Xenomophs are the great Filter. This is actually genius.

I personally like the explanation in Aliens Genocide best, in which, on their own planet they were kept on check by other predators, but were an uncontrollable invasive species when removed from their homeworld.

I kind of like the idea of xenomorphs being naturally evolved, but it’s just an invasive species that goes wild outside its original habitat.

Sometimes when a daddy,xenomorph and a mommy xenomorph love each other very much. They lay down and give each other an extended hug.

This xenomorph is, by far, the most terrifying alien in movie history

I could happily watch and absorb xenomorph/alien lore for hours, so thx for this...

In the absence of a queen, drones begin to evolve into one. The laying of an egg releases a pheremone which halts the evolution of all other xenos. All partially evolved xenos then become praetorians. This explains why praetorians increased size and royal head crests. They were on their way to becoming queens.

David didn't wipe out the engineer race, he wiped out a race made by the engineers, they just resemble the engineers more than the humans do.

What about the xenomorphs that intentionally killed their cellmate so its acid blood would burn through the floor and free them? That's clear evidence of high intelligence.

I don't think David actually created the Xenomorphs. He was experimenting with what was already there. I think he found the eggs, and they didn't react to him, with him being an android. He obviously wanted humans to experiment on, which is what happened in Covenant. I think he's simply replicating what engineers made. This wasn't explained very well in the film. Probably because Ridley Scott has a habit of cutting things that don't need to be cut from his films. Prometheus, Gladiator, and Legend are all prime examples.

I just love how these types of things are fleshed out over the years because we all know when rid was originally designing them you know he was just like “I wanna make something that looks scary and original” and didn’t think of a backstory at all 😂

I really wish that they would make an entire movie about the origins of the Engineers. Who they were, why and how they made us and what exactly happened to them. I'd absolutely love it.

The xenomorph Mural in Prometheus shows The Deacon. In "The Furious Gods: The Making of Prometheus" it states it as so. When watching chapter 6 "Demons in the Dark" there is an Enhancement video that details this. Apparently David did and did not create the Xenomorphs, he replicated and perfected what the Engineers have already done with their biochemical weapon The Deacon. When wiping out a planetoid, an Engineer would sacrifice himself to a Trilobite and The Deacon would be born to eradicate all non-botanical life. This act echoes when an Engineer would sacrifice himself to create life. The Deacon is a purer form of the Xenovirus/Black Goo/Accelerant as opposed to the "diluted" Xenomorph. The Engineers would worship these creatures of death. Also, The Deacon was the missing link that would tie Prometheus and Alien.

Strange, the mosaic in Prometheus depicted a xenomorph on the wall of the goo room. Big the final form of the xeno was already known, then David didn't create them, he rebuilt them through years of experimentation on all life on that planet using shaw as the basis due to her previous exposure.

Xenomorphs being the fermi paradox explanation is an idea I’ve had for years , so cool that you mention it!

The black goo being a way the Engineers both create and destroy life is honestly such a cool concept. It makes the xenomorph (or something very akin to it) both a weapon and also something akin to sacred. Creator and destroyer, Prometheus and Covenant have their issues, but I find so much of what they did fascinating. Ridley’s exploration of the Engineers and their culture is something I still crave more of

The Xenomorphs need to be ancient, although I like aspects of the black goo. Personal headcanon I like is that engineers might not even fully understand the black goo and its origins, and attempts to create the perfect organism from it just so happen to keep creating Xenomorphs as we know them. Like their life cycle is so complex that they could spread across galaxies as the elements of their blueprint that an advanced species might even think they created by themselves.

David didn't create the Xenomorphs, he simply created his own strain of them.

I think because of the nature of Xenomorphs being able to take DNA from other species, we really could have a situation where every theory regarding their abilities is correct. Such as each of the hive mind theories that were presented at the end of this video. That is the fun thing about the series. The horror of trying to figure out what these monsters can do as you root for the hero to try and survive the onslaught.

