Do Xenomorphs Eat? - Explained
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- The Xenomorph creature is known for some remarkable abilities and survival skills. Where does its diet fit into the lifecycle? This video explores films, comics, and other theories surrounding what - if anything- the Xenomorph eats.
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The real question isn't what it eats
But what a Xenomorph tastes like
Really spicy chicken.
It's really great until your mouth dissolves.
TehUselessGuiG it tastes like burning.
My opinion is that you can get the idea by tasting a car battery
good question, but looks more like a silicon base life form than actual flesh so it would be very hard and just like eating carbon fiber... but BBQ sauce and hot sauce fixes anything on a grill!
"What do Xenomorphs eat?"
"Whatever they want."
What does the picky eater xeno say?
Eh don wann et
Okay, Daenerys.
More like WHOever they want!
They eat humans.
Pretty much omnivorous, although there was no instance/evidence of xenomorphs eating plants...
I remember a commercial in the early 90's where a Xeno was chasing these two kids in an alley where they ran into a drink machine and bought a Pepsi cola and gave it to the Xeno and it drunk it up and went it's way satisfied. 😂
You can still see it here--it's titled "Alien Pepsi Commercial".
I just went and watched it
What the fuck did i just see
I am dead, peace 💀
I would’ve preferred the kids. I hate Pepsi
hence why they have acid blood, high pepsi consumers
@@lawrencetalbot8346 As someone from North Carolina, I apologize wholeheartedly for the existence of Pepsi.
Our state has produced many great things. Pepsi is not one of em.
Interesting way of looking at it. Remember, Ash said, "The creature has adapted remarkably well considering its nutritional requirements."
@A Warm Gun I imagine the xeno has one normal sandwich and one tiny one for the inner mouth
Soup and a half sandwich.
Why did I read this in Ash Ketchum's voice
Maybe they grow like Trees, out of thin air.
He was referring specifically to the facehugger when saying that line. And facehuggers are only depicted as being inside an egg until a host gets close enough to ensnare, where upon they immediately die after fulfilling their purpose. "Eating" doesn't seem to be involved, at most any nutritional requirements were probably fulfilled by the egg.
Or Ash was just full of shit considering he had ulterior motives
In the original 1979 Alien, after the face hugger finishes implanting the chest burster in Cain, the newly wakened Nostromo crew member expresses how hungry he is. Could be the un-bursted chest burster steals nutrients from its host similar to a tape worm, and then utilizes those nutrients to molt and complete its metamorphic cycle.
I like this idea and it makes a lot of sense, since the Xeno's have been described as parasitic. Maybe this is the only time they consume nutrients in a substantial amount so they have the necessary energy to burst out of their host and grow. Or something along those lines at least.
SangheiliRiser Exactly, also it might be possible the xenos derive some kind of sustenance from the hive structure secreted by the drones. I have to believe the hive creep serves some function other than holding hosts to be face hugged
Maybe as a last resort food source?
Dave Jones yes and no, according it uses the food in his stomach to grow the tumor that is the xenomorph implanted by the facehugger
Yeah I think you're right. The more I think about it the less convinced I am of that. Plus I just remembered the xenos use the hive creep for camouflage also. So second function right there
It has acid for blood... pretty sure it can eat diamonds or whatever the hell it wants.
Diamonds are carbon, since these things have molecular acid for blood, their biochemical makeup might be so that they can directly sustain themselves by any combustable material.
+Z “Muzolf” Zs also in the first movie the first Android discovers that it has a habit of shedding its skin and replacing it with polarized silicon so what would an alien metabolism be like anyway who knows
Z Zs lol! You owned Mr no nutrients in diamond, so hard. Kinda like BLOOD DIAMOND.
(/whoosh to everyone who doesn’t appreciate my drama skills).
That logic doesn't make sense. It would die then. If it's blood melts stuff. It should melt itself. Logic... i know it's not real, but still a questionable logic nonetheless... 😌😏🙄😑😎😤
@@ColossalSwordFormAndTechnique no. We have acid in our stomachs no problem. They'd be the same way
Now picture the xenomorph eating a bag of doritos ot of a trash can. Terror completely gone.
lol have a better one eating some cheetos and theres orange all over its inner jaw and jace xD
Best comment 2017.
I saw black bear eating garbage once. I scared it more than it scared me but it still scared me LOL.
Until it runs out of chips of course...
Amadeus At that point it goes for Funyuns
One thing I'll never forget that made me realize how absolutely terrifying the Xenos are is that scene from Alien: Resurrection where two Xenos kill a fellow one in the same cage so that it's acid blood would burn through the floor thus allowing them to escape. That scared me so much... because it shows how recklessly smart they really are. I mean, of course we already knew by then that aliens have no emotions, but being so cold against their own kin just to escape?? That's a whole new level of frightening...
@Kaos They did? I thought that the sentry guns just ran out of ammo.
They have a heirarchy and more than likely the sacrificed xeno was lower on the totem pole
I think that, if xeno is coming from human it will be smarter than like if it's coming from dog like Alien 3.
I mean, Rats do the same thing. So do many animals.
The alien is just a really smart animal, but its still just an animal
You’d be surprised at how much sacrifice eusocial Arthropods do for their kin. Some ants literally explode on the battlefield to help the others during a fight. The xenomorphs probably have a similar level of diehard kinship, and so, will be willing to die if it helps the others in the long run.
