How Every Xenomorph Fits With Every ALIEN Film! (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill) 

I love the way you say ze goo.

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Nerdist I wil post more later, but Fox did allow the creation of the "King Alien" and its canon.

Nerdist Also it is excepted that these four mediums, games, movies, comics, novels, are part of the saga and not just merchandise like 90% of everything else.

Nerdist Because of there bio-imperative, introduced in Aliens:Once in a life time, and expanded upon in Aliens vs Predator: Extinction, Aliens vs Predator Evolution, and Aliens Colonial Marines, every alien can evolve ultra fast to deal with threats to there species. if you ever see them evolve for heavy combat with aliens like "Ranger Aliens", Colossal Ravagers (they are calculated hitting harder than 10-25 megaton nuclear bombs) and so on, theres alot of heavy combat types, running is the only chance of survival. anyway, with them being able to evolve to the extreme it is very likely there mode of reproduction can as well, and we see in the newest comic that is the case, a ranger like type was seen spewing mutagenic material at enemies, converting them into aliens. also it appears Royal Jelly and the black goo are one in the same as they both do very similar things, including turing humans into aliens, though it was for a limited time, though that doesn't mean there times it wasn't permanent, black goo its self is not consistent in its effects on contact with creatures.

Yeah that would be cool

Me too

Include images with each description and you'll have something.

I skiped from 5 min to here and was like wtf😂😂😂

Ha I skipped from 0:35

well, Giger actually was making his designs similar to vaginas and penises

NovarkTheBoss I took a sip of Dr Pepper and when he said that I spat it out all over my brother.......he was very mad

Aliens Frankensteined into existence by a robot with a god complex sounds pretty horrifying tbh-

He didn't create it though. In the novelisation it says he recreated it using neomorphs

Never happened... Prometheus and Covenant are about a completely different Species called the Bullsheeeeeit-O-Morph... Ridley should stick to Cheap Gin as he's obviously lost his Alien Mojo.

@@belliott538 aliens ruined the xenomorph but because of it's good plot no one listens to my criticisms

@a cats The problem goes back to Alien and Scott... Leaving the Xenomorph Life Cycle OpenTo Interpretation was a Huge Mistake. The Life Cycle should have been Nailed Down from Day One. Just goes to show, in my opinion, Ridley Scott has been working to Ruin the Xenomorph Story Arc from the Beginning.

Those videos never really say anything. I wanted to attempt an explanation that actually produced something. -- KH

Nerdist OMG OMG OMG OMG you answered me!! thank you for making because science videos :D i love them so much

Of course I did. Thanks for your kind words Yeedo. I read most of these and I always appreciate kindness. -- KH

I'd love to see you take a shit. :) (God I hope somebody gets that reference)

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Aliens can take traits from the dog and the predator and the engineer. What trait did it gain from humans. What carrier gave the xenomorphs their iconic slinder black bodies

Justin Dougherty the fuck

Kyle's brain is underrated I mean, look at that hair! gaze upon its beauty

"David lynch, director of alien 3"

I loved it when he said "Vagina snake" Even more

*ZE GUUU*

*ZUH GUUUUUUU*

Damn it! I thought that I'm the only one... now there are more than 400 of us.

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More like a less advanced version of the Zerg. Zerg are way more intelligent and developed.

Like the zerg... or perhaps the tyranids of warhammer 40,000...?

They are a holometabolic endoparasite!

juan mendez these*

juan mendez also unlike most of the videos they focus on biology not physic!

sorry to interrupt, but i gotta get this off my chest. "confusing life cycle" ? how is it confusing? egg releases facehugger, which plants a 2nd embryo into a victim, which develops into a chestburster whilst taking some host characteristics through horizontal gene transfer, then once it eats enough, it molts into the finale stage (for most some praetorians can molt into queens and drones too in the rare case of it being the last survivor) tl;dr egg hatches facehugger, facehugger infects host, chestburster...well bursts, eats then grows into drone. SIMPLE! EDIT:...ok i stand corrected...

juan mendez yessssss

Brett Dibble it sounds simple but then you have to answer questions like: "where did the eggs come from? What about the queen? Where to put aliens for prometheus and alien conventant?" and it gets a lot more complicated

Technically an ox, but yes a (bovine). LOL. You gotta love fiction.

