Male Viper confirmed!

[Mazisky]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/prod-media.gameinformer.com/styles/body_default/s3/2020/04/13/1e1c5691/xcom_chimera_squad_-_cherub_ui.jpg

What do you think?

[MessiahofMelons]

I thought vipers were exclusively female. Thats why the viper king was so powerful

[Orki]

Originally posted by Messiah of Melons:

I thought vipers were exclusively female. Thats why the viper king was so powerful

See nothing is canon :)

More aliens to kill is the better.

[Gixcaririxen]

well is possible that some viper did illegal experiment for make a male viper, or maybe it was a human experiment, who know? It passed 5 years, a lot of thing was happen at that time.

[HyDra]

It might be a retarded question but im just not sure. How do you know that this is a male one?

[SamBC]

Even if it were, this might be a deliberate decision taken by someone to use leftover equipment from the Elders to create some male eggs so they could reproduce independently. Give them some dignity.

[SarahSyna]

The Vipers are only all female because of genetic manipulation, so it's possible that's been reverted now. Presumably a regular male Viper is not like the souped up Viper King that Vahlen made (we hope).

[archonsod]

For most Earth reptiles, gender is influenced by temperature. The environment the Viper King is found in would suggest it's the same for space reptiles, and that environment isn't exactly hard to find on Earth.

[Яeplicant]

The Squad Viper is female.

[MessiahofMelons]

Originally posted by Яeplicant:

The Squad Viper is female.

Pretty sure hes actually male

Edit: nvm im wrong

[Tripas]

Originally posted by archonsod:

For most Earth reptiles, gender is influenced by temperature.

Wait, really? That sounds interesting, I'll need to look up more on that later on.

Although right now my biggest question would be "if it's influenced by temperature, wouldn't that make every reptile of a given area the same gender?"

Still, worth looking into.

[Harukage]

In the lab with the Viper King was a whole brood of young vipers with unusual colouring. My thought is they where his spawn. There might be a chance that some of his progeny survived and was male. That Adder on the creenshot has the same blue scales as the Viper King.

[Oku]

I mean it makes sense. Without the elders manipulating everything the Vipers would have done what they could to try to reverse the generic tampering that made them all female so they could actually have children and ensure the survival of their species. All the technology to do it would still be there, it would just be a matter of experimenting and working on it, or maybe XCOM donated genetic samples of the Viper King and they were able to use leftover gene tech from ADVENT to “clone” accelerated growth males of the species. The ethics of this would probably be questionable as would selecting the initial mothers (by human standards at least) but if its finding a few Vipers willing to volunteer or extinction, can’t really blame desperation.

If those are male vipers im sure the story will cover why they’re there 5 years after XCOM 2.

[Frater]

how is this any confirmation that viper male exist?

[SamBC]

Originally posted by clemiz:

how is this any confirmation that viper male exist?

I think it's an evaluation based on body shape, but I'm still not sure what the OP's basis for judgement is.

[Mashter Potato]

It is possible that this 'Adder' isn't necessarily a Viper at all?
Or, perhaps a subspecies (Be it forced or natural) or a rare case of Convergent Evolution? Since, if you look at their head/neck, the Adder is missing the frills that every other Viper and variant has. It's closer to, well, an Adder, a snake without frills.

(I think it's going to be a subspecies, as Adders in real life are part of the Genus 'Vipera')