Why are they pissed off 24/7 ?
they are xenos quite literally the best examples
Des Cyrus They ambush humans all the time, they roar, hiss, no chill about anything, being angry at every living thing etc... purge them already !
because they were genetically created that way, its literally written in their dna to attack and kill anything that is percieved as an intelligent threat. The Space Jockeys created them as the ultimate biological weapon and gave them insanely robust systems, meaning they can actually survive being launched into space as long as they safely landed somewhere.
Chrono Triggerhappy So the alien in the first movie survived... damn !
Johan Dale "Safely landed"
If it were in space too long or just fell into a (at least moderately sized) planet's gravity, it'll probably die.
Yes we do. Shocking I know.
yea my brother. We do eat. And help, i haev ebola
are you a drone
Do you poop?
And if so how big are they
i make big poops, but theyre acidic and have ebola in it
Xenomorph but they taste weird we should off gone for the cat
I don't have one anymore, but they made an Alien RPG back in the late 80's. The source book for which went into minute detail on the lifecycle of a Xenomorph. From memory a chestburster had to consume so many pounds of both organic and inorganic material to mature into an adult. They were a silica based lifeform (from what i remember) and thus had to consume X amounts of glass and sand to molt. I'm sure you could track down this sourcebook somewhere online. Lots of good info.
I still have that book, along with all the West End Game miniatures. 😃
I used to think they survive through gas exchange, similar to bacteria that intakes molecules from the gas and form nutrients from that. This video is an eye opener.
This video is an eye opener??? Lmao try your theory
In the RPG books, it eaxplains that the Xenos only need organics to grow and heal.
They are biomechanical, and also need an amount of silicon and metal fro growth and healing.
They can absorb ambient energy, and thus can hibernate for many years near active machinery.
Moreover, the body of the host does need to be alive.
A living host gestates them much faster, but the embryo can consume dead flesh to grow, though it takes longer.
Thus you can encounter more aliens than you were expecting.
So, they probably melt metals with their acid, to then ingest it?
+Effemm Dee Yep. Though mostly silicon.
Yeah I always understood them as being able to somehow absorb energy from their surroundings, they are a perfect organism that doesn't need food quite the same way we do. They need a host in order to kick start the process, but the rate at which they grow compared to what they take in doesn't seem to make a lot of sense if they arent absorbing energy another way too- or it's just that their biology is so far advanced that the tiniest amount of food can keep them going, they dont seem to show any indication of passing any waste, they have 100% food/energy conversion
I'm only going by what the early RPG had written.
IT described them as manufactured, technoorganic weapons.
Made by the space jockies.
They used both carbon and silicon in their grwoth, meaning that they had silicon carbide bones and armour. Which made them tough. And they only needed protein for growth and repair, along with metals and silicon.
Which is why they can spit acid. They use iut to disolve metal and silicates to eat.
Once grown, they only needed water and some form of energy. electricity would do, but they could fuel themselves by eating, same as we do.
Which is why you find them sleeping on top of machines a lot. They're absorbing waste energy.
But that’s non-canon
Other stories have stated it does need a living host and that does make a lot of sense
@Alien Theory -- Yes, the Xenomorphs eat.
1) There's good evidence for it in several scenes in both the films and other stories set in the same universe, which you bring up in the video.
2) The Alien-verse is strongly grounded in reality. The Xenomorphs are creatures that exist in the physical universe - nothing anywhere suggests that they are magical.
3) Conservation of matter. They produce several bodily fluids in great quantity, especially mucus, saliva and the pale yellow acidic liquid which is either blood or hematolymph. If they excrete something, they must digest something.
4) Conservation of energy. They're strong and fast, and can survive some time even in vacuum. That is energy, and energy comes from *somewhere*. Photosynthesis, respiration, fermentation, digestion: all of these processes require some fuel that is turned into energy and some waste products.
Interesting breakdown. Based in scientific fact and still accurately applied to a fictional being. Well done good sir.
I've thought about this question for years and concluded that the xenomorph gets the bulk of its mass/matter from the air. The main elements life needs are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. All of these are abundant in air, and plants can extract all of them from the air except nitrogen, since its molecular/gaseous form is chemically unavailable. I like to believe that xenos have evolved enzymes to fix nitrogen and render it available - that's the limiting factor that requires plants to have fertilizer (which contains nitrogen that has been "fixed" by bacteria). So if xenos have hyper-advanced biochemistry, they can get the vast majority of their matter (e.g. "food") from the atmosphere. The rest of their needs (phosphorus, other trace elements) could be scavenged by eating, or perhaps absorbed during their gestation. Regarding the conservation of energy; that's tougher. Perhaps they can extract heat from their environment and put it to use, or absorb and utilize radiation in a way that typical life never could?
Wich leads to the next question: How do they poop? :-D
Well, this made more sense than the whole video.
+lucara They likely either )A: digest and utilize EVERYTHING they eat or )B: their feces is used in that nest glue mix
Some ant species grow their own food - A sort of fungus...perhaps xenos do the same?
Or they simply just eat the flesh of dead hosts.
Excellent points. You mentioned that if natural, they would need an equally abundant food supply to go with them...a rabbit analog, if you will. What if in the natural environment, they ARE the rabbit? They breed so fast and any way they can because they are bottom of some hyper environment. I know it's not really in keeping with the canon, but that is a terrifying thought. At least to me.
