| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prometheus_poster_9004.jpg]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:''[[ArcWords "Big things have small beginnings."]]'']] |
| 3 | ->''"A king has his reign, and then he dies. It's inevitable."'' |
| 4 | -->-- '''Meredith Vickers''' |
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| 6 | ''Prometheus'', a 2012 SciFiHorror film directed by Creator/RidleyScott, serves as a semi-prequel to 1979's ''Film/{{Alien}}''. This film marked the end of Scott's thirty-year abstinence from the science-fiction genre since 1982's ''Film/BladeRunner''. |
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| 8 | A team of scientists and astronauts set out on the research vessel ''Prometheus'' to unravel the mystery of the dawn of mankind. They seek the Engineers, an alien race who may be humanity's creators; scientists Shaw (Creator/NoomiRapace) and Holloway (Creator/LoganMarshallGreen) believe they have uncovered an "open invitation" to find the Engineers within a reoccurring star pattern found in several ancient human writings. The team soon learns that the location is far from welcoming… and that what they've discovered could endanger the entire human race. |
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| 10 | Months prior to the film's release, ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' fans speculated about whether ''Prometheus'' had any relation to the franchise. Creator/RidleyScott danced around the issue at first by saying it started as a direct prequel before moving onto something new entirely during its inception, but the film itself clarifies its position in the ''Alien'' canon with notable references to the Xenomorphs and Weyland Industries (before it became [[MegaCorp Weyland-Yutani]]). The plot's main focus, however, is on the nature of the "Space Jockeys" and their connection to humanity. |
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| 12 | A sequel, ''Film/AlienCovenant'', was released on May 19, 2017. |
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| 15 | !! ''Prometheus'' contains examples of the following tropes: |
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| 17 | * OneDimensionalThinking: A DoubleSubversion when Vickers and Shaw are running away from the crashing spaceship along its longest axis as it rolls toward them, but Shaw survives when she [[DramaticSlip falls over]] and it finally occurs to her that she could roll a short distance to one side. The second subversion comes when it falls on top of her anyway. Possibly a third subversion when it almost crushes her but is stopped by some rocks. The same doesn't occur to Vickers and she's just plain crushed. Ironically, if ''she'' had fallen, she might've thought to roll in the other direction from the one Shaw rolled, which would be the way ship wouldn't fall. |
| 18 | * AbusivePrecursors: To the point that they are trying to wipe humanity, [[OffingTheOffspring their very own creation]], out altogether. |
| 19 | * ActionSurvivor: Shaw. Notably, she runs like hell when the Engineer attacks Weyland, Ford and the mercenary. |
| 20 | * AIIsACrapshoot: David has been instructed by Peter Weyland to get in touch with the Engineers by any means necessary. While he's programmed against attacking humans, after Holloway expresses willingness to do "anything" to learn more about the Engineers, David can interpret this as permission to poison Holloway with the Engineers' organic sludge to see what happens. Foreshadowed to a degree by the ''Happy Birthday David'' viral advert: |
| 21 | -->''I can carry out directives that my human counterparts might find... distressing, or unethical.'' |
| 22 | * AlienBlood: David's odd milky-white blood, like [[Film/{{Alien}} Ash]] and [[Film/{{Aliens}} Bishop]] in previous films. |
| 23 | * AliensAreBastards: The Engineers seek to wipe out the life of Earth for unknown reasons, and the last Engineer alive in the ship almost immediately starts killing everyone once he's awoken. WordOfGod confirms that the Engineers are pretty much assholes. |
| 24 | ** Because the Engineers only sent out the death warrant for humanity 2,000 years ago, some fans speculate that the Engineers and humanity were on good terms until some unspecified event occurred at that time which prompted the Engineers to want to eradicate humanity, and the official reason behind that has yet to be confirmed, however, but the film's script does just that. |
| 25 | * AllThereInTheManual: The [[https://www.weylandindustries.com/timeline Weyland Industries corporate timeline]] goes into much more detail about the technology and devices used in the film. The website's timeline also gives a much better understanding of Earth's advancement in the years leading up to the film's events, along with vague references to the main film series (including a mention of prototype rifles being developed for the Colonial Marines) and several interesting notes about Weyland's history, including the remark that he named the "David" android line after the name he wanted to give to his unborn child if it was a boy. |
| 26 | * AlmostOutOfOxygen: ''"Warning: You have 30 seconds of oxygen remaining."'' |
| 27 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: [[spoiler:The Engineers are genetically near-identical with humans, and in terms of appearance the only differences are in size, lack of body hair, lily-white skin, and UncannyValley facial structure.]] |
| 28 | * AmbiguousSituation: |
| 29 | ** [[spoiler:David manages to wake up the Engineer and tell him Weyland's request, but while the Engineer seems contemplative at first, after watching Weyland's mooks mistreat Shaw, he suddenly mutilates David and kills Weyland and the rest. He then re-initiates a 2000-year-old mission to carry the black liquid to the Earth, ostensibly to bomb the planet with it and reboot all of its biosphere.]] The reason of any of this is left open to interpretation. This is lampshaded in-universe when [[spoiler:Shaw asks him why the Engineers had prepared such a plan against the humans]], but no answer is given within the film. |
| 30 | ** A deleted longer version of the same scene makes it slightly less ambiguous, albeit giving it different implications. [[spoiler:The Engineer now talks and actually replies angrily to Weyland, but what he says and why he ends up reacting that way are still unclear. According to the promotional book ''A grammar of modern Indo-European - Prometheus edition'', the Engineer's reply to Weyland's request for immortality translates literally as "you would not be a man if you didn’t grow old," implying either that humans cannot be made biologically immortal or that the Engineer simply doesn't deem them worthy to receive such gift. However, David instead claims the Engineer is asking why Weyland is so great as to deserve immortality, which differs enough from the real line to suggest David might be actually ''betraying Weyland'' by [[TranslationWithAnAgenda deliberately mistranslating the dialogue]]. Those lines and Weyland's subsequent pathetic boasts also imply the Engineer attacks him merely out of annoyance, although this leaves the reason of his mission to Earth still unknown and even harder to guess than in the final cut.]] |
| 31 | * AncientAstronauts: The Engineers. |
| 32 | * AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The ''Prometheus'' crew foils the Engineers' plan to wipe out life on Earth, but Shaw (the sole survivor of the expedition) still has no idea why they decided to destroy the species that they helped create. Desperate for answers, she boards an Engineer spacecraft and, with David as her guide, plots a course for the Engineers' home planet...]] |
| 33 | * ApocalypseHow: Towards the film's end, [[spoiler:it's revealed the Engineers were apparently planning to inflict a ApocalypseHow/Class4-[[ApocalypseHow/Class6 6]] on Earth using TheVirus that they made (''Film/AlienCovenant'' confirms it would've been a very precise Class 4: the virus would've infected all animal life to mutate or eradicate them while leaving all the plant life untouched). After awakening, the Last Engineer tries to reach Earth and complete this mission]]. |
| 34 | * ApocalypticLog: The recordings that the ''Prometheus'' crew encounter when they first explore the ship. They see the aliens in the recordings running away, indicating that clearly something went wrong, and they come upon one that had its head decapitated by a gigantic door. |
| 35 | * AppliedPhlebotinum: The organic [[spoiler:and corrosive]] black substance that not only does… ''curious'' things to tissue and living hosts, but can apparently both create and destroy entire ecosystems. |
| 36 | * ArcWords: Since David is (at least partially) based on Lawrence's character, and since he is an important character, three symbolic messages from ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'' get to become ArcWords in ''Prometheus'', as they are symbolically related to the plot for various reasons: |
| 37 | -->'''David:''' "The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts." \ |
| 38 | '''David:''' "There is nothing in the desert, and no man needs nothing." [[note]]this quote is from Faisal, not Lawrence.[[/note]]\ |
| 39 | '''David:''' "Big things have small beginnings." [[note]]this quote is from Dryden, not Lawrence.[[/note]] |
| 40 | * ArtificialOutdoorsDisplay: Vicker's suite aboard the ''Prometheus'' has holographic displays showing scenes like snowy forests or grassy fields similar to the ones at Gateway Station in ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. |
| 41 | * ArtisticLicenseBiology: As in other films in the franchise, "aliens" grow to large size, rather quickly, without consuming much in the way of nutrients. |
| 42 | * AnAssKickingChristmas: The bulk of the film takes place around Christmas. Janek sets up a tabletop Christmas tree to remind himself of the season. [[DidIMentionItsChristmas Nobody else pays much attention to the season]], but given that central themes and plot elements concern faith, communicating with our creators, and a message in the stars, there's some symbolic connections. |
| 43 | * {{Autodoc}}: That pod in Vickers' quarters. |
| 44 | * BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Pavel and Chance decide to stay with Janek when he decides to [[spoiler:ram the Engineer craft]], instead of leaving the ship. |
