16 Fatal And Noxious Xenomorph Genus, Breeds And Life Cycle Forms Explored

[@DarkLadyAthena1]

It makes a lot of sense that this incomprehensible cosmic horrific creature would change. Whoever made it or wherever it's originated from, it was done so with the purpose (to paraphrase Ash) to be the perfect organism. It can morph and adapt so well which makes it so dangerous.

[@tgiacin435]

That’s why I’m fine with David reverse engineering his own version. I’m convinced the ship on LV-426 is even older than the engineers just by how different their tech looks.

[@reaperaf9511]

@@tgiacin435 i never considered he reverse engineered it... Kinda funny if you think about it, reverse engineering engineer bio weapons. (I like puns.)

[@tgiacin435]

@@reaperaf9511 it makes sense to me, and it still keeps the mystery of the derelict.

[@oftheone1856]

So nobody mentioning that the thumbnail has artwork subliminally depicting fellatio? And that the channelowner chose for it cause of that? And facehuggers being female genitals with spider legs

[@chaddfrancis2179]

@@theheathenclanofravenwolf2568 🥺What?

[@gunslingnwizard2901]

The big question is. If the xenomorph uses its inner mouth on a person. Does it count as a kiss or a boop on the snoot

[@johnro5650]

This. Well said sir.

[@NJchest145]

Fatality?

[@tylerslimm5138]

Interesting question. I like it

[@jerrylwhitlow8197]

Lol u gunslingin wizard you

[@jerrylwhitlow8197]

@@NJchest145 Indead

[@darthsquid2107]

With the newborn. The queen was contaminated with human DNA while Ripley 8 was contaminated with xenomorph DNA. This was because of the scientists cloning Ripley from a blood sample taken in the previous movie whilst the queen embryo was growing inside her. It mixed their DNA just slightly.

[@broccoligaming7611]

Which also caused Ripley to become a Queen... Whilst Ripley was clearly somewhat Herself... She Spoke as if she was an Alien Queen, Because she is... what the Scientists didn't count on, was they made a Queen, that had two Bodies... The Xenomorph Body was a Decoy, the Ripley body, was the real deal...

[@mikedanielespeja6128]

@@broccoligaming7611 s the Ripley clone was literally the outcome of transferring the consciousness of a xenomorph into a human?

[@WilliamWolfFace]

Xenomorphs can pressurize their bodies to explode and shower enemy threats with acid blood but yes, pulse rifles fire 9mm explosive tip cassless light armor piercing munitions, something that should be pointed out... unless otherwise documented, xenomorphs are composed of a silica based cellular structure, their bodies house a intensely volatile corrosive blood strong enough to chew thru almost 4 starship decks, these 2 points are explained in the movie ALIEN, and in AVP the Predator teaches/shows the tundra survival guide that the xenomorphs body is highly resistant if not immune to its own acid.... earlier you see the drones freeing the queen from its shackles by attacking her arms closest to the shackles for which she bleeds out dissolving them, so we come to the Spitter, I don't believe the sitter dies from acid when it's glands are ruptured but rather it likely bleeds out since it's ability is fueled by its own blood suppy.... sorry this was a reply to another guy as well as a comment on the video

[@reaperaf9511]

I thought the pulse rifle fired 10mm caseless ammunition... Pretty sure it did... Might be remembering that wrong.

[@WilliamWolfFace]

@@reaperaf9511 I might have the size of the ammunition wrong... 10mm is prolly correct...I'm pulling all my info from memory so it's prolly got a couple... "typos"

[@reaperaf9511]

@@WilliamWolfFace its ok. You had pretty much everything correct though.. i just remembered the ammunition because when i first learned it fired that i thought "damn, thats a large caliber... And its explosive?! Cooool"

[@the88thdarcstar]

Agreed. Also ever alien I remember seeing explode on screen was exploded by munitions not self detonating

[@reaperaf9511]

@@the88thdarcstar it was either armor piercing or explosive ammo that the marines were issued... Probably armor piercing, since it just seemed to pass right through the aliens. I dont quite remember...

[@rdowg]

I think the face hugger is the true form of the xenomorph, just that it requires another species to "reproduce" into to spawn a xenomorph. If you think about it, xenomorphs only give birth to facehuggers, whereas a facehugger uses a different species to propagate it's, and the other's genes into a new xenomorph.

[@diakounknown1225]

Yeah there is sense to that. Or it's probably a mutualistic relationship Both of the creatures live off each other. The xenomorphs protect and create the face huggers, and the face huggers spread the xenomorphs.

[@mythicbias2992]

I think it’s more of a stages of the cycle thing, like how most insects will start off in some sort of larval stage (butterfly/moth, fly, bees, etc) and then go through a sort of metamorphosis

[@rdowg]

@@mythicbias2992 But that doesnt fit with how the facehuggers shove eggs into their victim, then die immediately after. Wouldnt a metamorphosis require that the body is changed? The only other theory I can think of aside from the facehuggers bring the original form, would be that the face huggers are just an extra reproductive step since the xenos themselves cant reproduce into a victim. This would fit seeing that one mutant xenomorph from AvP2 was able to skip the step and force their eggs into victims without a facehugger

[@mythicbias2992]

@@rdowg Yeah, it’s possible that the facehugger just acts as an external womb or something like that. Maybe it’s connected with the chestburster and that’s why it dies once the CB is implanted?

[@dylanshirley9655]

It's kinda like the face hugger is the sperm and the host is the egg

[@DisasterMaggot]

The Deacon would have been awesome to see as an adult.

[@mr.obscurity7678]

I mean I hit twenty not too long ago, kinda weird you wanted to see me as an adult tho

[@Blazeww]

Deacon is just a sub class of xenomorph right?

