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It is suggested that the removal of the chestburster would still lead to the death of the host due to the remaining alien tissue acting like a malignant tumor, in effect developing into a fatal cancerous growth. [13] Despite being cut from the film, the Eggmorphing scene was fairly well-known at the time of Alien's release. Notably, the idea of victims being turned into Eggs in such a manner resurfaced in several of the unfilmed scripts for Alien 3, chiefly Eric Red's unproduced script. In fact, early shooting scripts for the film that was ultimately made featured a scene where the survivors discover a small Hive constructed by the Dragon, inside which the creature has cocooned several of its victims and is apparently turning them into new Eggs. However, the sequence was cut before filming.

Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett (writers), Ridley Scott (director). Alien ( 1979), 20th Century Fox [DVD]. A variation of this stage is known as the bellyburster, which erupts from the host's abdomen, rather than chest. These seem to be formed when the host is pregnant, and the alien embryo develops inside the womb, presumably feeding on the fetus or multiple fetuses. A Predalien has been observed to impregnate several hosts with multiple embryos each through the mouth, which later gave rise to bellybursters. Since multiple bellybursters can develop inside a single host's womb, they can be used as an efficient way for a young future-Queen to establish a new hive faster. In Alien³, a fish-eye lens represented the Runner's sight, but it is unknown if this is really how it sees or simply a filmed representation of the creatures' sensory perception. Lee Shargel, Paul Taglianetti, Geoff Topping. Sci-Fi & Fantasy Models International #45, p. 20 ( 2000), Next Millennium Publishing.Another is the Predalien's inherited tendency to skin victims. This was probably dropped because skinning victims isn't something that comes instinctively to Predators, but rather a learned behavior. The design of the xenomorph features a segmented, blade-tipped tail that was originally intended to end in a stinger more like that of a scorpion bulb but were morphed in Aliens and the rest of the series to appear (and function) more like a bladed weapon. In Alien: Resurrection the tails were given a flat ridge of spines at the base of the blade, which was introduced to help them swim more convincingly. The addition was left intact in the subsequent films.

Some Xenomorphs have tails that are roughly the same length as the rest of their bodies, equipped with a small, almost surgical stinger-like barb on the end. This stinger can be, and has been, used to perforate victims, and may turn loose from the tail and remain lodged in the victim's body, not unlike a bee stinger. Conversely, other specimens have tails that are considerably longer, and armed with a large, knife-like blade at the tip and sometimes with ridges of spikes right before the blade, which may aid in swimming. The Xenomorphs' design is credited to Swiss surrealist and artist H. R. Giger, originating in a lithograph titled Necronom IV and refined for the series's first film, Alien. The practical effects for the Xenomorph's head were designed and constructed by Italian special effects designer Carlo Rambaldi. Species design and life cycle have been extensively augmented, sometimes inconsistently, throughout each film.

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The Tarkatan Xenomorph is a strain spawned from the Tarkata of Mortal Kombat. It is featured in Mortal Kombat X. The creatures might come from a mainly amphibious planet, and perhaps the spines are a mechanism to swim underwater faster to catch prey. They do not seem all that hydrodynamic, but it's possible to suppose the spines might be used for stability, like the dorsal fins of a dolphin (not that their shape seems very much efficient at that either). A singing and dancing alien bursts out of John Hurt's chest in the 1987 sci-fi comedy Spaceballs. Unlike most chestbursters, it possessed fully-developed legs and red eyes. A Xenomorph's physical appearance can vary widely depending on its life stage, hive, caste, age, and host. Its ability to incorporate genetic material from its host, coupled with the existence of numerous mutations and deviations which have originated naturally or artificially; makes the Xenomorph one of the most phenotypically diverse organisms in the galaxy. Giger's original design for the facehugger was

The spines might be spiracles that take in and filter the air around them, while waste is expelled through the mouth. It is widely accepted that they do not have lungs, so this is possible, and yet implausible because Runners (a.k.a. dog-spawned Xenomorphs), don't have them. But it may be that the Runners have lungs. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=178263602366943&set=a.178036805722956.1073741829.177187029141267&type=1&theaterGiger's design for the Alien evoked many contradictory sexual images. As critic Ximena Gallardo notes, the creature's combination of sexually evocative physical and behavioral characteristics creates "a nightmare vision of sex and death. It subdues and opens the male body to make it pregnant, and then explodes it in birth. In its adult form, the alien strikes its victims with a rigid phallic tongue that breaks through skin and bone. More than a phallus, however, the retractable tongue has its own set of snapping, metallic teeth that connects it to the castrating vagina dentata." [7] Name [ edit ] The facehugger then "impregnates" the host with an embryo, known as a " chestburster", [NB 2] which, after a period of gestation, erupts violently from the host's chest, resulting in the death of the host. The chestburster then matures to an adult phase, shedding its skin and replacing its cells with polarized silicon. Xenomorphs are shown to be able to take extreme amounts of physical damage that would kill any earthly life form. An example of this is a Queen that survived a multi-ton exo-suit falling on her from over 30 feet. Xenomorphs are capable of surviving with limbs shot off, stabbings and even shots through the head (though total decapitation kills them). It is heavily implied that Weyland-Yutani's original synthetic android David was the chief designer of the first Xenomorph egg and therefore the creator of the species. However, there are no solid facts as to the origins of the Xenomorph species; instead, there are many theories which cannot be confirmed. They may be an artificially created species, or they may have evolved naturally on a planet very different from Earth.