Xenomorph Detailed Anatomy Explored - How Can They See Without The Eyes? Self-Destruct Mechanism?
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They forgot to mention that a chestburster once wore a hat then sang & danced to Hello My Baby.
this was my favorite scene from Spaceballs
"Not again..."
“Are the two of you friends?”
Predator franchise: yes
Alien franchise: no
Meanwhile, Ridley Scott is spinning around in a room, spewing milk like Ash at the -mirror- mere mentioning of alien versus predator.
Tbf he made a movie set in history where there is a helmet with only half the face covered so you dont know anymore@@DarrenMoore-le6pg
The eyes are behind the dome. They used a human skull in the original film, then put the dome over it.
No "eyes" (as we know them) in that skull though
Thank you it surprises me how few people notice that. I didnt either for the longest time till a friend pointed it out. Some of the toys/figures from the 90s especially the more expensive brands actually paid attention to that detail and it really makes them look so much more creepy and badass.
I’ve known that for awhile, they have eyes behind their jaw, it’s just barely noticeable because they are tiny, the same colours (it’s a lighter grey but it blends so well you don’t notice) and you aren’t looking for eyes if you think they have no eyes.
A good question though, is how can they see forward if their eyes are so flat and sort of blocked by the rest of the body?
I have a really nice model of the original alien I purchased 15-20years ago that has the skull In very nice detail
Thank you!!!!
I always thought the eye is behind a skin under the dome - like that of mantis shrimp - it can see 360, in multiple vision modes and can sense pheromones like ants, in addition to echolocation. It's brain size or head size has more than enough space to host multiple advantageous sensory organs including smell locators and heat sensing. My guess is that due to the ability to adapt to the immediate area and location - a dog alien probably has a stronger sense of smell, while the rest either fought their way to evolve daily or weekly or monthly - i imagine in their homeworlds they gain more sensor and senses as they need to be very very competitive .
The original design/costume did have eyes under the head carapace. They didn't show up well on camera; but, the eyelessness was unintentionally more terrifying.
@@melissaharris3389 i dunno, reading about their homeworld they seem to be fighting something similar to lizard men types, in that one it is supposedly that the most (primal) species are evolved on the rock, even then there are no eyes, so the original (adapted) into the no eyes, vice versa is a design issue, not a lore issue.
Ants are such a successful species.
They'd be a great bioweapon at the size of an alien tbh.
Doggo aliens :)
Do they even technically have skin
Just so you know, digitigrade and platigrade have nothing to do with how many legs. Digi’s walk on toes while plati’s use the whole foot. Bears are plantigrade while dogs are digitigrade, both have four legs.
Yeah that part of the video irked me. It takes two seconds to google the definitions and not misinform the viewers.
There were more than a few moments like that.
Also, noticed they repeated the same info two or three times with different words
Dogs are plantigrade. cats are digitigrade. This is part of why cats are so quiet. (Because of whinging downstairs neighbours, I now walk digitigrade. I can't help it if my bare feet make more noise than any of my shoes!)
@@jonkelley5371Nope, both dogs and cats are digitigrade, pretty easy to tell when you know what to look for. Learned this in my vertebrate anatomy class pretty early on during college. Dogs walk on their toes much like felids do, but they cannot retract their claws, which gives them better traction while running, yet also causes some issues when it comes to hunting/moving stealthily, not that this is much of an issue, since wolves/dogs tend to be endurance hunters and mainly use their mouths to harm their prey rather than their paws, not to mention hunting in a pack also helps with that. The paw of a dog is merely the toes/fingers, the weird “backwards facing knee” is actually the soul of the foot. Their actual knees are above that, with the tibia/fibula being longer than the femur, even it doesn’t look that way.
@jonkelley5371 dogs are absolutely digitigrade, the legs and feet of cats and dogs look the same.....
I always considered the back dorsal tubes to be "lungs" that helped the xenos breathe in different environments. Spineless xenos such as the runners would merely have air entry flaps for breathing.
I thought the spines were blood storage.
I believe that the tubes are for sending pheromones. The larger ones for receiving pheromones while the small ones produce pheromones
But how do they survive for so long in space i wonder. Even tho their bodies can withstand the 6000+ oceans of pressure in space, the extreme cold, the overwhelming amount of every kind of radiation from celestial bodies bombarding everything outside of an atmosphere. and why would they need a method of respiration at all?
which would mean they are probably carbon based ( as opposed to other popular sci fi options like silicon, as silicon + carbon dioxide = Sand i've heard explained in complicated science vids i don't really understand but like to reference anyway ( LOL :D ) And you don't want to create sand inside of your lungs :3
Also how their structure can withstand space but also the atmospheric exit and yet can be pierced with bullets makes no sense to me but w/e :D
If it could survive in space I think it'd be more like the aliens from A Quiet Place but now i'm just nit picking.
@@DekkarJr I've wondered how they don't have their fluid boil off in space too. The salivating sure indicates being un able to seal off fluid secretion.
You'd think something that could withstand space and exiting an atmosphere while hanging onto the side of a ship would have to have evolved in that environment. :3 but everytime we see their species they are on planets that have a natural atmosphere and some kind of earth like qualities.
in reality a species this powerful with no natural hunters would overun an entire planet and then have to predate on itself. And it would do it very very quickly most likely since these things are born knowing how to swim as well haha
chestburster victims die due to the cancerous nature of the chestburster? I think the real reason is because the victim's chest is burst open, with a good chance that their lungs and heart sustain catastrophic damage. Cancer, on the other hand, takes some time to do its work
Yeah, this guy got a lot of shit wrong
The "Placenta" the Xenomorph chestburster resides in does act like a cancer towards the host's organs, but this only occurs if the Chestburster is Successfully surgically removed from the Host.
This was explained in the Video Game "Aliens: Colonial Marines" which is Cannon
Only the "placenta" where the chesburster resides
Drones also causes severe stomach cancer, if the victim survives, it starts puking a back fluid until die
This happens on AvP: Extinction
I agree 💯 with you because the cancer bs doesn't make any sense at all!!! 😂😂😂
the chest buster victims would get really thin like cancer patients because the creature would be sucking up all of their resources.
