Alien
admonition ! spoiler forAlien Annual # 1ahead !
Other than theXenomorphsthemselves , theWeyland - Yutanicorporation is considered the primary opposer of theAlienfranchise , and now a Marvel Comic is eventually giving devotee a fortune to see how its leaders handle the deadly aliens as a arm .
As a typical capitalistic company , Weyland - Yutani puts profits above all else , include human life . There are muckle of examples throughout theAlienfranchise of the company ’s leadership sacrifice masses for the sake of either earn money or the development of imagination , admit obtaining Xenomorphs and turn them into weapons . An example of this is when Paul Reiser ’s character Carter Burke is fully fain to sacrificeSigourney Weaver ’s Ellen RipleyinAliensin decree to have her be a host for a facehugger .
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InAlien Annual # 1by Philip Kennedy Johnson and Salvador Larroca , fans get to actually see a Weyland - Yutani council chamber and how the executives actually make these hardhearted decisions . They are discussing a group of protesters called the Second Hand and purpose using a Xenomorph , which they bear on to as " The being " and " The bioweapon , " against them . Together , the executive come up with a plan to have a fervidness squad fetch the Xenomorph into a station and loose it in guild to take care of the dissident . They even want to send along a synthetic substance so as to document the Xenomorph ’s performance .
It ’s one thing to know that Weyland - Yutani is a cruel tummy with zero morality that ready decisions to shoot down people to further their neckcloth price . But it ’s something else entirely to actually see how those determination are made . For the most part , Weyland - Yutani is a comparatively faceless entity throughout theAlienuniverse . They are marionette master and largely a booger that mesh behind the scenes . Meanwhile the stories themselves focus on the mass affected by those decisions rather than the mass actually pass water them .
This scene give a pile of insight into the mind of Weyland - Yutani ’s executives . It seems they do n’t even debate the Xenomorph to be a dangerous creature and a threat to all of human race . They truly treat it just like any other imagination to be used and deployed however they see primed . They are so free from the Xenomorph ’s killer nature that it would be interesting to see the playscript flipped and for them to become the target in a next storyline . Then these cold and calculating individuals — the on-key villains of theAlienfranchise — can last make that theXenomorphisn’t just a puppet for them to further theWeyland - Yutanibottom line .
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