Alien
It is a know fact at this point thatAlien’sXenomorphsare one of the most pestilent creatures in all skill fiction , but they could have been even deadlier ifAliendidn’t miss its chance to give the Xenomorphs a massive rise – one many people within the franchise already believed they had .
Xenomorphs were first introduced in Ridley Scott’sAlienas the extraterrestrial ogre the crew of the Nostromo encounter on LV-426 . After sending a gang to the aerofoil of that planet after receiving a distress beacon light , one of the member is hatch with a Xenomorph . After the Xenomorph ’s violent and deadly birth , it terrify the crew of the Nostromo by killing each of them , one - by - one , until there was only one survivor : Ripley . As shown in the creature ’s debut film , there are many ways a Xenomorph can kill someone . From the fishgig - comparable nates to the razor - sharp claw on its hand and feet , to the inner oral fissure that can shoot out with the velocity of a bullet at point - blank range . Plus , inAlien Resurrection , it is revealed thatXenomorphs can also skewer acidas they have Lucy in the sky with diamonds for roue which evidently allows them to access it through whatever would be consider their saliva gland . In short , if a human were to come across a Xenomorph , they would likely die – though just because something is deadly , does n’t mean it ca n’t get deadly .
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InAliens#1 by Mark Verheiden and Mark A. Nelson , fan are give a look into the life of Newt and Hicks who are back on Earth follow the upshot of James Cameron ’s Aliens – and their life story are n’t great . Newt is in a psychiatric hospital against her will , one that is much more implicated with lobotomizing her than really strain to avail her through her immense injury . rube , however , is back in the Colonial Marines , which seems gross for him since that ’s where fans first meet Hicks , but thing have changed quite a bit since then – including his visual aspect . As fans will commend , Hicks suffered facial scarring after beingsprayed by a Xenomorph ’s acid bloodand his fellow leatherneck did n’t take that well .
The marines were n’t treating Hicks differently because of his scars , but because of the misconception hem in them . At this point inAlienlore , there was frighteningly small known about the Xenomorphs , and even less of that knowledge was made available to the world . So , when the people Hicks was around see that he was sprayed with foreign line of descent , they thought he might be infect with some sort of unknown computer virus – one that they could potentially shrink . Of course , this was utterly hysterical nonsense that led to the mistreatment of a military man who courageously sacrificed his outward coming into court to ensure the protective cover of two impeccant civilians – but what if it was n’t ? The estimate that aXenomorph could spread some type of virusafter coming into contact with someone is n’t too far off from their reproductive process , and it would make them a manner more terrifying threat as they would n’t have to physically rip into anyone to kill them . While this is n’t formally within their canonical set of abilities , this idea has actually been played with a few sentence beyond the misconception that was brought up in this special storyline .
In the laughable seriesWilliam Gibson ’s Alien 3 , the Xenomorphs are capable to diffuse infective biological material that actually transforms people into Xenomorphs – skippingthe Facehugger look of the reproductive cycleentirely . In the novelAlien : Prototype , one Xenomorph produced spore that would stamp out anyone who came into contact with it in a matter of minutes . Xenomorphs having the power to spread an alien computer virus has been a popular estimate for some meter , regrettably they have all taken place outside theAliencanon – and with how establishedXenomorphsand their abilities have become since their presentation , it seems likeAlienmissed its chance to admit this deadly upgrade .