Some people dislike the interpretation of xenomorphs that Aliens went with, since it removed a lot of mystery and intrigue the original had in the first Alien film and basically turned them into something like space ants/bees.
So I have a theory to explain this discrepancy. The egg on LV426 that hatched and infected Newt's father was an aberrant example, an unintended mutation the original creators hadn't intended on. After bursting from the host it isolated itself, and not sensing any others of its kind, evolved into a factory and set up its own hive, and produced its own eggs rather than doing anything to retrieve the eggs from the ship.
Everything known and assumed about the xenomorph species is based on an aberrant specimen and doesn't truly reflect the species as a whole, which has more in line with H.R. Giger's original nightmarish illustrations.
if i recall correctly a drone can create a queen facehugger is no queen xenonorph or facehugger is nearby (eggmorphing).
and praetorians can transform into a queen if none are nearby also if one queen is present and a praetorian starts to transform anyway it will be exiled to form her own hive (learned from the books) and enough queens will make an empress so xenomorphs pretty much can't be destroyed and always find a way to get themselves a 'bitch'.
@@pietervanderzwaan4295 also in deleted scenes from alien, u see the crew being turned into the alien web like walls. This was theorized to be the start of metamorphosis of a queen egg.
Wow incredible lore
A reasonable explanation is that the dome was broken/shed because the aliens in Hadley's Hope were weeks old by the time Ripley and the marines arrived. Part of the aging process maybe.
Exactly, another good question would be....
How does the original Xenomorph looks like?
We know that the facehugger gets mixed with the host but technically all Xenomorphs are human host, we can see that also in Alien 3 with the dog, later with the Predator
So your theory is more valid, cuz the Queen at the end, would be the human like Queen
Even Prometheus gives you more credibility to your theory
Technically all Xenomorphs being that form thanks to David
But yet again, how does the original Xenomorph looks like?
Is it super intelligent? Was it made by the engineers? Or it was already born by itself and the engineers just as David, tried to recreate it?
If AVP count as canon, then the Xenomorphs already existed before David created them
The dorsal spines (my theory) is they help with breathing/gas exchange. As they can live virtually anywhere, I feel like they would be a sort of environmental apparatus
You're correct. In early lore the dorsal tubes are for breathing (think like highly evolved spiracles on insects).
Plus I would imagine if they're moving air through them they would be lined with some sort of sensing organ that would allow them to "smell", that combined with the multiple tubes could allow for a primitive form of directional scent detection.
@@the_once-and-future_king. Just curious where you find that information at?
@@prometheus6493 Oh now you're asking! I don't remember exactly but it was when Alien novels were big back in the 90s.
All three are separate universes.
According to a discussion with Ridley Scott during an interview after the first film came out, the dorsal tubes (which you reference as "spines") are atmospheric regulators, aiding the alien xenomorphs with respiration in a variety of different atmospheric conditions and gas mixes.
Giger and Scott both mentioned insects as a biological example of respiration appendages other than those on the head, serving as inspiration for the dorsal breathing tubes.
None of the "hypothetical" explanations you listed are described by the literal designers of the xenomorphs.
That discussion is purely hearsay speculation based on imagination, given what Scott and Giger originally discussed.
Scott is clueless. I wouldn't listen to anything he says. He didn't create the creatures or write a script. He was just a director for hire. He should have his ass kicked for shooting the creature in the dark the whole time, cause all the cool costume details be completely unseen
Ask Dan O'Bannon - instead of referencing Ridley, ...Dan wrote it, ...Ridley just directed.
I perscribe to the idea that they can see the electrical activity in a target by means of a multi-layered fan shaped set of nuerons/electrically sensitive nerves. This could allow for seeing even in complete darkness, 'talking' to each other at range, and even being able to tell if another Xenomorph from from a different hive. It would line up with how their vision worked in the first FPS Alien vs Predator game.
Sharks have a real-life version of this called the ampullae of Lorenzini, the explanation is plausible and realistic. I like it.
Seeing the electrical activity? That is literally just light, lmao. To see literally requires receiving what is emitted or reflected
@@pyropulseIXXI No, it isn't. Feeling and being able to visualise the magnetic fields caused by electrical activity is not the same as detecting photons.
@@KalijahAnderson you have no idea what light is, do you? It is an electromagnetic field oscillating....
You are literally just describing being able to see in infrared, because that is the only way you can even emit EM radiation that can be detected.
Electrical activity emits electromagnetic waves; they have to reach your detector to be seen; you cannot magically detect electrical 'activity' without that electromagnetic radiation being emitted, because it causes a change in the electric and magnetic fields, which is light by defintion
Just because our eyes see a specific frequency of electric and magnetic field oscillations doesn't mean other such electric field and magnetic field changes are not light; it is all the same 'stuff.' Electromagnetic fields
This. Exactly this.
Video Title: "How did the xenomorphs see without eyes?" Answer: "We don't know. So here's a bunch of theories.".
I always viewed them as a Lovecraftian horror. Something beyond our comprehension
Lovecraftian implies mystery but that’s not so much the case anymore. We know their entire life cycle, we know they have a class systems (drones, queens etc.) they are very similar to ants. A lot of that mystery from the first movie is gone, so I wouldn’t refer to them as lovecraftian anymore.
@@glasspretender I only count the first two movies
@@thejerk4478 all of these things were established in the first two movies..
@@glasspretender True. However they also left a LOT unexplained. How they communicate, the intelligence level, where they come from, etc
@@thejerk4478 communication and intelligence level are a mystery but those aren’t necessarily cosmic horror mysteries, they are more biological.
I will say where they come from, that is the only lovecraftian feel left
The unknown makes them scary. When you lazily over explain things on top of a garbage story you get Prometheus.
Hollywood could learn a lot from the above statement.
Well said
In the dictionary under the word pretentious there is the Prometheus poster
Underrated comment.
Well, at least the unknown is visually stunning.😅
Hans Rudolf Giger is a Swiss not Swedish! /Biomechanical art Style.
