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Poll
Question: Do you like the skull in the Alien head?
Option 1: Love the SKULL
Option 2: It's ok
Option 3: It makes no difference on how I feel about the Alien
Option 4: Dislike the SKULL
Option 5: Hate The SKULL
Option 6: Hate The SKULL and the people who love it
Title: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: FiorinaFury161 on Feb 18, 2017, 11:38:01 PM
As heightened posts have recently surfaced, I think we can all agree this thread needs to be created. You all know my stance on the topic, so everyone else can voice their opinions here and not fill in pages of other topics. So...

Do you like the Alien head with the skull or without (hidden under the dome/absent altogether)?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Scorpio on Feb 19, 2017, 12:04:18 AM
That was a real human skull in the original alien head, so yes.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: whiterabbit on Feb 19, 2017, 01:18:23 AM
Never noticed the skull until somebody pointed it out. Couldn't even see it until alien was released in HD. It's so obvious now, especially in the narcissus battle, not so much in vhs/dvd.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Nyarlathotep on Feb 19, 2017, 03:05:28 AM
I'm sure that you can guess what I voted.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: CainsSon on Feb 19, 2017, 05:18:52 AM
I LOVE the skull but I especially love that you can't see it. If that makes sense.
I am all for a Neomorph that has a visible skull. I think that could be cool.
And as I said in another thread, I think it would be cool if the skull came out with the mutating spine.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Elmazalman on Feb 19, 2017, 05:31:48 AM
I never had an issue with the skull or the air-brushed detail along it's extruded length. It was never meant to be seen in detail - only hinted at. It's a hidden detail that can only be seen in certain lighting conditions.

Seeing the eye sockets too overtly robs the creature of it's unearthliness, imo.

Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 426Buddy on Feb 19, 2017, 12:46:47 PM
I think its great hidden under the dome. #lovetheskull
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Feb 19, 2017, 05:28:04 PM
Yeah, I think it works best when it can barely be seen. Ideally the audience should go; "was that a skull I just saw beneath the dome or am I seeing things?"

It creates uncertainty, it unsettles a person not knowing for sure.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Feb 19, 2017, 05:34:10 PM
To be clear, I don't mind the skull so long as it's hidden beneath a virtually opaque dome.  However, when the dome is removed, I think the head looks awful.  The skull cavities give it a resemblance to that ridiculous Newborn and the ridges are obviously airbrushed instead of sculpted.

This is why I think a clearer dome on top of Winston's design would be ideal.  I can't help but wonder whether or not that version actually had the skull before Cameron insisted on losing the dome altogether.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: OmegaZilla on Feb 19, 2017, 05:52:50 PM
Having a human skull melded inside the dome of the creature and faintly visible through it is one of the most brilliant aspects of the original Alien iteration. WAY ahead of its time

having it outside of course changes the vibe
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Feb 19, 2017, 06:06:00 PM
Does that mean you like it a lot?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Dreadlock Holiday on Feb 19, 2017, 07:11:59 PM
I do like the other designs, but I think they should've kept the skull with each succeeding movie.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: OmegaZilla on Feb 19, 2017, 07:36:09 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Feb 19, 2017, 06:06:00 PM
That that mean you like it alot?
is this a deliberate attempt to trigger my grammar correction
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Feb 19, 2017, 07:41:43 PM
Oops.  Fixed.  ;D
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: OmegaZilla on Feb 19, 2017, 08:03:04 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Feb 19, 2017, 07:41:43 PM
Oops.  Fixed.  ;D
listen here you little scruffy lookin pirate
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: oberonqa on Feb 19, 2017, 08:22:59 PM
Quote from: Omegamorph on Feb 19, 2017, 08:03:04 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Feb 19, 2017, 07:41:43 PM
Oops.  Fixed.  ;D
listen here you little scruffy lookin pirate

Scruffy lookin nerf-herder...  =)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Pvt. Himmel on Feb 19, 2017, 11:54:52 PM
  https://mobile.twitter.com/BobaFettANHSE/status/833399997370490880        (https://mobile.twitter.com/BobaFettANHSE/status/833399997370490880)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5DU35sVUAA9TMr.jpg)

*Added image. Hicks.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: FiorinaFury161 on Feb 20, 2017, 12:19:53 AM
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Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Scorpio on Feb 20, 2017, 12:31:35 AM
Like death staring at you in the face:

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi21.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fb290%2FBartleby24%2Falien-mist.gif&hash=1c56b3417b09c8dd955c9431235f8db3f7eddbac)

If it shows up in Alien Covenant, will be a great moment for sure.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Nyarlathotep on Feb 20, 2017, 12:50:28 AM
Quote from: Scorpio on Feb 20, 2017, 12:31:35 AM
Like death staring at you in the face:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b290/Bartleby24/alien-mist.gif

If it shows up in Alien Covenant, will be a great moment for sure.
I'll be thrilled if that turns out to be the case, but sadly I just don't see it being so.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: windebieste on Feb 20, 2017, 03:04:43 AM
I love the skull, though it was always meant to just be hinted at under the carapace.  So I voted Yes.

I also love the fact that some people absolutely hate the skull. 

Please, don't ever change.  Just.  Don't.  OK?  ;D

EDiT:
Quote from: Scorpio on Feb 20, 2017, 12:31:35 AM
If it shows up in Alien Covenant, will be a great moment for sure.

NECA will be releasing images of their new Big Chap figure in April.  We might find out as early as then. 

-Windebieste.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 426Buddy on Feb 20, 2017, 02:36:46 PM
So far it looks like a lot of skull love is going on in the polls.  ;D
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Nyarlathotep on Feb 20, 2017, 07:40:27 PM
As there should be.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: PsyKore on Feb 20, 2017, 08:42:25 PM
Sometimes I like to think that the Alien is a bastardisation of an astronaut. The dome looks like a mimic of the spacemans visor.

But in answer to the topic, yes I love the skull. Like others have mentioned, though, as long as it remains subtle, it's very effective.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: StrangeShape on Feb 21, 2017, 10:49:08 PM
I like it, I mean I like it the way it was done, to see it in flashes, but not all the time. Adds that much to the whole thing, but other than quick flashes, skull no skull - its all good to me, as long as the head is of the original shape as it was in the first 3 movies
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Feb 22, 2017, 11:15:30 AM
Quote from: PsyKore on Feb 20, 2017, 08:42:25 PM
Sometimes I like to think that the Alien is a bastardisation of an astronaut. The dome looks like a mimic of the spacemans visor.

That's a really interesting way to think of that. I really like that.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: whiterabbit on Feb 23, 2017, 12:47:30 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 22, 2017, 11:15:30 AM
Quote from: PsyKore on Feb 20, 2017, 08:42:25 PM
Sometimes I like to think that the Alien is a bastardisation of an astronaut. The dome looks like a mimic of the spacemans visor.

That's a really interesting way to think of that. I really like that.
That's where I thought they were taking the Fifield helmet melting deal in Prometheus but all we got was zombie Fifield instead.  :'(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: FiorinaFury161 on Apr 24, 2017, 05:25:12 PM
With Alien Day 2017 coming up, I wonder if we will get an Alien Halloween costume as a surprise. No SKULL of course :laugh:
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: oduodu on Apr 25, 2017, 04:44:11 PM
Quote from: Scorpio on Feb 20, 2017, 12:31:35 AM
Like death staring at you in the face:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b290/Bartleby24/alien-mist.gif

If it shows up in Alien Covenant, will be a great moment for sure.

This ^
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Alien Runner on Apr 29, 2017, 10:17:58 AM
Skull but without the translucent dome.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: markweatherill on May 09, 2017, 02:56:43 PM
I posted in another thread that I'd like to see not only the skull, but inner jaws shooting out of the eye sockets. And it's worth repeating eh? I mean think of it!
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: NetworkATTH on May 09, 2017, 04:05:18 PM
love the skull
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on May 12, 2017, 07:24:35 PM
There should be an option for hating both the skull and the people who love it.  >:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: FiorinaFury161 on May 13, 2017, 12:36:13 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on May 12, 2017, 07:24:35 PM
There should be an option for hating both the skull and the people who love it.  >:(
Done.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on May 13, 2017, 12:48:42 AM
Too bad I already voted.  :(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: FiorinaFury161 on May 13, 2017, 12:51:20 AM
:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: windebieste on May 13, 2017, 01:27:20 AM
Best.  Thread.  On.  This.  Forum.

-Windebieste.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on May 13, 2017, 01:34:18 AM
My intense hatred glows in the dark.  >:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: NetworkATTH on May 13, 2017, 02:31:20 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on May 13, 2017, 01:34:18 AM
My intense hatred glows in the dark.  >:(

I know we all have our opinions about the Alien's dear old face, but why fight about it?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on May 13, 2017, 03:53:26 PM
The skull leads to anger.  Anger leads to hate.  Hate leads to suffering.  You make me suffer, I'm gonna make you suffer.  >:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: FiorinaFury161 on May 13, 2017, 09:37:01 PM
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fe.lvme.me%2Fp48uldt.jpg&hash=738a30065257470b88c77dbd52ea33857abbbf34)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Randomizer on May 14, 2017, 06:16:44 PM
I see potential for memes but I'll be with a clear conscience and not make any. At least for now.  ::)

I like it without the skull. It was cool as a concept but doesn't feel much of an alien long-term.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: DwayneHicks on May 14, 2017, 07:34:52 PM
To skull or not skull? That is the question. :D
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: ScrapBrain on Aug 05, 2017, 08:22:11 AM
I cannot fathom the intense hate for the skull. A Xeno birthed from a human host and therefore baring humanoid features makes sense. I'd have liked the dog/runner/ox alien to show features of its host under the dome also.  But both skull and no skull can easily coexist as variants of the species.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Aug 05, 2017, 04:36:05 PM
The fact that the "runner" didn't even have a bovine or canine snout only further proves that the alien doesn't inherit the skull of its host.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: windebieste on Aug 08, 2017, 05:34:39 AM
Look!  YOU CAN SEE THE SKULL!!!!!!1!

(https://i2.wp.com/www.hideousplastic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CovenantAlien.gif?resize=500%2C208)

;D

-Windebieste.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: FiorinaFury161 on Aug 08, 2017, 10:37:29 AM
>:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Aug 08, 2017, 01:45:41 PM
 >:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: ScrapBrain on Aug 08, 2017, 10:32:06 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Aug 05, 2017, 04:36:05 PM
The fact that the "runner" didn't even have a bovine or canine snout only further proves that the alien doesn't inherit the skull of its host.

I don't see this as "proof" at all. You don't even see under the Runner's frontal dome from what I can remember. And dog/bovine-like eye sockets could easily be hidden under there. Alien 3 is somewhat of a freak in the formula, I mean, the Xeno was even originally designed to have effeminate lips, a tongue lined with sharp teeth and retractable blades between it's fingers.

Quote from: windebieste on Aug 08, 2017, 05:34:39 AM
Look!  YOU CAN SEE THE SKULL!!!!!!1!

https://i2.wp.com/www.hideousplastic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CovenantAlien.gif?resize=500%2C208

;D

-Windebieste.

;D
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: NeoXenoPred on Aug 09, 2017, 10:11:57 AM
Loved the skull. It added the mysterious vibe and also looks creepy.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: ScrapBrain on Aug 09, 2017, 11:54:08 AM
Quote from: NeoXenoPred on Aug 09, 2017, 10:11:57 AM
Loved the skull. It added the mysterious vibe and also looks creepy.

Exactly. The skull gives it a far more unsettling presence by making the creature more than just a beast.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Aug 09, 2017, 12:46:17 PM
Quote from: NeoXenoPred on Aug 09, 2017, 10:11:57 AM
Loved the skull. It added the mysterious vibe and also looks creepy.

It was far more mysterious before David created it.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Space7Horror on Aug 09, 2017, 10:13:53 PM
Quote from: windebieste on Aug 08, 2017, 05:34:39 AM
Look!  YOU CAN SEE THE SKULL!!!!!!1!

https://i2.wp.com/www.hideousplastic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CovenantAlien.gif?resize=500%2C208

;D

-Windebieste.

Wow I don't remember that shot in the movie, very nice I like it a lot and to chime in on the debate I think the skull is great when subtle.  It's best when it is visible when light hits it a certain way it adds a creepy vibe to it.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Reichu on Aug 25, 2017, 12:58:48 PM
I'm somewhere between "it's OK" and "I dislike it". If attention is drawn to it, like in the collectibles with the see-through domes, I think it looks very tacky. As something almost subliminal, it's quite effective. I prefer if "in reality" there is no skull beneath the dome, though. I think a lack of eyes, or any point of reference for eyes, makes the alien much more unique than it being another skull-faced monster.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Alionic on Aug 26, 2017, 01:15:45 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on May 12, 2017, 07:24:35 PM
There should be an option for hating both the skull and the people who love it.  >:(

This is what I voted. How anybody can even support the slightest notion of the xenomorph having eyes is beyond me.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Olde on Aug 26, 2017, 02:32:55 AM
I voted what difference does it make. Because seriously. Who cares.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Aug 26, 2017, 06:44:58 PM
Quote from: Olde on Aug 26, 2017, 02:32:55 AM
I voted what difference does it make. Because seriously. Who cares.

That's hate speech.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: windebieste on Aug 27, 2017, 06:58:10 AM
LOL... too awesome!   :laugh:

-Windebieste.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Aug 29, 2017, 07:30:12 AM
Quote from: Alionic on Aug 26, 2017, 01:15:45 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on May 12, 2017, 07:24:35 PM
There should be an option for hating both the skull and the people who love it.  >:(

This is what I voted. How anybody can even support the slightest notion of the xenomorph having eyes is beyond me.

They don't have eyes. They have empty eye sockets which I find f**king terrifying. Just that empty skull looks so creepy to me.

Quote from: Local Trouble on Aug 26, 2017, 06:44:58 PM
Quote from: Olde on Aug 26, 2017, 02:32:55 AM
I voted what difference does it make. Because seriously. Who cares.

That's hate speech.

Someone doesn't appreciate the fun of it.  :P
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Aug 29, 2017, 10:24:11 PM
If the eye sockets and nasal cavity are vestigial and get "paved over" as the cranium forms before shedding the carapace, I can live with that.  The end result would, of course, be the Winston/Cameron head.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: FiorinaFury161 on Nov 15, 2017, 01:00:08 PM
Quote from: FiorinaFury161 on Apr 24, 2017, 05:25:12 PM
With Alien Day 2017 coming up, I wonder if we will get an Alien Halloween costume as a surprise. No SKULL of course :laugh:
Never happened this year... maybe next?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Spirit of Fire on Jan 22, 2018, 04:01:32 AM
Skull for sure.

as a matter of fact,

No dome but with Skull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Jan 22, 2018, 02:55:32 PM
I got a skull for you right here.

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4e/17/48/4e1748d22533769f9236eb3cd4def01f.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: FiorinaFury161 on Jan 22, 2018, 03:49:49 PM
:laugh:
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 22, 2018, 03:52:24 PM
(https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-06-2015/IpddfG.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Jan 22, 2018, 04:00:23 PM
WTF is that thing?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 23, 2018, 08:41:43 AM
That's Hudson's child.

J/K.

It's the Raven from Colonial Marines.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Jan 25, 2018, 11:41:26 AM
You should go play A:CM.  Forever.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 25, 2018, 12:21:32 PM
Oh I will! Don't you worry. ;) I love my Pulse Rifles and blasting dem Alienz.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: SiL on Jan 25, 2018, 12:46:04 PM
Fun fact: you kill more Aliens in the first level of A:CM than there are Aliens in the entirety of Aliens.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Jan 25, 2018, 01:57:29 PM
SiL is just full of fun facts today.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: NetworkATTH on Jan 27, 2018, 01:55:05 PM
Skull. simply because it begs the question why the f**k does it have a human skull underneath a translucent gel cowl. Everything about the Alien is set up to be some scientifically accurate (well relatively speaking) parasitic animal, and yet it still has that one completely unsettling unexplainable aspect to it. I think the almost supernatural element on top of a well thought out biological creature works. Just something eerie about the mixture between science and the supernatural to me. At least that's how I always took it. It can be argued, well blah blah it carries DNA and so there's a skull blah blah that's no fun, and it obviously wasn't Giger's intention. The fact it's an actual human skull only adds to it.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: whiterabbit on Jan 29, 2018, 12:01:05 AM
Honestly with the direction Ridley Scott is going the Skull is probably a left over vestige from the xeno's days when it was a more human like creature. There is no escaping the fact that in Alien Ash's is clearly monitoring a very human-like embryo gestating inside of Kane.

The Skull stays.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Jan 29, 2018, 02:55:27 PM
You are all terrible, horrible people.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: FiorinaFury161 on Jan 29, 2018, 11:34:32 PM
Except us.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: NetworkATTH on Jan 30, 2018, 12:03:22 AM
Quote from: whiterabbit on Jan 29, 2018, 12:01:05 AM
Honestly with the direction Ridley Scott is going the Skull is probably a left over vestige from the xeno's days when it was a more human like creature. There is no escaping the fact that in Alien Ash's is clearly monitoring a very human-like embryo gestating inside of Kane.

The Skull stays.

Probably, but I'm half entertaining the possibility as interesting, and half plugging my ears and closing my eyes and just enjoying the mystery of "Why the f**k does this well thought out biological organism also have a human skull on it, that's real f**king weird innit, why would it do that? Does it have something to do with why it was onboard the ship? But why?"

Better to just leave it at that implication.

It also is just a good design choice. It's eyeless with teeth, which recalls an animal attacking you, you just see the teeth before you die. But underneath its head, you can almost see a skull, it's just death. It's pure death. If you see something with a cowl and a misty concealed skull under it, and a jaw filled with metal teeth it's basically game over for you at that point. Giger's decision to bolt a real human skull onto it was probably just because it represents the monster, it's death. I'm not being real clear here, but I think you get what I'm saying. It was probably a decision on Giger's part to make the beast the real biological animal the script demanded, but also have an air of mystery to it, an air of terrifying mystery that just has no answers, but on top of that, the biggest reason I think it has a skull, is well

Because since it comes out of a human, or is born. And Giger is real into birth imagery, it's just a bastardization of the human form and human anatomy. It's a bastard child that is warped of flesh, metal, and bone. Having a skull on it that's visible is just a vicious parody of humanity. Almost as if it simply exists to remind its victims that its a bastardized human, and there's only one terrifying way it can make more of itself. Getting lost in the conversation of "human dna  blah blah" misses the point that it is both a terrifying mystery, and a reminder of what it is, and what it wants. It wants sex, it wants rape, and it has endless wants to create more bastardized versions of humanity reduced to their base form and nature. A being that kills every threat and reduces them to material to create more of itself, and that misty impression of a skull is almost a ghostly reminder that there is a terrifying humanity in it.

If we were stripped of all humanity, we would act not so dissimilar from the alien. The skull is masked because it's supposed to be ghostly, an impression that this being has no need for a face to hide its skull. No need for soft flesh, it is purely offensive and destructive, it is every bit of humanity warped into such a thing that it is very alien and mysterious, but also very familiar, the implications being terrifying.

I'm positive that was the thought process going on in HR Giger's mind when he decided to bolt the skull down onto the suit, shielding it with a cowl that seems gelatinous or misty inside to conceal it enough; but not all the way. That it's a bastard child of humanity that becomes animal, like a science fiction vampire. Vampires are inherently sexual, and knowing Giger and his gothic nature, probably saw the cinematic nature of the movie he was making and thought, how do I out sexualize the vampire visibly with an implication that makes people squirm. But make the audience ponder enough about the nature of it, coming to their own conclusions, or maybe unconsciously knowing that it's just a reminder it has a dark humanity to it that we find alien in ourselves. Something we almost feel is insectoid and shameful, a bit of Kafka. The Alien is the prodigal Gregor Samsa almost. The fowl beast inside all of us that we hate and cannot control. We just want to slap it with a broom like Samsa's family did with Gregor, ultimately leaving him to die. Unlike Gregor, there is a ferocious need for more in the design of the alien, from the skull to the implication of stiletto like feet. The impression of both a vulva and a penis. It's Gregor Samsa without the shame.

Why does it have a gealitnous cowl? We don't know, it's an alien. Why does it have a skull? Good question, but we both know the answer.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: D. Compton Ambrose on Feb 10, 2018, 02:06:34 AM
It's okay, but better for like a sub-species or a different species/strain of Xenomorph. The facelessness is one of the thing's that makes it really strange and... Alien... ?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kel G 426 on Feb 12, 2018, 03:20:55 AM
The sunken temples on the Aliens warrior have always given me the impression of eye holes. The warrior has a pretty good skull face of it's own.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Xenomorph60 on Mar 04, 2018, 12:30:51 AM
 I love!...as long as it is not to apparent. It is cool to see glimpses of it but in the original some scenes it was too visible and it looked weird.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Gash on Mar 06, 2018, 06:04:58 PM
Quote from: Xenomorph60 on Mar 04, 2018, 12:30:51 AM
I love!...as long as it is not to apparent. It is cool to see glimpses of it but in the original some scenes it was too visible and it looked weird.

In the original? Which scenes?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 13, 2018, 03:19:18 AM
Pro skull here. I've still yet to spot it in the movies. Perhaps I just haven't looked close enough. The inclusion of a skull doesn't seem uncalled for, seeing as the alien shares traits with the host. A humanoid skull isn't too far out there.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Mar 13, 2018, 11:34:01 AM
BluRay 4K upconvertion you can see it clearly.
You can also see that the ship is a set and other movie tricks. 
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Darwinsgirl on Mar 13, 2018, 12:50:15 PM


To qoute ASH: "Kane's Son" so yes I like it. :)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: SiL on Mar 13, 2018, 12:56:27 PM
Quote from: Vermillion on Mar 13, 2018, 11:34:01 AM
BluRay 4K upconvertion you can see it clearly.
You can also see that the ship is a set and other movie tricks.
What do you mean, you can see the ship is a set? Was that not always obvious?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: DerelictShip on Mar 13, 2018, 11:46:05 PM
 
Quote
What do you mean, you can see the ship is a set? Was that not always obvious?

This made me laugh lol
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Mar 14, 2018, 08:50:37 AM
Verm is trollish in his methods. Take his posts with plenty of salt.  :P
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: whiterabbit on Mar 15, 2018, 08:37:56 AM
I don't think he is trolling. In HD you can clearly see that all the stuff is made out of common stuff you can buy from a hardware store. Back in the old 360i days everything looked more real. If you know what I mean. :P
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: blackGoo|skin-lotion| on Mar 23, 2018, 11:52:27 AM
Hm, i have always seen the Xenomorph as a faceless creature, i mean, it is its special characteristic. With the human skull visible, it has a face and it looks like a guy in a space suit...  a space suit with a scorpion tail and clawed fingers, who loves to crawl in narrow shafts lol, that does not fit together.

Looks like Skeletor in a Hordak battle suit  ::)
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3a/88/08/3a88083361aca7eb91e0141622f4e0dc.jpg)


Looks like David used pig-DNA on this specimen
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/1/1b/Tplanet4xeno.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170812190424)



Quote from: Alionic on Aug 26, 2017, 01:15:45 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on May 12, 2017, 07:24:35 PM
There should be an option for hating both the skull and the people who love it.  >:(

This is what I voted. How anybody can even support the slightest notion of the xenomorph having eyes is beyond me.

AMEN comrade

I´m curious how Ridleys Xeno queen will look like. If you crack the head open, you will probably find a butt in there - Easter Egg alert ::)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: OpenMaw on Jun 03, 2018, 07:35:45 AM
Quote from: whiterabbit on Mar 15, 2018, 08:37:56 AM
I don't think he is trolling. In HD you can clearly see that all the stuff is made out of common stuff you can buy from a hardware store. Back in the old 360i days everything looked more real. If you know what I mean. :P

Oh I don't think he was trolling either. I think he was making a pretty clever joke.

And FWIW "back in the day" the film was blown up onto a big theater screen using a film print, which is still a higher resolution than digital HD releases. So there's no way the set suddenly looks cheap.

The Nostromo interiors are still some of the most visually impressive science fiction sets I've ever seen in terms of their sense of reality. Predominately thanks to their use of air craft parts and industrial equipment.


Quote from: blackGoo|skin-lotion| on Mar 23, 2018, 11:52:27 AM
I´m curious how Ridleys Xeno queen will look like. If you crack the head open, you will probably find a butt in there - Easter Egg alert ::)

Well, he is a big fan of Beavis and Butthead, so yeah. Why not?  ;D
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Necronom IV on Jul 09, 2018, 11:03:13 AM
Quote from: NetworkATTH on Jan 30, 2018, 12:03:22 AM
Quote from: whiterabbit on Jan 29, 2018, 12:01:05 AM
Honestly with the direction Ridley Scott is going the Skull is probably a left over vestige from the xeno's days when it was a more human like creature. There is no escaping the fact that in Alien Ash's is clearly monitoring a very human-like embryo gestating inside of Kane.

The Skull stays.

Probably, but I'm half entertaining the possibility as interesting, and half plugging my ears and closing my eyes and just enjoying the mystery of "Why the f**k does this well thought out biological organism also have a human skull on it, that's real f**king weird innit, why would it do that? Does it have something to do with why it was onboard the ship? But why?"

Better to just leave it at that implication.