I imagine anything quadrupedal would end up as a runner.

@@Dohyden2 That seems to be what the script writers hinted at. And it became a staple in later films and games. Like the "Predailen" from Alien vs Predator.

Idk why some ppl find it so hard to understand lmao. The facehugger (more specifically its embryo) *IS* the origin lifeform, and it yoinks the structure of the vertebrate animals that it uses as a host. It's really that simple. I know they are canon as bioweapons, but evolutionarily this would still make a lot of sense. They take whatever prey item their species would want to hunt, and simply make themselves a better, stronger, more lethal version of that prey item. They force nature to make them the dominant predator. It's really quite beautiful.

@@CorwinTheOneAndOnly That's actually a really cool way to think about it! And it also works as a bio weapon. How better to exterminate your enemies but through creatures that make themselves a stronger version of their species and mercilessly hunt them to reproduce.

I can feel the nerdgasm from here

I love biology too, but the problems with the xenomorphs is that they are very similar to the animals on Earth. If they have evolved separately from the life of Earth, they probably will look very different and they won't be able to parasite on humans. They even won't have DNA, but another king of molecule that carries the instructions for the functioning of the organism.

You’re plain crazy.

> That end diagram was so beautiful it brought tears to my eyes It would actually also be our most effective weapon against Xenomorphs. Just show it to them and they'll say: "Naaah, that's way too complicated, let's just go back to reproducing by shagging each others brains out."

Is it intentionally the shape of a face hugger do you think?

Darrien Vanfossen The crew of the Covenant are even fucking worse. The scientists in Prometheus took off their space helmets when they found out the air was breathable. In Covenant, they never even wear them. So much shit could have been avoided if they just wore their fucking helmets.

vsGoliath They already knew the air was breathable in Covenant, so you're wrong.

It doesn't matter If the air was breathable, what matters is that they were on a DIFFERENT PLANET with DIFFERENT ECOSYSTEM with DIFFERENT VIRUSES and they wasn't immune to those viruses, bacterias etc. That is why the crew of the Covenant are even worse.

Have you guys ever took the time to think that if you hear a frequency from a planet that sounds like music assuming human life is there and that it's worth the risk to go there without protective equipment?

Of course, however whos to say THEYRE friendly xD

Diego Pinheiro so thor and loki combined??

Diego Pinheiro wasn't that Loki

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Jordan Stone as his hair and beard grow longer so too does his science nerd power

Cool

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Kerr Grubb I'm saying too that egg was first, but with another argument; before birds there were dinosaurs.

The egg can't come first though. The chicken is clearly the faster runner. -_-

well not if the egg is rolling down hill

The chicken and the egg argument is really about which is correct: Religion (God created the CHICKEN) or Science (the true chicken EGG came from not quite chickens).

No Spencer. It's about whether chickens or eggs are better in a race. And clearly even the egg is faster than you if you can't keep up with that :P

This was the most research-intensive episode I've ever done. Pages and pages of notes. -- KH

Like how many pages we talking about here?

Ben Oliver 666 pages

Kyle... ...there are comics you need to read.

BOOM -- KH

I feel 'oldest genetic information' would be incorrect due to how humans share some genetic material with lots of things on the planet, even if that amount is very small. My thought is that it would be programmed to look for information that falls within certain parameters so it wouldn't try to interact with inorganic items or pull out something that would be detrimental to the next life cycle stage.

i think the reason why se gu (and by extension the xenomorph) do gene transfer in order to quickly adapt to new environments. you drop one facehugger on an alien planet and as long as it finds one victim, there will be a sizable xenomorph population within weeks. basically whatever environment you put aliens in, any offspring created using a native species will be able to survive in that environment, making them basically unstopable by means such as lucky weather or germ warfare.

