Has anyone else seen the pattern starting to emerge of how all the other alien species on the Maginot within Alien's Earth sort of link themselves back to the Xenomorph, aside from them all originally being from same planet?
So let's start with the Trypanohyncha Ocellus, the eyeball octopus creature. It seems like a cool, kind of cute, new species.
Until you realize that it will attempt to replace a creature's eye with itself and use its tentacles to override their brain and make them into some sort of meat marionette.
But wait, not only does the Xenomorph not have eyes, but they also have little tiny mouths that can shoot out with enough force to pierce through a creature that are oddly enough the same exact size as an eye socket.
Then we have these leech or tick like creatures that can drain you of all of your blood within a minute. Pretty horrifying.
Except for the fact that the planet they are from is the same planet as the Xenomorphs, who have acid for blood. So if they ever tried doing this to a Xenomorph, it'll be the last meal that these creatures will ever eat.
Lastly, there's the carnivorous plant, D. Plumbicare, and we haven't seen much of it yet, but they almost look and act like a Xenomorph's egg, as this planet will lure you in before opening itself in order to attack.
And look at how it attacks. A long tentacle coming out of the pod that opens up into something that can latch onto their prey with, almost like a facehugger, which has a body that can latch onto their prey with and even has a long tentacle like tail and is also known for jumping out of their eggs in order to attack anything that gets too close.
While we don't know much about this creature, we do know animals trapped by D. Plumbicare were killed in one of three ways, either by asphyxiation, by being dissolved, or through sheer exhaustion from trying to escape this plant's grasp, and doesn't the facehugger constrict around their victims throats all while they're laying their eggs down it?
There are 5 alien species on the Maginot, and we've only really seen 4, so this pattern could be shattered by the 5th's introduction, but there is a pattern here and Xenomorphs are known for their evolution, in quite a few different ways. As we not only have their life cycle, but we also know that depending on the species in which a facehugger attaches itself to, will actually fundamentally change the type of Xenomorph that is later born.
So, considering how Alien's Earth is linked to Aliens 1 & 2 and how all five of these species are from the same planet, I think it's possible that these creatures are what made the Xenomorph into this perfect killing machine we've all come to know. Not in some creation type of way, like in Prometheus or Covenant, but more in an evolutionary sense, as the Xenomorphs could have had to adapt this planet and evolve in order to live. This could help explain how they eventually became the Xenomorphs that we see in Aliens 1 & 2, as in both the Prometheus and Covenant films, we never actually saw a Xenomorph, but saw predecessors to the Xenomorph, known as The Deacon & The Praetomorph. Both of which were more creations of forced evolution due to The Engineer's black goo bio weapon rather than being a creature born from natural evolution.