It also is just a good design choice. It's eyeless with teeth, which recalls an animal attacking you, you just see the teeth before you die. But underneath its head, you can almost see a skull, it's just death. It's pure death. If you see something with a cowl and a misty concealed skull under it, and a jaw filled with metal teeth it's basically game over for you at that point. Giger's decision to bolt a real human skull onto it was probably just because it represents the monster, it's death. I'm not being real clear here, but I think you get what I'm saying. It was probably a decision on Giger's part to make the beast the real biological animal the script demanded, but also have an air of mystery to it, an air of terrifying mystery that just has no answers, but on top of that, the biggest reason I think it has a skull, is well

Because since it comes out of a human, or is born. And Giger is real into birth imagery, it's just a bastardization of the human form and human anatomy. It's a bastard child that is warped of flesh, metal, and bone. Having a skull on it that's visible is just a vicious parody of humanity. Almost as if it simply exists to remind its victims that its a bastardized human, and there's only one terrifying way it can make more of itself. Getting lost in the conversation of "human dna  blah blah" misses the point that it is both a terrifying mystery, and a reminder of what it is, and what it wants. It wants sex, it wants rape, and it has endless wants to create more bastardized versions of humanity reduced to their base form and nature. A being that kills every threat and reduces them to material to create more of itself, and that misty impression of a skull is almost a ghostly reminder that there is a terrifying humanity in it.

If we were stripped of all humanity, we would act not so dissimilar from the alien. The skull is masked because it's supposed to be ghostly, an impression that this being has no need for a face to hide its skull. No need for soft flesh, it is purely offensive and destructive, it is every bit of humanity warped into such a thing that it is very alien and mysterious, but also very familiar, the implications being terrifying.

I'm positive that was the thought process going on in HR Giger's mind when he decided to bolt the skull down onto the suit, shielding it with a cowl that seems gelatinous or misty inside to conceal it enough; but not all the way. That it's a bastard child of humanity that becomes animal, like a science fiction vampire. Vampires are inherently sexual, and knowing Giger and his gothic nature, probably saw the cinematic nature of the movie he was making and thought, how do I out sexualize the vampire visibly with an implication that makes people squirm. But make the audience ponder enough about the nature of it, coming to their own conclusions, or maybe unconsciously knowing that it's just a reminder it has a dark humanity to it that we find alien in ourselves. Something we almost feel is insectoid and shameful, a bit of Kafka. The Alien is the prodigal Gregor Samsa almost. The fowl beast inside all of us that we hate and cannot control. We just want to slap it with a broom like Samsa's family did with Gregor, ultimately leaving him to die. Unlike Gregor, there is a ferocious need for more in the design of the alien, from the skull to the implication of stiletto like feet. The impression of both a vulva and a penis. It's Gregor Samsa without the shame.

Why does it have a gealitnous cowl? We don't know, it's an alien. Why does it have a skull? Good question, but we both know the answer.

There ought to be a way to deem posts ''favourite''. This is splendid stuff.

I occupy the third position set out above: the Alien is not an alien creature. ''bug-eyed'', or for that matter eyeless monster, a different species, it is an erotic-mechanical Freudian nightmare. It should not be ''a well thought out biological creature'', that's just what Cameron did brilliantly and to my mind by so doing ruined the Alien, he made it a coherent creature from an alien ecosystem and so commonplace, no more frightening than a shark or a tiger.

It must dwell in mystery, ambiguously sexual, human, obscure, alien, unknown and unknowable by the mind, but calling up dim half-remembered complexes from the unconsciousness. Expository theories about its origin (dog-aliens, human-aliens and so on) rob it of its primal allure and primal terror. The skull (a real human skull, not a resin replica or worse the ''evil-looking skull'' of death metal posters and Joseph Tsang sculpts) should be hidden beneath the cowl, but it must be present, for a skull even guessed at is an ancient archetypal image of death and terror, another evolutionary complex.

If one believed in the spiritual or paranormal, one might say it gave the Alien an air of death, horror, liminality and worse an unsettling relationship (best never explained) to Man that none of the later designs possess. I think it can be sensed, not seen, triggering ancient warning-mechanisms, anticipations and senses we have half forgotten.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Ingwar on Jul 09, 2018, 09:29:11 PM
1979

What a cute little skull ;D

https://twitter.com/AlienAnthology/status/1015258542289408000 (https://twitter.com/AlienAnthology/status/1015258542289408000)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Acid_Reign161 on Jul 10, 2018, 02:16:16 AM
Instead of debating the skull, can we focus on the REAL enemy: the Resurrection/AVP tail fin!!
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jul 10, 2018, 02:44:47 AM
Quote from: Its_Auto on Jul 10, 2018, 02:16:16 AM
Instead of debating the skull, can we focus on the REAL enemy: the Resurrection/AVP tail fin!!

Every train must have a caboose. The booty, is necessary.  8)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: FiorinaFury161 on Jul 11, 2018, 10:30:11 PM
Quote from: Its_Auto on Jul 10, 2018, 02:16:16 AM
Instead of debating the skull, can we focus on the REAL enemy: the Resurrection/AVP tail fin!!
The real enemy is the SKULL  >:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: FenGiddel on Jul 12, 2018, 12:37:36 AM
Quote from: Its_Auto on Jul 10, 2018, 02:16:16 AM
Instead of debating the skull, can we focus on the REAL enemy: the Resurrection/AVP tail fin!!
Now you're talkin'!   8)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stompy the Perfect Xeno on Aug 15, 2018, 12:00:45 PM
Stompy in Alien Isolation has the skull thus it's great.

The angry looking skull, though. An abomination it is.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Nostromo on Aug 15, 2018, 03:28:54 PM
Is this Stompy? That's one great looking Alien head.

http://www.hideousplastic.com/?page_id=2838
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Aug 15, 2018, 03:31:47 PM
It's just their 1979 mold with new legs, not really faithful to the Video Game appearance.

I'm not to keen on that head mold tbh

Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stompy the Perfect Xeno on Aug 16, 2018, 10:11:06 AM
Frankly I'm not 100% sure, maybe screenshots from game are edited with eye holes.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 426Buddy on Aug 16, 2018, 10:23:45 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/nluafrj_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium)
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR-hcXHMZUVAptSDzzPFwzSygTr4A0_8DYBfpsaUVeEjMuCTLe1TA)
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F_7HTO3jP-_lk%2FSh9ssZLuALI%2FAAAAAAAACyo%2FSc2G6YHfbEI%2Fs400%2FAlien%2Bcostume.jpg&hash=0cc2fe438738510f5f9d657e5c70481858cd4c49)

#lovetheskull
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Aug 17, 2018, 02:58:18 AM
What I see
(https://media2.giphy.com/media/L4caiF7GTkgJa/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: whiterabbit on Aug 17, 2018, 05:53:43 AM
Quote from: FenGiddel on Jul 12, 2018, 12:37:36 AM
Quote from: Its_Auto on Jul 10, 2018, 02:16:16 AM
Instead of debating the skull, can we focus on the REAL enemy: the Resurrection/AVP tail fin!!
Now you're talkin'!   8)
Uh, before we dock, I think we oughta discuss the tail situation. It's unfair that the skull gets all of the hate when that sploshy tail fin from A|R is wholly worthy of just as much hate. The tail deserves a full share of the hate.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Aug 18, 2018, 04:55:04 AM
Skull and fin suck.
What the hell
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 426Buddy on Aug 18, 2018, 02:43:12 PM
Skull is great, skull is all!!!
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Aug 18, 2018, 06:39:35 PM
Quote from: 426Buddy on Aug 18, 2018, 02:43:12 PM
Skull is great, skull is all!!!

The "Skull Life" Chose Us.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: whiterabbit on Aug 20, 2018, 10:19:51 AM
You guys are heartless. You don't see the xenomorph rubbing it in that the skull is good!
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Aug 20, 2018, 11:49:28 PM
Hehe.   Skull rubbing porn.

Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Aug 21, 2018, 12:26:46 AM
Quote from: Vermillion on Aug 20, 2018, 11:49:28 PM
Hehe.   Skull rubbing porn.

Baba the cosmic barber has been doing this for years.  ;)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Aug 31, 2018, 10:40:29 AM
(https://pre00.deviantart.net/5bff/th/pre/i/2015/356/b/a/xenomorph_thingy_by_rhunyc-d9l0dz9.jpg)
https://www.deviantart.com/rhunyc/art/Xenomorph-thingy-579485637

(https://pre00.deviantart.net/417b/th/pre/i/2014/133/7/0/giger_by_rhunyc-d7i9wnd.jpg)
https://www.deviantart.com/rhunyc/art/Giger-453958537

Beautiful...

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.feoamante.com%2FMovies%2FAlien%2Fimages%2FAlien4%2FAlien403.jpg&hash=b9ce42e276df73d7a559cc9f3d3c5b514d2e3f13)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Aug 31, 2018, 12:57:25 PM
(https://media1.giphy.com/media/3ov9k9nSXfih7gB8DS/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Aug 31, 2018, 04:11:13 PM
Nooooooo

(https://media3.giphy.com/media/3og0IAcP4QC1H7p31K/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: FiorinaFury161 on Sep 02, 2018, 05:34:10 AM
I leave for a month and the SKULL lovers are swarming. Local Trouble, you're not alone anymore, we will nuke the thread from orbit. It's the only way to be non-SKULL.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Sep 03, 2018, 04:09:09 PM
I'm beginning to suspect that Local is actually a closet Skull lover. All the signs are pointing toward it. In fact, I bet he has a whole closet full of skeletons.

(https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/36/590x/secondary/indiana-jones-4-1202335.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 426Buddy on Sep 03, 2018, 04:15:07 PM
FiorinaFury161 we know you'll turn to the skull side. They always do... in the end.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Sep 03, 2018, 05:34:21 PM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Sep 03, 2018, 04:09:09 PM
I'm beginning to suspect that Local is actually a closet Skull lover. All the signs are pointing toward it. In fact, I bet he has a whole closet full of skeletons.

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/36/590x/secondary/indiana-jones-4-1202335.jpg

Local is a senior member of the Skull fraternity. A secret society dedicated to worshipping all kind of skulls, but especially the xeno-shaped ones  ;)

(https://i.imgur.com/hPY3uWE.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Sep 03, 2018, 06:31:22 PM
Busted...
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: whiterabbit on Sep 03, 2018, 09:21:21 PM
heh, closet skull lovers are now a thing, I see. We should give badges out for that... actually why aren't there any badges here. I thought this was a fan website? Somebody wake up Hicks.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: FiorinaFury161 on Sep 03, 2018, 10:20:51 PM
Quote from: 426Buddy on Sep 03, 2018, 04:15:07 PM
FiorinaFury161 we know you'll turn to the skull side. They always do... in the end.
(https://media.giphy.com/media/Hk04hIz9UENuo/200.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Sep 04, 2018, 02:28:38 AM
Distraction

(https://media3.giphy.com/media/xT77XXAEuLgk3uC3ja/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: whiterabbit on Sep 04, 2018, 03:58:49 AM
Quote from: Vermillion on Sep 04, 2018, 02:28:38 AM
Distraction

https://media3.giphy.com/media/xT77XXAEuLgk3uC3ja/giphy.gif
It ain't working for the guy buffing his car, why would you think that would work on us?

Now back to the skull debate... I'm sensing a civil war.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Sep 04, 2018, 04:33:06 AM
Quote from: Vermillion on Sep 04, 2018, 02:28:38 AM
Distraction

https://media3.giphy.com/media/xT77XXAEuLgk3uC3ja/giphy.gif

Distraction? She still looks like a dude I knew back in the day.

Quote from: whiterabbit on Sep 04, 2018, 03:58:49 AM
Now back to the skull debate... I'm sensing a civil war.

If there were actual eyeballs in there, I could see the problem. As it is, I think the skull is barely noticeable and only gives them a more menacing look.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 04, 2018, 07:43:20 AM
(https://static1.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/This+guy+knows+whats+goin+on+_0d76e52dccefebcb8c9c4fd2e37909e1.jpg)

The empty eye sockets are amazing! Much more menacing.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Sep 04, 2018, 10:49:20 AM
Quote from: Crazy Shrimp on Sep 03, 2018, 05:34:21 PM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Sep 03, 2018, 04:09:09 PM
I'm beginning to suspect that Local is actually a closet Skull lover. All the signs are pointing toward it. In fact, I bet he has a whole closet full of skeletons.

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/36/590x/secondary/indiana-jones-4-1202335.jpg

Local is a senior member of the Skull fraternity. A secret society dedicated to worshipping all kind of skulls, but especially the xeno-shaped ones  ;)

(https://i.imgur.com/hPY3uWE.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/sruiX68.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Sep 04, 2018, 04:07:29 PM
The cat's out of the bag now Mr. Trouble.

Or perhaps I should rather say the skeleton's out of the closet.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: FiorinaFury161 on Sep 04, 2018, 05:04:02 PM
Quote from: whiterabbit on Sep 04, 2018, 03:58:49 AM
Quote from: Vermillion on Sep 04, 2018, 02:28:38 AM
Distraction

https://media3.giphy.com/media/xT77XXAEuLgk3uC3ja/giphy.gif
It ain't working for the guy buffing his car, why would you think that would work on us
I am distracted by the guy buffing his car (pun on words) ;)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Sep 04, 2018, 05:38:26 PM
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/59d656a7d88a4698aac7fb58160d2c10/tumblr_pei79oxiqc1xocnpjo7_1280.jpg)

SKULL Confirmed.

https://www.sideshowtoy.com/whats-new/prime-1-studio-scorpion-alien-statue/
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Sep 05, 2018, 04:02:32 AM
Why do you hate me so?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 426Buddy on Sep 05, 2018, 04:22:15 AM
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTxxDE3LOohs_o9T6ssIVWHviYTkddTWFHLH_cmDWN1Qc7th2Zn_w)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: whiterabbit on Sep 05, 2018, 05:01:48 AM
The skull is a fact of life.

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2Fd0SEajOmMna1i%2Fgiphy.gif&hash=efdda82768b532ada75496dd5378dc6cddbd6538)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Sep 06, 2018, 01:04:47 AM
(https://media2.giphy.com/media/13gQDQyb4JIWic/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Sep 06, 2018, 03:07:39 AM
Quote from: Vermillion on Sep 06, 2018, 01:04:47 AM
https://media2.giphy.com/media/13gQDQyb4JIWic/giphy.gif

Day 3. The war rages on. Memes continue to fly, but the gifs are doing most of the damage. There have been casualties on both sides. It is strange feeling, fighting one's own. And so, we beseech thee, almighty God, to bring a swift end to this conflict. In hopes that we might forge from its ashes, a better/kinder thread. And though the wounds of war may linger, may we always take comfort in the truth of your word, that indeed.....the skull is better.  ;D
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Sep 06, 2018, 07:35:26 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/iAt0zcv.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Sep 06, 2018, 12:01:03 PM
(https://media0.giphy.com/media/WXtccLGTLB1NS/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Oct 03, 2018, 06:36:24 PM
No Skull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 426Buddy on Oct 04, 2018, 12:34:54 AM
Yes skull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: NetworkATTH on Oct 04, 2018, 04:03:58 AM
Let me put on my psychology goggles

Frankly, I don't understand what's wrong with the skull. And I could also see why someone would hate the skull. The alien is a metaphor monster, so if someone thinks the skull is spooky, they're probably afraid of skulls in the context of sex. If someone isn't, and they think a featureless dome is scary during sex, they're probably a repressed homosexual.

Can we at least agree on this
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Oct 04, 2018, 04:10:40 AM
Alien Engineers, I believe nailed that one aspect- of Charlie Holloway giving birth during sex.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Oct 05, 2018, 12:14:06 AM
Quote from: NetworkATTH on Oct 04, 2018, 04:03:58 AM
Let me put on my psychology goggles

Frankly, I don't understand what's wrong with the skull. And I could also see why someone would hate the skull. The alien is a metaphor monster, so if someone thinks the skull is spooky, they're probably afraid of skulls in the context of sex. If someone isn't, and they think a featureless dome is scary during sex, they're probably a repressed homosexual.

Can we at least agree on this

Say what?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: whiterabbit on Oct 06, 2018, 02:21:26 AM
Quote from: Huggs on Oct 05, 2018, 12:14:06 AM
Quote from: NetworkATTH on Oct 04, 2018, 04:03:58 AM
Let me put on my psychology goggles

Frankly, I don't understand what's wrong with the skull. And I could also see why someone would hate the skull. The alien is a metaphor monster, so if someone thinks the skull is spooky, they're probably afraid of skulls in the context of sex. If someone isn't, and they think a featureless dome is scary during sex, they're probably a repressed homosexual.

Can we at least agree on this

Say what?
uh come again?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: proto leech on Oct 06, 2018, 04:46:54 PM
skull haters are filth. giger spits on you from his biomechanical afterlife

you all deserve banishment. begone.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: SM on Oct 06, 2018, 08:54:47 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Oct 05, 2018, 12:14:06 AM
Quote from: NetworkATTH on Oct 04, 2018, 04:03:58 AM
Let me put on my psychology goggles

Frankly, I don't understand what's wrong with the skull. And I could also see why someone would hate the skull. The alien is a metaphor monster, so if someone thinks the skull is spooky, they're probably afraid of skulls in the context of sex. If someone isn't, and they think a featureless dome is scary during sex, they're probably a repressed homosexual.

Can we at least agree on this

Say what?

Tell me about your mother.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Oct 07, 2018, 01:05:36 AM
Quote from: SM on Oct 06, 2018, 08:54:47 PM
Tell me about your mother.

(https://i.makeagif.com/media/1-02-2016/7QdoHq.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: NetworkATTH on Oct 10, 2018, 06:19:00 PM
It just means the Alien is a Freudian mess meets a Lovecraftian mess. The head is a dick, so if you like the skull you don't like the idea of necrophilia and rot, and if you want it totally covered you're interested more in the dick aspect. I'm just saying.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Oct 11, 2018, 02:39:22 AM
I like the Vag. 

But I noticed when looking at the cover art on Alien novels, the no-skull Alien is used.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Nyarlathotep on Oct 15, 2018, 11:12:30 AM
Quote from: NetworkATTH on Oct 10, 2018, 06:19:00 PM
It just means the Alien is a Freudian mess meets a Lovecraftian mess. The head is a dick, so if you like the skull you don't like the idea of necrophilia and rot, and if you want it totally covered you're interested more in the dick aspect. I'm just saying.
But what if I like the skull as well as the idea of necrophilia and rot? ;)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Oct 15, 2018, 10:11:51 PM
Quote from: Nyarlathotep on Oct 15, 2018, 11:12:30 AM
Quote from: NetworkATTH on Oct 10, 2018, 06:19:00 PM
It just means the Alien is a Freudian mess meets a Lovecraftian mess. The head is a dick, so if you like the skull you don't like the idea of necrophilia and rot, and if you want it totally covered you're interested more in the dick aspect. I'm just saying.
But what if I like the skull as well as the idea of necrophilia and rot? ;)

I think it means you're afraid of Freud's dick.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Oct 15, 2018, 10:40:15 PM
I love them both,
but prefer the translucent carapace- to the transparent or opaque.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Nyarlathotep on Oct 15, 2018, 10:54:36 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Oct 15, 2018, 10:11:51 PM
Quote from: Nyarlathotep on Oct 15, 2018, 11:12:30 AM
Quote from: NetworkATTH on Oct 10, 2018, 06:19:00 PM
It just means the Alien is a Freudian mess meets a Lovecraftian mess. The head is a dick, so if you like the skull you don't like the idea of necrophilia and rot, and if you want it totally covered you're interested more in the dick aspect. I'm just saying.
But what if I like the skull as well as the idea of necrophilia and rot? ;)

I think it means you're afraid of Freud's dick.
Lmao, in all seriousness Freud was someone who quite literally seemed to always have had dick on the mind.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Oct 15, 2018, 11:11:55 PM
Quote from: Nyarlathotep on Oct 15, 2018, 10:54:36 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Oct 15, 2018, 10:11:51 PM
Quote from: Nyarlathotep on Oct 15, 2018, 11:12:30 AM
Quote from: NetworkATTH on Oct 10, 2018, 06:19:00 PM
It just means the Alien is a Freudian mess meets a Lovecraftian mess. The head is a dick, so if you like the skull you don't like the idea of necrophilia and rot, and if you want it totally covered you're interested more in the dick aspect. I'm just saying.
But what if I like the skull as well as the idea of necrophilia and rot? ;)

I think it means you're afraid of Freud's dick.
Lmao, in all seriousness Freud was someone who quite literally seemed to always have had dick on the mind.

That and his own poop. And mother, of course.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Nyarlathotep on Oct 15, 2018, 11:47:22 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Oct 15, 2018, 11:11:55 PM
Quote from: Nyarlathotep on Oct 15, 2018, 10:54:36 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Oct 15, 2018, 10:11:51 PM
Quote from: Nyarlathotep on Oct 15, 2018, 11:12:30 AM
Quote from: NetworkATTH on Oct 10, 2018, 06:19:00 PM
It just means the Alien is a Freudian mess meets a Lovecraftian mess. The head is a dick, so if you like the skull you don't like the idea of necrophilia and rot, and if you want it totally covered you're interested more in the dick aspect. I'm just saying.
But what if I like the skull as well as the idea of necrophilia and rot? ;)

I think it means you're afraid of Freud's dick.
Lmao, in all seriousness Freud was someone who quite literally seemed to always have had dick on the mind.

That and his own poop. And mother, of course.
Wait did you really just say poop l? :laugh:
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Oct 15, 2018, 11:58:25 PM
Quote from: Nyarlathotep on Oct 15, 2018, 11:47:22 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Oct 15, 2018, 11:11:55 PM
Quote from: Nyarlathotep on Oct 15, 2018, 10:54:36 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Oct 15, 2018, 10:11:51 PM
Quote from: Nyarlathotep on Oct 15, 2018, 11:12:30 AM
Quote from: NetworkATTH on Oct 10, 2018, 06:19:00 PM
It just means the Alien is a Freudian mess meets a Lovecraftian mess. The head is a dick, so if you like the skull you don't like the idea of necrophilia and rot, and if you want it totally covered you're interested more in the dick aspect. I'm just saying.
But what if I like the skull as well as the idea of necrophilia and rot? ;)

I think it means you're afraid of Freud's dick.
Lmao, in all seriousness Freud was someone who quite literally seemed to always have had dick on the mind.

That and his own poop. And mother, of course.
Wait did you really just say poop l? :laugh:

Indeed I did. I'm talkin' Scat, the fudge, Mr. Brownstone, fecal matter, shite, doodie, and poo.

Freud loved him some good ol' dookie. A full-on "poopocalypse".
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Nyarlathotep on Oct 16, 2018, 12:03:56 AM
Quote from: Huggs on Oct 15, 2018, 11:58:25 PM
Quote from: Nyarlathotep on Oct 15, 2018, 11:47:22 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Oct 15, 2018, 11:11:55 PM
Quote from: Nyarlathotep on Oct 15, 2018, 10:54:36 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Oct 15, 2018, 10:11:51 PM
Quote from: Nyarlathotep on Oct 15, 2018, 11:12:30 AM
Quote from: NetworkATTH on Oct 10, 2018, 06:19:00 PM
It just means the Alien is a Freudian mess meets a Lovecraftian mess. The head is a dick, so if you like the skull you don't like the idea of necrophilia and rot, and if you want it totally covered you're interested more in the dick aspect. I'm just saying.
But what if I like the skull as well as the idea of necrophilia and rot? ;)

I think it means you're afraid of Freud's dick.
Lmao, in all seriousness Freud was someone who quite literally seemed to always have had dick on the mind.

That and his own poop. And mother, of course.
Wait did you really just say poop l? :laugh:

Indeed I did. I'm talkin' Scat, the fudge, Mr. Brownstone, fecal matter, shite, doodie, and poo.

Freud loved him some good ol' dookie. A one man "poopocalypse".
Jesus, just when I though that the man couldn't be any more of a repressed sexual deviant.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Oct 16, 2018, 05:17:39 PM
Skull to scat.
Thread skid mark
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Oct 16, 2018, 05:25:54 PM
Quote from: Vermillion on Oct 16, 2018, 05:17:39 PM
Skull to scat.
Thread skid mark

That's what happens when Freud's Dick pops up.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: whiterabbit on Oct 17, 2018, 10:11:40 PM
Freud would be so proud... um, actually, I wonder just what he would have to say about Alien. Probably be his favorite movie of all time?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Nyarlathotep on Oct 17, 2018, 10:16:27 PM
Quote from: whiterabbit on Oct 17, 2018, 10:11:40 PM
Freud would be so proud... um, actually, I wonder just what he would have to say about Alien. Probably be his favorite movie of all time?
Perhaps, I'm sure he'd definitely would have loved it's sexual themes.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 17, 2018, 10:21:12 PM
Quote from: whiterabbit on Oct 17, 2018, 10:11:40 PM
Freud would be so proud... um, actually, I wonder just what he would have to say about Alien. Probably be his favorite movie of all time?

He would like to marry Giger.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Nov 07, 2018, 09:53:32 PM
The latest picture in the "Best pic of an Alien" solidifies the skull for me.  ;D
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Nov 07, 2018, 10:05:34 PM
Quote from: The Old One on Nov 07, 2018, 09:53:32 PM
The latest picture in the "Best pic of an Alien" solidifies the skull for me.  ;D

I can hear the steady thumping of Local Trouble hitting his head on the wall.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Nov 07, 2018, 10:16:16 PM
I found him.

Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Nov 13, 2018, 04:33:10 PM
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 17, 2018, 10:21:12 PM
Quote from: whiterabbit on Oct 17, 2018, 10:11:40 PM
Freud would be so proud... um, actually, I wonder just what he would have to say about Alien. Probably be his favorite movie of all time?

He would like to marry Giger.

Lol. Giger was so into BDSM you'd be whistling outta your butt for days!
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Nov 13, 2018, 04:45:15 PM
Quote from: Vermillion on Nov 13, 2018, 04:33:10 PM
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 17, 2018, 10:21:12 PM
Quote from: whiterabbit on Oct 17, 2018, 10:11:40 PM
Freud would be so proud... um, actually, I wonder just what he would have to say about Alien. Probably be his favorite movie of all time?

He would like to marry Giger.

Lol. Giger was so into BDSM you'd be whistling outta your butt for days!

