How Every Xenomorph Fits With Every ALIEN Film! (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)

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  • @Nerdist
    @Nerdist  7 ปีที่แล้ว +624

    We know xenomorphs have crazy strong acid blood, but what animal inspired the filmmakers? New MINI EP over on my Insta (instagram.com/sci_Phile/). Thanks for watching! -- KH

    • @JesterHell999
      @JesterHell999 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I love the way you say ze goo.

    • @OHLAWD808
      @OHLAWD808 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      i like porn

    • @lancer737
      @lancer737 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nerdist I wil post more later, but Fox did allow the creation of the "King Alien" and its canon.

    • @lancer737
      @lancer737 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nerdist Also it is excepted that these four mediums, games, movies, comics, novels, are part of the saga and not just merchandise like 90% of everything else.

    • @lancer737
      @lancer737 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nerdist Because of there bio-imperative, introduced in Aliens:Once in a life time, and expanded upon in Aliens vs Predator: Extinction, Aliens vs Predator Evolution, and Aliens Colonial Marines, every alien can evolve ultra fast to deal with threats to there species. if you ever see them evolve for heavy combat with aliens like "Ranger Aliens", Colossal Ravagers (they are calculated hitting harder than 10-25 megaton nuclear bombs) and so on, theres alot of heavy combat types, running is the only chance of survival.
      anyway, with them being able to evolve to the extreme it is very likely there mode of reproduction can as well, and we see in the newest comic that is the case, a ranger like type was seen spewing mutagenic material at enemies, converting them into aliens.
      also it appears Royal Jelly and the black goo are one in the same as they both do very similar things, including turing humans into aliens, though it was for a limited time, though that doesn't mean there times it wasn't permanent, black goo its self is not consistent in its effects on contact with creatures.

  • @skeletspook
    @skeletspook 4 ปีที่แล้ว +222

    you probably put more thought into this than any writer in the entire franchise.

    • @itsPlasma06
      @itsPlasma06 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Massive disservice to the writers of the expanded universe, honestly

  • @eldritchirideus2253
    @eldritchirideus2253 4 ปีที่แล้ว +345

    They should make that completed lifecycle as a poster. I’d buy it.

    • @TF2Scout..
      @TF2Scout.. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah that would be cool

    • @MrAh1123581321
      @MrAh1123581321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me too

    • @Robert_Douglass
      @Robert_Douglass 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Include images with each description and you'll have something.

  • @novarktheboss
    @novarktheboss 6 ปีที่แล้ว +568

    10:55
    "Vagina snake thing"
    I actually spat out my water lmao

    • @deathwing4195
      @deathwing4195 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I skiped from 5 min to here and was like wtf😂😂😂

    • @ryangraves2276
      @ryangraves2276 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ha I skipped from 0:35

    • @formbi
      @formbi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      well, Giger actually was making his designs similar to vaginas and penises

    • @teresakelley4057
      @teresakelley4057 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      NovarkTheBoss I took a sip of Dr Pepper and when he said that I spat it out all over my brother.......he was very mad

  • @Sasoriscarecrow
    @Sasoriscarecrow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +590

    Therapist: "Prometheus and Covenant aren't real. They can't hurt you."
    Prometheus and Covenant: "A robot with a God complex Frankensteined the Xenomorph into existence."

    • @WALTJOY
      @WALTJOY 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Aliens Frankensteined into existence by a robot with a god complex sounds pretty horrifying tbh-

    • @a_cats
      @a_cats 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      He didn't create it though. In the novelisation it says he recreated it using neomorphs

    • @belliott538
      @belliott538 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Never happened...
      Prometheus and Covenant are about a completely different Species called the Bullsheeeeeit-O-Morph...
      Ridley should stick to Cheap Gin as he's obviously lost his Alien Mojo.

    • @a_cats
      @a_cats 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@belliott538 aliens ruined the xenomorph but because of it's good plot no one listens to my criticisms

    • @belliott538
      @belliott538 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @a cats The problem goes back to Alien and Scott...
      Leaving the Xenomorph Life Cycle OpenTo Interpretation was a Huge Mistake. The Life Cycle should have been Nailed Down from Day One.
      Just goes to show, in my opinion, Ridley Scott has been working to Ruin the Xenomorph Story Arc from the Beginning.

  • @yeedokim8432
    @yeedokim8432 7 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    his explanation was way better than all those alien theory videos talking about nonsense

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  7 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Those videos never really say anything. I wanted to attempt an explanation that actually produced something. -- KH

    • @yeedokim8432
      @yeedokim8432 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Nerdist OMG OMG OMG OMG you answered me!! thank you for making because science videos :D i love them so much

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  7 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Of course I did. Thanks for your kind words Yeedo. I read most of these and I always appreciate kindness. -- KH

    • @Chris-jo1zr
      @Chris-jo1zr 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'd love to see you take a shit. :) (God I hope somebody gets that reference)

  • @murgmir
    @murgmir 7 ปีที่แล้ว +883

    This show is underrated imho. I know you've worked really hard especially for this episode, Kyle, I know because that is a lot of information to dig in and it probably took hours of researching. Just know we love this show and please keep doing what you're doing!
    #turnedoffadblockforyou ❤️

    • @touchofthorn1841
      @touchofthorn1841 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol the Adblock

    • @blazeww4275
      @blazeww4275 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Aliens can take traits from the dog and the predator and the engineer. What trait did it gain from humans. What carrier gave the xenomorphs their iconic slinder black bodies

    • @norgepalm7315
      @norgepalm7315 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Justin Dougherty the fuck

    • @MiotaLee
      @MiotaLee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kyle's brain is underrated
      I mean, look at that hair! gaze upon its beauty

    • @radelta
      @radelta 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "David lynch, director of alien 3"

  • @angeliki5135
    @angeliki5135 6 ปีที่แล้ว +597

    Ze goo
    God I love how he says it XD

    • @weariestlion8150
      @weariestlion8150 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I loved it when he said "Vagina snake" Even more

    • @blobfish_plays6548
      @blobfish_plays6548 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      *ZE GUUU*

    • @blobfish_plays6548
      @blobfish_plays6548 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      *ZUH GUUUUUUU*

    • @eoftar3192
      @eoftar3192 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Damn it! I thought that I'm the only one... now there are more than 400 of us.

    • @glitcher510
      @glitcher510 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      zeh guuuu

  • @RantechRadio
    @RantechRadio 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Yeah, as a big fan of the alien franchise, I can say this is exactly what I took away from the movies.
    They are an adaptive biological weapon with a with variables based on what they interact with.
    I think you are spot on.
    You can also look at it like a more advanced version of the Zerg.

