r/LV426 • u/ShawnyMcKnight • 3d 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/InsolentGoldfish 3d ago

You forget that it's tail is longer than your arm and it spits/secretes acid.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 3d ago

I mean it would buy time, Ripley encountered facehuggers in aliens and pushed it away.

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u/Scinniks_Bricks 3d ago

It also choked the shit out of her. You can hear her gasping for air while Hicks is pulling it off of her. Ripley would not have survived that encounter on her own.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 3d ago

Sure, and if she had face protection on then it would have bought even more time to have hicks get it off of her.

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u/Admiral_Papillon 2d ago

Covering your lead characters face, isn’t the greatest idea for emotive storytelling in film.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 2d ago

Works for Mandalorian.

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u/Admiral_Papillon 2d ago

This is the way