@@richardhebson2461 because it means there's something bigger and more ferocious than Xenos
That's what scares me. But then again, there's always a bigger fish.
On Xenomorph Prime they do have a natural enemy that it skin is immune to the acid blood. An is at war with, read about it in Aliens Genocide.
Maybe the hive they build sustains them in some way. The alien egg seemed rooted to the ground. Perhaps the hive absorbs nutrients from the soil and then delivers them through the piping on the xenos' backs when the creatures are "plugged into" the hive.
If it's blood is acid, I would imagine the creature can injest and digest just about any and all material, organic or not. If it is a silicone based lifeform it's 'nutritional' needs would likely be very different from carbon based organic lifeforms.
The xenomorphs blood (a complex acid far off the ph scale) would contain a vast amount of potential energy that could be 'metabolized/cannibalized' with a weak nuclear process, allowing the creature to sustain itself without intake of 'nutrients' or energy.
Additionally, as the creature is hyper efficient in nearly all aspects of it's life cycle, it's possible that the individual xenomorph utilises multiple means of 'feeding' itself, such as Osmosis of background radiation, absorption of atmospheric elements, or it may even utilize some form of biological cycle that has a very gradual entropy rate. Allowing it to function without concern of it's independent 'need' to sustain itself, which is a very inefficient trait of most all carbon based life forms.
Do young xenomorphs have nightmares of Ellen Ripley ?
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The Xenomorphs, being as a figment of Geiger's imagination, are as much machine as they are biological. Something to consider. Remember the original Space Jockey was a bio-mechanical thing that was sort of "built into" its spacecraft. Prometheus kind of ruined a lot of that; Geiger's creations were all truly alien and unearthly, unlike the Engineers, who are just an ancient version of human.
I hate the idea that the xenomorphs are just engineer creations. To me, it took all the greatness outta it. It's so much more logical to think that xenomorphs are just the Galaxy's greatest predator. A hive species that evolved on some god awful world and has the ability to adapt it's physiology depending on it's hosts physiology and enviornment. Like ants, they'd be gathering food stores in addition to gathering host to grow the hive. And, then races like the engineers and the Predators spread them around the galaxy. Engineers probably for the same reason humans ultimately do. Military/science/black market
@@sirskaven7624 Yeah Prometheus really ruined everything. Unimaginable biomechanical horror from the dark reaches of space? Nope just some pet project for blue humans, so fucking boring. Nothing can be truly _alien_ anymore it always has to tie into humanity in some contrived way. They did the exact same thing to the Predator, did you think they were spacefaring trophy hunters visiting Earth for sport? lmao nope they're actually genetic engineers here to steal our autism.
How people get paid to write this shit I'll never know.
giger
Rusty Shackelford You giger...I don’t even know ‘er.
I hate to ruin your idea of the Space Jockey... If you look at the designs in the Gigers Alien book for his original concepts, the SJ wears a helmet. It looks like a gasmask. The concept is actually called the Pilot. Now, being a huge Giger fan myself, I know the chair is probably his vision of a biomechanoid where the two things merge for the sake of a single function/purpose.. to pilot the ship. Scott should have probably used the idea that once in the chair, you stay in the chair and become one with it... That probably would have satisfied more people than what we got in Prometheus.
It always bothered me how the xenomorph in alien could grow so big so quickly, especially without appearing to eat anything. Not to mention how it gets the energy to actually move around and live. Conservation of mass and energy and all. They should have put the eating the canned food in the film, or that it ate it's host after bursting, like real parasitoids do.
THE PERFECT ORGANISM
It's an alien
The Alien novelisation by Alan Dean Fostering covered this. Kane ate several meals (plus the nutrients Ash had administered whilst he was Unconscious) prior to it hatching.
@@billyanderson8149 Not an argument lmao
"The perfect organism" is still a biological *organism* and thusly must follow the laws of nature and physics.
You can't just write an animal to perform as a robot and then just hand-wave any contention away with one line of dialog about "MuH PeRfEcT OrGaNiSm"
Plants use the carbon from the surrounding co2 to put on mass not the fertilizers in the ground ...those just facilitate the process thats why adding co2 to an indoor garden is so benificial ...maybe the xenomorph works in the same way
I think it's a mix of both insect like feeding habits and eating anything. I believe their saliva, which has shown to have acidic properties, is used to break down certain solid materials like flesh which would make it soft enough for the second mouth to consume, which is why they use it so many times to kill. That's just my take on it
I've always had an issue with their "secretions". I think it is partly the fault of visual effects designers trying to make the monster more slimy, but it is fairly obvious they salivate, and the saliva is non-acidic like the blood or spit. (In the crash scene from Aliens, the co-pilot puts his hand in the slime "Hold on a second, there's something..." and has no side effects). They can also make cocoons out of secretion and it is never hinted it melts the surroundings nor the people in the cocoon. Taking that into consideration it would mean they do hydrate themselves. Or they carry abdomen full of liquid silicone plastic inside.
Depending on if you count it or not, im fairly certain there is a scene in AVPR where a warrior is clearly feeding, after the pool scene. the predator even takes this moment of distraction to kill the xeno taking it by surprise.
