User blog comment:SonofSamhain/Is Venus really that bad a character?/@comment-6005022-20131007163845/@comment-24020550-20131007165456

Actually there's some evidence for both sides of the coin. Truthfully the only SET gender of the Xenos is the female hive Queen, who is their primary egglayer. However in video-games it's been seen that ANY Xeno can supposedly 'molt' into a Queen, but we can't be sure if that's true or not since it's from the video-games and not the movie franchise. In the movie, the Xeno's seem to have always a distinct need to chase down Riley because she carries the 'Queen' DNA, if they can 'molt' then why chase her for that said 'DNA'?


 * coughs* Anyhow, the creator has said that the xeno's are a mix of female and male sexuality, therefore we can probably deduce they are all either 'asexual' aside from the Queen (who takes DNA from other species to make her babies, in violent and painful ways), OR if they are like insects, they are all actually FEMALE, but have suppressed hormones while connected with a Queen (which inables if the queen is dead, one to molt to a queen, like Wandering Queens in beehives)

OR! There is the possiblity that even more creepily they MAY be all MALES, aside from the Queen, like clown-fish. But if the Queen dies, the largest and most powerful of those males in the 'harem' will transform into a female that the 'harem' will now mate with and dote on. This is something that tends to happen more in fish.

LASTLY, they again could all be female, just like whiplash lizard, which of the entire species are females, and only have the ability to clone themselves if they do not procreate sexually. If they want true sexually produced eggs, the females of the whiplash have to hybridize with males of close cousin species of theirs.

Me, I tend to think of them as either insectoid or asexual, but these other possibilities for them are interesting XD;;

(yes, I know, I know some weird stuff XD;; ))