If a Facehugger impregnated a gerbil...?

[MLJames]

Back in '97 there was a two-issue Batman/Aliens crossover comic that contained a pretty good look at what can happen when something other than a human gets attacked by a facehugger.


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In the second issue, a crocodile was the victim, and the resulting alien was pretty nasty. The art was by Bernie Wrightson, so it looked quite impressive. It resulted from a standard egg and facehugger, though.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Did Batman really have time to prepare for an alien?

 

[Deckerd]

It's hard to see how a Tyrannoalien could be any more fearsome than either of its parents.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

http://andywibbels.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8354f1fb569e201310fd8cbfb970c-pi

 

[Reverend]

I think the sheer mechanics of a facehugger subduing a T-Rex long enough to stick it's ovipositor down it's gullet makes the whole scenario very unlikely. Best case scenario, the 'Rex bites the thing in half and gets the front half of it's snout melted off. So Facehugger vs. T-Rex: no score draw.

As for Facehugger vs. Gerbil...I'm pretty sure if it could even get a solid grip that the ovipositor would split the little guy in twain.

Out of curiosity, has any artist tried to depict what the Space Jockey xeno might have looked like? I often wondered where on the derelict that thing could have been hiding...dead or alive. I mean it must have been *huge* and can you imagine if it was a queen? Suddenly the T-Rex match-up seems a lot more tenable.

 

[RoJoHen]

Out of curiosity, has any artist tried to depict what the Space Jockey xeno might have looked like? I often wondered where on the derelict that thing could have been hiding...dead or alive. I mean it must have been *huge* and can you imagine if it was a queen? Suddenly the T-Rex match-up seems a lot more tenable.

I almost wonder if the Queen we see in "Aliens" is the Space Jockey xeno. Something had to lay all those eggs on board the Space Jockey's ship. It's possible a Facehugger snuck aboard and infected the Space Jockey. The xeno that burst through the Jockey's chest may have been the Queen, who laid the eggs that infected Kane and later the base at LB-427.

That would follow that every alien we've seen since then has been part Space Jockey.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

There are a lot of fan art when you search for Space Jockey on Google Images. Although I think they all give you worse idea than the original does. They all depict an alien with a trunk-like organ with openly-visible ribs, but when I look at the space jockey I imagine a being whose mouth is inside its neck, and doesn't have a trunk – the trunk-ish structure is just a (second?) spine running through the front side of the neck, and it together with the ribs are hidden under flesh. And perhaps that thing there is not a mouth at all.

 

[sojourner]

Maybe Facehuggers were around 65 million years ago and they were impregnating dinos and creating horrific creatures the likes of which the universe had never seen!!!

The asteroid was no accident. It was sent the Green Lanterns of 65 million years ago, wiping out this nightmare hybrid species and making the galaxy safe for humanoids.

See, writing original sci if is easy. I'll bet nobody's ever thought of any of that shit before and it took me 20 seconds. What's Hollywood's problem?

Instead they just remake shit. Now they're remaking Beetlejuice! Where will the horror end?

If you read the article it says sequel.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Hmmmm... How 'bout a Facehugger w/ a Tribble? Or better yet...a Glommer

 

[Silvercrest]

This may be fairly obvious, but how about a facehugger and a Predator? Did they try that in the Alien/Pred movies? I haven't seen them.

 

[RoJoHen]

This may be fairly obvious, but how about a facehugger and a Predator? Did they try that in the Alien/Pred movies? I haven't seen them.

The PredAlien is the main enemy in the second one. Unfortunately, the lighting was so terrible in that movie that you could barely see it. It was basically a xenomorph with an angry vagina face and dreadlocks.

 

[Holdfast]

Hmmmm... How 'bout a Facehugger w/ a Tribble?

Somewhere out there, a Klingon just shat himself. Twice.

 

[137th Gebirg]

This may be fairly obvious, but how about a facehugger and a Predator? Did they try that in the Alien/Pred movies? I haven't seen them.

^^^ Yes.

http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Predalien

 

[137th Gebirg]

Hmmmm... How 'bout a Facehugger w/ a Tribble?

Somewhere out there, a Klingon just shat himself. Twice.

At least it would give them new songs to sing in the next "Great Tribble Hunt"

 

[Reverend]

Out of curiosity, has any artist tried to depict what the Space Jockey xeno might have looked like? I often wondered where on the derelict that thing could have been hiding...dead or alive. I mean it must have been *huge* and can you imagine if it was a queen? Suddenly the T-Rex match-up seems a lot more tenable.

I almost wonder if the Queen we see in "Aliens" is the Space Jockey xeno. Something had to lay all those eggs on board the Space Jockey's ship. It's possible a Facehugger snuck aboard and infected the Space Jockey. The xeno that burst through the Jockey's chest may have been the Queen, who laid the eggs that infected Kane and later the base at LB-427.

That would follow that every alien we've seen since then has been part Space Jockey.

I think Ridley Scott's version of events is that the derelict was transporting the eggs as cargo to be used as weapons. So there probably wasn't ever a queen on board. How one egg got out of containment and infected the pilot is anyone's guess.

There are a lot of fan art when you search for Space Jockey on Google Images. Although I think they all give you worse idea than the original does. They all depict an alien with a trunk-like organ with openly-visible ribs, but when I look at the space jockey I imagine a being whose mouth is inside its neck, and doesn't have a trunk – the trunk-ish structure is just a (second?) spine running through the front side of the neck, and it together with the ribs are hidden under flesh. And perhaps that thing there is not a mouth at all.

I'd always thought that the "trunk" was part of some kind of bio-mechanical apparatus, vaguely analogous to a space suit or similar life support gear. Indeed the whole design-chair included-looks like it's meant to blur the line between where the creature ends and the machine begins. With that in mind, there no telling what the space jockey might look like in it's natural state. Hell, for all we know, it's as much of an engineered life-form as the xenomorph may have been. Perhaps built to spend it's entire existence in that chair, piloting it's ship.

 

[Set Harth]

For whatever it's worth, here's what the comics went with.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LE2M_gwRY_U/TiksnAw2FLI/AAAAAAAAAvU/kZJBUXfnVXQ/s1600/Alien+Comic.jpg

 

[RoJoHen]

That's a terrible design. I always imagined the Space Jockey being far more impressive and intimidating.

 

[Reverend]

Personally I rather like this take on the design. Still a little hung up on the "trunk", but I like the non-humaniod approach and the style certainly feels Geiger-esque.

 

[Set Harth]

Here's another fairly pedestrian example of the comics' approach:
http://images.wikia.com/aliens/images/0/0a/Space_Jockey.jpg

 

[TremblingBluStar]

I always wondered about the "space jockey" race. I loved that scene from the original film, and wish we had seen more races and alien vessels in subsequent films.

One thing that confused me about the scene is Dallas says the space jockey is "fossilized". I imagine he meant it was mummified. I doubt the alien eggs were sitting there for the millions of years it would take something to turn to rock!