What happens 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 came out of the Engineer at the end of Prometheus?

An alien creature bursts out of the engineer's chest. The xenomorph-like creature tears its way out of the host. A lot of people on Reddit have also expressed their thoughts on the Prometheus ending.
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What happened to the Engineers on the ship?

The Engineers on LV-223 were all dead except for one in the temple / Pyramid the Prometheus crew investigated. That one survivor was left in a cryo-chamber asleep. The Hologram recording insinuates all the other Engineers were dead and that none escaped.
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Why did the Engineer 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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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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Does Dr Shaw find the engineers?

In the film, we see in flashbacks that Shaw and David did find the Engineers' home planet, at which point David committed genocide and wiped them all out. Then his tinkering to create more creatures took its toll on Shaw—literally.
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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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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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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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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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What are the Engineers doing in Prometheus?

The Engineers continue to visit Earth to secretly observe the human race's development. Approximately 2,000 years prior to the Prometheus expedition to LV-223, the Engineers stationed there formulate a plan to wipe out humanity, for reasons unknown, by releasing a pathogen they create for the purpose.
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What happened to the engineer at the beginning of Prometheus?

The Engineer was on a lifeless planet (one of many). He knowingly drank the black fluid, accepting with peace that this would end his life. His body was torn apart, seeding the planet with fragments of his DNA, which eventually formed the life on whatever planet he was on.
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What was 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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What happened to the last engineer?

Shaw released the Trilobite she had extracted earlier from her womb as the result of intercourse with Holloway, who was infected by the pathogen, which restrains and impregnates the Engineer, while Shaw escapes. The Engineer later died and birthed a strange creature, who came out of his chest, like a chestburster.
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What happens to the Engineers?

The holographic footage the crew of the Prometheus encounters on LV-223 shows the powerful Engineers panicking and running away. One of the Engineers gets killed by the closing door on his way into the room with the large stone head and urns containing the black substance.
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Did the Predators create the xenomorphs?

Through their exploration, they learn that the Predator species created the Xenomorphs for the ultimate hunt every 100 years. Allowing Weyland's team to find it was their clever way of providing hosts for the creatures to spawn in.
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Are Engineers stronger than predators?

Engineers crush Predator like tomato. Yep, Engineers all day. They're a superior being, by far. The Predator is like your juiced up bodybuilder who relies on brute force and intimidation while the Engineer is the naturally large, 7 foot monster from Iceland who happens to have a martial arts background.
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How do the Xenomorphs see?

They have elongated, cylindrical skulls with eyes underneath the "visor". In the novelization of Alien, the character Ash speculates that the Xenomorphs "see" by way of electrical impulse, similar to a shark's lateral line.
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Why did the engineer drink the liquid?

As we can see after he drinks the liquid, his DNA seems to desintegrate into the water. But from the particules of his DNA, life is created. It is showed by the particules turning step by step into cellular life. So my hypothesis is that his suicide was necessary to give birth to a new species: Us.
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What did the Engineers want in Prometheus?

The woken engineer just wanted to destroy the people waking him and his urgency to act after waking might be a product of wanting to destroy humanity before it gets out of hand (clearly the original plan to test the weapons would have been on a pre-space age planet where the experiments could not escape).
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Will there be 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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Are Engineers extinct?

The Engineers are most definitely not extinct. What David killed in Alien Covenant may not be Engineers at all, but one of their creations. There also exists the possibility that this city was an outpost for rebel Engineers with limited access to technology. This might be the Last Engineer's "Paradise."
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What language did the engineer speak?

According to The Bioscopist the language was actually Proto-Indo-European (PIE), which Michael Fassbender learned from Dr. Anil Biltoo, the language consultant on the film, of the SOAS Language Centre in London. He explains that there was a longer piece of dialogue edited out of the final cut of Prometheus.
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What did 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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