The Deacon Xenomorph (Ultramorph) - Explained
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- A look at the Deacon Xenomorph, as seen in Prometheus, as well as its other (possible) inclusions in the extended Alien Universe.
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I like the deacon but thats because its presentation is the most mysterious. Similar to the big chap.
What's the big chap? I think I heard a similar name for the alien in the first movie but I imagine your referring to a different alien.
@@NotBopEtc you are correct sir. The Big Chap is the alien from the first film. For lack of an actual name the crew on set referred to him as The Big Chap
Wretchard Kimball ah ok, thanks. I wish they had kept the design for the big chap, the warrior aliens with their knobbley heads just aren't as cool imo
What's the"big chap"?
@@anthonyselgas9143 Horrifying life-form that poses an existential crisis for humanity and reproduces in a nightmarish fashion using living creatures as cocoons:
-'The Big Chap'
That's the most British thing I've ever heard
God it really HAS been almost 10 years, 10 years since i've been horribly cynical yet hopelessly addicted to Aliens.
So you're pretty new to it.
Then there are those of us that have been in the univers for 30 years or more. Depending when you first watched one. Preteen around 1990 or so for me with Aliens.
Same dude. Except it’s been 30 years for me too.
Heh, I've been hooked since the 90s but kind of hate this movie. Alien, Aliens and Alien 3 are the only ones I can rewatch.
9 years ya dope
I always really liked the Deacon. At the time it felt like it was left as a clue to the big Xenomorph mystery at the end of Prometheus. After Covenant though, the Deacon felt like an abandoned plot point that no one really wanted to acknowledge or explore further. And this is probably because Scott wanted to explore David and AI more instead of the Xeno. Looking at the whole Alien prequel arc now, I like the idea of the mural being of a Prime Xeno that the Engineers encountered and the Deacon is closer to this Prime species than David's Neomorphs and the eventual Xenomorph which would be the result of extensive experimentation. That being said, I still prefer the mystery of the first few movies where the Xenomorph was just this creature with no clear beginning and no motive other than procreation and survival. The ultimate nihilistic organism.
I kinda wonder if David will ever go back to this planet and finds the deacon and splices it's DNA with the other alien he created in covenant and then possibly whatever creature that spawns might be the Xeno OR closer to the xeno
Well they hoped-for Fans to see enough DNA via the Hammerpedes, the Trilobite and the Deacon as well as the Mural to see that the Engineers and LV-223 are connected to the Xenomorph without giving us the exact connection or which came first.
While RS wanted to move away from ALIEN and the Xenomorph in sequels, it seems that we would have seen more Monsters we could trace some DNA to the Xenomorph but it was not to be the actual showing of the Origins of the Xenomorph like Alien Covenant has began to indicate.
Some fans were not to impressed with the Deacon. But we have to remember that the Deacon was a Hybrid which had a lot of Human DNA. If we look at a Typical New Born Mammal inc Humans vs the Adult. Then the Deacon would likely have grown to a impressive 12-16 Foot Tall Specimen. That would have surely been something very Deadly compared to the Xenomorph
I think I had one conversation with one about the origin of alien but alien lore is what I liked about.Hearing people like you say the interest me a little
I think the Deacon is basically a proto-xenomorph. It's the first iteration that comes from the black goo after mixing the DNA of just 2 species. As the alien lifecycle continues, it incorporates DNA from different hosts to become a "perfect being." The aliens from the first 2 films were likely the most advanced as they came right from engineer ships and had presumably gone through hundreds or thousands of lifecycles. They appeared more "biomechanical" than even the neomorph that David created. The classic xenomorphs could be older than the Engineers themselves, not just a weapon created by them, which would explain why the Engineers have a mural that appears to "worship" the xeno.
It was pretty strange what they did with the Deacon in Fire and Stone/Life and Death. Those comics were really the best Prometheus/Aliens/AVP/Predator crossover. It would certainly make a satisfying film
I know! When I was watching this, and it got to the Predator fighting a frickin' Deacon, I was like:' That would have been badass!' This comic series would have made a amazing movie, maybe a trilogy if they did it right!
