Alien's New Facehuggers Would Make the Movie's Iconic Twist Impossible
Warning: Spoilers for Alien #10!
In the Ridley Scott movie, Alien, Nostromo crew member Kane stunned audiences after being violently killed by an alien entity bursting through his chest, but in Marvel’s Alien comic, a newly introduced Facehugger could never replicate that same iconic twist. Not knowing what Kane was in for after being attacked by a Facehugger was a perfect way to introduce this terrifying new movie monster, yet is something the comic cannot lay claim to in the same way.
As seen in Alien #10, by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Salvador Larroca, this issue introduces a new form of the Xenomorph species that are as disgusting as they are horrifying. Following a band of humans running from a Xenomorph infestation, the small group of survivors eventually comes across an alien hive chock-full of their fellow settlers and deadly Xenomorph organisms alike.
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Finding one of their own trapped and hanging from a wall, the man appears bloated and disfigured almost beyond recognition. And as a sickening sound begins to escape from somewhere deep in his throat, the newest addition to team Xenomorph bursts from his slack-jawed mouth, sporting a look that resembles a kind of mini, bipedal, Xeno-looking leech.
Later shown to forcibly enter another settler's mouths in a rather dramatic and traumatic fashion, compared to the OG Facehugger (which was relatively slow and subtle in its incubation), there’d be no way a host would be unaware there was something inside of them if they had encountered this all-new type of alien. Deforming their hosts in a pretty obvious way after wiggling into their bodies, Kane’s initial diagnosis was decidedly not obvious, lending to
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