It’s so weird to me that relatively early in the Alien franchise it was established that Xenomorphs take on traits of their host and if you infect different creatures via a Facehugger you’ll get different kinds of Xenomorphs. But the weird part is future Alien films and stories almost never take advantage of that idea and instead most of the Xenomorphs that are seen are genetically engineered mutations or part of the Xenomorph’s caste system. Just seems like a lost opportunity. You could have a movie where a bear gets infected, or a rhino, or a shark, or an eagle, and they’ll all be really interesting monsters.
I think that is because there is this wierd thing going on in the Xenomorph-fandom where speciment that stray *too far* from the generic base-Xeno are often exposed to some strange h°tred for it's design too. For example let us go straight to the Predalien. In I believe it was the _"Alien:Requiem"_ movie? Gosh its been so long. This was one of the most interesting & unique Xeno's of all times. I guess this is just what happens when you - in a superficial sense - create the "hybrid child" of the two most dangerous species in the famous crossover. That being *'Yautja & Xenomorph'.* It was everything you would expect from a Xeno with Yautja characteristics. Very mobile, territorial while at the same time constantly on the hunt and expandings its claimed territory. And also lethally selfsufficient with how it created its own offspring, skipping the egg-part completely, being the Queen and the Facehugger in itself. It had the four mandibles, in between them was this "Queen-like webbing" from the Queen-facehugger and then it would just go to "facelovin' town" with them, LoL. But so many fans hated it. They did not wanted to let go of the formerly established things. I guess some people really like that dumb, oversized eggs sitting around somewhere. The quantity of how many chestbursters the Predalien could inject into a victim was off the charts too. I guess this is what really angered the fandom. It felt overpowered. But I'll never forget that I watched the Movie with that unsettling feeling of dread since it was also taking place on earth. And just when I thought it couldn't get any way worse and soon that thing will be dead, it shoots out this high- & quickpace reproduction method, indicating that earth could still fall. Only that the Xeno's spawning forth from the Predalien were normal Xenomorphs again was kinda disappointing to see. Why would the highly powerful strand of the Yautja get lost again just because of the human hosts? Should their evolution not be smarter and keep it instead? But I guess this was really an attempt to keep the "Queen Predalien" more unique & emphasizing on it's role as the most dangerous player in the game. This monster alone could create an army of Xeno's all by itself after all. Would truly feel overpowered if every single offspring would become a Predalien on equal footage with its parent. A parent who unlike a facehugger does not even perish after successfully infecting a host once. But survives after knocking a single victim up multiple times even. Yeah I guess that would have been just overkill. ps: But I really was a fan of the Predalien. The Yautja's are just so cool. And the Predalien was the ideal combination of the two species, displaying their trait of brutal physical superiority marvellously.
Imagin a Blue Whale or a Giraffe or a Kangaroo or a Rat ???? Or what would be a hybrid from a exxtremly peacful and harmless creature like a Groundhog ?? or a Prairiedog ?? or a Pufferfish ??
Fun fact about dog aliens (runners): In Monilith's Aliens Versus Predator 2, there was a multiplayer option called "Alien Lifecycle Mode) where all xenomorph characters would spawn in as facehugger, can facehug other players, turn into a chestburster then a xenomorph. What type of xenomorph you became depends on who you facehug. If you attach to a marine, you become a regular xenomorph. If you attach to a predator, you become a predalien. But if you attach to a corporate mercenary, you become a dog xenomorph. Confirming once and for all that they are, in fact, literally corporate dogs.
Feels like half of the variations were simply 90s video game logic. "Make it a different color or something, just reuse the asset we already have but change it just enough so the players knows it's a harder difficulty" lol
Still, I have fun with that. I've always liked the "powerpik rangermen" rainbow variations. But yeah, feels very Mass Effect I, which, mind you was a 2000s but I digress.
That's one thing i love about the AvP arcade game. It had a bunch of the variants, and none of em were swaps. All unique sprites with their own attacks/animations.
Playing Alien Isolation , taught me those bastards are incredibly intelligent with how much he learns from me exploring and trying to escape the station. Never been played by a AI when i had a flamethrower until that game
Fr, the AI there is on a whole nother level. I've had an instance of something like that with a flamethrower, only that the monster would charge right into and through fire to get you
The fascinating way the ai works in that game is because there are 2 ai working together. 1 knows the rough area where you are and the other knows exactly where you are and continually feeds the first ai hints as to your location. This combined with how the first ai reacts to player stimuli makes it terrifying.
@@Type_3_Screamer And the fact that the alien has a second set of eyes on the back of it's head, (program wise not on the model itself). You can't sneak behind it because it can technically "see" you.
Yeah in any Alien game I've played, the Facehuggers are the scariest thing there. Something about a spider shaped creature who's entire purpose is to give you a face full of alien wing wong is terrifying beyond the point of explanation.
the protomorphs and decans really confuse me because xenos evolved naturally but the two films (covenant and promethius) insiniuate that david was the creator of the xeno species
It really wasnt too confusing but the lighting sucked to show off that there were tons of pictographs of nearly every evolutionary stage of a xenomorph in the ship in Prometheus. David was able to speak to an engineer, meaning he knew their language and so could read the pictographs and proceeded to recreate their formula for a xenomorph.....just with the difference of using human dna instead of engineer dna, thereby creating an ancestor of the xenomorph. I say this because it only took a single generation of research for David's ovamorph, which immediately evolved into a praetomorph. I'd assume that the idea was to evolve them without the added biomechanical enhancements so that he could maintain his own control over his creation, though doubtful that it was for very long.
They evolved naturally, were created, made by predators to be hunted, or were a delicacy and a common food among the galactic species and treated as literal chickens. We have so many splits in the franchise. Some say alien 3 happened, some say it didn’t as it came out between 2 and 3, some say aliens didn’t happen but 3 did, some say none of it happened and that predators created it, some say this and some say that. It isn’t unified fully and it will be hell to knit it all together seamlessly. Something the expanded universe could do with a few date changes with less issues of cutting sections off.
@SamA-cy8eu Yes, not everyone liked Aliens 3, but I find Alien through Aliens 3 are cannon(4 is ehh). The Predator and Predator 2...along with the stand alone Predators movie to be their in universe cannon as far as movie franchises goes. Everything else is for fan service-AVP(1&2), The last weird one, Prometheus and Covenant, Romulus, etc. Like Freddy vs Jason, fun to watch and a good time...not related to the respective movie series though. But honestly I couldn't care any less...what I like-I like
I assume you're purposefully using this phrase in the reverse order as an insult lmao, I agree though I personally hate being told a bunch of things in a movie/universe but barely seeing any of it
my head canon is that no matter what the black goo changes it will always lead back to a xenomorph. the queen would always be the final result to start the process again.
i know its in old scripts that the black goo is the blood of the god deacon used for creation and destruction, so i think that this backs up that it is genetically superior, or perfect, and will overcome any host create to a xenomorph like you said :)
As we've seen the alien franchise is finally continuing its story after 3 decades. We are done with the xenomorphs finally. It's time to uncover the mystery of why,when and what for. People who are obsessed over the xenomorphs story line Is like people saying They can't wait to do another version of the sayain saga after 30 years of nothing but the sayain saga
black goo and canon should not be used in the same sentence. Alien, Aliens, arguably Alien 3. Everything else is trash fanfic, especially prometheus and covenant
facts all these xeno types are cool concepts but the original xenomorphs are perfect the way they are and i feel like all these variants stray too far away from their cosmic horror and giger style to the point where they just don't feel like xenomorphs anymore just generic alien monsters
17:06 I like how David thinks the alien trust him,but it seems more like it was studying David and didn’t understand what it was or how to perceive him. lol
Yeah especially since we've seen the xenos ripe apart synthetics. Pretty sure if that neo hadn't been shot it was like 2 seconds from ripping David in half. It was just kinda deciding exactly what it was gonna do to him.
