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Agreed.

I still don't care for them (and the Earth War as presented in the comics just featured normal adult warriors.  It's not till the Earth/ Female War comics that we get the new Praetorian and Queen Mother variant).

In all fairness several of them can just be used as slight variants between individual xenos. Humans aren't identical, other members of other species shouldn't be either.

Considering the Lope and Oram creatures were the same, the Auriga creatures all being the same and the horde of identical Aliens at Hadley, they don't really vary from human to human.

Considering the Lope and Oram creatures were the same, the Auriga creatures all being the same and the horde of identical Aliens at Hadley, they don't really vary from human to human.

Are they all the same, or is that just human racism not able to see the subtle differences? /jking of course =p

If we go by the comics and novels the differences really do come down to "parent" species. In one of the novels, Xenos are born from chimpanzees and have longer forearms and are much stronger than traditional Xenos but less intelligent than the so-called "Big chap." 

I'm temporarily necroing this old thread to highlight a brilliant, and very relevant, article I found on WIRED.

It summarises a large chunk of the point I originally tried to make when I started the thread:

WIRED: ALIENS Throwaway Line Confusion

So, that done ... nothing more to see here. Move along, move along...