Alien vs. Predator (film)

Alexa 'Lex' Woods: We're in the middle of a war. It's time to pick a side. Sebastian de Rosa: We are on our side!

This page is for the Alien Versus Predator films. Games and comics can be found here: Alien vs. Predator.

What would happen if the Predator, interstellar alien hunter extraordinaire, took it upon himself to go after the face-raping Aliens? Oddly enough, lots of humans dying.

Alien vs. Predator is the combination of Fox's two hit alien monster movies, and the stories of the innocent humans caught in the middle. The concept was even hinted at in the second Predator movie, which featured a Xenomorph skull amongst the Predator's trophies. It was finally made into a movie in 2004, with a sequel in 2007. The movies abandoned the previous setting and had the conflict take place on contemporary Earth. That the movies weren't exactly embraced, even by the fanbase, owes more to the fact that the movies Human protagonists were the weakest element and simply weren't credible enough while the Aliens and Predators remained both on form.

The games, along with a series of comics and novels, are completely unrelated to the story or setting of the movies. They are instead set in the same timeline and setting as the second Alien movie.

Tropes in both films (specific films each follow this section):

• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Anyone high up in WY is guaranteed to be doing something dangerous, unethical and in all likelihood stupid involving the nearest Hive and / or ancient ruins. It's apparently true for the whole corporation: Weyland-Yutani's contract has a clause that allows them to feed you to a Xenomorph just to see what happens when they feed you to a Xenomorph.
• Crossover
• Developing Doomed Characters: Both are widely considered badly done examples.
• DVD Commentary: Both AVP movies have them.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Predators do not kill certain targets such as children and pregnant women. In the first movie there's even a scene where a predator refrains from killing a man because it sees that he is dying of terminal cancer. Of course, it changes his mind when he attacks it with a makeshift flamethrower ...
• Face Full of Alien Wingwong: Being a film that includes Aliens, people getting facehugged is inevitable, unlike the four alien films, in which one person is visibly facehugged, the AVP films have the highest count of it with five people facehugged in the first film and four in the second.
• Immediate Sequel: The two films could be spliced together into one pretty easily.
• Not Screened for Critics: Not particularly surprising.
• Too Dumb to Live: Pretty much everybody but a few stand out, Adele in the first film failed to kill the emerging facehuggers when first seen despite Thomas telling her about what room they were in, her hesitation results in her getting facehugged. Miller after being cocooned manages to get a gun but wastes many bullets on a dead facehugger. Sam and Buddy from the sequel, Buddy shoots an alien point blank and gets acid on his arm and rather than quickly take off his jacket off he just stands there letting the acid burn his arm off. His son is not much brighter as he also just stands there watching his father on the ground and his inaction costs him. The sheriff in the sequel goes to the middle of the town instead of escaping with the others.
• Vasquez Always Dies: Despite the source movie being the Trope Namer, it's somewhat averted in both films. In AvP the lead is equally as badass as the "Vasquez" clone (who dies first), and in Requiem she's the lead herself.
• Versus Title

Tropes in the original Alien Versus Predator:

• A-Team Firing: One of the mercenaries gives us a crowning example of the trope when he empties two full SMG magazines (firing Guns Akimbo at that!) at a Xenomorph crawling towards him down a narrow air vent that it can just barely squeeze itself into -- and doesn't so much as scratch it even once. He missed a target stuffed so tightly into a narrow tube that it was scraping the walls on every side with sixty out of sixty shots. It's so ludicrous that it borders on reverse Improbable Aiming Skills.
• Ancient Astronauts

[the team finds the Predators' shoulder cannons] Miller: Any idea what these are? Rosa: No, you? Miller: No. Stafford: It's a good thing we brought the experts. Miller: Well, yeah, it is a good thing, cos' this is like finding Moses' DVD collection.