David has the human trait of arrogance thinking he is capable of creation, but he is just an android. The creator shows his displeasure by tearing his head off after Tyrell claims to be a God like the creator for making David then he is killed. Its a true "fuck you" moment.
I remember back in the 90s all the cool xenomorph toys we used to get. The prowler was called the panther alien, there was a bull alien and a big, green one with wings called the king alien. Those were the days
I remember watching Alien Resurrection when i was like 10, and the newborn is still to this day the most disturbing looking monster ive ever seen in a movie. The death scene also scarred me as a child 🤣
@theangrybarman384 it made me feel both disturbed, disgusted, but empathetic and sad at the same time. I did not like those conflicting emotions, I was just a boy 🤣
@@autonomous8108 What about the moment when the newborn crushes the guy's head in its hand and its expression is like "I turned his head to red jelly eeeeee 😯😃"
I was not expecting the Offspring to be my nightmare fuel of the summer. I genuinely loved that Romulus connected to that world, allowing a sorta book-end closure for those films (while leaving space for some more exploration, likely in comics). Plus I LOVED seeing the cocoon-phase of xenos; still very Giger-esque sexual too.
My theory about how the Queen and drones communicate is they have what are seen organically radios in their heads. They use radio waves like sonar, and to communicate, the drones can only receive and emit simple radio waves and send out a pulse to sense their surroundings. The queens on the other hand can transmit and receive complex radio waves allowing for it to control the hive at a distance. In larger hives the Praetorians are used as relay towers to boost the signal. This would explain both the more complex head crests of the queens and praetorians as it would as an antenna and hoses more complex organs for constructing a radio signal, and explains why killing a praetorian causes the drones to become confused, as you are essentially cutting off their communications with the queen and it takes them a moment to assess the situation and adapt to being independent units again.
@@josephwilliams5292 I knew about the ability to communicate, but I didn’t think they had confirmed it was radio waves, or that they used them to “see”
@@ericburton3963 oh they’re not confirmed to be radio waves, I think they refer to them as “E-waves” or something along those lines, which is why I said something between telepathy and WiFi
@@ericburton3963 That's why Newt had such bad nightmares the closer they got to XenoPrime and the Queen Mother. They Mother can communicate with any xeno anywhere in the galaxy!
I absolutely adore how when the comms officer in Fireteam was briefing The Team, they referred to the situation now having "Xenos, and xenos con leche" (with milk) It doesn't have any right to be as funny as it is
The hate for the offspring online is insane to me. That whole ending was unsettling and terrifying and just pulse pounding as hell. The offspring hit the uncanny Valley so well and that whole ending was so good.
It was so great. When I went to go watch it in theaters everyone there in unison had a very audible "what the fuck" hearing Luke 80+ people say that at the same time was not only funny but showing of how great the movie was
@@freckledrogue8161I agree. When my dad watched it he didn’t like because he didn’t get it but I liked it a lot and is now my favorite creature along with the xenomorphs and predators
Xenomorphs are so hard to deal with 💀 >Facehugger on your friend’s face “I’ll just remove it.” >It’ll break his neck “I’ll just cut it’s tail off.” >Acid blood will burn his body “I’ll just freeze the tail then!” >Good idea, the tail can’t work anymore, however the egg has already reached the chest cavity- “GOD DAMN IT.”
Extra bit of lore here for the Pathogen Queen (I call them Pathomorphs), the only reason we beat her with all of our tech is luck. Based on the lore we get from a scrap of carapace in the arena, she's actually IMPERVIOUS to anything we would have been able to throw at her, rockets, flamethrowers, railgun shots, etc. The only reason we won is that she was in a molting phase, where the armor is weaker and can still be broken off before it finishes the process and becomes damn near impenetrable.
Man just make predators canon to the alien franchise already. People already think of predators when they see aliens and vice versa. They work so well together based on both their stories
Look I like predator and honestly I like the Yautja more than I like the xenomorphs but if I’m being honest a lot of the Yautja lore is not as good or interesting as that of the Xenomorphs. The alien franchise has several movies that people can watch to enjoy their story and origin meanwhile predator has like one semi decent movie that delves into their lore and I’m not talking about The Predator. I say that because I honestly wouldn’t mind if they retconned most of the predator backstories to make them fit with the established alien timeline. I think having a shared universe would be to the benefit of both franchises if they are done right of course. I still remember reading those AVP comics and thinking how cool it is to have the perfect alien hunters go up against the xenomorphs the true perfect predators engineered to survive and kill above all else.
You'd think that after the first couple disasters involving purposeful experimentation with xenos, Weyland-Yutani would’ve learned to kill on sight instead of continuing to cause more reckless havoc.
I like to think that the alien species existed thousands of years ago in mass in the form of deacons, and David just created his own unique version and understanding of them
that cocoon in Romulus may have been the most disturbing and terrifying thing in that movie also one of my favorite xenomorph variants is the Croc Xeno from Batman Vs Alien that thing was an absolute beast of a Xeno
I'm pretty sure the Facehugger was always supposed to be scarier than the Xenomorph. Particularily the life-cycle of forced infection then violent birth. Hell the least favorable option when encountering a Xenomorph is not getting killed, but getting dragged back to the hive.
@@Deusaga As long as it stays there, I don't care! At least that spider wont' shove a tube in my mouth, incapacitate me, inpregnate me and have it's alien baby kill me ;)
I’m wondering where are the flying xenomorphs? I know some are out there you just don’t see it much at all. I mean image a face hugger got ahold of a giant eagle. Being able to fly is a huge evolutionary advantage, it’s nightmare fuel for sure. Having flying huggers and drones makes sense.
Ok the Prowler has to have THE coolest design of any Xenomorph, it’s just the mix of red and black that really sells it for me. Red & Black are such a good colour combo.
There’s actually an interesting fan/fanfiction that also talks about the predators and their connection to the engineers. In it, it was believed that they were once a very powerful and very intelligent advanced species that could rival the engineers, and that there was a war between them that just never seem to really come to an end. In fact, the predators predecessors were quite strong, and were able to push back the engineers for quite some time before they finally decided to use bio weapons, and started using the black goo. But instead of killing them, all, it actually made them a lot stronger, even though it seemed like they lost some of their calm intelligence and their civilization kind of crumble. They were able to rebuild them selves as the predators we know about. They even got a lot stronger, which made them physically able to come across engineers in battle, so they kind of screwed up in my opinion, and made them even more dangerous. of course this is basically just a fan theory/fiction so it doesn’t really hold up until they say so but it’s still interesting!..lol
@@alexanderchi8139 it doesn’t really have a name I was just watching some videos on UA-cam and it was sometime ago so I don’t remember who’s channel it was… maybe it’s not fanfiction maybe it was from one of the many novels. but there was a video where they were discussing the possible connections of the predator and the engineer and I’m pretty sure it was just a very well crafted fanfiction, but I was actually quite hooked on the possibility that at one point the predators may have actually been a very technology based species, and may have been in many fights with the engineers because of that. If anything, it’s a very interesting story, and I think if Hollywood decides to utilize the story, it would make an interesting movie just as long as the studio, or the writers or the directors try not to squeeze water from a rock and start teasing little bits and pieces until the Fan base gets tired and just wants to stop watching the movies then they’ll just called a failure and then reboot everything again like they don’t acknowledge their mistake like always?