[@NPC-nn4qe]

@@mr.obscurity7678 Underrated reply.

[@tomsmith6379]

In the comics (I can't remember which one) its hinted that the mountain in the book is the Deacon undergoing a monstrous growth. It's growth renders it braindead and immobile

[@LuisMedina-yq5fd]

@@Blazeww not sure but the engineers worship the Deacon so it must have some importance

[@zeytitude]

These things gave me nightmares as a kid, I hated seeing any of the Alien movies until I was old enough to confront my fears and actually watch them to fully understand the whole story.

[@coblamoration1102]

Ditto. Still the only thing in horror media that actually left a lasting fear in me.

[@Dreamscape195]

I was the kid who just thought they were cool as hell and counted them as my favorite movies only after the Lion King.... but I was also the kid who was absolutely panic attack breakdown terrified of a Christmas tree with an animatronic face outside the christmas store, and also the blow driers at the carwash. So, there's that. I also had nightmares because of The Mummy, but specifically only the scene with the beetles under the skin.

[@wulfheort8021]

The first alien movie I ever saw was the one with the dog alien and it scared me so much as a kid that I still remember that very moment, while I was only a few years old.

[@zombiecheri]

i had a weird fascination with them when i was a child, scared me but also made me very interested

[@develynseether4426]

I had a fear of skeletons as a kid, there was a TV advert that scared me, the skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts freaked me out. The thing that broke my fear was The Terminator, I then decided relentless killer robot skeletons were far worse than ones that could be broken into dust.

[@uialion1740]

I could be mistaken on this - didn't read the comics, only played a couple games and saw all the movies - but I thought the aliens in the second film exploded due to the ammunition used by the marines as opposed to a biological feature.

[@CrniWuk]

Yeah they kinda mentioned that in the movie I think that it's explosive ammunition.

[@uialion1740]

@@CrniWuk "ten millimetre exploding tip caseless. Standard light armour-piercing round."

[@UncleRickyJr]

They do mention the acidic blood is pressurized so that and the marines ammo made a big mess .

[@WilliamWolfFace]

Xenomorphs can pressurize their bodies to explode and shower enemy threats with acid blood but yes, pulse rifles fire 9mm explosive tip cassless light armor piercing munitions, something that should be pointed out... unless otherwise documented, xenomorphs are composed of a silica based cellular structure, their bodies house a intensely volatile corrosive blood strong enough to chew thru almost 4 starship decks, these 2 points are explained in the movie ALIEN, and in AVP the Predator teaches/shows the tundra survival guide that the xenomorphs body is highly resistant if not immune to its own acid.... earlier you see the drones freeing the queen from its shackles by attacking her arms closest to the shackles for which she bleeds out dissolving them, so we come to the Spitter, I don't believe the sitter dies from acid when it's glands are ruptured but rather it likely bleeds out since it's ability is fueled by its own blood suppy

[@christhe5614]

I'm not a dick but these guy missed a ton of information because he hasnt read the comics hes just going off of wiki shit

[@imperialethereal2640]

Aliens Fireteam introduces new variants, and does show that a virus like material can affect the full grown Xenomorph. As with the Monica boss. She was affected, kinda, and the traits of the material on the Xenomorph are visible. One of said effects were a grey hue in the skin, rather than the standard black.

[@mr.sharpes5117]

If you read/listen to aliens infiltrator you get a ton of background on fireteam, its a prequel book for the game and i cant wait for a novelsatikn of the game like isolation

[@ruthiekest3218]

That game so hard,I put easy mode,it still hard lol

[@maxthereapernephilim2416]

21:10 Actually, that's wrong. Xenomorph's HAVE been shown to eat human corpses. Its either a rare behavior for the Xenomorph or they do this only with a dead body.

[@randommadman7348]

Yeah. But normal xenomorphs will generally very much prefer to use their victims as a host for more xenomorphs.

[@NobleUnclean]

The thing is though, you noticed the dorsal vents on the backs? That is for O2. You do not technically get your cellular energy from food, you get it from O2, so food indirectly gives energy. However these vents can consume O2 if it is around, therefore they don't need to eat. If there is low O2 then you could expect them to consume solids, but that doesn't have to flesh. These beings are bio-mechanical and are non-obligate lithovores, consuming rocks, flesh, bones, plastic, and even metal.

[@TheSMR1969]

@@NobleUnclean actually all energy comes from food, oxygen is just used to transform it into a usable energy to ATP

[@NobleUnclean]

@@TheSMR1969 I was confusing fuel as energy. Since, this is the setup for the dorsal vents.

[@archaotist3365]

Watching these movies as a kid was always scary.... But honestly, nothing compares to how absolutely terrifying the newborn was to me. Even now, seeing clips of it in this video gives me the absolute heebyjeebies.

[@bitbreaker_creator]

I Think newborn is kinda cute

[@NobleUnclean]

i think it looks like rice pudding

[@Dreamscape195]

weirdly, ALIEN and ALIENS were my favorite movies as a kid because I thought the xenos were cool as hell. In a funny turn of events, instead of finding the newborn scary or unsettling (as I see it more, now, as an adult), when I was younger I just thought it looked /stupid/ and cheapened the franchise by existing with its ugly stupid face and weird near-sexual vibes with Ripley even though she was supposed to be its "mother" xD

[@adnaanu]

Alien Vs Predator 2 would have better if it wasnt shot in the dark.

[@CrniWuk]

I think it would have been better if it wasn't shot at all.

[@stevencoates3382]

@@CrniWuk I would've loved it had it been based in the future; the Aliens movies were all based in the future, they should've done a crossover AVP in THAT timeline. Like the videogame!!!

