#xenomorph activity

[puppetmaster13u]

Meat Marionette 7?? 8????

Thinkin of the lil robins and other kids and just, them trying to build Jarro a meat body maybe. Idk, still rotating Jarro and if he'd have one seeing as they had to build his human form via some different body parts and such...

Anyway did some sleep deprived sketches of each- though I just realized I didn't label Cullen, oh well lol. I like to think the first couple robins are all more flesh and exposed muscle looking as the Tunnels adjust to building bodies that can still, well, grow and develop. They've only just succeeded in building a body that can move and semi function with Bruce after all, and even then it takes a couple years for that body to shift into something more alive with like, a stomach and such that needs more than time in the Hive and some Lazarus water for food and hydration. And even then it's another year or so of the bodies needing to be fed via IV before everything actually becomes semi functional as well, a body.

But anyway, his eleven children!

Dick's body starts out the most simple, but is also the first that they discover that the meat marionettes can in fact evolve seeing as he starts to grow electricity-producing organs almost akin to something like an eel. Which is probably very distressing to Bruce because like, this is his baby?? Who can suddenly tase people which is fine, but what if it gets stronger?

Jason's robin body doesn't get a lot of evolution before the Joker Incident, and then it formed a cocoon to become the next form over a year or so. I do feel like his wings were fluffier and had some down still, not enough to prevent flight, but enough to slow down say, take offs.

By the time Tim & Steph comes around, their bodies have started to develop more armor similar to Bruce's. Like the bodies are slowly developing even when the Hive first creates them from the flesh walls as the Tunnels get better at building living moving bodies. Like it's still are mostly soft larva-esque chitin still, but It's still visibly learning.

And then with Cass her body is far darker, more similar to one of the Bats than the rest of the babies. There's still bits of color- bright yellows to warn for venom and poison- but it's such a sudden left turn that they're concerned about what the Tunnels might do next.

It's a relief when it goes back to more colorful designs with the next ones, even if Duke probably has ended up the most armored straight out of the flesh.

Honestly in general I feel like they're actually very soft if someone gets close enough to touch them. Like they look terrifying, especially in night when it's dark out, but compared to their parent & aunt they're like fluffy baby birds. Something the kids in Gotham are probably familiar with, because the birds will help comfort scared people and victims while Bruce takes care of whatever caused their distress. Sometimes just crouches down and pulls out a small puzzle or something from one of his bags while waiting for the police to arrive while distracting the kids, his own and not.

Jarro if he does have a body like theirs, meat marionette or made by them, I feel like it looks more like some sort of hybrid of whatever the batclan are and some sort of aquatic creature. Like an aquatic (swimming?) xenomorph compared to a runner or a drone. Visibly the same species, but looks almost like a similar caste or subspecies if that makes sense? But honestly if yall have any ideas I am open to them. ______________________________________________________________

Reminder that this Au is a combo of both mine and @phoenixcatch7 so check out their Possessed Doll au, and actually go check them out in general, they have a lot of fun ideas and drabbles <3

[cynicatalyst]

Media with the predalien varient that crosses a xenomorph queen and yautja is HEAVILY slept on.

[j8keswizzarts]

still a WIP but do yall fuck with my mother grub design?

[milfglupshitto]

hey, there's only us left now

malevolent part 22 shaving scene you will always be famous

this is a digital collage made using photopea- the central image is adapted from this painting from Gabel Karsten's Sink Series!

[dragonikorca]

i think i like drawing them a little too much

not even sure how i did that from memory

anyways hello whoever's reading this, ive been so inactive lately but ive worked up the courage to make a post

[the-creeping-shadow]

I decided to do a second playthrough of Alien: Isolation, on Nightmare difficulty this time, and just wanted to share some screenshots I’ve taken during this playthrough so far. 

[zannia]

sorry i know its over or whatever but I LOVE watching people's reaction to Meet the Grahams

[space-emperor]

It’s kind of funny to me that the Djesh started as an afterthought/side joke that didn’t feature largely in the plot but have absolutely become the most interesting part of the story to me.

