The most divisive alien movie understood what makes the xenomorph so scary

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Alien: Romulus

Director Ridley Scott Alien Introduced the Xenomorph as a deadly predator whose only purpose seemed to be killing and multiplying. This terrifying creature was terrifying enough, especially with its mysterious background. However, the prequel film Prometheus It had a surprising start that moved the franchise forward and still invoking audiences’ fear of the unknown.

Ridley Scott Prometheus Changed the Alien Mythology by revealing The Xenomorphs were created by Michael Fassbender’s DavidOr at least made into the creatures seen in Alien. Since David is influenced by his life as an android servant to humanity, it makes even more sense that the Xenomorphs are the twisted, monstrous creatures that audiences know and fear. This twist also elevated the Alien franchise into something much more than just a series of slasher movies in space.

David creating the xenomorph explains why it is so perverse

The xenomorphs reflect David’s goals

Created as a servant to the founder of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, Peter Weyland, David refused to cater to an evil man that he would eventually outlive. Seeing only the worst in humanity, he later focused his evil on creating his own life forms using the Engineers’ black ooze, resulting in the birth of the Xenomorphs as an embodiment of his twisted view of perfection.

Like the Android Ash in AlienDavid had little regard for human life, admiring the “Cleanliness“Of the xenomorphs as emotional and vicious survivors with no sense of morality. It is only natural that the xenomorphs share the qualities that their creators value so much and that they became the source of some cruel horrors for humanity.

With the Xenomorphs, David revolted against the humans who created him, starting with Prometheuss crew. Fitting with the film’s biblical allegory, Android’s actions parallel the devil’s leading an army of demons against God, leading to the genocide of the engineers that David executed in Alien: Covenant. Since David compared himself to Satan of Paradise Lost In the sequel, he said he would rather “Rule in hell“like”Serve in heaven“It is clear that David designed the Xenomorphs to be the demonic creatures that have tormented humanity throughout the world. Alien Franchise.

A “human” creating the xenomorph makes a lot of sense

It fits with broad themes in the franchise

In a film rife with religious and philosophical ideas, one major theme in Prometheus is humanity’s interest in creation, with the crew of the titular starship seeking the Engineers to understand the reason for humanity’s existence. The film also explores humanity’s desire to create lifeWith Wayland and the engineers doing so seemingly because they could. The pattern of creation culminates in androids like David, who ironically bring destruction to those who made them.

David inherits the desire to play God from creator Peter Wayland, along with his callous arrogance. Just as Weiland made David in his image, he also made the xenomorphs in his image. In the end, the android and his aliens become agents of chaos, with David eventually destroying the engineers who made his human creators in the first place. So, the story that Prometheus Built by David shows how mankind can bring about their undoing by recklessly toying with nature.

Alien still hasn’t decided what the origins of the xenomorph should be

Questions remain about where they came from

Since the Alien Films before Prometheus Never revealing the origins of the Xenomorphs, screenwriters Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof had a lot of freedom to expand the mythos of the franchise in the prequel. Although Prometheus showed that the xenomorphs had existed in some form long before Alien, They are still a mysterious and chaotic force Implied to have existed even before the Engineers, as shown by a mural depicting a xenomorph known as “The Dean.”

The film reveals that the engineers harnessed and weaponized this force through the black booze that creates the xenomorphs or beings similar to them. The idea that such a small substance can mutate any life form it touches into a remorseless and unfeeling monster aligns with the Lovecraftian themes of the first Alien Film.

Both films used the mystery and brutality of the xenomorph to show how terrifying and unsettling the universe can be. Just as the Faceuggers turn humans into alien incubators without mercy, the Engineers’ black booze corrupts whatever it infects to varying degrees, turning it into a mass of destruction that can be unleashed instantly. The fact that the almost-divine engineers attempt to use this force to destroy humanity for no apparent reason also invokes fears about whether a god is looking out for people and protect them against such unholy terrors.

generally, Prometheus Building on the unknown origins of the Xenomorph to reinvent the Alien Films in a surprising but sensible way. The prequel made the aliens the demons of the franchise, as envisioned by the satanic but human David. Despite this, the franchise leaves enough questions unanswered to maintain the chaotic terror that the xenomorphs embodied in the original film. Although Prometheus Remaining divisive with audiences, the franchise continues to showcase the true horror of the xenomorphs, as Alien: Romulus Brought back the Black Owls to unleash a new kind of alien terror.