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| Xavier Fitch | |
| Aliases: | Doctor Xavier Fitch |
| Continuity: | Species |
| Type: | Scientist |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Human |
| Status: | Deceased |
| Died: | 1995 |
| First: | Species (1995) |
| Actor: | Ben Kingsley |
Xavier Fitch is a fictional scientist and one of the main characters from the 1995 sci-fi/horror film Species. He was played by actor Ben Kingsley.
Overview[]
scientists at SETI received information from alien transmissions from outer space, which contained DNA code sequences of extraterrestrial life. A geneticist named Xavier Fitch spliced the alien DNA with human DNA and introduced it into a female ova in an effort to create a unique, yet docile being - one with additional traits that they had hoped to control. Of the one-hundred experiments conducted by Fitch, only one produced a viable crossbreed, which became known as Sil.