In an effort to temper my expectations for Alien: Earth, I'm trying to remind myself of some of the weirdest/worst/oddest Alien lore decisions that were revealed in official Alien universe installments, including:
- Aliens share a psychic/empath connection with Ripley's offspring.
- Ripley had an entire encounter with another crew and Ash between Alien and Aliens, then had her memory wiped.
- Cultists who worshiped the xenomorphs voluntarily incubated themselves with chestbursters to walk among the xenomorphs undisturbed.
Any others? I seem to recall there being a humanoid Alien queen, but iirc she was just a nightmare vision.
One that I both liked and was like WTF was the introduction of The Woman in the Dark. Like not only do you have to worry about the ravenous herds of xenomorphs but the chance this Woman in the Dark can seek you out across the cosmos just brought me back to the original Alien lore where they're supposed to be more mysterious and like a cleansing force of the universe. Not some science experiment cooked up by the Engineers. I'd like to believe the Engineers came across the original black goo and have been trying to replicate and improve their own variation of it similar to what humans did in Romulus with the pathogen from Engineers with Compound Z-01.