Editing Xenomorph (section)

====Newborn====
[[File:Alien-Newborn.jpg|thumb|upright|right|The "Newborn", seen here with Ripley in ''[[Alien Resurrection]]'']]
In ''[[Alien Resurrection]]'', due to significant genetic tampering in an attempt to recover DNA from the deceased Ellen Ripley and the Alien queen within her, the resulting cloned Aliens show a number of minor human traits. The cloned queen inherits a perversion of a human womb, and as a result, it ceases to lay eggs and gives birth to a [[humanoid]] [[mutant (fiction)|mutant]] hybrid. Physically, the human/Alien Newborn is very different from other alien young, being larger, with pale, translucent skin, a [[skull]]-shaped face with eyes, a human tongue, and a complete absence of a tail. The Newborn fails to bond with its Alien queen mother, killing it, and imprinting on the Ripley clone instead.

The Newborn creature was originally scripted by [[Joss Whedon]] as being an eyeless, ivory-white quadruped with red veins running along the sides of its head. It had an inner jaw, with the addition of a pair of pincers on the sides of its head. These pincers would have been used to immobilize its prey as it drained it of blood through the inner jaw. The creature was originally going to rival the queen in size, but [[Jean-Pierre Jeunet]] asked ADI to make the human/Alien [[Hybrid (biology)|hybrid]], known as the Newborn, more human than Alien. The Newborn's eyes and nose were added to improve its expressions to make it a character, rather than just a "killing machine", and give it depth as a human-like creature.