If I i remember properly there was a comic with a predator vs the engineer but it got bodied since the engineers are literal titans. It's defeated but Ithink the predator had to have help from a human and some others. That being said engineers are extremely strong
Because of the scientists in Alien: Resurrection were doing a series of experiments with xenomorph DNA and human DNA, specifically Ripley's, one can argue that the drones and the queen in this film had attained some level of intellect or certain humanoid characteristics. Though still not on par with that of humans.
In Romulus, I dont think the cocoon has a spike. When I watched it I always presumed it was Xenos tail doing the strike. Never even considered the cocoon to have its own defense mechanism
I remember only watching your stuff for anime and I just got to say man wow you truly did something with your talent and it’s inspirational for me to see love all your videos. Thanks so much for making them.
Life as a queen must be terrible because first your laying eggs for like your life and then sometimes you gotta rip your egg sac off which is painful and rigrowing it is even more painful like bro it must be miserable not to say maybe sometime you gotta face enemies that wanna kill you so your gonna be paranoid 24/7 then you got your own kids trying to take your crown life gonna be hard
The matriarch of the entire species in the Dark Horse era of Aliens is the Queen Mother and She's my favorite. You briefly see them in Aliens Genocide. Massive monsters at 50 ir 60 feet tall.
Awesome video. Kind of funny at 24:00 to hear you say THREE HUNDRED! while there's a huge '3000' on the screen. Deep and comprehensive knowledge of the alien species, basic grasp of large numbers hehehe
The newborn death is so grusome that I believe even creatures like that have to be eliminated humanely, especially that it shows emotions and childlike innocence. That is just brutal.
Well it did slap off the upper jaw of the queen, bite the scientist's head and smashed the soldier's head and was working on destroying Call. The first 2 are completely justifiable though lol. I think it's death was fitting.
@@smoothsavage2870 well for the record he only b*slapped his surrogate mother because Ripley was his true mother by nature 😂 the scientist was talk jibberish so he bite his head like a 🍎 👀 his mama didn't want all that smoke so she put him down best way she nose how...very painfully 😢 while it screamed I love you momma.
I love the idea of a xeno born from a serial [eliminator.] Just the other day, I found all the parts to a xeno action figure that "explodes" when you press on a certain part (all the pieces pop off the legs.) I was studying it, and found that it had "more detail" than the flagship xeno. But now I know that it's actually a warrior instead of a drone! Thanks for all the info, there's some crazy variants, and you did a good job at fleshing them out (sorta-pun intended.)
I was thinking exactly that, like she was bleeding to death to the point that the Xenos though it was pointless to implant her, after injecting herself she survived those injuries and survived to giving birth to that. Who's to say she didn't hibernate and will mutate more slowly than the Offspring since she was the one who was injected in the first place and the Offspring was just a side effect of what was happening to her.
**SPOILERS** She likely is mutating, if you recall the scene where they were showing the rat/mouse test subject. The rat was normal, then the body grew too fast, normalized, then a chest burster style xeno popped out. She is likely experiencing the same thing. Her metabolism and aging sped up slightly since there is no control over it like the xenomorphs have perfected, and will likely mutate or create another 'offspring' but in the traditional sense rather than birth.
@@Tyler-nh6op Not sure if it was a case of Neomorph with the rat as it seems to have died right after and the rat itself was unable to die earlier. Seems like it either got killed or entered a state of suspension due to being unable to escape the broken cage. While there are cases in the new comic canon where humans mutate into Xeno hybrids there's also another possibility. Potentially we might be having a body burster. A type of Xenomorph from the original Alien 3 script. Basically a full grown Xeno that erupts from your body and takes on your genetic traits. The transformation is horrific. The cancelled script did get a very good comic so I suggest you give it a read and see how messed up it is and it'll remind you of that poor rat as well.
I'm a little sad that the mother queen was not mentioned as well as some of the other variations of the leader class like the empress. Still this is enjoyable, but there should have been a spoiler warning for those who had not see all the movies yet.
Pretty sure that isn't true either. The xenomorphs and more accurately the facehuggers produce it. Romulus explains this, too. The engineers simply developed the goo and cultivated it. Sometimes to create life and sometimes to destroy it. It's why they are seen worshipping it in Prometheus.
@@MrWiggz69 even on top of this i think the engineers were once ancient humans who came into contact with the goo and evolved into the engineers. SPOILER FOR ALIEN ROMULUS How else would the goo developed by weyland yutani to increase evolution (with the side effects of xeno traits) cause the pregnant girl's baby to evolve into a xenomorph engineer hybrid?
@@walterholyfield3203 but that’s incorrect because we’ve seen a humalien hybrid with the newborn in alien resurrection. Remember? That was a human and alien hybrid. The black goo was specifically designed to jumpstart evolution in the people who inject themselves with it, but the side effect was developing xenomorph traits, like the rat that exploded in the cage. If you take away the xenomorph traits from the offspring, it is literally just an engineer.
@@MNDarkfire That hybrid was made from an artificial alien recreated from dna already taken from Ripley, a human. That movie was also made before Engineers were even a concept.
There are two more Praetorian cousins/variants that are lesser known: Ravagers and Carriers. Ravagers are bodyguards who are huge and brutal, while Carriers help face-huggers who have come out of their ovomorphs too early, using their 6 (or 12, depending on the variant) nutrient-rich dorsal spines by carrying them further out to find hosts.
Wait you didn't cover in AVP the Video Game, the Xenomorph named, "6" was the sole surviving Xenomorph. And molted into a QUEEN. So in theory, a drone can molt into a Queen when there is no queen present. And is a sole survivor.
At the end of the game, 6 was a Praetorian, that's how she was able to become a queen. A regular drone can't transform, it needs to be in a higher caste.
@@Dragonesa_Kel I might be old, but the praetorians are just harder evolved warriors (aliens from the second movie) with the purpose to defend the hive. Honestly the video is pretty bad, because the dude (probably a pretty cool dude) is reading the fandom wiki and asuming stuff that isn't in the lore/canon. The first and main idea behind the xenomorphs is pretty much taken from bee hives.
You've got The Queen Mother, The Xenomorph from The Mortal Kombat game. That Super Xenomorph from Aliens Colonial Marines, Oh and All the Different Species from Aliens Armageddon.
He also missed the titan xenomorph from dark descent and didn't really highlight different mutations of each xenomorph type; he really should have put some honorable mentions because mutations are mostly small changes but some are important to mention, like the red caste of xenomorphs and the king xenomorph.
as someone who only watched a few aliens films, and nothing else, I thought they all came in one shape. so it's interesting seeing all these different ones, future movies and games should utilise them
Another variant is the Mortal Kombat X Xeno which has Tarkatan blades in its arm, also in the Xeno's tower ending there are silhouettes of 4 armed Xenos probably birthed from the Shokans
Great video. Xenomorph's are the most terrifying and intriguing movie creatures ever created. Unless it was a "blink and you miss it" moment, I didn't see anything relating the the Hammerhead creature born from the black goo in Prometheus.
The deacon was apparently kinda a good one, since it's mountain form provided a safe haven to it's inhabitants, and even blocked out the xenos from the outside.
Royal facehuggers also appeared in aliens vs predator:extinction. The embryo produced birthed praetorians that then became queens should the original queen die.
Very informative! I wish there were warnings when anything Romulus related came up, but I've managed to miss most of what was there by muting and scrolling down. Cool vid though.
