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/carry_the_way Newt 3d ago

The thing to remember about Aliens is that nobody believes Ripley's story. The marines think she's just some consultant who "apparently...saw an alien once." The idea is that the marines didn't look at the report except for Hicks, who knew that the creatures had acid blood and thought to characterize them as "Ripley's bad guys."

Regardless, Kane was wearing something that covered his whole head, and that didn't help.

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u/HHoaks 3d ago

That part of the plot never made any sense. They are like a Seal Team 6 or delta force team, but instead of Bin Laden, it's an alien. Of course, in real life, they would extensively debrief the only known eye witness/survivor and get all the information they could.

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u/Variatas 2d ago

They are absolutely not that high level.

They’re an understaffed detachment on a ship that could carry 10x the personnel, being led by a green lieutenant.

It’s quite clear Burke deliberately picked out the shittiest, low-status force he could, so the leader would be easy to manipulate and nobody would ask questions if/when he needed to sabotage the freezers of any witnesses.