They’re big old parasitic xenomorph-lookin space bug women, right? They do not have a binary sex—only a select few choose to metamorpihize into a reproductively mature imago, while the others remain infertile neonates for their entire lives. Functionally they are all hermaphroditic and can reproduce sexually or asexually depending on environmental pressures. But also: they’re all women. As far as they’re concerned, so is everyone else.

Their closest concept to gender is relational:

A mother is anyone who creates with her body. This could be a literal gestational mother who lays eggs, fertilizes, or gives birth, but it can also mean a creature or person serving as host to the parasitic larvae. A mother in this sense is typically a final, fatal role immediately preceding death.

The Djesh do not distinguish between “mother” and “aunt” but for translation purposes it’s easier to explain with different terms. An aunt is a type of parent who participates in the rearing of young. If a mother or host survives and helps to raise a child, it counts as an aunt-parent. An aunt’s role is to teach and protect and to transmit stories from one generation to the next. An ideal Djesh family consists of many aunts raising young communally—possibly dozens. A family with too few aunts is considered deeply taboo in a way that’s comparable to incest. A Djesh encountering a two-parent nuclear human family for the first time would be horrified and disturbed and have trouble accepting that an intelligent species would reproduce like animals.

A sister is any independent adult who is not actively occupying a parental role. An aunt will revert to sister when her young reach adulthood. An aunt who abandons her role before then is committing a grave taboo—if a Djesh encounters a human who has been deployed on a military or scientific endeavor and left children at home, she will be repulsed and disturbed and potentially hostile.

A daughter is anyone, specifically a child, dependent upon a caregiver. I haven’t made up my mind yet on how this intersects with Djesh conceptions of disability but it’s something I may want to explore.

A Djesh will continue to molt and grow indefinitely. It’s possible that they have the technical capacity for immortality, with no set upper limit. They can regenerate limbs with each molt of their skeletons. As they age, however, the time between each molt grows longer, and the process becomes more difficult and perilous. Because this molting process functions as the only natural limitation on lifespan, there is a taboo against interfering. To succumb to the temptation to help a loved one with a bad molt that would otherwise kill them is to curse them and is a kind of spiritual betrayal… it’s very evil and very, very romantic. The idea of it is horrifying and tragic but they also eat that shit up like it’s Shakespeare.

Most importantly, of course, the Djesh are biologically dependent upon stories. They cannot be Djesh without them. You could incubate and hatch a Djesh egg in a laboratory and provide the larva with all the nutrients it required, but unless you (and, ideally, your entire team) spent time constantly telling it stories, it would never grow into a Djesh. It would survive, sure, but it would take the form of a weird gelatinous animal. This is why Djesh familial units consist of many aunts: the stories and narratives they pass on give Djesh children physical form and act as genetic information more substantially than whatever they inherit biologically. The more stories, the more diverse and robust their DNA-analogue. This is why most Djesh remain neonates and die infertile—they are able to reproduce more effectively by passing down stories than by producing/fertilizing eggs.

Turantirok is sometimes described as the Djesh “religion”. And it is, but only sort of—different populations may have different mythologies and beliefs, but turantirok is better defined as the cosmic force that drives narrative. To other species, Djesh may seem to behave erratically and seemingly act against their own interests. Even those few who manage to get around the language barrier struggle to understand the Djesh, and they are broadly regarded by other species as dangerously insane. In reality, Djesh have an innate instinct for turantirok—they will act according to whatever they believe best furthers a cosmic narrative, up to and including self-destruction. This was an evolutionary adaptation to pass on better stories to their descendants, but now that their planet is incorporated into a galactic civilization, turantirok may be an existential threat.