[@frenchfry5310]

I just don't want any more pg13. All the cut aways and lack of cussing, kills the mood.

[@natethestrange]

​@@frenchfry5310 Quite the opposite on the cussing part for me actually. All that excessive cussing turned me off because it doesn't really seem "realistic" if that make sense. If an alien is lurking around you in the dark, are you really gonna say "F*ckin sh*t f*ck?" lmao

[@joemamma7169]

@@natethestrange yes, I am gonna say that 😫😫😂

[@SilvaFox]

Yeah no. The face hugger does not implant an embrio, it implants a mass of cancerous like cells that fuse with the hosts DNA to create what is known as the chest burster. This is why it takes on the traits of the host. Ex. Dog type (Aliens 3), human type (aliens franchise) etc. etc. Otherwise every single alien would look the same no matter what host it came from and everyone knows that's not the case. Also this was confirmed by multiple creators of the series.

[@XXveny]

It would make more sense considering the black goo and its effects. But in the end, chest burster is a new organism. Hybrid of original xenomorph and its host. It would be perfectly possible for embryo to "absorb" some traits of its host which would also support the theory of xenomorphs being a bioweapon (and creating hybrids would be great way to combat every organic enemy possible.

[@SilvaFox]

@@XXveny that's true only thing is I remember watching an interview with one of the creators years ago saying this exact thing. I also believe it was written in one of the original design books i read as a kid. In the interview they specifically stated it was a mass of "cancerous like cells" and not an actual embrio. Don't ask me which one cause it was well over 10 years ago when I watched it.

[@wehrewulf]

Embryo, not embrio.

[@notrueface]

It's already been explained by people who wrote the movies, comics, books, etc, that it is an embryo. When it is injected into the host, the egg settles nearest an organ with the highest access to blood vessels, where it spreads it's own tendrils and attaches to blood vessels and uses the hosts blood to feed, grow, and mutate for adaptation. So yeah, yes.

[@graybeard7605]

I know this is a serious conversation and all but anyone else down bad for the face hugger?

[@lostcause8486]

The king alien was the strongest one to have existed but it lost to the queen because the queen was faster. It's pretty obvious that the king alien is stupid because of how it attacked everything that it could have been controlled. Cool but stupid, basically the Yamato of the species.

[@captainteeko4579]

LMAO

[@crusty_]

pros: very strong cons: everything else

[@That-No-Moon]

Well, maybe the King is the strongest. I don't know if they are canon, but there are super queens, called Empress Xenomorphs that rule over several queens. Then there is the Hive Mother, Genetrix, rule over all Xenomorphs.

[@ConsciousApostle999]

@@That-No-Moon yea those are like 10x larger than king or queen aliens. The king doesn’t hold a candle to those.

[@juanjoyaborja.3054]

That’s not true. The queen mother is the strongest one.

[@jesussaucedo8133]

There are Super Predators, which are more of everything a Predator is, and they can be called as Elites when they reach a certain experience stage, a rank if you will. So it stands to mention there could be a Super Elite Predator, and therefore, there could be a Super Elite Predalien. Could you imagine how powerful a Super Elite Predalien would be!?

[@jaheimmaduro5897]

I'm not too sure if the Elite would matter too much with the xenomorph. Like you pointed out, its a rank, so its mostly age, experience and skill. While a xenomorph can learn over time, it wouldn't really benefit from anything a predator learned before it burst from it they dont inherit actual memories. But yeah, a super predalien would be terrifying.

[@bobbysamux7975]

Super elite max pro predalien ram 12 internal storage 256

[@theolastnameagain8697]

@@bobbysamux7975it’s a multiverse level threat.

[@turkey2003]

in the comics the decon adult form is a giant mass of flesh the size of a mountain. In the covenant book it is explained that the xenomorphs were a abandoned bio weapon of the engineers among thousands that David found (because he killed everything with the black goo he was only able to recreate one weapon that was the xenomorphs). The neomorphs and black goo were the more advanced and newer bio weapons of the engineers.

[@granziii12]

You said the Predalien's role in the hive is that of a protector. No. That's the Pretorian. Pretorians are the royal guards but can be sent out by the Queen. You can tell a mission has a chance at success by if you have to deal with a Pretorian or not. If your mission involves running into one, save yourself the time and get some cyanide. The Predalien is worse. It's free thinking and active role as well as its recognized authority surpassing even a Queen makes it extremely dangerous.

[@rhytmiccone4717]

And I would like to add that the predalien we see in avp2 was a young queen & in the process of becoming a full fledged one, that's the reason why it was capable of directly implanting chest bursters in host & looked so different from any other predalien that appeared in other media. That also makes it the only predalien that lived long enough to start becoming a queen, because generally when one is born, the yautja go out of their way to kill it.

[@granziii12]

