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** It might not be a Xenomorph head, but just something else that looks a lot like one, or perhaps David really was trying to re-create a pre-existing life form (as was apparently the case in the early scripts of ''Covenant'').
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We see a bleached Xenomorph head in the Predator's trophy case in ''Film/Predator2,'' meaning that ''Franchise/AliensVsPredator'' is canon. However, ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' and ''Film/AlienCovenant'' [[CanonDiscontinuity contradict everything about it]], showing that the Xenomorphs are actually fairly-recently evolved critters in the 2100's. Which one's true?

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We *We see a bleached Xenomorph head in the Predator's trophy case in ''Film/Predator2,'' meaning that ''Franchise/AliensVsPredator'' is canon. However, ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' and ''Film/AlienCovenant'' [[CanonDiscontinuity contradict everything about it]], showing that the Xenomorphs are actually fairly-recently evolved critters in the 2100's. Which one's true?
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We see a bleached Xenomorph head in the Predator's trophy case in ''Film/Predator2,'' meaning that ''Franchise/AliensVsPredator'' is canon. However, ''Film/{{Promethius}}'' and ''Film/AlienCovenant'' [[CanonDiscontinuity contradict everything about it]], showing that the Xenomorphs are actually fairly-recently evolved critters in the 2500's. Which one's true?

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We see a bleached Xenomorph head in the Predator's trophy case in ''Film/Predator2,'' meaning that ''Franchise/AliensVsPredator'' is canon. However, ''Film/{{Promethius}}'' ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' and ''Film/AlienCovenant'' [[CanonDiscontinuity contradict everything about it]], showing that the Xenomorphs are actually fairly-recently evolved critters in the 2500's.2100's. Which one's true?




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** According to ''Prometheus,'' the Space Jockeys are trying to xenocide humanity. They WANTED it found.
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** According to certain materials, the "apesuits" seen at the end of ''3'' (or "cubed" if you want to be a pedant) are exactly this: a xenomorph-proof HazmatSuit.




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We see a bleached Xenomorph head in the Predator's trophy case in ''Film/Predator2,'' meaning that ''Franchise/AliensVsPredator'' is canon. However, ''Film/{{Promethius}}'' and ''Film/AlienCovenant'' [[CanonDiscontinuity contradict everything about it]], showing that the Xenomorphs are actually fairly-recently evolved critters in the 2500's. Which one's true?
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** That the plan to obtain a sample of the alien is so slipshod is why many fans believe it was all thrown together at the last minute by middle-management in the Company. Under this scenario, all they had was a signal that they translated as a warning about hostile life forms, so they put an android with orders to collect a sample on a convenient freighter and diverted the ship to check it out. It was entirely up to Ash to find out if there was any alien to obtain and if so how to bring it back to Earth. This required getting it onto the ship by letting Dallas, Lambert, and Kane in the airlock against orders. It required not making any attempts to remove the facehugger that could have succeeded. I suspect the reason they don't freeze Kane is that Ash didn't know if the alien would survive being put in artificial hibernation and so advised Dallas against it. Once the adult form is loose on the ship he is simply as unhelpful as he can be and still preserve his cover. At that point the ship is already on its way back to Earth, so all Ash really needs to do to complete his mission is prevent the crew from destroying the alien or changing the ship's course. I don't think Ash's plan required the elimination of the crew - it just required that they not interfere. He only acts to eliminate Ripley after she finds Special Order 937 and seems likely to adopt Lambert's plan of blowing up the ''Nostromo'' to kill the alien.
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* Just what is Ash's plan? He has to bring the alien on board and have it wipe out the crew. Then Confine it to an area of the ship it can't get out of and deliver this massive star-freighter to a location close to Earth for the company to pick it up. That's an awful lot of variables for one android to handle.

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* Just what is Ash's plan? He has to bring the alien on board and have it wipe out the crew. Then Confine confine it to an area of the ship it can't get out of and deliver this massive star-freighter to a location close to Earth for the company to pick it up. That's an awful lot of variables for one android to handle.
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* Just what is Ash's plan? He has to bring the alien on board and have it wipe out the crew. Then Confine it to an area of the ship it can't get out of and deliver this massive star-freighter to a location close to Earth for the company to pick it up. That's an awful lot of variables for one android to handle.
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* ''Headscratchers/AliensColonialMarines''
* ''Headscratchers/AlienIsolation''
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Works in this franchise with their own pages:

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* ''Headscratchers/{{Aliens}}''
* ''Headscratchers/Alien3''
* ''Headscratchers/AlienResurrection''
* ''Headscratchers/AlienVsPredator''
* ''Headscratchers/AliensVsPredatorRequiem''
* ''Headscratchers/{{Prometheus}}''
* ''Headscratchers/AlienCovenant''
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**** Dallas tells Ripley that "Anything that has do with the Science division, Ash has the final word... because that's what the Company wants to happen." It's probable that W-Y is involved in all kinds of unsavory things, having a Bioweapons division, and the science division is covertly mixed up with it.

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