Dr. Church's Survival Within the Xenomorph Hive - Explained 

Worst family vacation ever

"I'm not trapped in here with you, you're all trapped in here with me."

No one in hollywood would have the balls to make a movie based off this.

Imagine if they turned this into a movie without any restrictions, how wild it would be

Mad respect for Dr. Church. Survived through it all with sheer will power and intellect. Gave valuable information about the Xenomorphs. Now that's a cool character.

The fact the aliens were making humans breed and creating their own attempts at medicne for whatever the mold was really shows how intelligent these creatures are. Not just entirely driven by instinct, feral urges, or animalistic behavior. I think this along with the mystery that surrounds them is why I find them more interesting than the predator's

I love when it when Church is told to go to hell, he simply replies with 'been there.'

This is one of my favorite stories in the series. As demented as Dr Church was, he sure went through hell. Who wouldn't turn out a bit wacko after enduring the kind of torture that Church had?!

Well any mold powerful enough to kill Xenomorphs would make for one hell of a bio weapon.

I found this by falling down the youtube rabbit hole. I wasn't even looking for anything related. I am glad I did, that was horrifying and fascinating!

Someone really took the time and effort to make ‘burned alive’ seem like a mercy killing.

"An incomprehensibly loathsome miasma that raped one's soul through the lungs" is going into my notes.

"as well as being serviceable in other areas" - like cleaning the shitter when it gets full. someone's gotta do it!

Wow. Someone wanted to go all-in on the disgust-factor: Mutilation, decay, death, cannibalism, forced compliance, rape, human experimentation not to mention incest. I think it hit all the gross-out instincts. Well done.

"He screamed and screamed and screamed until his vocal cords were shredded. He then made a horrible sound, like a GOOSE, for hours and hours and hours." Holy shit, that was a little too graphic. Imagine being in such horrible pain that you start making GOOSE sounds! WTF!

i don't think i've ever been so disgusted yet so curious about any story ever. who on earth wrote this?

I like how hard the aliens try to survive

Whats most fascinating about this little tale is that while it may be sci-fi fantasy and just nonsense from a scientific point of view, it truly mirrors exactly what makes humans so dangerous as a species in the real world. We're not the physically strongest, we can be killed (or worse) by several millions of things that exist in nature. But give us breathing space, give us the time and opportunity to think, observe and adapt and slowly we subvert and eventually overpower and dominate the environment around us as well as all our enemies. In ways that would put to shame even the most ingenious viruses. Its not just our higher intelligence but also a certain resilience of spirit (in the best of us) as well as an ever present instinct to conquer and dominate (which times of adversity heighten). To the point that today its far more often a natural predator that has to look over its shoulders for a human stalking it rather than vice versa.

"I saw my mother, they wanted us to mate" Ah, these must be Alabama's version of the Aliens.

6:30 the Xeno looks like he is saying "so mister let me show you around"

Moral of the story... Pull the pin and try to take one or two with you!

Wow that was pretty disturbing, I think it was made even more disturbing by your delivery and your tone. Well done, very nicely read.

The hive was obviously insufficient, so I’d hazard to guess that pirates captured a bunch of xenomorphs and made a trap for passing ships. The crew investigates the facility, they get killed, the pirates loot and scuttle the victims’ ship.

This is actually really interesting, and it’s something I wish the movies would explore more. The actual lives of the aliens. This comic definitely had the right idea. To us it’s a horror show. To them, it’s just life. They see humans as nothing more than another resource for their species to exploit. Humans are prey, and sometimes even less than that. Livestock.

Eating spaghetti while watching this was a horrible idea....

As deranged as Dr. Church may be, he is definitely an interesting character with an interesting story to tell.

This would make for a great horror movie. a man surviving in a Xenomorph hive, watching others be tortured an mutilated, even having to do so himself to not anger the Xenos

jeez, it's really weird seeing humans being used as cattle, kinda makes me feel helpless.

Man this guy is really good at telling stories.

Eating my lunch while watching this proved to be a poor decision.

I still have my copies of the release back in '95. To this day, Church's recollection of his captivity freaks me the F## out. And I got to say, I do not think this would be as good as if it were a movie. As a movie, it would just be gore porn, forcing you to look away in revulsion. The medium of comic books/graphic novels allows your eyes to linger closer at the images; the printed word lets the story sink into your thoughts and hide in the dark corners of your imagination. As a piece of pure horror, Labyrinth is a masterpiece.

