Xenomorph Biology Experiments Performed by Dr. Church - Explained
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2017
- BIOLOGY: First in a series of videos investigating Colonel Dr. Church, a twisted scientist obsessed with the Xenomorph, as depicted in the comic Aliens: Labyrinth. This video takes a look at his experiments and studies of the creature's biology, and possible psychic capabilities.
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NOTE: In case you were wondering why acid blood didn't spray everywhere and kill everyone during the autopsy, there is an explanation if you pause this video @ 3:38
well the queens simple waving of her head to let Ripley out of the nest dose support some kind of link
Alien Theory Absolutely Awesome video! Thank you! Was this a comic you were reading from? Would love to know which one it is and if there is a whole series of them?
PJ the trade of the comic is called Alien:Labyrinth there is also a novelization version of the story. If you get the chance to read it I highly recommend it, especially for Dr. Church's back story all I gotta say is OMFG on that part
Alien Theory I hypothesize that the acid is rendered inert after death.
Zach Jones not true alien blood is still acidic after death look it up there's a lot of examples
Seriously, once you see what happened to Church, you almost can’t blame him for being straight up coo-coo. Brilliant but coo-coo.
Indeed
Lol when he said that people thought he was fucking cracked even I thought well you go through what he went through and not be a little cracked I’d be amazed.
What happened?
@@lilstubbs9553 check the other video about him on this channel. There should be a backstory where he is still young and has a normal face..
The backstory is honestly disgusting... He is one of the only humans that survived an alien impregnation.
best thing is that he’s an unreliable narrator - you have no idea if he made it all up or bent the truth.. it’s one of the best stories in the aliens universe
I think the observation that captive aliens separated from the hive eventually die is somewhat confirmed in the first Alien film, when it shows the creature becoming lethargic and indifferent in the Nostromo's escape pod.
sam rizzardi it went into hibernation mode hoping that Ripley will transport him to more humans, and had she not disturbed it, the xeno would had ben transported to Earth.
Sounds like BORG.
7-9 needed a recuperation station to basically 'wean off' or learn to exist without the collective-hive.
I thought "Scouts" were exempt from this due to their role requiring long periods of isolation from the hive.
If I'm remembering it right, it was mentioned in an interview that an old idea for it was that the alien was at the end of its life cycle, it was born, grew up, created new eggs and was just dying of age.
Yeah Ridley Scott even pointed that out
It's impressive that writers for the alien universe have been able to capture the indomitable nature of humanity by depicting a creature that should be superior by all measures.
If only the newer movies had characters as interesting characters as Dr. Church. Alien should be grimdark and gritty, but also give us good humans to be able to latch on to.
I doubt we'll ever get anything close to this dark in an Alien movie again since Disney (real life Weyland-Yutani) owns the IP now
This comic proves that the answers can be just as interesting as the questions
Did you mean the other way round?
They could do an "alien autopsy" scene in next Alien film. That could be something new for once.
Bishop autopsied a face hugger in Aliens
Dustie1984 ash and bishop both have. it would be cool to see and alien in captivity and then gets loose like the avp2 game.
Michael Minero you mean like Alien 4?
Plaxus Vendant no the game avp. and avp2
I think he meant that what you described happened in Alien Resurrection
That experiment on "regular stone cold sober, frightened man VS drug induced over-confident fearless man" is actually pretty interesting.
Yeah it's kinda crazy
the labyrinth series was one of my favorites during the 90's and still holds up well today. Its a shame that the artist didn't really do any other alien comics because he was one of the few people who could nail the xenomorph perfectly on print and i loved his art style
Church you are the most awesome doctor that studys xenos mad or crazy it dont matter he's one tough smart doctor.
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LOL who cares?
This man was caught in a hive, and was forced to do some horrible things to survive. He even went along willingly with what the aliens were making him do, just to gain the freedom to explore more, find out why they were acting a bit oddly. He found they were suffering due to a mold. He then secretly started poisoning their food with it. The chest jester he surgically removed from himself was dead. It didn’t survive the growth process.
@PersonaX uh, hello. Perfect species
@PersonaX good, humans need a buff
@PersonaXI, for one, welcome our Humomorph overlords...
Poor aliens. They really have no idea what they got themselves into when they ran into humanity.
r u sure about that?
Yes in the sense that humans can’t leave anything alone.... but likely they were thinking awesome now we can continue hive propagation and fodder!
@@gabriellangton6677 yeah. They’re a weapon. They have no morality of their own. Humanity will always find a way to exploit.