@@marystone860 Now with Disney in charge and Marvel comics taking the rights, I feel like the franchise may be doomed. I hope I'm wrong!
@@FrankFrankly711 I say we take off and nuke Di$ney from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!
@@marystone860 we already had that dreadful crossover "AVP" films we don't need another one in film form lol
@@shawnhall9792 AVP is a great underrated film
The nature of the Substance that Created the Xenomorphs & the Xeno's themselves make me think that the Deacon could evolve a means to reproduce, like morphing into a Queen of sorts.
I wanna know where they get the black goo
it would of been a menace due to higher IQ and 11 metre height due to stronger host
We can only Speculate as to how the Dr Shaw Deacon would have procreated... we have to Bare in mind that the Trilobite was a Human/Facehugger of sorts Hybrid.
While it may retain some Procreation methods we acocoated with a Xenomorph, it also has Human DNA.
So we can only Speculate.... but it would appear that a Adult Deacon like we saw in Prometheus would stand at least 12 Feet Tall. Maybe it has some of the Reproduction of a Human?
So maybe it would give Birth to Live, Trilobite like Creatures, or bypass that by being able to Give Birth to Baby Deacons itself.
This would by-pass the requirement of a Host, which was one of the best things about the Xenomorph that made it Horrific. On the Flip side the requirement of a Host is a Flaw to the Xenomorph.
If this Deacon could give Birth to say 6-10 Baby Deacons a Day, which can grow to Adult within a few Days. The Deacon would be a Great Threat.
If its off spring grew as fast as the Neomorph then we have a Bigger Threat than the Xenomorph
Imagine taking a drink and seeing the squiqqly things in your eye actually moving
Story of my life
MD 20/20 will do that to ya. 😆
There's an episode of "monsters inside me" about that. It can happen in real life.
@@CariDMM parasites
Someone tried that one on me-/ punching him in the face. I found out it was mescaline. I said “oooh my bad “. I’ve had genetic growth alright. I’m blaming the Tequila curse.😂🤣
Exploring Fire and Stone would be great!
5:48 I actually like the design a lot. It looks cool, dangerous, enormous and mysterious at the same time. I wish a complete new Alien Saga. First we need a scary movie with the atmosphere of Alien Isolation. Then we need an action movie, with concepts of Aliens Colonial Marines with all type of new Xenomorphs. Like the Raven, Spitter, Preatorian, Deacon and so on. (Maybe a scene like in the sewers of Aliens Colonial Marines or a club fight scene between Xenos and Marines like in the Aliens VS Predator Game). Just some new concepts, I hope you guys know what I mean
I love your ideas! Sort of a reboot/remake/sequel set of films that follow A and AS ...
I’m literally playing Isolation on my Switch because I’ve had very bad insomnia and I’m in bed with headphones on and I can’t get over how amazing the game is. In every single way.
Alien Isolation is the movie we need !
Well you got one per of it. New movie is super spooky!
Poor baby Deacon, no one to socialize with, burst a skull or drop saliva on to. 😭 I cried.
2:23 'Hold on guys!, I just have to inhale these spores from this unknown species of flora!'
God, that movie realy is stupid, at least this theatrical cut, sadly the only cut, but another version probably wouldn't have saved it
Your pfp fits this almost too perfectly
Do more comics voiceovers. I love the way u make them!!
Nothing on UA-cam makes me happier than a comic voice over from this channel.
No matter what story he does he always makes it so damn Immersive!
Yes, he does an awesome job, I don't really even watch, I just listen like it's an audiobook.
Even with new films flaws they have yet to break my spirit over the franchise. Unlike predator, star wars, and game of thrones. Im still into the lore
I have always liked the design of the deacon. I hope it does show up again in the comics.
I would like to know what happened to the "creature" that came out of Millburn's mouth in the egg chamber. That is never addressed.
