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The Alien; Ripley's nemesis
Topic Started: Sep 7 2009, 05:46 AM (7,877 Views)
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You know the alien. That face hugging, acid dripping, stomach bursting, cantankerous creature of HR Giger's fantastic imagination. We're talking about Ellen Ripley's nemesis and Ridley Scott's meal ticket.

Terrifying and slightly resembling your boss, she has made an indelible impression on movie-goers for 30 years. Unfortunately that impression has been watered down as this ferocious beast of deep space has never been explaned. For this we want how it works. Is the facehugger, chestbuster, monster a working idea? Could it evolve? What good is it? So here is where to post ANYTHING that has to do with this space monster.
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They are too dumb to figure it out...I hope.

That makes sense. They have to be light for the balancing and speed thing.
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That would be the problem. ._. If they were smart enough to recognize that you'd tricked them...would they have any concept of revenge? If so, perhaps your problems are best solved the Yatuja way.

With nuclear weapons.

agatharights cuts to the end of Predator.

Yeah, I imagine them as lightweight, but trying to wrestle with one would be like trying to go against a creature made of tensile steel. The long tail probably also aids in balance...same with the giant phaolli-head.

Man, HR Giger will you ever stop putting penises on EVERY alien you design? I hope not.
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Sep 21 2009, 04:55 PM
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Sep 21 2009, 01:28 PM
They would be damned good weapons if you did not want to destroy facilities or planets, if you could control/kill them yourself.

Well in the present humans would be a challenge, but in the past it might have been trickier to take them down. Hmm, that would make good Fan Fiction, a Yatuja ship crashes in what will become Libya and one of the eggs Xenomorph eggs survives and starts fucking up the place. But a clever Roman solider rides in and kills the beast. St George and the Xenomorph.
St George and Xenomorph
I don't want to ruin it for you, but that seriously is the topic of one of the AvP comics.

I kid you not. It's about how St. George fought aliens, not dragons. I wish I were kidding, but I'm afraid it's already there. :D And there's an entire yautja ship buried under this church with a bunch of hibernating eggs, with monks defending it and..yeah...
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...it was a pretty fantastically ridiculous comic. Goes right up there with the "Chronicles of Yutani"
What are thease Yutani you are all posting of?
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Yutani was one of the founders of Weyland-Yutani, the evil corporation of the Alien universe.

Yautja are what the Predators call themselves.
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Sep 21 2009, 06:22 PM
With nuclear weapons.
That or bioengering a vires that kills them would probley be the only ways to stop a hive of xenomorphs.
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Yutani of Weyland-Yutani is one half of a company that shows up frequently in both the Alien and Predator franchise. It is a human corporation that makes money off of reverse-engineering xenobiology and xenotechnology, usually scavenged from downed spacecrafts. They show a particular interest in aliens (xenomorphs) and the Yautja (predators) and are the driving force in the second and fourth movies in the Alien series, as they are attempting to genetically engineer their own xenomorphs.
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With nuclear weapons.
That or bioengering a vires that kills them would probley be the only ways to stop a hive of xenomorphs.
I wonder if this is how they used to keep them in check. I mean, whatever species created them must have had a way of clearing them off a planet after they were done with biological warfare.

Perhaps the xenomorph's ability to absorb traits from it's host is what allowed them to survive? They happened to breed out of something immune to that control virus and...well...the rest is history.
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Yutani was one of the founders of Weyland-Yutani, the evil corporation of the Alien universe.

Yautja are what the Predators call themselves.
The predators are the ones with crazy looking jaws right?
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Nuke em. It's the only way to be sure.
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Well Both the Aliens and the predators have pretty odd jaws.
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Yutani was one of the founders of Weyland-Yutani, the evil corporation of the Alien universe.

Yautja are what the Predators call themselves.
The predators are the ones with crazy looking jaws right?
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Yep. They're part of the Alien franchise.
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"Give me your gum"

Now I have a crazy image in my head involving how one of thouse would look trying to chew chewing gum. LOL
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YOUR TOAST HAS BEEN BURNT AND NO AMOUNT OF SCRAPING WILL REMOVE THE BLACK PARTS!

There Jaws do look pretty odd. What do you think the function of them is?
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Actually, if I can find a better picture...they do have more human-like full jaws behind the mandibles. So they can chew and whatnot, I theorize that they're evolved from a species that used the mandibles to snatch food and bring it to the mouth.

Mind you, though, no lips...seems awkward.
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YOUR TOAST HAS BEEN BURNT AND NO AMOUNT OF SCRAPING WILL REMOVE THE BLACK PARTS!

There Jaws do look pretty odd. What do you think the function of them is?
Some kind of mateing rite?
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