Whistling indeed, butt what?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Nov 16, 2018, 10:49:36 PM
This thread has me acting like this guy now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MpRTM6DKPs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MpRTM6DKPs)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 11, 2019, 08:43:44 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcqUSJ7WAAAJp2J.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Jan 11, 2019, 12:40:00 PM
Did anyone else hear an explosion?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Jan 11, 2019, 05:58:29 PM
(https://media.giphy.com/media/SGT03NX8u32ZG/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Jan 11, 2019, 06:38:44 PM
And now we have the Corporal trolling...  :laugh:
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jan 11, 2019, 06:59:11 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jan 11, 2019, 08:43:44 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcqUSJ7WAAAJp2J.jpg)

That is a bit extreme, even for a skulled xeno. I'm getting alittle too much of a necromorph vibe. Wonderful work though.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jan 11, 2019, 07:24:16 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/YkQXfko.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/RUhld4f.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/G9sJQ4a.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/K1jJjyq.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/zmdKzYP.jpg)

Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jan 11, 2019, 07:26:40 PM
That's more like it. Better get the smelling salts ready for Local though.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Jan 11, 2019, 07:30:48 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Jan 11, 2019, 07:26:40 PM
That's more like it. Better get the smelling salts ready for Local though.

I think it's gonna take an ultra-powerful fart to wake him after this.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jan 11, 2019, 07:51:16 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Jan 11, 2019, 07:30:48 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Jan 11, 2019, 07:26:40 PM
That's more like it. Better get the smelling salts ready for Local though.

I think it's gonna take an ultra-powerful fart to wake him after this.

You gotta be careful, he might like that sort of thing.

Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Jan 11, 2019, 09:27:10 PM
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jan 12, 2019, 12:14:32 AM
Maybe we should put some skin on the skull

(https://i.imgur.com/IwIFSW5.gif)

(https://i.imgur.com/Io0vSkP.gif)

(https://i.imgur.com/qAaLf1Y.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 12, 2019, 10:52:50 AM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Jan 11, 2019, 06:38:44 PM
And now we have the Corporal trolling...  :laugh:

What?! I love the skull! You all know I do!

Spoiler
:P
[close]
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: LiquidMonster on Feb 07, 2019, 07:09:39 PM
I've always loved this design without the "cowl/head covering". (https://i.postimg.cc/2V34BrWX/19420419-1475704712479945-1437465627753933923-n.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/2V34BrWX)

Horrific to look at. Empty eye and nose sockets.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Feb 07, 2019, 11:09:46 PM
Yes, horrific indeed.  >:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 426Buddy on Feb 07, 2019, 11:11:31 PM
#I❤Skull
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Feb 07, 2019, 11:12:31 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Feb 07, 2019, 11:09:46 PM
Yes, horrific indeed.  >:(

Does Randy love the skull?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Feb 07, 2019, 11:16:12 PM
Considering the Alien Lurker, probably.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Feb 10, 2019, 06:50:37 PM
I don't like skull unless it barely visible.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: OmegaZilla on Feb 24, 2019, 12:51:16 PM
the skull is inherently connected to the concept of a semi-transparent cowl suggesting what is beneath it; i.e. death. It also doubles as an allegorical 'death astronaut' so double cool for it
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Feb 24, 2019, 03:53:29 PM
Quote from: Omegamorph on Feb 24, 2019, 12:51:16 PM
the skull is inherently connected to the concept of a semi-transparent cowl suggesting what is beneath it; i.e. death. It also doubles as an allegorical 'death astronaut' so double cool for it

(https://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mahyqgi8S21qbhvnwo3_500.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Feb 24, 2019, 03:57:41 PM
Quote from: Omegamorph on Feb 24, 2019, 12:51:16 PM
the skull is inherently connected to the concept of a semi-transparent cowl suggesting what is beneath it; i.e. death. It also doubles as an allegorical 'death astronaut' so double cool for it

I know that has been said many many times before, but anyway: skull is cool as idea but in actual movie it's better when Alien is eyeless creature because  that makes him, you know, more ALIEN.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: OmegaZilla on Feb 24, 2019, 04:05:17 PM
Quote from: Kradan on Feb 24, 2019, 03:57:41 PM
I know that has been said many many times before, but anyway: skull is cool as idea but in actual movie it's better when Alien is eyeless creature because  that makes him, you know, more ALIEN.
but it IS eyeless. The skull is beneath the dome, only glimpsed at (the dome is not transparent, but translucent to a degree), totally nonfunctional

were it outside the dome it would look silly, but it's the fact it's within the dome making it a brilliant detail
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Feb 24, 2019, 04:07:41 PM
Quote from: Omegamorph on Feb 24, 2019, 04:05:17 PM
Quote from: Kradan on Feb 24, 2019, 03:57:41 PM
I know that has been said many many times before, but anyway: skull is cool as idea but in actual movie it's better when Alien is eyeless creature because  that makes him, you know, more ALIEN.
but it IS eyeless. The skull is beneath the dome, only glimpsed at (the dome is not transparent, but translucent to a degree), totally nonfunctional

were it outside the dome it would look silly, but it's the fact it's within the dome making it a brilliant detail

I mean, it looks more Alien without ANY signs or clues of eyes. But at the end of the day it's all just matter of personal taste, i think.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Feb 24, 2019, 07:45:36 PM
(https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/intermediary/f/4c60bffd-6314-4457-9d42-227bcf431520/d5nh5r1-a5be5f38-7598-49f8-85d8-1a6aa37eef35.png)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Thunderjack88 on Feb 24, 2019, 09:42:07 PM
Only xenomorph skull I care about is the 9ne in my trophy cabinet!

But on topic skull doesn't make me feel one way or another about the Alien design. I didn't pick up on it my first few watches it's an interesting detail but doesn't define the Xenomorphs enough for me to like or dislike it.

-TJ88
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Feb 25, 2019, 08:28:29 AM
Quote from: Omegamorph on Feb 24, 2019, 04:05:17 PM
were it outside the dome it would look silly, but it's the fact it's within the dome making it a brilliant detail

I reckon it would have made a good Newborn.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Feb 25, 2019, 08:33:18 AM
That would be kind of bizarre AP, because then the Newborn would be more biomechanical than the regular Resurrection Alien.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Feb 25, 2019, 08:34:46 AM
That's true but I also think more in terms of that skull portraying it's human connection in a more satisfying way than the final face.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Feb 25, 2019, 08:54:56 AM
The design could've been better, won't disagree with that- the Newborn without eyes us immediately an improvement. Even if it still had articulate brow muscles and the rest.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: OmegaZilla on Feb 26, 2019, 05:14:49 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 25, 2019, 08:28:29 AM
Quote from: Omegamorph on Feb 24, 2019, 04:05:17 PM
were it outside the dome it would look silly, but it's the fact it's within the dome making it a brilliant detail

I reckon it would have made a good Newborn.
they did consider something like that
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9bcvjlVtgq0/VuiAo2XM3xI/AAAAAAAAYrw/ALl8xHBpUIcYlyyB-10wDlWVc2ZsAer4g/s1600/newbornmaquette27.png)


and iirc the original chris hall pitch design that established the direction they went in was akin to this idea too
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Feb 26, 2019, 08:49:04 PM
Quote from: Omegamorph on Feb 26, 2019, 05:14:49 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 25, 2019, 08:28:29 AM
Quote from: Omegamorph on Feb 24, 2019, 04:05:17 PM
were it outside the dome it would look silly, but it's the fact it's within the dome making it a brilliant detail

I reckon it would have made a good Newborn.
they did consider something like that
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9bcvjlVtgq0/VuiAo2XM3xI/AAAAAAAAYrw/ALl8xHBpUIcYlyyB-10wDlWVc2ZsAer4g/s1600/newbornmaquette27.png


and iirc the original chris hall pitch design that established the direction they went in was akin to this idea too

Much better in my opinion.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Feb 26, 2019, 10:00:59 PM
Yeah. Vey skeleton-like. And i'd prefer eyeless version - I think (if Jeunet wanted so) a lot of emotions can be expressed by only face and mouth movements.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Feb 26, 2019, 10:11:10 PM
Quote from: Omegamorph on Feb 26, 2019, 05:14:49 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 25, 2019, 08:28:29 AM
Quote from: Omegamorph on Feb 24, 2019, 04:05:17 PM
were it outside the dome it would look silly, but it's the fact it's within the dome making it a brilliant detail

I reckon it would have made a good Newborn.
they did consider something like that
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9bcvjlVtgq0/VuiAo2XM3xI/AAAAAAAAYrw/ALl8xHBpUIcYlyyB-10wDlWVc2ZsAer4g/s1600/newbornmaquette27.png


and iirc the original chris hall pitch design that established the direction they went in was akin to this idea too

That does look more... bearable.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Gilfryd on Feb 27, 2019, 05:22:05 PM
Carlos Rambaldi's weird Alien sketches remind me of the Newborn -
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-SOUm27oVEDY%2FVS5nGFB1AII%2FAAAAAAAASeI%2FeKyzNIOBI6Y%2Fs1600%2Frambaldialiensketch.png&hash=3bc41af737a8a9aab29704335b7e34b73ffd7af3)
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-RWrOIiSVfuU%2FUpM4QTZmkFI%2FAAAAAAAAJo0%2Fv72zrPHVbZM%2Fs1600%2Frambaldiheadplan1c.png&hash=1cd5e91967c1ddab5f51eaf14fa2e7c52dff9b01)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Feb 27, 2019, 05:24:57 PM
That's going to trigger someone skull's ptsd.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Feb 27, 2019, 05:29:14 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Feb 27, 2019, 05:24:57 PM
That's going to trigger some skull's ptsd.

Local Trouble hates this.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Feb 27, 2019, 05:39:42 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Feb 27, 2019, 05:29:14 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Feb 27, 2019, 05:24:57 PM
That's going to trigger some skull's ptsd.

Local Trouble hates this.

Tell him to barf a couple of eggs and call me in the morning.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Feb 27, 2019, 05:46:51 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Feb 27, 2019, 05:39:42 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Feb 27, 2019, 05:29:14 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Feb 27, 2019, 05:24:57 PM
That's going to trigger some skull's ptsd.

Local Trouble hates this.

Tell him to barf a couple of eggs and call me in the morning.

Sure. Can I add a note saying "Vermillion is the better troll. #TeamVerm" on it?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Feb 27, 2019, 05:47:23 PM
The subtle skull on our egg barfing princess was one of the few good things about its design.

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1e/b4/ab/1eb4ab68eec54d5c0997ae0fa3cdf9fb.jpg)

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/e/ee/Sewerpredalien.png/revision/latest?cb=20180424225316)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Feb 27, 2019, 05:59:21 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Feb 27, 2019, 05:47:23 PM
The subtle skull on our egg barfing princess was one of the few good things about its design.

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1e/b4/ab/1eb4ab68eec54d5c0997ae0fa3cdf9fb.jpg)

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/e/ee/Sewerpredalien.png/revision/latest?cb=20180424225316

Hear! Hear!

Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Feb 27, 2019, 05:46:51 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Feb 27, 2019, 05:39:42 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Feb 27, 2019, 05:29:14 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Feb 27, 2019, 05:24:57 PM
That's going to trigger some skull's ptsd.

Local Trouble hates this.

Tell him to barf a couple of eggs and call me in the morning.

Sure. Can I add a note saying "Vermillion is the better troll. #TeamVerm" on it?

Who is this Vermillion you speak of?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Feb 27, 2019, 06:16:17 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Feb 27, 2019, 05:59:21 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Feb 27, 2019, 05:46:51 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Feb 27, 2019, 05:39:42 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Feb 27, 2019, 05:29:14 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Feb 27, 2019, 05:24:57 PM
That's going to trigger some skull's ptsd.

Local Trouble hates this.

Tell him to barf a couple of eggs and call me in the morning.

Sure. Can I add a note saying "Vermillion is the better troll. #TeamVerm" on it?

Who is this Vermillion you speak of?

Our favorite Hudson impersonator and next guest on the Renovated Members' Thread.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Feb 27, 2019, 10:25:58 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Feb 27, 2019, 05:47:23 PM
The subtle skull on our egg barfing princess was one of the few good things about its design.

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1e/b4/ab/1eb4ab68eec54d5c0997ae0fa3cdf9fb.jpg)

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/e/ee/Sewerpredalien.png/revision/latest?cb=20180424225316

It's cool in terms "oh, they bothered enough to acknowledge that feature of original design" but not because it makes it more scary or Alien-like looking.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Oasis Nadrama on Feb 28, 2019, 05:04:18 AM
Holy shit, never noticed that part of the terrible Chet design. You learn new things every day.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Feb 28, 2019, 06:22:16 AM
I think Chet design was OK but i wished they go with Dorman's one.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Oasis Nadrama on Feb 28, 2019, 06:31:06 AM
This one?

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F-BS2Jq79_aeg%2FTkAERfu63rI%2FAAAAAAAAAno%2F_rKmRSFzwLQ%2Fs1600%2Fpredart12uk0.jpg&hash=8b41e959c03c7d7e738b840df753dc909cf50212)

It's nice, but it still has the dreadlocks problem. As long as we don't see Preds moving their locks like gorgons or something, I'll still be left with the impression that we got an Alien with hair, which sounds ridiculous, illogical and lacking in aesthetics.

And if we're going with the "whatever goes" logic, why not be a little more audacious?

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F-2rKwrKYzpX0%2FTkBNgSoZERI%2FAAAAAAAAAoY%2FN0ivYB6zMac%2Fs1600%2FAVP2_04.jpg&hash=a6b727bc00e1d0344c7807bc7726b87075e70c1a)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Feb 28, 2019, 06:38:27 AM
Really, why not?  :)

I heard you thoughts about dreads but personally never was able to understand that "dreadlocks problem". I think it makes PredAlien really unique design. Just adding mandibles to Alien head isn't enough for me.

Also, i think in Dorman's painting dreadlocks shown in movement and just overall look cool. So yeah, i'd love to THIS PredAlien one day come on big screen.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Feb 28, 2019, 08:57:38 AM
Quote from: Oasis Nadrama on Feb 28, 2019, 05:04:18 AM
Holy shit, never noticed that part of the terrible Chet design. You learn new things every day.

It's my favourite thing of Chet's design.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Feb 28, 2019, 08:10:16 PM
Ultimately, the skull's irrelevant.

Carapace > No carapace.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Feb 28, 2019, 08:23:34 PM
Carapace over Winston's sculpt.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Feb 28, 2019, 08:35:38 PM
A Perfect Organism.

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.toyark.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F4%2F2017%2F09%2FAliens-Hadleys-Hope-2-Pack-030.jpg&hash=caf397a6b2ff5d636c3f5cc1dad017eb)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Feb 28, 2019, 08:45:52 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 28, 2019, 08:57:38 AM
Quote from: Oasis Nadrama on Feb 28, 2019, 05:04:18 AM
Holy shit, never noticed that part of the terrible Chet design. You learn new things every day.

It's my favourite thing of Chet's design.
I actually really like Chet's design.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Feb 28, 2019, 08:48:32 PM
Quote from: Stitch on Feb 28, 2019, 08:45:52 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 28, 2019, 08:57:38 AM
Quote from: Oasis Nadrama on Feb 28, 2019, 05:04:18 AM
Holy shit, never noticed that part of the terrible Chet design. You learn new things every day.

It's my favourite thing of Chet's design.
I actually really like Chet's design.

Yeah, overall I like it too.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Feb 28, 2019, 09:09:14 PM
The AVPR Alien and PredAlien's garbage.

Pumpkin head retread, Mandibles and Dreadlocks adorned.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Feb 28, 2019, 09:59:09 PM
Quote from: The Old One on Feb 28, 2019, 09:09:14 PM
The AVPR Alien and PredAlien's garbage.

Pumpkin head retread, Mandibles and Dreadlocks adorned.

Pumpkinhead is awesome, and I have no issue with Chet looking similar.

As for the AVPR warrior alien... Yeah, that ain't a good design.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Feb 28, 2019, 11:20:12 PM
Alien = Biomechanical

(https://i.imgur.com/ldNNHVB.jpg)

Or GTFO IMO.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Mar 01, 2019, 09:39:47 AM
Quote from: The Old One on Feb 28, 2019, 09:09:14 PM
The AVPR Alien and PredAlien's garbage.

"One man's trash..." (woman's)

Quote from: Stitch on Feb 28, 2019, 09:59:09 PM
As for the AVPR warrior alien... Yeah, that ain't a good design.

If it wasn't for the overbite, I'd really love the AvPR head.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Mar 01, 2019, 09:45:40 AM
The carapace's good, the rest's bad. IMO
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Mar 01, 2019, 09:46:43 AM
It was another reused body suit situation IIRC. They redid the heads and neck (which was a little too fat for my liking).
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Mar 01, 2019, 09:54:44 AM
AVPR's Alien's (& PredAlien) no elegance.

Thank you sincerely Odd Studios and MPC for David's Alien.

(https://66.media.tumblr.com/8d54f0833882065eb848003d5f67b7c4/tumblr_oua94xkyXG1s2xbj9o4_500.gif)

& Al Hope and Creative Assembly for Isolation's Alien.

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F66.media.tumblr.com%2F26b8825163cfc5856036f14677e8b61e%2Ftumblr_nd1lr9wSoe1sdqajoo1_500.gif&hash=b3e16b489afcfcd02d55ffafc71a3a542a50066b)

Only good designs since the first three films.
(Labyrinth, honorable mention.)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Mar 01, 2019, 10:51:35 AM
Those vent emerges in Isolation...

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-p3lKBJ-kA4/maxresdefault.jpg)

Honestly, so mesmerizing. I want to see that kind of fluidity on screen one day.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Mar 01, 2019, 10:53:02 AM
Yes! Absolutely.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: SuperiorIronman on Mar 03, 2019, 02:51:35 PM
I prefer the skull myself but it's a situational thing. Like it looks good in ALIEN and I like the touch of the Yaujta skull being visible underneath the PredAlien dome.

However it doesn't really work for me in Covenant (like a lot of things in that move TBH) since the "Alien" in that is much more ravenous it seems the skull is here more to make it look scary rather than uncomfortable. The great thing about the Alien's creepiness is that it's creepy on several different levels and we don't need a screaming skeleton to justify that. It's a walking allegory for rape and so its humanity in the skull is all the more uncomfortable and horrifying given the nature of its birth. Even the carapace warriors remember that because it just makes the parasitic wasp inspiration all the more obvious given its resemblance to insects.

So I like it in the other films but I find it in Covenant a little meh.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 03, 2019, 07:23:19 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 01, 2019, 10:51:35 AM
Those vent emerges in Isolation...

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-p3lKBJ-kA4/maxresdefault.jpg)

Honestly, so mesmerizing. I want to see that kind of fluidity on screen one day.

Watch the neomorph closely when it kicks Walter away in covenant.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Mar 04, 2019, 02:30:54 AM
The Neomorph's a ballerina.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 04, 2019, 02:34:04 AM
Quote from: The Old One on Mar 04, 2019, 02:30:54 AM
The Neomorph's a ballerina.

Indeed.

It was the Russians all along.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Mar 04, 2019, 03:14:03 AM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 04, 2019, 02:34:04 AM
Quote from: The Old One on Mar 04, 2019, 02:30:54 AM
The Neomorph's a ballerina.

Indeed.

It was the Russians all along.

Ballet is an Italian invention. Russians have the dancing bears.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 04, 2019, 03:18:11 AM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 04, 2019, 03:14:03 AM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 04, 2019, 02:34:04 AM
Quote from: The Old One on Mar 04, 2019, 02:30:54 AM
The Neomorph's a ballerina.

Indeed.

It was the Russians all along.

Ballet is an Italian invention.


The axis powers unite against us.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Mar 04, 2019, 03:19:58 AM
 :o
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 04, 2019, 03:36:39 AM
Quote from: The Old One on Mar 04, 2019, 03:19:58 AM
:o

It's only a matter of time before the Germans invade acheron.

Get me Blaskowitz on the phone!
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Mar 04, 2019, 04:09:53 AM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 04, 2019, 03:36:39 AM
Quote from: The Old One on Mar 04, 2019, 03:19:58 AM
:o

It's only a matter of time before the Germans invade acheron.

Get me Blaskowitz on the phone!
Based on the timeline, you must mean...

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/vsbattles/images/4/4d/The_Doomguy.png)

DOOMGUY!

That would certainly be an interesting crossover.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 04, 2019, 11:48:13 AM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 04, 2019, 03:36:39 AM
Quote from: The Old One on Mar 04, 2019, 03:19:58 AM
:o

It's only a matter of time before the Germans invade acheron.

Get me Blaskowitz on the phone!

Out of all commanders, you want Blaskowitz? Not a smart guy, like Rommel?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 04, 2019, 01:46:10 PM
Quote from: The Old One on Mar 04, 2019, 12:21:25 PM
Who?

World War II. There was an actual commander named Blaskowitz. Had his butt handed to him by the Russians.

Rommel was in charge of the North Africa campaign, then the Atlantic Wall. Was such a strategic genius that even the Brits respected him.

I have two shelves of WWII books. It's been a hobby for some time now, long before I discovered Aliens.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Kurgan on Mar 04, 2019, 02:24:53 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 04, 2019, 01:46:10 PM
Quote from: The Old One on Mar 04, 2019, 12:21:25 PM
Who?

World War II. There was an actual commander named Blaskowitz. Had his butt handed to him by the Russians.

Rommel was in charge of the North Africa campaign, then the Atlantic Wall. Was such a strategic genius that even the Brits respected him.

I have two shelves of WWII books. It's been a hobby for some time now, long before I discovered Aliens.

Johannes Blaskowitz wasn't that bad. He fought successfully in Poland and was only relieved of command there because Hitler did not like him and because he wrote several memoranda for the German High Command protesting SS atrocities.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Mar 04, 2019, 06:01:30 PM
TY for the information.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Mar 04, 2019, 06:04:08 PM
Pretty cool. I'm getting an education here!

Spoiler
Versus learning about facehugging and eggbarfing.
[close]
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 04, 2019, 06:33:13 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 04, 2019, 06:04:08 PM
Pretty cool. I'm getting an education here!

Spoiler
Versus learning about facehugging and eggbarfing.
[close]

Don't forget eggs on the Sulaco, and how much Local hates the skull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 04, 2019, 09:17:30 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 04, 2019, 11:48:13 AM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 04, 2019, 03:36:39 AM
Quote from: The Old One on Mar 04, 2019, 03:19:58 AM
:o

It's only a matter of time before the Germans invade acheron.

Get me Blaskowitz on the phone!

Out of all commanders, you want Blaskowitz? Not a smart guy, like Rommel?

B.J. Blaskowitz, from the wolfenstein games.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 04, 2019, 10:38:30 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 04, 2019, 09:17:30 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 04, 2019, 11:48:13 AM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 04, 2019, 03:36:39 AM
Quote from: The Old One on Mar 04, 2019, 03:19:58 AM
:o

It's only a matter of time before the Germans invade acheron.

Get me Blaskowitz on the phone!

Out of all commanders, you want Blaskowitz? Not a smart guy, like Rommel?

B.J. Blaskowitz, from the wolfenstein games.

Well . . . I don't know squat about Wolfenstein.

:')
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 04, 2019, 11:53:41 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 04, 2019, 10:38:30 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 04, 2019, 09:17:30 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 04, 2019, 11:48:13 AM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 04, 2019, 03:36:39 AM
Quote from: The Old One on Mar 04, 2019, 03:19:58 AM
:o

It's only a matter of time before the Germans invade acheron.

Get me Blaskowitz on the phone!

Out of all commanders, you want Blaskowitz? Not a smart guy, like Rommel?

B.J. Blaskowitz, from the wolfenstein games.

Well . . . I don't know squat about Wolfenstein.

:')

He's a big American that destroys all things german.   ;)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Mar 05, 2019, 01:23:35 AM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 04, 2019, 11:53:41 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 04, 2019, 10:38:30 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 04, 2019, 09:17:30 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 04, 2019, 11:48:13 AM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 04, 2019, 03:36:39 AM
Quote from: The Old One on Mar 04, 2019, 03:19:58 AM
:o

It's only a matter of time before the Germans invade acheron.

Get me Blaskowitz on the phone!

Out of all commanders, you want Blaskowitz? Not a smart guy, like Rommel?

B.J. Blaskowitz, from the wolfenstein games.

Well . . . I don't know squat about Wolfenstein.

:')

He's a big American that destroys all things german.   ;)
And his latest descendent is doomguy. Who is also likely to be called B J Blazkowitz.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 05, 2019, 01:40:39 AM
Should've known it was all Hitler's fault.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Mar 05, 2019, 07:13:56 AM
The skull?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Mar 05, 2019, 09:10:57 AM
(https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/ksyus8/picture128683449/alternates/FREE_1140/traintracks)

Back on them.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Mar 05, 2019, 10:44:35 AM
(https://instagram.fman2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/8c944fe68915491b9a228d97c78f185b/5D0A9747/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/s750x750/12383150_1686010554994503_1242857136_n.jpg?_nc_ht=instagram.fman2-2.fna.fbcdn.net)

;)

https://www.instagram.com/locusta_art/
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Mar 05, 2019, 10:48:50 AM
That man is a treasure of this fandom.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 05, 2019, 09:10:05 PM
Quote from: The Old One on Mar 05, 2019, 10:44:35 AM
(https://instagram.fman2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/8c944fe68915491b9a228d97c78f185b/5D0A9747/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/s750x750/12383150_1686010554994503_1242857136_n.jpg?_nc_ht=instagram.fman2-2.fna.fbcdn.net)

;)

https://www.instagram.com/locusta_art/

Gorgeous
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Mar 05, 2019, 09:22:04 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 05, 2019, 10:48:50 AM
That man is a treasure of this fandom.

Why, thank you.  :)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Mar 05, 2019, 09:24:20 PM
You forgot to add:

Quote from: Huggs on Mar 05, 2019, 09:10:05 PM
Gorgeous
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Mar 05, 2019, 09:39:56 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Mar 05, 2019, 09:22:04 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 05, 2019, 10:48:50 AM
That man is a treasure of this fandom.

