Where did all the phaseugers and xenomorphs come from in Alien: Romulus?

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Where did all the phaseugers and xenomorphs come from in Alien: Romulus?

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Alien: Romulus.

How is it that there are so many facehuggers and xenomorphs lurking aboard the Renaissance Research Station in Alien: RomulusAnd yet there are no eggs? With critical and commercial success, Alien: Romulus gave the Alien franchise making a much-needed comeback after a string of disappointing sequels, prequels and spin-offs. It is considered the best Alien movie since Alien And AliensWhich is appropriate because it's essentially a cross between the two films. It's a chilling, atmospheric horror movie like AlienBut it's also a high-octane action blockbuster like Aliens - It's the best of both worlds.

Whereas the usual Alien Movie formula follows a group of unsuspecting astronauts unwittingly come into contact with a xenomorph (or xenomorphs), Alien: Romulus Instead its characters exploring the aftermath of a xenomorph rampage. They go to the Renaissance research station because they need some cryosleep chambers to get them to their destination. But when they get into the station, they are shocked to find that it is not abandoned; It was ripped to shreds by xenomorphs. But since there are no eggs to be seen on the station, where did all the xenomorphs come from?

Rook explained the origin of Facehuggers on the Renaissance in Alien: Romulus

The Renaissance team reverse engineered the xenomorph DNA and 3D printed the phases.

After their first encounter with the facehuggers, the characters of Alien: Romulus Tap into what's left of the Android slide - played by Ian Holm's invisible figure - to ask him what happened. The opening scene of the movie already revealed that the crew has recovered "Big Chap" - the xenomorph from the original Alien Movie - which has survived being shot in space by Ellen Ripley. After Big Chap was captured, he was brought on board the Renaissance so that Wayland-Yutani could continue their research. According to Rook, They extracted Big Chap's DNA and used it to 3D print the facehuggers.

Rook also explains where the Renaissance crew got the mysterious black goo. They extracted the goo specifically from this stage in the xenomorph's life cycle, the stage in which the phasegers incorporate foreign DNA into their offspring. It was a great way to explain where the Engineers got the NGO from while still keeping the mystery surrounding the aliens. It also avoids retrieving the canonical hive lifecycle, because both processes can co-exist. Since they experimented on Big Chap and reverse-engineered the xenomorph DNA, the Renaissance crew didn't need eggs to create phaseugers and xenomorphs.

The Renaissance crew were used to create more Xenomorphs

Weyland-Yutani sure likes to let her employees die


Kay looks scared at alien Romulus
Image by 20th Century Studios

The Renaissance station didn't just reverse engineer the xenomorph's life cycle, create a bunch of facehuggers, and that's it. Once the research got out of hand, the Xenomorphs used the Renaissance crew to expand their hive. When rain and co. When they first arrived at the station, they were shocked to find the dead bodies of the previous crew. It is likely that the crew members were victims of the manufactured facehuggers And got implanted with their own xenomorphs. That would explain why there are a bunch of full-sized adult xenomorphs lurking on the station.

But even that is not all. When Rain, Taylor and Andy go into the hive to rescue a Cocooned Kay, they find a bunch of other poor humans in the nest. This suggests that the phase-related deaths of several crew members led to a xenomorph swarm that wiped out the rest. Suffice it to say, it would not have been very enviable to be part of the original crew of the Renaissance station.

The size of the Renaissance in Alien: Romulus allowed the large number of threats

The vast station allowed Alien: Romulus to combine the claustrophobia of aliens with the action of aliens


Cailee Spaeny recalls being a xenomorph in Alien Romulus

Director Fede Álvarez managed to have his cake and eat it too with the xenomorph threats of Alien: Romulus. Setting the movie aboard an isolated space station brought back the haunting claustrophobia of Ridley Scott's original movieBut setting it on such a vast, sprawling station allowed him to indulge in the blockbuster spectacle and high-octane xenomorph-slaying action of James Cameron. Aliens. The massive size of the Renaissance station paved the way for a wide variety of threats, from the swarm of facehuggers to the teeming xenomorph hive.

All the exposition surrounding the Renaissance crew's experimentation with xenomorph DNA and the black goo paid off as well. Only when Alien: Romulus Álvarez surprises audiences with an unexpected fourth act in which Kay gives birth to a truly horrifying human-xenomorph hybrid - dubbed "The Offspring" - that wreaks havoc on the survivors. Rook's exposition about the Xenomorph Goo research may have been a little wordy and unnecessary at first, but the power of the eventual payoff is undeniable.

Alien: Romulus is the seventh film in the Alien franchise. The movie is directed by Fede Álvarez and will focus on a new young group of characters who come face to face with the terrible xenomorphs. Alien: Romulus is a standalone film and takes place in a time that has not yet been explored in the Alien franchise.

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Fede Alvarez

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Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, Aileen Wu, Rosie Ede, Soma Simon, Bence Okeke, Viktor Orizu, Robert Bobroczkyi, Trevor Newlin, Annemarie Griggs, Daniel Betts