Villains Too Stupid To Win Ep.03 - The Weyland-Yutani Corporation

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[@sandraj45617]

Next on villains too stupid to win: raid shadow legends

[@guillaumekaas6505]

Remember to leave a dislike!

[@josephk1342]

​@@guillaumekaas6505 Why?

[@punit216]

@@guillaumekaas6505 you realize that ad probably made him more money than the video itself right, and dude's got to eat.

[@myriad9597]

@@guillaumekaas6505 k

[@dirtypure2023]

@@guillaumekaas6505 Are you a terrible person on purpose or does it just come naturally?

[@Vednier]

2:53 to skip crappy mobile game ad.

[@DM-mi4je]

Thank you humble skip ad merchant I spent eons looking for it. I am saved

[@theminecrafterreturns7251]

He is the Messiah

[@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot]

2:53 is a much better timepoint but thanks

[@kaiserkiefer1760]

FullyAutomatedLuxuryLGBTplusTranshumnistSpaceAnCom I think 2:53 is better in my humble opinion.

[@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot]

@@kaiserkiefer1760 the comment used to say 2:54, guess they changed it and now I just look foolish.

[@BATCHARRO]

How hard is capturing a xeno? Stock a ship with androids. Put a trap in there. It doesn't have to be a super scifi trap. A cell with a cow inside. Xeno comes in, you sedate xeno. Thas it. You don't need a clueless team, you don't need like war equipment. According to AVP you can just put them in a freezer and they'll stay alive somehow. Presumably keeping them cold enough to impair them doing a rampage is possible. Imagine of like Walmart sent a bunch of employees to Africa to capture a live lion but didn't even tell them.

[@marshahammack4503]

they are smarter than you might think. they have been showed in the flims to kill each other just to use their acid blood to escape. also the freezer likely knocks them out.

[@ironstar183]

@@marshahammack4503 assuming they're cold blooded (they seem reptilian) cold would slow their metabolic functions to a state of long term hibernation.

[@raavaolinorman6518]

Its like you haven't seen Alien Resurrection

[@rageknightsmith2067]

I'm a Walmart employee. I would 100% question everything, if my boss said they were sending me to Africa. Walmart doesn't do anything good for their employees.

[@ArtofLunatik]

Rage Knight Smith 😂😂😂

[@dantheman4838]

In fairness to Alien, the movie doesnt make the 'union guys' seem lazy, it makes them seem realistic. Notice that the characters in Alien speak like real people and have the motivations of real people. Showing the low level workers being more concerned with their pay than any scientific discovery makes perfect sense because thats what would happen in real life. It's also interesting to note that Ripley's character, who's second in command, also has very little interest in the discovery/distress call and just wants to get home to her daughter

[@sorrenblitz805]

As I recalled didn't they have paid leave waiting for them when the Nostromo got to the docks.

[@murakumo65]

Now now lets not let facts get in the way of a good character assassination.

[@SusCalvin]

As an officer in Alien, you're the middle manager stuck between the corporate level who dumps demands on you and the people you have to work with daily.

[@roballen3026]

I am sorry the two union guys,, yeah um they were lazy.. get over it.. if you don't want to do the job at the wages you were hired for then find a different job.. As an interesting aside the Battle of Britain was won because Max Aiken The Lord Beaverbrook violated labor laws to produce Spitfires and Hurricanes fast enough to defeat the Luftwaffe.

[@lukecarroll4052]

@@roballen3026 this isn't their job, normally, they got called out there to deal with a distress call, its like an extra shift being dumped out if nowhere, they don't live on that piece of shit, they wanna get home to booze it up with their pay or see their families

[@Burkutace27]

Weyland-Yutani: "Now, this time, we will finally harness the power of the perfect organism." Xenomorphs: "How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?!"

[@cdrom1070]

if you ever worked in multinational corporate, the answer is infinity

[@muchanadziko6378]

I could never understand why the hell would Xenomorphs be a perfect organism in any way, shape or form

[@cdrom1070]

@@muchanadziko6378 super adaptive to any conditions try finding something that can live in more places with no support

[@muchanadziko6378]

@@cdrom1070 it’s still a dumb and ugly murder machine And literally doesn’t serve any purpose in any ecosystem It’s a destroyer of worlds ffs

[@slyseal2091]

@@cdrom1070 A robot. You know, the technology we see applied in extremely advanced ways for the same purposes all the time. Maybe strap the gun to it that so handily shut down the Xenomorphs wave attacks. Give it a generator for power. Probably more space efficient than having your aliens dig a giant cave and then feed a queen. They're much easier to remove too, if the aliens are powerful enough to destroy a city/company/colony then the only weapons that can challenge them are things like orbital/chemical/nuclear weapons. Which again raises the question why you wouldn't just start off by nuking your enemies, instead of waiting for the aliens to kill them so you can launch nukes anyway.

[@TupocalypseShakur]

Peter Weyland is basically an extreme Karen. He went to meet the space manager about his lifespan

[@ANTIStraussian]

100% the issues come from his secrets. Just hire professional mercenaries and ex military. And exo biologists. Give them acid proof suits and ranged weapons. Tell them about aliens and do practice missions. Literally sending people and not telling the crew about the aliens and only telling 1 android or 1 company rep the real plane is the cause of everything bad that happens.

[@Isthisjoebiden]

HILARIOUS, truly😂

[@wtfsalommy3250]

Ive seen alot of guff over the years about our beloved franchise... But thats the greatest, simplest and truest statement that will ever be posted 😂

[@jtojagicc]

It's a perfect organism.... *gets killed by a woman literally too angry to die* At that point just clone Ripley

[@crazyshark9518]

While I know very little about the alien franchise, I'm pretty sure they did clone her in the 4th movie, Albeit for very stupid reasons. Oh and I apologize for reminding everyone that reads this comment about that movie.

[@genyakozlov1316]

@@crazyshark9518 Don't just assume everyone disliked that movie. Assuming make an a*s out of you.

[@romulusnuma116]

I think they did but they added alien DNA making her worse

[@koichidignitythief7429]

@@romulusnuma116 I thought that was a side effect to also cloning the Alien Queen that was inside her.

[@lifeisa.smalllesson4607]

@@genyakozlov1316 the goes... Dont assume things, that only makes an (ass) out of (u) & (me). Which spells the word assume!

[@jonathanmarcus1096]

"Weyland-Yutani has a disturbing trend of sabotaging their missions in the planning stage." - I laughed so hard

[@ANTIStraussian]

100% the issues come from his secrets. Just hire professional mercenaries and ex military. And exo biologists. Give them acid proof suits and ranged weapons. Tell them about aliens and do practice missions. Literally sending people and not telling the crew about the aliens and only telling 1 android or 1 company rep the real plane is the cause of everything bad that happens.

[@deandrenicholas2545]

Has a long and checkered history of doing everything in thier power to acquire aliens. Except give their employees the proper information, equipment or training to actually do so. Best line in the video for me lol!