| 45 | * BigBad: The Engineer race. [[spoiler:They seeded life on Earth, created us, but now they want to get rid of it for some reason. The means they use to achieve this are… ghastly]]. |
| 46 | * TheBigBoard: The ''Prometheus'' has a huge holographic board for strategic operations. |
| 47 | * BigNo: Shaw, [[spoiler:watching Holloway flame-broiled alive by [[HateSink Vickers]]]]. |
| 48 | * BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Engineer is killed before he can destroy Earth, but everyone on the ''Prometheus'' expedition is dead except for Elizabeth and David. They pilot a course for the home world of the Engineers in a desperate attempt for answers, but in the process, Shaw ends up inadvertently creating ''something much, much worse''.]] |
| 49 | * BlackComedy: After Shaw [[spoiler:was impregnated with an alien monster baby.]] |
| 50 | -->'''David:''' I didn't know you had it in you. Sorry, poor choice of words. |
| 51 | * BloodFromTheMouth: One of the crew members, when [[spoiler:the mutated Fifield attacks the ship]]. Justified, since it seems that [[spoiler:Fifield ''did'' crush his organs]]. Also occurs after [[spoiler:David's head is ripped off, though it's a rather odd milky-white seeing as he is an android]]. |
| 52 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Engineers. [[spoiler:While one is shown having the intent to kill the human race, one underwent a HeroicSacrifice in order to give us life, and another apparently sacrificed himself to buy the other Jockeys some time from the mutagen.]] |
| 53 | * BodyHorror: The main form of horror used throughout. |
| 54 | * BrokenFaceplate: Mutated Fifield, during his rampage, smashes the helmets of several of his crew mates. |
| 55 | * BrokenPedestal: The Engineers invoke nothing but hope and wonder in Holloway and Shaw. They are seen as a chance to know more about ourselves and humanity's origins. Essentially they are viewed as living gods. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Shaw learns first hand that they are monsters who, for reasons known only to themselves, want to destroy us.]] |
| 56 | * ButICantBePregnant: [[spoiler:Shaw discovers she's three months pregnant, despite sleeping with Holloway only ten hours before. Made a lot more horrific because Shaw was sterile and had wanted to have children…]] |
| 57 | * ByWallThatIsHoley: [[spoiler:Shaw avoids a gruesome death from being crushed by the Engineer starship by falling into a shallow, but sufficient dip in the ground, where the ship stops inches above her]]. |
| 58 | * CallForward |
| 59 | ** The videoscreen in Vickers' room aboard the ''Prometheus'' appears to be the same technology that is seen during a scene from ''Aliens'', where Ripley sits on a bench in the Weyland-Yutani operated Gateway Station and watches the scenery change on the screen behind her. |
| 60 | ** Everything in the ''Prometheus'' is this. The doors look similar to the ones in the ''Nostromo'', even down to having icons on top of them. Also some of the visuals for the ship's system look similar to the ones in the ''Nostromo'', especially [[spoiler:the animated red X countdown seen when Janek prepares to ram the ''Prometheus'' against the Engineers' ship.]] |
| 61 | ** It's not just in the human technology either. |
| 62 | ** A viral ad takes the form of an advertisement for the David 8 model. When speaking of the advantages of a RidiculouslyHumanRobot, David 8 states that he can blend in with a human workforce and carry out tasks they might consider upsetting or unethical, foreshadowing the role that Ash will play on the Nostromo. |
| 63 | * TheCameo: Patrick Wilson as Shaw's father, who appears in a single flashback near the beginning of the film. |
| 64 | * CanonDiscontinuity: ''Prometheus'' completely ignores the ''Film/AlienVSPredator'' films. The Weyland Corporation [[https://www.weylandindustries.com/timeline timeline]] notably does ''not'' feature Charles Bishop Weyland, who founded Weyland Industries in that canon. Subverted in a sense because [[spoiler:the Engineer's suits and equipment resemble that of a Predator's armor and weapons and many of the "pictures" in the room resemble both Xenomophs and Predators]]. |
| 65 | * CaptainsLog: The last lines of the movie, spoken by Shaw. |
| 66 | * CarFu: The zombified [[spoiler:Fifield]] suffers this, after getting burned alive and sustaining several gunshot wounds. |
| 67 | * CessationOfExistence: It's a character's opinion after [[spoiler:being mortally wounded by the very thing he thought might save him]]. |
| 68 | -->'''[[spoiler:Peter Weyland]]:''' There's... nothing.\ |
| 69 | '''David:''' I know. Have a good journey, [[spoiler:Mr. Weyland]]. |
| 70 | * ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The automated surgical unit. After the surgical device has served its purpose, the creature it removed becomes one itself]]. |
| 71 | * ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Fifield]]. Once he disappeared after the [[spoiler:Hammerpede attacks Milburn]], it was just a matter of time before he'd show up again. |
| 72 | * ChekhovsSkill: |
| 73 | ** David is shown taking linguistics lessons from the ship's onboard computer, and says that he spent the last two years learning every ancient and proto language he could get his hands on. This later proves to be important when Weyland asks David to speak with the surviving Engineer. |
| 74 | ** While it's not explicitly stated, it's fairly clear that David was deliberately learning Ur-languages in the hope of being able to communicate with the Engineers, should the chance arise. Finding a means of communication is an essential part of any planned first contact. His studying of the languages would also be helpful in translating any hieroglyphs that might be found. |
| 75 | ** David's ability to decipher the Engineer symbols and machinery in the structure comes in handy when Shaw uses him to control an Engineer craft and leave the moon at the end of the film. |
| 76 | * ChestBurster: Happens to the Engineer. |
| 77 | * ChildSupplantsParent: When the ailing Peter Weyland is about to meet one of the Engineers, David, one of the first androids created by Weyland-Yutani, remarks "Doesn't everyone want their parents dead?". The Engineer isn't very happy about meeting human beings and [[OffingTheOffspring murders any that he encounters]]. |
| 78 | * CleanPrettyChildbirth: Horrifyingly [[InvertedTrope inverted]] as not only is Shaw's caesarean section far more gruesome than most real childbirths, but [[BodyHorror it's not even a human child being birthed in the scene.]] |
| 79 | * ConservationOfNinjutsu: A pair of Hammerpedes, a lone-surviving Engineer, a Trilobite-Facehugger, and finally a Xenomorph Deacon all soon prove to be nearly unkillable threats compared to the comparatively more numerous and also underarmed humans with the latter-most creature not even dying at all at any point during the film's runtime. |
| 80 | * ContinuityNod: Several of them in fact: |
| 81 | ** Near the end of the film, the Engineer is killed by an organism resembling a giant facehugger, releasing a creature that appears to be a Xenomorph Deacon related to the Drone found in ''Film/{{Alien}}''. |
| 82 | ** The giant facehugger itself resembles some of the concept drawings seen in the ''Making of "Alien"'' book. |
| 83 | ** Shaw's final log at the end of the film is very much a nod towards Ripley's log at the end of ''Film/{{Alien}}''. |
| 84 | ** The suits, the gun on the ship… etc. |
| 85 | * ContinuityPorn: |
| 86 | ** Everything related to the film, from the ViralMarketing campaign (that shows Weyland Industries before it merged with the Yutani Corporation) to the content of the plot (the crew interacts with the same type of ship seen in the original film, the Space Jockey race, Xenomorphs, etc.), is made of this. |
| 87 | ** The New Age background music to Weyland's presentation is from the end credits of ''Film/{{Alien}}''. |
| 88 | ** Some supplementary materials from the Blu-ray show that at one point, the MegaCorp was supposed to be named Weyland-[[Film/BladeRunner Tyrell]]. It's never made clear if Scott gave up on the idea of linking the two continuities completely. |
| 89 | * CoolStarship: The UNCSS ''Prometheus'' looks every bit the $1 ''trillion'' she cost to make. |
| 90 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: |
| 91 | ** Unusually subverted for this universe. |
| 92 | ** Vickers is framed this way in a particularly menacing introduction but turns out to be a straight shooter. |
| 93 | ** Weyland himself is a different story. He lies to the crew, treats Vickers like a redheaded stepchild, and seems to be the person pulling David's crew-abusive strings. He's also effectively risking humanity's existence on his request of the Engineers being well-received. |
| 94 | * CosmeticallyAdvancedPrequel: |
| 95 | ** Justified, as the ''Prometheus'' is a brand-new expedition ship whilst the ''USCSS Nostromo'' from ''Film/{{Alien}}'' was an old space truck designed for cargo. |
| 96 | ** The holographic technology is a little less justified, given that all the movies that take place after noticeably lack holograms. Even though the ship is incredibly advanced, Hollow uses a cube capable of generating its own projections. Holograms are used for some rather mundane purposes as well, and no one seems to shit their pants when one first shows up. |
| 97 | * CosmicHorrorStory: Unsurprisingly, the number of inhuman terrors on display is considerable. |
| 98 | * CranialProcessingUnit: David's head, which is [[spoiler:separated from his body when the Engineer rips it off]]. He later [[spoiler:communicates with Shaw without the rest of his body]], and allows [[spoiler:Shaw and himself to escape the moon at the end of the film]]. |
| 99 | * CreditsGag: At the end of the credits, it's noted that the footage is the property of Weyland Industries. |
| 100 | * CrisisOfFaith: [[spoiler:Subverted. The entire movie seems to be setting Shaw up for a monstrous one, yet in the end, she stands by her faith.]] |
| 101 | * CrocodileTears: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOOJl5lWNfM "Happy Birthday, David"]] viral clip shows that androids aren't quite capable of convincingly faking emotions like sadness. |
| 102 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Several, given the nature of the film and the monsters found within: |
