In the comic Aliens vs. Predator: Deadliest of the Species, we see one of the human characters - that been the Caryn Delacroix - willingly letting herself be face-hugged by the last offspring of a Xenomorph "Queen Mother"; the Queen Mother in turn joining Caryn and her allies (a group of Human Mercenaries and a female Predator called "Big Mama") to ensure her last offspring is protected.

Eventually during their battle with the White Hybrids - a genetically engineered combination of Human, Yautja and Xenomorph DNA created by a corrupted AI known as TOY - the Chestburster inside of Caryn erupts; avoiding been shot by the mercenaries and escaping.

However, when the Xenomorph reappears after maturing into an adult, it looks like this:

As you can expect, it has left a lot of people puzzled as to how this creature - hatched from a Xenomorph Egg and emerging from a human - could resemble an alternative White Hybrid.

However, I have a theory as to why this happened:

The Xenomorph's host - Caryn Delacroix - is a "genetically engineered Trophy-Wife" who can naturally change her physical appearance and can even heal from great injury (proving this by healing after the Chestburster erupted from her body). Furthermore, Caryn was also taught the ways of the Yautja by the female Predator Big Mama; been able to use their weapons and technology as well as been trained in their ways of combat.

Since Xenomorphs inherit characteristics of their hosts, my theory is that the Trophy Hatchling could have inherited Caryn's ability to change its physical appearance and 'chose' to become a White Hybrid, albeit a version of its own choosing - with it maybe even choosing certain characteristics before it emerged from Caryn.

This would explain the Trophy Hatchling having a more human-like face and its ability to talk - with it also inheriting Caryn's Predator training as it was able to instinctively dodge the shots of the human mercenaries (who in turn were trained by Big Mama) and effectively use a Predator's Combistick.

However, what do you guys think of this theory.

Curious to see what opinions you have regarding the Trophy Hatchling and reasons behind its unique appearance.

Dear Xenomorphs,

Is it just me or have authors dulled you down to nothing more than a jump scare? A lot of recent releases have mistreated your species-describing you as tertiary characters who sound more like weapons than creatures.

With the exception of ONE scene from Colony War, where your Queen psychically manipulated a human, nobody has added to, focused on, or featured your culture or your obvious intelligence. What gives?

PS All hail Tulitu

Yours truly,

SyNorb't

I'd recently read Mira Grant's novel: Alien: Echo and first of all, for a young adult novel it was great. I liked the world building and character development.

But as for the aliens, I have the same problem as with the AVP movies: The xenos reproduction time.

SPOILER ALERT.

It's too short, and the aliens are just too fast. distant from the crash to the main settlement is stated as fifty miles, more or less, but the aliens covered that distance in less than an hour.

First. The whole action occurs in just one day. and it's implied the aliens were at first at least six. How they did reproduced so fast?

Second. I all the novel there aren't a facehugger (dead or not) nor eggs. The eggs are only mentioned but there are none, not even empty ones next to cocooned victims. The pressence of the queen is suggested but we (and the protagonist) never see it.

One possibility is the reproduction cycle being so fast is just a plot device. The other is just a theory of mine, and I clarify, I don't like it at all. Is that the queen is similar to the predalien in AVP:R, impregnating fast growing embryos inside its victims. I don't think about that because for me, AVP:R is one of the worsts in the franchise.

Any thoughts?

Hi

I haven't done posts for a long time because I had a little break from creating posts (XD). But back to the topic that I want to raise.

-Did you like the AVP Life and Death comic?

In my opinion, this is a poor comic, but I am interested in the opinions of others.

I just finished Aliens which is the second book in the series. I like it a lot and it really brought back for me what made xenomorphs so scary in the first place. Especially the Xenomorph/human bonding thing that was awesome

How cool would it be if at the end of a Marvel movie the hero would be standing there and you see the infamous tri-laserbeam aim at them haha

For a few years now, I've heard about a prologue to the Aliens: Headhunters comic that was only published in Comic Shop News #500. Now, I've secured a copy, and have scanned the comic on my blog:

https://johnpannozzi.blogspot.com/2020/04/aliens-headhunters-prologue-from-comic.html

Hopefully, we can add info on this rarity to the AVP wiki.