[@SymbioteMullet]

Villains too stupid to win: Raid shadow legends (episode sponsored by Weyland-yutani)

[@vladimirvojtaml]

I believe this might be deeper way of saying they suck but might aswell...

[@walangchahangyelingden8252]

He's gotta eat.

[@almondjoy4938]

They kind of won, already. They're making money, which is ultimately what they want.

[@KertaDrake]

Sponsored by Weland-Yutani, programmed by Umbrella, no doubt.

[@davebrock4463]

Ash had issues trying to kill Ripley because he wasn’t programmed to kill. It was actually a brilliant scene. He acted the way you would expect an android to act, that wasn’t programmed to kill.

[@SusCalvin]

Most androids in the universe are like that, they are hardwired to be unable to directly hurt a human. Androids get itchy when they're indirectly hurting people sometimes. To most people in the universe, combat androids without these limits is just a scary myth. Bishop is a pretty good example of military androids, it's a dude you can have walking around the ship while everyone is in stasis, and work as an assisting XO. One Bishop per 90 marines is also a good figure of how rare these things are. There's rumours of everyone from the communists to one of the companies creating a platoon of combat androids. The cost for that would be mind-bogglingly expensive. It's simply a lot cheaper to get a few contractors and marines killed.

[@TheLAGopher]

Ash was having a direct conflict between his basic programing not kill a human, and his company directed override to save a specimen at whatever cost. Ask knew Ripley being in command and armed with the knowledge of the true nature of the mission, was the last best shot for the human survivors because Parker was a hot head and Lambert a coward. Ash knew Ripley would destroy the ship and escape with the surviving crew on a shuttle if she had her way,so he had to move to take her out. His reasoning was that even had Parker destroyed him after killing Ripley, his aggressive nature would have likely led him to take on the alien with a high likelyhood he would he killed.

[@mrdavman13]

Wrong. Ridley Scott said Ash wasn’t trying to kill. He was trying to rape her. But since he’s an android. He doesn’t have the parts. The whole movie is about body horror and autonomous invasion. Rape is exactly that.

[@dungeonguy88]

Seriously, it is baffling to me how often characters in this setting just shrug out of their sealed suits without a second thought. Even on Earth, there are plenty of places you don't just jump out of your protective gear because you're kinda sure it'll be fine.

[@KertaDrake]

Lax safety is practically a religious tradition that must be practiced to the fullest in the setting. Weird alien egg that opens? Stick your face over it! Refuse to allow crew with alien lifeform stuck to his face back on board? Naaaaah. Entire colony goes dark? Just send a dozen guys with guns and a middle-manager. Alien worm thing? Lean over and stare it in the face even though it could very well be venomous and react to staring as a threat!

[@erikhermansen3431]

To be fair A suit didn't save the biologist.

[@natanaga9892]

IKR? It's on different planet! You can't be sure there's no pathogens, viruses, or bacterias that are floating around in the air

[@occam7382]

At least they don't pull that kind of sh*t in the first two movies. Where did the time go?

[@Mankorra_Gomorrah]

To be fair, this incompetence riddled mission with a series of competing groups all trying to do something different is exactly what actual corporations are like. Unfortunately this probably wont be much different in the future.

[@Distimmer]

Right? Next on 'Villains too Stupid to Win'; The East India Company! The Dutch Tulip merchants! The Opium Wars!

[@sebastienholmes548]

Examples?

[@KertaDrake]

One day the Console Wars will return, and it will be a real war.

[@slappy8941]

This is also how the military works.

[@Objectified]

@@slappy8941 No, it's not. I'm so damned tired of people reacting to this guy's videos with "Dur hur, military intelligence is an oxymoron." and "Dur hur, corporations are dysfunctional." and "Dur hur, everything in society is bad and dumb except people who live exist to say everything about society is bad and dumb."

[@khazzen]

12:42 _"which looks like a hybrid of male and female genitalia with some concerning serpentine characteristics"_ LMAO. Sir, that was GOLD.

[@TK-nn8jd]

"I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going."

[@lechking941]

i think he just had the same ass thoughts as the maker did.

[@An_Inconvenience]

This statement has made the ghost of Sigmund Freud stronger

[@wesleythomas7125]

*I'll * do the fingering around here!

[@wtfsalommy3250]

_Running thru trees😂😂😂_

[@normtrooper4392]

I've always imagined Weyland-Yutani's problems are from a an army of middle managers who only vaguely get directives from the obscenely wealthy top executives. And because there is no central organisation, the middle managers are constantly fighting with one another for favour

[@SusCalvin]

Most of W-Y is doing exactly what it says on the box, they expand extrasolar colonies. Living in a company colony is like living in a company town but someone owns the machines that make the air. There is a bunch of other companies hanging around who also compete for the resources of the frontier. The companies all compete for tobacco farms, lantanium mines, habitable colony space etc.

[@SusCalvin]

W-Y keeps a lot of stuff secret, sometimes it leads to employees and middle managers misunderstanding what's happening. And W-Y itself can't do what we do and hop onto the fan wiki to read about xenomorph physiology. The companies and nations are in a cold war over the frontier, no one is sharing what they know. W-Y start to create a sort of division for this task. They start setting up "dogcatcher" teams using the scraps of knowledge they find. If the aliens have acid blood, maybe we put our dudes in acid-resistant environment suits etc. Or maybe we test this cryo-trap to learn how they function in extreme cold. It's still a work in progress that regularly ends in overwhelmed dogcatchers. Alien life itself is nothing new in the Aliens universe. There are several worlds with alien life, scores of which can already support human life. The terraforming process can involve altering an existing ecosystem to fit human needs. Most W-Y people do exactly what it says on the tin. They invest in extrasolar company towns, they create products. W-Y has a brewery. They own colonies with tobacco farms.

[@occam7382]

@@SusCalvin, so basically, it's the 15th-17th Centuries all over again, but with sci-fi technology? Great, just... just great.

[@SusCalvin]

@@occam7382 They're not the only company around. Space exploration is a huge cost, only large consortiums can afford it. Virtually no one owns a private spaceship in Alien. The players are always chumps on the job working for someone else. Nations have consolidated as well. United Americas covers the old USA, Mexico and most of South America I think. The Three World Empire is an amalgam of the UK, parts of western Europe/Asia and Japan. The Union of Progressive Peoples, the space-soviets, are some kind of sino-russian super-block.

[@occam7382]

@@SusCalvin, I know. I was just looking are your comments about company towns and corporations competing over resources on the frontier, and I just kinda made that connection in my head, you know?

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

One of the more realistic corporations in movies. Real executives are actually even dumber than that, though.

[@ANTIStraussian]

Well they did move all their factories from earth to the colonies for cheaper labor causing earth's middle class to collapse.

[@charlessaint7926]

Xenomorphs after seeing Wayland for the umpteenth time, "How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?!"

[@stu1701E]

Now that you point them out, the similarities with the absurdity of the Umbrella corporation are striking. Especially the use of clones and androids in their own upper management.

[@Gruntvc]

Movieverse Umbrella is incredibly dumb, especially after the decent 2nd movie. Video Game Umbrella Corp is a lot better.

