Summary
For 45 years, the cinematicAlienseries has been in all kinds of media, from comic books to video games. In one way and form, the iconic Xenomorphs have found their way, facing off against many fictional characters and interacting with many unlucky victims and strong warriors.
Crossovers with the Xenomorph creatures from the franchise have come in many forms. Some have the creature appear as a startling enemy in comics and boss battles in video games where they are pitted against iconic characters forced to find a way to battle their deadly advantages. Because of its unique design and frightening abilities, the Xenomorph always leaves a lasting impression in these matchups.
10Fortnite
Ellen Ripley and one of the menacing Aliens she’s faced appear as a unique skin in Fortnite. Since it’s a skin, the Xenomorph would be doing several ‘human’ actions, from holding weaponry to doing humorous dances.
Having boththe Xenomorph and Ellen Ripley skins adds to the very large roster of iconic character skins from films and video games. you’re able to have a team featuring the Alien, Master Chief, and Doom Slayer while pitting them against dozens of other iconic characters from a wide range of other intellectual properties.
In the climactic level of Conker’s Bad Fur Day, the villainous Panther King suddenly gets a bad case of indigestion, courtesy of the Professor. Just then, a Xenomorph named Heinrich bursts out of the Panther King’s chest and becomes the final boss. Heinrich is one of many movie-based references that are given a major focus in Conker’s Bad Fur Day. The creature looked like the ‘Big Chap’ Xenomorph who appeared in the original Alien film but also walked on all fours like the Dog Alien in Alien 3.
To combat Heinrich, Conker pilots a power loader-like mech and has to toss him out of the spaceship airlock in a sequence very similar to how Mario would defeat Bowser in Mario 64. After tossing him out three times, the battle finishes with a rather hilarious fourth wall break where a glitch happens and leads to Conker picking a Katana to finish it off.
8WildC.A.T.s/Aliens
In a one-shot comic written by Warren Ellis, a horde of Xenomorphs appears. The conflict against the encroaching aliens and the WildC.A.T.s culminated in a gruesome battle that took place in the Skywatch space station. The original WildC.A.T.s assembled to deal with the monsters, believing they were Daemonites, a vicious race of reptilian aliens that they often battled in the comics.
Even with a team of superhumans prepared to retake the station, it took the efforts and strategic mind of an ally, along with the WildC.A.T.s team, to ensure most of the crew survived and escaped the Xenomorph infestation while keeping them contained in orbit. It took a noble sacrifice, with one hero piloting the space station to the Sun, to destroy the hive.
7Batman Vs. Aliens
In 1997, Dark Horse Comics released a crossover comic issue featuring the Xenomorphs taking on The Dark Knight of Gotham. The story was so popular that a sequel was made in 2003 by DC Comics. In the first story, Batman goes against the Xenomorphs when they attack a jungle near Guatemala and Mexico. The second story has Batman face off against the Xenomorphs in Gotham City.
As with all his opponents and matchups, Batman has gear, technology, and methods that help him take on the Xenomorphs. He even has a way to safely remove the Chestburster embryos from the hosts, which is almost impossible to do in the universe. There are also several Alien hybrids of the Arkham Asylum inmates, showing a diversity of Xenomorphs in the style of Batman’s rogue gallery.
6Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus
Another Dark Horse Comics crossover features the universe’s deadliest organism against Judge-Dredd, Mega-City-One’s most effective judge. Dredd and many other judges viewed the Xenomorphs as another fearsome threat to law and order, dispatching them as though they were a new chaotic crime monster to face.
Judge Dredd brings his snark and overwhelming firepower to the fight against the Xenomorphs. Even when he was infected with a facehugger’s embryo, Dredd was unfazed, mocked his circumstances, and went on to clear their infestation from Mega-City-One.
5Aliens/Vampriella
In this Dark Horse Comics series, humanity started colonizing Mars, where they discovered an ancient nest of Xenomorphs that had awakened and infested the base. It’s up to Vampriella, the vampire antihero, to protect the colonists and earn their trust against the encroaching Xenomorphs.
Like many other comic heroes who have taken on the Xenomorphs, Vampriella can survive the infections of facehuggers. She can also tackle the Xenomorphs on equal footing. Her spliced DNA also created a winged Alien Queen, which took their battle into the sky.
4Broforce
In this side-scrolling shooting action and adventure, you play several fun tributary characters based on iconic action heroes throughout cinematic history. Examples include Rambro for Rambo, Bro in Black for J from Men in Black, the Brodator for Predator, and Bronan for Conan the Barbarian. In the Alien Infestation update, Xenomorphs were brought into the game as the second faction of enemies for you to face.
After defeating the terrorist organization that the Devil led, the Xenomorphs suddenly appeared and started to infest the world, forcing the Bros to mobilize and take them down one wretched hive at a time. These monsters operate like the cinematic Xenomorphs, hatching from hosts via facehuggers, altering the environment for their hives and acidic blood that can destroy the environment. There were also massive worm-like Xenomorphs that acted as bosses and area blocks.
3Mortal Kombat X
A Xenomorph is introduced as a DLC character in Mortal Kombat X. It was a part of the second Kombat Pack alongside Leatherface, Bo' Rai Cho, and Cyrax/Sektor. Funnily enough, the Xenomorph is introduced through DLC alongside its longtime crossover rival, the Predator. Matchups between the Predator and the Xenomorph are possible and engaging in Mortal Kombat X.
The Xenomorph present here was spawned from a Tarkatan warrior, which gives it a unique appearance. It has a more muscular fighter build, a unique head shape, and arm blades inherited from Tarkatans for brutal combat. Many of the fatalities and brutalities this nasty monster uses are references to iconic moments from the Alien series and a showcase of the creative ways Xenomorphs can tear combatants apart.
Dead By Daylight is a multiplayer survival horror game where you party up with a group of survivors against a single killer. Over time, the game began introducing iconic characters and creatures from other horror games and movies. The Xenomorph is one of them, and it came alongside the survivor Ellen Ripley and its own unique map.
The Xenomorph can tackle survivors with its claw and long serrated tailbefore either dragging them away to the hook points or finishing them off with a brutal attack. The Xenomorph has three unique perks to master during the hunt: Ultimate Weapon, Rapid Brutality, and Alien Instinct. Each of these perks encourages you to be relentless in your pursuit of the survivors.
1Alien Vs. Predator
One of the most popular monster rivalries since King Kong and Godzilla,Alien vs. Predator was first conceptualized in comic books and many video game installments. Several great stories were told from this crossover. Before that, the idea appeared in the film Predator 2, where a Xenomorph skull cameoed in the City Hunter’s trophy room. Since then, it’s been accepted that out of all the creatures in the galaxy that the Yautja hunt for sport, Xenomorphs are considered their ultimate prey.
Since then, the Xenomorph has faced off against the Yautja in several issues of comic books, a dozen video games, from Arcade games to First-Person Shooters, and two movies. The world-building in this crossover is so ingrained with interesting concepts and storylines that it’s easy to forget that they were initially not connected. One of the most popular forms of the Xenomorph that appears regularly in these crossovers is the Predalien, a large hybrid beast that is often the main threat against Predators.