[ancient-debris]

I like the idea of representing aberrant monsters (beings from other dimensions/realities that don't belong here, think stuff like Cthulhu, Beholders, tentacles from outer space, possibly even stuff like Xenomorphs or the Flood from Halo, etc.) as having a sort of smeary half-blurry half chromatic aberration effect applied to them, sort of like if reality and/or your brain itself is trying to constantly fill in what it considers something that Doesn't Belong. It only goes away briefly in moments if you look directly near or at them which causes the world around them to take on a blurry, smeary and hue-shifted/altered appearance. They're all like a square peg in a round hole and only cease to be aberrant once fully dead and disposed of properly by some sort of active chemical process such as burning, salting, or bleaching them. Simply burying them in soil does no good, but may make your roses glow a little brighter...

[silverskye13]

Silver I know next to nothing about the alien franchise and movie, I am giving you full permission to use this ask as an opportunity to spread propaganda to get me (and anyone else) to finally watch it

So it's, so like, the thing is, right. I'm not a movie tech kinda person [though it is technically impressive, the funny little tricks they did, like not having the budget for a Big Space Ship Derelict so they are a scaled down model that the director's kids in space suits walked up to so it would look bigger, and it was shown to the audience on a shitty CCTV because they didn't do a big matte painting of the set they filmed the tiny one, projected it onto a wall, and then filmed that.] So my rant isn't going to be about how technologically cool the movie was for 1979 on a less than optimal budget. But what I do like, what I excel at, is breaking down themes and tropes. And my god. My god. Just. Ugh. [Flails my arms.]

So a basic rundown for the movie, spoilers ahead, and my analysis of how fucking cool it is:

Basic gist of the movie: The crew of the commercial mining vessel Nostromo are awoken halfway through their trip back to earth by a mysterious signal, calling for help on a far away planet. Upon going down to investigate, one of their crew members is attacked by a strange alien parasite which attaches to his face. This kicks off a tale of increasing horror as the new alien kills off the crew one by one, culminating in Ripley [the main character] blowing up the ship and fleeing in an escape pod, not sure if she'll ever be picked up in the vastness of space -- with the ships cat, who miraculously also survives. [We all know Jonesy is the real main character 💜.] Along the way a plot by the Weyland-Utani corporation is revealed, one of the crew is discovered to be an android, and there is a lot of alien screeching.

Now! The themes that I go absolutely feral over can commence.

The horror of the movie, the reason why the alien is scary, and lethal to humans specifically, is it is a creature built for efficient survival, and this is a trait that Ash, the ship's science officer [and resident hiding android] highly praises in the critter. He describes it as beautiful, elegant, pure in its efficiency. The perfect organism. Efficient.

Humans, by comparison, aren't efficient. We are social. And efficiency preys on social needs. For example:

The xenomorph eggs can survive for ages [in the derelict they're found on, the dead alien who drove the ship is described as fossilized. These eggs have been here for thousands of years. But they activate immediately when a curious human pokes around them. It isn't a fast process. Kane is poking around for a few minutes, looking at the movements of the creatures in their eggs, making observations. Curious. Curiosity is an inefficient trait -- he would have survived if he had climbed out of the hole the eggs were in and left, or even waited for the rest of his team to enact quarantine and investigation procedures.

Speaking of quarantine! When Dallas and Lambert bring Kane, newly infected by an alien parasite, back to the ship, Ripley locks them in the airlock. There are quarantine procedures. We can't risk the whole crew. But they are scared for Kane's safety. He might die without help. They break quarantine. If they hadn't broken quarantine, the baby alien would've been born in the airlock, where it would get spaced the moment it was born.

When the face hugger parasite dies and Kane seems to return to normal, what they should have done to attempt to reinstate quarantine was put him in hyper sleep. His body would have been frozen in a stasis which might have frozen the parasite or, if it hadn't, would have left the new baby alien trapped in a stasis pod. But Kane, haggard and scared from his ordeal, asks can we please have one more meal together before I go to sleep? And that one meal is long enough for the new xenomorph to be born, and release terror on the ship.