| 103 | ** [[spoiler:Fifield's helmet melts into his face. After he's mutated—which forced his body to crawl the entire way to ''Prometheus'', legs over spine—and shows up at the ship, [[RasputinianDeath he gets shot repeatedly, run over, and is set on fire]]]]. |
| 104 | ** [[spoiler:Milburn's death by asphyxiation—or perhaps, worse still, massive internal injuries—when a creature forces its way into his body through his mouth. What occurred beforehand was also ''very'' unpleasant]]. |
| 105 | ** [[spoiler:The Engineer's slow death at the hands of the horrific tentacle monster. Then the Engineer's true death by [[ContinuityNod chestburster]].]] |
| 106 | ** [[spoiler:Vickers gets crushed under the Space Jockey ship]]. |
| 107 | ** [[spoiler:Holloway contracts an infection that begins painfully dissolving his body from the inside, then he's flame-broiled alive by a flamethrower--which doesn't appear to kill him right away]]. |
| 108 | * CryoSickness: The stasis pods aboard the titular spaceship render the crew highly nauseous when they've only just awoken from a meagre two-year stasis. Shaw is seen vomiting into a bucket after thawing. |
| 109 | * CuriosityKilledTheCast: |
| 110 | ** Milburn deliberately tries to touch the "Hammerpede", a snakelike creature that emerges from a pool of the black liquid. This is despite Fifield's pleas for him to stop what he's doing. It ends…badly. As noted under TooDumbToLive below, this is a ''biologist'' who apparently does not recognise a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat_display threat display]]. |
| 111 | ** One of the deleted scenes shows that he's so ecstatic because nobody's ever found alien life bigger than a bacterium before. |
| 112 | ** Vickers tells Weyland before the team leaves for the structure: "If you go down there, ''you'll die''." Not only do Weyland and most of the team get killed minutes later by the surviving Engineer, but Vickers ends up getting crushed by the falling Engineer ship seconds after her escape pod lands on the moon. |
| 113 | * DeadStarWalking: Guy Pearce appears to be this. It's said in the film that he was close to death just before the ''Prometheus'' set out for LV-223, and recorded a final message knowing his time was at an end…then it turns out he was on the ship all along. |
| 114 | * DeathByGenreSavviness: Zig-zagged: After the team finds the dead body while exploring the alien moon, [[ThoseTwoGuys Fifield and Milburn]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere turn tail to head back to the ship]]. Unfortunately, they get lost, and end up getting killed there. The rest of the party manages to survive that particular excursion. |
| 115 | * DeathIsDramatic: Shaw's [[BigNo response]] to Holloway's death. |
| 116 | * DegradedBoss: Very much averted in this film unlike in most installments of the franchise as a whole since absolutely ''none'' of the non-human creatures seen throughout it ever go down very easily at all along with the fact that the famous Xenomorph Drone caste never even appears at any point during the film's runtime at all, and plus, the Xenomorph Deacon seen at the very end of the film is still completely alive and well once the film's end credits begin scrolling upwards against the typical jet-back background. |
| 117 | * DescriptivelyNamedSpecies: Shaw and Holloway gave the Engineers their name because they were the ones who "engineered" (i.e. created) humankind. |
| 118 | * {{Determinator}}: Shaw turns out to be an especially tough cookie when she removes the alien lifeform from her womb. |
| 119 | * DistantPrologue: The film's opening depicts what seems to be the Engineers creating humanity. |
| 120 | * DistractedByTheSexy: There's nobody on the bridge to hear Milburn and Fifield calling for help because Janek went off to have sex with Vickers. |
| 121 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Charlie rather snidely addresses David as "boy" while giving him orders. |
| 122 | * DomedHometown: In the background of Weyland's holo-message, we can see the construction of giant domes for a future Mars colony. |
| 123 | * DontTouchItYouIdiot: [[http://res-gestae.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d53ab0t David. Enough said.]] |
| 124 | * DramaticAlienVTOL: At the beginning of the climax. |
| 125 | * DramaticSlip: Happens to both Shaw and Vickers when running away from the crashing spaceship. |
| 126 | * DroneOfDread: The trailers made great use of the [[HellIsThatNoise infamous]] siren from the original ''Film/{{Alien}}'' trailer. |
| 127 | * DwindlingParty: By the end of the exposition Shaw and the decapitated head of David are the only surviving crew members. |
| 128 | * EarthAllAlong: Actually averted. Many viewers presume that the prologue with the Engineer takes place on Earth (with humans being the offspring that resulted from the Engineer ingesting the pathogen), but [[WordOfGod the creators of the movie clarify]] that it doesn't necessarily ''have'' to be, as the scene is more or less there to show that seeding life on planets is what the Engineers have done since ancient times. |
| 129 | * EscapePod: When the ''Prometheus'' is on suicide mission to bring down the alien space ship, Vickers escapes via escape pod. It doesn't help her survive for long. |
| 130 | * ExactTimeToFailure: Shaw's spacesuit tells her out loud how much air she has left. |
| 131 | * ExcessiveSteamSyndrome: The ''Prometheus'' itself, notably seen when steam comes out from the floor of the cargo bay as the expedition team first sets out. |
| 132 | * ExitPursuedByABear: The final Engineer is finished off by the fully-grown "fetus" that Shaw removed earlier. |
| 133 | * {{Expy}}: Vickers is set up as something of one for Ripley, at least to start with—aloof, no-nonsense, and mercilessly by-the-book when a crew member returns to the ship infected with ''something''. No doubt deliberately done as a red herring to further Creator/RidleyScott's pre-release claims that Vickers would be the lone survivor. |
| 134 | ** David is one for Ash from the [[Film/{{Alien}} first film]], being an android [[spoiler:under morally ambiguous orders from the corporation and ends up reduced to a talking head]]. |
| 135 | * EyelessFace: The Xenomorph Deacon. |
| 136 | * FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: The last Engineer gets this from the squid-like creature Shaw releases. |
| 137 | * FaceHugger: The Xenomorphs. |
| 138 | * FailsafeFailure: The storage area. The jars apparently do ''nothing'' to contain the black stuff, and unleash it as soon as the door is opened; the only way to handle it safely is by actively freezing it. Possibly intentional if Janek is right about their nature, and it ''has'' been a very long time. |
| 139 | * FallenHero: Peter Weyland, who according to the company timeline was a child prodigy, earned two unshared Nobel Prizes, and founded a corporation which is entirely responsible for humanity forming an interstellar civilization. Such a person would have been favorably immortalized by history without a doubt. [[spoiler:His desire for physical immortality however, not only alienated his daughter, but sacrificed a significant portion of his corporation's assets, was directly responsible for the deaths of 15 of 17 people aboard ''Prometheus'', and jeopardized the human race with extinction. However, because no one returned to Earth to tell the tale, [[KarmaHoudini Weyland's reputation remains intact.]] On the other hand, him sacrificing said portion of his company's assets may have unwittingly led to Weyland Industries' merger into [[MegaCorp Weyland-Yutani]]. ]] |
| 140 | * FanDisservice: Creator/NoomiRapace half-dressed? Sure, but she also just woke up from cryosleep, and is vomiting quite a bit. [[spoiler:She gets half-naked again later in the film, but also undergoes some emergency surgery to get the ''[[FetusTerrible thing]]'' out of her, and staggers out of the medpod covered in blood and amniotic fluid]]. |
| 141 | * {{Fanservice}} |
| 142 | ** Charlize Theron half-dressed and doing pushups. It goes by very quickly, though. |
| 143 | ** For slightly longer -- a very lean and lovely Michael Fassbender in a tight, heathered-gray tee shirt. [[spoiler:Too bad it's when he's telling Shaw about her ''unconventional'' fetus and being the very personification of malevolent authority.]] |
| 144 | * FetusTerrible: [[spoiler:The result of Shaw getting busy with her goo-infected boyfriend is. . . not pleasant. A squid-type thing that eventually becomes a sort of proto-facehugger. It does save her from the rampaging Engineer, but that (and the result) shows just how terrible it really is.]] |
| 145 | * FinalGirl: [[WordOfGod Scott claimed]] that he was intending to make use of this trope with [[spoiler:Theron's character]] by ''explicitly'' stating [[spoiler:she'll]] make it through to the end of the film. [[LyingCreator He lied.]] [[spoiler:It's Elizabeth and not Vickers]]. |
| 146 | * FlippingTheBird: Milburn and Fifield give each other the two-fingered variant while stranded. |
| 147 | * FlyingSaucer: A large one makes an appearance in the opening sequence. It's so large that that the clouds flow around it when it manouvres. |
| 148 | * {{Foreshadowing}} |
| 149 | ** Shaw and Holloway talk onboard the ship when they come back from the first expedition to the structure. Holloway makes a point of asking Shaw if her inability to conceive a child was caused by faith. Later on, she does find out that she's pregnant…[[spoiler:except it isn't a traditional fetus]]. |
| 150 | ** When Shaw uses Vickers' autodoc to [[spoiler:remove the fetus]], she is initially told that the machine is only programmed to treat a ''male'' patient. This foreshadows [[spoiler:Weyland's appearance, and the reveal that Vickers is his daughter—the autodoc was for his use in case he needed it]]. |
| 151 | ** Milburn and Fifield discover a pile of Engineer corpses that all have what appear to be holes in their heads, indicating something exploded out of it. Later on, when the crew finds [[spoiler:Milburn, a Hammerpede explodes out of his head and goes into the pool of black liquid]]. |
| 152 | ** The hologram of Peter Weyland at the beginning of the film refers to David as "the closest thing [he] has to a son". There is then [[spoiler:a brief shot of a seething Vickers. It is later revealed that Vickers is Weyland's biological daughter.]] |