    • @Dohyden2
      @Dohyden2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      More like a less advanced version of the Zerg. Zerg are way more intelligent and developed.

    • @robertlogan5354
      @robertlogan5354 ปีที่แล้ว

      Like the zerg... or perhaps the tyranids of warhammer 40,000...?

    • @BeKindToBirds
      @BeKindToBirds 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They are a holometabolic endoparasite!

  • @juanmendez3290
    @juanmendez3290 7 ปีที่แล้ว +511

    i love this alien episodes since they're super long and interesting

    • @uglynerfherder
      @uglynerfherder 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      juan mendez these*

    • @GangurEXE
      @GangurEXE 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      juan mendez also unlike most of the videos they focus on biology not physic!

    • @brettdibble2763
      @brettdibble2763 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      sorry to interrupt, but i gotta get this off my chest. "confusing life cycle" ? how is it confusing? egg releases facehugger, which plants a 2nd embryo into a victim, which develops into a chestburster whilst taking some host characteristics through horizontal gene transfer, then once it eats enough, it molts into the finale stage (for most some praetorians can molt into queens and drones too in the rare case of it being the last survivor)
      tl;dr egg hatches facehugger, facehugger infects host, chestburster...well bursts, eats then grows into drone. SIMPLE!
      EDIT:...ok i stand corrected...

    • @djyesko9845
      @djyesko9845 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      juan mendez yessssss

    • @GangurEXE
      @GangurEXE 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Brett Dibble it sounds simple but then you have to answer questions like: "where did the eggs come from? What about the queen? Where to put aliens for prometheus and alien conventant?" and it gets a lot more complicated

  • @TylerTheGamerGaming
    @TylerTheGamerGaming 7 ปีที่แล้ว +329

    This. . . . . . This . . . . This is why I love Biology
    That end diagram was so beautiful it brought tears to my eyes

    • @vizthex
      @vizthex 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I can feel the nerdgasm from here

    • @biology2628
      @biology2628 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I love biology too, but the problems with the xenomorphs is that they are very similar to the animals on Earth. If they have evolved separately from the life of Earth, they probably will look very different and they won't be able to parasite on humans. They even won't have DNA, but another king of molecule that carries the instructions for the functioning of the organism.

    • @DimitriSabadie
      @DimitriSabadie 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You’re plain crazy.

    • @drops2cents260
      @drops2cents260 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      > That end diagram was so beautiful it brought tears to my eyes
      It would actually also be our most effective weapon against Xenomorphs.
      Just show it to them and they'll say: "Naaah, that's way too complicated, let's just go back to reproducing by shagging each others brains out."

    • @kaComposer
      @kaComposer 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is it intentionally the shape of a face hugger do you think?

  • @rayfire8955
    @rayfire8955 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I absolutely LOVE how he interacts with his drawings.

  • @mcmarkmarkson7115
    @mcmarkmarkson7115 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    "Face hugs a bad scientists" A more symbiotic relation ship has yet to be invented!

  • @sevenproxies4255
    @sevenproxies4255 6 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    Also regarding Alien 3, it depends which version of the movie you're watching. In the theatrical version, the host was a dog. In the directors cut version, the host was a cow.

    • @equals-kl9hm
      @equals-kl9hm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Technically an ox, but yes a (bovine). LOL. You gotta love fiction.

    • @Dohyden2
      @Dohyden2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I imagine anything quadrupedal would end up as a runner.

    • @sevenproxies4255
      @sevenproxies4255 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Dohyden2 That seems to be what the script writers hinted at. And it became a staple in later films and games. Like the "Predailen" from Alien vs Predator.

    • @CorwinTheOneAndOnly
      @CorwinTheOneAndOnly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Idk why some ppl find it so hard to understand lmao. The facehugger (more specifically its embryo) *IS* the origin lifeform, and it yoinks the structure of the vertebrate animals that it uses as a host. It's really that simple.
      I know they are canon as bioweapons, but evolutionarily this would still make a lot of sense. They take whatever prey item their species would want to hunt, and simply make themselves a better, stronger, more lethal version of that prey item. They force nature to make them the dominant predator. It's really quite beautiful.

    • @aapjew18
      @aapjew18 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@CorwinTheOneAndOnly That's actually a really cool way to think about it! And it also works as a bio weapon. How better to exterminate your enemies but through creatures that make themselves a stronger version of their species and mercilessly hunt them to reproduce.

  • @Bawbag0815
    @Bawbag0815 7 ปีที่แล้ว +328

    Thank god kyle just explained what I've been trying to say for years... THE EGG CAME FIRST and he used the same argument I use

    • @stefangrubesic2708
      @stefangrubesic2708 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Kerr Grubb I'm saying too that egg was first, but with another argument; before birds there were dinosaurs.

    • @a-blivvy-yus
      @a-blivvy-yus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      The egg can't come first though. The chicken is clearly the faster runner. -_-

    • @ImperatorNocturne
      @ImperatorNocturne 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      well not if the egg is rolling down hill

    • @spencerhaynes4364
      @spencerhaynes4364 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The chicken and the egg argument is really about which is correct: Religion (God created the CHICKEN) or Science (the true chicken EGG came from not quite chickens).

    • @a-blivvy-yus
      @a-blivvy-yus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      No Spencer. It's about whether chickens or eggs are better in a race. And clearly even the egg is faster than you if you can't keep up with that :P

  • @estaticethan1752
    @estaticethan1752 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    11:09 After Kyle said Alien: Resurrection, he realises that he misses something. It's so funny LMAO😂😂😂

  • @vincentmarcellino7183
    @vincentmarcellino7183 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Take a drink every time he says "Ze goo". Make sure you can afford to get your stomach pumped!

  • @soldarrien3842
    @soldarrien3842 7 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    "Oh I'm not a bad scientist I won't" lmao, fucking priceless

    • @vsGoliath96
      @vsGoliath96 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Darrien Vanfossen The crew of the Covenant are even fucking worse. The scientists in Prometheus took off their space helmets when they found out the air was breathable. In Covenant, they never even wear them. So much shit could have been avoided if they just wore their fucking helmets.

    • @leonidass3448
      @leonidass3448 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      vsGoliath They already knew the air was breathable in Covenant, so you're wrong.

    • @neonkscksc
      @neonkscksc 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It doesn't matter If the air was breathable, what matters is that they were on a DIFFERENT PLANET with DIFFERENT ECOSYSTEM with DIFFERENT VIRUSES and they wasn't immune to those viruses, bacterias etc.
      That is why the crew of the Covenant are even worse.

