History ComicBook / Alien2022

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* {{Retronym}}: The series was originally published in episodic form as ''Alien'', but becomes ''Alien: Icarus'' for the collected edition.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Seth]] gets skewered from behind by a Xenomorph's tail, then held aloft by the tail and carried off. As they're synthetic, it's not immediately fatal, though.

* TheCakeIsALie: In the first issue, Lieutenant General March promises that if Steel Team completes the Tobler-9 mission, any synthetic who wants full United Systems citizenship will be granted it, a huge step forward for Synthetic rights. Eli doesn't trust him, but the rest of the team are more positive. [[spoiler:Predictably, when one of March's subordinates asks him about it in the final issue, he replies that the synths are "expensive ''toys'' with delusions of grandeur", and the promise was a lie - March just needed to string them along. However, his real plans for Steel Team after the mission remain unclear... as it's the hybrid, who March initially mistakes for Freyja, that meets his shuttle. By the time Steel Team's survivors get there, she's killed March's escort and disembowelled him]].

Set in the year 2217, it's a SequelSeries to Marvel's 2021 ''ComicBook/{{Alien|2021}}'' series, showing the consequences of some events in that series. It features a group of five renegade synthetics who find themselves considering a bargain with their human enemies after Xenomorphs overrun a Weyland-Yutani R&D site.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: One of the Tobler-9 guards in the prologue in torn apart at the waist when the Xenomorphs break in.

* DecoyDamsel: In the first issue, when General March's soldiers attack Steel Team's home on Europa-5, Nora falls on her knees claiming to be the synthetics' human prisoner and babbling that they made her "do things". The troops fall for it, and get KiledMidSentence once they're close enough.

* NeckSnap: In the first issue, Seth takes advantage of Nora's DecoyDamsel speech to snap the neck of one of General March's soldiers, [[KilledMidSentence Killing Them Mid-Sentence]].

* KilledMidSentence: In the first issue prologue, one of the Tobler-9 guards is barking orders and threats at the civilians, then abruptly has her head torn in half by an unseen Xenomorph while she's still talking.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Steel Team has some knives and swords that have this, easily able to cut through Xenomorph armored carapaces, at least when backed by combat synthetic strength. The blades are drawn as glowing, though precisely what mechanism they use is not explained.

* ContrastMontage: The first issue opens with Weyland-Yutani's promotional film for Tobler-9 and the 2205 Conference for Human Innovation. Scenes of a spacious, sunlit city are intercut with panicked faces and a child's toy under red emergency lighting. A holographic presenter provides an upbeat welcome speech over the montage. The scene then fully shifts to the chaotic evacuation, with sirens sounding and Xenomorphs breaking in.

''Alien'' is a 2022 comic book series published by Creator/MarvelComics, part of an ExpandedUniverse centered around the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' films. It's written by Creator/PhillipKennedyJohnson and illustrated by Julius Ohta, with color art by Yen Nitro.

Set in the year 2217, it's a SequelSeries to Marvel's 2021 ''ComicBook/{{Alien|2021}}'' series, showing the later consequences of some events in that series. The first arc, ''Icarus'', features a group of five renegade synthetics who find themselves considering a bargain with their human enemies after Xenomorphs overrun a Weyland-Yutani R&D site.