The only reason xenomorphs are ever a credible threat is because of plot armor and sudden stupidity from their future victims. They're not intelligent beings, no matter how much the films try to tell us otherwise. At best, they're comparable to a durable tiger or a leopard. When human stupidity fails to make them threatening, plot contrivances step in to allow them to keep killing (e.g. that one inmate releasing the imprisoned alien in 3). They're even less of a threat when given actual time to prepare with the advanced technology of the 22nd century. The technology for power armor and intelligent, obedient robots clearly exists but is never utilized against the alien threat. If this were done, there would be no padded two hour "ten little niggers" plot and instead roughly fifteen minutes of xenomorph genocide. The only thing about them that is scary is their appearance, and this stops being the case by the time most people turn eleven.
Xenomorphs are stupid
Wrong.
Correct.
Outlook not good.
We did it reddit!
>dude, they're just big ants!
There are Alien comics that acknowledge this.
Eventually, humans become familiar enough with xenomorphs that dealing with hives of them becomes typical tuesdays for blue collar space workers.
They show up with acid proof power armor, sonic tranquilizers and pheromone sprays and just like that that, the threat is gone.
Thank James Cameron for that. Ridley Scott wanted to do a highly-intelligent, nigh-indestructible killing machine that also served as an allegory for sexual violence but then Cameron memed his way into the franchise and said "dude, ants XD" and now there's no going back
there were no xenos in covenant
>Ridley Scott
There's that name again.
That isn't how it's represented in the original film though?
The original xenomorph was just an animal.
>"dude, ants XD"
lost
It is implied by Ash that the creature is not only intelligent, but sadistic. Not in a cat kind of way of sublimated predator instincts, but in a human way of actually enjoying the pain of other life forms. That was all lost in the second one when they were retconned as giant space ants.
>It is implied by Ash that the creature is not only intelligent, but sadistic
Saying and showing are two different things.
Well... yeah.
Especially on the point about sending in androids/robots to do the fighting instead of "space marines".
But if you did that there wouldn't be much of a movie, would there be?
>But if you did that there wouldn't be much of a movie, would there be?
There could still be a movie, but the drama would have to be found somewhere other than in fighting/surviving xenomorphs.
The creature does show signs of sentience. It was capable of mentally adapting to an enviroment that was also alien to it in a matter of hours, and in the final encounter with Ripley it kind of looks like it's trying to communicate. The original ending of the movie was gonna be about the xeno killing Ripley and then imitating her voice to send a distress signal in order to lure more humans. It was scrapped because Scott was unsure of the financial success of the movie and wanted a more self-contained story that didn't imply any type of sequel.
It's rather clear that the Xenomorph of the first movie is sapient. But all of that was lost when the bug treatment came along.
>mimicking her voice
That would have be so bad, it doesn't even have LIPS
It does. Go watch the movie again.
>Alien was this bad
Don't know why I ever thought highly of Ridley Scott
Like Prometheus?