They're both twisted versions of each other aren't they?
@@dubuyajay9964 No...not even close... If you take a human from birth, and isolate him/her from everything. I'm talking everything, no teachings of communication, no reading, writing, how to hold a fork, or how to put on a shirt. The human would be forced to depend heavily on fight or flight built into every human, flight being the most used response. Do the same thing with an Alien, and they will always be what they were designed to be...a killing machine... No mater what you do, from playing nice music, to leaving it the fuck alone, it will always have one goal in mind. Your destruction. So this whole philological BS about humans being the worst creature, or being a mirror version of the Xeno's is some of the most moronic logic ever. Go look up some studies on "Are we born evil" and see the debate there. Is evil a learned trait or a taught trait or is it passed on. How come the kids of some of the world most evil people in human history, turned out to be decent people? Now a Xeno, will always be exactly like the one before it and the one after it.
Dr Church is one of the best villains in the Alien franchise. Realy scary guy.
Only logic issue I see with the xenomorph dying just from being away from the hive: How might a solitary drone start a new hive then, if it'd just die after a couple months?
It's possible it's also a cause of being captive, maybe a lone isolated drone in fertile grounds may feed and molt into queen, but Church kept his drone specimens under strict conditions and maybe none of the drones was in conditions to try creating it's own hive.
@@majormajorasic Exactly. It seems that the Aliens kept in isolation with no means of scape nor be able to freely freed and "breed", eventually die out, just as a colony of ants without a queen, they'll eventually die out no matter if it takes months, weeks or days
Dr. church is someone who truly understands those creatures and the one who studies them.
Turns out they have cellphones and only pull them out when no one is looking.
Does that mean they can communicate in the countryside?
@@cobanmcgee3584 theres Telefonic companys all over the milky way,the can communicate wherever they are
As it should be
Dr. Church is a really interesting character/villain. He sort of reminds me of Dr. Desty Nova from "Battle Angel Alita" in that they are both sympathetic, yet sadistic, insane, yet logical, very well written, and not just an evil scientist stereotype.
I don't support the testing on xenomorphs. I prefer cage-free, free roaming xenomorphs that are ethically treated without hormones or drugs.
(-_-)
Doc, i think we have another test subject here. ;p
EarthsGeomancer go eat them. :)
I'm with PETX, People For the Ethical Treatment of Xenomorphs, and I support this message.
EarthsGeomancer To quote Robot Chicken "Hippies are annoying in every universe"
These are the stories that need to be adapted into movies
I remember reading this comic when I was in high school. It's 4 issues if I remember correctly, and it's quite brilliant. I recall 2 things in particular, a scene where the doctor is scaring the pants off everyone as he walks a xenomorph down a corridor outfitted with some kind of harness which renders it harmless. And the sequence which details the doctor's own history with the xenomorph, which you hint at in the video, and involves his family. It's incredibly disturbing. But also very well done. Thanks for making this video!
R.I.P Trixie, Taphey, and Toodles. You all will be missed.
Instead of movies, why not a TV Series?
It goes more in depth and we can explore the lore in 12 episode or more in 1 season to 2
Could this be a series? www.kickstarter.com/projects/521046800/xenophobia-rated-r?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=Xenophobia
Tv series*usually* have lower budget and tends to sucks though..
This is a pretty interesting take .. thanks for sharing this ... but if xenomorphs can essentially "sense" humans, it creates a question as to how Newt (or anyone) could hide from them for any appreciable time.
Perhaps it's like us reading facial expressions, we can only read the emotions if the person is actually in view. Or maybe Newt and other people who survive have such strong wills to live that it deters the alien from chasing and attacking.
Maybe the will to not be seen? Because when you're hiding, a large portion of your thinking is in dont get found. And when it "sees" you, the strong will to stay hidden is replaced with "oh no" and it sees you?
Perhaps they know something is nearby, but have to find the entity themselves. Maybe it’s blurrier if the entity is not in view
Newt was an child. Maybe non mature brains produce undetectable brain waves or don't read as higher lifeforms that could possibly act as a threat.
Labyrinth is one of my favourite Alien based comicbook stories
Herisheft the art in labyrinth was so good right! Aliens on point!
Good video, thanks :)
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Metatron didn't know the Metatron also enjoyed alien vids, it's always awesome seeing a channel I respect show the same respect to another channel I cherish.
"You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage!"
You are a refreshing break from the chaos in the world and seemingly all around the internet these days. Keep them coming buddy, great stuff.
