While it is soft to assume that the primary villain of theAlienfranchise is the terrifying and murderousXenomorphspecies , that would n’t be an accurate takeaway from the moving-picture show as there is another , much more sinister scoundrel lurking in the shadows of the entire series – andAlien vs Predatoreffectively revived it ( at least , in every way that matters ) .

In 1979’sAlien , the gang of the Nostromo ( an intergalactic tape transport vas ) gets a distress signaling from an unknown domain – by and by specify LV-426 – and per company communications protocol , they were obligated to go check it out . When they pay back down there , the members of the crew who were choose to investigate came across a abandoned ship ship , and inside the ship was a bedchamber filled with orotund eggs – but not just any eggs , Facehugger nut ( aka Ovomorphs ) . This discovery led to one of the work party member , Kane , get a Facehugger attached to him , which leave in him becoming the first known innkeeper of a Xenomorph . alas , the crew did n’t lie with that at the meter , so when the Xenomorph explode onward from Kane ’s thorax , the Nostromo had already take off back to Earth – which was all part of Weyland - Yutani ’s sinister plan . Weyland - Yutani somehow knew that the Xenomorphs were out there , and the company essentially send the Nostromo bunch to their deaths so as to retrieve one – proving that the company , not the alien monster , was the unfeigned baddie all along .

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Alien vs Predator Has Its Own Version of Weyland-Yutani

InAliens vs Predator#4 by Randy Stradley and Chris Warner , the off - word human liquidation of Prosperity Wells has been overrun with Xenomorphs . To make thing bad , a team ofPredators is also there to track down those Xenomorphsas a part of their Blooding Ritual ( a rite of transition every Yautja must go through to attain full maturity ) . When it became well-defined the post was more than they could handle , the settlers issued a petition to the Chigusa Corporation – the companionship behind the settlement – to send a team of Colonial Marines to extirpate their ‘ bug trouble ’ . rather , the colonists received a content back from the fellowship that essentially stated that their asking for Colonial Marine assistance had been denied while simultaneously asking the survivors to maintain the ‘ specimen ’ ( aka the Xenomorphs ) as the company wished to have them in its possession .

The message Prosperity Wells receives from Chigusa Corporation reads almost exactly like the one Weyland - Yutani sent to theirsynthetic - undercover agent , Ash , on the Nostromo . In the movie , Weyland - Yutani knowingly sent the crew of the Nostromo to their last for the sake of obtain a Xenomorph , and the fellowship send off Ash along with them to ensure everything go smoothly . midway through the movie , Ripley finds the transcribed order given to Ash , and is appal that her own bosses would care so minuscule for her and her coworkers ’ well - being . In thisAvPissue , the colonists of Prosperity Wells are face up with precisely the same situation – the only difference is , Chigusa Corporation was at least upfront about its blatant disregard for their lives while Weyland - Yutani strain to be covert in their heartlessness .

While the companies are different ( and , in fact , competitors withinAvPcanon ) , the plot points of ‘ malefic company sacrifices its employees to hold Xenomorphs ’ is incisively the same , all the way down to the respective company ’s sinister nature literally being write out for the main character to see – meaningAlien vs PredatoreffectivelyrevivedAlien ’s original villain(and it was n’t theXenomorph ) .

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