Why, thank you.  :)

I'd be using menace if it was about you.  :P

(https://res.cloudinary.com/jerrick/image/upload/f_gif,fl_progressive,q_auto/av1wwmp4vnbcudxjv6dt.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 05, 2019, 10:45:59 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 05, 2019, 09:39:56 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Mar 05, 2019, 09:22:04 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 05, 2019, 10:48:50 AM
That man is a treasure of this fandom.

Why, thank you.  :)

I'd be using menace if it was about you.  :P

https://res.cloudinary.com/jerrick/image/upload/f_gif,fl_progressive,q_auto/av1wwmp4vnbcudxjv6dt.gif

Get out the barbeque sauce! The Corporal's got a roast going!
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 05, 2019, 11:49:25 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 05, 2019, 10:45:59 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 05, 2019, 09:39:56 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Mar 05, 2019, 09:22:04 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 05, 2019, 10:48:50 AM
That man is a treasure of this fandom.

Why, thank you.  :)

I'd be using menace if it was about you.  :P

https://res.cloudinary.com/jerrick/image/upload/f_gif,fl_progressive,q_auto/av1wwmp4vnbcudxjv6dt.gif

Get out the barbeque sauce! The Corporal's got a roast going!

He's going off the rails.

Worth it for that beautiful skull though.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 05, 2019, 11:57:53 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 05, 2019, 11:49:25 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 05, 2019, 10:45:59 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 05, 2019, 09:39:56 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Mar 05, 2019, 09:22:04 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 05, 2019, 10:48:50 AM
That man is a treasure of this fandom.

Why, thank you.  :)

I'd be using menace if it was about you.  :P

https://res.cloudinary.com/jerrick/image/upload/f_gif,fl_progressive,q_auto/av1wwmp4vnbcudxjv6dt.gif

Get out the barbeque sauce! The Corporal's got a roast going!

He's going off the rails.


He needs to go off the rails a little. It'll be good for his mental health.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Mar 06, 2019, 12:02:00 AM
Are you suggesting he's too high strung, like Johnny Ringo?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 01:51:39 AM
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/9b2a8f0ff253e0f4dac338cadb5f302d/tumblr_ojnfxwlhsV1u1q8dno1_500.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 06, 2019, 01:52:47 AM
He's one of us now.

Or he soon will be.  ;)

Step 1. The screws go tight, all around.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 01:54:47 AM
Welcome to the D-Team Hicks
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 06, 2019, 02:03:36 AM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 01:54:47 AM
Welcome to the D-Team Hicks

He's not ready yet.

I'm bailing before I get court martialed
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 06, 2019, 02:05:07 AM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 01:51:39 AM
https://66.media.tumblr.com/9b2a8f0ff253e0f4dac338cadb5f302d/tumblr_ojnfxwlhsV1u1q8dno1_500.gif

I'm getting used to 'stached Biehn.

Quote from: Huggs on Mar 06, 2019, 02:03:36 AM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 01:54:47 AM
Welcome to the D-Team Hicks

He's not ready yet.

I'm bailing before I get court martialed

He's ready. Pretty sure he's ready.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Mar 06, 2019, 02:13:48 AM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 06, 2019, 02:05:07 AM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 01:51:39 AM
https://66.media.tumblr.com/9b2a8f0ff253e0f4dac338cadb5f302d/tumblr_ojnfxwlhsV1u1q8dno1_500.gif

I'm getting used to 'stached Biehn.

FYI, the same movie has a 'stached Paxton too (which I'm only telling you because I presume you haven't seen Tombstone either).
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 06, 2019, 02:35:36 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Mar 06, 2019, 02:13:48 AM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 06, 2019, 02:05:07 AM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 01:51:39 AM
https://66.media.tumblr.com/9b2a8f0ff253e0f4dac338cadb5f302d/tumblr_ojnfxwlhsV1u1q8dno1_500.gif

I'm getting used to 'stached Biehn.

FYI, the same movie has a 'stached Paxton too (which I'm only telling you because I presume you haven't seen Tombstone either).

I knew that.

It's on my to-do list.

. . . Voodoo, don't say anything.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Mar 06, 2019, 02:56:53 AM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 06, 2019, 01:52:47 AM
He's one of us now.

Or he soon will be.  ;)

Step 1. The screws go tight, all around.

Isn't that step 2?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 06, 2019, 03:21:10 AM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Mar 06, 2019, 02:56:53 AM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 06, 2019, 01:52:47 AM
He's one of us now.

Or he soon will be.  ;)

Step 1. The screws go tight, all around.

Isn't that step 2?

Not in this case.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Mar 06, 2019, 09:29:28 AM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 01:51:39 AM
https://66.media.tumblr.com/9b2a8f0ff253e0f4dac338cadb5f302d/tumblr_ojnfxwlhsV1u1q8dno1_500.gif

And Tombstone ordered. I haven't actually seen it.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 11:17:34 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 06, 2019, 09:29:28 AM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 01:51:39 AM
https://66.media.tumblr.com/9b2a8f0ff253e0f4dac338cadb5f302d/tumblr_ojnfxwlhsV1u1q8dno1_500.gif

And Tombstone ordered. I haven't actually seen it.

Me thinks you're going to like it. It took my second viewing to absolutely love it. And Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday is just brilliant.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 06, 2019, 01:53:49 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 06, 2019, 09:29:28 AM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 01:51:39 AM
https://66.media.tumblr.com/9b2a8f0ff253e0f4dac338cadb5f302d/tumblr_ojnfxwlhsV1u1q8dno1_500.gif

And Tombstone ordered. I haven't actually seen it.

I've seen most of it, but not all, and not uncut.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 06, 2019, 02:00:03 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 06, 2019, 01:53:49 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 06, 2019, 09:29:28 AM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 01:51:39 AM
https://66.media.tumblr.com/9b2a8f0ff253e0f4dac338cadb5f302d/tumblr_ojnfxwlhsV1u1q8dno1_500.gif

And Tombstone ordered. I haven't actually seen it.

I've seen most of it, but not all, and not uncut.

So, the TV cut?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 06, 2019, 02:03:15 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 06, 2019, 02:00:03 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 06, 2019, 01:53:49 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 06, 2019, 09:29:28 AM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 01:51:39 AM
https://66.media.tumblr.com/9b2a8f0ff253e0f4dac338cadb5f302d/tumblr_ojnfxwlhsV1u1q8dno1_500.gif

And Tombstone ordered. I haven't actually seen it.

I've seen most of it, but not all, and not uncut.

So, the TV cut?

Yeah. I caught like 45 minutes of it on TNT or TBS a long time ago.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Mar 06, 2019, 02:12:58 PM
(https://www.alien-covenant.com/aliencovenant_uploads/alien-gigers-alien-life-size-replica-cool-props-903024-091.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 02:17:13 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 06, 2019, 02:03:15 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 06, 2019, 02:00:03 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 06, 2019, 01:53:49 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 06, 2019, 09:29:28 AM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 01:51:39 AM
https://66.media.tumblr.com/9b2a8f0ff253e0f4dac338cadb5f302d/tumblr_ojnfxwlhsV1u1q8dno1_500.gif

And Tombstone ordered. I haven't actually seen it.

I've seen most of it, but not all, and not uncut.

So, the TV cut?

Yeah. I caught like 45 minutes of it on TNT or TBS a long time ago.

It didn't inspire you to watch the whole thing?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 06, 2019, 02:22:41 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 02:17:13 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 06, 2019, 02:03:15 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 06, 2019, 02:00:03 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 06, 2019, 01:53:49 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 06, 2019, 09:29:28 AM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 01:51:39 AM
https://66.media.tumblr.com/9b2a8f0ff253e0f4dac338cadb5f302d/tumblr_ojnfxwlhsV1u1q8dno1_500.gif

And Tombstone ordered. I haven't actually seen it.

I've seen most of it, but not all, and not uncut.

So, the TV cut?

Yeah. I caught like 45 minutes of it on TNT or TBS a long time ago.

It didn't inspire you to watch the whole thing?

It wasn't high on the list, no. I'll see it all sometime.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 06, 2019, 02:35:12 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 06, 2019, 02:22:41 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 02:17:13 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 06, 2019, 02:03:15 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 06, 2019, 02:00:03 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 06, 2019, 01:53:49 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 06, 2019, 09:29:28 AM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 01:51:39 AM
https://66.media.tumblr.com/9b2a8f0ff253e0f4dac338cadb5f302d/tumblr_ojnfxwlhsV1u1q8dno1_500.gif

And Tombstone ordered. I haven't actually seen it.

I've seen most of it, but not all, and not uncut.

So, the TV cut?

Yeah. I caught like 45 minutes of it on TNT or TBS a long time ago.

It didn't inspire you to watch the whole thing?

It wasn't high on the list, no. I'll see it all sometime.

I've said the same thing about Terminator, Twister, Tombstone, Abyss . . .
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Mar 06, 2019, 03:45:47 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 11:17:34 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 06, 2019, 09:29:28 AM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 06, 2019, 01:51:39 AM
https://66.media.tumblr.com/9b2a8f0ff253e0f4dac338cadb5f302d/tumblr_ojnfxwlhsV1u1q8dno1_500.gif

And Tombstone ordered. I haven't actually seen it.

Me thinks you're going to like it. It took my second viewing to absolutely love it. And Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday is just brilliant.

This.

The movie's a modern legend.  Entertaining as hell from start to finish.

Quote from: The Old One on Mar 06, 2019, 02:12:58 PM
(https://www.alien-covenant.com/aliencovenant_uploads/alien-gigers-alien-life-size-replica-cool-props-903024-091.jpg)

Incorrect.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Mar 06, 2019, 05:15:44 PM
 :laugh:
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Mar 09, 2019, 11:27:04 PM
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/90fe773a022ac3e82b7b6dfc2a43558c/tumblr_p0r9diUOC71wn8c78o10_1280.jpg)

S K U L L
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 10, 2019, 12:07:50 AM
Quote from: The Old One on Mar 09, 2019, 11:27:04 PM
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/90fe773a022ac3e82b7b6dfc2a43558c/tumblr_p0r9diUOC71wn8c78o10_1280.jpg)

S K U L L

Looks like a Giger-esque dance show.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Mar 10, 2019, 03:06:51 AM
Quote from: The Old One on Mar 09, 2019, 11:27:04 PM
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/90fe773a022ac3e82b7b6dfc2a43558c/tumblr_p0r9diUOC71wn8c78o10_1280.jpg)

S K U L L

Strenuously incorrect!  >:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Mar 10, 2019, 03:17:04 AM
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/9e8f2570466208fa7912f9bccc5a1831/tumblr_p298cjWFA31qjabr0o1_640.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Mar 10, 2019, 03:20:37 AM
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi49.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Ff291%2Fsabres21768%2FAlienReference%2FALIEN%2Falien1A.jpg&hash=302939f8a76170b4db9f0f51d59a72debc0d296a)

This can only work with the original alien.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 10, 2019, 03:22:16 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Mar 10, 2019, 03:06:51 AM
Quote from: The Old One on Mar 09, 2019, 11:27:04 PM
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/90fe773a022ac3e82b7b6dfc2a43558c/tumblr_p0r9diUOC71wn8c78o10_1280.jpg)

S K U L L

Strenuously incorrect!  >:(

Is the pressure building?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Mar 17, 2019, 07:43:21 PM
Team skull, fyi
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 17, 2019, 07:48:31 PM
Quote from: [CANCERBLACK] on Mar 17, 2019, 07:43:21 PM
Team skull, fyi

Careful. Local is composing a "hit list" of people who like the skull. :laugh:
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Mar 17, 2019, 07:51:19 PM
Yfw he makes it all the way to nz and my house is full to the ceiling with bigchap skulls.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Mar 17, 2019, 08:01:15 PM
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Gilfryd on Mar 19, 2019, 03:55:51 PM
(https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/ad2b167d-b216-4a10-ab47-645908f116d3/da0h4ye-8e02a900-35d7-488f-8572-f2cadd9c0318.jpg/v1/fill/w_600,h_973,q_70,strp/giger_s_alien_by_rixshaw_da0h4ye-fullview.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9OTczIiwicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvYWQyYjE2N2QtYjIxNi00YTEwLWFiNDctNjQ1OTA4ZjExNmQzXC9kYTBoNHllLThlMDJhOTAwLTM1ZDctNDg4Zi04NTcyLWYyY2FkZDljMDMxOC5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9NjAwIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmltYWdlLm9wZXJhdGlvbnMiXX0.m5P1mI40aR80GHMdDiXxIoOKyB_r-6QHcfV1UtrToJs)
https://www.deviantart.com/rixshaw/art/Giger-s-Alien-605461334
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Mar 20, 2019, 09:43:10 PM
Malformed carapace, but excellent regardless.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Mar 23, 2019, 09:38:07 AM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Mar 10, 2019, 03:20:37 AM
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi49.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Ff291%2Fsabres21768%2FAlienReference%2FALIEN%2Falien1A.jpg&hash=302939f8a76170b4db9f0f51d59a72debc0d296a)

This can only work with the original alien.
See, when it's this blatant, I actually think it detracts from the design.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Mar 23, 2019, 01:58:46 PM
Agreed.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 426Buddy on Mar 23, 2019, 02:40:17 PM
Disagree

#skull4life
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Mar 23, 2019, 03:08:14 PM
Faceless killer.
Just teeth.
More menacing than a skeleton skull. 

#teamnoskull
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Mar 23, 2019, 05:36:15 PM
Apophenia skull team.
The superior team.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Mar 26, 2019, 01:10:17 AM
The more people try to break the skull the more visible it gets.

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e9/32/7d/e9327d363e7a1692e5fa589f7b0516aa.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Mar 26, 2019, 01:30:58 AM
Hmm.  The more visible the skull is, the more I inch towards #teamnoskull
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 26, 2019, 01:32:41 AM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 26, 2019, 01:30:58 AM
Hmm.  The more visible the skull is, the more I inch towards #teamnoskull

I'm picturing Local whispering, "Let the hate flow through you," in your ear.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Mar 26, 2019, 01:35:13 AM
Angry skull lol.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Mar 26, 2019, 01:37:51 AM
Angry eye sockets! ;D
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Mar 26, 2019, 01:40:31 AM
The hate for the skull has made #teamnoskull powerfull. The skull will answer with anger.

Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Mar 26, 2019, 01:56:45 AM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Mar 26, 2019, 01:40:31 AM
The hate for the skull has made #teamnoskull powerfull. The skull will answer with anger.

(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/PerkyAmusingChimneyswift-size_restricted.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Mar 26, 2019, 04:06:12 AM
#Apopheniaskullteam
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Mar 27, 2019, 01:16:04 AM
Full abolition or GTFO.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 27, 2019, 01:48:48 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Mar 27, 2019, 01:16:04 AM
Full abolition or GTFO.

(https://media.tenor.com/images/69f0d5e4c2bd6c35f2acfac35fc89d5f/tenor.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Mar 30, 2019, 07:18:15 PM
The more skull I see, the less scary it gets.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Mar 31, 2019, 03:49:27 AM
Quote from: Stitch on Mar 30, 2019, 07:18:15 PM
The more skull I see, the less scary it gets.

(https://media.giphy.com/media/prGwyBLmDzeJa/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 31, 2019, 03:53:16 AM
I honestly don't see the big deal with the skull. You can hardly even see it in the movies.

I never even knew it existed until I joined up here, and I've seen the films to death.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Mar 31, 2019, 06:58:32 AM
That's because they wisely made just opaque enough to obscure it.  It looks silly, but that doesn't stop every amateur on DeviantArt from emphasizing it and triggering me.  >:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 31, 2019, 07:03:58 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Mar 31, 2019, 06:58:32 AM
That's because they wisely made just opaque enough to obscure it.  It looks silly, but that doesn't stop every amateur on DeviantArt from emphasizing it and triggering me.  >:(

Didn't stop Randy and his Raven either.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Mar 31, 2019, 07:26:47 AM
(https://media1.tenor.com/images/de816c0ffbdd9fb133799ce5b02a040f/tenor.gif?itemid=8479151)


(https://66.media.tumblr.com/f7e08f61ba16c2b30608fd002b54bfd7/tumblr_oa0kl3OCXs1qjsc4fo1_500.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Mar 31, 2019, 08:18:28 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D22vuXuX0AE_xS2?format=jpg&name=large)

From the High School's Alien Play.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Mar 31, 2019, 11:53:07 AM
Can't tell if there's a skull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Mar 31, 2019, 12:02:11 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 31, 2019, 07:03:58 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Mar 31, 2019, 06:58:32 AM
That's because they wisely made just opaque enough to obscure it.  It looks silly, but that doesn't stop every amateur on DeviantArt from emphasizing it and triggering me.  >:(

Didn't stop Randy and his Raven either.

I still don't believe the Raven came from Hudson.

It clearly came from Wierzbowski.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Mar 31, 2019, 08:06:45 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 31, 2019, 07:03:58 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Mar 31, 2019, 06:58:32 AM
That's because they wisely made just opaque enough to obscure it.  It looks silly, but that doesn't stop every amateur on DeviantArt from emphasizing it and triggering me.  >:(

Didn't stop Randy and his Raven either.

Still the best thing about that game.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Mar 31, 2019, 08:18:23 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 31, 2019, 07:03:58 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Mar 31, 2019, 06:58:32 AM
That's because they wisely made just opaque enough to obscure it.  It looks silly, but that doesn't stop every amateur on DeviantArt from emphasizing it and triggering me.  >:(

Didn't stop Randy and his Raven either.

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/e/ec/Raven_3.png/revision/latest?cb=20130215094419)

That's why #teamnoskull is afraid to play that level.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Mar 31, 2019, 09:53:22 PM
(https://media2.giphy.com/media/xT5LMwfOiquLU6FT1e/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Mar 31, 2019, 10:48:30 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 31, 2019, 08:06:45 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Mar 31, 2019, 07:03:58 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Mar 31, 2019, 06:58:32 AM
That's because they wisely made just opaque enough to obscure it.  It looks silly, but that doesn't stop every amateur on DeviantArt from emphasizing it and triggering me.  >:(

Didn't stop Randy and his Raven either.

Still the best thing about that game.

Indeed. Some real scares in that one. The final confrontation was a cool idea but somewhat poorly executed though. Nowhere near as bad as the queen fight.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Apr 04, 2019, 02:34:56 AM
The Skulls are evolving.

(https://i.imgur.com/FXTvYkA.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/aU4t3dK.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/Mjrdgp2.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/kSBfzHY.jpg)

Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Apr 04, 2019, 01:34:48 PM
(https://media.giphy.com/media/emgeMZxTuuDzq/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Apr 04, 2019, 04:10:19 PM
Barf.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Apr 04, 2019, 05:21:58 PM
Now you know how I feel.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Apr 04, 2019, 05:23:29 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Apr 04, 2019, 05:21:58 PM
Now you know how I feel.

You love this and you know it.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Apr 04, 2019, 05:25:49 PM
Double barf.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Apr 04, 2019, 05:31:50 PM
It's like a maternity ward in here.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Apr 04, 2019, 06:31:31 PM
You casuals just can't handle all those skull gains.

Quote from: Huggs on Apr 04, 2019, 05:23:29 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Apr 04, 2019, 05:21:58 PM
Now you know how I feel.

You love this and you know it.

He is just playing hard.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Apr 04, 2019, 07:07:55 PM
The current page is awful. lol
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Apr 04, 2019, 08:59:30 PM
The skull is an abomination in defiance of God and Man and everything holy.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Apr 04, 2019, 09:20:27 PM
Wait, are we talking the skull here or Justin Bieber?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Apr 05, 2019, 12:45:56 AM
He's advanced to the anger stage. Soon he will reach acceptance.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Apr 05, 2019, 07:54:04 AM
Doubtful.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: ChrisPachi on Apr 05, 2019, 11:22:00 AM
As a feature of Giger's uncanny monster design I love the SKULL. Never seen it in a movie though, so NO SKULL is fine.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Apr 05, 2019, 11:36:52 AM
(https://wx3.sinaimg.cn/bmiddle/697b3ffbgy1fi6cr27mjog207g07gkjl.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: BlazinBlueReview on Apr 05, 2019, 12:56:06 PM
Pro Skull. It looks incredibly creepy.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Apr 05, 2019, 01:07:01 PM
Quote from: BlazinBlue88 on Apr 05, 2019, 12:56:06 PM
Pro Skull. It looks incredibly creepy.

(https://i.imgflip.com/2xtzih.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Apr 05, 2019, 10:38:53 PM
I like the skull. I don't care for some of those designs though.

Poor implementation can ruin anything.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Apr 06, 2019, 02:14:22 AM
Spoiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQqQQojzWM0
[close]
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Apr 06, 2019, 02:21:50 AM
Who said dat?

Hudafuk said dat!
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Apr 06, 2019, 03:32:54 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Apr 06, 2019, 02:14:22 AM
Spoiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQqQQojzWM0
[close]

I knew you liked the skull that way.  :P
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Apr 06, 2019, 05:00:55 PM
For those trolling this thread with egregious displays of skull-imagery (yeah, I'm looking at you Samhain13), I'll just leave this here as a warning:

Quote from: Local Trouble on Feb 10, 2019, 08:40:53 PM
Just so you know, I'm making a list of all the skull lovers outing themselves here.  There will be a reckoning...

Quote from: Local Trouble on Mar 22, 2019, 10:02:13 PM
I have a SIG P226 .40, but I've decided lately that I prefer the simplicity of revolvers.  I'm looking at the Ruger GP100 1705 in particular.

https://ruger.com/products/gp100/specSheets/1705.html (https://ruger.com/products/gp100/specSheets/1705.html)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Apr 06, 2019, 05:28:23 PM
Local's rage is the polar opposite of Hicks's.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Apr 06, 2019, 06:09:28 PM
This used to not matter to me much as long as the skull was barely visible or not visible at all.

But the more skull is shown, even the people who prefer it, turn against it. Yet if the underlining skull is not visible in a particular scene, no one has a problem.

This is a clear indicator that only one team has truly seen the light.

The #TeamNoSkullLight

(https://media2.giphy.com/media/nBQefMWjqdLc4/giphy.gif?cid=19f5b51a5ca8e76651396b483283be81)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Apr 06, 2019, 06:31:27 PM
#Skull4life

The skull life chose us, but we would've chosen it anyway.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Apr 06, 2019, 06:35:06 PM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 06, 2019, 05:00:55 PM
For those trolling this thread with egregious displays of skull-imagery (yeah, I'm looking at you Samhain13), I'll just leave this here as a warning:

Quote from: Local Trouble on Feb 10, 2019, 08:40:53 PM
Just so you know, I'm making a list of all the skull lovers outing themselves here.  There will be a reckoning...

Quote from: Local Trouble on Mar 22, 2019, 10:02:13 PM
I have a SIG P226 .40, but I've decided lately that I prefer the simplicity of revolvers.  I'm looking at the Ruger GP100 1705 in particular.

https://ruger.com/products/gp100/specSheets/1705.html (https://ruger.com/products/gp100/specSheets/1705.html)

Good luck trying to hunt me down in the forests of Brazil. This is my jungle. :P

The heat will take the Skull haters down before the anacondas arrive. Get rekt boi.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Apr 06, 2019, 06:40:09 PM
I must admit, the skull does look good while wearing this protective gear.

(https://img.memecdn.com/Cant-see-shit-captain_o_19190.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Apr 06, 2019, 06:47:25 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Apr 06, 2019, 06:40:09 PM
I must admit, the skull does look good while wearing this protective gear.

https://img.memecdn.com/Cant-see-shit-captain_o_19190.jpg

Why am I thinking of Daft Punk?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Apr 06, 2019, 07:01:16 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Apr 06, 2019, 06:35:06 PM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 06, 2019, 05:00:55 PM
For those trolling this thread with egregious displays of skull-imagery (yeah, I'm looking at you Samhain13), I'll just leave this here as a warning:

Quote from: Local Trouble on Feb 10, 2019, 08:40:53 PM
Just so you know, I'm making a list of all the skull lovers outing themselves here.  There will be a reckoning...

Quote from: Local Trouble on Mar 22, 2019, 10:02:13 PM
I have a SIG P226 .40, but I've decided lately that I prefer the simplicity of revolvers.  I'm looking at the Ruger GP100 1705 in particular.

https://ruger.com/products/gp100/specSheets/1705.html (https://ruger.com/products/gp100/specSheets/1705.html)

Good luck trying to hunt me down in the forests of Brazil. This is my jungle. :P

The heat will take the Skull haters down before the anacondas arrive.

The same with my woods. Unless you were born and raised here, you won't make it out alive.  :laugh:
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Apr 07, 2019, 05:32:28 AM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Apr 06, 2019, 06:35:06 PM
Good luck trying to hunt me down in the forests of Brazil. This is my jungle. :P

The heat will take the Skull haters down before the anacondas arrive. Get rekt boi.

I'm more concerned with bullet ants and cannibals.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Apr 07, 2019, 05:57:21 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Apr 07, 2019, 05:32:28 AM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Apr 06, 2019, 06:35:06 PM
Good luck trying to hunt me down in the forests of Brazil. This is my jungle. :P

The heat will take the Skull haters down before the anacondas arrive. Get rekt boi.

I'm more concerned with bullet ants and cannibals.

All you have to do is knock out one cannibal, and both sides will be too busy fighting over the body to notice you.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Apr 07, 2019, 12:50:17 PM
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg1.wikia.nocookie.net%2F__cb20140106110755%2Favp%2Fimages%2F4%2F40%2FSkull.JPG&hash=81fb57ed91244e45d266a3e2671651bbc9361314)



Quote from: Local Trouble on Apr 07, 2019, 05:32:28 AM
I'm more concerned with bullet ants

Well if you don't have masculinity gains you will probably be forced to go through the bullet ant manhood ritual. Maybe that will boost the test levels. You can't pull a Scar and teamup with a girl for help though.

Quote from: Local Trouble on Apr 07, 2019, 05:32:28 AM
and cannibals.