My theory for the splines on their back was as housing receptacles for most of the 'blood'; they were factories which created the proteins that made up the xenomorph's body.. Prometheus lore explained that the proto-liquid was actually a nanotechnological AI. Nanites are theoretically capable of disassembling matter literally molecule by molecule. In this way, they could lead to effects extremely similar to the corrosive properties of acid. This way bypasses the difficulties brought up in the Aliens Colonial Marines Technical Manual (by Lee Brimmicombe-Wood) where part of their biochemistry is comprised of chlorofluorocarbons. That overcomes the compatibility issues.
Hence, the 'blood' is actually that nanotech AI. The alien from the first movie grew to such a size so fast without eating any of the crew by 'digesting' parts of the ship, so the developing splines could manufacture the elements it needed to grow to such a big size.
That's the way I look at it anyway.
If it's a nanotech AI then you'd think it'd be programmed not to do things like attack it's creators and shit like that you'd think wouldn't ya? In order to stop it from just getting loose in your population somehow
There’s a deleted scene from the movie where the chest buster raids the kitchen and eats almost all the food to grow so fast
@timothybeaulieu5103 agree 💯 with your theory.
here's a better question. how can predators create intricate advanced technology while only being able to see vague heat signatures.
😂
You have a point.
@@DiscoTimelordASD 😆🤣
I'll guess it's to avoid the hunts to be too easy
They already have invisibility and aimbot
Maybe because what the hunters have wasn't made by them but by others who are more advanced just like what happens here on earth...for example China always makes the cool stuff LOL
This alien species is beyond iconic it is legendary.
"So was the Xenomorph a dick head?"
"Yes. In more ways than one."
The fact that they build hives with temperature conditions that remind humans of being in a humid tropical climate does suggest possible amphibian origins. echo location theory, and not having eyes suggests they're like sharks sensing motion to attack prey. They act more like dragons in mythology because of the need to destroy everything for no logical reason except blind instinctual destruction. The acid for blood is not far off for an analogy for dragon fire also. You could probably even do some kind of medieval prequel where xenomorphs were brought to Earth, they used some kind of lizard as a host, then you could explain all the myths about dragons.
😂
They literally said it in
Alien vs Predator: The Predators brought them to Earth 🌍 even from before the times of the Inca and Mayan civilizations and then they showed that the Predators were seen as mighty gods who came back to Earth 🌍 every 100 years and then they would get willing human hosts so they could hunt what the Predators saw as "the perfect enemies to hunt. So that was way before the Medieval period...
Reign of fire w Matthew mychowhohey,
I'm going to go out on a limb here. The Bottlenose Dolphin possesses a evolutionary adaption in its cranium termed as 'the Melon'. This adaption acts as a highly effective sonar. Given the Xenomorph's propensity for high pitch squeals the creature could be using a higher amplitude to act in a similar fashion. They also appear to have acute hearing as well that would be in accordance with this hypothesis. They may also like many sharks be able to detect the bio-electrical signatures of living organic beings. Why didn't they harass Bishop when he attempted to bring down the second dropship from the Sulaco. He didn't register as organic.
I heard that the second mouth was pneumatic, the hiss you hear hear before it attacks is taking in the air in its long head and uses it to punch the mouth out. Also I’m pretty sure a lone drone can also turn into a queen in its absence.
An okay video. Some misinformation in it. Giger said it doesn't have eyes when he was designing it, because it made it more menacing. You can't tell where it is looking. Even though you can see a human looking face through the carapace doesn't mean it does or doesn't have eyes. IF it has eyes, they function in a way we can't comprehend.
The spines are used for breathing, exchanging gases. I believe in the novel Alien Labyrinth they explain that. Now it has also been theorized that they also produce pheromones through the spines/vents too. Like some insects. In the Aliens novel the tail has a paralyzing stinger. When the Marines are fleeing, a xeno pierces the troop carrier and stings Gordon. Also xenos DO sense synthetics. In the Aliens novel Bishop has a xeno strike at the pipe he is crawling through. It senses his movement, and knows "something" is there. In some games and other novels xenos attack combat synths and regular synths with no issue. I believe it is Alien Labyrinth where the synthetic xeno is confronted by a drone and is ignored (possibly because of pheromones), but eventually they detect the imposter and rip it to shreds.
I believe you meant BIPEDAL. Xenos don't have thumbs, because if they did what would stop xenos from picking up a pulse rifle and going to town on us?! In AVP: War (might be Hunter's planet) a yautja is leading a group of unblooded to hunt xenos. They come across one drinking some water, and when the leader moves in for the kill...it turns around and shoots him! Because those xenos were designed to have thumbs. Also in the novel of Alien 3, it's not a dog it's a cow that is infected. The base host determines physical and mental traits. There is a moment in the novel where Ripley is chased by the "bull" xeno, it continues to ram and thrash against the serving shelf trying to get to Ripley, and there is a swinging door next to her. The "bull" xeno never uses it or figured it out and eventually leaves. Giving her the idea of luring it into somewhere they can trap and kill it.
Xenos are quite intelligent, and beyond primate level (depending on their base host mind you). In Alien, Big Chap is interested in Jonesy. Big Chap doesn't doesn't harm or kill the cat, just cocks it's head. It also understood the Nostromo was going to self destruct and sneaks into the Narcissist. In Aliens they learn to kill Pharaoh to prevent escape, kill the power to cause fear, test the perimeter for weaknesses, lie in wait to ambush the Medic with the flamethrower. The queen is smart enough to destroy the ladder, use an elevator, and hide in the landing gear. They learn as a whole, like the entire hive is connected. Leading to the theory that they are telepathic. Which I believe, because the queen(s) in the Earth War trilogy multiple people have the dreams. But they always hear and "see" the Queen as a "mother figure (as a massive and terrifying black mass)" telling the dreamer they she loves them, needs them, and can't wait to hold them and be together forever. That the dreamers are her children. "Hicks" in the third Earth War book has an intense dream of freedom, and wanting to run free uncaged. He snaps out of it right as he is about to let the empress out of her holding cell. Which makes her furious when he regains control/consciousness.
