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The monsters from the A Quiet Place movies, (a quiet place , a quiet place 2 , a quiet place day one) named “Death Angels” arrived on earth by means of meteorites. They have incredibly good hearing, which they use to kill anything that makes even the slightest sound. This, combined with their near-indestructible armor, allowed them to massacre most sapient life on the planet, including a sizable portion of humanity, subsequently causing society to collapse.
According to John Krasinski, the director of the movies, the creatures originated on a lightless planet in a faraway galaxy, a hell world with harsher conditions and higher gravity than Earth. They adapted to this environment with features such as echolocation instead of sight, nearly impenetrable armor-like skin, and greater strength in Earth's gravity. Their skin is so tough that it can resist many kinds of conventional weaponry, from small firearms such as a shotguns and rifles, to missiles or bombs. They can destroy steel and other hard objects. They are, however, completely blind and their bodies are so dense that they cannot swim in deep water.
The creatures are slightly taller than a human, with overall proportions that are lithe and lean. Their body posture vaguely resembles a cross between a gorilla and a flightless bat: all four of their limbs are digitigrade, walking on their knuckles, with arms drastically larger than their legs — resulting in them usually running on all four limbs but capable of rearing up to attack or jump large distances. Due to their claws and great strength, they are very adept at climbing on walls, windows and also glass panel. They are also able to run extremely fast with speeds up to 300mph. Their claws consists three fingers and their claws very sharp and capable of killing instantly or causing the victim suffers serious injury.
Their head features a large jaw filled with sharp teeth, and no eyes. With no apparent nose, it is unclear if they possess any sense of smell, or if smell perception is achieved through sense organs in the mouth. The entire head is composed of ears inside and multiple sections of armor-like plates outside that protected their ears and flesh from any weapons. Their armor plates can be held open if they want to listen more closely for prey or detect the sound — unfolding like a hellish cabbage. Their delicate ears underneath the armor able to detect deeper and smaller sound/noise such as mechanical alarm clock but their ears are vulnerable to conventional weapons, explaining why they only briefly lift their plates if they feel safe enough to do so when tracking an enemy or prey and they always close their armor to protect their ears when attacking the target and hunting sound.
Their extremely sensitive hearing can be turned into a weakness, as Regan discovered that their ears are so delicate that high-frequency sound waves (generated from a hearing aid) will make them uncontrollably squeal in pain and spasm, accidentally opening up the armor plates on their ears and exposing the vulnerable skin underneath, which allows humans easily kill the creatures with any weapon. If the high-pitched noises are loud enough, they could cause a Death Angel to be disabled temporarily from the pain.
As confirmed by Krasinski, the aliens are not sapient, but vicious animals. Just how intelligent they are is unclear, as they mostly seem driven by pure instinct, though the Abbotts' whiteboard speculates that they are capable of hunting in packs. Besides, when one of Death Angel was killed, another Death Angel came running to the location of its death, with no exception presumably because of the noise that easily attracted other Death Angel to come.
Perhaps most frustratingly, the creatures do not kill for food: the Abbotts' whiteboard includes the prominent note, "Why don't they eat their prey?", and they are never seen eating any of the corpses they leave behind: all human corpses were seen mummified but otherwise intact. They don't seem intelligent enough to kill for sadism, rather it seems that they just instinctively lash out at anything that creates any kind of noise which may harms Death Angels. It's possible that they cannot eat their prey, because their biology might be incompatible with terrestrial animals. Nonetheless, they are so robust that they survived a long interstellar journey on asteroids (possibly in a state of hibernation) even during the invasion without eating and sleeping, so it might take years for them to actually starve to death.
At some point, the creatures' planet was destroyed for unknown reasons, but due to their durable nature and their indestructible armor, they survived on asteroid fragments, which eventually arrived on Earth in a meteor shower and fall into several cities such as Millbrook, Mexico, New York and Shanghai.
This article uses material from the A Quiet Place wiki at Fandom and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.
