Talk:Life-spore

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A: It's not clear to me that this and Xenomorph are meant to be the same, given what you've currently put on that page Epsilon, but I realize that there's a work in progress tag, so I can be convinced on that issue. I'm really not all that aware of the relevant appearances. B: There's enough precedent to keep the pages separate as is. See Earth Reptile. Unless a licensed work uses both "Life Spore" and "Xenomorph" in the same sense, we have to refer to the similarities in BTS sections, and not even that if A doesn't succeed. Najawin ☎  00:40, 21 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Rebuttal:
 * Having watched every Alien film to date, as well as many of the tie in books and comics, I can shed some light. You see, these are absolutely Xenomorphs, due to the story paying homage to the plots of every Alien movie, as well as the "life-spores" being almost identical to the Xenomorphs.


 * 1) The crew of a human spaceship arrives at some deserted planetoid, the crew go an explore, one of the members is violently killed, and by the end, there's only one survivor. That's Alien.
 * 2) The planetoid inexplicably becomes a colony. That's Aliens.
 * 3) The female human survivor fights the aliens, both adapting and changing between each fight. That's Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection.
 * 4) The backstory of the aliens becomes more convoluted. That's Prometheus.
 * Then there's the name of the "xenomorph" - that isn't technically the name of the species. That's just a generic term, which has been addressed in the Alien franchise, so for The Annotated Autopsy of Agent 5 to use a similar, generic term isn't out of place, especially as this has actually happened in the series.
 * But you see, there have been cases where two pages have been merged without a valid source connecting the two. This Wiki has made it clear that they only care if a Doctor Who element is licenced - it's been said that if the Borg were actually unlicenced in Assimilation², we wouldn't change anything. The story provides an explantion as to how the Alien films exist in-universe - the Enemy inserted the life-spores into the "meta-stream", to bring the to the attention to the public. The "life-spores" are more like Xenomorphs than the actual Xenomorphs depicted in the DWU. The clear intent of the story is to bring the Xenomorphs into the DWU. Hence, why the pages should be merged. Epsilon  📯 📂 00:58, 21 December 2020 (UTC)