@@rhytmiccone4717 All xenomorphs can do that. I'm getting all typed out so I'll try to make this quick. Xenomorphs have that ability and I noticed certain similarities all over the place. First, their primary weapon is their tongue. When it's being used it's stiff and hard. When it's not in use and being collected by Ripley-8 in Alien Resurrection and by the Yautja in AVP and AVPR the tongues are noted to be described as flaccid. I'd also like you to remember who created the Xenomorph. Hector Rupert Giger made incredible bio mechanical expressions of art that incorporated sexuality with predatory aggression and violence. It is entirely within his wheelhouse that his creation would use its own reproductive organ as its most iconic weapon, thus providing more parallels to sexuality, carnivorous aggression and even rape in a singular artistic display we see as the great sleek monster, the Xenomorph. I am aware his vision for this creature did not include science fiction but horror. The difference being sci-fi gives you an explanation to seek comfort in and horror gives you no such luxury in the form of answers. A monster without an explanation is just that, a monster. It is only when you gain answers that the monster gains identity and labels. It stops being a monster and instead becomes a documented species. The shroud of ignorance and terror is lifted to reveal comfort in the form of knowledge. But getting back on track, a species considered to be perfect should always have multiple alternative ways to repopulate in the event the Queen is killed. Gambit laying, which is where one of the ovamorphs will evolve into a royal Facehugger is one way. Egg-Morphing is another. Corruption laying is risky and as such is never seen but that is when a Xenomorph dies in a pile of organic mass and using its last few minutes to secrete what little royal jelly and xeno resin all over itself and the collection of bio mass beneath it to create a unique, misshapened ovamorph to continue the process in the event the xenomorph cannot continue. The last way is the xenomorph itself can use its tongue to impregnate a host, but this is proven less effective due to the host generally being fully conscious and if the potential host bit off the xenomorph's tongue the acid flooding the host would kill it and the xenomorph would likely die within minutes of this happening. Additionally, the process is much slower and there is no breathing organ so the host would likely suffocate and die before the seed could even be implanted. I suppose you could relate these methods to bringing a knife to a gun fight. A queen is just faster, more efficient and has a significantly greater chance for host survival up until the birthing process. All this said, not one bit of this is cannon. I'm just disappointed with the intelligence of the writers, so I intrust the legacy of these beautifully horrifying creatures to someone more competent, myself. Better it be someone who cares deeply for the creature, than someone who only sees money. Which would you trust the future of Alien to? An artist fueled by inspiration? Or a businessman fueled by greed?

[@vincenttrigg4521]

What I'm seeing by these comments is that this guy knows nearly nothing about the alien franchise lol

[@granziii12]

@@vincenttrigg4521 Ya know... my fiancee had one request for me. No more fighting on the internet. Fair enough. I disagree with your comment and request that you read the last part of my previous comment how not one bit of this is cannon. I'm just disappointed with the writers and how they create with greed and I create with inspiration. So, would you kindly take that into consideration?

[@vincenttrigg4521]

@@granziii12 awww that's very sweet of you Also I didn't mean you, sorry if it seemed that way. I was meaning the person who posted the video because while they may have gotten a lot of more general stuff correct, there was definitely inaccuracies. So what I was trying to say was by reading comments like yours, it showed me how much the poster of the video had wrong

[@wulfreiks7239]

Wouldn't it have been more beneficial for them to keep the newborn since it shows loyalty to its perceived mother thus making it controllable and be used as a weapon against the other xenomorphs?

[@asurasyn]

Ripley 8 still saw herself as human at the time, so she didn't want any of the xenomorphs to make it to earth.

[@Overanalyse_This]

Does "The queen was infected with human DNA" mean that some dude felt the need to pentrate it without armor-piercing ammo?

[@xenodragonlord6007]

There is a theory that the dude who was shown in the baby and queen clips, trapped against the wall, was in love with her 😅 Well less of a theory more reading into his actions and words about her.

[@alexrogers9086]

I thought it was because the queen’s DNA was contaminated from being cloned from DNA found with Ripley.

[@xenodragonlord6007]

@@alexrogers9086 yep, it was

[@broccoligaming7611]

@@alexrogers9086 I think you'll find that, would be Ripley Herself... She did become a Queen After all...

[@dr._breens_beard]

@@xenodragonlord6007 oh you KNOW she used that second set of jaws 😏

[@thrilleex]

In the game AVP: Extinction the predalien kind of evolve with each kill, they get stronger and the spines in their back grow larger, I remember getting very surprised when I noted that detail.

[@coryyoung7544]

That was more of a gimmick to make them more worthwhile (let it get down to 25% HP and you get a 75%+ HP bonus and it can stack endlessly) was completely broken on mp if there was only neutral npc predators because the marines didn't do enough damage.

[@raistlarn]

Also there were a few other aliens that weren't even mentioned like the ravager and carrier.

[@BmoreQueeze]

I need a Queen, Rogue and Praetorian movie 🎥 ASAP!!!!

[@DamianFuckinLove]

This is it right here 👏

[@BmoreQueeze]

@@DamianFuckinLove Abso-Fuckinglutely❕❕❕❕❕❕ If that is a word 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😭😭😭

[@DamianFuckinLove]

@@BmoreQueeze That's a good word! 👊

[@Civilmonkey1]

A series would be good too

[@MorgaAlba]

Kinda there is one, from one of the games, the alien name was 13.

[@NeoDeXeno]

Man I really wished we could've seen what the Deacon could do, I was slightly disappointed by Covenant for not using the Deacon in anyway shape or form. However I do love Covenant for the absolute brutality done by the Neomorph and Protomorph instead of trying to spread their species they just decided to fuck up everything in the most vicious way possible which I thoroughly enjoyed. P.S That Backburster was fucking brutal and on my Blu-Ray/DVD copy of Covenant in the special features you can watch it bursting from the Backburster's POV.

[@johnryder1713]

What if a facehugger got on a Nietzean from Andromeda? A genetically perfect Nietzmorph

[@Jasonjones-h2x]

Xenomorph is all ready scary enough...why not try a Klingon warrior from star trek now that would've been the ultimate xeno...

[@johnryder1713]

@@Jasonjones-h2x Or a Luxan from Farscape, or one of the Saurids from the X-men comics, like Ch'od from the starjammers

[@theheathenclanofravenwolf2568]

"The underside of the facehugger resembles the human female genitals and has the ability to latch on the victim without letting go. It is so powerful that it can tear out the skin from the skull and it is almost impossible to get them off once they grip the head." Coulda just said the Facehugger is human Female genitals..."

[@warfightersanonymous7760]

The feminist final form...