There is more. Parker would have lived if he hadn't gone to find the cat by himself, leaving the safety of his group. Dallas would have lived if he let Ripley go through the vents, but he was the captain and he didn't want to risk someone else's life so he went instead. Brett would have lived if he'd left Lambert behind when she was being attacked, or if he'd hit the xenomorph with the flamethrower instead of insisting Lambert get out of the way first. And Lambert would have lived if she'd run instead of being paralyzed in fear by the creature killing her friends. And the xenomorph? Wasn't even eating it's kills. No gore. Little blood. It was killing them because it knew they would kill it, and it was neutralizing threats. Efficient.

The xenomorph is very clearly engineered for survival, and it's survival depends on killing the inefficient organisms around it. Even it's acid blood is described as a survival mechanism, not an offensive mechanism.

Okay Skye, we hear you talking about how scary the critter is because it's not a social creature. That's an interesting observation, but it's still just a monster story, right?

Well, let me tell you an alternative story. Just a little to the left of the original, but one I would argue is still very very canon.

You are an android built by Weyland-Utani, a company which is jealously hunting alien tech to use for its many space programs. You are placed on the Nostromo because there is a known anomaly in the area, and they want to find it. Your job is to get a specimen back to the company, all other protocols expended.

You are programmed to be efficient, so you get to work.

You wake the crew when you find the signal. You give them only the information they need to investigate: it is a signal that repeats every 12 seconds. You let them make the conclusion it is an SOS. Humans are social creatures. They want to help other social creatures in need. There is some arguing about whether they should go, but in the end an extra push from you sends them. Ripley, one of the more efficient members of the crew, keeps asking you why you haven't decoded the message.

"Mother [the super computer running the ship] is still working on it." This is true. She has only translated part of the signal. By the time Ripley realizes it's a warning, the crew is already on the way to the derelict. You tell her if she walks out there, they will have already figured out if it's a warning or not by the time she makes it to them. She agrees.

When they return with a specimen, Ripley [efficient, following protocol] doesn't want to let them on. But Ripley doesn't know you're an android, so when you break quarantine, and you tell her you just wanted Kane to be safe, she begrudgingly believes you.

When the alien is loose, it is easy for you to keep them from killing it. Humans are social, inefficient creatures, and you feel no empathy for their deaths. You do pity them though. Between you and the alien, their chances of survival are slim.

If only they were more efficient.

The horror in Alien is not the xenomorph. The horror in Alien is when anything, primal creatures, androids, a particularly greedy corporation, preys on human social needs in order to get what it wants. There is significance in that Ripley, despite everything, chose to save the cat. She needed companionship. All humans do. She needed to save that cat. A cat that was cantankerous and mean, and hissed whenever it was held, was better than the cold efficiency of empty space.

Any system that prioritizes absolute efficiency will be inhospitable to human life.

[nattikay]

actually no wait holdup, I stumbled across some "Na'vi redesigns" recently, and while I don't want to make a stink about it on the actual redesign posts themselves because I don't want to antagonize the artists, who are clearly skilled in their own right, I do have something to say on the topic. While there is of course nothing wrong with re-designing characters or species for fun, there seems to be this condescending attitude surrounding Na'vi redesigns in particular, especially ones that make them significantly more monstrous/non-human, about how they're "better" than the canon designs for being less humanoid but....

y'all. Though there is a lot of cool speculative biology in Avatar, Avatar at is heart is not meant to be a speculative biology documentary, it's meant to be a story.

y’know, it’s interesting, there’s a section in Anomaly Inc’s epic eight-hour Avatar defense in which he’s refuting The Critical Drinker’s Avatar video. Paraphrasing a bit because I don’t want to dig through eight hours for this one line, but there’s a point where Critical Drinker says “if the Na'vi looked like this, or this, or this [showing images of much more monstrous alien designs from other movies], Avatar would be a very different movie”, and Anomaly Inc responds, “no actually, if the Na'vi looked like xenomorphs nothing in the plot would change, it would just be a whole lot less pleasant to look at.”

