Comment by pessimizer
Comment by pessimizer 3 days ago
What I think happened is that he said "facehugger" when he meant "chestbuster," likely because 1) the word "chestbuster" almost repeats the word "bursting," and 2) everyone knows that a chestbuster is the only notable symptom (aside from hunger and sudden indigestion) of having been attacked by a facehugger.
You've introduced eggmorphing (the transformation of people and other animals into eggs), which is not canon because the scene was cut.
https://collider.com/alien-eggmorph-deleted-scene-explained/
"Facehugger" is a lot more familiar a term, and yeah, I didn't even realize there was a difference because a facehugger leads to bursting-chests, at least in what I remember of the 3 Alien movies I watched. (I also keep thinking of 'facehuggers' thanks to the AI startup Hugging Face. Every time I see their logo+name, I think again to myself, 'what a bizarre brand, it looks like _Alien_, like the poor emoji guy is about have his chest burst from the face-hugging alien'.)
But since the term is apparently not technically correct (which as we all know, is the best - indeed, only - kind of correctness), I have changed it.