Suggestion: Alien Franchise Could Continue On After Ressurection-Zombiefied Xenomorph Enduring Parasitic Invasion Itself
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MemberOvomorphSep-24-2014 7:46 AMSuggestion:Alien Franchise Could Continue On After Alien: Ressurection With Zombiefied Xenomorph Enduring Parasitic Invasion Itself
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Haven't been on here in a while, hope this idea hasn't already been covered. After playing Aliens: Colonial Marines I thought it's possible that the Xenomorph could itself be parasitically invaded by some unknown viral organism/parasite/pandemic.
This will in no way weaken the Xenomorph or the perception of the Xenomorph but give it pause for thought and may go some ways in rebooting the Alien franchise past Alien Ressurection and beyond.
Seeing all of those petrifide Alien Xenomorph husks (petrifide as in petrifide forests, ossifide not petrifide as in scared... not yet anyway) and acid spitting Xeno-hybrids it would certainly be compleling for the Alien Xeno hives and mega-colonies to become seriously infected and their numbers to become seriously decimated. It would be able to draw upon the Alien vs Predator comics where just the Xenomoroph were becoming two distinctic colonies and colors: red and black. Alien: Genocide was the story arc and would be interesting source material to lift ideas and themes from.
Naturally, it would be compared to The Flood in the Halo game series as-well-as The Thing films. Halo itself has borrowed from the Alien franchise over the years and to some extent The Thing films too. It has largely been stated that the Alien Xeno is not scary anymore but to suddenly see it coming at you relentlessly like the undead in World War Z or the Night Seekers in I Am Legend and begin attacking the uninfected Xenomorphs as-well-as any Humans that get in their way. Perhaps it could start as the Xeno infection is only fast becoming deadly to uninfected Xeno colonies spread throughout the galaxy (the Ebola for Aliens if you will) but then it crosses over into the Human gene pool and perhaps end-up looking like the deleted scene of zombiefied Fifield in Prometheus attacking the remaining ininfected crew. The theatrical version of Fifield could also be what Human/Xeno zombiefication could look like and somehow essence of the Black Goop could be responsible nearly a whole century later in the Alien universe and could rear its ugly head again at some point.
The Borg are zombies when you think about it and in some ways are the walking dead/infected too by Borg Nanoprobes. Species 8472 are a relentless biological lifeform whos phisiology make them a being to be recond with. Here's another thought: Xenos themselves being possibly facehugged by parasitically infected eggs/facehuggers. Two rival colonies/Xeno races veing for supremacy. Throw Weland-Yutani into the mix and have a band of Humans for whatever justifiable/logical reason caught-up between the Devil and The Deep Blue Sea would feel like the clostraphobia of Alien/Aliens crossed with the global armageddon of World War Z's spreading infection.
Adding to that the whole prequelization of the Prometheus franchise and the good nub of a continuing franchise post Alien Ressurection still with bionic/Alien Ripley clone, now much older becoming a female Arnie Terminator and in some ways cold and calculating like Ash. That would both be ironic and compelling to watch, that it is the much older Ripley character that may-or-may-not be manipulating proceedings to suit herself out of some Alien Xenomorph alligence and loyalty. Being underhand to the Humans while shifting loyalties back and forth between Xenos and people.