While the Alien universe, one comic book miniseries reveals there is one threat even deadlier. The Xenomorphs are an incredibly smart and versatile species who find a way to survive no matter the terrain or circumstance. However, even the Xenomorphs aren’t immune to one massive threat to the galaxy, and as this comic brutally shows, the humans who encountered it never even had a chance.
In the miniseries Aliens: Kidnapped by Jim Woodring, Justin Green, and Francisco Solano Lopez, a team of space scavengers track down a Xenomorph hive to steal Ovomorphs to sell at a high price to a team of scientists. One of the eggs is coated with a clumpy pink substance, but the pirates take it anyway to see if their buyer would still be interested. The buyer was not interested and told the scavengers to dump the Xenomorph egg in space as it looked like it was infected with some sort of intergalactic virus. While dumping it in space is certainly what they should have done... they did not.
Instead of getting rid of the pink Ovomorph, the people who found it took it to a black market dealer who would assuredly give them a good price for a highly valuable Xenomorph egg. The dealer sets them up with a buyer, but before the person who would likely want the egg for himself got a chance to consider whether or not he would take it, the egg opens and a Facehugger attaches itself to his face, implanting a Xenomorph in his chest. Before he wakes up, the buyer was taken to a resort planet as he was invited there the day prior to being impregnated with a Xenomorph. Once he lands, the Xenomorph bursts from his chest and kills everyone on board before wreaking havoc on the paradise planet below. With each attack, the Xenomorph trails the same pink substance behind it, a substance that disintegrates people’s skin and even in one instance, makes someone explode.
It quickly becomes clear that the Xenomorph itself was the least of this planet’s worries as the pink virus it carried was brutally killing people all over the massive resort. Eventually the virus became the Xenomorph’s cause of death, but even though the alien was vanquished it had still spread a cosmically terrifying virus all over that part of the planet. In response, the intergalactic government decided to nuke the entire site from orbit for fear of the virus spreading and infecting an entire system.
While similar measures have been taken in the past to thwart the Xenomorph species from spreading, the virus proves to be much deadlier as it is much more difficult to fight and to contain. A team of humans can and have fought off a horde of Xenomorphs with heavy artillery, but a virus cannot be fought physically. The pink virus kills people in a brutal manner, melting skin and causing explosions, and it spreads quickly as one infected Xenomorph es the disease to nearly everyone on the resort within a matter of hours. Given its deadly nature and difficulty fighting, this pink virus is the one threat in the Alien universe that is deadlier than Xenomorphs.
