Alien Deleted Scene is A Big Xenomorph Plot Hole

this deleted scene creates a huge plot hole

[timothymcnaughton]

I always assumed that those guys were glued to the wall so that when the eggs hatched there would be fresh hosts for them to attach to.

[kennethlegler]

This video assumes too much. Captain Dallas was being transformed into an egg in the novelization of the film. Since the earliest auxiliary material to the original, it has been established that a lone Xenomorph could make a single egg to perpetuate their species. Queens lay eggs like a factory in addition to establishing a hive to keep order in the ranks. One of the most frightening aspects of this monster is its drive to reproduce and carry on the colony until a new Queen hatches. It's Canon, more than just fan theory.

[faisalmemon]

The xenomorph is wired to catch people/living things and place them in a cocoon, even if a queen is not present.

[kaelibw]

Its pretty much a fan theory that individual xenomorphs can do this when there’s no queen around. It makes sense as far as I’m concerned given that you would need to make more eggs and make a queen SOMEHOW. Otherwise they’d never really be able to spread.

[Harmthuria]

I always thought that they were simply encased in something to hold them until a facehugger would lay an alien embryo in their body.

[BillHawkins]

And of course the classic question, "what came first. " "The alien or the egg."

[Zookooru]

The drone converting living hosts into eggs is canon though. They can do that when no queen is available.

[solarchos]

In the novelization it explains in more depth. In "Alien" it was a lone drone. They CAN create eggs but that egg will ONLY be a Queen, and that requires huge amounts of raw materials to provide fuel. The Queens can lay eggs far more efficiently and quickly.

Every single creature carries with it the ability to eventually create a hive, and through that the ability to wipe out every living thing on a planet.

[JAMESLEVEE]

When a queen bee or ant dies, and there is no replacement, the workers feed a larva "royal jelly" (or the ant equivalent), and produce a new queen. Perhaps the Xenomorphs have a similar reproductive mechanism.

[kylebrooks]

I fully believe that if a xeno is without a hive and a queen it will adapt any biomass and instigate emergency eggs

[vger]

I always thought the alien was just storing them (Dallas, Brett) away for a later food source.

[SodaiGoku]

But, do they really contradict? Maybe if there's no Queen, this is how they create their eggs to be able to reproduce

[acftmxman]

Actually, I saw Alien at its very first showing of the day back in 1979. In the first two days showings, Capt. Dallas dies when the alien thrust its mini mouth through Dallas’ skull. Audiences didn’t react well so another reel was sent out minus Dallas’ head exploding.

[tfrye]

I like to think if it’s a perfect organism. If there is no queen, they’re able to make their own eggs ensuring their survival as a species.

[djmouseshadow]

Part of the horror of “the organism” is not just the animal form, but the growth that forms the nest, a creature by itself that would cause havoc on a spaceship as it grows into… everything, until it becomes the ship. Probably why the derelict crashed.

[Marcelo_DBZ_Music]

The idea of being transformed into an egg is gruesome but a little bit silly.

Cocooning them for breeding purposes made much more sense to me.

[usdrqir]

Lol, this is not a counterdiction. The egg in the first movie was a queen egg, not a face hugger, and it's much bigger. Like bees, the alien can make a queen if needed.

[lordinvex]

There is no contradiction.
If there is no Queen, one has to be made and using (in this case) humans to create a Queen egg is the only way.

[DirtyInc.]

Wolfie's fine Honey, Wolfie's just fine...

[socket_error]

I think the most criminal deleted scene in the series was in Aliens (#2) when Ripley finds out her own young daughter had grown up, lived a long life, and died of old age. All while Ripley drifted through space in a lifeboat's stasis pod in what was supposed to be her last space mission before she retired. It goes a long way to explain the later attachment she felt towards the girl she encounters on the moon and why she risks everything to go back and rescue her. It also would explain more of her fatalistic approach to life in part 3 after the girl dies in the crash of that lifeboat.