And you know what? They’re both right. Anomaly Inc is correct that giving the Na'vi a more monstrous design would not affect the plot itself, but Critical Drinker is also right (though perhaps not in the way he intended) that it would make Avatar a different movie. A WORSE MOVIE.

Yeah, I said it. Because plot is an important element to a movie, yes, but it’s not the only important element. Film is a visual medium, and therefore design is very important too, and it’s not arbitrary: the design of your characters should be used to support the story you’re trying to tell.

The story of Avatar requires the audience to empathize with the Na'vi. We’re supposed to be able to relate to them, to see ourselves in them. We’re meant not to see them as just “aliens”, but as people, because recognizing them as people emphasizes the wrongness of the RDA’s treatment of them. Blowing up the village of a clearly humanoid species is going to hit the audience much harder than blowing up the nest of scary-looking aliens, even if we know the aliens are smart and have their own culture etc. (not to say that blowing up the “nest” wouldn’t still be bad, of course it would be, it just wouldn’t invoke quite the same gut reaction in the viewers and yes that matters in a story).

A more monstrous design would not only not support the Na'vi’s narrative role, it would actively hinder it. Like it or not, general audiences would have a much more difficult time connecting with the Na'vi if they were depicted as hunched-over four-eyed hexapods with gaping jaws and the inability to make human facial expressions. Making them more humanoid makes them much easier to read and therefore to emotionally connect to. And no, Mr. Drinker, making your protagonists appealing to look at is not “lazy dirty manipulation”, it’s character design 101.

And don’t get me wrong, there’s certainly a place for more monstrous-looking sapient alien species in fiction! And if that’s your cup of tea by all means go nuts! Make that alien species! Flesh out their culture! That sounds awesome! I know I’ve definitely seen some cool and interesting ones out there!

….but I just don’t think that Avatar is that place. And that’s ok. There’s a place for “monstrous” aliens (sapient or otherwise), but there’s a place for humanoid aliens too, Avatar is the latter and there’s nothing wrong with that.

…all that to say, my stance on Na'vi redesigns is heavily dependent on the attitude behind them:

“Here’s a Na'vi redesign because I thought it would be a fun challenge and look cool!” Awesome, go for it, have fun! :D

“Here’s a Na'vi redesign because the canon designs are dumb and lazy and mine is way Better and More Original because it looks more like a movie monster, the filmmakers were so stupid for not making them look more like this, I’m just Fixing It” shut up

[yanderes-galore]

Hello can I ask for multiple xenomorphs platonic hc?

Well, okay, this may be short as they are meant to be vague when I write them. So take this small concept of a group of three xenomorphs taking to a scientist darling.

Mostly because scientist/xenomorph stories are a trope I enjoy- This is not realistic without a reason, of course, but it doesn't need to be.

Yandere! Platonic! Xenomorphs

Short Concept

Pairing: Platonic/Animal/Pet-Like

Possible Trigger Warnings: Gender-Neutral Darling, Obsession, Overprotective behavior, Stalking implied, Jealousy, Possessive alien pet(s).

As a scientist for Weyland Yutani you were put in charge of three xenomorphs.

Let's give them names.

Since birth you had labeled them as Subjects Alpha, Beta, Gamma.

Each has the greek symbol burned into their exoskeleton.

You considered them triplets, despite being born from three different hosts.

Once they were branded they were sent to you as their caretaker.

Congrats, now you're the parent of three aliens.

Then you grew used to the chestbursters that roamed close to you in and out of containment.

Honestly, the fact they took to you is surprising for everyone involved in the experiment.

You were scared of taking care of them at first.

Their skin is soft yet still sleek, not quite hardened.

They act like snakes and slither around you.

Sometimes they slither up your leg, your arms, or even lay on your shoulders.

That is until they get older and all three become young xenomorphs.