    • @user-ti1zf2qe5v
      @user-ti1zf2qe5v 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Have you guys ever took the time to think that if you hear a frequency from a planet that sounds like music assuming human life is there and that it's worth the risk to go there without protective equipment?

    • @ThePOSM
      @ThePOSM 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Of course, however whos to say THEYRE friendly xD

  • @robythemythosman9392
    @robythemythosman9392 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    In the novelization David uses pre-existing Xenomorphs eggs made by the Engineers for his experiments.

  • @TranshumanMarissa
    @TranshumanMarissa 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I would be curious to see a full life cycle for the Deacon and Neomorph, since both seem like they could be seperate 'sister' races to the classic Xenomorph. but I suspect neither will show up again.

  • @Jeff-Vader_head_of_catering
    @Jeff-Vader_head_of_catering 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Somewhere between the films, documentaries and interviews, they mention the Xenomorph being a silicon based life form, and not carbon based like we are. This presents an interesting scientific challenge of combining DNA between such different bases.

  • @albinhakansson1086
    @albinhakansson1086 7 ปีที่แล้ว +201

    This is so complex that the Holy Roman Empire looks simple

    • @tubekulose
      @tubekulose 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maxon Toepperwein Because Austria

    • @danielc.santana5117
      @danielc.santana5117 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It is neither Holy nor Roman, by Jesus it isn’t even an empire. *and that good sirs is why I’m the only person in my friend group to actually like history*

    • @tubekulose
      @tubekulose 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      daniel c.santana Right, but for a thousand years it has had been a great deal on our planet!

    • @ChesmondDgCk
      @ChesmondDgCk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Do you know what they say about the Holy Roman Empire.
      It wasn’t holy, it wasn’t Roman, and it wasn’t an empire

    • @A____G
      @A____G 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tubekulose The Holy Roman Empire isn't The Roman Empire or The Roman Republic, its whole other thing. Unrelated.

  • @djackson1374
    @djackson1374 7 ปีที่แล้ว +252

    He's totally Thor

    • @D.A.R.C.I.
      @D.A.R.C.I. 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Diego Pinheiro so thor and loki combined??

    • @constantin3886
      @constantin3886 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Diego Pinheiro wasn't that Loki

    • @Ichsukatanuka
      @Ichsukatanuka 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      ..........SURPRISE MJOLNIR.

    • @solaireofastora3
      @solaireofastora3 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      rohT yllatot s'eH

    • @ryancarter2959
      @ryancarter2959 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jordan Stone as his hair and beard grow longer so too does his science nerd power

  • @Caffeine_Club
    @Caffeine_Club 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Only started following you a few months ago.... this episode is a work of art. As a longtime fan who eats this stuff up, you summed it up perfectly. Injecting humor and pop culture, along with scientific analysis results in something brilliant like this video. Thank you for your efforts! 🤜🤛

  • @Mykil47
    @Mykil47 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I respect you for making this.

  • @axeell8192
    @axeell8192 7 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    "The hammerpede,the vagina snake thing"Thor-2017

  • @Arkhamlover14
    @Arkhamlover14 7 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    My God Kyle, you really went above and beyond this time! All the more reason why I love you! 😂

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      This was the most research-intensive episode I've ever done. Pages and pages of notes. -- KH

    • @Arkhamlover14
      @Arkhamlover14 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Like how many pages we talking about here?

    • @theknight660
      @theknight660 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ben Oliver 666 pages

    • @Grizabeebles
      @Grizabeebles 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kyle...
      ...there are comics you need to read.

  • @ervvmuller6020
    @ervvmuller6020 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now this was incredibly amazing! Not only did you explain something that couldn’t be explained (because it is bushtit to the square), you did it in a very entertaining way wile drawing a face hugger with the diagram that explains the lifecycle of the xenomorph. Dude this was art! pure art! (to the square!!)

  • @johnnykitsune1949
    @johnnykitsune1949 5 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    There's a problem with this whole life cycle though, the mural in Prometheus makes it seem like the Xenomorph existed prior to the Black Goo. Perhaps it was a species that already existed and they were experimenting on or one that went extinct and the Engineers used residual DNA to develop into the goo and weaponized it?
    TBH It seemed like David tinkered a lot with the anatomy and DNA of offspring of the goo, species on planet and Shaw's remains. It would explain the finger like appendages and vagina like underbelly of the Facehugger.
    One thing that doesn't fit is the mechanical like appearance of the Chestburster/xenomorph. The different variations of Xenomorph I kind of understand as it is gestating inside the host and possibly sharing DNA from the host to adapt. But how does a species adapt to include mechanical features?

    • @krackycomix2998
      @krackycomix2998 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I dont think the classic xeno was literally mechanical, just had features that made it appear mechanical.

    • @callumbiasnow4825
      @callumbiasnow4825 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Giger’s (or however you spell it) drawings for the original Alien were obviously done in his style which focuses heavily on dark organic machines and freaky sex. I think that was the only reason for the look.

    • @callumleslie1680
      @callumleslie1680 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Cinemawins suggested that it could be a mural to the engineers religion

    • @pabelhughes7231
      @pabelhughes7231 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I watch a video with a possible explanation saying that the mechanical features will appear when David uses himself as a host to make The perfect Xenomorph

    • @otakuman706
      @otakuman706 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pabelhughes7231 🤔
      Could he even be a host? Well maybe they could use his frame as a sort of artificial womb, but wouldn't he lack any real genetic material to influence the offspring?
      I know he's advanced, and has features to seem more... like a 'true' organic living being, but isn't it basically just like 'decorative' and not actually anything with DNA/RNA/whatever? Kinda like Data in ST, I mean. Like, yes, there is skin and whatnot but it isn't actually 'living material' but advanced inorganic materials that simply mimic the function/appearance.
      It's been a long time since I watched any of these movies so maybe I'm forgetting something that explains this and totally negates everything I said. 🤷‍♂️

  • @trendane
    @trendane 7 ปีที่แล้ว +698

    So at the end of this, the facehugger jumps over your head and off to the right.....and then you GO THAT WAY??
    You are a bad scientist, sir!

    • @gerbliherbli6561
      @gerbliherbli6561 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Trendane Sparks or is he studying it?

    • @trendane
      @trendane 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Ooooo! Excellent point!

    • @willmueller4984
      @willmueller4984 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Trendane Sparks YOU FORGET... MOVIES NEED A PLOT

    • @trendane
      @trendane 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Yes...but one would hope that plot would make SENSE.