Labyrinth still has some of the most disturbing content I've read in a comic. The whole backstory of Church was haunting, not for what was shown, but what was implied.
there is a hive mind but also a hierarchy in which lower rung members listen and obey higher tier individuals, as well as individual thought and a collective mentality meaning the more individual xenos present in a given area the smart each becomes as they share experience and ideas with one another.
I'm not usually a fan of the comics, but Labyrinth was just so bizarre and interesting, I wound up getting the comics; and the book version made me pity the captive xenos a bit more. Awesome job on this video. Looking forward to the further ones on this comic.
I think in the series Aliens: Stronghold that they said it was pheromones that let the Aliens tell friend from foe. It allowed them to have an android alien infiltrate that hive. But there is a lot to support that they have some psychic ability going on there as well. A lot of the comics and books imply that they cause nightmares too.
they have both, but pheromones are used only to hunt, and telephay is for communicating among them.
Amazing dive into Alien lore and the iconic characters. Please keep them coming!
did you like Alien Isolation? Think you could do a video on it some day?
+BlahStudios2 I've done one video on Isolation but I'd like to do more! :)
This video is wonderful. And I like how you show the pages as physical evidence and read the passages.
Wow these vids are so great. Thank you for these tremendous efforts. Really enjoying all of them
Love your vids and loved the promo for this one keep up the good work
The aliens died of the same thing Padme died of.
George Lucas killed them? Clever man, we should've known.
I’m alauGiign so haRd
Awww, a broken heart. ruclips.net/video/eAKtZ_r0V6E/видео.html
CvnDqnrU there are a lot of suicidal people who would love to be able to roll over and die at will
“I wanna die now, so im gonna do it rig-“
Hell yeah! killin it with alien content my man
I appreciate these experiments. I always wanted to study these creatures too. We need more ppl like this
About the armed man or the pig test: I like the concept that an alien would go after the foe first to prevent a threat before feeding, but the idea that it doesn't care about its own well-being and only the hive is kinda silly. Because every xeno makes the hive. And if every drone/warrior tossed self preference aside, their numbers would drop seriously low with the Queen crown-palming at her dead defenders.
Another example say in the game alien isolation. When Amanda holds up the torch gun, the drone pauses and briefly covers its face, not wanting to get burned. And instead of continuing a rushed attack, it approaches slowly as to give Ripley a false sense of security before knocking her down and hiding again to try another sneak assault. In other words, it still attacked but with caution.
Its actually very common in hiveminds for individuals to risk death in defense of the hive. Take ants and bees for example. When a threat is detected all workers and soldiers drop what they're doing and mobilize to defend the hive even if it means they die. Because the queen can always produce more young and thus the queen is essential to the hive, thus the queen must be protected at all costs from attackers.
Based off Church's observations xenomorphs operate on a similar selfless sacrifice system. If it means starving to death or being killed so be it, but an attacker cannot be allowed to make it to the queen.
In a hivemind self preservation doesnt matter because the individual self does not matter. More young can always be created and you are no more special or important than any of the other drones or soldiers. Even if it means the hives population is wiped out.
Gary Oak I see what you’re saying. I can see the drones defending the queen and risking injury. But I think they are more than just insects and would know to avoid injury while still defending its hive.
Or they are just insects, and nothing more.
The Alien Isolation Xenomorph is a healthy individual, and was most likely aware it was not part of a hive. The Labyrinth Xenomorph was not. It's likely that its behavior was modified due to stress, time away from the hive-mind, and hunger.
Alien isolation isnt canon per se, since they bended the canon for playability, no human would be able to hide from a xenomorph since they track u by psychic sense and pheromones.
That's really cool. I love the way the Dark Horse comics extended the mythology and mystique of the Alien into the corners of human psychology
0:19 I love little extras like the flickering screens. And a good horror comic read. Good stuff!
2:10 (The Terminator in 3 seconds)
Sometimes I wonder if these Aliens are real somewhere in the universe 😂 They have created such a deep story to them and the science behind the functioning of the alien in this canon especially, is so detailed, almost believable, you can’t imagine how people come up with such specific detail. This is why I never get bored of the alien universe, it just keeps on giving.
Telepathy makes sense, they sense their surroundings, they don't have visible eyes or ears so they just sense what's around them and communicate with each other telling everyone in the hive everything, and it all must go back to the queen, so wherever one xenomorph has been they basically all have been there, just a thought
I love the Labyrinth comic story. I think I've read it 5 or 6 times. Great video as always!