A very impressive video! I’m honestly surprised you didn’t mention the Xenomorph King with how in depth you went. To be fair, there is very little info on them and the most reliable info is from an Alien board game, but they’re still cool to talk about nonetheless.
The "author" of this video may have compiled some information, but they DEFINITELY didn't do their research in the ALIEN lore! SO MANY MISQUOTES AND HORRIBLE STATEMETS IN THIS VIDEO! I could count at least 20 instances where this video maker was COMPLETELY wrong with their "observations". ONE of the most obvious was at around 8:10 when he is talking about the cocoon and he says THE COCOON can defend itself with a "long sharp appendage"... NOPE, that is the Xeno INSIDE the cocoon extending its tail through the orifice.
Just fyi wimce there seems to be a ton of confusion, the engineers were an ancient species who became steril but came upon a trilobite while exploring and they gave it to "the best" engineer to birth a creature which became the "deacon" that they worship. They then used the blood to seed planets as seen in promethus but the deacon died so they tried to engineer a copy of the blood which is the black goo we see but while it created life it created monsters that are hostile. At the same time humans where killing each other, so engineers sent "the child" to help us but we crucified him(sound familiar) so they decided to wipe us woth the black goo but it got loose and we saw the result in promethus. When they talk to the engineer a ton of diolog was cut but basically you get all the info given above and the engineer is horrified when Waylan said hes also a god as he created life pointing to david. The engineer kills everyone to kobe on with his mission and we see the result in the movie. David was then experimenting with the goo and created many different forms of xeno with it. The horrors reflected how engineers felt about us making life as david is our creation making his own life.
Something to mention Ovomorphs in some stories seem to open up for Xenomorph Drone and Warriors and help their Face huggers on to their hosts. So maybe some kind of communication happens.
It’s so weird to me that relatively early in the Alien franchise it was established that Xenomorphs take on traits of their host and if you infect different creatures via a Facehugger you’ll get different kinds of Xenomorphs. But the weird part is future Alien films and stories almost never take advantage of that idea and instead most of the Xenomorphs that are seen are genetically engineered mutations or part of the Xenomorph’s caste system.
Just seems like a lost opportunity. You could have a movie where a bear gets infected, or a rhino, or a shark, or an eagle, and they’ll all be really interesting monsters.
A 30ft long xeno boa constrictor. Now that would be scary AF
I think that is because there is this wierd thing going on in the Xenomorph-fandom where speciment that stray *too far* from the generic base-Xeno are often exposed to some strange h°tred for it's design too.
For example let us go straight to the Predalien. In I believe it was the _"Alien:Requiem"_ movie? Gosh its been so long.
This was one of the most interesting & unique Xeno's of all times.
I guess this is just what happens when you - in a superficial sense - create the "hybrid child" of the two most dangerous species in the famous crossover.
That being *'Yautja & Xenomorph'.*
It was everything you would expect from a Xeno with Yautja characteristics.
Very mobile, territorial while at the same time constantly on the hunt and expandings its claimed territory.
And also lethally selfsufficient with how it created its own offspring, skipping the egg-part completely, being the Queen and the Facehugger in itself.
It had the four mandibles, in between them was this "Queen-like webbing" from the Queen-facehugger and then it would just go to "facelovin' town" with them, LoL.
But so many fans hated it. They did not wanted to let go of the formerly established things. I guess some people really like that dumb, oversized eggs sitting around somewhere.
The quantity of how many chestbursters the Predalien could inject into a victim was off the charts too.
I guess this is what really angered the fandom. It felt overpowered.
But I'll never forget that I watched the Movie with that unsettling feeling of dread since it was also taking place on earth.
And just when I thought it couldn't get any way worse and soon that thing will be dead, it shoots out this high- & quickpace reproduction method, indicating that earth could still fall.
Only that the Xeno's spawning forth from the Predalien were normal Xenomorphs again was kinda disappointing to see.
Why would the highly powerful strand of the Yautja get lost again just because of the human hosts?
Should their evolution not be smarter and keep it instead?
But I guess this was really an attempt to keep the "Queen Predalien" more unique & emphasizing on it's role as the most dangerous player in the game.
This monster alone could create an army of Xeno's all by itself after all.
Would truly feel overpowered if every single offspring would become a Predalien on equal footage with its parent.
A parent who unlike a facehugger does not even perish after successfully infecting a host once.
But survives after knocking a single victim up multiple times even.
Yeah I guess that would have been just overkill.
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But I really was a fan of the Predalien. The Yautja's are just so cool.
And the Predalien was the ideal combination of the two species, displaying their trait of brutal physical superiority marvellously.
Imagin a Blue Whale or a Giraffe or a Kangaroo or a Rat ???? Or what would be a hybrid from a exxtremly peacful and harmless creature like a Groundhog ?? or a Prairiedog ?? or a Pufferfish ??
@@meenamikeeper9541 But how would a facehugger infect a whale?
In what scenario? 😁
It's weirdly funny that Mortal Kombat of all things used that bit of lore more effectively than the Aliens franchisee
Fun fact about dog aliens (runners):
In Monilith's Aliens Versus Predator 2, there was a multiplayer option called "Alien Lifecycle Mode) where all xenomorph characters would spawn in as facehugger, can facehug other players, turn into a chestburster then a xenomorph.
What type of xenomorph you became depends on who you facehug. If you attach to a marine, you become a regular xenomorph. If you attach to a predator, you become a predalien.
But if you attach to a corporate mercenary, you become a dog xenomorph.
Confirming once and for all that they are, in fact, literally corporate dogs.
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Why why did you type so much
@@leyvaandsonsmoving *cuz he’s a smart and funny guy*
@@leyvaandsonsmovingWait until you find out what a book is
Which game??
Feels like half of the variations were simply 90s video game logic. "Make it a different color or something, just reuse the asset we already have but change it just enough so the players knows it's a harder difficulty" lol
Woooow
Still, I have fun with that. I've always liked the "powerpik rangermen" rainbow variations. But yeah, feels very Mass Effect I, which, mind you was a 2000s but I digress.
To be fair most of those are 90' designs
90s? They still do that shit today
That's one thing i love about the AvP arcade game. It had a bunch of the variants, and none of em were swaps. All unique sprites with their own attacks/animations.
"this is the xenomorph goddess"
"..."
"Hear me out"
I think the goddess is just the human mind trying to interpret the hive mind as a whole..
@@Bowiiihowdyhe’s saying he would have sexual relations with it… “hear me out”
Nope 😮
I’m hearing you
🤔
Playing Alien Isolation , taught me those bastards are incredibly intelligent with how much he learns from me exploring and trying to escape the station. Never been played by a AI when i had a flamethrower until that game
Fr, the AI there is on a whole nother level. I've had an instance of something like that with a flamethrower, only that the monster would charge right into and through fire to get you
The fascinating way the ai works in that game is because there are 2 ai working together.
1 knows the rough area where you are and the other knows exactly where you are and continually feeds the first ai hints as to your location.
This combined with how the first ai reacts to player stimuli makes it terrifying.
@@Type_3_Screamer And the fact that the alien has a second set of eyes on the back of it's head, (program wise not on the model itself). You can't sneak behind it because it can technically "see" you.
In the games the mist was supposed to be a like neutralizing containment field based off engineers tech
@@scormernlol I always thought that was just its tail and it can tell when you step over it
Yeah in any Alien game I've played, the Facehuggers are the scariest thing there. Something about a spider shaped creature who's entire purpose is to give you a face full of alien wing wong is terrifying beyond the point of explanation.
