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Xenomorph are a deadly race of extraterrestrials introduced in the 1979 Alien Movie and featured throughout the franchise.

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Why do the Xenomorphs (aliens) in the movie Alien seep slime all over the place all the time?

The resinous slime is used to cocoon hosts, holding them immobile so facehuggers can easily impregnate them. We saw Ripley pulling this goop off Newt in Aliens shortly after dispatching an emerging f …
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Confusion with the Alien's death at the end of Alien 3

The aliens were shown in previous movies to be mostly impervious to heat. The aliens didn't like being hit by the flamethrowers but we never saw an alien killed by one. In Aliens, Vasquez and Drake …
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