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So, I recently watched Alien vs Predator Requiem and there is a scene 48 mins into the movie where a Xenomorph drags a body back by the pool and begins to do what looks like eating. It repeatedly bites into the body with its inner mouth until the predator kills it. This is evidence that they do eat.
AVP is not canon.
AVP is canon
Doubt it's canon but i liked the scene
@@NPClownumber81googolplexBut Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection are, and both references are mentioned, one where the Alien in Alien 3 eats a man, and in Alien Resurrection, The Ripley clone says the humans will be hunted for meat. To be fair about Alien Resurrection, the Aliens were altered because of human DNA contamination, so maybe, like the new Alien Queen in Resurrection reproduced sexually, they had traits that the original Xenomorphs did not have.
Hadleys Hope: A species that prioritize surviving and has high intelligence would likely try to conserve and ration food supplies, not eating more than absolutely necessary and keeping in quasi-hibernation until the scouts could identify new feeding grounds (though impossible in that particular scenario)?
is it possible to survive a xeno birth?
joshua powell yes in one comics there was one soldier who survived an chestburster. i dont know which comic it is but its possible.
It bursts through the rib-cage, most of the times straight through the sternum, so no.
Manuel Müller wasn't he already part android (i forget what they call it ) that's why he survived 🤔
Also the Dr from labyrinth but his chest buster was dead due to the black goo .
joshua powell good question
Cyborg?
in the novel of Aliens it explains that the xenomorph eats the limbs of its victims who are cocooned in the nest, this is shown in the playstation game alien trilogy when you get to the nest of the queen
Don't forget the Ridged Warrior Alien in AVPR which was seen using its second mouth to feed on a freshly killed human after the attack inside the school swimming pool (before Wolf enters the scene and shoves his combistick through the Alien's mouth like a badass).
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the question is xeno vs 1000 degree knife
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Knife. The heat caturizes the wound, meaning no acid blood attack.
The Zeno would melt.. and so will the knife
Xeno vs hydraulic press..
I knew you'd bring up the mystery of the half eaten doughnut.
Maybe the alien feeds on itself. Like I remember hearing somewhere that in alien one of the directors ideas' was that the alien from the original was really slow and didn't immediately try to kill Ripley because it was the equivalent of a grandpa (towards the end), even tho it was born not long ago. maybe their acid blood, despite being a perfect defense mechanism, it also works like a digestive system , and the layers with the aliens skin which are supposed to protect itself from its own acid wears down overtime due to the excessive amount of acid. so In a way they're constantly digesting themselves which could explain their (originally) short lifespan and why they focus so much on procreating, because they know they don't have much time 🤔
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are ants like that?
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AVP 2 confirmed that xenomorphs eat in the pool scene where the xenomorph punches the dead body repeatedly with its inner mouth. 😌
Raymond Jameson avp isn't canon
Raymond Jameson
Well... that prove that the xenomorphs of that universe eat... still better than nothing.
In Alien Ash describes the Xenomorph as being silicone based, they wouldn't eat anything carbon based lifeforms consume.
That was such a cheap scene.
brucinator9mm That makes sense since they are biomechanical.
What about sea xenomorphs?
are there any?
could they build a hive underwater?
would they still see?
Gilliam Steiner they most likely would use echolocation, their head has a similar shape to the "melon" in dolphins. I reckon they use something similar for hunting on land too. As for vision, possibly something akin to sharks, which to me, are their nearest real world counterparts
Except sharks aren't evil killing machines. I've petted a shark before, they're the same as lions or wolves.
give them a great white to spawn on or a killer whale. we will see then.
They do swim very well (theres an underwater scene in alien resurrection) since they take the DNA of their host i imagine if a facehugger got on some fish it would birth some kind of fish alien. So i day yes
*say
"They left the donuts behind."
So they instinctively know eating that crud will kill them, huh?
Donuts are crud blasphemy!
I've always assumed they absorb everything from the nest. They gather bodies, bind them in the nest, and after the chestburster pops out the nest dissolves the body. In Aliens they always sit in the nest when not searching for hosts. Maybe they absorb everything from the nest.
Zerg creep
@@NPClownumber81googolplex i don't even know what a Zerg is 🤔
@@amazingdoorbob5458 look up zerg creep. That's basically what you described
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It is speculated that the corrosive blood within Xenomorphs acts as a battery of sorts. It is acidic after all, and considering the minimal amount of scenes where they actually eat may indicate that the Xenomorph doesn't have to eat at all. It is known that an impregnated host will feel sick and hungry, as seen with Kane eating ferociously before getting chestbursted. This indicates that the embryo within is feeding off the host's nutrients, perhaps giving them the proper buildup for their acidic blood to begin a renewable process where they use the acid like sustenance. The acid is defensive at s second nature, with its primary function serving as a battery to power up the creature in time when food is either scarce or absent all together. Perhaps that's how Xenomorphs die naturally, when they run out of acid to feed on internally, perhaps explaining why we do occasionally see them feed on dead or live victims from time to time. Either way, the Xenomorph is one hell of an alien!
Thank you for this video!
I like to think that the alien doesn't eat and is just so alien that it can't be understood by our earthly logic.
Agreed.
Yes.