• Artistic License History: Why the Pyramid in the first movie operates on 100 year cycles according to their archaeologist. None of the cultures that are supposedly the influenced by the builders, used anything close to that in their counting systems at the time-period given. In fact, given the high Mayan influence, it'd been more accurate to say the Whaling station was lost in 1900 instead of 1904, due to the fact that the Mayans did use 52 lunar cycles and that 2004 is exactly 2 cycles afterwards, meaning that a dead 1952 crew by the pyramid would have made sense. Not to mention that the Hunters Moon joke would have been even more as as ironic.
• Avengers Assemble: The 2004 film starts off like this.
• Badass: The "Grid" Alien from the first movie: he stealth kills a predator as an entry and faces another in one of the franchise's most badass fight scenes. and wins!
  • Charles Weyland also qualifies. He stands up to a predator and, when it tries to leave him after detecting his illness, provokes it into killing him to give the others time to escape.
• Black Dude Dies First: Averted in the first movie where Lex, one of the few examples of a black female lead in a Sci-fi horror movie, was the only person to survive.
• Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: Did that Predator just uppercut that alien?
• Fatal Family Photo: During an early scene in the first film, Graeme shows Alexa a picture of his kids. Things do not work out for him. In a variation of this trope, Red Shirt Verheiden mentions to Graeme that he has a son...about five minutes before he's snagged by an Alien.
• Honor Before Reason: A Predator corners Weyland in the first movie after the former chooses to stay behind so the others can get away; the hunter ignores him after noticing he's too ill to be much sport. Weyland takes much offense at this insult ("Don't you dare turn your back on me"), and tries to flame-broil the apathetic Predator from behind. The Predator's mercy ends immediately.
• Infrared X-Ray Camera: This is how they find the pyramid in the first film. Also, the Predators can see their plasmacasters through people's bags in infrared.
• Misplaced Wildlife: The first movie, set in Antarctica, has a Cat Scare with a penguin. The problem is, the penguin is an African Penguin, which don't live in Antarctica.
• Mysterious Antarctica: The first movie is set there.
• Oh Crap: Scar the Predator does this when he sees the Alien queen emerge from the ice.
• Plot Hole: Scar gets impaled through the chest by the Alien Queen's tail, the tip of which is about half a foot in diameter. Exactly how did the Alien embryo survive considering it incubates in that exact spot?
  • It incubates in that spot in humans. Maybe it moves somewhere else to do so inside a Yautja.
• Space Is Noisy: Averted surprisingly in the first movie, its completely silent in space apart from the soundtrack. The only noise heard comes from the inside of the Predator ship, where the camera is.

Tropes in Alien Versus Predator: Requiem:

• Abandoned Hospital: The climax of Requiem, where the protagonists have to fight their way through a Xenomorph hive in order to get to a helicopter so they can escape Gunnison before it gets nuked by the army.
• Absurdly Spacious Sewer: The sewers of Gunnison wind up getting infested by the Xenomorphs very briefly, allowing them to increase their numbers through the homeless people, before Wolf drives them out with his plasma caster.
• Accidental Murder: During the final battle at the hospital, Wolf throws a pair of shurikens at the approaching Xenomorphs. However, Jesse, driven into a panic upon entering the Xenomorph hive, accidentally runs in front of the weapon and is killed by it pinning her to the wall. In the Unrated Edition, the blade and the force of the impact ultimately cuts her in half.
• Action Girl: Kelly is a recently returned Iraq veteran and once she gets involved in the Xenomorph outbreak proves to be a very skillful combatant.
• Anti-Hero: Wolf, as while he kills the Xenomorphs and is trying to wipe out the infestation, he also kills several humans who happen to see him and unwittingly causes a massive blackout across Gunnison, Colorado.
• Asshole Victim: A fairly decent amount of the killed humans are very particularly Jerkass, with no redeeming qualities, making it harder to feel sympathetic when either Wolf or the Xenomorphs kill them.
• A Taste of the Lash: During the final battle on the hospital rooftop, Wolf uses a whip to kill one of the Xenomorphs. Unlike most examples, rather than using the whip in a lashing manner, Wolf instead wraps the whip around a Xenomorph and then quickly pulls on it to cut it in half. When he does try to use the whip in a lash against the Predalien, the Predalien grabs the weapon and throws it over the edge.
• Badass:
  • Wolf, the main Predator of the movie: Highly experienced, with a lot of so badass weapons to hunt, and yeah, he curb stomped a lot of xenos without taking a sweat, and makes a very badass fight with the Predalien where all other predators were cannon fodder!
  • The Predalien too: pack leader, Curb stomps an entire predator ship's crew and is so badass to fight an ancient, high-experienced predator as Wolf and get a final tie!
• Battle in the Rain: Throughout the second half of the film, it is pouring rain and the final battle at the hospital has Wolf and the Predalien fight each other to the death, before they are both killed by a nuclear strike.
• Battle Trophy: It's not very obvious, but the Predalien brutally rips out the skull and spine of a chef in order to claim it as a trophy.
• Bloodier and Gorier: The first film isn't exactly blood-free, but Requiem really cranks up the Gorn.
• Burger Fool: The secondary lead in Requiem works as a pizza delivery boy. All the other characters go out of their way to tell him how humiliating this is.
• Call Back: "Get to the chopper!"
• Canon Immigrant: The Predalien goes from a enemy in the PC game to an official sub-species in the second movie. There's also the different vision modes the Predator uses to spot aliens instead of humans in the first movie.
  • That in turn was an explanation of the vision modes used in Predator 2, where it found the heat-cloaked humans by switching settings.
• Cleanup Crew: Wolf, the sole Predator assigned to deal with the Xenomorph outbreak, kills the Xenomorphs and uses a special liquid that destroys their bodies and any human victims that the Xenomorphs killed. Wolf also kills any human that initially sees him, as is what happens to poor Deputy Ray when he happens to chance upon Wolf destroying the bodies of the first two victims of the Xenomorphs. Wolf ultimately focuses on the Xenomorphs and only kills humans if they pose a threat to him once it becomes obvious that the Xenomorph infestation is spreading out of control.
• Chest Burster: This film has a rather unique take on the trope, in that the Predalien can directly implant Xenomorph embryos that directly emrge from the host's belly. Also, three of these bellybursting Xenomorphs can be born at once, easily increasing the Xenomorph numbers.
• Childhood Friend Romance: Ricky has been pining for Jesse, and it is made clear they knew each other in their childhood. After she dumps Dale, she coyly invites him on a date to the high school swimming pool and kicks off a romance with him, which ends in tragedy when she gets cut in half due to a shuriken thrown by Wolf by accident.
• Christmas Rushed: See the tagline under the picture.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Par for the course for both franchises but especially compared to the previous film. Dale, the resident bully, gets his face melted off by Xenomorph acid blood, Jesse gets cut in half by accident, and Ray gets slaughtered and skinned by Wolf.
• Daddy's Girl: Due to Kelly being away on military service in Iraq, her daughter Molly is closer to her husband, Tim. Of course, given the type of film this is, Tim gets brutally killed by a Xenomorph while Kelly and Molly flee the scene. In fact, the Xenomorph does not kill Tim right away, letting him get off a few screams of terror so that the fleeing Kelly and Molly can hear him. Quite understandably, Molly is deeply saddened over Tim's death and asks Kelly at the cemetery why they left Tim.
