Alien: Romulus - The 10 Biggest Burning Questions

Hold your pulse rifle and motion tracker ready, because Alien: Romulus is now in theaters. The newest entry in the long-running sci-fi horror franchise comes from director Fede Álvarez, best known for 2013’s Evil Dead remake and the original horror film Don’t Breathe. The acclaimed director takes the Alien series back to its roots by calling back to the 1979 original with another nail-biting, blood-soaked, haunted house in space. However, the new movie also left us with some serious questions, which we’ll try our best to answer here.

Whether you’re a Weyland-Yutani veteran or if this is your first time in zero gravity, we have the Alien questions (and answers?) you’ve been waiting for. Here are the topics we delve into in this video, but beware of spoilers from this point on!

Again, spoilers follow...

You're still here? OK, here come the Alien: Romulus spoilers...

-What Happened to the Xenomorph From Alien 1979?

-Why Do the Alien Movie Heroes Have a Spaceship if They’re Not Allowed to Leave the Colony?

-Why Did No One Else Notice the Romulus Space Station?

-Why Is There No Alien Queen on Romulus?

-Why Didn’t the Xenomorphs Attack En Masse Until the Third Act?

-What’s the Deal With Ian Holm’s Character, Rook, and How Does He Connect to Ash?

-Why Did Andy the Android Start Glitching in the Blue Light Room?

-How Fast Does the Prometheus Mutagen Work?

-How Many Black Liquid Mutagens Are There in This Universe and How Do They Connect to Prometheus’ Engineers?

-Why Didn’t Weyland-Yutani Get More of the Mutagen From LV-426?

OK, those are the major Alien: Romulus questions we tackle in this video, so be sure to watch as we try to answer and speculate as best we can!

[YusriYusup]

Andy didn’t glitch but was struck by a xenomorph.

[kaydawgy]

I'm convinced this dude never really saw the movie

[Guanthwei]

Andy didn't randomly glitch in the blue room, he glitches whenever he takes any kind of concussive trauma and the alien tossed him clear across the room into a bulkhead.

[MarquesStewart]

Andy starts glitching because he was attacked. The same thing happens when he's attacked by some kids at the beginning of the movie

[Death_To_Kong]

Bro, it’s obviously the alien from the original because it has the harpoon in it still. Did you even watch the movie?

[jamesormay]

The alien was around before the engineers were. This is referenced by the mural seen in Promemtheus showing a very alien like being with outstretched arms almost like a da Vinci painting. This is the scene with the vases and big head. There is even facehuggers depicted in that mural. The engineers worshipped this being as they themselves had lost the ability to reproduce, and thus studied and used its blood to both create life and destroy it. The alien seen at the end of Prometheus, the ‘Deacon’, closely resembles the alien depicted in the mural.
David did not create but rather tried to perfect the Alien. Hence the slightly different version seen in Covenant. This one is born without the chestburster stage but is a fully formed alien. This alien was too aggressive and not deemed the perfect organism …yet.
The alien life cycle stage is governed by the needs of the hive. Therefore some chestburster stages happen quicker than others.
Any alien can create eggs or ovomorph a captured host if the need is there. This is seen in the deleted scene in Alien with the captured Dallas and Brett.
The black goo in Romulus has been reversed engineered by the scientists on that station and is probably not 100 percent the same as the original hence you could explain the differences between the Prometheus goo and the Romulus goo.

[Alexo_]

This was a surprisingly poorly researched video

[YusriYusup]

The company was 3D printing the face huggers. That’s why there is no need for a queen.

[sloppychoppy]

Never forget.
Alien Isolation: rated 5.9 by IGN

[jakicevic]

In Alien isolation, it was revealed that years after the events of Alien, the crew of Anesidora picked up the beacon, landed on LV-426 to investigate, found the derelict, and shut off the beacon to prevent anyone from finding the ship. The derelict remained untouched until the events of Aliens when Ripley told the WY about it.

[memeloremaster]

That wasn't mineral ore the xenonorph was in. It's the resin they use to build their nests. He formed some sort of cocoon while in the vacuum to hibernate

[MojaveGhost]

Andy was attacked, that's why he glitched. It wasn't implied -- they flat-out showed it.

[lchu]

Others have already explained the glitching, so I’ll explain two other points:

1.) The reason the aliens didn’t attack them when the moment they got on the ship was because the station is broken into 2 parts (Romulus AND Remus) probably for safety. Andy leads them to a gondola where they travel to the other half where they then encounter the hive of mature xenomorphs.

2.) The ooze that Rook developed was derived from the original ooze but it was more advanced which is why he wants it delivered to Waylon Yutani. David also experiments and modifies ooze in the Alien Covenant. Ooze is basically an agent that causes rapid mutation/evolution, integrating the host’s DNA when it enters the body.

[hiawa]

Aliens/Alien are my all-time favorite movies. Really enjoyed Romulus.

[matchmystic]

A potential explanation for #3 is that the company knew that the vessel was infected and intentionally set it on course to be destroyed. They also likely knew that the black goo they harvested was deadly and did not serve its intended purpose, which Rook was not aware of because 1) he had been decommissioned (by circumstances) by the time this had been discovered and 2) he was not in the lab at the time he was revived.

[Klaital]

The explanation of why Rook likes like Ash is simple, it's another android of the same model.

[YusriYusup]

The pilot, Navarro, has access to the ship because it is her job as a hauler, perhaps.

[benjiskitts]

Watched this last night in imax . It was incredible and easily in the top 3 alien films . After alien and aliens .

[sontodosnarcos]

To me, the burning questions is: why rescue the Xenomorph from the Nostromo wreckage, when the company knows there are plenty of eggs on LV-426, just as they knew in the first film?

[H-tu]

Andy was sort of knocked out by the Alien and incapacitated until Rain could get to him….didnt think it was that unclear tbh