    • @goji253
      @goji253 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's not like said plot made sense to begin with.
      You would never be able to simply dodge a facehugger. Even resisting it is hard as nails.
      The most sensible thing is not to stay, not to run (it'll get you anyway) but to kill it.
      Sure, your survival chances are slim, but it's the only chance you'll get (see Ripley, Newt and the Predators in AvP games, these people know how to handle that stuff)

  • @Artaimus
    @Artaimus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    So someone made the Goo as a bioweapon designed to take the 'best' (likely oldest genetic information) parts of whatever biologic it comes in contact with in order to further spread itself.
    Then through specific manipulation you end up with the original type of Alien.
    Makes sense to me. And explains all the other versions.

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      BOOM -- KH

    • @Artaimus
      @Artaimus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I feel 'oldest genetic information' would be incorrect due to how humans share some genetic material with lots of things on the planet, even if that amount is very small. My thought is that it would be programmed to look for information that falls within certain parameters so it wouldn't try to interact with inorganic items or pull out something that would be detrimental to the next life cycle stage.

    • @windhelmguard5295
      @windhelmguard5295 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      i think the reason why se gu (and by extension the xenomorph) do gene transfer in order to quickly adapt to new environments.
      you drop one facehugger on an alien planet and as long as it finds one victim, there will be a sizable xenomorph population within weeks.
      basically whatever environment you put aliens in, any offspring created using a native species will be able to survive in that environment, making them basically unstopable by means such as lucky weather or germ warfare.

    • @sinistergrey3
      @sinistergrey3 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Artiamus Imura, indeed that is a part of it. From my understanding of the opening scene of Prometheus however, It seems more like the "engineers" (the "someone" you mentioned in the OP) used the "goo" (that they created/ "engineered") as a catalyst to bring about new forms of life (I.E. start the chain reaction from single cell to multi-cell organisms) on suitable planets of their choosing to create new organic Ecosystems, and they used their own DNA (I.E. willing Engineer Sacrifice) in a Religious fashion, to achieve these goals.
      Earth being one of those planets, they then returned through out thousands of years of human history (seemingly to check in on their creation/experiment/religious undertaking) and helped establish human civilization (also seemingly out of some sort of religious aspect) then "human beings" as their creations did "something" to piss them off in a big way (guessing killed one of their emissaries, it's implied.) and in retaliation the "Engineers" took their "goo" to a remote outpost and started mass producing it/weaponizing it to take out all biological life on earth and start again from the ground up.
      Things went wrong in the production phase (I.E. playing with fire can get you burned), they couldn't contain it, and the events of prometheus unfold with Shaw asking repeatedly "why do you hate us!" and "we were so wrong" as the Engineers look at us as with disgust and a failed undertaking
      which brings up so many other questions, like was earth the only planet they did this on? what was the "engineers" end goal? From the artwork/statutes/shrines at the outpost in prometheus, they seem to at least have knowledge of Xenomorphs/worship the "creation" of such lifeforms, which is a motif carried over in alien:covenant with the example of 'David' being a human creation and of a subconscious desire of humans emulating the actions of 'Engineers' and "creating" a new life form but in our own image, albeit by different means, but still it begs the question that if the "engineers" truly wanted to create "xenomorphs" as an end result and instead the initial "goo sacrifice, with engineer DNA" made humans (which would explain why xenomorphs can only come from Human D.N.A./burst from a Human host) as this video elaborates on, was that the end goal all along? or do the "engineers" have a different reasoning? the list of questions goes on and on.
      Then you have Alien:Covenant where 'David's' origin and the folly of man in creating him in the first place plays out just as the engineers felt the folly of what they wrought in their own religious creation of life. The big kicker/Irony here is that the life form/android created by the "Engineers" creation (I.E. humans) deems both other lifeforms to be unworthy and let's loose his wrath upon the Engineers in epic fashion, unleashing upon them what they would have done to us and then uses human beings (who created him in the first place) as genetic building blocks to create his Own version of a "perfect life form/organsim" because unlike humans who were taught about the wonders of "creation" from their creators, David was denied and told that he was only made to "serve" which obviously didn't sit too well with him.
      That's the big thing about these "prequel" movies that people are seeming to miss. Even though they are "alien" movies and do elaborate on the Lore IMO at their core they're all about "creation" and the constant cycle of lifeforms being created by other lifeforms and how those lifeforms keep repeating the cycle with an almost religious zeal and it leads to all kinds of interesting/thought provoking questions which IMO is how good art/stories should be. It's just vague enough to leave it open to your own interpretation but is presented to you in a way that you can piece together the main theme/motif.

  • @ariestheking5781
    @ariestheking5781 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You deserve a bigger spotlight. I love what you do. Brains and nerd stuff. Perfect blend of facts and fiction.

  • @pitbull21ish
    @pitbull21ish 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    been waiting for something like this a long time, very happy with how it all turned out

  • @chillaxter13
    @chillaxter13 6 ปีที่แล้ว +289

    Okay, that was rather impressive! Great job

  • @axeell8192
    @axeell8192 7 ปีที่แล้ว +253

    ZE GUU

  • @samuelfrew7102
    @samuelfrew7102 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was the first video I've seen of yours, and I was really very impressed with what you do. It's entertaining and very engaging.

  • @dkyelak
    @dkyelak 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Someone did some serious research and homework. Outstanding insights. Thumbs up and subbed!

  • @sunfeatherX3
    @sunfeatherX3 6 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Why is the face hugger so cute?! Every time you say it, it's like "hai, :3 yes that is me hello"

  • @MarcReimer02
    @MarcReimer02 7 ปีที่แล้ว +193

    If a xenomorph somehow infected a kyrptonian (it's possible through the crossover in each world with Mortal Kombat), could the chestburster even get through?

    • @sleepingbackbone7581
      @sleepingbackbone7581 7 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      Probably yes, 'cause chestburster should be made from same stuff as a host. Right?

    • @MarcReimer02
      @MarcReimer02 7 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Sleeping Backbone makes sense
      if it happened then God help us all

    • @ashslaa
      @ashslaa 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Marc Reimer there was a cross over comic with Dc comics and 2000ad comics, one had superman getting some face hugger lovin' and wasn't to shabby a comic either.

    • @MarcReimer02
      @MarcReimer02 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Logan Storm oh
      did the face hugger succeed

    • @ashslaa
      @ashslaa 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Marc Reimer in the comic kriptonian survivors ended up with chest busters busting out but this was while under a red star, when superman got back to earth it could not get out or do him harm internally, didn't cover how he survived having organs converted while the chest burster went through its chastisement or whatever ever the word is. But the kriptonian boy scout lost his rag and went all kratos on the xenomorph queen.

  • @ameiru1
    @ameiru1 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video. I was always curious on how all the movies fit together for the aliens.

