Why hasn't a synthetic been hosted yet?

[Bishop David Ash]

The Alien Cinematic Universe has shown humans, animals, and Engineers being hosted. I think it's time a facehugger latches itself to a synthetic. Imagine the Xenomorph that it would produce...

[BlueMarsalis79]

It would produce nothing, as per Prometheus and the Alex White Alien novels anyway.

[SiL]

Even early drafts of Alien say Ash was put on board because the Alien wouldn't be interested in him.

[judge death]

That plus all games and comics and movies etc have made it clear xenomorphs can only infect living beings so synthetics cant gestate their young so they are ignored by the xenos unless they pose a threat.

[Wweyland]

I think the closest we have gotten is the android Elden being infected by Black Goo in Fire and Stone.
But that is already a contradiction as David wasn't infected by it in Prometheus.

[bobby brown]

Imagine if they infected a powerloader!

[Kradan]

I think the closest we have gotten is the android Elden being infected by Black Goo in Fire and Stone.
But that is already a contradiction as David wasn't infected by it in Prometheus.

Elden was some sort of "meat android" IIRC so there's probably a biological component to him

On a related note, given that David is unaffected by the goo I think there's a potential for some great visuals. Imagine naked Fassbender swimming in a pool of oil

[Wweyland]

I think the closest we have gotten is the android Elden being infected by Black Goo in Fire and Stone.
But that is already a contradiction as David wasn't infected by it in Prometheus.

Elden was some sort of "meat android" IIRC so there's probably a biological component to him

On a related note, given that David is unaffected by the goo I think there's a potential for some great visuals. Imagine naked Fassbender swimming in a pool of oil

I imagine him swimming in Marmite

[Kradan]

And then served on a plate as a New Year's Eve snack ?

Spoiler

Btw, looks like Mr Bean dipped his head in some black goomarmite

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[BlueMarsalis79]

Alien Covenant also makes it pretty clear with the lab they are not interested in Androids.

[Wweyland]

And then served on a plate as a New Year's Eve snack ?

Spoiler

Btw, looks like Mr Bean dipped his head in some black goomarmite

[close]

Do turkeys ever get that large or is it Black Goo infected?

[Acid_Reign161]

On a related note, given that David is unaffected by the goo I think there's a potential for some great visuals. Imagine naked Fassbender swimming in a pool of oil

I can actually totally see this scene happening if Ridley Scott had the opportunity to make a sequel to Covenant. It'd be a modified version of the pathogen of course, David's own design, as he basks intimately in his creation of pure organic chaos to something classical like 'Entry of the gods into Valhalla' 😄

[Xenomrph]

I think the closest we have gotten is the android Elden being infected by Black Goo in Fire and Stone.
But that is already a contradiction as David wasn't infected by it in Prometheus.

Elden was some sort of "meat android" IIRC so there's probably a biological component to him

On a related note, given that David is unaffected by the goo I think there's a potential for some great visuals. Imagine naked Fassbender swimming in a pool of oil

I see Elden as being essentially a Blade Runner style Replicant with the serial numbers filed off.

[Local Trouble]

I think the closest we have gotten is the android Elden being infected by Black Goo in Fire and Stone.
But that is already a contradiction as David wasn't infected by it in Prometheus.

Elden was some sort of "meat android" IIRC so there's probably a biological component to him

On a related note, given that David is unaffected by the goo I think there's a potential for some great visuals. Imagine naked Fassbender swimming in a pool of oil

I see Elden as being essentially a Blade Runner style Replicant with the serial numbers filed off.

Does that mean he's still canon along with the accelerant and the rest of Fire & Stone?

[Xenomrph]

Hey, sure, why not