No, he’s still Mr Fish, but he’s a mother and would celebrate mother’s day. Coz he gave birth. Biology, especially genetic parasite biology, is super weird.
Mr. Fish (a gyarados) is closer to a Seahores or Seadragon (both belong to the Syngnathidae family) than an fish anyways.
Although fish is an incredibly broad definition due to fish not even sharing a common class anymore they are all members of phylum chordata with skulls, so are we, and so are any land animals.
“A fish is any member of a group of animals that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits. ”
Thus, yes, seahorses and (presumably) Gyarados are “fish.”
ADditionally, many male fish will guard the eggs, and there are ‘mouth brooders’ too (Who keep the eggs, and then the young, in their mouth until they’re big enough to fend for themselves).
Actually, considering Commander’s comment, it is probably a safe bet that future earth oceans are full of horrifyingly deadly critters caused by pollution, radiation, and pokemon/monster/parasite hybrids like this one.
But… If the ocean is full of horrible things what if the Xenomorphs work their way up that food chain? Even if they don’t actually kill them we’re talking about Xenomorphs crossbreading with all manner of horrible things… Just think about it… Xenosquid, Xenowhales, Xenothullu!!!
I’ve never read Lovecraft. Does Cthulhu actually eat things? I was under the impression he was an ageless being of inscrutable nature, whose very existence drives people insane. Why would such a being need to eat?
That doesn’t seem very eldritch and otherworldly. Kinda makes him pretty mundane, to be honest. Although I’m led to believe he was defeated by having a small motorboat drive into him? Also kinda mundane, that.
Pretty sure that Cthulhu was actually just a priest for the eldritch gods in the Lovecraft lore. Also from Doktor Sleepless this whole galaxy is just a fridge for eldritch gods.
No, actually. Yes, the boat (which was I believe a fishing vessel, rather than a small personal craft) burst Cthulhu’s head open like a rotten melon, but it immediately reformed.
You can’t kill Cthulhu, because he is a physical embodiment of the mind-shattering realization that you are nothing, that the entirety of not just your life, but human existence, isn’t even a blip on the cosmic radar. Nothing we do will in any way last or matter, we are mere ants and roaches, unnoticed by the greater beings whose shadow fall long onto dying stars conceived mere seconds before in their grand perception of time.
Nah, that only worked out for him because he was in a pocket (duplicate) universe made specifically for him. So he was the entire reason that universe existed in the first place.
Because, the thought of a winged horrible thing with acid blood, and face tenticles tipped with little mouths like the inner mouths of the Xenomporph now haunt my nightmares and I am now far too mad to suffer this alone. :p
Just because Chuthulu would eat them doesn’t mean that they would die… (Worst case scenario after bursting from the walls of Chuthulu’s large intestine you’d have them living on as intestinal parasites waiting to eat anything that Chuthulu can’t digest… And they’d look like mini Chathulu’s….
Thing is, Mr. Fish ate the ‘larval’ form of the xenos, not the mature one. So… there should be no problem with cthulhu eating those, unless there’s a queen in those xenos.
Xenomorph are also kinda like frogs. If there no queen present one of them will shift their biology to become one. Pretty much why ya gotta kill all of them at once, cuz if ya miss one it’ll shift it self into a new queen and start a new hive.
Good news! Algal blooms caused by heavy ocean polluting would actually probably take care of them, due to the shear number of different toxins those damn thing output. Even if they do survive/evolve, it will mean they will be less suited for hunting over the generations. Eventually, speciation would create a new food chain based on chemotrophiles as the food source and slowly but steadily the earths oceans would heal. Mind you, that would take hundreds of thousands of years, but Jared may just have saved the oceans in the long run.
Depend on context. Human survival chance get significantly better the longer they manage to survive. If you give a human enough time to rest and he’ll find and/or improvise weapons, armor, traps…
And even if they’re naked… Well we ave stories of people surviving animal attacks without weapons. And I’m not talking about hardened soldiers. I’m talking about people like 80 year old with no combat experience shoving their arms in a bear’s mouth to prevent them from bitting, while kicking the animal in the balls.
Sure that doesn’t happen every time. Doesn’t even happen most of the time. But that it happen at all when we have no natural protection and our natural weapons are laughable? Pretty impressive.
And like I said, give a human time to prepare and they’ll come up with more stuff to survive… not all of which works. But when it does it tend to stick.
We had good pack tactics, but even whene solo our go-to was still viciously effective: Cause wound+infection with sharp stick and stalk it.
Blah blah fists blah blah muscles blah blah teeth there’s a forgotten stat where humans have God-level domination: Running. Those furless humans can sweat/shed head amazingly well, they can run forever, outrun horses.
Combine with dextrous simian body for terrain climbing/throwing, intelligent/social pack tactics, and it’s increasingly clear our modus operandi was to be cross-country horror movie monsters, to stalk scared, stressed, hurt animals until they collapsed.
If humans were weak, we’d have gone extinct. Comparing homo sapiens that spent its entire life on a computer, sure. But any kind of pre-technology human? Human will pretty much kick anything’s ass. Our ancestors were taking down mammoths with rocks and sharp sticks. And, as you noted, humans are in the elite when it comes to stamina.
Human intelligence is also discounted heavily for some reason. Why would a seasoned human survivor straight up brawl a gorilla naked? Sure, if I can head long into a silverback and tried to punch it to death, I wouldn’t last long. But if I got a sharp rock, kept my distance and only struck in counter attack moves, my winning percentage just shot up. Now make me an ancestor from 10k years ago with a super fit body from doing this daily.
Man didn’t always have rifles or even know how to smelt metal. We lived through that. Sure, if tech vanished overnight, a few billion would die. But the species would live on in a more badass state.
About that ‘natural weapon’ thing- human fists are a pound of nearly solid bone and gristle in a lump on the end of a highly-mobile lever. We basically have ankylosaurus tails for arms. Fists are almost unique in the animal kingdom- a fine manipulator that can also be used to break bones, bruise organs, and even shatter stone if the human is trained. About the only other creature that has fists like that is the Mantis Shrimp, and we all know how badass they are.
Not to mention, humans just keep. fighting. Even long after other animals think they should just give up and let themselves be eaten.
Except on average, we don’t have the strength to make good usage of them, and it is a bad idea to continually use them as such due to the degradation of fine motor control.
(Yes you can circumvent the degradation with gear, but that goes back to tool usage).
They are manipulators first and foremost, and an emergency weapon, when we don’t have a tool at hand.
A mantis shrimp does not have fists. It has pneumatic spear appendages. There is a HUGE difference between the two.
If you want a more deadly version of the human fist, look to the Gorilla. Where it has the muscle mass, and protection to utilize them effectively.