  • @pentalacroix
    @pentalacroix 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This man ran a marathon with this science! I love it!!

  • @Krishnath.Dragon
    @Krishnath.Dragon 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    And just like real biology, it's really friggin' complex.

  • @ShubhamKhatdeo
    @ShubhamKhatdeo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +257

    But Alien Covenant has a Protomorph not a Classic Xenomorph....I think.

    • @Velocelot
      @Velocelot 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      YES!!

    • @MajorSangheili
      @MajorSangheili 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You're correct

    • @throwawayaccount7603
      @throwawayaccount7603 7 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      It is pretty much directly stated that the Protomorph/Covenant Xeno is just an evolution of the Neomorph and David's experiments. We can assume the Covenant Xeno just evolved from there to become more biomechanical, into the classic Alien we all know and love.

    • @fhrdgr
      @fhrdgr 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      the novelization(and deleted scene) revealed that the covenant xeno was David's attempt at recreating the engineer made xenos

    • @gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954
      @gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      You're right Shubham Khatdeo. It is described as a 'Protomorph' in materials surrounding the movie, and it is subtly different physiologically from a Classic Xenomorph, having less in the way of overt bio-mechanical elements in its design. Come to think of it, we still have no idea where the biomechanical attributes of the Classic Xenomorph come from at all.
      So... who's going to tell poor Mr. Hill he has to redraw his diagram yet again?

  • @markuruymagov3203
    @markuruymagov3203 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    But Predators used to hunt Aliens down as a part of their ritual long before David created Protomorphs using Dr. Shawns Eggcells. How did Predators then create their Xenomorphs?

    • @hopeforchaos4718
      @hopeforchaos4718 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      they would of made the black goo and infected an early human for testing until it was completed perfectly

    • @joelward4649
      @joelward4649 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      In answer to that the classic xenomorphs may or are an extinct race and I think the engineers already made them b4 but maybe and seeing as the cycle needs hosts to carry on so once they have eaten all there hosts they die out .... David is just experimenting and follow a breadcrumb trail that the engineers have already done

    • @supoa9489
      @supoa9489 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      AVP movies are no more canon to the Alien movie universe, directly stated from Ridley Scott.

    • @supoa9489
      @supoa9489 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@joelward4649 David still gonna to engineer to create the classic Xenomorph from Alien 1 as his experiments are still ongoing. AVP films were decanonized once Prometheus was created.

    • @32Loveless50
      @32Loveless50 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      sorry but i do not see prometeus a cannon as it disrupts the time line of all alien films and books.
      only way Prometeus can be cannon is for David to reinvent the Zenomorph as we have books about Zenomorphs from before the films (timeline wise)

  • @chasepeterson9299
    @chasepeterson9299 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Hammerpede vagina snake thing" I was dead after that lmao

  • @ConradRDakarn
    @ConradRDakarn 6 ปีที่แล้ว +251

    Alien Vs Predator: Requiem.....it introduces the concept that a PredAlien can "facehug" a human directly and implant with the need for the egg/facehugger stage.....one extra arm to put onto that chart.
    Sorry....

    • @Shuhister
      @Shuhister 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      that is also bullsht... He looked for pregnant women to facehug them .... into Vagina?? The more "alien" films they produce - the more shit is coming.

    • @osets2117
      @osets2117 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'd just rather ignore that stupid shit from that movie, gayest shit ever

    • @ferretking137
      @ferretking137 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Shuhister i dont think its for the vag. I think they do it for the hormones that pregnet women have

    • @Xenosaurian
      @Xenosaurian 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I loved that movie, and definitely a stage worth noting!

    • @Magna842
      @Magna842 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Considering the only alien that we see in the that movie (been a while, sorry), besides Predalien are normal Xenos, it can be assumed that the predalien is a producer and carrier of Xeno embryos, like the face hugger. Predalien seems like an incredibly unlikely situation, but I don't know much about Predator biology which might be the reason for the production of the embryos. Also, the Predalien can implant multiple embyros at once, instead of the one-and-done facehugger.

  • @grimrenaissance
    @grimrenaissance 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Spiderman Homecoming almost here and Kyle hasn't done a video about the train scene in Spiderman 2... a man can only dream.

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  7 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      My latest Spider-Man ep will drop right before the movie comes out! -- KH

  • @DeepHouse79
    @DeepHouse79 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent explanations❗You are funny 😂 And I think you do the science so well! 🤩

  • @BeautifulWolf1987
    @BeautifulWolf1987 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am thoroughly impressed by this. I and my friends got into a HUGE debate about this last year after we all saw Covenant. Between the six of us, we came very close to this conclusion. But what we hadn't thought about taking into consideration was the comments by the directors and examples/facts from real world biology. We went off evidence from the movies we watched and the comic book lore. Kudos!

  • @generalkenobi7873
    @generalkenobi7873 7 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    My name is Ozymandias, king of kings :
    Look on my works, Ye Mighty, and despair !

    • @Nexus2Eden
      @Nexus2Eden 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      My name is Ridley Scott, a great cinematographer: Look on my movies, Ye Mighty, and despair! (is more like it) 🙄😂

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  7 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      nailed it -- KH

    • @MajorBookworm100
      @MajorBookworm100 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Oh Shit! So the Byron/Shelley interplay between David and Walter goes beyond just alluding to the themes of Ozymandias as a text, it directly sets up Davids motivations and perhaps even his arc. If you substitute 'ultimate horror story' for 'perfect life form', then David is being motivated to create something of his own, which in this case is the Aliens, themselves a Frankenstein-esque conglomeration of DNA/artificial goo.

    • @BalrogUdun
      @BalrogUdun 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Bat of Gotham can you quote the whole poem?

    • @Dralth
      @Dralth 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But Ozymandias wasn't written by Mary Shelly, but by Percy Shelley, isn'it ?

  • @xanthropus723
    @xanthropus723 6 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    I like to think the Alien movies are in two different universes.
    The Ridley Universe and Cameron Universe.
    The Ridley Universe:
    Alien
    Prometheus
    Alien Covenant
    The Cameron Universe:
    Alien
    Aliens
    Alien 3
    Alien Resurection
    I'm probably wrong but this is how I make sense of the Alien Movies.

    • @bunfudderlegreat1275
      @bunfudderlegreat1275 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well the movies work in a time line that is difficult to map with the avp movies. It goes:
      Prometheous
      Alien covenant
      Alien
      Aliens
      Alien III
      Alien resurrection
      But when we take the times of all those movies into consideration of the AVP franchise it messes things up

    • @jayromebabag5313
      @jayromebabag5313 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Xanthropus
      Personally, I think Ridley's version made everything complicated. Thats why I stick to the comics which stays somewhat true to the Cameron Universe like th Xenos being natural animals in XenoPrime.

