History Fridge / AlienCovenant

* Dr. Elizabeth Shaw got her wish. [[spoiler: She's effectively the mother of David's "children". She created life.]]

* This film gives us a glimpse into a sort of missing link between the original bioweapon and the fully developed Xenomorph with the inclusion of Neomorphs. The Neomorphs are already lightning fast, incredibly resilient, aggressive, and persistent. [[spoiler: ''That wasn't good enough for David.'' He still went above and beyond to create a killing machine that was all of those qualities taken UpToEleven.]] Really brings home just how awful these things truly are.

** Not necessarily so much that - [[spoiler:Given I don't know how Weyland-Yutani can learn David is the creator of the Xenomorph, but FridgeBrilliance ''definitely'' comes into play with the fact that they're a creature specifically designed to destroy humankind, and we seemingly readily embrace that as something to exploit and use]].

* This film gives us a glimpse into a sort of missing link between the original bioweapon and the fully developed Xenomorph with the inclusion of Neomorphs. The Neomorphs are already lightning fast, incredibly resilient, aggressive, and persistent. ''That wasn't good enough for David.'' He still went above and beyond to create a killing machine that was all of those qualities taken UpToEleven. Really brings home just how awful these things truly are.

* One character claims how it's strange that the world is completely quiet, no birds or anything. [[spoiler:When we get to David's study we see why: Every last animal on the planet was killed off by the xenomorphs or David infecting them with his virus to create a new one]].

* One character claims how it is strange that the world is completely quite no birds or anything, [[spoiler: when we get too David's study we see why, Every last animal on the planet was killed off by the xenomorphes or a off shoot of them.]]

** It's also possible that [[spoiler: David implanted Lope when he was dressing the burn on his cheek, using spores or something. He did have a couple of embryos on his person, after all. There was no need for the scene of "Walter" dressing his wound otherwise; the film didn't really need three scenes of a man getting a bandage applied to his face.]] He could've indeed escaped the facehugger only to be implanted anyway.

** It's highly unlikely that the parasite normally implants the "embryo" or viral agent immediately upon attachment, however, the above is correct in that the facehugger will remain attached to ensure that the implant is secure and starts developing in the chest cavity. Basically sources say that while a facehugger stays attached to a host for up to 26 hours, implantation occurs just below half that time as the Weyland-Yutani report states that they will remain attached post implantation for up to 16 hours. Still, the incident is hard to reconcile as it is absurdly fast and makes the creature's abilty to keep a host alive mostly redundant if it can just infect instantly, another point to consider is that these are not the Xenomorph types we know, they are David's version.

* The film seems to make a point about addressing the complaints about the previous film: the crew does it's best to keep track of each other at all times and never deliberately abandons anyone, they arm themselves with actual guns, they're actually nice to the android, unwise decisions are lampshaded and protested instead of blindly followed, there's an attempt to actually help the infested crew members instead while also attempting to maintain quarantine, the black goo's effects are explained, [[spoiler:Shaw's bad decisions get her killed]], and they even try and check the local environment to see what it's like ''before'' venturing outside the ship. Mistakes are still made, but at least it seems like the behaviour of people who might actually get the job to go to other worlds.

** It's highly unlikely that the parasite normally implants the "embryo" or viral agent immediately upon attachment, however, the above is correct in that the facehugger will remain attached to ensure that the implant is secure and starts developing in the chest cavity. Basically sources say that while a facehugger stays attached to a host for up to 26 hours, implantation occurs just below half that time as the Weyland-yutani report states that they will remain attached post implantation for up to 16 hours. Still, the incident is hard to reconcile as it is absurdly fast and makes the creature's abilty to keep a host alive mostly redundant if it can just infect instantly, another point to consider is that these are not the Xenomorph types we know, they are David's version.

* The film seems to make a point about addressing the complaints about the previous film: the crew does it's best to keep track of each other at all times and never deliberately abandons anyone, they arm themselves with actual guns, they're actually nice to the android, unwise decisions are lampshaded and protested instead of blindly followed, there's an attempt to actually help the infested crew members instead while also attempting to maintain quarantine, the black goo's effects are explained, [[spoiler:Shaw's bad decisions get her killed]], and they even try and check the local environment to see what it's like. Mistakes are still made but at least it seems like the behaviour of people who might actually get the job to go to other worlds.

* The film seems to make a point about addressing the complaints about the previous film: the crew does it's best to keep track of each other at all times and never deliberately abandons anyone, they arm themselves with actual guns, they're actually nice to the android, unwise decisions are lampshaded and protested instead of blindly followed, there's an attempt to actually help the infested crew members instead while also attempting to maintain quarantine, the black goo's effects are explained, Shaw's bad decisions get her killed, and they even try and check the local environment to see what it's like. Mistakes are still made but at least it seems like the behaviour of people who might actually get the job to go to other worlds.