The Millipede? it just scurries away to other part of the Engineers ship, probably to be in peace
Pretty sure that was just counted as a random occurance for the film rather than a prime story moment.
@@rezkid16 I think so too, since some of that material was to create meaning restructure the DNA in a species, and I THINK the derelict Elizabeth and David hi-jacked was a destroyer ship of some kind completely different material than the first ship they explored
@@rezkid16 true I guess, but still a question I have had since the movie came out.
I always imagined it either escaped and is still on LV-233 or it was just forgotten about to become some future thing.
Just curious about what it was and where it went/became.
Deacons are my daughter’s favorite alien of the alien franchise. She’ll always rush in when i say there is one…such a alien nerd, she draws the deacon a lot! And REALLY WELL…..😅
Your daughter has good taste in sci-fi! The deacon is so interesting
@@SegularRpork Yeah, The Deacon is Badass!!!!!!!
That’s awesome. I’ve gotten my daughter into alien as well.
Your daughter is gonna cocoon you 😂
Since we are talking about Xenomorph variants, one of the questions we asked when we were kids in the 80's is what is the Xenomorph endgame? is it just to survive? Spread themselves across every world? Follow its programming as a biological weapon?
Another thing to I was thinking about just recently about Xenomorph variants. If the Xenomorph infected and subdued a civilization that uses living technology instead of machine technology like we do would that grant them the ability to spread across the galaxy or universe like the Zerg from Strarcraft or Tyrannids from Warhammer 40k? Imagine if Xenomorph facehugger successfully implanted its embryo in a living ship would the resulting Xenomorph be able to fly like the living ship? or perhaps the facehugger implants into embryo into a living creature that eats Iron ore and spits out Steel pellets would the Xenomorph coming out be able to do the same?
I always thought about it as if it were bees or ants, they just do what they need to do to survive, but they have a virus like mentality.
I've always thought they were just intelligent bio weapons, the derelict in alien was probably a weapons carrier which would explain why theres thousands of them inside with stasis fields to keep them alive during the travel time
@@bigwhopper6501 they were carrying them for the predators
To ensure the survival of it's species
I'm honestly not a fan of the newer lore of the creation of the xenomorphs, but I'm old and grew up around the time of the Dark Horse AVP comics.
It would bother me if David straight up created the Xeno however i think he was following a recipe of the Engineers.
I do prefer the xenomorph being a product of nature with their own homeworld even though the Prometheus origin doesn’t upset me either. I feel like enough retconning and head cannons can connect the two together.
@@GreaterGrievobeast55 At this point it can literally be anything since nothing is stated explicitly.
David could be the creator, though it looks more like he was following a blueprint or something, and the black goo’s aspect that makes a deacon/xenomorph could just be because the engineers wanted to recreate the xenomorph they could have found on some planet, maybe to weaponize it or for other reasons, we don’t know for sure just yet.
I hope they don’t fuck it up in the next film. I loved Prometheus but I thought Covenant was quite rubbish.
@@qcdoomqc The novelisation states that he is recreating the alien. The movie implies (but does not state) that he is the originator.
@@GreaterGrievobeast55 I feel that having the xenomorph behave more like an animal is what's diminishing it's terror.
It acting more like an ant colony in Aliens and it having a homeworld loses the mystery and the unnatural feel it had in the original Alien and in Prometheus/Alien Covenant.
The creature was originally created to feel as unnatural as possible, to be a perversion of nature. I mean, it is "birthed" from a man and kills it in the process, it has acid for blood, it can survive the vacuum of space, it does not need to feed and it's instinct is not to survive, but to kill. It not being a creature of nature, but a weapon is what's so terrifying about it.
I really loved the concept of the various permutations of the pathogen creatures and the concept art that accompanied it. I wish we had gotten to see more of it in the actual films.
One of the earlier ideas for a Prometheus Sequel was to showcase various Organisms that David had Engineered from the Black Goo. Had we got a Sequel to Alien Covenant i am sure we would have seen David creating more Creations which would not have been Xenomorphs
Please bring us more from The Earth Wars.