That's when you have to limit physical contact.

At this stage of their life... tails, claws, and teeth as considered deadly to you.

You find it strange when they chitter softly towards you, ramming into the glass for your comfort.

For example if you put your hand on the glass, they'll press their head towards it with a soft thunk.

Alpha, Beta, and Gamma prove to be loyal to you.

You care for them enough to defend them against your higher ups.

This makes them overprotective over you.

Their behavior is rather limited in captivity.

When others are around you they may act more hostile, but that's about all they can do.

Xenomorphs are rather intelligent.

There's no doubt the three would escape at some point.

When do they not?

It would be a complete surprise to you but your three test subjects are gone.

You need to be on your toes and aware of your surroundings.

This is because their next plan of action would be hunting you down.

In their eyes, you're their parent.

Not quite their Queen, but someone who took care of them.

When you aren't looking, the large xenomorphs will sneak behind you from the vents and grab you with outstretched claws.

Once escape is complete the three would take care of you the best they can.

They are adaptable so they're try to all be like you at times.

Imagine if you pet them when they were younger... so to calm you down they try to pet you too.

They'd also do the classic xenomorph chittering, clumping close to you in an attempt to keep you safe.

If it gets cold outside they may push you down then crawl on top of you.

This is an attempt to warm you, the bug-like aliens curling around you in this strange lump of shelled creatures.

Think of them similar to raptors or wolves.

They are pack animals and are hostile towards other creatures.

They do not hesitate to harm those around you.

As they've grown up around you they like more human activities.

Hugs and cuddling for example-

The xenomorphs adore each other as siblings (most likely sisters), and you as their parent.

They try to take care of you as thanks for taking care of them.

As you are technically their parent you have more free will.

For example, you may be able to go home but you'd have to smuggle them in.

They refuse to part from you.

Which means if you take them home they deem your house as the nest.

Expect resin to coat your walls and you never being alone without the aliens watching you.

It's not like they "sleep", the acid in their blood acts like a battery.

They're always up and alert.

Overall having xenomorphs in any capacity is dangerous.

The government of your planet may find out about it...

You could get hurt by them or their young...

Xenomorphs are also incredibly possessive, so good luck training your little pack of killing machines.

You're going to need it.

[sxilor-1010]

Just woke up and despite me never watching Alien in my entire life, I ended up having a dream of a Pressure inspired Alien AU. I'll ramble more underneath the cut.

Instead of Urbanshade experimenting on Sebastian Solace and causing him to send the Hadal Blacksite on lockdown, this AU delves onto the idea that Urbanshade discover an unknown underwater species (essentially ocean xenomorphs) after finding its eggs nestled within a damaged submarine. Bringing the eggs back to study more of this creature was the Blacksite's fate, as scientists and guards were being killed, and this species would even take over and eradicate the other contained entities.

The Blacksite was sent on lockdown, but the crystal powering the entire place was left behind. In a desperate attempt to preserve study for these creatures and retrieving the crystal, Urbanshade activated the expendables program. This allowed prisoners to be sent down with capture gear to the Blacksite in order to not only get the crystal, but also to preserve anything that can be used to study the creatures.

Enter Sebastian Solace, one of the many human prisoners sent down in a team of 7 to stick together and do what they're ordered to. It was clear to him and the others that they were expendable and not expected to return...

But Sebastian in the end was the final prisoner.

[tiffauthor]

Xenomorph Birth (dark fiction)

It's been growing inside me for three days. A solid swelling presence that has kept me constantly aroused.

For three days Sarah has given me slow, rolling orgasms by palpating my plumping lower belly, moving the xenomorph egg inside my womb until I arch my back and push my belly upward against her hands as I cum and piss the bed.

I know I carry death inside my womb, and the thrill of that makes my orgasms long and desperate.

She wanted to record my oviposition, the two hour fucking the hugger gave me with it's claws wrapped around my hips and bum while it's ovipositor undulated through my pussy and into my womb. It was the fuck of my life, the hugger moving like a machine fused to my crotch slithering deeper that anything fucked has me before.