That is the greatest description of a face hugger I have ever read.
NOT THE ALIEN WING WONG
Don’t forget it’s legs have fingernails
And the tail is reminiscent of scorpions or snakes.
the protomorphs and decans really confuse me because xenos evolved naturally but the two films (covenant and promethius) insiniuate that david was the creator of the xeno species
Yeah, he just made his version of a zenomorph, they change depending on what they infect so there's no end to the variations on offer
It really wasnt too confusing but the lighting sucked to show off that there were tons of pictographs of nearly every evolutionary stage of a xenomorph in the ship in Prometheus. David was able to speak to an engineer, meaning he knew their language and so could read the pictographs and proceeded to recreate their formula for a xenomorph.....just with the difference of using human dna instead of engineer dna, thereby creating an ancestor of the xenomorph. I say this because it only took a single generation of research for David's ovamorph, which immediately evolved into a praetomorph. I'd assume that the idea was to evolve them without the added biomechanical enhancements so that he could maintain his own control over his creation, though doubtful that it was for very long.
They evolved naturally, were created, made by predators to be hunted, or were a delicacy and a common food among the galactic species and treated as literal chickens.
We have so many splits in the franchise.
Some say alien 3 happened, some say it didn’t as it came out between 2 and 3, some say aliens didn’t happen but 3 did, some say none of it happened and that predators created it, some say this and some say that.
It isn’t unified fully and it will be hell to knit it all together seamlessly.
Something the expanded universe could do with a few date changes with less issues of cutting sections off.
i just consider covenant and prometheus non-canon fan fiction
@SamA-cy8eu Yes, not everyone liked Aliens 3, but I find Alien through Aliens 3 are cannon(4 is ehh). The Predator and Predator 2...along with the stand alone Predators movie to be their in universe cannon as far as movie franchises goes. Everything else is for fan service-AVP(1&2), The last weird one, Prometheus and Covenant, Romulus, etc. Like Freddy vs Jason, fun to watch and a good time...not related to the respective movie series though. But honestly I couldn't care any less...what I like-I like
This franchise is the king of "tell don't show" when it comes to alien intelligences
And sometimes the human is dumb. Except in the game . These Alien/ Human A.I. are terrifying.
I assume you're purposefully using this phrase in the reverse order as an insult lmao, I agree though I personally hate being told a bunch of things in a movie/universe but barely seeing any of it
my head canon is that no matter what the black goo changes it will always lead back to a xenomorph. the queen would always be the final result to start the process again.
i know its in old scripts that the black goo is the blood of the god deacon used for creation and destruction, so i think that this backs up that it is genetically superior, or perfect, and will overcome any host create to a xenomorph like you said :)
As we've seen the alien franchise is finally continuing its story after 3 decades.
We are done with the xenomorphs finally.
It's time to uncover the mystery of why,when and what for.
People who are obsessed over the xenomorphs story line
Is like people saying
They can't wait to do another version of the sayain saga after 30 years of nothing but the sayain saga
black goo and canon should not be used in the same sentence. Alien, Aliens, arguably Alien 3. Everything else is trash fanfic, especially prometheus and covenant
@@IsUserADuck Imagine gatekeeping a fictional series of aliens and space exploration.
"Only my thoughts matter and nonody elses" sounding ahh
facts all these xeno types are cool concepts but the original xenomorphs are perfect the way they are and i feel like all these variants stray too far away from their cosmic horror and giger style to the point where they just don't feel like xenomorphs anymore just generic alien monsters
I do like how half of these things are a direct result of Weyland-Yutani
The Company keeping it classy as always
Ikr. They boarder on Fazbear Entertainment levels of blundering.
17:06 I like how David thinks the alien trust him,but it seems more like it was studying David and didn’t understand what it was or how to perceive him. lol
Yeah especially since we've seen the xenos ripe apart synthetics. Pretty sure if that neo hadn't been shot it was like 2 seconds from ripping David in half. It was just kinda deciding exactly what it was gonna do to him.
@@dimetime35c would've been the second time for David to be torn apart because of trying to communicate
Perhaps neomorphs aren't as vicious as true xenomorphs.
We don't know that.
David has the human trait of arrogance thinking he is capable of creation, but he is just an android. The creator shows his displeasure by tearing his head off after Tyrell claims to be a God like the creator for making David then he is killed. Its a true "fuck you" moment.
I remember back in the 90s all the cool xenomorph toys we used to get. The prowler was called the panther alien, there was a bull alien and a big, green one with wings called the king alien.
Those were the days
I remember watching Alien Resurrection when i was like 10, and the newborn is still to this day the most disturbing looking monster ive ever seen in a movie. The death scene also scarred me as a child 🤣
I watched Resurrection around the same age too. It was a disturbing scene indeed but the whole movie grossed me out lol
The noise that thing made when it was getting hoovered out that hole in the window...😮
@theangrybarman384 it made me feel both disturbed, disgusted, but empathetic and sad at the same time. I did not like those conflicting emotions, I was just a boy 🤣
@@autonomous8108 What about the moment when the newborn crushes the guy's head in its hand and its expression is like "I turned his head to red jelly eeeeee 😯😃"
@PurpleLightsaberAlex ooo that part too LMAO that part wasn't as bad to me, but it still grossed me out 🤣
I was not expecting the Offspring to be my nightmare fuel of the summer. I genuinely loved that Romulus connected to that world, allowing a sorta book-end closure for those films (while leaving space for some more exploration, likely in comics). Plus I LOVED seeing the cocoon-phase of xenos; still very Giger-esque sexual too.
My theory about how the Queen and drones communicate is they have what are seen organically radios in their heads. They use radio waves like sonar, and to communicate, the drones can only receive and emit simple radio waves and send out a pulse to sense their surroundings. The queens on the other hand can transmit and receive complex radio waves allowing for it to control the hive at a distance. In larger hives the Praetorians are used as relay towers to boost the signal. This would explain both the more complex head crests of the queens and praetorians as it would as an antenna and hoses more complex organs for constructing a radio signal, and explains why killing a praetorian causes the drones to become confused, as you are essentially cutting off their communications with the queen and it takes them a moment to assess the situation and adapt to being independent units again.
This is not a theory it is literally canon lmao, xenomorphs have something between telepathy and WiFi that’s how they communicate even across space
@@josephwilliams5292 I knew about the ability to communicate, but I didn’t think they had confirmed it was radio waves, or that they used them to “see”
@@ericburton3963 oh they’re not confirmed to be radio waves, I think they refer to them as “E-waves” or something along those lines, which is why I said something between telepathy and WiFi
@@ericburton3963 That's why Newt had such bad nightmares the closer they got to XenoPrime and the Queen Mother. They Mother can communicate with any xeno anywhere in the galaxy!
Could be more or less seen as quantum entanglement communication
I absolutely adore how when the comms officer in Fireteam was briefing The Team, they referred to the situation now having "Xenos, and xenos con leche" (with milk)
It doesn't have any right to be as funny as it is
The newborn in Romulus genuinely unsettled me, great movie
Yeah it was actually one of the most disturbing creatures I've ever scene in a film. Absolute uncanny value
The hate for the offspring online is insane to me. That whole ending was unsettling and terrifying and just pulse pounding as hell. The offspring hit the uncanny Valley so well and that whole ending was so good.
It was so great. When I went to go watch it in theaters everyone there in unison had a very audible "what the fuck" hearing Luke 80+ people say that at the same time was not only funny but showing of how great the movie was
@@freckledrogue8161I agree. When my dad watched it he didn’t like because he didn’t get it but I liked it a lot and is now my favorite creature along with the xenomorphs and predators
Xenomorphs are so hard to deal with 💀
>Facehugger on your friend’s face
“I’ll just remove it.”
