primordial ooze. The engineers use it to terraform planets to create life.
The xenomorphs weren’t created by but they were however culled and controlled by Predators to use for hunting and training. I feel like most of the info in this video is taken from parts of several other videos that have been on here for years. It was an entertaining video nonetheless.
Predators are not canon. Predator universe is not the same as the Aliens universe. That was a cross over movies
The only thing that stuck out to me is when you said the Xenomorphs ignore androids/synthetics. In many of the old books and comics it was always stated and shown how they are very aggressive towards them unlike most normal animals. It was considered a factor of them being an engineered bioweapon. They had to make specialize Xenomorph synthetics to be able to study them with out the wrath of the hive (well mostly). Hell, even Bishop was ripped in half by the Queen.
I cannot use the word Xenophobia to describe how scared I was as a kid watching the Alien movie for the first time!
Why not Xenomorphobia?
Great video but loads of wrong info and conjecture (I know they are fantasy) . One example of a mistake is the length of the queen at 100 ft ?? Even the Queen mother or Empress queen was only 35 to 40 fr according to very quick google . Great work otherwise and enjoyed but any fan who knows their Xenomorph’s will either dislike or not like at all. Just a tiny bit more research and this would of been one of the best Alien (franchise) videos I had seen to date , close but no cigar.
Yes, thank you. The Xenomorph knows where you are at all times. It has no eyes so it does not need to line of sight to find you. This is something I could not stand in Alien Isolation. The game is an amazing recreation of the Alien setting but that you could hid in a closet from the Xenomorph did not sit well with me.
Yeah but this is like the movie because newt was able to hide from them like this quite effectively, you just have to move and not hide in one place too long, have you ever tryed waiting in the locker for too long if you do the alien will find you 100% garenteed
U got it all wrong, in no way there are scary they are Beautiful and the most splendid thing Human mind ever produced
Beauty can still be scary. That's what intrigued Ridley Scott.
Their just big cute space cats.
Great video can't wait for new movies to expand this franchise even more, I never guessed when the 1st movie scared the crap out of me just how far the whole thing would go...and go...and go...!
To those arguing how the Prometheus and Covenant films dont line up with the Originals and should not be counted... I take it how I take Star Wars. Different interpretations of the events of the originals. The originals in my mind being 1-3. Aliens Resurrection is way out there and i barely like to count it as part of it. the AvP series is on its own leg and honestly i like the way it worked out the history as it still left it a mystery where they came from. The Prometheus and Covenant is how Ridley Scrott sees the origin of the Xenomorph.
Alien 1-3
My personal belief is along the lines that the Engineers created the Xenomorph as a Biological Weapon Creature. It was used on themselves by a faction of their own kind and it ended up wiping themselves out. This led to the Derelict ship in Alien and the discovery by the humans thousands of earth years after the Engineers went extinct.
AvP
much like the Alien timeline, but the Predators, Yautja may have used the Xenomorph against the Engineers and wiped them out, and then used the Xeno as a creature to hunt. I like the Wayland corporation origin here as well, and it does introduce the Yutani for Wayland Yutani to become a thing.
Prometheus and Covenant.
I feel this is Ridley Scott trying to make an Orgin story thats easier for the General people to get behind, and fulfill the push for an Orgin to the Xeno. As a Stand alone disconnected series it does work for a possibly origin, along the lines of David Recreating the Bioweapon species and further manipulating it to more of what we see it as. The only way they could manage to connect it with the Original series is through Time Travel... or by showing that David did NOT create the species, only added to it and that his creation is seen in other places, while the Original is the one from Alien. And I can see it going on that the 2 separate versions: Original and Davids creations interact and either Fight or Join together. Either way its best to let Prometheus, Covenant and their possible Sequel be its on things as it does not include the Predators. I also dont like the Wayland creation in this one as it does not fit the original company at all.
Personally I like to think that the AvP and original series mashup is a better lead up to the species and leaves the Xeno as a mystery. And with how some elements of the AvP added into it I feel it leads to the original Aliens directive that the Crew was expendable to get the Xeno for the company... They knew this species was out there and due to all known traces of it was wiped out and useless on earth so they needed a new specimen to work with.