Honestly man this is the best video u have made. Fantastic info may better than Covenant.
From what I've had gather, Xeno's seem to posses strong enhance senses to electromagnetism. Similar to what sharks and electric ells posses, but it is a more modify version enabling them to sense what emotions that a creatures makes when it would encounter one. It also may explain how the creatures have a 'hive mind', they understand each others emotions and possible enable directly communicate with each other. As for their solitary deaths as one may call it, Xeno's are clearly a social species (with their own kin of course) and that being forcibly alone may cause a "lost of will" affecting the animals health causing eventual death to the creature.
I love your videos about the comics.
You should cover the Xeno-scout in Team Fortress 2
And the Burst Chester Taunt :B
Need a dispenser here!
*Love your videos dude! Good stuff*
Your vids are getting better and better. Good job 🖒😁🖒
Very Badass info there man, keep it coming!!
4:06 So if strong EM fields can give Xenos an ice-cream headache, perhaps an EMP would act like a flashbang grenade; momentarily disorienting or even stunning them. Perhaps if a powerful EMP was detonated in proximity to a queen, it could disrupt the hive mind, as her pain would be felt by her children and their connection would be disrupted, leaving them unable to coordinate their actions.
Hope we'll get to see that in Aliens V where colonial marines would use emp grenades & warheads in taking out xenomorph infested colony
This is amazing 🙌
A new look on the Alien series 🤘
I started to FEEL for the Xenomorph Doc Church needs his own movie
Once gain, you exceed my expectations with your attention to detail and your rhythmic voiceover. Sometimes the ones who admire the creatures are almost as dangerous as the creatures themselves.
Your other video that explained Church's backstory shines perfect light on why be is the way is. He is a man that had seen things
Labyrinth is my favorite Alien comic
Love your videos!
great video, new information about the xenomorphs, really enjoyed it, thanks!
Good stuff as always homes!
Whoever wrote Dr Church’s dialogue is a goddamn genius
Great video man!
One of the best alien comics
That's a really nice bit of editing and effects work @ 0.19
I never read the comic, but I did read the novelization of Labyrinth. Damn good story.
I had a couple of issues from this series, I forgot all about them until I saw this video. I remember the panel where the doctor is leading an alien in a harness around the laboratory halls.
I've not read this story, but the xenomorphs having massive structures of nerve tissue designed to receive signals, a vulnerability to powerful electromagnetic waves, and a hive mind of sorts suggests something like a 'natural' wi-fi system. The same system could be sensitive enough to pick up the stray signals even from quite small amounts of nerves firing, with a big enough 'antenna', or even the interference patterns created in ambient microwaves and short frequency radio by moving objects containing conductive materials (materials like water for example).
OK, that's about 85% my own headcannon at the end, but I like it - it goes well with the bio-mechanoid' nature of the creatures, as first conceived, and would explain why they don't need eyes per se - that elongated head is their eye, letting them see in microwave and radio frequencies, and letting them hear/perceive their hive mind.
i can even work in the Queen's headcrest - as the wi-fi system's hub and server she would need a better, more directable antenna, and the headcrest, just by artistic coincidence, looks like something that might fulfil such a role.
great videos and theories! ALIENS: LABYRINTH has always been my favorite side story in all the films, games, books, and graphic novels (with Rogue an Stronghold in 2nd and 3rd place) - the writing and art really captures a monster somehow scarier than the xenomorph and I finally found the novel based on this comic that goes even deeper into Church's background with the xenos and what prompted his research. SUCH A COMPELLING STORY! OMG, Hollywood - the script is already written and we've got great young animators and practical FX people everywhere. Let's get a new, fresh, look at the Alien and PLEASE LET RIPLEY R.I.P.! Her story is over. This needs to be a film or series!
The only thing I’d hate more then being chased by a alien, is being a alien under Dr Church’s contro.
It would be really interesting if the creators of the Alien franchise make an Alien movie with Dr. Church as the main character and have it about his crazy experiments on the Xenomorphs. There was an Alien movie where the Xenomorphs were tested on but it didn't go too much into length, I think it was a scene or two and don't know / recall / remember if Dr. Church was behind the experiments in that movie.
Really Nice Videos bro. Keep up the good work.
Really enjoyed this! Can't wait for the next addition to the movie franchise.
Such a profound concept, fascinating
Alien Theory are you going to explore Church's origins?
The science in this is so thorough it seems real.
Hard to tell what’s canon or non, but I think Xenomorphs do communicate via telepathy. They’re massive heads do give off they’re psychic vibe, but it’s possible they communicate via they’re shrieks or echolocation.