A gorilla based xenomoprh would likely be FAR scarier than a human based one.
Oh hush, we all know that you’re still salty about the entire doomsday thing not working out; because you were still using Iron Age technology and we had guns.
His name is Yusuf Alchagirov, and I remembered wrong, he didn’t shove his arm in the bear’s throat, his arm got bit, so he grabbed the bear’s lower jaw to free himself, and then held onto it to prevent the bear from bitting him again
My other comment is still awaiting moderations, probably because it include links but I forgot to add:
I never said the old man had kileld the bear. My point is that he survived the attack. Which bring us back to the old adage “live to fight another day”. A human without tool may not kill his adversaries, but he has some good survival chances. And once he’s survived the first fight he can THEN make tools adapted to the situation. If a human survive the first fight chances are they’re going to win the second.
Eh, “Humans” are only lethal in the sense of what tools we can create to be lethal.
Just plop a human down, and they are going to be lunch for most things. We have no claws, our teeth are not sharp enough to be especially dangerous. We have no protective shell, spikes, or coloration, nor are we toxic.
Unless absorption of traits increases the Xenos’s intelligence to a degree where they can suddenly start using and making tools, they have nothing to gain and a lot to lose.
……“Humans” are only lethal in the sense of what tools we can create to be lethal……..
Dude, you should check out some videos of the tribes that still practice persistence hunting. In the animal world we are the terrifying nightmare that might move slowly but never. stop. coming for you until you drop from exhaustion, unable to move, stroked out from heat, only able to watch as the human readies the death blow.
No, not ambush predation. LXV said “persistence hunting.”
Those large carnivores you mentioned depend on a quick kill because they can’t afford a protracted chase.
We’re not talking about a 25 second sprint, we’re talking about a four-hour endurance test.
Canids do follow their prey, but not at a run. Because they can’t do that. There is only one known species that has ever existed that can.
To be fair that’s a pretty exclusionary approach. Its like saying ‘Yeah if your rip out all the claws and teeth and cripple a tiger they’re not very scary”. Making weapons WAS our evolutionary solution to those problems after all, removing our set up to making them is a pretty stern handicap. Actually a great quote about that from an old Sci-fi I read “They came to observe our evolution!” “My evolution involved a club” (I want to say it was form something like ‘The bar at the end of the Universe’ maybe? That’s not it but the main guy was a bartender and it was a collection of short stories of his experiences.)
And like others pointed out 80 year olds have still killed bears because Adrenaline is a hell of a drug.
On top of that, some of us have trained for unarmed combat. Take away all my gadgets and gizmos, and I still have two black belts and two kickboxing instructor ranks. I may be a munchkin-sized flabby IT nerd with a bad back, but even I won’t be going down without a heck of a fight.
Put my martial arts skills on someone with decent physical prowess, and the balance goes from “prey” to “predator” pretty quickly.
Google gorilla versus human. The gorilla is going to win.
It is at least 6x stronger than a human, has a lower center of gravity, is heavier, is faster, has a denser skeletal and musculature structure, and fights by instinct rather than training.
“I know kung-fu” isn’t going to do you any good. You can’t put it into a submission hold, you can’t throw it, punching it is most likely not even going to make it flinch as it is built to get into fights with things 6x stronger than you. While it hitting you is likely to break your bones.
The whole point, that you glossed over, is that Xenos have nothing to gain by absorbing a human. It does not bring them up intellectually to a level that is useful, and they lose a lot of their other useful characteristics. in the process.
If you do not get tool use, there is nothing to gain from humans.
Also I call BS on an 80 year old killing a bear with their, ahem, bare hands. Link or it didn’t happen.
Decided to reply here, but it is to the entire thread about humans not being useful. you do realize we are the most adaptable species on the planet right? Within our genetic code is the adaptability to not just survive, but THRIVE in desert conditions AND arctic conditions. We thrive in high moisture and low moisture, we survive off of lower caloric intake than any other animal our size. We also have another adaptation that is only found regularly in certain bird species, the ability to learn quickly and pass that knowledge on to others rapidly AND pass it onto the next generation. We also function across the spectrum of oxygen levels just fine…on high mountains or at sea level. It is our nature, in our very genetic code, to adapt to almost anything. That is a huge bonus any species would want if not NEED.
I agree. We don’t need claws if we can make claws. And claws become useless when you can make or have someone make a Kalasznikov for you. Technology is an extension to evolution so I don’t see any reason to not count it.
Aghh, so many terrible explanations on human evolution here. No, tools are not something we evolved to deal without our environmental pressures. That’s not how evolution works. The tool gets passed around and the entire social structure benefits which means ALL of the humans pass on their genes in that situation, not the one who invented the tool. There’s no evolutionary pressure there.
No, the runaway human intelligence evolution has nothing to do with tool creation. It has to do with human social structure. You can see it in Chimps actually. The smarter humans would work to the top of a tribe not because they’re outsmarting the environments problems, but because they’re outsmarting *each other*. And those at the top of the tribe are the ones that are going to breed.
In regards to pursuit predation, technically homo erectus and homo neanderthanlensis also used it, not just homo sapiens.
Lastly, there’s another aspect of human biology that is more than a little crazy compared to other predatory animals… our regenerative capabilities. Humans have very active scar tissue and deal with shock better than almost any other mammal. A broken bone in the vast majority of creatures sends them into shock and death. Humans can shatter most of their bones and be fine six weeks down the road. We used surgery thousands of years before real anasthetics. As a species we handle pain better than almost anyone else too. We routinely injure and even kill each other while *playing*.
Ignoring our ridiculously over-evolved brain and spinal structure, humans are still incredibly good predators. Our ability at endurance is literally best in the world, no other animal can do what we do. Our ability to take punishment is right up there with the best also. We are one of the most efficient predators because unlike big cats or snakes or sharks that often miss their prey and have to conserve energy, which is why they rely on ambush and lots of rest, a pack of humans almost always got their prey. Once a pack of humans had targeted an animal, that animal was dead and food, it just didn’t know it yet. It might take all day, running and panting, but soon it’s going to drop and see that grinning, small toothed, big headed primate standing over it before the rock drops on its head.
i second that while xenomorphs are deadly at the end their still animals in a sense . nothing is more dangerous to hunt then something which is capable of hunting you back.
Technically only queens are capable of reproducing. In some versions a drone can molt into a queen if there’s no queen around, though. Enh, I’m sure it’ll be fine.
If we’re going by Aliens, you’re going to need a specific alien with that role.
Original Alien movie, anything goes.
I guess Prometheus and Covenant might have other information, but I ruled out the latter for now since I saw the former and heard Covenant wasn’t all that great – Alien movies were never something I was much into.
Covenant is a fine movie, a lot of people are just mad because it’s changing the established mythology to something less cool. And that mythology only existed in the non-canon EU anyway.