I really love these videos. And this is my favorite video breakdowns you have made by miles!
My subjective hypothesis; David stumbled upon convergent evolution with the xenomorphs he created from the black goo. I'm guessing the black goo would have been taken from original xenomorphs then altered by engineers to try make a fast evolving xenomorph species free from the queen mother. Which seems to hold some merit as the neomorph seemed to look to david for guidance. But, with any species spliced by the black goo or alter xenomorph dna, climbs the xeno evolution it probably evolves to a point where it falls under the control of the queen mother. The engineers may have found this out after every research base was destroyed, abandoning their project to find a way control the xenomorph dna. Who knows, the engineers might had been so traumatised by their project failing so many times, they essentially became a race of monks by the time David found them.
I read the illustrated story when only 6 was my first contact with the Alien universe, showed me the value of horror and of this franchise
Specimen 6?
@@doomslayer1210 Well the illustrated story of the first movie
The transitions in video is on point! Great work!
My theory is that the Xenomorphs exist naturally on their own planet and at some point engineers stole some of the royal jelly and started making their own biological experiments from it, similar to the viruses in the Resident Evil Universe, and that David at some point found info on the Xenomorphs and the Engineer experiments and started recreating or trying to perfect them into what we see in Covenant from the black goo/pathogen. Also in another universe or even the main one the Predator's got involved at some point. They probably would have made Ripley an honorary Yautja.
Alien Vs Predator Extinction on the original Xbox was my jam back in the day. You could play as the aliens and hatch eggs and pick the hosts to make different variants of the aliens.
The face hugger is more similar to a wasp species that lays its eggs in caterpillars. My only quibble ;)
Great video - love these lore dumps..never knew about the different egg types.
Wasp species- that is very interesting- I hadn’t heard that!!! I think that IS extremely right!
It is called 'Parasitoid Wasps'. Unlike normal eusocial wasps which have; Queen (fertile female), Workers (sterile females), and Drones (fertile males). Parasitoid Wasp produced offsprings via parthenogenesis way, which means all the offsprings would be 'females'.
However, as for facehuggers, they don't really have gender at all. Or perhaps, they were true genderless. This simply because, facehuggers merely just a carried an alien embrios, and need a host's for implantion process. Adult aliens were their true physical forms.
Xenomorphs don’t echo locate. Echolocation is essentially screaming really high pitch and listening to where the sound bounces off, and no one can hear you scream in space ;)
The lip twitching before attacking while point blank in the prey's face is terrifying
I really like the ending of this video. The simple but effective explanation that perhaps the Engineers harvested the black goo from xenomorphs would clean up the plot holes created by Prometheus and Alien Covenant. And it would explain the reason behind why the black goo causes things to mutate into Xenomorphs because the Xenomorph is the source of the black goo.
It would be very easy for the Engineers to see that the Xenomorph is the Yautja's biggest enemy/threat and they would seek a way to use this in self defence or even conquest. But they might come to the conclusion that the Xenomorph is too dangerous to use and start killing them to harvest the black goo.
Perhaps even, the black goo might be Royal Jelly as it seems to provoke a radical and accelerated physical change, a kind of violent change that kills other life forms, but to a Xenomorph would be comparatively tame. Or maybe both, maybe it's Royal Jelly that has been modified by the engineers.
No they can communicate
Anybody remember that one scene where they tear the other xenomorph to shreds to escape thier containment?
we both know that movie was trash, and that it was a cash grab which had nothing to offer the aliens universe. its the reason no one ever made a sequal. theres so many bits and pieces wrong with it. if i really wanted to explain that itd be because those xenos had human dna which handicaped their natural abilities forcing them to communicate by other means.
The face hugger doesn't deposit an egg into the host, it injects a "cancer" that causes the hosts body to grow the chestburster
The engineers have a 300,000 year lifespan. There are also comics where an engineer directly fights and kills multiple yautja with its bare hands so they definitely don’t see yautja as threats.