| 153 | ** Vickers being [[spoiler:Weyland's daughter]], is once again foreshadowed by the fact that she and David [[spoiler:(who Weyland had earlier referred to as the "closest thing he had to a son") could easily pass for brother and sister]]. Janek even asks Vickers [[spoiler:if she is an android because she and David have a similar temperament.]] |
| 154 | ** Vickers telling the others that if they find any of The Engineers, they should not make contact with them. |
| 155 | * FromASingleCell: [[spoiler:It's strongly implied that even the smallest drop of the virulent black goo ending up in an ecosystem would be enough to turn a habitable planet into an all out DeathWorld overrun with rapidly evolving flesh-eating nasties, deadly parasites, and rampaging mutants. For instance, the "Hammerpede" that killed Millburn and Fifield originated as an inch-long segmented worm that got drenched in the goo leaking from the vases]]. |
| 156 | * GenreThrowback: Possibly to the first ''Alien'', in terms of style. |
| 157 | * AGodAmI |
| 158 | ** Peter Weyland in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb7gspHxZiI 2023 TED speech]] |
| 159 | --->'''Weyland:''' ''We'' are the Gods now. |
| 160 | ** In one of the deleted scenes, this is how he justifies [[spoiler:wanting to be immortal to the Engineer]]: |
| 161 | --->'''Weyland:''' I ''deserve'' this, because you and I, we are superior. We are creators. We are gods. And gods never die. |
| 162 | * GodIsEvil: Subverted with the Engineers. [[spoiler:They may have created humanity long ago, but they are very much mortals. And absolutely not worthy of worship]]. [[spoiler:Whether or not the entire race is AlwaysChaoticEvil is left up in the air, though. See Blue And Orange Morality.]] |
| 163 | * GodzillaThreshold |
| 164 | ** Shaw uses [[spoiler:the Trilobite in a desperate attempt to escape the Engineer knowing that the survivor of ''that'' fight is more than capable of killing ''her'', but at that point she literally has nothing to lose - to wit - the Engineer's hands are literally ''around her throat'' at the time]]. |
| 165 | ** Janek [[spoiler:destroys ''Prometheus'' and himself by invoking RammingAlwaysWorks to stop the Engineer ship]]. It's implied that it was meant from the start as the last-resort option of damage containment. |
| 166 | * TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: [[spoiler:Shaw writes an ApocalypticLog warning travelers not to get near the moon, but never explains why]]. |
| 167 | * GuideDangIt: Seeing the film alone rises to WildMassGuessing. For more information, one needs to read the WordOfGod's explanations. |
| 168 | * HateSink: Vickers fills the role of "person we're allowed to hate" for most of the film, since [[spoiler:the Engineer]] doesn't turn up until the end and [[spoiler:David]] doesn't have clear enough motives for us to know ''why'' he does what he does. |
| 169 | * HeroicSacrifice |
| 170 | ** [[spoiler:When Shaw informs Janek that the Engineer vessel is headed to Earth with its "payload," he decides to crash the ship headfirst into it. His crewmen Ravel and Chance refuse to leave his side in order to help him. They all go out in explosive style]]. |
| 171 | ** This actually seems to a running theme in the movie: [[spoiler:the Engineer at the start sacrifices himself to birth humanity; David muses over T.E. Lawrence's line about "not minding that it hurts" and, despite cruelty and unnecessary violence making him shed a single milky tear, indicating some amount of empathy, proceeds to sacrifice the rest of his crew for some apparently larger goal; Holloway asserts that he would be willing to do "anything and everything" to succeed in the mission (indirectly giving David permission to infect him), and later keeps quiet about his health concerns for the sake of continuing the mission and allows himself to be burned to death to stop his infection; and at the opposite end of the spectrum is Weyland, who will sink a trillion dollars of research and resources, plus risk the security of mankind, to stop himself from dying, despite already appearing to be past his centenary]]. |
| 172 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard |
| 173 | ** [[spoiler:The Engineers seem to have this happen to them constantly, including the only living one seen in the film. Then again, these guys don't seem to care about their own survival all that much.]] |
| 174 | ** [[spoiler:Holloway too]]. He says that he is prepared to do "anything and everything" for the mission to succeed. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:David]] takes that a little too literally… |
| 175 | ** [[spoiler:Fifield and Milburn]], upon being informed there are sporadic lifesigns in one direction, immediately go the other way. [[spoiler:Going ''to'' the sporadic life signs to investigate would have placed them outside a locked hatch in a perfectly safe corridor. Going the other way placed them in the room with the creatures that killed/mutated them.]] |
| 176 | * HollywoodScience |
| 177 | ** The crew examine the alien's DNA by simply putting a tissue sample on a slide and looking at it under a light microscope. Possibly justified, seeing as the film takes place in the future. |
| 178 | ** Let's say that it is possible to restore functionality to the nervous system of an organism that has been decapitated and has been rotting for over 2000 years (the brain of the organism has been deprived of oxygen all that time, which the brain requires to function); the head's muscles would have been so decayed over that time that the head would no longer be recognizable; let alone move its facial muscles. |
| 179 | * HolographicTerminal: |
| 180 | ** One is human-made, used for the MissionBriefing early on. |
| 181 | ** [[spoiler:The Engineer ship has room-sized holographic displays, which are activated via playing a musical instrument, and controlled by pressing button-like fatty cushions and glowing green crystals]]. [[spoiler:Other control panels in the ship seem to be little more than cuneiform inscriptions carved in rock, that react to touch]]. |
| 182 | * HopeSpot: [[spoiler:When David makes First Contact with the last living Engineer. The ancient being seems to understand him, holding David's chin in a tender, almost paternal fashion. But suddenly the alien [[NeckLift grabs him by the neck]] and [[OffWithHisHead decapitates]] him.]] |
| 183 | ** Fifield and Milburn deciding to ScrewThisImOuttaHere, after they get lost instead. |
| 184 | ** Vickers abandoning ship, and Chance and Ravel being offered the chance to do the same, briefly offers hope for more survivors, or at least more fighters for the climax. |
| 185 | * HumanityIsInfectious: One theory about why [[spoiler:the Engineers want to eradicate humans.]] |
| 186 | * HydraProblem: [[spoiler:Fifield attempts to cut off the alien snake's head when it breaks Millburn's arm, but not only does it spray acid blood over Fifield's face for his efforts, the head ''instantly'' grows back.]] |
| 187 | * IceQueen: Vickers, to the point where one character even questions if she's secretly a ''robot'', like David. |
| 188 | * IdiotBall |
| 189 | ** Yes, go ahead and pet the strange hissing cobra thing; we all want to see what happens. Scratch that, we've ''paid'' to see it. |
| 190 | ** Fifield and Milburn get this together. There are plenty of featureless chambers with good sight lines but they decide it's best to camp out in the room with the creepy vials and the rivers of black goo on the floor. |
| 191 | ** Why ''oh why'' would anyone on an alien world take their helmet off? Even if the air's composition is chemically breathable, it's still dangerous, especially since the body has zero preparation for any microscopic contagious life it encounters. |
| 192 | ** The fake Weyland Corporation timeline says that the company has developed advanced bioscanners that can detect microscopic life-forms. However, this still doesn't excuse them removing their helmets and introducing ''Earth'' micro-organisms into an alien environment. |
| 193 | ** Did anyone stop to consider that maybe the aliens might be hostile?[[note]] Yes they did, they even brought guns and flamethrowers just in case. Unfortunately for everyone else involved, the guy who funded the exploration and the two scientists he says are in charge of the mission don't allow their use.[[/note]] While it is true that there was peaceful contact in the past, they don't consider that maybe there was a reason it stopped. Everyone seems to think that their arrival will be met with fanfare, they'll be greeted heartily, and all their questions will be answered. |
| 194 | ** Two of your crew are lost in a hostile environment, with no supplies and no way to provide backup to them until next morning? Sure, captain, go to bed. Don't leave anyone on watch to monitor them in case something happens to them. For that matter, don't have rotating watch shifts either, it's not like ''your'' ship is in a hostile environment either. Don't move the spaceship any closer to the cave allowing them a better chance of getting there. |
| 195 | ** So the suit of one of those crew members shows up inexplicably right outside the door, and you the captain realize that something is amiss? [[spoiler:Whatever you do, don't actually tell the rest of the crew, instead of just talking to yourself, or physically stop the doors. Because that would be helpful]]. |
| 196 | ** If Shaw and Vickers had just run to the side to begin with, [[spoiler:they would have avoided both the ship rolling and tipping over]]. Shaw [[spoiler:only survives because she falls down and realizes she can roll out of the way]]. To be fair though, there was also plenty of debris falling from the sky. Vickers and Shaw would have been at risk no matter what direction they ran. |
| 197 | ** Fifield managing to get lost on the way out of the ruins. This could be understandable, if he weren't the very guy in charge of mapping the place. And if he didn't later provide Janek with his ''exact'' location by way of coordinates. Gauntlet mounted tracking/mapping device and he relies on his own sense of direction to try and get back. This is at least partially justified for a couple reasons. First, Fifield isn’t a cartographer, he’s a geologist. He loves rocks. Second, nobody outside the Prometheus has access to the holographic map his “Pups” created, which is why Janek has to relay that information to him. |