@Artiamus Imura, indeed that is a part of it. From my understanding of the opening scene of Prometheus however, It seems more like the "engineers" (the "someone" you mentioned in the OP) used the "goo" (that they created/ "engineered") as a catalyst to bring about new forms of life (I.E. start the chain reaction from single cell to multi-cell organisms) on suitable planets of their choosing to create new organic Ecosystems, and they used their own DNA (I.E. willing Engineer Sacrifice) in a Religious fashion, to achieve these goals. Earth being one of those planets, they then returned through out thousands of years of human history (seemingly to check in on their creation/experiment/religious undertaking) and helped establish human civilization (also seemingly out of some sort of religious aspect) then "human beings" as their creations did "something" to piss them off in a big way (guessing killed one of their emissaries, it's implied.) and in retaliation the "Engineers" took their "goo" to a remote outpost and started mass producing it/weaponizing it to take out all biological life on earth and start again from the ground up. Things went wrong in the production phase (I.E. playing with fire can get you burned), they couldn't contain it, and the events of prometheus unfold with Shaw asking repeatedly "why do you hate us!" and "we were so wrong" as the Engineers look at us as with disgust and a failed undertaking which brings up so many other questions, like was earth the only planet they did this on? what was the "engineers" end goal? From the artwork/statutes/shrines at the outpost in prometheus, they seem to at least have knowledge of Xenomorphs/worship the "creation" of such lifeforms, which is a motif carried over in alien:covenant with the example of 'David' being a human creation and of a subconscious desire of humans emulating the actions of 'Engineers' and "creating" a new life form but in our own image, albeit by different means, but still it begs the question that if the "engineers" truly wanted to create "xenomorphs" as an end result and instead the initial "goo sacrifice, with engineer DNA" made humans (which would explain why xenomorphs can only come from Human D.N.A./burst from a Human host) as this video elaborates on, was that the end goal all along? or do the "engineers" have a different reasoning? the list of questions goes on and on. Then you have Alien:Covenant where 'David's' origin and the folly of man in creating him in the first place plays out just as the engineers felt the folly of what they wrought in their own religious creation of life. The big kicker/Irony here is that the life form/android created by the "Engineers" creation (I.E. humans) deems both other lifeforms to be unworthy and let's loose his wrath upon the Engineers in epic fashion, unleashing upon them what they would have done to us and then uses human beings (who created him in the first place) as genetic building blocks to create his Own version of a "perfect life form/organsim" because unlike humans who were taught about the wonders of "creation" from their creators, David was denied and told that he was only made to "serve" which obviously didn't sit too well with him. That's the big thing about these "prequel" movies that people are seeming to miss. Even though they are "alien" movies and do elaborate on the Lore IMO at their core they're all about "creation" and the constant cycle of lifeforms being created by other lifeforms and how those lifeforms keep repeating the cycle with an almost religious zeal and it leads to all kinds of interesting/thought provoking questions which IMO is how good art/stories should be. It's just vague enough to leave it open to your own interpretation but is presented to you in a way that you can piece together the main theme/motif.

Maxon Toepperwein Because Austria

It is neither Holy nor Roman, by Jesus it isn’t even an empire. *and that good sirs is why I’m the only person in my friend group to actually like history*

daniel c.santana Right, but for a thousand years it has had been a great deal on our planet!

Do you know what they say about the Holy Roman Empire. It wasn’t holy, it wasn’t Roman, and it wasn’t an empire

@@tubekulose The Holy Roman Empire isn't The Roman Empire or The Roman Republic, its whole other thing. Unrelated.

My name is Ridley Scott, a great cinematographer: Look on my movies, Ye Mighty, and despair! (is more like it) 🙄😂

nailed it -- KH

Oh Shit! So the Byron/Shelley interplay between David and Walter goes beyond just alluding to the themes of Ozymandias as a text, it directly sets up Davids motivations and perhaps even his arc. If you substitute 'ultimate horror story' for 'perfect life form', then David is being motivated to create something of his own, which in this case is the Aliens, themselves a Frankenstein-esque conglomeration of DNA/artificial goo.

The Bat of Gotham can you quote the whole poem?

But Ozymandias wasn't written by Mary Shelly, but by Percy Shelley, isn'it ?

