After thinking a lot, now I really appreciate what Scott has offered to differentiate and come-up with something innovative and yet stay in Alien universe.
After Alien Resurrection and AVPR, it was time to give a drastic turn around and offer something fresh. To start with, Scott introduced the Black Goo.
I would say that the Mural creature is the purest form of Prefix-Morph. Call it an Ultramorph as of now.
The Black Goo is imbibed with the DNA of the Ultramorph.
The Thumb Rule is:-
THE BLACK GOO WILL MUTATE ANY LIFE FORM SUCH THAT IT WILL GENETICALLY THRIVE AND RESULT INTO EVOLUTION OF A VERSION OF ULTRAMORPH, BY EVENTUALLY MUTATING THE REPRODUCTION SYSTEM OF THAT LIFE FORM RESULTING INTO BIRTH OF AN IMPREGNATING PARASITE.
The Black Goo mutated Holloway's sperm which Fertilised Shaw's Egg which gave birth to Tribolite.
The Black Goo mutated spore producing Fungus which released Aggressive spores.
David used the Black goo to mutate cross-bred Bugs/Flies to produce Eggs which gives birth to Facehuggers.
Deacon
Neomorph
Xenomorph
(And many other possibilities)
So Xenomorph is PUSHED in a corner as one of the many possible variants. A great and smart move by Scott.
So the movie 'Alien' and its sequels are a small circles in a giant circle.
Would love to see the result of Hammerpedes mating each other to give birth to some kind of impregnating parasite which would then infect human host to give birth to some - - Morph.
Kudos to Scott!
