The Xenomorph - Asexual and bloodsucking?

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chli

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Eggmorphing has been a topic again in another thread - but perhaps not the xenomorph being a vampire? :)

Asexuality

In Alien, the xenomorph is clearly not mating. What it does is probably transferring its DNA through its secretion when building a nest? When a victim is placed in the secretion structure it is dissolved and transformed into an egg (if we go by the director’s cut, that is). Otherwise, a queen would be needed (which is also asexual)?

Bloodsucking

I don’t believe we have seen a xenomorph eating, have we? In Alien, it killed Brett, Parker and Lambert (but kept Dallas alive in the nest). It kills its victim by stabbing it with its inner jaw so that the victim’s blood spurts everywhere. Perhaps the xenomorph drinks it? All the victims are intact (except for the spurted blood).

The only possible proof of this thesis might be the neomorph? After having decapitated Rosenthal with a powerful bite in the neck, it sits on top of the body and seems to be feasting in the blood spurting out from the neck? It is drenched in blood when it comes towards David.

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March 31, 2018

true iraptus, gruesome indeed. but again, just theory, do u think the xeno injects its victims with a form of parallising toxin that immobilises the victim and would this possibly act as an anaesthetic? perhaps to stop the victim from dying prematurely due to a heart attack possibly?

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April 01, 2018

“it's eaten too much of me…” doesn’t necessarily mean that the alien has literally eaten from him? It could refer to the resin that the alien throws up, which the hosts are entangled in, dissolves the victims and transforms (morphs) them into eggs? As Ripley finds the cocooned Dallas, parts of him might already have been dissolved? On the other hand, the lair is “full of bones, hair, shreds of flesh, pieces of clothing, and shoes” suggests that the alien has eaten (parts) of them?

In “Sea of Sorrows” (canon?) we get to “hear” the aliens thinking (and the main character is telepathic) and the aliens “say” that they use the victims both as food and as hosts for their offspring.

In “The Weyland-Yutani Report” it says that the xenomorph is asexual and I suppose we must take this as canon?