I don't agree with the caste system you used in this video. Yes it starts with ovamorphs, facehuggers, and then chestbursters. After the burster feeds enough it molts rapidly and grows incredibly fast (depending on food sources). The novel of Alien the little bugger is eating all the food and grows quickly because of it. That is how they almost lure it into an airlock too, they bait it with food. (FYI, the ORIGINAL Xeno was known as the Star-beast, and it's face was star shaped and walked on five legs! I think that was going to be the original name for the first movie too!)
Now there is a sentry xeno. It is smaller and weaker than a drone. They walk the hive and if something is wrong they run around screaming. Drones are basic workers and fighters. Alien, it's a drone. Not weak or helpless. Warriors are mature, stronger and more dominate drones that molt into a warrior. From the warrior stage when they age enough they molt into what I have heard called the centurion/guardian xeno. The ones you see protecting the queen (note they are bulkier, and have a deeper hiss) in Aliens. They are also the only males in the hive (I believe Alien Labyrinth, might be Rogue expands on this.) Stating when a young Praetorian (aka a young queen of sexual maturity, the next Queen of the hive or of their own hive) is in heat, the males all fight. Last one standing then has to survive mating with the future queen. So all xenos in a hive are female, only one Praetorian is known to exist in the hive and she is allowed to breed when the hive hits a certain level of development. All other females are sterile, like some insects. Queens are NOT two drones tall, they are massive and will continue to grow. Well, the queen in Aliens is a young queen, while the queen in AVP is an older queen. You can tell by the size of the crown. The empress is the only known one of her kind.
There is also another theory in the book Alien Rogue (might be Labyrinth) where they talk about the xenos using dead hosts as food sources for the young, to feed any people they have captured and are waiting to impregnate. They also use dead bodies (xenos and hosts alike) to create the slime/resin nothing goes to waste. The amphibian theory sounds off. I see them more as a HIGHLY evolved virus, they are biomechanical by design. No original form, hence why they are more based on the host's DNA. Also we know they come from the black pathogen and David's testing on them...which mentioning the movies...
The STUPIDLY done predalien was NOT a queen, NOR would it be allowed to lead the hive. Predaliens are HIGHLY aggressive, get some enjoyment out of eviscerating their prey and mutilating it, and will kill other xenos. They don't play well with others. In the garbage fire known as AVP: Requiem the predalien hangs two young bloods up from a tree when Wolf is inspecting the down ship. Generally predaliens are not "base" xenos and will be outright killed/exiled when a queen is born...and NOT through the stupid ass egg deposit through the mouth BS! I get it, they needed to keep it mobile and "try something new" 🙄 it infuriates me how bad that movie was. If you liked the AVP movies, more power to you! You're NOT wrong in your opinion, nor am I wrong in MY opinion. I personally think those movies are garbage and we should have been given something based more off the Dark Horse comics, not....those. Prometheus is meh at best. When your Engineers have a quad based DNA helix, and we have a double helix DNA structure...we can't be 100% THE SAME! So many missing pieces to make it more cohesive. Also the two idiots who died in the pyramid FAILED at the most BASIC level of their jobs! I have floating mapping machines, well I'm lost! Hey it's an unknown worm thingy...I'm going to touch it...ah it's attacking me! Just remember, when something big is falling AT you, run in a straight line, don't run to one side or zigzag, just believe you can outrun it! Oh man, the Engineer was infected by the giant facehugger thing! I wonder what type of xeno it will be (should be a "base" xeno because we have 100% THE SAME DNA)?! WHOA AWESOME, OH WOW IT'S CALLED THE DECON, AND HAD A CRAZY ASS INNER JAW TOO!!! Mr. Scott, will we get to see what happens with the Deacon?! Mr. Scott: NO! NOW F**K OFF! Covenant was a pile of rancid s**t! When you can tell who is going to die because they have a name or no name...huh, I wonder WHO IS GOING TO DIE?! Want to know what happened to Shaw?! SHE'S DEAD! How? DAVID KILLED HER! Want to know what happened between them?F**K YOU, WHY DIDNT YOU MAKE THE MOVIE THEN?!! 🙄🙄 Somehow David is able to beat an upgraded version of himself (faster, stronger, smarter...DEAD!) and changes his ENTIRE APPEARANCE TO LOOK PRECISELY LIKE THE ONE HANDED ANDROID IN (literally) SECONDS! What the actual f**k....wait a tic, did David have BOTH HANDS?!! If he does, DAMN THOSE PEOPLE ARE PHENOMENALLY STUPID AND DESERVE TO BE XENO FOOD! Also how the fresh hell is David growing his hair out and changing his hair color?! He is a synth, not a normal human. He is DESIGNED to look a certain way! Neomorph were interesting, that's the only nice thing I'll say about it. Still a bad movie, took A LOT of the mystery out of the Beast. An android created the most terrifying, and iconic Sci-fi monsters to date, the Xenomorphs...well nothing else to explore here, the Beast is dead! I'm pretty sure Disney will do the Xenomorphs right in the new comics....what the hell is this matriarch, Species alien looking mother f**ker?! No one knows, okay...guess we just wait for Blumhouse to release his awesome looking movie...right? Right?! 😭😭😭 The franchise is dead...mostly.
The more important part of Giger changing it is about making it *inscrutable*. Anthropomorphism means we can relate to it, and they took that away to make it more disturbing. You don't even see the skull in there in the first one. And rightly so.
I really enjoyed this! I'm a huge fan of the Alien franchise especially the first two movies, AVP 2 movie, the AVP games, and Alien Isolation and this was a perfect mix of canon biology breakdown and theories. Speaking of Alien Isolation, though, I'm surprised you didn't use clips from it, too, since there are a bunch of really good 1st person death animations featuring both the inner mouth and the tail, gameplay showing the nest more clearly than in the movies, as well as cutscenes depicting the xenomorphs' anatomy and aversion to fire. But then I'm sure even getting all the clips you already have and then editing them was a massive amount of work so maybe combing through an 18+ hour game for more would have been too much lol.
Head canon: because they don't need them.
They're that perfect at hunting.
The "hammer" part of a hammerhead shark is home to some unique organs that allows the hammerhead to detect food by electromagnetic pulses. Literally, a crab hiding under sand, they can detect and eat. So maybe this is what's going on with the xenomorphs.