• Death By Pragmatism: Once he joins up with the group, Dale the resident bully, says they need to leave town without getting guns and is promptly yelled at by Dallas to shut up. When the group gets attacked in the gun shop, Dale decides to take advantage of the situation and flee, taking the keys to Sheriff Eddie's car so he can flee the town. He makes a run to the exit, but is stopped by Wolf, and then gets attacked by a Xenomorph waiting for anyone by the front door. He gets pinned and as he calls out to the group to kill the Xenomorph. Wolf shoots the Xenomorph, and the acidic blood falls on Dale's face and melts it off, burning and sizzling his eyeballs. Meanwhile, the rest of the group escapes through the back door of the shop unharmed.
• Death by Sex: Jesse the mandatory love interest girl in Requiem dies. She strips down to almost nothing during the pool scene. While she survives that, she gets killed by accident during the final battle at the hospital.
• Destroy the Evidence: When he arrives on Earth and learns what he is up against, Wolf uses vials of blue dissolvent that destroys the bodies of any Xenomorphs and their victims that he finds in an attempt to keep everything quiet. Once it becomes obvious to him that the humans know about the infestation, he only dissolves the bodies of the Xenomorphs he kills, and he ultimately uses the last of the dissolvent to kill a Xenomorph in the final battle in the hospital.
• For the Evulz: While the Xenomorphs do become glorified Mooks in this film, there is one particular moment that really highlights that underneath the animalistic behavior, the Xenomorphs can be pretty sadistic. Molly, the daughter of Kelly sees a Xenomorph through her window with night vision goggles. Despite the creature clearly having seen her, the Xenomorph does not immediately burst into Molly's room. Instead, it waits until Tim, Molly's father, is right in front of the window and tells her that no monster is there, since both Kelly and Tim assume Molly just had a nightmare. However, as soon as Tim says nothing is there, the Xenomorph then stands up into full view, scaring Tim before pouncing on Tim and killing him as Kelly and Molly flee. The Xenomorph had plenty of time to just burst into the room and kill or abduct Molly, or kill all three parents if it opted to enter the house stealthily, but instead let the parents assure Molly everything was all right, then brutally pounced on Tim and killed him. The fact that Tim was kept alive a lot longer than most Xenomorph victims, since barring the chestburster victims, most of them get killed instantly, further shows just how sadistic this particular Xenomorph was.
• Genre Savvy: Kelly, being a military veteran who has just returned from Iraq, quickly stops the APC she is driving and makes it very clear with her prior knowledge of the army that in this type of terrible situation, the army will think about stopping about the Xenomorphs first, and caring about survivors second. Knowing that the evacuation order is merely a plan to lure the Xenomorphs there so they can wipe out the infestation, Kelly is adamant on going to the hospital and hijacking the helicopter to escape the town before it gets nuked. Most of the main characters agree with Kelly and go with her, but Sheriff Eddie and Darcy don't take her word and go to the center of town, which gets them killed.
• Godzilla Threshold: After the National Guard proves no match against the Xenomorphs, Colonel Stevens, seeing point blank its an aggressive alien infestation and that normal soldiers are no match for them, makes the call to nuke Gunnison, Colorado and kill all remaining survivors in the desperate hope to destroy the infestation with not a single Xenomorph surviving. It is made clear he does not like this option and he is clearly guilt ridden over lying to Sheriff Eddie since he will be dead in just a minute, but with how dangerous the Xenomorphs have already proven to be, there is literally no other option.
• Half the Man He Used To Be: During the final battle at the hospital, Jesse gets killed by a shuriken thrown by Wolf by accident. While in the original film, the force just killed her instantly, the unrated version not only kills her, but also causes her to be cut in half after she dies, where her lower half falls off and her innards spill everywhere. Its out of focus and not blatantly obvious thanks to the poor lighting, but it is made very clear what happened.
• Hybrid Monster: The Predalien.
• Infant Immortality: Gleefully averted in the film, which has the Xenomorphs killing kids and even eating babies. Molly is the only child shown to survive the infestation.
• Idiot Ball: Wolf, after he arrives on Earth and starts destroying all evidence of the Xenomorphs, is spotted by Deputy Ray, whom he promptly kills. Rather than leaving the body, Wolf takes the time to skin Ray's corpse and hang it from a tree, alerting the residents that something is very wrong, and costing him valuable time to chase the Predalien and the Xenomorphs born from Sam and Buddy. Wolf pays for this as during his fight with the Xenomorphs in the sewers, he winds up getting outmaneuvered by the Predalien and the more numerous Xenomorph warriors, allowing them to escape into the town in general and causing the infestation to get out of control.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Done twice by the Predalien during the final battle. The first time is when it impales Ricky in the back, though Ricky ends up surviving. The second time is during the final battle with Wolf, where after being mortally wounded by Wolf, the Predalien impales Wolf through the back with its tail, ensuring a mutual kill.
• Leave No Witnesses: Wolf adopts this mindset initially when he arrives on Earth, killing Deputy Ray when he is given away by his radio after he stumbles onto Wolf dissolving the bodies of any Xenomorphs and their victims. Ultimately, when it becomes clear to Wolf that the infestation is spreading out of control and the vast majority of Gunnison knows something is happening, he drops this approach, only attacking and killing humans if they represent a threat to him.