AvP maybe. The Queen was defeated by chaining it to something heavy and dropping it into the ocean. The movie acted like that was a happy ending but that’s both much greater than one atmosphere of pressure and we never actually see the thing die.
Dead? Maybe, maybe not. Doesn’t matter that much. She’s chained to something heavy at the bottom of the ocean, and she’s not likely to breed successfully down there. The current problem is solved. The future is a problem for our descendants.
depends… al it really takes is a shark or something getting a bit to close… these things are based around adaptive evolution in a single generation. once she gains a
if it dies, or somehow isn’t able to lay it’s eggs in this specific environment… fine, god job. otherwise, you just screwed over the planet, since you ensured that it got enough time to set up a large hive before getting found out.
provided that no large ocean predator takes them out, but slightly meaner jaws and carapace armor combined with oxic blood places it strongly in the top 1000 more scary things in the ocean. they are, after all, essentially moray eels with carapace armor and toxic blood. minus the ambush predator part.
Xenomorphs take on the traits of whatever critter they incubate in.
The birth process is usually more…fatal, though. I suppose the poor facehuggers didn’t really know how to deal with being eaten. That can’t happen to them much. Maybe water types are strong vs. acid?
Aaaand one more reason i refuse to go on a ocean cruise or any body of water larger that a pond……… underwater greebalies. Nope….. nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope.
But! But! They did a comic on this! Sooner or later one will magically become a queen and once that happens she can control the others! So she will have an egg cave under the sea in a cave! The others will kidnap humans and bring them down to the cave for the eggs to hatch into the face huggers!
Eh, there’s probably something in there that’ll prey on them and keep the population in check. “There’s always a bigger fish.” Qui-Gon’s wisdom holds extra true in a world where Pokemon are a thing; acid blood ain’t keeping those guys off the menu.
Bigger fish ate the facehuggers, which are one-shot parasitic ambush predators that stick their ovipositor down your throat and implant an egg in your digestive system.
Mr. Fish was actually gonna be immune UNTIL he ate them, whereupon he expedited the process. They were already IN his digestive tract! He lived though so that’s a solid win.
Alien vs. Bisharp: can’t facehug, it’s face is an axe. Can’t toxic blood, it’s made of metal. Bitey, ready type attacks just mean you’re gonna get stabbed right’n’proper
why would they prey on humans specifically though? We get our deadlines from intelligence, something that they can get on their own, and there are WAY more scary things down under than pathetic, softskin humans. sounds like a lot of unnecessary work for them, they can bread with anything, no need to kidnap humans…
Wut. There’s like 7 billion of us, that is not a high number compared to fish in the ocean. Not counting any potential pokemon that might be down there… I mean, it doesn’t even need to be a particularly nasty one. A cloyster would fuck ’em up.
This is your friendly reminder that the humble mantis shrimp throws a punch that hits as hard as live ammunition.
That the beaked sea snake is so poisonous that three drops of its venom can kill 8 people.
That the scaly-footed snail is not only naturally poisonous but magnetized for good measure, and survives not by eating but by metabolizing some of the poisons that should be killing it.
Commander’s not lyin’. Those aliens face some stiff competition down there.
Well, The Commander even knitted a hat & sweater for one impressive example of what lives down there already. Remember that “Survival Competition” they had, where Jonesy was invited along?
Of course, this raises the million Pokebuck question: Can a Xenomorph Gyrados be pulled into a pokeball? And if so, how many league badges does it need to command it? Kind of want one for my final four team, now. :P
Eerrmm… so do you consider the second AvP film canon? Because in that case them things can just at random produce eggs out of “biological matter” and in fact infect stuff with chestbursters on their own.
I think at least once in the comics a queen spontaneously molted out of a regular ‘morph.
So.. I’m still with the commander on this one, except for the bits where I’m totally with Jones.
The novels had that second one too, where a drone can molt into a queen if there’s no queen available. Some real insects work like that, I think, and it makes a lot more sense than drones making eggs on their own–why keep the drones busy taking care of a gigantic queen that’s tethered to her ovipositor (until Ripley blows it off) if eggs are so easy to make?
My money’s on that they will be eaten by larger pyrosome colonies. Their body is too small for xenomorphs to infect, the colonies can injest -much- larger things, and are one of the largest and most surreal predators in the ocean.
i was kinda expecting Jared to have a strange expression , being verklempt that he is a grampapa. And the xenogyarados in a family reunion. And I dont think the situation has escalated … enough. MWA HA HA.
You know, despite the sheer chaos and destruction they’ll probably call, these are like, the least horrifying Xenomorphs, since their progenitor is already a ravenous, toothy, sharp-finned sea monster.
But taking into consideration how tiny they are after birth and how fast they outgrow their host … In less than a day you’re going to have a bunch a creatures that will make you stay out of the water forever. On a positive note though: you probably won’t have to worry about Cthulu anymore. They just found and ate him.
I’ve been reading this comic in a binge,and must aks,what is the Commander’s accent supposed to sound like?I’m not a native english speaker,so I just can’t figure it out.
Now I’m imagining all the other Easter Crab evolutions. Xenochu? Bulbaxeno? Xenonat? Exenoggcute? Braixeno? In related news, it’s been years since I looked at a Pokemon list, and I didn’t realize we’re at 802 now. That’s a lot of possible Xenomorphs.
I just skimmed and didn’t see it mentioned but I believe there’s a valid basis for them not harming Me Fish. I’ve read a statement that hosts need an appropriate size; a cat is too small to gestate while an elephant is too big to escape or something. Under the circumstances, this kinda makes a scary amount of sense
Well if we follow the logic that the xenomorphs use the hosts DNA and all that won’t that make them pokemon like and only be able to know 4 moves at a time?
You know i just noticed one thing…mr Fish’s face always had something particular, but i could’nt figure what, now i know…
He is the ONLY Gyarados who ever close his mouth!
look at every sprite, official artwork or anime apperance of gyarados, it always have his mouth wide open.
really, maybe someone noticed it before me, but Jared must be a really good trainer to manage that.
So… the real question is… do Xenomorphs that have spawned out of a Pokemon have an evolution chain, or are they standalone? Also, what types are they? Dark/Fighting?
yup definetly water/poison but there arent that many pokemons with that typing :
tentacool line, qwilfish, skrelp and the toxapex line theres actually more water/ground
Ok, I like how some people discuss the idea of Mr Fish being a seahorse like pokemon… but uh, can we discuss the GIANT FUCKING ALIEN MONSTERS THAT JUST SWAM INTO THE OCEAN!?
Ha!
Happy father’s day Coelasquid
Also…
Happy Father’s Day Mr. Fish.