| 198 | * ImmortalityImmorality: Gallons and ''gallons'' of it. Not wanting to wither and die from age is ''so'' evil that it not only [[spoiler:destroys your whole family]] but [[spoiler:condemns your ''entire species'' to righteous genocide.]] |
| 199 | * IndoEuropeanAlienLanguage: Inverted; our distant ancestors actually learned Proto-Indo-European from the Engineers. |
| 200 | * {{Infodump}} |
| 201 | ** LectureAsExposition: The elaborate MissionBriefing given by [[HolographicTerminal holographed]] Weyland and Holloway. |
| 202 | ** Janek explaining/speculating that the alien base is a military installation stockpiling bioweapons. He didn't see enough of the installation to be the one to come to that conclusion, and there's no guarantee he's right. |
| 203 | * InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: The crew of the ''Prometheus'' all wear clear domed helmets with lights on them. |
| 204 | * JustAMachine: The attitude taken towards David. He just brushes it off every time it comes up, but it's quite clear that it insults and annoys him in some capacity. |
| 205 | * KillAllHumans: [[spoiler:The default setting for The Engineers. Upon being awoken from stasis and having a conversation with David, he kills those who awoke him. He then carries on with his mission to destroy Earth ''despite it being two thousand years later'']]. |
| 206 | * KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Vickers ''decontaminating'' Holloway]]. And then again, later, when [[spoiler:the mutated Fifield attacks the ship]]. |
| 207 | * KinkMeme: [[http://prometheuskink.livejournal.com/ Recently got one.]] |
| 208 | * LargeHam: Peter Weyland acts like a combination of [[Film/IronMan Tony Stark]] and Steve Jobs during his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUxdAWrsag8 2023 TED speech]]. |
| 209 | -->'''Weyland:''' [[AGodAmI We, are the gods now]]. |
| 210 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Vickers explicitly tells [[spoiler:Weyland]] that going down to the moon will [[spoiler:result in his death]]. She's absolutely right—[[spoiler:he is mortally wounded by the Engineer]] and dies soon afterwards. |
| 211 | * LawOfInverseFertility: Shaw is infertile and had always wanted a child with Holloway [[spoiler:just not [[FetusTerrible like that]]…]] |
| 212 | * LettingHerHairDown: When Vickers appears to be the average corporate bitch, her hair is tied back in a ponytail. When she shows some warmth her hair is shown down. After that, while she continues to wear it in a ponytail, it's much looser. |
| 213 | * LivingWeapon |
| 214 | ** It is discovered that everyone's favorite [[Franchise/{{Alien}} xenomorphs]] [[spoiler:are just one type of genetically engineered superweapons made by the Engineers.]] |
| 215 | ** The producers [[WordOfGod say]] their intention with the [[spoiler:Deacon]] was to show the "origin" of what would later become the familiar Xenomorph. |
| 216 | * LosingYourHead: [[spoiler:David after the last Engineer wakes up and tears it off. Later, when Shaw returns for him, both David's head and body respond, with his hands almost comically reaching out to her.]] |
| 217 | * LoveInterest: Charlie is Elizabeth's long term partner. They both share the dream of meeting the Engineers. |
| 218 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: While Shaw does show pain from time to time as a result of her emergency surgery, it doesn't cripple her actions very much, and she's still able to move around and even run. Writing it off as an adrenaline rush or her drugged up on painkillers is a bit of a stretch considering the amount of physical activity she does afterwards, including running away from the Engineer and later, a crashing ship, not to mention hauling David's body from where the Engineer snapped his head off at to wherever another Engineer ship was at. |
| 219 | * ManOnFire: Holloway allows himself to be torched when he's infected with the black mutagen. |
| 220 | * MeaningfulName: The ship is named ''Prometheus'' for the [[Myth/GreekMythology Greek titan]], who stole fire from the Olympian gods to give to man and was punished. Peter Weyland discusses this at length in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2BxH-xwc9M the 2023 TED Talk viral clip]], and his explanation of the name is reiterated in the video message the crew watches during the briefing. |
| 221 | * MegaCorp: Weyland Industries. How "mega?" Weyland and his company discovered and/or are responsible for biotech, nanotech, fusion energy, M-theory, deep space exploration and colonization and {{Artificial Human}}s. Note that this takes place ''before'' the merger into Weyland-Yutani. |
| 222 | * MercyKill: Holloway asks for this—and gets it—from Vickers. Granted, a flamethrower doesn't seem all that merciful except when compared to exactly what was happening to him. |
| 223 | * MissionBriefing: Delivered by Weyland [[HolographicTerminal himself]] and Holloway. |
| 224 | * MonsterDelay: Majorly [[AvertedTrope averted]] with the Engineers as they show up immediately during the DistantPrologue but then [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated]] with the Hammerpedes, the Trilobite FaceHugger, and finally the Xenomorph Deacon as none of them ever even show up at all until much later on, especially in the case of the latter-most creature since he's only ever shown during the last several seconds before the end-credits. |
| 225 | * MutagenicGoo: The black goo responsible for the creation of Xenomorphs and mutation of humans and other lifeforms. |
| 226 | * MythologyGag: Several of them in fact: |
| 227 | ** Compare the first trailer to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf99ouvFBJw 1979 trailer]] for ''Film/{{Alien}}''; most notably it contains the same wailing tone throughout. Lampshaded by the online community later with this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ6SUTI1j9M gem]]. |
| 228 | ** David performs an impossible basketball shot just like Ripley in ''Film/{{Alien Resurrection}}'' and then exaggerated when he does it all while riding a bicycle no less. |
| 229 | ** Also, a certain line from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' gets repeated. |
| 230 | --->"David, we are ''leaving''!" |
| 231 | ** The briefing scene aboard the ''Prometheus'' resembles the briefing from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', including most of the crew not having been told about the purpose of the mission before they went into hypersleep. However, the circumstances of this movie make this much less plausible. |
| 232 | ** The movie ends much like how the original ''Film/{{Alien}}'' did: the survivor goes off into space, leaving behind a final log of the ship that describes what she's been through. |
| 233 | ** David 8. Compare with Ripley 8 in ''Film/{{Alien Resurrection}}''. |
| 234 | ** The POV Cams from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' re-appear, and like that movie, the team disarms themselves with disastrous results. |
| 235 | ** The head on the outside of the ship closely resembles the Newborn Xenomorph specimen from ''Film/{{Alien Resurrection}}''. |
| 236 | ** The mutated Fifield gets run over and crushed by a vehicle in exactly the same way as one of the Xenomorphs in ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. |
| 237 | * NaiveAnimalLover: A character finds a snake-like creature which is obviously acting in an aggressive manner but still decides to get in close to touch it while calling it "baby." It doesn't end well. |
| 238 | * NeckLift: The Engineer does this to [[spoiler:the android David]] just before a NeckSnap, and topping it off with an OffWithHisHead |
| 239 | * NeverTrustATrailer: At least one of the trailers made extensive use of the iconic "howl" noise from the original 1979 trailer for ''Alien''. This, plus the choice of rapid-cut shots, could be interpreted as an attempt to sell ''Prometheus'' as being much more directly concerned with the Xenomorphs than it actually is. |
| 240 | * NoBiochemicalBarriers: Played with. The environment on [=LV-223=] is hostile to humans, but the air inside the caves is breathable because the Engineers terraformed that spot just for them. |
| 241 | * NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: PlayedWith. |
| 242 | ** SpaceClothes do show up aboard the ''Prometheus,'' though their purpose is justified and well shown. On the other hand, most fashions seemed to have weathered the century of change from the present more or less unchanged. |
| 243 | ** The flashback viewers see of Dr. Shaw's childhood, which is set in India sometime around the 2060s-70s can easily be mistaken for [[TheSixties 1960s]]-[[TheSeventies 70s]] from the clothes used. The Scotland 2089 scenes wouldn't look out of place in 2012. |
| 244 | * NoSuchThingAsWizardJesus: WordOfGod says that earlier drafts were going to say that Jesus was an Engineer sent to put humanity in the right track and they want to wipe us out in retaliation for crucifying him. |
| 245 | * NothingIsScarier: The scenes where Fifield and Milburn are trapped in the cave during a storm. They know there's some sort of creature out on the moon with them, but don't know where it is. |
| 246 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: David makes a connection between himself and Holloway in that they are both trying to understand why they were created. [[spoiler:He also brings up the possibility that the Engineers created humanity just because they could, nothing more.]] |
| 247 | * {{Novelization}}: The film was novelised by John Spaihts and Creator/DamonLindelof, but it was only released in Japan. [[https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Prometheus_(novel) More details here]]. |
| 248 | * NumberedHomeworld: The moon the ''Prometheus'' lands on is designated LV-223, a nod to ''Aliens'', where the planet the ''Nostromo'' lands is called LV-426, insinuating it is in the same or in an adjoining system. |
| 249 | * OffWithHisHead: The first alien corpse the humans discover on the alien vessel suffered this, getting his head decapitated by a giant door. |
| 250 | * OminousObsidianOoze: The black liquid, a potently mutagenic bioweapon made up of millions of micro-organisms that has the ability to mutate any Terrestrial life-form in horrible, parasitic ways into rapidly evolving flesh-eating nasties, deadly parasites and rampaging mutants. |