Excellent analysis!! Very impressive..
Anyone else noticed that the captive Xenomorphs had their tail scythes cut off?
Speaking of the "hivemind" - it's safe to assume that they are like ants in so many ways (their blind loyalty to their Queen, their aggressive nature, etc.) ; Rather than telephathy, they use pheromones to communicate most of their information, like positioning, disposition and mood. Just a thought.
Well done man.Read this some years ago.then read it again and alowed myfelf to be immersed in it and, it was the most terrifing thing i had ever read.
Very interesting. My only exposure to the franchise is the first two films and some of your other videos. As for the experiments themselves, they all sound intriguing and valid. I would object to the reckless endangerment of human life, however, though I suppose the logical answer of giving every human enough firepower to kill it would present a supply problem.
Really cool dude !!
We need a movie series about Dr. Church
By far the best breakdowns man ! Do u have video on the Red Xenonorphs ? Or the difference between the aliens in all the movies my friend was telling me some of them are different species?
just finished watching the making of Covenant , that shit was amazing , make you appreciate the film even more
kowalveli lols. all the makeup and custome art work for tbe xeno costume..
waste of fucking time and resources!!!
CGI ,yeah I know ,wish they could use more of the real stuff
kowalveli i felt betrayed as a fan
did you expect the non CGI alien in the movie ? dude its 2017 , the studio WOULD NOT ALLOW THAT SHIT at any cost ,trust me !
kowalveli when the studio says that they will use the costume character in scenes and then they dont. yeah i felt betrayed whats wrong with that? i understand its 2017 and every movie uses cgi almost but they lied to us
Dr. Church is right: Mad science is best science!
The elongated head being a receiving antenna is a neat idea. It could have a RADAR system for low light environments, but it would not help see through metal.
Can you do a video on the Alien king from the comic/novelization of Aliens: Rogue
In Alien Covenant it was revelied that the Xenomorphs had eyes inside their heads.
CAN'T SEE SHIT!
Actually, they see plenty.
Yeah they have better senses than humans
It was a reference to a Star Trek meme.
Eyes are organs which translate visual signals ie. light oscillation to the brains. If the eyes are inside the skull they can't do that. That doesn't mean they are blind, they just don't see the way humans do. They have senses alright, they know their surroundings but eyes that are in darkness see nothing.
Umm, if we can see the skull, what makes you think the eyes are blind? Clearly, the animal using other senses as well, but sure the eyes still work, they are just heavily shielded.
Man I’d love if you did this with the Aliens:Stronghold comics and Aliens:Dead Orbit!
You're great. You earned a sub
This is cool I didn’t know there was more then just the movies sorta just getting into this stuff
Its nice comic novel even more interesting some of the alien movies like Ailen4 and Covenant. Church is not the only survivor of the chestburster removal we do have Dr Shaw even if it was a trilobite.
Dr Church also survived an alien hive not many have done that. Funny that Dr Church refer to the alien
hive as something that belongs to him. However, its reasonable that you lose
you mind if you have been captured in the alien hive for weeks. Its logic that
Aliens would communicate telepathically and if they can hear noises im sure
they can communicate via hissing as well. I recall that Dr Church said that Aliens could
sense what was in front of them like choosing food rather than to escape.Not
sure if aliens can see or perhaps
they are more like bats.
I didn't realize it for a second, but MAN THIS DOCTOR HAS A BIG FOREHEAD!
Great video you should do audiobooks I can't find anyone that does the Aliens books
Great video 👍🐲
Great video. This, Music of the Spears, and Genocide were some of my favorites growing up.
Also when comparing the Xenomorph species. In many ways it acts more like a bee hive than any other insect hive.
Bee hives have queens. A bee hive can only have 2 queens in the same hive if it’s mother and daughter.
All the bees but the drones are female. Which makes sense if the entire Xenomorph species is female.
That’s how a Xenomorph can become a queen since it’s already female from birth.
Bees scout for food then relay it back to the hive. In which more bees accompany it to retrieve the food. Also that bees guard the hive only it the target is presented as a threat. The guards don’t chase after a threat but attack it if it tries to enter the hive.
If a non-threatening target, say an Android, enters the hive. A Xenomorph CAN ignore it until it presents a threat.
I can keep going but I’m assuming people get the idea between the similarities. It’s the Bee Hive but as a sentient race in more ways than we could have hoped for.
Def cover Church's story. His childhood is more than interesting!
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