I like the idea of the xenomorphs being made for an even bigger threat.
Their skulls have eye sockets so they have some sort of eyes underneath their dome/crest/ridge
Great to have a video with factoids I didn't know. Great work.
Love this video, I've got to show my girlfriend and friends this so they can see why my dad and I love these movies.
What if the Engineers got ahold of the royal jelly, and accidentally created their own doom via black liquid.
Also, part of the physiology you missed: the aliens are physical representations of batteries. This is from the acid blood.
The blood is another reason explaining why they don't emit heat and why they can hibernate for long periods and are safe from the vacume of space. Also, their diet is silicon
(This is from the Aliens RPG released in 1991. As this was pre-alien 3, so there were a few small errors, the above^, is not one of them)
that's a cool theory
The only thing I can take away from this video that wasn't utter contradictory shite is the notion that the Engineers used Royal Jelly from the homeworld of the Xenomorphs to develop their mutagenic bioweapon. That makes more sense and allows for David to develop a Xenomorph strain similar but separate from the original series of films while not completely butt-fucking the established canon built up over decades before Prometheus and Ridley decided to wank all over the original films.
Dude, in the chestburster section, when the runner appears outta the cow/bull the noise it made when running off… IT WAS SO ADORABLE! Tbh it sounded a bit like a kitten-
Notice how the suit the Engineer is wearing when he wakes up, the tubes popping free...almost looks like a Face Hugger!
The narrator does a very good job!
Keep it up!
Nice video as always!
David improved on the Xenomorph in a movie we haven't seen yet. He places a part of himself into the experiments. That's why Xenomorphs become biomech in appearance, and perhaps gain some behavior or intelligent benefits from him, they are definitely more resilient and infections in their modern form within the story. Deacon , Protomorphs, and Covenant Xeno wouldn't stand a change against some of the weapons we see later. Too fleshy. But Covenant Xeno is just human enough to be eerily scary. Evolution has come a long way
Where's your source?
@@CosmicCustodian it's a theory
Protomorphs aren't close relatives with Xenomorph XX121. However Deacon Alien and Neomorphs are their closest relatives.
this video was so informative. Thank you for the education
Super cool vid!
David created Xenos but Yautja fought them on ancient earth... So what's the correct origin...
Uh...hmm...
Yes?
Alien Vs Predator is a different franchise
Whatever you want it to be. AVP is basically fan fiction, and Scott's prequels crap all over the original films.
If the first Xenomorph was created from David's experiments, then how do you explain the Xenomorphs in the AVP timeline? You reference events that happened in AVP, so I'm assuming you're counting it as Canon. They show Xenomorphs over a thousand years before the events of Prometheus.
Can't... Alien-Aliens-Alien3-Alien: Resurrection is its own continuity. Alien-Aliens-Dark Horse Alien comics are another continuity. AVP are a third continuity with only cursory relation to Alien-Aliens. Promethus-Covenant are a fourth continuity with only cursory relation to Alien-Aliens.
@@CoryTheRaven It's looking like that's the way they want it. Guess that just leaves open more story lines in each of these "universes"
Well even without the AVP lore, we know that David didn't create them anyway.
AVP movies only canon to Predator timelines, not for Alien timelines. This is proven during 2018 movie about Predator, they were a scene about combistick elder scar predator that was given to Lex Woods.
@@rizkyramadhansoundwave8555 that's a good point. Then who created the"Aliens" of the Predator universe? I know there's a large collection of work beyond the films. Has their origin ever been described or hinted at in those expanded works?
hey marvelous videos i love your xenomorph video my request can you do mind- bending mysteries of arachind anatomy unraveled of arachind from starship troopers
My headcannon is that the Yautjas are a separate species all together from the Engineers. The reason the Engineers wanted to kill off life on Earth was because of the Yautja meddling with early human society as shown in AVP, screwing up the Engineer plan for humanity.
