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Two aliens try to eat Small Town, USA (Grace Finished)

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A Xenomorph Quee vs John Carpenter's The Thing

Our war takes place in Small Town, USA. Population 1,148. The surounding area is heavily wooded with a small mountian range to the north and west. There is one road in and out of town that connects to the highway after a mile in both directions. The goal is to completely assimilate/impregnate the entire town and then destroy the other invader. The Queen begins in the town's sewer system and has one Drone to assisst her. The Thing begins as a fully assimilated pet dog. Both are attmepting as stealthy a take over as possible.

Alright, that should be it. I'm off to bed and will check on this in the morning.

Xenomorph

The Thing
 
I feel like the Xenomorphs simply reproduce faster. Once smart humans catch wind of The Thing, it's progress will be SERIOUSLY hampered. Meanwhile, the Xenomorphs are able to chase down and capture any humans who sees them and bring them to the hive for impregnation. Meanwhile, The Thing lacks any good "Chase Down" options to really get at those humans who are just too perceptive for their own good.

In an overall "Who invades better" setting, I'd say the Xenomorphs 10/10. The Xenomorphs are simply way more invasive and powerful a force for any human settlement to take care of properly while humans, if not stupid, can at least hold off The Thing for awhile.
 
Xenomorph has more effective way to do it stealthy, BUT if the thing seperate into microsopic beings and infect the water supply then anyone who drink from it will get infected. so IDK about 50/50
 
The Thing has shown to be much smarteranddeadly given how it can easily spread. Heck, if we go by comic book, all it needs is physical contact to affect its victims nigh instantly.

it's even stated the thing needed just 10 days to fully infect the world. The reason why it was so hindered was SPECFICALLY because of being inAntartica where there is so little life
 
Sick, we're getting some debating done here. I'd like to bring up an interesting quandary. What would happen if a facehugger managed to impregnate a thingified human? *waggles unibrow*
 
Facehugger touches thingified human. Facehugger gets assimilated.

Wait.... can the Thing assimilate non-humans?
 
Well, yes. It asssimilated a dog in the first movie. Plus it's an alien as well. So only being able assimilate humans when it's not from earth would be weird.
 
So, yeah. The Aliens can't touch it. And their main method of murdering fools includes touching them. The Aliens are kinda screwed.

Unless their acid blood could come in handy......?
 
Yeah. This guy . But they were never encountered off the planet of LV-426.

However, in the RTS game Alien vs Predator - Extinction, there was a drone evolution that can spit acid. If the Xenomorphs can evolve to that level, then the Thing would have trouble. The Xenos are real smart, and would quickly figure out not to touch the Things, and just spit at them.

Plus, just a thought. Would an assimilated Xeno dissolve cause of it's acid blood, or would thingaliens be immune to acid?
 
Theoretically Xenothings would have any natural immunities of the real thing. The Thing consumes it's target's cells and uses the DNA to copy it exactly. A Xenothing would be a force to be rekoned with because it would have the phisycal proweress of the Xeno and the reproductive capabilities of the Thing.
 
You'd think that the Queen would figure out something was wrong after a bunch of facehuggers went missing. And Xenomorphs that saw their friends get assimilated would work out very fast what to do.

Xenos have killed other Xenos before. Once they figured out what was up, the Things would be in trouble, especially as the ultrasmart Queen was communicating with them.
 
Wouldn't Xeno's be bring hosts back to where ever the nest is instead of Facehugger's going out? That would seem like the safest option.
 
Both. Facehuggers do venture far and wide to find prey, and Xenos do capture idiots and bring them back. Both would get assimilated upon contact with the Thing. Even so, the Queen would figure out that something was wrong pretty quick. Pretty sure she has a hive mind mentallity over her subjects. Not total control, but she can experiance their lives.
 
That reminds me, I remember hearing a theory that the Thing might share a consciousness. I think it stemed from the fact that every single cell can act independatly to find other parts and reform larger beings.
 
So, once there is even one connection between their species, stealth goes out the window, and this becomes all-out war.
 
At that point, the Thing would have one major advantage. With enough bodies, it could form something to dwarf even the Queen.
 
However, if the Xenos know about the dangers of touching these bad boys, they could very easily fight gurillia warfare, as they have done in the past. If that happened, the Thing Voltroning into a giant monster would be detremental to it's pressing job of killing the bugs. It would just be making itself a bigger target, and any unassimialted humans would immediately focus on trying to kill the giant monster in their town.

Voltroning like that isn't gonna help the Thing. It's just gonna end up having to deal with two factions more or less working togther, rather than just one. It would be much better off splitting into micro beings, infiltrating the Xeno nest and assimialting them one by one.
 
True, I almost forgot about the remaining residents. It could also split off into the woods. Gather up wild life and invade the town in a hoard nightmareish woodland critters. Or rats. Divide into small pieces, assimilate a rats DNA and preform it's own gurillia assault.
 