[@bitbreaker_creator]

@@warfightersanonymous7760 lmao more like “the second coming of twitter females”

[@castielnovak4509]

You guys are aware that facehuggers and xenomorphs were designed to represent assault, right? And facehuggers were designed by a man?

[@bitbreaker_creator]

@@castielnovak4509 welp atleast they create a cute worm

[@theheathenclanofravenwolf2568]

@@castielnovak4509 I am well aware. You left out a point in your post. Could at least have noted that the facehugger is literally a vagina that shoves a penis down your throat and forcibly impregnates you. Though I am curious what the designer's gender matters, would Giger being female change anything about the Xenomorph's species design as the embodiment of sexual assault?

[@EmperorofToonsandBeasts]

What if... John Carpenter's Thing crossed paths with the Xenomporphs? Who's more terrifying than which?

[@CrniWuk]

They would become friends, merry, settle down and destroy earth.

[@UncleRickyJr]

I’d watch that lol although the acidic blood might destroy the thing . Just a guess .

[@polkalamypekopeko2969]

Nah, the Thing already replaced the queen.

[@Kalell1701]

I don't know which is more terrifying, they're both trouser shitting creatures. But as far as I can tell The Thing is carbon based life (haven't found any reference to the contrary) and the Xenomorph is at least partially silicon based with acid blood so I don't think The Thing could assimilate it

[@FIatIined]

Or Predator crossing paths with John Carpenter's The Thing.

[@BBop04]

3:49 Me: Gimme that facehugger Xenomorph: but sir, it is deadly Me: I said gimme that facehugger

[@marciliojunior9599]

dude.......

[@bitbreaker_creator]

Prepare for E G G I N S T O M A C H

[@ciara.eason13]

And this is why I love the Xenomorphs, they're intresting creatures and learning about them is fun. Oh and don't get me started about their designs, I love it!

[@captainteeko4579]

I wonder if H R Giger ever thought as a young artist how popular his art would become in pop culture 🤧❤️‍🔥

[@johnryder1713]

Charles Dutton from Alien 3 was an ex prisoner and advised Fincher so much on prisoners behavior he got an assistant writer credit

[@rhinodonkey7339]

He was also the Cheif Xenomorph wrangler on set too 😂🤣🤣

[@minicle426]

"Charles Stanley Dutton, you have pleaded guilty to the charges brought by this court, and it is now my duty to pass sentence. You are an habitual criminal, who accepts arrest as an occupational hazard, and presumably accepts imprisonment in the same casual manner. We therefore feel constrained to commit you to the maximum term allowed for these offences: you will go to prison for five years..."

[@johnryder1713]

@@rhinodonkey7339 What can I say, he was a scary guy, no wonder the Xenos were scared of him!

[@johnryder1713]

@@minicle426 Very funny

[@drewpederson2039]

Check out the larve of the dragonfly, it has the double jaw like the xenomorph

[@jamestomlin5525]

Same as goblin sharks :D

[@volpeverde6441]

NYMPH ALIEN....?

[@bansheebah]

Saw the first 3 alien movies when I was young...sci-fi /horror at its best... had nightmares about the damn face huggers for at least a decade...😂 😳 😬 still love these flicks tho...😁

[@UncleRickyJr]

Everyone did lol . I’ll admit it was these movies that contributed to my fear of spiders when I was younger .

[@bansheebah]

@@UncleRickyJr yeah it definately didn't help with spiders 🤣👍glad I'm not the only one😂

[@bitbreaker_creator]

@@UncleRickyJr i didnt and im 12 lmao

[@BamnerBla]

That's how you know it's a good movie!

[@shcdemolisher]

I need to get those movies, 1 and 2 at most!

[@Dreamscape195]

In the top-down rts Playstation blue disc AVP: Extinction, the royal face hugger infects a host only with praetorians - but the praetorian can go through a secondary transformation to become a queen, which is part of why they're her guard, because if something does happen to her, one of them can replace her. Personally I'm fond of this interpretation. There's a few other types of xenomorph the game introduces that weren't mentioned here: the carrier and the ravager. The ravager is shown to have a LOT more brute strength bulk, armor, and massive arm blades. It lacks speed and agility but is larger than the praetorian and almost the same size as the queen. It acts like a tank. The carrier is lanky and lithe with long finger-like back spines each meant to sustain a facehugger that has left the egg. The facehuggers it carries don't last indefinitely, but last a lot longer than the do on their own once hatched. If killed, the carrier violently expels the facehuggers towards the nearest hosts. If I remember correctly, these too are secondary transformations of a praetorian, but can only be created if the hive is large and strong enough, when it is "safe" for one of the guard to enter a secondary transformation period. In that game the drone is smaller than the warrior but close to the same size as the runner. It still spits acid and has a part in creation of the hive and tending to the eggs. The runner in the game cannot spit acid, but is still the fastest and good at scouting, and dragging unconscious bodies back to the hive quickly and efficiently. In the game, warriors are the only human-derived variant (royals aside) and have the ability to regenerate up to half their body if safely in the hive and not taking further damage. Each type of creature you infect gives either a drone, runner, warrior, or predalien. The host choices are unsurprisingly limited in the game. Any host can hatch a praetorian, though, as all hosts implanted by a royal facehugger produces praetorians exclusively. Lol it's old and pretty easy (at least as the xenomorphs; I'm absolutely awful at being the humans or predators), but I always found it very fun. I wish more games allowed you the option to be the xenomorphs.

[@josey_8204]

The newborn is terrifying, i will always fear it's design.

[@keithhannahjr1931]

That thumbnail Is wild!

[@williamwinder5011]

Correction: Ripley 8 was not used as a host. Both her and the Xenomorph formed as a "singular" being.