I dont think the classic xeno was literally mechanical, just had features that made it appear mechanical.

Giger’s (or however you spell it) drawings for the original Alien were obviously done in his style which focuses heavily on dark organic machines and freaky sex. I think that was the only reason for the look.

Cinemawins suggested that it could be a mural to the engineers religion

I watch a video with a possible explanation saying that the mechanical features will appear when David uses himself as a host to make The perfect Xenomorph

@@pabelhughes7231 🤔 Could he even be a host? Well maybe they could use his frame as a sort of artificial womb, but wouldn't he lack any real genetic material to influence the offspring? I know he's advanced, and has features to seem more... like a 'true' organic living being, but isn't it basically just like 'decorative' and not actually anything with DNA/RNA/whatever? Kinda like Data in ST, I mean. Like, yes, there is skin and whatnot but it isn't actually 'living material' but advanced inorganic materials that simply mimic the function/appearance. It's been a long time since I watched any of these movies so maybe I'm forgetting something that explains this and totally negates everything I said. 🤷‍♂️

Bill Nye The MLG Guy yes yes it is.

it's one of the reasons i won't watch any of the alien films those facehuggers look a little too much like spiders and they jump at you not to mention the jumpscares they do

why? all the spiders in the episode got mutalated in horrid fashion

Bill Nye The MLG Guy i have arachnophobia and this doesnt affect me. thou i get an adrenaline rush every time i see a real spider.

How the hell did I get so many likes?

they would of made the black goo and infected an early human for testing until it was completed perfectly

In answer to that the classic xenomorphs may or are an extinct race and I think the engineers already made them b4 but maybe and seeing as the cycle needs hosts to carry on so once they have eaten all there hosts they die out .... David is just experimenting and follow a breadcrumb trail that the engineers have already done

AVP movies are no more canon to the Alien movie universe, directly stated from Ridley Scott.

@@joelward4649 David still gonna to engineer to create the classic Xenomorph from Alien 1 as his experiments are still ongoing. AVP films were decanonized once Prometheus was created.

sorry but i do not see prometeus a cannon as it disrupts the time line of all alien films and books. only way Prometeus can be cannon is for David to reinvent the Zenomorph as we have books about Zenomorphs from before the films (timeline wise)

It's more like "ZA GOO"

E-GOO?

"LE GOO"?

LE GOO, LE BAAT, LE EGGLY!

ZE BURGER! *pink panther joke*

Trendane Sparks or is he studying it?

Ooooo! Excellent point!

Trendane Sparks YOU FORGET... MOVIES NEED A PLOT

Yes...but one would hope that plot would make SENSE.

It's not like said plot made sense to begin with. You would never be able to simply dodge a facehugger. Even resisting it is hard as nails. The most sensible thing is not to stay, not to run (it'll get you anyway) but to kill it. Sure, your survival chances are slim, but it's the only chance you'll get (see Ripley, Newt and the Predators in AvP games, these people know how to handle that stuff)

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You are weird

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You're correct

It is pretty much directly stated that the Protomorph/Covenant Xeno is just an evolution of the Neomorph and David's experiments. We can assume the Covenant Xeno just evolved from there to become more biomechanical, into the classic Alien we all know and love.

the novelization(and deleted scene) revealed that the covenant xeno was David's attempt at recreating the engineer made xenos

You're right Shubham Khatdeo. It is described as a 'Protomorph' in materials surrounding the movie, and it is subtly different physiologically from a Classic Xenomorph, having less in the way of overt bio-mechanical elements in its design. Come to think of it, we still have no idea where the biomechanical attributes of the Classic Xenomorph come from at all. So... who's going to tell poor Mr. Hill he has to redraw his diagram yet again?

Probably yes, 'cause chestburster should be made from same stuff as a host. Right?

Sleeping Backbone makes sense if it happened then God help us all

Marc Reimer there was a cross over comic with Dc comics and 2000ad comics, one had superman getting some face hugger lovin' and wasn't to shabby a comic either.