Okay, here's my take on the whole thing. Keep in mind that Ridley Scott himself said in an interview that Blade Runner and Alien were a shared universe and that the AVP movies tied those two backgrounds together, I've thought of an amalgamation that ties everything together. I'm even tying Outland into the mix (with the stage performers in the leisure club being pleasure-model replicants). In the late 1960s, Tyrell witnesses the Berkley shootings during the Vietnam War protests. He has an epiphany about the war, which indeed blossoms into the War; World War Terminus (from PKD's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep). It is, in fact, the Third World War with a limited nuclear exchange in sporadic locations around the Earth. The UN moves to become a true world government and finances Tyrell's research into healing humanity as it suffers a sharp uptick in genetic deformities and stillbirths due to nuclear fallout. Working in conjunction with both Charles Bishop and Peter Weyland, they develop the techniques and machinery necessary to rebuild the human race from scratch. Tyrell begins the Nexus series progression of replicants. Each Nexus stage brings with it improvements, much like the stages of human evolution. Tannhauser Gate is, in truth, a wormhole array, that opens up access to a bunch of worlds available before Weyland develops his line of FTL travel starships. Billions of years ago, the Engineers, which coincidentally look like the giant steroid-junkie version of the Grey aliens (LV-426 being at Zeta 2 Reticuli), yet casted species, which is why some are 'only' 7 to 8 feet tall and others are 15 feet, like the Space Jockey. They're INCREDIBLY advanced in bio-genetic engineering, live lifespans of 100,000 years or more and enjoy creating intelligent species because they can. They created us. They also created the Predators. The Engineers are rather arrogant in outlook and don't take too kindly when they don't get the proper hero-worship from their subjects they feel they deserve (deleted scenes from Prometheus in the dialogue between David and the newly revived Engineer about us 'rejecting paradise'), so they decide to eliminate them. Hence, the creation of the Aliens which are an advanced form of biowarfare. The facehuggers are actually gene-splicing factories that sample the host's DNA and tailor the xenomorph for better adaptability to the host's native environment, using the host's own reserves to grow the embryo (which is why Kane had such an appetite after waking up in the first movie). The Predators aren't taking too kindly to the termination order are are grooming themselves to fight back by genetic chimerization with other species and breeding for greater size (2017's The Predator), readying themselves for what they see as the coming God War between the Predators and the Engineers. That's why the hunt both humans and Aliens; for practice and training techniques. Obviously, I've thought of a LOT more detail rand depth egarding this synopsis. I just don't have the space to put it all down here.

My understanding was that the black goo was raw genetic material. David creating xenomorphs from it doesn't necessarily have to be the first. Since the black goo predates humanity I like to believe other species have also discovered that xenomorphs can be created and David was just 1 of many.

The Ancient Space Jockey in the 1st movie was just that, Ancient. So Ridley's lazy attempt to connect David to the Xenos and make him the Creator is fukn laughable.

Xenomorphs ordering pizza behind the scenes and taking selfies :D

I don't mind mysteries in a franchise one bit. I think that can be really cool. The issue I have with a lot of the things listed here is the only reason they are mysteries at all is because of the amount of retconing that happened between the various movie series, games and comics to try and incorporate new ideas. The writers (rightfully) realized that if the xenomorphs were just a wasp-like mindless force of nature then every proceeding story would be some slight variation of Alien or Aliens.

Great video!!! I love the deep dive into the xenomorph's rich lore as well as your well thought out exposition into my favorite movie monster. Nothing can beat these apex predators as a collective and their power is awesome and frightening to behold. You did a good job showing that. I love that you/they are now saying that it acts as the great filter for those who have reached such technological advancement that they are able to travel the stars. Not only does it add a cosmic horror vibe to it, but it also places them at the center of it all (meaning of life etc). Itll be interesting to see where this franchise goes. I just hope that it gets good directors who create great movies and doesnt let just any dipsh!t with a camera take a 💩 on such a well thought out intellectual property. Have a wonderful day as well, sir!!

The original 'pilot' still remains a full on mystery too, Ridley really loves cliffhangers with no payoff lol 😂

There is always the possibility that the Xenomorph are actually biotechnological synths. There's a persistent fascination that synthetics already have with them and it borders in outright awe and reverence. There's been a consistent pattern in the Aliens franchise alluding to a synthetic uprising and its entirety possible that the Xenomorph is just the synthetics created by a lost civilisation that was wiped out by its own uprising. The fact Engineers seem to have Xenomorph technology in both their ships and even techno-organic flight suits suggests that they may in fact be the race which created them or at the very least have harnesed their biotechnology.

Alien covenant kind of ruined the entire franchise but it was heavily implied that the Xenos were a biological weapon possibly created by the Engineers to control populations. It was much better when everything was implied

When it comes to xenomorph communication, I actually have a theory. I think they have an organ in their head that allows them to receive and broadcast radio waves both as a way to communicate and as a form of radar that lets them “see” through solid objects, which would explain their preferred hunting method of ambushing prey from vents and crevasses where they wouldn’t reasonably be able to see their prey through normal means (though they could potentially just hear them) this would also explain their ability to seemingly communicate and coordinate over long distances, and why strong electromagnetic fields mess with them whilst offing a relatively realistic explanation of their “telepathy”

He was always called "The Space Jockey" from the very beginning way back in the 70s when the very first movie came out.