>It’ll break his neck
“I’ll just cut it’s tail off.”
>Acid blood will burn his body
“I’ll just freeze the tail then!”
>Good idea, the tail can’t work anymore, however the egg has already reached the chest cavity-
“GOD DAMN IT.”
"Perfect Organism"
Well there is that weird cult with unhatched chestbursters, so you can go there and slow down the process
Youre still f%cked though
>Burn the egg before it hatches in the first place
Newborn's death disturbed the hell out of me when I was teenager. lol
Same
Yeah.... its curiosity was frightening.
Same here, but I also felt bad when it looked at Ripley and was like, "Why mom?"
@patrickrussell5107 But Ripley felt bad too.
Yeah it actually made me kinda sad, it was a very conflicting feeling back then haha
Extra bit of lore here for the Pathogen Queen (I call them Pathomorphs), the only reason we beat her with all of our tech is luck. Based on the lore we get from a scrap of carapace in the arena, she's actually IMPERVIOUS to anything we would have been able to throw at her, rockets, flamethrowers, railgun shots, etc.
The only reason we won is that she was in a molting phase, where the armor is weaker and can still be broken off before it finishes the process and becomes damn near impenetrable.
Nothing is impenetrable and nothing is immortal .
@@exotikz7905 Yes, but at that point it would be to all the weaponry the Colonial Marines or their forces could provide.
Man just make predators canon to the alien franchise already. People already think of predators when they see aliens and vice versa. They work so well together based on both their stories
The alien timeline and franchise is already a mess, let's not make it even more convoluted lol.
Look I like predator and honestly I like the Yautja more than I like the xenomorphs but if I’m being honest a lot of the Yautja lore is not as good or interesting as that of the Xenomorphs. The alien franchise has several movies that people can watch to enjoy their story and origin meanwhile predator has like one semi decent movie that delves into their lore and I’m not talking about The Predator. I say that because I honestly wouldn’t mind if they retconned most of the predator backstories to make them fit with the established alien timeline. I think having a shared universe would be to the benefit of both franchises if they are done right of course. I still remember reading those AVP comics and thinking how cool it is to have the perfect alien hunters go up against the xenomorphs the true perfect predators engineered to survive and kill above all else.
Fede Alvarez suggested Him and Dan Trachtenberg co direct an AvP movie, each doing one half lol
@@Guava11534 I will forever adore the AvP books.
Im hoping that before my time is up on this earth, we can get a aliens vs predator vs terminator movie.
The Xenomorphs and Predators are hands down the most terrifying aliens in fiction, just the thought of them sends chilis down my spine
The Goddess Xenomorph, as shown in the thumbnail photo, looks like the aliens off of the Species franchise.
Smash or pass???😅
That's what I thought too!
Yeah was thinking that would have been kool to see the Goddess in DC crossover it Chest Brusted from a *Amazon Warrior*
@user-co8uy5rb2s Nah, bro I'd pass.... I don't want that kind of experience 💀🤮
@@RandyBaumery-s4i
Pass. I don't want that kind of death ☠️
You'd think that after the first couple disasters involving purposeful experimentation with xenos, Weyland-Yutani would’ve learned to kill on sight instead of continuing to cause more reckless havoc.
The Weyland Brothers and miss Yutiani, and their descendants are down for that money, scientific discoveries, and weapons shit. Like damn chill. XD
I dont think that was the cocoon defending itself, pretty sure it was the Xenos tail
Yeah, even Fede said that in an interview at some point. IT IS THE XENO'S TAIL!
11:39 aren't Runners the original
*Red Alien* ? . He kinda confused me by not stating that 🤔
@Muted152so one small piece of info that he got wrong was enough to ruin the whole video for you?
@Muted152 I feel like you need to lighten up, man. Go to some parties, get some friends, watch some fun movies. You take yourself way too seriously.
@Muted152 *laughing, not crying.
Then again, I don’t expect you to know that since you’ve never had fun in your life lol
I like to think that the alien species existed thousands of years ago in mass in the form of deacons, and David just created his own unique version and understanding of them
Am I the only one who noticed he said "three hundred individuals" and "3000" came up on screen
You noticed that!? You must be the perfect 'oragnism' 36:20
i noticed that as well
Eh mistakes can happen
Yea I was confused
that cocoon in Romulus may have been the most disturbing and terrifying thing in that movie
also one of my favorite xenomorph variants is the Croc Xeno from Batman Vs Alien
that thing was an absolute beast of a Xeno
Ripply 8 also imprinted on the Newborne, meaning her Xenomorph instincts where also on.
This movie made me want a Deadspace movie
Same
I am a huge arachnophobe and nothing scares me more than the facehuggers. Not even any other version of the Xenomorph terrifies me as the facehugger.
Seems like you also have unlocked several other Phobias just by seeing them
@@Maheli_Seli Such as :)?
I'm pretty sure the Facehugger was always supposed to be scarier than the Xenomorph. Particularily the life-cycle of forced infection then violent birth.
Hell the least favorable option when encountering a Xenomorph is not getting killed, but getting dragged back to the hive.
There is a spider on your ceiling.
@@Deusaga As long as it stays there, I don't care! At least that spider wont' shove a tube in my mouth, incapacitate me, inpregnate me and have it's alien baby kill me ;)
Fighting an alien in space while both burning up in the atmosphere is such an epic way to go 😂
Ripley 8 from resurrection was the perfect hybrid. she had all the advantages of xeno species
There's also the rogue Xenomorph (or called "The Alien King" by Prof. Kleist in Aliens: Rogue)
I remember reading that in like 1996 and it’s better than this stupid crap they’re making today
I’m wondering where are the flying xenomorphs? I know some are out there you just don’t see it much at all. I mean image a face hugger got ahold of a giant eagle. Being able to fly is a huge evolutionary advantage, it’s nightmare fuel for sure. Having flying huggers and drones makes sense.
Cus it would look goofyb
Ok the Prowler has to have THE coolest design of any Xenomorph, it’s just the mix of red and black that really sells it for me. Red & Black are such a good colour combo.
Take a shot everytime he says "much more deadly"
Would be much more deadly for you yourself, likely.
or voltani
Or "more resilient"
That drinking game seems much more deadly than most.
11:23 “eventually, Kars stopped thinking”
Jogo pfp is so heat
YES!!!
There’s actually an interesting fan/fanfiction that also talks about the predators and their connection to the engineers. In it, it was believed that they were once a very powerful and very intelligent advanced species that could rival the engineers, and that there was a war between them that just never seem to really come to an end. In fact, the predators predecessors were quite strong, and were able to push back the engineers for quite some time before they finally decided to use bio weapons, and started using the black goo. But instead of killing them, all, it actually made them a lot stronger, even though it seemed like they lost some of their calm intelligence and their civilization kind of crumble. They were able to rebuild them selves as the predators we know about. They even got a lot stronger, which made them physically able to come across engineers in battle, so they kind of screwed up in my opinion, and made them even more dangerous. of course this is basically just a fan theory/fiction so it doesn’t really hold up until they say so but it’s still interesting!..lol
Predators dont use black goo, or bio weapons, Is against their "hunter" code
Huh what the name of it
@@alexanderchi8139 it doesn’t really have a name I was just watching some videos on UA-cam and it was sometime ago so I don’t remember who’s channel it was… maybe it’s not fanfiction maybe it was from one of the many novels. but there was a video where they were discussing the possible connections of the predator and the engineer and I’m pretty sure it was just a very well crafted fanfiction, but I was actually quite hooked on the possibility that at one point the predators may have actually been a very technology based species, and may have been in many fights with the engineers because of that. If anything, it’s a very interesting story, and I think if Hollywood decides to utilize the story, it would make an interesting movie just as long as the studio, or the writers or the directors try not to squeeze water from a rock and start teasing little bits and pieces until the Fan base gets tired and just wants to stop watching the movies then they’ll just called a failure and then reboot everything again like they don’t acknowledge their mistake like always?