[@njalsand133]

They're kinda dedicated to make superior creatures, that will surpass humanity

[@stu1701E]

@@Gruntvc Yeah I should have specified Movie Umbrella.

[@yamadiyoo9658]

Movie Umbrella is episode 2 and The Smokers are episode 1 On the note of game umbrella they are not always the smartest either as Wesker dumped all his resources into making Uroboros when he could have used those resources to improve P30 as this is what the injector on Jill's was pumping into her to enhance her, if someone improved P30 instead of going down the same roads someone would have made super soldiers over having crap like Molded or enhanced zombies or bug like monsters that have all proven to be failures to a resourceful person with a gun.

[@EvilJoeReaper]

@@yamadiyoo9658 I'm pretty sure wesker wasn't in umbrella in re5.

[@golemgolden4670]

Whenever i see a raid sponsored video: You've met with a terrible fate havent you?

[@90lancaster]

He's fallen in with a rough crowd. some one contact his parents for an intervention

[@DaCaLsTa7777]

He's a KZbin content creator post 2016. All of them are met with a terrible fate unless you're already TV made.

[@Legion617]

*creepy salesman laugh ensues*

[@lostsnowman127]

ɴᴏᴛ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴏɴᴇ ɢᴇᴛꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴘʀᴏᴍᴏ ʀᴀɪᴅ. ɪᴛ'ꜱ ᴀ ᴍᴀʀᴋ ᴏꜰ ɢᴇᴛᴛɪɴɢ ɴᴏᴛɪᴄᴇᴅ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʀᴀɪᴅ-ꜱᴇɴᴘᴀɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ɢɪᴠᴇ ʜɪᴍ ᴍᴏɴᴇʏ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴀ ꜱᴄʀɪᴘᴛ. ꜰᴇᴇʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀʀᴍ ꜰᴜᴢᴢʏ ꜰᴇᴇʟɪɴɢ ᴏꜰ ᴄᴀᴘɪᴛᴀʟɪꜱᴍ ʙᴜʏɪɴɢ ʜɪᴍ ʀᴀᴍᴇɴ.

[@creativerealms]

You mean he cashed a check?

[@deadNightwatchman]

Ah, Tuvok. In space, no one can hear you reason.

[@monkeybusiness673]

Tuvoks commentary never gets stale...I love it!

[@AL-wj5wx]

Executive: Sees xeno: ITS A PERFECT ORGANISM! Other guy: But they cannot reproduce without other organisms sir. And science says for an organism to be successful it needs to be able to reproduce on its own sir. Executive...

[@MediaZealot]

Not to mention they seem to indiscriminately kill half their breeding stock (whether these people serve as food is a matter of debate). I'd say on most planets where they gain a foothold, they'd drive themselves into extinction pretty quickly. If we disregard Ridley's origin story, perhaps only their homeworld was brutal enough to keep their numbers in check, but they're not perfect by any stretch of the imagination I'd say. They're biologically advanced predators/parasites.

[@TheEvilpossum]

And the xenos breed much faster than humans or any other species we see, though one can always posit that this was normal for their home world's ecosystem.

[@frenchsoldier8485]

Virus cells: Says you...

[@jendreg1935]

Organism can't be successfull if it cannot reproduce on it's own Viruses: I'm a joke to you?!

[@frenchsoldier8485]

@@jendreg1935 Being original? What's that

[@Kurzula5150]

Me after watching Prometheus trailer; "Woohoo!" Me after watching Prometheus; "I was wrong, I was so wrong."

[@ptonpc]

Same here.

[@sorrenblitz805]

I actually didn't mind Prometheus as its own universe. The original 4 movies are their own canon for me, while Prometheus and Covenant are part of different timeline, that's the only way I could make myself enjoy Prometheus

[@shcdemolisher]

@@sorrenblitz805 God…. I hated covenant for what it did!

[@darthslackus499]

You're not alone.

[@zachhoward9099]

Went by myself on a Friday that I had got off during the day when I used to work weeknights to go see Prometheus, outside of the set designs which were breathtaking I left thinking ‘What the fuck did I just watch?’

[@i_ams_good_boy]

Weyland-Yutani “This time we’ll get the xenomorphs for sure.” The Ripley bloodline “how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man”

[@AnimeSquirrel]

The most unbelievable part of the companys lore is that wayland made his first billion on solar.

[@chriswimble3466]

They come from a timeline where democrats won the 2016 election... And 2020

[@Gwestytears]

Maybe he threatened to sue the sun if it didn't give him more power

[@chriswimble3466]

@vinek12 your not profitable, punk...

[@russell7374]

a dyson sphere would be considered solar. that is absolute bad assery.

[@Eveablewastaken]

@@chriswimble3466 bruh

[@mirceadonciu4983]

You can see that even he has started to despise the stupid villains called Raid Shadow Legend.

[@UncleMikeDrop]

If anything, the company should have arranged for Robert's book to receive rave reviews and be touted as the finest example of contemporary science fiction they have ever seen. At that point, the public would of seen as he no more as a fictional creature.

[@SusCalvin]

The Frontier is already home to a lot of faith. Some of the cults are just more messed up than others. There is a satellite where luddites are being held after a purge. Communication is slow, the best they have is a network of powerful sensor clusters that bounce a signal between eachother. They are expensive, have horrible lag time and low bandwidth. Most media is still local or transported as solid info storage. The spacewalkman never died in Alien.

[@theendersmirk5851]

Or even admit to the existence of Xenomorphs, and call it realistic fiction. Then you get the bonus that the next time you send a bunch of clueless idiots to collect specimens with the worst planning possible, they at least know the risks of the creatures well enough that you can just say "We've found a collection of specimens of that species. Here's a containment chamber module, and a bunch of space forklifts. Put the eggs in the chamber and bring them to this well prepared military research outpost we have developed. You get a bonus based on the number of still living eggs you manage to collect." Oh, wait, forgot, doing that would've actually successfully collected Xenomorph specimens ages ago, and they'd have finally realized that these things' only real military utility, even if they gained control over them, is as suicide assassination mission units unless you manage to recreate a queen to use as a planetary takeover system.

[@livingcorpse5664]

All I'm learning from both reality and fiction is companies that start off as good guys will eventually become bad guys.

[@BLACKOMAMBO]

As someone said, you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain, it can apply to individual aswell as corpo

[@dinocha0s]

"Years later, Ripley prime gets recovered" Lmaooo i love this guy

[@feywinterfox9630]

Between this and Jurassic Park series, what the hell is the deal with the whole getting some crazy life form that you can’t control and try to use it for war, when you have tech that is 1,000% times better or should be in the point and time of both series? I mean I get that if you didn’t have such then no movie, book, game, etc, but OMG! They are not just too stupid but it’s like they CRAVE death or the human race being wiped out!

[@jaceross7648]

FeyWinter Fox hey at least the plan with Jurassic park was coherent and only failed (first one) was skipping on the security and straight up corporate sabotage

[@legendary5733]

Like Roland stated "I think I spent enough time at the company of death."

