History Headscratchers / AlienVsPredator

* That scene in ''Requiem'' when the Predalien 'impregnates' the entire maternity ward of pregnant woman just bugs me. But not just because it is clearly a pointlessly violent scene with no other purpose other then to disgust the audience. But that it messes up the entire established Xenomorph lifecycle. And how does the impregnating works anyway? Does the subject needs to be pregnant in order for the baby aliens to develop or something?

** Xenomorphs don't get special mutations from humans because, well, what are you going to compare human!morphs ''to''? There is no such thing as a "standard" xenomorph because they have ''all'' picked up traits from their hosts.

* Xenomorphs don't get special mutations from humans because, well, what are you going to compare human!morphs ''to''? There is no such thing as a "standard" xenomorph because they have ''all'' picked up traits from their hosts.

*** The alien in the third movie was killing people at a reasonable rate unil they started messing with it, then it got hostile. Plus, the inmates had already attacked the host for the implanted Queen, after that they were probably all on it's kill list. I've also hard they cut a scene from the script that had Ripley finding a bunch of cacooned inmates at some point.

** It is a bit fluctuating depending on where this is being talked about; the only clear issue is that Predators Are Special in this issue, and there is still debate whether there is a difference between a Drone and an Warrior Alien. Also, Runner Aliens seem to be much less intelligent that Aliens spawned from sapient species; in the third movie, it killed EVERYBODY; while another kind of Alien would just cocoon inmates while waiting for the queen to be born.

** You're a little mixed up here. The standard aliens ''are'' human-xenomorph hybrids. That's why they're so humanoid-looking.

** There was an explanation in one of the games. It stated that the only significant difference the host made was whether the Alien would be bipedal ("drone") or quadrupedal ("runner") unless it had significantly different genetics (like a Predator). Given that game was set on an alien world and stated that indigenous fauna had been used as hosts, it raises a few questions about convergent evolution. For why they choose humans: humans are there, Predators (and dogs) generally are not.

* This is an issue I have with ''Alien 3'' and these new ''AlienVsPredator'' movies in general. Earlier, in ''Alien 3'', we see that when a dog is attacked by a face hugger, the result is a canine-Xenomorph hybrid. And we all know that the "Predalien" is the result of a Predator being attacked by a face hugger. So my question is, why is it that the Xenomorphs seem to lack any special mutations by impregnating humans? If I'm free to assume that canine and Predator hybrids are superior in some way, then why impregnate humans at all? Cannon fodder? Genetic fluke? If so, then Xenomorph mutations could be exceptionally rare, and it's just a contrived conicidence that we've seen canine Xenomorphs and a Predalien at all.

* In Requiem after the ship crashes due to the Predalien attack why didn't one of the facehuggers attach to the injured and helpless predator? Why did the Predalien kill it instead of cacooning it for implantation.

** WordOfGod is that the predalien was a young queen, and queens have the ability to deliver eggs directly into a host like a facehugger. My guess is that it picked a pregnant host because it offered the hatchling more...ugh, food. Yeah, that scene was horrible.

* That scene in ''Requiem'' when the Predalien 'impregnates' the entire maternity ward of pregnant woman just bugs me. But not just because it is clearly a pointlessly violent scene with no other purpose other then to disgust the audience. But that it messes up the entire established Xenomorph lifecycle. And how does the impregnating works anyway? Does the subject needs to be pregnant in order for the baby aliens to develop or something?

** The concave edge is the fighting edge. Facing it "down" is a much more natural configuration for hand-to-hand combat. Try to imagine fighting someone using only backhand strikes. Probably seems pretty awkward, doesn't it? I do agree though that there is no real reason for only one edge to be sharp.

*** One word - ''pressure''. Cold won't kill her, but water exerting one ton per square ''centimeter'' of her body will turn that alien queen into a big tub of toothpaste. *** Also a flipping water tower would have crushed her even more. ** I thought it was stated early on that tons of people knew about the hole the laser drilled into the ice, only that Weyland's team beat them all there to get the good stuff. The risk is that other researchers will show up later and walk into the same ambush.

*** One word - ''pressure''. Cold won't kill her, but water exerting one ton per square ''centimeter'' of her body will turn the Queen into one big Alien toothpaste tube.
** I thought it was stated early on that tons of people knew about the hole the laser drilled into the ice, only that Weyland's team beat them all there to get the good stuff. The risk is that other researchers will show up later and walk into the same ambush.

*** Also, think back to the first movie. Remember when they find the dead facehugger? At that point it's mentioned that its acidic blood neutralizes after its death. So it's natural to assume the later stages of the species do similarly after they die.

*** If you mean where she's using the skull as a "shield" of sorts, then the obvious answer is that it was cleaned. The train of logic follows thus: We know the blood is acidic, but not the exoskeleton. As such, if one component of the Alien is not acidic (or otherwise obviously fatal to non-Aliens), it stands that others are not, either, such as the interior lining of the exoskeleton. It's like you take a football helmet full of battery acid. The acid is bad, but you can take the time to clean it and make the helmet usable. It stands to reason that a [[{{Predator}} species]] who has dealt with these Aliens ''for eons'' would know how to make the skull usable and/or have technology that would do it. ...and yes, I spent way more time thinking about this than I probably should have.

** In the first movie, how did the main character shove her hand down into an alien's newly decapitated head and not lose it?

*** I was thinking aboard the dropship where he would be (relatively) safe until he could fight again, or at least stand without assistance.

** Also, the super bulky costumes from the first [=AvP=] film bothered me too. The second one got the costume right but nothing else. Meh.

** Also, the super bulky costumes from the first AvP film bothered me too. The second one got the costume right but nothing else. Meh.

** I thought it was stated early on that tons of people knew about the hole the laser drilled into the ice, only that Weyland's team beat them all there to get the good stuff. The risk is that other researchers will show up later and walk into the same ambush.