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 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 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 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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What did David learn about the Engineers?

David has expressed his disdain for the human race. But he doesn't know much about the engineers. In fact, they're supposed to be gods, much more advanced than humans. So if he's in search of the perfect race, why kill them all off?
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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 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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Was Shaw the first alien Queen?

It would seem that YES our Dr Shaw is the FIRST QUEEN... but NOT a Traditional Queen from ALIENS.... if RS had continued we may have seen a Humanoid Queen Element taken to another STAGE... but we would STILL not arrive at the JC version from ALIENS... which is LIKELY to had been a Evolution/Mutation.
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How did David create the Xenomorph?

During the events of Alien: Covenant, the audience learns that David created the xenomorphs by experimenting with the Engineers' deadly "black goo" pathogens, as well as the reproductive organs of Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace).
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How did Elizabeth Shaw get pregnant?

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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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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What happened to the Engineers in Prometheus?

Whatever the cause (presumably revealed in a possible Prometheus sequel), an accident occurred in the facility and the Engineers were wiped out. The dead Engineers found by Millburn and Fifield show signs that they "gave birth" to alien creatures.
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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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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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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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Who created the Facehugger?

Dan O'Bannon initially conceived the Facehugger as somewhat resembling an octopus, possessing tentacles. However, when he received Giger's designs, which substituted tentacles with fingerlike digits, he thought Giger's design concept superior.
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How did the eggs get on the Engineer ship?

At the time of after Aliens we simply had the Cargo of Eggs with no real explanation, but it was likely one of these. 1) The Ship Produces the Eggs and somehow they end up in Rows like that. 2) Some place else Produces the Eggs or they are Engineered some how and they are transported to the Cargo Hold.
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How did Holloway get infected?

Over the course of the film, Holloway is infected with the Engineer black liquid by David. The infection at first very slowly mutates him and no symptoms are present. Holloway eventually has sex with Shaw and unknowingly impregnates her with an alien monster.
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What happened to Dr Shaw in covenant?

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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Why did David poison the drink in Prometheus?

He probably just thought it was a 'challenge' or he saw it as an insult . He then thought he wouldnt let davids wee attempt insulting phrase him, so he just drank the drink.
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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 was the point of Alien: Covenant?

Around the midway point of Alien: Covenant, viewers discover that the overpowered android David (one of two robot characters played to creepy perfection by MVP Michael Fassbender) wants to turn the already-deadly Xenomorphs into perfect killing machines so he can unleash hell on the galaxy.
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