[@wingsofped0philia584]

The Alien/Predator universe is so cool. Especially with the addition of Prey!

[@shcdemolisher]

Yeah! Now we just need a good xenomorph movie.

[@stevenpaige2005]

4:40 never going to look at it again w/o thinking of a face hugger. Thanks

[@Ashersrequiem]

"Up to fifteen eggs per house" is an interesting metric

[@judsongaiden9878]

Likely a misread of "hour."

[@0michelleki020]

Nice video, but you did forgot to add the Xenomorph Empress that lays Queen egg's and the other egg's, the Worker/"Albino Drones" that make the hive, the (Praetorian)Carrier that carries face huggers, the (Praetorian)Ravager further combat specializations, the Crusher basically a tank, the Lurker further stealth specialization. But all in all your video is neato. 9.5/10

[@getshwifty3101]

Honestly, while this series, alone and AvP, are both fantastic and masterpieces to me (yes, even Prometheus.) I would love to live in/see the Parallel Dimension where, instead of killing the Newborn. Ripley actually realized it has Human emotions, and talked to it, acting as it's Mother. Think about it, Humans could've had a Xenomorph (even though it had no tail or inner jaw) to help in a LOT of situations. Ripley could've learned from it's Xeno instincts HOW Xenomorphs tend to think/plan/act. Plus, alone, it had enough power to RIP THE FACE OFF A QUEEN. That's a useful soldier to have. (Edit) ESPECIALLY when the biggest threat you're facing, is what created it in the first place.

[@mandragon4847]

It ripped the Queen’s head off, mere seconds after birth, In Its Weakest State. Fully grown, it would be almost unstoppable.

[@mikedanielespeja6128]

I just want the newborn to have a good life honestly

[@Slappaccino]

Why do you say "even Prometheus" when the AvP films were laughably bad?

[@dethbedsmolzwhent.t6498]

Yeah that wasn't a great move on Ripley's end. But it's kinda funny though imagine the Newborn killing a human and then Ripley says "No" and Newborn just goes "Yes mom"

[@getshwifty3101]

@@dethbedsmolzwhent.t6498 Ripley: Put that person down. Or so help me, you won't be hunting Predators for 2 weeks! Newborn: *sulkily sets person down*

[@mareighaabshire1649]

I love all the aliens kinds and breeds they did a good job on all them a and have a good day

[@chipteller4418]

I love aliens even though it's give me nightmares for weeks

[@StinkyBibgis]

Haunted my dreams all of my childhood

[@NoInfoAvail]

6:27 They are supposed to guard her until she is vulnerable? How does that make sense? Shouldn't it be they guard her until she is able to guard herself somewhat?

[@jayman691]

The thumbnail is Wildin'

[@cjtheoverlord]

13:49 did you see what I saw 😶

[@Noneedtobesoangryman]

Lol 🤣

[@StinkyBibgis]

Kinky

[@toy5965]

The deacons adult form is a mountain like organism lol, they showed this in the prometheus sequel comic

[@LordRazer3]

You beat me to it blast

[@oftheone1856]

You middle eastern and need a shave? :D none of you talking bout the thumbnail depicting oral?

[@renegade7357]

I Loved The Idea Of The "Black Goo" Accelerant In Prometheus. I Also Liked The King Cobra-looking Hammerpede.

[@comfortableslug6570]

I’ve never seen a single one of these movies, but laying it all out like this makes it more interesting and now I’m probably more likely to watch the movies

[@pigeonsil240sx]

it would be fun to do speculative xenos,for instance xeno mixed with rhino.great white shark.honey badger/moose/elephant etc etc and try to speculate what they would look and be like

[@AngryCanadianGoose95]

A queen-xeno born from a blue whale... that'd be a fun time for the Yautja

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

great video!

[@AlyxGlide]

Drones make the most sense to me. If they mature like bees & such then a queen can mature from any facehugger if a hive is without one or it's alone.

[@xenodragonlord6007]

The adult females can become queens if there is no queen. However, even in bee hives, only specific larva become queens. The ones in the largest cells. There's probably a connection.

[@xenodragonlord6007]

The adults maturing into a queen is seen in the AVP game. Which idk if it's considered Canon but it happens.

[@Eric-dz8re]

Very informative article!! You put this video together incredibly well! Thank you!

[@mahirahmed6222]

The thumbnail tho😳

[@mccoolfriend6818]

Ngl, this is what made me hate the word "BREED" but now I like it again because I got help from my old friend H

[@kapadyakvlogs893]

You missed the part that a predalien can plant embryo's through it's inner mouth and can put 4 to 6 embryo's inside one host

[@timothyrice1941]

That only worked with women

[@bitbreaker_creator]

@@timothyrice1941 which is almost half the population

[@AgencyIsland]

you can definitely see the metaphors that are being used as themes in this series, and it really drives the horror aspect home imo

[@Cazuman]

I love how he constantly switches from meters to feet lol. Make up your mind!

[@thetheorizermoore7476]

I’m trying to make my own avp franchise with all kinds of unique xenomorphs predators and human combos

[@scottricci5063]

The Xenomorph is seriously a species that really doesn't need any extra morphology. It's perfect in it's own construct. Why mess with elite excellence? But I do concur that they need to do more films with the AVP canon. Like have it set in Medieval or Primeval times. Biblical times. World War I and II. Underwater scenarios or moon-based themes. All manner of fiction can be wrought for the AVP franchise.

[@kingl33725]

AvP is garbage and a bad idea and you should feel bad for enjoying it.

[@NJchest145]

Something on your mind, sport?

