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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Monstrefact: Alien, Part 8 - The Offspring and Other Hybrids

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses the Offspring from “Alien: Romulus” and other xenomorph hybrids from the “Alien” universe.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, and this is The Monster Fact.

0:13.3

A short-form series from stuff to blow your mind focusing on mythical creatures, ideas,

0:19.2

and monsters in time.

0:24.3

When I wrapped up the last monster fact episode concerning the alien universe, I mentioned that I'd

0:30.2

be back with at least one more installment that is provided alien

0:34.4

Romulus gave us anything new to ponder and it certainly did. So here we are once

0:40.1

more going to discuss the many strange and horrifying ways that xenobiology can interact

0:46.2

with human physiology in this series.

0:49.4

Fair warning, this episode is going to feature spoilers for Romulus as well as other alien films and bits of related media.

0:57.0

First and foremost, we have to remember that even the Corsinomorph life cycle is one of horrific and deadly hybridity.

1:04.0

The adult xenomorph is inherently a combination of alien and host DNA.

1:10.0

Agent A0 slash 3 1959 X.91 slash 15, the Black Gu works as an evolutionary accelerant on most biological

1:20.7

modes of life in the series, pushing them into stranger, more hostile, and

1:25.4

more durable forums.

1:28.0

So most of the individual forums and lifestyle stages we've discussed so far can be thought of as the most likely forms

1:35.7

and morphs of xenomorphic life. But many other paths are possible. This is

1:41.5

especially true when human, engineer, or Android scientific manipulation

1:47.2

changes the shape of things to come.

1:50.8

In 1997's alien resurrection, set 200 years after the events of alien 3 in the year

1:56.4

281, we encounter United Systems Military Scientists who have not only created numerous clones of long dead Ellen Ripley, but also the

2:05.4

Xenomorph queen that was growing inside her at the moment of her death.

2:09.7

Their results are numerous Ripley clones with varying degrees of xenomorphic biology, as well as an alien

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