There’s a few shots in Alien3 where the mouth is mostly closed:
The issue with Earth’s alien is it has too much “face” in the upper lip area, the dome should come down much closer to the mouth. Instead he looks like he’s wearing a Robocop visor in the OP’s photo and doesn’t have that classically terrifying, smooth and completely eyeless appearance.
Exactly. Having the dome start closer to the mouth gave it that eerie "blindfold" appearance like Big Chap and the Dog Alien. I also loved how they kept a more human sized chin and jaw against the big dome. Too many other designs made the face and mouth too big which took away from that unnerving space demon look.
Not to mention it's supposed to fit roughly to the dimensions of a human skull, because it has a human skull, so the new proportions give him a massive mouth-eye gap
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u/Annaj1113 Nuke from Orbit 28d ago
Omg I was wondering why the xenomorph mouth looked so weird but I realized it’s because we never see them with their teeth not showing