In celebration of #AlienDay (April 26, in reference to LV-426 from the Alien franchise), here is a brief tweet thread looking at the most obvious (and some not-so-obvious!) Alien references in the Dragon Ball series. Did you catch all these? Are there even more?! Read on! (1/5)

Many fans see the connection between Freeza's third form and the standard Xenomorph design. Did you know that Toriyama used it before, though? And not just in Dragon Ball, but in Dragon Ball's two prototype works (Dragon Boy and The Adventure of Tongpoo)? https://www.kanzenshuu.com/manga/prototypes/

The outfit that Bulma wears (or, rather, doesn't wear?) on the spaceship en route to Namek is probably a reference to Ellen Ripley's outfit near the end of the first Alien film.

An anime-only scene in Dragon Ball episode 36 has Sergeant Metallic scanning Son Goku to get this seemingly-prophetic result. Truth be told, Toriyama would not come up with the idea of aliens until Earth's God was introduced, a few arcs later. https://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations/daizenshuu-4-akira-toriyama-super-interview/

So what is this text, then?! Other than the "LOOK ALIENS" (which is the big hint), it's all filler text taken straight from a display terminal seen during Alien. This is commonplace in anime! (Check out @ClydeMandelin's post on the matter! https://legendsoflocalization.com/japans-love-affair-with-filler-english-text/) おわり