If I i remember properly there was a comic with a predator vs the engineer but it got bodied since the engineers are literal titans. It's defeated but Ithink the predator had to have help from a human and some others. That being said engineers are extremely strong
Do NOT let me near that first xenomorph goddess😭🙏
The spike coming out of the cocoon in Romulus was the aliens' tail not self defence of the cocoon.
Imagine a GTA sized open world AvP game where you could play as Humans, Xenos and Yautjas
I love how the Tyranids are inspired by the Xenomorphs
The black goo sounds like it could infect even tyranids
Lmao. "Inspired" means stolen IP by GW the queen of stolen IP.
A lot of unstoppable alien hive minds across media are birthed from the Xenomorphs.
Slivers from magic the gathering, Zerg from StarCraft, tyranid of warhammer, and other adaptive swarm like aliens.
@@rdogg114 TV Tropes calls these types of monsters "Swarm of Alien Locusts."
6:00 the Xenomorph goddess looks like a JoJo's stand, I just can't 🤣
Because of the scientists in Alien: Resurrection were doing a series of experiments with xenomorph DNA and human DNA, specifically Ripley's, one can argue that the drones and the queen in this film had attained some level of intellect or certain humanoid characteristics. Though still not on par with that of humans.
I really liked alien romulus, and the offspring was such a cool xenomorph
In Romulus, I dont think the cocoon has a spike. When I watched it I always presumed it was Xenos tail doing the strike. Never even considered the cocoon to have its own defense mechanism
but it literally shot accid blood to protect itself
@@senatuspopulusqueromanus2082 It was injured and was just bleeding.
I remember only watching your stuff for anime and I just got to say man wow you truly did something with your talent and it’s inspirational for me to see love all your videos. Thanks so much for making them.
5:20 whoever animated that with humans fingers instead of its usual claws is the literal devil. 😂
Thats how they usually work
Yeah that's what they looked like in the first two movies... And of course gieger throwing his typical style on the underside there.
And the opening looks like some puss
Your graph during the Runner xenomorph made me wonder about a xenomorph born from a horse. My god, what a killing machine that would be
Life as a queen must be terrible because first your laying eggs for like your life and then sometimes you gotta rip your egg sac off which is painful and rigrowing it is even more painful like bro it must be miserable not to say maybe sometime you gotta face enemies that wanna kill you so your gonna be paranoid 24/7 then you got your own kids trying to take your crown life gonna be hard
Insect queens live like this irl.
@@ollehkacb I know it’s horrible tho and with bees they have a kind of bee that will KILL the queen if they don’t think there doing her job right
Didn’t know this Chanel existed, hell yeah another balls deep, the video started automatically playing and I recognized the voice, subscribed,
The matriarch of the entire species in the Dark Horse era of Aliens is the Queen Mother and She's my favorite. You briefly see them in Aliens Genocide. Massive monsters at 50 ir 60 feet tall.
Yea tho I kind of like the empress more with that red color.
Awesome video.
Kind of funny at 24:00 to hear you say THREE HUNDRED! while there's a huge '3000' on the screen. Deep and comprehensive knowledge of the alien species, basic grasp of large numbers hehehe
The newborn death is so grusome that I believe even creatures like that have to be eliminated humanely, especially that it shows emotions and childlike innocence. That is just brutal.
In space no one can hear you scream no matter how painfully gruesome 😂
Well it did slap off the upper jaw of the queen, bite the scientist's head and smashed the soldier's head and was working on destroying Call. The first 2 are completely justifiable though lol. I think it's death was fitting.
I always have a hard time watching the newborn die... Even tho its alien
Cry more
@@smoothsavage2870 well for the record he only b*slapped his surrogate mother because Ripley was his true mother by nature 😂 the scientist was talk jibberish so he bite his head like a 🍎 👀 his mama didn't want all that smoke so she put him down best way she nose how...very painfully 😢 while it screamed I love you momma.
Thanks For the Info Filling in the Blanks. The Stories are Creepy & Logical. (smile)
First time in a long time I’ve seen a video show me a xeno I’ve never heard of before.
I love the idea of a xeno born from a serial [eliminator.]
Just the other day, I found all the parts to a xeno action figure that "explodes" when you press on a certain part (all the pieces pop off the legs.) I was studying it, and found that it had "more detail" than the flagship xeno. But now I know that it's actually a warrior instead of a drone! Thanks for all the info, there's some crazy variants, and you did a good job at fleshing them out (sorta-pun intended.)
Good work! Narrated well and not annoying. Surprised you only have 40k subs. I doubt it will stay that way for long, keep it up.
How this channel has less than 50k subs is beyond me. Great work
Who's been dropping ovomorphs off buildings? Is that some kind of Tik Tac challenge? I'm too old for Tik Tac
This was an amazing video, thank you!
I’m more worried about what if Kay isn’t actually “dead” but entered a stage of metamorphosis
Yo, I was thinking the same thing for the entire last act, I was half expecting a post credit scene that would've implied she was still alive/mutating
@@steelwill4170 It’s most likely. Nothing stays dead when it cones to this substance. Only if you burn it it’s gone for good
I was thinking exactly that, like she was bleeding to death to the point that the Xenos though it was pointless to implant her, after injecting herself she survived those injuries and survived to giving birth to that. Who's to say she didn't hibernate and will mutate more slowly than the Offspring since she was the one who was injected in the first place and the Offspring was just a side effect of what was happening to her.
**SPOILERS**
She likely is mutating, if you recall the scene where they were showing the rat/mouse test subject. The rat was normal, then the body grew too fast, normalized, then a chest burster style xeno popped out. She is likely experiencing the same thing. Her metabolism and aging sped up slightly since there is no control over it like the xenomorphs have perfected, and will likely mutate or create another 'offspring' but in the traditional sense rather than birth.
@@Tyler-nh6op Not sure if it was a case of Neomorph with the rat as it seems to have died right after and the rat itself was unable to die earlier. Seems like it either got killed or entered a state of suspension due to being unable to escape the broken cage. While there are cases in the new comic canon where humans mutate into Xeno hybrids there's also another possibility. Potentially we might be having a body burster. A type of Xenomorph from the original Alien 3 script. Basically a full grown Xeno that erupts from your body and takes on your genetic traits. The transformation is horrific. The cancelled script did get a very good comic so I suggest you give it a read and see how messed up it is and it'll remind you of that poor rat as well.
Yo why the goddess so bad
Seek help
@smoothjazz_gg nuh uh
I'm a little sad that the mother queen was not mentioned as well as some of the other variations of the leader class like the empress. Still this is enjoyable, but there should have been a spoiler warning for those who had not see all the movies yet.
Yeah I was thinking, isn't there like a Matriarch above queen level or something?
neither was the king or the shark or the crocodile
Unfortunately the comics that the queen mother came from aren’t considered cannon anymore, and it seems the empress class has been forgotten
9:24 literally nobody with working eyes, ears and or a brain has ever thought xenomorphs were simple minded.