The portuguese already wiped those out. But be careful with the guys that throw arrows.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 426Buddy on Apr 07, 2019, 01:12:54 PM
(https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/292935724478_/Alien-Xenomorph-Skull-Head-Statue-Sculpture-Figure-Rare.jpg)
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fgetdrawings.com%2Fimage%2Fxenomorph-drawing-61.jpg&hash=4daca9a15824ee4f1cdb973387d83a661a825ac2)
(https://i.imgur.com/XI05G_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Apr 07, 2019, 02:19:05 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/h8fgjTj.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Apr 09, 2019, 12:35:12 AM
What I see when I see the skull behind the dome. 

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190409/e4ad0e19b7c03cad72e0863f284be97f.jpg)

Scooby-Doo baddie
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Apr 11, 2019, 03:56:34 AM
Salient point.

The final issue of Gibson's Alien 3 depicted what I'd like to see happen to the skullien.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Apr 11, 2019, 08:02:26 AM
#Apopheniaskullteam
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: NetworkATTH on Apr 12, 2019, 12:13:37 AM
Alien was never supposed to be a movie about serial killers or science gone wrong. It was supposed to be about something that confronts every fear we have about ourselves and our beliefs. It's supposed to confront that part of men that believe women are just home maker vessels for children and turns that belief on its head by shoving the very disturbing belief right in front of them. They are now the vessel, they are now the home maker. And they have no organs to carry out that ability, they have no way to escape the desires of this thing towards them whose side effect is unbelievable pain.

The Alien is the industrial man getting his way with someone who just wants to create more of himself. It isn't supposed to be scientific, it just is about entering the disturbing notions that industrial society needs to run on. Pain and sex. Something men often don't think about fully, but it's shoved into our face with Kane first being raped, then giving a fatal birth.

This is right up HR Giger's ally and why he probably nailed a skull into it under the dome. The skull is required because its a bit of a garnish on the whole thing. You think you see a skull, but you're not sure. The alien is uncaring lust and uncaring death, and tries to hide its true face, the face of a skull, the face of demise.

However you were never really supposed to see the skull up close in certain lighting conditions, just brief glimpses of what appears to be a skull. So showing too much of it misses the point, but showing none of it all also misses the point. It's a subtle addition to the creature that says basically its intentions may seem only animalistic, but it is truly "human" in a way men usually do not comprehend fully

The beast isn't supposed to just look "cool", HR Giger made the decisions he made making the costume to try and explain what it represented. Removing the skull removes a part of the design, it is supposed to be there, but it shouldn't be fully visible. It should just show the illusion of a human face under the dome to tell the audience that this thing is much more human than you want to admit. Which given the topic of this thread, is kind of funny
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Apr 12, 2019, 12:17:06 AM
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: NetworkATTH on Apr 12, 2019, 12:21:48 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Apr 12, 2019, 12:17:06 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DpMwDgxC-I

I'm with you on it being over done actually. I just don't think it should be completely dismissed either. I mean it was put under a cowl for a reason. It's supposed to leave you with an impression but never a full on reveal.

Ideally it should just look like it did in Alien. Which had a skull, but you hardly saw it.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Apr 12, 2019, 12:24:21 AM
I wonder if Stan Winston designed it with the skull before Cameron made him take off the canopy.  Somehow I doubt it.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Still Collating... on Apr 12, 2019, 03:59:07 PM
Quote from: NetworkATTH on Apr 12, 2019, 12:21:48 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Apr 12, 2019, 12:17:06 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DpMwDgxC-I

I'm with you on it being over done actually. I just don't think it should be completely dismissed either. I mean it was put under a cowl for a reason. It's supposed to leave you with an impression but never a full on reveal.

Ideally it should just look like it did in Alien. Which had a skull, but you hardly saw it.

Agreed with that. Not visible from a distance at all but barely gives the impression of a skull up close.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: judge death on Apr 15, 2019, 05:37:28 PM
Im on local trouble side after been thinking about it, and I prefer that one dont see the skull underneath the dome, looks ugly when its clearly visible like in some of the posted pictures and art. I can accept that one can see traces of human skull but one should not be able to see it, and after the xenomorph gets older the skull disappears completely like on the drones/warriors in Aliens.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Apr 15, 2019, 05:56:28 PM
Another just stepped out of the darkness and into the light.

#TeamNoSkull

(https://media0.giphy.com/media/xTiTnff84Nt5AukWiY/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Apr 15, 2019, 06:00:47 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Apr 15, 2019, 05:56:28 PM
Another just stepped out of the darkness and into the light.

#TeamNoSkull

https://media0.giphy.com/media/xTiTnff84Nt5AukWiY/giphy.gif

Led another astray have you?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Apr 15, 2019, 06:11:56 PM
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.monoconstruction.co.nz%2Fimages%2Fcategory_1%2FAlien%2520Xenomorph%2520Skull%2520Womens%2520TShirt%2520941_3.jpg&hash=b5bf4478c781d9ef95802ac62291c7249ee483da)

#teamskull have shirts now.

(https://s9.limitedrun.com/images/1298545/Alien.png)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: judge death on Apr 15, 2019, 06:41:39 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Apr 15, 2019, 05:56:28 PM
Another just stepped out of the darkness and into the light.

#TeamNoSkull

https://media0.giphy.com/media/xTiTnff84Nt5AukWiY/giphy.gif
(https://media1.tenor.com/images/25366aaa5392c1601416914f5a5e44e5/tenor.gif?itemid=4885267)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Apr 15, 2019, 07:13:18 PM
Quote from: judge death on Apr 15, 2019, 06:41:39 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Apr 15, 2019, 05:56:28 PM
Another just stepped out of the darkness and into the light.

#TeamNoSkull

https://media0.giphy.com/media/xTiTnff84Nt5AukWiY/giphy.gif
https://media1.tenor.com/images/25366aaa5392c1601416914f5a5e44e5/tenor.gif?itemid=4885267

You have been deceived.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: ChrisPachi on Apr 17, 2019, 12:21:27 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Apr 15, 2019, 05:56:28 PM
Another just stepped out of the darkness and into the light.

#TeamNoSkull

https://media0.giphy.com/media/xTiTnff84Nt5AukWiY/giphy.gif

That was easy.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Apr 17, 2019, 01:16:45 PM
Quote from: ChrisPachi on Apr 17, 2019, 12:21:27 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Apr 15, 2019, 05:56:28 PM
Another just stepped out of the darkness and into the light.

#TeamNoSkull

https://media0.giphy.com/media/xTiTnff84Nt5AukWiY/giphy.gif

That was easy.

It's always easy to make the right choice...

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-Zc_xKW4uOCY%2FT5MrgXyOrXI%2FAAAAAAABx_o%2FlQxdYVkuYkM%2Fs640%2Fud6554.gif&hash=2f661603845269a5fed198975d795384c5e38329)

#TeamNoSkull
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Kurgan on Apr 17, 2019, 01:21:59 PM
Indeed.

Never accept false gods.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Apr 17, 2019, 03:18:47 PM
Don't look into the light.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Apr 17, 2019, 05:41:33 PM
Quote from: judge death on Apr 15, 2019, 05:37:28 PM
Im on local trouble side after been thinking about it, and I prefer that one dont see the skull underneath the dome, looks ugly when its clearly visible like in some of the posted pictures and art. I can accept that one can see traces of human skull but one should not be able to see it, and after the xenomorph gets older the skull disappears completely like on the drones/warriors in Aliens.

I'd thought Judge Death would be a massive skull-fan?  ???
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Apr 17, 2019, 06:23:11 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Apr 15, 2019, 06:11:56 PM
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.monoconstruction.co.nz%2Fimages%2Fcategory_1%2FAlien%2520Xenomorph%2520Skull%2520Womens%2520TShirt%2520941_3.jpg&hash=b5bf4478c781d9ef95802ac62291c7249ee483da)

#teamskull have shirts now.

Ooh... No
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Apr 17, 2019, 06:52:41 PM
Well, the good thing for skull deniers is that it's never really been excessively visible in the movies.

Like I've said before, I didn't even know it existed until like 3 years ago, and I've watched these movies to death.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Apr 17, 2019, 07:00:11 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Apr 17, 2019, 06:52:41 PM
Well, the good thing for skull deniers is that it's never really been excessively visible in the movies.

Like I've said before, I didn't even know it existed until like 3 years ago, and I've watched these movies to death.

Did that make you the skull oblivious?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Apr 17, 2019, 07:04:14 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Apr 15, 2019, 06:11:56 PM
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.monoconstruction.co.nz%2Fimages%2Fcategory_1%2FAlien%2520Xenomorph%2520Skull%2520Womens%2520TShirt%2520941_3.jpg&hash=b5bf4478c781d9ef95802ac62291c7249ee483da)

#teamskull have shirts now.

(https://s9.limitedrun.com/images/1298545/Alien.png)

I was actually thinking about doing something like Team Skull shirts on the TeePublic page.  :laugh:
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Apr 17, 2019, 07:07:03 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 17, 2019, 07:04:14 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Apr 15, 2019, 06:11:56 PM
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.monoconstruction.co.nz%2Fimages%2Fcategory_1%2FAlien%2520Xenomorph%2520Skull%2520Womens%2520TShirt%2520941_3.jpg&hash=b5bf4478c781d9ef95802ac62291c7249ee483da)

#teamskull have shirts now.

(https://s9.limitedrun.com/images/1298545/Alien.png)

I was actually thinking about doing something like Team Skull shirts on the TeePublic page.  :laugh:

Do it. I'm neutral, but I'd buy one just to get on Local and Voodoo's nerves.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Apr 17, 2019, 07:13:56 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Apr 17, 2019, 07:07:03 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 17, 2019, 07:04:14 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Apr 15, 2019, 06:11:56 PM
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.monoconstruction.co.nz%2Fimages%2Fcategory_1%2FAlien%2520Xenomorph%2520Skull%2520Womens%2520TShirt%2520941_3.jpg&hash=b5bf4478c781d9ef95802ac62291c7249ee483da)

#teamskull have shirts now.

(https://s9.limitedrun.com/images/1298545/Alien.png)

I was actually thinking about doing something like Team Skull shirts on the TeePublic page.  :laugh:

Do it. I'm neutral, but I'd buy one just to get on Local and Voodoo's nerves.

(https://media.giphy.com/media/ac7MA7r5IMYda/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Apr 17, 2019, 07:14:23 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 17, 2019, 07:04:14 PM
I was actually thinking about doing something like Team Skull shirts on the TeePublic page.  :laugh:

You'd have to do a Team No-Skull shirt-line as well then just to be fair to the opposing side.

(https://previews.123rf.com/images/77sch/77sch1512/77sch151200039/49773811-no-smoking-sign-icon-skull-with-a-cigarette-.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Apr 17, 2019, 07:15:49 PM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 17, 2019, 07:14:23 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 17, 2019, 07:04:14 PM
I was actually thinking about doing something like Team Skull shirts on the TeePublic page.  :laugh:

You'd have to do a Team No-Skull shirt-line as well then just to be fair to the opposing side.

(https://previews.123rf.com/images/77sch/77sch1512/77sch151200039/49773811-no-smoking-sign-icon-skull-with-a-cigarette-.jpg)

Fair?

???
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Apr 17, 2019, 07:19:15 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Apr 17, 2019, 07:13:56 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Apr 17, 2019, 07:07:03 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 17, 2019, 07:04:14 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Apr 15, 2019, 06:11:56 PM
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.monoconstruction.co.nz%2Fimages%2Fcategory_1%2FAlien%2520Xenomorph%2520Skull%2520Womens%2520TShirt%2520941_3.jpg&hash=b5bf4478c781d9ef95802ac62291c7249ee483da)

#teamskull have shirts now.

(https://s9.limitedrun.com/images/1298545/Alien.png)

I was actually thinking about doing something like Team Skull shirts on the TeePublic page.  :laugh:

Do it. I'm neutral, but I'd buy one just to get on Local and Voodoo's nerves.

https://media.giphy.com/media/ac7MA7r5IMYda/giphy.gif

It'd be payback for the Wierzbowski thing in the "Bug Hunt" thread.

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/arenaxlsm/images/1/18/Evil_Bunny.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20131110084134)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Apr 17, 2019, 07:22:13 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Apr 17, 2019, 07:19:15 PM
It'd be payback for the Wierzbowski thing

(https://media.giphy.com/media/rI9O6UXkCjvTG/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Apr 17, 2019, 07:22:29 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 17, 2019, 07:15:49 PM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 17, 2019, 07:14:23 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 17, 2019, 07:04:14 PM
I was actually thinking about doing something like Team Skull shirts on the TeePublic page.  :laugh:

You'd have to do a Team No-Skull shirt-line as well then just to be fair to the opposing side.

(https://previews.123rf.com/images/77sch/77sch1512/77sch151200039/49773811-no-smoking-sign-icon-skull-with-a-cigarette-.jpg)

Fair?

???

You don't want to be on Mr. Trouble's hit list. Trust me.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Apr 17, 2019, 08:29:12 PM
Seems like its just a matter of time before AVPGalaxy officially sponsors #TeamSkull.

We will have "Give Aliens Skulls Again" hats too. International shipping pls.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Apr 17, 2019, 08:30:38 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Apr 17, 2019, 08:29:12 PM
Seems like its just a matter of time before AVPGalaxy officially sponsors #TeamSkull.

We will have "Give Aliens Skulls Again" hats too.


The skulls never left.

#SkullLife
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Apr 18, 2019, 07:51:42 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/zl5OcQT.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/UU14aDn.jpg)

oohhh yes.


Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 17, 2019, 07:22:29 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 17, 2019, 07:15:49 PM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 17, 2019, 07:14:23 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 17, 2019, 07:04:14 PM
I was actually thinking about doing something like Team Skull shirts on the TeePublic page.  :laugh:

You'd have to do a Team No-Skull shirt-line as well then just to be fair to the opposing side.

(https://previews.123rf.com/images/77sch/77sch1512/77sch151200039/49773811-no-smoking-sign-icon-skull-with-a-cigarette-.jpg)

Fair?

???

You don't want to be on Mr. Trouble's hit list. Trust me.

I wouldn't mind being on a hit list. Put me out my misery.  :laugh:


Quote from: Samhain13 on Apr 17, 2019, 08:29:12 PM
Seems like its just a matter of time before AVPGalaxy officially sponsors #TeamSkull.

We will have "Give Aliens Skulls Again" hats too. International shipping pls.

We've always been officially sponsoring them. All of our ad revenue goes into funding that campaign. Not in hosting costs.

#GASA.





Also 50.9% of the people who have taken this poll LOVE the skull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Apr 18, 2019, 04:51:10 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 18, 2019, 07:51:42 AM
I wouldn't mind being on a hit list. Put me out my misery.  :laugh:

Oh come now, your missus can't be that bad!
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Apr 18, 2019, 05:11:05 PM
This skull madness has to stop.  I can't keep making bail!  >:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Apr 18, 2019, 05:22:46 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Apr 18, 2019, 05:11:05 PM
This skull madness has to stop.  I can't keep making bail!  >:(

Hicks has connections. We'll smuggle you out, just as soon as you say you love the skull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Apr 18, 2019, 05:30:48 PM
(https://media.giphy.com/media/xEpTspH9hGwHS/giphy.gif)

#TeamNoSkull

(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/RelievedIncompleteCaterpillar-size_restricted.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Apr 18, 2019, 05:37:10 PM
Then don't drop the soap.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Apr 18, 2019, 05:47:43 PM
"log in" Psssst. No skull. "log out"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVQQTLZMkFY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVQQTLZMkFY)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Apr 18, 2019, 05:59:05 PM
Quote from: Kradan on Apr 18, 2019, 05:47:43 PM
"log in" Psssst. No skull. "log out"

(https://media.giphy.com/media/3oEdv6sy3ulljPMGdy/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Apr 18, 2019, 07:00:00 PM
#Apopheniaskullteam
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Apr 18, 2019, 07:13:51 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Apr 18, 2019, 05:11:05 PM
This skull madness has to stop.  I can't keep making bail!  >:(


Quote from: Huggs on Apr 18, 2019, 05:22:46 PM
Hicks has connections. We'll smuggle you out, just as soon as you say you love the skull.

He won't be able to resist the skull side of the Alien fandom for much longer.

Quote from: The Old One on Apr 18, 2019, 07:00:00 PM
#Apopheniaskullteam

We have a third party on this conflict now?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: judge death on Apr 18, 2019, 07:49:25 PM
Seems we have a third party now.

Lol, the topics that will outlive everyone:
The official skull or no skull thread
Egg on sulaco
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Apr 18, 2019, 11:28:43 PM
Realistically, why would a skull exist? Creatures rarely have both an exo- and endoskeleton, and aliens clearly have an exoskeleton.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: OmegaZilla on Apr 18, 2019, 11:33:15 PM
Quote from: Stitch on Apr 18, 2019, 11:28:43 PM
Realistically, why would a skull exist? Creatures rarely have both an exo- and endoskeleton, and aliens clearly have an exoskeleton.
David's engineered them, they don't occur naturally.

Spiders have an exoskeleton and an endosternite, so it's not too out there as a concept.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Apr 18, 2019, 11:42:52 PM
Quote from: Omegamorph on Apr 18, 2019, 11:33:15 PM
Quote from: Stitch on Apr 18, 2019, 11:28:43 PM
Realistically, why would a skull exist? Creatures rarely have both an exo- and endoskeleton, and aliens clearly have an exoskeleton.
David's engineered them, they don't occur naturally.

So the skull is David's fault?

That @#%^^$ David!!!!

Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Apr 18, 2019, 11:44:33 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Apr 18, 2019, 11:42:52 PM
Quote from: Omegamorph on Apr 18, 2019, 11:33:15 PM
Quote from: Stitch on Apr 18, 2019, 11:28:43 PM
Realistically, why would a skull exist? Creatures rarely have both an exo- and endoskeleton, and aliens clearly have an exoskeleton.
David's engineered them, they don't occur naturally.

So the skull is David's fault?

That @#%^^$ David!!!!

(https://data.whicdn.com/images/65966161/original.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Apr 19, 2019, 12:00:52 AM
David or no David.

The Alien is artificial it's clear.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Apr 19, 2019, 03:06:00 PM
But what about the Theory of Alien Propagation by Dr. Waidslaw Orona?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Apr 19, 2019, 03:29:34 PM
It was an interesting comic.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Sandman 7 on Apr 23, 2019, 04:45:30 PM
When I first saw Alien (when I was 8 !!), The creature scared the sh*t out of me, I had nightmares for months, That shot were it appeared out of nowhere and got Dallas in the ducts.

The eye sockets totally ruined that image for me, It doesn't seem so un-worldly or scary. Thinking it had some mysterious extrasensory vision made it seem so horrific and unthinkable.

I realise some will get upset me saying this, but I got the idea 'ALIEN' mean't an unknown life form.  From learning it was created by David from Human DNA makes me think the title 'Alien' doesn't quite work very well. Its no longer an Alien to me. Its a weapon.  I think the skull and eyesockets totally spoil the mystique created from the 1st movie..  Just IMO though.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Apr 23, 2019, 04:49:19 PM
Hear! Hear!

Another for #TeamNoSkull !!!

(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ThoughtfulBoilingBordercollie-size_restricted.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: OmegaZilla on Apr 23, 2019, 10:41:11 PM
but the skull is not supposed to be seen clearly; that's the genius behind it. It's a tridimensional surrealist piece where this thing kills you, but before it does you see something behind that dome and that is a glimpse of death. They purposedly made the dome misty
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Apr 23, 2019, 11:23:03 PM
The Skull is The Life
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Apr 23, 2019, 11:36:26 PM
And it shall be mine.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Apr 23, 2019, 11:58:50 PM
Say you love the skull Local.

Do it.

Do it for Randy.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Apr 24, 2019, 02:37:22 AM


Local Trouble, lmao.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: FiorinaFury161 on Apr 26, 2019, 02:23:21 AM
Been gone for almost a year and I see some new SKULL haters. It was worth the wait. 🤗
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Apr 26, 2019, 02:35:23 AM
You missed a lot of the Skull Wars OP.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: WY-0311 on Apr 26, 2019, 05:57:47 AM
The Skull is boring.

1. You get a reference for the creatures possible eye-sight, reduces the mystery of it's sight abilities.
2. Clear human skull/relation to Human biology, this detracts how 'Alien' the creature is.

And for what? Some grim reaper thing? Not worth it.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Apr 26, 2019, 01:04:44 PM
ohhh yeah

Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Apr 26, 2019, 03:21:28 PM
That is atrocious!  >:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Apr 26, 2019, 03:25:08 PM
(https://media.giphy.com/media/QV5vp1BYenfCE/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: FiorinaFury161 on Apr 26, 2019, 04:40:58 PM
Disgusting.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Apr 26, 2019, 04:45:05 PM
Simply gorgeous.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Gash on Apr 26, 2019, 06:43:57 PM
Quote from: WY-0311 on Apr 26, 2019, 05:57:47 AM
The Skull is boring.

1. You get a reference for the creatures possible eye-sight, reduces the mystery of it's sight abilities.
2. Clear human skull/relation to Human biology, this detracts how 'Alien' the creature is.

And for what? Some grim reaper thing? Not worth it.

No, it has no eyes, the sockets are empty. The skull is a vestige of humanity, or a mocking, menacing parody of it. The skull is great, it just shouldn't be obvious.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Apr 26, 2019, 07:02:58 PM
Even the skull lovers have a problem if it's too visible.

Yet if the skull isn't visible in a scene, no one has a problem.

#TeamNoSkull wins. Case dismissed.

(https://media.tenor.com/images/c9b37127e8dc4107e977fc9fce72947d/tenor.gif)

Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Gash on Apr 26, 2019, 08:05:52 PM
It isn't that visible. It's perfectly presented. Team skull wins.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Apr 26, 2019, 11:05:42 PM
Agreed.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Apr 26, 2019, 11:14:16 PM
Fake news!  >:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Apr 26, 2019, 11:42:22 PM
#Apopheniaskullteam

The real victor.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Apr 27, 2019, 12:43:05 AM
The skull is in the movies.

We lead in the polls and on the screen.

Our victory is total and absolute.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: kwisatz on Apr 27, 2019, 12:48:17 AM
Is that a skull?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Apr 27, 2019, 10:45:48 AM
The skull simply is.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Apr 27, 2019, 10:55:23 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 26, 2019, 01:04:44 PM
ohhh yeah

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Happy <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/alienday?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#alienday</a> ....who knew?<br />
<br />
You peeps can grab my Alien Birthday cards from my <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/etsyshop?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#etsyshop</a> <a href="https://t.co/VzAlw8g3GA">https://t.co/VzAlw8g3GA</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/alien?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#alien</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/alienday426?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#alienday426</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/xenomorph?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#xenomorph</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/alienfilm?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#alienfilm</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/etsy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#etsy</a> <a href="https://t.co/M1At5XdYfZ">pic.twitter.com/M1At5XdYfZ</a></p>— RB Illustrations (@RBIllustrations) <a href="https://twitter.com/RBIllustrations/status/1121761558290411522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Nope. All I see is this:

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buckyohare.org%2Fmerch%2Fhandbook%2F11.jpg&hash=151b9c23eac378a93d54a33ade2245103f5920b7)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Apr 27, 2019, 11:17:45 AM
Wot.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on May 02, 2019, 07:51:27 AM


This is some sexeh shit. I saw one of Eddie Powell in Giger's Diary with the skull showing that I need to snap and upload later.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on May 02, 2019, 11:14:49 AM
I can practically feel Local's rage toward your new avatar.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on May 02, 2019, 06:53:38 PM
Your avatar Hicks....

(https://media.giphy.com/media/11tVh1XRNAunYI/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on May 02, 2019, 07:20:17 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on May 02, 2019, 07:51:27 AM
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"Giger" by Brian Jackson - <a href="https://t.co/MrX3nyJVmU">https://t.co/MrX3nyJVmU</a> <a href="https://t.co/8DE6K6vYsh">pic.twitter.com/8DE6K6vYsh</a></p>— Alien Theory (@Alien_Theory) <a href="https://twitter.com/Alien_Theory/status/1123639627766800384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


This is some sexeh shit. I saw one of Eddie Powell in Giger's Diary with the skull showing that I need to snap and upload later.

Magnificent.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on May 02, 2019, 07:57:44 PM
Skull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on May 02, 2019, 09:01:38 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on May 02, 2019, 11:14:49 AM
I can practically feel Local's rage toward your new avatar.

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F_8tMk0_P9o40%2FSuCI0p7LP1I%2FAAAAAAAAAKY%2FeSkZijnuW8Q%2Fs320%2Fa3_2.jpg&hash=65a4afde1ce5044a833bcad8df8852c8af0c5651)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on May 02, 2019, 11:10:22 PM
Lmao.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on May 03, 2019, 12:11:37 AM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 02, 2019, 09:01:38 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on May 02, 2019, 11:14:49 AM
I can practically feel Local's rage toward your new avatar.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8tMk0_P9o40/SuCI0p7LP1I/AAAAAAAAAKY/eSkZijnuW8Q/s320/a3_2.jpg

My soul . . . ow.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on May 03, 2019, 12:36:10 AM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on May 03, 2019, 12:11:37 AM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 02, 2019, 09:01:38 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on May 02, 2019, 11:14:49 AM
I can practically feel Local's rage toward your new avatar.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8tMk0_P9o40/SuCI0p7LP1I/AAAAAAAAAKY/eSkZijnuW8Q/s320/a3_2.jpg

My soul . . . ow.

Poor ol' Turk.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on May 03, 2019, 12:40:07 AM
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/80e95e4f-ece5-47b2-bcb3-fdee99bf284a
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on May 03, 2019, 12:50:46 AM
Is this supposed to be an image?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on May 03, 2019, 12:53:42 AM
It would be an embedded video if Hicks would turn on the bells and whistles for the rest of us.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on May 03, 2019, 02:07:40 AM
#Preach

(https://gifimage.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/moving-text-gif-1.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on May 03, 2019, 02:08:15 AM
Unjust. Truly.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on May 03, 2019, 07:40:44 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on May 03, 2019, 12:53:42 AM
It would be an embedded video if Hicks would turn on the bells and whistles for the rest of us.