19:38 I have always considered Prometheus and Covenant as a reboot of the Alien saga and not a prequel
Would mind if there was a comic series of Riddick vs Predator vs Aliens.
as much as that would be cool i dont think anyone wants the preds or aliens extinct :')
I really liked this video, you did well.
Only thing that I wanted to add was that bats actually have great vision and the fact of them being blind commonly believed falsity .
Seriously feels like my phone listened to me watch the first movie the other night with how many articles and videos I’m getting for it popping up.
the android recreated the xenomorph through bioengineering. Its like how you can breed traits to match all the traits, and characteristic of an extinct species; using a similar enough one.
I theorize that the Xeno and the Species from the movie Species are actually from a similar sentient creature that breed themselves into extinction with remnants being Xenos.
Excellent, thank you for this.....can you imagine David Attenborough narrating this ?
Very clear, insightful-
I saw it as the eggs are the real natural aliens. The engineers took the aliens and turned them into weapons. Humans have done this with animals or using science to make mustard gas. So in the original Alien movie, those eggs were real aliens. In the crappy prequels those were engineer made aliens they took to make as aliens.
This is a really well paced informative video. Couple of things though…
The eggmorphing (from the Alien director’s cut) has nothing to do with the caste of alien being altered. It has to do with an idea originally in which human hosts were mutated into the ovomorph as opposed to be secured as hosts.
Fifield also wasn’t facehugged. He was exposed to the accelerant liquid. Even after they turned that film into Prometheus instead of an actual Alien prequel, there’s still the unused sequence where it was meant to illustrate Fifield mutating into a being with familiar Xenomorph physiology and body proportions.
Also when has an alien queen ever been up to 100 feet long? MAYBE the Queen mother (Queen of all queens) but still.
The Prometheus and Covenant stuff just messes everything up and is more just a demonstration of how truly out of touch with the franchise Ridley Scott had become.
Remember also that at one point the Xenomorph was shown to molt (regardless of the jelly) into the next caste depending on if it was the lone Xenomorph in the area or not (Specimen 6 for example).
I hardly ever comment on anything on UA-cam but this is a great video and thought provoking.
The Queen Mother, proto Empress, Whalemorph (alien whale mutants), and certain other species are 100 feet long but they often only appear in the comics.
@@tomsmith6379 yes I acknowledged that. And yes I’m familiar with pretty much all of the variants. I was speaking solely in regards to a Queen as shown with the Acheron Queen or basically any standard depiction.
@@JeremyKrullSS okay. Then no longest I read about was the 40 to 50 foot one
I read that in ALIEN RESURRECTIONS, one of the ideas that i guess didnt make it into the final movie, is that Aliens have a sort of hive genetic memory. This was how the Ripley Clone had some of the original Ripley's memories, and also how the Aliens keep getting smarter with every time they encounter humanity.
An excellent run down of the alien species. Well done but I have one addendum;
I've seen it mentioned here and elsewhere that the queen "can operate basic human technology" like lifts
and the video here shows the scenes from the film Aliens where the queen uses the lift.
Specifically regarding her "operating the lift' is inaccurate.
In Aliens, the lifts must have an auto return to the top of their respective shafts upon not being recalled again.
Ripley pushes a button and the door opens immediately on the one she uses to go to sub-level 3 and when she gets there and exits,
the door closes and the lift appears to go back up. A somewhat ominous shot of the door closing and leaving her behind is shown
which adds tension of Ripley being all alone at this point vs a hoard.
In her escape w/ Newt in arms, Ripley presses the first button and in frustration also hits the button on the 2nd lift too.
She gets into the first one that arrives, wards off the queen with the final burst of her flamer thrower, and gets away.
As Ripley and Newt escape though the 2nd lift hits ground and doors open. The queen looks at the lift and off camera it enters.
No portrayal of the queen actually touching the controls is made. So some sort of auto-return function is what brings the lift to the top
not the queen actually operating anything.
That she has the presence of mind to enter the lift though that shows intelligence.
She knows the lift will take her where her quarry/prey just went.
The aliens never found Newt even though they probably crawled right above her many time.
