>aeons again the Engineers create ultimate lifeform, Xenomorph >they treat them as a god, i.e. the murals in Prometheus >Xenomorphs require specific DNA to come about however, that being of a human >humans die off or they fuck up and Xenomorphs kill them all or whatever. Basically humans become a non-thing >The Engineers panic and try to recreate human life on Earth, i.e. opening scene of Prometheus, for specific purpose of being able to create Xenomorphs again >This explains why the engineers are so happy to see the ship come back when David brings it to their homeplanet, also explains why there's fk all of them left, they've basically become a Xenomorph worshipping cult-race that has shrunk because that's all they care about, they gave up on expanding into the galaxy and diversifying, their entire existence is just to worship Xenomorphs, i.e. the "perfect organism" >Eggs on LV426 is just an ancient engineer ship that had one of the last batch of original Xenomorph eggs on it
Why hasn't anybody thought of this theory yet? And better yet, why wasn't any of this explained in either of the movies if true?
I like this theory to be honest. But I doubt the writers of the next few movies will be that clever. Guess we'll just see how it goes. I believe the xenos seen in Covenant are David's unique batch.
Noah Price
>technology millennia more advanced than ours >can't make xenos without humans
Henry Sanchez
>ultimate lifeform They're dumb animals that can be taken out by Thompsons and MG-42s.
Andrew Cox
well to be fair the Engineers are crazy as fuck
Ian Perry
Saw Covenant yesterday. The tweest was painfully obvious right from the moment Walter runs out of the structure to get on the ship. Some pretty obvious "winks" to the audience, most notably when he holds Daniels by the shoulder and for a few seconds the wind raises his hood. I thought the result of the fight between the two was bullshit, one is supposed to be newer and better
Joseph Sanders
>it's a there is at least 10 different stages in the life cycle of xenomorph episode
fuck you, fuck giger, fuck scott and his overrated flickography, fuck this capeshit-of-scifi """""franchise"""", fuck xeno, fuck queen, fuck le perfect organism, fuck le artist androids xd, fuck le abstract penis art, fuck weaver, fuck your mothers, fuck all of you, you're cancer - f u c k y o u, eat shit you're boring
Michael Collins
This. The Alien prequels are Star Wars prequel tier.
Kevin Flores
Walter is predictable where David is capable of being creative. Not surprising he'd win in a fight.
Charles Nelson
Xenomorphs don't even hold up as a weapon. It's very easy to avoid getting infected, they're no more intelligent than bigcats, and they're far from bulletproof. If engineers really wanted to kill humanity, why didn't they just bomb the planet?
Adam Parker
Worst thing is, I love Alien from '79 but the fanboys piss me off to no end. Before all this Covenant gimmick I was perfectly happy pretending nothing after 1979 was ever made but then this catalog reminds me of cancer this """""franchise""""" is.
Easton Carter
Because it's stupid.
It's much more likely, the Xenomorph is considered the height of their evolution, which is why it's in all the murals and paintings. Everything in the universe, like humans, are created by them seeding planets with life. Humans end up birthing Xenomorphs because they're the step after Engineers, and it's the next step up. It's why all the creatures from the Engineers, like the Deacon and such, are all soft and imperfect.
In the end, after raining black goo on all the planets with life they've populated, the xenomorph is what comes about.
Noah Ortiz
>This explains why the engineers are so happy to see the ship come back when David brings it to their homeplanet
It doesn't work because that was not the Engineer's homeplanet.
It's just another species seeded by Engineers that is welcoming home their 'gods'
Sebastian Murphy
>The tweest was painfully obvious right from the moment Walter runs out of the structure to get on the ship. Some pretty obvious "winks" to the audience, most notably when he holds Daniels by the shoulder and for a few seconds the wind raises his hood. I thought the result of the fight between the two was bullshit, one is supposed to be newer and better
That wasn't a "twist", you guys know that right? It was obvious and we are supposed to be watching it from the point of view of wondering when the Covenant crew will realize it's David
Logan Sanchez
They are all men, right? Maybe they were a vagina cult trying to create a vagina. However, the black goo only created dick monsters when they impregnated their host. They created humans that had vaginas (women) and needed their DNA with the black goo to create walking vaginas, i.e. the one that came out of Shaw.