Yeah i really do miss that story line
@@timothywarren3748 read it. It’s a good series
I second that, one of my favorite videos from Alien Theory!
But maybe there just isn't more material available?
@@Brakiri there are two different versions of earth war. They both are very similar but have slight differences. I got one as the novels and the other as the comic series omnibus
I commented above. I'd love for him to turn Prometheus the Complete Fire and Stone into an audiobook/motion comic like he's done for other Aliens and Predator comics... It'd be a massive undertaking, but I for one would appreciate it!
@AlienTheory, thank you for clearing up the information around the Deacon’s inspiration!
So the Xenomorph’s pharyngeal jaw was inspired by moray eel’s, given what the Goblin Shark’s influence in the Deacon.
The scientist behind the Alien franchise. Good stuff. 👍🏽
It'd be cool to see some videos on the territories in the alien universe, like the UPP, The United Americas, and The Three World Empire.
I definitely would love to see more prequel related material. Prometheus is kind of my guilty pleasure of the series along with Alien 3.
YES YES EXPLORE MORE PLEASE! That is EXACTLY what I want!! The rest of Machiko’s Story, Fire & Stone, Tartarus, basically the older dark horse crossovers
I personally think the deacon was terrifying. I would love to have seen it really come to play as a major antagonist... I was hoping the follow up to prometheus was going to feature it in a more direct role... From what I've read and seen in sketches.. prometheus was originally a much much darker and horror themed movie than what we got.. Scott seems to have a thing for having these great ideas, but going a more conservative route.. the amount of material he tends to cut is almost an entire movies worth alone. What could've been won't be...
Please do a series on Fire and Stone!! The implications in Fire and Stone change so much of how the prequel films are understood, it's incredible.
I would be interested in the channel exploring both the Fire & Stone and Life & Death comic lines!
Since the original "infection" seemed to morph with every generation, it makes sense that the xenomorph is its own form and will change according to the next host's DNA. That's what I've thought about the ever-changing form with each generation; it takes on characteristics of its new host and becomes a hybrid of the two.
I've always suspected this. That the resulting lifeform was a derivative of the host.
Can you do a lets play of Alien: Isolation ?
no way neeeeeeerd
I suggest the run of "Certifiably Ingame" Its primarly a Star Trek channel but Rick did a great job with this game!
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@@Edtheboss973??
I've been playing isolation and I finished it so many times but have you ever noticed some of the doors that say device invalid some of these doors can't be opened until you have the third actual card which is right by the ambulance bay so after getting that card I didn't go to the ambulance to the Inn Isadora I went back to the Scimed Tower and Lorenz systec spire And you'll find some androids in the garbage bag the orange one you know and a few people still wandering around but it is cool to get into all those rooms that you couldn't get into before
yeah you know this Prometheus stuff just doesn't wash with me it might've been a cool movie but I feel it definitely was not part of the alien universe one bit
Where is david Attenborough when you need him.
Halfway through he would start reading whatever global warming script they put in front of him & how endangered the Xeno is. Yawn.
I have been meaning to submit a comment on your channel. Mainly because I wanted to share my appreciation and respect for your diligence with regards to the vast Sci-Fi / Horror genre of Films, TV shows, Comics, Novelizations and other mediums as well.
But my main accolade, would be your Voice Overs and Narrations. The timbre and cadence of your voice is highly appreciated as a YT content surfer. I am sure you have had someone point this out before. Personally, there are only a couple of YT Channels I can stomach and follow for any real entertainment; based on that fact. Most YT content creators sound either robotic, unenthusiastic or straight-up monotone with a never-ending drone that would easily break anyone's Willpower and restraint down and give up the location of a stashed Pulse Rifle, while a PoW on a bug world. well done sir! Please keep the content coming in 2021!
7:18 YES PLEASE, THAT WOULD BE FREAKIN SWEET!!!!! I'd love to see an exploration of the fire and stone series along with the life and death series as well. Those are my favorite comic books ever.
I can't believe it's been almost 10 years since Prometheus came out.