What? Jared had it wrong…Mr. Fish wasn’t “fat,” he was pregnant!
Does this mean we’ll have to start calling him Mrs. Fish now, or would that only apply on Mother’s Day?
O.o
No, he’s still Mr Fish, but he’s a mother and would celebrate mother’s day. Coz he gave birth. Biology, especially genetic parasite biology, is super weird.
He’s a fish, there’s precedent for the fathers giving birth.
Seahorses?
Like sea horses. Though I’m not entirely sure if they are “fish” they are from the ocean.
They are. They’re just pretty strange looking.
Mr. Fish (a gyarados) is closer to a Seahores or Seadragon (both belong to the Syngnathidae family) than an fish anyways.
Although fish is an incredibly broad definition due to fish not even sharing a common class anymore they are all members of phylum chordata with skulls, so are we, and so are any land animals.
“A fish is any member of a group of animals that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits. ”
Thus, yes, seahorses and (presumably) Gyarados are “fish.”
ADditionally, many male fish will guard the eggs, and there are ‘mouth brooders’ too (Who keep the eggs, and then the young, in their mouth until they’re big enough to fend for themselves).
I swear, this would be way-four-more frightening without Commander around.
It helps that he’s pretty obviously aware how the story ends. Time traveler, and all that.
Unless the history books got it wrong.
Nah, he’d know if they did. He’d have checked.
Guys, you know we can’t think too hard about this. Do we need another Omathulhu?
Actually, considering Commander’s comment, it is probably a safe bet that future earth oceans are full of horrifyingly deadly critters caused by pollution, radiation, and pokemon/monster/parasite hybrids like this one.
Ripley in a diving mech killing them all?
Wouldn’t that basically be like a brunette Samus Aran?
But… If the ocean is full of horrible things what if the Xenomorphs work their way up that food chain? Even if they don’t actually kill them we’re talking about Xenomorphs crossbreading with all manner of horrible things… Just think about it… Xenosquid, Xenowhales, Xenothullu!!!
Nah, Cthulhu will eat them. He eats everything.
I’ve never read Lovecraft. Does Cthulhu actually eat things? I was under the impression he was an ageless being of inscrutable nature, whose very existence drives people insane. Why would such a being need to eat?
That doesn’t seem very eldritch and otherworldly. Kinda makes him pretty mundane, to be honest. Although I’m led to believe he was defeated by having a small motorboat drive into him? Also kinda mundane, that.
Pretty sure that Cthulhu was actually just a priest for the eldritch gods in the Lovecraft lore. Also from Doktor Sleepless this whole galaxy is just a fridge for eldritch gods.
For a person who’s never read Lovecraft you seem to be very well informed. ;P
Of course Cthulhu eats things. 1d6 investigators per round.
So that’s what keeps happening to my investigators
Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you need to do it to survive.
No, actually. Yes, the boat (which was I believe a fishing vessel, rather than a small personal craft) burst Cthulhu’s head open like a rotten melon, but it immediately reformed.
You can’t kill Cthulhu, because he is a physical embodiment of the mind-shattering realization that you are nothing, that the entirety of not just your life, but human existence, isn’t even a blip on the cosmic radar. Nothing we do will in any way last or matter, we are mere ants and roaches, unnoticed by the greater beings whose shadow fall long onto dying stars conceived mere seconds before in their grand perception of time.
Unless you’re Zaphod Beeblebrox. In which case you’re quite important really.
Nah, that only worked out for him because he was in a pocket (duplicate) universe made specifically for him. So he was the entire reason that universe existed in the first place.
……Why are you putting images of a Cthulhu/Xenomorph hybrid in my head?
Because, the thought of a winged horrible thing with acid blood, and face tenticles tipped with little mouths like the inner mouths of the Xenomporph now haunt my nightmares and I am now far too mad to suffer this alone. :p
there are MUCH worse images to have in your head.
Just because Chuthulu would eat them doesn’t mean that they would die… (Worst case scenario after bursting from the walls of Chuthulu’s large intestine you’d have them living on as intestinal parasites waiting to eat anything that Chuthulu can’t digest… And they’d look like mini Chathulu’s….
Nah, Cthulhu will eat them. He eats everything.
Yeah, but Mr. Fish ate them and look what happened!
Thing is, Mr. Fish ate the ‘larval’ form of the xenos, not the mature one. So… there should be no problem with cthulhu eating those, unless there’s a queen in those xenos.
Mr. Fish ate the facehuggers. The chestbursters he just blorfed up are sterile, unless one is an infant queen.
Xenomorph are also kinda like frogs. If there no queen present one of them will shift their biology to become one. Pretty much why ya gotta kill all of them at once, cuz if ya miss one it’ll shift it self into a new queen and start a new hive.
Jared will somehow evolve his Gyrados to C’thulhu. Somehow. It already is absurdly huge for its species.
Crossbread is my favorite kind of bread.
I was looking for this response lol
I had crossbread once. It was a religious experience. u_u 👌
Dolphins will kill them
Good news! Algal blooms caused by heavy ocean polluting would actually probably take care of them, due to the shear number of different toxins those damn thing output. Even if they do survive/evolve, it will mean they will be less suited for hunting over the generations. Eventually, speciation would create a new food chain based on chemotrophiles as the food source and slowly but steadily the earths oceans would heal. Mind you, that would take hundreds of thousands of years, but Jared may just have saved the oceans in the long run.
Short-term, though…yeah, the oceans are f***ed.
Goblin sharks are pretty much Xenomorph/shark hybrids, and they ACTUALLY EXIST. I don’t think it’ll change much down there, honestly.
Reminds me of the gastric brooding frog of Queensland. Discovered 1984, extinct 1985. not a good track record for gastric brooding.
I had to go look this up, and they were discovered in 1973, not 1983.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric-brooding_frog
Resurrected a few years ago, at least temporarily.
This can only end well
Please tell me they don’t know Hyper Beam…
Don’t know how dangerous they could be, they can only know four attacks at once and one of those is obviously already Splash.
I don’t think they inherit their host’s weaknesses, or else human-based xenomorphs would be substantially less lethal.
Humans are actually pretty badass.
Naked Human versus naked Tiger.
Ready? FIGHT!
Depend on context. Human survival chance get significantly better the longer they manage to survive. If you give a human enough time to rest and he’ll find and/or improvise weapons, armor, traps…
And even if they’re naked… Well we ave stories of people surviving animal attacks without weapons. And I’m not talking about hardened soldiers. I’m talking about people like 80 year old with no combat experience shoving their arms in a bear’s mouth to prevent them from bitting, while kicking the animal in the balls.
Sure that doesn’t happen every time. Doesn’t even happen most of the time. But that it happen at all when we have no natural protection and our natural weapons are laughable? Pretty impressive.
