The revolutionary revelations of the earth on the xenomorphs

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Alien: Earth Season 1.Disney and FX Alien: earth Add so many traditions to the classic xenomorphs that he has completely changed my way of seeing monsters of emblematic science fiction. Since its creation, Alien: earth was always going to change our way of seeing the xenomorphs. To show the xenomorphs in broad daylight to bring them to earth very early in the Stranger chronology, Earth is revolutionary.

I didn’t know how much Alien: earth was going to change my way of seeing the xenomorphs. At the end of Alien: earth Season 1, the show was essentially dealt with a type of xenomorphic completely different from that to which I was used to the main cannon Stranger movies. The best part is, most of Alien: earthThe changes in the xenomorphs were additions that do not rewrite the preexisting tradition.

Wendy can communicate with and control xenomorphs

The most manifest way Alien: earth Added to our understanding of the xenomorphs was done via Wendy. As we all know, Wendy can communicate with and control the xenomorphs by speaking their language. Other characters have already checked the xenomorphs, like Eloise du Stranger comics, but Wendy is the first to do so in the main Stranger Canon of films and spectacle.

The xenomorphic language alone is a huge update. Before Alien: earthWe did not even know the xenomorphs had a language. The dominant theory was that they used telepathy or pheromones to communicate with each other. Now we know that xenomorphs use a series of clicks and guttural vortices as the basis of their language, and that it is robust enough to give simple commands like “hide” and “follow”.

Wendy’s control over xenomorphs is an even more important change in our understanding of the species. In all Stranger Films and xenomorphs have been described as enraged animals only interested in the murder and protection of their queen. Now, however, we know that they can cooperate with others and share a common goal, and it doesn’t even need to be centered on a queen or hive.

More broadly, Wendy’s control over xenomorphs also changes Weyland-Yutani. Even after a few episodes, it is clear now that the xenomorphs are perfect biological weapons and that the search for centuries of Weyland-Yutani of secrecy to control them was justified. As long as you can speak their language, you can use a xenomorphic like the perfect killing machine against your enemies.

Xenomorphs may not be the most powerful species in space

Another major update of the tradition of xenomorph came from one of the Alien: earthAnother extraterrestrial species: T. The eyealso known as the eye globe monster. For decades, we assume that xenomorphs are the deadliest species in space. They can tear the colonial navies like butter, after all, and no one could effectively control them to a significant capacity. T. The eyeHowever, changed this story.

T. The eye threw a doubt about the idea that the xenomorphs are the most powerful species of the space. To travel a few T. The eye“ Abilities, he can take control of the body of any host who has eyes, he has at least almost human intelligence, comes from a sufficiently advanced society to have discovered Pi, and is incredibly dangerous even without host.

As we saw during sabotage of the USCSS Maginot,, T. The eye In fact, he was able to fight a xenomorph at a stop, both with and without a host. Only hybrids like Wendy and Yautja have already been able to hold on to an unarmed close fight with a xenomorph before, and the Yautja are no longer canon. This physical feat, combined with his intellect, made T. The eye A huge threat.

This can even mean that T. The eye is more powerful than a xenomorphic. Alien: earth has considerably increased the social and intellectual capacities of xenomorphs, but they simply cannot compare themselves to T. The eye in terms of reasoning and problem solving. We have no idea what T. The eye“The planet or culture can look like, but if it is almost as advanced as ours, it is much more dangerous than the xenomorphs.

The xenomorphs did not always go out to kill

Another big change in the xenomorphs themselves is more an inherent line, rather than that caused by the control of Wendy. After Wendy was captured by Prodigy forces, her xenomorph was left to run on the island. In the final, we saw him massacre several soldiers, but he also had a relatively calm interaction with Dame Sylvia, until he was shot down by soldiers.

This interaction with Sylvia indicates that xenomorphs are not entirely bloody and that they can even have a level of curiosity. While he was freely flowing without the orders of Wendy, the Xenomorph killed only humans who have formed an obvious threat. When he met Sylvia, however, he seemed to be concerned and tried to understand her at the intellectual level.

It is honestly a huge change in the way we consider the xenomorphs. Previously, most of us considered them as simple predators whose only function was to kill and reproduce. Prometheus Also doubled on this conception, because there were many clues that xenomorphs were developed by engineers as biological weapons. Now, however, xenomorphs are much more than killing machines.

Xenomorphs in Alien: earth Display much more animal trends than any other iteration of the franchise. The fact that xenomorphs really display a certain level of curiosity even serves as a sign that they can be semi-intelligent. They (apparently) want to know more about the world they live in, and they have the capacity to slow down their predatory instincts long enough to examine other forms of life.

Young xenomorphs will remain with adults

Part of what has, historically, made the xenomorphs so horrible is their autonomy. Once an egg is laid, a xenomorph can find a host and a gestate in a fully cultivated drone on its own without any help from other members of its species. This is how a single xenomorph can tear an entire ship like the Crew Only a few hours after erupting a person’s chest.

Alien: earthHowever, has shown us that it is not necessarily always in this way. In the final of Alien: earth,, Wendy’s xenomorphic and xenomorph who broke out of Arthur Sylvia gathered and in fact seemed to bind to each other For a brief blow. The youngest specimen is actually nestled under the oldest, as if he were preparing and sought the safety of another member of his species.

Like the previous points on xenomorphic languages ​​and curiosity, this also changes the whole species. We knew of Alien that the xenomorphs are quite similar to the hive insects with a queen who lays eggs, but Alien: earth said they had a semblance of society. These are not insane biow weapons; They care about their young people and play an active role in breeding children.

We have seen xenomorphs protect their young people before, AlienBut they are eggs laid by a queen. The way this adult and juvenile xenomorph interacts is unprecedented in the Stranger movies. Obviously, on the basis of all revelations Alien: earth We have reserved ourselves, we are barely starting to understand everything that makes the xenomorphs unique.

Release date

August 12, 2025

Directors

Dana Gonzales, Ugla Hauksdóttir, Noah Hawley

Writers

Bob Delauris

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