This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Jonny D: Added a redirect from Alien Impregnation and added both names to the Tropes and SpeculativeFiction indexes
Kilyle: Is... Squirm?... covered under the "lots of B-movies we'd rather not talk about" bit there? I'm not sure I have the name right... it's where an alien comes to earth and jumps down a man's throat, and the now controlled man ties up a woman in his barn and feeds her vast qualities of meat, and she swells up to the size of a small spaceship before exploding to give birth to worms. I'm ashamed I've even seen the sucker.
Qit el-Remel: Storm Constantine's Wraeththu are mentioned as an example of this trope elsewhere, but not here. Of course, they're actually something somewhat different.
Wouldn't the aliens from Robert A Heinlein's The Puppet Masters qualify, since the parasites use their host's biomass to initiate reproduction?
Sci Vo: @Kilyle, that sounds like Slither.
Disturbing movie ads like that one (with that woman saying, "Something's wrong with me!") are part of why I stopped watching TV (except on DVD). I don't want that in my head.
lyonie17: Took the liberty of putting all items in as close to the appropriate category as possible. Please move anything that I left in the wrong place, as I haven't seen everything listed.
Fast Eddie: Ya did good. By the way, there is a button on the edit screen at the top that will add the markup for all the categories.
lyonie17: Thanks, Fast Eddie! What an appropriate appellation. I'll take my Added Alliterative Appeal somewhere else now.
Gloating Swine: Cut
- Apparently the designers of the newest Alien game decided they too liked this trope. The facehuggers are... um... well, it's probably better if you see for yourself◊.
- Apparently the designers of the newest Alien game decided they too liked this trope. The facehuggers are... um... well, it's probably better if you see for yourself
Because quite frankly it's an Alien game, it has the facehuggers from Alien in. What other point is being made here?
Anonymous: Cut (Cloverfield)
- I read in some other interview that actually being parasites, they were essentially injecting their victims with an anti-cogulant- however, imagine what happens when an anti-cogulant designed to work on a deep-sea titan thing is injected into a normal human- fluidic problems abound, yes?
Umm... no. Anti-coagulents merely prevent blood clotting. They don't magically increase blood pressure to explosive levels regardless of what pressure they were designed to work at. It's not like they magically create fluid and fluid pressure.
Gloating Swine: Whilst this is true in Real Life, Word of God has it that that's what is happening in the film. Probably best to chop the lot and put it in Did Not Do The Research or You Fail Biology Forever.
does anybody think it is worth mentioning that the scientific term is Parasitoid?
Konork: Someone readded links into the folder titles after they were removed. I just removed them again, and if the person who did that reads this, look at Pages Needing Example Sorting, where it specifically says NOT to do that