The monsters from the A Quiet Place movies, (a quiet place , a quiet place 2 , a quiet place day one) named “Death Angels” arrived on earth by means of meteorites. They have incredibly good hearing, which they use to kill anything that makes even the slightest sound. This, combined with their near-indestructible armor, allowed them to massacre most sapient life on the planet, including a sizable portion of humanity, subsequently causing society to collapse.
According to John Krasinski, the director of the movies, the creatures originated on a lightless planet in a faraway galaxy, a hell world with harsher conditions and higher gravity than Earth. They adapted to this environment with features such as echolocation instead of sight, nearly impenetrable armor-like skin, and greater strength in Earth's gravity. Their skin is so tough that it can resist many kinds of conventional weaponry, from small firearms such as a shotguns and rifles, to missiles or bombs. They can destroy steel and other hard objects. They are, however, completely blind and their bodies are so dense that they cannot swim in deep water.
The creatures are slightly taller than a human, with overall proportions that are lithe and lean. Their body posture vaguely resembles a cross between a gorilla and a flightless bat: all four of their limbs are digitigrade, walking on their knuckles, with arms drastically larger than their legs — resulting in them usually running on all four limbs but capable of rearing up to attack or jump large distances. Due to their claws and great strength, they are very adept at climbing on walls, windows and also glass panel. They are also able to run extremely fast with speeds up to 300mph. Their claws consists three fingers and their claws very sharp and capable of killing instantly or causing the victim suffers serious injury.
Their head features a large jaw filled with sharp teeth, and no eyes. With no apparent nose, it is unclear if they possess any sense of smell, or if smell perception is achieved through sense organs in the mouth. The entire head is composed of ears inside and multiple sections of armor-like plates outside that protected their ears and flesh from any weapons. Their armor plates can be held open if they want to listen more closely for prey or detect the sound — unfolding like a hellish cabbage. Their delicate ears underneath the armor able to detect deeper and smaller sound/noise such as mechanical alarm clock but their ears are vulnerable to conventional weapons, explaining why they only briefly lift their plates if they feel safe enough to do so when tracking an enemy or prey and they always close their armor to protect their ears when attacking the target and hunting sound.
Their extremely sensitive hearing can be turned into a weakness, as Regan discovered that their ears are so delicate that high-frequency sound waves (generated from a hearing aid) will make them uncontrollably squeal in pain and spasm, accidentally opening up the armor plates on their ears and exposing the vulnerable skin underneath, which allows humans easily kill the creatures with any weapon. If the high-pitched noises are loud enough, they could cause a Death Angel to be disabled temporarily from the pain.
As confirmed by Krasinski, the aliens are not sapient, but vicious animals. Just how intelligent they are is unclear, as they mostly seem driven by pure instinct, though the Abbotts' whiteboard speculates that they are capable of hunting in packs. Besides, when one of Death Angel was killed, another Death Angel came running to the location of its death, with no exception presumably because of the noise that easily attracted other Death Angel to come.
Perhaps most frustratingly, the creatures do not kill for food: the Abbotts' whiteboard includes the prominent note, "Why don't they eat their prey?", and they are never seen eating any of the corpses they leave behind: all human corpses were seen mummified but otherwise intact. They don't seem intelligent enough to kill for sadism, rather it seems that they just instinctively lash out at anything that creates any kind of noise which may harms Death Angels. It's possible that they cannot eat their prey, because their biology might be incompatible with terrestrial animals. Nonetheless, they are so robust that they survived a long interstellar journey on asteroids (possibly in a state of hibernation) even during the invasion without eating and sleeping, so it might take years for them to actually starve to death.
At some point, the creatures' planet was destroyed for unknown reasons, but due to their durable nature and their indestructible armor, they survived on asteroid fragments, which eventually arrived on Earth in a meteor shower and fall into several cities such as Millbrook, Mexico, New York and Shanghai.
This article uses material from the A Quiet Place wiki at Fandom and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.