The theory of the engineers wanting to irradicate humans in order to break the cycle of the deacon is a interesting idea. It's something that I hadn't thought of and haven't heard anywhere else until now. I love the universe they've created and would be willing to watch more about the comic version
The neomorph is cool for certain but do think i would have rather seen more deacons! Especially after seeing the fire and stone concept art. Figuring out their behavior and relation to the xenomorph is a story worth exploring! Also the kenner style deacon toy is neat!
It would be so awesome if you covered the fire and stone series!! There’s so little about it out there and it’s such a fascinating tie in for so many of the stories
Love this channel. Your delivery and pace are superb. Well done and keep up the great work mate 😁👍
This fire and stone series sounds interesting too. Would love to hear more
I guess now would be the best time to say that like a year ago, I needed to drive across the country ( around 30ish hours and the beginning of the outbreak) and your videos kept me amazing company and sane. So thank you for being there and here now.
Would love to watch a series of you doing a reading of fire and stone similar to your Earth War series. Love all your videos but your story narrations are my favourite to put on and do some modelling dioramas or drawing. In fact they have helped keep me sane over the last year of the worlds weirdness, so a big thankyou for that too.
I’m in awe of HR GIGER and his art work around the Biomechanical humanoid insect ( Zeno morph ) . Mr Giger deserved a knighthood for his work in the film industry! Greetings from Portsmouth England 🏴
Hey Alien Theory! I love the Fire and Stone comics! Please do more videos on it and the sequel series Life and Death! I really want to see a similar story to this on screen!
Want some fun speculative trivia? The scene where the Engineer wrestles with the Trilobite closely resembles a scene from a 1976 comic written by Dan O'Bannon and illustrated by Moebius entitled "The Long Tomorrow". In said comic, there is a species of alien shapeshifters called Arcturians. And in Aliens, Frost brings up the marines having relations with Arcturians only to be ribbed because the one he had a liaison with was a male. To which he responded, "It don't matter when it's Arcturian."
I absolutely would like to see more videos from you about the Fire and Stone comics!!!!
DEFINITELY would love to see more videos on that comic. Love this channel!
~*"Don't drink the water, don't breathe the air."*~
And always keep your bio-mask on...
@@skepticalmagos_101 Except when you're smoking.
@@skepticalmagos_101 to be fair a helmet didn't do John Hurt all that much good
Well done again, Alien Theory! I would like an in-depth review of FIRE AND STONE and LIFE AND DEATH. Also, I admire your dedication. There is a lot of ALIEN and PREDATOR content. It's dizzying.
Fire and Stone would be s great series for you to cover, but then again I hope you cover all available material on the channel!
I hope we get to see deacons in upcoming comics
I would love to see more from the Fire and Stone storyline! I havent heard much about it until now, so Im excited.
The Deacon becoming the fully grown "Ultramorph" is the only Xenomorph we really need to see in the next film wether it's a sequel to Alien: Covenant or a sequel to Alien Resurrection!!!!! Preferably Alien Covenant because the Deacon is in the prequel series not the original series!!!!! If Ridley Scott does still decide to make Alien : Awakening (the third film in the prequel series) I will be completely content with the entire franchise as a whole & don't care of seeing another Alien film as long as this next & final prequel film is done perfectly!!!!! We honestly don't really need another Alien film after Alien : Awakening as long as it ties the prequel series directly into the original 1979 Alien film unless they remake a AVP film properly 💯
Yes!! Please do a piece on the Fire and Stone. That series is a treasure trove of stuff to talk about :D
Can we have a aliens film where noot and Hicks just don’t die and I’d be happy
The deacon wasn’t intended as an ancestor to the xenomorph, all it was meant to illustrate was that the pathogen will inevitably lead towards a xeno-like organism
It’s never alluded to in any way that the deacon can even reproduce, but if it can then maybe generations of infection and birth COULD lead to the stereotypical xenomorph, but it’s not the point of the deacon to confirm that, it’s only purpose in the film is to show that the pathogen will steer towards a specific set of characteristics regardless of vector
The Deacon is my favorite creature of the franchise
Design wise its really cool! But for it to in the favorites category i’d probably have to see it do something within a story personally.