[@OsirisLord]

I fucking hate that Jurassic World tried dragging that shit up. Why would anyone want to militarize dinosaurs when modern military technology has replaced the need for animal labor in warfare except for a few niche roles like bomb sniffing dogs? They created the Indoraptor and said that in a real war all those fancy drones can and will just get hacked by the enemy but they forgot that the Indoraptor is hackable by anyone with a laser pointer. Even taking that aside drones can be shutdown and placed in storage when not in use but Indoraptors would require space, food, water, and of course unlike drones run the risk of acting on their own at all times. The only good news is that dinosaurs don't pose an existential threat to life on Earth.

[@legendary5733]

@@OsirisLord Because if WW3 starts happening all our fancy modern tech will be long gone. Since it will reduced us down to tech from the 20th Century or even lower. Any country will start using old primitive technology such as swords, shields or animal warfare. Since nukes (for last resort) will just reduced our society to live in destroyed cities, low food shortages, small population and primitive weapons. Since tanks, planes, battle ships, trucks, drones and eventually guns. Will be pretty much gone or useless since they require oil, ammo and maintenance. Which I don't think will be getting any resources for those anymore. So it's best to go back to primitive weapons for the time being just to survive or fight for the last breath for victory in desperation. Since Jurassic World is pretty much a world with dinosaurs existing. It's best to use dinosaurs as weapons against our enemies in case if we do end up in that situation. Also the Indoraptor lacked in terms of obedience and empathy. Which is why it's a prototype because of that reason so they need blue's DNA for the next generation to be more obedient. The laser was only used for the prototype to show off the buyers how intelligent it is. Since they needed to presented as their future operation but as a prototype since they needed something to prove how intelligent it is to follow human commands. At least until they add Blue's DNA for the next batch to make it obey human command through Owen Grady's research on raptor training. Which the buyers decided to bid it anyway, which Eli Miles and the seller were shocked that they are actually buying it. It was only a presentation it was not supposed to be sold at all. Which you can see Eli Miles facial expression going "Fuck it. Do it. Sell it." It was a careless stupid decision but it was a business decision. After all like he said "This prototype is worth 28 million dollars right now. Relax will make some more."

[@OsirisLord]

@@legendary5733 Fancy modern tech? Like the fancy modern tech required to clone dinosaur hyrbids? I think if World War 3 reduces us to the stone age then we're in the stone age, that means dogs and horses are back in vogue.

[@rojaws1183]

There is a old comic where the xenomorphs can affect human minds subconsciously with telepathy. That could explain some of more stupid human behaviour in the franchise. Or maybe WY is actually Cave Johnson's new project after the failure of Aperture Science.

[@Shad0wBoxxer]

But with lemons!

[@KertaDrake]

@@Shad0wBoxxer No wonder their blood is acidic and sprays everywhere! It's superheated lemon juice!!!

[@Shad0wBoxxer]

@@KertaDrake new from Cave Johnson! Alienade! If it doesn’t quench your thirst we wont hear about it!

[@drewlop]

I like how this series is largely about the perils of shitty management and poor security/containment protocol

[@grunty5586]

My favorite part of covenant is when the captain pulls his gun on David and says: “Don’t you move or I’m going to seriously f*** up your perfect composure. “

[@ts25679]

You'd think before any colonisation effort there would have been a whole slew of research and fact-finding missions directed at all potential colony sites. Since the corporation as a whole doesn't seem to know about the aliens then any discovery of extraterrestrial life would be world-changing. Add to that the orbital infrastructure and imaging that would be done before even landing on the planet, that ship wasn't tucked away in a cave or crevasse it was just sitting in the open. There should also be a contingent of security personnel on-site to protect the colonists and the companies investment.

[@Fenris77]

My theory is that the company did know about the derelict and placed a colony there to be used later as a base for scientiffic study of the derelict and if need be use the colonists as unknowing ginnypigs... For seriously is there ANYTHING on that planetoid that is of any value? It doesn't even have soil to grow foodstuffs from?! This leads me to conclude that the very and only reason for setting up a colony was to research the derelict and probably use the colonists as extra test subjects...

[@ts25679]

@@Fenris77 But if that were the case you'd set up research stations on the planet and in orbit and have a bunch of specialists and security personnel work the problem, periodically shipping in convicts no one would miss for your test subjects. Leaving the operation up to a corporate fuckwit like Burke real suggests to me they really didn't know what to expect and aside from the xeno threat which they weren't taking seriously, it seems like they were gearing up more to put down a colony uprising than anything else. Bishop, and maybe Hudson, were the only ones who seemed to have any skills that might have let them repair faulty comms equipment if that were the issue. Just seems like the whole situation was another example of terrible decision making by the company and I'm not entirely sure how they stay in business with that level of incompetence.

[@Fenris77]

@@ts25679 Perhaps they were planning on that eventually, we do see them setting up a base for that purpose in Aliens: Colonial Marines after all. Odds are Weyland/Yutani have known about the Xenomorph ever since that incident in Antarctica.

[@ts25679]

@@Fenris77 I'm not even sure what I consider cannon with regards to the franchise since like Star wars there are movies almost everyone agrees are good/cannon and those that are not. So my musings tend to be on a case by case basis. It is quite possible you are correct, or perhaps it is all "just so the movie can happen".

[@Fenris77]

@@ts25679 True, but the Scott prequels cannot be canon since they contradict especially with this idiocy that Bladerunner is in the same universe for "reasons". And his childish dizzing of the AvP for "Reasons"... Disney Star Wars is definitely NOT canon, well, it is canon nin its own universe like Star Trek Discovery but not prime canon.

[@ICHBinCOOLERalsJeman]

"when he gets blazed one last time" I died I live again!

[@Spacecookie-]

Tiny bit of trivia: Back in the day, in the 1990's, the Yutani part of the Wayland Yutani corp was the name of a matriarch in the predator clans, from that side of the universe in the graphic novels. They used the Wayland corp to return any predator tech lost and subsequently recovered by Weyland corp. Which of course allowed Weyland to at least copy and learn about advanced alien tech, giving them the edge which made them the tech giant company you see here.

[@VaiOr6]

The Wayland-Yutani company wasn't stupid, they were just greedy and looking for profit over human resources. Like many real world companies.

[@tuffnuggets2852]

Villians to stupid to win: Thanos the all-powerful being who sat on his ass in the void of space doing nothing while powerful heros emerged left and right across the galaxy.

[@whoareyou1034]

And instead of creating more resources, he decides to kill half of life in the universe.

[@AnInsideJoke]

Some of which were of his own making, especially his "daughters" Nebula and Gamora. Not only do you kidnap, keep, and raise a child from a civilzation that you yourself wiped out half of (giving said child a reason to vow to kill you once they grow up from the get-go), but you also physically, emotionally, and pshycologically abuse them (especially Nebula), making them hate you even FURTHER, but you ALSO train them to be master assassins/ one-woman armies AND forcibly give them cybernetic parts (Gamora has cybernetic parts, specifically her skeleton, as well, just not as many as Nebula) giving them massive super-strength and durability. MCU Thanos did pretty much everything he could to all but guarantee he would get offed, and he doesn't even have comic-verse Thanos' excuse of being unconsciously self-defeating.