Short(ish) personal anecdote: I was around 10 or 11 when this hit my local comic place in the 90s. My parents were probably a bit too liberal, but they did their best, and they knew I would probably just sneak Alien crap behind their back if they clamped down too hard. Add to this the fact that my dad always loved Alien-he saw an original screening in 1979 and always said it scared the living shit out of him. So, he takes me to the comic store one day, where I skim this particular comic, the most nightmarish and sickening thing I had ever seen at that point. Naturally, I take it to the clerk to buy it. He skims it, gets to this part, curses, and turns his head away in disgust. He says I’m too young. Seeing this, my dad comes over and asks the problem. The clerk hands him the comic, opened to this part. My dad skims it. “Ah hell, it’s like every other comic he has.” He buys it. This excellent video brought back that memory-one of those odd bonding moments between father and son, all thanks to something deeply and truly vile. Life is strange like that, I suppose.

I think we just experienced the longest twelve and a half minutes on RU-vid.

I usually do not like when the lore of the Aliens is being changed to create new ways of breeding, new impossible hybrids and etc., but this story was surprisingly good and the panels relayed perfectly that feeling of cosmic horror and despair.

Intense story. Loved it. Great video

I find it cool how the aliens eventually didn't bother guarding him because he became one with the hive

This is WAY more horrific than anything in the movies.

Man...This comic was dark!!! I see why its become one of the more popular Aliens comics out there! Nice work!

We live in 2019 and the last 2 Alien films couldn't compete with this story.

“The aliens did not molest me”

This is the terror we need in alien films but no one will ever have the balls to do it. They go for more action scares this tho is just pure slow unimaginable terror and that's how the aliens should be.

Wow it’s like these Aliens were from Florida or something

There’s always been something I found fascinating about the predators and the aliens, they’re both not mindless killing machines and them sparring Church because he wasn’t resisting is something you don’t see them do often.

fuck i literally got this comic from the local library when i was a kid, until now i was vaguely sure it was a fever dream

Very intense and interesting character that's neither good or bad just a survivor. Would love to see Dr. Church as one of the main characters in an Alien movie or even better an Alien series. Robert Carlyle would be perfect for the role. He actually played an unhinged scientist in Stargate Universe.

this is my first time in learning and viewing of the alien extended universe, and i'd have to say this far exceeds the horrific nature of the movie franchise... just my opinion

Seeing the Aliens try out experiments to solve their problem is interesting, gives more insight into how they think and behave.

I think the engineers developed the black goo as a weapon for any enemy, just drop it and watch it work. One day they unleashed it on the wrong enemy, who just became more dangerous and savage as a result. Thus began a race to create a new bioweapon to stop the enemy they had just empowered.

Now there's a survivor. Good lord I couldn't imagine being in his shoes.

This is more horrifying than the actual movies... which begs the question why this wasn't the actual movie.

This is by far the most interesting story that most certainly should have been taken to the big screens.

„serviceable in other areas“ giggidy

It's wonderful how much the Alien extended universe is incoherent, I feel like most of the writers of the games, comics and even sometimes movies don't care about what have been written before.

"serviceable in other areas" they were banging the android...

Okay the part where they TAKE them deeper into their hive is the scariest part. I just know xenos from the movies and they just seem like kill machines but here they act more intelligent which is more terrifying.

wow youtube recommendations I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS

Don't really like extended universe, all the authors tend to go overboard with a lot of whacky stuff that don't make sense, but this on the other hand, love it, it feels as real as it can get to the original films.

*infinite barfing*

I was actually collecting these Alien comics when they were coming out. Dark Horse Comics I think. Some of the stories were hit and miss but this one STOOD OUT. Solid, creepy story and an excellent art style. Good work by that team. Was shocked to see this vid randomly show up in my feed, thanks for the nostalgia Alien Theory!

And with this, I have discovered my worse nightmare ......😑

Madlad literally did: if you can't beat them. Join them 😂

"Serviceable in other areas" so they banging out the robot

Church getting back to his ship sounds oddly similar to my grandparents describing their walk to school every day.

Hentai has NOTHING on this......my GOD!

That story was disgusting vile and horrifying.....why wasn't this the movie we got?

Royal jelly > black goo (Ridley's cheat code for writing and solving problems without actually doing any work)

I always love these kind of human gone feral with a different species kind of stories.

