Face huggers are a creatures from Achoron. They are tame enough to come right up and caress you, yet wild enough to slash you to shreds if provoked. Roger kept an acid-wielding face hugger as a pet, naming it Spike. However it turned out to be a Spikette. Roger encountered another face huger while helping out Wriggley. Kurt Megatroid of Gangularis also kept a pet face hugger.