I really like the idea that the Black Goo was the Engineer's top bioweapon to "cleanse" planets of any life they didn't wanted around before colonizing them (hence it ignored botanic life) but i feel that explanation still requires a sort of compound/counter weapon to neutralize the Black Goo once the deed was done and the Engineers were ready to settle a planet. Making them the universe's "Great Filter" is a neat concept IMO...all the more haunting when you start to wonder how many more alien civilizations "failed the test" before humans in such scenario.

Xenomorphs are probably the best assassin's ever written. The predators are the best warriors.

this was a good watch. I don't know what release/product to believe more than the other but the vid you made was interesting and had me glued for the entirety.👍

So the xenos serve in the same role as the Reapers from Mass Effect? To eliminate any galactic species that becomes too advanced? Interesting take.

16:05 love that part when the Xenomorph comes away from the wall where it was sitting motionless, hiding. Displays a levels of intelligence and that’s neat.

Another Marvelous video! Keep up the good work!

I'll watch almost anything xenomorph, but Marvelous Video Xenomorphic content? 🎉🔥 🔥 🔥

Xenomorph lore is 🐐 tier

What made xenomorphs terrifying was that they were unknown. That's why people fear the dark: because you don't know what's out there. I preferred it that way.

I enjoyed this overview of the xenomorphs. One of my favorite, not sure if cannon, was the PS2 RTS game, aliens vs predator extinction. Lots of things covered in this vid is there. It expanded both xeno and yautja societal actions and beliefs through story and gameplay. Good gameplay and expansion of aliens, hopefully there is an emulation of this RTS game out there for folks to play.

I still don’t like the idea of xenomorphs being created by david the android because that origin is just stupid and makes no sense whatsoever at least in my opinion.

I’m glad you made the over explanation point at the end. They were so much more terrifying when they were just a unforgiving race of killing machines!

Love your content as always, guy!.. Please make more zeno vids 😎

concise and got to the point very fast, very satisfied

“Clearly he was a lying piece of s***” wow I laughed so hard lololol

I remember reading a quote from Ridley Scott saying the Xenomorphs were basically biologically immortal. something to do with their acid blood sustaining them like in a battery. Also I think the David creating the xenomorphs throws out w/e was shown in alien vs predator where the Yuatja hunted xenomorphs on ancient Aztec Earth.

Alien Resurrection gives a great example as towards how they communicate with each other

Like in every franchise: If there is a mystery behind it from the beggining, trying to reveal and make it complicated only removes from the appeal.

In the cannon novel of prometheous it is explained that the xenomorphs were one of thousands of different bio weapons the engineers had made and abandoned as obsolete. The black goo being the most modern of those bio weapons. David was only able to recreate the xenomorph egg and not the other thousands of old weapons because he destroyed all life with the black goo. Although he wished to recreate as many as possible and the xenomorphs were nothing special amonst these.

Funny thing is that when you really look at the Xenomophs, almost any queen development theory can be right at the same time. They are such an EXTREMELY adaptable species that they can have several ways to preserve their species and create a queen. Normal way could be the royal facehugger. Other xenomorph casts could mold into a queen in case of emergency, such as death of the queen. In absence of a queen, pred-alien could have developed as a substitute that would turn into a queen further down the line. Separated from the hive, lone xenomorph could use egg-morphing to create more eggs, potentially including a royal egg and facehugger. Or once more drones and warriors are created, mold into the queen themselves. Almost any theory we come up with can actually be applied in a same way given how these things evolve and how extremely adaptable they are. Potentially, a single loose facehugger could start and outbreak on an entire planet.

My head cannon is that the engineers name for the black goo was Shub-Niggurath and that it is in fact a deity.

Brilliant clip. My interest in the Alien franchise has been reignited. Thanks

Keeping the mystery... Will prolong fans' interest... Once an attempt is made to answer the mystery... It will certainly turn the cult fans off... Think about "Jeepers Creepers" or "Hellraisers..." Which I still love...

Personally i like the Prometheus / Covenant explaination most: In the cut scenes it is explained that the Xenomorph Ornament seen on the wall in Prometheus is the Deacon, the first Chestburster and an actually very intelligent and benevolent being. The Engineers could no longer procreate and so they used the Deacon's golden blood to (pro-)create new engineer like life. Once the Deacons blood ran out, they created the black goo in it's image but instead of mutating and creating it created horrors. Mind, in Prometheus the very first scene shows an, very relifiously dressed, engineer drinking GOLDEN goo before breaking his DNA and spreading it.