Before people were elaborating on things like the xeno retains it's hosts ability/anatomy.. i just love to think it was rediscovered after millions of years and should have been left alone. It doesn't eat. It doesn't breathe. It doesn't think. It's just out of our comprehension.
It kills all. It's lone.. even God is scared of it.
..might as well call it the Grim reaper
Don't they show the alien actually eating a prisoner in alien 3?
ATI SatoraxNecro ikr
Walter Sobchak its from a dog so different eating habits
dradra2day The Xenomprphs take some traits from the creatures they come from, but they don't completely change- they still fit into the usual ranking and evolution.
yeah but that one was part dog
What about Predators? I've always wondered how they eat and what they eat..
It was said in Predator 2 . They are carnivorous .
Cameron Clark Just meat. Lots and lots of meat.
Maximimilian Gotje I must've missed that part.. Thanks for the info
Good to know.. I wonder if they hunt for survival and not just sport.
Cameron Clark they're definitely carnivorous because in predator 2 it is mentioned that the predator returns to the meat locker every so often to eat and my guess is that it also eats the skin of it's victims
Great job again thank u !
Probably too late for my thoughts.
Xenomorphs probably primarily live off a diet of carbon based life, specifically easily calorically converted (meat, human food, but not sewage or trees). The reason I believe that is because xenomorphs are highly intelligent in the range of humans. In evolution, intelligence normally develops as a need to be smarter than your food force. The higher you go up the food chain, the higher the intelligent. Xenomorphs could live off of plant matter or waste then they would never have had need to develop mind, a HUGE calorie sink. Additionally, evolution would have just reinforced that intelligence. If the Xenomorph's intelligence allowed them catch calorie dense food, then the xenomorphs that lost their ability to consume plant material would be more fit than the xenomorphs that continue to waste calories on that huge gut.
Now that does not mean xenomorphs don't eat other things. For example they could be eating rocks and metal. That could explain the acid. But the eating of the inorganic material is to supplement their diet, not in place of it. For example in deer the calcium demands of growing antlers in such a short space of time leads to them to eating certain kinds of mud. And cattle will lick salt licks for salt in captivity and mud in the wild because they can't get enough salt from eating grass. A xenomorph gets minerals to make its exoskeleton and other bits from the non-organics around it. But it derives no calories from these because they contain no accessible calories. You don't burn steel, you build with it.
I don't know if it's canon but we see a xenomorph eating in the pool in AVP Requiem.
No. None of the Versus series are canon.
I think that applies to everything really...
Denji2006 I wish they were Canon. I think the Parent companies/owners gave up way to easily with AVP!
They could have made a 3rd ( and finale -lol) film, and cleaned up the image of the first 2 in later 4K release with extra explanations, n deleted scenes, n directors cut...or ext directors cut.
Shame they wasted 2 while films in this series. They’re not bad at all. Requiem was ...uh...”fun”!
The first was sum what realistically inclined.
And humans never really knew they were here, just the predator and a few ppl that “seen something”.
So Weiland and Yutani both know there’s something out their anyways...that’s why they have special orders & spend trillions quadrillion’s of dollars on their search, and terraforming pointless planets with minimal return.
My point; in Canon, Weiland-Yutani already know there is “something” out there...so these 2 AVP would explain that.
wouldn't it make sense for the aliens to eat the corpses of hosts after the chest-burster has left?
thelordelric They already consumed the host's chest
yeah but there's the whole rest of the body that's ripe for eating.
None of the bodies seen in the hive in _Aliens_ appeared to be eaten or disturbed in any way. Since then, the canon has claimed the Xenos do not do anything with the bodies after the chestburster had "hatched." They just let the bodies of the hosts rot and become consumed by the hive walls.
While it makes sense at first that they would use these corpses as food, the Xenos do not do so. Why? I do not know if this explanation has been spelled out in canon, but I believe it is because of what happens to the host's genetic makeup while harboring the growing embryo. As the facehugger is latched on to the potential host, it uses its proboscis to sample the victim's genetic material to both supply them with respiratory gasses and to then inject a mutagen that rewrites the host's DNA in a subtle fashion to grow the Chestburster. In effect, the host becomes part alien in a way, and so the adult members of the species will be able to identify the host and ignore them as potential prey. This genetic marker of some kind is probably still active even after the host has died.
I really like this theory. It explains how the one knows Ripley has one in 3 and how the clone knows Purvis has one in Resurrection.
That would be like eating your own mother. besides, most of the nutrients from the host were already taken by the chestburster. they Would barely get anything from it.
Would love to see a rundown on all the experiments involving Xenos or videos on each and the results/aftermath of the experiments.
I found it interesting and both of your theories might be correct awesome video thank you for sharing.
Can you talk about Amanda Ripley? Like what happens to her after Alien Isolation? Cause I know shes in the comics and stuff
York Altanin I thinks she was picked up by the torrens ( the ship who makes contact to her in the end) the blue lights at the end of the game also makes me think it is the ship
No, that´s the ship she ejects out from, because an alien made it´s way into the ship and killed the crew.
MrShadowskinke that's the nostromo, the ship that Taylor dies on
waht
TheWizard27 Every fan of Alien know that the nostromo exploded in the first movie and the game happens 15 fucking years after the nostromo explodes, the ship where taylor dies is the ANESIDORA, and the ship where the Ripley is ejected in the end is the torrens, and the ship that saved her...well, nobody knows
Maybe it eats by getting fed by the queen alien
That's an interesting suggestion! :)
You Don't say how does the queen eat?
