History Headscratchers / AlienVsPredator

* Does ''Requiem'''s setting in a small city where thousands of humans live (which is pretty much the exact kind of setting that the first film wanted to ''avoid'', [[WordOfSaintPaul according to its director]] because it would entail that a lot of people would know about the Aliens and contradict the sense of surprise Ellen Ripley faced when she encountered the Alien in [[Film/{{Alien}} the first ''Alien'' film]]) as well as how it may have ignored the possibility that the Alien Queen's fatal blow on Scar may have killed the chestburster inside him that emerges just to end the first film on a SequelHook, contradict ''Requiem'''s premise?

* At least in the games, why does the Predator mask provide no protection from Facehuggers? Even if they think a Predators who can't fend of Facehuggers deserve their fate, it seems like they would want to prevent Predaliens being created.

* something that always bothered me about Requiem: throughout the movie, the Wolf Predator is obviously trying to maintain a low profile, leaving no witnesses and destroying all evidence of the Xenomorphs and his presence. But then, why does he still skin that one cop and leave him out? wouldn't that be leaving evidence of his existence? even if the Humans didn't know that he was a Predator, wouldn't that make them more curious?

* Also, I've composed what I feel to be a pretty compelling explanation for the Predalien that can be seen here: http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Werebereus/Predaliens

** The general idea is that these Predators are younger, less experienced hunters and haven't fought the Xenomorphs before. Think of them as cocky teenagers, all out to say to their mates at the pub later, "Last night at the Coming of Age Ritual I killed an Alien with half a toothpick and this lump of cheese!" They've had all their elders say how frikkin' dangerous it is, but who's gonna listen to some ''old people?'' It seems necessary to use certain weapons like the Shoulder Cannon, but it looks like their other kit can be gimped down or switched around and still pass. It's also been established in the Predator movies that Predators hunt just for the hell of it. If there wasn't a risk and it wasn't tough, it wouldn't be a challenge.

* 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.
** Maybe the filmmakers didn't want two hybrids in the same movie, which is likely why the facehuggers never went for the dog seen with the homeless people in the sewers.

* something that always bothered me about Requiem: throughout the movie, the Wolf Predator is obviously trying to maintain a low profile, leaving no witnesses and destroying all evidence of the Xenomorphs and his presence. But then, why does he still skin that one cop and leave him out? wouldn't that be leaving evidence of his existence? even if the Humans didn't know that he was a Predator, wouldn't that make them more curious?

* This is an issue I have with ''Alien 3'' and these new ''Film/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.

* 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.

** It probably more had to do with the Queen not wanting competition, in alien 3 there was only one dog-alien and the incubating queen. the species survival on that planet relied on the queen maturing. In AvP there's already a Queen. Two Queens in such a remote and desolate area means they'll compete for hosts and food.

** It's possible the Predalien was just being cautious, the Predaor had survived quite a bit of damage by this point and it'd never seen a mask removal before.

* Film/Alien3 established that aliens will avoid killing hosts that are carrying an alien queen. Scar was carrying a queen in the first film, but the existing queen skewered him rather messily. I know Scar was antagonizing her, and that not having him die dramatically would make the end of the movie and the next movie not work, but what gives? Was this queen blinded by rage and didn't notice Queen Junior inside of him? Did she stab him to prevent Queen Junior from challenging her? Or was she intelligent enough to realize "Oh hey, if I kill this guy, the predators will take him back to the ship, where Queen Junior can escape and wreak havoc, allowing her to crash on the planet below and spread, just in case I somehow can't survive a fight with this human woman!"?

*** Just to point out, Alien Resurrection shows that the xenomorphs can swim proficiently, and the start of AvP shows that extreme cold is not lethal to the xenomorphs (just as Alien3 showed extreme heat wasn't lethal in itself). Additionally, there would still be some indiginous animal life in the area- can you imagine what a penguin or seal alien would look like?

** Victims of facehuggers often suffer from short term memory loss, likely due to the reduced oxygen and trauma as the facehugger knocks them out. Scar took off his mask to mark himself, blacked out for however long and then woke up confused and continued. Maybe he should have assumed he'd been impregnated but we'll never know.

* In the first film, the Predators appear to be idiots. Apparently standard issue gear for hunting xenomorphs includes constricting nets that draw acid blood and then ''immediately dissolve in said acid blood''. The mothership at the end gives the fallen Predator a big funeral procession...but then doesn't screen him for infestation. Supposedly they've been hunting xenomorphs for ''centuries'' -- how have they survived this long if they're still making administrative mistakes that big?

** It could be an intentional handicap. Predators hunt to attain honor, and what could possibly be more honorable than hunting the deadliest species in the universe with deliberately gimped weapons?

** Possibly the initiates were equipped with non-acidproof weapons as a specific part of the challenge, so they could boast about how few (or how many, if that's how their culture spins it) weapons they'd had to expend to bring down their prey. As for why the Elders didn't realize that the corpse was impregnated, who says they didn't ''let'' the Predalien be born? They're big-game hunters. Hunting a Predalien is probably the challenge of a lifetime for them, so while they won't dishonorably set one another up to become Xenomorph-hosts, they won't pass up the chance to tackle a Predator/Alien hybrid if impregnation has already taken place, either. Their only mistake was misjudging how quickly it'd emerge from an already-dead host body.

** Possibly the initiates were equipped with non-acidproof weapons as a specific part of the challenge, so they could boast about how few (or how many, if that's how their culture spins it) weapons they'd had to expend to bring down their prey. As for why the Elders didn't realize that the corpse was impregnated, who says they didn't ''let'' the Predalien be born? They're big-game hunters. Hunting a Predalien is probably the challenge of a lifetime for them, so while they won't deliberately set one another up to become Xenomorph-hosts, they won't pass up the chance to tackle a Predator/Alien hybrid if impregnation has already taken place, either. Their only mistake was misjudging how quickly it'd emerge from an already-dead host body.

** Possibly the initiates were equipped with non-acidproof weapons as a specific part of the challenge, so they could boast about how few (or how many, if that's how their culture spins it) weapons they'd had to expend to bring down their prey. As for why the Elders didn't realize that the corpse was impregnated, who says they didn't ''let'' the Predalien be born? They're big-game hunters. Hunting a Predalien is probably the challenge of a lifetime for them, so while they won't deliberately set one another up to become Xenomorph-hosts, they won't pass up the chance to tackle a Predator/Alien hybrid if impregnation has already taken place, either.

*** Who says they're necessarily nonsensical? For all we know, its method could be a close variant on how the ''Predators'' breed. We've never seen '''their''' life cycle in the films.