Do Xenomorphs EAT? - Alien Romulus
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- The Xenomorph species from Alien Romulus , also referred to as Xenomorph XX-121, or simply, Aliens, are a creature known for gestating inside of a living host, and which, once emerged from their living incubator, grow at an exponential rate, reaching their full adult size in a matter of hours, or even minutes. And then possess a seemingly endless supply of energy.
But how does their metabolism support this? Do they have a food source to fuel it?
Do Xenomorphs eat; and if so, what do they eat?
So, if we begin towards the beginning of the Xenomorphs lifecycle, once an embryo has been deposited inside it’s host organism, the Chestburster stage is known to absorb the host’s biomass and nutrients in order to grow itself, in essence “feeding” on them. This is why once they regain consciousness from their comatose state, the host will display extreme hunger and lack of energy, often feeling physically unwell and drained.
But what about the adult Alien.
How are they able to possess a seemingly unlimited stamina, and attack with the ferocity they are known for, how do they secrete as much saliva as they do, and produce the hive resin we see lining the surfaces of their territory. The required energy must be made by their bodies somehow by converting mass.
Well, there are a few opposing theories on how the Xenomorph gets its energy source.
Some say that a Xenomorph doesn’t actually physically eat at all, but rather, they absorb it from the surrounding area through the dorsal tubes, similarly to how plants use photosynthesis to absorb sunlight.
Another is that their acidic blood provides them their energy, generating a powerful bio-electric charge by means of chemical reaction, replacing the need for traditional respiration and digestion of food altogether. This would help to explain how the creature is able to survive in the vacuum of space, and also helps to explain how the Ovomorph stage is seemingly able to remain dormant for vastly extended periods of time. However, the means by which the creatures may "recharge" this battery remains a mystery. It is quite possible it simply cannot be renewed, and that Xenomorphs will eventually die naturally as a result of this energy source depleting.
The alternative is it finding and consuming food, like a regular animal. If this is the case, being a biomechanical creature, it is possible it eats both organic and mineral content.
The main evidence to support the Xenomorph eating is in the movie Alien 3, in one scene, the Runner Alien can be seen to be possibly eating a dead human.
Also, in the movie AVP Requiem, during the part at the swimming pool, one Xenomorph, after killing someone, repeatedly bites the deceased body with its inner jaw, before itself being killed by the Wolf Predator. If we look at the screenplay for AVPR, it is instead, Dale, who is killed by the Xenomorph in the swimming pool rather than one of his goons; in this early version of the film, it reads:
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I think they do they also can sleep we saw that Queen was breathing and sleeping after she layed her eggs and since there wasn't much food left it made her exchuted after all Queen Ants also need food to countiue repuducing eggs
It's been confirmed the zenomorphs will eat anything for nutrients organic & inorganic matter from human flesh to metal
Where was this confirmed? What piece of media from the franchise actually confirmed this?
@@fernandoharo3738 From Ridley Scott himself & from the comics
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Xenomorphs totally eats human flesh after killing their victims
You sure about that ? They really don’t kill but take victims to be host ? Plus the egg morphing and etc .
Very interesting look at how the xenomorph may power itself.
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This aspect of the Alien lore is completely abstract and without logic. The face hugger prior to it's bloody birth, couldn't grow to such size, as the host would notice the huge loss directly, especially over a short gestation period of time. Most people notice a tumor and discomfort on breathing; similar to movement. The host is reactive to normal state, including eating, drinking and talking.
External to the host's body, the rate of growth should've plateaued, yet it keeps growing? Sure.
The growth of the face hugger on Prometheus was absurd. The size and strength of the Trilobite was beyond any normal growth rate. If the Xenos were exceptional, the lore would allow for the tail prong into a victim, sending digestive acids to dissolve the matter for rapid liquid suction, yes similar to a fly. A spider's venom works much the same including some snakes. The inner jaw bite area is very limited and takes time to swallow. Ripply 8 in Resurrection gets her hand in one and rips the inner jaw out, causing the rear area to tear away spilling inactive acid and killing the Xeno..
If they're an absolute omnivore, this to has issues, as nothing is consumed and converted at such speed. The energy output for a Xeno would be high; much higher for the queen and eggs laid. They don't appear to ever consume their own, after a kill.
In terms of writing, it's a mess and poorly addressed. I get that this isn't real, still it's a creative writing mess. There's a license to exaggerate the absurd and another to be ridiculous, this is an example of the latter.
