a) When I watched Spiderman 2 in 2004, I was very impressed by the scenes showing the tentacles of Doc Ock when he suddenly comes back to consciousness in room where they're trying to remove them. These things looked horrific to me and then i thought about the tube on the back of the alien and if they had been extended, then what. The original character was first introduced into the Spiderman comic books back in 1963 still with four tentacles.
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| Doc Ock verses Spiderman in Spiderman 2 |
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| the cover of The Amazing Spiderman first featuring Dr Octopus back in 1963 |
b) On the cover of the Aliens edition of Mad Magazine back in 1986, they already played with this idea slightly and I knew about this before hand.
c) Another influence to consider can be the alien invader's biomechanoid suits from Independence Day. (see Independence day at the Alien Explorations blog)
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| toy version of alien suit |
d) Another curiosity is the Coeurl from "Black Destroyer" first published in Astounding Science Fiction 1939 , written by AE Van Vogt, and later the story was incorporated into his novel Voyage of the Space Beagle. That creature was an alien creature created by a long lost civilisation and discovered on a distant planet across the galaxy, and stemming from this large feline creature's back were four long tentacles growing with which is can manipulate technology etcetera, and this story AE Van Vogt was so sure that Shusett and O'Bannon borrowed from that he took them to court over the matter. But the four tentacles coming from it's back are interesting in view of the four pipes coming from the back of the Alien.
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