| 251 | * OnlySaneWoman: Vickers may be a DesignatedVillain, but she is one of the few characters who behaves rationally, generally does the right thing, and generally tries to avert disaster for everyone. Unfortunately, she gets a [[DroppedABridgeOnHim spaceship dropped on her]] for her troubles. |
| 252 | * OohMeAccentsSlipping |
| 253 | ** Shaw's Swedish actor Creator/NoomiRapace slips out of her British accent occasionally while making the CaptainsLog at the end for example. |
| 254 | ** Creator/IdrisElba's takes a leisurely tour of the American South, with a few stops at WhatTheHellIsThatAccent in between. |
| 255 | * OrganicTechnology: Staple of the Engineer culture. Anything from their ships to their clothes seemingly seamlessly fused to their bodies appears to be made of living tissue or bone. The most significant example is probably the black sludge, which in Earth-like atmospheric conditions has the ability to mutate any Terrestrial life-form in horrible, parasitic ways into techno-organic nightmares. |
| 256 | * OriginsEpisode: Scott claimed fans would "recognize strands of ''Alien''[='=] "DNA" at a certain point in the film. The film features a wall mural that looks eerily similar to the Xenomorphs and a variety of monsters that will be very familiar to ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' fans. |
| 257 | ** A Proto-Xenomorph called the "Deacon" makes an appearance at the very end of the movie, but it should be noted, however, that this creature is '''not''' the first Xenomorph as evident by the presence of the murals and the gut-burst corpses of the Engineers, but it does clearly establish that the movie is an ''Film/{{Alien}}'' prequel. |
| 258 | * OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Shaw's belief in God and wearing a cross is treated as somewhat unusual. Justified in that the people shown to look down on her beliefs are either scientists, ruthless industrialists, or an android—not groups that are generally known for their belief in a higher power. Even if it were a modern day setting (ignoring the android) she'd still likely be the odd one out. |
| 259 | * ParentalAbandonment: The CentralTheme. |
| 260 | ** The "Engineers" left the human race to fend for itself, and then attempts to exterminate it. Peter Weyland built the most powerful corporation on Earth, and his daughter Vickers worked hard to be worthy of inheriting it, only for Weyland to seek immortality via the Engineers instead. Shaw discovers that she's pregnant with an alien fetus, and immediately has the autodoc cut it out of her and attempts to kill it. |
| 261 | --->'''Shaw:''' ''Why do you hate us?'' |
| 262 | ** Invoked by David. "Don't we all wish for our parents to be dead?" Weyland programs him, serving as sort of adoptive father, and without him, David would consider himself to be free. |
| 263 | * PlummetPerspective: In the beginning, after the Engineer drinks the black goo, the camera is angled downwards for the shot of his cup as is drops down the waterfall. |
| 264 | * PoorCommunicationKills: This happens multiple times throughout the film: |
| 265 | ** Janek, right before the mutated Fifield attacks. He clearly realizes that something is wrong, and even voices as much to himself, but doesn't use the comm system to warn the mechanics or even stop the door from opening. |
| 266 | ** Janek again, when Fifield and Milburn come upon the pile of Engineer corpses in the structure. Janek thinks it's amusing and tells them to have a good night, then leaves the comm station right before Milburn gets attacked. Not that he would have been able to help them anyways, considering the storm. |
| 267 | ** Holloway sees an alien worm swimming around in his eye, and doesn't bother to tell anyone he's infected until he collapses during the second trip to the structure. |
| 268 | * PostClimaxConfrontation: Just after the Engineer starship goes down, its still surviving pilot attempts to kill off Doctor Elizabeth Shaw one final time, only for the latter to let loose the Trilobite Facehugger upon him and likewise subsequently impregnate him with the Xenomorph Deacon once that happens. |
| 269 | * POVCam: The crew on the ''Prometheus'' watches the feeds from the expedition team's helmet-mounted cameras (seen from the operator's perspective) at several points in the film. |
| 270 | * {{Precursors}}: The Engineers seeded the original life on Earth from their own genetic code. |
| 271 | * PreMortemOneLiner: |
| 272 | -->'''[[TookALevelInBadass Shaw]]:''' '''''DIE!!''''' |
| 273 | * {{Prequel}}: The majority of the film takes place 29 years before the events of ''Film/{{Alien}}''. |
| 274 | * PreviewsPulse: The film's trailers used a muted variant, coupled with a strange howl taken from the original ''Alien'''s trailer. |
| 275 | * PuzzleBoss: The lone-surviving engineer becomes just another example of this trope for the franchise as a whole since his death involves Doctor Elizabeth Shaw opening up a doorway aboard a downed escape-pod, allowing the Trilobite-Facehugger to impregnate him with the Xenomorph Deacon during the film's PostClimaxConfrontation that has already been mentioned above. |
| 276 | * RagnarokProofing: It's stated that the Engineer's starships are ''at least'' 2,000 years old, and yet are shown to be still functional and flyable. |
| 277 | * RammingAlwaysWorks: Since the ''Prometheus'' is designed for long-range space travel with little in the way of weaponry, Janek sets the ship on an intercept course with the discovered Engineer ship to prevent it from leaving orbit and attacking Earth. Unusually, the ''Prometheus'' is completely destroyed, while the Engineer ship is merely brought down intact to the ground. |
| 278 | * RasputinianDeath: Fifield, post-mutation. It takes him being shot multiple times, hosed down with several flame-throwers, ''and'' even run over to finally kill him for good. |
| 279 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: An early sign of Charlie's infection and eventual mutation. |
| 280 | * RedHerring: Two of them in fact: |
| 281 | ** The hammerpede crawling down Milburn's throat. It seemed like this would be the origin of the Xenomorph, but it turns out the thing was just killing him and nothing more. |
| 282 | ** The final act reveals that Vickers is actually trying to rein in the real CorruptCorporateExecutive. |
| 283 | * {{Retraux}}: Subtle example, but the "Happy Birthday, David" viral video is done in the style of a 70's or early 80's informational or advertisement video. It is most noticeable in the retro music and the clipped, "brick to the ear" audio mastering, but also in the furniture and interiors shown, repeating, moving geometric patterns in the "beat clips," fonts on the infographics, as well as the high-key lighting and color choice. |
| 284 | * TheReveal: The Space-Jockey from the original ''Alien'' was in fact an Engineer. Given that they are supposed to look near-human, the reason for the Space-Jockey's strange, elephantine features is because it was merely his ''helmet''. |
| 285 | * RidiculouslyHumanRobot: David. The "Happy Birthday, David" viral clip expressly states that the David 8 model is capable of seamlessly integrating with an employer's workforce, and is capable of expressing many emotions (although even David himself admits he doesn't completely understand the concept of them). In the film, the characters [[JerkAss never seem to get tired of reminding him that he 'has no soul']]. |
| 286 | * RoboticReveal: Unlike the prior ''Alien'' films (which had most of its androids reveal themselves by leaking or bleeding milky blood), David's robotic behavior is personified in his introductory scene, where he rides a bicycle around in circles in the ship's basketball court while simultaneously dribbling a ball and shooting hoops. |
| 287 | * RRatedOpening: The introductory sequence with The Engineer's body deteriorating. |
| 288 | * RubberForeheadAliens: A very interesting example. The [[spoiler:Engineers]] are [[HumanSubspecies genetically human]], but while very humanoid in general appearance, their bodies look like they're [[SculptedPhysique carved from white stone]], they're 9 to 10 feet tall, [[OrganicTechnology their flesh is apparently fused to their skeletal-looking space suits]], and looking into their eyes, you see they are ''[[HumanoidAbomination unutterably alien]]''. |
| 289 | * SavingTheWorld: "If we don't stop it, there won't be any home to go back to!" |
| 290 | * ScareChord: When Holloway discovers the worm in his eye, and any other instance of horrible things happening, including [[spoiler:the Caesarean section]] and Fifield and Milburn's [[spoiler:fatal encounter with the snakelike creature]]. |
| 291 | * SceneryPorn: The intro sequence is just beautifully shot, making great use of [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome gorgeous scenery to instill the proper sense of awe and wonder]] at the mysteries of the universe and the power of creation. So you can understand how eager the scientists are to get closer to discovering the answers to those mysteries. . . and be more horrified at how it all goes terribly wrong. |
| 292 | * SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale |
| 293 | ** Averted. The stated distance to LV-223 is 3.27*10^14 km[[note]]Approximately 34.6 lightyears[[/note]]. The characters are on Earth in 2089, and by the end of the film, it's 2094. This is justified since faster than light travel does exist in the shared universe of ''Prometheus'' and ''Film/{{Alien}}''. Rather than (in comparison) almost-instantaneous transition that FTL is usually depicted as, it actually still takes months or years to travel interstellar distances in spite of it, and the crew was in cryo-sleep for almost all of the two-year journey. |
| 294 | ** Played straight when Vickers says they've come "half a billion miles from every man on Earth", which is roughly the distance of Jupiter from the sun. |
| 295 | * SealedEvilInACan: The jars inside the structure, which can cause mutation or destruction to anything and everything that comes in contact with it. Later on, the expedition team discovers that [[spoiler:the Engineer ship]] has a cargo hold full of these jars, along with [[spoiler:a dormant Engineer who put himself in hypersleep, and intends to use the craft to destroy Earth via releasing the jars]]. |
| 296 | * SendInTheSearchTeam: A second expedition team is sent into the structure to find out what happened to Fifield and Milburn. |
