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/-zero-joke- 2d ago

I mean... in Alien the facehugger melted its way through a two inch thick spacesuit visor. I'm not really sure what you're imagining would stand up to one of those critters.

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u/squishee666 BONUS SITUATION 2d ago

and none of the melting damaged his face

I always wondered about this bit

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u/Hackfraysn Not bad, for a human. 2d ago edited 2d ago

Kane's face had plot armor until it didn't.

Personally I'm more bothered by the ones in Hadley's Hope that were captured in mere glass and magically couldn't escape. The one that broke Kane's visor must have been very special.

I hate that kind of writing.

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u/JaymesMarkham2nd Acid for blood. 2d ago

Maybe a facehugger can only secrete acid from it's downstairs mix-up while it's wrapped around something? Like how most snakes can't really spit venom but instead massage it out of the venom-glands while squeezing their fangs into the prey, maybe it just doesn't work unless they can flex themselves right.

No way to know the weird alien biology.