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Something I've never seen in discussions of the Alien franchise: xenomorphs work as a metaphor for unexploded ordnance. (hexbear.net)

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Weapons that keep killing long after the war they were used for is over (the Space Jockey isn't just dead, they're mummified, and there's no indication that there are any others of their kind around)
Lay hidden and dormant, leading to innocent people stumbling on them by accident and getting killed (Nostromo crew finds the eggs and doesn't know what the fuck 'til it's too late, colony LV-426 gets wiped out because it was unknowingly built on top of a nest)
They render entire areas unsafe to inhabit
Aliens has often been considered an allegory for the Vietnam War, and that left enormous amounts of UXO across Southeast Asia that still persists today.
The Weyland-Yutani and corporate profiteering aspect is a bit fuzzier, but I think there's a case to be made that their attempts to weaponize xenomorphs and the catastrophes this causes mirror the real-world military-industrial complex.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Oh I loooove this take. Care-Comrade

Generally speaking, xenomorphs do represent the monsters humans created, and while it wasn't that great, Alien: Covenant confirmed that. The Vietnam reference jumps out at you when you watch Aliens, so why the heck not, comparing the xenomorphs to unexploded ordinance makes plenty of sense to me.

The only issue I see, really, is that the xenomorphs can move once hatched. I was thinking about the scene in the first movie

Spoiler?

When they send Dallas into the ventilation system to find the chestburster and he's instead killed by a fully grown xenomorph. Going with the ordinance idea, I was thinking: Is the chestburster what's "fired" and the alien the explosion?

Anyway, I've been analyzing the alien movies for a while now and get easily excited over new theories, thank you so much for sharing yours!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah, they don't map 100%, but I suppose if they did, they wouldn't be a metaphor, they'd just be literal UXO.

I'm glad you found value in my post, though! Thanks for taking the time to respond.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Indeed they would.

And thank you too!