Actually, The Thing reproduces faster. The film happens in the spawn of a single day and by the end of the day almost everyone was a Thing, while the Xenos take a few days to be born (John Hurt's character died a few days after getting the facehugger attached to his face).

Plus, the Xenos won't be able to kill The Thing physically, if they touch it, they are boned... they get infected and in a matter of hours they will become Things. The acid blood would rekt The Thing tho, that thing destroys metal like it is nothing.

Also, in the videogame, the Thing infected so many things that it made an entire army of them... and each one of them can infect people. Unless the Xenos discover how to kill The Thing ASAP, they will get overwhelmed first.
 
I want you to write a horror movie, Apies.

That would work very well. The town would be overwhelmed very quick, and the Xenomorphs wouldn't be that far behind. And it has the intellect to do that.

On the flip side, the Aliens could use their acid blood to deal a world of pain to the now smaller Thinglets. However, things are looking bleak for the perfect killer.
 
******' hell, if I could I would. I've wanted a Thing movie in a small town for ages now. I warn you though, that movie would have no happy ending.
 
ApiesDeathbyLazors said:
I warn you though, that movie would have no happy ending.
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I don't care. Your imagination, from what I've seen, is a scary and wonderful place. Any movie written by you, I reckon, would be really awesome.

Also, Numbersguy, damn. That sounds awful/some. The Aliens seem outmatched.
 
Wow, that game is awful. Crimson, please don't use that game as a bases for the things abilities. It still has to work with the same mass on hand. It's not a Resident Evil monster.
 
Uh. Wait.

The Thing infects by becoming and replicating a being's genetic structure, but the Xenos operate on a Silocone-based structure in comparison to us Humans, who is carbon (I think). I don't see why the Thing can infect a creature that's literally different from humans on the most fundemental level.
 
I guess you could say the Thing can only assimilate Carbon-based life-forms with a similar biological structure to us, ie: cells and DNA. I was unaware the Xeno's were Silicon life-forms. I wish we had more info on the other races the Thing has encountered.
 
Definitely one of the more clever matchups around. I approve of this highly.

Also siding with the Thing. Despite the Alien Queen's capabilities and now new resistance against the Thing, there's still the issue of how the Thing could manipulate its own and possibly find ways to improve their hosts or whatever they infect to better combat them. I mean it was wise enough to pretend to be a human, so it could manage and slowly overwhelm the Aliens before they escape. Especially with their very fast infection rate that if the 10 days are to be believed, that would account for stealthy infections.
 
Question. Shouldn't it be put under the Thing's weaknesses that it can only assimilate carbon-based life forms, or are we not sure about that?
 
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Question. Shouldn't it be put under the Thing's weaknesses that it can only assimilate carbon-based life forms, or are we not sure about that?
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We don't actually know if it is a weakness. In the movies the only revealed weaknesses are extreme heat, acid and being vulnerable during assimilation. It's a safe assumption to be sure, and it would be NLF to say it could assimilate anything reguardless of biological make-up. That, along with the shared consciousness, are technically head-cannon. Unless I'm completely wrong and this was revealed in some supplimentary material.
 
Also, quick question. Considering the kinda unique scenario given in the OP, would this be added to the profiles?
 
If acid is one of its weaknesses, then how are they supposed to infect the Xenomorphs if their acid blood protects them? Not to mention Xenomorph biology is vastly different from anything it has ever assimilated. Xenomorphs are largely silicon-based, biomechanical creatures that didn't even evolve naturally (it is well known that the Space Jockeys were largely responsible for their existence).
 
Second Question. Considering the Facehuggers and Chestburster can't be assimilated, what would the resulting Xeno be coming out of a thingified human or animal? The Thing may become a perfect copy but it has to store it's own DNA otherwise it would just be whatever it assimilates. It's also been theroized that the Thing stores the DNA of every thing it's ever assimilated. The potential for hundereds, maybe thousands of genetic structures lay dormant in Thing cells. Though that might be a bit NLF. Reguardless, whatever pops out of a Thingified host would be unlike any Xeno we've ever seen before.
 
560165 said:
If acid is one of its weaknesses, then how are they supposed to infect the Xenomorphs if their acid blood protects them? Not to mention Xenomorph biology is vastly different from anything it has ever assimilated. Xenomorphs are largely silicon-based, biomechanical creatures that didn't even evolve naturally (it is well known that the Space Jockeys were largely responsible for their existence).
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We just dissucesed the probability of Xeno immunity to assimilation, but if it could assimilate a Xeno, the Thing would likely gain the Xeno's own acid resistance. Also, it's off to bed for me.
 
As for Xenomorphs harvesting assimilated humans? Well the egg implanted in a host is described with a developmental stage (DNA reflex) involving the chestburster inheriting 10-15% of the host's DNA. The DNA inherited typically involves significant expression in the physique and combat prowess. So you should get something well beyond the perfect organism we all know.

Goodnight!
 
Are Xenomorphs REALLY silicon based? All I could find on the wiki is thattheir outer shell is Silicon. They do feed on us during embryo stage
 
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