Jose Hill
>xenomorphs were intended as sex toys
Mason Perez
And the guys on the hippie planet welcomed the spaceship, because they were like >DUDE, the Science-Guys are finally back with their fancy vaginas, yay!
Charles Lewis
>muhsexjunk
Ian Butler
Well due to the fact they didn't even have any orbital defences on their planet or any other ships, as well as how primitive their city was, it's reasonable to assume they were in some kind of technological decline.
Maybe they simply forgot how to build ships and even engineer shit at all anymore?
Liam Howard
I agree with the other user. The Engineers are 10x as interesting as the cockroaches at this point. I want their backstory. Also the very last Alien movie needs to be super advanced future humans hunting down David and crushing him with bare hands
Benjamin Hernandez
Oops, didn't mean to quote anyone
Jack Gray
I swear that I saw and Engineer female in the flashback.
Jason Thompson
How do you tell? Big tits?
Adam White
w-would...
Ryan Davis
>I like this theory to be honest. But I doubt the writers of the next few movies will be that clever. If you have seen Prometheus, it's literally in the movie with an Alien Statue and if you have watched the 3 hour documentary on the making of Prometheus, Ridley talks about the Engineers sending down an Alien i.e. Jesus 2,000 years ago
Logan Phillips
Maybe Jesus wasn't an engineer but a xenopmorph.
Virgin birth = chest burster Wine = his acidic blood
Blake Murphy
I thought you guys were joking but holy shit, it's like Ridley hates the audience
Bentley Green
How did Romans nail a xenomorph to the cross?
Asher Gray
The Predators helped them ;)
Zachary Rogers
>the "perfect organism" >a bunch of humans (xeno fodder) with guns are able to subdue them with barely any effort
Hunter Adams
Why would you take as a God something you created? Not only that, but the thing you created is much less smart than you are.
James Rodriguez
>it's literally in the movie with an Alien Statue
I also have a statue of a Xenomorph in my room, but that doesn't mean I think it is a religious deity. That wall carving could mean many things, perhaps it's just a warning, "niggers, don't mess with that fucking goo or you get this fucker, k?"
>some asshole on an egyptian donkey breeding forum makes a better alien story than the creator of the franchise
Lincoln Cruz
the murals in Prometheus were a poor attempt to recreate Giger like art and atmosphere that was shoddily tacked on in that particular scene. It has no deep meaning or symbolism remember this is hollywood.
Benjamin Ward
Do you remember what I said? No internet for you until you've done your homework.
Cameron Phillips
>i.e. the murals in Prometheus not xenomorphs
Anthony Miller
>I thought the result of the fight between the two was bullshit, one is supposed to be newer and better Walter wins the fight, because he's newer and better. But David has more imagination and the ability to manipulate. Walter hesitates to kill David because of the doubts he's planted in him, which gives David his chance to pre-empt him.
Luke Perez
That's interesting. I noticed how the planet's inhabitants didn't seem genetically perfect like the Engineers did. Some of them were old and bent, or generally ugly. The Engineers in Prometheus were portrayed as flawless, herculean, angelic beings.
Liam Russell
>Literally a story about cuckolding >Lets stop reproducing and let the big burly bullcreature decide our fate >OP comes up with it and likes it
No surprise here, move along now, this franchise is dead
Sebastian Foster
But wouldn't his blood kill the disciples.
Sebastian Lewis
the head makes it look more like a deacon
Ayden Green
>Walter has auto-healed and is still alive and functioning on the planet >He will find a new ship and fly it with his flute skills >He will create a new alien species named Predator to get revenge on david
Jaxon Ortiz
Fund it
Connor Torres
not a bad theory
James Sanders
Why would an advanced civilization start worshipping glorified space cockroaches though?
Bentley Gonzalez
>David and Walter are immortal gods who wage intergalactic war on each other through genetically enchancing armies I jizzed a little
Elijah White
Why would an advanced civilization worship a glorified cult leader who got nailed to a cross?