And like I said, give a human time to prepare and they’ll come up with more stuff to survive… not all of which works. But when it does it tend to stick.
Humans are Batman. Give us time to plan and prepare, we beat everything else.
Yeah, tool use is pretty much our only advantage.
Not denying it’s not a strong advantage, but xenomorphs don’t get that when they have adapted from us though.
They kinda do, they just have to watch us do it first, then they learn. Granted they don’t know why it works but they know it does.
We had good pack tactics, but even whene solo our go-to was still viciously effective: Cause wound+infection with sharp stick and stalk it.
Blah blah fists blah blah muscles blah blah teeth there’s a forgotten stat where humans have God-level domination: Running. Those furless humans can sweat/shed head amazingly well, they can run forever, outrun horses.
Combine with dextrous simian body for terrain climbing/throwing, intelligent/social pack tactics, and it’s increasingly clear our modus operandi was to be cross-country horror movie monsters, to stalk scared, stressed, hurt animals until they collapsed.
If humans were weak, we’d have gone extinct. Comparing homo sapiens that spent its entire life on a computer, sure. But any kind of pre-technology human? Human will pretty much kick anything’s ass. Our ancestors were taking down mammoths with rocks and sharp sticks. And, as you noted, humans are in the elite when it comes to stamina.
Human intelligence is also discounted heavily for some reason. Why would a seasoned human survivor straight up brawl a gorilla naked? Sure, if I can head long into a silverback and tried to punch it to death, I wouldn’t last long. But if I got a sharp rock, kept my distance and only struck in counter attack moves, my winning percentage just shot up. Now make me an ancestor from 10k years ago with a super fit body from doing this daily.
Man didn’t always have rifles or even know how to smelt metal. We lived through that. Sure, if tech vanished overnight, a few billion would die. But the species would live on in a more badass state.
About that ‘natural weapon’ thing- human fists are a pound of nearly solid bone and gristle in a lump on the end of a highly-mobile lever. We basically have ankylosaurus tails for arms. Fists are almost unique in the animal kingdom- a fine manipulator that can also be used to break bones, bruise organs, and even shatter stone if the human is trained. About the only other creature that has fists like that is the Mantis Shrimp, and we all know how badass they are.
Not to mention, humans just keep. fighting. Even long after other animals think they should just give up and let themselves be eaten.
Except on average, we don’t have the strength to make good usage of them, and it is a bad idea to continually use them as such due to the degradation of fine motor control.
(Yes you can circumvent the degradation with gear, but that goes back to tool usage).
They are manipulators first and foremost, and an emergency weapon, when we don’t have a tool at hand.
A mantis shrimp does not have fists. It has pneumatic spear appendages. There is a HUGE difference between the two.
If you want a more deadly version of the human fist, look to the Gorilla. Where it has the muscle mass, and protection to utilize them effectively.
A gorilla based xenomoprh would likely be FAR scarier than a human based one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5FEj9U-CJM Some mantis shrimps do, in fact, have fists instead of spears.
…Mantis shrimp xenomorph. Perfect killing machine?
Yeah, still calling BS on the bear. Provide a link? Google shows nothing for “80 year old bear mouth”.
Surviving an attack is not, “bad ass”. It is surviving. Even if you do survive, you are going to be badly mauled.
But my main point was in relation to xenomorph adaptation. Nothing they get from humans is worthwhile, and costs them very useful adaptions.
Oh hush, we all know that you’re still salty about the entire doomsday thing not working out; because you were still using Iron Age technology and we had guns.
His name is Yusuf Alchagirov, and I remembered wrong, he didn’t shove his arm in the bear’s throat, his arm got bit, so he grabbed the bear’s lower jaw to free himself, and then held onto it to prevent the bear from bitting him again
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/31/man-80-fights-bear-survives
http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/80-year-old-russian-man-survives-after-bear-throws-him-off-cliff-2013-11/
My other comment is still awaiting moderations, probably because it include links but I forgot to add:
I never said the old man had kileld the bear. My point is that he survived the attack. Which bring us back to the old adage “live to fight another day”. A human without tool may not kill his adversaries, but he has some good survival chances. And once he’s survived the first fight he can THEN make tools adapted to the situation. If a human survive the first fight chances are they’re going to win the second.
Well, it was his walking stick, and not his arm, plus he was a youthful 78, not 80, but still, BADASS!
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wanyandie.html
Oh wait, this guy did jam his arm down the bears throat, then BIT it death. Doesn’t mention his age though.
https://huckberry.com/journal/posts/man-kills-grizzly-with-hands-and-teeth
Human pushed Jerry down and ran to grab a rock!
Tiger eyes Jerry suspiciously.
Tiger enjoyed the Jerry.
Humans are by far the most lethal species on Earth. The statistical estimates is that humans kill about 150 billion animals every year worldwide.
Eh, “Humans” are only lethal in the sense of what tools we can create to be lethal.
Just plop a human down, and they are going to be lunch for most things. We have no claws, our teeth are not sharp enough to be especially dangerous. We have no protective shell, spikes, or coloration, nor are we toxic.
Unless absorption of traits increases the Xenos’s intelligence to a degree where they can suddenly start using and making tools, they have nothing to gain and a lot to lose.
I mean, just look at the 4th aliens movie. :P
……“Humans” are only lethal in the sense of what tools we can create to be lethal……..
Dude, you should check out some videos of the tribes that still practice persistence hunting. In the animal world we are the terrifying nightmare that might move slowly but never. stop. coming for you until you drop from exhaustion, unable to move, stroked out from heat, only able to watch as the human readies the death blow.
We are a terrifying.
You mean the same strategy that wolves, hyneas, dogs, and lions use? In less time, while still remaining lethal, without.
It is also only useful against prey species, it won’t help you against another predator.
No, not ambush predation. LXV said “persistence hunting.”
Those large carnivores you mentioned depend on a quick kill because they can’t afford a protracted chase.
We’re not talking about a 25 second sprint, we’re talking about a four-hour endurance test.
Canids do follow their prey, but not at a run. Because they can’t do that. There is only one known species that has ever existed that can.
To be fair that’s a pretty exclusionary approach. Its like saying ‘Yeah if your rip out all the claws and teeth and cripple a tiger they’re not very scary”. Making weapons WAS our evolutionary solution to those problems after all, removing our set up to making them is a pretty stern handicap. Actually a great quote about that from an old Sci-fi I read “They came to observe our evolution!” “My evolution involved a club” (I want to say it was form something like ‘The bar at the end of the Universe’ maybe? That’s not it but the main guy was a bartender and it was a collection of short stories of his experiences.)
And like others pointed out 80 year olds have still killed bears because Adrenaline is a hell of a drug.