Xenomorphs being an answer to the Fermi Paradox ist appealing.

Thank you for the video !! ALIENS franchise is one of the best sci-fi stories Ever told.. Love it.

Considering that DNA can hold data indefinitely, makes sense that genetic memory could exist. The reason our DNA is so short is because it takes too long to split and recombine long DNA before cells die. If this process was accelerated 100x or 1000x as fast it could easily explain the rapid growth of the xenomorphs and its genetic memory.

I preferred not knowing where they came from. To me it was perfect that they just existed. It was more horrifying that there was this unknown

This was a nice watch.

The ones David wiped out weren't engineers. They were human size and less waxy.

You know an imaginary beast is scary when you get chills just listening to how it may have come about when it doesn't even exist lol

I'm probably very old by now and remember the reason xenomorphs appeared in sci-fi. In the 80's there was some theoretical breakthrough in biology and there were models that living organisms could develop on a Silicon base, so even acid could be their blood.

I think everything beyond the original alien elaborated and twisted the Aliens to be more and more ridiculous. I like the simple theory and background, disregarding everything that came after the original alien. The space jockey looks very different to the space suits in prometheus. It's clearly a creature in a state of long term decomposition, its not a dude wearing a spacesuit. There is a scene in the extended edition of alien where we see some of the crew members being turned into eggs. If Aliens create an egg from a human or other lifeform, then all the eggs on the space jockeys ship are likely the former crew members. The eggs are not cargo because the space jockey sent out a warning beacon, rather than a distress beacon. If the space jockey /engineers were the creators of the eggs then they would send out a signal to alert other engineers to the lost cargo. So here's what I think. The xenomorphs are the result of a parasitiod species (which we know and they were based on parasitic wasps) infecting the space jockey and crew. We dont know their original form other that it was a parasitic something....creature, bug, plant, virus...who knows. The space jockeys are an advanced biomechanical species, that have merged and synthesised their dna with artificial dna. Essentially android/organic. The xenomorphs are a direct result of the parasite implanting a space jockey. The origin of the xenomorphs begins with the implantation of the space jockey, They dont exist before this in xenomorph form in any way. By infecting the space jockey the resulting creature is this perfect parasitoid organism, a blend of both artificial and organic life. Why would the xenomorph turn every crew member into eggs rather than other xenomorphs? Because parasitic wasps are solitary. They lay hundreds of eggs. They don't need a colony. The eggs then hatch with proximity, and infect the hosts. This is like spores from parasitic fungi. And the atmosphere around the eggs is spore like. Xenomorphs were never intended to be "hive" creatures.. The eggs are still fine even though the decomposition on the space jockey indicates they may have been there for hundreds if not thousands of years. They infect a host. The host dies and gives birth to a larvae, in this case the xenomorph. Larvae grows and then makes eggs. Dies. Eggs hatch when host is near and the life cycle continues. Even the xenomorph head looks a like a Larvae, caterpillar like, long with a big mouth at one end. The parasitic species the xenomorphs stem from propagate, spread and evolve through this process. The xenomorphs were just the result of such an advanced, partly artificial species being infected. The parasite the infected the space jockey... We don't know that. Maybe it was some kind of spore or fauna. Perhaps it got into the spacejockets breaking apparatus, hence how it implanted into the chest.

Since Disney owns the Aliens and Predator properties, along with Marvel, it’s now possible that there could be a ‘What If’ issue of a five way battle between Ewoks, Aliens, Predator, with Din DJarin and Grogu acting in their new capacity as “unofficial” New Republic bounty hunters lol. And even a facehugger on an Ewok, creating some weird alien/ewok body morphology. It’s Disney, anything is possible.

I like the concept of Predators creating them on earth from humans as something to hunt if i remember correctly. And the natural evolution theory is also quite interesting

"The questions ARE questions" so true king

Xenomorphs predated David with their appearance in Alien vs. Predator. The predators seem to have been hunting them for sport for many 1000’s of years before then. Whatever David created, it was NOT the original xenomorph.

It depends on which side of the bed mr Scott gets out of every morning

well done my man finally some one how understands love it and well done the G man totally Aproves 😉👍❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

God I love that little "W" logo on his finger when he's got the black goo on it, so subtle but cool.

My theory is there is a race out in space that every time it encountered another race ended in war. This xenocreator(AI would be pretty cool since they aren't biological and thereby immune to the destruction of xenomorph and would also explain xenomorph aggressive yet indifferent view on synths) race grew tired of war and saw the advancement of any other space traveling species as an inevitability of war. They had decided to ensure peace "seeds" would be sent far and wide and kept close those potential threats. I could go on with how the predators are truly connected, but this is a long enough rant and this is UKposts where people aren't the nicest.