Nothing to do with me, chief. I just put the the text and pictures up.

Quote from: Huggs on May 03, 2019, 12:36:10 AM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on May 03, 2019, 12:11:37 AM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 02, 2019, 09:01:38 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on May 02, 2019, 11:14:49 AM
I can practically feel Local's rage toward your new avatar.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8tMk0_P9o40/SuCI0p7LP1I/AAAAAAAAAKY/eSkZijnuW8Q/s320/a3_2.jpg

My soul . . . ow.

Poor ol' Turk.

Thank God it's not me.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on May 03, 2019, 07:56:45 AM
These beauties from Giger's Diary:

(https://i.imgur.com/BwtHl9M.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/1ljxMaG.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/hjwoDfQ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/8BqE8zQ.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on May 04, 2019, 04:14:02 AM
Wow.

Is that a mold of bolaji's head I see back there?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on May 10, 2019, 02:22:04 PM
Quote from: The Old One on May 03, 2019, 11:41:56 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on May 03, 2019, 07:56:45 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/hjwoDfQ.jpg)

Gorgeous.

Except from the skull looking silly.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on May 10, 2019, 02:36:06 PM
Silly skulls. Silly skulls everywhere.

(https://media.giphy.com/media/TIhCRE9RVPlS0/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on May 10, 2019, 07:25:50 PM
I'll say though that in recent Gibson's Alien 3 comic adaption skull worked for me because it was simple design choice that helps to distinguish creatures from each other and in the same time reminds that Hybrid was a human being once.

Still don't like skull in general. So...

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F37.media.tumblr.com%2Fafbe250f95c2d5d5b3446f1da6696c2b%2Ftumblr_n3bk2kO55u1tpdcs9o1_500.gif&hash=313d0a6873da9e1c135b63dad217350c16328f67)


Quote from: Corporal Hicks on May 03, 2019, 07:40:44 AM

Quote from: Huggs on May 03, 2019, 12:36:10 AM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on May 03, 2019, 12:11:37 AM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 02, 2019, 09:01:38 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on May 02, 2019, 11:14:49 AM
I can practically feel Local's rage toward your new avatar.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8tMk0_P9o40/SuCI0p7LP1I/AAAAAAAAAKY/eSkZijnuW8Q/s320/a3_2.jpg

My soul . . . ow.

Poor ol' Turk.

Thank God it's not me.

C'mon, when ACM became canon?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on May 10, 2019, 07:37:47 PM
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on May 12, 2019, 06:08:44 PM
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on May 12, 2019, 06:34:01 PM
Really loving this one!

(https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/015/013/677/large/zak-stokes-alien-isolation.jpg?1546714368)

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/w8r2G5
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on May 12, 2019, 08:02:20 PM
Now adding that skull was just plain unecessary!

(https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/015/013/734/large/zak-stokes-20190104-135752.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on May 12, 2019, 08:10:44 PM
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/ecda3c52d8a55ae99091e45a53683531/tumblr_phdbblVhVo1qjabr0o1_1280.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on May 12, 2019, 08:29:09 PM
SPAGHETTI
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on May 12, 2019, 08:32:16 PM
THE BASTARD
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on May 15, 2019, 04:18:20 AM
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/631980241382301614/5D13E15CAAC9100A8FE9D9EA625CAC5D64E1A689/?imw=637&imh=358&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=true/)

(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/631980241382301278/DB49CDE05C28D00A2A3FB5761E668EC8612A7D64/?imw=637&imh=358&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=true)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: SiL on May 15, 2019, 04:55:10 AM
I keep trying to find a copy of the model I can put into Element 3D and make some funky shit with. It's out there somewhere. Then I can terrorise Local Trouble for days.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on May 15, 2019, 06:54:57 PM
Mirin the skull before taking it.

(https://i.imgur.com/7vz3ruZ.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/ygcjVJa.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: xxx on May 15, 2019, 07:14:28 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on May 15, 2019, 04:18:20 AM
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/631980241382301614/5D13E15CAAC9100A8FE9D9EA625CAC5D64E1A689/?imw=637&imh=358&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=true/)

(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/631980241382301278/DB49CDE05C28D00A2A3FB5761E668EC8612A7D64/?imw=637&imh=358&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=true)
Now I can be 100% sure which base I stand for...
nope to the skull
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on May 15, 2019, 07:15:40 PM
Because of a AVP 2010 modification? lol
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Kurgan on May 15, 2019, 07:48:17 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on May 15, 2019, 06:54:57 PM
Mirin the skull before taking it.

(https://i.imgur.com/7vz3ruZ.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/ygcjVJa.jpg)

Glad you put the poor deformed thing out of it's misery.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on May 15, 2019, 08:51:08 PM
Quote from: xxx on May 15, 2019, 07:14:28 PM
Now I can be 100% sure which base I stand for...
nope to the skull

(https://media.giphy.com/media/xT4ApjjMoHdbCrVu0w/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on May 16, 2019, 01:15:56 AM
S K U L L
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: xxx on May 16, 2019, 03:41:18 PM
Quote from: The Old One on May 15, 2019, 07:15:40 PM
Because of a AVP 2010 modification? lol
Because it looks quite silly, but the translucent dome should reveal something...
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Gilfryd on May 16, 2019, 11:37:17 PM
Eyes are the windows to the soul

But the Alien has no eyes

Therefore it has no soul

(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/218/301/e61.png)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on May 17, 2019, 02:18:19 AM
(https://media.giphy.com/media/MIrHz8irBnuAo/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on May 17, 2019, 02:23:45 AM
Quote from: Gilfryd on May 16, 2019, 11:37:17 PM
Eyes are the windows to the soul

But the Alien has no eyes

Therefore it has no soul

(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/218/301/e61.png)

"You don't always die from tobacco"
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on May 18, 2019, 06:21:58 PM
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fpre14.deviantart.net%2F1507%2Fth%2Fpre%2Ff%2F2013%2F360%2Fb%2F5%2F_gmod__dome_alien_wip_by_rjqnraos19-d6zgr24.jpg&hash=f137611e0402aa4c380a5483e526b2797cf3c53f)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on May 18, 2019, 07:34:10 PM
I don't see much evidence of skull there.  Does this mean you've stopped hating me?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on May 19, 2019, 09:31:50 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on May 18, 2019, 07:34:10 PM
I don't see much evidence of skull there.  Does this mean you've stopped hating me?
I don't see a skull either. Looks good.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on May 19, 2019, 09:45:28 AM
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/529511306334115371/DF87E2C545556287B275682548349A4CFC8D0B7C/?imw=637&imh=358&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=true)
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/529511306334116181/5DC3AF64F06D9BD28585C61C5FC7F3DBEDB8F40A/?imw=637&imh=358&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=true)
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/529511306334115875/A49C4CE5FD5E3378E0464C841835397CA02A3FC5/?imw=637&imh=358&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=true)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on May 19, 2019, 12:38:23 PM
(https://media.moddb.com/images/downloads/1/27/26407/AvP_2011-03-19_19-13-33-40.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on May 19, 2019, 02:19:14 PM
(https://media.moddb.com/cache/images/members/4/3649/3648169/thumb_620x2000/20160510172755_1.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on May 19, 2019, 11:45:00 PM
I wonder how the Queen would look with a visible skull. Probably ridiculous, but I'm still curious.

(https://i.imgur.com/YfXu3Ci.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on May 20, 2019, 12:13:21 AM
Wait no one on #skullteam ever tried to pull a Queen with the skull?

(https://i.imgur.com/O3p4Tyh.png)

Are we all slack jawed casuals or what? Let's make Giger proud.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on May 20, 2019, 12:14:07 AM
Are you trying to make Local blow a blood vessel?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on May 20, 2019, 12:26:32 AM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on May 20, 2019, 12:14:07 AM
Are you trying to make Local blow a blood vessel?

That's merely collateral damage.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on May 25, 2019, 10:06:41 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on May 18, 2019, 07:34:10 PM
I don't see much evidence of skull there.  Does this mean you've stopped hating me?

Yeah, what happened? Change of minds?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on May 26, 2019, 07:37:08 AM
#Apopheniaskullteam always.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on May 26, 2019, 11:16:18 AM
I still see no skull, apophenia or otherwise.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on May 28, 2019, 10:43:47 AM
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on May 28, 2019, 02:04:29 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on May 28, 2019, 10:43:47 AM
<iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAlienXenomorphOrigins%2Fposts%2F1034181923441769&width=500" width="500" height="802" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe>

Using someone's skull, from a real deceased person who once had a real life and a real story, using that for Hollywood FX crosses a decency line to me. Yeah, not thrilled to learn that.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on May 28, 2019, 02:11:44 PM
You didn't know? I knew that since School.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on May 28, 2019, 02:13:40 PM
Quote from: The Old One on May 28, 2019, 02:11:44 PM
You didn't know? I knew that since School.

Maybe I blocked it out?  ???
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on May 28, 2019, 02:25:45 PM
I'd donate my skull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on May 28, 2019, 02:28:25 PM
No more skulls need be harmed.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on May 28, 2019, 02:33:24 PM
Yes, all ought to be preserved for Alien film utilisation.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on May 28, 2019, 02:36:28 PM
We need more skull donors. Let's not be selfish.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on May 28, 2019, 02:36:47 PM
That's the ultimate desecration.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on May 28, 2019, 02:40:44 PM
Quote from: The Old One on May 28, 2019, 02:25:45 PM
I'd donate my skull.

Same.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on May 28, 2019, 03:14:45 PM
I'll donate my spleen so they can vent it.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on May 28, 2019, 08:43:40 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on May 28, 2019, 02:36:28 PM
We need more skull donors. Let's not be selfish.

Quote from: The Old One on May 28, 2019, 02:25:45 PM
I'd donate my skull.

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on May 28, 2019, 02:40:44 PM
Quote from: The Old One on May 28, 2019, 02:25:45 PM
I'd donate my skull.

Same.

You all are batshit crazy.

(https://media2.giphy.com/media/zuPOWzbgSggvu/giphy.gif)

Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on May 28, 2019, 08:55:31 PM
Quote from: Kradan on May 28, 2019, 08:43:40 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on May 28, 2019, 02:36:28 PM
We need more skull donors. Let's not be selfish.

Quote from: The Old One on May 28, 2019, 02:25:45 PM
I'd donate my skull.

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on May 28, 2019, 02:40:44 PM
Quote from: The Old One on May 28, 2019, 02:25:45 PM
I'd donate my skull.

Same.

You all are batshit crazy.

(https://media2.giphy.com/media/zuPOWzbgSggvu/giphy.gif)

I hope their families don't mind burying headless corpses, because I don't believe Cremation Services accept requests like "Burn everything but the head!" :P
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on May 28, 2019, 09:12:09 PM
Skull haters will have nightmares about being used to make alien skulls tonight.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on May 28, 2019, 09:20:52 PM
You know who also like skulls?

(https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-08-2015/hkgmLK.gif)

(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/WaterySleepyBadger-size_restricted.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSdcR-4NVVA
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSdcR-4NVVA)

Good night, skull lovers.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on May 28, 2019, 09:44:40 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on May 28, 2019, 08:55:32 PM
I hope their families don't mind burying headless corpses, because I don't believe Cremation Services accept requests like "Burn everything but the head!" :P

I intend to donate everything.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: SiL on May 29, 2019, 03:23:06 AM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on May 28, 2019, 02:04:29 PM
Using someone's skull, from a real deceased person who once had a real life and a real story, using that for Hollywood FX crosses a decency line to me. Yeah, not thrilled to learn that.
For the record (and I guess not that it makes a difference) the skull wasn't used in the suit, just the sculpt (and would not be the first or last human bone Giger used in his art. The ridges on top of the head are snake bones.)

During the 70s it was often cheaper to use actual body parts than fake ones in movies, helped in part by a dodgy underground bones from India. Most/all of the dead bodies at the end of Poltergeist are real for this reason.

Quote from: Voodoo Magic on May 28, 2019, 08:55:31 PM
I hope their families don't mind burying headless corpses, because I don't believe Cremation Services accept requests like "Burn everything but the head!" :P
Best case scenario the person's body was sold by the family in a developing nation to help make money; worst case scenario, the body wasn't headless when it went in the ground :-X
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on May 29, 2019, 11:20:31 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/ZwbsFw0.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on May 29, 2019, 05:31:33 PM
Ohhhhh, i would love to see Khang Le's xeno onscreeen. I think this "protomorph" looks way more fascinating and just new than one in final movie.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on May 30, 2019, 08:46:47 AM
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on May 30, 2019, 12:05:10 PM
Appropriate skull usage:

(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/1d/22/4f/1d224f791b71eb40dc7280ee31c3279d--predator-alien-predator-movie.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on May 30, 2019, 12:30:26 PM
That is a fantastic piece. My phone background.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on May 30, 2019, 12:38:48 PM
This entire page is UNFORGIVABLE! (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThisIsUnforgivable)  >:(

(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/VainThunderousDog-size_restricted.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on May 30, 2019, 01:28:08 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on May 30, 2019, 12:30:26 PM
That is a fantastic piece. My phone background.

Great idea. I just tried it on my phone and indeed, it's a great wallpaper choice.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The1PerfectOrganism on May 30, 2019, 01:45:05 PM
I don't like it, I can tell it's that awful neutered Alien type from Fire and Stone, just compare the size of the skull to the Alien's head.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on May 30, 2019, 06:48:55 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on May 30, 2019, 08:46:47 AM
<iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsteven.bahruth%2Fposts%2F2711790735517674&width=500" width="500" height="595" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe>

Gorgeous.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on May 30, 2019, 07:17:48 PM
Four-Six fingers or GTFO.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on May 30, 2019, 07:22:32 PM
Four-Six fingers or Get Two Fudge Oreos?

I'll take the Oreos!
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on May 30, 2019, 07:27:12 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on May 30, 2019, 07:22:32 PM
Four-Six fingers or Get Two Fudge Oreos?

I'll take the Oreos!

Don't take Oreos from her. I have the better Oreos.

The fudge is richer.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on May 30, 2019, 07:49:10 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on May 30, 2019, 07:27:12 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on May 30, 2019, 07:22:32 PM
Four-Six fingers or Get Two Fudge Oreos?

I'll take the Oreos!

Don't take Oreos from her. I have the better Oreos.

The fudge is richer.

Stop. Just stop talking.

(https://i.gifer.com/embedded/download/1bfF.gif)
You had me at "the fudge is richer".

Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jun 03, 2019, 02:55:33 AM
It's the strength and the weakness of the whole Aliens version of the design. In a nutshell.
Great obscured, but highlighted? No.

Spoiler
Six slender uncanny valley fingers >
Three monsterous "grey" alien fingers.
[close]
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jun 03, 2019, 04:17:21 AM
What's wrong with the fingers?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Jun 03, 2019, 06:27:35 AM
Quote from: The Old One on May 30, 2019, 07:17:48 PM
Four-Six fingers or GTFO.

#ApopheniaFingers
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Still Collating... on Jun 03, 2019, 12:21:31 PM
I adore the Aliens design, but the arm blades aren't that necessary (unless they use some elbow fighting techniques...  :P) and the three fingers are a definite no no. Keep them long, with long nail/claws, connect the pairs even, but IMO it has to be four or six (I like what AVP 2010 did with them). Thought personally closer to Big Chaps six than the Covenant one's hand.
Just my personal preference 
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Jun 03, 2019, 07:52:51 PM
Arm-blades talking: do all xenos in Aliens have them? Because i can spot them only when Newt is taken by Alien in sewers.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Jun 03, 2019, 08:47:42 PM
Quote from: Kradan on Jun 03, 2019, 07:52:51 PM
Arm-blades talking: do all xenos in Aliens have them? Because i can spot them only when Newt is taken by Alien in sewers.

I think those arm-blades only appeared on Aliens and maybe some comics.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: corn_bread937 on Jun 06, 2019, 11:19:12 PM
It makes the Alien less scary, in my opinion. Not as cool looking as the terrifying featureless killing machine that hunts by smell. I don't mind it though, either way it's the perfect organism.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jun 09, 2019, 10:57:16 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/nKERjcg.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/vjkGwSX.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/5IV8e2F.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/v1TSxxj.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/E4oB6ea.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/QNeRlqC.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/VC79KzG.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/fkFu66x.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/121Npit.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/KLIxHOG.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/Cw6myZy.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/J3VRZFo.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Jun 09, 2019, 11:19:36 PM
I can feel Local's rage . . .

And Hicks delighting over it.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jun 09, 2019, 11:22:38 PM
The last one is fantastic.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Jun 10, 2019, 12:18:10 AM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Jun 09, 2019, 11:19:36 PM
I can feel Local's rage . . .

I like to imagine it being similar to Eisenberg's Alienphobia.

Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jun 10, 2019, 07:28:46 AM
Dayton's work is great. Love seeing his models.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Jun 10, 2019, 04:34:43 PM
The more I see of the skull, the less I like it.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Jun 10, 2019, 05:08:30 PM
The skull seems to give Hicks power.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: judge death on Jun 10, 2019, 08:11:01 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Jun 09, 2019, 11:19:36 PM
I can feel Local's rage . . .

And Hicks delighting over it.
I imagine it to look like:
Hicks as sidious and local as Vader, wish I could edit in their names but you get the point xD

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SelfassuredHappygoluckyBlacklab-size_restricted.gif
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Jun 10, 2019, 10:26:47 PM
(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AntiqueHonestLadybug-size_restricted.gif)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61jL3Wx-xCL._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jun 11, 2019, 12:16:34 AM
The skull is necessary.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jun 11, 2019, 01:38:56 AM
Quote from: The Old One on Jun 11, 2019, 12:16:34 AM
The skull is necessary.

The skull is the life.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jun 11, 2019, 08:10:20 AM
#Apopheniaskullforlife
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Jun 11, 2019, 12:18:41 PM
You space hippies make me feel like a Herbert.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jun 11, 2019, 04:07:24 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jun 11, 2019, 12:18:41 PM
You space hippies make me feel like a Herbert.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lHC0J5NRPro


:5
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jun 13, 2019, 12:37:50 PM
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Jun 13, 2019, 01:25:25 PM
Way, waaay too much skull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jun 13, 2019, 01:30:04 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Jun 13, 2019, 01:25:25 PM
Way, waaay too much skull.

There's no such thing.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The1PerfectOrganism on Jun 13, 2019, 08:09:42 PM
Neat.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Jun 14, 2019, 01:54:32 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Jun 13, 2019, 01:30:04 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Jun 13, 2019, 01:25:25 PM
Way, waaay too much skull.

There's no such thing.

Yes, there is.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jun 15, 2019, 12:40:05 AM
Obscured skull is best skull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Still Collating... on Jun 15, 2019, 11:41:33 AM
Second that. Completely see-through is ridiculous IMO.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 426Buddy on Jun 15, 2019, 02:05:29 PM
Quote from: Still Collating... on Jun 15, 2019, 11:41:33 AM
Second that. Completely see-through is ridiculous IMO.
(https://media0.giphy.com/media/26u4ioPvKvfgYDs7m/giphy.gif?cid=19f5b51a5d04fa7451464c374d1a7e81&rid=giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Jul 04, 2019, 05:32:50 PM
Skull just reminds me of Eddie from Iron Maiden.

Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Jul 04, 2019, 10:52:38 PM
Completely obscured, no one minds.

Completely unobscured, everyone minds.

Therefore the correct answer is: #TeamNoSkull
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Jul 04, 2019, 11:09:19 PM
Local started this by declaring war on all skulls.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jul 04, 2019, 11:41:13 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Jun 11, 2019, 01:38:56 AM
Quote from: The Old One on Jun 11, 2019, 12:16:34 AM
The skull is necessary.

The skull is the life.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Jul 05, 2019, 02:46:24 AM
(https://media1.tenor.com/images/5e16a4ef0259f0695cea044763057ad1/tenor.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jul 05, 2019, 02:50:44 AM
Shut me down. Skulls smashing skulls. How perverse  :laugh:
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Jul 05, 2019, 05:03:32 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjE4MjQzMjU5NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTQzOTUwNjE@._V1_SX1777_CR0,0,1777,744_AL_.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jul 05, 2019, 07:21:31 PM
The skull is a holy relic.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Jul 05, 2019, 07:47:10 PM
Oh it's a relic alright. :P
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Jul 05, 2019, 08:49:25 PM
The skull is a microaggression, a bullying tactic, and it triggers me.  It leaves me in a luke-warm puddle of my own despair, yearning for a time when I no longer must suffer its existence.

O Lord, please deliver me from the skull and allow us to finally achieve consensus.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jul 05, 2019, 09:30:46 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jul 05, 2019, 08:49:25 PM
The skull is a microaggression, a bullying tactic, and it triggers me.  It leaves me in a luke-warm puddle of my own despair, yearning for a time when I no longer must suffer its existence.

O Lord, please deliver me from the skull and allow us to finally achieve consensus.

Tell it to Randy.

When it comes to the skull, I hear he's a believer.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jul 06, 2019, 03:55:45 AM
Indeed, look at the Lurker.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Jul 07, 2019, 01:28:45 PM
The skull should be used on covers more.

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsaladadecinema.com.br%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F09%2Falien.jpg&hash=a2e79c39b8be2f1a514ae05caef2ae37628ee643)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Jul 07, 2019, 04:47:43 PM
Why not put David's skull on the cover.

He's more scary than the Alien now. 

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190707/d8b6244c29746711f23d932b9fc4a8fd.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jul 07, 2019, 06:33:10 PM
Quote from: Vermillion on Jul 07, 2019, 04:47:43 PM
Why not put David's skull on the cover.

He's more scary than the Alien now. 

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190707/d8b6244c29746711f23d932b9fc4a8fd.gif

Kong's preparing to fight dirty.

He's planning to go for the ol' ball twist.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jul 07, 2019, 08:12:26 PM
(https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/1Al9UTdhrYT4x55FSsva3WZ2Kvo=/8x0:1012x565/1600x900/cdn.vox-cdn.com/assets/1064148/david-prometheus.jpg)

You want a further twist?
Currently canonically, it already is.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Jul 07, 2019, 09:47:21 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jul 05, 2019, 08:49:25 PM
The skull is a microaggression, a bullying tactic, and it triggers me.  It leaves me in a luke-warm puddle of my own despair, yearning for a time when I no longer must suffer its existence.

O Lord, please deliver me from the skull and allow us to finally achieve consensus.

Seems like its a matter of time before people start demanding skull free safe spaces around here.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Jul 07, 2019, 09:50:31 PM
That's right, brah.


Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Jul 07, 2019, 11:38:17 PM
There will never be #noskull safe spaces until Sam-Wormtongue-Hain stops instigating the feud!!!

(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AcclaimedPortlyChuckwalla-small.gif)

Spoiler
;D
[close]

Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jul 08, 2019, 08:40:35 PM
The skull is embedded, genuinely. You can't dispense it, it's always a part of the Alien- even unseen.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jul 09, 2019, 07:41:05 AM
And the majority of voters like the skull anyway so... *shrugs*
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jul 09, 2019, 12:24:07 PM
Indeed, the consensus is definitive.
(It's a joke)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Jul 09, 2019, 12:41:28 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jul 09, 2019, 07:41:05 AM
And the majority of voters like the skull anyway so... *shrugs*

Quote from: The Old One on Jul 09, 2019, 12:24:07 PM
Indeed, the consensus is definitive.

Hicks is right. 60.9% between love it & it's okay is a majority.

A consensus is a process in which people work together to reach as much agreement as possible. There was no group decision making here, at least not yet.

#TeamNoSkull  :)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Jul 09, 2019, 12:59:40 PM
Oh, please don't turn this into The-Thread-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named!
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Jul 09, 2019, 01:18:14 PM
Come on, Old One loves my analytical corrections of her posts! ;D

Now I admit I'm not an expert in public decorum, but her giving me icy stares means I did good right? Right?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jul 09, 2019, 01:22:33 PM
Right.  >:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Jul 09, 2019, 01:29:26 PM
Quote from: The Old One on Jul 09, 2019, 01:22:33 PM
Right.

See!!! We're bestest friends!  ;D

(https://media.giphy.com/media/xUOxeZy7TXZYptBMSA/giphy.gif)

Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Jul 09, 2019, 01:49:26 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Jul 09, 2019, 01:29:26 PM
Quote from: The Old One on Jul 09, 2019, 01:22:33 PM
Right.

See!!! We're bestest friends!  ;D

https://media.giphy.com/media/xUOxeZy7TXZYptBMSA/giphy.gif

I think I'll just move you right below Hicks on my personal best friends list. Good luck getting second place back, Voodoo. ;D
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jul 09, 2019, 02:09:22 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Jul 09, 2019, 12:59:40 PM
Oh, please don't turn this into The-Thread-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named!

There's so many potential threads that I'm genuinely curious.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Jul 09, 2019, 02:50:27 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Jul 09, 2019, 02:09:22 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Jul 09, 2019, 12:59:40 PM
Oh, please don't turn this into The-Thread-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named!

There's so many potential threads that I'm genuinely curious.

Spoiler
The Egg on the Sulaco thread.
[close]
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jul 09, 2019, 03:07:50 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Jul 09, 2019, 02:50:27 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Jul 09, 2019, 02:09:22 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Jul 09, 2019, 12:59:40 PM
Oh, please don't turn this into The-Thread-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named!

There's so many potential threads that I'm genuinely curious.