The"appendage"on the Zeno growth sack isnt part of the sack,its the Zenomorphs tail sticking out,the Zeno was defending itself inside the sack.
Good canvas, thanks! Makes me want to scope the books and comics I never delved into.
Covenant might not have been the best but I like the neomorph xenos the best lowkey the most terrifying to me
This video went half way trough on autoplay while I was showering.
But now that I am already here, I am interested
Make a video on predators as well
Ya
Shit ton out there already.
😂
what kind?
Wow, great break down on the entire franchise.
I still prefer another Queen life cycle where they just stay praetorians (from queen facehugger/not selected) until the queen dies.
22:30 Blown out, not sucked out. The atmospheric pressure literally pushed the newborn through that tiny hole.
The engineers were not created by the black goo. They are the creators of the goo itself.
Pretty sure that isn't true either. The xenomorphs and more accurately the facehuggers produce it.
Romulus explains this, too. The engineers simply developed the goo and cultivated it. Sometimes to create life and sometimes to destroy it. It's why they are seen worshipping it in Prometheus.
@@MrWiggz69 even on top of this i think the engineers were once ancient humans who came into contact with the goo and evolved into the engineers. SPOILER FOR ALIEN ROMULUS How else would the goo developed by weyland yutani to increase evolution (with the side effects of xeno traits) cause the pregnant girl's baby to evolve into a xenomorph engineer hybrid?
@@MNDarkfireIt didn’t. I interprereted it more as a human xeno hybrid simply looks close to an Engineer. Which makes sense with all the connections. 😊
@@walterholyfield3203 but that’s incorrect because we’ve seen a humalien hybrid with the newborn in alien resurrection. Remember? That was a human and alien hybrid.
The black goo was specifically designed to jumpstart evolution in the people who inject themselves with it, but the side effect was developing xenomorph traits, like the rat that exploded in the cage.
If you take away the xenomorph traits from the offspring, it is literally just an engineer.
@@MNDarkfire That hybrid was made from an artificial alien recreated from dna already taken from Ripley, a human. That movie was also made before Engineers were even a concept.
There are two more Praetorian cousins/variants that are lesser known: Ravagers and Carriers. Ravagers are bodyguards who are huge and brutal, while Carriers help face-huggers who have come out of their ovomorphs too early, using their 6 (or 12, depending on the variant) nutrient-rich dorsal spines by carrying them further out to find hosts.
Wait you didn't cover in AVP the Video Game, the Xenomorph named, "6" was the sole surviving Xenomorph.
And molted into a QUEEN.
So in theory, a drone can molt into a Queen when there is no queen present. And is a sole survivor.
At the end of the game, 6 was a Praetorian, that's how she was able to become a queen. A regular drone can't transform, it needs to be in a higher caste.
@@Dragonesa_Kel I might be old, but the praetorians are just harder evolved warriors (aliens from the second movie) with the purpose to defend the hive. Honestly the video is pretty bad, because the dude (probably a pretty cool dude) is reading the fandom wiki and asuming stuff that isn't in the lore/canon. The first and main idea behind the xenomorphs is pretty much taken from bee hives.
Yay. I exactly needed it before a good night sleep😭
You've got The Queen Mother,
The Xenomorph from The Mortal Kombat game.
That Super Xenomorph from Aliens Colonial Marines,
Oh and All the Different Species from Aliens Armageddon.
He also missed the titan xenomorph from dark descent and didn't really highlight different mutations of each xenomorph type; he really should have put some honorable mentions because mutations are mostly small changes but some are important to mention, like the red caste of xenomorphs and the king xenomorph.
as someone who only watched a few aliens films, and nothing else, I thought they all came in one shape. so it's interesting seeing all these different ones, future movies and games should utilise them
That xenoussy got me acting unwise
Another variant is the Mortal Kombat X Xeno which has Tarkatan blades in its arm, also in the Xeno's tower ending there are silhouettes of 4 armed Xenos probably birthed from the Shokans
Was a few more types from the toy series in the early 1990s. They came with single edition small comics.
You should add empress and queen mother.
19:13 for anyone interested
Great video. Xenomorph's are the most terrifying and intriguing movie creatures ever created. Unless it was a "blink and you miss it" moment, I didn't see anything relating the the Hammerhead creature born from the black goo in Prometheus.
Can’t no one create a good xenomorph, like we can create serial killer aliens and sadistic biker gang xenos but not good guy xenos 😂
There's actually 1 or 2
The deacon was apparently kinda a good one, since it's mountain form provided a safe haven to it's inhabitants, and even blocked out the xenos from the outside.
Jeri from the comics was a good boi
Ripley 8 was a good one......ofcourse a human/xeno genetic mash up hybrid.
there is nothing bad about xenomorphs.
Dog looked too goofy?! It was awesome, what a cute pup!!
Royal facehuggers also appeared in aliens vs predator:extinction.
The embryo produced birthed praetorians that then became queens should the original queen die.
Very informative! I wish there were warnings when anything Romulus related came up, but I've managed to miss most of what was there by muting and scrolling down. Cool vid though.
What's the image at 0:18 and where did you find the Romulus images?
The human alien is from the romulus movie
@@VirusZero0140 no cause i know it came from a comic before the movie
@laverniustucker8198 pause on the frame, screenshot then image search with Google lens 🎉
A very impressive video! I’m honestly surprised you didn’t mention the Xenomorph King with how in depth you went. To be fair, there is very little info on them and the most reliable info is from an Alien board game, but they’re still cool to talk about nonetheless.
No matter what Variant of Xenomorphs we’re talking about, they are still Dangerous and Horrifying Creatures.
OH wow i never knew you had this channel too!
The "author" of this video may have compiled some information, but they DEFINITELY didn't do their research in the ALIEN lore! SO MANY MISQUOTES AND HORRIBLE STATEMETS IN THIS VIDEO! I could count at least 20 instances where this video maker was COMPLETELY wrong with their "observations". ONE of the most obvious was at around 8:10 when he is talking about the cocoon and he says THE COCOON can defend itself with a "long sharp appendage"... NOPE, that is the Xeno INSIDE the cocoon extending its tail through the orifice.
Make your own then, stop being a goony reddit nerd. If you care that much, and if you love the series, fucking; do it yourself.
Interesting video ❤
Aliens vs predator is canon it's apart of the same universe. Fox created the movie so what am I missing it's peter Wayland's dad in it!
I dont get it either
24:01 saying 300, writing 3000.. not here to blame, awsome video, just had to laugh a bit 😄
thanks for your work!
Just fyi wimce there seems to be a ton of confusion, the engineers were an ancient species who became steril but came upon a trilobite while exploring and they gave it to "the best" engineer to birth a creature which became the "deacon" that they worship. They then used the blood to seed planets as seen in promethus but the deacon died so they tried to engineer a copy of the blood which is the black goo we see but while it created life it created monsters that are hostile. At the same time humans where killing each other, so engineers sent "the child" to help us but we crucified him(sound familiar) so they decided to wipe us woth the black goo but it got loose and we saw the result in promethus. When they talk to the engineer a ton of diolog was cut but basically you get all the info given above and the engineer is horrified when Waylan said hes also a god as he created life pointing to david. The engineer kills everyone to kobe on with his mission and we see the result in the movie. David was then experimenting with the goo and created many different forms of xeno with it. The horrors reflected how engineers felt about us making life as david is our creation making his own life.
Something to mention Ovomorphs in some stories seem to open up for Xenomorph Drone and Warriors and help their Face huggers on to their hosts. So maybe some kind of communication happens.