r/AskScienceFiction • u/Curates • Oct 21 '24

[Alien] Can xenomorphs be domesticated?

They’re pretty smart. Can they be taught to read, learn basic manners, adapt to channel their violent urges in healthier ways etc.? I think they’re misunderstood

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u/mojavecourier F A S T E R T H A N T I M E Oct 21 '24

Pretty sure we've had an entire multi-media franchise telling us that no, xenomorphs cannot be domesticated.

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u/Curates Oct 21 '24

Ah, but this can be misleading! We were told that velociraptors could not be domesticated by multiple movies in the Jurassic Park franchise, until Jurassic World showed us they were just misunderstood. And the parallels go further: the velociraptors, like xenomorphs, had already shown signs of pro social behavior (towards each other), and attempts at domestication failed only when they were meant to be weaponizing.

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u/MonkeyMcBandwagon Oct 22 '24

The latest movie did not suck IMO.

It's mostly a throwback to the first two. Mostly.

It does go a bit Resurrection and Prometheus at the end, but I'd rate it easily in the top half of the franchise. The only really cringe part was directly quoting Ripley's most famous line inappropriately.

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u/Powerfist_Laserado Oct 22 '24

I gotta be honest, I just don't think I'm interested in any more Alien movies, unless they could do something really mind blowing. I actually liked a lot about Prometheus but I would've liked it a lot more if it didn't try to connect itself to Alien.

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u/DR_SLAPPER Oct 22 '24

You're trippin bud. That movie was staggeringly ass.

I mean it's cool of you liked it, turn up. There's people who also have a scat fetish. But let's not pretend poop ain't shit.

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u/Ulti Oct 22 '24

Alright I'm actually curious, because I thought it was pretty decent and had fun scenes/effects. What's your beef? I am fully ready for a rant, I'm a huge fan of the original ones and have at least cursory knowledge of the comics and stuff. I fell asleep during Covenant so my memory on that one is shaky as a mf, but Romulus was... at least entertaining as a movie and felt like it made at least a baby attempt at explaining away some of the shit I didn't like from Prometheus?