Spoiler
The Egg on the Sulaco thread.
[close]

Spoiler
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/4a/72/ed/4a72ed53a02d96dd0c8f28a16953e37d.jpg)
[close]
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Jul 09, 2019, 03:09:48 PM
Don't forget the canon threads.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jul 09, 2019, 03:31:16 PM
Hicks when he sees this thread

Spoiler
(https://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2006_RV/006HRV_Robin_Williams_021.jpg)
[close]
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Jul 09, 2019, 03:35:44 PM
I'm on the verge of getting disproportionately upset and blaming all of you for it.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jul 09, 2019, 03:42:18 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jul 09, 2019, 03:35:44 PM
I'm on the verge of getting disproportionately upset and blaming all of you for it.

(https://i.imgur.com/XI05G.jpg)

Spoiler
(https://rvluckyorwhat.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/robin-williams-gif.gif)
[close]
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The1PerfectOrganism on Jul 09, 2019, 05:04:10 PM
Angry skull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Jul 10, 2019, 12:05:44 AM
Pause.

The only Scull....y worth fighting for.

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190710/1f12241605f2577cda4eb32993df5822.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Jul 10, 2019, 12:10:24 AM
I thought Hudson's skull graffiti was the only skull worth fighting for, Verm.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Jul 10, 2019, 08:24:45 PM
He's still alive dammit!!
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Jul 10, 2019, 08:38:12 PM
Quote from: Vermillion on Jul 10, 2019, 08:24:45 PM
He's still alive dammit!!

#TheOnlyAcceptableSkull

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iOFDLLQ8iQQ/UlH57mJsOgI/AAAAAAAAAck/m2lHlw34ySs7LjVR9Wc8K29NGpF8tACPQCKgB/s1600/Neo.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Jul 11, 2019, 11:04:34 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Jul 10, 2019, 08:38:12 PM
Quote from: Vermillion on Jul 10, 2019, 08:24:45 PM
He's still alive dammit!!

#TheOnlyAcceptableSkull

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iOFDLLQ8iQQ/UlH57mJsOgI/AAAAAAAAAck/m2lHlw34ySs7LjVR9Wc8K29NGpF8tACPQCKgB/s1600/Neo.jpg

Welcome to the team!

#TeamNoSkull
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TheSailingRabbit on Jul 11, 2019, 11:07:13 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Jul 11, 2019, 11:04:34 PM
Quote from: TheSailingRabbit on Jul 10, 2019, 08:38:12 PM
Quote from: Vermillion on Jul 10, 2019, 08:24:45 PM
He's still alive dammit!!

#TheOnlyAcceptableSkull

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iOFDLLQ8iQQ/UlH57mJsOgI/AAAAAAAAAck/m2lHlw34ySs7LjVR9Wc8K29NGpF8tACPQCKgB/s1600/Neo.jpg

Welcome to the team!

#TeamNoSkull

I must remain a neutral party until after I co-host a podcast with Hicks.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Jul 12, 2019, 02:18:40 PM
Neutral. Eh?
I always like visiting Switzerland. :)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The1PerfectOrganism on Jul 15, 2019, 06:16:00 AM
Team Skull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jul 15, 2019, 07:16:31 AM
Quote from: Erik Lehnsherr on Jul 15, 2019, 06:16:00 AM
Team Skull.

We thank thee O' Lord.

(https://www.thegoldencloset.com/merchant/graphics/00000001/T0820j.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The1PerfectOrganism on Jul 15, 2019, 07:17:58 AM
We are poor sinners in the hands of an angry skull,
Let the circle be unbroken until the day.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jul 15, 2019, 07:35:05 AM
Quote from: Erik Lehnsherr on Jul 15, 2019, 07:17:58 AM
We are poor sinners in the hands of an angry skull,
Let the circle be unbroken until the day.

Amen

(https://viewsfromthesofa.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/potential-but-wasted.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The1PerfectOrganism on Jul 15, 2019, 07:38:32 AM
Amen!
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jul 15, 2019, 07:39:31 AM
#Apopheniaskullforlife
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jul 15, 2019, 07:44:12 AM
Alright then. Thank you gentleman.

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/weyland-ycorporation/images/d/d2/Harold_Andrews.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/500?cb=20121007143712)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Jul 17, 2019, 09:40:24 PM
I have been trying to remember all the times the skull is mentioned or shown in the EU.

For games we have the Raven and a Lurker's multiplayer skin on ACM, on Isolation we can see the skull depending on the light. There is of course AVPGalaxy's #skullteam skin from AVP2010.

In the comics the most recent is on Gibson's Alien 3. And I don't remember others apperances, most aliens in comics look quite generic.

In Novels:

"The creature's enormously long skull was actually translucent on the top and I could see right through to a complex row of arched inner segments that didn't look like brain tissie, but like more skull".

- DNA War, pg. 127.

"There was a skull buried inside that head, and he could see the hollows where eyes should have been leering at him."

- Sea of Sorrows, pg. 150.

Who remembers more?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jul 21, 2019, 04:00:05 PM
I don't know any, but I know The Cold Forge doesn't mention it, as it isn't ever entirely visible.
Title: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Jul 22, 2019, 12:15:46 PM
Picture on Cold Forge cover has no skull.

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190722/57cb67026f1e70ec55e3c642e655ba1a.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jul 22, 2019, 04:31:23 PM
Quote from: Vermillion on Jul 22, 2019, 12:15:46 PM
Picture on Cold Forge cover has no skull.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190722/57cb67026f1e70ec55e3c642e655ba1a.gif

20% skull visibility is probably ideal, but I'd still love to see a fully visible skull on film at least once.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Jul 22, 2019, 07:24:53 PM
Eww
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Jul 22, 2019, 09:16:17 PM
C'mon, just once!
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jul 22, 2019, 11:45:34 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Jul 22, 2019, 07:24:53 PM
Eww

What if the whole xeno was transparent? Like orams baby?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jul 22, 2019, 11:52:54 PM
A translucent Alien, out of an Engineer- yes please!
(Carlos Huante's Ultramorph I)
(https://pinimg.icu/wall/1920x1080/xenomorph-types-earlier-today-we-learned-that-ridley-scott-s-upcoming-Da53ea472dd93dde3b08bddf3308a3cff.jpg?t=5d244960e81a7)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Still Collating... on Jul 23, 2019, 09:46:52 AM
Such a beautiful design... I'm sad we'll never see on the big screen.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Jul 23, 2019, 02:01:00 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Jul 22, 2019, 11:45:34 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Jul 22, 2019, 07:24:53 PM
Eww

What if the whole xeno was transparent? Like orams baby?

(https://media1.tenor.com/images/e62e2b319ff7e6bbea5853ff45e81aa3/tenor.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Jul 23, 2019, 03:51:28 PM
Quote from: The Old One on Jul 22, 2019, 11:52:54 PM
A translucent Alien, out of an Engineer- yes please!
(Carlos Huante's Ultramorph I)
(https://pinimg.icu/wall/1920x1080/xenomorph-types-earlier-today-we-learned-that-ridley-scott-s-upcoming-Da53ea472dd93dde3b08bddf3308a3cff.jpg?t=5d244960e81a7)

And we got the goddamn deacon instead of that.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jul 23, 2019, 05:31:08 PM
True, but the opportunity exists yet.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Jul 23, 2019, 06:00:52 PM
Quote from: The Old One on Jul 23, 2019, 05:31:08 PM
True, but the opportunity exists yet.

Perhaps. I wouldn't bet on it, but perhaps.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jul 23, 2019, 06:34:17 PM
I certainly hope so.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Jul 24, 2019, 06:35:43 AM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Jul 23, 2019, 03:51:28 PM
Quote from: The Old One on Jul 22, 2019, 11:52:54 PM
A translucent Alien, out of an Engineer- yes please!
(Carlos Huante's Ultramorph I)
(https://pinimg.icu/wall/1920x1080/xenomorph-types-earlier-today-we-learned-that-ridley-scott-s-upcoming-Da53ea472dd93dde3b08bddf3308a3cff.jpg?t=5d244960e81a7)

And we got the goddamn deacon instead of that.

So right 'sigh'...
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jul 25, 2019, 12:05:37 PM
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0182/2915/products/Alien_Variant_BNG.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Jul 25, 2019, 03:55:20 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jul 25, 2019, 12:05:37 PM
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0182/2915/products/Alien_Variant_BNG.jpg)
Sorry, but me no likey. The more I see of the skull, the more goofy it looks, and I can see a lot of it in there.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jul 25, 2019, 04:14:25 PM
It's a action figure, and not a particularly good one, as it's not representative of the film depiction.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Jul 25, 2019, 05:16:07 PM
Quote from: Stitch on Jul 25, 2019, 03:55:20 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jul 25, 2019, 12:05:37 PM
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0182/2915/products/Alien_Variant_BNG.jpg)
Sorry, but me no likey. The more I see of the skull, the more goofy it looks, and I can see a lot of it in there.

Sooo... #TeamNoSkull ?    ;D
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jul 28, 2019, 02:45:28 AM
#Teamobscuredskull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jul 29, 2019, 11:36:33 AM
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jul 30, 2019, 12:35:10 AM
The earliest piece I remember of Colonial Marines' promotional artwork.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Jul 30, 2019, 01:24:35 AM
Quote from: Fiendishly Inventive on Jul 28, 2019, 02:45:28 AM
#Teamobscuredskull.

Does that mean I don't have to see it even if it's there?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jul 30, 2019, 09:06:03 AM
Only part of it, as it's mostly obscured but not entirely.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Aug 05, 2019, 12:16:48 PM
(https://images.ctfassets.net/m3qyzuwrf176/Antr20X4UFlJNEHEkexkF/34b3c1090e076b35628202bb844b1164/Creature-head_Alien_Optimized_19.jpg)

Oohhhh myyyy...

https://www.academymuseum.org/en/collection/alien-headpiece
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Aug 05, 2019, 02:01:25 PM
Revealing It's skeleton at last.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Aug 05, 2019, 03:39:38 PM
I think the problem I have is that the visibility of the skull makes it look less alien and more akin to an ape or dog (depending on how it's portrayed), and thus less scary.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Aug 05, 2019, 10:04:57 PM
I don't think the topic is entirely genuine. lol
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Aug 05, 2019, 10:37:34 PM
It's outrageous, egregious, preposterous!  >:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Aug 05, 2019, 11:31:58 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Aug 05, 2019, 10:37:34 PM
It's outrageous, egregious, preposterous!  >:(

And yet, you didn't actually say you dislike it.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: razeak on Aug 06, 2019, 12:31:03 PM
Any level or higher angle when looking at it from the front puts me in the mind of an ape.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Aug 06, 2019, 12:50:30 PM
But the audience doesn't see it full on, ever.
It's more an implication.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Still Collating... on Aug 06, 2019, 03:05:21 PM
Quote from: razeak on Aug 06, 2019, 12:31:03 PM
Any level or higher angle when looking at it from the front puts me in the mind of an ape.

It always did remind me of an ape.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Aug 08, 2019, 04:01:36 PM
Skull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Gilfryd on Sep 12, 2019, 08:30:06 PM
(https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/007/539/521/large/colin-shulver-a51.jpg?1506853770)
(https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/007/539/523/large/colin-shulver-a52.jpg?1506853776)
(https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/007/539/525/large/colin-shulver-a53.jpg?1506853781)
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/x690X
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Sep 13, 2019, 01:26:31 PM
Gorgeous work.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Samhain13 on Oct 15, 2019, 04:30:46 PM
Just saw this on AVPGalaxy facebook group. Don't remember seeing it before. Also this thread needs to rise again.

(https://scontent.fssz1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/72552891_10220063557728923_2383838575926968320_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_oc=AQleKIOqM7vRiZj0pdnN0I90yItb2vaSiCCNQinzJIZAbdKjWZN3tPxBewnncL_0C7E&_nc_ht=scontent.fssz1-1.fna&oh=439e015bd9aea00848576cd6b9b9d354&oe=5E1AAE3F)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Oct 16, 2019, 07:47:35 AM
Oh yes, that is going on the FB page too.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Oct 16, 2019, 08:14:17 AM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Oct 15, 2019, 04:30:46 PM
Just saw this on AVPGalaxy facebook group. Don't remember seeing it before. Also this thread needs to rise again.

(https://scontent.fssz1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/72552891_10220063557728923_2383838575926968320_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_oc=AQleKIOqM7vRiZj0pdnN0I90yItb2vaSiCCNQinzJIZAbdKjWZN3tPxBewnncL_0C7E&_nc_ht=scontent.fssz1-1.fna&oh=439e015bd9aea00848576cd6b9b9d354&oe=5E1AAE3F)
Ah hell naw. Looks less like a translucent don't and more like a condom. Kinda fitting, but still no.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 16, 2019, 06:28:11 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Oct 15, 2019, 04:30:46 PM
Just saw this on AVPGalaxy facebook group. Don't remember seeing it before. Also this thread needs to rise again.

(https://scontent.fssz1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/72552891_10220063557728923_2383838575926968320_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_oc=AQleKIOqM7vRiZj0pdnN0I90yItb2vaSiCCNQinzJIZAbdKjWZN3tPxBewnncL_0C7E&_nc_ht=scontent.fssz1-1.fna&oh=439e015bd9aea00848576cd6b9b9d354&oe=5E1AAE3F)

I found it Gorgeous. It looks like a fossil preserved in amber.

(https://i.imgur.com/lNWbvPv.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Oct 17, 2019, 02:34:08 AM
Dang that looks good.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Still Collating... on Oct 17, 2019, 11:15:33 AM
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 16, 2019, 06:28:11 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Oct 15, 2019, 04:30:46 PM
Just saw this on AVPGalaxy facebook group. Don't remember seeing it before. Also this thread needs to rise again.

(https://scontent.fssz1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/72552891_10220063557728923_2383838575926968320_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_oc=AQleKIOqM7vRiZj0pdnN0I90yItb2vaSiCCNQinzJIZAbdKjWZN3tPxBewnncL_0C7E&_nc_ht=scontent.fssz1-1.fna&oh=439e015bd9aea00848576cd6b9b9d354&oe=5E1AAE3F)

I found it Gorgeous. It looks like a fossil preserved in amber.

(https://i.imgur.com/lNWbvPv.jpg)

That last one is my favorite fan piece of all time.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Nov 02, 2019, 07:49:28 PM
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Nov 09, 2019, 01:38:01 PM
Radical friend!
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Nov 13, 2019, 01:48:05 AM
Even the fish vote skull.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=39ryJJu7quk
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 13, 2019, 04:10:45 AM
Quote from: Huggs on Nov 13, 2019, 01:48:05 AM
Even the fish vote skull.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=39ryJJu7quk

Fish and spiders!

(https://i.imgur.com/qH9l1Fy.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Nov 13, 2019, 04:10:31 PM
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Nov 13, 2019, 04:22:19 PM
It's as if someone's thrown biomechanics on the AR design.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: razeak on Dec 16, 2019, 04:34:47 PM
those short skulls are an affront to xeno kind and good taste.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Dec 23, 2019, 09:18:16 AM
Yes, you're quite right.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Alecbirds on Jan 17, 2020, 10:47:46 AM
The skull was one of my favorite aspects of the original alien design. A vestigial part of the host, but not necessarily functional.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: The Old One on Jan 17, 2020, 10:50:14 AM
My sibling likened it to a dead astronaut.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Gilfryd on Apr 08, 2020, 09:22:26 PM
The skull will prevail!

(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/117/910/780.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Vermillion on Apr 09, 2020, 02:51:36 AM
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200409/eb79dca2652264567c3467cd82e039a0.gif)

Negative.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Apr 09, 2020, 03:51:23 AM
The skull is the life.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: FiorinaFury161 on Apr 26, 2020, 10:56:45 PM
Still hate the skull, many years later.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 426Buddy on Apr 26, 2020, 11:00:09 PM
Love the skull :laugh:

#♡skull
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Apr 27, 2020, 12:08:06 AM
Quote from: FiorinaFury161 on Apr 26, 2020, 10:56:45 PM
Still hate the skull, many years later.

Hold the line.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Apr 28, 2020, 01:07:42 AM
When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it - Big Chap

(https://i.imgur.com/SY46FcT.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Apr 28, 2020, 04:35:07 AM
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Apr 28, 2020, 01:07:42 AM
When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it - Big Chap

https://i.imgur.com/SY46FcT.gif
That's a great animation. Would look so much better with less skull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Apr 28, 2020, 04:42:08 AM
Quote from: Stitch on Apr 28, 2020, 04:35:07 AM
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Apr 28, 2020, 01:07:42 AM
When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it - Big Chap

https://i.imgur.com/SY46FcT.gif
That's a great animation. Would look so much better with less skull.

I guess so. The skull makes it look creepy though.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Apr 28, 2020, 08:58:40 PM
At this point I'm like "Skull, no skull. Whatever". Is there a "Don't care" option in the poll ?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Apr 29, 2020, 12:56:48 AM
Quote from: Stitch on Apr 28, 2020, 04:35:07 AM
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Apr 28, 2020, 01:07:42 AM
When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it - Big Chap

https://i.imgur.com/SY46FcT.gif
That's a great animation. Would look so much better with less skull.

You... you keep talking.

(https://i.gifer.com/8EDW.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: SiL on Apr 29, 2020, 01:00:35 AM
If the skull got revealed as it lowered its face into the light, that would be super cool.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Apr 29, 2020, 09:59:08 PM
And I can bet they'll never do it because it's too good cool to be true.

(https://t1.daumcdn.net/cfile/tistory/26278E465908118828)

Too good cool to be true? What do you mean by that?

Oh, ye of little faith
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: TStyx on Jun 04, 2020, 07:30:45 PM
No skull for me.  Why would it have a skull with eye holes?  I thought one of the unnerving things about it was the lack of eyes.  People tend to contact eye to eye but with no point to contact with its disconcerting.  A skull is making it more human rather than alien. Each to their own though. :)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Jun 04, 2020, 08:16:10 PM
Quote from: TStyx on Jun 04, 2020, 07:30:45 PM
No skull for me.  Why would it have a skull with eye holes?  I thought one of the unnerving things about it was the lack of eyes.  People tend to contact eye to eye but with no point to contact with its disconcerting.  A skull is making it more human rather than alien. Each to their own though. :)

(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/RepulsiveInexperiencedBlackbear-max-1mb.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Jun 04, 2020, 08:23:50 PM
I can feel the winds of change.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jun 04, 2020, 08:33:02 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jun 04, 2020, 08:23:50 PM
I can feel the winds of change.

Sorry, that was me.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Jun 04, 2020, 09:09:09 PM
(https://media1.giphy.com/media/WNzUV6hvktgoU/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jun 04, 2020, 09:17:40 PM
Nice gif  :laugh:
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jun 05, 2020, 07:17:10 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jun 04, 2020, 08:23:50 PM
I can feel the winds of change.

#TeamSkull is still well in the lead. Fear not.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: BlazinBlueReview on Jul 11, 2020, 03:17:12 PM
#ProSkull #AntiCrabator
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Jul 11, 2020, 07:13:29 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jun 05, 2020, 07:17:10 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jun 04, 2020, 08:23:50 PM
I can feel the winds of change.

#TeamSkull is still well in the lead. Fear not.

We're smal BUT WE"RE GROWING !
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: City Hunter Yautja on Jul 11, 2021, 04:47:32 AM
Quote from: Elmazalman on Feb 19, 2017, 05:31:48 AM
I never had an issue with the skull or the air-brushed detail along it's extruded length. It was never meant to be seen in detail - only hinted at. It's a hidden detail that can only be seen in certain lighting conditions.

Seeing the eye sockets too overtly robs the creature of it's unearthliness, imo.

I've never seen the eyes of Xenomorph. Is it in Alien?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Jul 11, 2021, 06:22:44 AM
Quote from: City Hunter Yautja on Jul 11, 2021, 04:47:32 AM
Quote from: Elmazalman on Feb 19, 2017, 05:31:48 AM
I never had an issue with the skull or the air-brushed detail along it's extruded length. It was never meant to be seen in detail - only hinted at. It's a hidden detail that can only be seen in certain lighting conditions.

Seeing the eye sockets too overtly robs the creature of it's unearthliness, imo.

I've never seen the eyes of Xenomorph. Is it in Alien?

What have you done?



Spoiler
You better be Team Skull


(https://newfastuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/N66iArr.png)
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Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Jul 12, 2021, 02:10:27 PM
(https://www.latempestad.mx/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/alien-como-se-hizo.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: City Hunter Yautja on Jul 12, 2021, 02:59:15 PM
Quote from: [cancerblack] on Jul 11, 2021, 06:22:44 AM
Quote from: City Hunter Yautja on Jul 11, 2021, 04:47:32 AM
Quote from: Elmazalman on Feb 19, 2017, 05:31:48 AM
I never had an issue with the skull or the air-brushed detail along it's extruded length. It was never meant to be seen in detail - only hinted at. It's a hidden detail that can only be seen in certain lighting conditions.

Seeing the eye sockets too overtly robs the creature of it's unearthliness, imo.

I've never seen the eyes of Xenomorph. Is it in Alien?

What have you done?



Spoiler
You better be Team Skull


(https://newfastuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/N66iArr.png)
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"In the Arms of the Angels.." 💀🎼
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Gilfryd on Jul 31, 2021, 12:11:21 AM
More skulls!

(https://i.makeagif.com/media/4-06-2015/7eaIAI.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Jul 31, 2021, 12:16:06 AM
(https://media3.giphy.com/media/ToVrKzOUZAlwT8pu9Q/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jul 31, 2021, 01:28:40 AM
The new Predator Skulls movie should start with asteroids before taking us to the Comanche setting.

(https://s6.gifyu.com/images/5i5d02-1.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Jul 31, 2021, 01:57:20 AM
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Jul 31, 2021, 01:28:40 AM
The new Predator Skulls movie should start with asteroids before taking us to the Comanche setting.

https://s6.gifyu.com/images/5i5d02-1.gif

Kinda reminds one of the space jockey.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jul 31, 2021, 04:38:16 AM
Quote from: Huggs on Jul 31, 2021, 01:57:20 AM
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Jul 31, 2021, 01:28:40 AM
The new Predator Skulls movie should start with asteroids before taking us to the Comanche setting.

https://s6.gifyu.com/images/5i5d02-1.gif

Kinda reminds one of the space jockey.

Space Malaka

(https://i.ibb.co/p4RcDxt/Pics-Art-07-30-11-45-09.png)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Jul 31, 2021, 05:20:21 PM
Wait. You're saying the Space Jockey is... ISAAC CLARKE???!!?  :o

HE DEFINITELY HAS A SKULL!










... but you can't see it!  :P
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jul 31, 2021, 07:27:27 PM
~🎶(https://i.ibb.co/c3LmWY9/Pics-Art-07-31-03-18-09-removebg-preview.png)🎶~

https://youtu.be/RHL6QHTg0Pk
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: NetworkATTH on Aug 02, 2021, 03:05:37 PM
I'll make everyone happy and post the skull of a different organism. This skull was an Engineer skull made for Alien Covenant, probably in David's Lab somewhere. That makes everyone happy right? Everyone's favorite movie?
(https://dygtyjqp7pi0m.cloudfront.net/i/39642/34075129_1.jpg)
(https://dygtyjqp7pi0m.cloudfront.net/i/39642/34075129_2.jpg)
(https://dygtyjqp7pi0m.cloudfront.net/i/39642/34075129_3.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Aug 02, 2021, 04:20:23 PM
Not sure what you're getting at, buddy


Quote from: Local Trouble on Jul 31, 2021, 12:16:06 AM
https://media3.giphy.com/media/ToVrKzOUZAlwT8pu9Q/giphy.gif

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-p8XBxWdggZg%2FVSQk6HC8WmI%2FAAAAAAAAqIg%2F5JpVedDj1tk%2Fs1600%2Fib1df4upT8l9fO.gif&hash=df446e1f45f05d2c6fd4c18a94e38d98753dc7b0)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: NetworkATTH on Aug 02, 2021, 04:42:06 PM
Quote from: Kradan on Aug 02, 2021, 04:20:23 PM
Not sure what you're getting at, buddy


Quote from: Local Trouble on Jul 31, 2021, 12:16:06 AM
https://media3.giphy.com/media/ToVrKzOUZAlwT8pu9Q/giphy.gif

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p8XBxWdggZg/VSQk6HC8WmI/AAAAAAAAqIg/5JpVedDj1tk/s1600/ib1df4upT8l9fO.gif

It was just a joke, since it's obviously such a heated debate. I thought we could use some different skulls from some different life that contains a big skull. That way, everyone can be happy.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Aug 02, 2021, 04:50:38 PM
Being happy is not allowed
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Aug 02, 2021, 06:37:40 PM
Quote from: NetworkATTH on Aug 02, 2021, 03:05:37 PM
Everyone's favorite movie?

Maybe after, like, all the others...
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Aug 02, 2021, 06:54:28 PM
 :D
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Aug 03, 2021, 10:56:05 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/O4KHG5q.png)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Aug 03, 2021, 05:11:16 PM
Show me actual screenshot from the movie not some BTS pic
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Aug 03, 2021, 06:57:34 PM
The skull can almost be seen here.

(https://i.ibb.co/T24PGDJ/Screenshot-2021-08-03-14-47-23-2.png)


Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Aug 03, 2021, 07:21:11 PM
I can slightly see it and only 'cause I know it's there
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Some Old Dude on Aug 16, 2021, 10:48:51 AM
My question is if they captured the Alien and did a dissection would the DNA of the skull show relation to Kane?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Aug 16, 2021, 11:36:11 AM
Why would the DNA of the skull be any different to the DNA of the other body parts?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Some Old Dude on Sep 19, 2021, 05:30:54 AM
Yeah good point. But I imagine it would be a point of reference for someone doing an autopsy since it's more familiar looking than anything else.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: City Hunter Yautja on Sep 19, 2021, 04:27:41 PM
I prefer no skull. It makes Xenomorph looks more terrifying to have no human features.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: BlueMarsalis79 on Sep 19, 2021, 06:42:42 PM
It's nothing but human features and human technology, an invention specific to us particularly, that's what it's made up of.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Sep 19, 2021, 06:47:48 PM
But that's offensive.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: BlueMarsalis79 on Sep 19, 2021, 06:54:09 PM
And true.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Sep 19, 2021, 07:24:12 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/DKUR9Tk.png)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: City Hunter Yautja on Sep 20, 2021, 12:47:21 AM
Quote from: Trash Queen on Sep 19, 2021, 06:42:42 PM
It's nothing but human features and human technology, an invention specific to us particularly, that's what it's made up of.