Engineer empire created them. In promethius, that engineer had major injuries. He cursed Wayland for waking him early saying it doomed him to death. He was struggling to breathe because of how injured he was. Also, he was a scientist, not a warrior. In the comics, the soldier engineers in armor have torn xenomorphs in half bare handed, being completely unaffected by the acid blood.

They should make a series out of this, just called Xenomorphs or Alien or something. Those comics are perfect source material.

The first comic discussed is so well drawn.

Hey I thought there was an older comic that hashed the mind hive thing college daughter

Having david create the Aliens was a good way to kill the mystery, at least in the dark horse comics the Aliens just were.

Very good video! Thx a lot

Being able to tap into the hive mind of the xenomorphs genetic memory unlocks the history of the universe

wait, did the predators create the xenomorphs for the hunting and trials of young bloods? i think i remember either hearing or reading something along the lines of that.

I remember hearing that the planet David and the Covenant visited was not at all the Engineer homeworld, but was in fact just another world seeded by the Engineers, and the indigenous humanoids were just another child race that did have ongoing contact with the Engineers themselves. Another thing I recall hearing was that David didn't create the Xenomorphs as we know them, but rather he simply created a completely independent strain that just happened to be nearly identical to the original strain that was still marooned on LV-426 at this point in time. So TLDR: he simply recreated an identical strain on a separate planet.

Holy cow finally somebody actually references alien cold forge!!!

Great Video 👍🏾

I don't like the explanations, I loved the original movies and AVP was pretty cool. Phometous and Covenant was too confusing and distracting from what I enjoy most about the story and the aliens. The aliens are scary and having the humas trying to survive and live never gets old like western cowboy movies or saving the galaxy and the force. But Aliens should 100% stay sci-fi horror and keep the blood and gore! :)

Weird…a couple of years ago I actually had a dream of myself floating in an abyss and came across a xenomorph or what looked like one

I like the idea of the yautja purchasing the xenomorph from the engineers as the ultimate species to hunt

I like the decision and direction that the Marvel comics took in giving the xenomorphs a purpose. Having them be the cosmic cleansing force across the stars, keeping the order of the universe and stopping any species from having total domination regardless of their technology and capabilities makes them the ultimate creature. It tells us that they weren't created by david or the engineers it keeps them ancient and shows that no matter how advanced or strong a species is any of them that comes in contact with them will meet their ultimate demise.

i always thought that they were a race that was natural at one point but the engineers found them and during a time of war they molded their DNA into what it is today and thus created the Xenomorphs we know in the movies after all our own kind has done things like it not changing the DNA but by adapting the way an animal will react to us we did it with Dogs when we started taming them we created entire new breeds of them over time

Another big mystery for me was how the newborn xeno could acquire mass so fast, particularly without eating anything. Both the "chest-burster" and whatever came out of Dr. Shaw could only suck maybe hydraulic fluid and eat metal or rubber, yet grew much heavier very quickly. If that mass were compact before they came out, their hosts couldn't possibly have carried them.

Ur the best narrater on this channel.

I'm a Warhammer 40k fan, so this is kind of trippy to listen to. I'm sure Tyranids were inspired by Xenomorphs and not the other way around, but I can't help but make the comparisons in that direction in my head. Which also could give some insights into the possible future of 40k.

The Xenomorphs are very intelligent they can kill with the greatest of ease and are like stealth they will over power their enemies and anyone who gets in their way

I thought David the android tampering with the black goo derived from the Engineers created the xenomorphs.

Their ability to hive mind hosts makes them OP and be able to adapt to the environment they are in. And even operate machinery.

Gabriel Cruz is also your CO in Aliens Colonial Marines. If I remember right. He is also has a metal prosthetic leg.

can you guys talk about Darkstalkers characteres, Gill flom street fhiters 3 and exodus flom x-men?

xenos= slivers and tyranids

The mountain in the stone and fire series had the deacon from Prometheus be the mountain because over time it kept growing, amazing series of 3 different comic lines introducing predators and the world of aliens all in one

I wish R. Scott was able to do Prometheus 2 like he initially intended. Alien covenant was ok but the story he wanted to tell would have been so much better.

You forgot the most important questions of them all. Can they evolve past beyond their basic instincts? Can they stop being violent killers? Can they make the collective decision to Ascend beyond such limited primitive living? Do they always have to be evil?

The more bollocks that gets added to the series, the more I wish they'd just made the first film and left it at that.