• Market-Based Title: Requiem is known in some countries as Aliens VS Predator 2, conveniently combining the names of the second Alien movie and second Predator movie into the second AvP movie.
• Mama Bear: After her husband is killed by the Xenomorphs, Kelly becomes very protective of her daughter, Molly.
• Men Are the Expendable Gender: The movie goes to great lengths to avert this. While there are more male deaths, the movie does not shy away from killing off female cast members in pretty gruesome ways.
• The Mountains of Illinois: In Requiem, the shot of "Gunnison" clearly is not. The mountains are far too small and the town is far too big.
• Mook Maker: Once the Xenomorphs exhaust the small amount of facehuggers they have that escaped the Predator ship, the Predalien can implant Xenomorph embryos into people, allowing a single person to birth up to three chestbursters at once, increasing the Xenomorph numbers.
• Mooks: The adult Xenomorph warriors get subjected to this big time, with the only people they manage to kill being characters who are clearly a Red Shirt, are absolutely no match against Wolf, even in hand to hand combat, and normal human weapons like assault rifles kill them laughably easily. They can't touch the main protagonists, with the Predalien and Wolf being the ones who manage to harm the main cast.
• Mythology Gag: When Carrie is cornered in the kitchen diner, a Xenomorph Warrior brings its face close to Carrie's face, in a shot very similar to when The Dragon had a similar scene with Ripley in Alien 3.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Wolf, the main Predator, winds up chasing a Xenomorph in a power plant, where thanks to being so close to the generator, winds up throwing his aiming system for his plasma casters completely off and making them unreliable. Despite having fared well enough against the Xenomorphs in hand to hand combat, Wolf instead just keeps trying to shoot the Xenomorphs with his plasma casters. His malfunctioning aiming system winds up destroying the central generator and causes a massive power blackout across all of Gunnison, Colorado, which now makes it that much harder to contain the Xenomorphs since they are completely covered in shadows and they can now attack the residents at will much easier since they can't be spotted.
• No OSHA Compliance: The power goes out in AVP Requiem, and it seems that not a single building in the town has emergency lighting, and the hospital's emergency generator mostly just makes the fluorescent lights flicker.
• Nuke'Em: As soon as the government becomes aware of the Xenomorph infestation in Gunnison, they tell the survivors that they will make an air evacuation for anyone who can make it to the center of town. Colonel Stevens, the man in charge of this, uses the survivors there as bait to lure as many Xenomorphs there as possible. At sunrise, as the few remaining survivors desperately plead with Colonel Stevens with an evacuation order, the Colonel has a jet drop a small nuclear bomb directly on the survivors, killing them all and destroying all of Gunnison, and completely wiping out the infestation of Xenomorphs. The main protagonists survive since they had realized this was precisely what the government was going to do.
• Off with His Head: Most of Wolf's human kills consist of him blowing their heads off with his plasma casters. The most prominent is when he kills Karl, a maddened construction worker who is threatening to kill Kelly and Molly when Molly enters a panicked rant.
• One Riot, One Ranger: The conflict kicks off when the crashed Predator ship sends off a distress call about the Xenomorphs escaping into a populated area. Only Wolf shows up, despite how serious the situation is. However, this is given some justification in that in the theatrical version, Wolf only sees the Predalien in the distress call and only assumes a small amount of facehuggers have escaped, while the Unrated edition has Wolf only learn about the Predalien after removing a Predator helmet and seeing the Predalien on the monitor. Both versions make it clear that since Wolf only knew about the Predalien and a few escaped facehuggers, he assumed he would only be dealing with a small amount of adult Xenomorphs and thus had a reasonable belief of keeping everything quiet. However, the Predalien, Chet had the ability to directly implant multiple embryos into human hosts, allowing the creation of a small amount of Xenomorphs that is enough to keep Wolf away from it until their final battle at the hospital. In the theatrical version, Wolf never learns that the Predalien can directly create more Xenomorphs, and in the unrated edition, he only learns about this ability once he enters the hospital's maternity ward and scans the bellyburster victims, alerting him to the fact that the Xenomorphs could in fact reproduce thanks to the Predalien.
• Pool Scene: Ricky and Jesse sneak into the high school swimming pool and begin to make out when Dale and his friends show up to confront them, resulting between all four men that gets interrupted when the power goes out across the town. A Xenomorph then arrives and kills one of Dale's friends in the pool itself, then kills Dale's other friend and drags his body back to the pool and begins to eat it. Wolf kills the Xenomorph with his spear, tosses all three bodies into the pool and then pours his dissolving fluid into the pool, vaporizing the water and all the bodies in it.