Sarah wanted a video of me like the other girls, delirious with pulsing orgasms that peaked in those sweaty moments when it stretched my cervix open to accept the fat egg's journey inside me. Then recording me frantically masturbating as it attached to the tender inner flesh of my womb.

But I didn't just want the beginning of this adventure recorded, I want the terminus as well. I want future girls to know how it ends; this ovipositioning, gestation, and birth, this belly bursting birth and the blissful serenity once it is done.

Sarah and I helped other girls take their hugger and played with them day and night as the xenomorph egg grew in their bellies, then comforted them during the quickening, watching as their pussies leaked until the creature birthed itself. Watching still in the aftermath as they calmly surrendered to the inevitable.

A girl can only be a xenomorph broodmare once and after three days of sexual bliss and the violent, cramping orgasmic birth of the infant xenomorph and her body's natural reaction, each and every girl felt the calmness of death take them. Each girl bearing soft smiles, grateful for this ultimate experience, some still gently squirming from their final grim orgasm.

The bursting is like an explosion in a girl's belly and all of us vomit from that shocking violence. So I have prepared; filling my stomach with sweet mango juice during the quickening for I hate the bitter taste of bile.

Sweet Sarah is comforting me, telling me that what I am doing is beautiful, that I am beautiful, and when it comes, my final terrible orgasm will be beautiful, and so will my fading, awash in the blissful completion of this perverse mating.

I feel the egg splitting open like a lobster's carpace and the pupa uncurling in my womb, distorting my plump belly.

"It's starting." I whisper.

My final journey has begun.

[emeraldspiral]

Come to think of it, The Wettening is just as autism-coded as every episode that deals with Zim's food sensitivity.

Many autistic people have sensory issues related to water. Hand washing can be a very uncomfortable experience for a lot of autistic people because it can change the texture of our skin and make it more sensitive, or because of the way certain soaps feel or smell, or because certain soaps or hard water can activate skin allergies.

Getting hit with the sudden temperature change of cold water such as rainfall or a splash from a puddle can also be extremely shocking and unpleasant. Rainfall especially can almost feel like being pricked with needles or bitten by a swarm of insects.

It's important to note that The Wettening predates the movie Signs, so the choice to give Zim an allergic reaction to water wasn't for the purpose of parodying a weakness given to aliens in another piece of sci-fi pop-culture, like the episode Germs.

Invader Zim, being a horror-comedy, draws upon real life fears, just like anything else in the horror genre. The Alien franchise, for instance, is infamously open about drawing upon fears related to sex, sex assault, and childbirth, which can be seen all over the phallic/yonic designs of HG Giger used in the films and in the way the Xenomorph lifecycle was conceptualized. The franchise is very much about sex, even in the first couple of films where actual, literal sex never comes up.

Zim's violent allergic reactions may have the in-universe explanation of being caused by his alien physiology, pollution, or the FDA being a complete joke. But what does it say about the fact that someone consciously decided that water should feel like acid to Zim? That human food should be revolting and make him violently ill? That he should constantly complain about foul odors and obsess over cleanliness but get covered in filth all the time? That he shouldn't have an inch of exposed skin below the neck, yet still experience all these sensory issues and make us cringe with empathy as we watch him suffer?

[bestfurrywife]

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Aela The Huntress (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)

Allison Goleta (Super Lesbian Animal RPG)

Applejack (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Auroth, the Winter Wyvern (Defense of the Ancients 2)

 Bonnie (@dapper-lil-catgirl on Tumblr)

Princess Cadence (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)

Carmelita Fox (Sly Cooper)

Catra (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Catty (Undertale)

Dabarella Yeetster (Adventure Is Nigh!)