    • @ajlong7242
      @ajlong7242 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bunfudderlegreat1275 actually not really think of when Prometheus

    • @ajlong7242
      @ajlong7242 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bunfudderlegreat1275 just put it in cronological order AVP happened in early 2000's while Prometheous alien covanent, alien, aliens, alien 3 and alien resurrection all happened late 2100's so there's the timeline
      AVP
      AVP Requiriem
      Promethious
      Alien covanent
      Alien
      Aliens
      Alien 3
      Alien resurrection
      And in my own theory I believe that avp is what showed people in the government what this is there for causing them to send a team into space looking for these creatures

    • @Funeral65
      @Funeral65 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@bunfudderlegreat1275 Don't forget that Blade Runner is also canon in the Alien universe

  • @tequila6955
    @tequila6955 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow, just wow. Survey says... they should have left it at the first part and then my head wouldn't hurt. Awesome job!

  • @profounddevices
    @profounddevices 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    i know this was all for fun, but it helped me see the madness. i like the fact that it shows the current ways Xenomorph would work in movies. thanks!

  • @sushrutkulkarni3043
    @sushrutkulkarni3043 7 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I love me some ZE GOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @user-jr4wn8nh1c
    @user-jr4wn8nh1c 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is my ALL TIME FAVORITE video of yours!

  • @BREAKERisDEAD
    @BREAKERisDEAD 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I very much appreciate this video. Thank you for doing this for me 💜

  • @AurelioSon
    @AurelioSon 7 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    Until Alien: Awakening I guess

    • @hailikefood
      @hailikefood 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Well, the "classic" Xenomorph that appears in the first Alien movie exhibits biomechanical features (and if you remember, David is trying to create the perfect organism, and the classic xenomorph is just that), so I think it is fair to say that David eventually manages a way to use himself as a host to create the perfect organism - how that even works is beyond me, but if you remember, the black goo only affects organic substances. In Prometheus, there's a scene where David drops a bit of the black goo on his finger, and it does nothing to him. Though admittedly there's a lot of contradicting info, but I personally find this as a cool classic Xenomorph origin explanation.

    • @alexfelton5299
      @alexfelton5299 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alien: Awakening? Did I read that right? Is there yet another xeno film coming down the pipe?

    • @ironocy496
      @ironocy496 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Alex Felton There was. It was supposed to be between Prometheus and Covenant. A lot of the props were sold off and it's rumored the movie got canned ever since Disney bought the rights. Covenant bombed at theaters so it's very possible no more Alien movies. Hope not obviously.

    • @cercieshaia9498
      @cercieshaia9498 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just thinking of Sora teaming up with Ripley now :3

  • @jonahhanoj1404
    @jonahhanoj1404 7 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    do a video on how Spiderman's spider sense works.

  • @TheRauzKindred
    @TheRauzKindred 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Unfortunately that mural back in Prometheus in the goo chamber with the giant head statue showcased a xenomorph like creature and that kinda implies that there was something before the goo, or possibly that was the final intended design before David ever tinkered with the goo in the first place. Sadly I doubt we'll ever get a definitive answer about that mural though, it feels like everyone including ridley scott has just kinda forgotten about it.

  • @techsavvyhero
    @techsavvyhero 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome work, man!! Well done :)

  • @blazethebassman6335
    @blazethebassman6335 7 ปีที่แล้ว +443

    This video is a Nightmare for people with Arachnophobia

    • @hypermijit
      @hypermijit 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Bill Nye The MLG Guy yes
      yes it is.

    • @rickgutierrez6328
      @rickgutierrez6328 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      it's one of the reasons i won't watch any of the alien films those facehuggers look a little too much like spiders and they jump at you not to mention the jumpscares they do

    • @Bearyboo87
      @Bearyboo87 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      why? all the spiders in the episode got mutalated in horrid fashion

    • @finalcartoon1044
      @finalcartoon1044 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Bill Nye The MLG Guy i have arachnophobia and this doesnt affect me. thou i get an adrenaline rush every time i see a real spider.

    • @blazethebassman6335
      @blazethebassman6335 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How the hell did I get so many likes?

  • @POtterAAngERagon
    @POtterAAngERagon 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Ze goo!

  • @kraftysandwich
    @kraftysandwich 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I never realized how much my nerdy ass needed this in my life. Thank you from the bottom of my chest bursting heart.

  • @luisfidalgo8759
    @luisfidalgo8759 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Although I agree with the top part of the graph, the bottom has one error. The xenomorph egg created by David does not create the "classic Xeno" it creates the Protomorph, the Xeno-like creatures are the Protomorphs at the end of the film, David Acquires a ship and a library of human subjects of whom he perfects the formula and perhaps later fully evolutionizes the protomorph into the classic Xeno we know and love. I absolutely love your videos btw!

  • @serialkiller88
    @serialkiller88 7 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    DAVID LYNCH ALIEN MOVIE?! shut up and take my money!

    • @Wolfsheim23
      @Wolfsheim23 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ha yep I caught that too :)

    • @pdzombie1906
      @pdzombie1906 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why have they not corrected the video with a title: (Sorry it's Fincher, not Lynch). But, yeah, A David Lynch Alien movie sounds awsome!!!

  • @grimthereaper3868
    @grimthereaper3868 7 ปีที่แล้ว +224

    Hey Kyle? Sorry to burst your bubble, but... the "Xenomorph" in Covenant isn't actually a Xenomorph :/....it's a Protomorph....

    • @noahevans5702
      @noahevans5702 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Yah, the Protomorph don't have a chestburster stage and several differences in both physiology and temperament.

    • @paranoid9678
      @paranoid9678 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      but its getting closer and closer too its original form
      maybe david will fix it now because to me it look like david didnt like his protomorph concept it was too aggressiv and the skin lookt kinde ugly
      it didnt have a exoskellet :(
      but he has more testsubjekt now and will make a perrfekt xeno sooner or later

    • @graham5501
      @graham5501 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Nailed it!
      David couldn't have created the Xenomorph. They were around way before humans made it to space.

    • @campisreviews
      @campisreviews 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Graham M. He didn’t create the xenomorph, it’s been stated

    • @009_Ghostly_Systematic
      @009_Ghostly_Systematic 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I thought he called them neomorphs?

