The Alien and Predator Iceberg Explained

Whoever wins, we lose. Except that's not true because they're fictional creatures. Unless...

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00:00 - Intro
01:32 - Tier I: Weyland-Yutani
47:06 - Commercial Break 1
47:43 - Tier II: Colonial Marines
01:35:35 - Commercial Break 2
01:36:11 - Tier III: OWLF
2:14:48 - Commercial Break 3
2:15:25 - Tier IV: Project Stargazer
2:53:58 - Outro

[Pigpen_YT]

Like an idiot I accidentally call 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros in the final entry. My bad. Also there's so many links to articles and videos in the description, I ran out of room. Here's the rest of the stuff I wanted to link

[itzclassified]

Not to flex or anything but my Uncle is a Predator

[TheHaddonfieldRegistry]

Cameron went from "AvP is going to corrupt the legacy of Alien" to "Let's do 4 more Avatars" real quick lmao

[mercaius]

"Disney pulled out because they believed it the attraction was far too scary for children."

Are you serious? The horrifying monster lurking in the dark, drooling on you, breathing down your neck, was only a problem if it was a xenomorph?

[TomatoPastes]

My 9 hour shift just started, thank you pigpen

[AluminumFusion]

I came back to say that you can thank Randy Pitchford for the disclaimer "not actual game footage" at the bottom of certain gameplay footage before a game releases. During Colonial Marines's development, Gearbox would showcase footage that Pitchford repeatedly claimed was in-game, but after the game was downgraded graphically at launch and it was discovered that the footage shown wasn't in the game itself, Gearbox was sued for false advertising and SEGA sued them for misuse of company funds, as the money was meant to be used exclusively for Colonial Marines, like Pigpen says.

[siadmander]

Side note but a "Predator King" is an awesome idea for a counterpart to the Alien Queen. Would love to see that idea revisited

[alyxtheexorcist]

I think it’s cool that the Predator race exists in Earth 616’s multiverse.

[JackassJunior]

Some of your points are explored more in the expanded media. Like Xenomorphs have been shown to express emotions. Warriors and drones have expressed grief when a Queen dies, a Queen was shown emotional distress when being forced to watch her young burn to death. Xenomorphs have shown signs of fear, anger and even personal revenge against certain individual enemies.
They also express enjoyment when “toying” with their prey.

Loved this video, but just thought to mention there is ALOT more explored in expanded media.

[God_gundam]

To be fair making the alien queen thick is more in line with HRs vision

[kapitankapital]

I always enjoyed the 4Kidz spin-off: "Kid Alien vs Child Predator"

[TheHaddonfieldRegistry]

One thing I do have to add: Both Ridley Scott and Alan Dean Foster have stated that the point of David's story was not to depict him creating the Xenomorph. The point of the Prequels was to show Humanity's hubris is not exlusive to humanity.
The Engineer's created the Xenomorphs, thousands of years ago. We know this is this the case, as we see the egg chamber and Spacejockey in Alien, and it's been there for centuries.
David is said to have 'perfected' an 'organism' that the Engineer's feared. That organism wasn't the Deacon, it was the Xenomorph. David's creations are not Xenomorphs, but 'Perfect' Xenomorphs, or 'True' Xenomorphs.
The entire point of that duology is that human's are looking for their creators while creating life themselves, only to find out our creator's don't care about us, they also made monsters, and we see in real time that even OUT creations can build monsters, (David building the New Xeno).
Also, the Xeno mural isn't a mural of a Xeno at all, Scott has confirmed that was a Deacon.
Scott and Foster have explained that the film was intentionally vague, as to leave the viewer in the dark on which came first, the Chicken or the Egg. We aren't meant to know where the Xenos come from, if they're explicitly made by the Engineers, or if they're David's creation. It's Scott's metaphor for the futility of searching for God, because God isn't knowable, and at the same time, he's all around us.
But of course that went over fans heads, and Scott and Foster had to come out and say "Yeah, David just reverse engineered an existing Xeno species that the Engineers built a long time ago."

[sgarden]

Really neat video. Thanks for that.

Quick correction: The Colonial Marines game isn't canon and never was. Randy Pitchford tricked some nerd from Kotaku into thinking it was just to hype the game and the guy ran with it, but it's not official lore even though a lot of people think it is and in fact want it to be. Mainline film canon isn't replaced by video games. At least not in Alien.

But again, awesome video.

[MAJR]

I had no idea Wildlands removed the Pred tie in.

Thus fills me with rage

[GiantSlayer-]

I can't believe you didn't mentioned Capcom Alien vs Predator.

[mistur]

Despite there being alien variants not being canon to the mainline series, what is canon is that similar to Venom and how you can venomize any character, you can alienfy many creatures

[topcat]

You also forgot to mention that when Johnny and Jax are selected to fight one an the other and they have the predator skins they will reenact the you son of a bitch scene in game.🐱

[blackheartmargo]

Terminator iceberg would make a really good follow up to this

[MikeVonwolkenstein]

Just got reminded of The predator (2018) movie’s existence.

Day ruined

And entires like the last one, just adds more fuel to the fire of the train wreck that was The predator

[damianhd]

I don’t know how this man doesn’t have 100k subs he works so hard for our enjoyment.Keep up the good work bro