Alien
TheXenomorphsof theAlienfranchise have been described as a phone number of thing throughout the course of their fictitious existence – from horrify monstrosity to beautifully perfect organisms – though one word that has rarely been used to account them is ‘ god ’ . However , that is exactly what the Xenomorphs have become following Ripley ’s apparently endless battle against them : the newfangled gods of theAlienuniverse – at least , that ’s how some people see them .
Xenomorphs were introduced in Ridley Scott ’s 1979 filmAlienwhen the interstellar DoT crew of the Nostromo get a distress beacon from an unknown mankind later on revealed to be LV-426 . When they go see it out , one of the crew encounters an Ovomorph which needs ensue in themgetting infected by a Facehuggerand then now brought back on board the Nostromo . After some time passes , a Chestburster outburst forth from the crew fellow member ’s chest in inordinately blinking fashion – revealing , for the first time , the iconic lusus naturae buff know and fear today . With that said , it seems not everyone grew to reverence this cosmic fauna follow this event . Some , even , grew to worship it .
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InAliens#1 by Mark Verheiden and Mark A. Nelson , the story picks up a few years after the events of the filmAlienswith the events ofAlien 3irrelevant to this tale ( since the movie had n’t come up out yet ) . Newt has been hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital and Hicks is back in the Colonial Marines , though the scratch on his face frombeing sprayed with a Xenomorph ’s loony toons bloodinAlienshas made him a pariah . While these beloved grapheme seem to be kick the bucket through a caboodle here , their mental torture is assuredly nothing compared to what ’s going on inside the minds of those who have chosen to idolise Xenomorphs as gods after the aliens ’ existence became known on Earth comply the events ofAliens .
This religion , known as the Church of Immaculate Incubation , begin as a televangelism move with one fanatic standing in front of a television camera with a statue of a apparently pious Xenomorph prop upright behind him . Unfortunately , his word circulate like wildfire , with mass falling hard into the opinion that Xenomorphs , especially Queen Xenomorphs , loved them and the human action of one growing inside of them was the greatest laurels the followers of the Church could hope for . They believedthe Xenomorph Queen was a cosmic beingof love and warmth , and the alien ’s room of spreading that feeling across the population was through her child – a brood these fanatic believed they would become a part of if one develop inside of them , as they believed they would be the hosts to literal god .
What ’s more haunting than wanting to be incubated by a Xenomorph because one remember the alien is a god is that these follower might be ripe . While it is weird that they would admit being impregnated by a mysterious cosmic being , hump that they will absolutely die upon its birth , the idea that they ’d be a host to a cosmic god is n’t that far - fetched . The only scrap of anorigin story for the Xenomorphsfans get is fromAlien : Covenant , but even that has been chalk up by fans to David reverse - engineering the Xenomorphs , not create them outright . Their reliable line seem to be connected to the black gunk used by the Engineers to create liveliness . But , where did the Engineers get that ? Since the beginning , Xenomorphs have been linked to cosmic horror with their orphic existence playing into that perfectly . Could it be that they are eldritch god ? Great Old Ones that have manifested as the ‘ arrant organism ’ for the sole purpose of spreading unendingly and viciously across the universe of discourse until they ’ve consumed , reproduced with , and corrupted every last living thing in existence ? When considering that , it is n’t so much thatXenomorphshavebecomethe new gods of theAlienuniverse , but that – perhaps – they have been gods all along .