[@logicaltips4107]

I thought Thanos was also busy with his usual conquering stuff?

[@sargon6000]

And ofcourse always wipe out only 50% of everything. Because I guess only 30% or 60% would have been blasphemy or something.

[@BainesMkII]

@@whoareyou1034 Creating more resources would ultimately be as temporary a solution as killing half of the life in the universe. The underlying issue was the rate of the growth of life. Movie Thanos needed to slow and otherwise restrict the growth and expansion of life. Killing half the universe means what, you buy maybe a few thousand years before the universe is right back in the same spot it was before? Heck, Movie Thanos could have rewrote the universe without killing anyone, still better achieving his movie goal while simultaneously giving others less reason to oppose him or reverse his changes. (Mind, these issues were only created when Thanos' motives were rewritten for the movie.)

[@grapeshot]

What was he about to do pet that snake looking thing. And as soon as it's hood unfolded my first instinct would have been cobra. Even though I know it's not a cobra I would just assume that this thing is dangerous. And is rearing up into a defensive posture.

[@adamgray1753]

It would of been completely different if what's his name had a sizable container open and trying to coax the thing into the (presumed to be safety) glass container. That is what a *reliable* scientist would of done even while temporarily cut off from their team. Instead what constitutes as "reliable" on Team Science is endless bitching and moaning.

[@DavidMyrmidon]

That's what a person with common sense would've done. I know if something like that "postured" like that me, I would've done 1 of 2 reactions. I would've backed off and see what it would do next, or 2, I would've blasted that fucking thing right in the mouth. If I ad a Gun.

[@BATCHARRO]

This is even a bad idea on Earth. If you see an unfamiliar animal here, you can't be assuming it should be petted. Not all animals are even into that.

[@adamgray1753]

Yeah really, @@BATCHARRO. SJWs, Feminists, and other Leftists and Communists are like this. lol!

[@DavidMyrmidon]

@@adamgray1753 We get it, you're edgy.. move along.

[@Freesorin837]

43 minutes into a 55 minute video and we FINALLY get to point two. Now THATS some seriously in-depth analysis.

[@oriondark9249]

"James Franco gets blazed one last time!" The funny thing is his body is all wrapped up like a giant spliff conveniently encased in a cigar box.

[@megamanbrandon]

"This time, his wife was the Darwin award winner." This quote murdered me. Lol

[@spartanalex9006]

To be fair to the WY Mercs, real soldiers do call out their actions so their squad mates know what each other are doing. So they are at least following protocol.

[@Max-hb9yu]

Alex Tiller But when there alone they still do it. Granted I don’t think Randy bitchfork gives enough of a shit to put that much effort into a game but that dose not make it justified for mercs who are probably payed a lot of money to just tell there enemy and no one else what there doing.

[@thebolas000]

I've always wondered where the xenomorphs got their mass from. After they do the chestburster routine they don't seem to eat anything, but they still end up being bigger than a human. Are they off screen sucking down protein powder? And it doesn't seem like the drones bring the queen any food, so how is she pumping out eggs?

[@Stormkrow280]

I think in one of the novelizations Ripely finds a food pantry completely smashed and emptied out. But I don’t remember which one.

[@thebolas000]

@@Stormkrow280 Thank you. Big giga Chad energy for helping me out with a year old comment.

[@Stormkrow280]

@@thebolas000 I didn’t see the time of posting, just noticed that no one had commented.

[@TommyCurrell]

It's bio mechanical. Ash says something about it absorbing elements from its environment.

[@kck-kck879]

@@TommyCurrell Still needs energy for cell reproduction. Maybe it photosynthesizes through one of the windows? Or maybe it huffs propane.

[@vicenteasaro1823]

Every scene of star strek you use, I'm getting more intrigued about the show. The dialogue snippets alone increase my curiosity of what wide ranging conversations happen in that show.

[@Batchall_Accepted]

*"SensORs"*

[@TheGoldenKing20]

Weyland is the OG Umbrella.

[@ts25679]

Why would they even need live specimens? All they'd need is some DNA samples and enough time and money. They could even pick a barren asteroid to put an automated/remotely operated lab on and when things go wrong they just gravity assist said asteroid into the nearest star.

[@St-hj1ux]

How will we get alien movies then?

[@skrotosd]

If only dna was needed for experiments there would been no animal testing in real world. If only dna was needed we would had dinosaurs in 1998 in the real world.

[@georgethompson913]

@@skrotosd you know DNA can't exist for more than a few thousand years before degrading, let alone 65 million years right? Also the implication here is that with a tissue sample you can clone fully grown warrior drones without any need for a host.

[@Fuctmentality]

Daphaic makes you think a xenomorph has DNA?

[@skrotosd]

George Thompson first of all, we have a lot of dinosaurs dna samples, dna can be found in creatures older than dinosaurs, it’s always fragmented but can be rebuilt, with the right technology, eventually. Secondly you can’t understand how an organism works just from samples, search the difference between “in vitro” and “in vivo”. Plus, you can’t take a xenomorph sample, it will corrode everything it touches, molecular acid.

[@GalironRunner]

I honestly think there were 2 factions in the company 1 after the aliens and 1 that knows what they are doing and always tries to low key counter them. This explains why their plans were always countered as so.

[@BirchMonkey857]

To be fair to the union workers in Alien, it does seem like WY is screwing them on pay. Like, it seems like they do as much work as any other crewmember, but they're getting half the pay. Not to mention, everyone (except Ash) is kinda pissed that they're having this delay, and they show it. Third, they're just more or less asking for overtime since this shit came up from the fine print, seems fair to me. Finally, they _do the work,_ even if they're pissing about it. EDIT: Also Ripley isn't bourgeois, she's a fucking space truck driver and shift manager.

[@avukovic84]

I know AvP isn't looked positively on however in AvP2 game WY also did a blunder, making a facility in the middle of planet with active xenomorph hive. Guess how that ended.

[@Lans32485]

Yeah, but ironically it wasn't entirely the company's fault, and the facilities there were actually pretty well done. It was the scummy mercs they hired for extra security, who ran a black market on engineer artifacts and xenomorph eggs, and a Predator hunting party dropping in that screwed things up.

[@avukovic84]

@@Lans32485 It's ironic how that Predator hunting party actually came for that mercenary captain, who was running the whole deal. And USCM actually caused extra break-out of Xenos after coming and disabling the defense perimeter on accident.

[@alphatrion100]

AVP was very watchable. AVP2 not so much.

[@fatalshore5068]

The AvP2 game is actually a fantastic game. The multiplayer was excellent, all 3 races felt balanced and even sub categories within 1 faction felt unique and different. Wallrunner was my fav though, hah the camps were real and the skittering around the walls hella messed with people. Not to mention the shortcuts around maps you could use or the sneaky places you could get to.