Hamish Marshall Solids. Think about mammals. While "babies" (normal xenomorphs) then receive sustanace from their mother. Over time they grow (become queen when she dies) and can no longer receive sustanace frosustr (cause she dead)
CardboardwolfJD first off Xenomorphs aren't mammals. Second in mammals the mother still has to eat.
Hamish Marshall Yeah, but the there would be less prey to be caught. Plus, I know they aren't mammals. I'm just guessing and throwing it out there.
So nice to hear from your voice during an autoplay sesh
In alien covenant (not so spoilery) a neomorph was eating meat from one of its victims
neomorph is neomorph
Alien what ?.. a what morph ??..
...sarcasm ;)
I think Xenos eat whatever their hosts ate/eats.
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The wasp that the alien is based on eats all on essential parts of its host, even eating the digestive system to leave the brain and heart active and his meat fresh
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Xenos have no manners at the table..
yea due to the dna of there stomach and intestins (cant spell as good)
A long time ago I used to play AD&D, which led me to stumble upon a book for an 'Aliens' D&D adventure. It contained answers to the questions you are trying to answer in this video.
Here are some facts from the book that I can remember:
1. Xenomorphs only take 3 days to grow into an adult, which explains why the xenomorph on the Nostromo in 'Alien' grew so quickly.
2. The xenomorph doesn't need to eat organic materials to survive. It can live and grow on things like rubber and electricity. When the marines in 'Aliens' try and locate the Aliens' nest they locate them clustered around the power generator. Coincidence? Their blood is acidic because they are essentially charged with electricity, like a car battery.
3. Also, it's worth mentioning that Bishop was comfortably the strongest member of the 'Aliens' crew.
The first movie took place in under 24 hours (as per Ripley's comment in Aliens).
@@steven7936 Wow, nice.
@MrAkaalis Oh yeah, they eat flesh too, make no mistake. :-)
What about the matter in the very air that they breath? There is carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen, plus several other trace elements. I think that all possible matter can provide sustenance to them in some way.
@@DeathBYDesign666 Sure, maybe, but hey, I was just passing on what I knew. Who knows, perhaps there is an answer out there somewhere?
Great video, sound theories.
Good points throughout.
They eat everything including each other and probably grow some kind of fungus as food in their dens as well. Other wise a big hive would starve itself out or have to relocate fairly quick
Maybe they can eat a few times just to heal or to sustain energy
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thanks for the video
Hey. How about exploring if NERVE gas that Vasquez suggested in ALIENS after escaping first battle of the HIVE could affect xenomorphs?
Alright, we have 7 cannisters of CN-20, I say we roll em in there and nerve gas the whole fucking nest
I don't think xenomorphs breath in general. They have been seen moving freely outside a spaceship in alien isolation.
Cross Dement some do like the ones born from humans in an atmosphere
Cross Dement Nerve gas can be absorbed through the skin. Not just respiratory system.
While you have a valid point, somehow I don't see xenomorphs having pores in that piece of plate mail they call skin.
I'm new here so sorry if you've done this one already, I've always wondered how Xenomorphs repopulate if a host isn't available. I mean do they just pick one of their own(as a sacrifice), or go hunting for a host, or possibly they just wait for a host?
We can't know for sure how they might reproduce without hosts. I find it somewhat doubtfull that their anatomy is usable as hosts for chestbusters. My best bet would be that they would just enter hibernation in waiting for hosts to come by. Or they may have some way of morphing eggs out of available materials. A deleted scene from Alien shows Brett and Dallas being cocooned and morphing into eggs, but since it wasn't used in the movie it's not canon.
I thought it was obvious that they go into stasis until new hosts show up (Aliens). The eggs can outlive even the queen (Alien).
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i like your closing music!
The question I always ask is where do they get the mass needed to go from snake like larvae to fully mature xenomorph?
thats what I was thinking I mean he would have to eat A LOT to get that big
In Alien 3. The alien is chewing up on a dude and clearly eating. end of story. It eats dudes :)
Right.
Also in Aliens Vs Predator R, their is one that eats at a guy with it's secondary mouth.
That one eats because it's mixed with dog.
@@George_Glass Right, because eating is a function completely unique to dogs.
Yep he beat me to it. They eat...the end.
2:19 maybe Alien 3's xenomorph was feeding in that way because it had gestated inside a dog, and we know they pick some vestigial anatomy and behaviour from their hosts.
Love the speech about this video. Btw was the name of the bg music?
They have a similair thing with Brain eating zombies. They eat brains. I think.
Maybe they eat small creatures what is too small to them to use as a host.
I think you have a great channel and very interesting. But in AVP Requiem it shows a Xenomorph feeding on a person next to the pool. It uses it smaller mouth and strikes repeatedly. I subbed and liked your channel.
I always figured that the Xenomorph sustains itself on nutrients absorbed from the host during the embryonic stage. I watched one of your other videos about whether an embryo can be successfully removed, and I thought that the comic that posits a placenta which leeches nutrients from a number of internal organs was the most convincing.
I like the idea that the Xenomorph doesn't eat, but rather sustains itself on what it absorbed from the host. It's extremely efficient with its conversion of nutrients to energy and is able to enter hibernation/stasis for long periods of time. This would further decrease its metabolic consumption and let it live for possibly decades before running out of energy and 'starving'.