It's kinda like a metaphor of trading in your soul for knowledge

Accurate description of living in my ex's mother's home.

0:29 'other areas' do tell ;)

This was probably the most interesting segment of the Labyrinth storyline; he had found something that could eradicate the aliens, or at the very least make them weaker and more easily destroyed. From what I remember in the novel, a sweeper team had destroyed the hive after Church's retrieval thus destroying the mold that was slowly killing the hive. Even if he could have retrieved samples for replication, would he have done anything good with it? His lab and experiments showed he was no better than General Spears; I figured his hive experience had made him more sympathetic to the xenos as he obviously wanted to learn more about them instead of destroy them.

Nope, ignore Prometheus. I like the idea of aliens having a home world. A sci fi horror with no connection to us or our creation. In my opinion, finding the xenomorphs was just very bad luck. The corporation wanted any life form they could find...They just found the wrong one

This is one of the darkest and most interesting alien stories ever made

Still a better love story than Twilight.

Ahh…Aliens: Labyrinth. One of the best graphic novels I’ve ever read. Thanks for the upload 🙏

The fact that even in the Aliens franchise, the most powerful entity in the universe is fungus is truly horrifying

DAMN It... Why Hollywood don't do a movie of this history!?!?!?

Can there be groups of rouge, human loving Aliens? Earth military Aliens that were good? *THAT WEAR SILLY ARMY HATS*

Wow, you know death doesn't sound that bad anymore 😕.

How has this not been made into a movie. This would be crazy to watch.

If they didn't have the queen, shouldn't one of them just evolve into one? It was called something like preatorian alien?

a movie of this would be absolutly incredible.

First comic I ever read was an “Alien” comic, and it was this exact one. Can still remember the feeling in my stomach when Church revealed his past. Great throwback!

This has to be one of my absolute favorites from your channel! Anytime I think of the Aliens franchise I think of it described in your voice! Thank you for this channel!!!!! And please, more!!!!!!!!!!! I can't get enough! I've downloaded almost all of your videos and listen to them while I'm commuting or working in the yard, etc. You are awesome!!!!!!

Oh my gosh. I have no idea how I showed up in this part of youtube but I feel like a piece of my soul is missing -_- I'm going to go take another shower.

So, instead of getting something like this in the films, we were given... Prometheus and Covenant. Ugh.

Aliens Labyrinth was one of my favorite dark horse comics from the 90s. I read a lot of alien, predator and alien v predator comics, but Labyrinth had some of the best art work. The artist knew how to draw aliens and get their likeness spot on. There were many comics where the art just wasn't up to scratch.

If anyone thought this art style looks familiar: the artist for Labyrinth, Kilian Plunkett, did a lot of Star Wars work including the Clone Wars series and Rebels.

This should be a children's book

The guy had balls of steel

Imagine rescuing the man and getting told of what happened. I’d be hurling up my food for a straight year with his words.

This just adds a layer of disturbing to my already favorite horror setting

you could roll out a new trilogy of movies, by combining aliens labyrinth, music of the spears, rogue and stronghold and tie them all together with royal jelly and Dr church. you could throw it all in with that, body horror, psychological horror, action, the aliens origins and throw in a couple of central characters like Jeri the alien model synthetic. some scientists and a couple of colonial marines and you'd have a trilogy that people would love. sure you'd have to make a lot changes but if kept the core and the themes you'd be golden. i mean really all you'd have to change would be the central hero character which lets face it are not always that interesting these comics/novels and some of the circumstances and locations and it would be awesome.

"They probed us" "I had never heard of alien behaviour like this" Really? I find that hard to believe......

"The aliens stopped guarding me so closely" There is 1 Imposter among us.

I like how the xenos stop guarding him and let walk around like a guest.

This story would have been wayyyyyyy to brutal to make into a film, but it would have been amazing to see and would have pushed the franchise more into legendary status then it is now. Fascinating story!

This has to be the most stomach churning alien story, i see a lot of freaky and unconventional hentai (Not too extreme though, but out there) but when it comes to giving birth to sick, deformed aliens in malnourished conditions, against their will... its just pity and sadness i feel, and feel less and less ashamed about some whacky stuff i've seen in adult anime. How Dr. Church doesn't have PTSD is beyond me, as always Alien Theory brilliantly narrated video, i like your convincing tone and choice in BGM.

I’ve watched this video like 5 times and it’s just as good every time

This is such a great story. Wipes the floor with everything that came after the second movie.