[@scottricci5063]

AvP Rules with a capital FUCKIN'!🤘👹🤘

[@dmitriylevitskiy1674]

I think it would be cool to see alien in ancient times like egypt or medieval times or loch Ness was xenomorph , something different.

[@minicle426]

The original 'Big Chap' will always be my favourite Alien. Shame later films lost the biomechanical look.

[@porko882]

I like the design but was to stiff in the movie, maybe something with modern animatronic and CGI but with a biomechanical look of the first two.

[@Amarnath2k2]

Nice explanation

[@NipplWizard]

The death of the newborn was kind of painful to watch. Imagine you getting your toddlers attention after a temper tantrum only to blow it out the airlock and watch it realize it had been betrayed then watch it suffer. Never had a problem with that scene till I became a dad

[@yoshijb9428]

It's a fucking monster bro. They don't emote they can't. Predators with often mimick emotions of prey to get close. The reason why we think dogs emote. They just make noises and act in a way that gets our attention. All I day was a savage animal trying to placate its "mother" which is a very mammalian response

[@alexsunsin]

@@yoshijb9428 Dogs do have emotions though.

[@yoshijb9428]

@@alexsunsin no they do not they have learned behaviors that elicit a certain response from us. You WANT dogs to have emotions. Doesn't mean they do. Sorry.

[@alexsunsin]

@@yoshijb9428 wolves have emotions. They mourn their dead and it’s not a learned response. You’re in the wrong buddy.

[@robotmaster4515]

@@yoshijb9428 Yes they do, you literally make zero sense. By your logic humans don't have emotions either.

[@astrothyovrlrd2495]

The thumbnail looks spicy lol

[@UnbereevableAsian]

4:20 not the muff you’d expect

[@seanl6681]

I thought the runner was called the Scorpion. Anyway great vid

[@LaserDroid]

The Flying Queen commercial was pretty cool but they never put it in the films. Just a one shot toy in the 90's.

[@tomsmith6379]

And the arcade

[@エネ-n1c]

Too many creatures and hybrid. it is confusing me...but your explanation made a sense. Thank you

[@shiftstart]

My question was always how did the huggers know the host has a head.

[@UncleRickyJr]

Or can accurately jump right at the head .

[@Adriyell_boi]

@@UncleRickyJr facehuggers - father of Auto aim

[@UncleRickyJr]

@@Adriyell_boi my guess is they can somehow sense where the victims air intake is and aims for that with the assumption they can impregnate.

[@bitbreaker_creator]

@@UncleRickyJr that makes sense

[@ChaoticNakka]

I grew up watching the Alien franchise and out of all of them, the Runner was the one that scared me the most. While I have heated opinions of Alien 3, it had some of the most terrifying scenes out of all the Alien movies for me. The tunnel run as they try to trap it always gets my adrenaline pumping. I'm pretty sure that movie is the reason why I get scared when I see that specific orange/brown hue that used for most of the movie. Triggers my fight or flight responses almost instantly lol

[@OryXity]

The predalien really is a spectacle, as an analogy the predators are just like real life poachers, the aliens are like animals you dont tend to hunt (very dangerous ones) The predalien is just a grizzly bear that grew aposable thumbs and cleaned out the entire united states armory, the single most dangerous being on earth, grizzly bear with 800 m249 saws, 2000 SAM launchers, 5 thermonuclear warheads attached to sock'em'poppers and a couple hundred apache assault copters

[@marlengrimaldo1463]

Nice video

[@elitejeffrey3719]

In the comics there were a lot more like the gorilla alien the bull alien and the King alien, and many other various different types the xenomorph seem to change based upon whatever creature the Facehugger latches to meaning it's biology will be somewhat based upon whatever creature incubated in

[@SilvaFox]

Yup its because it's not an embrio that's implanted but rather a mass of cancerous like cells that grow using the hosts DNA leading to a chest burster with the hosts traits.

[@amonhouseofjudah]

that thumbnail go craaaazy ayoo

[@user-lb3tg2qx8b]

I know that people like this franchise, I enjoy it from time to time. Still, this is the DBZ Goku of monsters that's omnipotent and it could only be more ridiculous if it exploded into a thermonuclear explosion when it dies.

[@hhansen06]

always loved the alien universe and all the xenos 💙

[@Gollammeister]

Warrior type xenomorph is basically cannon fodder front line soldiers

[@shcdemolisher]

But do not underestimate cannon fodder. Especially xenos!

[@defeatSpace]

The warrior Xenomorphs do be havin some nice legs tho.

[@nobody93372]

There is one xeno you missed, The Queen Mother. She is the ultimate Xeno and was in the Earth War Comic story line.

[@tomsmith6379]

In the new comics it's explained that there is an entity that controls all other xenomorphs.

[@nobody93372]

@@tomsmith6379 sure. Sorry but just because marvel has had the property for two days I don't think i will just disregard the earth wars, avp, labyrinth, and so on. Iron horse made a lot of Kick ass alien content and shouldn't be thrown away just because the "big dogs" want to retell it to make money. I mean if the movies fallowed the earth wars story line aliens would still be the top and marvel would never have gotten the license.

[@tomsmith6379]

@@nobody93372 did you have a favorite comic in the franchise? I didn't know Marvel took over from Dark Horse does that mean Dark Horse is dead?

[@0michelleki020]

Yes, the Xenomorph Empress or "Queen Mother" as you call it, there are 6 xenoes that were also forgotten. The Workers or "Albino Drones" The Carrier caste and the Ravager, variations of the Praetorians. The Crusher basically a giant tank xeno. The Lurker: a Drone which specializes in stealth. and the poorly-known Boiler xeno.