Definitely a nice idea makes me wish Geiger was still alive I'm pretty sure he's the only one that can technically tell us exactly how these things function but I guess that's the fun part other fictional creature being able to think of all the different cool ways that it could live and survive just to be clear I like your idea
@@mamaslittleman6104 Giger would have just told us that the head was meant to be a phallic symbol.
I find Xenomorphs utterly terrifying and my heart flutters just like I’m watching the movies 😂😊. Interesting video
Good to see AvP get some love. It wasn't the best. But it wasn't the worst. And it did show the Alien and Predators battling and that was...Cool. And it had a Big Ass Queen !!!
I love that movie, Grid always comes to mind when i think of Xenomorphs
They share alot of traits with Ants...Queen ants also lay eggs of several varieties of ants to serve the colony. Drones, majors, super majors and future queens. A queen that did not mate during her nuptial flight will only birth males...and the colony will eventually die. Antscanada has a great channel...its fascinating..better than most stuff on tv nowadays!
The White Spikes from The Tomorrow War with Chris Pratt had a similar species.
Extremely successful species in terms of their proliferation on earth tbh; the Ant. They are extremely stronk for their size, have hive telepathy more or less making them a singular organism with few societal issues.
Their embryos', whatever they are made of, that come out of the face hugger can withstand our stomach's acid somehow as well. It's more or less just hydrochloric acid... a 1 on the
How they survive in space tho is interesting to think about - i doubt it's possible tbh with their current anatomy but w/e :)
I wonder how long their natural life span is, and what do they eat and drink in the absence of... humans lol? How are they so naturally wet when they never drink any water lmao xD
@@DekkarJr The queen in AVP was alive for over a thousand years under in the temple that was buried deep below the ice so they can live as long as the writer wants them to.
AntsCanada is a channel I never thought I'd subscribe to but ants are incredibly fascinating.
@@DiscoTimelordASD I sit there and watch antscanada for HOURS!
He does a great show!
@@Sylvershadeif what happened in the past was suggested try 12,000 years ago. Going by what some people claim about sudden "climate change".
We need a movie with a Praetorian and the Alien Android, Jeri.
praetorian can be cool
I heard somewhere that the acid blood was close to a super acid that exists in our world, Fluoroantimonic acid. It has a pH somewhere around -23, making it a billion times stronger than pure sulfuric acid. Not sure how accurate this is, since Fluoroantimonic acid can burn through any known compound except teflon.
Yeah, there will never be a satisfying explanation what xeno-blood actually is.
@@joeschmoe3815 I think it's a self defense mechanism. I know we tend to see Xenomorphs being killed by high power weapons causing it to spray everywhere in gory fashion, but even the facehugger's acid "blood" sprays out like it's under high pressure after being cut by a surgical tool.
It looks more like a self defense mechanism under their carapace that's ready to burst when wounded than a proper circulatory system.
Also bear in mind xenomorphs likely come from a part of the galaxy (universe?) that may incorporate different base elements into their biology (assuming you are indeed biological as we understand it), making them immune to their own acid secretions while it's highly corrosive to many other things.
Oh God don't let them get to Florida! Imagine a radioactive xenomorph high on meth or bath salts with alligator traits
The only thing worse then having alligator traits would be libtard or or a Trans soy fed ABC fascist crowd
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Florida man vs Xenomorph.... who would win?
@@pyropulseIXXIFlorida man
Or a xenopython, they’re taking over even without Xenomorph dna
Based on the behavior of the Sevastopol specimens, I think the Alien vs. Predator games got it right: they do have eyes that see in infrared, hidden inside their jaws, alongside the tongue.
Remember there is ALIEN3 as well.
In the games, the aliens don't see in infrared. The predators can, but can switch to see aliens in the red vision mode, where xenos and androids show up in the sparkly white-silverish color. The latter I think was supposed to detect bioelectrical currents? The aliens instead have a 180° vision similar to the one seen in Alien3 and they can see auras around people which is likely their smell. Also they have the navigation sense that inverts colors and lets them see in complete darkness, which I envisioned as a sort of echolocation.
Searching brain for Alien 3. 404 error, movie not found.
@@johannesfrie9176, the Sevastopol specimen will eventually find someone who remains still and silent, even well hidden in a completely dark environment. A human's body heat will warm an area, slowly making them visible to IR. (Obviously this is a gameplay decision to keep the player moving, but I consider Isolation canon, and ALIEN3... 404 error, exactly.)
The Sevastapol specimens just walked around crawled through the vents, and killed anyone they noticed.
H.R. Giger wasn't Swedish, he was Swiss.
"Plantigrade" doesn't mean "walking on two feet" - that's "bipedal".
Plantigrade refers to walking on the flat of your feet as opposed to on the toes or even their tips - digitigrade - as is the case with canines or horses.
That scene in the hospital where the pregnant women had chest bursters forced down their throats haunts me to this day...
Yeah, these things are definitely nightmare fuel that I wouldn't want to ever meet under any circumstances
But you will
I avidly draw monsters and my favorite type of monster is a monster without eyes, but can still see you. My favorite of mine was an alien hound with thin, needle like spines that it used to detect vibrations akin to ecolocation.
Absolutely fantastic video! Just a small correction: H.R. Giger is swiss, not swedish! He's from a small city in Switzerland that even has an alien themed bar dedicated to him
They literally have a human skull. The point of the xenomorph is they take on genes of the host body like a messed up copy of them so the human like ones have humanish features in the original alien you clearly see the skull slightly sunken in. All of HG Gigers art shows it as well.
that's just something the fans came up with. it's never mentioned anywhere in the movies. but yes, they have eyes under the carapace.
@@CoolGobyFish The original model can be found online, the dome was slightly transparent and it had a human-like skull inside with eyes... This was changed at some point during the first film production.
@@mrneutral8423 it didn't change. they simply shot it in the shadows, making the skull under dome invisible. I was shocked on how detailed the suit was. It really looked like a man fused with a spacesuit. Riddley Scott should be shot for making all these details go to waste. He shot it like b-movie monster.
"Messed up copy"?
I think you mean _perfected_ copy, friend.
And tell us in the first movie where you see that. Giger reversed his decision.