  • @Gunhed187
    @Gunhed187 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great Job organizing all the Xenos and their life cycle! I really enjoyed the video. I Liked and Subscribed!! 👊💀

  • @breebilegdemberel1515
    @breebilegdemberel1515 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    hahaha “i’m not a bad scientist” ... laughing by myself like a crazy person 🤪

  • @lordrorek1907
    @lordrorek1907 7 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    I agree with everything he said except that the Xenomorph wasn't already around by the time of Prometheus.
    Because the engineer in Alien was fossilized and that only takes place 22 years before Prometheus so he had to have been there for millions of years and the eggs were already on the ship when they found them. Also in Prometheus, there is a mural depicting a classic Xenomorph.
    So my hypothesis is that the engineers discovered the Xenomorph and believed to be the perfect organism and also the perfect weapon. So they weaponized the Xenomorphs DNA to both defeat their enemies and spread this divinely perfect organism across the universe.

    • @shmee123ful
      @shmee123ful 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      this is a petty good theory how ever if the xenomorph was a naturally occurring creature some were in the universe then how come they haven't simply spared across the stars in In a tide wave of meannise especial if they are a supposably perfect lifeform. survive of the fittest, the strongest or most cable organisms thrive and supplant those that can not adept. and seening as the xenomorph is almost completely reliant on hosts to continue their race it would be in their biological interests to spared as far and as fast as possible. especially when they run out of hosts on their home planet. and considering that the xenomorph it self doesn't seem all that intelligent its unlikey that they could ever master space travel in any meaningful way before they simply wiped out the native host population before archiving space travel. and if they didn't if some animals and plants were immune to being face hugged. then their not a prefect race because no biologic organism can through evolution become perfect. so that leave's only three options as far as I can see.1. the xenomorph is simply the by product of mad science, frist by the engingeers and then by david. so any flaws can be removed as the product of trail and error creates the goo.2. the xenomorph are a naturally ocring creature and the engineers fond and thought. 'neat these seem like they might be useful' and then played around with the xenomorph creature/DNA to make them more deadly. then shit happened and lost containment and things went tits up.3. the xenomorph has a fricken long ass life cycle and act more like the reapers from mass effect than normal lifeforms. they hatch on a planet or what have you, use up the local fauna as hosts. once all the hosts are used up and the adults die off the eggs remain dormant until something pocks around (perhaps waiting for the environment to repopulate, perhaps even the galaxy) and the cycle starts all over again. (all the while spreading as far as they can. via peoples stupidity.)

    • @lordrorek1907
      @lordrorek1907 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I think #3 is the most likely although I don't think to reaper level. Because in nature an ecosystem is usually balanced and to balance the xenomorphs ferocity and deadliness it has a weakness in its reproductive cycle.
      Meaning that whenever the Xenomorph population grows too large it starts running out of host which leads to population decrease. Just like if the population of a species of animal outpaces the available food supply the species will starve and thus the ecosystem rebalances itself.
      I think the need for a host acts as a similar population growth counter balance within the Xenomorphs natural ecosystem.

    • @volpelastname6951
      @volpelastname6951 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Can I get a translation of whatever ancient dialect or forgotten language that is up there?

    • @lordrorek1907
      @lordrorek1907 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Vulpis Umbra are you being sarcastic or serious?

    • @volpelastname6951
      @volpelastname6951 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mostly sarcastic but I was having a tough time reading what Mr Boneman said up there so I had to poke some holes at it

  • @rosspetersen4434
    @rosspetersen4434 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ze goo 9:50 10:06 10:15 10:22 (Many instances of "the" goo) 11:54 11:57 12:17 12:36 13:22 13:30

  • @MannyJazzcats
    @MannyJazzcats 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Omg I enjoyed this more than you can possibly imagine.

  • @dvdcollector1974
    @dvdcollector1974 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is my favorite video that you have done. Alien is my favorite film. Not because of the science, but the atmosphere and the whole haunted house in space feel. I do enjoy the rest of the series though. It is very hard to follow what you just talked about. But in the way you explain it makes it so much less confusing. I shall now refer my fellow movie community to this video. And remember...They mostly come out at night, mostly

  • @throwawayaccount7603
    @throwawayaccount7603 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks, Kyle! You're awesome for this!

  • @nikoopperman931
    @nikoopperman931 6 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Wait, do you write everything backwards?

    • @ariestheking5781
      @ariestheking5781 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Niko Opperman He writes backwards and flips the video. Simple magic. lol. I don't really know. It seems the easiest, I think?

    • @hexmatrix6930
      @hexmatrix6930 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Don’t you mean he just flips the video because if he writes backwards and flips the video then it’ll still backward

    • @gabrielriveros4274
      @gabrielriveros4274 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes he does.

  • @rotten101jh
    @rotten101jh 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    excellent video and humor! only one detail you missed, the facehugger in alien 3 as you can see in quotes and speculation and even a rare deleted scene showing an alternate facehugger form, was actually a praetorian or Queen facehugger, allowing for implantation of more robust, or conversely multiple emybryos, otherwise, great attention to detail aswell!

  • @strikeaposefilms
    @strikeaposefilms 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is great work, dude. Thanks for doing this.

  • @UrielManX7
    @UrielManX7 6 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    I had a mini nerdgasm on the chicken/egg explanation; I've figured that one out since a long time, and I've never ever saw or heard anyone else saying that, even my friends I told about it just looked at me like I just came out with a joke solution. I mean, you just need a simple understanding of evolution to figure that one out, right?

    • @TheZXKUQYB
      @TheZXKUQYB 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It was always the egg

    • @ChesmondDgCk
      @ChesmondDgCk 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      UrielManX7 which came first, the chicken the egg, or form of dianosaures dna

    • @Shashu_the_little_Voidling
      @Shashu_the_little_Voidling 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      r/iamverysmart

    • @YourStylesGeneric321
      @YourStylesGeneric321 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      only chickens lay chicken eggs

    • @get6149
      @get6149 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      UrielManX7 it's the chicken if you ask which came first the chicken or the chicken egg

  • @versus-7087
    @versus-7087 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    You sould do a video about Hot Rods (the french robot) time stoping gun in the new Transformers.
    I think it could be that it produces a extremly dense dark matter spher (more Matter=slower time) and some kind of dark energy barrier to things from collapsing towards all of this mass

  • @AngelicBombshell
    @AngelicBombshell 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Honestly, I don’t even like the alien movies, or the predator movies, but when you were explaining it man I was hooked LOL great video!🐰

  • @johnsonter1358
    @johnsonter1358 ปีที่แล้ว

    😂 love the frustration got me laughing, well entertaining an educational.

  • @MikefromTexas1
    @MikefromTexas1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    *KH!* Lovin' the thicker beard man!
    You can grow one hell of 'stache!