I disagree wholeheartedly. As much as I want to exclude Prometheus from the conversation because it was a dog shit movie that craps all over established lore, the size and strength of the trilobite IS beyond any normal growth rate, but there's nothing normal about aliens anyway. That's kind of the whole point. They're barely comparable to typical Earth fauna, they mature fast, their metabolic settings are a bit of a mystery. The host DOES notice a huge loss, Kane wakes up with a ravenous appetite and everyone at the table is talking about that. Literal seconds into him eating the chestburster comes out. The rate of growth external to the host's body does plateau once the xenomorph reaches adult size, so I'm not sure what point you're making there. Perhaps you meant to say that it should stop growing after exiting, but why should it? Ripley 8 tears out the inner jaw out of an already dead xeno that she shot in the head. There is no acid spilling in that scene. It's not dead by it's own acid as you seem to imply. In one scene 2 aliens turn on one of their own to escape their cell by repeatedly biting it and allowing the acid the melt away the floor. We're not shown if they eat the corpse, but every bite they take with the inner jaw could have been a mouthful. In the underwater escape scene an alien spits acid, so there is a way for aliens to feed acid into the body they're consuming to speed up digestion. So far nothing in any piece of media has made the alien overly absurd in my opinion.
@@TheElMuffin Good counter points. Enjoyed your take on this.
Acording to the novelization of the first movie, the Nostromo's xenomorph ate most of the ship's food supplies during those hours it took to grow from the chestburster into the it's fully grown form.
The ultimate organism may control its metabolism, eating little, or maybe nothing when food of all kinds is scarce; as I think they also do with their controlled breathing.
Survive anywhere...no expiration.
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And they eat people or they eat anything
I am certainly not going to go up to one and ask it....😂
You know what would be cool? If Xenomorphs were complete vegetarians, but just needed host for their offspring 😅
Xenos prefer to use humans as hosts. They do not prefer to eat flesh. Sharks will try biting a human, but we don't have the thick blubber found in a seal or whale that they need. To a shark, we're gristle and bone. Similarly, mammals aren't composed of the silicon, iron, and other metals xenos need. The xeno showed no interest in eating the ship's cat.
The Nostromo specimen grew to full size in a matter of hours without access to human food. (A scene where the creature raided the ship's galley was cut.) It MUST therefore NECESSARILY have dissolved and consumed elements from the ship itself to acquire mass. Then it attacked and impregnated Brett. Xenos are lithovoric, consuming elements like iron, carbon, and silicon from their environment. (This is comparable to science fiction's other famous silicon-based life form, the Horta.) Consuming such elements would allow it to fortify its skeleton and teeth not from cuticle like arthropods, or calcium like mammals, but from carbon and silicon allotropes and metals. And indeed their teeth and claws are metallic.
To accomplish this, the acid "blood" must serve multiple purposes: circulatory system, defense mechanism, as a digestive system, and possibly as an energy storage medium (a battery.) To produce so much acid, the elements required must be common. I believe chlorine trifluoride is the most logical candidate: simple and very effective.
And where did our xeno get elemental chlorine and fluorine on a spaceship? Refrigerants! Chlorofluorocarbons! Nostromo, Hadley's Hope, Sevastopol -- in each case the xenos built their lair and defended access to the COOLING SYSTEMS, like a pride of lions staking out a watering hole.
Provided they have plentiful sources of chlorine and fluorine, they truly are "perfect organisms."
I just noticed have you ever talked about laser shot predator
I think I did in my kenner video
Oh ok laser shot is like a purple Predator
As it's 2024 I identify as a xenomorth. I still eat burger king and drink milkshakes. My pronouns are it and that. Good day sir
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Burger King food is terrible I'd rather catch a chest burster
Do I remember correctly in that the Xeno snacked on some of the prisoners in Alien 3?
Ultimately it's a case of you are what u eat lol!
I think they eat a little bit of everything!! Cool video 👍
Why else would they have fangs and teeth if not to eat?
Imho it's possible that eating a human body (being slightly alkali) is in some internal way only partly allowed to mix with the acid in the blood this producing water and salts.. I think these could largely consist in the saliva. So in that sense the eating is not absolute priority to survival. Maybe a newer theory is there's an incorporation of the Casimir Effect within tubules within the cells which create tiny amounts of energy but scaled up with say billions and billions of cells in one alien body enable it's rapid growth at emergence; over eons of time tho even this may run out as the cells themselves are still subject to quantum effects and entropy so they would break down but after maybe millenia? 😂
Alkaline batteries for breakfast. ;)
In couple of movies we can see xenomorph eating. I think xenomorph don't die from natural couse...
They can photosynthesize energy from light in the original the alien raided the food storage lockers featured in the novelization.
even xenomorphs eat glass?
Do they poop?
Hey man I've asked this recently but I think you didn't see it, can you make a review video for Hunter and Hunted which is a novelization of The Predator 2018, I've heard from some people that it has a completely different story, I really want to know what it is.
I've not heard of it, but I'll have to take a look
@@InfinitySciFi Thank you, the reason I suggested this was because of some people who claimed it has a more simple and better story than the actual movie, I think it's based on an early script.
Stop. I don’t know where you get your information from but xenomorphs can’t live in space. Stop stop stop stop stop.