2. Face-huggers (Movies: 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.
2. Face-huggers (Movies: Alien)
- hibernating inside one of these eggs is a parasite, commonly
refered to as a face-hugger. When a viable host is brought near a closed
egg (either by curiosity, or being cocooned and held in place) it triggers
the "contents" of the egg to come to life. The egg opens and the
face-hugger launches out at the organism and attaches itself by wrapping a
long "tail" around its victim's neck and using long spider-like legs (like
a spider, the face-hugger has 8 legs) to firmly grip the organism's head.
The face-hugger controls the amount of oxygen its host receives and puts
the victim in a comatose state while it reaches down the host's throat and
lays an egg. In order to ensure that the job can be completed with little
outside interference, the face-hugger has concentrated acid for "blood" (a
possible self defense mechanism) and can strangle its host with its tail
[...it's not coming off without tearing his face off with it. Dallas
(Alien)] After the egg is planted in the victim's body, the face-hugger
leaves the host (who will soon re-gain conciousness and have no
recollection of the implantation) and dies. [...he's got an outer layer of
protein poly-saccarides, has a funny habit of shedding his cells and
replacing them with polarized silicon which gives him a longer resistance
to adverse environmental conditions. Ash (Alien)]
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