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BWoog

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In space, no one can hear you scream, "Avengers Assemble!"

Over the course of the Alien franchise, the fearsome creatures known as Xenomorphs have encountered — and eviscerated — all types of enemies, including workers, soldiers, prisoners, scientists, and even Predators. But this summer, they'll reach a new level when they come face to face with superheroes.

Now that Disney owns the rights to both Marvel and Alien (the latter stemming from the studio's 2019 acquisition of Fox assets), Entertainment Weekly can exclusively report that these two franchises are colliding in the crossover comic Aliens vs. Avengers, from writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Esad Ribic.

That creative team last worked together on the Secret Wars event comic (which has been teased as a potential future Marvel Cinematic Universe film) and are two of Marvel's most accomplished creators. Ribic handled art on Marvel's recent Eternals comic (which was miles better than the movie), while Hickman has been busy with all kinds of projects over the last few years, from revitalizing the X-Men to bringing back the Ultimate Universe.

"I've never worked on a licensed or 'non-superhero' property the entire time I've been at Marvel, so when all of this came together almost two years ago, I kind of jumped at the opportunity," Hickman tells EW. "I love the Aliens universe and the mythology, and obviously just how atmospherically and well-designed everything is has always gotten my creative juices flowing. It was tricky finding a way to make these two things work together, but I think Esad and I landed on something that works for fans of both franchises."

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Jonathan Hickman teases Marvel's upcoming 'Aliens vs. Avengers' comic

Jonathan Hickman teases what to expect when Marvel's new 'Aliens vs. Avengers' comic brings superheroes face to face with Xenomorphs.
 

Joshua

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So someone will end up getting implanted by a face hugger right? Who will it be!

But this series is set a little into the future, outside the typical continuity for either Alien or Avengers stories, which gives some room to play.

I assume this gives Hickman license to just straight up off heroes with no consequences to main 616 continuity?
 

PlanetSmasher

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I struggle to picture any scenario in which Xenomorphs stand even a remote shadow of a chance against Carol Danvers.
 

Jubilant Duck

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seriously... the mans work always thrives in act 3 and we'll never see that on his mutant run
We aren't even getting to see his act 2, as the reason he left iirc is that when he was ready to wrap up act 1 the rest of the x-men team said "but this status quo is such fertile soil to explore brand new stories and we aren't done yet" and he said fair enough

but then that x-men writing team just regurgitated the same x-men stories we've been reading on repeat since the 80s.

I've felt so robbed by the whole affair.
 

Tamanon

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Seems a bit of a waste of Hickman's talent, but if he's gung-ho on the story, he has to have some creative ideas already.
 

Phendrana

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Uhh...Cap is the only one on that cover who could realistically be harmed by an Alien?

Tony would see them coming with heat/motion sensors, and has more powerful guns than whatever the soldiers were using in Aliens.

Carol would obliterate them.
 

Boclfon479

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Hulk. We will get Hulk Aliens and he could survive having his chest explode.


Actually that gives me an intriguing set of thoughts:

1) xenomorphs usually have dna based on their host right? Wouldn't they technically be able to get super powers from a superhero that way?


2) if the target can survive the bursting out of the alien, like say through regeneration or something, then if the aliens can capture someone and imprison them would they be able to just make a metric fuck ton of offspring? Possibly with regenerative powers of their own?
 

zma1013

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Uhh...Cap is the only one on that cover who could realistically be harmed by an Alien?

Tony would see them coming with heat/motion sensors, and has more powerful guns than whatever the soldiers were using in Aliens.

Carol would obliterate them.

Tony's armor would probably be destroyed by the acid.
 

Drayco21

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Not a fan of Ribic's art but I'm sure people will really have fun with this.
 

Hella

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I don't understand how they'll be a threat to superheroes. Captain Marvel, Hulk, or Thor could exterminate them entirely solo.

Another battle of the titans
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Bengraven

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Cowards. Make this canon.

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Do like Wildstorm did, where Fuckhead Ellis used this as an excuse to kill off tons of characters, clean up the continuity, and bring in The Authority.
 

PlanetSmasher

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I don't understand how they'll be a threat to superheroes. Captain Marvel, Hulk, or Thor could exterminate them entirely solo.

Another battle of the titans
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My gut feeling is the Xenos will probably attack another culture (probably Skrulls) first before attacking Earth, so the Avengers will have Skrull!Xenomorphs to deal with instead of just regular human-form Xenos. It's the only way to make them an even borderline credible threat, and even then, Carol could still solo the shit out of them.
 
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BWoog

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I don't understand how they'll be a threat to superheroes. Captain Marvel, Hulk, or Thor could exterminate them entirely solo.

Another battle of the titans
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There's two routes Hickman can take for this. You either hurl an entire planet filled with Xenomorphs at the team, or you depower the Avengers ala Superman Vs. Avengers.

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Sacul64

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She's right there on the cover. Wouldn't be the first time she's been forced to have a child either.

Please don't fucking do that, Hickman.

If she is pregnant with her own son's baby who is also himself and that pregnant woman alien from the avp movie shows up what kind of powers would that xenomorph have?