Always Looking forward to your narrations it’s like the only reason I click on UA-cam.
Oh Hell yeah I love Fire and Stone definitely cover it!!! Ahab is awesome!!!
Yes to covering that comic. I can't get enough of your reading the alien universe comics.
Deacon is cute. I’d like to see it take a large and sleek alien form due to its host being bigger. But also would love a further series on on anything else extended. 😻😻
I would absolutely love it if you did a reading of fire and stone. I have always been a fan of the films, but watching your videos of accounts of the earth war started off a whole Alien obsession for me that has helped stave off lockdown boredom.
Regarding your question in the video, would love to see videos covering those comics. Didn't even know they existed till now. They sound fascinating.
The fire and stone comics were a great addition to the Prometheus story. I liked that you got to see what happened to predators and androids that were exposed to the back goo as well
I could listen to you talk about Alien all day, a graphic novel covering all those movies, do it.
I love these videos by Alien Theory! I wish they had expanded on the Deacon more only because it went through to intelligint hosts both capable of speaking. It would be amazing to find out if this thing was smart could use tools or had a semblance of intellect that wasn't based solely on hunting and killing.
The Fire and Stone comics were really good. Would like to hear more of you take on them; “Hi, I’m Eldon.”
I definitely would like to see you do the ENTIRE Fire and Stone series just like with how you did the Earth War series 👍👍
more Fire and Stone videos would be great. Really bummed they didnt continue with the Deacon
I want it to appear as a smarter creature less overly-aggresive ,able to manipulate and use strategy on an unprecedent scale
I’d love to see videos exploring the aliens universe more!
The neomorph is fantastic. I loved what we got
I’m 2 minutes in and I’ve never seen a better explanation video. Well done sir. Thank you 🫡
Loved this indepth look. Excellent video.
I would love to see more of the deacon and maybe difference type of forms.
The Deacon and Neomorph are just TOO good a design~
I love these mini documentaries
I enjoyed this video. The Deacon could be used to interesting ends. Keep up the good work.
Yes, please explore this further. I hold out slim hope that a third instalment will be made, and it will feature more of the Engineers and be more like Prometheus than Covenant.
The mural could also be a representation of something that the Engineers are proud of, like an accolade. Veterans, (myself included) usually have a wall dedicated to military career.
I wanted to see a sequel to Prometheus so bad, just to see if that girl at the end would go find those god like beings on their planet, like she was going to find at the end, then the new alien comes out of the god being and it looks freaking cool as hell, I didn't know someone made more content about the new alien, I wanted to see this new alien in another movie, I love the entire Alien franchise, I think the whole story and lore about is so interesting, great video, got a sub from me!
Did you watch Covenant?
@@itsPlasma06 I finally got around to watching it, lol.
I would love Love LOVE more exploration into this 👍
Deacon is born...
Vickers: what's that?
Cap'n: it's an ultra morph. Happy New Year
Your voice, for me, has now become synonymous with the alien franchise
Great video, you should talk about the Life and death and fire and stone cómics!
I luv the look of the deacon horrifying yet beautiful at the sametime, especially that dark shiny blue tint it has. It's just unforgivable that they've done nothing with it since in live-action. Imagine a sequel or interquel set between Ridley Scott's prequels that explores another crew who head to LV-223 and come across the fully grown Deacon.
Or better yet, a deacon hive
Cause that mountain shit from the comics is unacceptable
@@s.nifrum4580 oh yeh lol that android character get molded in2 the wall or something
Please do more on Fire and Stone, is a really fun story and would love to see/hear your interpretation and feelings of it!
I wanna see more of the deacon. I think it’s my favourite alien in the franchise because we don’t know much about it
Individual videos of characters would be cool. Like a video for hicks or Hudson
Wasn't there supposed to be an even bigger version of the Ultramorph at the end of Prometheus something that was like the size of a queen? But the idea was scrapped early on it was from one of the first drafts for Prometheus or Alien: Engineers.
