Line #5 Awesome/Prometheus

Context Awesome / Prometheus

Go To


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prometheus_awesome.jpg]]
2	* Elizabeth Shaw, in the scene where she finds out that the [=MedPod=] doesn't do C-sections, and promptly figures out how to get it to take the Thing out of her body. While coming out of sedation an unknown amount of time ago, in terrible pain, and just barely managing to hold off panic.
3	** The fact that she managed to run around so much afterward. If you're a woman who'd had a Ceasarean or hysterectomy, you were probably curling up in sympathetic horror with her.
4	*** Hell, if you've had ''any'' kind of abdominal surgery (gall bladder removal or appendectomy, for instance) you have a whole new appreciation for how difficult it is to do ''anything'' once someone cuts clean through some abdominal muscles.
5	* Janek, Chance and Ravel's HeroicSacrifice to stop the Engineer from leaving the moon by ramming ''Prometheus'' into its ship. Made even more awesome when Janek orders Chance and Ravel to get on the lifeboat but they turn him down and go down with the ship. The way they choose to embrace it is also pretty awesome:
6	-->'''Janek''': Hands up! ''(All three put their hands up as if they were on a roller coaster)''
7	** There may be a practical reason for that- keep the hands off the controls to avoid a reflexive, if futile, attempt to steer away at the last second. Still awesome though.
8	* Seeing the Xenomorph prototype climb out of the dead engineer, hiss, and extend its crude inner jaws, possibly becoming the very first Alien ever created, and setting the stage for all the terror that's to come in the subsequent films.
9	* The reprise of the triumphant main theme as Shaw decides to go to the Engineer homeworld. It's like a triumph of the human spirit against all odds, and a triumph of the desire to understand despite all dangers.
10	** The film's main theme, period.
11	* Lets face it, after putting up with FantasticRacism from everyone he talked to (especially Holloway), who didn't feel a bit of joy watching David trick Holloway into giving "consent" to become an unwitting test subject?
12	* Peter Weyland at TED 2023. Only Guy Pearce standing on a stage (and in front of a green screen) cutting loose for several minutes in a speech about how Mankind has technologically evolved from the discovery of fire until (his) present day. LargeHam? Maybe. VisionaryVillain? DEFINITELY. It's one of the biggest reasons why his incredibly short appearance in the actual film under a hefty amount of 'old man' makeup is so disputed by critics as a waste of a perfectly good actor.
13	* A couple of random crewmen managing to kill the goo infected Fifield by running setting him on fire and running him over with the transport vehicle.
14	* Vickers "a King has his reign" speech to her father. It's a pretty satisfying TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the person responsible for everything bad in the movie.

Context Awesome / Prometheus