12. Alien: Why are the aliens in "ALIENS" different from the alien in"ALIEN"?
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This article is from the Alien Movies FAQ, by Darryll Hobsonand Eelko de Vos E.W.C.deVos@TWI.TUDelft.NL with numerous contributions by others.
12. Alien: Why are the aliens in "ALIENS" different from the alien in"ALIEN"?
- Maybe alien's behavior is goverened by pheromones, in the same way that
a termite colony is governed, by passing chemicals from the queen through
the colony. This would explain why a large group of aliens with a queen
behave differently (cocooning people instead of killing them) to a single
isolated alien.
- The alien in "ALIEN" was a different "type" of alien. (ie: a soldier
instead of a worker)
- The aliens in "ALIENS" were more "evolved" (after all, they did have some
physical differences - see Section 2 - What is an Alien?) and hence, the
way they acted was different.
- The facehugger in Alien came from an egg that was not created from humanoid
material. Therefore the genetic code that was in the facehugger, and in the
embyo and therefore was in the Alien was different from the genetic code in
the eggs from Aliens. These eggs were made from people (humans). Therefore
geneticly the alien was different, and therefore it had a different
appearance. It is also suggested that while the embryo grows in the hosts,
the embryo 'consults' the hosts internals for the environment that it came
from, so it can adapt to that environment before it hatches.
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