They produce eggs through parthenogenesis, there generally is only one queen within each hive, if the queen is killed but a drone or warrior remains alive after this event then through the hive mind that drone or warrior will become and transition into the queen. This was explained during the first AVP game.
When he said that the aliens from the Alien franchise played a big role in its popularity, i was floored.
When I first saw Alien back in 1979, I was truly taken by the creatures stealthy features and its unrelenting tenacity for eliminating all enemies. There is no doubt and I have no doubt that somewhere in this vast universe a creature or Alien exist. We haven't begun our outward exploration of deep space and it's highly plausible that a creature like Alien really does exist.
What goes on in the minds of men. H.R. Giger was a genius. In a weird way though, he designed the perfect killing machine. One that no one before or after as replicated. The fear this creature instilled was real. So real, it literally caused one movie goer a heart attack because that person was truly terrified.
I have followed the franchise from its inception. The story lines are truly cinematic.They could keep it going forever and I hope they do...........
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Even though it only got like 10 seconds of screen time. I thought the deacon xeno at the end of prometheus was pretty cool.
They're so well-known it even makes it difficult to search for alien type movies and only get this franchise
The xenomorphs definitely made a lasting impression on cinema history.
If Wildmutt taught us anything, it’s the fact that not all creatures need eyesight to be dangerous!
For more on the acid-blood, look up Xeno-Zip. It's like crystal meth, or Adrenochrome (not sure of spellings here). They also have eye sockets, and I always assumed they have small sunken eyeballs. The sockets are in one movie scene. I can't remember which, but it's only a second.
Isn’t Xeno-zip from the queens royal jelly?
So their blood is meth? So that's why they are so violent and fast.
The eye sockets are from the Original movie, because they used a real human skull underneath the dome
It's in A L I E N
Are you saying it gets them high on meth? is that why they are so aggressive?
haha
Impenetrable to most weapons? Ripley impaled one with some random harpoony gun thing, we saw them get killed by shotguns and pistols and flame throwers, run over by ranks.
People that think the ALIEN is scary because it's strong need to rewatch the first movies again.
i always assume their elongated skull was a kind of radar/sonar with a resonance chamber (at the front) and all receptors (the reason their head is so long) all along their head making it like a mix of our internal ear and eyes mixed all in one. The frequency returned from the environment is spread alongside their entire skull so that they can hear from extremely low frequency to ultra high frequency (as the skull get thinner at the back.) it also serve as a sensory antenna to feel the electromagnetic field of their prey. Those 2 system allows them to see in complete darkness, in water and in any environment.
Some of the AvP games explained that the shape of the queen's head is to act as a sonic antenna for sending commands to her drones.
Can they see count dracula walking in a dark pitch black forest.
They can definitely see humans in pitch black so vamps are probably on the menu as well
They have eyes or at least eye sockets saw a very detailed statue at comic-con
Nice and comprehensive video! One thing, though: 19:32 Giger is a swiss artist, not a swedish ;-)
Was looking for this comment. Thank you! :)
The xenomorph is my favorite monster alien all the time.
Eyes are under the head dome, in Geigers works you can see it pretty easily, as well as in the first Alien movie. The queens are waaaay bigger than just double a drone xenomorph. What did you use for researching this I wonder?
It's Giger, not Geiger.
@@hrruben5135 Oh heavens to betsy I made a spelling mistake, cheers for the point out dude, my point still stands though.
@@smithyMcjoe I didn't criticized your point, you are 100% correct, just the spelling. All good, mate.
@@hrruben5135 At least he only spelt the name wrong instead of getting his nationality wrong like the video did. XD Giger is Swizz, not Swedish.
“79 feet tall?!”
“No. Seven TO nine feet tall.”
Plantigrade isn't walking on 2 feet. I means walking with the foot flat on the ground (planted). Bears, Weasels, Skunks and many other 4 leg animals are plantigrade. Only humans are 2 legged plantigrade. Digitigrade means the animal walks on its toes (digits), such as cats, dogs, birds, horses etc.
Deer uneducated reader: Dogs do not have backwards knees. That is their heel🤣
The xenomorph can see because they have super black eyes inside of their head and the head is layered with carapace that acts like tinted glass and warrior adds more layers
Well, in alien resurrection, it's stated that they couldn't get all the alien out of Ripley thus they couldn't get all the Ripley out of the alien, hence 4 fingers and a thumb, not to mention a human reproductive system!
Ahem I'm old af been around for a very long time with that being said I'd smash
You can take Ripley out of the Alien
But can't take the Alien out of Ripley 😂
@@NuclearcoreSkeletness you can take Ripley off of me but you can't take me out of ripley
@@NuclearcoreSkeletness You can’t take me while I’m inside of Ripley
Dont look at me while im inside the alien while ripley tapes it 😂
Fun fact: the things on top of their heads are actually transparent black tinted shells, the tint is so dark from the outside but so light on the inside that it makes them able to see, so technically they actually do have eyes, cold black eyes.
One book stated they use pharamoans. French scientist drenched himself in it and walke around singing a french nursery rhyme. book was called alien infiltrator
Many animals "see" without eyes. Its not that odd. Air pressure, echolocation. Touch. Smell. I mean cmon. I got blind cows that know where their food is at or if they are near a cliff
Oh and rattlesnakes see in infra red. Soooooo yeah, eyes not neccasary
Maybe the Xenomorphs might have infrared to see body heat?
speculating is fun, but destroyed it in the end. Some people cannot leave stuff open and unexplained. This killed alien and prometheus,predators,stargate,think i could find more. So, as it was mentioned here,the original alien has human skull behind translucent dome,thats it,thats all
Wasn't expecting this video when I read the title 🤷♂️ just came to find out how they see
I always thought that Xenos worked like batteries. Due to there blood being an acid maybe they are generating energy through a strong chemical reaction. Would make sense of how they can survive in a vacuum. In the same way that anything battery powered would.
Digitigrade means to walk on the human equivalent of fingers and toes, whereas plantigrade means to walk on the human equivalent of palms and heels. The words you meant to use are quadruped and biped.
"Sir, we believe we've discovered an Apex predator capable of wiping out humanity as we know it".
