History Characters / AlienCovenant

* GoodOlBoy: Cowboy Hat? Check. Southern Fried Accent? Check. Loves Country Music? Double Check. Chivalrous Gentleman with old-fashioned values? ''Triple Check.''

** The pale skin and soft body, coupled with their status as a prototype for the Xenomorph, pegs them as an evolution of the "Beluga Xenomorph" concept from ''Alien: Engineers''.

* LegoGenetics: In the novelization, David states that Neomorphs -- and creatures spawned from the A0-3959X.91 – 15 pathogen in general --inherit traits and attributes based on their hosts, a process referred to as the DNA Reflex in '' Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report''. This process is detailed further in the ''Advent'' short film; and David's sketches show Neomorphs spawned from non-human species, [[spoiler:and his experiments on them to engineer the first Xenomorphs]].

* SpikesOfVillainy: Comes with the territory. This Xenomorph, like its successors, has tube-like spikes protruding from its back, although it lacks the bladed tail of the version from ''Film/{{Aliens}}''.

* SpikesOfVillainy: Neomorphs have pointed head-crests and large dorsal spikes that they use to rip out of their hosts.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JamesFranco
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (Japanese), Creator/AnatoleDeBodinat (European French)

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BillyCrudup
->'''Voiced by:''' Fabrice Josso (French), Creator/RyotaroOkiayu (Japanese)

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DannyMcBride

->'''Portrayed By:''' Amy Seimetz
->'''Dubbed By:''' Creator/FranceRenard (European French)

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DemianBichir

->'''Portrayed By:''' Nathaniel Dean

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TessHaubrich

->'''Portrayed By:''' Benjamin Rigby

->'''Portrayed By:''' Uli Latukefu

->'''Portrayed By:''' Alexander England

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KatherineWaterston
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MaayaSakamoto (Japanese)

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CarmenEjogo

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JussieSmollett

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CallieHernandez

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MichaelFassbender

->'''Portrayed By:''' Andrew Crawford & Goran D. Kleut

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JavierBotet

* TheHero: She's the main protagonist of ''Covenant''.

* BadassBaritone: He seems relatively soft-spoken, but has a fairly deep voice and is ''extremely'' capable.

* TokenReligiousTeammate: He is a man of faith and he thinks that the colonization mission is guided by divine destiny. He also claims to have "met the devil" as a child. The other members of the crew does not mention their respective religious belief.

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:Becomes the first person along with Upworth to get killed by a Xenomorph]] during a love scene.

* DeathBySex: Both her [[spoiler:and Ricks courtesy of the Xenomorph]].

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: It's an ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' film so this is a given, though he seems to talk in a more monotone fashion than Ash or David. He tells his predecessor David that later models were made less emotional, [[UncannyValley because David's emotions tended to disturb them.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Most unusual given that the face-hugger is only on his face for a few seconds before being pulled off. He is not unconscious either, so it "seems" that the process didn't even begin but it did...somehow]]

* BodyHorror: It's lighter skin and lack of an exoskeleton make the Neomorphs far more visually off-putting than it's Xenomorph counterparts, looking quite similar to a tall, severely emaciated human. It's face and jaws are also more outright gross, with it's closed mouth being based of a human sphincter, with their extended jaws looking more like they burst through their faces than simply being stored inside their mouth.

* SuperPrototype: Zig-zagged, but ultimately subverted. As a precursor to the Xenomorph, the Neomorph actually features some unique advantages over it, namely [[spoiler:a stealthier impregnation/incubation process and a larval stage that is insanely strong and agile in contrast to the defenseless Chestbursters, as well as possibly a superior athleticism in its adult stage.]] However, [[spoiler:the Neomorph is less intelligent, its blood is not acidic and its flesh is softer and lacks an exoskeleton, those being critical traits that make it considerably more fragile and easier to kill than the Xenomorph, not to mention that it's incubation loses it's stealth factor as their hosts health rapidly declines, making it clear that something's wrong, meaning a much higher risk of the host being quarantined, and both the host and the infant Neomorph being terminated.]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (Japanese)

* DeadGuyOnDisplay: David's laboratory contains [[spoiler:several immature and embryonic Neomorph specimens, the failures of his experiments to create the first Xenomorphs]].
* {{Expy}}:

* NiceHat: He wears a [[SpaceCowboy cowboy hat while piloting]].