[@andyrihn1]

Sending married couples on the colony ship was supposed to encourage reproduction which although less efficient than free love polyamory is forgivable given social norms. The real problem is that they brought a married gay couple. There’s no problem with being gay but if your intent is to start a self-reproducing colony that’s not exactly helpful

[@louiscypher4186]

True but you don't allow said married couples to be part of the same crew. If the pilot was married to a colonist instead of another pilot there wouldn't be an issue. Given that your sending married couples you'd think they'd at least make sure they aren't working in the same department.

[@useodyseeorbitchute9450]

Right now we have megacorps which claim that gender is merely a social construct, so that's merely logical conclusion...

[@zephyrna6249]

Its probably because there has to be progressive agenda representation in every movie created now. I'm surprised half the couples weren't mix raced too, and they let the two smartest and strongest characters (admittedly robots) to be blonde and blue eyed super men.

[@andyrihn1]

Zephyr N/A cool the Nazi shit bro. I was only commenting that a colonial ship probably wouldn’t bring gay couples on the first ship

[@useodyseeorbitchute9450]

@@andyrihn1 What "Nazi" about it? He just mocked their racism (against Whites).

[@antwan1357]

The Aliens franchise really captures several aspects of horror. Carnivorous animals phobia , disease phobia , corporation phobia , and rape phobia , (face huggers). Using phobia of darkness , it is a very well rounded franchise.

[@vladimiravich7260]

The Xenomorph, for all the time they have been around can never seem to escape one consistent plot line, Weyland Yutani's need to capture them. Also the Alien table top RPG (another alternate universe I guess) with its more expanded lore suggests that Weyland Yutani is trying to weaponize the Xenonorph because they know that a straight up war with the United Americas (future USA) and the Colonial Marines is inevitable, and Weyland won't be able to win it. Also thanks for giving me some ideas that I can use for the table top game. Having a whole facility run completely by Androids and using animals instead of humans for testing makes so much more sense.

[@FrankCastle-tq9bz]

The films that Weyland-Yutani is featured in are all about hubris and incompetence, so it only makes sense that this corporate entity displays it in spades: this company is only still around because of the raw economic might it commands - the fact that it can fuck up as badly as it does on multiple occasions is testament to its power as well as the ability to hide its numerous flaws from its enemies. Much like most real life corporate entities...

[@shcdemolisher]

Yeah and thanks to lore from the recent Aliens fireteam elite game, it still makes me hope that someone fully destroys that company after the shit they pulled, which in real life, THEY WOULD!! You can’t do that much damage without corporate heads rolling and a company shutdown.

[@raydhen8840]

@@shcdemolisher even Umbrella corps went bankrupt after just 3 (mainline) games, that's honestly the more realistic aspect of this franchise lol

[@shcdemolisher]

@@raydhen8840 Yeah! And it was fully deserved. The public and private backlash of it destroyed it no matter what it tried to do to mitigate the damage.

[@GreatgoatonFire]

I guess the only way to make a bigger mess of the Alien-universe than Scott already has was to add Randy gosh-dang Pitchford to the mix.

[@GreatgoatonFire]

@Heavy Metal Collector Honestly might not be a bad idea. Kill the IP stone dead for a while until Scott stops messing with it.

[@guillaumefigarella1704]

I wanted to tell you that having Tuvok tell us the perfectly obvious every time someone does something stupid is MANDATORY for my personnal enjoyment of your stuff Thank you for the good work

[@ascensionindustries9631]

When you're on an Alien planet, and you're not in Star Trek, you don't take your helmet off!

[@DarkLordoftheMeme]

There's an excellent reason the company would be interested in capturing xenomorphs, they're the bioweapon of a potential future enemy - namely the engineers. Assuming David didn't kill them all and the engineers have colonies elsewhere, then there's a species who's agenda is apparently "destroy humanity at all costs" and David ruined all chances of a peaceful resolution by annihilating one of their planets. It would make sense to capture the Engineers' main weapon, and study it as much as possible.

[@zombieshoot4318]

True but the odds are very high the company doesn't really understand anything about the Engineers or the mission to destroy humanity. This company is run by incompetents.

[@omg_RANCORS]

david created the xenomorphs, not the engineers. the black goo was the engineers weapon/tool.

[@Terminalsanity]

The Xenomorphs are trash bioweapons combat androids like Bishop are literally hundreds of times more effective and unlike the Xenomorphs entirely controllable.

[@Terminalsanity]

@@omg_RANCORS I hate that recton its so stupid( yes its a retcon in the first alien movie established that the Engineer's ship had been derelict for thousands of years before David was created hell you had an image of a Xenomorph in the freaking ship in Prometheus for crying out loud.

[@zombieshoot4318]

@@omg_RANCORS David didn't do squat. That movie was garbage.

[@Lans32485]

Ironically, the AvP timeline had WY undertake their most sensible xenomorph operation ever, only really done in by outside factors and a poor choice in hired mercs for security. In AvP 2 on PC, they had several facilities on LV-1201, all with layers of anti-xenomorph defenses inside and out. But unfortunately they hired a merc company that ran a black market on Engineer artifacts behind their backs, resulting a a ship full of Predators showing up. Then they decided to upgrade to selling a xenomorph egg, which got loose of course, but as an adult it got into a fight with a Pred, who self destructed and took out a key part of the defenses, leading to the eventual loss of both the main and secondary facilities over the course of the game.

[@jacobwilliams1223]

IDK man, setting up a facility on a planet with an active Xenomorph hive sounds like a recipe for disaster even without those outside factors.

[@Lans32485]

@@jacobwilliams1223 you'd think, but like I said, this one seemed to be doing ok til a Predator set off a nuke in the basement.

[@estergrant6713]

the way he perfectly lines up the star trek scenes is great

[@Anthyrion]

If i learned anything from the Ferengi, than that the risk(s) are mostly worth the profit. And the profit, gained by the risk wiping out the entire humanity, must be insanely high.

[@S3rp3nte]

Suggestion for next Villains Too Stupid To Win: Shinra Corporation (Final Fantasy 7)

[@Gruntvc]

How about Armacham from FEAR. What they did in that universe was freakin pure evil.

[@MechanicWolf85]

@@Gruntvc yeah but are they dumb? The point of the series is to mock dumb villians

[@Gruntvc]

@Kael Jesmir, Yes, they are incredibly stupid evil. Just look how they treated and handled Alma.

[@fookinaye8277]

@Afakasi Sausasi smh

[@kyriss12]

I still lve how team four star portrayed them in their mechinama abridged series. Complete idiots where the mad scientist was cross breeding everything because that's his fetish, the guy in charge of the space program thought that buying space involved burning money at night so the smoke would be carried to the stars, and the chick was obsessed with overly large, highly impractical weapons.

[@weldonwin]

I really never understood how Weyland-Yutani expected to make money off the Xenomorphs. In fact, if you take the games and comics into account, they only ever seem to cost the company massive sums of money and resources, what with all the state of the art research facilities, starships and personnel that always get destroyed, every single time they try to study these creatures.

