A slow trickle of product news relating to the upcoming ALIEN Romulus movie is gradually picking up pace. Funko POP News! on X have shared an image of what appears to be ALIEN Romulus Funko POP! figures we can expect to see being released in relation to the movie. The upcoming line up includes Rain Carradine (Cailee Spaeny) and her synthetic ‘brother’, Andy (David Jonsson) along with a pair of Alien characters.
There’s a few interesting details of note here, especially in regard to both Alien characters. The six fingered hands and four toed feet of the original ALIEN creature have made a return. Not withstanding Funko’s stylised presentation of their figures, these shared  morphological features reflect an as yet undisclosed origin of these creatures and their relationship with the original creature as it appeared in 1979’s ALIEN. A scarred carapace along with a few other subtle differences such as pronated hands along with an alternate stance suggest these two pieces are intended to be two different creatures we can expect to appear in the movie and not just a pair of variants of the same Alien character. We’ve seen similarly defined scarred Aliens before. Most notable, appearing in the 2004 ALIEN vs PREDATOR movie where Grid became a recognisable ‘hero’ character with distinct net shaped scars burned across his head and shoulders to differentiate him from other creatures appearing in that movie. The scars serve the purpose of being One to stand out from the crowd, no less.

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