Logan Storm oh did the face hugger succeed

Marc Reimer in the comic kriptonian survivors ended up with chest busters busting out but this was while under a red star, when superman got back to earth it could not get out or do him harm internally, didn't cover how he survived having organs converted while the chest burster went through its chastisement or whatever ever the word is. But the kriptonian boy scout lost his rag and went all kratos on the xenomorph queen.

My latest Spider-Man ep will drop right before the movie comes out! -- KH

that is also bullsht... He looked for pregnant women to facehug them .... into Vagina?? The more "alien" films they produce - the more shit is coming.

I'd just rather ignore that stupid shit from that movie, gayest shit ever

Shuhister i dont think its for the vag. I think they do it for the hormones that pregnet women have

I loved that movie, and definitely a stage worth noting!

Considering the only alien that we see in the that movie (been a while, sorry), besides Predalien are normal Xenos, it can be assumed that the predalien is a producer and carrier of Xeno embryos, like the face hugger. Predalien seems like an incredibly unlikely situation, but I don't know much about Predator biology which might be the reason for the production of the embryos. Also, the Predalien can implant multiple embyros at once, instead of the one-and-done facehugger.

Well the movies work in a time line that is difficult to map with the avp movies. It goes: Prometheous Alien covenant Alien Aliens Alien III Alien resurrection But when we take the times of all those movies into consideration of the AVP franchise it messes things up

Xanthropus Personally, I think Ridley's version made everything complicated. Thats why I stick to the comics which stays somewhat true to the Cameron Universe like th Xenos being natural animals in XenoPrime.

@@bunfudderlegreat1275 actually not really think of when Prometheus

@@bunfudderlegreat1275 just put it in cronological order AVP happened in early 2000's while Prometheous alien covanent, alien, aliens, alien 3 and alien resurrection all happened late 2100's so there's the timeline AVP AVP Requiriem Promethious Alien covanent Alien Aliens Alien 3 Alien resurrection And in my own theory I believe that avp is what showed people in the government what this is there for causing them to send a team into space looking for these creatures

@@bunfudderlegreat1275 Don't forget that Blade Runner is also canon in the Alien universe

Well, the "classic" Xenomorph that appears in the first Alien movie exhibits biomechanical features (and if you remember, David is trying to create the perfect organism, and the classic xenomorph is just that), so I think it is fair to say that David eventually manages a way to use himself as a host to create the perfect organism - how that even works is beyond me, but if you remember, the black goo only affects organic substances. In Prometheus, there's a scene where David drops a bit of the black goo on his finger, and it does nothing to him. Though admittedly there's a lot of contradicting info, but I personally find this as a cool classic Xenomorph origin explanation.

Alien: Awakening? Did I read that right? Is there yet another xeno film coming down the pipe?

Alex Felton There was. It was supposed to be between Prometheus and Covenant. A lot of the props were sold off and it's rumored the movie got canned ever since Disney bought the rights. Covenant bombed at theaters so it's very possible no more Alien movies. Hope not obviously.

Just thinking of Sora teaming up with Ripley now :3

J clown it doesn't

Ha yep I caught that too :)

Why have they not corrected the video with a title: (Sorry it's Fincher, not Lynch). But, yeah, A David Lynch Alien movie sounds awsome!!!

Niko Opperman He writes backwards and flips the video. Simple magic. lol. I don't really know. It seems the easiest, I think?

Don’t you mean he just flips the video because if he writes backwards and flips the video then it’ll still backward

Yes he does.

