Facehugger
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A Facehugger is an Alien infant that hatches from an egg. It resembles a pair of skeletal hands with a spine-like tail. It uses its tail to launch itself at a host, where it throttles him or her until it gasps for air. Then it shoves its ovipositer down the victim's throat and lays an egg in the bronchial tubes. The egg hatches, and the pre-larvae burrows into the victim's aorta, where it feeds on the nutrients, and absorbs the host DNA. This will become a Chestburster. At this point, the Facehugger is useless, and crawls off to die. They are often dragged into combat by a Carrier (AVP Extinction). Like all Xenomorphs, they have a corrosive body fluid. It will murder the victim if it is sucessfully removed before implantation is complete.
[edit] Praetorian FaceHugger
The Praetorian FaceHugger behaves, for the most part, like the standard Facehugger, however, it always impregnates its host with a Praetorian Chestburster. The Praetorian Chestburster then matures into a full grown Praetorian. Praetorian Facehuggers a tinted brown and have higher health. They can also lunge farther (AVP Extinction).
Praetorian Facehuggers hatch from a Praetorian Egg.
[edit] Genetic modification
A genetically engineered form of the facehugger attaches to the host as usual, but parasitically fuses with it, linking it to the hive mind. The infected move in a zombie-like fashion, much like the Headcrab Zombie found in Half-life games. If it infests a Yautja Hunter, it will attack anything unlinked to the hive that moves (Alien Vs. Predator arcade game).