Gonna go ahead and throw out a wild theory here: what if the Xenomorphs take after the Zerg (from Starcraft)? Or more accurately, what if the Zerg take after the Xenomorphs (since, the Zerg came much later than the Alien series)? It's well known that Xenos will create massive hives in almost any area that they want, and spread a strange, growth-like substance around their nest. I submit that this growth is akin to Zerg Creep, in that the growth is alive, and sustains the Xenomorph through Osmosis, directly leeching nutrients into the Xenomorph through physical contact. The only evidence I really have to support this is that the only time we see or hear of Xenos eating is when they are NOT in a nest, which means they must derive sustenance long enough to either return to a hive, or start one. Once the growth has spread, I suspect it gradually consumes the bodies left behind by the chestbursters much like a fungus would, and spreading the nutrients across the entirety of the Hive-growth.
How do xenomorphs make the hive webbing?
Zosoh shit
Zosoh nut
It's basically poop and puke. IIRC the slimier stuff, like the coccoons is puke and the harder stuff, like the hived walls, is shit.
One the theory is that they make it from the tubes on their backs.
The alien in Alien 3 didn't have any tubes, and we didn't see any "hive-ing" being made.
Maybe there half spider
Big Chap is a good boy just wanting a late night snack 😅
I'm really supportive of the Xeno being similar to insects. The facehugger probably got it's nutrition via the egg (it apparently can be viable for a long time) and the chestburster got it's from the unfortunate host. The adult is a scavenger, agreed, but the Xenomorph is a biomechanical being. Perhaps the mechanical aspects of the Xeno contribute to how it can adapt it's diet? I'm such a fan of this series and these videos are well made and enjoyable to watch!
If Xenomorphs eat, what do Xenomorph droppings look like? Has anyone ever stepped in Xenomorph waste?
hmm, their blood is acidic so it'd hate to be the poor soul that finds out the hard way what toxic properties it's waste has.
They look like big acid dookies
They don't poop.
They drool 24/7.
Helium Road i let one in my home to use my bathroom, he blew that shit up I’ll never let it come back . Very acidic , burned a whole in my toilet .
I think they poo flying smart phones...
Maybe they eat like sharks in regards that they don't need to eat often at all. Maybe they will just eat rarely but in large portions. I'm guessing they're omnivores.
In alien stronghold one of the dark horse comics(my personal favourite next to rogue) you are actually treated a multi panel scene of aliens feeding on what seems hard to depict in terms of the creature but they are using the internal jaw and it does seem very insecticide in nature
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I've always thought of Xenomorphs in much the same way I think about zombies. They are self-sustaining organisms that hunt based on instinct. No need to overthink the concept, just sit back and enjoy the fiction of it. I completely understand wanting to flesh out a fictional universe but there is a point at which you can go so far that you've gone well beyond the boundaries of futility.
Could xenomorphs disobey their queen, and live by themselves.
Pokegojirex 5000 If remember correctly. Yes, but in the end they either become the queen or make one.
Oh okay. Thanks. My other question is what would happen if a facehugger pounces on a xenomorph? What will the new offspring be?
Pokegojirex 5000 That question. I have no clue to that one or if it's even possible the way the Xenomorph mouth works.
Okay. That is fine. My final question is who would win in a fight. Predalien or Indominus rex?
Lol, Indominus Rex could win because she can get smarter than the Predalien, Predalien maybe swifter and more agile than a big-sized monster, but it could get risked getting trampled or break its body from certain impacts, if I recalled, Predalien lack acidic blood? Possible way Indominus-rex can kill it without getting burned. But as I researched, we still have no clue if the Predalien have acidic blood due to the budget of the film that acid VFX cost a lot and perhaps not used in the film... Predalien in the Yautja biomask vision seems to have different blood coloration to the regular drones. So perhaps the Yautja blood in the Predalien cancels out the acidity... So final confirmed answer, there's no way Predalien could kill something way bigger and smarter than itself.
They left the donuts behind! Love it!
@Alien Theory - What music/score did you use in the background for this video? It sounds vaguely familiar.
A "Perfect Organism" wouldn't need to feed would it?
yeah but that'd defy the laws the nature. Movement requires energy. Unless it synthesizes chemicals in the air, it'd need to eat somehow.
Spanktravision They eat but maybe they don't leave any waste.
You have to decide how you're going to look at this from the outset. It's a scifi monster so doesn't need to conform to reality and can do anything the writers say it can because fiction. If you want to try and explain it there are several difficult problems to address like how does it grow so fast even if there is food nearby, a complex organism putting on pounds of mass in bone, skin, muscle, nerves, tendons etc by the hour. The volume and speed of consumption and digestion and then production of growth would surely turn chemistry and physics on their heads.
How does it's digestive system cope with alien bio material, look at us and Earth fauna in general. Species are designed to eat specific things and struggle to accomodate other types of nutrition outside of their evolved foodset. Even ominvores have significant limitations on what they can eat.
How does it's body perform so much work for so little fuel consumption?. We eat for calories to fuel our bodies like petrol in an engine. What kind of chemistry magic is this creature performing to output 10x even 20x more energy per calorie than our bodies can produce with the same material. It can live and work on a mouthful of food for weeks or seemingly months when we would starve to death in days.