  • @mynamesjeff5330
    @mynamesjeff5330 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Actually love this channel

  • @cashlintner8492
    @cashlintner8492 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    At the end AVP and AVPR there is the predalian which can essentially skip the egg/ facehugger phase so there's a new branch for yuh

  • @connorgallivan244
    @connorgallivan244 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic work!

  • @pingpongboi8144
    @pingpongboi8144 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Love the beard.

  • @daemonofdecay
    @daemonofdecay 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Only problem now is... if the Classic Xenomorph is reliant on David to create the eggs and start the cycle... then how did all those eggs end up on a Space Jockey spaceship in the first film? Did David find a crashed ship and replace all its urns of *goo* with eggs from his newly created Xenomorph queen?

    • @speedmaster123456789
      @speedmaster123456789 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Dee Oh Dee A popular theory that is gaining traction in the Prometheus/Alien community is that in the next film (or in the film that directly ties Prometheus to Alien) David will commandeer an Engineer vessel in an attempt to escape either some colonial marine force and/or Engineer force that was off-world during the onslaught of Alien: Covenant. He realizes that his luck has run out so he speeds off into the stars whilst donning a space jockey suit a sort of insult to the engineer race he sought to destroy. Eventually a chestburster erupts from him, causing him to lose control of the ship and crash in LV-426 (correct me if im wrong in planet name). Now its not clear how and why an alien would implant itself into David but perhaps he begins to experiment with the black goo in order to morph his body into an organic one, thus becoming a true, *living god.*
      The eggs on the ship can be a result of either two things.
      1. The alien becomes a Queen and begins to plant thousands upon thousands of eggs inside the ship in preparation of the events of Alien.
      Or
      2. David wanted to save his perfect creation and thus brought on the thousands of eggs he created on the Covenant and/or during the events of the film that links to Alien.
      But thats just a theory ;)

    • @lawrencehamilton147
      @lawrencehamilton147 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Read the comment I just posted for the answer to your question

  • @Najstar43211
    @Najstar43211 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow . simply fantastic. Thank you

  • @nickguscott8886
    @nickguscott8886 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was absolutely awesome, the one thing I'm unsure about is how then do the Predators in AvP have a Xenomorph breeding temple that predates recorded human history....

  • @AgentJaffacakes
    @AgentJaffacakes 7 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    I wasn't here first but alreast I got garlic bread

    • @aidannaseer3806
      @aidannaseer3806 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      SomeRandomGamerKid I had dinner before watching this video and I had garlic bread!

    • @gastly4454
      @gastly4454 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      SomeRandomGamerKid I had dinner before watching this bust I dednt have Garlic Bread.

    • @ThePOSM
      @ThePOSM 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mmmmm garlic bread *drools

    • @aidannaseer3806
      @aidannaseer3806 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      PintOfSam PGC Lol:)

  • @nicholasalicea1364
    @nicholasalicea1364 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    In alien covenant you forgot the proto morph

  • @leonardov6580
    @leonardov6580 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So the first stage of the xenomorphs is what defines a specie? Like if a facehugger of a colony of classic xenomorphs face hugs a dog and a runner borns, it would be part of that same colony?

  • @harutakami1313
    @harutakami1313 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    this video popped up on my feed and all i can think now is about how the comics have Xenomorph Sharks.

  • @vikavoltare_5807
    @vikavoltare_5807 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Kinda funny that the diagram of the life cycle is kinda shaped like a face hugger

  • @starchild3238
    @starchild3238 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    do a video on if green goblin's glider could work in real life.

  • @ACECRAYONS
    @ACECRAYONS 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This brings a whole new mind set to the series, what I originally watched for the lifecycle was an theory that David created the entire xenomorph line of beings, but then you’ve got to think about the alien films explaining the aztecs giving themselves to the predators to give zenomorphs for hunts

    • @pacom_estible
      @pacom_estible 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was in an Alien vs Predator movie, so not sure it's canon. Or they're can be explanations. Maybe Prometheus and Covenant are garbage and David didn't create the xenomorphs. Maybe the Engineers, or more precisely the original Space Jockey and his kind did it. It would explain how xenomorphs might have existed for thousands or millions of years, and were eventually exploited by the predators for hunting.

  • @Im_Hz0
    @Im_Hz0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So basically face hugginger -> somethin. chestburster comes out -> weird combo of a xenomorph + whatever animal got infected

  • @datpilz8895
    @datpilz8895 6 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    In my opinion Prometheus and this whole Bio weapon stuff is shit... it destroys the thought off this perfect organism from the original alien movies Ps: I think u forgot about the Royal facehugger and that Ripley was pregnant with a queen

    • @cristian-fv9mm
      @cristian-fv9mm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      i agre, why is it caled alien and not mutant or the thing, prometheus sould have been prequal to the thing in my opinnion.

    • @Revan2908
      @Revan2908 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Honestly, I think the biological weapon angle and David's own tinkering in Covenant are Scott's way of trying to justify both life cycles of the creature. The initial version where it lays an egg, and of course Jim Cameron's Queen. Maybe it's a bit of professional courtesy towards a fellow director, instead of just trying to outright negate their contribution. And Scott said even back in the original film he thought maybe the derelict was possibly some sort of "bomber" and the eggs were the payload.

    • @darryljack6612
      @darryljack6612 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But that's the thing nothing starts out perfect. In alien
      the Xenomorphs are finally perfected because of generations of adaptation and evolution, like with humans they didn't start out that way.

    • @TotalMeltdown2
      @TotalMeltdown2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      AvP 2 Requiem: I'm the worst Alien movie
      Alien: Covenant: Hold my beer

    • @stephaniequiroz1564
      @stephaniequiroz1564 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Avisae I personally think the black goo is the product of the Engineers distilling the spores from the puffball-like mushroom on their home planet. Turning it into a liquid bioweapon. It just happens to act like a Pokémon evolution stone on more simplified organisms and reproductive cells. And that was not the intended result by the Engineers.

  • @MalavarTCOne
    @MalavarTCOne 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Notice me senpai! After watching this informative xenomorph life cycle map I can officially conclude that this is the best interpretation of it I have ever seen! Well done sir. Well done.

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Noticed! And thank you! -- KH

  • @DancesWithRobots
    @DancesWithRobots 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    in the novelization of the original movie, Alan Dean Foster described the cut scene where Dallas told Ripley that the egg he was was Brett. But then the same novel described the chestburster as looking like a plucked headless turkey. Obviously early concepts that were dropped from the film and the whole canon.

  • @zonalcalro
    @zonalcalro 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved this! Awesome work! Finaly we know!