Quote from: Extroheal on Mar 23, 2007, 08:25:00 AM
I consider the theatrical version of Alien 3 to be canon. I believe there was only one egg because the chances of two eggs somehow getting to the Sulaco is near-impossible. I don't think a facehugger than can impregnate two hosts is anything unusual. I don't believe in the whole royal jelly idea from the comics and novels. I don't think drones can turn into queens. A super-egg was only seen in AvP Extinction.
The diagram does not include the fact that at least some drones have the ability to mutate their prey into eggs. In one of his commentaries, Ridley Scott said that he believed the egg would contain a queen facehugger although I can't confirm this since it's only available in Region 1.
There is also the 'emergency egg' theory which says that a Queen is able to lay some kind of proto-egg without her egg sack. The proto-egg grows much more slowly than a regular egg which comes out fully formed and it may be smaller and not as long-lived.
Some of the games also feature Praetorians but they contradict each other on how they are created.
Quote from: SM on Mar 04, 2007, 11:23:15 PM
If you take the assembly cut into account, then the hugger Murphy holds up didn't impregnate 2 hosts. It's quite different to the one in the titles - ergo there were two huggers in that version of the film.