I really hate what the Prometheus films did the the Xenomorph background >:(
Amen sometimes the mystery is better than knowing
I'm on the opposite side of this conversation. The engineers and Prometheus were my main interest in this universe and the xenomorphs are just a slasher thriller.
Lots do
*To the* you’re welcome
In utter agreement with you fellow Xenomorph appreciator.
The face hugger doesn't intentionally release acid as a defence, they tried to cut into it and the acid was released due to the cut. The acid blood may be a evolutionary defence, but they can't just release it at will, in alien resurrection the caged zenomorphs attack another zenomorph to tear it apart so that its acid blood would destroy the floor. Also in prometheus the facehuggers didn't turn him into a zombie, it was the black goo that mutated/forced evolution. The cobra looking thing that attacked was initially a sort of worm that got hit with the black goo which mutated/forced evolved it into the cobra looking version
It was in the late 80s, early 90s when during a discussion with a pal I said if Xenos are anything but a biological weapon, whomever came up with all the stuff after Alien had no idea how evolution works. It simply doesn't benefit anybody if a species is so dominant, everything else gets wiped out.
I think, the fact that no one really knows where they come from or how they were created, adds a certain quality to the whole genre and I hope, it'll stay that way forever.
Yep... That's part of the horror of them. They're just an alien, from somewhere out there in the void. We don't know anything else about them except that they're some terrifying animal. Explaining it, let alone explaining it as something so mundane as an android's experiment, denudes them of the horror.
Geigers best nightmare!!!
I’ve seen all of the Alien movies several times and never really saw a difference between the normal Xenomorphs with a Queen. Unless comic books are thrown into the mix here I’ve never seen a drone vs warrior vs Praetorian variation of xenomorph. Only a xenomorph and a queen.
Still this is a great video, props to the creator.
Always fascinating
23:12 "communication is a function of intelligence and as far as that is concerned, instead of brains, the xenomorph possesses a complex neurological structure in their dorsal cavity,
naturally, they largely lack the ability to think like humans or predators and are only able to react to situations like other animals"
27:53 "which rely not just only on their anatomy, stealth and evolutionary enhancements, but also on their cunning nature"
So...they're "cunning" creatures but they can't really think?
Also, plants communicate without brains or a central nervous system.
This is all fucking bullshit that it dosen't have brains and I never heard this bullshit until now 😡 xenomorphes are also not real and a work of fiction so you can believe anything you want as long as there is no evidence thay contradicts this in the movies and there is no evidence that suggests they have no brains... on the contrary there is evidence that they are fairly intelligent and cunning...
My only gripe with the whole xenomorph thing is, gow do those small facehuggers incapacuiate a huge animal, as in whale or elephant. The tail will rarely strangle a throat and the phallus like appendage will harfly reach deep enough.
Bigger facehuggers lol
@@gm9984 how would xenomorphs know to produce an egg 10 times the size just because there might be larger animals around?
Depends on the world and the creatures that inhabited it i guess
Lol I cracked up when you said life style when it’s about the face hugger. Imagine it’s like a fancy scarf and you just wear it around and type to text about how you’re trending with with the new face hugger style 😹
David creating the Xenomorphs makes sense if you only take the Alien movie timeline into account. But AVP puts a Xenomorph on earth way before Prometheus or
Alien Covenant.
I had a theory (I've only seem films, so if a comic contradicts me...oops) that aliens did exist in ancient times (AVP), but at a controlled rate. And then I guess after wiping out a civilization over night, I guess aliens too? And David is kind of like discovering the evolution chain to create the aliens that once were.
AVP was just a cross over movie. It isn't canon. Predators do not exit in the same universe as Engineers or Aliens.
I believe that David found a new way to speed up the entire evolutionary process to go from neomporh (Decan) to xenomorph (modern alien ) in record time, and completely skip thousands of years of evolution into its perfected state the (black goo/ pathogen/ royal jelly) was the key factor for this evolution
Makes me want to play Xcom or Xenonauts.
Great explanation 🙂.
Great video