I think so, they went through a lot of ideas. I believe there was also going to be a boneless squid like creature called the beluga morph that could squeeze through ducts and tight spaces to get to folks.
Would be interesting if the deacon had a high intelligence, maybe able to communicate and take a leading roll over xenos. Maybe even like father in the dark horse comics.
I like the neomorphs but i really miss the deacon, a very underrated alien design, one of My favorites actually
It might make for a cool video game where the company sends a team to investigate the Engineer's homeworld and a Deacon infestation breaks out. The player would then have to survive against the Deacons as well as the enraged Engineers.
Props to H. R. Ginger for coming up with most iconic Art work which led to Pop cultures most popular Alien
I would love to see the Deacon return, especially as originally envisioned for Fire & Stone, so here's hoping for Marvel to do something.
I thought it was interesting that David left/didnt know about the deacon and perused his own bastard alien where it seems the engineers understood and valued a deacon much more highly and he was so close to what may have been the most sought after and unique version
I hope more gets done with in the future
Fire and Stone/ Life and Death is a fantastic series, I'd very much like to see some more of your take on it all.
The extended nature of its previous lives [in the sperm of a male, then the womb of a female, then as a wandering squid, until finally the embryo in a large humanoid] made me hope that the genetic diversity would give it some manner of intellect.
We see it as an infant at the end of Prometheus, screaming and wailing, but already quite large. If I were writing its story, it would triple in size by adulthood and wander the empty planet forelorn and lonely. Over time, it would develope its humanoid brain structure and understand that it was left here by its progenitors, and grow sad and angry. I would attempt to mirror the emotions felt by the human characters in Prometheus toward the Engineers. Why was I made? Is my purpose simply to die alone?
The poor thing is so big, even if it could figure out how the derelict spacecrafts left on the planet flew, it would never be able to fit inside one.
The idea of a lone alien on a planet left to its fate is interesting and I'm surprised they haven't played off this theme before.
You could play with the idea of the alien going into a "dormant" phase, where they could survive for a long, long time. Extended hibernation... how about the alien crafting itself a cocoon where it can seal itself in and survive cold/heat/water/space? Play with the dynamic of the human hyper-sleep pods against the alien cocoons... It would make sense for such a rugged, enduring species to have some kind of biological mechanism for surviving long periods when there are no hosts available.
If given enough time and no other queens around, a drone becomes a queen, so it will start laying eggs, but it still relies on drones to bring hosts to the nest for impregnation. With a lack of drones around, would the deacon even turn into a queen? Would the traits that it received from the engineer make it the smartest alien yet? What other attributes do the engineers have that we don't know about?
Would be cool to have a "super alien" that is bigger, stronger, smarter than the average xenomorph, especially seeing how they became much easier to kill in the second movies.
I'm a pure Deacon fan.... Thankyou for this. Alien Covenant truly bothered me because it seemed as if Ridley set up a perfect sideline to (in my opinion) a perfect trilogy. Regardless of David Fincher holding his own talents to hostage, the Prometheus swing was a classic in my book. Regardless of some idiotic character flaws. I was truly hyped to see where the Deacon and this universe would take us. And then Ridley Hollywooded the shit out of it.. bar some entertaining albeit generic scenes. Please oh please let there be a Prometheus 2... and why Mr Scott thinks he doesn't have the following or the respect to make a true epic, ignoring Hollywood's obsession to get in the way is beyond me. Or has he just lost his touch?
What I dislike about this (and much of Prometheus )is that it doesn't feel like a Giger design.
I may be forgetting something but, was the trilobite still in the room with the deacon when it emerged? If not it could very well have been the mountain given it's growth seen in Prometheus. Perhaps it was originally planned to have an impregnation and birthing chamber in the living mountain/grown trilobite and the deacon would have been meant to have a similar role to the xenomorph. Collect subjects for propagation.