Charles Edwards
Because of his message. Xenos dont have any message, they screech and kill shit. Its like we would have started worshipping tapeworms or crocodiles all of a sudden, its retarded
Michael Myers
>perfect organism >no eyes
Oliver Carter
>See no evil
Isaac Lewis
>everything is shit, reee
Oliver Robinson
Are there really people who are surprised David won that fight? No shit, he's a manipulative, creative fuck. All Walter can do is be predictable. It's in his programming.
Ryan Cox
>race capable of creating wonders of technology and traveling the stars worships a bunch of parasites
This is so fucking retarded it could actually be true.
Hunter Martin
It makes 20 times more sense for Engineers we saw in those movies to be just some tiny fucked up sect while most of their race lives far away.
David Martin
>muh perfect organism
Marines from Aliens could kill a dozen of them with proper weapons. Not to mention how humans can make space ships and nuke entire planets.
Xenomorphs are nowhere near "perfect". They are just really dangerous animals.
Connor Campbell
Maybe for the Engineers, perfection is a walking vagina that pops a dick-monster in you via oral rape.
Daniel Barnes
Not saying this is a perfect explanation, but what if the whole "biological battery" thing really is hat big a deal to them? What if the Engineers see intelligence as jot only a fluke but also a burden, a mistake?
What if xenomorphs are born in thermodynamic equilibrium and biologically immortal? That would mean they already me American n organisms exist in perfect harmony with the universe.
Leo Barnes
>already me American n >alone among organisms
Christopher Fisher
why was there a fire in that dudes cryo tube chamber thing. he got burnt lol
Caleb Edwards
Whats even the alien agenda? If they are biologicaly immortal why do they attack anything indiscrimently?
Mason Flores
In Aliens,it is explained that the rounds used ny the Spase Mureens are tough up to pierce extremely thick steel. Remember,they geared up with those toys because a "Xenomorph might be involved" in the shenanigans at the colony. The point being that they're a little sturdier than you suggest.
When Hicks unloaded that scatter gun on the aliem the rounds had no effect until he Curt Cobained the fucker in mouth.
Gabriel Morgan
They were the Romans,nuff said.
Lincoln Fisher
That is what I was thinking.
Sebastian Cruz
Perhaps the Engineers worshiped Xenomorphs because they're a doomsday cult.
Cameron Reyes
Shut the fuck up, you unforgivable heathen.
Evan Price
your theory is dogshit OP here's why the eggs are product of David bio-engineering there are 5 years difference apart from alien 1 and Covenant
Leo Jones
>Why hasn't anybody thought of this theory yet?
Because your fan stories aren't going to be canon and you're delusional if you think they have any plan about where this is going when they're retconning not just all earlier Alien movies, but the previous one as well.
The point is as nihilistic as the movie. There is no point and there is no answers.
Most likely it'll end that way too and Ridley will claim that was the point the entire time, despite the point changing in interview from interview and from movie to movie constantly.
Xavier Ramirez
Do queens mate? Or do they simply grow eggs in the ovopositor like som kind of cloning machine? It's something i have never known and always forget to ask
Lincoln Clark
>"perfect organism"
I can't get over this shit. How are they "perfect"? They don't seem to have any intelligence whatsoever and need fucking humans to reproduce.
John Lee
They look real neat.
Noah Sullivan
Depends on which movies/material you consider canon. Generally from all the pre-prometheus movies/comics, it's suggested that a regular drone can eventually morph into a Queen if none is available, Alien 3 suggests that queens can lay a Queen-facehugger that supposedly produces a queen. Ridley Scott's prequels kinda fucks over all of that, suggesting that the eggs are engineered/grown.
Connor Rivera
William De Franco was going to play a bigger part in the film. After all the complaints the studio did re shoots to take him out of the story.
Nicholas Sanchez
In the original it wasn't that they were the perfect organism, it was that Ash thought they were because they integrate host DNA into their own so they can adapt very quickly and well to any environment, among other things.
Thing is, that was there because the friendly robot going full creepy homo worship for the alien killing your crew adds to the horror of the move, not because they actually are the perfect organism.
