Aliens Most Epic Battle Wasnt Against Predator (Or Even Humans)

Alien’s Most Epic Battle Wasn’t Against Predator (Or Even Humans)

Aliens have locked horns with Predators and tough-as-nails humans like Ellen Ripley, but neither gave the Xenomorphs their toughest fight to date.

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Aliens Most Epic Battle Wasnt Against Predator (Or Even Humans)

The deadly Xenomorphs at the center of the Alien franchise have faced an abundance of challenges, including the Yautja race of the Predator franchise, but neither those feared hunters nor humans posed the biggest threat to the Aliens. As illustrated in both Alien vs. Predator and Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, the war between Aliens and Predators had raged on for thousands of years. Prior to the movies being released, the two species were already entrenched in the confides of interplanetary war within the pages of a 1989 comic book series of the same name, then a ’90s video game series.

On the flip side, a full-fledged battle against Predators still may pale in comparison to the impact the Xenomorphs’ felt at the hands of Ellen Ripley. Despite being a human, Ripley consistently outsmarted and outmatched hordes of Aliens singlehandedly throughout the franchise. Even Ripley’s clone put up a good fight against a spaceship full of Xenomorphs in Alien: Resurrection. However, believe it or not, the Xenomorphs’ biggest battle was against neither a human nor a Predator, nor did it even happen onscreen.

The biggest obstacle that the Aliens have ever faced is a battle that sees the Xenomorphs pitted against each other on their home planet. This Alien Civil War takes place in the pages of Mike Richardson, John Arcudi, and Damon Willis’ Aliens: Genocide #1. Specifically, this war first commences in the issue’s opening pages. The first issue of this 1991 mini-series opens with some leading exposition for readers who hadn’t read the Aliens: Earth War story arc. In it, the Aliens’ Queen Mother is killed, forcing the inmates to run the asylum without a leader in a chaotic frenzy.

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“The unprecedented loss of the empire’s Genetrix has left the citizens without any link, unable to communicate,” reads the opening narration bubbles. “Slowly, they act out of a need to fill the void. And fill it they do.” To fill that void, two groups of Xenomorphs separately build their own cocoons to create a new Queen Mother, one Red Xenomorph and one Black Xenomorph. The Red Queen hatches her own horde of Red Xenomorphs, who proceed to engage in a planet-wide Civil War against the original Aliens.

Aliens: Genocide shows readers battlefields littered with the bodies of dead Aliens as these two varieties of Xenomorphs tear each other apart. The series’ human protagonists are able to take advantage of the Alien Civil War to sneak into a hive in order to carry out their goal of stealing a Queen Mother. The Aliens are so focused on fighting each other that they do not exert much effort fending off the human invaders on their planet. The humans decide to takes sides in the battle in order to create a bigger distraction to allow them to complete their mission. They nuke the Red Queen, causing the Red Xenomorphs to retreat with the Black Xenomorphs in pursuit. The plan ends up backfiring as, once the Black Xenomorphs are victorious, they turn their attention on the humans. Though they chase the humans off their planet, the series shows that in a universe where Xenomorphs faced mercenary Predators and savvy human heroines, the toughest enemies that these Aliens have faced have always been themselves.

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