reinforced by the rest of its life cycle as a chestburster.

http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Chestburster

looks like a xenomorph.

http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Facehugger

see: pokemon, digimon, beyblade, any other early 00's or late 90's 'mon.

wiki etc etc no spoilers

"Tavros" is Greek for "bull" and is also the Modern Greek pronunciation of the name "Taurus." His name resembles that of the Doctor Who villain Davros, the wheelchair-bound creator of the Daleks [...] "Nitram" is "Martin" written backwards. There are two possible connections for this. Operation Taurus was the name of a planned prosecution by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) against Martin McGuinness, and Mary Martin played Peter Pan in the 1954 musical.

http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Tavros_Nitram

http://www.unit-conversion.info/texttools/convert-text-to-binary/

binary is anything with two and only two states, a code that is binary represents information using only these two states.

and he's named with two 's' sounds.

from apiary, beehive, unsurprisingly

yall know the drill by now

Sollux rather transparently divides into "sol-lux", the Latin words for "sun" and "light", respectively. As such, his name would literally mean 'Sunlight Catcher'.

If one would switch the S and P in his name it becomes "Pollux Castor." Pollux and Castor are the two brightest stars in the constellation of Gemini. It is also worth noting that Pollux is a red giant, while Castor is bluish white, complementing the red/blue duality theme. Castor and Pollux were famous mythological twins, which is where Gemini - Latin for "twins" - gets its name. Pollux and Castor were also the names of two characters in the movie Face/Off, a Nicolas Cage flick that came out the same year as Con Air and one that John Egbert has a poster of in his room.

http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Sollux_Captor

Reference to an old CSI meme

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/csi-4-pane-comics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVbQo3IOC_A

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