"Dope, alter its Genome to make it large and more aggressive".
In the officially-authorized novelization of the movies, it was established that they see through a form of radar. Their anatomy also contains a high amount of metal in it, and their acid blood is extremely high in salt content...making it the perfect medium for holding an electrical charge.
In essence, according to the books, the Xenos are more robotic than organic.
"seeing" is just one form of "sensing".
The spines are used for breathing. There is information out there about the xenomorph anatomy. Their blood is actual blood which carries oxygen or gases. Inside the xenomorph, the blood isn't acidic. It becomes acidic when in contact with gases in oxygen.
It depends. There's conflicting information out there. The "blood" could also be from a second layer of high pressure veins and be released as a passive defense mechanism.
Facehuggers are just the most scariest thing to me
They really had the weirdest hind leg design
Their eyes are under the shiny cap. You can see them in the old toys/models/comics.
I always thought they had "ears" in both front and rear of skull. This would make echolocation quite powerful to them, as the efficacy of the echolocation is predicated on having each "ear" as far apart as possible. A bats ears are mere centimeters apart and they do fine, so several feet apart would be much more precise
I don't think they have "ears", because if you would examine one, I REALLY don't think you'll find those "ears" 🤣🤣🤣
Hey guys to quote Church from alien: " I admire its purity" i think right? The reason for the fascination with the xenomorphs is mainly its enigmatic mystery and how it is so focused on so few objectives.
No one has ever really nailed down exactly how it functions in all aspects and any writer or creater be they cinematic or literary can attribute whatever they want to the lore, origin, abilities, etc. The Xenomorphs and the Yautja, oh and the Engineers are great characters for these reasons. So awesome. It feels good to see so many people invested in good story telling and sci fi.
The quote is from Ash, the synthetic android.
How does one talk about the xenomorphs but not bring up Prometheus an the flower type monster
The conclusions about their eyesight is wrong. They do have eyes hidden under their caprice but when A L I E N was shown in theaters, its eyes was somewhat visible but when it was transferred to VHS, the details of them were lost due to the lower resolution of film. The makers of ALIENS were influenced by the VHS copies of A L I E N . So, many people thought they were blind. In ALIEN3 we got a glimpse of how they see and in A L I E N C O V E N A N T we are also shown 1st party through their vision. The games also show how they see.
There are No eyes in the skull, Giger himself said It has no eyes
@@richardmcleod2791 Eyes as you know them to be is what he meant. They were made unidentifiable to increase its fear factor. Think about when you meet any animal, the first thing people mostly look at is the eyes. The eyes are usually the first method of communication.
@@N9olan reread my first comment, Giger himself said it had no eyes
@@richardmcleod2791 No need to reread, "When it came to designing the actual Xenomorph itself Giger made the conscious decision to draw it without any visible eyes. When asked about this, Giger’s reasoning was that the creature would be more menacing if you couldn’t tell if it was able to see you. "
If you're saying it's blind, it is not. Remember in ALIEN3, we got to see exactly how it sees/observes. This was repeated in the games and in A L I E N C O V E N A N T .
@N9olan from what I remember it was Ridley's idea and I Never Said or thought it was blind 😆 I'm fully open to the idea that since it's a creature beyond our knowledge that it may have senses that we don't understand, sure there are theories about it but ultimately it is all just make believe, so if you want to think it has eyes and sees its world though them that's fine, I've always supposed that it "sees" in a much different way than we do.
Very comprehensive video, my friend... brilliant. You smoothly added in the fact that the Xenomorph (stupid name for them, BTW... that is just the technical term for "alien life form", which would include Predators from the Predator franchise) is always retconned because they get their adult form from the host that they grew in.
We OG fans, people who watched Alien and demanded a sequel, many of us saw the movie and bought the Alien toy. The front of the face, under that smooth section of the head, is a humanlike skull face. That implied that the smooth section is akin to an astronaut's protective visor... see-through but shielded. They did have eyes, but they did not depend upon them at all. When the sequel came around, that Queen alien, it implied she was the original chest burster that erupted from the Giant pilot of the original alien film. Speculation from creative people and related inspirations implied a queen mutation, not the OG asexual vision where people were transformed into the eggs until an egg-layer can be created via the successful creation of a hive by feeding that hive creator. Those creatives ironically back-tracked the creativity of the original vision to make them akin to Earth's hive bugs.
Oh, and the Prometheus franchise... meh. They went kind of Disney in the mutations... the Giants became mere (tiny by comparison and seemingly stupid in comparison) Engineers, the prototype Aliens were named "Neo-Xenomorph", "neo" meaning "new", instead of "Proto-Xenomorph", and the "neo" types being eyeless instead of having the front face before they grew that protective see-through built-in cover... not at all as close to being "genetically reflex" close to the host as the later evolved types.
Pitch Guy: Okay, now that everyone loves the alien stuff, let's make it more like stuff people already know that's different from the alien stuff.
Producer Guy: Dumbing down stuff to make people feel smart is TIGHT!
ALIEN already has a sequel it’s called ALIENS, stop whining about wanting a true sequel because all you want is basically ALIEN 2.0/remake then when you get that sequel you’ll hate it as much as ALIENS
xenomorph is not a stupid name at all. Xeno means foreign or different, while morph has to do with shape or form. A xenomorph can literally take on the form of any foreign being. It is a literal Xenomorph. The fact you think that name is stupid is quite telling
@@pyropulseIXXI It's stupid because calling them that, that ONE extraterrestrial species, with such a global name shows the ignorance of either them or the audience they condescend to... and you just proved my point with your reply.
Calling them "xenomorphs" is like people in the USA calling people from Greece "foreigners", not Greeks, while calling people from England "English", from Scotland "Scots", etc... but anyone from Greece "foreigners".
It's stupid... in a stupidity is a choice way.
@@pyropulseIXXI And... replying to your skimmed perception of what was posted is "quite telling" back your way. The dumb part of my original comment was the "neo" part (so NEO-Xenomorph is even STUPIDER)... so, stop thinking with phone glances and Google searchers and take a bit of time to use that God-given thinking machine inside your skull. Being "smartphone" smart doesn't make you look as bright as you think it does... except with morons who don't have anything within their gray matter to know any better.
