What happens to the alien at the end of Prometheus?

At the ending of Prometheus, Shaw is the last living human member who has survived. As Vickers dies, Shaw goes to the lifeboat and finds that her alien offspring is alive and has grown to be gigantic in size. David is severely damaged but still has an active head.
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What is the creature at the end of the movie Prometheus?

After Elizabeth and David take off to find the home world of the Engineers, we return to the escape pod where we see the corpse of the Engineer and the facehugger. We then witness a familiar sight, a very xenomorph-like creature, known as the Deacon, tearing its way out of the torso of its host.
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What happened to the Engineer at the end of Prometheus?

At the end of Prometheus, Dr. Shaw took off with a severely injured David in an engineering ship. Although the film never confirmed it, the natural assumption made by most fans was that Dr. Shaw was killed by his hands.
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What happened to Dr Shaw after Prometheus?

Sometime after the events of Prometheus, Shaw was killed by David. She was seen on a table dissected, being experimented on. David claims she died in the crash of the Engineer ship.
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How did Dr Shaw get pregnant in Prometheus?

Shaw is supposedly sterile, but she becomes pregnant by her mutating archaeologist partner, Charlie Holloway. Poor Holloway gets burned to death to stop the mutation, while Shaw, as mentioned, has to remove the alien fetus herself.
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What happened to the Deacon Alien in Prometheus? Ending and Sequel Explained



Is Shaw dead Alien: Covenant?

One gory demise that was left offscreen was that of Prometheus heroine Elizabeth Shaw, whose corpse is seen in Alien: Covenant long after it has been used as a Xenomorph-breeding testing site.
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Why did the engineer drink Prometheus?

Prometheus starts with one of the Engineers drinking a black liquid. He then proceeds to disintegrate and tumble into the waterfall. Why was this Engineer drinking the liquid? I think the idea was to show how the engineers seeded new planets with life.
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Is the planet in Prometheus LV 426?

Early in the director's commentary, Ridley Scott confirms that the planet from Alien was LV426 BUT in Prometheus the planet is LV223.
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What happened to the Covenant Alien?

When the film ends, viewers can see that the ship is heading to its final destination with David on the top of it all. Proving that he was right about himself and also triggering Alien Awakening. Also, he has control over everything and will create his own alien species on the new planet.
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What is the snake like creature in Prometheus?

The Hammerpede is the nickname given to the cobra-like creatures seen in Prometheus. Though not technically a new creature, the Hammerpedes were a result of worms being dragged into the dark liquid.
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What is the black goo in Prometheus?

The black liquid in the earlier drafts of Prometheus which was written by Jon Spaihts, was originally a swarm of black scarab like insects that dissolved the sacrificial Engineer, and infused the Xenomorph DNA into Fifield which turned him into a form of a xenomorph.
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Why did the Engineers create the xenomorphs?

The crew of the USCSS Prometheus believed that the abandoned planet they explored was an outpost for weapons engineering and development, lending credence to the theory that the Engineers created the Xenomorphs (or perhaps more specifically, the Black Liquid that led to the Trilobite) for war and genocidal purposes.
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What is the most powerful Xenomorph?

Nicknamed “The Dragon”, the titular threat of Alien 3 is by far the most lethal Xenomorph in the entire franchise - and there's an important reason for that.
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What happened to the second Neomorph?

The Neomorph nearly mauled her to death, but she was saved when David fired a flare gun into the air, scaring it off. The second creature survived to maturity, infiltrating David's temple and killing Rosie by tearing off her head with its jaws.
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Who created the xenomorphs in Prometheus?

Over the course of the movie, it's revealed that the android David (Michael Fassbender) is the creator of the xenomorph, using gruesome biological experiments to create what he sees as the perfect organism.
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How did Alien egg get on the Sulaco?

The chestburster crawls off, grows into an adult Xenomorph, and then does some kind of egg-morphing thing, and puts the egg on the Sulaco. The Xenomorph could have morphed some food on the Sulaco into an egg, or perhaps a Warrior Xenomorph can grow one egg inside itself and then lay it.
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What does LV-426 stand for?

Acheron, formerly known as LV-426, is one of three known moons orbiting Calpamos in the Zeta Reticuli system, 39 light years away from Earth. The moon was given its common name by the early human colonists who settled there.
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Why did the Engineers head explode?

When they awoke the head with the tool they used they had accelerated the process too fast and the Engineers head exploded. Both theories i think show that somehow the Ampule room is able to preserve and but organic matter in a state of stasis.
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Why did David destroy the Engineers?

Shortly after the release of Alien: Covenant, Scott explained that as David learns more about his lineage through humanity and the Engineers, "He hates them. He has no respect for Engineers and no respect for human beings," and concludes that eradicating them from existence will be for the betterment of the universe.
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Is there a Prometheus 2?

Prometheus 2 mostly comes out in 2017. Mostly. It's official. After initially distancing Prometheus from the Alien franchise, Ridley Scott has embraced his prequel and given it a sequel entitled Alien: Covenant, which may just bridge the gap leading to his original Alien franchise.
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Is alien Covenant a sequel to Prometheus?

Alien: Covenant (2017)

Covenant, also directed by Ridley Scott, is set in the year 2104—therefore serving as a quasi-sequel to Prometheus, but a prequel to the original Alien film.
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What did David say to the engineer?

Anil Biltoo of the SOAS Language Centre in London, who served as the Linguist Teacher on Prometheus, has revealed exactly what it was that David said in an interview with The Bioscopist (via Ropes of Silicon): "This man is here because he does not want to die. He believes you can give him more life."
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What does David do to Shaw?

However, David annihilated the Engineers as a "gift" to Shaw. When she balked at his genocide, David began using her as a specimen in his genetic experimentation, attempting to make her "more than human"; despite his efforts at keeping her alive during this process, she eventually perished.
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