All 31 Xenomorphs in The Entire Alien Story Explained! (Offspring, Queen, Goddess...)

The Xenomorph is known as the Perfect Organism, however, throughout the Alien movies, comics & video games there's been multiple new variants! From the Offspring in Alien: Romulus, the Xenomorph Goddess, to ones mutated by the Black Goo Pathogen. This is every kind of Xenomorph. Weyland-Yutani and David would love to see this as they worked to perfect their Prometheus strain!

00:00 Ovomorph
02:46 Facehugger
05:48 Goddess
06:53 Chestburster
07:57 Drone
10:04 Warrior
11:39 Runner
12:31 Trilobite
13:33 Deacon
14:25 Bloodburster
15:56 Neomorph
17:23 Royal Facehugger
18:31 Queen
21:28 Newborn
22:42 Praetorian
24:31 Crusher
25:07 Prowler/Spitter/Burster
26:20 Seven
27:47 Monica
28:27 Necromorph
29:23 Praetomorph
31:26 Alpha
32:31 Icarus Strain
33:07 The Offspring
35:51 Pathogen Xenomorphs
37:45 Tuber/Submorphs

[Rathause]

It’s so weird to me that relatively early in the Alien franchise it was established that Xenomorphs take on traits of their host and if you infect different creatures via a Facehugger you’ll get different kinds of Xenomorphs. But the weird part is future Alien films and stories almost never take advantage of that idea and instead most of the Xenomorphs that are seen are genetically engineered mutations or part of the Xenomorph’s caste system.

Just seems like a lost opportunity. You could have a movie where a bear gets infected, or a rhino, or a shark, or an eagle, and they’ll all be really interesting monsters.

[siege]

Feels like half of the variations were simply 90s video game logic. "Make it a different color or something, just reuse the asset we already have but change it just enough so the players knows it's a harder difficulty" lol

[VioletteZero]

Fun fact about dog aliens (runners):

In Monilith's Aliens Versus Predator 2, there was a multiplayer option called "Alien Lifecycle Mode) where all xenomorph characters would spawn in as facehugger, can facehug other players, turn into a chestburster then a xenomorph.

What type of xenomorph you became depends on who you facehug. If you attach to a marine, you become a regular xenomorph. If you attach to a predator, you become a predalien.

But if you attach to a corporate mercenary, you become a dog xenomorph.

Confirming once and for all that they are, in fact, literally corporate dogs.

[BestCupid]

Playing Alien Isolation, taught me those bastards are incredibly intelligent with how much he learns from me exploring and trying to escape the station. Never been played by a AI when i had a flamethrower until that game

[Thatguyagain]

"this is the xenomorph goddess"
"..."
"Hear me out"

[BoxedAnemone]

the protomorphs and decans really confuse me because xenos evolved naturally but the two films (covenant and promethius) insiniuate that david was the creator of the xeno species

[briandeluca]

17:06 I like how David thinks the alien trust him, but it seems more like it was studying David and didn’t understand what it was or how to perceive him. lol

[autonomous]

I remember watching Alien Resurrection when i was like 10, and the newborn is still to this day the most disturbing looking monster ive ever seen in a movie. The death scene also scarred me as a child 🤣

[notMr.Wolfie]

my head canon is that no matter what the black goo changes it will always lead back to a xenomorph. the queen would always be the final result to start the process again.

[noneedtoknow]

Yeah in any Alien game I've played, the Facehuggers are the scariest thing there. Something about a spider shaped creature who's entire purpose is to give you a face full of alien wing wong is terrifying beyond the point of explanation.

[lawfulpotato]

I do like how half of these things are a direct result of Weyland-Yutani
The Company keeping it classy as always

[triplebog]

This franchise is the king of "tell don't show" when it comes to alien intelligences

[RegisteredFelon-kibe]

Xenomorphs are so hard to deal with 💀

>Facehugger on your friend’s face

“I’ll just remove it.”

>It’ll break his neck

“I’ll just cut it’s tail off.”

>Acid blood will burn his body

“I’ll just freeze the tail then!”

>Good idea, the tail can’t work anymore, however the egg has already reached the chest cavity-

“GOD DAMN IT.”

[HIXTAR]

I dont think that was the cocoon defending itself, pretty sure it was the Xenos tail

[Guava]

Man just make predators canon to the alien franchise already. People already think of predators when they see aliens and vice versa. They work so well together based on both their stories

[AntaresTwo]

The Goddess Xenomorph, as shown in the thumbnail photo, looks like the aliens off of the Species franchise.

[ericburton]

My theory about how the Queen and drones communicate is they have what are seen organically radios in their heads. They use radio waves like sonar, and to communicate, the drones can only receive and emit simple radio waves and send out a pulse to sense their surroundings. The queens on the other hand can transmit and receive complex radio waves allowing for it to control the hive at a distance. In larger hives the Praetorians are used as relay towers to boost the signal. This would explain both the more complex head crests of the queens and praetorians as it would as an antenna and hoses more complex organs for constructing a radio signal, and explains why killing a praetorian causes the drones to become confused, as you are essentially cutting off their communications with the queen and it takes them a moment to assess the situation and adapt to being independent units again.

[JogoatTheStrongestCurse]

11:23 “eventually, Kars stopped thinking”

[SuspendedDusK]

Newborn's death disturbed the hell out of me when I was teenager. lol

[grsfhhytff]

I remember back in the 90s all the cool xenomorph toys we used to get. The prowler was called the panther alien, there was a bull alien and a big, green one with wings called the king alien.
Those were the days