What type of Xenomorph the brown liquid would do?
Plantigrade does not mean "walking on two feet", it means walking on the soles of the feet.
Bears are plantigrade walkers and they walk on all fours.
I used to think they couldn't- possibly detecting by smell or auditory, or even some "non-ocular" sensory apparatus we can only guess at?
But then in the game "Aien Isolation" I was standing perfectly still when the Alien walked a good 50 feet away from me on the other side
of a glass window. Then it looked RIGHT at me and that was it, i had four seconds, and it was on me.
Regardless of the canonicity or lack thereof of ALIEN ISOLATION (it seems to be regarded as very aligned with the franchise lore and PRETTY canonical) the point is the game designers HAD to make a DECISION about this, and "line of sight"- rather than some "radar" or "sonic imaging" technique- was what they committed to, which considering the Xenomorph's ability to accurately identify (and penetrate) the brain casing its not an unreasonable assumprion- even though it could be argued that their sensory array might be something MORE - (possibly they can project X-rays or see on a light frequency we don't) - would dovetail with being able to see though their frontal carapace)
I'm going with "Whole species Daredevil style origin story that hasn't yet been filmed because my script keeps getting turned down"
@@DekkarJr are you NEIL BLOOMKAMP?
@@misterwtf7380 I wish i love his movies :D
@@DekkarJr can't believe they won't give him Alien 5
I mean
I cant think if ANOTHER alien project the fanbase want to see MORE
@@misterwtf7380 maybe they dont want him to populate it with wierd south african culture loool :D
fantastiques créatures!
I think we're gonna figure out that this whole verse is a time paradox
TBH I always thought that everything is black, however, non human organisms glow bright green, armed humans glow bright red, unarmed humans glow a bright cyan/blue, and synthetics glow are bright purple
On you're next video can you talk about M.O.D.O.K Anatomy please
They don't need eyes to see they already have perfect vision in darkness makes them Perfect Organism to take out threats from Hive btw please do more videos about Xenos how they able commutation with humans 🙂
They have eyes as the video suggested, uder semi transparent forehead, google xenomorph head/skull/eyes.
@@kolonkacity001 No they don't. Their eyesockets are clearly empty in the first movie, and don't even exist in the second
They see with some sort of psychic ability that we don't understand. They just know where you are.
Dozed off with my earbuds in watching this and the very end scared me into a completely alert state
At the 7:10 mark, you claimed that in Resurrection that 2 Xeno drones chose to sacrifice a weaker 1 to facilitate their escape. Was he weaker because it was 2 against 1? Was he considered weaker by his cellmates because of the host from which he was born? What understanding do Xenos have of how their biology works? Based on your comment, any one of them could've bitten off their own finger, flung the blood at the glass & escaped by that means.
Resurrection lacks any kind of logic. Best not even look for it there)))
What’s interesting about the xenomorph is its technically not a true alien species but rather a biological entity that mutates the species it invaded (by omission, anything can be classified as alien, but if we look at it in the classical sense of sci-fi, we deem something alien by having a body and some natural language and or mental structure. As I know of the black goo that turn into a xenomorph, it doesn’t have that. So I believe it shouldn’t be classified as a alien species, imo.) that transforms whatever host it goes into. Most people don’t know that, which in my opinion, makes it the scariest alien/non-alien, thing/species or whatever you want to classify it as, that has ever been created. This is just my own interpretation
I think you need to rewatch the first movie, the Big Chap is definitely an Alien!
That's why I like AVP better it seems like it's more of a natural occurrence.
@@richardmcleod2791if thats what you believe then thats cool. The great thing about a fictional character or story is that anyone can believe what they want.
@@lfyoung 😆
Xenos don't have eyes despite what anyone tells you.
I used to read the 1990s comic books from Dark Horse Comics and they would always have a 'Load-out' section in the back pages for vehicles, weapons, ships, armor, electronic equipment and some xeno biology. I still have it but damned if I'm sifting through the attic to get it lol.
In one they directly stated there is an organ in the back of the xeno's neck which detects the slightest movement.
the spins on the back are the toob lungs that help them breath ambient hydrogen like the holes on a cockroch .
that's an explanation that doesn't need 30mins. they have a sensory organ near the front that picks up electro magnet signals.
it was talked about in aliens4 when alien hybrid riply said she could feel objects/movement behind her eyes.
Ahh, true, true, respec'
Love it
I always thought of them having a biological passive sonar/radar system like the LA class submarine D.A.E.M.O.N. waterfall system. It basically measures the time and distance of sounds and radiation that bounce off of them from ambient sounds in and around them.
I’m replaying Alien: Isolation and had a few questions about Xenomorphs. This answered everything I wanted to know.
So much wrong with this.
First off the alien does have eyes, the front plate of the head is translucent it's hard to see of film (you only get one good glipse in alien but can see it in brightly lit behind the scenes images) it has a human like skull face under the plate.
The tails... have a stinger on tbe tip designed to paralyse hosts (you get a good view in alien when brett is taken) the spike tail used as a weapon is a post aliens thing due to the queen using her tail in such a way
As for intelligence they are way beyond primate, in a line deleted from the script (still in the novel) ash implies he had been communicating with the alien
In aliens they wait until the marines are trapped before springing the ambush, then they test ther perimeter for weaknesses and find a way around. They cut the power indicating they understand technology, and know we can't see in the dark.
The queen uses the lift, understands ripley's threat and what she wants (tonleave with newt) so the queen calls off her guards. Until an egg hatches at the wrong time and ripley torches the place
There are no "eyes" (as we know them atleast) in its skull
@@richardmcleod2791 they are eyes, just not human eyes. you can clearly seen the skull socket are NOT empty. they have tissue in them.
@@CoolGobyFish which is why I put (as we know them at least) in my comment
Xenos have eyes under their skin because they have eye sockets in their skulls. The skin on the top of their head can sometimes be translucent in certain movie frames.
There are no "eyes" (as we know them) in those sockets!
atmosphere pressure sense like that of cockroches .. and some spiders /alsp/ flys thy can see with the atmosphere pressure that move around them also kind of waves of sound .