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slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 day agoThe design of the Xenomorph from Alien is famously like that. It has feminine curves, but a phallic head. And facehugger is basically raping the victims to impregnate them. All of these design choices were intentional to evoke the disgust/fear of the audience, I remember reading about this
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Half Life (2) monsters as well.
The, uh, the gonarch, the ‘adult headcrabs’ on Xen?
Yeah, it literally just is giant walking ballsack, pretty sure the concept artist basically just says that directly in ‘Raising the Bar’.
A bunch of the planned enemy types that existed in the beta/alpha, before Valve/HL2 got hacked and they significantly shifted development… a lot of the enemy types had concepts of much more fleshy appearances, often with hair, again, like pubic hair.
And then of course, Eli gets skull fucked to death by a giant penis tentacle in Ep 2.