Alien: Romulus goofs

This article covers all the known goofs in the 2024 film Alien: Romulus.

Continuity

• A space station as large as the Renaissance would be noticed first by the colony, not by an amateur crew.

• After Rain shoots the Xenomorph horde in zero gravity, the bodies disappear and only their blood remains.

• Previous films have shown Alien acid to eventually become inert. The acid in alien only managed to eat through two decks before stopping, showing a limited time of acitivity. In Romulus however, the acid blood that was floating is still active and potent enough to cause a hull breach despite being suspended long enough for it to become inactive.

Plot holes

• If the colony is limiting space travel due to a low number of workers, it would logically never allow Rain Carradine's crew to depart with the possibility of escape from the colony.

• No explanation is given as to how the scientists managed to reverse-engineer the Xenomorph to create facehuggers. Not even the far more well–equipped scientists over 200 years into the future, as seen in Alien Resurrection, could do that, as they had to clone Ellen Ripley to acquire the Queen chestburster and enable it to produce eggs in order to produce facehuggers.

• No explanation is given as to how the probe found the Xenomorph within the wreckage of the Nostromo. There was only one Drone onboard, which survived the destruction of the ship only to be blown out of the shuttle's airlock by Ripley and incinerated in the thrusters. To suggest such a specimen would survive that is dubious, as Aliens clearly depicts the Xenomorphs as being vulnerable to conventional weapons and mechanical trauma. The Alien was ejected a far distance away from the Nostromo and in the opposite direction.

• If humans had yet to encounter and fully document Xenomorphs, there would be no way of knowing how durable the "perfect organisms" were.

• Rook had no way of knowing that there was a sole survivor from the Nostromo or that Ripley had ejected the Xenomorph fron the Narcissus. Ripley's log at the end of Alien never mentions that, or that it was even in the shuttle to begin with.

• When Navarro is attacked by the facehugger, Rain tells her friends to stop trying to remove it as it was choking her, however Rain would have no way of knowing that would work as far as she knows, the creature could just strangle someone anyway without provocation as she knows nothing about them. Only the audience would know that a facehugger would stop when the threat of removal is gone.

• Andy states that while he has been upgraded, his knowledge database has not hence the need to reboot Rook. However, Andy later seems to know how the facehugger's senses and life-cycle works, he mentions temperature and sound as how facehuggers "see" which contradicts their behavior in previous media. Andy also says that there was no dead parasitoid near Kay as proof of her being uninfected even though he should not know that they die after implantation.

Factual errors

• At the start of the film, a probe finds parts of the wreckage of the USCSS Nostromo floating in space near Zeta² Reticuli following its destruction a couple of decades earlier. Despite it being dubious there would be any wreckage left after the explosion that destroyed it, any parts of the ship that were not vaporised would not remain floating in the space around the area of the explosion. The force of the vessel's self destruction would have projected the remnants in all directions and they wouldn't slow down due to being in the vacuum of space.

• When the scavengers first enter the space station, the artificial gravity briefly turns on and then off again. Shortly thereafter, they enter a room where several objects are hovering in mid–air. If the objects continued to fall back to the floor every time the gravity were activated, they would not be motionless.

• When Rain, Andy, and Tyler raise the temperature of the room filled with Facehuggers to mask their presence, the room temperature would immediately drop as soon as the door opened, making the effort meaningless.

• When Rain turns off the ship's gravity and shoots all the Xenomorphs, their blood is suspended in mid–air in pools. In reality, zero gravity causes liquids to form into bubbles.