The Draco Tavern, by Larry Niven. Specifically the story called “Table Manners.” I love that story!
On top of that, some of us have trained for unarmed combat. Take away all my gadgets and gizmos, and I still have two black belts and two kickboxing instructor ranks. I may be a munchkin-sized flabby IT nerd with a bad back, but even I won’t be going down without a heck of a fight.
Put my martial arts skills on someone with decent physical prowess, and the balance goes from “prey” to “predator” pretty quickly.
Ok, go try to punch a gorilla. Lets see who wins.
As of right now, clearly a gorilla.
But on someone who’s fit and strong, human that knows how to kill something with it’s bare hands, efficiently.
Google gorilla versus human. The gorilla is going to win.
It is at least 6x stronger than a human, has a lower center of gravity, is heavier, is faster, has a denser skeletal and musculature structure, and fights by instinct rather than training.
“I know kung-fu” isn’t going to do you any good. You can’t put it into a submission hold, you can’t throw it, punching it is most likely not even going to make it flinch as it is built to get into fights with things 6x stronger than you. While it hitting you is likely to break your bones.
The whole point, that you glossed over, is that Xenos have nothing to gain by absorbing a human. It does not bring them up intellectually to a level that is useful, and they lose a lot of their other useful characteristics. in the process.
If you do not get tool use, there is nothing to gain from humans.
Also I call BS on an 80 year old killing a bear with their, ahem, bare hands. Link or it didn’t happen.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/31/man-80-fights-bear-survives
not a kill, but he did fight it and survive
Decided to reply here, but it is to the entire thread about humans not being useful. you do realize we are the most adaptable species on the planet right? Within our genetic code is the adaptability to not just survive, but THRIVE in desert conditions AND arctic conditions. We thrive in high moisture and low moisture, we survive off of lower caloric intake than any other animal our size. We also have another adaptation that is only found regularly in certain bird species, the ability to learn quickly and pass that knowledge on to others rapidly AND pass it onto the next generation. We also function across the spectrum of oxygen levels just fine…on high mountains or at sea level. It is our nature, in our very genetic code, to adapt to almost anything. That is a huge bonus any species would want if not NEED.
I agree. We don’t need claws if we can make claws. And claws become useless when you can make or have someone make a Kalasznikov for you. Technology is an extension to evolution so I don’t see any reason to not count it.
Aghh, so many terrible explanations on human evolution here. No, tools are not something we evolved to deal without our environmental pressures. That’s not how evolution works. The tool gets passed around and the entire social structure benefits which means ALL of the humans pass on their genes in that situation, not the one who invented the tool. There’s no evolutionary pressure there.
No, the runaway human intelligence evolution has nothing to do with tool creation. It has to do with human social structure. You can see it in Chimps actually. The smarter humans would work to the top of a tribe not because they’re outsmarting the environments problems, but because they’re outsmarting *each other*. And those at the top of the tribe are the ones that are going to breed.
In regards to pursuit predation, technically homo erectus and homo neanderthanlensis also used it, not just homo sapiens.
Lastly, there’s another aspect of human biology that is more than a little crazy compared to other predatory animals… our regenerative capabilities. Humans have very active scar tissue and deal with shock better than almost any other mammal. A broken bone in the vast majority of creatures sends them into shock and death. Humans can shatter most of their bones and be fine six weeks down the road. We used surgery thousands of years before real anasthetics. As a species we handle pain better than almost anyone else too. We routinely injure and even kill each other while *playing*.
Ignoring our ridiculously over-evolved brain and spinal structure, humans are still incredibly good predators. Our ability at endurance is literally best in the world, no other animal can do what we do. Our ability to take punishment is right up there with the best also. We are one of the most efficient predators because unlike big cats or snakes or sharks that often miss their prey and have to conserve energy, which is why they rely on ambush and lots of rest, a pack of humans almost always got their prey. Once a pack of humans had targeted an animal, that animal was dead and food, it just didn’t know it yet. It might take all day, running and panting, but soon it’s going to drop and see that grinning, small toothed, big headed primate standing over it before the rock drops on its head.
Fun fact–Yautja culture (the aliens from Predator) has an equivalent discussion to our “who would win in a fight, Batman or Superman?” argument.
The majority of them believe that we’re more dangerous and a better hunt than xenomorphs.
i second that while xenomorphs are deadly at the end their still animals in a sense . nothing is more dangerous to hunt then something which is capable of hunting you back.
Hyper Acid Beam.
Good grief I hope they are all sterile. Also Happy Father’s Day
Technically only queens are capable of reproducing. In some versions a drone can molt into a queen if there’s no queen around, though. Enh, I’m sure it’ll be fine.
They do have the capacity to turn living beings into eggs containing facehuggers…
If we’re going by Aliens, you’re going to need a specific alien with that role.
Original Alien movie, anything goes.
I guess Prometheus and Covenant might have other information, but I ruled out the latter for now since I saw the former and heard Covenant wasn’t all that great – Alien movies were never something I was much into.
Covenant is a fine movie, a lot of people are just mad because it’s changing the established mythology to something less cool. And that mythology only existed in the non-canon EU anyway.
More than likely one of them is a queen due to them acting similar to ants, if a queen is missing one will spawn.
And then they all imploded because Xenomorphs can’t withstand over one atmosphere of pressure. The end.
Is that some kind of terrible deus-ex-machina plot device from the movies? I haven’t seen any of them, so I wouldn’t know.
AvP maybe. The Queen was defeated by chaining it to something heavy and dropping it into the ocean. The movie acted like that was a happy ending but that’s both much greater than one atmosphere of pressure and we never actually see the thing die.
Dead? Maybe, maybe not. Doesn’t matter that much. She’s chained to something heavy at the bottom of the ocean, and she’s not likely to breed successfully down there. The current problem is solved. The future is a problem for our descendants.
depends… al it really takes is a shark or something getting a bit to close… these things are based around adaptive evolution in a single generation. once she gains a
if it dies, or somehow isn’t able to lay it’s eggs in this specific environment… fine, god job. otherwise, you just screwed over the planet, since you ensured that it got enough time to set up a large hive before getting found out.
provided that no large ocean predator takes them out, but slightly meaner jaws and carapace armor combined with oxic blood places it strongly in the top 1000 more scary things in the ocean. they are, after all, essentially moray eels with carapace armor and toxic blood. minus the ambush predator part.
IANAbiologist but I imagine sharks don’t go all that deep, relatively.
But I also didn’t see the movie and an impromptu location also won’t be all that deep, compared to a trench.
Sharks? Sharks are tame sh*t compared to what lives in the Abyss.
Angler fish. Sperm whales. Giant squid. Animals living next to volcanic vents, feeling fine and dandy soaking in all that sulfuric acid.