Dean Hardscrabble (Monsters University)

Demona (Gargoyles)

Deoxys (Pokemon)

Diane Foxington (The Bad Guys)

Eclipsa Butterfly (Star vs the Forces of Evil)

Eda the Owl Lady (The Owl House)

Falin (Chimera) (Dungeon Meshi)

Fenneko (Aggretsuko)

Gadget Hackwrench (Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers)

Goodra (Pokemon)

Isabelle (Animal Crossing)

Laylee (Yooka-Laylee)

Lifts-Her-Tail (The Lusty Argonian Maid; Skyrim)

Lop (Star Wars Visions)

Merveille Million (Solatorobo)

Mrs. Brisby (The Secret of NIMH)

Miss Spider (James and the Giant Peach)

Moon Butterfly (Star vs the Forces of Evil)

Ms Tarantula/Webs (The Bad Guys)

Nala (lion king)

Olympia (Rivals of Aether)

Pinkie pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)

Princess Cadence (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)

Pyanfar Chanur (The Chanur novels by C.J. Cherryh)

Rainbow dash

Rarity

Retsuko (Aggretsuko)

Sarabi (Lion King)

Sasha Phyronix (Ratchet and Clank)

Shahvee (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)

Sophodra (Humans-B-Gone!)

Summer (Spiritfarer)

Sybil (Pseudoregalia)

The Empress (A Hat in Time)

Trixie (capitol critters)

Trixie Lulamoon (My Little Pony)

Tuca Toucan (Tuca & Bertie)

Tyranitar (Pokemon)

Vanilla the Rabbit (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Waai Fu (Arknights)

Washimi (Aggretsuko)

Wuk Lamat (Final Fantasy XIV)

Zecora (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Previous contestants:

Alphys (Undertale)

Arlinn Kord (Magic the Gathering)

Astrid (Spiritfarer)

Birdo (Mario)

Captain Amelia (Treasure Planet)

Cordelia Hendricks (The Smoke Room)

Dahlia Byrnes (The Smoke Room)

Duchess (Aristocats)

Erma Felna (Erma Felna: EDF)

Fenna van Houwelinck (Glory Hounds)

Fidget (Dust: An Elysian Tale)

Fillyjonk (The Moomins)

Fluttershy (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Freya Crescent (Final Fantasy 9)

Furryosa (Atomic Crops)

Golem (Pokemon)

Greasefang (Magic the Gathering)

Hecate (Tokyo Afterschool Summoners)

Holo (Spice and Wolf)

Hoodwink (Dota 2)

Hornet (Hollow Knight)

Ilia Shrikewood (Temptation's Ballad)

Isabelle (Animal Crossing)

Jenna Begay (Echo)

Judy Hopps (Zootopia)

Juno (Beastars)

Krystal (Star Fox Adventure)

Laika (Laika Aged Through Blood)

Laika (Laika's Comet)

Lola Bunny (Space Jam)

Loona (Helluva Boss)

Lopunny (Pokemon)

Loveander (Palworld)

Madam Dora (The Smoke Room)

Madame Vastra (Doctor Who)

Maid Marian (Disney's Robin Hood)

Marie Itami (BNA)

Maria (Extracurricular Activities)

Meicrackmon (Digimon)

Miss Piggy (The Muppets)

Molly Yarnchopper (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts)

Moomin Mamma (The Moomins)

Mother Glory (Friends at the Table)

Muffet (Undertale)

Nidoqueen (Pokemon)

Princess Celestia (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Princess Luna (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Queen Bee-elzebub (Helluva Boss)

Renamon (Digimon)

Rivet (Ratchet and Clank)

Rose (Remember the Flowers)

Rouge the Bat (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Roxanne Wolf (Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach)

Salazzle (Pokemon)

Sally Acorn (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Soraka (League of Legends)

Tigress (Kung Fu Panda)

Toriel (Undertale)

Torque (X-Com: Chimera Squad)

Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Vipress (Kung Fu Panda)

Xenomorph (Alien)

Whisper the Wolf (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Yona (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)