| 297 | * SequelHook: Shaw's departure for the Engineers' homeworld, as well as the Deacon creature in the final scene. In connection to the former, the alternate ending for the film has David reveal that the closest word we have for where the Engineers came from is "Paradise". |
| 298 | * ShoutOut |
| 299 | ** WordOfGod states that David is inspired by [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL 9000]]. His actions and motivations parallel that of HAL's in ''2001'' and ''2010''. |
| 300 | ** [[spoiler:The Deacon's jaw resembles closely that of a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjRSlnJ1rA4 goblin shark]], which in turn received media attention upon its discovery due to its bite reminding people of the original ''Film/{{Alien}}''.]] |
| 301 | ** [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey "Good morning, David."]] Also the rise scene at the beginning. |
| 302 | ** The autodoc very nearly says [[Series/StarTrekVoyager "Please State The Nature Of The Medical Emergency."]] |
| 303 | ** Weyland's hologram-message to the crew bears a striking similarity to Hari Seldon's series of hologram-messages to the people of Terminus, in Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''{{Franchise/Foundation}}''. Seldon is also physically diminished, reveals the true hidden nature of their mission, and is [[spoiler:secretly manipulating people from beyond the grave. Although, in Seldon's case, he really is dead.]] |
| 304 | ** David's love of the film ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia''. The scene he watches is referenced by Peter Weyland in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2BxH-xwc9M the TED talk viral video.]] |
| 305 | ** David pulling off [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF44YvDVP8Y a near-impossible basketball shot]]. |
| 306 | ** The protagonist's name is [[Series/DoctorWho Dr. Elizabeth Shaw]]. |
| 307 | ** At one point the captain paraphrases a line from a song in ''Theatre/FiniansRainbow''. |
| 308 | ** The names of Millburn and Holloway might be inspired from two characters from a 1959 science-fiction film called ''The Atomic Submarine'', which features a somewhat similar argument. |
| 309 | * ShownTheirWork: The entire landing sequence has been praised by astronauts and other similar experts for its realism, including the line “God does not build in straight lines.” |
| 310 | * SideBet: The pilots of the ''Prometheus'' have a 100 credits bet regarding the findings of the mission. |
| 311 | * SigilSpam: The Weyland logo is on everything, including David's ''fingerprint''. |
| 312 | * SingleTear: Shaw sheds one while she's on the table after [[spoiler:Holloway's death]], getting scanned and discovering [[spoiler:she is carrying an alien fetus]], and being asked about the death of her father by David as he removes her cross necklace. |
| 313 | * SongsInTheKeyOfLock: The Engineers' ship is activated by pressing buttons in order and by playing notes on a flute-like instrument. |
| 314 | * SpiritualAntithesis: It actually has some elements of this with ''Aliens''. Where the movie ''Aliens'' uses the xenomorphs as metaphors for the pains of childbirth and parenthood, the aliens in ''Prometheus'' are used more as metaphors for hostile, overbearing parents. |
| 315 | * StalkerWithACrush: Damon Lindelof describes David's fixation on Shaw as [[http://entertainment.time.com/2012/06/12/prometheus-sequel-final-scene/ something like this.]] Creator/NoomiRapace (Shaw) interprets it as an attempt to fathom [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove the concept of faith]]. |
| 316 | * StealthSequel: Although the film is set before the ''Alien'' series, Scott has said that there are possibilities to expand the universe in other ways through the events that occur in the film. The film is set on a different world (LV-223), and focuses on the "Space Jockey" race from the first film: the Xenomorphs and Weyland Industries do get notable references, but the focus is clearly on the "Engineers" and their connection to humanity. |
| 317 | * TheStinger: A rare ''pre''-credits example, which involves [[spoiler:the birth of The Deacon]]. |
| 318 | * StockStarSystems: The movie takes place on LV-223, a moon in the Zeta Reticuli system. |
| 319 | * AStormIsComing: Shortly after entering the Engineer facility, a dust storm whips up and the crew have to boogie back to the safety of the ship, except for two who ended up stranded and having to spend the night in the complex, the only available shelter. [[spoiler:This is the start of everything going horribly, horribly awry.]] |
| 320 | * StupidEvil: At least 2,000 years ago, the Engineers [[spoiler:gave the order to wipe out humanity and apparently had the bright idea of leaving the job to their least competent outpost who couldn't even keep their own weapons under control. In the two intervening millenia, whatever military or governing body of the Engineers that exists didn't even consider checking up on the status of their own outpost, let alone the status of the target they ordered destroyed.]] |
| 321 | * SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The Engineers. Although humanity, through Shaw and David know ''enough'' to make some sense of their technological and physiological prowess, they still come across as virtually god-like. |
| 322 | * SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:Holloway gets infected by the black goop, and chooses to be 'sterilised' by Wickers and her flamethrower.]] |
| 323 | * SummonBiggerFish: [[spoiler:The surviving Engineer]] is defeated by [[spoiler:a giant proto-facehugger]] set loose on it by the last survivor. |
| 324 | * TentacledTerror: The [[spoiler:facehugger]] seen in this movie is a gigantic cephalopod-like creature with powerful tentacles, in contrast to [[spoiler:the more arachnid-like ones in earlier ''Alien'' films]]. |
| 325 | * ThemeNaming: '''D'''avid carries on the tradition of robot characters in ''Aliens'' movies having names beginning with the next letter of the alphabet from the last ('''A'''sh, '''B'''ishop and '''C'''all). Which is a bit strange, considering this takes place before they were even built. |
| 326 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: After being attacked by the zombified [[spoiler:Fifield]], several crewmembers of the ''Prometheus'' shoot him, burn him with a flamethrower, then [[CarFu run him over twice ]] with a truck, and then blasts him one final time with fire to make sure it's really dead. |
| 327 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Geologist Fifield and biologist Milburn. |
| 328 | * ThreeLawsCompliant: Played with in the "Happy Birthday, David" viral clip. David states that he can seamlessly integrate with an employer's workforce effortlessly and do what is asked of him, but also states that he can carry out directives that are too "distressing or unethical" for anyone else. This [[CallForward foreshadows]] Ash's behavior in the original ''Alien'', Bishop's comment about how his programming will never allow him to harm another human being, and Call's interest in religion as a means of moving beyond mere ethical programming to true morality. |
| 329 | * TooDumbToLive: Oh the many examples to be had. |
| 330 | ** Let's not carry anything to defend ourselves on our first expedition onto the moon we just found and know literally nothing about the plants and animals. Even if it's a scientific mission, why is Shaw not overruled by Vickers when she tells the security guy to ditch the flamethrower? |
| 331 | ** The fact that the cast removes their helmets after finding that the atmosphere within the structure is breathable. Just because it's breathable doesn't mean it's ''safe'', as there's a myriad of factors which could potentially be deadly. The fact that they do this even after discovering that the place is a death trap is beyond stupid. Shaw at least lampshades this after [[spoiler:after Charlie mutates and is killed, treating airborne infection as a possibility]].\ |
| 332 | \ |
| 333 | There's also the fact that even if it was determined that there was no risk of biological contamination FROM the environment, there's still the very real possibility of biological contamination TO the environment. The human body is constantly host to all sorts of nasty viruses and bacteria, most of which is kept in check by our immune system and other natural defenses, so those microorganisms don't usually have a noticeable effect on us. We've adapted to their constant microbiological onslaught through eons of evolution, but whatever might be living on LV-223 would almost certainly not be. Hardly the best first impression to make when you want to initiate peaceful contact with an alien race.\ |
| 334 | \ |
| 335 | What makes this more baffling is that they shouldn't have the desire to remove their helmets in the first place. It isn't addressed in the film, but realistically they would still have to carry their helmets around with them anyway, as apposed to it conveniently sitting atop their shoulders. Its even said that the temperature inside the chambers is a low as minus 16, which is damn cold in Celsius and ''especially'' so in Fahrenheit. If you had the option to wear a temperature controlled bubble or have that cold air hit your face, you would go with the helmet. |
| 336 | ** Their quarantine protocols are a joke. They would have brought an infected crewmember onto the ship (Vickers was smart enough to waste him), and let a second crewmember on ''after that happened''. Before all that, they experimented on an Engineer head clearly infected with something out in the open rather than through some type of quarantine bubble. If it had exploded two seconds earlier, a half-dozen people would have been dead right there. |
| 337 | ** Millburn is a biologist, [[spoiler:so he of all people ''really'' should have known better than to approach that hissing cobra like creature and ''stroke it'']]. Both he and Fifield get this in unison when they bolt in response to seeing a dead alien body, then make camp in the ''same room'' as the dead alien body. Literally anywhere else would have been a better choice. |
| 338 | ** [[spoiler:Holloway, later. ''[[EyeScream There is a bloody worm in his eye]]'', and he doesn't think to seek medical attention before venturing back into the place he possibly contracted it in. At least he has the common sense to force Vickers to kill him later. Possibly justified in that he was hung over and initially thought it was a hallucination.]] |