Welp, time to cancel my cruise.
How’d they end up like that?
Xenomorphs take on the traits of whatever critter they incubate in.
The birth process is usually more…fatal, though. I suppose the poor facehuggers didn’t really know how to deal with being eaten. That can’t happen to them much. Maybe water types are strong vs. acid?
Gyarados is Resistant to Bug types and Steel types, both of which make sense for Xenomorph. But it is not resistant to Poison.
More likely, they just implanted all the fish that Mr.Fish had eaten recently, since they were in the stomach.
Or if you want to go the horrifying route; Mr.Fish was already pregnant, and they implanted the babies.
Pokemon don’t get pregnant, they lay eggs. Plus those things would not be so scary if they had implanted into magikarp.
Then they would have been xenomagicarp not xenogyrados.
Xenomagicarps. Let that sink in for a moment.
I can’t decide wetherI should laugh or be terrified by the idea.
Xenomorphs change depending on the genetics of their host.
Coelasquid, I would love to see the whole Easter Crab saga in color if you ever have time. But I know you’re super busy, so just keep being awesome.
A part of me wishes the Easter Xenomorphs had been birthed, not in black, but in multiple Easter colors.
This is fine.
THIS IS NOT GOOD, THIS IS REALLY NOT GOOD.
No, the proper phrasing is:
“That’s it, man. Game over, man. Game over!”
Aaaand one more reason i refuse to go on a ocean cruise or any body of water larger that a pond……… underwater greebalies. Nope….. nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope.
But! But! They did a comic on this! Sooner or later one will magically become a queen and once that happens she can control the others! So she will have an egg cave under the sea in a cave! The others will kidnap humans and bring them down to the cave for the eggs to hatch into the face huggers!
You need to step in now commander! o:
Eh, there’s probably something in there that’ll prey on them and keep the population in check. “There’s always a bigger fish.” Qui-Gon’s wisdom holds extra true in a world where Pokemon are a thing; acid blood ain’t keeping those guys off the menu.
Yeah but the bigger fish ate them, it didn’t work.
Bigger fish ate the facehuggers, which are one-shot parasitic ambush predators that stick their ovipositor down your throat and implant an egg in your digestive system.
Mr. Fish was actually gonna be immune UNTIL he ate them, whereupon he expedited the process. They were already IN his digestive tract! He lived though so that’s a solid win.
Wait until later, and suddenly wham.
Alien vs. Bisharp: can’t facehug, it’s face is an axe. Can’t toxic blood, it’s made of metal. Bitey, ready type attacks just mean you’re gonna get stabbed right’n’proper
why would they prey on humans specifically though? We get our deadlines from intelligence, something that they can get on their own, and there are WAY more scary things down under than pathetic, softskin humans. sounds like a lot of unnecessary work for them, they can bread with anything, no need to kidnap humans…
We are a higher in number cattle.
but we don’t outnumber fishes in the ocean.
Xenomorph sunfish are gonna look ridiculous.
Xenomorph flounders.
flounder*, I realise the singular & plural are the same.
Wut. There’s like 7 billion of us, that is not a high number compared to fish in the ocean. Not counting any potential pokemon that might be down there… I mean, it doesn’t even need to be a particularly nasty one. A cloyster would fuck ’em up.
as soon a you said an under sea egg cave I immediately pictured aeriel from the little mermaid being chased by and aquatic face hugger…
I kinda wanna see the war between Atlantis and the xenomorphs now
You may be imagining Arial… -I- imagining that Aquaman just got a whole lot scarier.
…Spongebob.
I’ll just show myself out now.
And thus a new pokemon species was born
When your Fish-Snake does hide
Even more jaws inside
That’s a moray!
I need to applaud this.
you truly bring a tear to my eye. that wa beautiful, hilarious and horrifying.
Bwaahahahaha!
This is your friendly reminder that the humble mantis shrimp throws a punch that hits as hard as live ammunition.
That the beaked sea snake is so poisonous that three drops of its venom can kill 8 people.
That the scaly-footed snail is not only naturally poisonous but magnetized for good measure, and survives not by eating but by metabolizing some of the poisons that should be killing it.
Commander’s not lyin’. Those aliens face some stiff competition down there.
Let’s just say that the competition down there hasn’t slacked off much since the Devonian Period…The forms have changed somewhat, but the competition remains.
http://www.fossils-facts-and-finds.com/devonian_period.html
I learned something new today.
And that’s just the things we know about. Every time researchers send down a probe, they find new species.
And new horrors.
scaly-footed snail
Didn’t know about this one. Awesome. Turns out Lavos is real, but tiny.
Mr. Fish used Astonish!
….
….
It’s super effective!
Yessssssssssssssss
I am a relatively new father.
I am also never allowing my kids near the ocean. Ever.
It’s like Steven unleashing his Melon people on the world but much MUCH More horrifying.
……the worst thing is they’re probably not even the worst thing in the ocean.
but Gyarados xenomorph= badass
Well, The Commander even knitted a hat & sweater for one impressive example of what lives down there already. Remember that “Survival Competition” they had, where Jonesy was invited along?
Oh gods it actually happened
Coela you are a wonderful person and we don’t say it often enough but we love you, thank you so much for this magnificent insanity
Hmmm…”Magnificent insanity.” I’ll remember that one.
+1 Internet to you.
Wait, wouldnt they start off as xenomorph magikarps??
Nah, see, these guys will lay eggs that hatch Magikarp facehuggers. Magihuggers…Facikarpers? Whatever.
Oh man, it’s a fathers day comic and mr.fish has become a daddy. Nice work, Coelasquid.
So this is where this alien came from
http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Swimming_Alien
Everything went better and worse than expected.
Of course, this raises the million Pokebuck question: Can a Xenomorph Gyrados be pulled into a pokeball? And if so, how many league badges does it need to command it? Kind of want one for my final four team, now. :P
“Xenodos used DOUBLE BITE! It’s super effective!”
Shouldn’t they have come out as Xenokarp?
YEah, not going swimming in open water again. EVER. Made me laugh out loud though, nice one.
Down there in the ocean depths they will find old Chtulu and several types of kaiju. Alienify everything.
The xenorados are definitely one of the most badass thing you have ever drawn. If you have the time I would love to see them colored. Thank you.
Jared raises a valid question. IS Mr. Fish okay?
Eh, quick trip to the Pokecenter, he’ll be fine.
O_o dear God Almighty Gyrados Xenomorphs……….welp good news is we don’t have to worry bout great whites anymore.
Wait you were setting up for a Father’s Day comic. Expert planning. XD I didn’t expect this. Nice.
Also holy shit Gyarados Xenomorphs are going to be the new legendaries. XD
It was building up to this! Nice
I hope Aquaman gets pissed off.
