
In Terminators: Five Movie Monsters to Torment Your PCs, an article published in InQuest 39, Wizard Entertainment gave an explanation for the Star Trek, Aliens, Terminator and Star Wars universes being joined together so that players of Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game could use characters, creatures, and machines from those settings as adversaries in Star Wars roleplaying adventures. Aliens, and Aliens versus Predator versus The Terminator. The Xenomorphs have appeared in numerous crossover comic books published by Dark Horse Comics, such as Superman/Aliens, Batman/Aliens, WildC.A.T.s/Aliens, Judge Dredd vs.

The first movie later spawned a franchise including three direct film sequels, two crossover films involving the aliens from the Predator franchise, and the indirect prequel Prometheus. The Xenomorph aliens, sometimes simply called "Aliens", first appeared in the film Alien, based on the designs of fantasy artist H.

Behind the scenes Ī Xenomorph from the film Alien vs. This matriarch was much larger and more daunting than her brood, and exhibited a greater intellectual capacity. Xenomorph society existed as a hive, controlled by one queen. įully-developed xenomorphs possess formidable physical abilities which far exceed that of the host, along with exceptional durability, senses, claws, blades, and highly corrosive blood to discourage an opponent from injuring one. Within a matter of hours, the embryo developed into a full-grown xenomorph. When gestation was complete, the newly-produced xenomorph would burst out of its host, killing it in the process. Over the span of several standard hours, the embryo would begin to grow and the facilitating form would die. In order to breed, an early form, hatched from an egg, would attack a viable host, such as a Human, and hijack the host body's systems to create a new xenomorph based on the host DNA.

Xenomorphs were an aggressive endoparasitoid species.