What about water? the core component of our kind of life and surely it aswell. The Xenomorphs mega endurance seems to ignore a need for regular water consumption, this is an incredible ability freeing up so much time, energy and choice of where to be and what to do. Ironic considering they often seem to drool several pints of saliva a day.
The list goes on
I've never thought of that burn mark in Alien 3 like that until watching this.
I remember a stage in the old game AvP2 where as a chestburster needed to find a small mammol (a cat) to eat to reach full maturety as a xenomorph. So i think that they do eat, but prefer food with high neutritions in order to keep them alive
They should make "Jason versus Aliens."
Jason's only a walking corpse. Their acid blood alone would just melt him away and he wouldn't be shit anymore lol Especially when all he has is a knife, something of which a group of Xenos would make very short work of.
Denji2006 1.) Not true. He's an undying being, he cannot be killed. 2.) He can do alot with his bare hands, let alone a knife. 3.) In the latest Mortal Combat game, you can play as Jason, as well as fight a xenomorph, and he can win. 4.) And keep in mind that Jason has fought against Freddy and a knock off of Carrie, and every time he came back!
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It doesn't matter. His body alone wouldn't survive the acid and he would be severely outnumbered. Acid breaks down organic matter and he is just a rotting corpse. Xeno blood breaks through the hulls of ships meant for the vacuum of space. After his body dissolves, his spirit wouldn't have anywhere to go. Haven't you watched any of the alien movies?? Close quarters combat doesn't work on them and stabbing them releases acid. The first things to go would be his hands and his arms, then they rip him apart. Jason loses.
Denji2006 I think you're underestimating Jason. For example, Freddy kicked him in the crotch, and Freddy broke his foot. Or how about the time he was completely soaked in acid and it only made him younger (don't ask, it's really complicated).
Alexander Chippel I would love to see predator versus steven seagal
are there any tamed/friendly xenomorph's
There was one story where they experimented with putting their larvae in different animals to see how the "DNA reflex" would change them (being that they take one certain characteristics of their host). They concluded that using cows and sheep made them *almost* tame, as their docile nature was partially transferred to the newborn xenomorph.
Tero Hakula: Wish I could remember. This was well over 20 years ago, easily. It was the basis for "Alien Resurrection," I remember that much.
In one of the comics, a xenomorph named Ol' Blue is used as a bloodhound by a company called MedTech. avp.wikia.com/wiki/Ol'_Blue
Von Neely That's interesting.
Vlada Agatonovic Not as we know yet all we know is that they're only friendly when you're carrying a Xenomorph inside of you
the way i see it: the xeno's, using their molecular acid blood as a battery, can survive in the vaccum of space simply on battery power. after eventually reaching 1% possibly 0%, it goes into hibernation until any form of air, poisonous or not, can be breathed in in order to recharge its battery.
hence why the xeno's can be heard breathing. not cause they need oxygen to survive, but because its keeping its battery juice at 100%
also its possible that, apart from keeping the juice charged, it could take the H20 molecules out of the air and use it to produce the 'water' part of the xenomorphs drool that it uses to make its hive webbing
Doesn't explain how they grow. Next!
Years ago while roaming through the Galleria Mall in Houston, TX, in front of the Brownstone ( I believe it was, this was Years ago ) store were two life-size replicas of both the Alien and Predator at the front entrance one on each side. Now the predator was formidable indeed, but it was the Xenomorph that got to me. I was standing there viewing the details, running my hands over it when I just stopped: It got to me, it actually spooked me. And for me, that was the testament of H.R.Geigers genius,
it was beautiful yet terrifying.
I miss him
Make a vidieo about Alien swimming tecknics and different body struckters
I just pictured the runner alien doing the doggy paddle.
I want to know how does the egg get into your chest cavity when the egg goes down your throat. it's either your lungs or stomach how does it move else where?
The Vegan Bear its sits in your lungs when being forced down by the face hugger or near the heart those would cause almost instant death like seen in the movies
Cerberus 328 yeah but how does it get near the heart? Your throat goes 2 places stomach or lungs
The Vegan Bear lungs are near the heart the embryo could also be spined and latch into the esophagus and just before chestburster stage move out from embryo and out of the esophagus
Cerberus 328 the snake would take up a lot of space in the lungs or throat making breathing difficult.
It might be possible when they hatch they don't immediately burst out. They might be small enough to burrow out of the lung and not cause too much damage
The Vegan Bear you would notice any damge and in aliens they always hyperventilate a sign of struggling of breath the chest burster rapidly grows so it could be super small for while, while collecting nutriants in the host lungs or whatever before triggering a rapid immediant growth into a full chestburster and popping out
5:22 alien isolation question from behavior that game? Don't they some fear of fire at first ie when you aim a lit flame thrower at them? As you do it more they get more aggressive and will ignore that intimation tactic?
In the novelization when Ripley finds Dallas cocooned she sees what's left of Brett. Dallas said it ate him.
A bowl of nuts & bolts.
Yes they eat humans
There was an Alien comic I read where researchers were feeding an Alien king human bodies that had been used as hosts.
hey dude.. could the scene from AVP 2 Requiem included? there's a indoor pool scene there showing a xeno eating someone using its secondary jaw.. before getting killed by the pred