[@WhiteRhinoPSO]

As far as Samuels bringing Amanda Ripley along on the mission, it seems like some androids are capable of empathy and caring for others. Samuels mentions that he's gone over all of the files related to the Nostromo's disappearance, which would have included all of Amanda's attempts to investigate it for herself. Plus, having an engineer along is rarely a bad thing given how often Alien-franchise tech seems to malfunction across the series.

[@AV57]

Yeah, kinda weird how the company thinks they can harness the power of live xenomorphs when even harnessing much less powerful, much more docile earth animals is extremely difficult.

[@vvbr2372]

You could feel the enthusiasm during the raid shadow legend promo lol but hey if its easy money its easy

[@darthkynreeve]

He forgot to say "ambitious" though.

[@TheEvilpossum]

The Dark Horse comics gave a little bit of further logic by portraying a number of other companies after the aliens, with seemingly indistinguishable procedures. And there were at least a few agents (notably Dr. Church in Labyrinth) competent enough to contain the aliens with some success.

[@pheresy1367]

Thank you for your thoughtful deconstruction of W-Y C. Lots of fun watching this. When I think about it, the story is ALWAYS about how severely the lust for power and greed distorts one's ability to understand the world... and.... how much horrific damage is done by these powerful, short sighted bastards as they attempt to control everything....and... the heroes will die trying to subvert, and frustrate the inevitable terrible fate that comes, as result of their efforts. Too stupid to win?... well... Yes, absolutely.... but not too stupid to ruin everything for everybody.

[@coryzilligen790]

It's rather amazing just how many topical clips of Tuvok you are able to find. Those always get a laugh out of me!

[@dirtypure2023]

Great episode, enjoyed it very much. Especially the multi-media aspect of combining lore from the films, games, and books into a single narrative. Good stuff!

[@noahg6024]

Villains Too Stupid To Win: The military/Ingen from Jurassic World.

[@ryanjapan3113]

Noah G wait, we’re the military the bad guys in Jurassic world?

[@noahg6024]

Ryan Japan just the ones who think using dinosaurs as weapons is a good idea.

[@chaoticwj1772]

Noah G I don’t think Ingen was actually ever a villain.... I think they were trying to do a legitimately good thing for science and it just kept fucking up.

[@RokuroCarisu]

@@chaoticwj1772 Or for profit at least. Also, let's not forget about Biosyn, the rival corporation who thought the best way to prevent InGen from getting a monopoly on dinosaur cloning was to straight-up steal specimens from them.

[@prehistorichero2755]

Noah G The villains in the movie aren’t part of the government, they’re from BioSyn. They’re not using ‘just dinosaurs’ as weapons of war because regular dinosaurs are used for agriculture, industrial, and sport hunting, and when it comes to weapons of war, they’re using genetic power to create new species against the most advanced military technology. Yes, weaponizing dinosaurs is a bad idea, and I don’t want it in the future, but that doesn’t mean it’s built on logic. Animal weapons are fragile, but they’re stealthier, fast, agile and quieter, and since genetic engineering is possible in this universe, the company would use genetic power to create a species more advanced that it would hide from the most advanced military technology. And, yes, controlling animals may be difficult, but that doesn’t mean they can be rogue when you could raise an animal. I know you’re sick and tired of dinosaur weapons in fiction, but you’re missing the point. Unlike in other dinosaur lore, the movie knows that you can’t control the laws of nature. That’s the main theme of this Jurassic franchise: mankind’s arrogance playing God would lead to the danger of uncontrollable science if not careful when handling technology. Stop treating the films like SyFy B movies regardless of their themes!

[@Eddman368]

Villians to stupid to win: I think the US military from half-life deserves to be on this list Rather than working together with the facility to contain the outbreak of invading aliens they choose to cover up the incident by killing everyone involved, which just leads them to making enemies of everyone on the base, particularly Gordon Freeman who kills huge scores of them. And depending on if you believe it's canon or not in Opposing Force, that takes place during the 1st game, after the situation at Black Mesa goes out of control cause the military are losing to the aliens, the Government sends in the Black Ops to cover up, the original cover up team, by killing all military and any other remaining personnel who are still alive in the base this is one of many excerpts that puts this into perspective Gordon: You know it's probably the military who put these trip-mines here to begin with, and they just go and run into them! I don't get it. They bomb each other, they can't figure out who the civilians are, and they can't duck. I mean look how easy this is.

[@THATGuy5654]

I love how you incorporate the Colonial Marines' bugginess into the cannon.

[@grapeshot]

James Franco got the executive decision treatment in Alien Covenant.🔥🔥🔥 Burning Man🤣🤣🤣🤣 I got that reference.

[@sargon6000]

Advanced Sci-fi Civilisations Too Stupid To Exist: The Terran Empire from Star Trek (Mirror Universe): decided to kill the first aliens they encounter (because they came to steal their jobs or something) without worrying that their post-apocalyptic world has no chance of defending against the aliens deciding to bomb them from orbit, and yet they get away with it because the Vulcans who seem to hold some Prime Directive decide that naah there's no reason why we can't just bomb them captured diplomatic ship or just beam away the said ship; then the still recovering Earth after WWIII rapidly becomes a regional power while said Vulcans who suffered from their first contact don't do anything to stop it and get quickly conquered, then said Empire quickly manages to conquer all the nearby systems and manages to create a powerful setting, yet they will backstab each other at the slightest perceived weakness, only to fail half the time and then the mutineers aren't punished properly, and manage to rise again, backstab each other yet again. Yet, despite this state of chaotic ruling, they are still able to build ships by worker slaves that apparently no one ever suspects of trying to sabotaging, even though sabotaging technology happens all the time, and even during very important missions (see the ENT two-parter). Meanwhile alien rebellions keep popping up every time they perceive weakness, and the good ol' Terrans don't join forces, but rather continue to backstab each other like a bunch of masochists. The only way their Empire saved is by technology or characters from our universe, not once, not twice, not even three times, but rather FIVE freakin' times! And to add more salt to the injury, after Kirk tells the very cold logical mirror Spock to tone down with the mass murder, the very logical Vulcan decides to begin a series of illogical reforms, all while still surrounded by hostile powers ready to conquer them at a whim, which causes the Empire to collapse, and ends up being conquered by a joint alliance of two races that usually hate each other (Klingons and Cardassians). So yeah, the Terrans are so awful that in the face of imminent destruction by an external threat, they would rather backstab each other rather than cooperate, while two hostile alien races, one being known and prideful for being violent and the other for being quasi-fascistic which never liked each other have had no trouble finding common ground and even being successful in eliminating a dangerous external threat.

[@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870]

Now since the Terran Empire is basically Rome 2: Space Boongaloo, I would assume that they might have been more competent at the start of their existence, when they were still a republic without constant backstabbing. Then when they started being bogged down by decadence luck was on their side in the form of the 23rd century Defiant being found in the 22nd century. The technological jump that came from that ship gave them the edge needed to remain competitive, but as we saw in later episodes set in the Mirror universe they were never able to keep up with the Prime Universe and were ultimately defeated. TDLR: the Terran Empire survived as long as it did only thanks to tech stolen from the Prime Universe.