Well the tail isn't human, the elongated skyll/ head is more akin to a whale, the piping rip cage with a spine that has smoke stacks isn't human. I suppose you could say the hands were humanesque, but a tongue that had teeth and bites you isn't human.

So in my humble opinion, the Xenomorph has few human characteristics compared tp its alien ones.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: BlueMarsalis79 on Sep 20, 2021, 10:32:18 AM
The elongated head's a human phallus with teeth, the inner jaw's also a phallus with teeth, the rib cage's inhuman but still relates to us specifically.

It's nothing but human features mixed with technology.

Biomechanics if you will.

(https://www.iamag.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Aliens-Concept-Art-1.jpg)
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-u0svq1SvQ0k%2FU3RZ6ghh_iI%2FAAAAAAAAS-k%2F9qKBmCmBcjM%2Fs1600%2FHR%2BGiger1.jpg&hash=cc01743f2fab59431c97072e2601cefbe88d8887)
(https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/1200x680/public/wire/legacy/gigers_alien.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: City Hunter Yautja on Sep 21, 2021, 11:26:45 PM
Quote from: Trash Queen on Sep 20, 2021, 10:32:18 AM
The elongated head's a human phallus with teeth, the inner jaw's also a phallus with teeth, the rib cage's inhuman but still relates to us specifically.

It's nothing but human features mixed with technology.

Biomechanics if you will.

(https://www.iamag.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Aliens-Concept-Art-1.jpg)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u0svq1SvQ0k/U3RZ6ghh_iI/AAAAAAAAS-k/9qKBmCmBcjM/s1600/HR+Giger1.jpg
(https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/1200x680/public/wire/legacy/gigers_alien.jpg)

Hmm.. Its an intriguing point of view. I wonder if Giger was prophetic, that we will become the Xenomorph, the biting tongue of Xeno a metaphor for how people bite and devour one another with words online (not these forums, but twitter, oh boy), the elongated head being our access to knowledge because the internet, and so our minds have expanded.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Sep 21, 2021, 11:44:57 PM
The enlarged phallus. The drive to cover in secretions, to immobilize, to replicate.

Hmm. Perhaps some have ascended already.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Sep 24, 2021, 07:42:51 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Sep 21, 2021, 11:44:57 PM
The enlarged phallus. The drive to cover in secretions, to immobilize, to replicate.

Hmm. Perhaps some have ascended already.

Stop hacking my webcam
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Sep 24, 2021, 08:21:15 PM
I prefer no eyes look. Not because it makes the creature less-human-more-Alien but because it's a cool feature that makes design unique

Please, no "but it's not eyes, it's eye sockets, eeeeee!". It's still an implication of eyes

#TeamNoSkull
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Sep 24, 2021, 08:27:14 PM
What about no skull, but googly eyes glued to the carapace?

(https://i.imgur.com/Ab4WuBj.png)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Sep 24, 2021, 09:43:59 PM
That's dumb and you know it
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Sep 24, 2021, 09:57:37 PM
Quote from: Kradan on Sep 24, 2021, 09:43:59 PM
That's dumb and you know it

(https://i.imgur.com/olwMBef.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Sep 24, 2021, 10:52:40 PM
I like it.

Its got a certain something.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Sep 24, 2021, 10:54:52 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/MaW5Fwm.png)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Sep 24, 2021, 10:57:03 PM
He looks like he'd catch you, if he didn't have to sh*t so bad.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Sep 24, 2021, 11:10:15 PM
To me it looks like he stepped in something he wasn't expecting.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Huggs on Sep 24, 2021, 11:14:02 PM
There exists a weapon we have not seen.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Sep 27, 2021, 02:27:12 PM
Quote from: Kradan on Sep 24, 2021, 08:21:15 PM
I prefer no eyes look. Not because it makes the creature less-human-more-Alien but because it's a cool feature that makes design unique

Please, no "but it's not eyes, it's eye sockets, eeeeee!". It's still an implication of eyes

#TeamNoSkull

#TeamNoSkull

(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ThinUniqueArgentinehornedfrog-max-1mb.gif)

Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: City Hunter Yautja on Oct 08, 2021, 04:43:45 PM
#Team No Skulls when it comes to Xenos.

As a Pred always skulls. ;)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Oct 08, 2021, 09:22:57 PM
Feed me more skull

(https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/a6cee871-9064-48e7-ba39-fcd60705e2c7/d34yeh4-1e1520a3-caab-40e9-8617-312bc45129dc.jpg/v1/fill/w_900,h_1463,q_75,strp/awakened_alien_by_abelardo_d34yeh4-fullview.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9MTQ2MyIsInBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcL2E2Y2VlODcxLTkwNjQtNDhlNy1iYTM5LWZjZDYwNzA1ZTJjN1wvZDM0eWVoNC0xZTE1MjBhMy1jYWFiLTQwZTktODYxNy0zMTJiYzQ1MTI5ZGMuanBnIiwid2lkdGgiOiI8PTkwMCJ9XV0sImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl19.GnIrlxTTA2j6AsVv8eeW2-TI7kd2WIbo7vhtvyFcC_4)

(https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/a6cee871-9064-48e7-ba39-fcd60705e2c7/d34yeq9-32133454-f564-4240-87a9-41dfccf067f4.jpg/v1/fill/w_900,h_837,q_75,strp/alien_vs_jockey_by_abelardo_d34yeq9-fullview.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9ODM3IiwicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvYTZjZWU4NzEtOTA2NC00OGU3LWJhMzktZmNkNjA3MDVlMmM3XC9kMzR5ZXE5LTMyMTMzNDU0LWY1NjQtNDI0MC04N2E5LTQxZGZjY2YwNjdmNC5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9OTAwIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmltYWdlLm9wZXJhdGlvbnMiXX0.Q-K_M0bYYOhXQdNIScESpTRuElbA1mBHX7jDSzYeeLs)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: NecronomIV on Jun 16, 2022, 11:17:25 AM
Definitely love the skull with the empty eye-sockets. The skull is a powerful and evocative symbol, and features heavily in Giger's artwork.

But I think where it's really important is highlighted by that old quote from O'Bannon:

QuoteCobb's monsters all looked like they could come out of a zoo --- Giger's looked like something out of a bad dream.

It's the detail, sometimes barely visible, that hammers home the nightmarish quality of the design and appearance.

I don't mind them losing it for the other films -- because ALIEN was a nightmare and a horror film and it works so well for thematically -- and the other films treated it more like a dangerous, predatory animal and so it becomes an element that would actually be at odds.

I like the artwork above. Very scratchy, like Clive Barker's art.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Jun 16, 2022, 09:28:34 PM
Quote from: NecronomIV on Jun 16, 2022, 11:17:25 AMDefinitely love the skull with the empty eye-sockets. The skull is a powerful and evocative symbol, and features heavily in Giger's artwork.

But I think where it's really important is highlighted by that old quote from O'Bannon:

QuoteCobb's monsters all looked like they could come out of a zoo --- Giger's looked like something out of a bad dream.

It's the detail, sometimes barely visible, that hammers home the nightmarish quality of the design and appearance.

I don't mind them losing it for the other films -- because ALIEN was a nightmare and a horror film and it works so well for thematically -- and the other films treated it more like a dangerous, predatory animal and so it becomes an element that would actually be at odds.

I like the artwork above. Very scratchy, like Clive Barker's art.

Good post. The artist is Spaghetti/Abelardo.

Although I try for a similar vibe myself:

Spoiler
(https://i.imgur.com/ipoqnA4.jpg)
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Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: NecronomIV on Jun 17, 2022, 04:39:13 AM
Love that.

Prometheus Redux #20 -- does that mean there are 19 more? Where?!!
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Jun 17, 2022, 08:52:25 AM
Maybe I should make an archive thread in the fan art section.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Cocolyte on Aug 15, 2022, 02:25:50 PM
Best part of the skull is you can only see it sometimes
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: BlueMarsalis79 on Aug 15, 2022, 02:59:22 PM
I like it best when you can barely see it, but it is present.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Aug 15, 2022, 06:37:02 PM
I like it best when it's not there at all.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 426Buddy on Aug 15, 2022, 07:07:37 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Aug 15, 2022, 06:37:02 PMI like it best when it's not there at all.

You love the skull :P
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Aug 15, 2022, 08:30:22 PM
Quote from: BlueMarsalis79 on Aug 15, 2022, 02:59:22 PMI like it best when you can barely see it, but it is present.
Quote from: Local Trouble on Aug 15, 2022, 06:37:02 PMI like it best when it's not there at all.
Could we combine the two? It can be there, but not visible at all. Ever.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Aug 15, 2022, 08:43:27 PM
Quote from: Stitch on Aug 15, 2022, 08:30:22 PM
Quote from: BlueMarsalis79 on Aug 15, 2022, 02:59:22 PMI like it best when you can barely see it, but it is present.
Quote from: Local Trouble on Aug 15, 2022, 06:37:02 PMI like it best when it's not there at all.
Could we combine the two? It can be there, but not visible at all. Ever.

I'll still know it's there and I can't live with that. >:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: SiL on Aug 15, 2022, 08:45:31 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Aug 15, 2022, 08:43:27 PM
Quote from: Stitch on Aug 15, 2022, 08:30:22 PM
Quote from: BlueMarsalis79 on Aug 15, 2022, 02:59:22 PMI like it best when you can barely see it, but it is present.
Quote from: Local Trouble on Aug 15, 2022, 06:37:02 PMI like it best when it's not there at all.
Could we combine the two? It can be there, but not visible at all. Ever.

I'll still know it's there and I can't live with that. >:(
My Aliens will have domes covering their skills.

But the domes will have skulls at the front.

Double skull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Aug 15, 2022, 08:47:39 PM
Quote from: SiL on Aug 15, 2022, 08:45:31 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Aug 15, 2022, 08:43:27 PM
Quote from: Stitch on Aug 15, 2022, 08:30:22 PM
Quote from: BlueMarsalis79 on Aug 15, 2022, 02:59:22 PMI like it best when you can barely see it, but it is present.
Quote from: Local Trouble on Aug 15, 2022, 06:37:02 PMI like it best when it's not there at all.
Could we combine the two? It can be there, but not visible at all. Ever.

I'll still know it's there and I can't live with that. >:(
My Aliens will have domes covering their skills.

But the domes will have skulls at the front.

Double skull.
Oh no. Oh no no no no no.

No double skull. No skull at all is best. But definitely not double skull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: SiL on Aug 15, 2022, 08:51:15 PM
I can put another at the back, there's room.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Aug 15, 2022, 08:55:09 PM
Put one on the end of its tail
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Cocolyte on Aug 15, 2022, 09:17:05 PM
New alien design where the dome has the consistency of a jellyfish, but it has a skull design painted on the front
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Aug 15, 2022, 09:33:14 PM
(https://media4.giphy.com/media/RIlMEagfdY1kk/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Aug 15, 2022, 09:41:29 PM
Quote from: Kradan on Aug 15, 2022, 08:55:09 PMPut one on the end of its tail

You jest, but it worked well in Shin Gojira.

Quote from: Cocolyte on Aug 15, 2022, 09:17:05 PMNew alien design where the dome has the consistency of a jellyfish, but it has a skull design painted on the front

Unironically, an Alien with a skull spray stenciled on the front of the head.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Aug 15, 2022, 09:46:44 PM
@Local Trouble

We know


Quote from: [cancerblack] on Aug 15, 2022, 09:41:29 PM
Quote from: Kradan on Aug 15, 2022, 08:55:09 PMPut one on the end of its tail

You jest, but it worked well in Shin Gojira.

Put it on the end of its tail. .. and then have it bash in Predator's skull. With a skull !
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: BigDaddyJohn on Aug 18, 2022, 04:12:05 PM
Make it Feral's... And it will be Feral's skull covered with the skull mask. Skullgasm.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Aug 18, 2022, 04:14:03 PM
Oh my God, there's a skull coming out of my dick !
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: judge death on Aug 18, 2022, 05:29:01 PM
Quote from: Kradan on Aug 18, 2022, 04:14:03 PMOh my God, there's a skull coming out of my dick !
You better call your doctor at once! :O
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: BlueMarsalis79 on Aug 22, 2022, 11:42:08 AM
Be thankful it is not the other way around though.

(https://64.media.tumblr.com/eb7f8703195c43dddb5e6d9b4c66c860/tumblr_nbsptdZdU81rp0vkjo1_500.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Elmazalman on Aug 22, 2022, 12:00:27 PM
That's a nice head-bite. For once, the blood doesn't look like barbecue sauce.

From the AC? The additional shot of the Alien's mouth opening?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: BigDaddyJohn on Aug 22, 2022, 02:09:38 PM
That was the most shocking scene of the movie when I was a kid. Still is.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: judge death on Aug 22, 2022, 03:16:34 PM
Quote from: Elmazalman on Aug 22, 2022, 12:00:27 PMThat's a nice head-bite. For once, the blood doesn't look like barbecue sauce.

From the AC? The additional shot of the Alien's mouth opening?
Indeed it is the assembly cut :)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Elmazalman on Aug 22, 2022, 05:24:31 PM
Quote from: BigDaddyJohn on Aug 22, 2022, 02:09:38 PMThat was the most shocking scene of the movie when I was a kid. Still is.

Killing off the character or the head-bite? Or both?

Most shocking death scene, imo, was prisoner David's vicious head-bite - speared through the face and out the back of the head and through the small window set in the door behind him. 
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: BlueMarsalis79 on Aug 22, 2022, 05:32:49 PM
Yes prisoner David (Pete) Postlewaite, I tried to find a gif of that first because it actually comes through the other side of his head. 
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: BigDaddyJohn on Aug 22, 2022, 06:26:59 PM
Quote from: Elmazalman on Aug 22, 2022, 05:24:31 PM
Quote from: BigDaddyJohn on Aug 22, 2022, 02:09:38 PMThat was the most shocking scene of the movie when I was a kid. Still is.

Killing off the character or the head-bite? Or both?

Most shocking death scene, imo, was prisoner David's vicious head-bite - speared through the face and out the back of the head and through the small window set in the door behind him. 

The way they kill off a major, likeable character, at that particular emotional and bonding moment.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: BlueMarsalis79 on Aug 22, 2022, 06:42:36 PM
That's why I love it
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Aug 22, 2022, 06:53:39 PM
It reinforces movie's main message perfectly

And, yes, @Local Trouble, before you come in, it does upset people
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: BigDaddyJohn on Aug 22, 2022, 07:15:10 PM
I adore it. The image of Clemens skull getting pierced never left my mind from that day.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: BlueMarsalis79 on Aug 28, 2022, 12:59:34 PM
Same, me, skull enjoyer.

(https://reactiongifs.me/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/laughing-like-a-king-homer-simpson.gif)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Aug 28, 2022, 02:25:24 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Feb 19, 2017, 05:34:10 PMTo be clear, I don't mind the skull so long as it's hidden beneath a virtually opaque dome.  However, when the dome is removed, I think the head looks awful.  The skull cavities give it a resemblance to that ridiculous Newborn and the ridges are obviously airbrushed instead of sculpted.

This is why I think a clearer dome on top of Winston's design would be ideal.  I can't help but wonder whether or not that version actually had the skull before Cameron insisted on losing the dome altogether.

Huh
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: OpenMaw on Sep 15, 2022, 02:34:26 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/VAe0s6N.png)

Teh-heh-heh.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Sep 15, 2022, 02:44:38 AM
Always liked those weird f**king sculpts.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Sep 15, 2022, 03:25:51 AM
Quote from: OpenMaw on Sep 15, 2022, 02:34:26 AMhttps://i.imgur.com/VAe0s6N.png
Teh-heh-heh.

Love the Jazz hands detail. Gives power to the skull 8)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Sep 15, 2022, 06:59:07 AM
Quote from: [cancerblack] on Sep 15, 2022, 02:44:38 AMAlways liked those weird f**king sculpts.

Isn't that the one Peter Briggs planed to use in his AvP movie ?

@Corporal Hicks
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 15, 2022, 07:34:08 AM
I believe so! Certainly looks like Alien Pile to me. I love that model.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: BigDaddyJohn on Sep 15, 2022, 01:06:21 PM
Looks so freaky.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Sep 15, 2022, 04:12:41 PM
Not a fan of the bendy heads.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: BlueMarsalis79 on Oct 20, 2022, 08:28:54 AM

@Local Trouble

Your search history being made into a film.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: bobcunk on Nov 19, 2022, 11:21:29 PM
Quote from: City Hunter Yautja on Sep 21, 2021, 11:26:45 PM
Quote from: Trash Queen on Sep 20, 2021, 10:32:18 AMThe elongated head's a human phallus with teeth, the inner jaw's also a phallus with teeth, the rib cage's inhuman but still relates to us specifically.

It's nothing but human features mixed with technology. I dont know what he was thinking but it was obviously sexual. Eventhough I dont like the idea of david creating the alien I think its interesting, he is full of sexual desire and frustration and wants to reproduce, maybe he even lacks genitals? I find it fitting that the creature he designs is literally a vagina that hold you down and rapes you so and impregnates you with a creature that has a penos for a head that kills you through penetration.


Biomechanics if you will.

(https://www.iamag.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Aliens-Concept-Art-1.jpg)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u0svq1SvQ0k/U3RZ6ghh_iI/AAAAAAAAS-k/9qKBmCmBcjM/s1600/HR+Giger1.jpg
(https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/1200x680/public/wire/legacy/gigers_alien.jpg)

Hmm.. Its an intriguing point of view. I wonder if Giger was prophetic, that we will become the Xenomorph, the biting tongue of Xeno a metaphor for how people bite and devour one another with words online (not these forums, but twitter, oh boy), the elongated head being our access to knowledge because the internet, and so our minds have expanded.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: PAS Spinelli on Nov 20, 2022, 06:47:27 AM
On the topic of skull vs no skull
I always want the skull to be partially visible depending on the lighting, and of course, for the skull to resemble the host


Unsure if this take has ever been made, but I would also love if the skull looked metallic like the teeth of the Alien
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Nov 20, 2022, 07:06:13 AM
I'll do you one better:

Spoiler
Crystal skull
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Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Lark on Mar 25, 2023, 07:20:50 PM
As an idea and design element, I like it.
The possibility it was a real human skull, possibly unethical in its sourcing for production, bothers me a lot every time I think about it.
Had to go with don't like, for that reason. It's delayed me making a model kit for years now, because I was researching the original costume to get ideas for painting and finishing.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: xxx on Mar 26, 2023, 06:52:51 PM
Quote from: Lark on Mar 25, 2023, 07:20:50 PMAs an idea and design element, I like it.
The possibility it was a real human skull, possibly unethical in its sourcing for production, bothers me a lot every time I think about it.
Had to go with don't like, for that reason. It's delayed me making a model kit for years now, because I was researching the original costume to get ideas for painting and finishing.
Hi,
a lot of art schools use real "stuff" as drawing objects...I think I might also have one somewhere from my drawing years...
The question of ethically used "parts" bothers me for example in the Apocalypse now movie :O
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Lark on Mar 27, 2023, 12:56:52 AM
Quote from: xxx on Mar 26, 2023, 06:52:51 PM
Quote from: Lark on Mar 25, 2023, 07:20:50 PMAs an idea and design element, I like it.
The possibility it was a real human skull, possibly unethical in its sourcing for production, bothers me a lot every time I think about it.
Had to go with don't like, for that reason. It's delayed me making a model kit for years now, because I was researching the original costume to get ideas for painting and finishing.
Hi,
a lot of art schools use real "stuff" as drawing objects...I think I might also have one somewhere from my drawing years...
The question of ethically used "parts" bothers me for example in the Apocalypse now movie :O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXC-b4O_H_M

By the seventies and eighties, 'real' was far from necessary, let alone being integrated into a costume — there were questions raised about its providence via India at one point, can't remember where I first heard about it. It's very likely of course that it's more of a legend that was allowed to grow around the thing.
Either way it leaves a bad taste between the ears as it were, and as I get older I am a bit more judgemental. I also went off of Anatomie, and give the Bond film with the Bodywork's scenes a sideways look... that stuff is just tasteless, once you dwell on it. I wasn't aware of AN's issues, haven't watched that Drinker video before, but I would stand by the ethics of it there too.

So I stick with 'as a design element, good idea' and 'if the rumours/stories are true, as they seem to be, bad idea'.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: City Hunter Yautja on May 27, 2023, 05:14:43 AM
I am in camp no-skull. :p
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: jacobo1122 on Jul 22, 2023, 08:52:11 AM
I'm definitely pro-skull, but I like when it's somewhat vague, seen only when You get a gloser look or under certain angles. It's perfect with Stompy from Isolation, or Protomorph from Covenant. But I don't like where it is too visible, like with Drone design in Fireteam Elite. For me barely visible skull adds to creepines of Alien, when at first You look at faceless gaze, and then You realize that there is something behind it, but something no less disturbing than lack of eyes; Two empty eyesockets. And it gives indication that maybe it is something Alien, but it came from us, twisting ours own biology for its purpose. Besides it's original design for Big Chap, even if You don't see it in the movie itself.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Stitch on Jul 22, 2023, 09:06:12 PM
Jesus. For a second I thought it was ralfy, and wondered how W-Y was employing the skull.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: xShadowFoxX on Sep 06, 2023, 01:30:02 AM
I personally don't mind the skull because it's cool but at the same time, I don't want to see it on screen because showing it would give the impression that it has eyes and I really do not like that.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Sep 06, 2023, 09:38:30 AM
(https://i.gyazo.com/75b177f2e32100a35d057bd7d4e451f8.png)



Has consensus been achieved on the skull?
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Sep 06, 2023, 03:06:16 PM
Uh-oh
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: razeak on Jan 04, 2024, 07:07:34 PM
Skull is okay if it is only very slightly visible. Honestly, just make it like a complexion issue. Some Aliens it shows a little, others it doesn't. Or bring back warriors from Aliens.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Feb 11, 2024, 09:04:49 AM
Quote from: razeak on Jan 04, 2024, 07:07:34 PMSkull is okay if it is only very slightly visible. Honestly, just make it like a complexion issue. Some Aliens it shows a little, others it doesn't. Or bring back warriors from Aliens.

Warriors but with slightly-too-visible skulls. Just so nobody's happy.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: 426Buddy on Feb 11, 2024, 09:38:58 PM
Quote from: [cancerblack] on Feb 11, 2024, 09:04:49 AM
Quote from: razeak on Jan 04, 2024, 07:07:34 PMSkull is okay if it is only very slightly visible. Honestly, just make it like a complexion issue. Some Aliens it shows a little, others it doesn't. Or bring back warriors from Aliens.

Warriors but with slightly-too-visible skulls. Just so nobody's happy.

I could dig that design lol
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Feb 11, 2024, 09:39:27 PM
Spoiler
Same
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Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Feb 11, 2024, 09:46:13 PM
Well I don't! >:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: solace97 on Feb 22, 2024, 04:54:21 PM
I just heard today the warrior might actually be like the big chap xeno but since it matured longer it "shed" the translucent dome into what we see in Aliens. I thought that was a cool theory.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Nightmare Asylum on Feb 22, 2024, 05:09:41 PM
I wonder if we're going to see the skull exposed in Big Chap's damaged, slowly reforming head in Alien: Romulus? :)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Local Trouble on Feb 22, 2024, 05:11:37 PM
You're really pushing my buttons these days. >:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Nightmare Asylum on Feb 22, 2024, 05:16:20 PM
:)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: BigDaddyJohn on Feb 22, 2024, 08:12:25 PM
As long as there is eggmorphing, everyone will be happy.

Spoiler
Right ?
[close]
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Nightmare Asylum on Feb 22, 2024, 08:22:51 PM
Would be very down for some eggmorphing.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Nightmare Asylum on Mar 18, 2024, 05:58:09 PM
What happens when you slap the skull into a shitty trace job of that one AVP promo still that makes everyone want to crawl up a wall and scream into the void about every time its used?

(https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/431424913_746058637617682_4957967141954940943_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=h0dnDksjbHkAX8ts_jt&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=00_AfDp3DpEdB8paYmXFjiAeMrWvp2E1qlKwdEE8i5JGfs7Yg&oe=65FD76F5)
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Mar 18, 2024, 07:05:20 PM
Ash's expression says it all >:(
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Mar 18, 2024, 07:10:30 PM
I don't hate that promo image (pretty fond of AvP 2004 overall) but it looks really out of place in this otherwise cool looking poster
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: [cancerblack] on Mar 18, 2024, 07:18:42 PM
Quote from: Kradan on Mar 18, 2024, 07:10:30 PMI don't hate that promo image

Reported.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: BigDaddyJohn on Mar 18, 2024, 07:51:10 PM
Damn Jones looks more angry than scared in this one lol.
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: Kradan on Mar 19, 2024, 04:01:51 AM
He's true badass
Title: Re: The Official SKULL or NO SKULL Thread
Post by: SM on Mar 19, 2024, 05:44:40 AM
Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Mar 18, 2024, 05:58:09 PMWhat happens when you slap the skull into a shitty trace job of that one AVP promo still that makes everyone want to crawl up a wall and scream into the void about every time its used?

https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/431424913_746058637617682_4957967141954940943_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=h0dnDksjbHkAX8ts_jt&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=00_AfDp3DpEdB8paYmXFjiAeMrWvp2E1qlKwdEE8i5JGfs7Yg&oe=65FD76F5

What happens is I want to crawl up a wall and scream into the void.

You called it.

That particular image popped up on social media today and made right for the wall.

It's at a point where it looks like some 1980s ripoff like Syngenor.