Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 28, 2021, 06:52:52 PM
Aside from the shape of the horns, I really don't see much else there.
It's more than just the shape.
This character has three sets of horns. So does Mroathi. The primary ones in bronze, then the two in bone/silver colour which wrap around them, tendril-style. This character's headgear shows the same thing
and in the same girth proportions.
It's not even just that. The sides of Mroathi's helmet also close around the sides of her face, curving around/beneath the eyes, in a very similar way as we see on this character, too.
It's the combination of all three of those elements which make me strongly suspect Morathi's headgear was a major inspiration.
QuoteI think it's more clearly a take on Sil or Li than it is the Morathi. The Borg Queen was always inspired by Giger too.
Sil doesn't have any horns. Lii has a couple, but they're thin and relatively tiny in comparison to this character's. Morathi has the same number and in very similar proportions. Plus, as I say, the way the helmet curves around.
Quote from: PAS Spinelli on Mar 01, 2021, 01:54:34 AM
Xenomorphs being natural and having natural predators is a really dumb idea for me, it's one of the ideas that makes the alien less scary, it's meant to be the perfect organism, not prey to something bigger, which is something the comics have done more than once, Aliens Reapers was f**king atrocious.
I'm with SM on this. Making them artificial weapons doesn't make much sense, because they have no real purpose as weapons against a civilisation with World War 2 era ranged weapons. Possibly even World War 1.
While, if you wanted to use them exclusively to take on unarmed colonies, there are simply much quickly and more easily controllable ways of doing it, even if your objective is to preserve the infrastructure. Microwave weapons, toxic gas - lots of stuff.
Naturally evolved, however, opens things up more interestingly. Because then you have to face the question: What kind of an ecosystem would be extreme and violent enough to cause something like them to arise?
I imagine it would be every bit as exotic and horrifying as a world swarmed by '
Warhammer' Tyranids would best exemplify. It means something as awe-inspiring and nightmarish as the Alien is just one
fraction from whatever kind of a place that would be.
The Alien being created as a weapon would just make them obsolete.
I do agree, however, that if the Alien is ever depicted going up against other predators, then they need to be equally as horrifying and vicious. The ones in that particular comic were very underwhelming in design.