** The film seems to make a point about addressing the complaints about the previous film: the crew does it's best to keep track of each other at all times and never deliberately abandons anyone, they arm themselves with actual guns, they're actually nice to the android, unwise decisions are lampshaded and protested instead of blindly followed, there's an attempt to actually help the infested crew members instead while also attempting to maintain quarantine, the black goo's effects are explained, Shaw's bad decisions get her killed, and they even try and check the local environment to see what it's like. Mistakes are still made but at least it seems like the behaviour of people who might actually get the job to go to other worlds.

* [[spoiler:If David supposedly grew to genuinely care for Shaw, why kill her? The answer is found all the way back in ''Prometheus'' and David's obsession with Film/LawrenceOfArabia - "The trick, William Potter, ''is not minding that it hurts."''
** David also considers humans to be inferior and doomed. which would also include Shaw, no matter how much he cared for her. But it could be seen as a twisted form of affection that he used her DNA and the mutagen created creatures to spawn his perfect organisms.]]

* [[spoiler:If David supposedly grew to genuinely care for Shaw, why kill her? The answer is found all the way back in ''Prometheus'' and David's obsession with Film/LawrenceOfArabia - "The trick, William Potter, ''is not minding that it hurts."'']]

** Its highly unlikely that the parasite normally implants the "embryo" or viral agent immediately upon attachment, however, the above is correct in that the facehugger will remain attached to ensure that the implant is secure and starts developing in the chest cavity. Basically sources say that while a facehugger stays attached to a host for up to 26 hours, implantation occurs just below half that time as the Weyland-yutani report states that they will remain attached post implantation for up to 16 hours. Still, the incident is hard to reconcile as it is absurdly fast and makes the creature's abilty to keep a host alive mostly redundant if it can just infect instantly, another point to consider is that these are not the Xenomorph types we know, they are David's version.

** Possible explanation could be that the Facehugger implants an embryo immediately if it senses imminent removal or death?

* One character, [[spoiler: Lope]], is attacked by a facehugger but, despite injuring him in the process, his partner almost immediately manages to forcibly remove it, and the facehugger dies after apparently failing. [[spoiler: Lope is still infected with and killed by an alien embryo, which is a CerebusRetcon for ''every'' character in the series who was ever attacked by one, as it means they infected instantaneously and the chances of saving them were slimmer than even the audience ever thought. The facehugger then must plant the egg in a split second and only "hugs" the victim for hours afterward in order to keep the victim unconscious so they are less likely to die before the alien bursts out.]]

* One character, [[spoiler: Lope]], is attacked by a facehugger but, despite injuring him in the process, his partner almost immediately manages to forcibly remove it, and the facehugger dies after apparently failing. [[spoiler: Lope is still infected with and killed by an alien embryo, which is a CerebusRetcon for ''every'' character in the series who was ever attacked by one, as it means they infected instantaneously and the chances of saving them were slimmer than even the audience ever thought. The facehugger then must plant the egg in a split second and only "hugs" the victim for hours afterward in order to keep the victim unconscious so they are less likely to die before the alien bursts out.]]

** Like Alberich the dwarf, David [[spoiler:forsakes love in order to forge the ultimate weapon. Alberich did it to steal forge the Rheingold into the eponymous Ring, while David did it to use the secrets of Engineers to create the Xenomorphs.]]

* [[spoiler: David might see Daniels as a replacement for Shaw, even before he forcefully kisses her; the two women are physically similar and have recently lost their lovers, yet persevered against numerous odds. David even suggests that Walter is in love with Daniels, to Walter's bemusement - possibly projecting his own experiences with Shaw onto the pair.]]

** Weyland/Yutani's obsessive and narrow minded pursuit of the Xenomorphs parallels the greeedy pursuit by numerous characters in the Ring Cycle to obtain the Ring.
* The negative way almost everyone on the ''Prometheus'' treated David becomes more understandable once Walter explains that the personalities of the synthetics of David's generation tended to [[UncannyValley freak the hell out of people and make them really uncomfortable]].

** Weyland/Yutani's obsessive and narrow minded pursuit of the Xenomorphs parallels the greeedy pursuit by numerous characters in the Ring Cycle to obtain the Ring.

** Like the Ring forged and cursed by Alberich, the Xenomorphs, [[spoiler:David's ultimate creation]], would bring nothing but death and ruin upon all those who sought to take them for their own and use them as the ultimate weapon.]]