Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Alien vs Avengers #2! Many Foreigner fans were incredibly disappointed with the planned final chapter of the prequel trilogy, Alien: Awakeningwouldn’t be made, especially after the thriller’s core fans were left in stitches. Alien: Alliance. This became even more disappointing after a plot rumor Awakening began to circulate on the internet, something that apparently would never materialize. At least until now, as Foreigner is finally giving movie fans the battle they’ve been waiting for in the prequels.
In Alien vs Avengers #2 by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić, it is revealed that the evil synthetic Foreigner prequels, David, found a way to travel through the multiverse. This, after David and his army of synthetics successfully purged the Foreigner Universe of all organic life, using the Xenomorphs for this. Now, they are on a warpath to ‘cleanse’ the multiverse of living organisms, including those in the Marvel Universe.
By the end of this issue, readers see that David isn’t the only one with access to multiversal travel. It is revealed that the Engineers themselves have unlocked the secrets to crossing into other universes and are planning to follow David across the multiverse and put an end to his reign of terror. Not only that, but the Engineers are using their technology to track the Black Goo within the Xenomorphs to pinpoint David’s precise position, meaning there is nowhere he can hide, they won’t find him.
Alien vs Avengers is giving fans the ‘David vs Engineers’ battle they’ve been waiting for
It has been circulating online for many years that the script for Alien: Awakening (supposedly written by John Logan) included the Engineers tracking down David and making him pay for using the Black Goo to destroy Paradise in Alien: Alliance. One media outlet that reported this was Cutting Filmwhich included a quote from the publication cited in the Empire Classics Alien special edition:
“Logan’s script would have seen the return of the Prometheus Engineers, with the survivors of the species coming after the genocidal David.”
Although the validity of this news has been questioned since it started circulating online, it doesn’t actually matter anyway. Whether accurate or not, the point is that fans have been waiting for this since they read about how it was ‘planned’ to Alien: Awakening. But, since Alien: Awakening was cancelled, fans never got the ‘David vs Engineers‘ battle they expected. That is, until Alien vs Avengers.
Alien vs Avengers is taking the Awakening story to the next level
Marvel Comics is adding the Avengers to this epic showdown
Not only will Alien vs Avengers ultimately shows the Engineers tracking down David to make him pay for the crimes he committed against them, but the limited series is also throwing the Avengers into the mix. This leads to the supposed story of Alien: Awakening to the next level, giving fans the payoff of a battle between David (and his Xenomorphs) and the Engineers, while also including the Avengers, who are desperately fighting to save their world from the Xenomorphs.
Only time will tell how this will all play out and whether the Avengers will be able to defeat the overwhelming forces of the Foreigner Universe (including David, the Xenomorphs and the Engineers themselves). However, what is certain is that Foreigner is giving movie fans the battle they’ve been waiting for since Alien: Allianceas David can now finally receive the punishment he deserves.
Alien vs Avengers #2 from 20th Century Studios is available now.
Source: Cutting Film