Male or Female

[Scullbergo]

Is the Alien male or female ?
I know that the queen in Aliens is a female..... but just wondering how do other players refer to the creature while playing the game.

[RIOT|Stalkermaster]

I refer to her as a female

[Twelvefield]

It's an it.

[Scullbergo]

Originally posted by Twelvefield:

It's an it.

Dunno about that. I have always thought of the species similar to a ant or wasp with a queen surrounded by her soliders and workers.

[Twelvefield]

She's in the vent! Shoot her!


No. You'd never say that. Even a queen, you'd say it's a queen and not she's a queen. Look at what friend Holychair above calls it: "it", if you read what he said. Twice.


Just because they reproduce and have an implied social structure doesn't necessarily make them one of us. It's a creature, in the most classical Latin sense of a being that has been created to suit mankind. But... to each their own.

[RIOT|Stalkermaster]

Originally posted by holychair:

Me too. I often refer to it as "him". I had a good laugh when someone around here said he thinks of it as "wifey", though.

:)

[Captain Climax!]

Normal gender assignments would be irrevlevant, as the drone itself isn't exactly involved in the procreative process.

[entspeak]

The procreative process for the Alien is asexual and given the two ways eggs are created (egg morphing or via the Queen), it makes no difference.

However, I tend to go between referring to the Alien as an it or he when I'm playing.

[K-Sim]

Just my take on it but in Scott's movie, Ash refers to the alien as "Kane's son". Another clue about the alien's gender is arguably hinted during Lambert's off screen death/rape scene. Then again,Cameron comes around and turns the "perfect organism" into ants so who knows?

[PMC]

Originally posted by holychair:

Originally posted by AnnieG:

Just my take on it but in Scott's movie, Ash refers to the alien as "Kane's son". Another clue about the alien's gender is arguably hinted during Lambert's off screen death/rape scene. Then again,Cameron comes around and turns the "perfect organism" into ants so who knows?

The sexual undertones of the first movie would indeed imply the Alien as being "male" (though maybe only in a metaphorical sense).

I'm with these guys

[Praetorian]

Only Praetorians are Male all other are Female

[knoxter]

I think it's a male. Sometimes I talk to him during playing so I release steam a bit and I call him Saša (Sasha). This name however can be in czech language used for both male and female =) Anyway as Xeno or Humanoid...can you even define gender?

[Scullbergo]

Originally posted by Porter:

Originally posted by holychair:

The sexual undertones of the first movie would indeed imply the Alien as being "male" (though maybe only in a metaphorical sense).

I'm with these guys

Yeah I like that too.

[Purplefairy22]

hmmmmm. this is a tough one.

The aliens physical features would imply a girl, as it has big juicy lips for kissing, and has really straight teeth - like a girl, and its supposed to be a sexual creature.

on the other hand the Alien is willy shaped.

[Fear2288]

I don't think you can give it any gender - at least in the human sense of male and female.

However you could argue that the design of the Alien leans more towards male with all the phallic-ness and how there's lots of penetration (i.e. the inner mouth, the tail-kills, etc).

Man...HG Giger really loved creating some crazy sexualized horrors haha

[The Saturnine Aberrance]

Originally posted by Lazarus:

Originally posted by SCULLS:

Is the Alien male or female ?
I know that the queen in Aliens is a female..... but just wondering how do other players refer to the creature while playing the game.

All of the aliens are female. They have been discribed as being like a hive of bees. Well the Queen doesn't need drones and produces eggs by herself. The rest are female workers/defenders. No "drones" in the hive. If they were all males and one female she would be subjicated by the rest.

Huh? Why would the queen be subjugated by the males in the hive? In beehives there are little to no females aside from the queen, and the vast majority of bees in the hive are male drones. If you're using bees as an example here, why would the aliens be the polar opposite? In beehives, there's always the one female queen bee, or maybe sometimes a smaller number of sub-queen bees, surrounded by the hoard of male drones.

Basically: I'm confussed. Did you get this backwards?