In Marvel’s Aliens: Aftermath, there’s a Xenomorph at Hadley’s hope with a shocking new power, 35 years after the events of the sequel.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Aliens: Aftermath #1 by Benjamin Percy, Dave Wachter, Christopher Sotomayor & VC’s Ariana Maher.
Marvel’s new Alien series has revealed quite a bit of the new Xenomorphs that Weyland-Yutani has been experimenting on. These new aliens can sniff out their prey due to some unique telepathic connection with the creatures the Facehuggers implant into people/ Moreover, they also seem to be more powerful than ever as the corporation has been splicing in genetic material from animals and seemingly, humans.
And in Aliens: Aftermath, Benjamin Percy, Dave Wachter, Christopher Sotomayor & VC’s Ariana Maher reveal that there’s a Xenomorph out there with a chilling new power that could hint at another breed to come down the line.
Cutter, the nephew of Aliens‘ character Jennette Vasquez, has been canvassing the galaxy with terrorists, livestreaming their conquests to stick it to the company. The radicals want to show the price of cosmic exploration and wage war against the corporation by blowing up fueling stations. But when the corporate anarchists log into the company’s database, they find themselves heading to Hadley’s Hope in LV-426, the ill-fated colony where Jennette died.
Cutter has been seeking intel as to what happened to his aunt, but the team is secretly picked apart as they go out into the wintery landscape. Cutter’s distracted with his own mission in this frigid zone, though, as Weyland-Yutani have secretly made contact and want to buy him out to get him to drop off a containment unit with an infected human in stasis.
As this potential betrayal happens, we see the alien’s actually a transparent glow-in-the-dark monster but rather than bleeding acid, it bleeds liquid nitrogen, which costs one of his co-conspirators their arm. Ironically, it rushes Cutter after stabbing up and devouring a few victims, and its freezing blood falls on him. We don’t see the aftermath, but it seems like that’d damage his bio-suit and cause him to die.
From this, it’s not clear if the Alien’s attributes are due to artificial experimentation or natural adaptation to an environment that’s still radioactive after the nuclear blast from the end of Aliens. While only one alien is shown, there could be more elsewhere in the world, and they could share similar traits. But with the human camp taken out, one survivor ends up opening the cell for a Facehugger to emerge from the man in stasis, which also hints hybrids of these ice-Xenomorphs could continue to evolve.
Since Weyland-Yutani know what took place, the corporation could send a new crew to rustle up people and creatures, removing evidence along the way. Despite it’s glow, this Xenomorph is quick, rabid and stealthy in ways that could help make it the weapon that Weyland Utani have been dreaming of for decades,
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