[@frenchfry5310]

@@nobody93372 well damn... kinda killed it for me if marvel bought the rights. I don't think aliens should be watered down. I might only be interested if they do an Aliens vs the Marvel universe thing. Now that would be cool. Face hugger take out Spiderman. Give me xenomorph with spider sense and another worthy of Thor. With his hammer attached to its tail. Spinning like a helicopter and shit flying around spitting acid. Nvm. I'm in marvel. Take me now.

[@jalllaaavg]

Why is the little chestburster running across the lab in the first movie so cute!?

[@courtneygordon8414]

I feel bad for the new born. It just wanted its moms love. And the way it reacted to rily ( icantspell) it might of been able to be reabilatated. I think the inocent eyes got me. I probly crazy but i would try to raise it.

[@stevenshiller1600]

Those Xenomorphs scars me. It's too scary for Bornwell.

[@baphometsfire3838]

I know the Colonial Marines game isn't well liked but does anyone know what cast the Raven would fall into?

[@luism.4783]

You can always check the game's wiki, it might be listed there

[@baphometsfire3838]

@@luism.4783 I've looked it doesn't say. It has features from warriors but its the size pretorian but no crown spikes going down the center of its head and eye sockets and nostrils almost like the newborn so wtf

[@drez0352]

@@baphometsfire3838 I

[@tomsmith6379]

It was a warrior that was partially dissected while alive. I believe the physical trauma stunted its growth into a praetorian allowing it to gain the size but not the crown

[@baphometsfire3838]

@@tomsmith6379 ahhh thank you

[@poboing2503]

Praetorians have always been my favorite, I was just waiting to see em in this video if I’m honest. The ProtoMorphs are really cool too, from A:Covenant, but something about that royal guard is fire

[@BenTheElderOne]

So...we not going to talk about the thumbnail....🤣😂🤣😂

[@chillyman7340]

I didn't know they were so many lol I'm a huge fan of the Alien Series of movies and I'm glad that I know all this now, great video man

[@GodBroly]

I'll list as much of what I saw that you just made up or guessed at. 1. we have never been shown the neomorphs full life cycle. 2. it isn't a theory that the deacon was implanted into an engineer 3. protomorphs can not spawn from the near fatal injuries of another 4. it isn't speculation that david made the protomorph it is FLAT OUT stated in the movie. 5. we have seen an adult deacon in the comics its the size of a mountain. 6. there has never been anything other that a human host for a neomorph 7. neomorphs dont live for only a day and they dont decay into the egg sacs 8. we have never seen the interaction between a protomorph and a xenomorph

[@ShannonJosephGlomb]

Awesome 😎

[@glennparker5516]

The spawn of hell No wins with these guys.

[@Gbusjones]

This is cool. Thanks

[@pastabilities2116]

5:15 he says the facehuggers are inert and lifeless in the eggs but we can clearly see them moving around in the eggs at 3:30

[@isaiahbrown8744]

all i can say is ayooooo that thumbnail is wild

[@krosiuh]

Thumbnail ayo 💀

[@ahmarimascall8562]

I knew someone was gonna say it

[@zarroc1615]

Loved the vid, thx 🙏

[@sonicguyver7445]

You forgot the Predalien can produce it's own drone embryos and implant them. That was honestly one of the most horrifying parts of AvP:R when it was forcing it's own embryos down the throat of a pregnant woman. From the shot it looked like four bursters came out. I remember seeing in a game that the yautja referred to it as "The Abomination." Also on a side note the yautja in AvP:R I always thought of a Specialist. He didn't act like a hunter but more like a he was covering something up. I assumed he must have earned enough honor within yautja culture he could risk using dishonorable techniques to preserve the Earth as a hunting ground. The Predalien risked that so he was called on to exterminate it and keep the yautja's existence secret from humanity.

[@jbear3478]

Omg did they eat the baby

[@sonicguyver7445]

@@jbear3478 Yes. That was part of what horrified me so much about it. You saw her lying there and suddenly four larva burst from her stomach. That movie did not pull it's punches on the horror that monster brought to that town.

[@bobbysamux7975]

Predalien was having fun

[@DragonKnightX12]

That is likely case as Wolf was a Elite Hunter and a expert on hunting Xenos.

[@burgerking3763]

The Newborn always scared the shit outta me. Idk if its uncanny valley, but there's something about the human-ish traits that just make me itch.

[@TraceursMonkey]

In the comics it is shown that the Predators where fighting them on different planets as a right of passage and in the movies it is shown that the android David crafted the spicies while traveling the galaxy to the home world of the engineers , from the black goo that was used to create/evolve life . Witch is the actual origin of the xenomorph ?

[@asurasyn]

David didn't so much invent them as rediscover the species. The black blood is an origin point for the deacons, which seem to be an offshoot or precursor to xenomorphs. Xenomorphs existed before the engineers, who founded life on earth, so no, David didn't create them.

[@TraceursMonkey]

@@asurasyn in the extended verison it shows David used her body to perfect the version of the trilobite witch leds to the xenomorphs.

[@asurasyn]

@@TraceursMonkey yes, but, canonically the xenomorphs existed before David, so it's not the first xeno ever that he makes. Just the first he's recorded.

[@TraceursMonkey]

@@asurasyn true

[@TraceursMonkey]

@@asurasyn are you excited about the new predator movie ?

[@whitepawrolls]

There are some errors and details left out, but overall its a good telling :)

[@mrwiseguy7405]

That thumbnail tho...

[@cocoduck7745]

Some kinky shit going on there

[@mrwiseguy7405]

@@cocoduck7745 got me actin strange 😩

[@playerone3318]

That thumbnail had me thinking this was a way different video

[@professorgazm706]

What is the female human looking xeno in the thumbnail?

[@electro1632]

0:07, absolutely horrific