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ExLisper lemmy.curiana.net ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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Another classic. Anyone remembers Alien loves Predator?

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tal lemmy.today tal@lemmy.today
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I'm a little unclear on what sex the Xenomorph warriors are.

The queen's female.

If it's analogous to, say, ants, you'd think that the warriors would also be female.

Wikipedia doesn't appear to say:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenomorph

Like wasps or termites, xenomorphs are eusocial, with a single fertile queen breeding a caste of warriors, workers, or other specialist strains.

Though there may be something in the established canon.

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ExLisper lemmy.curiana.net ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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I'm a little unclear on what sex the Xenomorph warriors are. The queen's female. If it's analogous to, say, ants, you'd think that the warriors would also be female. Wikipedia doesn't appear to say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenomorph Like wasps or termites, xenomorphs are eusocial, with a single fertile queen breeding a caste of warriors, workers, or other specialist strains. Though there ...

In the comic the Alien character is named Abe.

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Buffalox lemmy.world Buffalox@lemmy.world
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In the comic the Alien character is named Abe.

Probably a transsexual then. 😋

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tal lemmy.today tal@lemmy.today
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Probably a transsexual then. 😋

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenomorph

Inspired after waking from a dream, Shusett said, "I have an idea: the monster screws one of them", planting its egg in his body, and then bursting out of his chest. Both realized the idea had never been done before, and it subsequently became the core of the film.[7] "This is a movie about alien interspecies rape", O'Bannon said in the documentary Alien Evolution. "That's scary because it hits all of our buttons."[8] O'Bannon felt that the symbolism of "homosexual oral rape" was an effective means of discomforting male viewers.[9]

Alien: Culture Wars

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Buffalox lemmy.world Buffalox@lemmy.world
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenomorph Inspired after waking from a dream, Shusett said, "I have an idea: the monster screws one of them", planting its egg in his body, and then bursting out of his chest. Both realized the idea had never been done before, and it subsequently became the core of the film.[7] "This is a movie about alien interspecies rape", O'Bannon said in the documentary Alien ...

Planting an egg it would generally be regarded as female. So I don't get how it becomes homosexual when Kane in Alien (1) has sis chest burst from the hatched alien.

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