• Production Nickname: The "cleaner" Predator was nicknamed "Wolf" - a reference to Harvey Keitel's similarly employed character in Pulp Fiction. The crew also called the Predalien "Chet" after Bill Paxton's character in Weird Science.
• Railing Kill: During a fight at the power plant, a Xenomorph surprises Wolf and knocks him over a railing at a pretty good drop. While this doesen't kill Wolf, it does slightly impale him in the stomach and while he is able to keep going strong for a few scenes and kill a fair amount of Xenomorphs, he is ultimaetly forced to briefly abandon his pursuit of the Xenomorphs to tend to his wounds. Very tellingly, all of the kills he makes after this scene against the Xenomorphs are when the Xenomorphs are distracted.
• Redshirt Army: The National Guard once they arrive at Gunnison, are near immediately ambushed and wiped out by the Xenomorphs down to the last man.
• Revolvers Are Just Better: Averted in the final battle. After being injured by the Predalien, Ricky is forced to rely on a handgun as a backup weapon. When a Xenomorph approaches the chopper, Ricky opening fire does nothing to it, it has to be severely wounded by Dallas with Wolf's plasma pistol and with its protective dome damaged, before Ricky is able to finish it off with his handgun, and it takes multiple point blank headshots and the rest of the bullet magazine before it dies.
• Screaming Woman: Jesse at several times throughout the film. This gets her killed in the final battle, when she flies into a panic and runs ahead of the group out of sheer fear, resulting getting accidentally killed by a shuriken thrown by Wolf.
• Sacrificial Lion: Both Sheriff Eddie Morales and Darcy Benson both seem to avert the usual horror movie tropes of Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop and Screaming Woman and are given notable roles to the point that it actually seems like they will survive. However, their fates are sealed the second they become adamant about going to the center of town for that evacuation, believing that the government will save them.
• Shotguns Are Just Better: A variant occurs shortly before the climax of the movie. When one of Wolf's plasma casters gets damaged by the Xenomorphs in the gun shop, he converts his remaining into a pistol that effectively acts as a short range shotgun. It deprives the weapon of its automatic aiming and charge up sequence, meaning the weapon is inaccurate at long range and requires being up close to kill its victims. It can also only fire a single shot for a few seconds and once all rounds are expelled, it has to charge up again before it can fire. After Wolf loses the weapon, Dallas takes possession of it and uses to kill most of the Xenomorphs on the hospital rooftop.
• Slasher Movie: Some fans complained that AVP-R turned both franchises into mere Teen Slasher monsters, screaming blond and all.
• Slut Shaming: Dale does this briefly to Jesse when he crashes their date at the high school swimming pool and starts a fight with Ricky, out of retaliation over Jesse dumping him.
• Villainous Rescue: At one point, Kelly and Molly are threatened with being killed by Karl, who had become aware of the Xenomorph infestation when he discovered his coworker Nate's corpse, when Molly, grieving her father's death and understandably terrified of the Xenomorphs, begins to enter a panicked fit. Wolf who is tending to his wounds in a nearby tree, notices the commotion, and after zooming in and realizing that Karl is armed with a firearm, promptly sets his laser sight on Karl's head and blows his head clean off with a shot from his plasma caster. Kelly considers retrieving Karl's weapon, but Wolf puts his laser sight over the weapon as a warning, which deters Kelly from picking up the weapon. Kelly and Molly flee the cemetery, and Wolf follows them to the gun shop.
• Villain Decay: The Xenomorphs get their worst showing here. A single Predator performs overwhelmingly well against them even in hand-to-hand combat. Normal human weapons are enough to kill them despite the fact the franchise had previously depicted that assault rifles and pistols don't really do anything to them. Very tellingly, all of the kills the Xenomorphs make are against Red Shirt and Asshole Victim characters, and they can't harm the main protagonists.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Both Sheriff Eddie Morales and Darcy, both believe it impossible that the army would sacrifice them to stop the Xenomorph infestation and are adamant that they head to the evacuation center at the center of town. They are proven horribly wrong as they have just enough time to realize a nuclear bomb is heading right for them before it explodes killing them and everything else in Gunnison.
• Would Hurt a Child: While the Xenomorphs are indicated to not really care about the age of their victims, Requiem was the first film to show this fully in effect. Sam is the first child explicitly shown to be facehugged and subjected to having a chestburster erupt from him onscreen, and later on, the Predalien specifically targets pregnant women in order to deposit bellybursters, so that the unborn children serve as food for the Xenomorph embryos. The Predalien later enters the hospital and is heavily implied to eat all the infants in the nursery. It then invades the maternity ward and implants bellybursters into all of the pregnant women, and a later scene heavily implies that the pregnant women can feel their unborn children getting eaten alive in their womb by the bellybursters. This actually spawned considerable controversy at the time the film came out, and it still remains a widely acknowledged flaw the movie has.