Okay, I have one small request: could we get one panel with Jones hissing at a xenomorph, just so we can say we made the joke?
Eerrmm… so do you consider the second AvP film canon? Because in that case them things can just at random produce eggs out of “biological matter” and in fact infect stuff with chestbursters on their own.
I think at least once in the comics a queen spontaneously molted out of a regular ‘morph.
So.. I’m still with the commander on this one, except for the bits where I’m totally with Jones.
The novels had that second one too, where a drone can molt into a queen if there’s no queen available. Some real insects work like that, I think, and it makes a lot more sense than drones making eggs on their own–why keep the drones busy taking care of a gigantic queen that’s tethered to her ovipositor (until Ripley blows it off) if eggs are so easy to make?
The predalien was also a queen so it’s not something they can all do. And I don’t think anyone wants Requiem to be in continuity.
I know we can’t see it from behind him but the commander is still eating that popcorn right?
…NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE!!!!
Please tell me Jared is going to keep at least one of them.
*inarticulate squealing at the adorable BABIES*
My money’s on that they will be eaten by larger pyrosome colonies. Their body is too small for xenomorphs to infect, the colonies can injest -much- larger things, and are one of the largest and most surreal predators in the ocean.
I sure hope someone is going to pick up that phone.
Because I f*kin called it!
Truthfully, this is not the worst Pokémon this could happen to. Tyrunt is just one example
Huh. I was expecting XenoKarp.
This is infinitely scarier.
Sweet!
i was kinda expecting Jared to have a strange expression , being verklempt that he is a grampapa. And the xenogyarados in a family reunion. And I dont think the situation has escalated … enough. MWA HA HA.
If you ever color this, I hope that at least one of the baby xeno-dos is a shiny one.
“ocean its full of horrible things” that remembers me this scene of age of ultron lol
https://youtu.be/my2UMMdRmvs?t=51s
You know, despite the sheer chaos and destruction they’ll probably call, these are like, the least horrifying Xenomorphs, since their progenitor is already a ravenous, toothy, sharp-finned sea monster.
Everything IS relative.
But taking into consideration how tiny they are after birth and how fast they outgrow their host … In less than a day you’re going to have a bunch a creatures that will make you stay out of the water forever. On a positive note though: you probably won’t have to worry about Cthulu anymore. They just found and ate him.
Gyarados xenomorphs are an incredibly cool thing I didn’t know I wanted.
Not even a master ball is going to cacth them now…
This is, of course, how X-COM: Terror from the Deep starts.
I would’ve figured gyrado would birth a load of magicarp rather than more gyrados. How do the later evolutions not wipe out the earlier ones?
And if age doesn’t neccessarily mean higher evolutions, does that mean there are tiny, wrinkly, and old charmanders and squirtles in the world?
OMG I want to see Jared tame them now!!
I’ve been reading this comic in a binge,and must aks,what is the Commander’s accent supposed to sound like?I’m not a native english speaker,so I just can’t figure it out.
Watch Beetlejuice and Metalocalypse and imagine some cross between the titular character of the former and Nathan Explosion from the latter.
Really? I just imagined Kronk mixed with Batman, with a dash of smokers’ lung. Canadian Guy is Brian Blessed, but drunk.
Oh, that’s fine, I didn’t want to go scuba diving, anyways…
Gyarados + Easter Crabs = Xenocarp? Yes, perfect.
Now I’m imagining all the other Easter Crab evolutions. Xenochu? Bulbaxeno? Xenonat? Exenoggcute? Braixeno? In related news, it’s been years since I looked at a Pokemon list, and I didn’t realize we’re at 802 now. That’s a lot of possible Xenomorphs.
I just skimmed and didn’t see it mentioned but I believe there’s a valid basis for them not harming Me Fish. I’ve read a statement that hosts need an appropriate size; a cat is too small to gestate while an elephant is too big to escape or something. Under the circumstances, this kinda makes a scary amount of sense
One minor detail missing … what would the larval state have eaten to be able to pupate into the grown xenomorph?
Oh, that’s not full-grown, that’s just the chestburster stage. They’ll be as big as Mr. Fish when they’re full-grown.
Hard to tell tbh, since they would never get limbs in the end phase.
Between all the screams, I found myself laughing at this page.
I can’t wait for the touching father/daughter reunion when one of the elite four pulls one of these out during Jared’s next challenge.
Jared gets emotional, Mr. Fish just eats it again. Wash, rinse, repeat.
So instead of facehuggers would their eggs hatch xenokarps
Oh, good. Gyarados Xenomorphs. Because the world wasn’t dangerous enough.
Shouldn’t they have been magikarp?
It’s been a lonnng time since I’ve raised pokemon, so I could be massively wrong. But xenomorph magikarp would have been hysterically funny.
Aquamans gonna lose his s**t when these things come swimming through Atlantis.
Well if we follow the logic that the xenomorphs use the hosts DNA and all that won’t that make them pokemon like and only be able to know 4 moves at a time?
I’ve been enjoying the last few black and white comics, but the inking on this one in particular is fantastic!
(dare I say, out of this world?)
still a better movie than covenant
You know i just noticed one thing…mr Fish’s face always had something particular, but i could’nt figure what, now i know…
He is the ONLY Gyarados who ever close his mouth!
look at every sprite, official artwork or anime apperance of gyarados, it always have his mouth wide open.
really, maybe someone noticed it before me, but Jared must be a really good trainer to manage that.
Easter’s eels!
1: im happy that Mr fish is alright.
2: that’s so freaking cool.
I dunno… I’m kinda with her on this one, I’ve got a bad eel-ing about this…
Mark my words, this will come back around next year. Their will be grandchildren. :P
So… the real question is… do Xenomorphs that have spawned out of a Pokemon have an evolution chain, or are they standalone? Also, what types are they? Dark/Fighting?
Water/Poison. Like 60% of all Water-types.
yup definetly water/poison but there arent that many pokemons with that typing :
tentacool line, qwilfish, skrelp and the toxapex line theres actually more water/ground
IT’S SO MUCH WORSE IN COLOR
It’s so much more awesome in color. Thanks Coleasquid!
I was rereading old comics, and seeing this comic in color made my day!
They look much more terrifying in color
Thank you for letting Mr. Fish survive this experience.
Eunice aphroditois
I just turned my adblock off, and to be honest it’s not that bad. There’s only two, and they aren’t intrusive
So beautiful….
IT BEGINS!
Is Jared going to keep one?? Please, please, please let Jared keep one!
Ok, I like how some people discuss the idea of Mr Fish being a seahorse like pokemon… but uh, can we discuss the GIANT FUCKING ALIEN MONSTERS THAT JUST SWAM INTO THE OCEAN!?
Is it weird that I kinda want one?