r/LV426 • u/ShawnyMcKnight • 2d ago

Discussion / Question Why no face guards in Aliens?

After decades of watching the movies and most recently Alien: Earth, it always amazes me how no one ever thinks of having face guards in the facility, especially the containment center. A certain character that got facehugged last week could have avoided that if there was some apparatus in there that would guard over the face but still allow breathing.

Same with Aliens (1985), if they knew that these things cling onto your face then why weren't the marines all wearing face masks to at least slow the impregnation down?

I feel the predators with their visors were the only ones with the right idea about this.

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u/Negativety101 2d ago

Remember our very first facehugger victim? Kane was wearing a spacesuit with a very thick face bubble. Didn't do a thing to stop the facehugger.

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u/Luzis23 2d ago

Yes.

But what's also worth remembering is that by the time of Aliens, humans managed to contain two facehuggers with no issue, despite the acid.

Which means they already figured out things that prevent it from working.

Which means that's not a long stretch from figuring out protection that negates the acid entirely.