| 339 | ** Shaw and Vickers don't consider [[spoiler:running ''out'' of the path of the falling spaceship instead of in the same direction it's crashing in. Shaw only gets the idea when she trips and finds herself about to get flattened. Vickers wasn't even that smart]]. |
| 340 | ** Shaw again, slightly earlier: [[spoiler:when the Engineer ship is rising up from its circular pit, she jumps from segment to segment of the opening hatch above it, nearly falling between the widening gaps at one point—and then stands stock still on one moving segment to address the other crew members on board ''Prometheus''.]] Only when the conversation is done [[spoiler:does she make a run for the edge of the opening, where she could have completely avoided the risky jumps in the first place]]. |
| 341 | ** There was no way that meeting the Engineers could be as rosy as Shaw thought it would be (to borrow a quote from somewhere else, "It would be like reading Homer's ''[[Literature/TheOdyssey Odyssey]]'', then traveling to Greece expecting to shake his hand"). |
| 342 | ** Holloway insisting on exploring the structure immediately when there's a storm on the way and not much daylight left. He's supposed to be anxious, and we can understand that, but someone should have shut him down. |
| 343 | ** Dr. Shaw never mentions to anyone that an alien [[spoiler:has been extracted from her and]] is still alive and aboard the ship when everything else relating to alien life on the moon has resulted in gruesome deaths of fellow crew members. [[spoiler:Possibly inverted, as the alien in question ends up saving her life later.]] |
| 344 | ** Janek finding Fifield waiting outside their ship after having lost contact with him earlier. He sees Fifield's suit camera activated, and has his crew open the gate. Despite having cameras and utilizing them throughout the film, such as when the away team was exploring the alien ship, he doesn't bother to use one of the ship's external cameras nor communicate with Fifield prior to ordering his crew to open the gate for him. [[spoiler:This results in several of the crewmembers getting killed off by whatever's taken control of Fifield.]] |
| 345 | * TookALevelInBadass: Shaw starts the film as an archaeologist who's mostly concerned with collecting samples. By the end of the film, she's carrying a fireaxe around and [[spoiler:setting the fetus trapped in the medpod loose on the Engineer when he tries to strangle her]]. |
| 346 | * TrailersAlwaysSpoil |
| 347 | ** The trailers for the film clearly show [[spoiler:the ''Prometheus'' plowing into the side of the Engineer ship and partially blowing up, Shaw's emergency c-section, the living Engineer attacking several members of the crew, and much more.]] |
| 348 | ** In fact, one of the movie posters has Shaw in her suit in the foreground, with [[spoiler:the ''Prometheus'' plowing into the side of the Engineer ship and partially blowing up]] in the background. That's right, the ending of the movie is in one of the posters. |
| 349 | %%* TraumaticCSection: [[spoiler:Shaw cutting out the FetusTerrible]]. |
| 350 | * UncannyValley: |
| 351 | ** ''Heavily'' invoked by the "Happy Birthday, David" viral clip. David is shown making several odd gestures, including what appears to be a slight moment of processing when the narrator asks what he can do (tilting his head slightly with a glossy look in his eyes), and his speech about how war and poverty make him sad, complete with thorough waterworks, then (without missing a beat or changing expression) describing how he does not feel even the remotest emotion but can replicate them perfectly. He also "smiles" (note SarcasmMode) whilst claiming he can perfectly replicate emotion and fit in with humans. |
| 352 | ** Brought up when Holloway asks David why he's wearing an environment suit when he doesn't need to breathe. David responds by saying that he was designed to be as human as possible to put humans at ease when dealing with him. Not wearing the suit would put him squarely into UncannyValley territory. |
| 353 | * VasquezAlwaysDies: Vickers, the callous company exec who's shown doing push-ups right after stasis, [[spoiler:torching infected crew with a flame thrower (for the sake of the rest), throwing David around like a rag doll]], and just being a bitch is offed in favour of the sensitive, scientific, religious, emotional Shaw. |
| 354 | * TheVerse: Along with the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' films and by extension, ''Franchise/{{Predator}}''. |
| 355 | * VillainousRescue: When Shaw is attacked near the end of the film by the alien, she's saved by the same monster she tried to escape from earlier in the film, [[spoiler:namely the alien squid thing that she had surgically removed from her.]] |
| 356 | * VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:Vickers, according to Theron]]. [[JustifiedTrope Mostly justified]] in that [[spoiler:she has no reason to believe Charlie and Shaw's thesis that the Engineers are out there. She's also the only one to follow any kind of guidelines and common sense when it comes to letting the infected and contaminated Charlie back on board, and thanks to her father's rather horrid WellDoneSonGuy tendencies toward her, she has a massive chip on her shoulder when it comes to David--whom Weyland brands as the ''son'' he never had in front of her and the entire ''Prometheus'' crew during their initial briefing. She's almost definitely a precursor to the CorruptCorporateExecutive we see fully manifested in Aliens' Burke, but she's got more reasons behind the way she is.]] |
| 357 | * TheVirus: The black liquid is a potently mutagenic bioweapon called Chemical A0-3959X.91 – 15 in [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary material]]. |
| 358 | * WhamLine |
| 359 | ** "[[spoiler:You're pregnant.]]" Said by David to Elizabeth, after it's already been established that she [[spoiler:can't bear children]]. |
| 360 | ** Near the very end of the movie: |
| 361 | --->'''David:''' [[spoiler:You have to get out of there, immediately. He's coming for you]]. |
| 362 | * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic |
| 363 | ** Let's see, the film takes place at Christmas, constant shots of Shaw's crucifix, musings on Christianity, and a woman conceiving when it would be impossible under normal circumstances. [[invoked]] |
| 364 | ** To say nothing about the randomness of death being exemplified by a giant falling horse-shoe. |
| 365 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse |
| 366 | ** When Fifield attacks the hangar, two of the crew escape the cargo bay in one of the large, van-like rovers. Whereas the fates of the rest of the crew are seen onscreen, the two engineers who get in the truck are never seen or mentioned again. |
| 367 | ** Generally speaking, at the beginning of the film, there are seventeen crew members on the ''Prometheus'', but [[spoiler:only about ten of them]] die onscreen. What happened to the others ? |
| 368 | ** It's possible that some of these characters die when [[spoiler:the ''Prometheus'' rams the Engineer ship, and is completely destroyed in the process]]. |
| 369 | ** Unseen variant. It is ''heavily'' implied that there the Engineers were the victims of Chestbursters and therefore Xenomorphs are inside the pyramid or at least were at some point. No indication is given as to what happened to them as the alien threat seems to be 100% the black goo that was activated after Prometheus arrived. |
| 370 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: PlayedWith concerning David. [[spoiler:He obviously desires to be considered human, or at least an equal, by the crew members. He models himself after Peter O'Toole's character in ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia''. He even winces when Weyland says that David is soulless and instantly frowns when Holloway reminds him that he is not human. It is also hinted that he wants Weyland dead in order to gain his freedom. Additionally, he shows clear affection towards the one person on board who treats him kindly and with respect -- Shaw.]] |
| 371 | -->'''Ridley Scott:''' You bet he has feelings. |
| 372 | * WhenItAllBegan: The first few minutes serve as a "beginning of time" sequence. |
| 373 | * WholePlotReference |
| 374 | ** This movie is essentially Creator/HPLovecraft[='s=] Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness set in the ''Alien'' universe. In fact, Guillermo Del Toro basically said that it has all-but-killed any chance of him making his eternally-in-development adaptation of said story, since the two are so similar. |
| 375 | ** And interestingly, this is the ''second'' time this has happened in the setting--''Franchise/AlienVsPredator'' could be considered an even more direct reference. |
| 376 | * WideEyedIdealist: Shaw and Holloway. It never occured to them that the Engineers might have hostile intent towards their creations (humanity). Or, that their [[spoiler:corporate backers might have more personal, selfish reasons for funding their interstellar expedition, other than scientific discovery.]] |
| 377 | * WithDueRespect: Crewman Ravel to Janek before joining him on the suicide mission to bring down the alien space ship: "All due respect, captain. You're a shit pilot and you're gonna need all the help you can get." |
| 378 | * WombHorror: Shaw gets a helping of this after [[spoiler:sleeping with her [[TheCorruption black oil]]-infected husband]], culminating in her desperately trying to override an automated surgical unit to abort the fast-growing alien FetusTerrible before it can tear its way out of her. |
| 379 | * TheWorldIsJustAwesome: The opening shots of the film have this written all over it. |
| 380 | * YourHeadASplode |
| 381 | ** What happens to [[spoiler:the decapitated Engineer.]] |
| 382 | ** Inverted (implode) [[spoiler:with Fifield, whose helmet collapses into his face when he contacts the black goo]]. |
| 383 | * {{Zeerust}}: The suits that the ''Prometheus'' crew wears when venturing on the alien moon look like modern versions of what you would find in a cheesy '50s B scifi. This also might not have been intentional, as this film's creators probably went with the domed suits for the same reason they were used back in the '50s: They give a good view of the actor's face and they don't constrict movement. |
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