** According to the role-playing game, they are considered this by the Xenomorphs ''themselves'', with any interaction between a Praetomorph and a traditional Xenomorph resulting in a vicious frenzy.

** According to external sources, this would happen should they ever come face to face with a normal Xenomorph, with any interaction likely to result in a vicious battle to the death.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CarmineEjogo

->'''Portrayed By:''' Tess Haubrich

->'''Portrayed By:''' Carmine Ejogo

* TooDumbToLive: He kills a Neomorph while David is bonding with it. David is '''obviously''' pissed about this. [[spoiler: [[WhatAnIdiot Oram follows David into a dark room and sticks his face over an Ovomorph because David tells him to.]]]] Three guesses what happens next.

* TooDumbToLive: Trying to shoot a lightning fast baby Alien in a hangar [[TooDumbToLive filled with munition lockers clearly labeled "DANGER: EXPLOSIVE"]] with a [[WhatAnIdiot SHOTGUN]] is already a lethally stupid idea; made ''suicidally'' stupid if you can't even hit the broad side of a barn like this poor lady.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:None of the whole issue would've happen, if she hadn't unintentionally blown up the shuttle, had she gotten out of there for safety and found some way wait for the crew in time, they would've helped dealt with the situation at hand rather then take one of the most [[TooDumbToLive idiotic route.]]]] See TooDumbToLive above.

Head of the security unit aboard the ''Covenant''. Married to Hallet.

* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: He's already died to a chestburster by the time Daniels gets to him.]]

[[folder:Hallet]]

!!Sergeant Hallet

* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: He toys around a bunch of Egg sacs, which eventually leads to his death via Neomorph birth.

* AssholeVictim: Considering she's cheating on her partner even though he's in cryosleep she kinda falls into this when she dies.

* HesDeadJim: She tells Sargeant Lope that Hallet is dead after he gave birth to a Neomorph.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: The gestation and eventual eruption of the Neomorph Bloodburster from his back is arguably the most intense sequence in the entire film, and almost certainly the goriest in the entire series.]]

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:In the few seconds before being put into stasis, she realizes that David has replaced Walter. She screams in rage and terror, realizing that he'll be continuing his brutal experiments on the some two thousand colonists aboard the ''Covenant''.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: She went from the ship's terraforming engineer to a Xenonomorph killing badass that Ripley would be proud of.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Jussie Smullet

* BadassBeard: Has an impressive beard and is a member of the security team.

* BadassBeard: Has a beard and is a security team member.

* SuperPrototype: Zig-zagged, but ultimately subverted. As a precursor to the Xenomorph, the Neomorph actually features some unique advantages over it, namely [[spoiler:a stealthier impregnation/incubation process and a larval stage that is insanely strong and agile in contrast to the defenseless Chestbursers, as well as possibly a superior athleticism in its adult stage.]] However, [[spoiler:the Neomorph is less intelligent, its blood is not acidic and its flesh is softer and lacks an exoskeleton, those being critical traits that make it considerably more fragile and easier to kill than the Xenomorph, not to mention that it's incubation loses it's stealth factor as their hosts health rapidly declines, making it clear that something's wrong, meaning a much higher risk of the host being quarantined, and both the host and the infant Neomorph being terminated.]]

* SuperPrototype: Zig-zagged, but ultimately subverted. As a precursor to the Xenomorph, the Neomorph actually features some unique advantages over it, namely [[spoiler:a stealthier impregnation/incubation process and a larval stage that is insanely strong and agile in contrast to the defenseless Chestbursers, as well as possibly a superior athleticism in its adult stage.]] However, [[spoiler:the Neomorph is less intelligent, its blood is not acidic and its flesh is softer and lacks an exoskeleton, those being critical traits that make it considerably more fragile and easier to kill than the Xenomorph.]]

* UnwillingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: Even Worse, he ends up saving Lope's life, who was revealed to having a Xenomorph gestating inside of him. This specimen ends up killing Ricks and Upworth, besides Lope himself]]

''Alien: The Roleplaying Game'' called this variant the "Praetomorph" after the fan-name "Protomorph" and established it as the immature form of the "Stalker" caste, in much the same way as the Drone caste is the immature form of the Warrior caste.