Wendy (Sydney Chandler) communicates with a newborn Xenomorph. FX/Hulu

ALIEN: EARTH Turned Xenomorphs Into Trained Pets

Originally posted on Nerdist | By Eric Diaz | Last updated Sep 23, 2025 10:58 PM ET

In earlier episodes of the season, we saw as Wendy (Sydney Chandler) was able to “talk” to the newborn Xenomorph, which was held in a holding cell at Prodigy’s Neverland Research Facility. In the penultimate episode, we saw that Wendy can do a lot more than just communicate with the aliens. She can also ask them to do things for her. She asks the Xeno if it can protect her and her friends from a military attack, and it rips into the soldiers like they were tissue paper. By making the right sounds at the frequency the Xenos use, she can effectively talk to them. It definitely seems to like her and it obeys her commands.

Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and Joe (Alex Lawther) sense an attack on Alien: Earth. FX/Hulu

In the season finale, “The Real Monsters,” we see the Xenomorph obeying Wendy’s commands was not just a one-time thing. The alien follows Wendy and her fellow Lost Boys around like a loyal pet. Actually, perhaps the proper term is loyal attack dog. By the season finale, we see that the Xeno totally obeys Wendy’s orders. And it even walks around her like a loyal puppy. If that loyal puppy had acid for blood and could tear your throat out, that is. The Xeno attacks and kills several soldiers trying to get to it. All Wendy has to do is point it in the right direction, and it goes to town.

By episode’s end, Wendy and her fellow hybrid children have Boy Kavalier and the Prodigy scientists in a cell. Circling the cell is the Xenomorph, climbing the walls like a cat ready to pounce. We know just how deadly a killing machine the alien is, after multiple films showing us. But this is the first time it’s ever seem to have any affinity to another lifeform. Is it because the hybrids are technically not alive, and therefore not potential incubators or food? Maybe the Xenos were just always waiting for someone to come along and just talk to them, like Wendy/Marcy now has. If only someone had told Ellen Ripley, you just have to treat it like she did her cat, Jones.

The Xenomorph hides in the jungle on Alien: Earth. FX/Hulu

The Alien films, which take place after this series, don’t ever suggest the Xenomorphs can do anything but breed and kill. But the one on this series sure seemed to take a liking to Wendy. Is it an anomaly? Is she somehow a humanoid Xenomorph Queen? Certainly, the other films go way ahead in time and never suggest the creatures are sentient, much less obedient to anyone or anything, other than the Queen. We’ll have to wait to see how this new wrinkle in the Xenomorph/hybrid relationship plays out in future seasons, should we get them. Our fingers are crossed.

The entire first season of FX’s Alien: Earth is now available to stream on Hulu.

This article first appeared on Nerdist and was syndicated with permission.

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