In the film Alien (1979), the sense of terror was amplified by portraying the enigma of space exploration and the unsettling uncertainties of the cosmos as a terrifying confinement. The monstrous alien entity featured in the movie wasn’t explicitly named; instead, it was a grotesque manifestation of parasitic life that unfortunate and unaware humans unwittingly encountered. Over time, as Alien has solidified its place as a horror genre staple for over 40 years, there have been attempts to elaborate on the mythos introduced in the first film, including an origin story for the xenomorphs. Following the release of three Alien sequels throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Ridley Scott revisited the franchise in the early 2010s to clarify the mystery surrounding the Space Jockey ship filled with facehugger eggs on LV-426. However, this explanation led to a new wave of unanswered questions.

In the recent trilogy comprising the movies “Prometheus,” “Alien: Covenant,” and “Alien: Romulus,” the narrative arc of the xenomorph species has been significantly broadened. These films have introduced a substance called ‘the black goo’ into the franchise, a puzzling mutagen material that can drastically transform biological lifeforms or produce a genetically superior organism, known as the xenomorph. It seems that many fans are still perplexed about the fragmented origins of these creatures, as evidenced by discussions on “Alien” forums. Here’s an explanation of how the story connects.

Alien’s Xenomorph Origin Explained

The Engineers & The Black Goo

The Engineers were an advanced extraterrestrial race that existed long before humans. The start of the movie ‘Prometheus’ shows one of them sacrificing himself to trigger Earth’s creation event. This scene suggests that white-skinned humanoids are the ancestors of all life on Earth, including us. However, it remains a mystery how, when, and where the Engineers discovered the power to create life from the black goo, or where this substance originates.

In Alien: Romulus, there’s an intriguing debate about whether the black ooze is a naturally occurring substance or a laboratory-created material, which leads to a fascinating quandary: Did the xenomorphs evolve from the black goo altering other life forms, or was the goo extracted from some sort of biological source and the xenomorphs are simply the ultimate manifestation of its mutagenic abilities?

Romulus unveiled “The Offspring,” a hybrid being with both human and xenomorph traits. This unique creature was developed by subjecting a pregnant woman to an altered version of a black goo substance (previously reverse-engineered by Weyland-Yutani scientists). Interestingly, the hybrid exhibited characteristics reminiscent of the Engineers, raising questions about the origins of the black goo. It’s possible that Engineer DNA is the fundamental building block of the black goo; alternatively, it could be that Weyland-Yutani scientists incorporated Engineer DNA into their concoction, aiming to produce a substance that enhances human physiology rather than creating monsters (a goal similar to the “Prometheus” serum).

The mystery surrounding the manipulation of the dark substance remains a significant point of debate within the contemporary series; films such as Prometheus, Alien: Covenant, and Alien: Romulus have all depicted various iterations of this dark substance, each subjected to experimentation by diverse groups. In Prometheus, the Engineers were shown to have created and stored weaponized containers of this dark substance in off-world research facilities, using it either to eliminate life from entire planets or to create new, mutated life forms to populate worlds. Alien: Covenant introduced a compound derived from the dark substance, which rogue android David (Michael Fassbender) developed further while stranded on the Engineer homeworld. However, the black goo that David produced led to the creation of a thinner, fleshy, white-skinned version of the creatures, known as “Neomorphs.” David subsequently refined the process by introducing an intermediary step involving parasitic facehuggers capable of infecting hosts with mutant DNA in the form of embryos that develop into more powerful black-skinned xenomorph drones (such as “Xenomorph XX121” from the original film).

Gap In Evolution

It’s undeniable that the Alien franchise has a significant narrative gap concerning the events leading up to the original film. The ending of Alien: Covenant suggests that David, the android, fled from the Engineer homeworld onboard the Covenant ship and carried facehugger embryos with him. However, it remains unclear how David, who is responsible for creating the facehugger eggs, transitioned from seemingly exploring the cosmos and conducting experiments to have those eggs found on an Engineer ship that crashed on LV-426. This plot hole could be resolved if we assume that the Engineer corpse on LV-426 is extremely old – in the broader context post-Prometheus, it might be reasonable to infer that the crash on LV-426 was another instance of a biological weapon being accidentally released, and then laying dormant until an opportunity for contamination reemerged.

Instead of dwelling on the inconsistency between David’s experiments and the LV-426 crash timeline in Alien, it’s important to note that Alien leaves open the possibility that these events may not be directly linked. The films Prometheus and Alien: Covenant have hinted at a strong connection between the Engineers and xenomorphs, suggesting they were even worshipped by this civilization. In the final scene of Prometheus, we learn that an infected Engineer gives birth to an “Aethon” or “Deacon,” a sub-species of xenomorph with similar features like a long dome-shaped head and extendable jaw. This implies that the Engineers had encountered this threat before. So, it’s possible to resolve this discrepancy by suggesting that David was not the first scientist to discover the facehugger/egg method using the black goo; instead, the “Space Jockey” Engineer from LV-426 could have been an older example of this process that eventually fell into obscurity after the ship crashed.

A more thrilling type of explanation is suggested because it presents numerous opportunities for the Alien series to delve deeper in the future. For instance, David’s ongoing narrative, the tale behind the shipwreck on LV-426, and the mystery surrounding the fate of the Prometheus serum between Alien: Resurrection and Aliens are all intriguing possibilities. Furthermore, there are still many exciting new directions that the franchise could venture into, going beyond just clarifying everything that has already taken place.

Alien movies are available to stream on Hulu-Disney+.

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2025-01-22 22:16