Lincoln Anderson
F U N D U N D
Justin Morris
>ultimate lifeform, Xenomorph How the fuck is a giant cockroach the "ultimate lifeform"? They get rekt every time they face humans
Anthony Morgan
Isn't that what this whole series is about? Despite our technological marvels we're still afraid of the creatures that lurk in the dark. Predator is even worse, because it shows that whatever gadgets we have, there are species that are so advanced that our weapons are almost useless
Owen Scott
Romans would unironically defeat an alien infestation.
They'd just send zerg rushes of slaves to get facehugged and kill the slaves and facehuggers before the babby aliens sprout.
Regular aliens and even queens just get centurion'd to death.
Carson Allen
Nazis would win with the same strategy
Gavin Lopez
>armor piercing rounds So they know these very durable monsters would be involved but didn't bring power armor of any kind. Yeah, that's smart. Still doesn't answer how they're a better weapon than orbital kinetic bombardment.
David Rogers
Boy this is retarded, but I'd love to see it.
Jackson Parker
Proving once again that all roads lead to a WH40K prequel.
Julian Diaz
Why are you shitting on Giger and Weaver? They aren't responsible for the Alien prequels. Weaver is just an actress, Giger just designed the xenomorph.
Carter Bailey
>>my >>first >>alien >>movie Why the fuck would you start with Covenant? Everyone knows that Alien and Aliens are by far the best of the franchise. Although Alien 3 (assembly cut) is worth checking out.
Jeremiah Hughes
everyone agrees that when david mentions his dreams, his talking about seeing giger imagery right?
Aiden Reyes
I actually love that theory
Adrian Miller
I don't think the engineers in Covenant are the same as those from the military base. The engineers in Covenant are more human-like, with regular eyes and pupils, rather than the deathly pale, black-eyed engineers from Prometheus.
Maybe some of the deleted scenes will shed some light on this, as Covenant completely glosses over in explaining their civilization. My guess is that what we see in Covenant is some tribe, or distant relative of the engineers who did not venture into space and eschewed technology. Or better yet, they didn't even know how their technology worked after decades in isolation, hence why so many of them gathered to greet the spaceship.
Jeremiah Torres
So will there be a sequel? What's next for this franchise?
Jackson Rivera
>ultimate lifeform >literally just a tiger that climbs on walls Engineers were retards.
Jack Williams
2 more scripts done already. Scott said there could be more depending on success
Jose Garcia
I think they were pets or worse, some kind of hyper-degenerate sex toy. When you're as powerful and advanced as the engineers, you're probably so far gone that you'll need some serious shit to get your rocks off.
Tyler Clark
The short answer is that Cameron and crew didn't think of using power armor. My question is how do the marines know what a xenomorph is,but nothing about its habits?
Jack Taylor
>The short answer is that Cameron and crew didn't think of using power armor. Horseshit. He read Starship Troopers and instructed the cast to read it as well. There is no fucking way he could be unaware of the concept having done that AND included the power loader.
Landon Gray
This was theorized 5 years ago.
Joshua Collins
There was a series of books released years ago that go into further detail. The chitonous hides of Xenomorph make it harder to kill off via weather,even the cold darkness of space
Brody Perez
The chitinous hide of a xenomorph is literal plot armor.
Daniel Bell
Well,the marines did have armor. It just wasn't acidproof. Xenomorphs dont use weapons so it was mostly useless. Having bigger thicker power armor would limit mobility.
So,Cameron could not fart up a reason for it. It was used in comics though,even by androids.
Easton Young
Huffelpuff. Its a giant bug. If you saw a spider the size of a rat terrier you'd need a 50 cal just to make a dent.
Michael Edwards
>Having bigger thicker power armor would limit mobility. POWER armor. Not just heavy plates of steel slapped onto someone. It has motors of all kinds that increase mobility. If you have the technology to make a power loader, you have the technology to make something like this: youtube.com/watch?v=2Pi_qp-Wz2U
>If you saw a spider the size of a rat terrier you'd need a 50 cal just to make a dent Fucking no.
Jacob White
In extended universe the predators are wayyy older than humans, and have been around since the dawn of man.