[@Brakiros]

Discovery shows that Empress Georgio was the height of their empire, the self-defeating nature of their empire proved that they always doomed to collapse. While she was attempting to slowly edge in reforms to make the Empire more stable, even those slight attempts at stability ended in assassination attempts against her. But then again if Discovery hadn't traded places with the Mirror swap maybe she would have eventually succeeded in stabilizing the empire and prevented the eventual collapse.

[@trackerjacker5467]

Personally, I honestly like the convoluted timelines in the franchise and how it leaves a lot up to the interpretation of each individual viewer. Quit a few Alien fans that I’ve talked to also still like to consider Predator and AvP franchises as part of the greater universe because it makes it feel more lived in.

[@aircraftcarrierwo-class]

In one of the Aliens comics, WeYu did actually send an entire team of reprogrammed androids to capture Aliens. The androids didn't even realize they were androids somehow. It didn't work out so well (the aliens wised up and killed most of the androids, and those who survived had a personal crisis upon realizing they weren't human, whoops) but at least no warm-blooded humans were killed in the mission. Just artificial ones, which is arguably(?) better because they can be repaired or installed onto a blank from a backup.

[@grapeshot]

Yes you are right. A lot of these corporations on these kinds of movie would do nothing but kill any potential customers they would get. Plus spend decades in court from all the lawsuits.

[@farrdawgjoker7087]

Recruit: I was starved of oxygen at birth. Weyland Yutani: Get this man a space suit! Seriously watch the Voxis: Smack talk on the Aliens films it is funny as hell!

[@SiegeTF]

I think (but it hasn't been confirmed far as I know) that Weyland Yutani wants to be able to grow ships and buildings using Engineer/Jockey tech, and they think they can only do that by reverse engineering Xenomorphs. Also if they could get their grubby hands on a stable colony they could declare themselves the sole proprietors of *the entire galaxy forever* and anyone who has a problem with that can talk to the walking sexual assault metaphor - a weapon that costs about as much as a couple of crates and a handful of starship fuel, and can wipe a whole colony.

[@kawh8719]

"...And yes, I read half of it." deserves a like and subscribe

[@danijellino1921]

I mean i always knew that Weyland-Yutani was kinda stupid but having you lay it out like that really shows just how tupid they are.

[@Rynewulf]

Now: part 2 with the AvP lore included!

[@Shad0wBoxxer]

Please no

[@MrKurtank]

An impressive stitching together of something that must have taken a long time. Thank you!

[@mattalluisi3954]

Every time someone's sponsored by raid ahadow legends, an angel gets his wings ripped off.

[@ChuuniKaede]

Good. Angels are usually dicks in most fiction.

[@efe_aydal]

Yess. Where have u been?

[@Onyex.]

Either lv 223 or lv 426 I think

[@commandercody2980]

Probably Australia or New Zealand judging by the accent

[@Gruntvc]

There is an opposing faction in the Aliens universe. The UPP, Union of Progressive People, basically space commies. They were to be introduced in the original Gibson script for Alien 3 and this was recently adapted into a comic book story by Dark Horse Comics. They were antagonists in the excellent DS Aliens game, Aliens Infestation.

[@neilprice513]

The Weyland-Yutani Corporation is a perfect example of a corporation becoming so large that the company devolves into multitudes of waring factions with their own agenda to get a head. The perfect "Crabs in a Bucket" scenario.

[@goatwarrior3570]

2:53 is where the Shadow Raid promo thing ends.

[@mrallan8063]

Ridley should've stopped making movies 10 yesrs ago... he would be considered a scifi god. Now he's now just a nutter.

[@Decoffeee-ky4ch]

Mr Allan I liked Prometheus and covenant . Plus he directed the Martian which was really good

[@mrallan8063]

@@Decoffeee-ky4ch The Martian was a good happy popcorn movie... the Alien pequels focused on AI/synths going nuts... and not "aliens". If he wanted to make movies about AI/synths going nuts... he did that with Bladerunner already.

[@Decoffeee-ky4ch]

nikolai 1939 edgy.

[@Decoffeee-ky4ch]

Mr Allan that’s like saying Spielberg shouldn’t have directed war horse because he already directed saving private Ryan and Schindlers list. Your just belittling Scott because the story he did was not exactly the same with what you dreamt up.

[@mrallan8063]

@@Decoffeee-ky4ch No... Scott already did rouge AI/synths with Bladerunner already. The new Aliens prequels are weak derivatives of prior content.

[@temudzjin]

There are two alien movies and that's it.

[@brianfong5711]

Imagine if parents had that policy for their kids. Parents: Only the good ones are mine! But seriously, the alien movies after Alien 2 turned out pretty bad. Soy Bad!!!

[@temudzjin]

@@brianfong5711 there is also one blues Brothers movie, three Star wars and one matrix. Sadly I could go on all day.

[@kingkull9111]

Nope there are 4, get over it, pretending is for little kids in candy land.

[@temudzjin]

@@kingkull9111 it must be sad to live in denial. Maybe you need some therapy?

[@alexanderrobins7497]

No Halo games have been made since 2010, nor any Terminator movies since the second one.

[@James-ox7wo]

If you don't succeed, pick yourself up and try again, and again, and again, uhhh again?, .... huh why isn't our plan working! - Weyland - Yutani

[@3rdeyerate508]

You really put a WHOLE lot into this one. Appreciate it. Im subbing

[@bigdingo8848]

Thank you for this. Just amazing. Next video on the Borderlands corporations?

[@shaterlemming2549]

I watched the raid shadow legends part in full cause I couldn't tell if it was going to end up being a joke or not.

[@goonhaveanotherbikky]

I normally just skip those parts. I have never seen a raid promotion or advert aside from the first couple of seconds or bits and pieces while I'm merrily skipping through those parts of the video.

[@ROTTERDXM]

ikr

[@Reinatakahara115]

But raid is a joke worst gatcha game ever genshin , fate, honkai, are way better

[@weldonwin]

31:28 Well, considering that the colony director was played by the same actor who played Captain Hollister in Red Dwarf... yes, he is kind of a joke. To be fair, Burk said that the Atmospheric Processor was completely automated, but it'd still require maintenance and monitoring in case it malfunctioned, the colonists are also engaging in other projects like geological and mapping surveys, possibly even some mining

[@chrisdavey5530]

The biologist in Prometheus cracks me up, nothing about his character makes any sense lol. Like hes shocked that they might be discovering alien life, yet he's a biologist, what the shit did he think they froze his ass and sent him half way around the galaxy for exactly, where did this guy get his degree the university of Arizona?

[@TheSkepticalPanda]

I love how you went into the games and books for this.

[@believeitornotnotabot3056]

"I do like how my guns kill people just fine but they are a bit boring, I wish I could barely control and I also wish it could kill me out of my control"

[@Siege513]

Media Zealot: "use androids to harvest specimens... they'll be less likely to wipe out humanity." David committing genocide to engineered planet: "Am I a joke to you?"