this is a petty good theory how ever if the xenomorph was a naturally occurring creature some were in the universe then how come they haven't simply spared across the stars in In a tide wave of meannise especial if they are a supposably perfect lifeform. survive of the fittest, the strongest or most cable organisms thrive and supplant those that can not adept. and seening as the xenomorph is almost completely reliant on hosts to continue their race it would be in their biological interests to spared as far and as fast as possible. especially when they run out of hosts on their home planet. and considering that the xenomorph it self doesn't seem all that intelligent its unlikey that they could ever master space travel in any meaningful way before they simply wiped out the native host population before archiving space travel. and if they didn't if some animals and plants were immune to being face hugged. then their not a prefect race because no biologic organism can through evolution become perfect. so that leave's only three options as far as I can see.1. the xenomorph is simply the by product of mad science, frist by the engingeers and then by david. so any flaws can be removed as the product of trail and error creates the goo.2. the xenomorph are a naturally ocring creature and the engineers fond and thought. 'neat these seem like they might be useful' and then played around with the xenomorph creature/DNA to make them more deadly. then shit happened and lost containment and things went tits up.3. the xenomorph has a fricken long ass life cycle and act more like the reapers from mass effect than normal lifeforms. they hatch on a planet or what have you, use up the local fauna as hosts. once all the hosts are used up and the adults die off the eggs remain dormant until something pocks around (perhaps waiting for the environment to repopulate, perhaps even the galaxy) and the cycle starts all over again. (all the while spreading as far as they can. via peoples stupidity.)

I think #3 is the most likely although I don't think to reaper level. Because in nature an ecosystem is usually balanced and to balance the xenomorphs ferocity and deadliness it has a weakness in its reproductive cycle. Meaning that whenever the Xenomorph population grows too large it starts running out of host which leads to population decrease. Just like if the population of a species of animal outpaces the available food supply the species will starve and thus the ecosystem rebalances itself. I think the need for a host acts as a similar population growth counter balance within the Xenomorphs natural ecosystem.

Can I get a translation of whatever ancient dialect or forgotten language that is up there?

Vulpis Umbra are you being sarcastic or serious?

Mostly sarcastic but I was having a tough time reading what Mr Boneman said up there so I had to poke some holes at it

Yah, the Protomorph don't have a chestburster stage and several differences in both physiology and temperament.

but its getting closer and closer too its original form maybe david will fix it now because to me it look like david didnt like his protomorph concept it was too aggressiv and the skin lookt kinde ugly it didnt have a exoskellet :( but he has more testsubjekt now and will make a perrfekt xeno sooner or later

Nailed it! David couldn't have created the Xenomorph. They were around way before humans made it to space.

Graham M. He didn’t create the xenomorph, it’s been stated

I thought he called them neomorphs?

It was always the egg

UrielManX7 which came first, the chicken the egg, or form of dianosaures dna

r/iamverysmart

only chickens lay chicken eggs

UrielManX7 it's the chicken if you ask which came first the chicken or the chicken egg

SomeRandomGamerKid I had dinner before watching this video and I had garlic bread!

SomeRandomGamerKid I had dinner before watching this bust I dednt have Garlic Bread.

Mmmmm garlic bread *drools

PintOfSam PGC Lol:)

Dee Oh Dee A popular theory that is gaining traction in the Prometheus/Alien community is that in the next film (or in the film that directly ties Prometheus to Alien) David will commandeer an Engineer vessel in an attempt to escape either some colonial marine force and/or Engineer force that was off-world during the onslaught of Alien: Covenant. He realizes that his luck has run out so he speeds off into the stars whilst donning a space jockey suit a sort of insult to the engineer race he sought to destroy. Eventually a chestburster erupts from him, causing him to lose control of the ship and crash in LV-426 (correct me if im wrong in planet name). Now its not clear how and why an alien would implant itself into David but perhaps he begins to experiment with the black goo in order to morph his body into an organic one, thus becoming a true, *living god.* The eggs on the ship can be a result of either two things. 1. The alien becomes a Queen and begins to plant thousands upon thousands of eggs inside the ship in preparation of the events of Alien. Or 2. David wanted to save his perfect creation and thus brought on the thousands of eggs he created on the Covenant and/or during the events of the film that links to Alien. But thats just a theory ;)

Read the comment I just posted for the answer to your question

Thanks Issac! -- KH

OH SNAP I GOT A REPLY!

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Dishoned *

It was in an Alien vs Predator movie, so not sure it's canon. Or they're can be explanations. Maybe Prometheus and Covenant are garbage and David didn't create the xenomorphs. Maybe the Engineers, or more precisely the original Space Jockey and his kind did it. It would explain how xenomorphs might have existed for thousands or millions of years, and were eventually exploited by the predators for hunting.