IndyFront
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I'm hopelessly obsessed with xenomorphs. Anyway, I've been wondering what others think of the sheer lethality of a composite xenomorph and what amount of damage/destruction one (or a hive) of them could cause. I'm thinking of all of their appearances across all media, including special features information that may not be apparent in the film or media itself, such as the lethality of one single xenomorph against an entire population as we see in Alien, Alien Isolation and Alien 3. Imagine a slightly-redesigned xenomorph - emphasizing their height and sheer body mass as we see in the first three Alien films (and to a lesser extent in Resurrection, although I'm not sure if they're canonically around 8 feet as in the first three installments). Imagine the epitome of a xenomorph, a raw beast of nature that lurks in the shadows with speed and strength dwarfing that of a typical adult human male, something like this:
An almost spiritlike presence that can appear behind you in an instant so long as the darkness is nearby, knowing exactly the limits of your periphery, for it is itself a denizen of the human collective unconsciousness, the product of the insanity of an AI's soulless mind. The Reptilian Brain. I had this idea for an Alien spinoff/reboot that was essentially that: what would a composite xenomorph look like on-screen. The result I got in my head was essentially a raw and unbridled force of nature, having as much of a physical presence as it does a psychological one. As ADI once described the xenomorph in the special features of Alien 3 "a freight train with teeth". This is something you are ABSOLUTELY going to need MASSIVE and HEAVY-DUTY firepower to overcome, and on top of that it's freakishly intelligent, perhaps on par with our ancient Neanderthal ancestors (of course it shows little interest in, if not outright disdain for, technology in general - preferring to rip apart its prey with its bare hands). NOT the pathetically stupid and frail midget-xenomorphs from AVPR. If anything this monstrosity would be the exact opposite of that.
Anyway, apiologies for spending so much time on what I imagine a composite xenomorph would be, and not much time on what it would actually be going up against. I'll try to come up with round #1. How about, Battlestar Galactica as Round #1 and I'll leave it to the rest of you as to where it could go from there.
An almost spiritlike presence that can appear behind you in an instant so long as the darkness is nearby, knowing exactly the limits of your periphery, for it is itself a denizen of the human collective unconsciousness, the product of the insanity of an AI's soulless mind. The Reptilian Brain. I had this idea for an Alien spinoff/reboot that was essentially that: what would a composite xenomorph look like on-screen. The result I got in my head was essentially a raw and unbridled force of nature, having as much of a physical presence as it does a psychological one. As ADI once described the xenomorph in the special features of Alien 3 "a freight train with teeth". This is something you are ABSOLUTELY going to need MASSIVE and HEAVY-DUTY firepower to overcome, and on top of that it's freakishly intelligent, perhaps on par with our ancient Neanderthal ancestors (of course it shows little interest in, if not outright disdain for, technology in general - preferring to rip apart its prey with its bare hands). NOT the pathetically stupid and frail midget-xenomorphs from AVPR. If anything this monstrosity would be the exact opposite of that.
Anyway, apiologies for spending so much time on what I imagine a composite xenomorph would be, and not much time on what it would actually be going up against. I'll try to come up with round #1. How about, Battlestar Galactica as Round #1 and I'll leave it to the rest of you as to where it could go from there.
